This Is Impossible

Night gradually deepened.

Ever since the laboratory had been completed, Yuyou had barely returned to his room to rest. He had stayed in the laboratory the entire time.

Today, Yuyou had no intention of sleeping. He was waiting for a guest to come knocking.

Yuyou sat beside a table. A metal box had been placed on it directly in front of him.

Inside this metal box was his original [Metal Skeleton] plan. However, after his constant research and modifications, the current [Metal Skeleton] plan was somewhat different from the original one.

A clock sat on the table as well, and time passed little by little.

By three in the morning, most people in Konoha had fallen into their deepest sleep. Those planning infiltration operations also preferred to act at this hour, since their chances of success were higher.

"They're finally here. I was about to fall asleep waiting. I still have class tomorrow!" Yuyou said after glancing at the clock on the table, rubbing his face to wake himself up.

"I'll go welcome the guests first. Once this is over, I should still be able to sleep for a few hours. Forget it, I'll have Sasuke ask for leave for me tomorrow so I can catch up on sleep. Happily decided." Yuyou muttered a few words, then stood up and picked up the box.

His slime scouts were stationed all around the laboratory. At the slightest disturbance, the slimes responsible for surveillance would immediately send him the information.

This was a type of slime he had developed with powerful reconnaissance capabilities. Though they possessed no intelligence of their own, they were extremely useful as surveillance devices.

They did not even need charging. As long as they were given a bottle of nutrient solution, these slimes could carry out surveillance for a long time without making a single mistake.

"Judging by the shape of those masks, they should be Anbu. Then I can't hit them too hard." Yuyou spoke as he walked, examining the images transmitted into his mind. After all, Hiruzen Sarutobi had saved him, so he could not casually hurt Hiruzen Sarutobi's subordinates.

The laboratory entrance was not hidden. It was inside a small house in the courtyard, and opening the house's door revealed a passage leading down to the underground laboratory.

Rather than wait for others to force their way into his laboratory, Yuyou walked out himself.

The Anbu were the Hokage's direct guard force, made up of the finest ninjas in all of Konoha. Every Anbu ninja was not to be underestimated.

Yuyou stood at the entrance to the laboratory. He had now activated four Chakra Hearts, and the amount of chakra in his body far surpassed that of a jonin. It was also exceptionally active.

This time, the Anbu had dispatched four ninjas to Yuyou's laboratory. One of them was from the Hyuga clan.

As one of the great clans alongside the Uchiha clan, the Hyuga Clan also possessed an extremely powerful Kekkei Genkai: the Byakugan.

The Byakugan could grant Hyuga Clan ninjas an all-around, three-hundred-and-sixty-degree field of vision, like the gaze of a god. It allowed the Hyuga Clan to seize the initiative and gain every advantage in battle.

Furthermore, the Byakugan could see the state of a ninja's chakra flowing through the meridians of their body. In this regard, it was far superior to the Uchiha clan's Sharingan.

Combined with the Hyuga clan's secret Gentle Fist taijutsu, this ability of the Byakugan was even more formidable, laying the foundation for the Hyuga Clan's strength.

Moreover, the Byakugan consumed far less chakra than the Sharingan. Even a Hyuga Clan ninja who had only just awakened the Byakugan could maintain it for a long time.

The Hyuga Clan ninja in the four-man Anbu squad had activated his Byakugan, and the target he was observing was naturally Yuyou, who had appeared at the laboratory entrance.

"Something is very wrong with Yuyou Uchiha's current condition. According to the intelligence records, Yuyou Uchiha's chakra reserves did not even reach the level of a genin. But now, the chakra inside him is greater than that of any one of us," the Hyuga Clan Anbu quickly shared what he had discovered with his teammates.

"What do we do next?" another Anbu asked.

"According to our orders, once any unusual situation is discovered within the Uchiha clan compound, we must investigate immediately. If we find anything harmful to the village's interests, we must stop it at once. If we encounter resistance, lethal force is permitted when necessary." Another Anbu recited the village's orders, making his stance clear.

"He has already discovered us," the Hyuga Clan Anbu said again, a hint of tension in his voice.

They were at least five hundred meters away from Yuyou's courtyard, and all of them had the ability to conceal their presence. By all reason, Yuyou should not have been able to discover them.

Furthermore, from the beginning, the area within roughly one kilometer had been within his field of vision, yet he had detected no abnormalities. The Byakugan's abilities could not be wrong. That was why this Hyuga Clan Anbu was so nervous.

Yuyou waved toward where the four Anbu were hiding, but after waiting for more than a minute, they still showed no intention of revealing themselves.

"If the mountain will not come to me, then I will go to the mountain."

Yuyou recalled those words, then began walking toward the four Anbu. During this process, the metal box in his hand slowly disappeared.

At the same time, Yuyou grew faster and faster. A few seconds later, his entire body turned into a streak of blue light and instantly arrived at his target.

Bang!

Yuyou's body slammed into a huge tree. The entire tree shook violently several times, its leaves and branches raining down as though they cost nothing.

Yuyou, standing beneath the tree, pulled himself out of the trunk. His outline was clearly imprinted in the tree's bark.

"I still haven't mastered it well enough. My evasive maneuvers are pretty much there, but I need to practice braking a lot more." Yuyou said, brushing the dirt off himself.

After [Metal Skeleton], he had secretly practiced for some time, but he still had not completely mastered the strength granted by the Metal Skeleton.

The four Anbu ninjas scattered around the area, however, were nearly dumbstruck.

There was a clear piece of information in Yuyou's intelligence file: Yuyou Uchiha had poor physical fitness, could not participate in high-intensity training, and had extremely low potential in taijutsu.

Yet what they had just seen was Yuyou Uchiha nearly snapping a tree over two meters in diameter by crashing into it, while showing no signs of injury whatsoever. Could such physical fitness really be called "poor"?

There was no denying that Yuyou's taijutsu had now reached heights that ordinary ninjas could never attain in their entire lives. This formed an utterly stark contrast with the intelligence report's claim that he had extremely low taijutsu potential.

The four Anbu all wondered whether they had mistaken him for someone else—whether the person below was not the Yuyou Uchiha recorded in their intelligence files.

But reality told them that everything was real. Yuyou Uchiha was real as well.

"This is impossible!"

That was the shared thought in the minds of all four Anbu ninjas.