Forgive Me, Nii-san. Next Time.

"No... no problem. I wasn't blaming you either. Little Sasuke really is mischievous, huh? Ha... haha."

Izumi felt a little disappointed after Itachi withdrew his hand, but the shyness from earlier had yet to fade. Her eyes darted about as she awkwardly laughed and turned her head away.

Oh, come on, Sis! What are you getting shy about? Why didn't you just touch him back? Ye Wuyue couldn't help thinking as he watched Izumi's little face turn bright red and steam practically rise from it.

Izumi clearly hadn't understood what he meant, and neither had Itachi.

"Ahem. It's true. Sasuke hasn't been very obedient lately."

Itachi bashfully turned his head away as well.

What a lost cause. Since you can't do anything yourself, you can only count on me, you foolish nii-san.

Ye Wuyue looked down on Itachi's behavior.

The two of them remained awkward for a while, and in the end, Izumi was the first to speak.

"Itachi-kun, let's go eat Tricolor Dango. I heard the Tricolor Dango at the dango shop on the east side of the village is delicious! Let's go try it."

Itachi's eyes lit up as soon as he heard "Tricolor Dango," and he answered straightforwardly, "Okay!"

Ye Wuyue thought that this girl had finally caught on and learned to appeal to Itachi's interests. Still, it was probably just a lucky coincidence. After all, Izumi originally wouldn't discover Itachi's fondness for Tricolor Dango until a little later.

In the end, the two went to the dango shop together, while Ye Wuyue was handed back to Itachi. Seeing the two of them remain silent, Ye Wuyue grew bored and began meditating.

After eating Tricolor Dango at the shop, the two went their separate ways, and Itachi carried Ye Wuyue home.

From then on, Ye Wuyue spent every day eating, meditating, and sleeping. Sometimes, he acted as his nii-san's wingman, but since both Izumi and Itachi were rather dense, his assistance had very little effect.

And so, Ye Wuyue spent two years in the Naruto World. During that time, he learned quite a bit about Konoha's situation from his parents' conversations. First of all, Minato had indeed survived and had even become the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki. However, Kushina had died during the Nine-Tails' rampage.

Most of the Uchiha Clan members were still as foolish as ever, offending people everywhere while acting arrogant and looking down on everyone. Fortunately, Minato was now serving as Hokage and had been doing his best to find a way to integrate the Uchiha Clan into the village. However, with Danzo constantly sabotaging them from behind the scenes, the Uchiha Clan's situation had not changed much from before.

One thing worth mentioning was that, since the Fourth Hokage had survived, Naruto was now the undisputed crown prince. He was loved by everyone in Konoha, receiving treatment completely different from that in the original story.

Also, a year ago, when Itachi was six, he entered the Ninja Academy. However, Ye Wuyue knew that he always sent a Shadow Clone Technique to attend class in his place while he trained with Shisui.

As for Ye Wuyue, the sign-in rewards he received over those two years were the "ghost" and "white" from the Shinigami cultivation system's slashing, ghost, and white paths—in other words, the cultivation methods for Kido and Hakuda.

Moreover, his Spiritual Power had now reached 7,826, while his Chakra had successfully grown to half a card, or 500.

He could now use Flowing Blade, Like Fire with his own power, but he would exhaust all his Spiritual Power before he could maintain it for even a minute. Kido, however, was much better.

The Kido cultivation method provided by the system had given him every Kido spell, but he had to cultivate them himself before he could use them. At present, he had roughly mastered the first thirty sequences of Hado and Bakudo. As for Hakuda, since he had only just obtained the reward, he had yet to begin cultivating it.

He had not started learning ninjutsu yet, either.

At the Fugaku residence, the family had just finished eating.

"Sasuke, I have some free time this afternoon. Let's train together. I can teach you the Shurikenjutsu Shisui just taught me. What do you think?"

Itachi asked Sasuke expectantly.

Ye Wuyue felt that Itachi's personality seemed slightly different from the original. In the original, Itachi had always been rather aloof, while Sasuke had been the one clinging to Itachi.

But now, the situation was reversed. Recently, Ye Wuyue felt that Itachi was becoming more and more fond of clinging to him. He could even abandon Shisui for it.

Could it be because I've been acting rather aloof, causing Itachi to behave this way?

Ye Wuyue thought.

He had no intention of practicing Shurikenjutsu with Itachi. He still had to cultivate Kido and Hakuda. Once he mastered either of those, wouldn't they both be far superior to Shurikenjutsu?

Thus, Ye Wuyue reached out and poked Itachi's forehead twice with two fingers.

"Forgive me, nii-san. Next time. I want to train by myself."

After poking Itachi's forehead, Ye Wuyue felt quite satisfied. You're having your day now, too.

Itachi rubbed his forehead and sighed helplessly, while Mikoto secretly laughed as she watched the scene.

At that moment, Fugaku spoke.

"I happen to have some time later. I'll accompany you and watch you train for a while."

Fugaku had recently heard that his younger son had been secretly training all this time. He was very pleased by his younger son's diligence and hoped that Sasuke could become as outstanding as Itachi. However, he still did not know what Sasuke's talent was like, and Ye Wuyue had never displayed his strength in front of them.

"Then, Father, can you teach me some new ninjutsu?"

Itachi sounded expectant. He did not know many techniques yet, and most of them had been taught by Shisui.

"Of course."

Fugaku answered, and Itachi immediately became excited.

"All right."

Ye Wuyue answered as well. He had no intention of hiding his abilities from Fugaku and the others.

The three of them arrived together at a training ground within the Uchiha Clan compound. Unexpectedly, Izumi was there too.

Well, it wasn't actually unexpected. Ye Wuyue had already told Izumi which training ground Itachi often visited. This little girl had probably learned that Itachi wouldn't have classes that afternoon and would come here to train.

"Itachi! What a coincidence! Are you here to train too?"

Izumi spotted Itachi at a glance and ran over with a smile, automatically ignoring the two people beside him.

Only when she reached them did she realize that there were two other living people beside Itachi.

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"C... Clan Head!? You... you came here to train too? I'm... I'm sorry, I didn't notice you just now..."

Izumi immediately bowed to Fugaku in greeting, her little face flushing from embarrassment.

"It's fine. I'm only here to watch them train. You don't need to be so formal."

Fugaku looked at Itachi, then at Izumi, and revealed a rare smile.

"Oh, then can I join Itachi?"

Seeing that Fugaku seemed quite approachable, Izumi boldly asked.

"Of course."

Fugaku nodded. After receiving his approval, Izumi became extremely happy and immediately stood beside Itachi.

"Then, Itachi and Sasuke, let me see your current strength first. That way, I can determine what I should teach you."

Fugaku spoke.

"How should we do that? Should we have a one-on-one match?"

Ye Wuyue asked in confusion.

"No." Fugaku shook his head. "You haven't mastered your strength yet, so it would be easy for something to go wrong. Instead, take turns attacking me. Don't hold back. Use your strongest techniques and attack with the resolve to kill me."

"Then Itachi can go first."

Fugaku pointed at Itachi, then walked toward the center of the training ground. Itachi naturally had no objections and followed him over.

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