While Kaida was away on his mission, Shisui went to his mother to share the good news he had.

  "Mom, where are you? I have great news for you!" Shisui called out as he entered his house.

  "I'm i, honey. Just wait in the hall, I'll be there in two minutes," Hae Uchiha, Shisui's mother, replied.

  But Shisui, too eager to wait, went straight to the kit.

  "I told you to wait in the hall. Why did you e in here?" Hae asked, putting the pot down from the fire.

  "Mom, leave all this. I have something really important to tell you," Shisui said.

  "Okay, e here, sit, and tell me what you think is so important," Hae replied, sitting on a small chair i.

  "Mom, today the Third Elder gave me a mission to escort a boy to his office. He’s an Uchiha who awakened his Sharingan at the age of 7—well, almost 8—but still, he's a genius to awaken it so early."

  "It’s great that the has found anenius, but I still don’t get why you couldn’t wait two mio tell me this," Hae asked, a little puzzled.

  "Mom, that boy is her than Kaida Senju," Shisui said with a wide smile.

  For a moment, Hae was silent, trying to ect the name Kaida Senju to the boy Shisui was talking about. She first thought of 'Kaida Uchiha,' but then she remembered her long-lost friend, Aiko Uchiha. Since Aiko was disowned by the , Hae had only met her a few times.

  Aiko always talked about her son—how cute and good he was. Hae had met the boy a few times herself. When the ails attacked, the believed Aiko and her husband had died, and naturally assumed their child perished with them siheir home was destroyed.

  But now, her son was tellihat her nephew was alive, and not only alive but a ninja. Though she was sceptical, she knew Shisui wouldn’t joke about something so serious. Still, she had to ask:

  "You’re not joking, are you?" Hae asked, her voice trembling.

  "No, Mom. I even invited him to meet you, but he was in a bit of a hurry. I think he left on a mission, so he deed and said he’d visit after pleting it," Shisui expined with a calm smile.

  "Oh my god... he’s alive. Thank the heavens! But if he’s alive, where has he been all this time?" Hae asked.

  "He lived in an orphanage. But don’t worry, Mom, I checked into it. It’s a good orphanage, so I don’t think Kaida had too many problems living there," Shisui replied.

  "That poor boy had to live like an orphan, even though he had family. The world is too cruel."

  "I think because of that, he holds some reseowards the Uchiha . He even deed the Third Elder's proposal to e back to the Uchiha pound. But I don’t think he’s particurly angry with us. He seems quite mature for his age. Let’s try to make him feel more fortable with us wheurns."

  "Yes, just bring him here as soon as he’s back from his mission."

  "Okay, Mom."

  After that, they tialking about Kaida and Shisui's other missions that weren’t fidential.

  ...

  After Renji and Hiroto packed their belongings, they stepped out of the pace, where Yukihiro and the team were waiting.

  'Just you wait, brat. Once we return to the vilge, your whole ninja career will end. You’ll learn the sequences of threatening me,' Renji thought, gring at Kaida.

  "Yukihiro, are you all ready to leave?" Hiroto asked with a smile.

  "Yes, Hiroto-sama. We will follow the same arras as before. As per Lord Third's orders, you will also o take a soldier pill since we ’t take any risks with your safety."

  Hiroto nodded and took the soldier pill given to him by Yukihiro, followed by Renji. Ohey were out of the Land of Noodles, the team used a carriage to maintain the vilge's reputation. After exiting, Kaida carried Hiroto while Yukihiro carried Renji.

  Just as they were about to take a different route, Ryota approached Yukihiro and said, "Sensei, someone is following us."

  Yukihiro, hearing this, gave a simple order to his team. "Follow me." After traveling 10 kilometers in a different dire from the inal path, Yukihiro suddenly stopped and turo Ryota.

  "Hoeople are following us?"

  "Only two, Sensei."

  "I assume they are taking the same path we did to get here?"

  "Yes, Sensei."

  "Okay, Kaida, make a shadow e and send it with mine a little ahead. We will set an ambush. If the es deal with them, great. If not, at least we’ll buy time to shake them off and head back to the vilge as soon as possible."

  Kaida nodded and made a shadow e, thinking, 'So Sensei doesn't want to face them directly unless necessary. Smart. Judging by the fact that only two are following us, they are either elite Jonin or in specializing in trag. We'll find out soon enough.'

  Both made shadow es with 50% of their chakra ahem one kilometre ahead while tinuing to move. Two kilometres ter, the two ninjas following their path arrived. pletely clueless about the ambush, they were caught off guard by a barrage of wind bdes from the shadow es and were impaled before they could react...

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  (A.N: Konoha is pnning a little surprise for Kaida! Let's see what he gets and how it ges his life from now on!)