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Chapter 35: A flick to the forehead can make someone cry for a long time, right? (Please read on, please recommend!)

Uchiha Hikaru sat in the chair, turned his head to look in the direction of the sound.

Then a young mother and son walked in from outside.

The mother had a gentle appearance, with black hair and fair skin. She carried several bags in one hand and held the child's hand with the other. The son looked to be about four or five years old, with puffed-out cheeks, as if he was throwing a tantrum.

Seemingly noticing Uchiha Hikaru's gaze, Sasuke somewhat awkwardly restrained his emotions, but the resentment he was holding in was still evident.

"Two bowls of char siu ramen, please."

Mikoto Uchiha pulled Sasuke to sit down at the counter, giving Hikaru Uchiha an apologetic smile: "I'm sorry, the child is being silly and disturbed you."

"...It's okay."

Uchiha Hikaru withdrew his gaze.

Of course, she recognized this Sasuke, the second main character in the original Naruto storyline and the reincarnation of Indra. But compared to the Sasuke she remembered, a man burdened with bitterness and hatred who would get a beating at the slightest provocation, this little Sasuke puffing out his cheeks and throwing a tantrum...

That looks quite interesting.

Sasuke looking like this, if you flicked his forehead, he'd probably cry for a long time, right?

the other side.

"Okay."

He responded with a reply and then got busy, casually saying as if chatting, "Oh, it's Mrs. Mikoto. It's been a while since we've seen you. You and Miss Hikaru must be relatives, right? I didn't expect three Uchiha to come and eat noodles so soon. It's truly an honor for our humble shop..."

"...Uchiha?"

Mikoto Uchiha caught this keyword and looked at Hikaru Uchiha again with some surprise.

As the chieftain's wife, she wouldn't dare say she could call out the names of all the clansmen, but she did have some recollection of most of them...

Why have I never seen this girl before?

Uchiha Hikaru lightly tapped the wooden tabletop of the counter with his fingertips, considering whether or not to say something to Mikoto and her son, when he sensed a familiar presence approaching the noodle shop.

This time, the visitor entered directly from under the curtain.

"Oh, it's Naruto."

He glanced at her out of the corner of his eye and greeted her familiarly, "You're a little late today. Would you like tonkotsu ramen again?"

"Yes……"

Naruto Uzumaki clearly hadn't expected the store to be so crowded, and instinctively wanted to shrink back. But the next moment, he suddenly opened his eyes wide and looked at a certain figure by the counter.

"Sister... Hikaru-neechan, is that you?! You're back?!"

"..."

Uchiha Hikaru slightly turned his head.

Upon seeing her profile, Naruto excitedly rushed over, throwing himself behind her with open arms: "Hikari-neechan, it really is you! The purple-haired lady and the old man both said... I thought you wouldn't come back! Waaaaah... I'm so glad to see you again!"

Next, Naruto, with tears streaming down his face, hugged her and started babbling on and on. One minute he was talking about the dishes he had recently learned to cook, the next he was talking about what he had seen and heard in the village, and he would occasionally interject with a few words about "Grandpa" and "Purple-haired Sister". They were all trivial things, and he made them sound incoherent, which made Uchiha Hikaru's head spin.

Uchiha Mikoto, standing next to her, also looked completely bewildered.

She did know Naruto Uzumaki; after all, they were friends when Kushina was still alive. But…

elder sister?

Wasn't the Third Hokage always strictly prohibiting village ninjas, especially Uchiha clan members, from coming into contact with the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki? How come there's an Uchiha clan member who calls Naruto her brother?

Don't they care about the Anbu around Naruto?

Compared to his mother's bewildered expression, Sasuke couldn't hold back any longer and glared at Naruto with a hint of annoyance: "Shut up, you crybaby!"

"...Who are you? Are you talking about me?"

Naruto turned his head to look, displeased.

"I'm talking about you! How can you yell and scream in someone else's restaurant... and cry like that, your nose is practically dripping with snot, it's so disgusting!"

"What's it to you, you ugly freak!"

"..."

Seeing the two children start arguing the moment they met, Uchiha Hikaru, somewhat speechless, reached out and pulled Naruto back. Then he asked Ayame for a roll of tissues and slapped it on Naruto's face, signaling him to wipe his nose. He then gave Mikoto and her son an apologetic smile.

"I'm sorry, the child is being naughty and disturbed you. Please forgive him."

"No, no..."

Mikoto Uchiha offered a polite greeting, but finally couldn't contain her curiosity and asked softly, "Little girl, are you... called Uchiha Hikaru? I heard from Mr. Teji that you're also from the Uchiha clan? But I don't think I've ever seen you before, and I don't know who your parents are?"

"...They're gone now."

"Oh, I'm sorry."

Mikoto Uchiha thought she had touched on Hikaru Uchiha's sore spot, and apologized somewhat embarrassedly, hesitating whether she should continue asking.

(Could this girl be a descendant of a Uchiha clan member who was separated from her family and married a member of the Uzumaki clan?)

(If that's the case, shouldn't I tell Fugaku...?)

At this point, the ramen was served.

Uchiha Hikaru broke the chopsticks apart and began to eat heartily.

She was indeed very hungry.

The battle with Danzo and the others had drained a lot of her chakra, and since the conflict with Hiruzen Sarutobi hadn't erupted, she didn't eat the Senzu Bean she had prepared beforehand, but instead put it away again. At that moment, she ate three large bowls of ramen in one go, finally feeling a bit better in her stomach.

At this moment, the tonkotsu ramen that Naruto had ordered was also packed up.

Uchiha Hikaru drank a few sips of hot soup to warm himself up, then nodded to Mikoto and her son beside him before pulling Naruto away.

After leaving the ramen shop, I returned to the building downstairs from Naruto's house.

From afar, Uchiha Hikaru spotted two people.

One male and one female.

The boy appeared to be about fifteen or sixteen years old, with short, silver-white hair, wearing a black mask, and his left eye obscured by a Konoha headband. The woman beside him had purple hair and was none other than Uzuki Yugao, whom they had met not long ago.

"Hikaru-chan...senpai."

Uzuki Yugao subconsciously wanted to address her as "Miss Hikari," but changed her mind at the last minute.

The masked man beside him spoke in a low voice, "Hello, I am Kakashi Hatake of the Konoha Anbu. I am here on the orders of the Third Hokage to explain what happened earlier..."

Although Uchiha Hikaru had previously said that "there is no need to explain".

However, Hiruzen Sarutobi clearly didn't take it seriously and still sent Kakashi and Yugao Uzuki to explain to her, while also saying some comforting words, indicating that he would try his best to meet her request.

Uchiha Hikaru reacted coldly to this.

"I've already made my request before, there's nothing else to say."

"You don't need to be too nervous. As long as you don't act disrespectfully like Shimura Danzo, I won't bother with it."

As he spoke, Uchiha Hikaru suddenly remembered something and glanced at Kakashi: "By the way, that white-haired brat, you should know who this child next to me is, right?"

(End of this chapter)