Kushina, the wealthy girl

As the young lady of the Hyuga Clan's Main Family, Hyuga Rinka had received the clan's best training resources since childhood. She had already practiced Water Walking, though she was not very proficient yet. This was a perfect opportunity to keep working on it.

Besides, if Kushina Uzumaki and Uchiha Yi could do it, why couldn't she?

Geniuses always earned respect. Hyuga Rinka knew Uchiha Yi was considerably stronger than she was, and she was willing to let him lead their team.

Seeing Uchiha Yi and Hyuga Rinka get to work, Kushina Uzumaki puffed out her cheeks, but she still cooperated obediently and joined them in cleaning.

They can fish out the trash and clean the grime from the hot spring. I can help empty the trash and clean up the litter on the ground. Surely that's fine?

Uchiha Yi nodded slightly at the sight. Perhaps he should teach Kushina Uzumaki basic exercises like Water Walking and tree climbing once they returned. With her chakra control, she could probably finish the training in a single day.

In fact, Kushina Uzumaki was a genius in her own right. Calling her a little Mito Uzumaki would not have been an exaggeration.

Her chakra could suppress Tailed Beasts, her reserves were more than three times Uchiha Mikoto's, and her chakra control was excellent. She had abundant Yang Release chakra in her body and an outstanding talent for Sealing Jutsu. Even among the Uzumaki Clan, such gifts were quite rare.

Kushina Uzumaki was far more gifted than Naruto Uzumaki, though Naruto, with his Asura chakra, was ultimately different from ordinary people.

While they worked hard, Tsunade happily soaked in the hot spring, occasionally popping some food into her mouth and taking a sip of beer. Life could hardly have been better.

If missions were like this every day, Tsunade felt that being a supervising teacher might not be so bad after all.

"I'm exhausted!" Kushina Uzumaki dispelled her Shadow Clones and kept rubbing her temples. Making her clones handle so much work was more than even her constitution could take all at once.

Kushina Uzumaki looked at Uchiha Yi. He was not an Uzumaki, yet he had used even more Shadow Clones than she had. Could he withstand it?

Still, Uchiha Yi seemed to have considerably more chakra than she did. Was that really the amount of chakra an Uchiha should have?

"Yeah, it is tiring." Uchiha Yi dispelled his Shadow Clones as well. After a brief moment, he adjusted. "I considered using Shadow Clones to train before, but after thinking it over, it seemed a little too exhausting. There's a reason the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique was classified as a forbidden technique."

When Shadow Clones disappeared, the original had to bear their accumulated memories. Not everyone was Naruto Uzumaki, able to simply ignore the harm that caused.

Even Uchiha Yi, as he was now, had to exercise some caution when using Shadow Clones.

Many people could use Shadow Clones, but only Naruto Uzumaki had truly mastered their use to a miraculous degree. Not even Tobirama Senju had managed that.

"All right, go find Tsunade. I'll get a private room for myself," Uchiha Yi told the two girls after checking over their work with the hot spring's owner.

If Tsunade was unwilling to treat them, he could pay himself.

Kagami Uchiha had left Uchiha Yi a solid network of connections, allowing him to integrate easily into the Hokage's faction. Any other Uchiha would have had a very different experience. Without his connection to Kagami Uchiha, they would probably have decided to kill him the moment he demonstrated his formidable strength.

Never mind providing him with so many resources and so much support.

After all, the person primarily teaching Uchiha Yi now was Mito Uzumaki, a true powerhouse!

On top of that, the inheritance Kagami Uchiha had left him was enough for Uchiha Yi to live comfortably for the rest of his life, as long as he did not squander it or decide to start a business.

Likewise, Hyuga Rinka had no shortage of money. Although Kushina Uzumaki only collected a living allowance from Mito Uzumaki, she was not short of money either.

With the consent of Kushina Uzumaki, the Uzumaki Clan's primary heir, Mito Uzumaki had handed many of the clan's Sealing Jutsu over to Konoha. To show Konoha's welcome to the Uzumaki Clan, Hiruzen Sarutobi had transferred quite a few storefront properties into Kushina Uzumaki's name.

Mito Uzumaki herself had also transferred a considerable portion of her properties to Kushina Uzumaki.

That gave Konoha a legitimate claim to the Uzumaki Clan's Sealing Jutsu, unlike the other villages, which had obtained them through coercion and theft.

Other villages could seize them by force, but Konoha alone could not do that.

This had also greatly strengthened Konoha's foundations.

As for giving Kushina Uzumaki a few properties, Konoha could certainly afford it. In fact, these properties had all been donated to the village by the Senju Clan. The gesture not only earned Konoha a good reputation but also further secured Kushina Uzumaki's loyalty. If it could attract some of the Uzumaki Clan's escaped survivors as well, so much the better.

Fortunately, Tsunade was quite a decent teacher. Even without Kushina Uzumaki and the others saying anything, she did not mind treating the three children to a soak in the hot spring.

If I get along with them, I can borrow money from them when I lose at gambling, can't I?

She had been eyeing Kushina Uzumaki's spending money for a long time.

Time flew, and half a year passed in the blink of an eye. During those six months, Uchiha Yi and his two teammates continued carrying out all sorts of tedious missions within the village. Once their missions were over, they trained under Mito Uzumaki or Tsunade.

All three made tremendous progress. Uchiha Yi, for instance, mastered quite a few Sealing Jutsu and even gained an initial grasp of the Flying Thunder God Technique. However, his proficiency with it was still nowhere near Minato Namikaze's, and there was a substantial gap between him and Tobirama Senju as well.

He took rather too long to locate his target and activate the technique. In other words, Uchiha Yi could not yet use the Flying Thunder God Technique in combat. At most, he could use it for travel.

Even so, that was enough to make Uchiha Yi happy. This was the Flying Thunder God Technique, after all!

Of course, Uchiha Yi had not told anyone about this yet, not even Tsunade or Mito Uzumaki.

That hardly counted as hiding it. After all, he could not really claim to have mastered the Flying Thunder God Technique in this state. If he could not activate it instantly and use it in combat, how could it count as the Flying Thunder God Technique?