Stepping Up Is Not My Cup Chapter 3

In the open kitchen, Eliza Uchiha was cleaning up the dishes. She noticed Aiden Uchiha sitting on the sofa in the living room after coming out of the study. She didn't pay too much attention to him, but just finished the housework in her hands seriously.

About ten minutes later, Eliza Uchiha came to the living room after finishing her work. Seeing the child sitting seriously on the sofa, she immediately sat down beside him and picked him up from the sofa and placed him on her legs.

Our male protagonist showed an expression of "no hope in life", after all, he is an "old" man with a mental age of 30. How could he face being teased by a 16 or 17-year-old girl like a child on her lap?

After a fruitless struggle, he had no choice but to give up. In the eyes of the girl, his frustrated expression after being violated and unable to resist was too "cute", and coupled with the baby fat on his face, he had a cute feeling.

Helplessly accepting the reality, he could only put on a stern face, sit astride Sister Mika's legs in a horse-riding posture, and utter the words that he had been brewing for a long time.

"Mika-san, I have decided to become a ninja in the future."

"Become a ninja?" Eliza Uchiha was stunned for a moment when looking at the little boy sitting on her lap.

"Yeah, be a ninja!"

After saying the answer again in an affirmative tone, he looked directly into the girl's eyes.

After hearing the little boy answer her in an affirmative tone and then looking directly at her with his black eyes, Eliza Uchiha gave up teasing the little boy.

Through those shiny black eyes, she seemed to feel the seriousness and determination of the little boy sitting on her lap.

"Can you tell me why you want to become a ninja? You know, the training of a ninja is extremely difficult. And after becoming a ninja, injuries, bleeding, pain, and sadness are common during missions."

"I want to know why my parents, grandparents, and grandparents all became ninjas in the end. I am also curious about the supernatural energy called chakra. What is their unique charm that makes the Uchiha pursue it relentlessly?"

"At the same time, I also want to become stronger. Because I want to know what the scenery is like at a higher place!"

Listening to the words of the child in her arms named Uchiha Toshiro, Eliza Uchiha was a little surprised, but also felt that it was reasonable.

The surprise was because of the little boy’s answer, which was not to become Hokage, not to protect everyone, not to protect the village.

"Both my parents and relatives are ninjas, so I want to become a ninja myself? I'm curious about the power of ninjas, and I want to see the scenery from a higher place! This answer is really Uchiha-like!"

"I didn't expect to hear such an answer from a four-year-old child!" the girl added silently in her heart.

"If you want to become a ninja, Aiden Uchiha will have a hard time in the future! In another month, the tribe will start pre-school training to teach children how to refine chakra and basic physical skills such as shuriken throwing, so you don't have to wait too long~"

There was no stopping him. For the Uchiha, becoming a ninja was also an ancient tradition. The four-year-old child had reached the age when it was time to learn how to refine his chakra.

But a faint sadness arose in her heart. "Perhaps this is the fate of Uchiha." The girl murmured.

The word "fate" is widely circulated among ninjas. Countless ninjas feel helpless in the endless tasks and killings!

Hearing that his aunt had no intention of stopping her from becoming a ninja, Uchiha Toshiro took out a yellowed piece of paper from his arms and handed it to her.

"Medicinal bath?" Looking at the contents on the paper, she was a little enlightened. It seemed that the preparations were sufficient!

This is the recipe for the medicinal bath passed down from generation to generation by the Uchiha clan. Every Uchiha parent will prepare it for their child if their child wants to become a ninja as long as the family conditions allow.

Once a week, soak for about one or two hours each time. Combined with proper exercise and muscle stretching. This is one of the reasons why the Uchiha family children have a high success rate in refining chakra.

The training of ninjas is a very precious and difficult thing. Among ordinary civilian children, only one can cultivate chakra among ten or even dozens of them.

In all the big, medium and small families, only one out of several children can successfully refine chakra. The longer the family's history of using chakra is, the greater the success rate of children in the family refining chakra.

The prescription in Uchiha Toshiro's hand can increase the success rate of children's chakra extraction and is extremely valuable.

"In that case, Toshiro, come with me." Eliza Uchiha put the child down from her lap, took his little hand and walked towards the bedroom.

He pushed open the door and entered the bedroom. He took out a dark wooden box from the drawer under the bedside table.

After opening it, I saw two passbooks and some valuables such as house deeds inside. I took out the passbook.

"Toshiro, this is the inheritance left to you by your sister and brother-in-law, that is, your parents. The other passbook is the certificate for receiving the pension from the village."

"Since you are determined to become a ninja, you must make the necessary preparations. This passbook contains more than 6 million taels of deposit."

"The price of medicinal materials for a medicinal bath. If the market does not fluctuate much, it is about 50,000 taels. Once a week. The duration varies from one to three years, depending on the economic strength of each family. If calculated in this way, the total cost for three years is about 7.8 million taels. It is slightly insufficient, but if you get medicine from the clan, there will be certain discounts and subsidies, which is more than enough."

"As for living expenses and daily training expenses, you can receive 3,000 ryo from the village every month. The family also provides 1,000 ryo. If it's just to deal with a child like you, there will be no problem."

Aiden Uchiha opened his mouth in surprise. He knew that ninja training was expensive, but he didn't expect it to be this expensive.

Seeing Aiden Uchiha's surprised expression, Eliza Uchiha snorted and laughed.

"Now you know how powerful it is?" After saying that, she pinched his little face.

Uchiha Toshiro was extremely fortunate that he was born into a relatively wealthy ninja family, and there was no bloody plot where adults bullied children after their death.

"Thank you, Mika-san."

This thank you was not only a thank you to Eliza Uchiha for her meticulous care for the original body in the past few days, but also a thank you for her honesty to herself.

"Well, don't be too happy too soon! Whether or not you can successfully extract chakra is still unknown!"

Eliza Uchiha accepted the boy's thanks calmly, but seeing the smile on the boy's face, she couldn't help but hit him.