The question took the couple by surprise, the two were already in a relationship, but wanted to hide it for now due to Kushina's sensitive position in the village, Kushina quickly replied embarrassedly: "It's nothing like that, we're just friends, we went out together today because to celebrate the success of a mission we did together."
Minato quickly agreed, "That's right, we're just hanging out as friends, we're not on a date or anything."
Dazen quickly understood the two's situation and said with a smile: "So that's it, but it's a little suspicious, there's something there you guys denied it very quickly, but since you don't want to say it, it's okay."
Kushina and Minato got nervous and continued explaining that they were just friends and that it wasn't a date and Dazen continued to make comments and have fun with their situation until Teuchi arrived with the orders and the three stopped the discussion and concentrated and ate.
Dazen finished eating quickly, he took the money out of his wallet and placed it on the counter as he said, "I'm going to have to leave early today, but I'll definitely be back next year to get my discount, so don't be such a pushover next time Teuchi, oh and Minato and Kushina you don't need to worry, I'll keep your relationship a secret, I'll see you later."
Dazen turned and left before giving the three of them a chance to answer anything, Teuchi thought: "He asks for a discount, saying he'll only come back next year, what a weird boy."
Soon after, he looked at Minato and Kushina and asked: "Are you dating? I didn't know my congratulations."
Kushina and Minato had an ugly expression as they tried to explain that they weren't dating and that it was just a joke from Dazen, having to explain the whole situation Minato thought: 'If you intend to keep it a secret, don't go around shouting about it, this relationship will stay increasingly difficult to hide.'
Dazen didn't worry about any of that as he headed towards his home with a smile on his face. The next morning Dazen decided to sleep a little more, there was still a week left before the genins were introduced to their respective responsible jounin, so he decided to take the day off and return to training the next day while Dazen rested, Hiruzen was in the office discussing the ninja teams with several people.
Hiruzen looked at the teachers and said: "Okay, to begin with, tell me how many students passed the exam and their ages."
One of the teachers replied: "In total, 117 students passed, 67 final year students aged 12, 31 students aged 11, 14 students aged 10 and finally 5 students aged 9."
Hiruzen then said: "So there will be 39 teams, okay then let's start assembling the teams, the children and teams must be close in age and complement each other's skills, starting with the older students, which ones do you think will be the best teams and indicate who are best responsible for them."
Having finished speaking, the teachers began to discuss the formation of the genin teams, it wasn't a very long process, after all they were already used to forming teams, only in some special cases more discussion time was needed to reach a conclusion.
Time passed and soon the teams were almost all assembled, the only thing missing was the teams for the youngest students and extra care was needed with these, as they had a lot of potential as they graduated so early.
One of the teachers said: "Now there are only 6 students left, 5 of them are students who will graduate with a 9 and one with a 10 as you think we should put them."
Takashi then spoke: "I think a good team would be Dazen, Ayumi Sarutobi and Hideki Yamanaka, the skills of the three complement each other well and with the personality of the 3 they will have good teamwork."
One of the teachers disagreed: "For good teamwork it is also necessary that the talent is similar, Hideki and Ayumi are fine, but Dazen was from a normal class, I don't know if he will be able to keep up with the other two, I think it would be better put them with the Inuzuka or the Uchiha."
Takashi quickly retorted: "Dazen's potential is not lacking, he has improved a lot in a short space of time, it's no wonder that even though he is outside the elite class he graduated early he also trains a lot, I have no doubt that he will become a qualified jounin."
The other teachers were surprised by Takashi's statement, Hiruzen looked at him and smiled: "I read the boy's file without a doubt he is a great talent, I agree that this is the best combination and for the Junin in charge I think it would be better Kenji Hatake, in Dazen's file says that he trained Kenjutsu and his chakra nature is lightning so Kenji could train him in that aspect, Kenji is also an expert in 3 chakra natures and in tracking so he can train Ayume and Hideki respectively which you think?"
The teachers quickly agreed with Hiruzen's suggestion so he continued with choosing the jounin for the next team and finishing he dismissed everyone while thinking: 'Finally finished, these subjects always take all day, I hope that among these students some good surprises will emerge.'