Chapter 217

"In this situation, my appearance would be counterproductive."

In the darkness, a thin figure walked out slowly. Uchiha Tian Dao, who had come back to life, had a look of relief on his weathered face. A pair of black eyes carried a trace of tenderness as he watched the backs of the two Uchiha Madara brothers walking away. After sighing, he explained.

"Preparing to leave without saying goodbye?"

Looking at his uncle's relieved appearance, Uchiha Gin raised an eyebrow. The person who wanted to meet his two cousins was him, and now the one who didn't want to meet them was also him. He really couldn't understand. It's just saying goodbye, not life and death.

"Madara has already made the choice he thinks is correct. If I appear again, it will only disturb his heart."

Uchiha Tian Dao shook his head. No one knows a son better than a father. Uchiha Madara is a very emotional person, and other people's words and actions may affect his judgment. If he let him know that he, this father, was still alive, what changes would happen, he didn't know. So he had to try his best to avoid such accidents.

"Alright~ Then let's set off!"

Uchiha Gin, who couldn't understand the logic of this father and son, immediately chose to give up thinking. After stretching, he said to his uncle.

"It's so far from the sea, you don't have to go. I'll go meet Elder Miao myself."

Now it was lively outside, and Uchiha Gin was also a person of status in the Uchiha clan. If he suddenly disappeared, it might cause unnecessary trouble. Uchiha Tian Dao shook his head, preparing to go alone.

"I'll handle the reaction, Uncle."

Uchiha Gin smiled, reached out and placed it on Uchiha Tian Dao's shoulder. In the other's puzzled expression, the two living people disappeared into thin air. In this quiet little house, not a trace was left.

Senju Tobirama, wearing the official clothing of the Senju clan, narrowed his scarlet eyes slightly, observing several young girls with strange auras in the Uchiha clan opposite. He looked suspiciously at a tall black-haired woman among them. He always felt that the woman's aura was very familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen it no matter what.

"Uh... Flying Thunder God aura? But it doesn't look quite like it..."

Just as he was thinking, a sudden spatial fluctuation made his heart move.

"Tobirama! Why are you staring at the girls of the Uchiha clan? Could it be that you..."

Senju Hashirama, wearing a beige outer garment, suddenly appeared behind him, patted Senju Tobirama on the shoulder hard, and smiled very heartily, but his tone carried a trace of awkwardness.

"Hmph! Do you think everyone is like you?"

Senju Tobirama, whose thinking was interrupted, looked at his smiling brother and was instantly furious. He then gave the other party an elbow strike and retorted with a disdainful tone. The anomaly that had just occurred was thrown to the back of his mind.

At the seaside border of the Land of Fire, a huge black giant ship was hidden under the cliffs full of reefs. An old man was directing his men to move heavy wooden boxes into the ship. As a golden light flashed, two figures appeared on the deck of the giant ship.

"Ugh~~~"

Facing the two who suddenly appeared, Uchiha Miao, who was directing, hadn't spoken yet, when Uchiha Tian Dao, with a pale face, vomited on the side of the ship. Uchiha Gin, the culprit, walked up helplessly, patted him on the back, and said:

"It's like this the first time, you'll get used to it~"

"Is this... that technique of the white-haired guy from the Senju family?"

Uchiha Tian Dao, who had vomited all the acid in his stomach, turned his head with a pale face, looked at Uchiha Gin, who was relaxed, and asked in confusion. You know, Senju Tobirama's space ninjutsu was really too weird, even he was tired of dealing with it.

"Hey~ It's different, mine is easier to use than his~"

Uchiha Gin immediately shook his head, indicating that he had no much connection with Senju Tobirama, and this technique was also different from the other party's.

His was the Minato Namikaze version of the Flying Thunder God, which was much higher than that guy Senju Tobirama's~

"Child, you really are a genius."

Taking a deep look at his eldest nephew, ever since Uchiha Gin escaped from the Senju clan more than ten years ago, he had undergone earth-shaking changes, and the whole person had become mysterious, making him, the uncle, unable to see through him.

"Must be!"

"Old Clan Leader, have you finished explaining to the clan leader?"

Uchiha Miao on the deck, seeing that Uchiha Tian Dao had recovered, asked.

"Let's talk about meeting later, business is important."

Just finished vomiting, Uchiha Tian Dao, whose calves were trembling, shook his head. He didn't want to affect his son's judgment because of his appearance.

"Tsk tsk tsk, worthy of being the scientific expert of the Uchiha, he actually really built it~"

Taking advantage of the gap in the conversation between the two, Uchiha Gin observed this steel giant ship. The appearance of this ship was his temporary idea. After drawing a simple sketch, he handed it to Uchiha Miao for correction.

After receiving the affirmative answer that it could be built, Uchiha Gin directly slapped out ten gold bricks and handed them to Uchiha Miao, who was shocked, telling him to work overtime to finish this steel beast.

The design of the whole ship referred to the destroyers of his previous life. There were no popular masts at the time. The driving power relied entirely on chakra. There were multiple turrets on the deck for combat personnel to release ninjutsu to strike the enemy.

"Gin, where exactly are you taking us?"

The two old men finished communicating and found Uchiha Gin, who was amazed. Facing his nephew whom he couldn't see through, Uchiha Tian Dao asked.

"Uncle, although the Uchiha and Senju clans are temporarily at peace now, eggs must never be put in one basket."

Uchiha Gin stood at the front of the deck, pointing to a direction, and said to the two people thinking behind him.

"In that direction, there is an island country called the Land of Waves, a place forgotten by the nobles."

"The Land of Waves is that island country adjacent to the Land of Whirlpools?"

Uchiha Miao, who was well-informed, simply recalled it and asked, his old face full of confusion.

"That's right, that's the place."

"What are we going there for?"

Hearing that his destination was actually a small island country, Uchiha Tian Dao was very unwilling. He was a big shot who occupied half of the Ninja World in the Land of Fire, so how could he live in such a small place?

"To be a Daimyo."

"Hmph~ What do I... wait, what did you say?"

Facing his nephew's arrangement, Uchiha Tian Dao immediately protested. He didn't want to go to that kind of poor place, but just after scolding, he heard a familiar yet strange title, which made his heart jump, and the voice in his mouth became stuttering.

"I'm letting you be the Daimyo of the Land of Waves."

Compared to the five major countries with vast territories, the Land of Waves, sandwiched between the Land of Fire and the Land of Water and adjacent to the Land of Whirlpools, did not have a so-called Daimyo. The appearance of the uncle just filled the void of the Land of Waves.

"Although the Land of Waves serves as a throat on the sea and is a place for passing merchant ships to supply and rest, there are no local ninjas, only many wandering ninjas and pirate bandits."

For Uchiha Gin's explosive speech, Uchiha Miao, who was familiar with geography, first raised doubts. The nobles headed by the Daimyo relied on their rich financial resources to control ninjas to serve them, thereby consolidating their rule. The Land of Waves happened to have no ninjas, so no nobles were willing to invest here.

"Do you think I let you bring so many people just to let them relax?"

Uchiha Gin rolled his eyes in annoyance, pointed to the Uchiha clan members who were busy on the deck, and reminded.

"They are the ninjas who serve you, the Daimyo. Remember to pay them their wages~"

"Phew~ Where would I get the money?"

Ah? Can't I get it for free?

Uchiha Tian Dao had a bitter face. He was now penniless, so where would he get the money to pay these clan members? Couldn't he just rely on his old face?

"Go see what they are moving?"

Uchiha Gin, who had long expected this, pointed to the wooden boxes that the Uchiha clan members were moving and said.

"!!!!"

Uchiha Tian Dao and Uchiha Miao, puzzled, opened a wooden box at random and were instantly blinded by the golden light before them, especially the uncle, who had just changed a pair of eyes and was not yet accustomed to it, and was instantly stimulated to tears.

"Gin, where did you get so much gold?"

Even Uchiha Tian Dao, who had seen many big worlds, couldn't help but chatter his teeth after seeing such a quantity of gold.

"I didn't go to the Land of Wind, did I? On the way, I discovered a ruin, and there was a lot of gold inside, all of which I looted~"

Uchiha Gin was already familiar with lying, telling the story flawlessly, so that the two old men couldn't find any faults.

"People have it, money has it, but the Land of Waves is adjacent to the Land of Whirlpools, and those guys from the Uzumaki clan are not so easy to get along with."

After having people and money, Uchiha Tian Dao was suddenly ambitious, feeling that the Land of Waves was actually not bad, but thinking of that neighbor who was not easy to get along with, he frowned, and his heart began to be a little difficult.

After all, his Mangekyo had been transplanted to Uchiha Madara, and his current eyes were just ordinary Sharingan from Uchiha Miao's inventory. With his strength greatly reduced, he was still under great pressure to fight head-on with the Uzumaki clan in its prime.

"Hey~ As the saying goes, more friends, more paths. I told you before that I have a path on the sea. Don't worry. After going to the Land of Waves, be your Daimyo steadily, develop the economy well, and recuperate. Sooner or later, there will be a place for you."

The uncle's concerns were also reasonable. Although the Uzumaki clan hadn't set foot in the Land of Fire in recent years, they were still famous on the sea, fought a few battles with the Land of Water, and rubbed the famous ninja clans of the Land of Water on the ground.

"Is it an enemy?"

Just as the three were talking, a small boat appeared on the distant sea, rushing toward their giant ship at high speed. Uchiha Gin, who perceived the person coming, didn't speak, but Uchiha Tian Dao beside him, after discovering the trace of the small boat, asked in a deep voice.

"No, it's a friend who came to lead the way. You guys will have to get along well in the future."

(End of chapter)