The sounds of closing and opening doors sounded one after another.
When Yiyong returned home, he subconsciously glanced at the shoe cabinet next to the entrance.
Five pairs of slippers and one pair is too many means no one is going home.
【Very good.】
【No one interrupts my cooking.】
He was a little irritated when he thought about the last time he came back late and Itachi fried eggs for Sasuke alone and ended up spreading eggs all over the kitchen.
However, when he saw that Itachi hadn't fried the eggs yet, his expression was even more annoyed than him, and he even had an extra dot in his left eye, Giyuu didn't say anything more, but from now on, he never wanted to see his brother in the kitchen again.
As for the food cooked by his mother, how should I put it, the taste is okay, but not as good as his. Sasuke, who is used to eating the food cooked by Giyu, doesn't like the change of taste very much, which will inevitably make his mother feel disappointed.
To sum up, it is better to leave Uchiha Giyuu alone in the Uchiha family's kitchen.
However, what happened was contrary to expectations——
"Is Yiyong back?"
A clear and sweet voice came from the kitchen.
Yiyong's eyes narrowed, and his originally dark blue irises suddenly glowed with a faint red light.
Uchiha Mikoto stepped on the cleaning shoe covers and walked out of the kitchen with a mop, looking at her youngest son with a smile on her face.
"Mom came back from get off work early. Are you happy, Yiyong?"
After Giyuu began to take over the housework and Fugaku's strict dissuasion failed, Mikoto, who had nothing to do, went back to take care of the students who graduated from the ninja school.
However, considering that today was the birthday of her two youngest sons, she gave the students a break and came back early to clean up after a long time.
When Yiyong saw that his mother was not holding kitchen utensils, but was just cleaning, the red light in his eyes gradually faded away.
Looking at the floor that was not completely dry, he thought for a moment and turned around to open the door and go outside to wait for the floor to dry before coming in.
Mikoto appeared between Giyu and the gate with a teleportation spell. She put her hands on her hips and pouted, pretending to be unhappy. In fact, she was imitating an old classmate with red hair.
"Why, you don't say hello to your mother when you see her? That will make me sad."
She, Uchiha Mikoto, has three sons with different personalities, so her methods of dealing with them naturally have to be different.
The eldest, Uchiha Itachi, is deep-minded but very mature. Treat him as an adult and he will communicate with you openly and honestly (probably maybe).
The second oldest, Uchiha Sasuke, was spoiled by his older brother and younger brother, but he eagerly longed for his father's approval. As long as it came to Fugaku and Itachi's expectations of him, he would temporarily put aside his naughty naughtiness and be serious and obedient.
The third oldest, Giyuu Uchiha, is the most difficult to deal with among the three.
Once, Uchiha Fugaku asked his family not to talk to him for a week in order to get Giyuu to take the initiative to communicate with others, and see who could survive.
Of course, in the end, Yiyong won the game, but it made the couple miserable.
The child Giyuu, call him naive, but he often shows the look of "I have seen through everything" and "there is nothing to care about". He can calmly respond to any provocation from his peers and even Fugaku's criticism.
Deal with it.
He neither longed for praise from others nor attention from his parents, but instead quietly took over the responsibility of taking care of Itachi and Sasuke's food, clothing, housing and transportation. When he didn't speak, he was even more like the eldest son of the family than Itachi.
But let's call him mature. He doesn't care about other people's looks at all. He will do rude things from time to time and speak his most direct thoughts without any hesitation. He can also easily hurt other people's feelings.
For example, a few days ago, Sasuke and Itachi were learning the Go Fireball Technique, and after finally blowing out a little flame, they went to Giyuu to show off.
Based on Giyu's consistent care for Sasuke, no one would have imagined that he would just blurt out -
"Do you want to learn how to light candles?"
Because of this, Sasuke never said another word to Giyu until today. Of course, he kept eating.
But for such a child who only told the truth, Mikoto couldn't understand what he was thinking at all.
If you want this child to communicate with you, you must use a slightly exaggerated and intrusive posture to continuously attack him in an almost stalking manner.
And he seemed unable to distinguish those subtle emotions. Mikoto could only make Giyuu feel her mental state by pretending to be dramatic, angry or sad.
Sure enough, when he saw his mother blocking the door, looking a little angry, Yiyong stopped moving. Then he started to say hello——
"Have a bad day at work?"
Uchiha Mikoto decided to admit defeat.
She knelt down and grabbed Yiyong's rigid little face, pulled out a stiff smile, and asked somewhat depressedly: "Aren't you happy that I'm back?"
"Don't you come back every day?"
Yiyong tilted his head, "It's only worth being happy if we haven't seen each other for a long time."
For example, seeing Tanjiro survive and return from a dangerous mission, Nezuko is also safe and sound.
For example, when I returned to Saagiri Mountain, I saw smoke rising from Master Lintaki’s hut from a distance.
For example, he had a premonition that he was about to die, and when he passed by Fengzhu's house, he overheard that guy quarreling with his neighbor about "whether there are ghosts in the world." He seemed to be able to live for a while.
Knowing that everyone may lose their lives at any time, but still surviving, this is something worth being happy about.
"I lost to you."
Uchiha Mikoto lowered her head.
This was something she would never do in front of Itachi and Sasuke.
She glanced at the ingredients in the plastic bag, but she didn't worry about the price.
"Aren't you tired of carrying such a heavy thing back alone?"
"There is a break on the way."
What Giyuu said was that when he met Huang Mao, the eldest lady of the Hinata family, and Kakashi, he temporarily put down the things in his hands.
"Hey...salmon. It's an ingredient I don't know how to handle. It seems I can't help."
Uchiha Mikoto picked up the bag and walked into the kitchen, and asked by the way: "So what are Giyuu planning to do today?"
"Caviar sushi, bonito rice balls, sashimi, radish and salmon stew, pan-fried salmon belly, and three-color meatballs and ice cream for dessert..."
"It sounds very appetizing. And it's something Itachi and Sasuke like to eat."
Mikoto turned around and said jokingly: "Then why isn't there anything daddy likes to eat?"
"It's not his birthday today."
Giyuu replied with a serious face, "Today's dishes are mainly to please Sasuke. He hasn't talked to me for a week."
Before the decisive battle, Tanjiro taught him that by preparing food that others like to eat and feeding it to him at any time, he could get closer to others.
For example, after he took Hagi Mochi with him, his relationship with Fusukawa Saneya became much closer (he thought).
Sasuke should be the same, their personalities are quite similar.
After hearing her son's words, Mikoto hesitated to speak.
【Is it really okay for you to say it so straightforwardly? 】
She raised her eyebrows and asked: "Giyu, do you know why Sasuke doesn't talk to you?"
"have no idea."
【really.】
"Then it doesn't bother you? Don't you want to know the reason?"
"No need to know."
Tomioka put on the small apron Itachi made for him, stepped on a small bench, pulled out a half-meter-long salmon from a plastic bag, put it into the tank, and punched it in the head.
He said very confidently: "Anyway, as long as you have this meal, the problem will be solved."
"Snapped."
Uchiha Mikoto held on to the doorframe.
Why is it so difficult to communicate with this child!!!
ten minutes later.
"I'm back!" x2.
"Is it Itachi and Sasuke?"
Uchiha Mikoto walked towards the entrance like a wanderer on the iceberg who saw the stove.
"Mom!" Sasuke threw off his shoes and rushed up to hug Mikoto's waist, looking extremely happy.
[If I could give half of Sasuke's clinginess to Giyuu...]
"Are you giving your subordinates a day off today?"
Itachi stood at the door, placing Sasuke's shoes neatly, and he could see at a glance why his mother was at home.
"Because my lovely children are celebrating their birthdays."
Mikoto regained her normal self-confidence as a mother. She stroked Sasuke's spiky head and asked, "Have you taken Sasuke out for training? Why is this child covered in sweat and smelling like an animal...
"
"I didn't practice today. My brother took me to Grandma Cat's place and gave me a birthday gift."
Five-year-old Sasuke's voice was lively and sharp, and he took out a rusty shuriken from his pants pocket.
"Oh, what is this?"
Uchiha Mikoto took a closer look at the shuriken. It seemed to be a very old style, so she followed Sasuke's words and asked.
"Grandma Cat said that this was a shuriken from the Warring States Period, which is older than the history of Konoha. Back then, she saw this shuriken flying from a very far away place and broke the wooden clone of the first Hokage.
, so it’s very memorable!”
Sasuke grabbed the shuriken with both hands and raised it in the air, making a heroic declaration.
"I will definitely become a more powerful ninja in the future. Even the first Hokage himself will never be my opponent."
Hearing what Sasuke said, a trace of worry flashed in Mikoto's eyes. Itachi was keenly aware of this and whispered in Sasuke's ear: "The first Hokage and the ancestors of the Uchiha clan founded the village together. They are both great people.
You are not an enemy, and you are not allowed to say disrespectful words to Hokage-sama outside in the future."
Uchiha Mikoto also nodded, "Sasuke needs to listen to his brother, do you understand?"
"I got it."
Sasuke pursed his lips and was a little unhappy, but he still agreed. Although his brother said something different from those of his peers in the clan, of course he chose to believe his brother.
After correcting Sasuke's mistake, Uchiha Itachi looked in the direction of the kitchen: "Does Giyuu also want to cook today? Today is his birthday, otherwise I will do it-"
"when!"
There was a loud noise in the kitchen, which almost made Sasuke jump up.
"What happened, Yiyong?"
Mikoto asked.
"The kitchen knife fell on the floor."
Yiyong's voice sounded calm and peaceful.
"Be careful."
Although Giyuu has been cooking for two years, Uchiha Mikoto is still a little worried about him. After all, deboning salmon is very troublesome, and even a professional chef will inevitably have to do it.
She glanced at Sasuke, who had put on a bad face since hearing Giyu's voice, and smiled slightly, "Sasuke, let's go take a shower with mom."
"no."
Sasuke shook his head without hesitation, "I want to wash it with my brother."
Uchiha Mikoto gave her eldest son a look, then nodded her chin in the direction of the kitchen.
The latter understood immediately.
"Mom came back from get off work early specifically because she wanted to do something for you."
Uchiha Itachi tugged Sasuke's hair and gently tapped his forehead with his fingers, "Don't make her sad."
As he spoke, he added, "If Sasuke is obedient, I can continue to accompany you to practice fireball tomorrow..."
"Then we've agreed!"
Sasuke almost jumped up with joy, then looked at his mother, "I'm going to take off my dirty clothes first!"
After saying that, he ran towards the second floor happily, and even let out a loud "hum" when passing by the kitchen. Seeing that Yiyong didn't turn around to look at him, he ran even faster.
"Then I'll leave it to you to be a hero."
After Uchiha Mikoto made a mouth shape for Itachi, she went to the bathroom to fill the water first.
Itachi stood at the door of the kitchen for a while, seeming to be mentally preparing.
The moment he stepped into the kitchen, Uchiha Giyuu turned around with the knife in his hand, and threw the removed salmon bones into an iron basin, making a clanging sound.
"what you do?"
There was a hint of caution in Yiyong's tone.
[Isn’t he going to help me cook?]
The pot used to cook ferret's eggs last time was no longer usable, so Yiyong took it to the street and used it as a milk basin for stray cats.
"Happy birthday, Yiyong."
Itachi walked straight over, the smile on his face was not as obvious as Mikoto and Shisui, it was just a shallow arc.
"Sasuke likes the gift I gave him very much. I just don't know how you will react after receiving the gift, so I am a little nervous."
This is not a lie.
It was obvious that he was the child who had grown up in his arms, but Yiyong had been difficult for him to understand since he was very young.
For example, Itachi clearly knows all of Sasuke's likes and dislikes, but to Giyuu, they are like a bottomless lake to him.
Others thought that doing housework was Giyu's hobby, but Uchiha Itachi felt that was not the case. Instead, he felt that it was more like an obligation that Giyu required him to complete. Otherwise, there would be no need to be so careful and there would be no need to do it every day.
In addition, there are many strange things about Yiyong.
For example, one day a month ago, he accompanied Giyuu to go shopping for groceries. When he passed by a ninja shop, the village ninja Moonlight Hayate was shopping for a ninja sword. The sound he made when he drew the sword attracted Giyuu's attention.
When the moonlight blast covered the blade with chakra and dyed it, Uchiha Itachi can't forget Giyuu's expression when he looked at the sword.
In his eyes, a light that was brighter than the blade of a knife flashed, and his entire face changed from cold to calm and gentle, as if the lifeless lake water like a mirror was wrinkled by the warm wind.
Itachi is still puzzled about what happened at that time. Originally, he wanted to buy Giyu a sword directly today, but after thinking about it, he decided not to do it. After all, Giyu had no interest in becoming a ninja.
Shaking his head slightly to eliminate the doubts in his mind, Uchiha Itachi took out an eight centimeter long and wide photo frame from his pocket and handed it to Giyuu.
Yiyong cast his gaze upwards, and his eyes immediately stayed there, unable to move for a long time.
"This is an ancient swallowtail butterfly specimen."
Uchiha Itachi couldn't understand Giyuu's emotions, and introduced slowly: "It's something that a scholar from the Land of Snow discovered from the depths of the solid ice of the snow field and used ice escape ninjutsu to take it out.
"I don't know much about butterflies, but the ninja of the Aburame clan who sold it to me said that this blue-purple swallowtail butterfly is very rare. It looks beautiful in the sun, but it has a
It's a pity that an elephant is already extinct if it is poisonous."
"you……"
Uchiha Giyuu put down the kitchen knife, wiped his hands on his apron, and then hesitantly took the specimen, his deep eyes filled with waves.
In his eyes, it was not just a butterfly, but nine different figures overlapping together.
"Why did you give me this?"
This is Yiyong's most unexpected gift.
"Because the only things I am sure you will like are wisteria flowers and butterflies."
Itachi, who was still very young, smiled shyly, "I love to see that expression every time you encounter a wisteria tree and find butterflies chasing it. It's like a stone statue suddenly came to life. If Mom and Dad
If you can see it, you should have the same feeling.
"How about this gift, Yiyong..."
Uchiha Itachi paused and asked expectantly, "Do you like it?"
In the past, Yiyong's reaction was always beyond his expectation.
What he was most worried about was that Giyuu, like last year, stuffed back the same stainless steel kunai that he gave to Sasuke, and then said: "Sasuke and I are different."
For his brother-in-law, it was simply a nightmare.
"An extinct butterfly?"
Yiyong's voice sounded a little hoarse, and then suddenly became louder and clearer than when he spoke before: "I like it very much. Thank you, Itachi."
"..."
Uchiha Itachi was stunned.
Although Yiyong's expression rarely changes.
But if you like the gift, shouldn't you at least raise your eyebrows?
Why did he look like he had suddenly lost all his strength and was even more depressed than usual, as if he had recalled something terrible.
If Itachi hadn't known that Giyuu would never lie, he would have thought that he was lying about liking the gift to comfort him.
Yiyong placed the specimen on the window sill facing him in the kitchen, lowered his head as if no one else was around, picked up the kitchen knife and processed the ingredients silently, but his thoughts had wandered to nowhere.
Itachi Uchiha intuitively felt that now was not the time to speak, but he was not worried about his heroic state, so he took out the radish from the plastic bag and cut it into slices.
Just like that, the two of them were silent in the kitchen, but all the ingredients were being turned into meals in an orderly manner.
Fortunately, Uchiha Itachi's mind was not on cooking, so nothing happened this time.
Exactly an hour later, Yiyong put the radishes and fried salmon in the stew pot and lit the flame of the gas stove.
A strange voice appeared in his head.
[Getting close to Uchiha Itachi for an hour. Breath of Fire analysis completion rate +0.02%, current resolution 20.02%.]
[After the analysis is completed and your Breath of Flame reaches the normal level, you can resurrect Flame Pillar Purgatory Anjurou. 】
Tomioka Yoshiyong opened his eyes wide, and a fierce red light flashed in them, attracting Uchiha Itachi's attention.
"Yiyong, you..."
Before Itachi finished speaking, a long stream of white air suddenly came out of Yiyong's mouth and nose, and the bench legs under his feet snapped out of thin air. He fell to the ground and fainted on the spot.