Shin Uchiha opened the door and, just as he had expected, found his two lovely ladies inside. He smiled and said:
"Mikoto, what brought Kushina over here?"
Before Uchiha Mikoto could speak, Kushina protested:
"What do you mean, what brought me here? Mikoto and I have been friends for ages. I got bored sitting in my room, and I'd already explored everywhere nearby. There's nothing strange about coming to catch up with her."
Then, as though she had noticed something amiss, Kushina continued:
"Wait a minute! You call Uchiha Mikoto your big sister, but I'm just Kushina? I'm older than you, too, so you should call me Big Sister Kushina. You can't play favorites like that. Come on, let me hear it."
Mikoto knew Kushina's temperament well, so her words came as no surprise. Rather than intervene, she stood to the side, quietly laughing, clearly eager to watch the fun. Besides, from what she knew of Shin, he would never let himself get the short end of the stick.
Shin Uchiha looked at the enthusiastic Kushina with some helplessness and explained:
"Kushina, you may be older than me, but if we subtract the years you spent dead, I'm actually a little older than you. Calling you my big sister wouldn't be appropriate."
Clearly, though, Kushina had no intention of accepting Shin Uchiha's explanation. She continued making a fuss, huffing petulantly:
"I don't care! I was born a few years before you, so you should call me your big sister."
Left with no choice, Shin Uchiha could only play his trump card.
He looked at Kushina and said:
"Kushina, have you noticed? During the years you were gone, Mikoto had several more children, but her face hasn't aged at all. Instead, she's gone back to how she looked around twenty, when