Stop giving birth, the Uchiha Clan can't take it

Stop Having Children, the Uchiha Clan Can't Take It Anymore

Ordinary instructors usually conducted their assessment on the first day, then took the rookies out on missions the next.

But because of yesterday's absurd series of events, Asuka had the second day off instead. All three of his team members had called in sick.

Though ninja possessed tremendous vitality, they were still human in the end.

Carrying some fruit, Asuka first went to visit Iruka. His condition was the mildest—his throat was merely inflamed, leaving him unable to speak.

"Ah~ ah~ ah~"

Hearing Iruka desperately trying to say something to him, Asuka set the watermelon on the table, turned to look at him, and said with concern, "Iruka, you need to avoid straining your voice and spend more time resting in bed. Finish the watermelon your teacher brought you, and your throat will get better."

"Ah~"

Iruka replied hoarsely. Looking at the large watermelon on the table, then at the instructor who was showing him such concern, he had to admit that outsiders would find it difficult to understand the complicated thoughts in his heart right now.

He wanted to change instructors. He just didn't know if it was too late.

"Alright, your teacher still needs to visit the others. Get plenty of rest."

With that, Asuka used a Body Flicker and appeared directly outside the window. After briefly getting his bearings, he headed toward Uzuki Yugao's home.

That girl had diarrhea. Thinking about how her miserable state had been entirely caused by him, Asuka turned around and went to the fruit store to pick out the most expensive fruit.

When he arrived at Yugao's home and saw the freshly washed bedsheets and clothes hanging in the courtyard, he could not help frowning as he muttered, "Was the diarrhea really that severe?"

Knock! Knock! Knock! He rapped on the door with his knuckles. It took quite a while before a weak voice came from inside.

"The door's unlocked."

Hearing that, Asuka turned the handle and entered. He swept his gaze across Yugao's clean and tidy home, then nodded to himself.

It really was much cleaner than his own place. At the very least, there was no cat fur all over the room.

That fat cat shed all year round. Sooner or later, he would shave it bald.

After waiting by the door for a while and seeing no one come out to receive him, Asuka rose onto his toes to peer inside and called softly, "Hello? Is anyone home? I'm Yugao's instructor, Uchiha Asuka."

"T-Teacher?"

Uzuki Yugao shot up from the sofa, clutching her stomach with both hands as she stared in terror at Uchiha Asuka standing in the doorway.

Why was he here?

And he was holding a durian—that bastard, he wasn't planning to make her eat durian rind today, was he?? At that thought, Uzuki Yugao swallowed with difficulty. She instinctively backed away several steps, tears instantly welling in her eyes as she trembled and asked, "T-Teacher, why are you here?"

"Ah!"

By then, Asuka had taken off his shoes and entered the living room. He set down the durian in his hand, looked at his pale-faced student, and said apologetically, "Sorry. Yesterday, your teacher already locked up that shady fish-oil seller. When I learned today that you weren't feeling well, I specifically bought the most expensive fruit from the fruit store to visit you."

As he spoke, he deliberately patted the durian in his hand.

Even he had never eaten this thing. Mainly because its appearance and smell were too frightening—it did absolutely nothing to whet his appetite.

Looking at the spiky durian, Uzuki Yugao's eye twitched. Not everyone liked that thing. At the very least, she certainly did not.

Yet when she saw Uchiha Asuka actually sit on the sofa and begin peeling the durian, she twitched her lips into a strained smile and said weakly, "Th-thank you, Teacher, but you really didn't need to go to so much trouble and buy such expensive fruit."

"You're welcome!"

Asuka crooked a finger at Uzuki Yugao, then handed her the peeled durian and said with concern, "Your teacher used to be a Medical Ninja. I know very well what sick people should eat.

Yugao, your body is a little weak right now. This is just what you need.

Come, have a taste."

Seeing concern written all over his face, Uzuki Yugao lowered her head to look at her stomach. She did not dare meet Asuka's gaze at all as she softly refused, "M-Maybe not?"

"Do you know the rules for Medical Ninja established by Lady Tsunade?"

As he spoke, Asuka stood and faced Uzuki Yugao. He continued talking as he walked toward her.

"The three great rules of Medical Ninja. First: before a team member dies, a Medical Ninja must never give up treatment. Teammates, meanwhile, must unconditionally accept the treatment plan proposed by the Medical Ninja.

We are a team now."

"B-But—"

Seeing her instructor draw closer and closer, she waved her hands in refusal while backing away.

Before she could finish refusing, Uzuki Yugao saw him suddenly appear before her as if he had used Teleportation.

Such a fast Body Flicker Technique!

After stuffing the durian flesh in her hand into the other girl's mouth, Asuka looked at his resistant student. Green light bloomed from his palms again; one hand covered her mouth while the other pressed against her stomach. He said sentimentally, "Yugao, do you know? Back when your teacher retired from the medical field, no one knew how many people strongly opposed it. Even that old hag Tsunade, who was all the way at a casino, packed her bags and rushed back to Konoha the moment she heard the news. That old hag even told me she'd been on a winning streak, but because of me, she missed out on several million and wanted me to compensate her."

Is this the scent of a man? Gardenia. Uzuki Yugao felt that with every breath she took, that faint gardenia fragrance drilled through her nostrils and into her lungs. With every exhale, the scent seemed to return from her lungs again. Why does this feel like inhaling Dad's secondhand smoke? It's making me dizzy. At that moment, she could no longer smell the durian's distinctive odor. Her mind was filled entirely with the scent of gardenias.

"Hey!"

Seeing Yugao's flushed face, Asuka waved a hand before her eyes and said in surprise, "Surely not?"

"What?"

Coming back to her senses, Uzuki Yugao blinked in confusion. She did not understand what her supervising teacher was talking about.

"I covered your mouth only to stop you from spitting out the durian. Your teacher's assets have shrunk badly lately, and I can't bear to see food wasted. But why did you lick my hand?"

Looking at the wetness on his hand, Asuka's gaze toward Uzuki Yugao instantly changed.

He could understand this sort of thing. Back at the Jonin Academy, his looks-obsessed female classmates had done no shortage of bizarre things to pursue him.

But I'm your supervising teacher.

Had the ninja academy changed, or had the ninja world changed?

Even Jiraiya's books did not have that kind of flavor yet.

Swish! Uzuki Yugao's face instantly reddened even more. Her hands gripped the corners of her clothes tightly as she hurriedly explained, "I was just eating durian."

"I understand!"

As he spoke, Asuka patted Yugao on the shoulder and shook his head. "Back when I attended the Jonin Academy, the girls in my class would often secretly replace the lunch I brought with meals they had made themselves whenever I went to the bathroom. I was rather innocent back then. I ate whatever was put in front of me. But when I accidentally saw one girl cooking and her saliva dripping into the lunchbox, from that day until I graduated from the ninja academy, I only ate two meals a day. One in the morning, one at night. At noon, I relied on willpower."

"Sigh!"

After sighing, Asuka jumped straight out the window and left Yugao's home.

Who would have thought that even after becoming a teacher, he would still... "Lord Asuka, the Clan Head is looking for you!"

Just as he was lost in thought, a guy standing 1.7 meters tall, dressed in a black high-collared short-sleeved shirt and black trousers, with a round nose on his face, stepped in front of him.

"Uchiha Shisui?"

Recognizing the newcomer, Asuka stopped. His gaze fell on Itachi, who was following beside Shisui. He picked his nostrils and asked doubtfully, "The Clan Head's son still wets the bed when he sleeps. Why do you love playing with him so much?"

At that, Itachi's face darkened. He took a kunai from his bag, made a few motions with it through the air, and said expressionlessly, "I'm going to train in the forest with Big Brother Shisui."

Ha! Asuka breathed onto his fist and smashed it down onto Itachi's head.

Bang! Itachi immediately felt a heavy punch land on his head. His mind went completely blank, and he could not remember anything.

Seeing Itachi crouching on the ground in pain, both hands clutching the huge bump on his head, green light emerged from Asuka's palm once more. He pressed his hand against the bump on the other boy's head and lectured him, "Has no one taught you that, except during training, missions, or wartime, you can't draw a kunai at other times? You ran into me today. If it had been someone else, they would have confiscated your kunai already."

"Then is it too late to teach me now?"

Hearing a cold voice by his ear, even Asuka's healing hand froze for a moment. He turned around stiffly and looked behind him toward the voice.

The first thing that entered his sight was a slightly rounded lower belly. A brown apron was tied around her, over a very loose outfit. That slightly plump figure, waist-length black hair, and the cold smile on her face... What should you do when you run into the mother after hitting her child? 1. Apologize and make amends. 2. Refuse to apologize. 3. Beat up his mom too.

After briefly weighing the pros and cons, Asuka clasped his hands behind his back and looked solemnly at Uchiha Mikoto. "Lady Mikoto, as the Young Clan Head of the Uchiha Clan, Itachi needs to be exposed to all kinds of clan members from an early age."

The Young Clan Head raised this way would develop a great deal of tolerance in his heart.

When he sat in the Hokage's seat in the future and looked upon the Uchiha Clan, he would discover an entirely different world.

"Itachi, very good. He has the makings of a Hokage."

As he spoke, he hurriedly sent Shisui and Itachi away while Uchiha Mikoto was still dumbfounded, then turned his gaze toward her belly.

Looking at the slight curve of her stomach, Asuka immediately thought of Sasuke, who had yet to be fully conceived.

It had to be said, these two brothers were both geniuses among geniuses. Aside from their miserable fates and their tendency to bring disaster upon their clansmen, everything else was acceptable enough.

"Why are you staring at me?"

Feeling a little creeped out under his gaze, Uchiha Mikoto hurriedly covered her belly with the basket and frowned at Asuka.

Ever since her first pregnancy, this strange fellow would sigh whenever he saw her swollen belly, his eyes filled with anxiety.

It was as though she were carrying a monster in her stomach.

"Lady Mikoto, I have to say, your genes really are exceptional. The sons you give birth to are all geniuses among geniuses."

Asuka sighed as he headed toward the clan grounds. When he passed Uchiha Mikoto, he lowered his voice so only the two of them could hear.

"Lady Mikoto, don't have any more children after this one.

"At the rate you have one every three years, no matter how many lives the Uchiha Clan has, it won't be enough to endure it.

"If the Clan Head finds contraceptive measures uncomfortable, I can arrange a sterilization procedure for you.

"My lips are sealed, and I'm very skilled at it too. Let's think more about the Uchiha Clan's future. Really, two sons are enough."

Huh? Uchiha Mikoto's pupils instantly widened as she stared at Asuka's retreating back in shock.

How did he know she was carrying a son? The doctor had clearly just said that the embryo had only recently formed, and they would need to wait before knowing for certain.

Why did he know? No, she recalled that when she had gotten married, during her first pregnancy, and during her second pregnancy, she had always noticed a trace of anxiety in Uchiha Asuka's eyes whenever he looked at her. What exactly was he so anxious about? As a genius of the clan, Uchiha Mikoto had naturally paid attention to him before. Now, as she linked together details she had not cared about in the past, she increasingly felt that he was hiding something from her.

As a jonin of the clan, although pregnancy had dulled her wits somewhat, she still retained her basic judgment.

Thinking of how he had suddenly suggested that she divorce Fugaku, Uchiha Mikoto narrowed her eyes at her belly and thought to herself.

Could it be that he also possesses a pair of eyes capable of foreseeing the future?

PS: Still only one chapter today.

No choice. I haven't signed a contract yet. Here are 3.5k words.