A Night Visit to the Hokage's Office—Hiruzen Sarutobi Was Watching His Crystal Ball

"That's the Hokage Building. That's the Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi. He's using a crystal ball to look at... uh, it looks like he's checking out the women's bathhouse..."

A Luo drifted along, bringing the trapped Izuna with him to the Hokage Building.

The two ghosts peered in through an open window and saw the Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi, still at work so late at night.

Yet A Luo felt somewhat conflicted when he saw the man staring so intently at the crystal ball, only to be spying on Konoha's women's bathhouse.

This was his first time taking this ancestor out for some fun, and they had run into a Hokage like this. He wondered whether it had shattered the old ancestor's theories about Hokage conspiracies.

However, it did not last long before Hiruzen Sarutobi shifted the crystal ball's view to the edge of Konoha, and then...

The Uchiha clan. The image within the crystal ball showed the Uchiha compound, eventually settling on the courtyard where Sasuke and A Luo lived.

After checking and confirming that nothing was amiss, with the ANBU also keeping a close watch, the crystal ball's image shifted once more, revealing...

The women's bathhouse again.

"Let's go..."

Izuna felt as though he was leading a child astray, but this had not been his idea. He could only have the kid take him away first.

After leaving the Hokage's Office, the two ghosts hovered above the Hokage Building and saw Hokage Rock in the distance.

Though the statues were somewhat stylized, Izuna recognized Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju the instant he saw them.

Seeing those two statues, he was so furious that he wanted to kick them a few times and smash the statues of those two Senju bastards.

Unfortunately, he was merely a dead soul who could neither attack people nor damage objects. Aside from watching and fuming, there was nothing else he could do.

No, that was not true. He could teach the last two Uchiha clan members. Once they grew stronger, they could smash those statues of the despicable Senju clan for him!

"Let's go home. I'll teach you how to train. Try to teach your brother before dawn. We'll start with the simple basics!"

Thinking that he would still get to see those two statues shattered in the future, Izuna urged A Luo to hurry home.

"Okay."

A Luo did not delay. In his ghostly form, he was very fast, swiftly floating back to the Uchiha compound.

After returning home and seeing that Sasuke was still awake, A Luo immediately returned to his body and moved his fingers in Sasuke's palm.

'You're back. Nothing happened, right?'

Sasuke closed his eyes and wrote in A Luo's palm with his finger.

The two brothers were being watched by Konoha, but their ability to write by touch and recognize words through sensation had grown increasingly proficient.

'Nothing happened. I just saw the Hokage using a crystal ball to spy on the women's bathhouse. Then he remembered to check our home, and once he confirmed everything was fine, he went right back to spying on the women's bathhouse...'

A Luo did not really want to say this, but Izuna kept urging him from the side, telling him to let Sasuke know just how awful this Hokage was.

The purpose was...

To make Sasuke think of this inhuman bastard whenever he saw or thought of the Hokage!

As the Hokage, he had probably seen every woman in the village, young and old, countless times...

'Old pervert...'

Sasuke was silent for a long time before helplessly writing down his assessment.

The Third Hokage, whom the academy constantly praised as the strongest Hokage, was actually like this...

He wondered about the wives, sisters, mothers, and grandmothers of all those teachers who praised the Third Hokage every day...

'Oh, right. That ancestor of ours is right beside me. He asked me to tell you...'

After complaining about Hiruzen Sarutobi's disgusting, perverted daily habits, A Luo began discussing the serious matter.

There was no rush now. Izuna explained a little at a time, and A Luo wrote it out for Sasuke.

More than an hour later, after repeatedly confirming that Sasuke had memorized everything, A Luo was finally able to sleep peacefully.

As for Izuna, he had to watch Sasuke make his first attempts. If anything went wrong, he would have to wake A Luo to relay information.

Fortunately, Sasuke was quite clever. He had simply never known this information before. Now that he did, his training went fairly smoothly.

A Luo slept until dawn. Sasuke trained beside him for half the night, his Sharingan opening and vanishing. After repeated attempts, he could already activate and deactivate it naturally.

"Sasuke, I'll make lunch. Do your best at school!"

After breakfast, A Luo stood at the door to see Sasuke off.

Though he had not slept all night, Sasuke was in great spirits. As for whether he would end up falling asleep on his desk after class began...

He probably would. After all, they were still young, and when sleepiness struck, they needed rest.

"When can you start training?"

After watching Sasuke leave, Izuna floated beside A Luo again and poked his cheek with a finger.

Unfortunately, as a living person, A Luo could not make any contact with his finger.

"I'm still so sleepy..."

A Luo briefly moved his body around the house, then sat down on the floor weakly.

With a sigh, he got back up and slowly made his way to the sofa, where he lay down to bask in the sun again.

As his consciousness left his body, A Luo had barely floated twice before Izuna grabbed him and pulled him aside.

"Yesterday, you told that kid I was your ancestor?"

Izuna had suddenly recalled that this was how the kid had described him in his writing yesterday.

"Am I not? You and Sasuke look very alike. I have a feeling that when Sasuke grows up, he'll probably look more or less like you. What's that called, hereditary resemblance across generations?"

A Luo tilted his head and blinked at Izuna, letting him consider whether that was really the case.

"That seems unlikely..."

Although they did indeed look alike, Izuna felt that the Uchiha clan would not have allowed either his or his brother's descendants to become the next clan head.

Though his brother had been obsessed with training and fighting a certain someone, so he might not have had any descendants at all...

"When you died, were you sure you didn't have any children?"

A Luo was genuinely curious, and he did not want to ask the system. He simply stared at Izuna Uchiha, waiting for this possible ancestor to give him an answer.

"It's not like there weren't any. Back then, there were several women attending to me..."

Izuna scratched his head somewhat awkwardly. He had not been a child then. As the clan head's younger brother, there was no way he would lack women to attend to him.

But bringing up such matters before a child was rather embarrassing.

Especially when this child might really be one of his descendants from some later generation.