69 Where is my dignity?

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An hour later, in Konoha Hospital heard a baby cry.

"Mikoto… Look, he's a boy; he's so cute."

Kushina held the baby and smiled happily as she looked at Mikoto on the bed. She played with him gently.

As the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, Kushina had to stay in the village during the war. She couldn't take on any missions. She had a lot of free time, especially when Minato was on mission.

She visited Mikoto twice a day, in the morning and afternoon, to kill time.

Today, she came to see her friend and found out that she was in labor. She waited nervously outside the operation room.

"A boy? He must take after his father, right?"

Mikoto asked, and she looked exhausted but happy.

"No, I think he takes after you more." Kushina said.

"Really?"

Kushina nodded. "Of course. Where is Fugaku-sama? And have you thought of a name for him?"

"Name? … Fugaku and I decided a long time ago. If it's a boy, we'll name him Itachi, Uchiha Itachi." Mikoto said it with a smile as she remembered something and asked, "Where is Fugaku? He was here before I went in."

Kushina was about to answer, but the door opened, and a nurse came in.

"Uchiha Mikoto?" The nurse asked respectfully. She saw Mikoto nod and continued, "Fugaku-sama asked me to give you this."

She put a folded letter on the table and left. Mikoto felt weak, so Kushina put the baby next to her with a support pillow and picked up the letter.

"What does it say? Kushina, can you read it for me?" Mikoto asked with a smile at her son.

Kushina was curious about the letter, but she respected their privacy and didn't look at it. When her friend asked her to read it, she did so without hesitation.

"See for yourself."

She couldn't help but smile when she saw the letter's content and passed it to Mikoto.

My dear wife,

I'm sorry, but I need to go, and there are three hundred clansmen waiting for my support, so... Mikoto, please take care of our child for now. I'll be back soon with a victory.

P.S. Don't forget to send me a photo of our son when you feel better.

Yours: Uchiha Fugaku.

Mikoto read the letter with worry and understanding. She knew her husband had agreed to defend the border with the Third Hokage long ago, so she was prepared for this.

As a ninja, participating in war was inevitable. She sighed and hugged the child in her arms.

"So that's why he came early yesterday! But Fugaku, you have to stay safe. Itachi, and I will wait for you."

Mikoto gently hugged Itachi, and he touch Mikoto's face with his little hand.

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There is a land of rivers between the land of fire and the land of wind.

They are not neighboring countries. The land of rivers would be the main battleground if they went to war.

It takes about ten days for a ninja to reach the land of rivers from Konoha village at speed.

They were on their way to the fire country border.

Yamada asked Sota as they ran: "Hey, what did you think of what happened today?"

"What is this about?"

"When the Uchiha clan head made his clansmen apologize to us, do you think he was just pretending?" Yamada was puzzled.

"I don't know, but it didn't seem like it to me."

"Me neither. You have no idea. I was on a big tree behind him at that time. I almost fell off when he got angry." Haruto, a civilian ninja, agreed.

Riku, who was next to him, wondered, "Hey, what does that have to do with whether he was pretending or not?"

"Ah, how can you not see? If he is just acting, can he release an aura? He was angry." When Haruto said this, everyone understood.

Especially Yamada and his friends, they became thoughtful.

.....

Akira and his group of friends ran for their mission. They were all Uchiha clan members, but they don't have medical ninjas.

"Uncle Akira, what's on your mind?" Ken'ichi, an eighteen-year-old with two-tomoe Sharingan, asked his uncle.

He was the son of Akemi, Akira's brother. He wore the standard Uchiha outfit and had a handsome face with sharp features.

"What do you think? I don't care if he's the clan head or stronger than me, but how can he scold me like that in front of everyone? He's younger than me, for heaven's sake!

What about my dignity as Uchiha Akira?" Akira, who was in his mid-thirties, snorted coldly with a gloomy expression.

He felt a surge of anger whenever he recalled today's humiliation. He had no dignity left, did he?

"You shouldn't say that. The clan leader made new rules when he came back two months ago. We have to follow them.

You openly disobeyed him in public. It's normal for him to be angry." Uchiha Minoru, a thirty-year-old ninja, explained.

"Are you talking about the rules he made after that battle on the open ground?" Akira frowned.

"Yes, that's right. He defeated three hundred and sixty-five ninja by himself. Everyone realized that it was useless to continue fighting. So we surrendered. Then he announced his new rules."

Minoru had also participated in that battle. He even remembered the exact number of people who were defeated.

He still sounded awed when he mentioned it. One against five hundred. Even Hokage couldn't fight that many, right?

"I can't believe it." Akira still refused to accept it.

They also had three-tomoe Sharingan. How could the gap be so huge?

Minoru continued with a smile: "Don't believe it? Well, your brother was the first one of them to be defeated.

You can ask him yourself, right? Oh, and by the way, the clan leader also said that you can challenge him if you don't like his orders.

You just need to bring a hundred clan members with you. If you win, you can be the clan head."

"What? Are you serious?"

"Of course I am. Any clan member with Sharingan can challenge him.

But don't count me in. I was electrocuted by that huge current last time and spent three days in the hospital.

I don't want to go through that again. That kind of attack is hard to dodge, even with Sharingan."

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