Naruto: I'm in Konoha, my name is Uzumaki Menma

Chapter 128 You are all my wings
On the wooden pier by the Naka River, Uchiha Hikaru snatched the snack box from Menma's hand, picked up a string of three-colored dumplings, and took a big bite.

The pale green glutinous rice ball deformed between her teeth. The girl puffed out her cheeks and glared at Mianma, looking just like a cat guarding its food, not even intending to leave the last ball on the bamboo skewer for him.

"Okay, okay, don't be angry." Menma placed his hands on Uchiha Hikaru's shoulders.

The Uchiha clan members have an inherent feline arrogance; you have to stroke their fur to get along with them.

Of course, conquering with force, like Hashirama Senju suppressing Madara Uchiha or Naruto Uzumaki subduing Sasuke Uchiha, is also an option.

But at this moment, Uchiha Hikaru is more like a grumpy house cat, jealous because its owner petted another cat.

Menma simply pushed the whole box of dumplings in front of her, watching with great interest as the girl devoured the sweets one after another, her cheeks puffing out in cuteness. He asked, "It seems like all Uchiha people really like sweets?"

Itachi Uchiha liked to eat soft and sweet treats like tricolor dumplings.

Obito Uchiha liked to eat red bean cakes and dumplings.

Uchiha Sasuke likes to eat tomatoes.

It seems that Uchiha Shisui also likes Maruko.

For some reason, the Uchiha clan has a strange fondness for dumplings, and even their clan crest looks like a dumpling.

"No way!" Uchiha Hikaru suddenly turned his head, his puffed-up right cheek brushing against the tip of his nose, his eyes filled with grievance, looking exactly like a wronged little wife.

Menma smiled. As long as Uchiha Hikaru was still willing to talk to him, things would be fine.

He took the opportunity to put his arm around the girl's shoulder and pull her into his arms. He felt the body in his arms stiffen at first, and then slowly soften, with only the speed at which she chewed the dumplings slowing down.

Ga ga ga~
A few ducks swam across the water, and the afterglow of the setting sun shone on the two of them.

"One-two-one! One-two-one!"

On the riverbank, Might Guy, who was undergoing extra training, passed by, glanced at the young couple on the dock, and exclaimed, "Ah! The vibrancy of youth! I'm so envious!"

"Two hundred more push-ups tonight!"

"Hey..." Uchiha Hikaru suddenly spoke in a muffled voice, swallowing the last bite of dumpling: "Won't you think I'm an old woman now..."

"After all, I've been sealed away for so long, which means I'm over three hundred years old by now."

Although she is a ninja, she is still a girl, and she cannot hide her concerns about her age and appearance.

The long years of being sealed away have now become heavy shackles, especially after discovering that Menma's true form is actually a child; the age difference feels like a thorn stuck in his heart.

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Menma said, puzzled, and reached out to rub Uchiha Hikaru's cheek. "Such a cute girl, wouldn't it be perfect if she stayed this age forever?"

"Isn't she cute?" Uchiha Hikaru suddenly looked up and said with a fierce look in his eyes, "That little girl with the Byakugan is cute too."

"Well..." Menma chuckled dryly and touched his nose: "You are all my wings."

"Hmph." A soft hum, mixed with the splashes of water kicked up, dissipated in the evening breeze.

Uchiha Hikaru did not press Menma for how many pairs of wings he had.

Her toes lightly touched the water's surface, splashing up a series of droplets. Curious, she asked, "Why do you have such strength and such grand ambitions at such a young age?" "It's like you've been sealed away for hundreds of years. Perhaps I just have a few decades more life experience than an ordinary child," Menma replied vaguely, his fingertips unconsciously twirling a stray strand of hair at her temple.

He didn't explain his identity as a time traveler, nor did he mention the more than ten years he spent in the Limited Tsukuyomi; he just spoke in this somewhat ambiguous way.

Uchiha Hikari stopped dwelling on it. Everyone has their own secrets. For her, the first person she saw when her seal was broken was Menma. It was Menma who untied her knot in her heart, which destined her to have this bond with Menma.

If we continue to dwell on it, it will backfire.

Moreover, that little girl who rolled her eyes was only a few years old. Even if she and Menma were childhood friends, she, being a natural-born girl, was confident that she could defeat her!
"I've already killed Raiga Kurosuki." The topic quickly shifted, and Hikaru Uchiha began talking about the task Menma had given her.

“That guy led the Kurosuki clan to occupy the Soxa Gold Mountain and wreak havoc on the surrounding civilians, taking pleasure in killing and burying people. He has violated the code and principles of ninjas, so I killed him. As for the other Kurosuki clan members, I had Hotaru and Natsume take them back to the Land of Stars.”

"Yeah, yeah, so what if he's dead?" Menma nodded and tried to rub Uchiha Hikaru's head.

Seeing that the other party did not resist, it was clear that the angry kitten had calmed down considerably.

"By the way, have you ever heard of the Land of the Sky?" Menma thought of Shennong and Yuru, whom he had met a couple of days ago. It just so happens that the Solanum Plant Gold Mine is also located in the southern part of the Land of Rivers, near the sea.

"The Land of the Sky has already been destroyed, hasn't it?" Uchiha Hikaru pondered her memories. In the Warring States period when she lived, the Land of the Sky was a sizable country with many ninjas.

During his time in the Land of Stars, Uchiha Hikaru also studied the history from the end of the Warring States period to the present, and roughly knew the history of how the Land of Sky and the Sky Village were destroyed by Konoha during the Second Shinobi World War.

"Yes, the ruins of the Sky Ninja Village should be in the southern part of the Land of Rivers. Some remnants fled to the southern sea and established a mobile Sky Ninja Village based on their fleet. There should be a lot of technology in their ruins. We can send people to collect some of it."

The technology by which the royal fortress converts chakra into kinetic energy, along with the warship technology, flying ninja tool technology, and kunai-launching gun technology of the Sky Ninja Village, should have already been mass-produced on a small scale. As a result, when they invaded Konoha a few years later, almost all of them were equipped with flying man-made suits and kunai-launching guns.

"Oh right, that little girl from earlier was a pawn I prepared." Menma recalled Uchiha Izumi from earlier and took out the Book of Crimson Moon.

"Want to go take a look together?" Zhu Yuezhi handed over the book of mahjong.

Uchiha Hikaru curiously placed his hand on the Book of Crimson Moon.

As a pale red light rose from the Book of Crimson Moon, the two people's vision changed.

The two arrived at the Uchiha clan's territory.

Uchiha Hikaru awakened his Mangekyou Sharingan and realized that he was in a genjutsu world.

However, the level of the illusion is extremely high, and even the Mangekyou Sharingan has difficulty breaking free from it.

"What amazing genjutsu! It looks so real," Uchiha Hikaru exclaimed, turning his head to see that Menma had also changed his clothes.

"Welcome to my theater!" Menma, dressed in black robes and wearing a white three-eyed fox mask, stood on the roof ridge and waved to Uchiha Hikaru.

Uchiha Hikaru also jumped to Menma's side and followed Menma's gaze into the Uchiha clan's territory.

Uchiha Izumi, who had just encountered them, was sitting on the ground, watching helplessly as Uchiha Itachi swung his butcher's knife at a child who looked only three or four years old, with two old people lying in a pool of blood nearby.

Uchiha Hikaru frowned as he watched the 'weasel' slaughtering his clansmen.

(End of this chapter)