After returning from Uchiha Tajima's place, Shin's days settled into a peaceful routine. The next day, a clan ninja brought him his payment: a full three hundred thousand ryō. Shin handed it all over to the maid to manage and didn't give it much thought. In ordinary times, the reward wouldn't have been so large, but the Uchiha bounty had just been issued. Back then, the bounty for an Elite Jonin had been five hundred thousand. Shin and Madara had teamed up to kill one, so they naturally split the reward. Add in the Hyuga Jonin, and the total came to exactly three hundred thousand.
Every day, he went to guide the younger generation in their ninjutsu training, quietly building his reputation. After that, he practiced the Flying Thunder God technique and his skill with shuriken outside the clan grounds. In his spare time, he studied the nature transformations of the Rasengan. Finally, he kept an eye on the maid's progress. As it turned out, she was improving quite well and had already managed to gather chakra. At this rate, under Shin's guidance, she would probably become a Genin in a year.
Uchiha Madara still had no shame about showing up at Shin's place for meals every now and then. Shin was helpless in the face of this shameless guy. After mocking him a couple of times and realizing it made no difference, he simply let Madara do as he pleased.
Fine. I'll just treat him as a punching bag for Taijutsu practice.
That day, Madara showed up right on time for lunch to freeload again. Shin had gotten used to it, and the two chatted idly.
"By the way, I haven't seen Izuna in days. Where'd that kid run off to?" Shin asked offhandedly, having just remembered.
Madara replied