Having huge knockers makes her from the Land of Lightning?

"Huh? Why? You can't assume she's from the Land of Lightning just because she's got two huge knockers."

Tetsuya shrugged. Sure, most women from the Land of Lightning were pretty voluptuous, but the Land of Fire had its share too.

Take Tsunade and Hinata, for example.

Izuna nearly lost his composure at Tetsuya's words.

"I noticed a distinctive tattoo on her back just now."

"It's just a tattoo. You make it sound like people in the Land of Fire don't get tattoos. Besides, she's an oiran, a geisha. Don't geishas usually have all that colorful stuff on their backs?"

"This is different."

Izuna explained.

"I saw a traditional religious symbol from the Land of Lightning hidden among her traditional oiran tattoos."

"Really? You sure you didn't see it wrong?"

"Are you questioning our Uchiha Clan's Sharingan?"

"Whoa! You used your Sharingan to ogle a pretty woman!"

"Tetsuya! Your priorities are downright bizarre! I'm telling you that woman might be a spy from the Land of Lightning, and all you can focus on is this weird nonsense!"

"So what?"

Tetsuya shrugged indifferently.

"If she's a spy, she's a spy. I'm not a ninja. Why should I worry about that? As long as she doesn't interfere with my business, that's fine."

"You—!"

For a moment, Izuna didn't know what to say.

That was true. Tetsuya wasn't a ninja. Even if she was a spy, it really had nothing to do with him.

"Relax a little, Izuna. Your era is already over."

Tetsuya yawned and headed outside.

"Even today's Uchiha Clan doesn't have much to do with you. When your brother chose to leave Konoha, not a single Uchiha chose to follow him. Konoha's Uchiha don't have much to do with a Warring States Uchiha like you."

Watching Tetsuya walk away, Izuna sank into thought.

He felt Tetsuya was right. As a dead man brought back to life, he had virtually no one left in the entire Shinobi World with any connection to him.

A Konoha ninja village he couldn't make sense of, a clan that had betrayed his brother, even the present-day Land of Fire—he felt little attachment to any of them.

Inside the luxurious suite, Nakamura had already sunk into a woman's tender embrace and could no longer extricate himself.

"Young Master Nakamura."

"Hehehe, Miss Mikiko!"

"Young Master Nakamura, do you truly love me?"

"Of course, Miss Mikiko. I fell deeply in love with you the very first time I saw you."

"Then would you be willing to make sacrifices for me?"

"Of course I would. I'd give anything for you, Miss Mikiko."

"Young Master Nakamura."

Mikiko nestled in Nakamura's arms and looked up at him, her eyes brimming with affection.

"Look into my eyes."

"Miss Mikiko!"

Nakamura lowered his head and met Mikiko's gaze.

The next instant, a peculiar surge of chakra activated.

In a mere instant, Nakamura fell under Mikiko's control.

"Hmph. You stupid pig from the Land of Fire. You disgust me."

After successfully taking control of Nakamura, Mikiko instantly seemed to become a different person.

She dropped her seductive manner, taking on a somewhat valiant air instead.

Under her control, Nakamura knelt on the floor like a servant.

"I'm sorry for disgusting you, Mistress."

"I don't need your apology."

Mikiko stood and planted her foot on Nakamura's head.

"You'll work for me for the rest of your life. I'll help you secure your position as head of the Nakamura Family, and you and your entire family will obey my orders."

"Yes, Mistress."

"All right. From now on, act normally in front of other people..."

Downstairs, sitting in his luxurious solid-wood chair, Tetsuya suddenly looked up toward Nakamura's luxury suite.

His eyes abruptly turned blood-red. Within them, tomoe spun, finally joining together into a distinctive pattern.

That was right. These eyes were the very same Mangekyō as Izuna's.

The high-tier recruitment pull that had cost Tetsuya so much money naturally did more than simply resurrect Izuna.

Along with resurrecting Izuna, he had obtained all of Izuna's abilities.

Ninjutsu, swordsmanship, genjutsu, and the Uchiha Clan's greatest source of pride, the Sharingan.

And it was a pair of Mangekyō, at that. Looking at it that way, spending all that money hadn't been too much of a loss. After all, he'd received quite a lot.

But he couldn't call it much of a bargain either. Tetsuya had no shortage of ninjutsu, and although Sharingan genjutsu was undeniably powerful, the genjutsu he'd learned from Yellow Immortal was no slouch.

The only things of much use were the swordsmanship and the Sharingan.

Through his Mangekyō Sharingan, Tetsuya saw a peculiar fluctuation of chakra surge within the luxury suite.

"Heh. Couldn't wait to make her move, huh? People from the Land of Lightning really are impatient."

Beside him, Izuna paid no mind to the Sharingan in Tetsuya's eyes, identical to his own. He still couldn't resist asking a question.

"Are you really not going to intervene? If war breaks out, your business will suffer too, won't it?"

Tetsuya waved a hand dismissively.

"Don't worry about it. War is still a long way off. At the very least, there definitely won't be one in the next few years."

As he spoke, he began to smile.

"Besides, you think that just because the Land of Fire has spies from the Land of Lightning, the Land of Lightning doesn't have spies from the Land of Fire?

"Don't forget, Konoha's current Hokage is Tobirama Senju's prized student. Do you think Tobirama's student would be some brainless idiot?"

"Hmph. That sinister, scheming, inherently evil Tobirama Senju. A student taught by a bastard like him certainly can't be any good either."

Listening to Izuna rattle off those insults, Tetsuya couldn't help clicking his tongue. No wonder you and Tobirama were sworn enemies.

That spiel is no different from how Tobirama curses the Uchiha.

"Exactly. So we don't need to worry about this sort of thing. We're businessmen. Whoever they are, as long as they come patronize our business, they're our customers, right?"

As he spoke, Tetsuya pulled a handful of sunflower seeds from his pocket and began cracking them.

He continued speaking as he ate.

"Besides, I'm counting on Nakamura and Miss Mikiko to keep giving me plenty of business."

As the two chatted, the conversation drifted from spies to other subjects.

Curious, Tetsuya began asking Izuna about some secrets from his day.

He had nothing else to do anyway, so he treated it as a bit of entertainment.

Soon, however, their conversation moved from the Warring States Period to a much more distant era.

Caught up in the conversation, Tetsuya got talking too, sharing with Izuna some unofficial Naruto lore he had read online.

Things like Hagoromo and Hamura being lovers as well as brothers.

But Kaguya Ōtsutsuki disapproved of their relationship. After all, nobody would want to have two strapping sons only for their bloodline to end anyway...