"Kids or adults... they're all too weak."
Sasuke was simply telling the truth.
"Yes, because we weren't strong to begin with."
With no one else around, Izumi admitted it frankly. "This is also what I wanted you to see: the Uchiha Clan as it really is now. It's no longer one of Konoha's greatest clans, the way you remember it."
"It's rather embarrassing to say, but among the survivors, I'm now the strongest in the clan, even though I was only a Konoha genin."
At that, however, Naruto instinctively took a closer look at Izumi.
He wasn't studying her appearance or figure, which had grown more mature and beautiful than before. Rather, she wasn't concealing her chakra.
By any measure, the chakra Naruto sensed within Izumi couldn't be called powerful.
Even putting it kindly, it was merely ordinary, and there was less of it than in the average chunin Naruto had met in the village—Iruka-sensei, for example.
That alone wasn't strange. After all, Izumi had only been a Konoha genin. According to her, she had spent these past years caring for her clanspeople rather than training.
But Naruto sensed two completely different kinds of chakra within her, and that was strange.
Kurama, is it possible for someone's chakra to keep decreasing, or for them to have two completely different kinds of chakra? Older Sister Izumi had more chakra back when she was still in the village than she does now, didn't she?
"What's strange about that? If she hasn't been injured and there's nothing wrong with her body, then she must have been using her chakra for something all this time.
"Just like Kakashi. He can't deactivate a Sharingan that doesn't belong to him, so he has to keep it active, constantly draining his chakra."
"As for different kinds of