The Crisis of His Past-Life Memories Being Exposed?

The day's classes soon came to an end.

"Sleepyhead, do you want me to go with you to the hospital?" Kushina came over and looked at Uchiha Nagi, who still seemed listless.

"No need. I can manage a short walk like this without anything happening to me," Uchiha Nagi declined.

"All right." Kushina nodded, not insisting on going with him.

"Any leads on Nagi's problem?" Namikaze Minato asked.

"Not yet, but my sister is already working on it. I'm sure she'll find a solution soon."

Kushina looked proud. When she had first arrived, she hadn't known who her sister was.

Now that she did, she admired her sister immensely. When she grew up, she was definitely going to become a ninja like Tsunade!

"That's good."

Namikaze Minato nodded at that.

After the three of them parted ways, Uchiha Nagi headed for the hospital.

Tsunade was looking over the intelligence scrolls on her desk.

In just one day, they had managed to investigate almost everything about Uchiha Nagi. The results were all recorded in these scrolls.

Tsunade had finished reading the information about him, but for a moment, she didn't know what to say.

She had already thought that Uchiha Nagi probably wouldn't lie about something like this, but the investigation's findings had hit her like a bolt from the blue.

It wasn't that Uchiha Nagi had lied. In fact, the scrolls' contents weren't all that different from what he had told her.

The problem was that Uchiha Nagi had described everything so casually that Tsunade hadn't realized how serious it was.

Now, after reading the scrolls, she realized that Uchiha Nagi's life was much worse than he had let on.

"What a stubborn little guy."

Tsunade sighed, remembering what had happened. If Uchiha Nagi hadn't needed that job, he probably wouldn't have mentioned his circumstances at all.

In that respect, he did have some of the Uchiha Clan's traits.

But...

"He's not like those other Uchiha."

Tsunade was sure that if it had been another Uchiha, even if they needed the job, they would never have let anyone see how miserable their circumstances were.

They called it the Uchiha Clan's pride, but really, they were just too proud to save themselves a lot of suffering.

"If it's for your family, sometimes it's worth setting your pride aside."

Tsunade found herself admiring Uchiha Nagi. It was difficult for an ordinary person to have that kind of awareness, let alone an Uchiha.

Aside from information about Uchiha Nagi's family, the scrolls also detailed how he had been doing at the Ninja Academy lately.

By comparison, his time at the Ninja Academy had been rather uneventful. He hadn't shown anything particularly remarkable.

But Tsunade had personally examined Uchiha Nagi's body in detail.

She was certain that, among the first-years, Uchiha Nagi was strong enough to dominate everyone.

If he hadn't shown it, he must have been holding back.

"But why would he hold back?"

Tsunade was puzzled. She could no longer rely on her stereotypical ideas about the Uchiha to understand Uchiha Nagi's thinking.

"Is it because he wants a peaceful life?"

Tsunade could only guess based on the information she had.

Just then, someone knocked on the office door.

"Come in."

"Hey, Tsunade, I'm here."

Sure enough, Uchiha Nagi walked in.

"Mm. Sit down and wait a little. The person who'll examine you hasn't arrived yet." Tsunade checked the time. It was almost the time they'd agreed on.

"Okay."

"Nagi, thank you for helping Kushina at school. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have known that girl was bullied on her very first day." Tsunade's face showed a hint of anger.

"I didn't really do much. Besides, Kushina isn't the type to let people bully her."

Uchiha Nagi wasn't surprised that Tsunade had suddenly found out. In Konoha, Tsunade might not know every single thing, but she could get the general picture of most things.

"That's true." Tsunade thought of Kushina's nickname, Blood Red Pepper, and chuckled.

Tsunade looked Uchiha Nagi over. She could roughly understand why Kushina treated him differently.

If she had been surrounded by an entire class picking on her, and someone had still been willing to speak up for her, she would have treated that person specially, too.

And now that she understood Uchiha Nagi's circumstances and personality, the last of her reservations had disappeared.

It was fine for Uchiha Nagi and Kushina to be friends.

Of course, they could only be friends. Nothing more.

At the thought, Tsunade sighed inwardly, because she couldn't decide what happened if they went any further.

If they were only friends, her status meant she could vouch for them.

But the village would never allow an Uchiha to be involved with the village's strategic weapon.

When that time came, even she would be powerless to do anything about it.

A little while later, someone knocked on the office door again.

"Lady Tsunade, I'm here."

A middle-aged man with pale blond hair and a jonin vest walked in.

"Senior, just call me Tsunade," Tsunade said. In terms of seniority, she couldn't compare with the Yamanaka Clan Head.

The Yamanaka Clan Head simply smiled and said nothing.

Uchiha Nagi looked as if he had expected this. When it came to matters of the mind, the first people anyone in Konoha would think of were the Yamanaka Clan.

At this point in time, this clan head should be the grandfather of Ino Yamanaka, who was the father of Inoichi Yamanaka.

And where was Inoichi Yamanaka?

Of course, he was in his second year at the academy!

The older generation of Ino-Shika-Cho were only a little older than Namikaze Minato.

Tsunade didn't dwell on it. She immediately explained why she had asked the Yamanaka Clan Head to come.

"Senior, sorry for the trouble, but could you take a look and see what's going on with him?"

Tsunade explained Uchiha Nagi's situation in full and shared her theory.

"It's no trouble. It's the least I can do."

The Yamanaka Clan Head naturally didn't refuse, though he looked at Uchiha Nagi with a somewhat curious expression.

It wasn't his fault he found it strange. He simply couldn't make sense of the pair before him.

Who could have imagined that the little princess of the Senju Clan would care about an Uchiha child?

She had even gone to the trouble of seeking out him, a person who had previously had nothing to do with medical matters.

The Yamanaka Clan Head stepped up to Uchiha Nagi and said softly, "Now, just relax your mind completely and leave everything to me."

"All right. Sorry for the trouble," Uchiha Nagi said earnestly, gratitude on his face, but inside, he was already feeling nervous.

After all, under the Yamanaka Clan's secret techniques, his memories from his past life might be exposed!