After arranging things for Uchiha Rai and the other two, Uchiha Takeyasu didn't head to the Hokage Building. He walked toward Konoha Hospital, mulling things over as he went.
With the three squad leaders gone, it was time to put the Military Police Force reforms on the agenda. Along with the situation in the Land of Lightning and the ideas he'd been considering, it gradually brought him to a decision.
When he arrived at Konoha Hospital, Uchiha Naori was completing Uchiha Hikari's discharge paperwork.
Uchiha Hikari's bodily functions had suffered no problems under the combined power of Chakra and the Mangekyo Dojutsu Technique, Yachihoko.
Even more remarkably, her organs had continued to develop and grow just like her appearance, remaining in the same state they'd been in before she was sealed.
If this could be mastered, it would become the foundation for a faction to last forever.
Uchiha Takeyasu could already imagine how many old-timers, who should have died of old age, would suddenly rise from their graves when the Uchiha Clan faced an existential crisis, using their overwhelming numbers and strength to establish Uchiha supremacy once more!
"Hikari will live with us from now on. There's an empty room on the second floor."
Uchiha Naori nodded at Uchiha Takeyasu's suggestion. She wouldn't feel at ease leaving a pair of unfamiliar Mangekyo eyes anywhere else.
But the purple-haired girl glanced at her husband, her sharp gaze making him feel a little uneasy. "Takeyasu, don't you dare try anything."
"What are you talking about? I'm not a lolicon."
"If I were going to try anything, it'd be with you."
Uchiha Takeyasu took Uchiha Naori's hand and drew her into his arms, whispering, "Did you wait long last night?"
Before leaving the previous night, Uchiha Takeyasu had left behind a Shadow Clone