Chapter 414

As everyone knows, sugar is a necessary trace element for the human body. Once sugar is missing, people will have symptoms such as dizziness and palpitations. In severe cases, it may cause cerebellar atrophy, from then on becoming a wise man who can only "aba aba".

Similarly, milk rich in calcium is also a good helper for children's growth. If you lack calcium, you will be osteoporotic and not grow tall, or you will become a flat washboard.

So, is there any kind of divine medicine that can supplement the important ingredients needed by the human body at once?

Konan had a dream. Her parents, who had come back to life, were celebrating her birthday. The couple was busy all day, and the small dining table at home was filled with all kinds of delicacies.

Looking at the steaming food on the table, Konan wiped the saliva hanging from the corner of her mouth. Just as she was about to feast, her smiling parents suddenly appeared beside her.

"Father, Mother, you..."

"Konan, happy birthday."

The couple smiled and picked up the dishes on the table. In Konan's stunned expression, they began to feed her enthusiastically.

"Konan, you are growing, eat more."

"Ugh ugh ugh..."

Under their enthusiastic hospitality, Konan's stomach quickly became a small ball, and her happy expression gradually became fearful.

"I really can't eat anymore."

Konan tried to escape, but found that she seemed to be locked in her seat by chains. No matter how she struggled, she couldn't move a bit.

"Come, drink this, it's delicious."

A kind smile hung on her mother's face. The long straw in her hand was inserted directly into Konan's mouth. The cloying liquid carried waves of milky fragrance and poured into her little belly all at once.

Ton~ ton~ ton~

"Mother... I've already drunk it."

"You say you don't want it, but your body is very honest~"

In reality, Uchiha Gin was holding the weak and fainted girl, pouring his treasured strawberry milk into the other party's cherry mouth one can after another with a funnel.

After pouring ten or so cans, except for her belly becoming rounder and rounder, the girl had no signs of waking up, always greedily swallowing the fragrant and delicious strawberry milk.

"Looks like she's really starved."

Uchiha Gin shook his head and stopped his movements. He was worried that if he kept pouring, the girl would turn into a cream puff, so after helping her sit upright, he tried to use medical ninjutsu.

Following the refinement of chakra, Uchiha Gin's palm glowed with a faint green light. Gentle life energy was slowly injected, and a flush of crimson gradually appeared on the girl's face.

"Cough, cough, cough... hiccup~"

Under the baptism of life energy, the fainted girl coughed fiercely and began to wake up slowly. As a result, as soon as she opened her eyes, she couldn't help but let out a loud milky hiccup.

Not smelling the legendary girl's fragrance, Uchiha Gin pinched his nose and turned his head away in disgust.

"Are you polite?"

"You... you aren't dead... hiccup~ right?"

Konan, who had completely woken up, couldn't care about the other party's teasing. She covered her chest and rolled back a few times, opening the distance from the strange curly-haired guy, looking at him vigilantly, and couldn't help but let out a milky hiccup during the questioning.

"Is this how you treat your life-saving benefactor?"

Uchiha Gin had paid the price of more than a dozen cans of strawberry milk to snatch the little girl in front of him from the hands of the Sage of Six Paths. As a result, this little guy didn't appreciate it, and the first sentence she said was to curse him to die.

"Life-saving benefactor?"

Konan frowned upon hearing this. She didn't remember the man in front of her saving her, but as she subconsciously licked her lips, a trace of strange sweetness made her feel at a loss.

Looking down again, she saw her round little belly, and a thick sense of fullness welled up. She didn't know what to do for a while, so she could only stand still, looking at Uchiha Gin, who looked lazy, with eager eyes.

"Strawberry milk is very expensive. You just drank thirteen cans of mine. I'll give you a discount, just give me 100,000 ryo."

Pointing at the scattered strawberry milk packaging boxes on the ground, Uchiha Gin didn't choose to raise the price on the spot, but gave the other party a rare friendly price.

"100,000 ryo, why don't you go rob?"

Konan, who was still a bit confused, heard the "huge sum" of up to 100,000 ryo and instantly exploded. Her angry little face puffed up into a bun.

100,000 ryo! Even if she were sold, she couldn't pay it back!

"And, it's not like I asked you to give it to me, why should I pay?"

"If you didn't drink it, you would have starved to death, right?"

Looking at the little girl throwing a tantrum, Uchiha Gin rubbed his temples with a headache. This is the Ninja World version of the farmer and the snake, right?

"Who wants your dirty things? I have plenty of food here!"

In order to avoid carrying a high debt, Konan immediately picked up the baked cake she hadn't finished eating from the corner not far away, held it in front of Uchiha Gin, and looked at him triumphantly.

"You call this thing food? If you didn't say it, I would have thought it was a shield."

Reaching out and knocking on the hard baked cake, a trace of inexplicable color flashed in Uchiha Gin's eyes. After withdrawing his hand, he scratched his head helplessly. He finally chose to be a caring person once.

"Fine, let's just say I'm here to help the poor. You don't have to pay for the strawberry milk for now, but as a price, I want you..."

"Help! Help! There's a hentai here! Ugh ugh ugh..."

As a result, before Uchiha Gin could finish speaking, the girl in front of him retreated more than ten meters, curled her thin body under the broken wall, and shouted for help at the top of her lungs.

"Stop, stop, stop, can't you let me finish? I just want to ask you a few questions."

Uchiha Gin, with quick eyes and fast hands, pulled a pink lollipop from his sleeve the moment the girl shouted the first sentence and stuffed it into the other party's wide-open mouth with lightning speed.

"Ah! This is... smack smack~ delicious!"

With the foreign object in her mouth, Konan subconsciously wanted to spit it out, but as the sweet taste occupied her taste buds, her eyes lit up. After sucking it fiercely a few times, she showed a very happy expression.

"Hoo~ as long as you are obedient, these are all yours."

Seeing that the sugar-coated bullet worked, Uchiha Gin let out a long sigh of relief, reached out and pulled a handful of lollipops of different colors from his sleeve, and seduced her with a tempting voice.

"Really just asking questions!?"

Konan's eyes flashed with longing. So many candies were enough for her and Yahiko to eat for a long time. After some ideological struggle, she finally chose to compromise.

"Could this be fake?"

"Guaranteed to obey orders!"

"First question, where is this?"

Shaking the candy in his hand, Konan's eyes swayed with it. Uchiha Gin nodded with satisfaction and asked the first question.

"Did you hit your head, don't you even know where you are?"

Reluctantly withdrawing her gaze, Konan's brows furrowed slightly, and she looked at the strange curly-haired guy in front of her with strange eyes, guessing the other party's identity.

"This answer makes me very dissatisfied, take one back."

Didn't expect this little girl to be quite cute, but it's a pity she has a mouth.

"No, don't! Land of Rain, this is the Land of Rain."

"What time is it now?"

"Huh?"

Hearing this question, Konan blinked in confusion. In her impression, she didn't have a clear concept of the time she was in.

"Let me change the question, is there a war going on now?"

Uchiha Gin saw the girl's confused look didn't feel fake, so he remembered that the time based on Konoha's years in the original work was not the year calendar in the cognition of ordinary people, so he changed the way of asking.

"..."

The little girl's face instantly became disappointed, and the smacking sound of sucking the lollipop disappeared.

Sure enough.

From the little girl's expression, Uchiha Gin got the answer he wanted.

【Second Ninja World War】

Then he was in the timeline of around Konoha Year 37. The white-haired guy at this time had long died until only ashes remained, and the cousin was also lurking somewhere, waiting for a suitable successor.

The familiar Konoha F6 had only four left jumping around. The radical Akimichi Torifu was estimated to have returned home, and Mirror-boy...

"Really not a good time."

Uchiha Gin muttered to himself, then turned his gaze to the little girl in front of him.

Looking at the other party's tattered clothes and the food that couldn't be eaten at all, Uchiha Gin probably guessed her identity: an orphan displaced by war.

"Last question, what is your name?"

"Er... Kon... Konan."

"!!!"

Uchiha Gin's hand shook, and the candy in his hand fell to the ground. Konan saw this and immediately rushed over in a stride. She didn't mind the mud, knelt on the ground, and quickly picked up the lollipops with muddy water.

"You are Konan?"

Seeing this sour scene, Uchiha was a bit hesitant to ask. His gaze turned to the other party's dry hair, which was indeed sister Purple.

"Yeah, I've had this name since I was a child."

Carefully wiping the mud off the lollipop, Konan stood up, and a dazzling smile bloomed on her face.

Uchiha Gin fell into silence. According to the description of that prop, he should be here to learn secret techniques, and the reason he was sent to Konan's side was to facilitate learning.

But...

Looking at the little girl who could be blown down by a gust of wind, Uchiha Gin held his forehead helplessly and began to appeal frantically in his heart.

System! Trash system! I want a refund!

"Prop has been used, cannot be returned. Please host to learn secret techniques as soon as possible. If you cannot learn the results within three days, you will be forever exiled to the current timeline..."

"I'm going to early eight!"

"Countdown starts, remaining time -258258s"

"%... ￥%... ￥... %￥%... @#￥%... &* "

The countdown time began to play in his mind. Uchiha Gin, who had vomited all his life's learning, rubbed his swollen temples.

Three days, it's not difficult for Uchiha Gin to learn secret techniques. If the teacher teaches well, he might be able to learn it in a few minutes, but the teacher in front of him...

"Na na, are you okay?"

Looking at Uchiha Gin's face turning green and white, Konan, who was standing beside him, poked his thigh with some worry.

"Hoo~ why, not afraid of me now?"

Uchiha Gin was pulled back to reality by Konan's movements. Looking down at the little girl with a worried look, he asked with some confusion.

"You gave me candy, you are a good person."

Konan nodded seriously, and incidentally tightened the small bag containing the candy. She didn't think Uchiha Gin would want anything from her.

Numb soul?

Or a shriveled body?

In this world, the least valuable thing is an orphan like her. Fragile life is like grass, even if she dies on the street, no one will look at her more.

"Konan, I'll ask you one more question."

Looking at Konan, who was biting her lip and looking a bit timid, Uchiha Gin sighed in his heart, thought for a moment, and asked the last question.

"Can I have another candy?"

Thinking Uchiha Gin's inquiry was over, Konan touched the seven candies in her bosom and gathered her courage to ask for the price.

"Okay."

"You ask."

"Do you know ninjutsu?"

"Huh?"

Konan looked at Uchiha Gin with eyes like looking at an idiot, her big eyes rolling until only the whites were left. If she knew ninjutsu, how could she be reduced to gnawing on expired and moldy baked cakes? She would have taken Yahiko to eat and drink well long ago.

"Hoo~ okay, these candies are for you, be careful."

The last glimmer of hope was broken, and Uchiha Gin didn't have much disappointment. That prop only said it was for learning secret techniques, but didn't say it had to be Paper Ninjutsu.

There were many secret technique ninjas in this era. He could completely find a small ninja village to coerce and lure them, learn it, and run away.

"Thank you, good curly-haired gentleman."

Konan, who received the candy handed over by Uchiha Gin with surprise, had a happy joy on her face. Uchiha Gin didn't say much. The girl in front of him had her own destiny trajectory.

Before long, she would form the Frog Squad with two other orphans with miserable fates, apprentice to Jiraiya, and grow into the light of dawn that almost changed the Land of Rain.

Although she failed due to the little group's interference, it also indirectly promoted the transformation of the organization and successfully promoted to the first popular group in Naruto.

"Sigh~ it's a pity there are only three days, otherwise I could do something."

Uchiha Gin looked at Konan's innocent smile, and a trace of unbearable flashed in his heart. This timeline was too cruel, and everyone's destiny was composed of tragic notes.

Unfortunately, he couldn't protect himself now. When the three-day period arrived, if the secret technique wasn't achieved, he would be trapped in this timeline forever.

"Where should I go to get a small secret technique?"

Uchiha Gin, who had just walked a few steps, suddenly had a look of surprise on his face. He tried to take a step forward tentatively, only to be blocked by an invisible air wall. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't land his foot.

"Secret technique mentor matched, please host to learn seriously."

Before Uchiha Gin could ask, the system's prompt had already sounded in his mind. Swallowing his saliva stiffly, he slowly turned his head. As far as he could see, there was only the little girl who was cleaning up the baked cakes scattered on the ground.

"Are you sure you didn't make a mistake?"

"Mentor Konan is in place, please host to learn Paper Ninjutsu as soon as possible."

"..."

"Eh? Didn't you leave?"

Just finished cleaning up the moldy baked cakes, Konan raised her head and saw Uchiha Gin, who had just turned and left, actually returned, and was looking at her with extremely complex eyes.

"You wouldn't be regretting it, would you?"

Covering the small bag containing the candy, Konan looked at Uchiha Gin vigilantly.

"No, I'm just not familiar with the roads nearby and want to hire you as my tour guide. The reward will definitely not be less for you."

For now, he could only build a good relationship with Konan first, and then make other plans.

After all, now...

He seemed unable to stay too far from this girl.

"Tour guide? I know this area best!"

Hearing there was a reward, Konan's eyes lit up. Uchiha Gin was dressed so elegantly and was very generous. She must grasp this opportunity well. Whether she and Yahiko could eat meat during the holidays depended on this wave.

"Okay, then take me to the nearest town to stroll around."

"This way please~"

Along the way, Konan, who was in a good mood, was jumping and jumping while walking. Uchiha Gin, who followed her, looked at the large bag of baked cakes that couldn't be eaten at all behind the girl and asked.

"The baked cakes you're carrying should be inedible, right?"

"Who said they can't be eaten? As long as they are soaked in water for one night, the texture is like just out of the oven."

Konan pouted and replied indignantly. In her eyes, who was suffering from hunger, any food was worthy of respect.

Looking at the bristling Konan, Uchiha Gin sensibly didn't say much and followed her silently. Soon the two came to a town that was still quite prosperous.

"Pretty good, doesn't look like it's experiencing war."

Uchiha Gin raised his eyebrows in surprise, looking at the bustling town. In his impression, a country in war should be very chaotic.

"Because this is a town protected by Lord Hanzo, no one dares to make trouble."

Konan turned her head and explained to Uchiha Gin thoughtfully.

"Salamander Hanzo..."

Looking at the worshipful light in Konan's eyes, Uchiha Gin nodded thoughtfully.

The demigod in this period still had two skills. He easily handled the Sannin in their small peak period. His strength was probably five-five with the strongest few among the current Five Kage.

It's a pity that he had strength, but his vision was too low. After he got old, he was content with the status quo, perfectly interpreting the allusion of the dragon-slaying boy finally becoming a dragon.

"Good curly-haired guy, are you also a ninja?"

Seeing Uchiha Gin's light and breezy appearance, Konan couldn't help but ask. After all, ordinary people hearing the name of Lord Hanzo would have some awe.

"You could say that, I know a little bit."

Uchiha Gin touched his chin and made a gesture to Konan, who was confused, that could make the stick blush.

"Really? Can you teach me?"

Konan clenched her little fists excitedly, full of anticipation.

"Er... why do you want to learn ninjutsu? Ninja is not a good profession."

Without rushing to agree, Uchiha Gin asked back.

"That must be so as not to be bullied, and to be able to eat enough."

The girl's eyes were shining. Forgetful of herself, she didn't notice the tall figure walking toward her aggressively not far away.

"Stinky brat, how dare you walk on the street so swaggeringly, see if I don't peel your skin!"

Feeling a chill from behind, Konan, whose sense of crisis was flourishing, turned her head slowly, only to see the baked cake stall owner they had visited, looking at her angrily, his two large hands covered in calluses clenching and making creaking sounds.

"Ah!"

Konan screamed and ran away, but this time there was no cover from teammates. The stall owner, with quick eyes and fast hands, grabbed the bag behind her.

"Put me down!"

Following a tug, the baked cakes in the bag all fell to the ground, merging into the black mud, unable to see their original color.

"I'll chop off your two dirty hands, let's see how you steal things!"

Looking at the destroyed stolen goods, a trace of pleasure flashed on the stall owner's face. After lifting the struggling Konan high, he licked his lips ferociously.

"No, I won't dare again!"

Looking at the blunt knife the stall owner pulled from his waist, a look of despair appeared on Konan's face.

In the month she became an orphan, she had witnessed several orphans who were caught stealing things being punished. Breaking hands and feet was considered light, and losing their lives was also a common occurrence.

"Hmph! You garbage who are not even as good as wild dogs, living will only increase the burden on this country. I will solve the problem for Lord Hanzo."

Raising the blunt knife with cold light high, the stall owner's high-sounding remarks drew applause from all around.

"Kill her! These little thieves deserve to die!"

"Yes! The culprit who stole things recently must be her!"

The residents here had long accumulated resentment toward the wandering orphans. Naturally, they were very supportive of the baked cake stall owner's behavior.

"Not... not me..."

The trembling Konan, like duckweed in the rain, was swallowed by the overwhelming accusations. What greeted her was only despair.

The stall owner, whose hatred had gone to his head, didn't have a trace of pity. As the ferocious smile on the corner of his mouth expanded, the blunt knife held high was about to fall in an instant.

Konan closed her eyes in despair, waiting for the arrival of death.

"Clang!"

A dull metallic sound rang out. Konan, who had waited for a long time without feeling pain, slowly opened her eyes.

Only to see the stall owner, who was ferocious just now, had his face flushed red. A plain black wooden sword was held against his blunt knife. The palm holding the knife had veins popping out, but he couldn't shake the wooden sword at all.

"Click!"

After a stalemate of a few seconds, the black wooden sword flicked lightly, and the blunt knife in the stall owner's hand instantly flew backward, deeply embedded in the wall of a shop on the side.

"Who are you, why are you meddling in other people's business!?"

The stall owner held his swollen palm, his half-red and half-green face carrying a trace of fear, but relying on the fact that he was in the right, he questioned stiffly.

"I'm just a... wanderer passing by."

Carrying the black wooden sword on his shoulder, Uchiha Gin, who had stopped the tragedy, slightly opened his half-closed eyes.

Although without the blessing of the Sharingan, the eyes carrying a bit of murderous intent could still make the stall owner, who was an ordinary person, feel cold all over.

"You brat, consider yourself lucky to have picked up a life."

The stall owner, who was almost scared to pee by Uchiha Gin, tried hard to clench his prostate and butt crack, and fled in a very ridiculous posture.

The onlookers saw this situation and also scattered like birds and beasts, fearing to annoy Uchiha Gin, this weirdo who killed halfway.

In their eyes, anyone who possesses extraordinary power is not a good person, regardless of whether the other party is a ninja or not.

Konan, who was dropped on the ground by the stall owner who was scared to pee, stared blankly at the scene that happened in front of her. As the people around scattered, the helpless girl slowly lowered her head and began to search in the pitch-black mud for the baked cakes that had been covered.

Plop~

Plop~

Strings of water droplets that didn't belong to raindrops dripped onto her dry, thin, and pale hands, stirring up imperceptible ripples.

Plop!

Plop...

Suddenly, a shadow covered Konan's thin body, isolating the falling rain and stopping the girl's tears.

Uchiha Gin, holding an umbrella, squatted down and reached out to the girl covered in mud.

"Be my son... ptooey ptooey ptooey! Sorry, I messed up the lines." (End of chapter)