"Sasuke, come here quickly. I'll take you to your mother's friend's house today. You can meet new friends." Uchiha Mikoto waved to Sasuke who was still running around in the courtyard.
Zuozhu has been born for seven months. Maybe because both his parents are ninjas, he has learned to speak very quickly even though he is only seven months old. Now he can speak clearly and is in very good health. He can not only walk without help, but can also run.
"New friends, good." When Zuo Zhu heard that Uchiha Mikoto was going to take him to meet new friends, his eyes lit up and he trotted to Uchiha Mikoto's side.
Although the war with Kumogakure did not affect Konoha, for safety reasons, Fugaku still asked Sasuke to stay at home and not go out.
As for Itachi, Fugaku was still relieved, because Itachi was different from Sasuke. He already had a certain strength, and even if he encountered an emergency, he would not be without any resistance.
Itachi's maturity beyond his age has always reassured Fugaku.
This made Zuozhu very depressed. Every day he could only play with various toys in the yard and wait for his brother to come back.
However, sometimes Itachi would stop training for a day and play with Zuosuke when he saw that Zuosuke was bored.
"Zazu, slow down, don't be in a hurry, be careful not to fall." Uchiha Mikoto saw Zazu running over and reminded him softly.
In front of the child, she seemed to have forgotten that she was also a jonin, and even if Zuosuke fell, she would be able to catch him before he hit the ground.
"It's okay, I won't fall." Zuosuke successfully arrived next to Uchiha Mikoto safely and said with a confident smile.
"Well, Sasuke is really awesome." Uchiha Mikoto smiled and touched Sasuke's little head, then took Sasuke towards Kushina's home.
"Naruto, you bastard, how come you can't even solve such a simple puzzle? Pay more attention!"
When Uchiha Mikoto reached the door of Kushina's house, she heard a loud roar that shook the door slightly.
Zuo Zhu, who was standing next to Uchiha Mikoto, was so scared that he hid behind Uchiha Mikoto and only dared to stick his head out to watch.
"Mother, is this your friend's house? Maybe we went to the wrong place?" Zuo Zhu asked in a low voice.
Uchiha Mikoto smiled awkwardly and explained: "My friend is not usually like this. Maybe something happened."
"Kushinna, I've brought Sasuke here." Uchiha Mikoto said.
Bang!
The door was quickly opened and Kushina walked out in her home clothes.
Seeing Uchiha Mikoto, Kushina's eyes lit up. She had been quite bored recently. After the night of the Nine-Tails, Minato was afraid that she would have some sequelae, so he asked her to recuperate well. She originally wanted to go to the battlefield.
"Isn't this Zuosuke-chan? Time flies. At first, he could only be carried by you, Mikoto, but now he can walk by himself."
Kushina smiled and greeted Sasuke who was hiding behind Mikoto and only poked his head out.
"It's Zuosuke, not Little Zuosuke." Zuosuke walked out from behind Uchiha Mikoto and corrected seriously.
"But you are very small." Kushina put her hands on her hips and said confidently.
"I..." Zuosuke looked up at Kushina and found himself unable to refute.
Puff.
Looking at the somewhat autistic Sasuke, Uchiha Mikoto couldn't help laughing, and then said: "Kushinna, don't bully Sasuke. I brought him here to make friends with Naruto."
Uchiha Mikoto had also visited Kushina before, and at that time she learned that Kushina's prediction was not successful, and that the baby she gave birth to was a boy named Namikaze Naruto.
After hearing what Uchiha Mikoto said, Kushina became a little more serious and welcomed Uchiha Mikoto and Sasuke into the house.
"Naruto is in the living room upstairs. Can little Sasuke go up by yourself? Do you want me to carry you up?" Kushina looked at Sasuke with a smile.
"I can walk up the stairs by myself." Zuo Zhu turned his face away proudly, and walked up to the second floor seriously and with difficulty. This was his last bit of stubbornness.
It was not until Sasuke's figure slowly disappeared from sight that Kushina retracted her gaze and said to Uchiha Mikoto with a smile: "Your child is really interesting."
Uchiha Mikoto looked at Kushina with a speechless look, and then asked with concern: "How is your body?"
"Of course I'm as healthy as I can be." Kushina smiled and patted his chest. "By the way, I heard that a new store has opened in the commercial street recently. Let's go shopping tomorrow afternoon."
"Okay, I don't have anything to do tomorrow." Uchiha Mikoto nodded.
Sasuke managed to reach the second floor through his willpower, and once there, he saw Naruto sitting on the wooden floor of the living room, working hard on a jigsaw puzzle.
The sharp-eyed Zuosuke noticed the symmetrical beard on Naruto's face at a glance.
"Hello, my name is Uchiha Sasuke, you can call me Sasuke." Sasuke saw that Naruto seemed to be not noticing him because he was so focused on studying the puzzle, so he spoke up.
"What?" Naruto heard an unfamiliar voice and looked up at the source of the voice.
"Yes, it's Zuo Zhu." Zuo Zhu said proudly. He was very satisfied with his name.
"Hello... Hello, my name is Namikaze Naruto." Although Naruto, who is younger than Sasuke, can also speak, his speaking speed and clarity are obviously not as good as Sasuke's.
"Narodo?"
"Yeah," Naruto nodded quickly with a happy smile.
This was the first time that a kid as young as him came to play with him, and Naruto was very happy.
"Do you like playing puzzles?" Zuosuke sat next to Naruto and looked at the puzzle pieces on the ground curiously.
"I don't like it, but mom said it would make me smarter, so she let me play." Naruto explained.
"Become smarter? Let me try." Zuo Zhu became curious and wanted to play the puzzle too.
Ten minutes later...
"I think this fragment should be in this location."
"No, it should be this fragment."
The two gradually started arguing, and in the end even Kushina and Uchiha Mikoto who were downstairs could hear their quarrel.
"Why are you arguing again?" Kushina walked upstairs and stared at the two of them and asked.
"Zazu...Zazu, fight like crazy." Naruto spoke first.
Before Uchiha Mikoto could say anything, Sasuke quickly retorted: "I didn't spell it wrong, it was Naruto who spelled it wrong!"
"Let me see." Kushina walked between the two of them and looked at the puzzle.
Finally, Kushina picked up a puzzle piece that looked similar to the one in Sasuke Naruto's hand, put it on, and said with a smile: "Don't argue, you are all wrong."
In order to avoid being embarrassed when Naruto asked for help, Kushina played with all the puzzles she bought herself first, and she was so familiar with them.
"Eh!" Sasuke and Naruto looked at each other, then both blushed and apologized to each other, feeling ashamed of their previous behavior.
When it was almost evening, Uchiha Mikoto took Sasuke home.
When they said goodbye, the two made an agreement that the next time they met, they would have a jigsaw puzzle competition, using the same puzzle piece to see who could finish it first.