No One Cared

"Ah! I'm finally back in the village!" Jin looked at Konoha's gates and couldn't help tearing up. God only knew what he had gone through at Minato's hands over the past half month...

"It wasn't like you gained nothing. At least you grasped the basics of the Flying Thunder God," Minato said excitedly. "With the Flying Thunder God combined with your Lightning Release, Jin, the two of us will definitely make our names resound throughout the ninja world!"

"Ha... ha..." Jin humored Minato while inwardly grumbling, Unless it's a special situation, I'm never using the Flying Thunder God... Every time I use it, I get dizzy...

Who knew whether the future Jin would end up eating those words...

"What are your plans for the next couple days, Jin?" Minato looked at the child beside him, already picturing the day Jin would become his best partner.

Jin thought it over. Since Fugaku and Mikoto still had not returned, he could only say, "What plans could I have? I'm just going home to sleep."

Minato had long since learned about Jin's background. There were not many friends waiting for him back at the compound either, so he immediately invited him. "Why don't you come to my place? I'll cook for you!"

"Huh?" Jin froze at first, then thought about how he would have to cook for himself if he went back... Getting a free meal did sound pretty nice. "Sure, sure!"

"Then it's decided!" Minato's lips curved up. He grabbed Jin's shoulder. "Flying Thunder God!"

"No... don't..."

Minato's house.

The house was not big, but it was very cozy. It was just that an occasional discordant sound drifted out...

"Ugh~... Ugh~~~" Jin lay beside the toilet, vomiting again and again, while Minato stood to the side, scratching his head in embarrassment. "Sorry, Jin. I got too excited."

"What the hell are you excited for?!" Jin turned back and glared at him, then continued throwing up.

He kept vomiting until he had no strength left. Jin dragged his exhausted body onto the sofa, while Minato had already gone into the kitchen and gotten busy.

Watching Minato's figure, Jin had no intention whatsoever of helping. Instead, he urged him on. "Hey, Minato, hurry up. I'm starving."

"Almost done, almost done!" Minato answered while clumsily stir-frying the food...

"This... this is..." Jin's eyelids twitched. Then he pointed at the several pitch-black dishes on the table and looked at Minato in disbelief. "Can this damn stuff even be eaten? Tell me what this is supposed to be."

"Heh... well..." Minato said with a red face. "Then... then let's go out to eat."

"Where?" Jin puffed up his cheeks and crossed his arms. Minato seemed to have planned it long ago, leading Jin straight toward a commercial street.

"So we're eating at a restaurant?" Jin looked curiously at the commercial street around them. Although he had lived in Konoha for so many years, most of his time had been spent in the Uchiha Clan Compound.

"No, we're going to a friend's house," Minato explained. However, under Jin's careful observation, he suddenly noticed that Minato's ears had turned red...

"We're here." Minato stood in front of a courtyard gate and politely stepped forward to knock.

Jin followed behind Minato, and a faint guess arose in his heart as to who lived here.

Sure enough, after the gate opened, a red-haired girl poked her head out and asked, "Minato? You're back?"

"Yeah. Kushina, I brought a friend over to freeload a meal... Is that okay?" Minato asked shyly, then introduced Jin behind him. "This is Uchiha Jin, my friend."

"Uchiha?" Kushina frowned slightly, while a certain pet inside her body was widening its eyes and roaring: The naturally evil Uchiha Clan!

"Right, right. Jin is a genius whose talent doesn't lose to mine," Minato introduced happily.

Jin greeted her politely. "Hello, big sister Kushina." At the same time, he observed the future mother of the child of prophecy... Mm, aside from her red hair, there did not seem to be anything else different about her.

Hearing Minato say that, Kushina turned sideways and said, "Come in."

At the same time...

The door to Konoha's Hokage office was kicked open. A man leaning on a cane stormed toward Sarutobi Hiruzen, who was correcting documents, and questioned him. "Why are you letting someone from the Uchiha come into contact with the jinchuriki? Don't you know the danger of the Sharingan, Hiruzen?!"

"The jinchuriki is someone from the village, and the Uchiha are also people from the village. Danzo, what is inappropriate about that?" Hiruzen asked back without even lifting his head.

"Hmph! Have you forgotten how Madara Uchiha used the Sharingan to control the Nine-Tails back then?!" Danzo slapped the table viciously.

Seeing this, Hiruzen could only stop writing and raise his head, looking at him helplessly. "Danzo, you need to remember that I am the Hokage."

"You...!" Danzo was momentarily choked off. Flushed with anger, he turned and left. "Hiruzen! One day, you will regret this!"

After his old friend left, Hiruzen took out his crystal ball. Looking at the scene of the three people getting along within it, he could not help smiling knowingly. "Only by eliminating the estrangement in everyone's hearts can there be true peace... And besides..."

"The Sharingan can control the Nine-Tails, so having one near the jinchuriki can count as an added safeguard..."

"What? You're only seven and already a chunin?" Kushina looked at the child in front of her in disbelief. "And you even learned Minato's Flying Thunder God?!"

"Haha... no, no, Minato's just talking nonsense. My talent is ordinary, and I rely entirely on luck..." Jin was at a loss from the praise. Who knew Kushina's next sentence would make Minato's heart clench, Sarutobi Hiruzen's breathing quicken, and Jin's face turn red...

"Do you have a girlfriend?" Kushina asked with a serious expression. Minato, who was beside her, instantly felt that something was wrong. Don't tell me Kushina is interested in Jin... No way, right... Kushina, wake up! He's an Uchiha!!

"No..." Jin shook his head in confusion, then secretly glanced at Minato, whose expression changed eighteen times in a single second... This kid isn't treating me as a romantic rival, is he? If I had any thoughts about the jinchuriki... the Anbu would probably appear beside me in the next second, right?

"That can't be. You're such a handsome kid. When you were at the ninja academy, no girls liked you?" Kushina said as she looked at Minato with a faintly resentful gaze.

When Minato and Hiruzen in the distance heard that it was not what they had been thinking, they immediately breathed a sigh of relief...

"The ninja academy..." Jin recalled it, and then suddenly discovered a very realistic problem. He shot to his feet with a look of disbelief and said, "That's right! No one really did like me!!!"

Minato and Kushina looked at Jin, who had suddenly stood up, and thought the child had fallen ill. In the end, it was just that no one liked him?

"Minato! Look, look at me. Even if I'm not the best-looking guy in all of Konoha, I should still be near the top, right? But no one actually liked me!" Jin clutched his chest, his heartbroken expression making the two of them burst into laughter.

Seeing the two of them laugh so brazenly, Jin grew even more heartbroken. "Big sister Kushina, don't laugh! You be the judge. This makes no sense at all!"

"Maybe... maybe they thought they weren't good enough for you... Ahahahaha, I can't, Minato. Why is this kid so funny?"