Chapter 5: 5. This Uncle cares a lot about me

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The system is named as Dimensional Shopkeeper system. Not the 'Ruling the world' system.

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"I don't want to rule the world. I just want peace here. I should have enough power to safeguard myself." 

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Then I wish good luck to the host.

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Aoto didn't speak anymore and just decided to stop talking with the system and switched it off in order to manage his thoughts. Though he complained a bit, in his heart he was happy. Having such an easy going system was better than the systems that he had read which gave the protagonists many missions to complete and get their life in danger. 

He didn't like anything that would make his life fall in danger. He actively avoided any kind of serious confrontation in his previous life and stayed away from troubles. In this life too he would love to live a comfortable life, but this whole world would probably not want him to live life safely. 

That was not even taking into account the fact that Nagato would come in the future to destroy everything that he was going to build. Sure, if everything went good, he would be brought to life but who would want to die in the first place and let his life's work get destroyed. 

So his first choice would be to make sure that he had got enough power to safeguard himself. He was only grumbling on the fact that this power gaining would only depend on his luck. 

"Me landing here safely was also a kind of luck and that meteor-ossan too. Hope my luck is good enough to safeguard myself." 

Aoto didn't think more on this and just lied down on the futon at the floor. He was now trying to recall everything that he had known from the anime and manga of Naruto and make his plans accordingly. His eyelids became heavy slowly and he drifted off to sleep. 

The next day. 

Aoto woke up a little late as he had slept a bit later at night. He freshened himself and went to look for Uncle Teuchi. He needed to discuss the repair. He found him in the kitchen making noodles for the Ichiraku Ramen shop. 

"Uncle, Good morning." 

"Good morning. How was the sleep? I made some steamed rice with Miso soup and fish for breakfast. Ayame is out buying some groceries for the shop." 

"Oh. Thank you Uncle." 

Aoto was hungry early in the morning and gobbled up the delicious food Uncle had made. Japanese style  breakfast was a delicacy of its own, at least it was better than the cereals and milk of his previous life. After finishing it with relish he cleaned himself and spoke to Uncle. 

"Uncle, yesterday night I went back to the secret storehouse of my home and I found quite a bit of money. We can use that money to repair my home and shop." 

Uncle Teuchi, who had been happily slicing up the dough to make the noodles, stopped and looked with a little horror in his eyes. 

"Aoto, how could you do that? Don't you know that there is a curfew at night imposed by the 3rd Hokage? What would have happened if you were caught by the ninjas? That house of yours could just break down at any given moment and you went in?. How could you take that risk after coming from the hospital? Don't you care for your own life that your parents had tried to save?" 

Aoto didn't expect such a violent reaction from Uncle. It was just a harmless lie anyway and he didn't think much of it when he spoke. 

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"No wonder there were not a single men in the streets. So there was a curfew." Aoto mumbled. 

"Promise me Aoto that you will never go out at night. If the ninjas come and take you away I will not be able to save you." 

"Uncle, I am just a commoner plus I just stepped a few steps away from the shop. It should not warrant such violent reactions." 

"Whatever be the case. Don't do that again. You promise me!" 

"I promise."

".... Did you really find money in your home?" Teuchi asked with skepticism in his eyes as he remembered what Aoto had said in the beginning.

"Yes. I always knew that my parents had been saving money in a secret locker. So I went there to check if it was still there. I found some money after opening it." 

"This is great. Now you better not leave the bakery and make it your own." 

"Uncle I only know very little of the bakery and I only helped my mother in menial tasks. I am not sure I am up for it." Aoto said as he really wasn't sure that if he was up for baking and he was here to sell things, not make things with his own hands. 

"You don't have to worry about it. I will help you. In the morning I don't have much work anyways." 

"No, Uncle, you are already helping me so much. I will see what I can do." 

"Aoto, I have already told you that I will not let your parents memory fade away." 

*Sigh!* This uncle was really adamant.

"How much do we need to repair the whole shop?" Teuchi looked through the window towards the damaged house once again and said after quite a bit of thinking. 

"25,000 ryo would do the job I think." 

"Great. Uncle I will provide 30,000 ryo. Is that enough?" 

"Do you really have such a huge amount of money?" 

"Trust me and I hope that the house will be brand new." 

"With 30,000 you will have more than enough." 

"Thank you. I don't know anything about the construction company here. Can you help me?" 

"Of course. Since you already have the money we can go to Konoha Construction Inc. to put an order. Let me finish making the noodles." 

Aoto was happy to hear that and proceeded to help him in his making. Uncle was broad minded enough to let him help even though there was a chance that he might steal his recipe. Teuchi really trusted Aoto a lot. 

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