"Shisui, have you gotten used to living with the clan?"
"It's been all right. The grandparents who adopted me are very kind, and the clan treats me well too."
"That's good, then."
"Oh, right, Sister Mikoto, have you heard? Clan Head Fugaku has an illegitimate son! He was just brought back into the clan! Just like me."
"An illegitimate son?"
Mikoto's voice and that of a young boy drifted over continuously, and Hyuga Wuye's expression began to turn strange.
Uchiha Fugaku's illegitimate son? Judging by the timing, could it be Itachi Uchiha?
The clan-destroying werewolf had appeared too?!
"Since I was brought back a year ago, lots of people in the clan suspected that I was the clan head's illegitimate son too..."
"It doesn't matter. We don't need to concern ourselves with the clan head's affairs."
"Sister Mikoto, don't you think the divide between the clan and the village is too deep..."
The first time Wuye saw Uchiha Shisui, he felt the same way he had when he first saw Nawaki—a holy light seemed to shine right into his face.
Maybe this was a specialty of this world. It always produced people like this.
"Huh? It's W—"
Uchiha Shisui saw him and Kushina as well. Before he could finish what he had blurted out, Uchiha Mikoto cut in first. "The one I told you about—Hyuga Wuye, and Sister's best friend, Kushina."
Wuye felt that she had put particular emphasis on the word "Hyuga," as if reminding Uchiha Shisui of something.
"Yes," the six-year-old boy said politely. "Lord Wuye."
Hyuga Wuye stood and waved a hand, then turned his gaze toward Mikoto.
"Shisui was brought back by the clan a year ago. He was also a child born outside the clan, just like I was back then..." Uchiha Mikoto explained.
"Oh..."