The Senju Kid Couldn't Possibly Be This Cute

The Senju Kid Couldn't Possibly Be This Cute

After taking a nice, relaxing bath, Uchiha Gin wrapped a towel around his waist, feeling refreshed. Looking at the fidgeting Senju Itama by the bathroom door, he said,

"Kid, want me to scrub your back? I'm famous for being good at it."

"No!"

Uchiha Gin shook his head after being shoved out. "What a shy little kid. We're both men, so what are you covering up for?"

About an hour later, Senju Itama emerged with himself wrapped up tight. When he saw Uchiha Gin still sitting in the living room, his Small Face tensed. "Finally out, huh? Why did you take so long just to bathe, kid? I was about to fall asleep."

Yawning, Uchiha Gin stood up, a bottle of Hair Dye pinched In Hand.

"Don't come over here!"

Senju Itama clutched the door with both hands, desperately keeping him out. A Hint Of mischief rose in Uchiha Gin, and he smiled as he pressed against the bathroom door, teasing, "What bad things are you doing in there, kid? You should take care of your body at such a young age."

As Uchiha Gin increased the force in his hand, the bathroom door flew open. The naked Senju Itama was sent tumbling backward. Before Gin could get a good look, Itama had already covered his vital parts with both hands, his Face Full Of embarrassment. "So what if you're not wearing anything? When I was your age, I ran naked through the streets all the time."

Looking at Senju Itama's bare body, Uchiha Gin teased him.

"Shameless!"

Senju Itama, red all over as if he had just come out of a sauna, shouted at the top of his lungs.

"Alright, alright. I'll leave the Hair Dye here for you."

Seeing that the kid was getting genuinely upset, Uchiha Gin stopped teasing him and put down the Hair Dye before leaving.

"Didn't expect you to have such fair skin, kid."

As he went out, Uchiha Gin tossed out one last remark over his shoulder, earning a bottle of shampoo hurled at him. Laughing, he dodged aside.

After leaving, Uchiha Gin went around to the back wall and reinforced the fence again. The few-square-meter "backyard" was officially complete. This was where he would refresh skills from now on.

Once he finished dealing with the backyard, the sky was already beginning to darken. Uchiha Gin returned inside first and waited until midnight.

Inside, Senju Itama had already dressed. His distinctly black-and-white hair had been dyed a single color, prompting Uchiha Gin to nod repeatedly. Now that the hair color was easier on the eyes, the kid even started to look rather handsome.

"This way, nobody should notice you."

Perhaps still angry about what Uchiha Gin had done earlier, Senju Itama puffed up his cheeks, turned away, and refused to answer.

"What a boring kid."

Uchiha Gin's mind was elsewhere, so he did not care. After giving him a few instructions, he lay down on the sofa and fell asleep.

Beside him, Senju Itama watched the curly-haired Uchiha's back with a complicated expression. His eyes shifted as though he were thinking about something, but in the end, he silently got up and returned to the bedroom to rest.

In the latter half of the night, Uchiha Gin, who had been sleeping soundly, opened his eyes again. After confirming that the person in the bedroom was asleep, he crept into the backyard and stood in the open space, waiting for the refresh to arrive.

Clouds covered the moon again tonight. Uchiha Gin's residence was far from the settlement, surrounded only by cliffs and forest. One had to pass through the forest to reach the Uchiha Clan's residential area.

A breeze swept through the forest, carrying rustling sounds. Uchiha Gin, his entire body tensed, suddenly felt the Aura around him freeze. A familiar sensation welled up in his heart.

"Jingle~" Amid the rustling leaves came a faint ringing bell. With his extraordinary senses, Uchiha Gin immediately locked onto its direction.

A figure wearing a Bamboo Hat and a black cloak patterned with red clouds slowly emerged Out of Thin Air. His right hand, its nails painted black, slightly lifted the Bamboo Hat. A pair of scarlet eyes looked at Gin without a trace of emotion.

Uchiha Itachi again!

Having suffered at his hands twice already, Uchiha Gin reacted immediately. He activated his Sharingan, the tomoe in his right eye spinning rapidly as Chakra surged into it like there was no tomorrow.

Amaterasu

Seizing the initiative, black flames appeared Out of Thin Air on Uchiha Gin's chest. The Black Flames were a considerable improvement over the lighter-sized fire from last time.

The previous times, he had only passively taken beatings. This Time, Uchiha Gin wanted to see what would happen if he injured or even defeated the NPC created by the skill.

Ignoring the Black Flames raging over his chest, the refreshed Uchiha Itachi calmly removed his Bamboo Hat. At some point, his eyes had turned into Mangekyō Sharingan shaped like Double Tomoe shuriken.

The next instant, the increasingly fierce Amaterasu seemed to misfire. As Uchiha Itachi's Mangekyō appeared, the flames gradually went out as though drenched by heavy rain.

Before he could even be surprised, Uchiha Gin quickly Shifted Towards somewhere else with his eyes, refusing to meet Itachi's gaze.

Lowering his head to look at the ground, Uchiha Gin saw that the once lush green grass had somehow become a transparent lake. Its surface reflected his image like a mirror, while a blood-red Full Moon hung resolutely in the sky above the reflection.

The moment he saw this, Uchiha Gin knew something was wrong. He had already fallen for it.

Genjutsu: Tsukuyomi

As he was hoisted onto a Cross against his will, Uchiha Gin knew that tonight was destined to be sleepless.

Sighing, he looked at the Uchiha Itachis surrounding him once more, and his mentality completely collapsed. "Come on, come on. Don't go easy on me just because I'm a delicate flower!"

The next second, dense chopping sounds echoed throughout the genjutsu space.

After spending seventy-two hours in the genjutsu space, Uchiha Gin was finally freed when the countdown reached zero.

As the genjutsu space shattered apart, the surroundings returned to their familiar appearance, and Uchiha Itachi's figure vanished without a trace.

He had endured seventy-two hours of torture in Tsukuyomi, but only an instant had passed outside. Lying on the ground, Uchiha Gin had a splitting headache. His Sharingan had also gone dormant on its own from excessive stimulation.

After experiencing Tsukuyomi twice, Uchiha Gin discovered that every time he was hit by it, the Dojutsu Power in his left eye increased slightly, and his mastery over the Sharingan became more refined.

Backyard Daily Random Skill Refresh: Genjutsu: Tsukuyomi. Obtained Tsukuyomi Fragment ×4

Tsukuyomi Fragment (5/40): Gather 40 fragments to synthesize Genjutsu: Tsukuyomi. Learnable by Mangekyō Sharingan skill.

Uchiha Gin was stunned by the system notification. This time, he had actually obtained four Tsukuyomi Fragments. Was it simply good luck, or were rewards calculated based on battle evaluation? he guessed inwardly.

At the same time as the system notification appeared, the exhaustion throughout Uchiha Gin's body vanished. The brain damage inflicted by Tsukuyomi gradually cleared as well.

His right eye, which had bled from using Amaterasu, was restored to normal. Every negative physical debuff had been cleared by the system with a single click.

He easily climbed to his feet and checked his physical condition. Once he confirmed that nothing was wrong, Uchiha Gin quietly returned inside, lay down on the sofa, and fell asleep.

Uchiha Gin, who had not dreamed in a long time, once again dreamed of several strange scenes.

In a pitch-black hospital room, a youth lay on a bed with bandages wrapped over both eyes. His expression was numb, and he was manipulated as casually as a puppet. A middle-aged man in his forties or fifties stroked his head, seemingly saying something.

Uchiha Gin could only watch from afar. He could not hear anything.

The middle-aged man looked at the youth with a complicated expression. Then the hospital room door was pushed open, and a Girl entered. She was a little younger than the youth. Upon seeing him, she seemed extremely agitated, lowering her head beside his bed and breaking into tears.

Just as he wanted to continue watching, his consciousness was pushed out by a pair of merciless hands.

When he opened his eyes again, it was already the next morning.

Scratching his head, Uchiha Gin recalled the strange, disjointed dream from last night. After washing up, he began his working stiff life in the Ninja World.

He left some money for Senju Itama, whose hair had already been dyed black, and told him to handle his own meals.

With his hair dyed, he did not stand out at all when thrown into a crowd of Uchiha Clan members, so there was no need to worry about his safety.

"Don't run around. If you run off, I'll go catch your brother." Uchiha Gin did not forget to give the kid a little warning.

"Got it, got it."

Senju Itama looked speechlessly at the curly-haired Uchiha trying to threaten him. Now that he had thought things through, he was not stupid. Did Gin really think that excuse could still fool him?

"What's with that expression like you're looking at an idiot?"

Feeling looked down upon, a "#" bulged on Uchiha Gin's forehead. He stretched out an angry hand, ready to give the kid a righteous knock on the head, but Senju Itama easily dodged it after seeing through him.

Watching Senju Itama make a face at him, Uchiha Gin narrowed his Dead Fish Eyes.

The more he looked, the more he felt that something about this kid had changed, but he could not say exactly what.