Arrogant. Far too arrogant!
In his daze, Hiruzen Sarutobi seemed to see a domineering figure from his memories—someone who had been so proud and rampant, with the ambition to conquer every ninja village.
"Madara Uchiha..." Hiruzen Sarutobi muttered inwardly as Madara Uchiha's figure surfaced in his mind.
When he was young, he had seen both the First Hokage, Hashirama Senju, and Madara Uchiha. Madara Uchiha was someone who left a deep impression on anyone who met him. He was overbearing and cold; only the First Hokage, Hashirama Senju, could suppress his sky-reaching presence.
Yet even so, after the final battle at the Valley of the End, when the First Hokage, Hashirama Senju, killed Madara Uchiha, he did not last long himself. His life soon came to an end, and he departed for the underworld.
Now, Neji Hyuga standing before Hiruzen Sarutobi gave him the same sense of bearing and dominance as Madara Uchiha.
He spoke lightly of starting a war, domineeringly seeking to gather everything in the world into his arms.
Another Madara Uchiha...
"No. If he grows up, he'll be even more terrifying than Madara Uchiha." Hiruzen Sarutobi felt wary, and killing intent quietly rose within him.
Madara Uchiha had needed the Ninjutsu, Taijutsu, Sharingan, and all the accumulated advantages of the Uchiha Clan. Only through a full thousand years of generational knowledge, Ninjutsu, and Taijutsu accumulation, combined with the era itself, could the Uchiha Clan so quickly produce a Madara Uchiha—the one prodigy they had seen in a millennium.
All that knowledge, Ninjutsu, Taijutsu, Sharingan, talent, training resources from the Uchiha Clan, and so on were not things an ordinary person could possess.
Even Neji Hyuga should not have had them.
Neji Hyuga's father was Hizashi Hyuga. So what if Hizashi Hyuga was the younger brother of the