Sugar Daddy (Revised)

[Host: Uchiha Yoru]

[Chakra Amount: Chunin]

[Chakra Nature: Fire (LV3), Lightning (LV3)]

[Gold Coins: 30,000]

After parting with Shisui, Uchiha Yoru walked toward the village, shaking his head and sighing as he looked at the screen only he could see in his mind.

The Golden Finger was a pure pay-to-win system that only recognized gold. He had worked hard for years and only last month managed to scrape together enough coins. He deliberately waited until the Nine-Tails Night to awaken his Sharingan—after all, you couldn't just awaken it out of nowhere. The Nine-Tails Night made it logical and reasonable.

[One-Tomoe Sharingan: 500,000 Gold Coins]

Looking at the One-Tomoe he had exchanged for, Yoru winced in pain. Damn it, his talent was too limited. He had been on the battlefield, faced life and death, but the Sharingan just refused to open.

Fortunately, he was a member of the Uchiha Clan, so he didn't need to exchange for the bloodline. Good! The prerequisite for exchanging a bloodline was having the corresponding lineage. With the bloodline, One-Tomoe cost 500,000 gold coins, Two-Tomoe doubled to one million, and Three-Tomoe skyrocketed to ten million. Mangekyo cost one hundred million!

Forget Mangekyo—mentioning it was nothing but tears.

Seeing the exchange price, Yoru couldn't help but twitch at the corners of his eyes. With the exchange rate of gold in the ninja world at 10:1, he would need to earn at least ten suns to afford Mangekyo. For now, his goal was to first earn a small target.

In front of a small, standalone courtyard, Yūhi Kurenai stood in a black ninja outfit, her long legs wrapped in fishnet stockings. Her ruby-red eyes held a complex expression as she looked at Uchiha Yoru, who seemed to have been waiting for her.

"Yoru, I heard you awakened your eyes. Congratulations."

Awakening the Sharingan marked a true Uchiha elite, a gap in status from those who hadn't.

Seeing Kurenai's congratulations tinged with faint sorrow, Yoru scratched his head awkwardly. "Kurenai, my condolences."

One was congratulations, the other condolences.

Kurenai Yuhi had still died. Even with him as a small butterfly flapping its wings, nothing had changed.

"By the way, Kurenai, this is the shuriken technique you needed."

He felt no shame in giving away some Uchiha Clan techniques. After all, other major clans had plenty of similar stuff, and this wasn't an Uchiha secret.

The Uchiha Shuriken technique was unrivaled in the ninja world, but that relied on the Sharingan. Without it, it was merely decent.

Seeing that he had actually dared to steal the Uchiha Clan's Shuriken Technique Scroll, Kurenai was stunned. She looked up at her classmate's somewhat shy smile, and a strange feeling began to rise within her.

But the next moment, his words wiped away that flicker of strangeness, leaving only frustration.

"Kurenai, you know, I took a risk with the clan's punishment for this. You get it."

Yoru made a rubbing gesture with his thumb, middle finger, and index finger—a sign for money—which made Kurenai grit her teeth.

"How much do you want this time?"

Greedy for money—that was the label all classmates had slapped on Uchiha Yoru. A stingy bastard with none of the style of a major clan.

Seeing Kurenai get down to business, Yoru perked up. "Kurenai, we're classmates, but even brothers settle accounts clearly. Back then, for you... and this time..."

As he rattled off his calculations, Kurenai listened in utter speechlessness, her teeth clenched. Yet his playful banter dispelled the faint sadness in the room.

"Shut up! Yoru!"

Kurenai's head throbbed. The man before her had an extremely handsome face but was a miser. Back in the academy, the naive her had been fooled by him, and for years, he had swindled a good chunk of her allowance under the guise of being her shield.

She had been young and clueless then, but she really didn't need him as a shield, and he had still ripped her off for years.

Annoyed, Kurenai got up, went into the house, and came back out, tossing a scroll at him.

With a slap, Yoru caught the scroll in his hand and looked at it suspiciously. On it was written the character "Sword."

"My father compiled his Konoha-Style Swordsmanship experience. I think that's enough to cover the fee."

Kurenai snorted coldly and glared at him. Yoru broke into a grin—he had gotten a huge bargain.

Kurenai Yuhi, an Elite Jonin of Konoha, was famous for genjutsu but also had decent swordsmanship (blade techniques). Otherwise, he wouldn't have always carried a Japanese Greatsword on his back.

This time, he had scored big. Smiling, he tucked the scroll into his Tool Pouch, and Kurenai couldn't help but find it amusing.

Truly her sugar daddy. Their relationship was more than friends but less than lovers, after all these years.

Yoru's eyes darted as he muttered to himself. No ninja was a fool—ninjas excelled at analysis, except for certain exceptions like cheater protagonists.

Female ninjas were rare, and Kurenai was the calm, calculating type, not simple at all. This time, he had clearly gotten the better deal.

Thinking this, Yoru put on a serious expression. "Kurenai, you know from the Nine-Tails Night that the Uchiha are walking on thin ice. The shield thing won't work anymore, but you can use this incident."

"If anyone investigates your contact with the Uchiha, you just—"

Before he could finish, Kurenai sneered, "Say that I was tricked by you, a scumbag. That you started swindling my allowance back in the Ninja Academy, and in the end, even stole my father's swordsmanship scroll. How's that?"

Hearing her cut him off, Yoru was startled at first, then grinned. "Kurenai, you're the best. But making me take such a big blame? That'll cost extra."

With a thud, a sofa cushion flew at him. Yoru caught it just in time, and Kurenai, furious at his shamelessness, glared at him with her beautiful ruby-red eyes.

"Uchiha Yoru!"

At her shout, Yoru scrambled out of the house, looking like a cheating scumbag caught red-handed.

"Kurenai, hey, let's talk this out!"

He fled awkwardly, dodging, but when he saw that she was no longer wearing that lifeless expression, a faint smile curled at the corner of his mouth.

And Yūhi Kurenai naturally caught that faint smile on his lips. Her deadened heart stirred with anger, gaining a spark of life as she shot him a glare.

"Uchiha Yoru, I became a chunin a full year before you did!"

In the original work, Yūhi Kurenai's records were clear: she became a genin at nine, a chunin at thirteen—none of that had changed. But the exact timing of her jonin promotion was never specified. However, from the exchanges between the leading jonin during the Chunin Exam in the original story, one could infer.

Kurenai had only become a jonin shortly before the plot began. Now, at fourteen, she was a full twelve years away from the start of the story. That meant her promotion to jonin took at least twelve years, happening around the time she turned twenty-six.

After all, a ninja's greatest strength was intelligence analysis. Having known each other for so many years, the two of them played out a scumbag breakup scene with perfect tacit understanding.

In this sensitive period, any excessive entanglement with the Uchiha clan was unwise—especially for Kurenai, who had lost her father's protection and was merely a chunin. Though it would only be minor trouble, it was clear neither of them wanted that trouble clinging to them.

Watching his retreating figure, Kurenai let out a faint sigh. "You really are a heartless sugar daddy."

Back inside the room, she gazed at the photo of father and daughter together. A happy smile spread across her face as she murmured, "Father, I won't let you down. I will definitely become an elite jonin of Konoha."

In that moment, the sorrow in Yūhi Kurenai's eyes gradually transformed into fighting spirit. She couldn't disappoint her father. She had to become the jonin daughter he would be proud of.

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