Chapter 18: Chapter 18: Saving Kaguya Successfully
Looking at the female ninja who had not removed the cat-faced mask from her face until now, Uchiha Kage tentatively asked a question.
"No, it is only required when carrying out missions."
Uzuki Yugao led Uchiha Kage all the way to a relatively private room in the village, then took out a key and unlocked the door.
"Then, can Sister take off the mask?"
"...", Uzuki Yugao, who was about to push the door open and enter the room, paused slightly.
"I can," Although her voice was cold, the female ninja still obeyed and removed the mask from her face.
"Great," Uchiha Kage looked at the female ninja's delicate and beautiful face, as pure as a lotus emerging from clear water, and revealed an expression of "as expected."
"What?", Uzuki Yugao was confused.
"Beautiful purple hair, a pleasant voice—I was thinking that if the person behind the mask was a beautiful elder sister, that would be perfect. Looks like my guess was right."
"You…"
'Am I beautiful?'
For a moment, Uzuki Yugao didn't know how to react.
However, this boy was really good with words. Even though she knew he was deliberately flattering her, she didn't find it annoying at all. On the contrary, she even felt a bit happy to be praised.
"You are different from other Uchiha," Because of this compliment, Uzuki Yugao felt that the distance between them had suddenly shortened from being strangers.
"Sister has met other Uchiha?", Uchiha Kage asked a joke that was dangerously close to the edge.
"I… have indeed met them."
'And they were all quite famous Uchiha,' Uzuki Yugao silently added in her heart.
She was a peer of Uchiha Itachi and was also part of Anbu. Not only had she seen Uchiha Itachi, but she also knew Uchiha Shisui.
However, when she thought about the entanglements between those two and the Uchiha clan, as well as the fact that the boy in front of her had lost all his relatives, she couldn't help but show a trace of sympathy in her gaze.
"Then what were the other Uchiha like?", Uchiha Kage pretended to ask curiously.
"The other Uchiha… were quite closed off, rarely communicating with outsiders. Even when they smiled at you, you could still feel a sense of distance, like a thick wall separating you," Uzuki Yugao recalled her impressions of Uchiha Itachi and Uchiha Shisui.
Then she carefully compared them with the boy in front of her, "But you are different. You don't seem to care whether you are an Uchiha or not, and you don't… fake smile."
"Is Sister complimenting me?", Uchiha Kage hadn't expected Uzuki Yugao to seriously express her opinion of him.
"Yes," Uzuki Yugao was a bit cold by nature and spoke quite directly.
"This house has been assigned to you for temporary residence. You can come here at any time in the future."
"Thank you."
'So this house is like a settlement allowance? I thought it would be some kind of secret meeting spot.'
'But, I forgot to ask earlier—does working two jobs mean I get two salaries?'
'Then again, considering how stingy Hiruzen Sarutobi is, having this little house to stay in is already a blessing.'
"No need to thank me. Every Anbu member gets one."
"No, I'm thanking Sister for saving me twice before."
"That was my duty, and…", Uzuki Yugao didn't feel like she deserved gratitude since she had nearly caused the boy's death due to her own mistake.
"Anyway, Captain Kakashi might be quite busy. If you can't find anyone in Anbu, you can come to me for help. My name is Uzuki Yugao, and my Anbu codename is Zii."
After handing Uchiha Kage the room key and an Anbu manual, Uzuki Yugao didn't stay long and quickly disappeared among Konoha's rooftops.
"Uzuki Yugao, huh?"
'So it really is her.'
'However, this sister doesn't yet know about an interesting phenomenon between people—'
'That is, the people you help may not necessarily help you in return, but the people who have helped you once are highly likely to help you again.'
Uchiha Kage understood this principle, so when he heard Uzuki Yugao say, "Come to me," he didn't hesitate to follow her.
Because he knew she was unlikely to harm him.
And deliberately being friendly with her was also to ensure that in the future, if anything happened, she would stand on his side again.
'And this Anbu directly under the Hokage…'
Although it sounded a bit troublesome, it also seemed to be a position with a lot of power.
The will of the Hokage may be the will of Anbu, but the will of Anbu is not necessarily the will of the Hokage.
One day…
Lying on the bed in the quiet little house, Uchiha Kage flipped through the Anbu manual while thinking about his next move.
———
"Kage, why have you been coming back later and later recently?"
"Maybe my Jonin teacher is just more responsible."
At night, as soon as Uchiha Kage returned to the clan, he was interrogated by Sasuke.
However, he wasn't hiding his involvement with Anbu from Sasuke because of confidentiality rules; he just didn't want to stir up Sasuke's competitive spirit and jealousy.
To him, Anbu was just a hassle, but for Sasuke and Naruto—who had been indoctrinated with the Will of Fire at this stage—joining Anbu would be an immense honor.
"Then you must have picked a good teacher," Thinking of a certain white-haired ninja who spent all day catching cats and dogs, Sasuke looked displeased.
He had thought that becoming a real ninja would mean getting proper guidance from a Jonin and rapidly improving his skills through various missions.
But reality was disappointing—it was nothing but pointless busywork.
He would have gained more training from those weird dreams every night.
Speaking of those dreams, Sasuke was actually looking forward to tonight.
"Naruto said that you have a good chance of completing that mission tonight?"
"Fifty-fifty. Naruto's technique has indeed improved a lot under my guidance."
Though the process of teaching it was a little hard to talk about.
Even from Uchiha Kage's previous life perspective, Naruto's technique was quite powerful—it would probably be even more effective against indigenous figures like the Sage of Six Paths.
"Then let's sleep early," Eager, Sasuke quickly grabbed his pillow and went back to his room to sleep.
Even though he looked down on Naruto's indecent jutsu, he didn't have a better plan right now.
Besides, as long as it helped complete the mission and gain power, any sacrifice was acceptable.
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[Enter Dungeon?]
Closing his eyes, Uchiha Kage quickly arrived at the dungeon scene where Kaguya, Hagoromo, and Hamura stood facing each other in midair.
"Enter."
As always, he selected Naruto and Sasuke as his teammates and skillfully appeared on a small hill.
Naruto and Sasuke, who arrived with him, also swiftly began their actions.
'Shuriken Shadow Clone Jutsu!', Taking out shuriken and fine steel wires from his ninja tool pouch, Sasuke moved as if he had foresight and attacked a small toad that had just poked its head out.
Before long, he had wrapped up Gamamaru—the future Great Toad Sage—in iron wires, binding him like a dumpling.
"Now, we just need to dodge their attacks!"
More precisely, dodge the attacks of the three humanoid monsters in the sky and the Ten-Tails monster on the ground.
"Run left into that valley, then move to the crater on the right…"
After multiple "deaths," Uchiha Kage and Sasuke had completely figured out the attack patterns of Kaguya and the Six Paths figures.
As long as they didn't deliberately draw attention, the attack locations wouldn't change much.
By memorizing the attack ranges, they could sneak into the battlefield unnoticed.
BOOM!
A Tailed Beast Bomb exploded on the mountain behind them.
The devastating shockwave made the three hiding in the crater tremble.
Although Uchiha Kage and the other two had already died many times in this 'dream,' every time they brushed past death, their hearts still pounded wildly.
"Now! Naruto, use that jutsu!", Seeing that the Sage of Six Paths Hagoromo and his younger brother Hamura were about to unleash their final combined sealing technique on Kaguya, who had been struck into the mountain and was temporarily injured and unable to rise, Uchiha Kage quickly leaped out of the crater with Naruto.
Then, together with Sasuke, he threw Naruto into the sky.
"Got it! Watch me!"
In midair, as he gradually approached the Six Paths family, Naruto confidently formed the hand signs for Multi-Shadow Clone Jutsu.
———
"Farewell, my mother."
'Planetary Devastation!'
With the help of his younger brother Hamura's power, the Sage of Six Paths unleashed his strongest sealing technique.
Although his mother, Kaguya, could not be killed, sealing her away would have the same effect.
And then there was the Ten-Tails…
'Your power is too strong; it must be weakened.'
However, just as the Sage of Six Paths was sealing his mother Kaguya and considering his next move, an unexpected event occurred.
"Sexy Multi-Harem Jutsu!"
A certain orange-colored figure suddenly flew in from nowhere, inserting itself between the Sage of Six Paths and his mother Kaguya. In an instant, it summoned a vast number of strange, naked women and… naked men?
At first, the Sage of Six Paths was dazzled by the various smoke-shrouded naked women, then his eyes burned as he saw a group of naked men surrounding his mother.
"W-what… is this?"
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