Chapter 445

"Today is a good day~"

As usual, Uchiha Gin, who clocked out right on time, hummed an unknown little tune and strolled slowly toward home.

"Huh?"

Suddenly, his drooping left eyelid began to twitch uncontrollably.

They say the right eye twitching means disaster, and the left eye twitching means wealth.

This omen symbolizing wealth prompted Uchiha Gin to slow his pace, and he began to lower his head to search all around for the unexpected wealth he was about to receive.

"Curly-hair, did you lose something?"

Just at this moment, by the ear of the head-lowered Uchiha Gin, a familiar but very sinister-sounding voice rang out.

"Yo~"

Raising his head to look at the annoying white-haired guy, Uchiha Gin responded listlessly, which counted as a greeting, though the look of disgust on his face was undisguised.

The eyelid must have twitched in the wrong direction; this white-haired guy looking for him definitely meant no good.

"I have something I want to ask... ask you."

Senju Tobirama, who had followed Uchiha Gin, did not get angry because of the other party's perfunctory attitude and went straight to the point.

"Ask me?"

Once he heard Senju Tobirama had a request for him, Uchiha Gin instantly regained his spirit, his decadent eyes blooming with a flash of brilliance, and the corners of his mouth even hung with a strange smile.

The ancestors truly did not deceive me; there really is unexpected wealth.

"Is it inconvenient?"

Looking at Uchiha Gin's strange expression, Senju Tobirama, with his brows slightly furrowed, couldn't help but shiver involuntarily, always feeling that something was about to leave him.

"Convenient, very convenient, but this is not the place to talk."

Glancing at the bustling crowd around, Uchiha Gin nodded.

"You name the place."

"Follow me."

Leading Senju Tobirama through several turns, the two finally arrived in front of a red and white sign.

"Are you sure you want to talk about business here?"

Senju Tobirama had a strange face.

"What? Looking down on our Konoha's local brand?"

Turning his head and raising his eyebrows, Uchiha Gin, upholding the principle that charity begins at home, first slapped a big label on him.

"Uh... fine, I'm treating?"

"I was waiting for that line from you."

Nodding with satisfaction, Uchiha Gin stepped into the shop first, and pleasant music followed.

【You love me, I love you, Mixue Ice Cream & Tea is sweet~】

"Welcome!"

"One strawberry boba, full sugar, less ice, add two portions of taro paste. How about you?"

Smiling and waving to the familiar clerk, Uchiha Gin, after ordering, turned his head to ask Senju Tobirama behind him.

"Iced Americano."

"Add another caramel macchiato, double caramel."

"No, I..."

Seeing Uchiha Gin modify his order without permission, Senju Tobirama frowned.

The reason he ordered an Iced Americano was to use the caffeine to keep his mind clear at all times to welcome the clone's memories that would arrive at any time.

"What 'I' what? Life is already bitter enough; occasionally you have to taste something sweet."

This Senju Tobirama guy is a pure science nerd, with no taste for life at all. Hanging a bitter face every day isn't enough, and what he drinks is so bitter; no wonder he's been single his whole life.

Uchiha Gin's seemingly unintentional remark made Senju Tobirama's scarlet eyes gain a bit of inexplicable warmth.

Sure enough, curly-hair is the core standard for measuring the quality of an Uchiha.

"What are you standing there for? This table is leaving soon."

"Coming."

"Your strawberry boba and caramel macchiato, please enjoy~"

Before long, the clerk delivered the ordered drinks. Uchiha Gin took the strawberry boba bubbling with pink bubbles in front of him.

Confirming the reward was in hand, it was time for him to work.

"Speak, what is the matter you want to ask me, this Konoha's number one developer?"

Taking a sip of the long-lost sweet water, Uchiha Gin asked calmly.

Senju Tobirama was examining the caramel macchiato emitting a sweet, greasy scent. After hearing Uchiha Gin's cheap-sounding voice, he couldn't help but roll his eyes, and the warmth that had just welled up in his heart was quickly suppressed.

"My missing shadow clone, you remember, right?"

"The one that ran away with Hashirama? Of course I remember."

Actually, Uchiha Gin had also always been curious about this matter. You say Senju Hashirama, a living person, went missing, so be it, but Senju Tobirama's shadow clone actually broke away from the main body's control and also lost contact.

Strange~ Strange!

"That shadow clone is definitely still by Big Brother's side. If we can find a way to dispel it, all the truth will be revealed to the world."

"So, you want me to help you reconnect with that shadow clone?"

"I don't expect you to be able to help me do that step; just providing me with some ideas is enough."

Senju Tobirama shook his head gently. He had already used all conventional means, and now coming to find Uchiha Gin was just holding an attitude of trying it out to see if this curly-haired guy could give him some inspiration.

"Tsk! Looking down on whom?"

Not expecting Senju Tobirama to actually look down on him, Uchiha Gin curled his lip, his eyes full of contemplation.

After a while, he took the lead in asking.

"Have you tried draining yourself dry?"

As the saying goes, 'the mast and oars fly into ashes and smoke'; if the clone can sense that the main body is in an extremely weak state, it will actively dispel and feed the chakra back.

"Tried it several times, useless."

This method, Senju Tobirama had already experimented with several times, and once almost cost him his life. The clones he sent out all actively dispelled, only the missing one had no reaction.

"Even this is useless?"

Uchiha Gin frowned; even such an extreme method was difficult to be effective, which meant that the shadow clone was now very likely not in the same dimension as them.

But looking at the entire Naruto series, it seems there is no means that can achieve this effect.

"I suspect my shadow clone was sealed by someone in a different space."

Looking at Uchiha Gin with his brows tightly locked, Senju Tobirama hesitated for a moment and said his guess.

"Oh?"

Worthy of you~

This unbelievable guess is actually the most likely result at the moment.

"If it's really like this, then conventional means are indeed ineffective."

Seeing Senju Tobirama's guess coincide with his own, Uchiha Gin nodded gently.

"So I want to start from the aspect of time-space ninjutsu, first lock the space where the shadow clone is, and then break it open..."

Not expecting Uchiha Gin to actually not refute him, but instead have a face of agreement, Senju Tobirama suddenly had a feeling of being moved by meeting a soulmate, and then began to talk freely about his countermeasures.

And his idea was very simple, but operating it was harder than ascending to heaven.

Not to mention how difficult it was to find that ethereal different space, just the god-like operation of breaking open space was a chasm that ordinary people could not cross.

"How about it? What do you think?"

After finishing his operation, the dry-mouthed Senju Tobirama picked up the caramel macchiato that had already cooled and chugged it down. The mellow, sweet, and greasy feeling he tasted for the first time made his eyes light up.

Iced Americano?

Even a dog wouldn't drink it!

At this moment, he only felt sorry for the money he had spent on the Iced Americano before.

"Actually, if you ask me, you are putting the cart before the horse."

Looking at Senju Tobirama, who was seeking approval, Uchiha Gin criticized him mercilessly. This white-haired guy was obsessed with finding the shadow clone and was a bit stuck in a dead end.

Actually, sometimes, he should look in the mirror and find the answer from himself.

"Huh?"

Senju Tobirama, who thought Uchiha Gin would agree with him, was instantly dumbfounded.

This is different from what he thought?

Shouldn't the next step be the two of them working together to open the opportunity to find the different space?

"Actually, to make the shadow clone dispel, there is an even simpler method."

With his fingers rhythmically tapping on the table, Uchiha Gin had a thoughtful expression. Senju Tobirama was stunned upon hearing this.

"Impossible, I've tried all the methods that can be tried."

"No, there is one more that you definitely haven't tried."

Hooking a mysterious smile at the corner of his mouth, Uchiha Gin shook his head.

"What is it?"

Senju Tobirama, whose heart was being scratched like a cat, couldn't help but ask.

"Have you tried..."

With his eyes falling on the other party's eager eyes, Uchiha Gin said calmly.

"... dying once to see the effect."

"Huh???"

That's right, discarding those incredibly complex operations, the most straightforward method Uchiha Gin could think of to dispel the shadow clone was for the main body to completely kick the bucket.

When a ninja dies, the chakra in the body will return to the Pure Land along with the soul; the shadow clone, in the final analysis, is just a product of the main body's chakra.

In the Ninja World, the mechanism of chakra returning to the Pure Land to wait for redistribution has a higher priority than everything else; the shadow clone that has lost its main body will definitely be recycled by the Pure Land regardless of time and space, with no possibility of any residue.

"You curly-haired guy, I thought you were a good Uchiha, but in the end, you're still a naturally evil old man!"

Senju Tobirama was not lightly angered by Uchiha Gin. If it weren't for the money he spent on the drink, he would have long since poured the half-cup of caramel macchiato onto the fluffy curly hair.

"Calm down."

Uchiha Gin waved his hand, signaling Senju Tobirama not to be in a hurry.

"Putting other things aside, do you think my method is feasible?"

"Hmph! Of course it's feasible, but I'm already dead, so what's the point of knowing the truth? Take it to the Pure Land?"

"It's okay, I can summon you out~"

Isn't this putting what you've learned into practice?

Uchiha Gin then teased Senju Tobirama, who was in a rage, with a smile.

"Or are you unwilling to sacrifice your precious life for Hashirama?"

"Get out! If you say one more word, believe it or not, I'll tear your mouth apart?"

"Alright, alright, you really can't take a joke; no wonder you can't find a wife."

Seeing Senju Tobirama start to move his fingers, Uchiha Gin knew he couldn't tease him anymore, so he straightened his face and continued with a very serious tone.

"This method is the fastest and most reliable solution at the moment, bar none."

"And that requires me to die?"

Although Senju Tobirama had the awareness to sacrifice himself for Big Brother at any time, he always felt that such an unclear sacrifice was a bit of a loss.

"It's okay, you can rest assured and die; I'll handle everything that follows."

Sigh~ You Senju Tobirama only need to close your eyes and kick your legs, while I, Uchiha Gin, have much more follow-up work to do.

"You're going to collect my corpse, right? You hateful curly-haired guy!"

"Truly measuring a gentleman's belly with a villain's heart."

Not expecting that even after saying this much, this white-haired guy still had a small-minded appearance, Uchiha Gin rolled his eyes straight.

"Otherwise, can you resurrect me?"

"That's natural."

"There are always treacherous people who want to harm... huh? What did you say?"

Senju Tobirama, who was preparing to spray for a while longer, was stunned in place, and looking at Uchiha Gin, who had a certain face, he asked uncertainly.

"Say it again?"

"Hashirama, resurrection is included~"

Soon, Senju Tobirama recovered his calm from his astonishment, his brows tightly furrowed, and the look in his eyes when looking at Uchiha Gin had a bit more strangeness.

"You wouldn't be thinking of?"

As a Senju who understands Uchiha better than Uchiha, Senju Tobirama naturally knew the secret techniques of the Uchiha clan by heart, and among the many secret techniques, there was a magical genjutsu called Izanagi.

Izanagi, the ultimate pupil technique of the Uchiha clan, has the effect of turning unfavorable things that happened within a period of time into things that never happened, only choosing things favorable to oneself to become reality; even if you die, it can pull you back, a terrifying pupil technique that allows one to ignore death.

At this moment, Uchiha Gin made a decision that went against the ancestors.

"That's right, it's the jutsu you're thinking of."

Looking at Senju Tobirama, who had a face of realization, Uchiha Gin nodded.

At the moment, the most convenient resurrection jutsu with the smallest cost in the same era is only the Uchiha clan's Izanagi.

Painless resurrection, each time only needing to consume one Sharingan.

"But... as far as I know, only holders of the Sharingan can use this jutsu, right?"

Senju Tobirama, who hadn't had time to think about feasibility, soon discovered the blind spot.

He, a Senju, where would he get a Sharingan?

Can't let him transplant one, right?

"I'll lend you one~"

"Do you think the Sharingan is Chinese cabbage, to be lent just like that?"

Thinking of installing that kind of sinister thing in his eye socket, Senju Tobirama felt a bit disgusted.

"And, even if you Uchiha are willing to lend it, I still find it disgusting!"

"There will be a time when you shout 'so true'."

Uchiha Gin looked at Senju Tobirama, who had a face of disdain, and curled the corner of his mouth without a trace.

Saying no with your mouth, but your body is very honest.

Didn't your good apprentice, the sexy Sun-Brother, transplant a whole arm of Sharingan?

"However, lending eyes is something that still needs to be discussed with Cousin first."

Sharingan outflow is not a big deal, but it's not a small deal either.

Even if Senju Tobirama only borrows it as a consumable, it is ultimately the bloodline of the Uchiha clan, and it still needs to be decided by the clan leader.

In the Hokage's office.

Izuna and Kagami were reporting recent work to Uchiha Madara.

Crackle—

Just as they were speaking to the key point, a blue lightning bolt suddenly lit up.

"Tsk! This white-haired guy, can't he use the front door?"

Looking at the familiar light, Uchiha Madara, sitting on the Hokage's throne, frowned slightly. The next moment, two figures appeared in the light.

Plop!

"Ouch~ Not bad, actually didn't throw up."

After landing, Senju Tobirama wanted to pull the person beside him, but Uchiha Gin, with a normal face, surprised him a little.

After all, everyone who rides the Flying Thunder God jutsu for the first time will have a little bit of motion sickness.

"Cousin, why did you come too?"

The three Uchihas present, seeing Uchiha Gin who came with Senju Tobirama, all showed puzzled expressions, among which Uchiha Madara took the lead in asking.

"Cough, cough... I came here this time to be the introducer for this white-haired guy to join the clan." (End of chapter)