Naruto: Teaching to Become Stronger, Changing Tragedies 58

Chapter 58: Mutual Harm is Unnecessary (Seeking More Readers)

2025-01-18

Chapter 58: Mutual Harm is Unnecessary (Seeking More Readers)

“Finally…”

“Finally finished!” Obito, having finally completed the last problem, couldn’t help but cheer.

After more than ten days of hard work, he finally finished his assigned problems. From today onwards, he no longer had to do problems every day.

“What finished? Uchiha Obito, what are you yelling about? Get up and answer the question!” Iketani Yu, startled by Obito, said unhappily.

To his surprise, Obito answered correctly. Iketani Yu could only nod, allowing Obito to sit down and listen attentively to the lecture.

“Rin, let’s go out and play tonight!” Obito chuckled after sitting down.

“Tonight? Tomorrow is Saturday. Maybe we can go out tomorrow?” Nohara Rin said.

“Ah? Is it the weekend again?” Obito’s eyes widened in shock.

He had just finished his assigned problems, and now it was the weekend again, the time for new problems.

“Obito, have you been studying yourself silly lately? Today is already Friday,” Nohara Rin said jokingly.

She had seen Obito’s recent efforts; he was truly different from before.

“Finally, the weekend is coming. Class time feels so slow, while the weekend flies by in a blink of an eye.”

“Yeah, those long school holidays don’t feel any longer than five school days.”

Obito: …

The joys and sorrows of humans are not interconnected; he only felt that they were noisy.

He felt like his time from Monday to Friday was stolen. Every time he became conscious, it was already Friday afternoon, almost time for school to end, followed by an extremely long weekend.

“Rin, let’s do it tonight. I have to cultivate tomorrow, and I might not have much energy at night,” Obito said weakly.

With the final exams approaching, the weekend training was even more challenging than before.

Before, when he fought Might Guy, he could use the terrain of the forest to his advantage. Later, they were moved to a large flat area; he could only rely on speed and agility.

So Obito decided to go out with Nohara Rin tonight. Friday’s training was relatively easy.

“Like that, then tonight. After school, I’ll go find you after dinner, and then we’ll go find Kakashi together,” Nohara Rin nodded.

Obito really wanted to ask why Kakashi had to be included, but he opened his mouth and ultimately didn’t ask.

“Probably thinks Kakashi has no one to play with, so he’s bringing him along,” Obito thought to himself.

After school, Obito went to his usual training ground; he was still the last to arrive.

As usual, he started with various physical exercises: push-ups, pull-ups, squats, and so on.

After a certain amount of exercise, it was time for combat.

“I’m changing the rules of the fight today,” Mizuki said, calling Might Guy and Obito together.

“For every hit you land on your opponent, they get two more problems, and you get one less problem. The fight lasts seven minutes.”

“One hit adds two problems, and it’s seven minutes.” Obito felt a mountain of problems crashing down on him.

Before, one hit only added one problem, and the fight only lasted five minutes. This was a direct super-doubling!

The only advantage was that hitting the opponent reduced one problem. If he could land enough hits, he wouldn’t have to do any problems at all.

The problem was, he had always been at a disadvantage in previous fights!

He was glad he had the foresight to make a date with Nohara Rin for tonight.

At this intensity, the weekend would definitely be exhausting enough to take several days to recover from.

“Sharingan, Sharingan,” Obito muttered, desperately longing to activate his Uchiha kekkei genkai (inherited bloodline limit).

“Teacher Mizuki, what about the fifty problems I start with?” Might Guy looked at Mizuki expectantly.

“Reduced to forty,” Mizuki replied.

For the sake of balance, they couldn’t be removed directly, because Might Guy’s taijutsu (martial arts) was much stronger than Obito’s.

Although they weren’t directly canceled, at least ten fewer problems were a relief, and Might Guy was quite happy.

“And you can offset problems with exercise, up to sixty percent. Three hundred push-ups offset one problem, and other exercises also work,” Mizuki added.

One hit becoming two problems would cause the number of problems to explode, so Mizuki decided to use exercise to offset the swelling number of problems.

After all, the initial intention of the problems was to improve their studies and understanding, not to be purely punitive.

He had to explain all those problems; they weren’t just done and over with.

“Sixty percent offset,” Obito’s eyes lit up, but then hearing that three hundred push-ups only equaled one problem made him feel immense pressure.

“Three hundred for one problem? Hahaha!” Might Guy burst into laughter; he would definitely max out that sixty percent.

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Seeing Might Guy’s unrestrained laughter, Obito, who was anticipating a mountain of problems, was inspired by a flash of brilliance and calmly said:

“Teacher Mizuki, that’s not right. The intention of using exercise to offset problems is to get better exercise, right? It should be based on individual progress, how can it be a fixed number?”

He didn’t want to be the one doing a mountain of problems alone.

“Obito, you make a good point. Then, it’ll be a thousand for one problem for Guy.” Mizuki thought for a moment and agreed.

Might Guy looked at Obito with a question mark on his face, his smile frozen.

“Guy, I know you want better training, right? Don’t thank me.” Obito smiled, giving Might Guy a thumbs-up.

“Yeah, Obito, you surely also crave an all-out battle, right?” Might Guy began stretching and warming up, preparing to fight with one hundred and twenty percent effort.

Seven minutes later, the battle ended.

“Obito, one hundred problems, Guy, twenty.” Mizuki announced the result of the battle.

“Obito, I know you want more problems to study, right? Don’t thank me,” Might Guy flashed his bright white teeth, giving a thumbs-up.

Obito suddenly wanted to slap himself from seven minutes ago. What was he thinking? Now they were both injured.

There were simply too many problems; he couldn’t possibly finish them in one day. He could only offset some with training and divide the rest into installments.

Since Nohara Rin wanted to go out with Kakashi, Obito simply asked Might Guy if he wanted to join.

It wasn’t a date just between him and Nohara Rin anymore, and Might Guy and Kakashi also got along well.

Unexpectedly, Might Guy refused, saying he had a night run with Shisui to train.

However, they did meet that night, encountering Shisui and Might Guy who were out for a run.

“Shisui, believe me, try my kind of tights next time; they’re perfect for exercise,” Might Guy tried to sell his green tights.

Shisui looked at Might Guy striking a pose, imagined himself in those green tights, and quickly shook his head. Too weird.

“Who’s that beside Guy?” Kakashi asked, seeing an unfamiliar figure next to Might Guy.

“Our Uchiha genius, someone even more talented than you,” Obito said deliberately.

“Heh, then what are you, the Uchiha’s dead last?” Kakashi said indifferently.

(End of Chapter)

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