The following evening, after the day's work in the Hokage's Cabinet was done, Kagami Uchiha and his wife welcomed the Kazemori family into their home. Along with Kazemori Masaki and his family came Tsunade, who had played the leading role in regenerating Kagami's arm, and Kushina, whom the family had recently adopted.
Satomi had been considering adopting Kushina for some time. Kushina's parents had both died in the war, leaving her alone with no one to depend on. Since she happened to get along so well with the Kazemori family, the idea had naturally occurred to Satomi.
Kazemori Masaki had intended to agree to the adoption anyway. Given the covert maneuvers of the nobles from the Land of Whirlpools, adopting Kushina could also, to some extent, help the Uzumaki Clan fully integrate into Konoha Ninja Village.
Once the Kazemori family had been ushered inside, Masaki immediately spotted the bubbling pot on the table and the ingredients arranged beside it. He broke into a smile and said to Kagami, "I didn't expect you to prepare this yourself."
"We've had it at your house plenty of times. Now you can see how our version tastes," Kagami said with a smile.
The dinner Kagami and his wife had prepared was a dish Masaki had brought over from his previous life—hot pot. The Land of Fire's culture closely resembled Japanese culture. Although other elements were mixed in, its foundations remained predominantly Japanese, so most of its dishes were Japanese-style cuisine with mild flavors.
It was not as though Masaki had never tried Japanese food in his previous life, but he still preferred the dishes of his own country. Drawing on what little cooking experience and knowledge he had from that life, he had tried to recreate some of those dishes.
Fortunately, although the Land