Konoha: Prepare to defect, the system is coming.

Chapter 609 This is my plate

early morning.

A white mist gradually spread between the sky and the earth, and then the mist condensed into dewdrops on the tips of the grass, sparkling with crystal light.

The sunlight shone through the clouds, illuminating the quiet village and trees in the distance, and finally shone on the house, waking up the people sleeping in the bedroom.

Fei Niao smacked his lips and looked around with sleepy eyes. After making sure that this was his home, he lay down again.

There is no place like home, and he hadn't slept in any place during this period. He had to sleep in the wild. Occasionally, if he was lucky, he could find a hotel to stay for a night.

Zira!!
At this moment, the sound of cooking suddenly came from outside the bedroom.

"Is that stinky raccoon making fried rice again early in the morning? I just don't understand why the tailed beast suddenly likes to cook." Asuka said in a daze with his eyes closed.

Feifei didn't even raise his head. He changed into a comfortable position and lay down again, muttering.

“What else can it do except show off?
I don't know how the fox offended it, and Shukaku has remembered it for so long. The first thing he does every day when he opens his eyes is to scold the fox, then he tidies up carefully and goes to chat with Hashirama Senju to kill his free and boring time."

"Is that stinky civet cat so idle?"

"I am idle, running around the village every day"

As he was talking, Feiniao no longer felt sleepy, so he simply got dressed, opened the bedroom window, and breathed in big gulps of the fresh air outside.

The clouds in the sky were covered with a golden coat under the sunlight, and the originally dark sky gradually turned into light blue with the appearance of the sun.

There were few pedestrians on the streets in the early morning, but patrolling ninjas who had just got off work were sitting scattered around the roadside breakfast stalls.

The aroma of food wafted through the air, instantly whetting the appetite of the flying birds.

He stared at the stall below for a while, then picked up his shoes, tiptoed to open the door, and prepared to see what Shukaku was doing.

Dangdang! !

As soon as I walked out of the bedroom, I heard the sound of cutting vegetables coming from the kitchen.

"After just one month's absence, has that raccoon cat become so skilled at cutting vegetables?" Asuka couldn't help but sigh, and then turned his gaze to the living room, and found that Uchiha Mikoto, who was originally lying on the ground, was no longer there. She must have left.

Then he walked to the kitchen door, took a quick glance inside, the smile on his face froze for a moment, and he silently took a step back.

"What the hell"

Asuka rubbed his eyes in disbelief and said in confusion, "Cooking a meal and turning yourself into a woman? What's wrong with this? Can't you cook without transforming?"

Sometimes he even felt that the thinking patterns of some people in the ninja world might not be as good as those of Uchiha.

Konohamaru, the grandson of Sarutobi Hiruzen, liked to turn himself into a woman when he was learning the Rasengan, shaking his body and making the water ball in his hand explode.

Now Shukaku seems to have a serious illness. Not only has he turned himself into a woman, he even wears an apron like a housewife.
Does cooking this way make it more delicious?

He then sniffed the aroma of food wafting from the kitchen, and a hint of surprise flashed across his eyes. "It seems that I am really hungry. I actually feel that this smell is quite delicious."

"Hey!"

The sudden sound beside her ears made Uchiha Mikoto pause in her actions.

Ever since she decided to cook after waking up, she had been thinking about what to say when the other party asked her, but Mikoto still hadn't figured out how to answer until she was halfway through cutting the vegetables.

After all, considering their past relationship, today's behavior was indeed a bit strange.

Even in Uchiha Asuka's eyes, her purpose of cooking this meal might be to poison the food.

Looking at the "stinky civet cat"'s suddenly stiff body, as if it was reluctant to pay attention to him, Fei Niao blinked his eyes, and a flash of lightning suddenly flashed through his mind.

Snapped!
shy!

The secret is revealed, shame on you!
"But it's really embarrassing to become a woman and cook. I might not be able to hold my head up when I meet a fox in the future." Thinking of this, Fei Niao rubbed his temple subconsciously, thinking about how to open his mouth without hurting the other party's self-esteem. At the same time, he had to explain that this behavior was just like taking off pants to fart, which was unnecessary.

The air fell into an eerie silence at this moment.

Uchiha Asuka was leaning against the wall with his arms folded across his chest, his attention clearly not on the woman in the kitchen; while Uchiha Mikoto in the kitchen was staring at the vegetables that had not yet been cut, distracted.

"that."

After a moment of silence, Asuka looked at the figure in the kitchen who looked like Uchiha Mikoto and said, "This dish is fried very fragrant. The cooking skills are no worse than those of the chefs outside."

Uchiha Mikoto hummed softly, and the movement of cutting vegetables in her hands returned to normal.

Dang Dang Dang!
As the sound of the kitchen knife hitting the chopping board rang out, Asuka looked at the other party's skillful movements, which really had some of the meaning of a housewife, and couldn't help but sigh.

"Who did you learn this cooking skill from?"

Hearing this, Mikoto replied calmly without even raising her head.

“Teach yourself!”

"Genius!" Fei Niao praised and fell silent again.

He couldn't figure out how to educate Shukaku to change this special habit.

Sensing that the air had once again fallen into a strange awkwardness, Uchiha Mikoto paused while cutting vegetables, then immediately returned to normal and asked, "Do you have a light or heavy taste? Do you have any dietary restrictions?"

"There's nothing to avoid. I can eat anything that humans can eat."

“As for the taste.
"As long as it's not a lethal dose, I don't have any requirements on the taste."

Asuka replied casually, then secretly glanced at the figure busy in the kitchen, and couldn't help but admire Shukaku's transformation ability.

He is worthy of being the only one among the nine tailed beasts who can use ninjutsu.

Look at its appearance after the transformation, it is exactly the same as the real thing.

“This hair, this face, this figure.”

If he didn't know that Uchiha Mikoto couldn't cook for him, he might have really mistaken the person in the kitchen for Uchiha Mikoto, and there would be no flaw at all.

Ok?
Just as Fei Niao was marveling at the power of the transformation technique, his brows suddenly frowned and he looked down at his feet.

"Stinky raccoon cat?" Asuka looked at the tea kettle that suddenly appeared at his feet and kept pulling at his trouser legs. After a moment of confusion, he asked in surprise, "What are you doing?"

"Hee-ha~"

Suddenly a sharp laugh was heard in the room.

Shukaku took out a brown wallet from the tea kettle. He looked at the image of "Shukaku" printed on the top of the wallet, nodded with satisfaction, then touched the shriveled wallet and shook his head in dissatisfaction.

This thing was given to it by Uchiha Asuka after it signed a contract with him, and the other party would put a sum of money in its wallet every month for it to eat and drink.

just
Looking at his empty wallet, Shukaku looked up at Uchiha Asuka and said quickly in a sharp voice, "Give me some money. I've been addicted to gambling lately."

"No, I hate gamblers who can't win money!" Fei Niao didn't even look at it, and refused with a sneer.

"Being obsessed with winning or losing is ridiculous and pathetic!"

After the words fell, Shukaku put his hands behind his back, revealing an unfathomable temperament, "Hashirama Senju and Tsunade are a very good grandfather and grandson. They never care about winning or losing, and they are happy after losing money every day.

And you Uchiha care too much about winning or losing, and too much about these superficial things."

Hearing this nonsense, Asuka subconsciously rolled her eyes and refused again, "I won't give it to you either. You can even lose in a bet with Hashirama-sama. Your luck is so bad."

"The result is not important!" Shukaku jumped up on the spot and said angrily, "What I care about is the process of the fight, the kind of fight where you go back and forth, neither side gives in, the atmosphere is extremely tense, and in the end I lose."

Fei Niao's eyes widened instantly, and he stared at his deflated wallet for a long time, beginning to doubt his life.

"Who loses everything in their wallet when they lose narrowly? You lost miserably, miserably."

"Bullshit, the fight was extremely thrilling, I just took one wrong step."

"Stinky cat, you make a wrong move in every game."

puff! !
Seeing the two guys arguing so fiercely, Mikoto couldn't help laughing out loud.

Uchiha Asuka followed the laughter and subconsciously turned to look at the kitchen. When he saw Uchiha Mikoto, he was silent for a moment, and then he looked at Shukaku who was jumping with anger, and the corner of Asuka's mouth suddenly twitched.

How stupid!

He is so stupid!
How could the person in the kitchen be Shukaku?
He should have guessed it long ago. Shukaku was just an idiot who couldn't do anything except making simple fried rice.

"Uchiha Mikoto cooked for me?" As soon as he thought of this possibility that he dared not even think about, Asuka looked at the stir-fried vegetables in the pot suspiciously and said vigilantly, "Mikoto-sama, although I was mean to you yesterday, you wouldn't poison me, right?
As a housewife, putting poison in food is somewhat disrespectful to food."

"I didn't poison it!" Uchiha Mikoto shook her head slightly, then picked up a piece of food from the pot with chopsticks, and said while tasting it, "I really didn't poison it, I just wanted to thank you."

Asuka:? ? ?
He watched Mikoto chew twice, her throat moving up and down, and swallowing the stir-fried food into her stomach in an instant. His eyelids twitched slightly, and he began to murmur in his heart.

“These women are quite cruel!
In order to reassure myself, you actually planned to die together with me?"

Anyway, I would never believe that this dish is not poisonous. They were obviously displeased with each other in the first half of the night, but the next morning, not only did they not care about what happened last night, they even cooked for each other themselves.
"Mikoto-sama, you..." He couldn't help but ask after Mikoto had already put the dishes on the plate, "Have you lost your memory? Even if you have lost your memory, you shouldn't cook for me, right?"

"I haven't lost my memory!"

As she spoke, she picked up the plate and walked in front of Asuka, then gently bumped the other person's body with her shoulder. Uchiha Asuka staggered and instantly dodged to the side to make way.

After putting the plate on the table, she took off the apron from around her waist and hung it on the door frame, then looked at Asuka who was standing in a daze in the aisle and said calmly.

"Don't you have any energy in your eyes? Take the bowl."

Hearing this commanding tone, Asuka's face darkened and she glanced at Uchiha Mikoto who was sitting at the dining table. She couldn't understand why this guy became like this.

Yesterday, the two of them were at loggerheads.
"Is it Stockholm?? Like being tortured??"

"Or were you completely hurt by Fugaku?"

Thinking about how Uchiha Mikoto had to go to the hospital many times because of him, Asuka directly ruled out the first option.

If the fact that I fainted from anger yesterday could change my opinion of myself.
So as early as a year ago, when the two of them were communicating physically, they changed
"She must have been completely heartbroken by Patriarch Fugaku." Asuka raised her eyelids slightly and secretly glanced at Uchiha Mikoto who was eating quietly. Suddenly, some sympathy welled up in her eyes.

Uchiha Mikoto, who had always presented herself as a gentle person, dropped her gentle image and blocked his door, making indirect accusations because he had mentioned "divorce" at the clan meeting.

The two of them often had conflicts over such things.

But as time flies, in just two short years, without any instigation from Asuka, the relationship between Uchiha Fugaku and Uchiha Mikoto has become what it is now.

Dang Dang Dang!
Mikoto knocked on the plate and frowned as she asked, "Asuka-kun, you don't eat but always look at what I do. Is there any seasoning on my face? Can looking at it for a few more seconds help you eat?"

"I still prefer the gentle look that Lady Mikoto had in the past. The contrast with her current look is a bit too great." Asuka put down his bowl and chopsticks and suggested very seriously.

gentle?

Hearing this ancient word, Uchiha Mikoto's vision blurred, and the young man in front of her suddenly turned into Fugaku.

Since her marriage, she has always played the role of a gentle housewife.

When she spoke to Fugaku while eating, she always spoke in a gentle voice and never used words to bully him; before each meal, she was the only one who set the table and then called Fugaku over; after dinner, facing the mess on the table, she would clean up while thinking about what to make for dinner so that the family could have a more balanced nutrition.

After all, compared to Fugaku's work, she doesn't do much every day.

"Buying groceries, cooking, cleaning the house, and taking care of Itachi and Sasuke." Thinking of what she used to do every day, Uchiha Mikoto's hazy vision gradually regained focus.

She rarely buys vegetables, since she eats them all by herself, so she can eat them for several days once she buys them.

I seldom cook, since she is the only one eating anyway, so she can eat for several days after cooking once.

She rarely cleans the house since she lives alone and there is no need to clean it every day.

Itachi, the education doesn't seem to be very successful, and Sasuke is the only future Uchiha left.

"I, as a housewife, look quite a failure right now." Mikoto showed a bitter smile on her face. She looked at Uchiha Asuka who was sitting opposite her and said gently.

"Asuka-kun"

"Stop, stop!" Asuka quickly made a stop gesture and interrupted, "Mikoto-sama, there's no need to call me so gently. The relationship between us is not good."

Mikoto said lightly, her bitter smile was perfectly concealed, and her expression returned to its cold state.

Then, she picked up the white porcelain bowl filled with porridge, raised her head and looked across again, her cold voice without any human emotion, "Mr. Asuka, I find you to be quite a bitch."

Seeing that she suddenly seemed like a different person, Fei Niao blinked in confusion and said subconsciously.

"How about, Lady Mikoto, be gentle?"

"Don't force me to scold you while I'm eating." After glaring at him fiercely, Mikoto picked up the porcelain bowl and took a sip of the porridge. Suddenly, she noticed that there seemed to be a gap on the edge of the porcelain bowl.

Ok?
She stared at the familiar yet unfamiliar gap for a while and asked suspiciously.

"Asuka-kun, where did you buy your porcelain bowls?"

Asuka replied without even looking up.

"Oh, I picked it up."

Hearing this perfunctory answer, Mikoto suddenly looked at the plate of food, narrowed her eyes slightly, and continued to ask.

"Where did you buy your plates?"

Asuka glanced at the plate and answered truthfully.

“I picked it up too!”

As a gift from the system, it can be considered a find after rounding it off.

More than a year ago, he completed the task issued by the system and received a reward.

A feast made by the mother: [A feast made by the host's mother herself can enhance the family atmosphere. No matter how much conflict there is under the table, the atmosphere will become unusually harmonious when eating this meal.]

At that time, after he, Uchiha Madara and Uchiha Ryoichi finished dinner, the plates with the dishes did not disappear.

Thinking that this set of tableware, as a witness of his and Uchiha Madara's meal, was of great collection value, Asuka washed it and kept it in accordance with the principle of not wasting.

As for the white porcelain bowl.
Seeing Uchiha Mikoto's expression turning pale and blue, and her attention completely attracted by the white porcelain bowl, Asuka couldn't help but pick up the white porcelain bowl and look at it, at the same time sighing in her heart.

“The system is really considerate.”

"Knowing that eating vegetables without rice would be half as tasty, not only did he prepare a pot of steaming hot rice, he even prepared a spoon and a porcelain bowl for the rice."

“Great system!!”

Compared to Asuka who kept praising the system in her heart, Uchiha Mikoto's mood was not so good at this time.

Because she suddenly realized that this set of tableware was exactly the same as the one that was lost at home!!

The one where even the dishes and plates are missing!!

"No wonder when I was about to leave this morning, I felt familiar with the plates placed in the kitchen and suddenly wanted to cook something with them." Uchiha Mikoto slowly clenched her fists as she continued to look at the plates on the table.

"At the time, I thought it was because I hadn't made breakfast properly for a long time, and my hands suddenly felt itchy. The plate did make me feel at home, and I also wanted to repay Uchiha Asuka for taking care of me last night."

"But now it seems that my desire to repay Uchiha Asuka was fake, and my desire to use this plate to cook was real."

at this time.

Uchiha Mikoto only felt her scalp itchy, as if a brain was about to grow out of it.

No wonder she couldn't walk when she saw the plate in the morning and wanted to do something with it.

现在
She seemed to guess why she couldn't walk.

This plate was bought when she got married. She used it that night to celebrate Itachi's return from the battlefield.

A new, unopened plate with special meaning, thrown away after first use.

She will remember this incident for the rest of her life.

(End of this chapter)