Naruto: The Information Broker from the Uchiha Clan.

Chapter 133 Fear

Despite being the Fourth Hokage and having a wife from the Uzumaki clan, Minato Namikaze's family home was not large.

The apartment is just average for a typical family of three, and with the title of "Hokage" attached to it, it feels rather shabby.

At this moment, Kushina was showing off her culinary skills in the kitchen, while Minato had other matters to attend to and returned to the Hokage Building first.

In the living room, Naruto was looking the red-haired girl up and down with great curiosity.

Why is your hair the same color as your mother's?

Karin, who had been holding her mother's hand, looked at Naruto and replied, "My mother is also red, so my hair is red too. You're blonde, so aren't you your mother's child?"

?

!

This statement startled Naruto, who then glanced at the kitchen and tugged at his hair.

immediately……

"Wow!!"

Sobbing, Naruto pushed open the kitchen door and hugged Kushina's leg tightly: "Mommy, she said I wasn't born from you! Where did I come from?!"

While busy, Kushina glanced at little Naruto, whose nose was streaked with snot and tears, smiled, and casually said, "One day, your father and I went to buy ninja tools, and the shopkeeper said there was a promotion: spend 10,000 ryo and get a free child..."

Naruto didn't hear what was said after that; the phrase "sending the child away" kept echoing in his mind.

I... was a freebie that came with the purchase of ninja tools?!

Overwhelmed with grievance, Naruto burst into tears.

Rin Uzumaki glared at her daughter in the living room, then looked at Naruto who was running back crying and said, "I was just joking with you. You were born from your mother."

Naruto blinked, looking aggrieved, and asked, "Then why is my hair a different color than my mom's?"

Whirlpool Bell chuckled. "That's because you and your dad have the same hair! You're both blonde, remember? Your mom was just teasing you."

At that moment, Kushina brought out the last dish from the kitchen, smiled, and said, "It's getting late today. I'll treat you to barbecue tomorrow."

She picked up her son and placed him on a chair beside her, saying, "You should call her Karin-neechan. From today onwards, you two are good friends."

Ignoring all that, Naruto grabbed Kushina and continued, "Mom, was I born from you?"

Kushina gently flicked Naruto's forehead: "Mommy was just teasing you."

These words finally put Naruto at ease.

After they were seated, Kushina looked at the reserved mother and daughter opposite her and said, "Minato will arrange your identities in Konoha tomorrow. With the alliance with the Uzumaki clan, there shouldn't be any problems for now."

"And I have some money here. I'll see if there are any houses for sale around here. Starting tomorrow, you'll be Konoha's people."

Uzumaki Rin looked at her fellow clansman, and in fact, both in her perception and her own feelings, this person held the greatest goodwill towards her.

But will Konoha, like Kusagakure, make the most of its own physical abilities?

Knowing the other's constitution, Kushina saw his concerns and exhaled before saying directly, "Don't worry, Konoha won't treat you like that. What happened to you in Kusagakure won't happen here."

"If anyone makes things difficult for you, come to me. Grandma Mito always thought about the Uzumaki clan before she passed away, and you may be the only clansmen I have left."

As Kushina spoke, she recalled her childhood experiences before she came to Konoha. Looking at Karin, who was about the same age as she was back then, she took Karin's hand.

Feeling the little hand trembling slightly in hers, Kushina smiled gently and said, "Don't worry here, you can grow up happily."

The last words spoken to her daughter made Uzumaki Rin pause, her eyes filled with tenderness as she looked at her daughter.

As long as Karin can grow up smoothly, nothing else matters.

Moreover, the clansman in front of me... is acting with goodwill.

"Thank you... Kushina."

After addressing her by her given name, Kushina smiled with delight.

Sensing her mother's emotions, Karin thought for a moment and then went to sit with Naruto, apologizing for what she had just said.

Sometimes, the environment forces people to grow and mature.

Compared to Naruto, Karin's actions clearly showed that she wanted to help her mother.

Kushina didn't say anything, but simply patted the two children's heads: "You two should get along well..."

The two children ate some and then went to play on the side.

At this moment, Kushina said to Rin Uzumaki, "You'll have to stay here for today. I'll help you find new accommodations after tomorrow."

"But Rin, are you going to become a Konoha ninja, or will you find some work in Konoha as a civilian?"

After thinking for a moment, Uzumaki Rei raised her arm and said, "I don't know if that Uchiha boy told you, but my constitution is a bit special."

He looked at the bite marks on his exposed arm and said, "Anyone who bites me can recover their strength and injuries. This power is based on my chakra. Perhaps... the medical department will need me."

"No!"

Just as Kushina was about to speak, Karin interrupted her. The little girl quickly ran over and blocked her mother's path, glaring angrily at Kushina.

"Are you... the same way?"

same?

Kushina understood immediately; the scene in the space must have been incredibly stimulating for the child in front of her.

"Karin, this is Mom's own decision."

Rin Uzumaki picked up Karin and smiled, "No village would keep someone who's useless, and a mother's greatest role is to help ninjas recover from their injuries, isn't it?"

At this moment, Kushina reached out and ruffled Karin's hair: "You've misunderstood your aunt. Konoha wouldn't make such a request of you. If your mother didn't have a talent for medical ninjutsu, she wouldn't have been allowed to go to the medical ward."

Karin looked at Kushina with teary eyes and asked timidly, "Really?"

Kushina smiled and nodded: "Trust Auntie, really!"

The certainty in her perception put Karin at ease, and the little one smiled at Kushina.

……

Turning back, Kushina looked at Rin's arm with a hint of heartache and said, "No one will bite you here... not even the medical department, I promise!"

As she spoke, Kushina clenched her fist, thought for a moment, and then said, "Perhaps you could go to the sealing class. How's your sealing technique coming along?"

Uzumaki Rin shook her head slightly: "My father passed away a long time ago, so I don't know much about sealing techniques..."

Kushina thought for a moment and said, "Your perception is very strong. Starting tomorrow, I will teach you the sealing techniques of the Uzumaki clan. You can either join the sealing team or become a ninja."

Whirlpool Bell smiled and nodded, realizing that this kind-hearted clansman also possessed extraordinary perception abilities.

Otherwise, if one were not discerning between good and evil, one would not treat oneself and Karin this way.

……

The next day, in the park of Konoha.

"This is Karin, my new friend. She has red hair just like my mom!"

Naruto was quite proud as he introduced Karin, after all, red hair was indeed a rare sight in the village.

Shikamaru looked over in surprise. Red hair and glasses—it was a girl?

Sasuke glanced at Karin and then scoffed, "I didn't expect you, Naruto, to like playing with girls."

Ok?

Naruto was stunned for a moment: "Why can't I play with girls? Her mother is just like your mother; she's a good friend of my mother."

Sasuke scoffed, "Girls aren't fun, especially red-haired girls like this."

These words made Karin glare angrily at Sasuke. She had initially thought he was quite handsome, but now she felt that his words were so unpleasant.

"Anyway, I don't play with girls who cry easily. When my brother comes back, I'll go to him to train me."

"Who are you calling a crybaby?!"

A sudden shout of anger interrupted Sasuke. Karin walked up to him step by step: "Say that again if you dare!!"

The girl's approach and angry gaze made Sasuke swallow hard. In this situation... he couldn't afford to lose face!

Before he could speak, a bag of potato chips was handed between the two of them.

"Naruto's friends are my friends. Want some potato chips?"

Karin looked back at the chubby boy holding the potato chips, then back at the potato chips, and blankly reached out... took out a chip and ate it.

Sasuke looked at Choji and said, "I don't really like potato chips, Choji, you can have them."

The argument ended, and Naruto breathed a sigh of relief.

If those two had started fighting, I'd definitely get a scolding from my mom when I got home.

"What should we play today? Hide and seek?"

"Still a ninja game?"

"Stalking and infiltrating?"

As suggested by several people, the game of hide-and-seek was eventually described by the five children as a sophisticated game of stealth.

however……

Six hours later...

"Bang!"

Sasuke threw the demon mask to the ground, then looked at Karin beside him and asked, "Why can you always spot me? I was hiding in the trash can, how could you find me?!"

In the six hours that followed, Sasuke was a ghost for at least five and a half hours, because whenever Karin was caught being a ghost, he would be the first one dragged out.

Karin pointed to her brain: "I sensed it, it was easy to find you."

Sasuke had no choice but to pick up the mask from the ground again.

Karin, who had started hiding again, grabbed Naruto, and the two hid together.

In the shadows, young Naruto asked in confusion, "Karin-neechan, how did you know where Sasuke was hiding? Can you teach me?"

Karin looked at Naruto and asked, "Your sensory abilities aren't strong enough, but don't worry, he won't be able to catch you. If he comes, I'll just go out and get caught."

Naruto twitched his lips. He was caught right away? And then they switched places within thirty seconds?

That's absolutely amazing!

……

In the shadows of a tree trunk not far away, Uchiha Yun stared blankly at everything in the park.

Karin, along with Naruto, used her sensory abilities to toy with Sasuke?

If this were in my memory, it would be absolutely outrageous.

However, the Karin I remember must have been so devoted to me because she saved my life during the Chunin Exams.

It's fine as it is now...

After taking another look, Yun's figure vanished in an instant.

……

In the shadows, Hiruzen Sarutobi was sitting across from his two close friends, Homura Mitokado and Koharu Utatane.

All three of them had their brows furrowed, and on the table was a piece of intelligence that they had just finished reading.

"Kusagakure accused Iwagakure of kidnapping their village's bloodline ninja and killing dozens of Kusagakure ninja."

Koharu Utatane frowned deeply: "It's obvious that this belongs to Uchiha Kumogami. Although it seems like they've shifted the blame to Iwagakure, if those two women leave the village, Kusagakure will definitely find out eventually."

Hiruzen Sarutobi nodded: "Although Kusagakure is just a small ninja village, if Konoha makes a move against it, the other four great ninja villages will definitely take action."

"Moreover, the Uchiha clan, the current Uchiha clan, Konoha no longer has the ability to remove them. Three pairs of eyes like that, it's simply unprecedented."

Undeterred, Mitokado Homura asked, "Hiruzen, didn't the Fourth Hokage listen to you? Those two Uzumaki clan ninjas will be the village's trigger tags sooner or later, and could be detonated at any time."

Hiruzen Sarutobi shook his head slightly: "After those two orphans of the Uzumaki clan entered Konoha, I was already helpless. The alliance with the Uzumaki clan came first, followed by the massacre by Uchiha Kumo, and now Kusagakure still thinks it's Iwagakure."

"In this situation, even if we disagree, we have no choice but to agree. Now... we can only wait and see how things develop."

At this moment, Koharu, who was standing to the side, pondered deeply and said, "Would it be feasible to do what Sakumo did back then?"

Hiruzen Sarutobi shook his head: "With his abilities, he can't stop him at the mission stage..."

Mitokado Homura sighed, "Although I don't particularly like Danzo either, if he were still alive, he should be able to come up with a plan to deal with the Uchiha."

Koharu Utatane frowned slightly: "Our goals are fundamentally different from Danzo's. If Danzo were still alive, with the power of the three pairs of Mangekyou Sharingan, Konoha might already be gone by now if he had forcibly suppressed him."

As she spoke, she looked at her old partner: "There's no need to talk about this kind of thing in the future. Danzo is in charge of Konoha's darkness, and his methods are too extreme."

Mitokado Homura paused for a moment, then said, "Are we just going to let this continue? If we do, who knows, maybe a Fifth Hokage from the Uchiha clan will emerge after the Fourth Hokage..."

Hiruzen Sarutobi remained silent, recalling the policies implemented during the Second Hokage's time.

Not only that, the image of the Nine-Tails enveloped in Susanoo, laughing wildly with incredible power, also appeared in his mind.

The Uchiha clan...

Although he had never thought of wiping out this clan from the village, he had never thought of it now that he was in such a high position!

Just how powerful was Uchiha Kumo?

……

(A rushed daily update, 4000 words today. The boss was extremely busy today, and I, the employee, have been busy until now.)

(End of this chapter)