Trapped by Their Families: Naruto and Sasuke

Xuanye had been ruthless. Adults might do evil for all sorts of reasons, though most of the time, it came down to interests and loyalties.

But children's cruelty could sometimes be cruelty for its own sake.

Xuanye never let people like that off. He came down on them hard!

When a family failed to raise a child properly and sent them out into the world, the parents bore full responsibility if the child was under ten, and primary responsibility if the child was between ten and twelve.

By twelve, children were old enough to know right from wrong. If they still did evil, Konoha's laws would no longer shield them.

That night, an entire street around those families' homes heard screams and parents beating their children well into the night.

The consequences were severe enough to ruin the future of everyone in a family.

But they did not dare hate Uchiha Genya or Fugaku, who had stepped down. Bullies by nature, they took all their anger out on the children who had started it all—the only people they dared blame.

The marks on their household registries cost them their jobs. In the future, they could only compete with ordinary people for the most basic factory work.

Given the son they had raised, it was easy to imagine how hard his parents beat him.

But it was precisely because the consequences were so severe that they served as a warning to everyone.

Even the children who were usually on their best behavior got a stern lecture from their parents: no forming cliques at school, and absolutely no bullying!

After all, something like this really could cost their parents their livelihoods, even their futures.

And not one person dared object. Fugaku had given up his position as Captain of the Security Division