Yanbai sat cross-legged on Itachi's roof for a while, lost in thought.
In his original fate, Uchiha Itachi had been a precocious child with a great deal on his mind.
Yanbai did not know how long Junlin could keep Izuna occupied.
If Izuna came after him too soon, Yanbai would miss this opportunity.
Wasn't he just a child?
I'll go take a look first.
Having made up his mind, Yanbai leaped down and once again landed lightly outside Uchiha Itachi's door.
Yanbai walked up to the sliding door and knocked with a smile. "Good evening, Itachi-san~"
To Yanbai's surprise, a faint sound came from the door.
The door slid open a crack, and a childish voice emerged. "Good... eve... ning. Who?"
Speaking seemed to take considerable effort, and his words were not very clear, but his meaning was just barely understandable.
There was no helping it. Itachi really was still too young.
Itachi was still at an age when even speaking was a struggle.
Yanbai bent down by the gap in the door and looked closely. He saw little Itachi hiding behind it, peeking out at him with curiosity.
Oh my~ How adorable.
Yanbai smiled and said, "I'm your father's teacher, Lord Hokage."
"Wh... why?" Itachi still did not open the door, merely asking this simple question.
He probably meant to ask why Yanbai had come looking for him in the middle of the night.
Yanbai felt that dragging out the conversation like this was too much of a waste of time. Since they could communicate through the gap, he did not actually need to go inside.
Yanbai wanted to verify a few things, and he did not necessarily need to see Itachi in person to do that.
Yanbai put away his smile and spoke calmly through the gap in