Long Live The Hokage

At noon, in the hall of the patriarch.

Masahiko stood in front of the eleven children with a dark face.

He had just dried the sheets with various wind and fire escapes, and was about to take a nap when he was called here by the patriarch.

Except for Nanako, who was named by Masahiko, the other ten children were all recommended by the Jōnin in the clan. Among them are 8 boys and two girls, the oldest is only 10 years old, and the youngest is just 6 years old.

The patriarch looked at Masahiko's face and said, "Second Uncle, are you dissatisfied with these children?"

Only then did Masahiko come back to his senses, looking at the nervous faces of these children, the youngest girl was about to shed two tears.

"I'm not dissatisfied. It's just that I still have a unique selection method, and there are too many eleven people. I will eliminate a few."

The patriarch breathed a sigh of relief, "No problem, it's normal to test them."

"In this case," Masahiko turned to the eleven children, "Tomorrow there will be three assessments, the first of which is the physical strength assessment! Go back and get ready, and gather at the fourth training ground tomorrow morning!"

The children responded one after another and went back to prepare, but Nanako hesitated and stayed.

"Grandpa Masahiko, my... talent is not very good, tomorrow..."

"It's okay, it's okay to take a test. If it's not good, you will be eliminated tomorrow. Go back and prepare..." Masahiko said with a smile, "Show me the momentum of throwing a bucket of water on me!"

Nanako blushed and walked out embarrassingly.

"Second Uncle, isn't it unfair to test physical strength for those who are younger, and there are three girls?" Seeing Nanako go out, the patriarch asked suspiciously.

Masahiko rolled his eyes at him, "I have my own measure!"

"Go back to catch up on sleep, I will fight whoever disturbs me this time!"

...

On the second day, Masahiko came to the fourth practice field.

Eleven children have been waiting here for a long time, and there are many adults and children watching here.

"It turns out that so many people have paid attention to my apprenticeship, and I finally got to be a respected elder..." Masahiko felt elated.

But when he walked in, his whole face darkened.

"That is the legendary Uzumaki Masahiko. When I was young, my parents told me..."

"Give these children to him..."

"Hush, he is the patriarch's second uncle, and now he is the Great Elder..."

"Start the assessment!" Masahiko shouted, not only startled the eleven children, but also the adults watching.

Seeing the surroundings quiet down, Masahiko nodded in satisfaction.

"The first test is physical strength test. The technique of shadow avatar!" Masahiko said, creating eleven avatars. "These avatars of mine will supervise you to do push-ups, you must try your best, the more you do, the better!"

There was an uproar all around.

"It's really unreliable. There is a gap in the age of these children, and there are two girls. How can this be fair." There were discussions around.

Masahiko ignored these, watched these children doing push-ups under the supervision of the shadow clone, and nodded with satisfaction.

But two minutes later, Masahiko started to have a headache. The youngest girl, who had just turned six, only did 43 push-ups before she couldn't hold on any longer and burst into tears.

Masahiko scratched his head and hurried forward to comfort him.

A pair of young men and women rushed out of the crowd, pushed Masahiko away, and comforted the little girl, probably the little girl's parents.

Ten minutes later, the 10-year-old boy who did the most push-ups also stopped, doing a total of 1237 push-ups. And the little girl finally stopped crying under the comfort of her parents.

Masahiko glanced around and saw that all the children were sitting and panting, and nodded slightly.

"Take an hour's rest and proceed to the second half of the physical strength assessment."

The young couple raised their heads hastily,

"Uncle Masahiko, my Yizi is still young, the physical strength test..."

Before the two of them finished speaking, Masahiko interrupted, "The second half of the assessment is still push-ups! The final score depends on how much more the second time than the first time."

The onlookers finally realized that it was a test of perseverance.

The few children who did a lot regretted it, and they would have hidden their clumsiness if they knew it earlier...

"Taking advantage of the rest period," Masahiko continued, "let's conduct the second assessment."

"The second item is the assessment of memory ability. Stare at my hand, remember the order of seals, and arrange the results according to the order in which they were written down."

"Yin-Mao-Si-Noon-Wei-You-Yin-Mao-Si-Noon-Wei-You-Yin-Mao-Si-Noon-Wei-You-Xu-Zi, Sealing Technique-Sealing Evil Seal!" Short In just four seconds, Masahiko made 20 seals.

"Do you remember anything?" Masahiko asked casually, preparing to make a second seal.

"Woooo...I remember, woo, Grandpa Masahiko." The little girl who was still sobbing replied.

Sure enough, although the little girl's hand speed was not fast, she still successfully formed the twenty seals.

Masahiko nodded slightly, no wonder such a young child was recommended, this kind of memory is very uncommon.

"Then let's continue..."

The other children returned to normal, and it wasn't until the fourth time that people answered one after another.

The last one to answer was Nanako with a blushing face. She felt very uncomfortable in front of these talented younger siblings...

"Okay, almost an hour has passed, and the physical strength has almost recovered. Let's complete the first assessment."

Masahiko separated out eleven shadow clones again, and supervised these children to do push-ups.

The last winner was an eight-year-old boy. He did 670 for the first time, and surpassed 800 for the second time... In addition, there were three other people whose results were negative. The boy who was first, and 6 Yiko, a little girl.

There was another one who was gritting his teeth and staring at Masahiko, and it was Nanako. She felt that Masahiko really took revenge on her bucket of water for making her so ashamed in front of everyone.

Masahiko smiled at everything.

There was also a lot of discussion around, and the surrounding Uzumaki people basically had no opinion on Masahiko's two assessments, and they were all discussing what Masahiko's third assessment would be.

"The third item should be the assessment of actual combat. Although the ages vary, ninjas still depend on their combat ability..."

"It should be the ability to control Chakra..."

"It should be the basic three body skills assessment..."

Looking at these discussions, Masahiko shook his head slightly. These people can't guess his thoughts.

"The third item is to assess thinking ability! There are five questions in total, the more correct answers, the higher the ranking!"

"Question 1: There are two buckets, one can hold three catties of water, the other can hold five catties of water, the water can be used freely, how to get the exact four catties of water."

"Second question:..."

"..."

"Question 5: There are ten birds on the tree, kill one with kunai, how many birds are there?"

What the hell is this?

Masahiko looked at the bewildered faces of the crowd around him, and almost laughed out loud...

"Take a look at the logical thinking questions that make elementary school students suffer!"