"Did you make Brother Minamoto angry?
"How about I go apologize for you?"
Itachi Uchiha was happy that Sasuke had come to visit.
But Itachi Uchiha didn't like what Sasuke said.
Brother Minamoto this, Brother Minamoto that.
Was I, Itachi Uchiha, that much worse than him? (Roaring)
Sasuke's uninhibited childish words utterly shattered Itachi Uchiha's composure.
Uchiha Minamoto, there's no end to your wicked deeds!!!
"Achoo-"
At the Orphanage, Uchiha Minamoto let out an enormous sneeze.
A little pink-haired girl holding a yellowish-brown teddy bear in both hands asked with concern.
"Big brother, have you caught a cold?"
"No, it's not a cold."
Uchiha Minamoto sniffed and offered a casual guess.
"Maybe someone's bad-mouthing me behind my back."
"Then that person must be a big meanie!"
The little pink-haired girl raised the teddy bear in her hands, a gift she had just received.
"You're the best, big brother!"
"Haha!"
Uchiha Minamoto patted her head.
Before long.
Uchiha Minamoto and Naruto Uzumaki finished their visit to the Orphanage.
Before leaving.
Uchiha Minamoto quietly called over one of the Orphanage's nuns and handed her a hundred thousand ryō in cash.
"This money is a donation to the Orphanage. Get the children some new clothes this year."
"Thank you on behalf of the children, Lord Uchiha!"
The nun tightly clutched the hundred thousand ryō in banknotes. With this money, the Orphanage's financial situation would improve considerably this year.
"I'll tell Director Yakushi about this when she returns."
"Yakushi?"
Uchiha Minamoto froze. He seemed to have heard a familiar surname.
"Sorry, could you tell me the director's full name?"
The nun readily gave him her director's name.
"Yakushi Nonō!"
Wasn't that the name of Kabuto Yakushi's adoptive mother?
So this Orphanage was Kabuto Yakushi's "home base"!
Realization dawned on Uchiha Minamoto.
He decided to visit this Orphanage a few more times this year.
He was doing good deeds anyway, so it made no difference which orphanage he visited.
If he visited this Orphanage a few more times, he might even get a chance to meet Yakushi Nonō or Kabuto Yakushi.
Uchiha Minamoto didn't want to miss out on talent like this out in the wild.
Especially Kabuto Yakushi.
"Brother Jackie Chan's" talent was absolutely top-tier among ninja without kekkei genkai!
During the Fourth Shinobi World War, if Itachi Uchiha hadn't pulled out a cheat on the spot, Kabuto Yakushi probably could have killed both him and Sasuke Uchiha.
Come to think of it, where was Kabuto Yakushi working now... He didn't seem to be in Konoha...
Uchiha Minamoto thought for a moment, then took another fifty thousand ryō in banknotes out of his pocket-this had originally been the pay he had set aside for Uchiha Rai.
"I've heard of Senior Yakushi Nonō. She's an extremely capable ninja. I'll donate these fifty thousand ryō as well!"
"Thank you! Thank you, Lord Uchiha!"
Amid the nun's repeated thanks, Uchiha Minamoto left the Orphanage together with Naruto Uzumaki.
The Great Love Panel popped up right on cue.
[You donated 150,000 ryō to the Konoha Orphanage, helping improve the orphans' quality of life!] [You completed a Great Love Action!] [You received 1,000 Great Love Points!] [You received a monetary reward of 500,000 ryō!]
The money he had just donated had come back so quickly.
And it had even come back multiplied.
For some reason, Uchiha Minamoto felt he could change his title.
Uchiha Batman Minamoto!
"Big brother."
Naruto Uzumaki looked back at the Orphanage behind him, a somewhat complicated expression on his little face.
"The kids here are completely different from the people at school..."
At the Konoha Orphanage.
No one discriminated against Naruto Uzumaki, and no one called him the "demon fox's son."
Naruto Uzumaki felt as though he had come home...
"Yes, this is Konoha."
Uchiha Minamoto patted Naruto Uzumaki's head.
"Where there's light, there's shadow; where there are trees, there are roots.
"There is indeed darkness in the village. What we can do, what the Great Love Group can do, is let more people see the 'light.'"
"Yes, big brother!"
Naruto Uzumaki answered loudly, just as he always did.
But a closer look would reveal that his expression was a little more resolute than usual.
"Let's go. We've still got another stop!"
Uchiha Minamoto patted Naruto Uzumaki's shoulder.
"The revolution has yet to succeed. Comrades, we must keep working..."
The day flew by.
Uchiha Minamoto earned another few thousand points.
When he parted ways with Naruto Uzumaki and returned home.
The [Heart of Great Love], which had also been busy all day, delivered its research results right on cue.
A [Chakra Lifeform] created using the Nine-Tails as its model!
Inside the training room.
With a thought from Uchiha Minamoto.
A jet-black, three-legged crow with bright, piercing eyes seemed to materialize out of the unreal.
Uchiha Minamoto exchanged a look with the three-legged crow, and information flowed through his mind.
[Yatagarasu] [Chakra strength: B] [Abilities: 1. Amaterasu Flames: The pitch-black flames released by Yatagarasu are Amaterasu Flames, possessing the property of burning without being extinguished; 2. Chakra lifeform: Yatagarasu is formed from materialized chakra and shares a mental connection with Uchiha Minamoto. Even after death, Yatagarasu can revive within a certain period using Uchiha Minamoto's chakra.] [Overall evaluation: Not a Tailed Beast, but a Sun God Bird!]
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[Yatagarasu]!
Undying and indestructible, with control over black flames.
It really did have something of a Tailed Beast about it.
Because Yatagarasu was a [Chakra Lifeform].
[Yatagarasu]'s stat panel didn't have "life energy" or "mental energy" in the conventional sense, only "chakra strength."
But B-rank chakra strength was already at the level of a jōnin!
That was a whole tier stronger than Shamisen, the Ninja Cat Uchiha Minamoto had previously contracted.
What was more, [Yatagarasu] could also control Amaterasu Flames!
"Yatagarasu."
Uchiha Minamoto tilted his head, looking curiously at the three-legged crow before him.
"Can you talk?"
"Yes, Master."
Human speech came from Yatagarasu's beak, the voice clear and young, nothing like the grating racket of an ordinary crow.
"We can also communicate through our thoughts. That's an ability I was born with."
Clear thinking, with intelligence approaching that of an ordinary human.
Even more like a Tailed Beast!
Uchiha Minamoto nodded, quite satisfied.
He bit his finger and signed a Summoning Contract with Yatagarasu on the spot.
The ability to fly was extremely rare in the Shinobi World.
Flying summons were also special creatures that ordinary ninja could only encounter by chance, not seek out at will.
Uchiha Minamoto had wanted to contract a flying ninja beast before.
Especially one that could carry people through the air.
After all, flight made getting away so convenient!
Unfortunately, Uchiha Minamoto had never found a suitable target.
Even when he had visited the Empty District and commissioned Cat Granny to search the black market for a large flying ninja beast, nothing had turned up.
He hadn't expected to directly "create" a [Yatagarasu] through the [Heart of Great Love] now!
[Yatagarasu] was only B-rank at present.
But that didn't mean Yatagarasu would remain B-rank forever.
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