Especially Good at Eating

"Familiar with you, understand your traits?"

Ye Wuyue sized Flowing Fire up and down.

Flowing Fire, who had just picked up another skewer of dango, paused when she felt Ye Wuyue's gaze.

"What are you looking at? Keep staring, and I'll beat you up," Flowing Fire said.

"Isn't your trait that you're especially good at eating?"

Ye Wuyue muttered, and before his words had even faded, a fist abruptly filled his vision.

"And you're gentle, kind, beautiful, elegant, and incredibly powerful!!!" Ye Wuyue hurriedly shouted, and only then did Flowing Fire's fist stop. A few drops of cold sweat appeared on Ye Wuyue's forehead. He had to admit, that had been thrilling.

Ye Wuyue wanted to say: At that moment, that fist was only 0.01 centimeters away from my handsome face!

"If you dare talk nonsense again, I'll beat you into a pig-headed mess!" Flowing Fire snorted, withdrew her fist, and continued eating.

Sigh, every one of your Bankai training methods is so difficult. When will I ever learn Bankai? Ye Wuyue sighed inwardly. Shinso and Senbonzakura could now also manifest in the real world.

Shinso's condition for granting him Bankai was for him to defeat Shinso within a forest of blades. But Shinso could freely control that blade forest. Ye Wuyue could barely even find Shinso inside it, much less defeat him.

Senbonzakura's condition was for him to remove his mask while surrounded by hundreds of millions of tiny blades. Under Senbonzakura's control, those countless tiny blades could wrap around his entire body. If Ye Wuyue could not break through that defense, he would not even be able to touch him, let alone take off his mask.

Flowing Fire's condition was even harsher. She wanted Ye Wuyue to defeat her in an environment heated to six thousand degrees. While the heat would not kill him, the pain it brought was very real. In that kind of environment, even swinging his blade was difficult.

Furthermore, Bankai training had to be carried out in the real world, and his Zanpakuto would alter the surrounding environment. Although it was merely an illusion to everyone besides him, it could still be seen clearly. Without finding somewhere deserted, it was impossible to train properly. So far, Ye Wuyue had only conducted simulated training within his Zanpakuto's inner world.

Ye Wuyue no longer believed Flowing Fire's nonsense at all. She had said she would let him pass easily, but now it looked like she had been fooling an idiot!

Flowing Fire finally wiped out all the food Ye Wuyue had bought, her expression thoroughly satisfied.

"The food you bought this time tasted pretty good, especially that tonkotsu ramen. The grilled squid was a little cold, though. If you come across anything tasty next time, remember to buy it for me. I'm heading back first." Flowing Fire patted Ye Wuyue on the shoulder, then vanished from where she stood.

Ye Wuyue sighed again. During the week Flowing Fire had been able to manifest, he had spent every bit of money he had saved since arriving in this world. He was now even poorer than Naruto had been at the same point in the original story.

"Looks like I'll have to borrow money from Nii-san or earn it through missions."

Flowing Fire had burned all the food wrappers and other leftovers to ashes in one go, so Ye Wuyue did not need to clean up. He headed straight home.

When he returned, Fugaku had surprisingly not gone to work today. He was sitting in a chair drinking tea. He glanced at Ye Wuyue, then lowered his head again and ignored him.

Ye Wuyue felt that ever since he had turned eight, Fugaku had become increasingly dissatisfied with him. Sometimes, he would even look at Ye Wuyue and sigh.

After thinking it over, Ye Wuyue decided it was probably because he still had not awakened the Sharingan. After all, his older brother Itachi had awakened his Sharingan at eight years old, and it had immediately been two tomoe. Yet Ye Wuyue did not even have a pair of one-tomoe Sharingan.

"I'm back." Ye Wuyue took off his shoes and called out as he headed toward his room.

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"I didn't expect you to actually spend six whole years at the Ninja Academy." As Ye Wuyue walked past Fugaku, Fugaku suddenly spoke.

Ye Wuyue froze, then asked in confusion, "Didn't you tell Uncle Hiashi back then that you hoped I would finish studying at the Ninja Academy? You even said there was plenty of knowledge worth learning there."

Fugaku's hand holding the teacup suddenly stiffened. He remembered that he really had said that, but he had said it for Hiashi to hear!

It was like someone guaranteed admission to graduate school saying he wanted to experience taking the entrance exam, or a boss with hundreds of billions in assets saying he preferred the days when he earned a thousand a month as a teacher.

Wasn't that all just showing off? Who would have thought his younger son would take it so seriously and actually believe him?

"Ahem. Did you get your forehead protector?" Fugaku put down his teacup, coughed twice, and changed the subject.

"Um... I'm wearing it on my forehead..." Ye Wuyue answered hesitantly. He felt that his old father seemed a little strange today.

Fugaku fell silent for a moment after hearing that.

"Your allowance next month is being cut in half."

After saying that, his old father returned to his room without looking back and slammed the door shut with a bang.

Ye Wuyue was stunned. His allowance was being cut in half? How was he supposed to support that bottomless pit now?

Even after becoming a genin, he could initially only take D-rank missions like finding cats or picking up trash, and the pay was pitifully low. Flowing Fire needed to feast practically every day.

Mikoto smiled from the side as she put away the tea set. After wiping her hands, she took out a bulging little wallet shaped like a puppy. It looked like it had come from the same shop as Naruto's.

"Here. This is your graduation gift."

Ye Wuyue's eyes lit up. He immediately accepted the wallet. Though he did not particularly like its appearance, he very much liked what was inside.

"Thank you, Mother!" Ye Wuyue did not open the wallet right away.

"Oh, right, didn't Nii-san come back yesterday? Did he take another mission?" Ye Wuyue realized that Itachi did not seem to be home.

Because Shisui had not died, Itachi still only had the three-tomoe Sharingan. However, his strength should have been close to Kage level, because during one mission, Itachi had picked up both a divine weapon and a spiritual weapon.

That's right, they were the Totsuka Blade and the Yata Mirror.

According to Itachi, the two weapons had sought him out on their own. Since neither weapon had a physical form, they should now count as part of Itachi's body.

Ye Wuyue was incredibly envious of Itachi's luck. He had not even picked up a single copper coin since coming to this world.

"Itachi received orders from the Hokage to become a Jonin squad leader. He's going today to determine which team he'll lead," Mikoto said with a smile.

Because of the incident where Uchiha Setsuna had led members of the clan in defecting, the order for Itachi to become a Jonin squad leader the following year had been delayed. He did not receive the Hokage's order until this year.

"I hope I can be assigned to Nii-san's team."

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