Sunagakure's Flower

That night...

Uchiha Gen was hurriedly dragged off to Sunagakure by Namikaze Minato. He hadn't even had time to study the Spirit Transformation Technique he'd just learned!

Dawn...

The Sunagakure meeting room!

"So you're Uchiha Gen? How did you know I could use One's Own Life Reincarnation?" Chiyo peered at Uchiha Gen through her narrowed eyes.

"Uh, Sasori told me," Uchiha Gen said without hesitation.

"What? Sasori? Hmm? Impossible! Sasori doesn't even know I can use that technique!" Chiyo was first shocked, then rejected Uchiha Gen's claim.

"Granny, don't be so sure. Sasori was capable of killing even the Third Kazekage. It's no big deal to think he planted a few spy puppets around you." Uchiha Gen spun a wild tale.

"Hm?"

"What?"

"The Third Kazekage?"

"Sasori killed the Third Kazekage?"

The entire meeting room erupted in an uproar!

"What nonsense are you spouting? How could my grandson Sasori possibly have killed the Third Kazekage?" Chiyo denied it outright.

Ebizo looked as if he wanted to say something, but held back.

The Fourth Kazekage, Rasa, remained silent.

They hadn't considered it before, but Uchiha Gen's reminder made them realize that the Third Kazekage's disappearance had coincided rather neatly with Sasori's departure. Sasori had also had plenty of opportunities to attack him. Still, surely the Third Kazekage couldn't have fallen to Sasori, of all people? Sasori had been so young back then!

"What do you mean, nonsense? When I ran into Sasori, he really did bring out a puppet made from the Third Kazekage! Could the Iron Sand Technique he used with it have been fake?" Uchiha Gen said with a solemn expression, making it all up.

"What! He made him into a puppet?" Ebizo cried in shock.

Chiyo fell silent. A Human Puppet? Sasori, had you really taken that path?

The Fourth Kazekage was just as stunned. He'd turned the Third Kazekage into a Human Puppet? How could anyone be so deranged? Rasa suddenly felt the seat beneath him getting awfully hot.

"Since none of you are saying anything, I take it you understand I wasn't lying. If there's nothing else, I'll take my leave." Uchiha Gen quietly slipped away, leaving them all looking at one another in silence.

The rest was simple. Sunagakure arranged for a condemned prisoner, promising to care for the prisoner's family. Granny Chiyo used the Puppet Manipulation Technique to control the prisoner as he performed One's Own Life Reincarnation. Then Namikaze Minato brought Uzumaki Kushina over, and the prisoner used the technique on her. Uzumaki Kushina was instantly restored to full health. Minato happily signed an alliance agreement, and everyone got their happy ending.

"Hey, gorgeous over there! Yes, you. Come over here a moment." Uchiha Gen called out to the Scorch Release kunoichi ahead of him, whose outfit left little to the imagination and whose figure was full and shapely.

"Hm? A Uchiha from Konoha? What is it?" Pakura eyed the boy in confusion. He seemed to be part of Konoha's delegation for the negotiations, but why had he called her over? They hardly knew each other!

"It's nothing much. I just wanted to ask if you have a boyfriend. If not, how about me? I come from a prestigious family, I'm handsome, strong, and well-endowed, with no bad habits." Uchiha Gen had always been straightforward. In his previous life, he'd been a programmer and had never dated anyone before he died, without a single chance to get any real experience. This time around, he couldn't let himself be such a loser. He'd die with a beautiful woman in his arms if it came to it! He'd even take his chances with Chiyo in a swimsuit.

"Hmph. I don't. But even if I were looking, I'd never date a Uchiha from Konoha!" Pakura looked exasperated. Was there something wrong with this guy? They had no romantic history, for starters. And their backgrounds made it impossible anyway. She was a Sunagakure kunoichi; how could she date someone from Konoha?

"Don't be so sure. Think about it: if we got together, we'd improve relations between Konoha and Sunagakure. And if you were willing to have a few kids, then in a dozen years they'd have kids of their own, and their kids would have kids, forever and ever! Before long, Sunagakure would have a powerful Uchiha Clan, and its strength would increase by at least twenty percent. What do you think? Want to consider it?" Uchiha Gen coaxed.

"Hm?" Another Uchiha Clan in Sunagakure? They could do that? This was... awfully tempting! Pakura felt her resolve starting to crack.

"How about this: pick someone else. Sunagakure has plenty of beautiful women. I'll personally pay to set you up with a few," Pakura said, fighting the temptation and holding fast to her principles.

"I want to date you, and you're offering to pay for me to sleep with someone else?" Uchiha Gen looked disgusted.

"If you have other preferences, just say so. If you really like women like me, we could have them use the Transformation Technique. I wouldn't mind!" Pakura continued to pitch the idea. It couldn't be helped: the Uchiha's name had carried weight for a thousand years, and their fame had spread across the Ninja World. If Sunagakure could have its own Uchiha Clan...

"Enough is enough! You want to get something for nothing? I'm the one who usually gets things for free, and now you're trying to get me for free? Take this—my ultimate fantasy technique, Tsukuyomi!" Uchiha Gen activated his Mangekyō Sharingan.

Uchiha Gen had never understood why so many people in his previous life, like Uchiha Itachi, had made such a poor use of Tsukuyomi. In a sense, Tsukuyomi was absolutely the strongest ocular technique, bar none.

In the Genjutsu space, Pakura was tied to a cross, looking bewildered. Why had he just attacked her? Even if they couldn't make a deal, they could still be friends! And this was Sunagakure.

"What are you trying to do? Aren't you afraid this will cause trouble between our villages? Your Fourth Hokage is still in our village. If anything happens to me, none of you will get away!" Pakura said calmly.

"Heh. This is a Genjutsu space I created with my ocular technique. Everything here is under my control. You're going to spend the next seventy-two hours enjoying yourself here. By the way, everything you feel here is incredibly real. Some idiot once used this technique to inflict all kinds of inhuman torture on his enemies. Today, I'll set the record straight about what this technique can do. But don't worry, I'm not a pervert like him!" As he spoke, Uchiha Gen began taking off his pants.

"Hey, what are you doing? Don't! Stop for a second! Nooooo!" As Pakura cried out in despair, Uchiha Gen began his first hands-on experience in either of his two lives!

Over the long seventy-two hours, Uchiha Gen tried out every instructional video he'd watched in his previous life, from the Awei Eighteen Styles to the forbidden One Thousand Years of Death; from teacher to neighbor, from train car to female boss, from the Sand Shinobi Prosecutor to the Konoha Military Police~

Seventy-two hours passed in the Genjutsu space, but in the outside world, only an instant went by!

Uchiha Gen shivered where he stood. Across from him, Pakura collapsed to the ground, her face flushed.

Hm? Tsukuyomi really was a divine technique! In a Genjutsu, there was no need to worry about whether his kidneys could keep up. He could stay hard forever.