"Shua shua shua!"
A group of Anbu wearing animal masks arrived first, followed closely by Jonin from the Hyuga Clan. The Ninja Academy forest, which should have been deserted, suddenly grew lively as a large number of Konoha's most dependable ninja gathered.
"Fuyuki, what happened here?"
Hiashi hurried over, looking completely baffled as he gazed at Fuyuki, who was perfectly unharmed, then at the child on the ground. He couldn't understand what had happened. If it had just been an ordinary ninja's child, Natsumi wouldn't have used a scroll to call for backup.
"Fuyuki's in danger, come quickly," was it?
Judging by the scene, it looked more like someone else's child was in danger. Clan Head, hurry over and pay for the medicine!
"Oh, it's nothing. Some guy who could control the air attacked Konoha, so I just happened to beat him until he cried." Fuyuki didn't bother with any extra explanation.
He could have told Hiashi that Yota standing before them was dead, but the Anbu were here now. This wasn't the time to talk.
His father wouldn't ask where he'd gotten his information from. He'd just tell him to be careful in everything he did.
But the Anbu were different. They might not dare ask someone from the Yamanaka Clan to search his mind, but they'd absolutely dare send a ninja skilled in genjutsu to hypnotize and control him, forcing him to reveal where he'd learned about Impure World Reincarnation.
After the Anbu arrived, they didn't do anything unnecessary. Hiashi simply nodded in greeting, then landed on the ground, restrained Yota, and carried off the criminal who had attacked Konoha to answer for his crime.
Hiashi didn't say anything either. He watched the whole thing, and only after the Anbu had left did he take Fuyuki home.
"What's the deal with that boy?" Hiashi suddenly asked as they walked along a wooden corridor with no one else around.
"He's a remnant of a kekkei genkai clan. But I saw that he had a huge amount of chakra inside him—far more than a normal human should, but he wasn't a Jinchuriki." Fuyuki started rambling the moment he opened his mouth, ready to spin a tale.
But Hiashi's face darkened. "Tell me the truth!"
"He's not human. He doesn't have any internal organs. He's like the undead summoned by the Second Hokage's Summoning Technique."
Impure World Reincarnation wasn't a closely guarded secret. The Second Hokage had used the technique many times, and combined with the Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags, it was terrifyingly powerful. But Fuyuki was too young to know about the technique, let alone its characteristics.
The technique was forbidden. It desecrated the dead, and Konoha had long since deliberately buried it in the history books.
Hiashi furrowed his brow. He clearly knew what Summoning Technique Fuyuki meant. Calmly, he said, "Fuyuki, as a man, eavesdropping outside people's rooms isn't something you should do."
"It's fine at home. They're all uncles and aunties, so they can forgive you. But if you're caught outside, don't give out the Hyuga Clan's name or show the clan crest."
The Byakugan was Yin Release, and Hiashi was a powerful Yin Release user. He could see the Bean Sprout Fuyuki had summoned.
The Clan Head and the elders wouldn't sit around discussing how awesome the First Hokage was or how great the Second Hokage was.
By that logic, Fuyuki knowing about Impure World Reincarnation was probably the result of using his Summoned Beast to eavesdrop on gossip all over the place.
Eavesdropping and peeping were bad behavior. They would bring shame on the Hyuga Clan's reputation, and Hiashi had to put a stop to it.
"I didn't! I didn't! You're making things up!" Fuyuki shot back with a three-part denial.
Eavesdrop? What a joke. If he dressed up like a fortune-teller, with white hair and a long beard, and sat down in some remote forest, his memories as a transmigrator would absolutely let him steal the Great Toad Sage's job.
"Remember, the Hyuga Clan sells colored contact lenses." Hyuga Hiashi left him with that line, then walked away without changing expression.
Eavesdropping and peeping?
Could you call what a ninja did stealing? That was called efficiently gathering the enemy's intelligence!
But before gathering intelligence, remember to hide any obvious distinguishing features and keep your identity from being exposed!
The Hyuga Clan was an old and prestigious clan, but it was also a ninja clan. They'd done plenty of missions involving stealing information and monitoring the political scene. In fact, the number of intelligence-gathering missions carried out by all of Konoha combined probably didn't match the number the Hyuga Clan had done.
"Old fart."
Watching his father walk away, Fuyuki muttered in disgust.
So it wasn't just him who did the spying. Hiashi probably used his Byakugan to spy on him all the time, too.
"Fuyuki, what happened? Class was only halfway through when Father took a team of ninja and left."
Once her father had finished talking with her younger brother, Hinata hurriedly checked Fuyuki over, as if afraid he'd been bullied while he was out.
"Something happened in Konoha. A remnant of a kekkei genkai clan attacked the village by controlling the air. I happened to be right at the center of the attack, and Father brought people to rescue me."
Fuyuki made light of what had happened, deliberately leaving out the fact that he'd beaten the enemy to a pulp.
More than hearing about his heroic deeds, Hinata would want him to be safe. She wouldn't want him to get into fights and make some earth-shattering achievement.
There was no need to make Hinata worry about him.
"Oh, I see." Hinata breathed a sigh of relief, then pressed both hands against her younger brother's cheeks and started kneading his slightly chubby face. "Don't go wandering around. The world outside the clan compound is dangerous. There are all kinds of perverts out there."
"Half of them are old women?" Fuyuki mumbled.
Unfortunately, Hinata was still too young to understand his joke. Otherwise, her face would surely have turned bright red.
Fuyuki didn't go out for the next week.
Orochimaru knew Impure World Reincarnation, and Konoha had just discovered an experimental subject made with Impure World Reincarnation. From that, Fuyuki could figure out how things would turn out for Orochimaru in Konoha.
Fuyuki didn't want to go out for a walk and bump into Orochimaru the creepy old guy who was into little boys, so he obediently stayed home and trained as Hinata had suggested.
Besides, the front gate of the Hyuga Clan's compound faced Konoha's streets, but there was also a forest behind the back gate. Fuyuki didn't need to keep going to Kage Rock or the Ninja Academy woods. If he wanted to train his Summoning Jutsu, he could just practice in the forest behind the compound.
Fuyuki usually avoided this place because there was a beautiful, picturesque cavern forty kilometers from the Hyuga Clan's back gate. He was afraid that while training his Summoning Technique here, he'd awkwardly run into the Otsutsuki from the moon and have a "A-Zhen fell in love with A-Qiang" sort of encounter.
But now he didn't care. The Otsutsuki on the moon probably only had one Emperor Player left: Toneri.
Hanabi was so beautiful, yet Toneri, the blind bastard, had the nerve to dig out her eyes and even wanted to make her into a bowl of rice with gravy poured over it. He was practically a top-tier VIP member of the Peach-Eating Network.
"Fuyuki-sama..."
The maid Natsumi's body trembled. Her lips moved as she tried to warn young master Fuyuki that an enemy was attacking, but before she could get the words out, her body slowly went limp and fell.
The attacker wasn't human. It was a harmless snake, the kind you could find anywhere in the grass. But who could have known that a harmless snake could move so fast and release a powerful neurotoxin that caused paralysis?
Since Fuyuki wasn't practicing Gentle Fist, he hadn't activated his Byakugan and wasted chakra. He didn't notice Natsumi, who was guarding the area not far behind him, being instantly poisoned and knocked to the ground. He continued trying to summon a High-ranking Elemental Spirit.
A pale-skinned, slender man with purple eyeshadow and an evil smile sat in an extremely arrogant pose on a tree branch, watching Fuyuki.
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