Naruto, this game world seems a bit real.

Chapter 51 Just Friends?

"What should I wear to the Itachi's house for dinner?"

Uchiha Ye looked at the clothes in the closet, caught in a dilemma.

"This is the one."

After getting dressed, she nodded in satisfaction.

A long, light green dress with a ribbon tied at the waist to accentuate the figure, topped with a bamboo leaf cardigan—this is a quintessential, minimalist version of Hanfu.

"Sooner or later, she will create real Hanfu."

After choosing your clothes, you'll naturally need to get a matching hairstyle.

At this point, one has to admire the advantages of shadow clones.

After finishing all this, Uchiha Ye glanced at the time and left home for Itachi's residence.

She noticed from afar that many Uchiha clansmen were going in and out of Itachi's house, clearly there to offer their congratulations.

"Socializing is definitely the most troublesome thing."

"But for the sake of the mission and to gain favor with the NPCs, let's charge!"

Uchiha Ye secretly cheered himself up before walking over.

With her already striking looks and the added touch of special dressing up, her arrival attracted the attention of many.

On the way here, she received so many stares that Uchiha Ye was already used to it and remained calm, but she still heard some whispers.

"Who is this little girl? Do you know?"

"I know that. I heard he's another genius who graduated at the same time as the clan chief's eldest son."

"..."

Uchiha Ye wanted to hear more of these people praising her, but a voice interrupted her.

"Ye, you're here."

Itachi trotted over, his face full of surprise.

"This is the first time I've ever seen Itachi so unreliable."

Uchiha Ye burst into laughter, stunning many people present, not to mention Uchiha Itachi standing in front of her.

Itachi felt his breathing become rapid and his heart pounding wildly; it took him a while to calm it down.

Kneeling on the tatami mat, Uchiha Ye cried out in his heart, "This is so tiring. I wish I hadn't come."

"When will this ever end?!"

She lowered her head to pick up the tea on the table and drink it, only to find that Sasuke had climbed up to her side without her noticing.

Uchiha Yoh immediately picked him up in his arms.

"Sasuke was so cute and adorable when he was little. I didn't even have time to play with him on the first day I came here."

After hugging for a while, Uchiha Ye kissed Sasuke on the cheek, which Itachi happened to see as he walked in.

"How did Sasuke manage to climb up here?"

Thinking back to what had just happened, Itachi couldn't help but feel a little jealous.

"Ye, I'm sorry, Sasuke didn't bother you, did he?"

"Don't bother me, don't bother me... Sasuke is cute."

Uchiha Ye responded happily, then added in his mind, "If I don't play now, Sasuke won't be so cute when he grows up."

However, Sasuke doesn't like being hugged by anyone other than his family.

"Could it be because of the Charisma attribute on the character panel?" Uchiha Ye guessed.

Seeing that Ye was barely paying attention to Sasuke, Uchiha Itachi, after holding back for a long time, finally spoke up. "Ye, let me carry you. You must be tired after all this time." As he spoke, he reached out to take Sasuke from Uchiha Ye's arms.

Sasuke pouted, looking unhappy, and hugged Uchiha Ye tightly, burying his head in his hands.

"Haha...she's even more popular with Sasuke than Itachi."

Uchiha Ye burst into laughter upon seeing this scene.

Overwhelmed with cuteness, she said to Itachi beside her, "Itachi, I can do it."

"She's trying to build up her relationship with the main character; how can she just give up like that?"

Just then, Mikoto Fugaku walked in and happened to see this harmonious scene, and smiled knowingly.

Uchiha Ye recognized the two men with just a glance.

Just like in the anime, Fugaku Uchiha was stern and rarely smiled, while his wife Mikoto was gentle and beautiful.

Despite Uchiha Ye's reluctance, Sasuke was still carried away by his mother during dinner.

Apart from Mikoto asking some strange questions, nothing else happened during that time, and the clan leader seemed to be in a very good mood today.

After dinner, she said goodbye and left.

Although it's a game, eating at someone else's house is actually quite tiring. If Itachi hadn't been on good terms with her, she wouldn't have agreed to come.

As she walked, she circulated her inner energy around her knees, and the soreness instantly disappeared.

"I'm going to have to part ways with Itachi tomorrow, and I'm actually a little sad."

Uchiha Ye turned her head to look at Itachi beside her and found that Itachi was also looking at her. Itachi turned his head back with a somewhat flustered expression, which puzzled her greatly.

"Itachi must be reluctant to part ways too!"

"Right, isn't this the perfect time to build goodwill?"

Uchiha Ye's eyes lit up. "Itachi, listen to me. Even if we're not on the same team anymore, we're still best friends."

"Be moved! Cry!"

The way Itachi reacted seemed different from what she had imagined.

"friend?"

Ye actually only considered him a friend.

A sense of loss spread through Itachi's heart, but in order not to worry Ye, he still mustered his spirits and replied, "Yeah... my best friend."

"No, how can he be so depressed? It's perfectly normal for friends to become lovers."

Uchiha Itachi's expression kept changing, his head full of question marks.

Was there anything wrong with what she just said?

Seeing that Itachi had regained his energy, she stopped worrying about it and took him to three different ninja tool shops to pick up the parts for the custom-made ninja tools. Of course, she assembled them herself.

Looking at the two assembled fans in front of her, Uchiha Ye couldn't help but nod. The fans were even better than she had expected.

She picked up a [weapon] and handed it to Itachi, saying, "Itachi, this is for you."

"I didn't know what kind of ninja tools you liked, so I got an extra one. It's okay if you don't know how to use it; it's good for fanning yourself."

Uchiha Itachi took the fan, a strange look flashing in his eyes. "Why do I sometimes feel like Ye and he are from different worlds?"

"It's turned into a ditto again!"

Seeing Itachi standing there in a daze, Uchiha Ye was used to it and simply leaned close to his ear and whispered, "Itachi, don't you like it?"

Itachi snapped back to reality, his ears turning red as he stammered, "I...I like..."

"I like anything you give me," he silently added in his mind.

Itachi's eyes widened suddenly as he realized that he had never given anything to Yoru; it was always Yoru who gave him things.

"How can this be?"

He felt in his pocket the roll of banknotes his father had given him before he left.

Itachi Uchiha finally understood his father's intention: he wanted him to buy something for Ye. He hadn't even realized it.

"Itachi, thank you for bringing me back. Goodnight."

Upon arriving at his doorstep, Uchiha Ye said something, opened the door, and went inside.

Itachi stared at the closed door, squeezed the banknotes in his pocket, sighed inwardly, and then turned to walk home.

Back home, Uchiha Ye immediately changed into his pajamas and lay down on the bed.

"Lying down is still the most comfortable!" she exclaimed, glancing at the side quests on her character panel, which were indeed marked as completed.

She doesn't consider using the reward to upgrade the ninjutsu on her current character panel.

Of course, her first choice was to memorize those five ninjutsu techniques in the 'Forbidden Techniques Room'.

After some consideration, Uchiha Yoh decided to learn the 'Impure World Reincarnation' first, and then upgrade the reward to this ninjutsu.

Otherwise, using living people as sacrifices to gain experience would be too much for her.

Uchiha Yoh closed his eyes and began to study the 'Impure World Reincarnation' technique.

As expected of a forbidden technique, it was indeed not so easy, but this also aroused her competitive spirit.

Before we knew it, dawn had broken.

She glanced at the character panel, which did not contain the words 'Edo Tensei', but showed no disappointment.

If it were that easy to learn, Uchiha Yo would find it strange.