Fuyuki, A Surprise!

"Swish, swish, swish."

A group of Anbu wearing animal masks arrived first, followed closely by the Jonin of the Hyuga Clan. The Ninja Academy forest, which should have been empty, suddenly became bustling as a large number of Konoha's core pillars gathered in one place.

"Fuyuki, what happened here?"

Hiashi, who had rushed over in a hurry, looked at the unscathed Fuyuki with a bewildered expression, then glanced at the child on the ground. He couldn't fathom what had occurred; if it were just a child of an ordinary ninja, Natsumi shouldn't have used a scroll to call for reinforcements.

So much for "Fuyuki is in danger, come quickly"?

Looking at the scene, it seemed more like "Someone else's child is in danger, Clan Head, come quickly to pay the medical bills."

"Ah, it's nothing. I just ran into a guy who could control the weather attacking Konoha, so I just happened to beat him until he cried," Fuyuki said without unnecessary chatter.

He could have told Hiashi that Yota was a dead man, but with the Anbu squad present, it wasn't the right time to talk.

His father wouldn't care where he got his information, only that he should act with caution in all things.

But the Anbu were different. While they wouldn't dare ask the Yamanaka clan to probe his brain, they would absolutely dispatch a ninja proficient in genjutsu to hypnotize and manipulate him into revealing where he obtained information about the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu.

After the Anbu squad appeared, they didn't do anything extra. They simply nodded to Hiashi in greeting, then landed on the ground to secure Yota, picking up this sinner who had attacked Konoha to go back and report.

Hiashi didn't say anything either, watching the whole process until the Anbu left before taking Fuyuki home.

"What's the situation with that boy?" Hiashi suddenly asked in the quiet, wooden corridor.

"A remnant of a bloodline clan. However, I saw a massive amount of chakra inside his body. The quantity is not like that of a normal human, but he isn't a Jinchuriki either," Fuyuki began to ramble, preparing to bluff his way through.

But unexpectedly, Hiashi's face darkened: "Speak human!"

"He isn't human. He has no internal organs; he's just like the dead spirits summoned by the Second Hokage's summoning technique."

The Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu was not a top-secret, as the Second Hokage had performed it many times. Combined with the Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags, it was terrifyingly powerful. But at Fuyuki's age, he shouldn't know about this jutsu, nor should he know its characteristics.

This jutsu was a forbidden art that desecrated the dead, and it had long been deliberately buried in history by Konoha.

Hiashi frowned, clearly knowing what Fuyuki's summoning technique was, and said calmly: "Fuyuki, as a man, eavesdropping is not something you should be doing."

"It's fine at home; everyone is family, so I can forgive you. But if you are caught outside, please do not report the Hyuga Clan's name or display our crest."

The Byakugan is Yin Release, and Hiashi is a master of Yin Release; he could see the Bean Sprout that Fuyuki summoned.

When the Clan Head and elders held meetings, they certainly wouldn't discuss how awesome the First Hokage was or how great the Second Hokage was.

Based on this, Hiashi deduced that Fuyuki knowing about the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu was likely the result of using his summoned beast to eavesdrop on gossip everywhere.

Eavesdropping and peeping were bad behaviors that truly tarnished the Hyuga family's reputation, and Hiashi had to put a stop to it.

"I didn't, I wasn't, you're slandering me!" Fuyuki countered his father with a triple denial.

He still needs to eavesdrop? What a joke. If he dressed up like an old fortune teller with white hair and sat in the deep mountains, relying on his memories as a transmigrator, he could definitely steal the Great Toad Sage's job.

"Remember, the Hyuga Clan has contact lenses for sale," Hyuga Hiashi left behind a single sentence and walked away expressionless.

Eavesdropping and peeping?

Can a ninja's business be called stealing? This is called efficient collection of enemy intelligence!

But before collecting intelligence, remember to hide the obvious traits on your body and don't expose your identity!

Although the Hyuga Clan was a prestigious family, they were, first and foremost, a ninja clan. They had performed no shortage of missions involving stealing intelligence and eavesdropping on the winds of change. In fact, if you added up all the intelligence-gathering missions in Konoha, they probably wouldn't exceed the number the Hyuga Clan had performed.

"Old fart."

Watching his father's retreating back, Fuyuki complained with a look of disdain.

It turned out he wasn't the only one peeping; this guy Hiashi probably used his Byakugan to spy on him quite often.

"Fuyuki, what happened? Father took a team of ninjas out halfway through class earlier."

Seeing that the conversation between his father and brother had ended, Hinata began to check Fuyuki's body with a worried face, as if she were afraid her brother had been bullied outside.

"Something happened in Konoha. A remnant of a bloodline clan used weather control to attack the village. I just happened to be in the center of the attack, and Father brought people to rescue me."

Fuyuki downplayed the event, simplifying it entirely without boasting about the fact that he had beaten the enemy to a pulp.

Compared to his heroic deeds, from the perspective of a sister like Hinata, she would rather he be safe than be a brawler who got into grand, dangerous conflicts.

There was no need to make Hinata worry about him.

"I see," Hinata breathed a sigh of relief, then puffed up her cheeks and pressed her hands against her brother's face, kneading his slightly chubby cheeks: "Don't run around. The world outside the clan grounds is very dangerous, with perverts everywhere."

"And half of them are weirdos?" Fuyuki mumbled.

Unfortunately, Hinata was still young and didn't understand the meaning of Fuyuki's witty remark, otherwise, she would definitely have turned bright red.

For the next week, Fuyuki didn't go out.

Knowing that Orochimaru was capable of Impure World Reincarnation and that Konoha had just discovered an experimental subject for it, one could conclude that Orochimaru was currently in Konoha.

Fuyuki didn't want to run into the "pedophile master" every time he stepped out, so he obediently stayed home to train according to Hinata's wishes.

Moreover, the Hyuga Clan's front gate faced the Konoha streets, but the back gate actually led to a forest. Fuyuki didn't need to bother with the Hokage Rock or the Ninja Academy woods; if he wanted to practice his summoning technique, he could just go to the mountain behind the clan grounds.

In the past, Fuyuki didn't come here simply because there was a beautiful, aesthetic karst cave forty kilometers behind the Hyuga back gate, and he was afraid that while practicing his summoning technique, he would have an awkward encounter with the Otsutsuki from the moon.

But it didn't matter now. The Otsutsuki on the moon were likely down to just Toneri, the lone emperor player.

Hanabi was so beautiful, yet that blind fool Toneri actually wanted to dig out her eyes and even wanted to make a "pot-cover topping rice"—he was truly a high-level VIP member of the "delusional" club.

"Young Master Fuyuki."

The maid Natsumi's delicate body trembled, her lips twitching as she tried to warn Young Master Fuyuki of the ambush, but unfortunately, before she could utter a word, her body slowly slumped to the ground.

The creature that attacked her was not a human, but a non-venomous snake commonly found in the grass; yet, who could have known that a snake usually considered harmless could move with such speed and secrete a potent neurotoxic venom?

Because Fuyuki was not practicing the Gentle Fist, he had not activated his Byakugan, which would have been a waste of Chakra. He did not notice that Natsumi, who was responsible for security a short distance behind him, had been instantly incapacitated by poison, and he continued his attempts to summon a High-ranking Elemental Spirit.

A gaunt man with pale skin, purple eyeshadow, and an evil grin sat on a tree branch in an incredibly arrogant posture, watching Fuyuki.