Uzumaki Mito Is a Mature Beauty!

Uchiha Kurohane bluntly and openly praised Kushina Uzumaki's red hair.

The compliment stirred this beautiful girl deeply.

Kushina Uzumaki had always been ashamed of her unusual hair color.

Especially after arriving in Konoha, she had endured countless taunts.

All the students in her class mocked her as Little Tomato and a red-haired freak.

Kushina Uzumaki's self-esteem had suffered a severe blow.

Even when facing Uchiha Kurohane, who had stepped in to help her, she worried that he actually disliked her red hair.

She had never expected him to directly say that he liked it.

Kushina Uzumaki felt as though she had finally been acknowledged, as if she had been redeemed.

However, her heart had been hurt too badly, leaving her with psychological scars. She did not dare believe it was real.

She assumed Uchiha Kurohane was merely joking and shyly changed the subject.

"Um, it's getting late. Let's start training."

Uchiha Kurohane asked curiously.

"What powerful Ninjutsu are you going to train?"

Kushina Uzumaki put her hands on her hips, raised her little head, and said proudly.

"Don't be scared when I tell you. It's a forbidden technique called the Multi-Shadow Clone Technique."

"Do you know what a forbidden technique is? It's Ninjutsu ordinary people are forbidden from learning. I'm not an ordinary person, so I can learn it."

Kushina Uzumaki's answer was exactly what Uchiha Kurohane had guessed.

In the original story, Tsunade had once said that Naruto's fighting style was very similar to his mother's.

At the time, Naruto only knew the Rasengan and the Multi-Shadow Clone Technique.

The Rasengan was created much later by Namikaze Minato for Kushina Uzumaki, so that Ninjutsu did not exist yet.

That basically left the Multi-Shadow Clone Technique.

The Multi-Shadow Clone Technique was an extremely versatile Ninjutsu. Besides being useful in battle, it was also useful in daily life.

For example, one could use Multi-Shadow Clones to do homework.

Perhaps because this was a time of war, students had to be sent to the battlefield as soon as they graduated.

In order to let students adapt to combat quickly, the Ninja Academy assigned a great deal of homework. Whenever Uchiha Kurohane had been rushing to finish his assignments, he had always wished he could learn the Multi-Shadow Clone Technique.

But now that Kushina was helping him copy his homework, he did not need to use the Multi-Shadow Clone Technique for that anymore.

On the other hand, his Kekkei Genkai, Yatagarasu, treated clones as crows.

Uchiha Kurohane could not only swap positions with his clones, but also gain their senses and vision.

Combined with the vast chakra he had obtained from Kushina Uzumaki, the Multi-Shadow Clone Technique was extremely useful to him.

"I want to learn this Ninjutsu too. Teach me."

Hearing that, Kushina Uzumaki raised her chin even higher, and puffed out her utterly flat little chest.

"Hehe~ You want to learn it? Let me think about it."

Seeing her smug expression, Uchiha Kurohane could not help raising his fist and giving her little head a knock.

"You're my underling. If I tell you to teach me, then teach me. What is there to think about?"

Kushina Uzumaki rubbed her knocked little head, looking aggrieved.

She had already planned to teach Uchiha Kurohane. She had merely wanted to show off a little and act smug.

She had not expected this little brother to be so domineering that he would actually punch her on the head.

What if he knocked her stupid?

Afraid of being knocked stupid, Kushina Uzumaki did not dare argue further and agreed directly.

"Fine, fine, I'll teach you."

Just then, a mature and seductive female voice came from behind them.

"No. Not everyone can learn the Multi-Shadow Clone Technique. This Ninjutsu is extremely dangerous. You cannot teach him."

It turned out that Uzumaki Mito had wanted to inspect Kushina Uzumaki's training. She had secretly followed behind them and overheard her conversation with Uchiha Kurohane.

Knowing that Uzumaki Mito was present, Kushina Uzumaki was startled. Her body jolted, and the inertia sent the red hair covering her buttocks flying up over her head.

Oh no, Grandma saw Kurohane!

In this situation, she'll think we're dating, won't she?

What should I do?

As Kushina Uzumaki froze in panic, Uchiha Kurohane turned around to look.

A mature woman in a white kimono, wearing a stern expression, was slowly walking toward him.

She had the same red hair as Kushina Uzumaki, but hers was tied into two large buns, forming the classic double-bun hairstyle.

Rectangular white talismans inscribed with runes hung beneath each bun. Though the design was unusual, it possessed an ancient solemnity and radiated an imposing aura.

This appearance was exactly the same as Uzumaki Mito's in the Hokage series.

But her appearance far exceeded Uchiha Kurohane's imagination.

Whether in the manga or anime, Uzumaki Mito, when she met Kushina Uzumaki, had been extremely old, looking like an eighty-year-old woman.

Yet the woman standing before Uchiha Kurohane now looked very young. Her lovely face bore no trace of time.

Her skin was as smooth as though it had been soaked in milk.

Her full breasts stood proudly upright, as if they ignored gravity.

With her breathtaking face and fiery figure, she looked remarkably young, no more than around thirty.

Was this woman really Uzumaki Mito?

Uchiha Kurohane immediately asked.

"Auntie, who are you?"

Uzumaki Mito gracefully walked up to Uchiha Kurohane, pursed her red lips, and revealed a faint, mature smile.

"My name is Uzumaki Mito. Like Kushina, I am a member of the Uzumaki Clan. You could say I'm her grandmother."

She really was Uzumaki Mito!

Uzumaki Mito was not the old woman from the original story—she had become a sexy, mature beauty?

Uchiha Kurohane looked at the pale purple diamond-shaped mark on her forehead. It was the same Yin Seal Tsunade had.

In the original story, Uzumaki Mito indeed had a Yin Seal on her forehead.

According to the original story, Uzumaki Mito could easily suppress the Nine-Tails, so her strength was undoubtedly formidable.

Combined with the Uzumaki Clan's special bloodline, she should have been able to learn the Strength of a Hundred and restore her body to its youngest state.

There was no way a civilian ninja like Haruno Sakura could learn the Strength of a Hundred in three years while Uzumaki Mito could not learn it after all those years, right?

That made no sense!

Another inexplicable point was that Kushina Uzumaki did not have a Yin Seal on her forehead.

That was very strange.

According to the original story, the Yin Seal accumulated chakra refined during ordinary times in the forehead. Once the accumulated chakra surpassed an immense threshold, the Yin Seal would form.

For example, during the Fourth Shinobi World War, Haruno Sakura suddenly surpassed that limit, a Yin Seal appeared on her forehead, and she was then able to use the Strength of a Hundred.

Kushina Uzumaki had possessed powerful chakra from the start, and she could also suppress the Nine-Tails. Why did she not have a Yin Seal?

Could it be that she was a fake member of the Uzumaki Clan and, like Shizune, could not learn the Yin Seal?

All one could say was that because the Hokage series had run for too long, many settings had been secretly revised several times, creating countless inexplicable plot holes.

There was an even more classic example: if Uzumaki Naruto was Minato's son, how could Kakashi have felt absolutely nothing for him?

No matter what, it was reasonable that Mito in this world had learned the Strength of a Hundred and maintained her youth.

There was another question as well. In the original story, Mito and Kushina had no blood relation.

Based on what Uzumaki Mito had just said, she and Kushina had no blood relation in this world either. That had not changed.

What Uchiha Kurohane was curious about now was Mito's blood relation to another person—Tsunade.

In the original story and the databooks, Tsunade and Nawaki both had no surname.

Logically speaking, even if they had some reason not to use Senju Clan as their surname, they could still have used Uzumaki as their surname.

That was far too strange.