Konoha: The thirty-year-old Uchiha lacks motivation.

Chapter 986 Great! She's a legal underage girl.

"Red bean paste in a subtle, luxurious style..."

"Red bean paste in a subtle, luxurious style..."

Glancing at Tsunade and Shana kneeling on the ground in a standard dogeza posture of repentance, Shizune, crouching in the corner, timidly looked at Uchiha Gin, whose face was full of anger, and asked, "Um... should I apologize too?"

"Since you were misled by an incompetent teacher, you won't have to kneel this time."

Uchiha Gin picked up the sweet-smelling tea, took a sip, and generously let Shizune, an accomplice in the stalking, go. "Yay!"

"Don't be too happy yet. You may be spared the death penalty, but you can't escape punishment. Submit a 10,000-word handwritten self-criticism tomorrow."

"Thump!"

Shizune, who thought she had escaped a disaster, immediately turned from joy to sorrow. Her fair, delicate knees made incredibly smooth contact with the ground. "Red bean paste, intimate, Marseille!"

Uchiha Gin:

"Damn it... how come those curly ears are so sensitive?"

With her head on the ground, Tsunade recalled the scene of being suddenly subdued by Uchiha Gin and couldn't help but mutter to herself, "You naughty cow girl, do you believe I'll smash those two lumps of fat into eight pieces?"

Hearing this, Shana Uzumaki, who had also been arrested for misconduct, turned her head and glared fiercely at Tsunade's flat chest, which was now flattened into a pancake. Her envy, jealousy, and hatred were palpable. "Tsk! You little brat, I came here to save you from your predicament. Otherwise, you would be lying in bed cosplaying as a cream puff by now."

Tsunade, who was scolded for no reason, pouted and turned her face to look at the red-haired girl with a strange expression. She looked heartbroken. Is this the popular "spiritual little sister" these days? She has no gratitude at all.

"Stop whispering! You two better reflect on your actions!"

Hearing the two women whispering to each other, Uchiha Gin, who was trying to silence them, turned around and scolded them. If it weren't for his superhuman senses that allowed him to detect Tsunade's sneak attack in advance, he would have experienced the intense, numbing sensation of high pressure.

The punishment didn't last long; once it was confirmed that the two women realized their mistakes, the merciful jailer released them.

They stood up and spoke, "Why aren't you staying in Konoha? What are you doing here in a place like this?"

Holding his teacup, he looked at the master and apprentice rubbing their swollen knees and asked curiously, "I came out for a walk to clear my head."

Upon hearing this, Tsunade, who had been bending over, straightened up, her two bulging, gravity-defying mounds rippling in a way that drew attention. "Disgusting! Repulsive! Pervert!"

Shana, standing to the side, touched the racetrack on her chest, her face contorted with jealousy. "What right do you have to judge others?"

Uchiha Gin glared at Shana, who had regained her energy, and nodded thoughtfully. "It's a good place for you to relax, isn't it?"

Tanzaku Castle, as the largest entertainment city in the Land of Fire, boasts hundreds of gambling dens and pachinko parlors everywhere. It was Hashirama's favorite vacation spot back in prison, without a doubt.

"Don't act like you know me so well."

Tsunade frowned upon hearing this. How could this curly-haired guy be so clueless about boundaries? Do we even know each other?

"I don't understand you? You're not wrong to say that."

"You've lost all your money, haven't you?"

Faced with Tsunade's questioning, Gin Uchiha didn't answer but instead asked a question with a strange smile on his face, "Uh...who said that? I've been slaughtering everyone these past few days!"

Subconsciously touching her empty wallet at her waist, Tsunade's usually stubborn eyes became unpredictable, as if she were about to wreak havoc.

I think you're the one giving away freebies.

"I really can't help you."

Seeing her embarrassed state, Uchiha Gin sighed and shook his head, then pulled out a wad of bills from his pocket. "Here, take this. Be careful with your money, at least keep some for meals."

"You? Lend it to me?"

Tsunade, who expected to be met with ridicule, stared blankly at the sizable banknotes in her hand, momentarily unable to comprehend what this charlatan was up to.

Tilting her head in confusion, as she pondered Uchiha Gin's purpose, she suddenly noticed the red-haired tablet frantically breathing on her grandmother's chest. A look of sudden realization dawned on her. "I know! Hush money, right? I'll definitely keep this secret for you~"

"What nonsense are you speculating about? I only helped you out of respect for your grandparents. Otherwise, wouldn't it be better for me to use that money to play pachinko?"

Gin rolled his eyes at Tsunade, whose imagination was running wild, and tapped her slightly red forehead with his finger. "You really know my grandparents?"

Startled by this overly intimate gesture, Tsunade blushed. However, more concerned about Uchiha Gin's relationship with her grandparents than the warm fingers lingering on her forehead, she remained skeptical. While it was true that the information he had revealed was backed by the Uchiha clan, Tsunade still harbored doubts. This suspicion only deepened after she inquired about the clan's past with former clan members who had changed their names in the village.

"How could my relationship with Hashirama in prison be fake?"

Uchiha Gin raised an eyebrow, surprised that his flawless lie hadn't fooled Tsunade. "But why do everyone in the clan say they've never seen Curly Hair before?"

It turns out I asked someone.

"Infiltration? Do you even know what infiltration means?"

Seeing Tsunade's suspicious expression, Gin Uchiha breathed a sigh of relief, a hint of helplessness appearing on his face. "When doing underground work, I have to at least put on a disguise, right?"

"Uh...that's true."

Realizing she had indeed made a blunder, Tsunade awkwardly scratched her head, while smoothly slipping the banknotes given to her by Gin Uchiha into her pocket. "Putting everything else aside, this matching couple's mark with Mito's logo—how could it be fake?"

Seeing that he had successfully fooled Tsunade, who was almost enlightened, once again, Uchiha Gin struck while the iron was hot, lifting his thick, fluffy bangs to reveal a purple-black diamond-shaped mark.

"A mark is a mark, but calling it a couple's mark? You want to be my boss?"

The aura of the Yin Seal couldn't be faked, and Tsunade was completely convinced by Uchiha Gin's explanation. However, judging from the tone of his voice, she couldn't help but roll her eyes, suspecting that her grandfather might have some kind of Wood Release technique.

"Actually, it's not impossible. Mito's grandson is my grandson."

Unexpectedly, Uchiha Gin nodded seriously, which almost made Tsunade blush. She rolled up her sleeves, ready to take the curly-haired man down with her.

"What's wrong with being the grandson of the God of Gamblers in the Ninja World?"

"What... uh? God of Gamblers!?"

Tsunade, who had raised her fist, froze upon hearing this, clearly shocked by the words "God of Gamblers." Just like her grandfather's "God of Ninjas" and Hanzo's "Demigod," anyone whose name contains the word "god" is likely to have something special.

"That's right, the one standing in front of you is the ninja world's gambling god who was once invincible in gambling, swept through the gambling world of the five major countries, and fought against the alien gambling god Alkadan at the peak of 050 warriors."

"Grandpa, please accept my deepest bow!"

"Mito...the Mito you're talking about, is it Uzumaki Mito?"

Just then, Shana suddenly looked up thoughtfully, her gaze turning serious as she looked at Tsunade, who was excitedly shaking her breasts. "You know my grandma?"

Tsunade, who was bowing to Uchiha Gin, looked at the red-haired girl who was similar in size to Shizune with a hint of doubt in her eyes. Who was this girl? She had never mentioned her grandmother's surname. How did the other party know?

"Grandma? So you're Aunt Mito's granddaughter?"

Shana blinked her big red eyes and uttered a piece of news that shattered the worldviews of everyone present. "Pfft!"

Just as he put the sweet tea into his mouth, Uchiha Gin unleashed a Level 1 Great Waterfall Technique, drenching Tsunade, who was kneeling before him to acknowledge their kinship, completely.

"Ahem... What's your name, Aunt Mito?"

Uchiha Gin coughed violently a few times after being choked, not even having time to glance at his soaked dagger, and turned to stare intently at Shana, who had dropped the bombshell.

"My father is a flower-wielding artist, so it shouldn't be a problem for me to call her 'aunt,' right?"

Without a hint of guilt, Shana nodded, then immediately revealed her hidden true identity, "Eh... eh? Eh!"

Uchiha Ginichi, his face completely blank, vividly expressed his shock: "What did you drink? It's so greasy..."

Tsunade, vaguely remembering the name, wiped her wet chest, her brows furrowing into a deep frown. "Uzumaki Hanamichi, Hanamichi... I think Grandma mentioned him... Wait, you're the young master's daughter?"

After repeatedly murmuring the name for a long time, Tsunade finally remembered what the name represented. It was the strongest fighting force of the Uzumaki clan, and the last glory of the Uzumaki clan before its fall.

"That's right, I am Shana Uzumaki, the last surviving member of the Uzumaki clan."

Seeing that Tsunade remembered her father's name, Shana's fair face showed a hint of pride, but it quickly turned into a lingering sadness.

The Land of Whirlpools has long been destroyed, and she, a princess who has been wandering outside, is no different from a roadside weed.

"Impossible! Grandma said that my husband died in battle more than ten years ago. You're so young, how could you possibly be his daughter?"

Son?"

Tsunade, regaining her senses, shook her head vigorously. The red-haired girl in front of her looked to be at most a little over ten years old, and her age didn't match up at all.

Do you think everyone gains weight like you?

Gritting her teeth, Shana stared at the heaving waves of Tsunade's chest and continued to explain coldly, "I'm already 28 this year."

"You? Twenty-eight?"

Gin Uchiha and Tsunade stared in disbelief at the red-haired girl who looked perfectly natural even in a kindergarten uniform. "I haven't gone through puberty yet!"

Shana, whose figure was similar to Shizune's, glared at the two of them fiercely. "You... if it's true, then this is an illness."

Tsunade nodded with a look of sympathy. If Shana's words were true, then Shana's condition was definitely a rare disease similar to dwarfism.

Is there developmental delay?

Uchiha Gin, who was stroking his chin, had a different opinion. Looking at the red-haired girl whose life force was so strong that it was bursting, he couldn't help but think of his cousins ​​on the moon. The Otsutsuki clan there had a lifespan that was far longer than that of ordinary people because of the purity of their bloodline. They usually only reached adulthood at the age of fifty or sixty.

This Shana is very likely experiencing some kind of atavism, which is why her growth cycle is much slower than that of a normal person.

"You say you're the son-in-law's daughter, so why didn't you come to Konoha to find your grandmother after the Land of Whirlpools was destroyed?"

Tsunade temporarily believed Shana's self-revealed identity, but new questions arose one after another. Since Shana had survived the destruction of her country, why didn't she seek protection from Mito Uzumaki in Konoha? When the Land of Whirlpools was destroyed, Mito Uzumaki was still alive and still held a certain degree of influence in the village. Even if she couldn't order the Third Hokage to go and support her hometown, she could at least have protected her brother's offspring like she protected Kushina.

"Konoha? Hah, even a dog wouldn't go there."

Unexpectedly, as soon as Tsunade finished speaking, Shana's youthful face immediately revealed undisguised disgust and mockery. "My father specifically instructed me before he died that even if I starve to death outside, I should never associate with the hypocritical and filthy Konoha."

Any relationship.

After the destruction of the Whirlpool Kingdom, she fled to the vast ocean under the protection of her surviving clansmen. After drifting for several months, she finally arrived at an unfamiliar land and began a more than ten-year exile. During this time, in order to avoid the enemy's extermination, she and another clansman traveled to various places in hiding, including the snow country with its ice and snow, and also crossed the ocean to seek refuge in the mysterious Rainbow Kingdom.

If her identity hadn't been exposed in the Land of Grass, her escape might have continued indefinitely until the day she died.

"What do you mean by that? Didn't Kushina go to Konoha too?"

Tsunade frowned. She was, after all, a Konoha native. Even if Shana was her elder, she couldn't slander her hometown like that in front of her.

"Kushina... that was just a transaction."

Upon hearing the familiar name, Shana pursed her lips slightly and remained silent.

transaction?

Uchiha Gin, who was intently watching the drama unfold, raised an eyebrow upon hearing this. It seemed that Konoha in this timeline was hiding a lot of dirty secrets. The sudden destruction of the Land of Whirlpools might have concealed many unknown secrets.

"It's a transaction..."

Tsunade, however, was no novice in politics. Having grown up under Hiruzen Sarutobi, she had developed a certain intuition. "I think I understand. Do you have anything to prove your identity?"

Seeing Shana's sorrowful expression and silent demeanor, she didn't press for more details. Instead, she began to reconfirm the other person's identity.

After all, the matter was of great importance, and Tsunade dared not draw any conclusions based on just one side's account, much less casually acknowledge kinship.

Then why was your kneeling and calling him "Grandpa" so smooth just now?

"Things... Heh, this is all that the Uzumaki clan left me."

Shana stroked her still slightly damp red hair, her face filled with even more sorrow. "I'm sorry, but I can't trust you for now."

Since she couldn't produce any evidence, Tsunade had no choice but to temporarily suspend the process of recognizing her as a relative. "Don't you have any tokens or anything like that?"

Uchiha Gin was convinced of this. If it wasn't a true Uzumaki, how could its vitality be so vigorous? Moreover, he did see the shadow of Uzumaki Hanamichi in Shana's eyes and brows.

"Yes, I do have them, but they're all kept by my maids."

Wow, she really is a young lady from a wealthy family; she even has a personal maid.

"That makes things easier. Where is your maid? Finding her will prove your identity."

"We got separated while hiding from the Grass Ninja. I hope she wasn't caught, otherwise, with her special talent, she'll definitely suffer a terrible fate."

Speaking of her personal maid, Shana's face was full of worry, "Uh... how badly?"

"The kind that is physically devoured and completely emptied."