Uchiha Hikari

Wife Hikari to kick things off

Waiting outside the door was a delicately featured woman. A blue ninja dress wrapped around her curvaceous figure, while her long, flowing hair cascaded down to her waist like a waterfall.

With her hands behind her back, she wore a gentle smile in her eyes.

"You know me?" Madara scrutinized the woman before him who had called him "Uncle Madara."

The woman smiled. "Yes, Chen already told me you'd be coming over as a guest tonight."

"Oh." Madara stared at her without blinking, feeling somewhat dazed. There was something indescribable about her face.

Is it simply because she knows who I am, yet isn't afraid of me at all?

At that moment, a little head with a princess-cut hairstyle peeked out from behind the woman's slender legs. She curiously examined him, revealing tiny pointed canine teeth. "Is this uncle Mommy's relative? Why does he look so much like Mommy?"

"Ah." The little girl's words woke Madara up. He finally understood that indescribable feeling.

The woman looked very much like him. Especially her expression and bearing around the eyes and brows—she resembled him even more than Chen did, so much so that it was like looking at himself in a mirror.

Chen smiled and introduced them to Madara. "This is my wife, Hikari, and my daughter, Tsuki."

Madara tore his gaze away from Hikari's face and greeted them somewhat stiffly. "Hello..."

Hikari stroked Tsuki's short, soft hair. "Tsuki, call him Grandpa Madara~"

Tsuki looked surprised. "Eh? Uncle Madara is a grandpa? But he looks so young! He doesn't look old at all!"

Even Madara's stern face relaxed at Tsuki's childish words. He bent down and stared at her round little face from up close. "How old are you?"

"Grandpa Madara! Tsuki is four this year!"

"Four... Not bad. Just the right age to go to war!"

"Why is there another strange uncle's face growing on Grandpa Madara's chest?"

"..." Madara lowered his head and looked at his exposed chest—the face of Hashirama.

Back when he had danced through the Five Kage and the Shinobi Alliance with that face on his chest, he had not felt the slightest embarrassment. But when faced with this innocent little girl's question, he actually felt utterly humiliated.

This Impure World Reincarnation is already so absurdly overpowered. Would it have killed them to give me clothes?

But he could not embarrass himself in front of this young Uchiha descendant.

"That's right. Your Grandpa Madara was born with a second face. Are you scared?"

"Not scared! I think it's super cool! Can I touch it?" Tsuki's little eyes sparkled!

Madara burst into hearty laughter. "Hahahaha, good! You suit my taste! Uchiha Tsuki, is it? I, Madara, approve of your sense of style! Go ahead, you're specially permitted to touch it as much as you want!"

As he spoke, he even crouched down so Tsuki could raise her hand and reach Hashirama's face.

Watching this unexpected scene, Chen thought in surprise, Hey, I really didn't expect this... Grandpa Madara has this side to him too!

Hikari promptly said, "Tsuki, quickly let Grandpa Madara inside. The food is getting cold."

After entering the house, Hikari took out one of Chen's black God Robes from the entryway closet and presented it to Madara with both hands. "Sorry, Uncle Madara. We weren't prepared enough, so please wear Chen's clothes for now. You two are about the same size, so they should fit. I'll get you some new ones tomorrow."

Madara accepted the robe and wrapped it around himself. Looking down at the Impure World Reincarnation boots on his feet, he said, "If it's not too much trouble, find me some shoe covers too."

As he passed through the living room, Madara glanced over the furnishings. They were simple but cozy. A framed family photo of four sat atop the TV cabinet.

When he pushed open the door to the Japanese-style room, he saw a table on the tatami covered with an abundant spread of food and wine.

Hikari took Tsuki's hand and said to Chen, "Tsuki and I have already eaten. We'll go out for a walk first. You two can talk business, father and son~"

Chen nodded with a smile. "Mm, go on~"

The looks they exchanged were full of the tacit understanding of a married couple.

After bowing to Madara, Hikari led Tsuki out of the room and closed the sliding door.

The room fell silent.

Before long, Madara broke the silence.

"Hikari is also a survivor of the Uchiha Clan, isn't she?"

"You saw through it?" Chen smiled, unsurprised. He picked up the sake flask, poured Madara a cup, then filled his own.

"Hikari has another name. You definitely won't find it unfamiliar."

"What name?"

"Nameless."

"Nameless..." Madara repeated the name, and a flash of insight shot through his mind. As the Uchiha Clan head during the later Warring States period, he naturally thought of that legend from the clan!

"Nameless? You mean the girl from the middle of the Warring States period who awakened the rare ocular power, Yachihoko, was turned into a weapon by the Uchiha Clan, and was ultimately sealed away by the Senju Clan and Sarutobi Clan working together?"

"That's right. Hikari is Nameless's real name. She was active in the Warring States period even before your time. At the age of twelve, she was sealed away. After two hundred and thirteen years, I finally broke her seal sixteen years ago."

Madara took a sip of wine.

Sure enough, he could not taste it.

But the emotions that came with it were still there.

"Then she should be filled with hatred for this world. You really can't tell at all..."

Chen also raised his cup. The warm wine slid down his throat, and memories surfaced one after another.

From the vengeful girl who had once wanted to destroy the ninja world and grind the descendants of the Uchiha, Sarutobi, and Senju Clans into dust, to the gentle and lovely wife she was now, who still liked to act tsundere in private, and the mother of two children...

Over sixteen years, Chen had given Hikari a salvation no less than the one Boruto had given her in the original timeline, along with companionship Boruto could never provide.

Although the scar on his chest still ached faintly to this day, the memories were sweet.

Chen recalled, "At first, she really was like that. But I spent a long time giving her back everything she had lacked from her former clansmen, and everything this world owed her... So now, she has become my wife."

They had married on Hikari's sixteenth birthday, her coming-of-age ceremony. Hikari was from the early Warring States period, and she had also followed the coming-of-age customs of that era.

By then, three years had already passed since the Fourth Great Ninja War ended.

"I see."

Madara did not ask further about Hikari. He picked up his chopsticks and began eating the food whose flavor he could not taste.

Chen refilled his cup.

Madara himself found it somewhat surprising... that he could sit here and eat so naturally.

It had only been a little over half an hour since he had been summoned through Impure World Reincarnation. He was not even sure what Chen's purpose in reviving him was.

Objectively speaking, the surprise Hikari and Tsuki had brought him had indeed invisibly shortened the distance between him and Chen.

Madara pondered Chen's intentions.

Come to think of it, his wife and child are at home, yet he dared bring me here directly. At the very least, his motives must be aboveboard. Besides, he's certain I won't do anything to harm his family.

But I just don't understand. I'm Uchiha Madara. Does he not know that I nearly destroyed this ninja world with my own hands?

After three rounds of drinks.

Madara set down his cup and put on airs again. "Let's talk business."

Chen glanced at Madara, took a sip of wine, and began speaking as he ate.

"Fine. Although the war has ended, Kaguya Otsutsuki's clansmen are still lurking in this land, waiting for opportunities to stir up trouble."

"Over these years, Naruto, Sasuke, and the Five Kage have grown complacent and failed to act, causing the ninja world's overall military strength to decline. They are no longer capable of dealing with the coming crisis. True chaos in the ninja world is not far off."

"So someone has to step forward and change this situation."

Madara listened to Chen's words. "So that person is you?"

"That's right. But my strength alone is not enough. I need like-minded comrades to carry out the 'plan' with me."

He added, "And one of those like-minded comrades is you, right in front of me."

Madara frowned. Chen's words were brief, but the amount of information in them was astonishing.

He extracted the key points from Chen's words, quickly sorted through them, then began asking questions.

"Kaguya's clansmen? Who is stirring up trouble, and where are they hiding? How have Naruto, Sasuke, and the Five Kage failed to act? And why is the ninja world about to fall into chaos?"

Chen put down his chopsticks and wiped his hands with a napkin. "Bzz!" The Sharingan spun to life in his eyes. "It's too troublesome to explain with words. Let's communicate directly through our 'eyes.'"

After a brief moment of thought, the Rinnegan in Madara's eye sockets reverted to the Sharingan. He met Chen's gaze.

—Genjutsu: Sharingan!

"What you will see in the genjutsu is the future about to unfold in the ninja world, assuming I never intervened!"

That was right. Chen was going to let Grandpa Madara watch Boruto: Naruto Next Generations here!

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