You Shouldn't Provoke the Uchiha, Whitey!

"Whoa! That's a lot of money!"

Noon, in the office.

Watching Obito act like a money-grubber, Ruohuo suddenly remembered Guanxi's classic quote.

"When you're in your teens or twenties, of course you think you're so handsome. Whoa, that's a lot of money. First, I'll buy a Ferrari..."

Oh? He had his future Anbu codename now.

Call me Konoha Edison!

"Chief Hyuga asked me to give this to you two. He said it was to thank you for taking the injured person to the hospital."

Teacher Oki handed two bowls of ramen to Ruohuo as well. "This is your lunch."

Teacher Oki deliberately didn't bring up the matter of "restoring their dignity."

As a teacher, he didn't want the children to have to shoulder too much pressure.

He'd leave it to Lord Hokage to decide... After all, something this serious had never happened before.

"Whoa! Ramen!" Obito exclaimed excitedly beside him.

Ruohuo accepted the lunch, but his expression turned a little odd.

"So the Hyuga clan head only paid us for taking the injured person to the hospital?"

"What about the other expenses? My chakra usage fee, Obito's getting-beaten fee, and Grandmother's emotional distress fee..."

"That's enough!"

Teacher Oki had lost his composure more often today than he had when he first became a teacher.

Then he saw Ruohuo's brow slowly furrow.

"Phew..." Teacher Oki took a deep breath and steeled himself.

"All right, go eat your lunch first... Anyway, I'll report this matter to my superiors. As for your demands..."

"I'll report those along with it."

Kid, if you've got what it takes, get Lord Hokage to help you claim emotional distress damages!

"Then thanks for your trouble, Teacher."

Ruohuo knew what Teacher Oki was capable of. Iruka in the future was proof enough.

There was no need to make things difficult for him. Ruohuo would find a chance to stand up for his own rights.

He was an Uchiha, after all—a future big shot in the Konoha Military Police Force. Standing up for himself should be easy.

"By the way, Teacher, I'm already class representative. My classmates elected me."

Before leaving, Ruohuo reminded him, "I turned them down again and again, but they still thought I'd make the best class representative."

"Maybe everyone thinks the Uchiha, who are responsible for keeping Konoha safe, are pretty reliable."

"..." Teacher Oki silently looked at his junior.

His junior kept his head down and ate lunch, too ashamed to respond...

"And one more thing."

Ruohuo suddenly remembered something. "Since I'm class representative, please announce as soon as possible that I'm the top student in the first year, too."

"How are you the top..." Teacher Oki rubbed his increasingly aching temples and said with what little patience he had left, "You have to pass an assessment to become the top student."

"Your practical and academic results both have to rank near the top. It's only your first day, so how can you..."

Thud!

Before he could finish, Ruohuo was already gone.

Teacher Oki sighed and looked at his junior with a weary expression.

"Noma..."

"Can you tell me how he became class representative?"

Meanwhile, Ruohuo and Obito went up to the rooftop to eat the ramen Teacher Oki had brought them.

"Big bro, I got one more egg than you! Here, have it!"

As Obito spoke, he tried to put an egg in Ruohuo's bowl.

Ruohuo's face darkened, and he firmly refused. "Obito, you're still growing. You should eat it yourself..."

"Okay..."

Watching Obito wolf down his ramen, Ruohuo couldn't shake the feeling that he'd somehow ended up raising an idiot little brother.

Could anyone believe this guy would become the Ninja World's No. 3 big boss in the original timeline?

Honestly.

The memoir didn't have much about young Obito, but he hadn't seemed this dim-witted.

Was it because he now had a super handsome, invincible, incredibly cool older brother in his life?

That had to be it...

Ruohuo raised an eyebrow, then looked the other way at a white-haired boy munching on a rice ball and pretending he hadn't just been looking over.

Kakashi was having lunch on the rooftop, too.

The current C-rank mission, to put it simply, was to break Kakashi's graduation record while competing for the top-student spot.

In other words, defeat Kakashi and graduate early.

No problem.

"Hey, Whitey, were you just sneaking a look at me?"

"..." Kakashi nearly choked.

Whitey? What kind of weird nickname was that?

Come to think of it, the class representative seemed to love giving people insulting nicknames.

He called the bespectacled classmate Four-Eyes, called Asuma Little Sprout, and now...

Didn't he know that insulting nicknames counted as bullying at school?

Still, the guy did seem to have a strong sense of justice.

He called the bespectacled kid Four-Eyes, but he'd also moved him to the front row so he could see the blackboard.

Asuma's bad habit of chewing toothpicks did seem like it could eventually lead to smoking...

Tch, this class representative was hard to figure out.

Maybe he'd ask his dad about it when he got home tonight.

"Hey! Didn't you hear me talking to you, fish-eyed Whitey?"

"Get over here!"

When Kakashi didn't respond, Ruohuo raised his voice even higher.

Seeing this, Obito didn't even bother to finish chewing his ramen. "Get—over—here!"

"..." Kakashi rolled his eyes.

He'd trained with his father since he was little and had seen the world of elite ninja early on. He didn't feel like stooping to their level.

But the stairwell was close to them, and he figured they might block his way if he went downstairs normally. So Kakashi made a quick prediction and acted accordingly.

He ate the last bite of his rice ball, calmly packed up his lunchbox, gave them both a perfectly executed middle finger, then leaped lightly...

He jumped straight off the rooftop, six stories above the ground!

Of course, Kakashi wasn't trying to kill himself.

Light on his feet, he landed on the fifth-floor windowsill, then jumped onto a drainpipe. Grabbing it with one hand, he slid smoothly all the way down.

He had to admit, the move was pretty cool.

At least Obito thought so...

"Wow, he's so cool, Big Bro!"

"..."

Ruohuo looked at Obito with even more pity.

So were all the little brothers in the Ninja World supposed to come with an idiot trait?

"Stay here and finish your ramen before you go downstairs. Remember to use the stairs."

Since Kakashi had sent him a challenge with that middle finger, how could Ruohuo refuse to accept!?

Ruohuo leaped onto the rooftop railing and sprang into the air!

In that instant, Ruohuo truly experienced a feeling of freedom he'd never known in his previous life.

Unlike high-altitude activities like skydiving or bungee jumping, which required equipment, this six-story drop wasn't exactly low. But Ruohuo was confident he could land safely.

All he had to do was, just before reaching the ground...

"Fire Style: Great Fireball PLUS!"

Whoosh—!

He spat out a blast of scorching flames. The powerful recoil briefly pushed against his body, slowing him in midair before he landed steadily!

By then, Kakashi had only slid down to the second floor...

Seeing Ruohuo arrive first, riding a wave of fire, Kakashi's small face froze in shock!

Was this guy... crazy?!

"Whitey, you shouldn't provoke the Uchiha."

After showing off, Ruohuo folded his arms and spoke coolly.

"Practical class this afternoon. Let's see you try not to chicken out."

Ruohuo would never start a fight at school or wait for someone outside the gate after classes.

Only bad kids did that.

As a righteous Uchiha, he rejected school bullying—and it started with him!