5:03 am.

In an area next to several trees in a land made of green grass and some earth, not far away there was also running water from a probably deep lake.

When Nawaki, Kushina, and Tsunade arrived, Mikoto and Hikari were already waiting.

Hikari wore dark blue attire, ankle-length pants, and strappy black open-toed sandals, she wore a mesh shirt underneath the blue v-neck shirt and a light gray short-sleeved jacket on top. On the wrists, there were blue wristbands and the bandana was around her neck.

Nawaki was wearing the same costume as yesterday.

While Kushina was wearing a dark blue outfit similar to Hikari's and a mustard yellow vest over it, from behind, it was possible to see that she was also wearing a mesh shirt. Furthermore, she had her long red hair tied in a high ponytail and a bandana around her forehead.

"You are late," Mikoto said.

Mikoto was wearing a wine-red zipped neck jacket and gray knee-length shorts, she was also wearing dark blue socks that went up to mid-thigh and closed-ankle sandals showing off her toes. On her back, there was a medium-sized kodachi on her waist while a sword similar to the one she gave to Nawaki was on the other side.

"Only three minutes," Nawaki replied.

"Nawaki, everyone, good morning," Hikari said.

"Good morning, Hikari." Kushina went to her, and held her hands like good friends and then did the same with Mikoto.

"Good morning everybody." Tsunade said in a serious tone: "I will now be explaining how this test will work."

Tsunade chose to tie her hair in two loose ponytails. She was dressed in a grass-green haori. Underneath she wears a sleeveless gray kimono-style blouse held closed by a wide blue-gray obi and dark pants.

The blouse is zipped quite low, revealing her considerable cleavage. She wears strappy black open-toed sandals with high heels and red nail polish on both her fingernails and toenails. She also wears soft pink lipstick.

Nawaki saw the other teams and knew they wore bells around their waists to take the test, but Tsunade didn't carry such a thing.

"The test will have three stages." Tsunade said, "First, protect Nawaki for an hour, without letting me harm him. Second, on success, run away and hide, and remain hidden without being found for 10 minutes. Third, find the flag with the Leaf Village symbol that I will hide once the second stage is finished."

"Can we hide in the first stage?" Mikoto asked.

"Yes, obviously." Tsunade said gravely, "But, Nawaki cannot use his powers in the first stage, he will be treated like an ordinary person, the moment he uses his powers, the test will be canceled."

"That..."

Nawaki and the girls look at Tsunade in surprise.

The difficulty was too high. If only Nawaki could use his strength, then it wouldn't be that difficult, even if it was just to defend himself.

In the end, the first test was just for the three girls and they were able to understand that.

"Nawaki is strong, if it was any one of us being defended and he could stop Tsunade-sama, it wouldn't be so difficult..." That was Hikari's analysis.

Kushina and Mikoto agreed.

Nawaki's strength was very high, and apart from that he was very versatile, if he used his powers well, this test wouldn't be so difficult, unfortunately, he couldn't use it in the first stage.

"Okay, I'll give you 1 minute." Tsunade said, "You can begin!"

Mikoto made hand seals, then she extended her left arm upwards and with her right hand, she left only the index and middle fingers extended.

"Ninja Art: Concealment in Mist Jutsu!"

As soon as Mikoto's voice fades, the place begins to be surrounded by mist.

"Oh?" Tsunade had no idea that Mikoto had learned this Jutsu, as it is Village Hidden in the Mist's specialty.

'Did Nawaki teach her that?' Tsunade thought.

More likely, she knew that while Nawaki was spying on the other villages, he was also learning various Jutsu.

It wouldn't be strange to be the one who taught this jutsu to Mikoto.

Meanwhile in the Hokage's office.

Looking through the magic ball, was the Third Hokage and other jonin watching the test.

Many were still skeptical about creating a special team with 4 genin students called Team 0.

Among them were Orochimaru and Jiraiya.

"How was this little Uchiha girl able to learn this jutsu?" Jiraiya muttered.

Other ninjas in the room were thinking the same thing.

At that point, the crystal ball wasn't able to show what was going on clearly, as they could only see mists created by Mikoto.

"Interesting..." Orochimaru licked his lips.

Before activating the jutsu, the Uchiha girl activated the Sharingan, and Orochimaru saw that there were three tomoes.

"By the way, she already has three tomoes in her Sharingan!" Another said. Orochimaru wasn't the only one who noticed this.

"Mikoto Uchiha, this little girl is more talented than we thought." The Third Hokage said. Although he gently stroked his beard, the heart in his chest was pounding.

He didn't expect that someone as young as Mikoto has not only awakened the Sharingan but is already capable of using three tomoes.

"A minute has already passed!"

Meanwhile, in the testing area, Tsunade spoke in a loud voice and then she sucked in a lot of air through her mouth.

"Wind Style: Gale Release!"

With a breath, it starts sending wind in all directions as it spins, getting rid of the fog.

She chose not to use too much power, just powerful enough to get rid of the mist, and then, in a few seconds all the surrounding mist disappeared as the trees swayed non-stop as a heavy storm approached.

A smile curved Tsunade's soft pink lips, she realized that they must have gone quite far in a direction that even she wasn't able to find with her sensory sense.

Of course, to be fair, she only used her sensory sense now, so they must have taken advantage of taking distance and hiding.

'But, who is hiding Nawaki?' Tsunade wondered doubtfully.

Running very fast, Tsunade started chasing them. Searching for any traces left behind, however, she discovers several identical footprints in opposite directions.

'Shadow Clone Jutsu...'

She knew that Nawaki taught this technique to them. Although they still couldn't create as many as Nawaki and her, creating 5 shadow clones shouldn't be too much of a challenge.

Just when she thought she was pretty close to finding them, 1 hour passed.

That's when she noticed that from a big rock, the three girls came out, while Kushina who kept hand seals untied her hands and Nawaki appeared.

"Wow, Kushina, you could use sealing jutsu to seal away Nawaki's presence and merge with a tree, excellent!" Tsunade praised Kushina.

"Hehe~" Kushina put her hand behind her head and giggled with a goofy smile.

"And you Mikoto, you were able to create that fog that totally confused me and made me destroy a little bit of your trail when using the wind style." Tsunade praised Mikoto and looked at Hikari, "Hikari, although you don't seem to have done much this time, you also did a good job of hiding yourself. All of you are to be congratulated!"

"But."

Tsunade complemented what Nawaki was going to say: "But it's not the end, this is the first stage, and in fact, it can be considered the second stage as well."

There was no way the Hokage could complain about that. After all, if Mikoto used the mist again, they would succeed again, so she skipped straight to the last step.

"Now it's you who has to wait for 1 minute. I will hide this flag." Tsunade showed the flag: "After 1 minute, you can try to find it, however, be aware that I will prevent you from finding it, there may even be traps."

"Yes!" They didn't dare to underestimate this step.

Even if it's 1 minute, if Tsunade uses shadow clones to create traps, she might very well be able to make the difficulty increase a lot.

"By the way, you have until noon to manage to find the flag, if you fail, team 0 will be disbanded and it will be reassessed again to choose a different team," Tsunade warned.

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