It took the two rabbits quite a while before they finally stopped "making music."
Then they began nibbling grass on the ground, their short tails twitching behind them as if they were mocking some "spectator" hidden among the branches for enjoying the show for free.
Damn! I'm seriously insane—I actually watched the whole thing!
Bang!
A cloud of white smoke dispersed, leaving only the two gray rabbits in the dense forest, leisurely chewing on the grass.
"Damn it! Idiot!"
Kosuke's main body, having returned early, suddenly burst into curses as he carried Mito toward another location.
Madara, who was traveling ahead, heard him and turned back to glance at Kosuke's strange expression.
Seeing that Kosuke had no intention of stopping, he continued leaping through the trees.
"Can't you just let me follow you on my own? It's uncomfortable being carried around like this!"
Still irritated, Kosuke looked down at Mito, who was currently disguised as a boy, as he leaped from branch to branch. "Follow us on your own? Are you planning to measure the Ninja World with your own two legs?"
"Earlier, I suggested having one of the guards carry me, but you refused. Now this won't do either. Are you trying to bring my corpse back and hand it over to your Clan Head?"
Hand her over? Heh, how naive!
Such a brilliant sealing master—why would I hand her over?
"Women are such a pain in the ass!!"
Though Kosuke was extremely irritated, he had to admit that Mito had a point.
If he kept carrying her like this, she would meet the old Sage of Six Paths before they even reached camp.
Kosuke looked at Madara ahead, who showed no sign of stopping.
Left with no choice, he raised his hand and swung Mito onto his back.
In an instant, he felt two soft things press against his back.
Kosuke quickly wrapped his hands around Mito's legs and secured her on his back.
His forward-leaping figure did not pause in the slightest because of that movement.
At that moment, Mito's body stiffened completely against his back.
She abruptly pushed up her chest with both hands, her face turning as red as a boiled shrimp.
Her fair, rosy cheeks looked especially alluring beneath the sunlight.
Under the shade of the trees, Kosuke was crouched on the grass with his ass raised, checking the copied Scrolls.
Madara stood nearby with his arms folded, leaning against a tree as his Sharingan remained fixed on Kosuke copying the Scrolls.
When Mito saw the sealing Scrolls she usually read in her chambers, the fury on her face made her crimson hair flutter despite the lack of wind.
"Stop glaring. I'm only copying the Scrolls." Without lifting his head, Kosuke crossed out a mistranslated passage. "It's not like I dug up the Uzumaki Clan's foundations. Is it really necessary? Good things are meant to be shared."
"Shared??" Mito roared furiously. "Then why don't you share your Sharingan with me?!"
At this point, she no longer knew how to curse the helpless bastard in front of her.
"Hm? You want to awaken the Sharingan?" Kosuke stopped writing and looked up at Mito. "Don't worry. Once we return to the clan, I'll give you a blood transfusion and replace the Uzumaki bloodline in your body with Uchiha blood. Then I'll teach you how to awaken the Three-Tomoe Sharingan. I guarantee the entire process will be painless and itch-free."
Hearing Kosuke speak with such certainty, Madara did not know whether Mito believed him, but he certainly did. A Three-Tomoe Sharingan?
Only after advancing to Three Tomoe would he be qualified to ask Aunt Aoba how to advance to the Mangekyo.
"How do you awaken the Three-Tomoe Sharingan?!"
What Kosuke had originally said merely to tease Mito was taken seriously by Madara.
Kosuke could only feel a splitting headache.
Advancement was not some game where, once you had enough experience, you could level up with a whoosh.
But when he noticed the anticipation in Madara's eyes, Kosuke simply could not bring himself to admit that he had only been brushing Mito off.
It seemed that if he dared tell the truth, Madara would dare dig out his heart.
This is giving me a headache!
"How about trying to cast a genjutsu on yourself? The kind that activates on its own after you forget about it. Make the contents something like Izuna getting brutally stabbed to death in front of you by a white-haired Senju bastard?"
Kosuke simply repeated an idea he had seen from netizens in his previous life.
As for whether it would work, what did that have to do with him?
"So it can be done like that?"
Madara fell into endless contemplation, and the Sharingan in his eyes quietly faded away.
"Hey! Hey! Hey! No way! You actually believed something that absurd?"
"Are all you Uchiha brain—"
Mito circled a finger beside her temple, staring at Kosuke in shock.
"Whether Uchiha brains work properly is none of your business. Do you still want to awaken the Sharingan or not? Never mind whether the method works—didn't I share it with you?"
Only when Kosuke brought up the matter again did Mito remember that she was supposed to condemn the despicable man before her.
"Forget it. Think about it yourself."
Kosuke lowered his head and continued copying furiously.
"So that was how the Three-Tomoe Sharingan could be awakened?"
The four teammates on patrol happened to hear Kosuke's words.
The four immediately exchanged glances and decided that after this mission, once they returned to camp, they would personally attempt to uncover its mysteries.
When the sunlight nimbly slipped past the branches and shone on Kosuke's raised ass, he casually closed the last parchment scroll and sat upright.
"There. Don't say I stole your things. I'm giving the Scrolls back to you." Kosuke stuffed several copied Scrolls into his ninja tool pouch. "Let's go. Senju's allied troops on the battlefield should be about to discover that their rear has caught fire."
After saying that, Kosuke carried Mito on his back again and followed Ban and the others toward camp.
After several days of travel, Kosuke, Madara, and the others finally approached the camp before sunset.
"Kosuke, have you thought it through?"
"I have. After bringing her to see the Clan Head, I'll explain the situation to him in private."
"That's good."
Hearing Kosuke's answer, most of the worry in Madara's heart vanished. What remained was concern over the fact that the two of them had captured the Vortex Princess without authorization.
At the same time, he worried that the disappearance of the Uzumaki Clan's princess might cause the Uzumaki Clan on the other side of the battlefield to go berserk, resulting in heavy casualties among their own people.
Before they met his father, everything remained uncertain.
"Clan Head, Lord Madara and Lord Kosuke have returned from their mission and are requesting an audience outside the tent."
Tajima, who was sitting alone inside the tent studying a terrain map, raised his deep eyes at the report and calmly looked toward the ninja at the entrance.
"Let the two of them in."
"Yes, Clan Head."
As the tent flap was lifted again, Kosuke and Madara appeared inside Uchiha Tajima's tent.
Before Clan Head Tajima could ask anything, Madara took the initiative to recount in full the mission they had completed, as well as their unexpected capture of the Uzumaki Clan's princess and two guards.
Uchiha Tajima remained silent for a long time after hearing Madara's report.
In the end, he tucked away the Scrolls Kosuke presented, which recorded the Uzumaki Clan's sealing techniques.
"Was it handled cleanly?"
"Kosuke and I swept the battlefield clean with Fire Release." Madara answered with a bow.
"Fine. Madara, Kosuke, leave the Uzumaki people behind and go rest first. As for the mission you completed, I'll arrange for someone to record it later."
"Thank you, Clan Head."
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