Hazuki: Even bedridden, you don't forget to teach her. How touching!

"Pfft~~~"

Staring at Izumi's Sharingan, each eye marked with two tomoe, Yan nearly sprayed out his tea.

Are you kidding me? You're only ten and just graduated from the Ninja Academy!!!

The Uchiha clan's genius, Uchiha Itachi, only had a two-tomoe Sharingan at this age, yet... this little girl whom no one had noticed also had a two-tomoe Sharingan!

Sure enough, talent was not something one could envy their way into obtaining.

Yan instantly felt a little discouraged.

Sure, he had a cheat, but what about without it?

"Through years of accumulated experience, the clan has left us juniors with some valuable insights regarding the use of the Sharingan. Those skilled in genjutsu can start from genjutsu, while some people are more interested in taijutsu, so their use and development of the Sharingan leans toward detection and dynamic vision. There's also combining genjutsu with swordsmanship..."

Genjutsu?

Izumi was not particularly interested in it. Her genjutsu was merely average; it might have been decent compared to outsiders, but within the Uchiha clan, it was quite mediocre.

She excelled at taijutsu, while her swordsmanship was also fairly average. Her abilities were somewhat unbalanced.

"I've read your graduation report. Compared to genjutsu and swordsmanship, you're better at taijutsu, but that isn't good. Your weaknesses are a little too obvious.

"Among the Uchiha clan's strong fighters, very few are overly unbalanced."

Yan was not bragging. Among jonin of the same rank, Uchiha clan jonin were more well-rounded and had fewer shortcomings than ordinary jonin.

And their strength was genuinely formidable.

If the talented ninjas were ranked separately, the Uchiha clan's jonin would absolutely stand at the top among the Five Great Ninja Villages.

Under normal circumstances, when an enemy jonin encountered an Uchiha jonin, they usually had no choice but to get chased down and beaten.

"You can be uninterested in genjutsu, but you must learn how to use it flexibly. As a member of the Uchiha clan, if you aren't even good at genjutsu, people will laugh themselves to death when they hear about it.

"As for swordsmanship and the like, you also need to study them more. Uchiha clan experts rarely have serious weaknesses."

"..."

Izumi felt as though she had returned to the Ninja Academy, while Yan had become one of the teachers there.

It was just that the material had changed from basic knowledge to concepts that were harder to understand and absorb, most of them concerning the Sharingan.

Yan even pulled out several genjutsu that were not too difficult to learn and taught Izumi step by step.

Thus... by the time she finally made it through dinner and returned home, Izumi was exhausted in both body and mind.

At the Ninja Academy, she had been a little genius, but once Yan became her teacher, Izumi felt like an idiot. Yan had scolded her all day long.

"Are you a pig? You can't even learn such simple genjutsu? Are you even from the Uchiha clan?"

"Uchiha Izumi, where's your brain? Where did it go? You can't remember something this simple? Why aren't you using your Sharingan? Do you want to dig them out and throw them away?!"

Yan, who was usually rather gentle with others, turned into a tyrant the moment he became a teacher.

He berated Izumi until she was utterly drenched in abuse, her head buzzing nonstop, making her wonder whether she really was a pig.

She could not even learn something so simple. She was simply too stupid.

"Was today very busy?"

Seeing her daughter so exhausted, her mother Hazuki worried that she would not be able to endure it.

"No..."

Izumi forced a rather strained smile at her mother.

"The captain felt much better today, so he specifically made a training plan for me and taught me how to properly use the Sharingan."

"Really?"

Hazuki's eyes lit up as she said delightedly, "That's wonderful! I knew Yan was a good child, always thinking of the clan. Even while bedridden, he still hasn't forgotten to teach you."

Hazuki was deeply moved.

Izumi really wanted to roll her eyes. Bedridden?

The captain had more energy than I did, especially when he was calling me a stupid pig.

"Izumi."

Gently stroking her daughter's face, Hazuki earnestly instructed her, "You and I returned to the clan halfway through our lives. Many people in the clan do not acknowledge us, and no one ever cared much about teaching you either. So you must seize this hard-won opportunity, understand?"

If another clan member had such good talent, they would have long been taken away for training and personally taught by a clan jonin.

Yet Izumi had nothing.

She could not enjoy any of those clan benefits.

"Mom, I'll work hard and learn from the captain."

Izumi's eyes reddened as she hugged her mother tightly, adding silently in her heart:

Even if the captain calls me a pig, even if studying is hard, I won't give up easily.

I'll study seriously. No matter how bitter or tiring it is, I'll never give up, even if I'm scolded into a pig-headed fool every day.

Just when Yan thought Izumi would not be able to take it anymore, the little girl was almost fully revived the next day. She was even humming a tune when she arrived, looking to be in a good mood.

Unfortunately, her good mood did not last long.

Once the lessons officially began, Yan's roars arrived right on schedule.

Though she was scolded rather badly, Izumi progressed quickly in her studies. She was not as monstrous as Itachi, but she was still the fastest learner Yan had ever seen, even far better than himself.

All Yan could say was that those with good talent could be as willful as they pleased.

Fortunately, no matter how strong one's talent was, it could not defeat a cheat.

As Yan began his paid leave, the clan and the Police Department also calmed down. However, news of Yan's serious illness continued to spread. Quite a few people in the clan wanted to visit him, but Fugaku turned them all away.

At a Bounty House on the border of the Land of Fire, the disguised Uchiha Feng kicked open the Bounty House's front door and strode inside.

Though the door had been kicked apart.

The Bounty House staff did not mind at all. Smiles piled across their faces as one of them stepped forward and asked, "May I ask whether this guest wishes to accept a bounty mission or post one?"

Feng, disguised as a scar-faced man with sinister eyes, stared coldly at him.

"I'm selling intelligence."

This was good!

Although the Bounty House's primary business was issuing bounties, purchasing intelligence was also one of its favored businesses, and intelligence trading was even more profitable.

Because the information could be sold to many different forces.

Unlike bounty missions, where whoever claimed the target's head got the reward, while the Bounty House could only take a small commission.

Feng sneered and grabbed the staff member by the throat.

"Can you make the decision when it comes to important confidential intelligence about Konoha among the Five Great Ninja Villages?"