I, Uchiha Yu, am solely focused on cultivating immortality

Chapter 1 I'm hungry, meow

The Land of Fire, Konoha Village.

The ninja, dressed in a gray-blue coat, walked into the mission area at a leisurely pace. He greeted acquaintances with a smile and chatted about meaningless nonsense.

"Was the mission completed smoothly?"

"Thanks to you, everything went very smoothly."

"I heard your child is going to ninja school this year. Congratulations."

"Haha, thank you, thank you. This child is more talented than me; he might become a Jonin someday."

"Really? That's amazing."

After passing through the lobby, I headed towards the office where high-level tasks were handed over, greeting people along the way, clearly indicating that I was very popular.

Once the ninja turned the corner and entered the passageway, and there was no one in front of him, the smile on his face vanished instantly.

He moved his mouth and even rubbed his cheeks with his hands to relieve the discomfort in his facial muscles.

I've been laughing since the gate, and I've been laughing all the way here. My flesh is so sore from laughing.

Ugh, all that's just nonsense.

I carried out a B-level mission and returned unscathed, so how could it not have gone smoothly?

If a child can become a Jonin just by attending the Ninja Academy, why don't you just fly to the moon?

Nonsense is so annoying.

The people in this village are not as honest as the people in Chaoyang District. They don't speak truthfully at all. Even just asking me if I've eaten is worse than their pretentious talk.

As the ninja walked from the village gate, he was surrounded by people he knew, and he could only maintain a polite smile.

Laughter that isn't genuine is especially tiring and strains your face.

After moving his jaw, the ninja still felt uncomfortable, so he rubbed it vigorously with his hands until he felt pain before he felt much more relaxed.

Then he tapped his lower back.

What I hate most are the ninjas nowadays, who consider themselves "samurai" and try so hard to learn some ridiculous aristocratic manners, bowing to everyone they meet.

My back is aching.

The gray-clad ninja put his hands on his hips and did several sets of waist twists clockwise, then several sets in the opposite direction, and finally jumped around a few times, finally feeling his whole body relax.

Then he pushed open the office door, a slightly indifferent smile on his face.

This time it wasn't a fake smile.

The ninja who was reviewing documents in the office looked up and smiled when he saw the gray-clad young ninja.

"Not bad, you've completed such a difficult B-rank mission. Your promotion to Chunin is definitely not a problem."

"I have to thank you for the recommendation, Captain."

"No need to thank me. I recommended you because you're strong enough. If a Chunin had been assigned to this assessment mission, they would have been dead beyond repair."

"I still want to thank you."

"In my opinion, opportunity is the most important resource. You gave it to me instead of to others, and that is my good fortune."

"What's there to be grateful for in a dangerous B-rank mission? You could easily have taken the Chunin Exams..."

The ninja working in the office suddenly paused, clearly remembering something.

The standing ninja scratched his full head of black hair, then rubbed his nose with a wry smile and chuckled, "Going to participate in the Chunin Exams is much more dangerous than a B-rank mission."

"After all, I bear the surname 'Uchiha'..."

The office ninja's hair and beard were already gray. Hearing his former subordinate's words, he couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Oh, right, right, right, I really forgot, you're an Uchiha..."

"Ha, Danzo..."

He looked up at his subordinate, whose face held a wry smile yet remained composed, and couldn't help but shake his head again, saying with a sigh, "Don't blame me for forgetting; apart from your surname being Uchiha, what else about you resembles an Uchiha?"

"Arrogant, manic, haughty, disdainful of others, and brutal in his methods—he's unlike any of them."

"Haha, at least I have the Sharingan too."

"Oh? You actually have Sharingan? I've been your captain for two years, how come I've never seen you use it?"

"Hehe, because Captain is so strong, I don't need to activate my Sharingan at all."

"You're still so good with words."

The two chatted and laughed as they completed the handover of the mission, and the old ninja issued a mission certificate.

Only with the document can one receive the task bonus.

As for being promoted to Chunin, that still needs to go through the proper procedures.

Because a ninja's promotion requires the Hokage's approval and his personal signature to be valid.

Before leaving, the old ninja called out to his subordinates again.

"Uchiha Yu, you're no longer a member of the police force. What are your plans now?"

Uchiha Yu shrugged and replied casually, "I don't really have any plans. I'll just be a mission ninja."

"Thanks to you, I will soon be promoted to Chunin, and I will be able to take on missions on my own. With my strength, I will definitely have no problem making a living."

The old ninja shook his head and sighed, "Alas, there aren't many missions that can be carried out by one person alone. Even if one can make a living, life will be very difficult."

"There's nothing I can do. I still want to work in the security force, but Elder Setsuna Uchiha thinks I'm too weak and not suitable to show the dignity of the Uchiha clan. He insists on expelling me, and Captain Hachidai can't do anything about it."

"I see. I knew it. You did so well in the security forces that even the Uchiha clan's reputation improved, yet you were still fired."

"So it was that idiot, Setsuna."

The old ninja's qualifications were clearly very high, and he bluntly called Uchiha Setsuna an idiot.

Uchiha Yu naturally agreed. In his view, Setsuna was a terrible teammate, and he and his political rival Shimura Danzo were a perfect match, working together from both inside and outside to push the Uchiha clan into the abyss.

As for Uchiha Shisui and Uchiha Itachi, they were merely the last struggle of the younger generation of ninjas after their clans had reached a dead end.

Of course, Zhishui is just stupid.

He was so foolish that he couldn't distinguish between friends and enemies, and stubbornly believed that his family's political enemies could help the family, which ultimately led to his resentful suicide.

And Itachi is a madman.

His behavior was illogical.

There was also Uchiha Obito, who was an extremely selfish madman.

The thought that all three of them had awakened the Mangekyou Sharingan filled Uchiha Yu with a sense of utter despair, as if a blood-red countdown was hanging over his head and that of all his relatives.

The countdown numbers are mostly the same.

I really want to defect.

However, the ninja world is dangerous, and his strength is weak. Only by living in the Uchiha clan's territory and relying on the Uchiha clan's protection can he ensure his safety.

It wasn't the right time to fall out with Setsuna, so Uchiha Yu didn't agree with the captain's suggestion.

He just smiled.

He smiled and waited for the old captain to finish venting before bowing and taking his leave.

Having exchanged the mission certificate for a reward of 120,000 taels, Uchiha Yu took out a few banknotes and went to the market to buy ingredients.

This mission lasted seven days.

Since we don't have a refrigerator at home, all the food we stored will definitely go bad, and we'll have to buy new food.

The market in Konoha Village was very prosperous, with a wide variety of goods. Uchiha Yu quickly bought white sesame seeds, seaweed, chicken breast, carrots, and eggs.

After thinking about it, he bought soy sauce and several kinds of spices.

Upon returning home, I first cleaned up all the rotten and spoiled food, and then swept away the dust that had accumulated over the past seven days.

The rice in the rice container was checked and no rice weevils or signs of mice were found.

Uchiha Yu nodded in satisfaction, scooped out a full bowl of rice, rinsed it twice, poured it into a pot, added an appropriate amount of water, and lit a fire to cook the rice.

Just as the aroma of rice wafted through the air, with a loud crash, the window that Uchiha Yu had deliberately unlocked was smashed open.

A gray shadow rushed into the room, like a gray lightning bolt, bouncing twice on the windowsill and the back of the chair before landing opposite him.

A tabby cat sat gracefully on the table, proudly raising its head and looking down at the ninja in front of it, then meowed.

"You're finally back, meow, Yu."

"I'm hungry, meow."

The new story is still a Naruto fanfic, but this time it's told from a different angle.

This avoids the mistake of setting the scale too ambitiously and becoming uncontrollable.

Also, updates will still be two chapters per day, at 12 PM and 20 PM.

Before being published, each chapter was 2+ words; after being published, each chapter returned to 4+ words.

Yes, this plus could also equal 1000.

(End of this chapter)