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Sasuke Uchiha swallowed hard.
Five hundred million ryo.
Gone in an instant.
“Hirofumi! Was that your ability just now?!”
Hirofumi Ito nodded at the two of them, taking in their stunned expressions.
“That’s right — this is exactly the ability I was telling you about. The money I have coming in next should be more than enough to make me incredibly strong…”
“That’s genuinely terrifying.”
Sasuke Uchiha let out a low breath of amazement.
Hearing about something and seeing it with your own eyes were two completely different things.
Watching five hundred million ryo vanish in the blink of an eye, the sheer impact of that hit both of them like a wall.
The money had been Sasuke’s to begin with, and he still had tens of millions left over for pocket money.
Naruto Uzumaki was a different story.
He was completely floored.
He had never seen that much money in his entire life.
Five hundred million ryo.
Five hundred million.
The kind of sum you could never spend in a lifetime.
And now it was just… gone.
Just like that.
Right now, Naruto’s monthly allowance from Hiruzen Sarutobi was about a thousand ryo.
Five hundred million would have lasted him several lifetimes.
Watching Naruto’s shell-shocked expression, Sasuke reached into his wallet without a word, pulled out a silver note worth one million ryo, and tossed it straight at him.
“Take it and spend it.”
Naruto stared in disbelief at the note sitting in his arms.
“Huh?!?! Is this — is this for me?!”
“Obviously it’s for you. Look at yourself, acting like you’ve never seen money before. Embarrassing.”
“This… but… isn’t this way too much?!”
“I’m giving it to you. Take it.”
Sasuke Uchiha was every bit the arrogant, domineering CEO in that moment.
Naruto stared at him with literal stars in his eyes.
Hirofumi Ito felt it then, something indescribable hanging in the air between them.
Hmm.
How to put this.
The passion was burning?!
Naruto swallowed and gripped that one-million-ryo silver note with both hands.
“Thanks… you smug jerk, Sasuke…”
“You worthless idiot! I just handed you one million ryo and you’re still calling me a smug jerk?! Shouldn’t you be weeping tears of gratitude and calling me Big Brother right now?!”
“Hmph! Smug Sasuke! Whose big brother are you?! Smug guy!”
“You insufferable idiot! Give me back my silver note!”
“No way! Once it’s in my frog wallet, it’s not coming back out!”
“You infuriating idiot!”
“Smug Sasuke!”
“Knucklehead!”
“Sassgay!”
“Knucklehead!”
“Sassgay!”
“…”
They goofed around like that for a while longer, and then the three of them went their separate ways.
Sasuke Uchiha lay back on his bed, the corner of his mouth curling ever so slightly upward.
That Naruto really is such an idiot.
And Hirofumi… who knows how strong you’re going to get.
But I’m not rolling over and admitting defeat.
I’m the man who carries the pride of the Uchiha Clan on his shoulders.
The glory of the Uchiha will never let me give up.
Hirofumi Ito headed home.
Naruto moved with exaggerated caution, both hands clamped over his little frog wallet, rushing back as fast as his legs would carry him.
“Hey! Kid!”
Hirofumi was mildly surprised.
This was already the second time today that Madara Uchiha had called out to him.
He kept walking toward home while chakra began to condense inside the Summoning Space.
“What is it, Madara.”
He’d assumed Madara Uchiha was eager to watch him demonstrate the Summoning Technique, or maybe anxious for him to hurry up and summon his good buddy Hashirama Senju.
“I’ve already answered that. Why are you asking again… My surname is Ito.”
Madara Uchiha furrowed his brow.
“For some reason I cannot explain, I keep feeling as though there is some kind of connection between you and me. Something I cannot put into words. The same goes for that Sasuke Uchiha. It’s just this very strange feeling… If it weren’t absolutely impossible, I would say you and Sasuke Uchiha, the two of you brats — feel like my sons.”
Hearing that, Hirofumi understood.
The special feeling Madara Uchiha kept describing was almost certainly Indra’s Chakra.
Madara Uchiha paused, then continued.
“And that brat called Naruto Uzumaki, the feeling that brat gives me is strange too. That brat is this generation’s Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, isn’t he?! Truly laughable. A Jinchuriki being called the Nine-Tails. But why does that brat carry the surname Uzumaki?! The feeling he gives me is a bit like that big oaf Hashirama Senju… Could he actually be a descendant of Hashirama Senju?!”
“Alright, Madara, stop letting your imagination run wild. I am who I am, I have nothing to do with your Uchiha Clan. Naruto Uzumaki is just Naruto Uzumaki, and he has nothing to do with the Senju Clan either.”
After hearing all of that, Madara Uchiha dropped it.
After all, they were just a bunch of brats.
There was no point getting worked up over it.
What mattered right now was that the brat Hirofumi Ito had just received five hundred million ryo in silver.
Which meant, was it finally time to summon that big oaf Hashirama Senju?!
Just thinking about it made Madara Uchiha’s heart beat a little faster.
“Kid! Hurry up and show me your Summoning Technique!”
“No.”
“Hm?! Why not?!”
“Why would I show you?”
“Why won’t you show me?!”
Watching Madara Uchiha’s barely-concealed impatience, Hirofumi let out a quiet laugh.
“Madara. Just admit it. What you actually care about isn’t my Summoning Technique at all, it’s whether I can get Hashirama Senju out here, isn’t it?!”
Madara Uchiha’s face went red.
“Hmph! How could that be?! Why would I care about that big oaf?! Impossible! Absolutely impossible!”
“If you won’t admit it, then I won’t do the summoning…”
“Damn it! You insufferable brat!”
The truth was, Madara Uchiha genuinely did want to see Hirofumi’s ability for himself.
The last time he had emerged from the Netherworld, he hadn’t sensed a thing.
But more than that, he wanted to see Hashirama Senju again.
The last time the two of them had their decisive battle, that big oaf had ambushed him and won.
But now he possessed the eyes of a Sage.
The Rinnegan.
As long as that big oaf dared to show his face, Madara Uchiha was going to make absolutely sure he understood why flowers bloom red.
He was going to utterly demolish that big oaf.
➤ Next: The Evil Uchiha!