"...Uchiha Fugaku, I want to duel you!" The boy named Feiyu Hyuga's face flushed red with anger.
Behind him, the disciples of the Hyuga Clan also felt personally insulted. They clenched their fists one after another, making the atmosphere even more tense.
Let alone the Hyuga family, even Kenji couldn't help but click his tongue upon hearing this.
So Uchiha Fugaku was this arrogant as a child. At eleven or twelve years old, he was already the leader of the Uchiha's younger generation, with everyone looking up to him.
As for Feiyu Hyuga, Kenji had never even heard of him; he was probably just a minor character.
"Feiyu Hyuga, did I hear that right? You want to duel me?" Uchiha Fugaku sneered. "Have you forgotten how I beat you until you knelt and begged for mercy just a few days ago?"
"..."
"Feiyu Hyuga, cut the hypocrisy. If you really wanted a one-on-one duel, you wouldn't have brought so many people."
Uchiha Fugaku crossed his arms, adopting a playful posture. "However, winning by numbers might be difficult for you too. I won't say much, but for us Uchiha, fighting two against one is more than enough."
The Uchiha youths standing behind Fugaku all showed amused expressions, clearly agreeing with Fugaku's words.
"We won't know until we fight!" Feiyu Hyuga looked unconvinced.
However, at this moment, a boy behind Feiyu Hyuga walked up, displaying a calmness and steadiness different from everyone else.
"With an outsider present, aren't you afraid of becoming a laughingstock?"
"Hiashi, what are you saying?" asked Feiyu Hyuga.
Hearing this, Uchiha Fugaku's expression shifted. After scanning the surroundings for a moment, he suddenly looked toward where Kenji was hiding.
"Who is it? Come out!"
Uchiha Fugaku's shout immediately drew everyone's gaze to that spot.
I really didn't expect that a petty squabble would involve two future big shots, Kenji thought.
Seeing his cover blown, Kenji no longer hid and walked straight out.
Indeed, he hadn't expected that the future clan heads of the Uchiha and Hyuga families would be here today engaging in a childish fight out of spite.
"Kenji?"
As soon as Kenji appeared, people from both the Uchiha and Hyuga sides recognized him.
Two of them were Kenji's classmates. Even though Kenji hadn't performed well, they still had some impression of him.
"Erzhu, you know him?" Uchiha Fugaku asked the boy who recognized Kenji.
"Yeah, he's in my class. But he didn't pass the graduation assessment. His strength is terrible."
"Is that so!" Uchiha Fugaku fixed his gaze on Kenji again and questioned arrogantly, "It's so late; what are you doing here? Don't tell me you're a helper invited by Feiyu Hyuga?"
"Uchiha Fugaku, don't talk nonsense. I don't even know him well," Feiyu Hyuga denied. "Besides, he couldn't even pass the graduation assessment. If I were to find someone, I wouldn't choose him."
Kenji shrugged. "I'm just a passerby. I saw the commotion and watched for a while."
"What's there to look at? Get lost, or even if you aren't the Hyuga's helper, I'll beat you up too."
Kenji raised an eyebrow and said indifferently, "Beat me up too? Do you have the skill?"
"Oho, kid, you dare talk to Fugaku-ge like that?" The boy named Erzhu was unhappy.
Although he was Kenji's classmate, they had no friendship.
He also despised dead-lasts like Kenji.
"Did I say something wrong?" Kenji glanced at Erzhu. "You think your Brother Fugaku is amazing? But it seems he wasn't the first one to discover me just now."
As soon as these words came out, Uchiha Fugaku's arrogant demeanor immediately receded a bit. He stared at the fair-skinned boy beside Feiyu Hyuga.
"What is your name?"
"Hiashi Hyuga!" The boy was neither humble nor arrogant.
"Good. It seems the strongest of the Hyuga family isn't Feiyu Hyuga, but you." Uchiha Fugaku rubbed his fists. "I think the two of us should have a fight."
"The teachers say that as fellow Hidden Leaf ninja, we cannot fight privately. If you want to compare, we can compare on the battlefield in the future." Hiashi Hyuga shook his head, rejecting Uchiha Fugaku.
"Hiashi Hyuga, you're just saying that because you're scared, right?"
"Scared?" Feiyu Hyuga sneered. "Although Hiashi is low-key, his strength is absolutely the strongest."
"Is that so? That interests me even more. Today, I insist on competing with you."
Uchiha Fugaku was hell-bent on having his way and extremely domineering. He raised his hand and threw two shuriken at Hiashi Hyuga.
Even though Hiashi Hyuga was steady, he didn't expect Uchiha Fugaku to attack suddenly and throw shuriken directly.
What if someone actually got hurt?
However, at that moment, a figure flashed and appeared in front of Hiashi Hyuga, catching the two shuriken.
"..."
Everyone present widened their eyes.
Catching shuriken with bare hands? That was too exaggerated, wasn't it?
"Kenji, you..."
Uchiha Erzhu felt his brain short-circuiting. Was this guy really the dead-last who couldn't even pass the graduation assessment?
Uchiha Fugaku was stunned, then fixed his gaze deadly on Kenji.
If Hiashi Hyuga intrigued him, then the current Kenji made him wary.
He was the top graduate of this batch. Could anyone really catch the shuriken he threw with bare hands?
"Shh!"
Facing everyone's shock, Kenji just made a hushing gesture and warned, "Someone is coming."
"Kid, you're pretty good. You actually discovered us?"
As soon as Kenji's words fell, two figures suddenly jumped down from the tree, wearing amused expressions on their faces.