11 Chapter 10

Yamanaka Ino was torn between being happy beyond measure and being mad beyond measure.

Happy because her crush slash wet fantasy had agreed to eat together with her after the exams.

Mad because there were far too many people with them for it to be a proper date.

They were at a ramen stand that was quite famous in the village due to several high ranked Shinobi and even clan heads eating there. Since it was a ramen stand of course Naruko was here and she had somehow dragged that forehead Sakura with her. Chouji and his cousin Chocho were also there as they had appeared out of thin air at the mention of food and where Chouji was, so was that lazy bum Shikamaru.

Five people that had ruined the chances of this meal being a proper date.

"Old man Teuchi, bring us many many MANY bowls! Daiki is paying them!"

"I will pay only for one bowl for everyone, snacks and extra bowls are out of your own pockets." The muscular boy said as he looked through the menu, not paying any attention to the blonde Uzumaki and the Akimichi duo's complaints about being 'stingy'.

"You know, girls don't like men who are stingy." Chocho said while huffing her hair away from her eye, then it returned to its exact position as Daiki answered her.

"And men don't like girls who think too much about money."

The argument likely would have gone on for a while but with a godly timing, the chef of the stand brought everyone their bowl. It was actually impressive how fast he had prepared them.

"Itadakimasu."

The meal was… pleasant. The taste of the ramen was heavenly and even though they had destroyed any chance of this lunch becoming a date, eating with friends was kinda nice.

"Old man, another bowl!" And loud, can't forget loud.

"Here." And the chef brought out a bowl of noodles faster than most Shinobi.

Daiki looked at her and then at her bowl, then he looked at the billboard forehead and her bowl. Both of them had barely touched their meals, unlike the rest of the occupants who were either about to finish their bowls or at their second bowls.

"Sakura, Ino; aren't you two gonna eat?"

"Ahh, no. I am on a diet, I want to keep my figure so I don't eat much."

"Same here." She agreed with Sakura. Though Daiki was looking at them like they had said something dumb.

"You two… you do realize with a Shinobi lifestyle that will backfire right? Not only you won't get enough energy but what you eat will turn to fat far easier." And then everything stopped.

Birds stopped chirping, wind stopped blowing and even the sound of the kitchen stopped as Sakura and Ino looked like they had been told that all of their efforts were not only futile but it actually took them away from their goal.

Which was what Daiki just told them.

"Wait, you mean you can get fat by eating less? How does that work?" Naruko asked, not caring much about the dead look Ino and Sakura had gotten on their faces as she inhaled more noodles.

"If you starve yourself while also training to be a Shinobi then you will end up eating lots once in a while, am I right?" He asked to the girls who were doing the diet and they nodded reluctantly. There had been times they ate quite a lot after losing themselves to their hunger.

"Eating too much while being hungry, binge eating, will cause the blood sugar levels to go up, which will cause insulin to be excreted excessively. Insulin normally carries energy but when it is excreted too much those energy can't all go to muscles and instead will instead be stored in fat cells." Daiki explained, kinda reminding them of the teachers in the academy.

"Wow, you know a lot, Daiki-kun." Sakura praised the Senju heir, getting a twitch from Ino who didn't want the pinkette anywhere near her crush.

"I have to. Building up muscle is not just about how much you train but also about what you eat and how you eat."

"Really, I don't really care what I eat but I never gain weight though?" Naruko said with her head tilted sideways.

Unknown to her, those words had earned her the ire of every female in hearing distance. And in a village of Shinobi, that was a lot of distance.

"How am I supposed to be keep my figure without a diet though?"

"Ino… do you know of any Shinobi in active duty who is not fit? And don't say Akimichi clan, they literally use calories for their jutsus." Daiki asked her and the Yamanaka heiress opened her mouth to answer, only to shut it back since she literally knew of no kunoichi who was actually fat.

The ones who seemed to have fat tended to have it in the right places.

"Shinobi train all the time and if you exclude some hobbies then you will realize that active members of the force tend to be in restaurants or bars. Our way of life requires lot of food and we burn a lot of calories. A Shinobi who trains getting fat is close to impossible even if they binge eat high calorie food like sweets of deep fried meals once or twice a month." The Senju heir explained but all Ino and Sakura heard was that if they trained hard enough, they could eat as much as they with no fear and even get some extra desserts!

""TEACH US!!!"" They both literally latched on the arms of the Senju heir with pleading eyes that burned with determination!

Heated rivals who spent years in academy trying to outdo each other in everything from combat to smarts and from physiques to elegance, came together due to the call of their sweet teeth that they had ignored for years.

In the name of sweets!

And during that moment Uzumaki Naruko inhaled two more bowls of ramen, not caring about much else.