"This isn't up to you, and no matter how I look at it, this hardly counts as compensation," Itachi Uchiha said coldly.
"If that research took too long, Kitahara Kaede would never let Kurotsuchi go in young and come out seventy or eighty years old. So you're planning to secure a Divine Tree Fruit for Kurotsuchi, aren't you?" Itachi Uchiha's voice remained icy.
If it had been mutual, he would not have had anything to say about it.
But as things stood now, it only made Ōnoki look like he had his own ulterior motives.
"Don't make it sound so ugly, will you?" Ōnoki gave an awkward laugh.
"Kurotsuchi still doesn't have anyone she likes. She only gets a little excited whenever Kitahara Kaede is mentioned," Ōnoki said somewhat embarrassedly.
"Tsk tsk, Ōnoki, you're not being honest," A said with a hint of disdain.
"A, are you looking for a fight?!" Ōnoki snapped in embarrassment and anger.
"A fight? You make it sound like you'd definitely beat me. I really can't understand the way an old man like you thinks." A took half a step back.
"Hmph. If you had a daughter around Kitahara Kaede's age, you'd understand how I feel." Ōnoki scoffed at A's attitude.
The finest young man in the shinobi world was Kitahara Kaede. Others might think Naruto and Sasuke were the best.
But who here didn't know better?
Compared to Kitahara Kaede, Naruto and Sasuke were nothing special.
"Have you all forgotten that this still depends on what I think?" Kitahara Kaede said with a wry smile.
He had more or less grown used to being the center of attention.
But being fought over as a prospective match was still rather surreal.
"There are girls in the Hidden Leaf Village who like Kitahara Kaede by the