He was angry, but only for a moment.
"It has a bow on it." Hyuga Akira stressed once again, "Don't overlook the importance of the bow!! You bastard!!"
Whether it had a bow was the most important thing that defined a gift!!
"Kushina, Akira's here!!" Nawaki turned and called into the house.
Wearing her forehead protector, Kushina poked her head up from the sofa inside. "Akira, you're here."
"I heard you became a shinobi, so I brought you a shinobi gift." Hyuga Akira showed her the kunai with its bow.
Just then, a mature woman with delicate features appeared on the sofa. She smiled at Hyuga Akira and said, "So you're Hyuga Akira. This is my first time meeting you."
Recognition dawned on Hyuga Akira as he looked at the mature woman before him. She was Hashirama Senju's widow, Mito Uzumaki.
Thanks to the Yin Seal, she could still maintain a youthful appearance despite her advanced age.
"Lady Mito," Hyuga Akira greeted her with a measure of respect.
Mito chuckled. "You don't seem like the ill-mannered child Tsunade described."
"But the Nine-Tails doesn't seem to like you very much."
Chapter 240: Hyuga Akira, loathed by the Nine-Tails
Hyuga Akira sank into thought.
Was I really that unpopular with foxes?
The Fox Devil had been like this, and now the Nine-Tails was too.
Then how am I supposed to attract a fox spirit in the future? Won't that leave one of my life goals unfulfilled?
But what puzzled him even more was something else.
"Lady Mito, why are you telling me so openly that you're a jinchūriki?" Hyuga Akira asked curiously.
Jinchūriki were secrets within their villages, not something everyone was allowed to know about.
Given my current standing-oh, right, I seem to be qualified to know.
It was just that