“So you kissed someone at seven years old, is your first kiss still there?”
Along the way, Kushina was thinking frantically.
She felt that this question had touched her soul.
But if the object of her first kiss was Uzumaki Mirai, it didn’t seem like a bad deal?
It wasn’t until she entered the house that she figured it out, so she stopped dwelling on it.
Glaring fiercely at Uzumaki Mirai, Kushina took the lead and headed deep into the Senju Clan Compound, pretending to read the Detailed Sealing Jutsu explanation.
Uzumaki Mirai awkwardly scratched his head; he hadn’t expected that he would impulsively kiss the little girl,
It’s all because the huffy Kushina was too kawaii!
That’s right, this matter can’t be blamed on me, Kushina bears at least half of the responsibility.
Otherwise, why would he only kiss Kushina and not anyone else?
If she knew Uzumaki Mirai’s thoughts, Kushina would probably awaken her Monstrous Strength on the spot and punch him into a vegetable.
(No kidding, this bro still has a tree planted in his soul!)
“It’s little Uzumaki Mirai, where is Kushina?” In the courtyard, Grandma Mito was randomly refreshed.
“Grandma Mito!” Uzumaki Mirai cherished this relationship very much; in his past life, he hadn’t really experienced familial affection,
but in this lifetime with Uzumaki Mito, the other person’s affection for him was solid and real, without a shred of falsehood.
“Uzumaki Kushina just ran deep into the Senju Clan Compound, she probably figured things out and is ready to start studying seriously.”
Uzumaki Mito smiled and casually rubbed the red hair on top of Uzumaki Mirai’s head.
What a warm red!
She couldn’t help but think of herself as a young girl, back in the Land of Whirlpools — —
People really do find it easy to fall into memories when they get old!
“Forget it, for that girl Kushina to seriously study Sealing Jutsu, that would be seeing a ghost!”
Uzumaki Mito recalled Kushina’s lazy appearance, and was also speechless.
Clearly, at the very beginning, the Nine-Tailed Jinchuriki candidate she selected was Kushina, and Uzumaki Mirai was just an incidental backup taken along.
But looking at it now, Uzumaki Mirai might be a bit more suitable?
Higher talent, studies harder, and he’s a boy, so he won’t have the experience she had of the Tailed Beast almost breaking through the seal during childbirth.
Uzumaki Mito weighed it in her heart, but didn’t say anything on the surface.
She just gave a meaningful encouragement: “Little Uzumaki Mirai must also work hard!
In the future, little Kushina might also need your care and protection!”
“Mm-hm!
Grandma, I’m going to study Sealing Jutsu too!
As for Kushina, I will definitely protect her well.”
“Good child, at the end of the month Grandma will come back to check your progress.”
“Hai~”
Uzumaki Mirai smiled, turned around, and walked towards the depths of the Senju Clan Compound.
Without walking many steps, the smile on his face disappeared.
Grandma Mito looked even more — — lifeless than before!
And that tone sounding like entrusting an orphan, if Uzumaki Mirai really were a child, he might not have been able to hear it out.
Too bad he wasn’t.
…
Pushing open the wooden door of the sealing room, Kushina was sitting with her back to the door, holding a sealing scroll in her hands, her back straight and rigid, looking like ‘I am studying very seriously’.
Hearing footsteps, she turned her head to glance at Uzumaki Mirai, then quickly turned back, letting out a soft hum from her nose.
“Kushina, you’re holding it upside down.”
Kushina was stunned for a moment, hurriedly flipped it over, and looked down again — —
Why were the runes on the scroll still upside down?
“Baka!
Despicable Uzumaki Mirai how dare you lie to me, clearly I was holding it the right way before!”
Kushina puffed out her cheeks, so angry!
“Hahahaha!” Uzumaki Mirai laughed uncontrollably, not expecting that with just a casual tease, Kushina would fall for it.
Even the sadness from Grandma Mito’s suspected entrustment earlier was diluted.
Kushina bit her lip, her face turning red to the roots of her ears with anger, and threw the scroll onto the ground: “It’s all your fault!”
“Hey, hey!
I didn’t hold the scroll.”
“If you hadn’t talked nonsense, how would I have held it upside down!” Kushina once again had a gnashing-of-teeth expression.
Uzumaki Mirai looked at her huffy appearance, and couldn’t help the corners of his mouth curling up slightly.
He purposely pursed his lips, as if savoring something.
When Kushina saw this, her whole body froze in place as if hit by an immobilization jutsu.
The stance of just preparing to pounce and attack instantly collapsed, and the tips of her ears were so red they could almost drip blood.
She abruptly withdrew her hand and moved backward, like a startled little animal.
“You…
You…
You’re not allowed to make that movement!”
“Which movement?” Uzumaki Mirai looked innocent.
“Just…
That!” Kushina pointed at him, her fingers shaking, yet she didn’t dare to say the three words ‘lick lips’.
“Anyway, you’re not allowed to do it!”
Uzumaki Mirai raised an eyebrow, roughly guessing what she was thinking, and couldn’t help laughing in his heart.
“Alright, alright, I won’t do it, I won’t do it.” He sat cross-legged properly, spread out another scroll again, “I’ll study, I won’t disturb you.”
Kushina let out a “hum”, hugged the scroll and moved to the furthest corner of the room, sat cross-legged with her back to him, putting on a posture of ‘I don’t want to pay attention to you’.
But she didn’t read a single word into her mind.
Her head was filled entirely with that scene just now — — the way Uzumaki Mirai pursed his lips, the arc of the tip of his tongue sweeping across his lips, and the sensation of that stolen kiss.
She flipped a page of the scroll, and then found that she had completely no impression of the content on the previous page.
“Despicable…” She muttered in a low voice, burying her face into the scroll, the tips of her hair tinged with red.
Uzumaki Mirai on the other side truly calmed his heart down to study.
He knew time waits for no one.
Grandma Mito’s physical condition was worsening by the day, and who knows when she wouldn’t be able to hold on anymore.
Before that, he would learn as much as he could.
Sealing Jutsu scrolls were flipped page by page, the jutsu structures rapidly built, disassembled, and reorganized in his mind, and those ancient runes and curse seals seemed as if they were naturally born to be carved into his memory.
Three hours later, the night-luminescent stones in the sealing room began to dim slightly.
“Just about time,” Uzumaki Mirai closed the scroll, stood up and stretched his stiff shoulders, “It’s time to go back for dinner.”
A muffled “Mn” came from the corner.
Kushina also stood up, the scroll was neatly closed by her — — but she hadn’t finished reading a single page.
The two of them walked back to the main house in silence.
Along the way, Kushina intentionally lagged half a step behind, not walking side-by-side with him, nor speaking, only occasionally stealing a glance at him, then quickly withdrawing her gaze.
Reaching the entrance of the main house, the aroma of food was already drifting out.
Uzumaki Mito sat by the table, and Nawaki had long started stealing food, only to be hit on the back of the hand by Uzumaki Mito with chopsticks.
“Grandma Mito, we’re back!” Uzumaki Mirai and Kushina pushed open the door and entered.
Looking at the house full of the warmth of mortal life, a hint of warmth welled up in his heart.
There were many fake people in Konoha, but the love of this family was all real.
“It’s little Uzumaki Mirai and little Kushina, hurry and wash your hands, dinner can start!”
“Hai-i~!”
The two little kids went to wash their hands, then obediently sat at the table.
“Where is older sister?
She’s not back yet?” Nawaki asked, rubbing the back of his hand.
“Not clear, this afternoon I saw her looking all excited, who knows what she was up to!” Before Uzumaki Mito’s voice fell — —
“Bang!”
The front door was shoved open.
Tsunade strode in, her blonde hair disheveled, her face carrying the high-spirited look of ‘this lady is in a good mood today’.
She swept a glance over the table, her gaze landing on Uzumaki Mirai, and then walked over in two or three steps — —
“Good kid!”
She scooped up Uzumaki Mirai, kissed him fiercely on the cheek, accompanied by a crisp “pop” sound.
“Today your Sister Tsunade is in a good mood, I’ll reward you with one!”
The whole table fell silent for an instant.