As a Ninja, I Only Want to Live Off Women in the Nasuverse

"Don't look so depressed. If you do a good job, I can find someone to make you a pair of Mystic Eye Killers. They can suppress the power of your Future Sight. I'm sure Future Sight has made your life pretty miserable until now."

A light suddenly appeared in Bin-kura Kōryū's despairing eyes. He used Future Sight to observe the process of losing its power in the future and discovered that Higashino Kanade had actually been telling the truth!

This black-hearted boss really would equip him with Mystic Eye Killers in the future, as long as he worked hard.

"I... accept."

In the end, Bin-kura Kōryū bowed his head to life. Though he hated and feared the boy before him, who had tortured him half to death, his desire to bid farewell to Future Sight was genuine.

Future Sight was what had turned him into this. To feel that he was truly alive, he had continuously staged terrifying bomb attacks. If possible, he wanted to return to a normal life as well.

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Hold Back That Old Urobutcher!

Early in the morning at the Ryougi Estate, Ryougi Shiki was eating alone.

"Papaya again?"

Ryougi Shiki picked up a slice of papaya with her chopsticks, a puzzled expression appearing on her face.

It was not that she disliked papaya dishes. Every chef employed by the Ryougi Family could become a head chef at a starred hotel if they went elsewhere, so the quality of their cooking went without saying.

What truly puzzled Ryougi Shiki was that she had eaten papaya for an entire week. Papaya for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. On top of that, her father required her to drink a sufficient amount of milk every day, claiming it was "for Shiki's physical development."

Ryougi Shiki could understand drinking milk for physical development, but what was with eating papaya at every meal? Vitamin supplements?

Seeing Ryougi Shiki's bored, appetite-less expression, the maid beside her stepped forward and advised, "Young Lady Shiki, please do not disregard the Head of the Family's good intentions. He is also thinking about your married life."

"Married life? I'm only sixteen. It's too early to be thinking about that."

"It isn't too early. In our day, sixteen was old enough to be a mother."

Ryougi Shiki gritted her teeth in annoyance. At the maid's reminder, she suddenly realized that this life of papaya at every meal had begun when Higashino Kanade moved into the Ryougi Estate. Was this all Higashino Kanade's doing?

Ryougi Shiki looked toward the empty seat beside her. Normally, Higashino Kanade should have been sitting there eating with her, but that spot was empty today. Had he been sent out on another assignment?

"Has Kanade gone out?"

Ryougi Shiki looked at the maid, who thought for a moment before replying, "Young Master Kanade should still be sleeping in his room. He has been busy with his own work lately, and he stayed up late last night as well. Staying up late at such a young age is not a good habit."

"Is Kanade drawing again?"

Ryougi Shiki put down her chopsticks, stood, and headed for Higashino Kanade's room.

"Young Lady Shiki, you haven't finished your meal."

"Leave it. I'll eat with Kanade later."

Ryougi Shiki was seething. She had decided to give Higashino Kanade a thorough beating, then force him to eat every last papaya. It was not as if he dared to truly fight back.

A series of aggressive footsteps echoed through the hallway. Reaching Higashino Kanade's room, Ryougi Shiki threw open the door.

Morning sunlight spilled in through the window. The breeze stirred the curtains and sent the scattered drawing pages on the floor fluttering. At the wooden desk directly across from the door, a beautiful long-haired boy lay sleeping with his head on the desk. A white butterfly flew in through the window and landed on his nose, unwilling to leave as if it had found sweet nectar. The entire scene resembled a beautiful painting, giving off a peaceful and harmonious feeling.

For some reason, Ryougi Shiki's anger vanished the moment she saw this scene.

She lightened her steps as she approached Higashino Kanade. After watching his delicate sleeping face for a while, she picked up a blanket with a conflicted expression and covered him with it.

She had come to demand an explanation, yet now she was taking care of him like a wife. It had to be said that Ryougi Shiki had undergone an obvious change during the time she had spent with Higashino Kanade.

"What's this?"

Ryougi Shiki noticed a thick stack of manuscripts beside Higashino Kanade's left hand.

Ever since Higashino Kanade had returned from his previous assignment, he had shut himself in his room drawing. He had even used that technique he called Shadow Clone to create another person to draw with him. Besides the thick stack on the desk, which contained nearly a thousand pages at the very least, there was also a considerable number of discarded drafts scattered across the floor. His workload was clearly enormous.

The drafts on the desk had already been bound into several volumes. Ryougi Shiki picked up the top one, and the title Naruto Zero came into view.

In the Japanese industry, "Zero" was often used for a work's prequel. In other words, what Higashino Kanade had drawn was actually the prequel to a larger work.

When she opened to the first page, a colored illustration with immense visual impact immediately caught Ryougi Shiki's attention.

It depicted a battle in a forest between a gigantic Nine-Tails Fox clad in blue armor and a wooden Thousand-Armed Buddha.

One person stood atop the fox, while another stood atop the Buddha. The upper half of the cover featured close-ups of both their faces.

One wore red armor and had long black hair that reached his waist. Black markings covered the handsome man's face.

The other also wore brick-red armor. His face bore an eighty percent resemblance to Higashino Kanade's, as though he were an adult version of him.

Why an adult version of Higashino Kanade? Because aside from their appearance, the man also possessed the same blood-red pupils. However, the patterns in Higashino Kanade's eyes were two tomoe, while this man's looked like Mangekyo.

Turning another page revealed an introduction to the world's background.

"In the distant past, during a Warring States era when the people suffered terribly, there existed a gigantic Divine Tree of unknown origin."

"Every thousand years, the Divine Tree bore a fruit. A woman named Kaguya Otsutsuki ate that fruit and gained the power to change the world."

"Using the Divine Tree's power, Kaguya Otsutsuki ended the war by herself and gave birth to two children, Hagoromo and Hamura."

"But good times did not last. Kaguya Otsutsuki, who had lived for ten thousand years, became cruel and violent, intending to sacrifice all humanity to the Divine Tree. To stop her, her two children endured a difficult battle and sealed her within the moon. Peace returned to the world once more."

"After Kaguya Otsutsuki's rule ended, Hagoromo Otsutsuki, later known as the Sage of Six Paths, dispersed the Divine Tree's power and founded Ninjutsu to preserve peace."

"This story begins many years after the Sage of Six Paths passed away, when the world once again entered the Warring States era."

The grand worldbuilding, unique power system, and distinctive art style instantly captivated Ryougi Shiki.

Unable to wait any longer, Ryougi Shiki turned to the next page. What appeared before her was a black-haired youth who looked almost identical to Higashino Kanade, skipping stones by a river.

Ryougi Shiki eagerly read through the manga, expressions of surprise and admiration appearing on her face from time to time. The story was unlike anything a sheltered young lady such as herself had ever encountered. When the techniques used by Higashino Kanade appeared in the manga, however, her expression became rather meaningful.

The manga's protagonist was a man named Uchiha Kanade, and it told a story of pursuing peace through his experiences.

When the young Uchiha Kanade was skipping stones, he met his lifelong best friend, Hashirama Senju. Both wished to bring an end to the war-torn era and establish a peaceful village, but their respective clans would not permit it. Thus, their friendship suffered its first fracture.

Ryougi Shiki continued reading, and before she knew it, noon had arrived.

When she saw Uchiha Kanade, abandoned by everyone, read the stone tablet left behind by his clan and lose all hope, then bring the Nine-Tails Fox for one final gamble—only to be defeated when Hashirama's younger brother Tobirama ambushed him during his battle with Hashirama—she could not help slamming her palm against the desk.

"You actually killed off the protagonist! Kanade, are you even human?"

"What? What? The protagonist was killed off? Old Urobutcher, eat my sword!"

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No Man Can Refuse Naruto!

Higashino Kanade was jolted awake by the slap, and the butterfly on his nose was startled away as well.

Higashino Kanade rubbed his sleepy eyes. The first thing he saw was Ryougi Shiki glaring at him furiously.

Higashino Kanade tilted his head in confusion. He had been busy drawing manga these past few days and did not seem to have done anything to anger Ryougi Shiki. Was she angry because he had not sparred with her?

Satisfying his wife's physical needs was something a qualified freeloader ought to do. Higashino Kanade immediately patted his chest and promised, "Sister Shiki, if your hands are itchy, I'll fight you this afternoon. I'll keep going until you're completely satisfied."

Ryougi Shiki's eyes lit up. Whenever she fought Higashino Kanade to the death, she could feel the urge to kill deep within her being released. The feeling was especially intense when she chopped apart Higashino Kanade's Shadow Clones. Whenever the impulse to kill arose, she would seek out Higashino Kanade to vent it.

Higashino Kanade had been too busy drawing lately to pay attention to her, allowing much desire to build up inside her. His proposal was indeed tempting to her right now.

But her current anger could not be dismissed with a mere sparring match!

Ryougi Shiki pointed at the panel where Uchiha Kanade was killed and said furiously, "Why did you kill off the protagonist? Kanade did nothing wrong!"

???

Is that really Sister Shiki's tone?

"Are you Shiki?" Higashino Kanade asked cautiously.

"Ryougi Shiki" nodded. A mere manga could not possibly make the normally cold and detached Ryougi Shiki this angry. The only possibility was that Ryougi Shiki's male personality, Ryougi Shiki, had appeared. After all, no man could refuse Naruto.

Compared to the aloof Ryougi Shiki, the approachable and easygoing Ryougi Shiki made Higashino Kanade feel more relaxed.

Higashino Kanade sat cross-legged on his chair and said solemnly, "It was necessary for the plot."

"Ahhh—"

Ryougi Shiki let out a long wail. He simply could not understand why Higashino Kanade had written Uchiha Kanade to die. He had already fallen deeply in love with Uchiha Kanade as a character.

A smile curled at Higashino Kanade's lips. Ryougi Shiki's current reaction was exactly what he had wanted. After all, his original goal had been to portray Uchiha Kanade as a beloved tragic protagonist.

That was right. What Ryougi Shiki had read was not the original Naruto storyline, but his adapted version. As for why he had done this, it stemmed from a sudden idea that had struck him.

In the Nasuverse, Heroic Spirits could be historical figures who had existed in reality, mythical figures found only in epics, characters from modern novels, books, urban legends, or heroes from the future.

Higashino Kanade thought that since Heroic Spirits like Sherlock Holmes and Jack the Ripper could exist, could he create a Heroic Spirit himself?

Higashino Kanade was not doing this out of boredom. He was preparing for the future Fifth Holy Grail War and the Human Order Incineration. The Sima System would definitely not make things easy for him, so he needed to prepare an insurance policy for his future.

If Higashino Kanade could truly summon a Heroic Spirit he had created in a future Holy Grail War, not only would it stabilize his odds of victory, but the benefits to him as a Master would surely be enormous. For example, he could get all kinds of forbidden techniques and ninjutsu for free.

Even if he failed, it did not matter. There were Heroic Spirits stronger than Golden Flash in the Nasuverse. At worst, he could dig up a few graves and get some Holy Relics.

Furthermore, the money and social status earned through drawing manga could also become capital for Higashino Kanade, giving him the means to stand on equal footing with Ryougi Shiki.

In a relationship between husband and wife, the greatest taboo was one side being too strong. Though Higashino Kanade wholeheartedly wanted to live off women, he wanted to do it with confidence and dignity. He did not want others calling him a useless pretty boy.

"Kanade, can you bring Uchiha Kanade back to life? It may be wrong for him to plunge everyone into a massive Genjutsu to achieve world peace, but his wish to attain peace was not wrong." Ryougi Shiki grabbed one of Higashino Kanade's arms and pleaded.

Did I glorify Uchiha Kanade too much? Higashino Kanade rubbed his chin.

In his original plan, he had intended to summon Uchiha Kanade, who was based on himself, in the future. After all, who could be more reliable than himself? Thus, he had depicted Uchiha Kanade as a tragic character wavering between good and evil, while also giving him tremendous strength. He even planned to pin certain irredeemable plot points on Obito Uchiha later.

Nothing moved people more easily than a tragic character. His fame would surely become immense in the future, and the greater his fame, the higher the chance of successfully summoning him.

Higashino Kanade reached out and patted Ryougi Shiki's head with his small hand, comforting him. "Don't worry. He'll appear again later. This is only a prequel."

"Really? Don't lie to me." Ryougi Shiki sighed in relief, then pointed at the hand Higashino Kanade was using to pat his head. "Shiki says she doesn't like it when you touch her like that."

"Then do you like it?" Higashino Kanade asked.

"Mm... I don't dislike it, I guess." Ryougi Shiki gave him a bright smile.

It had to be said that Ryougi Shiki looked truly beautiful when she smiled. Higashino Kanade felt as if his soul had been healed, so he increased the force of his hand and stroked him like a cat.

Before long, Ryougi Shiki's gaze changed. She slapped Higashino Kanade's hand away, a rare trace of embarrassed fury appearing on her face.

"Do you take me for a cat?"

Higashino Kanade immediately understood that Ryougi Shiki's personality had regained control, so he promptly begged for mercy. "Sorry. Your hair felt too good. I won't do it again."

"Hmph!"

Ryougi Shiki snorted coldly and stormed out of Higashino Kanade's room.

"Why can't I control these hands?"

Higashino Kanade looked at the hand that had just touched Ryougi Shiki's head, then sniffed it and revealed an intoxicated expression. "Smells amazing!"

"Boss, why did you call me here?"

That afternoon, in Higashino Kanade's room, Bin-kura Kōryū sat on one side of a small table, taking a sip from the hot tea in his hands.

"Why not use Future Sight to find out?" Higashino Kanade sat on the other side, eating a biscuit to replenish his energy.

On Higashino Kanade's bed nearby, Ryougi Shiki lay on her side with one hand supporting her head, watching the two of them with great interest and curiosity about what was about to happen.

"My Future Sight is the kind that makes predictions. I can't just freely watch the future whenever I want."

Bin-kura Kōryū sighed helplessly. "Why do you think you managed to catch me?"

"Is that so? Then I'll assign you a task."

Higashino Kanade slapped the thick stack of manga manuscripts onto the table. Bin-kura Kōryū took them and looked them over, then glanced at the messy pencil sketches scattered across the desk before asking doubtfully, "You can draw too? I thought all you knew how to do was torture people."

"Ahem. What do you take your boss for? I have many talents. Drawing manga is only one of my hobbies."

Higashino Kanade felt a little embarrassed. Back when he had trained with Jiraiya, he had drawn illustrations for Jiraiya's novel Icha Icha Paradise. That was when he had learned how to draw manga.

After obtaining the Sharingan, Higashino Kanade's drawing speed had increased dramatically. Along with the assistance of Shadow Clones, he had managed to finish Naruto's prequel in less than a week.

"Probably tomorrow, I need to leave for a while because of something. While I'm gone, I want you to find a company to publish my manga."

"Can't you just have a servant handle something so trivial?"

"I need your ability, Bin-kura Kōryū." Higashino Kanade pointed at Bin-kura Kōryū's golden eyes, his expression solemn. "Use your Future Sight to make my manga a hit!"