Journey to the West: Life Simulation of Sun Wukong

"The new generation of Ino-Shika-Cho has been defeated by Haruno Sakura?"

Looking at the report from the Anbu, Sarutobi Hiruzen was delighted, "It seems Sakura really has a talent for physical combat, and she is very friendly towards Naruto too."

As for the information about defeating Ino-Shika-Cho, Sarutobi Hiruzen didn't care much.

The reason was simple.

The new generation of Ino-Shika-Cho were only six years old, their Chakra couldn't support them performing Ninjutsu, they could only rely on physical combat, being defeated by Sakura wasn't a big deal.

He preferred the civilian geniuses.

"Haruno Cho is a Chunin, qualified enough, but not strong enough to be promoted to Jounin. It seems he is taking on a lot of C and B rank missions now, it looks like he wants to earn more money to buy some nutritional supplements for Haruno Sakura."

Ninjas need nutritious food to grow, besides hard training.

"Perhaps, I can assign Haruno Cho some simple, but higher-paying missions." Sarutobi Hiruzen hoped that civilian ninjas could grow, as the clan hegemony in the village had been going on for too long, especially the Uchiha clan, which was somewhat troubling for him.

Their clan members with activated eyes seemed to have some problems with their minds, becoming very ... straightforward, once they believed in an ideology, it seemed like they would never change...

Bang!

While Sarutobi Hiruzen was still contemplating, a tall figure covered in bandages walked in, it was the rumored "Shadow Ninja," Danzo!

"Danzo, please knock before entering," Sarutobi Hiruzen said helplessly as he looked at his friend, giving him a lecture.

But Danzo didn't take it to heart and said sternly, "Hiruzen, have you seen what the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki has turned into? Defeated by a little girl, how disgraceful!"

"Hand him over to me, I will train him to be a competent ninja!"

Sarutobi Hiruzen put down the pipe at the corner of his mouth and said seriously, "Don't forget whose child Naruto is, I won't let him become a tool that only knows how to follow orders."

If he wanted to train Naruto as a tool, Sarutobi Hiruzen himself could have taken Naruto as a disciple, he could even have his son adopt Naruto and truly treat him as his own grandson.

But he couldn't do that.

Naruto needed a happy childhood, it was his promise to Minato—although this promise was far from fulfilled for some reason, but now Naruto had made friends and even had someone he liked, how could he possibly disturb that?

"Compassion of a woman!"

Danzo, exasperated, said, "Do you still want the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki to continue being decadent? Do you still hope he grows up with that girl named Haruno Sakura, continuing to play ninja house, and eventually marry and have children? That's such a waste of his talent!"

"What's wrong with that?" Sarutobi Hiruzen rose slowly, the aura of the Hokage pressing down on Danzo, making his breathing pause, "If Naruto wishes not to be a ninja in the future, I will respect his choice."

"What about if other ninja villages start wars?" Danzo questioned.

"Aren't we still here?" Sarutobi Hiruzen said indifferently, "Moreover, unless driven mad, no one would want to send out Jinchuriki to battle until the last moment, even the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki of the Hidden Cloud Village wouldn't be easily deployed."

"Besides, Naruto's goal is to be Hokage, he won't give up becoming a ninja. With his talent, as long as he grows methodically, he will surely become a Jounin, strong enough to gradually wrestle Chakra from the Nine-Tails."

Hokage!

Danzo cursed internally, "That's just the nonsense of a brat! Ninety percent of each class of students dream of becoming Hokage!"

"You can't deny the dreams of children! Danzo!" Sarutobi Hiruzen said sternly, "Wasn't it once your dream too, to be Hokage?!"

Crack!

Danzo clenched his fist!

Hokage!

Of course, he aspired!

But Sarutobi Hiruzen, why bring it up now? To mock him?

"Danzo, I warn you, no sneaky moves, or I won't hesitate to strip you of your position in the Foundation," Sarutobi Hiruzen said coldly, "After all, I am the Hokage!"

"Hiruzen, you will regret this!"

Danzo slammed the door as he left.

Sarutobi Hiruzen sighed, his aura vanishing immediately as he slumped back into the Hokage's office chair, "Danzo, Danzo, when did we start drifting apart?"

...

An hour had passed.

In the battle against Sakura, the trio of Ino-Shika-Cho also experienced significant growth, but Naruto, watching on the side, felt out of place.

"It must be because I'm too weak!"

Naruto thought, wondering if he could go to Grandpa Hokage later and ask for some physical combat training, otherwise just getting beaten up passively was way too embarrassing.

Moreover, he wanted to surpass Sakura and then rightfully be Sakura's boyfriend; how could he be defeated by Sakura?

This way, he would have no right to protect Sakura in the future!

At that moment, Sakura was already packing up her backpack, ready to go help out at the barbecue restaurant on Tea Street.

"Sakura, are you busy this afternoon?" Ino asked.

"Starting today, every afternoon at four-thirty, I have to go help out at the barbecue restaurant on Tea Street, serving as a waiter. After all, I don't want to trouble my family and need to start earning my own money," Sakura said with a smile.

"Sakura, you are truly amazing," Ino suddenly felt inferior. While she was thinking about inheriting the family business in the future, Sakura was planning to be self-reliant, which was a huge difference.

Shikamaru frowned, "Would that barbecue restaurant really hire a six-year-old child as a waiter?"

"I can wear stilts to make myself taller!" Sakura said, "And that would also help me train my balance skills."

"You're actually using training in everyday life?" Shikamaru was also surprised by Sakura; he now had no doubts that Sakura could become a qualified ninja.

Even, if the next Hokage were chosen from among them in the future, Sakura was the most likely candidate!

The five split up.

Sakura arrived at the barbecue restaurant, put on stilts, and although she was a bit shaky for the first thirty seconds, she completely mastered the technique in the next thirty seconds, walking as plainly as any ordinary person.

"Sakura, you're very talented!"

The store owner, a plump woman, gave Sakura a thumbs up.

"It's nothing," Sakura enjoyed the praise from others and quickly began working, mainly helping to serve dishes and wipe tables.

The aroma of grilled meat filled the restaurant, there weren't many customers, but when it was time to pay, they never haggled over the price.

Among them were ninjas and wealthy merchants, none of whom wore clothes worth less than one hundred thousand silver.

Her father, Haruno Cho, had said that the reward for a C-rank ninja mission was at most one hundred thousand silver.

"All wealthy tycoons," Haruno Sakura sighed and looked outside the restaurant; many people passing by would turn to look inside, their expressions showing they wanted to enter but were hesitant to do so. Sakura felt a touch of empathy.

In the past, she had felt the same way.

Now, here she was inside, but unfortunately, she couldn't afford to eat the barbecue.

"Here, this is your grilled meat with sauce," Sakura brought a plate of grilled meat to a white-haired ninja wearing a mask, her face breaking into a sweet smile.

"Thank you."

Unfortunately, this white-haired ninja responded blandly to Sakura, merely picking up a knife and fork.

"How is this guy going to eat with a mask on?" Sakura curiously watched.

But, in the blink of an eye, the grilled meat in front of him was gone, and he even picked up a napkin, nonchalantly wiping his mouth still covered by the mask.

Sakura: "???"

Did this guy just swallow it whole?

Considering he was protecting his face so preciously, his appearance under the mask must be ugly, maybe buck-teeth or thick lips.

He must be unsightly to look at.

Soon, Sakura's three-hour internship ended, she earned one thousand silver as remuneration, and both the manager and the other waiters arranged a meal for her.

Plain rice was available to eat as much as they wanted, the dishes were abundant, including both meat and vegetarian options, and everyone even got a piece of grilled meat slightly smaller than what the customers received.

The restaurant was generous to its employees.

"I'm going to start!" Sakura ate her rice heartily, consuming nearly ten bowls in less than ten minutes, and her stomach was only slightly distended, surprising the rest of her colleagues.

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"How can you eat so much?"

Sakura laughed, "I'm growing, after all."

"Is Sakura still a student at the ninja academy?"

"Yes."

"That's great, you have to become a ninja," said a girl with a peony hairpin, "I was also a student at the ninja academy and even refined my Chakra during the three years, but unfortunately, my talent was too poor to perform Ninjutsu, so I had to drop out."

"Me too."

"Same here."

As the conversations opened, other girls also shared their experiences, most of which involved having studied at the ninja academy. Some were forced to drop out in the third grade because they couldn't control the method of extracting Chakra, others were not able to pass the final graduation exam and didn't want to repeat the year, so their families decided to let them drop out and start working.

In the future, their destinies seemed set: find a husband, get married, then have children, raise the children, and be homemakers, achieving the same as their mothers did.

Sakura seemed to have some insight, although it wasn't yet clear, but she roughly understood why Sun Wukong wanted her to experience various professions.

She wanted to change that!

First!

She wanted to become the Hokage!

Haruno Sakura's resolve steeled once again!

After work, she returned home, greeted her mother, took a bath, and lay down in bed, falling into a deep sleep and entering a mental space where she began to practice with various characters.

Then, at three in the morning, she got up to practice the Four Void Seals, enhancing her physique and accumulating refined Chakra, her height spurted another five centimeters.

A month later, the six-year-old Haruno Sakura had reached a height of one meter fifty, nearly as tall as the sixth graders at the ninja academy.