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Time passed normally in the Ninja World. The war continued on the frontlines while the citizens remained oblivious to its gore.

During this time, Yukan also lived in Konoha like a normal citizen, spending time with his love and being happy while he could.

The only ninja thing in his day would be to train his genin students.

-Yukan's house-

"What do you think you are doing?" Kushina with her levitating hair, representing Kurama's tails, asked Yukan.

Yukan stood at the entrance of his house wearing an oversized jacket and kept his arms crossed.

"I-I, *forcefully sniff* It seems that I have caught a cold. I am going to the doctor." Yukan answered.

Kushina looked at Yukan with suspicious eyes.

"Why this big jacket then?"

"I have a cold, I told you. It is already so cold outside too." Yukan again answered Kushina.

"Though it is September going on right now, I'll believe you. Go, when you come back, cook food." Kushina said and walked inside the house without looking back.

Yukan nodded, turned around and walked out of the house. As he walked, the sound of glass clinking would come.

After covering a safe distance from his house, Yukan quickly removed his jacket. He was sweating like crazy under the hot sun.

As he took off his jacket, four bottles of alcohol came into view.

"How would I have known that my system subspace was full? I'll remove some things from it now." Yukan said as he picked up the bottles and started walking to the forest.

Yukan now almost drank alcohol every day because he knew, 11 more months later, he would unlock his next template which would make him unable to get drunk.

Yukan walked into the forest and went into a deep area with no one around.

He sat in an open area, took out some snacks and started drinking while eating the snacks.

Within some time, Yukan chugged down all the bottles and got a little drunk.

Drunk, Yukan took out the box his mother had left for him.

"Mother said I can open it anytime, right? I'll open it now." Yukan said and opened the box.

He had expected some letters or some mementoes or something like that but two paper seals with numbers 1 and 2 on them were inside.

"....Seals?" Yukan expressed.

After a long time of thinking, Yukan decided to pour his chakra into the seal with the number 1.

As he was about to, he sensed several strong presences around him.

"Hah! A man cannot even get drunk in peace." Yukan said as he got up and cleared the dust on his clothes.

He walked towards the people he sensed while disbalancing like a drunk person and humming a song.

-The place of encounter-

A man with green tights and a haircut only a mother would approve of was standing in front of seven people.

All the seven people or the Seven Ninja Swordsman Of The Mist had overconfident smirks on their faces.

"But father, our enemies are strong jonin." A young boy resembling the man said.

"It's alright, Guy. I ha-" Duy was speaking but was interrupted by a voice from his left.

"...Hey, what is going on here?" Yukan appeared out of the dense forest while yawning.

The approach of Yukan made everyone, even the enemy, feel awkward.

"Hey, you too, run away with the kids. I'll buy you time." Duy said without much of a delay and opened the third gate.

"Run away? Why would I?"

"Do you not see the seven in front of us?" Duy said in a sarcastic and questioning tone.

"Yeah, you're an idiot, they aren't seven but fourteen," Yukan said as he continued to walk towards the young Guy and the other two behind him.

"P-Please help if you can. They will kill father." Guy appealed to Yukan.

This made Yukan undrunk and a little serious. He looked at the seven again and said," I'll help but before anything, I'll admit my mistake. They are not fourteen but ten people. My bad."