Teuchi was stunned by the towering stack of silver notes before him. He had never seen so much money. How many taels could it be!
Lin Yu quickly answered his question.
"This is ten million taels, it's our ramen money for the next fifty years."
"T-ten million taels!" Teuchi was shocked. Two children, who seemed to be siblings, could produce such a large sum of money. He hadn't expected his ramen to be so valuable!
"Cough, cough, to be honest, we are actually getting a good deal. If we were to calculate it properly, it would be around eleven million taels." Lin Yu's face turned a little red. His math wasn't very good.
"That's enough, that's enough. My ramen isn't worth that much. Thank you so much. Come to my shop anytime you want and eat until you're full!" Teuchi said to Kushina with immense gratitude. As for Lin Yu, who hadn't eaten his ramen, tut tut, the young girl was more to his liking. She could eat!
"Hehe." Kushina giggled at Lin Yu, looking at me, so popular!
"Teuchi, since you've made up your mind, Auntie won't say anymore. Young people should be a bit impulsive." Teuchi's aunt no longer tried to dissuade him from opening the ramen shop. Since fate had decreed it, she chose to support Teuchi.
"Auntie, thank you. Thank you for taking care of me!" Teuchi bowed to his aunt, tears welling up in his eyes. This aunt had been very kind to him. Although he was a bit stubborn, he also knew gratitude and how to repay kindness.
"Go, child. I hope to see the day you become the greatest ramen master in Konoha."
"I definitely will! I promise you!"
...
Lin Yu pulled Kushina away from "Grandma's Steamed Buns." As for choosing a location, Lin Yu didn't interfere much. He just told Teuchi to inform him two days before opening, and he would bring a "large group" to support him.
Konoha village was very quiet at night, as there were few entertainment activities back then. Most of it was just shops, with no real entertainment options.
Lin Yu and Kushina walked on the path home. Kushina skipped along, in a very good mood. Just thinking about fifty years of free ramen reduced her violent tendencies quite a bit.
Turning a corner, Kushina's eyes lit up, and she nudged Lin Yu, "Lin Yu, I want to go on the swing~"
Lin Yu turned his head and saw that it was a place that looked familiar, like a park, with benches, a slide, a sandpit, and a few swings swaying in the wind.
"Okay." Lin Yu hadn't been on a swing in a long time. Perhaps his inner age didn't allow him to swing; it was too childish! But... it wouldn't hurt to try!
"Wow! It's so high, Lin Yu, push harder!"
In the end, Lin Yu never got to sit on the swing. Kushina treated him like a laborer. Lin Yu pushed the swing behind Kushina with a dark expression. My childhood is gone!
If it were Konan sitting on the swing, he would definitely hold her in his arms and swing together...
If it were Tsunade, he, Lin Yu, would be sitting... Pfft pfft!
If it were Mikoto, they would definitely be sitting together! Only with Kushina, I, a magnificent transmigration protagonist, am relegated to pushing the swing! Damn it!
Whoosh!
A figure wearing a cat mask landed in front of Lin Yu and them. Seeing the two kidnapped individuals happily swinging, even as an ANBU, he couldn't help but be speechless at their broad-mindedness.
He said in a deep voice, "Uzumaki Lin Yu, Uzumaki Kushina, the Hokage requests your presence."
Lin Yu composed himself, pulled the pouting and somewhat displeased Kushina, and followed the ANBU.
Why would Hiruzen Sarutobi summon us at this hour? Is it about the Nine-Tails' chakra leakage?
Hokage's Office.
Hiruzen Sarutobi sat in his office chair and kindly said to Kushina, who was standing before him, "Kushina, I heard that you used a chakra that wasn't your own when fighting the Sand ninja. Can you tell me how you did it?"
Kushina looked a bit nervous, turned her head to glance at Lin Yu, and seeing his reassuring gaze, slowly said, "I don't know what happened. A powerful chakra just surged from my body, and then that's what happened."
Hiruzen frowned and said, "To my knowledge, that violent chakra belongs to the Nine-Tails. Could it be... you communicated with the Nine-Tails?"
"Huh? You mean that chakra is from that smelly fox? But every time I go to find it, we just argue. Why would it help me?" Kushina blinked her big eyes and said with a look of innocence.
"Smelly fox, argue?" Hiruzen's mouth twitched. Anyone who could say such things to the Nine-Tails was either stronger than it or didn't know its power. At least he, Hiruzen Sarutobi, wouldn't dare call the Nine-Tails a smelly fox to its face!
Could it be that the Nine-Tails lent Kushina its chakra for self-preservation? If the Jinchuriki dies, the Tailed Beast also dissipates; it's not impossible.
"Kushina, can you communicate with the Nine-Tails? Can you get it to lend you its chakra?" Hiruzen desperately wanted to know the answer to this question.
Kushina hesitated for a moment, then shook her head, "Every time I see that smelly fox, we argue. It's fierce and petty."
"Alas, I understand. You can go home now. I'll talk to Lin Yu alone." Hiruzen sighed. However, being able to communicate was already a good sign. He could only see how things developed as Kushina grew older.
"Lin Yu, you..." Kushina looked worried.
"Go back. Remember not to lock the door, or I'll go to Mi... er, you know!"
"Hmph! You dare! I'll break your head!" Kushina angrily slammed the door and left, not even saying goodbye to Hiruzen.
Bang!
Hiruzen stared blankly at Kushina's retreating figure and murmured, "This is the second person to dare slam my door."
Lin Yu felt a bit awkward. Should he ask who the first person was?
Hiruzen came back to his senses, stared at Lin Yu's young face, and after a long moment, said, "How much strength have you been hiding?"
Lin Yu gave a wry smile. The time had finally come. He didn't want to hide it either. His growth in strength also meant he could access more things. Besides, he was, in a way, Hiruzen's grand-disciple, wasn't he?
Lin Yu decided to tell Hiruzen everything he could reveal to calm his mind. Otherwise, if some old schemer kept spying on him with his clairvoyance jutsu in the future, he'd go crazy!
Lin Yu's black pupils disappeared, and in the blink of an eye, they turned a bloody red, adorned with three black tomoe, slowly spinning.
Even though Hiruzen already knew that Lin Yu possessed the Three Tomoe Sharingan, he couldn't help but be surprised when he saw it with his own eyes. Awakening the Three Tomoe at the age of ten was extremely rare!
"And then? Just the Sharingan wouldn't be enough to deal with three Jonin."
Lin Yu was somewhat helpless. He demonstrated some of the C-rank and B-rank ninjutsu he had copied to Hiruzen, of course, only by forming hand seals and verbally explaining the chakra circulation. With Hiruzen's future title of "Professor of Ninjutsu," he could tell at a glance whether Lin Yu had truly mastered them.
After demonstrating about twenty to thirty ninjutsu, Hiruzen still frowned and slowly said, "Not enough. With these alone, you couldn't kill three Jonin. At most, you could protect yourself."
Seeing that Hiruzen was still not letting him off the hook, a thought arose in Lin Yu's mind. Why not just send him to heaven with the Rinnegan!