Chapter 353: 353. Chapter 346: I Don't Need to Tell You What to Reveal When Apologizing

353. Chapter 346: I Don't Need to Tell You What to Reveal When Apologizing

Seeing Uchiha Gin take out so many identical ninja tools, Chiyo had to believe it even if she didn't want to.

When her father was still alive, he had inadvertently revealed that this ninja tool was a gift from a man he chatted with very happily. Her teacher, Sand-Gate, was very impressed by the other party's character.

For this reason, Chiyo specifically went to find her teacher to inquire about it. But as soon as Sand-Gate heard about this, his expression became very colorful, and he subconsciously covered his sunken nose bridge and looked left and right. In the end, she didn't ask for any reason.

However, Sand-Gate specifically told Chiyo to rest assured and use this ninja tool, without worrying too much.

Looking at the curly-haired guy who was slightly proud in front of her, Chiyo finally understood why her teacher's words were flickering. It turned out that this powerful ninja tool was a gift from a Konoha ninja.

Sand-Gate: No, no, no, I'm just afraid that the dark history of disfigurement will be dug up.

"Sigh, I hit it off with your father. Although we didn't spend much time together, we chatted very happily. I didn't expect that after a short twenty years, he..."

Throwing the bundle of useless big sticks back into the backpack, Uchiha Gin's sad expression didn't look like a fake. The sadness that flowed out made Chiyo's heart tighten, and she was instantly shrouded in self-blame.

I'm really a beast, actually having such a bad attitude toward my father's friend, I'm really damned!

"Sorry, Uncle, my attitude just now was indeed bad, I hope you don't mind."

Saying that, Chiyo bowed deeply to Uchiha Gin, and the big scar on her chest made someone's eyes almost pop out.

Really a sensible big niece, knowing what to reveal when apologizing~

"Damn..."

And the two guards who were waiting in full force almost burst out with profanity when they saw Uchiha Gin subdue the purple-haired woman who looked very hot-tempered in just a few moves.

"No problem, no problem, how could I get angry with a child!"

Uchiha Gin, who had seen enough, shook his head lightly.

"But..."

Hearing this, Chiyo immediately raised her head, and the apology contained in her shimmering beautiful eyes was visible to the naked eye.

"Alright, if you do this again, I'm going to get angry. Let's go, Uncle will take you in."

Uchiha Gin had received his generous reward in advance, so naturally, he wouldn't freeload off the little lady's benefits. He immediately turned around and greeted the two dumbfounded guards.

"I'm taking her in, is there any problem?"

"Uh... no problem! Gin-sama, you can bring anything in and out."

The two guards, who were awakened from shock, looked at each other and nodded repeatedly at Uchiha Gin, saying that.

"Thanks, Big Niece, keep up~"

Waving to Chiyo, who was holding two useless big sticks, Uchiha Gin stepped into the Hokage building first.

"Okay!"

Chiyo was stunned for a moment, then stepped on her long legs and followed. Looking at the two guards who were just bad-tempered but were now nodding and bowing, her beautiful eyes were full of surprise.

She hadn't expected that this uncle she had just recognized had quite a lot of energy, and even the guards of the Hokage building were respectful to him. Could it be a high-level figure in Konoha?

"Uncle, give this back to you~"

Walking in the corridor of the Hokage building, Chiyo, who was following Uchiha Gin's footsteps, carefully handed over the other useless big stick in her hand.

This ninja tool had a very powerful ability, which could double the effect of the holder's jutsu. Whether it was a destructive jutsu or a healing medical ninjutsu, it could be applied.

Chiyo relied on this short staff to leap to become the No. 1 of the younger generation of the Hidden Sand Village, and was regarded as the future of the Hidden Sand Village by her teacher.

"Things that have been sent out, how can there be a reason to take them back."

For this kind of redundant loose parts, Uchiha Gin was too lazy to even look at them, and directly gave them to his newly recognized big niece as a meeting gift.

"So precious..."

Chiyo, who just wanted to decline, suddenly remembered the bundle of same-style ninja tools that Uchiha Gin had thrown and played with at will, and her voice gradually became smaller. Then she silently put away the two useless big sticks carefully.

"Thanks, Uncle~"

For such a generous uncle, if Chiyo still acted as big and small as just now, it would be a bit unappreciative.

"By the way, what are you doing looking for Big... Hokage?"

There was still a distance to the Hokage office on the top floor. Uchiha Gin took advantage of the gap of going upstairs to ask Chiyo.

"Uh... I don't know, Uncle, do you know about creatures like tailed beasts?"

Chiyo hesitated for half a second at these words, then took a few quick steps, leaned close to Uchiha Gin's ear, and whispered.

Feeling a warm breeze with the smell of red bean and strawberry brushing across his cheeks, Uchiha Gin subconsciously swallowed his saliva.

"Gulp~"

He really didn't have any other meaning, he was just greedy.

Tailed beasts?

Uchiha Gin collected his mind, his eyebrows frowned slightly. The One-Tail of the Land of Wind was the only tailed beast he hadn't seen so far. All these years, the Hidden Sand Village had blocked the news of the tailed beast very tightly, and the information about the One-Tail had always been a mystery.

Moreover, Uchiha Gin had never heard of the One-Tail Knight, which side-reflected that the Hidden Sand Village's process of independently developing transformation props wasn't smooth.

Thinking of this, Uchiha Gin turned his head and said softly.

"Know a little bit."

"Our Hidden Sand Village has a tailed beast, but some problems have appeared recently. I came on this trip to invite Konoha's first developer, on the order of my teacher, to help us solve the problem."

When did your Hidden Sand Village become so open, actually inviting foreign experts to go and guide the work? Is this still the

And also...

Konoha's Number One Developer?

Who is that?

Someone actually dared to call themselves Konoha's Number One Developer; Uchiha Gin was instantly displeased.

His own technique for hand-crafting toys was so superb, yet he hadn't even gone around loudly proclaiming his title as Konoha's Number One Developer.

This impostor simply didn't take him, Uchiha Gin, seriously. Once he got to his cousin's place later, he would definitely file a formal complaint and have that fraud thrown into prison for the rest of his life!

Bang, bang, bang~

"Hmph~ Great Niece, do you know who exactly this 'Konoha's Number One Developer' is?"

Bringing Chiyo along, Uchiha Gin finally arrived at the door of the Hokage's office. Before knocking, he specifically asked for the name of the fraud.

"Uh... Teacher told me, it's called something U..."

"Come in!"

Creak~

The sound of the door opening covered Chiyo's soft whisper. Uchiha Gin didn't care; anyway, once he finished filing his complaint, that liar's fate would surely be miserable.

"Big Sister! You finally came~ Wuwuwu..."

As soon as they entered, before Uchiha Gin could speak, a tall purple-haired young man ran over with a face full of grievance. Anyone who didn't know better would think he had been subjected to office unspoken rules.

"Thump! ~"

Sidestepping the crying young man, Uchiha Gin heard a crisp knocking sound the next moment. Turning his head, he saw Chiyo holding the useless big stick, fiercely striking the purple-haired young man's skull, which rang out with a rhythmic sound.

Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang~

"You idiot, you actually came in alone, making me wait outside for half a day!"

Chiyo, who showed no mercy when beating her younger brother, scolded him while she struck, venting all the grievances she had just suffered onto her brother Ebizo's skull.

"Wuwuwu, stop hitting me, I'll go bald if you keep hitting me!"

Not daring to fight back, Ebizo could only silently endure his sister's "love taps." Feeling the heavy blow to his hair follicles and foreseeing a future of baldness, his heart instantly turned to ash.

"Go buy a watch!"

"Hey, not bad~"

Taking advantage of the gap while the siblings were interacting, Uchiha Gin walked into the spacious Hokage office and wandered over to the Hokage's throne. Looking at Uchiha Madara, who was putting on a dignified act, he smiled quite mockingly.

"Cousin, stop making fun of me."

Having maintained a dignified expression for an entire day, Uchiha Madara finally broke character in front of Uchiha Gin, shaking his head with a bitter smile.

"How does it feel to be Hokage?"

Although Uchiha Madara was only acting as Hokage, the fact that he was taking over the baton was basically set in stone.

"Hehe, it's pretty cool~"

Uchiha Madara glanced at Senju Tobirama, who had a foul expression on the side, and chuckled.

"Uchiha Gin, why did you only just arrive?"

An entire morning had passed since he summoned Uchiha Gin, and it was almost time for lunch. This curly-haired guy only just wandered in—could it be that Danzo kid was slacking off and didn't notify him in time?

"I'm old, my legs and feet aren't what they used to be."

Naturally, Uchiha Gin didn't have a good face for this white-haired guy. He was already 55 years old; in any special position, that was retirement age. He was still putting his remaining heat to use in prison—if you weren't going to give him a "Model Worker" title, that was one thing, but you were actually ordering him around?

"I..."

Senju Tobirama's breath hitched, and he almost blurted out some beautiful Konoha profanity. But thinking that there were foreigners present, he had to maintain his dignity, so he swallowed the vocabulary back down his throat.

"Cousin, the reason we asked you here today is..."

"We can talk about business later. I need to report someone by name right now: someone actually dares to impersonate Konoha's Number One Developer to swindle people. The ads have even reached the Land of Wind. Are you Konoha leaders going to manage this or not?"

Waving his hand to stop his cousin, Uchiha Gin gritted his teeth as he accused the unknown impostor, determined to make the other party pay the price.

"Huh?"

Hearing Uchiha Gin's words, Uchiha Madara and Senju Tobirama subconsciously looked at each other. The expressions on their faces instantly became strange.

"Actually..."

"Don't try to brush me off. Just tell me, are you going to solve it or not? I'll put it out there: if you intend to shield that so-called Konoha's Number One Developer, I'm cutting off your New Year's money!"

Seeing Uchiha Madara looking left and right, his attitude not firm at all, Uchiha Gin was furious. Sure enough, once you become an official, you forget your brother. If he had known, he should have let this kid lie in a coffin and go blind!

"No, no, no, Cousin, you've misunderstood. Is it possible..."

Uchiha Madara looked at his furious cousin and awkwardly scratched his face.

"Misunderstood my foot! Konoha's Number One Developer must die!"

Just then, Chiyo, having finished teaching her younger brother a lesson, walked in. She stood in the middle of the office and shouted loudly toward Uchiha Madara, who was whispering to Uchiha Gin on the platform:

"Lord Hokage, Sunagakure sincerely invites Mr. Uchiha Gin, Konoha's Number One Developer, to go and guide our research and development work. Whether successful or not, there will be a heavy reward!"

"Huh?"

Chiyo's voice was slightly hoarse but extremely penetrating. Even from far away, Uchiha Gin heard it clearly. He slowly turned his head, looked at the purple-haired girl standing several meters away with a sincere expression, and pointed a finger at himself.

"Me? Konoha's Number One Developer?"

"Cousin, Sunagakure specifically named you to go and help them research the Tailed Beasts."

Uchiha Madara spoke up to wake Uchiha Gin, then handed a letter to him.

"This is..."

Numbly taking the letter, Uchiha Gin read it at a glance. Only then did he come to his senses, and his expression gradually changed from confusion to understanding.

No wonder the usually conservative Sunagakure dared to let Konoha help them; it turned out to be the result of Shamon Shamon Laodi mediating from the middle.

No, he couldn't call him "Shamon Laodi" casually anymore; not long ago, he had taken the Kazekage hat from the elderly Reto and officially became the Second Kazekage.

As soon as Shamon took office, he launched the Tailed Beast Knight research project. Previously, when he brought the driver back to Sunagakure, he had explained the ins and outs of the matter to the First Kazekage, Reto.

However, because it was a time of peace, Reto, who always advocated conservatism, chose to temporarily shelve the Tailed Beast Knight research after weighing the pros and cons. Taking advantage of the gap without war, he frantically dispatched Suna-nin to take on missions to accumulate funds and develop the economy.

He promised that once they survived the hardest years of Sunagakure and had a bit more money in their hands, they would consider researching the costly Tailed Beast Knights.

And so, he didn't know if the village had become rich or not, but they had survived until Reto abdicated. Shamon, who longed to become a Tailed Beast Knight, finally ushered in his spring.

Among the few people who participated in the siege of Kakuzu back then, only Shamon hadn't become a knight. This caused him to be so ashamed that he stayed behind closed doors, fearing he would meet acquaintances who had become Tailed Beast Knights and be teased as the clown who could only spray Vacuum Spheres.

The first thing Shamon did after taking office was to establish a Tailed Beast Knight Research Institute in a large temple in the Land of Wind. He gathered all the scientific research talents of the Land of Wind to study the One-Tail Shukaku nearby, attempting to develop a transformation item exclusive to Sunagakure.

Unfortunately, things went against his wishes. The research process was extremely unsmooth. Shukaku even broke the seal and ran out to talk trash during the research gaps several times. After a lot of tossing and turning, it was only by relying on the elderly Reto and Shamon working together that they managed to stuff the irritable fat raccoon back in.

Since then, the progress of research had been even slower. Shamon, who was already bald, was so worried that even his eyebrows fell off. Just as it was about to come to a standstill, he suddenly remembered that he had a good friend in Konoha who had good character and strong skills.

Back then, the Decade-Rider brother had hinted secretly that if their Sunagakure wanted Tailed Beast cards, they should go find the person who made them. But Shamon, out of gratitude for Konoha building Loulan for his hometown, had always been too embarrassed to ask.

But now, the frequency of the One-Tail breaking the seal was becoming more and more frequent, and Reto's body had already been tossed to pieces. If they couldn't transform Shukaku into a transformation item, Sunagakure would only be able to weld Shukaku's seal shut and use it as a trump card for mutual destruction.

In desperation, Shamon had no choice but to swallow his pride and write an invitation letter in his own hand. Worried that the other party would think he lacked sincerity, he thoughtfully bestowed the title of "Konoha's Number One Developer" upon his good friend and sent his two direct disciples thousands of miles away to invite him. He gave him both face and substance, hoping that Uchiha Gin would look at their past acquaintance and come to assist him in achieving his knight dream.

"Curly-hair, if you don't want to go, you don't have to. After all, Sunagakure isn't exactly a place of kindness."

Seeing Uchiha Gin holding the letter and hanging his head in silence, Senju Tobirama frowned, his tone rarely carrying a hint of concern.

Back then, his big brother had encountered an assassination when returning from the Land of Wind; it might well have been the work of Sunagakure's villains. Although the curly-haired guy was asking for a beating, for the sake of his little sister, he should remind him a little!

"I'm going! I must go!"

The more you white-haired guys oppose it, the more I have to go! (End of chapter)