Seeing her dad's reaction, Ayame rolled her eyes and went back to kneading the dough, muttering under her breath:
"Hmph, you sweet-talked me when I was little, saying you'd marry me, but once I grew up, you never mentioned it again. Just you wait, Shin. I'm not letting you get away."
After Shin Uchiha and Yugito finished their ramen, he said goodbye to Ayame and slipped away with Yugito, continuing their stroll through the night market.
Once they left the ramen shop, Yugito gnawed on the giant squid in her hand and asked with some concern, "Shin, that child felt a little different to me. Is he the same kind of person as me?"
Shin Uchiha wiped the sauce from the corner of Yugito's mouth and nodded. "Yes, that child is a jinchūriki just like you-the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki. He's also the Fourth Hokage's son."
Hearing the first part of Shin's answer, Yugito thought, Just as I suspected. No wonder she had felt something special about that child. It must have been the tailed beasts sensing one another. But the latter part of his answer startled her:
"That child is the Fourth Hokage's son, too? How could he bear to do that?"
As a fellow jinchūriki, Yugito knew all too well how painful that life could be. She couldn't imagine how the Fourth Hokage could have sealed the Nine-Tails inside his own child. How much suffering would that child have to endure? Especially now that the Fourth Hokage was dead, with no one left to protect his son.
Shin Uchiha shook his head. "He had no choice. The Night of the Nine-Tails happened when the Fourth Hokage's wife, Kushina Uzumaki-the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki at the time-was giving birth.
"A mysterious expert ambushed her and extracted the Nine-Tails from her body, letting