I Have No Money (Please Follow)

"Let me see!"

The moment he heard those four words, Uchiha Chi automatically imagined an absurdly ridiculous scene.

Tsunade cornered him, gave him a wicked smile, then took off her decorative glasses to undo the seal.

And he really could not bring himself to say something like, "Sister Tsunade, no!"

The Kekkei Genkai upgrade had not finished yet. The tomoe in Uchiha Chi's eyes were still spinning rapidly, and he had no doubt that if he opened his eyes now, Tsunade's fist would reach his face the very next second.

In this urgent moment, Uchiha Chi could only try to decline. "Sorry, my eyes are injured..."

However, Tsunade immediately waved a hand and cut him off.

"I know a little Medical Ninjutsu." Tsunade raised her fist, looking quite at ease. "I can take a look at them for you."

"Lady Tsunade came here just to treat me...?" Uchiha Chi could not help but remark.

"That's right!" Tsunade planted her hands on her hips with perfect confidence. The soft curves on her chest bounced twice, and her face practically said, "What, got a problem with that?" "I care about my patients. Hurry up and let me see!"

Uchiha Chi's eyelid twitched. He finally understood just how overbearing Tsunade was.

Fortunately...

[Kekkei Genkai upgrade complete. Host has unlocked the Two-Tomoe Sharingan!]

"It's finally over."

Hearing the system prompt, Uchiha Chi let out a sigh of relief. He immediately focused his mind and slowly concealed the spinning tomoe.

A few seconds later, Uchiha Chi gradually opened his eyes and looked straight ahead at the eldest princess of the Senju clan.

"Nice to meet you for the first time, Lady Tsunade."

Tsunade did not reply. She merely widened her eyes and stared into Uchiha Chi's, trying to find even the slightest sign of unnaturalness.

She stared until her own eyes became sore, yet she still could not find a trace of guilt in his gaze.

Could it be... that she had really been wrong?

This brat had not come here to drink?

A few more seconds passed before Tsunade could no longer keep it up. She raised a hand and rubbed her sore, strained eyes.

And at that very instant, Uchiha Chi's gaze finally drifted downward.

Huge, pale, and perky.

Uchiha Chi was slightly dazed. He had never seen such an unscientific creation in real life.

With the scholarly attitude of investigating things to gain knowledge, Uchiha Chi took a few extra looks. By the time Tsunade finished rubbing her eyes and looked over, he had already resumed his previous straight-ahead gaze.

"Strange..." Tsunade murmured suspiciously.

"What's strange?" Uchiha Chi asked with a smile, the corners of his lips rising.

He was certain that his gaze was firm as hell. There was absolutely no way she could find anything wrong with it—

Tsunade raised a slender finger and pointed at Uchiha Chi.

"Didn't you say your eyes were injured? Where's the injury?"

Uchiha Chi: "..."

He had just made that up to stall for time!

Feeling Tsunade's gaze on him, Uchiha Chi could only force himself to explain. "They felt a little dry just now. They were so sore I couldn't open them, but I'm fine now."

"Is that so?" Tsunade scrutinized Uchiha Chi, half-convinced.

"Yes." Uchiha Chi's eyes were clear and bright, though inwardly he was guilty as hell.

However, Tsunade did not press him any further this time. She merely glanced at him, muttered that she would let it go, and reached for the shochu on the table.

She flicked the cap off with a finger, poured the shochu into a cup, then raised it and drained it in one gulp.

Watching Tsunade start drinking heavily all by herself, Uchiha Chi felt his head itch a little.

So what exactly had she come here for?

Just as he was completely baffled, a wine cup was shakily raised before him, blocking his view.

"Want a drink?"

Looking at Tsunade's neatly trimmed nails, Uchiha Chi considered for a moment before answering tentatively, "...I do?"

Smack!

Tsunade slammed the cup onto the table. Some of the liquor splashed out, wetting her slender fingers.

"Don't even think about it!" Tsunade's face was flushed as she glared at Uchiha Chi in displeasure. "Brats aren't allowed to drink!"

"Oh..."

"Do you still dare think about it?" Tsunade asked again.

Uchiha Chi obediently replied, "I don't."

"Very good!" Tsunade nodded in satisfaction and continued pouring herself drinks.

Watching Tsunade down cup after cup, Uchiha Chi finally became certain...

She was drunk again.

After pondering for several seconds, Uchiha Chi asked the question troubling him. "Lady Tsunade, what did you come to see me for?"

"Nothing much, just..." Tsunade propped her cheek on one hand and narrowed her eyes. Her moist cherry lips parted slightly. "I thought you were secretly drinking."

"Uh..."

That was it?

Uchiha Chi's mouth twitched.

"Hey, brat."

Just as he wondered how long it had been since he had been this speechless, Tsunade suddenly put down her cup and looked over.

"What is it, Lady Tsunade?"

"You've graduated, right?" Tsunade pointed at the genin Forehead Protector on Uchiha Chi's forehead. "What do you want to do from now on? Do you have any plans?"

"What plans?" Uchiha Chi blinked.

Tsunade yawned. "Dreams, ambitions, that sort of thing."

Ambitions...

Uchiha Chi's gaze grew somewhat unfocused.

Yesterday, he had dreamed of catching every Ninja in the entire Ninja World and locking them in cages, then giving them humane Lightning Style education every day so they would obediently cough up gold coins...

It would not be bad to call that his ambition, but considering that not everyone possessed such forward-thinking ideas, he would probably be thrown into Konoha Prison if he said it aloud.

Uchiha Chi coughed, then said to Tsunade with a solemn expression, "I want to become Hokage."

Tsunade froze for a moment. Then she curled her lips, silently drank her liquor, and continued cup after cup.

After quite a while, she looked dimly at the tabletop and murmured,

"Why does everyone want to become Hokage? How boring..."

[Detected an emotional fluctuation from Tsunade!]

[Obtained 15 points. Defense increased by 3%!]

Seeing the system prompt, Uchiha Chi raised an eyebrow.

It seemed he had given the right answer.

Still, in his impression, Tsunade had always been bold and unrestrained. She should not have been this sentimental.

Today was... August 9. Was it some special day?

"Brat—" Just as he was thinking, Tsunade dragged out the word and looked over at him.

Her flowing golden hair draped over her flushed skin, making her look especially alluring beneath the lamplight.

Something was wrong!

Uchiha Chi instantly became alert. His radar was going off.

He cautiously asked, "What is it, Lady Tsunade?"

Tsunade crossed Both Hands beneath her chin and blinked at him expectantly. "Do you have money?"

"?" Uchiha Chi glanced at Tsunade and hesitantly covered his wallet. "I do."

"Good." Tsunade nodded in satisfaction and casually pointed toward the counter. "Then pay the bill."

After saying that, she pulled out a tissue from the box on the table and carefully wiped the liquor stains from her fingers, as though everything that followed had nothing to do with her.

"..."

Watching Tsunade's smooth, practiced motions, Uchiha Chi's eyelid would not stop twitching.

How many times have you skipped out on bills? Why are you so practiced at this?

He lowered his head, looked at the empty bottles covering the table, and said with a twitching mouth, "But I didn't drink this alcohol."

"Tch!"

Tsunade clicked her tongue in annoyance. The drunkenness vanished from her face at once; clearly, everything just now had been an act. "You didn't fall for that either?!"

His fist clenched beneath the table!

Uchiha Chi felt that he had still overestimated a Ninja's moral boundaries!

As one of the Konoha Sannin, she was even trying to swindle money from a genin?

He had not even drunk anything, yet she wanted him to pay for the alcohol. Was this not bullying an honest man?

"Please pay the bill." Uchiha Chi took a soft breath and said with a sigh.

If she did not pay soon, he would have to use other means to collect this debt.

Yet upon hearing that, Tsunade not only refused, she leaned back with Both Hands behind her head.

Her graceful body reclined against the chair. She lifted her smooth chin, and her maple-red lips parted.

"I have no money."