Chapter 18: Sakukaze's Awakening (Please follow and read)

At nightfall, Uchiha Qifeng, who had just returned home after seeing his girlfriend off, was given a fright.

Because the moment he turned on the light, a figure was sitting upright in the living room.

Fortunately, Uchiha Qifeng's reaction was fast enough, and he relaxed after seeing clearly that it was his own younger brother.

Otherwise, he couldn't guarantee where his shuriken would have flown.

"Sakukaze, you're back. If I hadn't asked about it two days ago, I wouldn't have known you went out of the village on a mission. Next time you take a mission outside the village, be sure to tell me."

"How was it? Did you just get back? Are you hungry? Do you want to eat something?"

Casually taking off his outer coat and hanging it up, Uchiha Qifeng asked Sakukaze.

From his rolled-up sleeves, one could infer that Uchiha Qifeng was preparing to cook for Sakukaze.

After all, in the previous six years, the two brothers had mostly gotten along this way.

Unfortunately, this time Sakukaze didn't give Uchiha Qifeng any face.

The moment Uchiha Qifeng walked into the living room, Sakukaze's figure instantly appeared in front of him.

Taking a deep breath, Sakukaze's nose sniffed slightly at Uchiha Qifeng's clothes.

"Sure enough."

"Tell me, big brother, is there something you haven't told me?"

Seeing Sakukaze like this, Uchiha Qifeng instantly became nervous.

There was no help for it; the current Sakukaze looked exactly like a detective who had found the culprit, and a private detective who had caught a cheating husband at that.

And the only thing he had been hiding from Sakukaze recently was...

"That, Sakukaze, do you know something?"

Swallowing his saliva, Uchiha Qifeng asked back, somewhat unwilling to give up.

At the same time, Uchiha Qifeng's heart was howling wildly.

Who on earth told Sakukaze? He had clearly instructed those guys; how could they all be so unreliable?

Uchiha Qifeng, of course, couldn't know that the one who told Sakukaze this news was Uchiha Fugaku, because in Uchiha Qifeng's eyes, Uchiha Fugaku was a reliable senior who was stern and made people feel afraid just looking at him.

Not to mention whether he would care about Uchiha Qifeng's personal private matters, even if he did care, Uchiha Qifeng wouldn't think such a serious senior would discuss these things with his younger brother in the capacity of a Jonin Instructor.

Of course, this wasn't Uchiha Qifeng intentionally hiding it from Sakukaze; it was just that Qifeng couldn't gauge Sakukaze's temper.

But no matter what, Sakukaze had been raised by him since he was a child, and if Sakukaze didn't agree, he would be very much at a loss.

So, before he was completely sure, Qifeng had originally thought about hiding it for as long as he could.

Unfortunately, things went against his wishes; not long after, he was caught red-handed by Uchiha Sakukaze.

"Alright, alright, I admit I did find a girlfriend, but Sakukaze, don't worry, big brother won't abandon you."

Watching Sakukaze staring straight at him, Uchiha Qifeng could only helplessly raise his hands.

"Hey, hey, hey, Sakukaze, you don't want to break up your big brother, do you? Big brother is so good to you, can you really bear it?"

"How about you set a condition, and big brother will satisfy you, how about that?"

Watching Sakukaze remain silent, Uchiha Qifeng suddenly lost his footing.

Girlfriend and younger brother, he didn't want to give up either, and he couldn't give up either.

Seeing Uchiha Qifeng give up resistance, Sakukaze stopped scaring him.

With a look of disdain on his face, Sakukaze spoke directly:

"Tch, just remember this lesson. Don't try to hide anything from me in the future; I'm not a child anymore."

"If there's anything, discuss it with me more; maybe the result will be even better."

"By the way, since you've found a girlfriend, leave the dinner from now on to me."

After saying this, Sakukaze turned and left the living room, returning to his bedroom, leaving Uchiha Qifeng, who was deep in thought, in silence.

He was clearly the big brother, so why did this feeling of being taken care of by his younger brother appear again? It really is strange.

Uchiha Qifeng couldn't quite figure it out, but since the result was a happy one for everyone, he stopped thinking about messy things.

However, his younger brother really seems to have grown up, doesn't he?

Uchiha Qifeng thought silently in his heart.

Entering dreamland with a beautiful mood, Uchiha Qifeng was already planning to tell his girlfriend the good news tomorrow.

On the other side, Uchiha Sakukaze, who had returned to his room, showed a helpless smile.

He didn't want to be so childish as to scare his big brother, but there was no help for it; if he didn't do this, Uchiha Qifeng wouldn't take Sakukaze's words to heart at all.

As the offspring of Uchiha Kagami, the value of Uchiha Qifeng and Uchiha Sakukaze was naturally extraordinary.

Don't look at Uchiha Sakukaze living so freely; that was because Sakukaze was not yet an adult, and most of the pressure on him was borne by Qifeng.

Relatively speaking, as the main bridge between the current Uchiha Clan and the village, one could imagine how much pressure Uchiha Qifeng was under.

Even if the rift between the current Uchiha and Konoha wasn't too serious yet.

Uchiha Qifeng was indeed a genius, but under the dual pressure from the clan and the village, this genius was already supporting himself very hard.

Not to mention that he also had to shoulder the heavy responsibility of the family and take care of a younger brother left behind by his parents.

Even if Sakukaze knew his own situation and told Qifeng not to go to too much trouble to take care of him, how could Qifeng possibly listen to his words?

Wanting to be a good big brother was almost an instinct carved into the bones of the Uchiha Clan.

Uchiha Qifeng would never tell Uchiha Sakukaze about any pressure; he would only bear it silently himself.

Uchiha Sakukaze was not an ordinary six-year-old child; after so many years, how could he not know about the pressure on Uchiha Qifeng?

And Uchiha Sakukaze knew very well the future situation of the Uchiha Clan; that kind of situation was not something one Uchiha Qifeng could eliminate.

In fact, the fact that Uchiha Qifeng did not appear in the original work seemed to have already explained the result.

You must know that those whose names did not appear in the original work were either extras or had already kicked the bucket before the opening chapter.

And as an Uchiha, and a descendant of Kagami, not leaving a name meant there was a high probability that he belonged to the group that had already kicked the bucket.

Qifeng was Sakukaze's only direct relative in this world, and he was the one who had raised him since he was a child.

Whether from reason or psychology, Sakukaze could not accept Uchiha Qifeng dying young.

No matter what, Sakukaze had to change such a fate for Qifeng.

So, in order not to let Uchiha Qifeng bear everything on his own, Sakukaze had to make Qifeng realize from his heart that he was already an adult who could help him share the pressure. ===== CHAPTER 19 =====