Sasuke stopped chewing and asked the question that had been weighing on his mind for so long.
"...Your big brother will take care of it. Don't worry."
After a few seconds of silence, Itachi gave him only a vague reply rather than a direct answer.
After that, there was no more sound from that side.
"Your tastes are way too twisted, aren't they? Even if that's what you're into, isn't she ridiculously young? You're really a piece of work."
When Tsunade saw Xuan Zhe walk in with Hinata, she looked at him as though she had spotted a maggot in a cesspit.
Over the past few years, she had long since stopped bothering about his affairs with those three vixens. He behaved well enough under her nose, anyway. Whatever he got up to behind her back was his business.
But having her serve this pig alongside those three vixens? In his dreams!
Still, seeing Hinata truly shocked Tsunade.
Don't you men all like eighteen-year-olds? Those three vixens are exactly that age, and now you're already raising a child bride?
"Get your mind out of the gutter and watch your mouth! I'm just bringing you an apprentice!"
Xuan Zhe irritably raised his hand and flicked Tsunade on the forehead.
"P-please... I look forward to learning from you, Lord Hokage."
Hinata's Byakugan shone as she timidly bowed to Tsunade.
"Tch."
Perhaps the porcelain-doll-like girl before her had stirred her maternal instincts. Tsunade softened, sat cross-legged on the tatami, and asked:
"Can you mold chakra?"
Hinata's rosy little face instantly went pale. Lowering her head, she fidgeted and said:
"N-not yet."
Tsunade scratched her head. Great, she would have to teach her from scratch again.
In Amegakure, in the top-floor room of the rebuilt leader's tower.
Xuan Zhe saw Konan again