Searching for Tsunade was a painful process. Chinatsu went from one casino to another, visiting hundreds without finding a trace of her... No, traces of Tsunade were everywhere. It was the woman herself who was nowhere to be found.
Tsunade loved gambling but had no skill at it, earning her a reputation in casinos as a fat sheep who practically gave her money away. Of all the casinos Chinatsu visited, almost every one had people joking about that fat sheep.
But jokes were just jokes. None of them counted as useful information, and she still couldn't find Tsunade.
Left with no choice, Chinatsu finally bought information on Tsunade from the underground black market. After spending 200,000, she successfully narrowed Tsunade's spawn area down from the entire Land of Fire to a single region.
"It's expensive, but... No, I need to stop thinking about money right now. I'll have to spend plenty on Kakuzu too, after all. Rather than agonizing over the cost, I should think about how to get more value out of that money."
Chinatsu took a deep breath, her eyes brimming with reason. In her previous life, she had been a veteran geek who frequented all the major anime conventions and even ran her own club.
And in this life, she had inherited the elite education of an Uchiha Clan heiress. Her thinking had long since surpassed that of ordinary people.
Before the Uchiha treasury runs dry, secure more benefits! Earn more money! Restore the Uchiha Clan!
Ahem. Still, Chinatsu maintained that she could only handle the "restoration." Making the Uchiha Clan "flourish" would have to fall to her little brother, Sasuke.
Chinatsu could already picture a whole crowd of little Uchiha kids surrounding her in the future, calling her "Auntie."
Nice, nice. Very nice.
Chinatsu recalled the