After dinner, Uchiha Dan led Minato Namikaze to a training ground.
At the training ground, Minato Namikaze diligently demonstrated his recent training progress against a wooden dummy.
He would sometimes throw shurikens from a distance, and other times he would get close to the wooden dummy and perform a series of close-quarters combos.
Uchiha Dan, meanwhile, sat idly by, occasionally feigning interest with a glance.
But in reality, Uchiha Dan's attention was entirely on Minato Namikaze, carefully sensing the details of his every movement.
Half an hour later, Minato Namikaze stopped his demonstration and came before Uchiha Dan, saying proudly, "Brother, aren't I amazing!"
"Haha, amazing, amazing!" Uchiha Dan patted Minato Namikaze's small head, praising him without reservation.
Sakumo Hatake, who was monitoring Uchiha Dan, merely watched this familiar scene from afar, sensing nothing amiss.
Back in the bedroom, Uchiha Dan's expression became serious, making Minato Namikaze's heart skip a beat.
Uchiha Dan didn't waste time; he immediately pulled out a piece of paper and began writing on it. After finishing, he handed it to Minato Namikaze.
Minato Namikaze took the paper and read it carefully.
After reading for a long time, his eyes grew brighter and brighter, and he nodded vigorously, then began writing in the remaining space.
Although to outsiders, Uchiha Dan had never practised Ninjutsu.
However, his thoughts on Ninjutsu had not stopped for a single second when he was awake.
Therefore, the richness of his Ninjutsu theory and the depth of his understanding of Ninjutsu principles were probably unmatched by many in the entire Ninja World.
Under his guidance, Minato Namikaze's talent and strength were much more exaggerated than they would have been in the normal timeline.
This written communication was Uchiha Dan's unique way of guiding Minato Namikaze, and it was also the only way he dared to use.
To be safe, what they wrote was not the Ninja World script, but English characters, which only the two brothers in the entire Ninja World knew.
It must be said that to repay the kindness of Namikaze Toneri and his wife for raising him, Uchiha Dan had truly worried himself sick.
Of course, he also wanted to test many of his ideas on Minato Namikaze, killing two birds with one stone.
After communicating with paper for a while, Minato Namikaze wrote, "Brother, I encountered a problem when practising the Chakra Body Tempering Technique you taught me."
"Tell me in detail!"
Taking an acupuncture point chart, Minato Namikaze pointed to three acupuncture points on it and continued to write, "When Chakra passes through these three acupuncture points, its circulation is a bit sluggish."
"Immediately circulate the Body Tempering Technique and let me sense it!"
After sensing carefully for a while, Uchiha Dan wrote with a smile, "It's because your Chakra volume is still too small and can't break through the acupuncture points. This problem will no longer exist in at most half a year, and by then, your physical fitness will undergo a significant improvement."
Smiling and nodding vigorously, Minato Namikaze tore the paper into pieces, burned it, and then threw it into the toilet to flush it away.
At this point, the two brothers' communication for the day finally ended.
Uchiha Dan was used to this.
But Minato Namikaze always felt heartache every time.
His brother had clearly done nothing wrong, and his talent was so high, his understanding of Ninjutsu was countless times deeper than that of the school teachers.
But why couldn't he train?
Why did Hokage-sama keep sending people to monitor him?
Uchiha Dan's explanation was, perhaps it's because my talent is too strong, and I am from the Uchiha Clan.
Minato Namikaze did not agree with this.
He now only wanted to become strong quickly so that his brother could train without worries and live freely.
So he wanted to become Hokage, and he would work desperately for it.
Because only when he became Hokage could all of this be realised.
To outsiders, Uchiha Dan and Minato Namikaze were not biological brothers.
But ever since Minato Namikaze could remember, Uchiha Dan had been his brother, and he had been incredibly kind to him since childhood, much closer than a biological brother.
Uchiha Dan did not know Minato Namikaze's thoughts; if he did, he would just smile it off.
He certainly wouldn't place his hopes on a child who wasn't even seven years old yet.
To achieve training and freedom, he had to save himself.
The only problem bothering him now was, if he escaped, how could he not affect the Namikaze Toneri family?
Faking his death to escape?
...
Early the next morning, Uchiha Dan arrived at the Hospital as usual.
However, as soon as he entered the office and saw the person inside, Uchiha Dan quickly backed out, looking up at the door number.
"Why are you hiding?"
Before Uchiha Dan could turn and run away, a fair hand grabbed his collar and pulled him into the office.
"Why do you run when you see me?" Tsunade said, arms crossed, fuming.
"Can't I even go to the restroom?" How could Uchiha Dan admit he was running away?
"No!"
"Do you have any humanity left? You savage, baboon, gorilla, monkey, primitive man…"
"Shut up!" Hearing this familiar way of cursing, Tsunade immediately roared, interrupting him.
She didn't even know how she had endured these past five years.
If it weren't for her competitive spirit at the beginning, wanting to win back what she lost, she truly wouldn't have wanted to see this guy in front of her for the rest of her life.
But now, she had actually gotten used to being cursed at!
It has to be said that the power of habit is terrifying.
Seeing that there was no escape, Uchiha Dan sat on the chair in despair, displeased, "Speak, what do you want from me? Finish quickly and leave!"
"Naturally, I've come to continue our match!"
"Are you ever going to stop?" Uchiha Dan instantly became furious, "I've already admitted defeat, what more do you want?"
"Is this how you treat your benefactor?" Tsunade felt a sense of vengeful pleasure when she finally saw Uchiha Dan getting angry, and she teased him.
"Benefactor?" Uchiha Dan perfunctorily agreed, "Yes, yes, yes, from now on you are my benefactor, and I am very grateful to you."
"So you should still leave, I'm afraid you can't accept the way I show gratitude."
Who knew that as soon as Uchiha Dan finished speaking, the office door was pushed open.
Two orderlies carried an office desk in and placed it opposite Uchiha Dan's desk.
Then the director also walked in, personally holding an armchair, which he placed behind the newly arranged desk.
"Lady Tsunade, this will be your seat from now on!" The director said with utmost politeness.
Tsunade didn't stand on ceremony; she sat down directly and looked at Uchiha Dan with a provocative gaze.
Uchiha Dan was stunned.
What the hell is going on?
"I understand!" Uchiha Dan reacted instantly, pulled out a piece of paper and a pen, and said to the director, "Director, don't leave yet, I'll write you my resignation letter right away."
"Bastard!" Tsunade snatched Uchiha Dan's paper and tore it to shreds.
"Tsunade, what exactly do you mean?" Uchiha Dan truly didn't know what Tsunade was up to.
Although he could tell that Tsunade was going to work at Konoha Hospital from now on, and even share an office with him.
But how did this situation come to be?
Seeing that the situation was bad, and that he couldn't afford to offend either of them, the director quickly fled, thoughtfully closing the door behind him.
"So, Hokage-sama intends for you to monitor me?" Thinking of a possibility, Uchiha Dan tentatively asked.