Konoha: The thirty-year-old Uchiha is not motivated.

"Uh, you know what..."

After being reminded by Uchiha Hikaru's sudden appearance, Uchiha Gin belatedly realized that the purple-haired, doll-faced giant in his arms was indeed a chosen one who combined some of his own fantasies.
"No, you've misunderstood. I just met her a few minutes ago."

"You couldn't wait to come to a place like this to exchange ideas as soon as you met. It's worth it for them to come all this way to see you."

Senju Itama clenched his fist, veins bulging, and spoke slowly and deliberately through gritted teeth.

"Boom!"

As she spoke, the shattered tiles beneath her feet emitted a painful groan; that was the source of the entire spiderweb-like crack.

"Sigh...you...sigh..."

Uchiha Osamu sighed several times with a complex expression. On the surface, she seemed to be lamenting Uchiha Gin for making such a terrible mistake, but in reality, she was regretting her own cowardice. Her cold gaze fell on the dejected Hydrangea, and her brows furrowed slightly involuntarily.
The two are clearly of similar background, on par with Lei, and her sister's purple hair color is even more authentic.
Did I lose because of my face?
"Further words are pointless. Have you decided how you want to die?"

Compared to Senju Itama and Uchiha Gyou, who at least had one or two advantages, Uchiha Kōzō, who didn't have any of the three advantages, took a step forward. A chilling aura emanated from his eyes, and with just a glance, he completely stunned the bewildered Hachiman.

"Can't we have more trust and less misunderstanding between us?"

Uchiha Gin glanced at the hydrangea in his arms, its eyes glazed over, his face full of helplessness.

Despite being subjected to both the Strawberry Tower attack and Uchiha Hikaru's unconscious mental assault, this innocent passerby girl was still able to retain basic consciousness, indicating that she possessed some ninja-like qualities.

"Your petty squabble has become common knowledge thanks to your nephew's propaganda, so is there any point in making excuses?"

"That brat is good for nothing, but he's number one at spreading rumors."

Because Kosuke recently complained to him that Fugaku wasn't putting in enough effort during his training, Gin Uchiha temporarily withheld his nephew's allowance for a few months. He never expected the nephew to harbor such resentment, especially since he was making money through spreading rumors.

Because of the disturbance from the strange girl in his arms, Uchiha Gin didn't learn from the boy Shimura, who had spent 10,000 ryo, how Fugaku had slandered him. However, he was upright and had nothing to fear, and he wouldn't allow such baseless accusations to be leveled against him.

"In that case, why don't you ask her?"

Uchiha Gin knew that saying anything more in this situation would be futile, so he simply pushed the dizzy Hydrangea out of his arms.
"Ok?"

Seeing his completely calm expression, Senju Itama, who was supporting the hydrangea, looked at his teammate with a puzzled expression.
Did they really misunderstand the curly-haired baboon?

"The governance is now in your hands."

Uchiha Hikaru gave Uchiha Gin a deep look, then turned and winked at Uchiha Osamu beside him.

"excuse me."

"you want."

As soon as the pale-faced Hydrangea opened her mouth, a red light flashed in the eyes of the purple-haired girl opposite her, and her consciousness instantly plunged into an endless abyss.

"What's your name? Where are you from?"

Looking at the hydrangea in front of him, which he had successfully hypnotized, Uchiha Shigeaki, staring at the three-tomoe jade pendant, asked softly.
"Hydrangea, the land of rain."

"He's a foreigner."

Upon hearing that the other party was from the Land of Rain, Uchiha Hikaru and the others' gazes sharpened once more.
"So what if they're foreigners? You could just throw a handful of kunai on the street and randomly kill a few foreigners."

Uchiha Gin pursed his lips. There are more foreigners than locals on the streets of Konoha now. Isn't it normal for him to run into one in the restroom?
"Your suspicion will only be cleared after we ask the next question."

"Whatever. Even if you ask ten more or a hundred more people, I'll still be Konoha's number one innocent white lotus."

Ignoring the boastful Uchiha Gin, Uchiha Rinpoche turned his gaze back to the dim-eyed Hydrangea and asked the last, and most crucial, question.
"What is your purpose in coming to Konoha?"

"My purpose in coming to Konoha"

Upon hearing this crucial question, Hydrangea's stiff expression twitched slightly, revealing her subconscious resistance to being asked about her mission.
Seeing this, Uchiha Rinpoche frowned and increased the output of his eye power. The struggle on Hydrangea's face gradually faded, leaving only emptiness and numbness.

"It can't be that bad. What if they're here to do something shady, like meeting their lover? What you're doing is an invasion of their privacy."

Seeing that Xiao Zhili had actually used the eye power of a Jonin-level ninja to torture him, Uchiha Gin, standing to the side, immediately showed a faint look of helplessness on his face.

"Feeling guilty?"

Uchiha Hikaru glanced at Uchiha Gin briefly, a disdainful smile playing on his lips.

"The one who cleans himself cleans himself."

"I came to Konoha to find a man, a man named..."

"Look, she really is here to meet her lover!"

"Uchiha Gin's man."

"Forehead"

But when he heard his own name spoken by a strange girl, Uchiha Gin's handsome face, which had been slightly reproachful just a moment ago, froze. He then sensed three sharp auras locking onto him; if he made a single move, his fate would be dire.
"What else do you have to say?!"

"I have nothing more to say. I urge everyone to quickly investigate the truth and restore my reputation."

Uchiha Gin's expression remained unchanged, his gaze towards Uchiha Hikaru pure and sincere. This was definitely a meticulously planned conspiracy specifically targeting him.
As the matriarch of the Yin family, Xiao Guang is known for her keen insight and will surely be able to clear his name.

"Suffer to death!"

However, before he could finish speaking, Uchiha Gin was firmly grasped in the palm of a large, cherry-red hand that appeared out of nowhere. At the same time, raging black flames climbed up Susanoo's arm, and a scorching heat assaulted his senses.

"boom!"

"Huh? Did the toilet pipe explode?"

Minato and the others, who were ordering food outside, looked in confusion towards the source of the explosion—the fried chicken shop's restroom.

"Oh no! Sister Hydrangea is still in the toilet!"

Maitreya suddenly remembered the hydrangea that had just left the team, and her little face immediately scrunched up into a daisy with nervousness.
"I gonna go see."

As the only woman and adult among them, Reimu stepped forward at this crucial moment. After waving goodbye to Miroku, she quickly headed towards the restroom.

"call"

Arriving at the restroom entrance, which was surrounded by onlookers, Reimu tiptoed and peered inside. Seeing that the person emerging from the women's restroom was unharmed, she assumed the incident must have occurred in the men's restroom on the other side. A wave of relief washed over her.
What happened in the men's restroom?

"Could it be that the strawberry tower exploded?"

"Alas!"

The brave man, who was about to investigate, paused upon hearing the words "Strawberry Tower," his uncertain expression gradually turning to fear. He must have seen the fly-swarming strawberry tower in this very restroom.
That's the Strawberry Tower, the fried chicken shop that never collapses, one of the Konoha Ghost Stories.

In the end, it was a staff member from the fried chicken shop who mustered up the courage to squeeze inside under the watchful eyes of everyone.
A few minutes later, a relaxed-looking staff member emerged, bringing fantastic news to the waiting crowd.
"Phew, it's nothing serious. It was probably a methane explosion in the underground pipes. Apart from some broken floor tiles, the strawberry tower that everyone was concerned about is perfectly fine."

"Ugh!"

Just as the onlookers, relieved to hear that everything was alright, were about to cheer, a staff member's words brought back memories of that nightmarish strawberry tower. Several burly men's faces paled, and they vomited profusely, creating a chaotic scene. While everyone's attention was drawn to these emotionally fragile men, several slender figures gracefully emerged from the women's restroom.
"Hmph! Did you let him get away?"

The leader, Uchiha Hikari, snorted coldly, a strange glint flashing in her beautiful eyes.
"We can't lock onto Mr. Yin's aura; he must have gone far away."

Uchiha Gin, squinting as he sensed the attack, shook his head. Just moments before, when Uchiha Hikaru used his grabbing combination technique, Uchiha Gin had vanished into thin air, rendering his prepared Amaterasu attack futile.

But the explosion from the combined attack had already occurred, and the men's restroom was bound to become a hotbed of trouble. Seeing this, the three exchanged a glance and tacitly took Hydrangea and fled to the adjacent women's restroom.

What will happen to her?

Following behind her, Senju Itama helped Hydrangea, who was now unconscious after the hypnosis had ended, her small face full of questions.

“She should have a child with her; we can’t just leave her here like this.”

Ultimately, this woman did bear a child for Uchiha Gin, so no matter how bitter Uchiha Hikaru felt, she couldn't do anything too extreme.

"Uchiha Hikaru?"

"Ok?"

As Hikaru Oofu was pondering how to handle the matter, she suddenly heard a somewhat familiar voice calling her. She frowned and looked in the direction the voice was calling.

"Are you...the Sorceress?"

In the crowd, a bare-armed shrine maiden, exuding an aura of poverty, was looking at him with a delighted expression.

"Haha, I didn't expect to run into you guys here. This saves us a lot of trouble!"

Reimu squeezed through the crowd and stood before Uchiha Hikaru and the others, her large, pale red eyes blinking excitedly as if she had encountered her own people.

"who is she?"

The only one who didn't recognize Reimu, Senju Itama, looked at the seemingly harmless, flat-chested shrine maiden in front of him with a puzzled expression.

"Someone I met when I went on a mission with A-Yin last time."

"Why are you in Konoha? Where is Miroku?"

Uchiha approached her familiarly and struck up a conversation. She had a deep impression of the hardworking little girl; looking at her was like seeing her younger self.

"They're here too, ordering food over there!"

Reimu smiled and nodded, but as her gaze moved toward Senju Itama, her smiling eyes instantly turned sharp.
"Hydrangea? What happened to her?"

"You know her?"

Uchiha Hikaru raised an eyebrow. If Reimu knew this woman, things would be much easier.
"I only met her after I entered Konoha."

"What about the child she was with?"

"what?"

Lingmeng was taken aback. This hydrangea had been acting alone the whole time, so where did the child come from?
"She didn't bring her child?"

Seeing the confusion on Reimu's face, Uchiha Hikaru's expression darkened. Could it be that he had come to the wrong person, and that the orphan and widow were actually someone else?
"No, and judging from her appearance, she doesn't look like a woman."

The shrine maiden who tells fortunes has a special set of face-reading skills. Reimu could tell at a glance that Hydrangea, like herself, was a pure, unmarried woman.
"Senior Hikaru, could it be that we've really wronged Mr. Gin?"

Uchiha Osamu, who had overheard their conversation, was filled with conflicted emotions. If, as Reimu said, Hydrangea didn't have children, then she wasn't the person Fugaku had described who had traveled a thousand miles to find her family.

"No, this news is definitely not unfounded."

Uchiha Hikaru gently shook his head. If it were just a baseless rumor, Fugaku's vivid description wouldn't have spread so quickly; there must be irrefutable evidence to back it up.

"What news? What are you talking about?"

Reimu breathed a sigh of relief after checking on the hydrangea; it was just a simple coma, likely caused by low blood sugar due to lack of food. Hearing Uchiha Hikaru's words, she asked curiously,

"It's alright to tell you. The news that spread in the tribe today is that Ah Yin got a woman pregnant overseas many years ago, and now she's come all the way here with a pitiful girl to seek refuge with him."

"Damn it! I knew from the start that curly-haired guy was no good!"

After hearing Uchiha Hikaru's account of his indiscriminate procreation and subsequent abandonment of a certain curly-haired man, Reimu clenched her fists, her face filled with indignation.
"If I had known this would happen, I wouldn't have brought Maitreya all the way from the Land of Rain to seek refuge with you. Huh?"

As Reimu quipped, the pupils of the three Uchiha characters widened in shock, and their gazes towards her turned strange.

Reimu's voice faltered as she suddenly felt three burning gazes. The look of confusion in her eyes as she looked at Uchiha Hikaru and the other two was clearly visible.
Why are you all looking at me like that?

"You traveled all the way from abroad, bringing a child with you?"

With a gloomy expression, Uchiha Hikaru questioned in a deep voice, pausing between each sentence.
"Oh, yes."

Reimu nodded cautiously. Her not-so-bright brain worked at a snail's pace for several seconds before a look of realization appeared on her face.

"Oh! You don't actually think I'm the one involved in this rumor, do you?"

"You've already admitted it's a rumor, haven't you?"

"Huh!?" *4
Upon hearing the familiar, languid voice, the four women present simultaneously turned their gazes to Uchiha Gin, who was standing to the side, flaunting a bucket of fried chicken.

What are you doing here?

Uchiha Hikaru looked at Uchiha Gin with surprise. Where did this guy just run off to?
"I didn't leave!"

How could Uchiha Gin leave so easily? There were still three honey mustard-flavored family buckets waiting for him!

While Hikaru's grab combo is certainly powerful, how could he, as a noble ethereal dog, possibly fail to react to such a skill with a long recovery time?

The moment he was caught, Uchiha Gin used the Mugen Escape technique to enter the Shadow Realm. He didn't go far; he grabbed two sets of fried chicken from his seat and returned to continue waiting for the latest gossip.
As for why there are two sets, don't you need to pay an entrance fee to enter the Cinema World?

"Is this the end? How bland."

In the Realm of Shadows, Kaguya, who was stuffing fried chicken into her hands, shook her head with a bored expression. So this was the real reason why the orphan and widow had come to claim her father. Her hard-won interest vanished instantly.

"But this food called fried chicken is pretty good."

With a blank expression, Kaguya Mitsuki pulled a pure white chicken bone from her bulging little mouth. In her mind, she ranked this new snack high, deciding to make it her offering for the foreseeable future!

Uchiha Gin, engrossed in his fried chicken, had no idea that his pet, a dark-skinned, mature woman, was about to transform into a Fried Chicken Sage.

"Think carefully, when you entered Konoha, did the person who checked and registered you have this insignia?"

He looked thoughtfully at Reimu, who had an innocent expression, and then showed her the ping-pong paddle on his back.
Reimu tilted her head and thought carefully for a moment, then nodded gently.

"Yes, there is, and their service is quite good. When they knew I was looking for you, they were very polite and gave me your address. Oh, and they also asked me to take care of them in the future..." (End of Chapter)