Yagami Chiyue, Also Known as Uchiha Chiyue

After being rejected, Kushina sadly slumped over the table.

She had no appetite whatsoever for the lunch she had worked so hard to prepare.

She had only wanted to thank Chiyue for speaking up for her in the office. She had no other intentions.

Unfortunately, Chiyue had refused.

"Aren't you and Kushina...?"

Minato looked in surprise at Chiyue, who was sitting beside him.

Chiyue opened his lunchbox and shrugged. "I don't like rice balls or sashimi. You know that, so I turned her down."

Chiyue truly did not like those foods.

More importantly, he did not want the Anbu keeping an eye on him.

Being watched by the Anbu would be very uncomfortable.

After all, he had many secrets that could not see the light of day.

"Hahaha, now that's a good brother."

But Minato did not see it that way. He mistakenly thought Chiyue had rejected Kushina in order to keep him company.

"..."

Screw you!

Could you take your chopsticks out of my lunchbox before saying that?

After the day's classes ended, Chiyue quickly returned home.

He entered the bathroom and looked at himself in the mirror. His originally blue eyes had now turned red.

Two tomoe floated within them.

"My one-tomoe Sharingan evolved into two tomoe without any warning. Could it really be because of the game character's influence?"

After deactivating his Sharingan, Chiyue wearily flopped onto his bed.

His full name was Yagami Chiyue, and he had half Uchiha blood.

His mother had been a member of the Uchiha Clan. After his father died in battle, she had wanted to take him back to the Uchiha Clan.

But because of his silver hair and Chiyue's own resistance, the matter had ultimately come to nothing.

Moreover, quite a few people in the Uchiha Clan opposed his return.

When Chiyue had first transmigrated here, he discovered that his Sharingan had already awakened, possessing one tomoe.

There was also a White Nine-Tails from the game inside him.

Unfortunately, this exclusive Nine-Tails had been very small. Only after more than a year of growth had she reached her current size.

Fortunately, the Nine-Tails was exclusive to him. Unless he wished it, no one could tell that a growing Nine-Tails resided within him.

When his Sharingan had first awakened, Chiyue had not suffered any great emotional shock.

The same was true of its evolution now.

"If all the configurations from my game appear on me, then..."

A fully developed Nine-Tails with Sage Mode built in, a Rinnegan that had reached its peak...

With that setup, why the hell should he fear Danzo?

Sooner or later, he would crush that old bastard with one hand.

For now, lying low was the right move!

He could be a genius, but he could not be a freak.

Geniuses were worth nurturing. Freaks easily attracted attention.

Meanwhile, Kushina returned to the Senju Ancestral Home.

Because she was still young, Uzumaki Mito and the Third Hokage had made an agreement:

Until Kushina graduated from the ninja academy, she would live in the Senju Ancestral Home so that Tsunade could offer her whatever help she could.

"Wow, lunchboxes!"

When Nawaki came home and saw the lunchboxes on the table, he immediately started eating heartily. He even asked Tsunade if she wanted some.

"Kushina worked hard all last night to make those lunchboxes."

Tsunade looked at the lunchboxes, picked up a rice ball, and took a bite. "She said she wanted to thank a classmate who spoke up for her, so she made them especially for him. Looks like she was rejected."

"Rejected?"

Nawaki's eyes widened. Who had the guts to reject Kushina's goodwill?

"Yes, I was rejected."

At that moment, the downcast Kushina emerged from her room. She weakly sat beside Tsunade and irritably scratched her hair.

"Lord Chiyue said he doesn't like rice balls or sashimi. Damn it, I spent so long preparing them."

Who would have thought this little girl could have a day when she was troubled too?

Tsunade nearly burst out laughing. She kicked Nawaki with her foot, making him grimace in pain.

"Do you know that Yagami Chiyue guy? What kind of person is he?"

"Yagami Chiyue?"

Nawaki rubbed the spot where he had been kicked and thought for a moment before answering uncertainly.

"I think he's a kid from the lower grades. I heard he's really handsome, and quite a few girls in our grade like him."

"Then you're done for."

Tsunade grinned, bumped Kushina with her shoulder, and teased, "Kushina, you're under a lot of pressure. Handsome boys are always so popular, unlike some people."

"No!"

Kushina's face immediately turned red.

She admitted that Chiyue was handsome, but that was not why she wanted to thank him.

"Sis, why are you dragging me into this just because you're talking?"

Nawaki sensed deep malice.

I'm not as bad as you make me sound, and I'm your little brother—your biological little brother!

What kind of older sister says her own brother is ugly?

After glancing at Nawaki, Tsunade offered Kushina an idea.

"How about this? Invite him over for dinner some other day as thanks. Your big sister can help you check him out while we're at it!"

"What are you talking about?!"

Kushina clutched her head, jumped to her feet, and shouted, "It's really not like that! I just wanted to thank him. Tsunade, you're going too far."

With that, Kushina covered her face and ran back to her room.

"Tsk tsk, little girls really are so easily embarrassed."

Tsunade laughed wickedly.

You make it sound like you're so grown up, Nawaki grumbled inwardly.

"Sis, forget about having dinner at home. Eating out might be possible, but coming here is impossible."

"Why?"

Tsunade looked at him in confusion. Then she suddenly clenched her fists and gritted her teeth. "Could that hateful brat be unwilling to show me respect? Who do I think I am? I'm Tsunade Hime!"

"No!"

Unable to stand Tsunade instantly getting worked up, Nawaki shouted, "It's because Yagami Chiyue has another name."

"What name? How can one person have so many names?"

"Uchiha Chiyue."

Nawaki spread his hands and said helplessly, "Some female classmates told me. Yagami Chiyue is his original name. Before his mother died, she hoped he could return to the Uchiha Clan because he has Uchiha Clan blood."

"Unfortunately, nothing ever came of it."

"An Uchiha brat?"

No wonder Nawaki had reacted so strongly.

In that case, it really was a little troublesome. Kushina was also the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.

Forget it. It was best to pretend none of this had happened. It was good that he had refused her!

With Uchiha Clan blood in him, even if he had not returned to the Uchiha Clan, it was indeed inappropriate for him to get close to the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.

Tsunade would not discriminate against members of the Uchiha Clan, even if the Uchiha were all a little messed up in the head.

But the Third Hokage, Danzo, and even the Elder Council would never allow such a thing to happen.

Chiyue and Kushina being classmates and ordinary friends was fine. But if they became any closer, the higher-ups would definitely use every possible method to keep him away from Kushina.

"Today, we will be covering the throwing of ninja tools. Students, please open your textbooks..."

Chiyue was still the same as always, looking out the window as though something outside had caught his attention.

Kushina secretly glanced at him, then looked again a while later. In the end, she could not resist writing a small note and passing it over.

A note?

Chiyue had nearly forgotten how long it had been since he had seen something like this. It seemed that after starting middle school in his previous life, no one had passed notes anymore.

Who would have thought that after transmigrating, someone would pass him one?

"Why aren't you listening in class? You keep looking outside."

After reading the words on the note, Chiyue pushed it back.

"Because I have nothing to do, so I'm looking outside. If you already understand what the teacher is teaching, you can do the same."

"Oh, oh!"

Kushina had not expected Chiyue to answer her question aloud after she passed him a note.

Instead of passing one back to her.

"Yagami Chiyue! Uzumaki Kushina!"

On the podium, Kamimura Ichiki finally lost his patience. He slammed a hand on the desk and roared, "Even if you already know what I'm teaching, don't disrupt the other students' class! If you want to pass notes, don't do it right in front of me!!!"

"..."

Oh no, they had been caught.

Kushina's face turned bright red as she hurriedly lowered her head onto the desk.

Chiyue, meanwhile, acted as though nothing had happened.

He paid no attention to Kamimura Ichiki's words, nor did he care about the strange looks from the other students.

Everything that happened in the classroom fell into the eyes of the Anbu ninja. They could even see clearly what Kushina had written on the note.

"You're saying Kushina wrote a note to that child, Yagami Chiyue?"

Listening to the Anbu ninja's report, the Third Hokage pulled out Chiyue's file and began reading it. "I didn't expect this child to have such ties to the Uchiha Clan."

"Does this child have any intention of joining the Uchiha Clan?"

"No, Hokage-sama. Since Yagami Chiyue's mother passed away, he has never gone to the Uchiha Clan's territory again."

"It seems the Uchiha Clan does not welcome his return either."

It was not a good thing for the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki to be fond of a classmate with Uchiha blood.

Fortunately, Chiyue had not returned to the Uchiha Clan.

After thinking it over, the Third Hokage said to the Anbu ninja, "Continue observing them. The moment Yagami Chiyue shows any sign of responding to the Jinchuriki, stop it immediately. The Jinchuriki cannot become too close to the Uchiha Clan."

Even a child with Uchiha blood who was not technically an Uchiha was no exception.

Such things had to be prevented.

"Yes, Hokage-sama."

The Anbu member left the Hokage's office and continued following Kushina, observing every move she and Chiyue made.

"Master, the people outside seem to bear some ill will toward you."

A soft, sweet voice rang out in Chiyue's mind.

It was the Nine-Tails' voice. Chiyue's White Nine-Tails was female, the exact opposite of the large Nine-Tails inside Kushina.

Although there was really no need to distinguish male and female when it came to tailed beasts.

Still, Chiyue felt that their gender could be determined from their voices.