After settling on returning to Konoha.
Dashan and Nai shared the information they had gathered.
"The leader of the Land of Rain, Hanzo of the Salamander, seems to have gone missing. Those shinobi should be from the Land of Rain."
This was information Uchiha Oyama and Nai had paid good money for at the shinobi waystation.
They had no idea whether it was reliable.
But Dashan felt that information costing two thousand ryo had no reason to be fake.
It was on a completely different level from the ten-ryo rumors Gua always picked up.
This news put all four of them considerably more at ease.
Now they could properly plan their return to Konoha.
They intended to arrange an identity for Kabuto, so they could answer Konoha's questions.
Uchiha Oyama offered an innovative suggestion. "Why not use our son's old name and call him Uchiha Hang-Up?"
Gua merely fell silent.
Inside, he cursed. Dad really can't let go of that god-awful name he came up with!!
Kabuto, however, said it sounded lovely.
Being able to use Gua's name...
That would be nice...
Gua: ...
Nice as the name was, Nai vetoed it single-handedly again.
There was no helping it. In this family, Nai was the "local despot."
In the end, Nai settled it with a single declaration.
"Kabuto is Kabuto, not anyone else! He can just use his own name. We'll call him Kabuto, but give him the surname Uchiha. Uchiha Kabuto!"
Uh-
Does changing his surname really count as giving him a new identity...?
Gua was speechless.
But Mom immediately supplied a complete backstory, even providing a somewhat reasonable explanation for their desertion from Konoha.
Uchiha Kabuto was Uchiha Oyama's illegitimate son. When Uchiha Nai learned about this, she flew into a rage and rushed straight to the Land