Young Clan Head?

"Tianyu, can you come up with twenty million ryo? I only have ten million on hand right now."

After seeing off Hyuga Wuye and Kushina, Akimichi Torifu immediately rushed to the ninja tool shop he had just promised to sell.

The shop owner, Tianyu, wore Chinese-style clothing that was white on top and red below. No matter how one looked at him, he did not seem to be from the Akimichi Clan.

"Twenty million ryo... I should be able to gather it within a day." Tianyu scratched his head and gave an honest smile. "If it's money the young clan head wants, I'll sell everything I own if I have to."

"That's good." Akimichi Torifu let out a breath. "That'll make Wuye much more comfortable, and he'll feel more at ease too."

"Sigh, the clan head has been pretty depressed lately. Only matters concerning the young clan head can make him happy." Tianyu sighed.

Akimichi Torifu patted his shoulder. "It's fine if you call him that in private, but he's always stressed that the family is gone. If he hears you calling him clan head and young clan head, he'll definitely get angry!"

Tianyu smiled. "Even though we hid the clan crest and integrated into the village, the bond between us won't be so easily severed."

"Come to think of it, if the young clan head hadn't been left with the Hyuga Clan, so many things wouldn't have happened recently, and he wouldn't have been so lonely all these years." He shook his head. "Why insist on hiding it from him? I really can't understand the clan head's thinking."

Akimichi Torifu said helplessly, "He never regarded you as strength he could still rely on. Now that he's nearly blind, the Hyuga Clan naturally seems more suitable to him. He just never expected Hyuga Kotone to sacrifice herself."

"She refused to let the clan head warn Hyuga Naoya. That was truly foolish." Tianyu shook his head.

"That's a sense of belonging to her family. She felt guilty toward the clan, guilty toward Wuye, and even more unwilling to see him again. With that kind of stubbornness and torment, perhaps death was a kind of release." Akimichi Torifu said.

"It's just that the young clan head is pitiful, like an orphan." Tianyu sighed.

Akimichi Torifu chuckled. "Not exactly. He has no idea how many people secretly watched him grow up, panicked because he went hungry for a meal, worried whenever he was sad or upset..."

Tianyu smiled. "All of us watched him grow up, and we'll continue to do so in the future."

Akimichi Torifu patted his shoulder and laughed heartily. "He'll be your chairman from now on, so keep a good eye on him."

The next day.

"It's ready so soon?"

Hyuga Wuye and Kushina followed Akimichi Torifu to the ninja tool specialty store and fell into thought as they looked at the three-story shop before them.

Was this really worth fifty million ryo? It might be worth twice that...

"Just handle the transfer procedures and transfer the money to you. As for the scrolls, the village has ordered two hundred, but they won't pay until next month." Akimichi Torifu said.

"Oh, and the shop assistants have been transferred to you as well." He pointed at Tianyu and the woman beside him. "Tianyu and his wife."

"Chairman." The two immediately bowed respectfully.

Hyuga Wuye glanced at them and suddenly found their clothing style extremely familiar...

Damn, wasn't this Tenten's outfit? Could they be Tenten's elders? They just happened to run a ninja tool shop too...

"Huh? This shop opens onto both sides? What do they sell out back, facing the entertainment district?"

Wuye suddenly walked over curiously.

"Wait!"

Akimichi Torifu nervously grabbed Hyuga Wuye. "They just sell some clothes over there. Don't go. Just wait to collect the money. Don't worry, you won't lose out."

"Oh..."

Wuye shot him a sidelong glance... Clothes sold in the entertainment district—he could tell they weren't anything proper just by thinking about it.

Forget it. He would check it out himself next time...

"Teacher, why did you bring me to a place like this?!"

Just then, a rather familiar voice came from across the way. Wuye and Kushina instinctively looked at each other. "Minato?"

Hyuga Wuye's eyes shifted, and he immediately shook off Akimichi Torifu's hand and ran through the passage. "Minato, Minato, is that you?"

Kushina immediately followed with her tiny steps.

Before he could react, the two had already run into the shop on the other side. Akimichi Torifu's face darkened. "Tianyu, didn't I tell you to seal off the passage leading over there? If Wuye develops any new traits because of this, your clan head will kill you!"

Tianyu broke out in a cold sweat. "I didn't expect you to bring him here so quickly..."

By the time they chased after them, Wuye and Kushina, those two curious little things, had already climbed to the second floor.

Right, the first floor had revealing dresses, the second had lingerie, and the third floor... cosplay?

Wuye folded his arms and fell into thought as he looked at sets of ninja outfits before him... There were actually people who liked women wearing ninja uniforms?

But ninja uniforms generally protected vital areas. Why did these clothes have two holes over the chest? And one huge hole in the back of the pants?

As expected of an entertainment district with its own customs. They really knew how to have fun!

"H-How can there be clothes like this..."

Kushina imagined herself wearing such clothes and felt her little face about to burn up.

Hyuga Wuye looked at her, then at the clothes, and his gaze gradually changed. "If you wore them, Kushina... this shop would have great prospects..."

And if he added the cosplay culture of an entire world from his memories, then...

Bang!

As he indulged in wild thoughts, Kushina's red hair suddenly flared up. She jumped up and smacked him on the head. "You're not allowed to think about such perverted things!"

Wuye almost instinctively crouched down, clutching his head in defense... Who knew who he had learned that from.

"Haha, it's been so long since I saw Kushina hit you!"

Minato, who had followed them upstairs, watched with complete satisfaction... At last, at last, he got to share in the joy too.

"Inspiration... it's all inspiration... oh ho ho ho..."

A strange laugh drifted over. Wuye looked up and saw the handsome white-haired uncle Jiraiya staring at the clothes, scribbling something in his notebook, practically drooling.

"Teacher, have you seen enough? Didn't you say we came out to find inspiration for your writing? Why did you come here?" Minato asked helplessly.

"Minato, you became Lord Jiraiya's student?" Hyuga Wuye asked curiously.

Although he knew that Minato, the only one who did not indulge in lewdness, would sooner or later still be taken into Jiraiya's perverted fold, he had not expected it to happen so quickly. Had Jiraiya taken a liking to him after their last battle?

"Mm. Teacher Jiraiya said I have great talent." Minato's eyes curved warmly.

Wuye patted his shoulder. "Actually, you know you and him aren't compatible, right?"

"Huh?"

Minato scratched his head, utterly confused.

"As far as I know, Lord Jiraiya and his teacher, the Third Hokage, both have certain special proclivities. You don't seem to have them, though." Wuye smiled.

And there would be Kakashi and Naruto in the future. Their lecherous genes were practically carved into their bones. Generation after generation, master and disciple alike, they carried on the same tradition. Only Minato was the odd one out.

Maybe he had some hidden trait that had yet to be uncovered? After all, his name was Namikaze Minato...

"What? Even Lord Hokage likes peeping... cough..." Minato quickly covered his mouth.

It seemed he had already seen through his teacher's true nature.

"Kid, don't ruin my reputation. I'm collecting material!"

Jiraiya finally straightened up, wiped the drool from the corner of his mouth, and said solemnly, "Can a writer's business be called peeping?"