"I've suddenly decided not to take Neji with me."
Uchiha Mai's laughter abruptly subsided. Crossing his legs, he addressed the people before him.
"What?"
A, Killer B, and the others were stunned.
Uchiha Mai had come solely to take Neji away, and the Third Raikage had given his life trying to stop him.
If Uchiha Mai changed his mind now, what did that make the Third Raikage's sacrifice? Had he died for nothing?
Playing with the infant Neji, Uchiha Mai smiled. "A, I want you to raise him. I want you to teach him everything you've learned in your life.
"I want you to treat him as your own son and groom him as a future candidate for Raikage of Kumogakure."
Well...
A frowned, gazing at the baby in his arms, unable to understand Uchiha Mai's intentions.
Honestly, raising Neji as his own son was something A could do.
Perhaps he had considered it before. Perhaps the Third Raikage had told him to do it, or perhaps he had gotten along quite well with the infant Neji.
But all that had changed when the Third Raikage died in battle.
Neji's abduction had started this whole affair. It could be said that Neji was the reason the Third Raikage had died.
A couldn't accept treating Neji Hyuga, the "culprit" behind his father's death, as his own son.
Uchiha Mai knew what A was thinking. To make sure A devoted himself to teaching Neji, he dropped an even more shocking piece of information. "Is that so difficult?
"Then let me tell you something that might make it a little easier.
"Hidden within Neji is a power that might surpass me—and even Uchiha Madara in his day."
"What!?"
"What!?"
A and the others were even more astonished.
They all knew that Neji Hyuga,