I'd Rather You Become a Cook

Tobirama Senju Residence.

"Kid, you came back at just the right time. Go make me something to eat." Tobirama Senju emerged from the study, looking exhausted.

For the past year, he had been researching a ninjutsu capable of bringing the dead back to the Shinobi World. After hundreds, even thousands, of experiments, he still had made no progress.

The key to this technique was summoning the souls of the dead, and that was the hardest step to achieve. In order to control souls, he intended to develop a ninjutsu specifically for imprisoning them, tentatively called Soul Imprisonment.

As long as he successfully developed the Soul Imprisonment Technique, he would be able to control the souls of the dead and thus accomplish the step of summoning them.

Tobirama Senju had been so absorbed in researching Soul Imprisonment that he neglected food and sleep. During this time, aside from his sister-in-law occasionally bringing him meals, he could only survive on Military Rations Pills.

His mouth had practically gone numb from bland food.

So the moment he saw Renye return, he immediately told him to cook.

Whenever Renye was away, Tobirama Senju complained about him plenty. "That kid is always out on missions and never even comes home..."

Hearing Tobirama, Renye's eyelids twitched wildly. He grumbled inwardly, This old man is making me cook again.

The problem was that he had just walked through the door and had not even had time to drink any water.

"Uncle, I'm injured," Renye said helplessly.

Only then did Tobirama Senju notice the bandages wrapped around Renye's abdomen.

"It's just a minor injury. Bear with it for now. I haven't eaten in days."

Renye: "???"

No, what the hell did you not eating for days have to do with me?

"Uncle, I really don't know what to say about you... You're already in your thirties. If you're hungry, can't you cook for yourself?" Renye wore a complicated expression.

He looked as though he were staring at an idiot...

Tobirama Senju's old face reddened as he explained, "I've been busy developing ninjutsu. Where would I find the time to cook?"

"Uncle, you're secretly researching Forbidden Techniques behind Uncle Hashirama's back again." Renye sighed.

Previously, Renye had thought that the ninjutsu Tobirama Senju researched were all impressive, high-end techniques. But after he personally saw Tobirama Senju's Ninjutsu Scroll, he realized that the techniques inside were all incredibly bizarre.

Some of them were even inhumane...

No wonder Hashirama Senju had forbidden Tobirama from continuing his ninjutsu research.

If he were allowed to keep researching, who knew what absurdly overpowered ninjutsu he might develop?

Although Hashirama Senju had explicitly forbidden it, Tobirama was still secretly researching.

After Renye caught him, he even threatened Renye not to tell his elder brother.

Regarding this matter, Renye could only turn a blind eye and pretend he had seen nothing.

"The ninjutsu I'm developing aren't Forbidden Techniques. They're foundations I'm leaving behind for the village." Tobirama Senju's expression was solemn.

In his view, the ninjutsu he developed were indeed extremely dangerous.

But once mastered, they could unleash tremendous combat power.

Even if he and his elder brother were gone one day, the village could still rely on these ninjutsu to resist invasions from other countries.

Hearing that, Renye neither agreed nor disagreed.

The ninjutsu Tobirama Senju developed were indeed powerful. If one could master even one of them, their strength would improve tremendously.

Like the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique and the Flying Thunder God Technique.

After Naruto and his father learned them, they practically became their signature techniques.

Tobirama's ninjutsu were powerful, but their sole drawback was that they placed extremely high demands on the user.

The Multiple Shadow Clone Technique required the user to possess a huge amount of Chakra.

If the user lacked sufficient Chakra, using it could lead to Chakra exhaustion and endanger their life.

As for the Flying Thunder God Technique, the user had to understand complex Space-Time Ninjutsu principles. Not only that, it also required exceptional talent.

In short, ordinary people would find them very difficult to learn...

Renye had long wanted to learn the Flying Thunder God, but he had never found the chance to ask.

Since Tobirama Senju did not bring it up, he did not feel comfortable asking.

Even if Tobirama really taught him, whether he could learn it was another matter entirely.

"Enough, kid. Go cook already," Tobirama Senju urged.

Renye sighed helplessly and reluctantly walked into the kitchen.

"Compared to a ninja, I feel more like a cook."

Ever since Tobirama Senju adopted him, he had become the Senju family's personal chef.

Every time he returned from a mission, the first thing he did was not rest, but cook.

At first, it had been fine. Renye only needed to cook and did not have to worry about anything else.

Now, things were different. Not only did he have to cook, but he also had to buy groceries and wash dishes.

The old man always claimed he was busy, then dumped all the dirty and exhausting work on him.

Tobirama Senju watched Renye enter the kitchen with a complicated expression and murmured softly, "Kid, I actually hope you become a cook..."

The ninja world was far too dangerous. Living as a ninja was practically like living with one's head hanging by a thread; one never knew when death might come.

He would rather Renye had no talent for being a ninja and simply opened a restaurant in the village.

As long as Konoha Village was not destroyed, Renye could live out his life happily as an ordinary person.

After all, they had lived together for so long. Even raising a dog for that long would create attachment, much less a living, breathing person.

Naturally, Tobirama Senju did not want to see Renye die in battle.

But there was no helping it. Since he had become a ninja, there were some things he would always have to face...

Tobirama Senju could not protect the kid for his entire life, could he?

At the dining table.

The aroma of the food made Tobirama Senju forget his exhaustion and worries.

Sure enough, this kid's cooking was still the best!

After finishing two bowls of rice, he was still not satisfied and served himself another bowl.

This kid often went out on missions and sometimes would not return for weeks.

If he did not eat more now, he would only be able to eat Military Rations Pills in the laboratory later.

While Tobirama was enjoying the food, Renye asked, "Uncle, is Sister Sakurako about to give birth?"

The Sakurako Renye referred to was Hashirama Senju's daughter-in-law, and Tsunade's mother.

"Probably soon..." Tobirama Senju set down his chopsticks. "It should be within the next few days."

"I understand. I'll go visit Sister Sakurako when the time comes."

"Mm. When the time comes, remember to give Tōka and Sakurako your blessings."

"Don't worry, Uncle."

Tōka was Hashirama Senju's son, which made him Tobirama Senju's nephew.

At first, Renye had wondered where Hashirama's son had gone.

Later, he learned that Hashirama Senju had sent his son to marry into the Daimyo's residence.

Tōka Senju had been living with his wife in the capital of the Land of Fire and had never returned to Konoha.

It was only natural that Renye did not know about him.

If not for his wife being about to give birth this time, Tōka might not even have returned...

Renye learned from Tobirama that Hashirama and his son had a poor relationship and had not contacted each other for a very long time.

The reason was this marriage alliance.

Officially, Tōka had gone to form a marriage alliance. Put bluntly, he had gone to marry into his wife's family.

Renye had no idea what Hashirama Senju had been thinking, letting his own son marry into another family.

Because of this, the relationship between father and son gradually worsened.

As for why Tōka had returned now?

Renye guessed it was probably because he had come around...

After all, Sister Sakurako was quite pretty.