How Misunderstandings Are Made

"You've already mastered this Wensi Tofu Soup. Your knife skills are practically flawless. You can add other ingredients on that basis.

"The sweet-and-sour fish has a somewhat muddled sourness. The problem should be with the vinegar. Improve the preparation process, and try other kinds of fish as well. Aim to find the variety that best suits this dish.

"The scallion-pepper fish isn't numbing enough. The issue should lie with the Sichuan peppercorns. Try other varieties, or start cultivating a new kind.

"The black fish roe soup isn't thick enough. It can't meld with the egg slices, so it doesn't achieve that tender, silky texture. Think of a way to solve that later.

"The sauce for the pan-fried tofu is good, but the tofu's texture is lacking. Try making it with other beans.

Comparing them to the delicacies he had eaten in his previous life, Shimura Kentei pointed out the differences.

Overall, Shimura Lu's cooking was quite good, especially his knife skills. However, he had started halfway through life, so he still had many shortcomings.

But that was not a problem. As long as they continued developing like this, one day they would perfectly recreate the eight great cuisines of China from his previous life, perhaps even surpass them.

Uzumaki Mito was dumbfounded by this guidance. She could not help recalling how she had felt when she saw Hashirama's secret scroll back then. This little brother was becoming more and more like Hashirama—neither of them spoke like normal people.

As for Senju Nawaki, the moment Shimura Kentei began saying those inhuman things, he swiftly slipped away and dashed toward the secret pavilion. However, he headed for its top floor.

"Big Sis, this is terrible! Grandma wants to find us a new grandfather!"

Senju Nawaki rushed into the top floor of the secret pavilion and shouted anxiously.

Those awful words nearly caused Tsunade, who was cultivating the Yin Seal, to lose control of her chakra. It took her quite a while to calm it back down.

Bang!

"What nonsense are you talking about? How could Grandma possibly find us a new grandfather?"

Tsunade angrily smashed her fist into her foolish little brother's head. She felt that this brat truly needed a beating, daring to make up stories about their grandmother.

"I'm not making it up! I saw Grandma eating with that guy Shimura Kentei. He kept putting food on her plate, and Grandma didn't refuse. They looked even more like a married couple than our dad and mom, and they were so affectionate!"

Tears welled in his eyes as Senju Nawaki clutched the rapidly swelling lump on his forehead. He insisted that he was not lying; he had seen it with his own eyes.

The more he watched during the meal earlier, the more something felt wrong. He had always felt that bastard had designs on his grandmother, and the worst part was that she had not refused him.

That was an extremely dangerous sign. If things went badly, that guy might really become his new grandfather.

"That damned little pervert!"

Seeing that her foolish little brother did not appear to be lying, Tsunade flew into a rage. She got up and stormed toward her mansion, intending to drag out that little pervert and destroy him humanely.

Although her grandmother's appearance had not aged because of the Yin Seal, and she even looked younger than Tsunade herself, she was still her grandmother.

Tsunade could have endured it if her grandmother had gotten together with an elder. After all, her grandfather had died early, and her grandmother had been widowed for so many years. It had not been easy for her.

But why did it have to be that little pervert?

If those two really got together, should she call that brat her disciple in the future?

Or, as Nawaki said, her new grandfather?

The more Tsunade thought about it, the angrier she became. She used the Body Flicker Technique to race back, and soon returned to the mansion. After sensing around briefly, she found Shimura Kentei lying in a bedroom, his breathing long and steady. He seemed to be asleep. Meanwhile, her grandmother was sitting on the sofa in the living room, reading a scroll.

Suppressing the fury in her heart, Tsunade entered the living room and sat across from her grandmother. She said nothing, merely staring at her in silence.

Before long, a young man hurried in and silently sat beside Tsunade. It was Senju Tōsu.

His nephew Senju Nawaki had just come to find him, so he had immediately set aside his work and rushed over.

"Is something wrong?"

Uzumaki Mito set down the scroll and asked in puzzlement. The expressions on their faces made it seem as if something major had happened.

Tsunade and Senju Tōsu exchanged glances. In the end, Senju Tōsu braced himself and spoke. "Aunt, what do you think of that child, Shimura Kentei?"

He did not dare ask outright whether his aunt wanted to remarry or keep a male companion. Otherwise, he would definitely be hung up and beaten.

Though he was a True Kage Level powerhouse, he was no different from a child before this aunt.

"He's quite a handsome young man. What about him?"

Uzumaki Mito stated her impression of that little brother, growing even more puzzled. What exactly was wrong with these two?

"But he's Shimura Danzō's son!"

Tsunade spoke up then. She likewise did not dare ask directly, intending instead to remind her grandmother indirectly.

"Danzō is Danzō, and his son is his son. Is there necessarily any connection between them? Don't misunderstand little brother Kentei just because of Danzō. He's quite a good person."

Uzumaki Mito looked displeased. She felt that these two juniors had misunderstood that little brother.

She herself was very good at judging people. Furthermore, after gaining the ability to sense malice from the Nine-Tails, she had never sensed even the slightest trace of malice from that boy during all this time.

Good young men like him were rare!

Seeing that Tsunade still wanted to speak, Uzumaki Mito raised a hand to stop her and said unhappily, "I know what I'm doing. I don't need you two teaching me!"

Seeing Uzumaki Mito's determination, Tsunade and Senju Tōsu exchanged another glance and smiled bitterly.

Though unwilling, they did not dare anger this elder.

There was no helping it. Within the Senju Clan, she had the biggest fists.

"From now on, leave Nawaki's training to little brother Kentei. Don't interfere. Just make sure he doesn't die."

Uzumaki Mito announced her decision, but it drew Tsunade's vehement opposition.

"No! I refuse to let that little pervert teach Nawaki!"

What a joke. She currently wanted nothing more than to destroy that little pervert humanely. How could she let him teach her little brother?

Her little brother was already adorably stupid. What if that little pervert taught him into becoming another little pervert? What if he started peeping in bathhouses?

Their Senju Clan could not afford that kind of disgrace!

"Little pervert? I didn't see that."

Uzumaki Mito blinked her innocent-looking eyes in confusion. She truly did not understand what her granddaughter meant.

She considered her own beauty unparalleled, yet when she first met that little brother, his gaze had been clear, exactly like when Hashirama had first seen her.

Men like that generally would not be swayed by beauty. They had their own ideals and convictions. There was absolutely no way he could be the little pervert her granddaughter described.

Even if he had acted somewhat attentive earlier, it should have been because of the Uzumaki Sealing Technique she knew.

Besides, based on her understanding of Shimura Danzō, he was unlikely to suggest making that E-Rank Body Strengthening Secret Technique into a Ninja Academy textbook without seeking fame or profit. He had even used that D-Rank Body Strengthening Secret Technique as a bargaining chip to make the many ninja clans agree.

That was not Shimura Danzō's style, so this had likely been that little brother's doing. She simply did not know why Shimura Danzō had tacitly permitted it.

But no matter what, being able to do such things was enough to prove that little brother's character and breadth of mind were exactly like Hashirama's back then. Both had thought only of the village.

"Enough, enough. You two both misunderstand little brother Kentei. And be more polite to him in the future. By seniority, he's now from the same generation as you, Tōsu."

She had realized it. Both of them held deep misunderstandings toward that little brother.

"What? He's from my generation?"

Senju Tōsu looked utterly baffled, unable to understand what his aunt meant.

Logically, he was from the same generation as Shimura Danzō and the others. How had that brat suddenly become someone from his generation as well?

Could it be that brat was not Brother Danzō's son at all, but Brother Danzō's younger brother?

Senju Tōsu could not help letting his imagination run wild. The more he thought about it, the more plausible it seemed, and he could not help feeling a bit more sympathy for Shimura Danzō.

Tsunade beside him was similarly letting her imagination run wild, though in an entirely different direction.

It's over, it's over. Grandma has really fallen for that little pervert. She's already raising his seniority. She's obviously preparing for them to get together in the future!

Getting together with someone from her grandson's generation would indeed sound bad, but being with someone from her children's or nephews' generation would sound much better.

Her grandmother had truly fallen!

Uzumaki Mito did not know what the two juniors before her were thinking. Otherwise, she would have been furious to death.

"Hashirama once left an inheritance on the first floor of the secret pavilion. He split the clues to unsealing it and wrote them into those scrolls.

"Today, little brother found that secret scroll inheritance. He can be considered Hashirama's disciple from a later generation.

"Although we cannot pass our Senju Clan's secret technique inheritance to him because he is an outsider, we must at least give him a certain degree of respect."

She knew very well why her husband had done this back then. It was a test. Anyone who found that secret scroll would receive special cultivation.

Unfortunately, not a single member of the Senju Clan had passed the test over all these years. Few people even went to the secret pavilion to read. Even when they did, they went directly to the second floor. Almost no one touched the scrolls on the first floor, much less read every one of them.

"What? He obtained Great-Granduncle's secret scroll inheritance!"

Tsunade abruptly stood up, her beautiful eyes widening. She had never expected something like this to happen.

When she had told that brat to read on the first floor of the secret pavilion, she had merely wanted him to broaden his horizons. She wanted him to read the notes left by their predecessors, gain a deeper understanding of the ninja world, and prepare for leaving the village to undertake missions in the future.

But who could have imagined that little pervert would find the secret scroll inheritance left behind by her great-granduncle? How had that brat done it?

And when had her great-granduncle left an inheritance there?

How did she, his granddaughter, not know about this?

Senju Tōsu said nothing, but a chilling killing intent faintly emanated from him.

Secret technique and ninjutsu inheritances were the foundation and lifeline of ninja clans. They absolutely could not be passed outside the clan, especially the secret scroll inheritance left by that uncle.

Since that brat had obtained his uncle's inheritance, Senju Tōsu could only be ruthless and eliminate him. He believed that even Brother Danzō would have nothing to say about it.

That brat had violated the taboo bottom line of the ninja clans. He deserved to die!

Bang!

Just as Senju Tōsu was considering how to kill Shimura Kentei, a scroll smashed into his forehead. The tremendous force carried by it sent his entire body flying, embedding him in the wall like a human-shaped relief.

"Your generation is finished!"

Uzumaki Mito, who had thrown the scroll, looked at Senju Tōsu with disappointment. She increasingly felt that the Senju Clan was declining.

Leaving aside everything else, even his magnanimity was inferior to Tobirama's!

Faced with his aunt's rebuke, Senju Tōsu was at a complete loss and utterly bewildered.

Had he done something wrong?

"Go back and copy Hashirama and Tobirama's diaries ten times for me!"

Too lazy to bother with this narrow-minded nephew, Uzumaki Mito waved a hand to tell him to get lost.

As clan head, he possessed such little magnanimity. No wonder the Senju Clan had gradually declined.

"Yes, Aunt!"

Though still completely baffled, Senju Tōsu did not dare argue. He pried himself out of the wall, bowed, and left, taking the scroll with him. The words Hashirama's Secret Scroll were written on it.

"You too. Go copy Hashirama and Tobirama's diaries ten times for me. Don't even think about using Shadow Clones to cut corners. And when you return this time, don't come out until you've completed the Yin Seal!"

Uzumaki Mito glared at Tsunade, who wanted to say something, and told her to get lost as well. Looking at these juniors irritated her.

One was hopelessly addicted to gambling, one was the clan head yet narrow-minded, and Nawaki was even more single-minded. The Senju generation was completely finished!

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