He couldn't help but look at Naruto's belly.
"Uchiha Kage, the Hokage-sama summons you!", However, just as Uchiha Kage was about to enter Naruto's consciousness space for a meeting with Kurama, a figure from the Anbu suddenly appeared in front of him.
"Yugao-neesan?", Even though the other person was wearing a mask, Uchiha Kage instantly recognized the identity of this Anbu ninja.
"Honestly..."
'Calling me 'neesan' again...'
Uzuki Yugao helplessly took off the mask on her face.
Then, she told Uchiha Kage more details about the Hokage summoning him.
"It's the acting Mizukage from the Hidden Mist Village who needs you to accompany her."
'However, this little brother really is popular with women, even the future Mizukage from the Hidden Mist Village...'
Shaking her head, Uzuki Yugao took out a well-crafted ninja blade from behind and handed it to Uchiha Kage.
"A gift for your promotion to Chūnin," Seeing some confusion on Uchiha Kage's face, Uzuki Yugao explained.
"That's great, thank you Yugao-neesan," He was even planning to buy one from Tenten, but who would've thought Uzuki Yugao, as if she could predict the future, brought him one.
Same as last time, he had just told Kurenai he wanted ramen, and this big sister quickly brought it for him.
'Wait, could it be that this Yugao-neesan has been secretly watching me all along?'
"It's nothing, as long as you like it," Being stared at by Uchiha Kage like that made her blush a bit. Uzuki Yugao quickly coughed and then turned around and disappeared on the spot.
———
'Didn't we agree to meet at the ninja tool shop for a date? Why did you come with another woman…'
Watching a boy and a girl walk in, Tenten, sitting behind the counter of her family's ninja tool shop, couldn't help but puff out her cheeks.
And Uchiha Kage was thinking about what he had encountered last night in the "dream space"...
Tenten wearing a qipao.
That graceful form hidden under the qipao, he had definitely underestimated Tenten.
After she matured, calling her a loli with a huge bust wouldn't be an exaggeration.
'But come to think of it, after absorbing ninja fragments, all these grown-up female ninja-type NPCs appeared in the dream space. Except for Karin and Samui...'
'Could it be because I brought them into the dream space in advance in the real world?'
'Or does it have to be special female characters?'
He had to think of a way to test it.
If it was simply because there couldn't be duplicate female ninja in the same space, then...
He could try bringing the real version of a female ninja who already had an NPC duplicate in the dream space and see if anything strange happened.
So now the question was, who should be the test subject?
'Mei Terumi is definitely out, and I am not that close to Tenten yet. If it is Ino, I am worried she'll get scared. In the end, it has to be the soft and obedient wife-type Hinata?'
'No, maybe I can do like last time. Knock Sakura out and bring her in to try?'
"Hey, why are you so absent-minded when shopping with me?", Seeing someone zoning out, Mei Terumi couldn't help but tug at his sleeve in slight annoyance.
"Didn't sleep well last night," Thinking about how there weren't enough action points, and he had to cut down on comforting the NPC kunoichi, Uchiha Kage really hadn't slept well.
"Really? Could it be you're thinking about our wedding date?"
'Geez, so Kage actually thinks about me so much that he can't sleep at night?'
Mei Terumi's imagination quickly filled in a scene of a restless boy tossing and turning in bed because of her.
'So cute.'
"What wedding date?"
'I am only in my teens, why would I be getting married?'
Uchiha Kage couldn't follow this Mist Village kunoichi's train of thought.
Even though he already had Kaguya and Mikoto as wives in practice.
"The Third Hokage already told you, right... about me and you? Still pretending to be clueless because you're shy?"
"Oh, you mean that? I politely declined," Uchiha Kage just remembered that document that was really a marriage certificate in disguise.
'This kunoichi from the Hidden Mist really is desperate to marry, but this kind of thing... better to talk about it in the future.'
He was still young, who knows how many more wives he'd have in the future. He couldn't marry them one by one. Better to catch them all in one go...
Ahem, in short, as an evil Uchiha, he couldn't hang himself from a single tree.
He had to hang from a whole forest.
"Re-rejected? Why? Didn't you just say you liked me the day before yesterday?"
'Was it a lie?'
'Liar? Scumbag?'
Mei Terumi found a shining long sword in the ninja tool shop.
"Because I don't want to go to the Mist Village so soon."
'When did I ever say I like her… Okay, maybe not hating someone can equal liking them.'
Uchiha Kage wasn't going to mess with equations here.
He did quite like Mei Terumi. Even though she'd only appeared in the dream space recently, she had already enjoyed his nourishment multiple times.
Only second to Kaguya, Mikoto, Tsunade, Hinata, and Kurenai.
"Then… until when?"
'Is he trying to delay the wedding? What a shy and indecisive kid…'
'But that makes him even cuter.'
Mei Terumi continued her mental fantasies.
"Until..."
'Until I conquered the ninja world and truly realized the dream of the Naruto Park?'
Uchiha Kage thought in his heart.
"Anyway, I'm not happy. Go buy flowers for me, or I'll get angry!", Looking at the somewhat evasive boy, Mei Terumi didn't plan to pressure him further.
Getting such a reply from him already made her happy.
"Buy flowers?", Uchiha Kage glanced back at Tenten, who was still puffing her cheeks and staring at him from behind the counter.
If he went to buy flowers, he might run into Ino.
Geez, who would've thought, after Kurenai got too embarrassed to leave home after being 'caught cheating,' there'd be Mei Terumi, a woman he couldn't refuse.
Because it was the Hokage's order, as a Konoha ninja and member of the Anbu, Uchiha Kage could only submit beneath Mei Terumi.
"Wedding? Doesn't want to go to the Mist Village? Could it be that junior Kage was just forced by that old woman earlier?", Tenten, who had been eavesdropping carefully on Uchiha Kage and Mei Terumi's conversation, suddenly had a flash of inspiration and figured out the truth.
'So that's it. No wonder Kage, who never gets close to girls, showed up arm-in-arm with a kunoichi from the Mist Village.'
'No way, I've got to save him!'
"Mom, I'm leaving early today!", Shouting into the house, Tenten quickly changed her shoes and chased after the disappearing figures of Mei Terumi and Uchiha Kage.
The sweet dream from last night still lingered in her mind.
Now that she realized Uchiha Kage might be married off to the Mist Village, she felt like something that belonged to her was being taken away.
———
"Geez, Mom actually thought I didn't dare confess?"
'Hmph...'
After leaving the flower shop and wandering around the streets for a while, Ino suddenly dropped her shoulders as if all strength had left her. Her beautiful blonde hair also dimmed a little.
Yes, she really didn't dare.
"Actually, things are good the way they are now..."
She could see Uchiha Kage anytime, cling to his arm and get close to him, just like a real couple.
'But what if...'
'What if there is a one-in-a-trillion chance that I confessed and failed, then I might never be able to cling to Kage again.'
'The future I saw in last night's dream will also...'
'Really just become a normal girl's spring dream.'
Thinking about that possibility made Ino's aggressive steps toward Uchiha Kage suddenly feel heavier.
It even seemed like she was heading back home instead.
'Forget it, maybe next time. When the time is right, I'll...'
"Ino, didn't you say you'd help at the flower shop today?"
"Sakura!"
Just as she was feeling down, Ino suddenly noticed her best friend appear beside her.
"You cut your hair?"
Sakura's previously messy long hair had been cut into a neat bob reaching her neck.
"Yeah, the stylist said I look better with short hair!"
Sakura happily showed off her new hairstyle to Ino.
"Also, after cutting it, I feel like I let go of a lot... of things."
"So… you had a breakup?"
'Girls with long hair cutting it short are usually because of that, right?'
But Ino definitely didn't want to one day have short hair like Sakura.
Kage liked her with long hair the most.
"No, you were the one who suggested I cut it short, remember?"
'Never been in love, where would the 'break' even come from…'
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