Uzumaki Kuming was busy searching for the culprit behind the attack on the Uchiha squad, but he hadn't neglected Kushina Uzumaki and her son. When he saw Kushina and Naruto standing outside his study, he smiled and rose to greet them.
"Big Sis, what brings you here?"
"Come on in and sit down."
Uzumaki Kuming gestured toward the study with a smile. But Kushina shook her head gently. "Naruto got up early this morning and wouldn't stop asking me to teach him shuriken."
"You know we don't have enough room at home for him to practice, and I don't feel comfortable letting him train alone at the training ground."
"Besides, you haven't visited us in a few days, so I brought him along to see you."
"What are you working on?"
Kushina pointed at the thick stack of scrolls on his desk and asked.
"I'm tracking down a culprit. My young disciple, Uchiha Itachi, was attacked by a powerful enemy on his first mission as a team leader."
"The attacker had a three-tomoe Sharingan. I suspect they were one of the Uchiha who supposedly died or went missing but may have survived, so I asked Fugaku for a list to investigate."
Uzumaki Kuming didn't hide anything from Kushina. He trusted her deeply, and he didn't bother keeping Naruto from hearing it, either. The boy was mischievous, but clever enough to know what he should and shouldn't repeat.
There was no doubt about Naruto's social savvy. After all, he would grow up to become a master of persuasive talk.
"Have you found anything?"
Kushina grew curious. She knew both of Kuming's disciples well. Over the past few years, the two most dazzling prodigies in Konoha had been Kuming's senior disciple, Shisui Uchiha, and Minato's student, Kakashi Hatake.
His younger disciple, Uchiha