The Arrogant Hyuga Kazefu

"What are you all making such a fuss about? If you keep it up, believe it or not, you'll soon be in big trouble!" Hyuga Kazefu shouted at the people pointing fingers at him, his face twisted with madness.

"Oh my, oh my. You were the one being unreasonable, and now you won't even let others speak? That child already apologized to you, but you still wouldn't let it go. You even said such awful things, and now you're forbidding us from talking?" a passerby said unhappily as he looked at Hyuga Kazefu.

"Heh heh, do you see my eyes? My eyes are white. I possess the Byakugan. Do you Konoha Village commoners know what that means?"

"It means I am a member of the Hyuga Clan. By criticizing me, you are criticizing the Hyuga Clan. If you want to live peacefully, shut your damn mouths." Hyuga Kazefu glared fiercely at the man who had just spoken.

Hyuga Kazefu's words had an immediate effect. The Hyuga Clan was an extremely powerful family in Konoha Village. If someone truly offended the Hyuga Clan, they could forget about living a good life in Konoha Village.

The man who had spoken up was merely an ordinary Konoha resident. He had neither strength nor power; he was nothing more than a common villager with nothing to his name.

For a massive clan like the Hyuga Clan, crushing an ordinary villager like him would be as easy as squashing an ant. It would take no effort at all.

Even if the Hyuga Clan truly killed an ordinary Konoha Village resident, they would not have to pay much of a price. The gap between their statuses was simply too great, and this was a world like Naruto's, where the strong preyed on the weak. If someone without strength was killed, it truly had no impact at all.

Even any punishment would be merely verbal. The Hyuga Clan was, after all, a great noble family. It was not worth falling out with one of Konoha Village's great clans, the Hyuga Clan, over the most ordinary of villagers.

Fortunately, the man who had stepped forward knew his place. He understood that he was only an ordinary Konoha villager. If he went up against a behemoth like the Hyuga Clan, one of Konoha's great clans, continuing to live in Konoha would become extremely difficult.

So he sensibly shut his mouth and retreated into the crowd. Naturally, the people who had been surrounding Hyuga Kazefu and pointing fingers at him also stopped talking. Once they learned that Hyuga Kazefu belonged to Konoha's great Hyuga Clan, they all shut their mouths and stood quietly where they were.

Hyuga Kazefu was extremely satisfied with the reactions of those ordinary Konoha civilians. Because I am a member of the Hyuga Clan, once those lowly commoners learned who I was, they obediently shut their mouths. Not one of them dared to continue speaking ill of me.

Standing before me, Hyuga Kazefu looked at the ordinary Konoha civilians with utter disdain and said to the silenced residents of Konoha Village, "Heh heh, why did you all stop talking? Weren't you having a great time talking just now?"

The ordinary Konoha civilians nearby could only lower their heads. None of them dared say another word, and they did not even dare look at Hyuga Kazefu again, as though they feared he would remember their faces.

"What's wrong? Now that you've heard I'm from the Hyuga Clan, you've all shut your mouths? Don't lower your heads! Keep going! Weren't you all talking so happily just now? Have you all gone mute?"

Hyuga Kazefu shouted at the ordinary Konoha civilians. At that moment, he was truly glad that he had been born into the Hyuga Clan, one of Konoha's great noble families.

Even though I am not particularly strong, these ordinary villagers do not dare utter another word. They do not even dare look at me. This feeling is truly wonderful, truly marvelous.

But after all, the Hyuga Clan stood behind him. It was one of Konoha's most powerful great clans, not an existence just anyone could afford to provoke, much less these ordinary Konoha villagers.

Hyuga Kazefu gave the people who had just been pointing fingers at him a vicious tongue-lashing. He cursed them for a long time, only stopping once he felt thoroughly satisfied in both body and mind. He looked disdainfully at the ordinary villagers, who kept their heads down and dared not meet his eyes.

Xuan Ye, standing opposite Hyuga Kazefu, remained quietly where he was. He watched Hyuga Kazefu curse at the Konoha villagers while they stood there dumbly and did not dare make a single peep, allowing Hyuga Kazefu to berate them as though they feared making him unhappy.

Xuan Ye did not feel much about those ordinary villagers being cursed. After all, they were neither friends nor relatives of his and had no connection to him at all, so he had no reaction to their humiliation.

Yet after witnessing this, Xuan Ye gained some insight. This world revered strength above all else. As long as one possessed strength, one could accomplish things others could not and do the things one wanted to do.

But if a person lacked strength, then they would truly be like these ordinary villagers—heads lowered, not daring to fight back when beaten or talk back when cursed. Even while being cursed, they would fear that the person cursing them was not enjoying it enough. They would live their entire lives in such a pathetic manner.

But I, Genya Namikaze, will never live that kind of life. If I am to live, I will live as a strong man, free to follow my heart and do whatever I wish. With strength, I can also use my power to resolve danger whenever the people I care about encounter it.

That is the life I, Genya Namikaze, should live. And it is not an impossible dream. After all, I now have a system in my mind that can assist me in becoming strong—becoming someone feared by others, someone no one would dare casually offend.

Xuan Ye had always believed that one day in the future, such a life would definitely become reality. He had that confidence in himself.

The reason Xuan Ye had not left was that he wanted to see what this Hyuga Clan member, Hyuga Kazefu, intended to do. He wanted to see what Hyuga Kazefu planned to do to him next. But there was no need to worry about any of it. Even if Xuan Ye was not as strong as the Hyuga Kazefu before him, there was no need to fear.

Because Xuan Ye knew that several Anbu must be secretly protecting him. That was certain. After all, he was the Fourth Hokage's only son. It was impossible for there to be no Anbu guarding him in the shadows.

Furthermore, it was not yet certain that Hyuga Kazefu was stronger than Xuan Ye. At the very least, Xuan Ye's body was comparable to that of a genin. With the two ninjutsu granted by the system—the Gentle Fist Eight Trigrams Palm and Eight Trigrams Palms Revolving Heaven—he could even defeat some ordinary genin.

However, he still had no way to deal with powerful genin. After all, Xuan Ye had only learned the Gentle Fist Eight Trigrams Palm, Eight Trigrams Palms Revolving Heaven, and a few simple taijutsu and ninjutsu. Having no proficiency meant that he merely knew how to use these techniques; both the speed and power with which he used them were still greatly lacking.