Shizune's thoughts were no different from Tsunade's.
She had originally thought that only she and Tsunade had the diary.
Now it seemed many people had it.
That girl named Hinata received many rewards at once, simply because she had taught Takasaki the Three Body Technique today, and Takasaki had written about it in the diary.
"If only I had been the one to teach Takasaki the Three Body Technique today," Shizune thought to herself. "I had already learned this basic Ninjutsu, the Three Body Technique. If I had taught Takasaki, I definitely could have done a better job than Hinata."
That was easy to say.
Yet, she didn't even know where Takasaki was.
Immediately after, she heard Lady Tsunade's shouts from the next room, banging on the bed frame: "Shizune! Shizune! Go to the Ninja Academy in the Land of Hot Water and help me find someone."
Shizune immediately put the diary into her consciousness space, pushed open the door, and entered Tsunade's room: "Lady Tsunade, who are you looking for?"
"I'm looking for a student named Takasaki."
As expected, it was Takasaki; this was within Shizune's predictions.
Why go to the Ninja Academy in the Land of Hot Water to search? Could it be that Lady Tsunade had already deduced Takasaki's location?
"I'll go right away." Shizune felt a little excited, and after dropping this sentence, she impatiently ran downstairs.
Watching Shizune work tirelessly, Tsunade sighed: "She truly is my good disciple; she's becoming more and more proactive in her work."
...
Konoha Village.
Sakura Haruno's boudoir.
Sakura Haruno finished reading the diary Takasaki had just written. She put the diary into her consciousness space and sat blankly on the headboard, as if deep in thought.
After a while, she took out the diary again, reread its contents as if to confirm something, and then put it away again.
Anyone who understood girls would know from Sakura Haruno's actions alone that she must have been emotionally triggered by something.
"Why me…" Sakura Haruno suddenly murmured, "It's fine that I didn't get a reward, but why did Hinata get one?! And an extra reward at that!"
Clearly.
She had already accepted that the diary was not exclusively hers.
The problem was that the rewards in the diary were not exclusively hers, and she found this hard to accept!
Why was Hinata mentioned throughout, but her name wasn't mentioned even once?
Was she not as pretty as Hinata? Was her pink hair not cute?
Most importantly, Takasaki actually took the initiative to find Hinata today and asked Hinata to teach him the Three Body Technique.
Why didn't he come to her?
She clearly also knew the Three Body Technique.
If Takasaki had come to her, she certainly wouldn't have refused. In that case, the person whose name was mentioned most in Takasaki's diary entry would likely have been her, and she would also have received the diary's reward.
After much thought, Sakura Haruno still felt she was at a great disadvantage and muttered curses at Takasaki under her breath: "If I don't go to him, can't he take the initiative to come to me?!"
"That Takasaki, in the last diary entry, he kept saying that if I acted like his 'lickspittle', he would accept it. Although I still don't understand what 'lickspittle' means, if he doesn't actively approach me, how am I supposed to 'lick' him?"
"This can't go on."
Having enjoyed the diary's reward once, Sakura Haruno naturally wanted to enjoy it a second time.
Seeing others receive extra rewards in the diary, she naturally wanted them too.
No matter how fast her daily training made her stronger, it wasn't as quick as the rewards directly obtained from the diary.
It wasn't that she couldn't train hard normally, but rather that the diary's rewards offered a better cost-benefit ratio.
"Tomorrow, I need to find an opportunity to actively approach Takasaki and make him mention my name several times in the diary, at least 5 times."
"I'll just go to Takasaki's house tomorrow morning and wait to go to school with him."
After making her decision, Sakura Haruno's emotions couldn't help but calm down.
She took out the diary again and flipped through both entries.
In the first entry, Takasaki was like a pervert, wanting to marry many girls and bring them home as wives, but she was not among them.
In the second entry, Takasaki seemed a bit more innocent, constantly praising Hinata's good qualities, and still, she was not mentioned.
Overall, among all the girls mentioned in Takasaki's diary, she received the worst treatment.
Comparing them like this, Sakura Haruno felt a bit triggered: "That dead-last Takasaki, even if he goes to Hinata to learn the Three Body Technique, he definitely won't learn it! If it weren't for wanting to get the diary's reward, I wouldn't go to school with him tomorrow!"
Let alone Takasaki never writing that he liked her in the diary.
Even if he had, she wouldn't like Takasaki.
How could she possibly be with a dead-last? The only boy worthy of her was Sasuke!
...
The sun had already set.
The afterglow of the sunset merged into the night.
Konoha's night market street was bustling, and Ichiraku Teuchi Ramen Shop was filled with customers.
Takasaki still didn't know that his diary, after being publicly 'executed', had caused Sakura Haruno to curse, Hinata to blush shyly, and Tsunade to feel envious.
Shizune had already found the principal of the Land of Hot Water Ninja Academy and asked him if Takasaki was a student there. After receiving a negative answer, Shizune returned to the inn disappointed to report to Tsunade.
Meanwhile, Sakura Haruno and Hinata had both made the same decision: they planned to go to school with him tomorrow.
The feeling of having two very attractive female classmates vying to go to school with him was something Takasaki only remembered experiencing in dreams.
He knew he was very handsome, but in this world with clear social strata, born into a commoner family, orphaned, impoverished, and a dead-last in academics, it was truly difficult for him to attract girls.
At this moment.
Takasaki was at home grinding his Ninjutsu levels. Smelling the barbecue wafting in through the window, his mouth watered: "That smells so good. It's time to go out for a late-night snack."
Eating a late-night snack cost money.
Takasaki patted his pocket, which was empty.
He searched through boxes and cabinets but didn't find many banknotes.
There was nothing he could do; he had no income, relying only on the meager survivor's benefits left by his parents and Konoha's relief subsidies to get by. Where would he have spare money for late-night snacks?
Fortunately, there was still a box of instant noodles at home, the same brand as Naruto's, and it had expired a few days ago.
With the thought that food expired for less than a month wasn't really expired, Takasaki decided to turn his hunger into motivation and continue grinding his Ninjutsu levels.
"In a few days, I'll find another chance to mooch a meal off Hinata's family. Hopefully, I won't run into Neji again."
"Clone Technique!"
Takasaki formed a hand seal, and two puffs of smoke appeared beside him simultaneously.
As the smoke cleared.
Takasaki wiped the sweat from his forehead and continued to grind!
He didn't notice.
By the window, a figure appeared, dressed in a white robe, and about his height.
Hyuga Neji.
After being severely scolded by the Hyuga clan leader, Hyuga Hiashi, Neji immediately came to apologize to Takasaki. After seeing Takasaki diligently training by the window, his gaze towards Takasaki was no longer as disdainful as before; instead, it was filled with admiration: "Takasaki-kun is indeed still working hard. It's hard to imagine how much effort Takasaki has put in privately over the past six years to shake off the 'dead-last' title. No wonder Hinata was influenced by Takasaki. In fact, even I am somewhat influenced by Takasaki."