Every Little Piece in Sight

Sasuke had been a southerner in his previous life, and there had been plenty of bathrooms in his home. Naturally, he took the two of them to separate bathrooms.

As a result, nothing strange happened during the bath. It was all perfectly wholesome.

After Neji and Rock Lee finished bathing, their long hair needed time to dry, so they simply tied it up.

They had only been gone for a short while, yet when they returned, they had turned into two freshly bathed beauties with flowing long hair, dressed in casual clothes—T-shirts and shorts.

In an instant, the group felt far more balanced in terms of yin and yang.

"Why are both upperclassmen so pretty?!"

Ino, a sunny and handsome short-haired girl, found it hard to accept that other boys could look even more feminine than she did.

Fortunately, Rock Lee quickly ruined the impression.

He kept talking about "youth," made exaggerated movements, and seemed even less intelligent than Naruto. Ino swiftly took back her envy and jealousy.

Neji and Hinata, on the other hand, looked like a pair of sisters.

Ino began considering whether she should try growing out her hair too. Sasuke did not seem to dislike long hair.

Today, Naruto's excuse for gathering everyone together was—watching pigs.

The pigs and cows each had their own sheds. Sasuke had built the interiors with two sides, left and right, and reinforced both the floors and walls with cement. When it was time to clean, they could herd all the pigs to one side, making sanitization and disinfection much easier.

Naruto had brought everyone over, so after they had cleaned yesterday, Sasuke naturally called him over early this morning to clean again. Usually, they would only do a thorough cleaning once every two or three days.

Sasuke tied on an apron and came over carrying a medical kit.

"Since everyone's here today, I'll show you that. I originally planned to do it when the piglets were a month old, but doing it a week early probably won't matter."

Searching through his memories, Sasuke had not found Postpartum Care for Sows. He was also sure he had only seen its cover, so he probably had no written memories of relevant knowledge. He just did not know whether the livestock-raising videos he had watched had mentioned it. In any case, learning materials on raising livestock were scarce in this world, so he might as well learn through practice.

Postpartum recovery was counted by the month for people, so it should be roughly the same for piglets, right? Though the people and animals in this world did seem much sturdier.

Rock Lee raised his hand and shouted, "Excuse me, what is 'that'?!"

"It's an Uchiha method for stimulating children to become stronger. It might not work, but all you need to do is open your eyes wide and watch."

"Does it work on children who aren't Uchiha too?"

"The effect might not be obvious, but it can temper your will!"

"Then I want to do it too!"

"What interesting training? I want in too!"

The moment Naruto heard that it was a form of training unique to the Uchiha, he got fired up along with Rock Lee.

...Honestly, everyone was pretty interested.

"You don't need to get too close. As long as you can see clearly, that's enough."

More than ten piglets were controlled by Sasuke's genjutsu and brought into a clean pen, where they quietly lined up.

Then, the first piglet was tied to a specially made small operating table with all four limbs spread apart. Sasuke had made this table specifically for today's guests, so they could watch more easily.

Sasuke knew that some doctors could restrain a piglet with one hand while operating with the other, but he was just practicing.

The genjutsu was released.

The piglet began squealing, but it could not break free.

The onlookers began to sense that something was wrong.

After disinfectant was applied, the scalpel cut through, leaving two small incisions on the piglet's underside.

Then Sasuke reached in and squeezed. Soon, two little fleshy balls appeared in his hand, and he quickly disinfected the area again.

Why did they know they were fleshy balls? Because Sasuke casually threw them into a white porcelain bowl.

There was hardly any blood throughout the process. The piglet had not been weaned yet and had been starved for a meal beforehand, so there was no feces. It was not particularly disgusting, bloody, or smelly. At first, excited chatter had come from the audience, but now only the piglet's squeals remained.

With his Sharingan activated, Sasuke's movements grew increasingly practiced. Leaving one female piglet alone, he castrated all the rest.

Once it was over, the genjutsu was released as well. The piglets were quiet, and so was everyone around Sasuke.

"All right. Did you feel your will being tempered?"

Every little piece in the small porcelain bowl beside them was clearly visible.

Two pairs of Byakugan were opened wide. They did not dare close them, and no one knew whether they had seen clearly. Akamaru had already retreated to the entrance of the livestock shed. Even the hot-blooded youths could no longer stay fired up.

Naruto was still braver than the others. "Sasuke was so scary just now. Will the piglets die?"

"If we don't kill them, they can still live for a long time."

For once, Sasuke revealed a faint devilish smile.

"Does Naruto want barbecue for lunch? We can do that. Then we won't need to buy meat separately. Freshly slaughtered piglet meat isn't easy to find at the market."

Once they started talking about slaughtering a pig, everyone's moods eased instead.

Choji looked full of anticipation. "I've never eaten one this small before, but isn't it too small to be enough?"

Indeed, it probably did not even weigh ten pounds. After removing the bones, one piglet likely would not even fill Choji up.

"Then we'll raise it for a few more months. It really isn't enough to eat yet."

Then Sasuke looked up and saw drool hanging from Choji's mouth...

Sasuke truly did not know whether Choji would cry if there was no pork dish today.

"You said you haven't eaten it before... Should we try it today?"

"Sasuke, you're the friend who understands me best!"

Rock Lee asked as well, "Can doing this really help with training?"

Who knew if it worked? As long as it made sense, that was enough.

"When you become ninja, you'll have to kill people eventually, right? Don't the adults in your families prepare things for you to practice on? Even if not pigs, cows, or sheep, you've killed chickens, ducks, or fish before, haven't you?"

"Activating the Sharingan also requires stimulation. If there happened to be a fragile, innocent child, what they just saw might have been enough for them to awaken their Sharingan."

But what Sasuke had done was not nearly as straightforward as killing the piglet with one slash.

Neji voiced his agreement. "It felt like activating my Byakugan just now became a little more natural."

Hinata still looked somewhat shaken. "When I activated my Byakugan just now... I didn't even have time to form Hand Seals."

"It looks like this really does have some effect on your eye-based bloodline limits. But it probably can't stay effective forever, right?"

Shikamaru analyzed calmly.

Well, now he had even gotten the approval of another bloodline clan.

"Mm. Usually, it only works the first time, when you aren't mentally prepared. If you do it too many times, you might start to... look forward to it."

Since they were already here, they might as well slaughter a pig and make some dishes. The next time they came, they would probably have nothing on their minds but eating.

"Although the pig isn't big, if we slaughter it now and cook it, it'll probably be afternoon by the time it's ready. Let's just have a simple picnic for lunch, then?"

By "simple," he meant that aside from the Hyuga siblings and Rock Lee, who had come for the first time and did not know what was going on, everyone else knew exactly what would happen next. Ino had brought a picnic basket prepared by her family, containing some carbohydrate-heavy foods.

Then they began "hunting," "gathering," and "fishing" behind the Uchiha Clan Grounds.

There were free-range chickens and ducks, vegetables Sasuke and Naruto had grown themselves, and free-range fish kept as food reserves.

They also went to Sasuke's house to bring over the supplementary ingredients and tableware he had prepared yesterday. There was no way they could expect a bunch of brats to quickly grill anything that tasted particularly good.

Yes, when the rookie nine gathered at the Uchiha Clan Grounds, their Main Product was mooching off the landowner. Everything belonged to Sasuke, and he would be lying if he said it did not hurt.