Making Trouble, Raise the Batons

For a while afterward, whenever Kentaro Uchiha had time, Feng followed him to learn the basics of being a ninja. When Kentaro was busy or Feng was by himself, he focused on practicing the Chakra Refinement Technique.

As for the things Kentaro taught during that time—how to throw shuriken, hold kunai, form hand seals, set traps, how ninjas were tools and needed to endure, and so on—

Feng let most of it go in one ear and out the other, because in his eyes, it was all useless bullshit.

Especially the ideas and principles taught at the Ninja Academy. Having grown up paying miscellaneous school fees, with morals even lower than Jia Xu's, there was no way he could agree with them.

Because of this, Kentaro and Kenjiro, both graduates of orthodox ninja schools, argued with him many times.

When this happened within the clan compound, Feng would usually just smile and ignore them. But outside the compound, especially on Konoha's streets, he turned into a keyboard warrior and started firing off all kinds of verbal attacks. The more people there were, the crazier he got.

For example, Kenjiro said, "To complete a mission, a ninja must endure what ordinary people cannot, abandoning everything unrelated to the mission. Anyone who abandons a mission is trash, a sinner of the village."

Feng replied, "Right, right. Does anyone here know any trash who gave up a mission to save their teammates? Please, introduce me to them. I want to meet as much trash like that as possible. All you real ninjas should stay far away from me."

Kentaro said, "The strongest Hokage, the Third, once said that wherever leaves flutter, fire will burn. The fire's shadow will shine upon the village and make new leaves sprout. A ninja's sacrifice is for the future of Konoha, for protecting the village's next generation and ensuring its continuation."

Feng replied, "Well said. But the ones dying most in Konoha are the fresh sprouts who just graduated from the Ninja Academy. The ones sent to the battlefield are all teenagers. Meanwhile, the great Third Hokage and his elder council buddies are all over sixty, yet I've never seen them burn."

A passing ninja said, "Ninjas are tools..."

Feng replied, "I'm a tool, not a person, right? Then why are you yapping at me? Do the tools in your house understand your reasoning?!"

Feng made plenty of remarks like that, and quite a few people came to have talks with him over it.

His attitude toward the Anbu and village higher-ups was, "Yes! Yes! Yes! Everything you say is right. You're high-ranking, so whatever you say is right."

When speaking with the clan's higher-ups, he would say a little more, analyzing the Uchiha Clan's doomed future for them.

As for Root, heh. They showed themselves once and tried to take him away for questioning. He immediately went crazy, secretly cutting himself twice to spill some blood before lying on the ground and shouting, "Root is trying to steal the Uchiha's Sharingan! Root is murdering people! Root has betrayed the village!"

Then, more than a dozen Uchiha from the Konoha Military Police Force, who had been patrolling the village, surrounded the Root agents trying to take Feng away with their blood-red Sharingan glaring.

If Kakashi Hatake, who had once been in Root, had not happened to pass by, Konoha and the Uchiha might have exploded on the spot.

Danzo, who was still busy with other village matters, put Feng on his death list the moment he received the news. He only needed to finish what he was doing before making his move.

After that, Feng became Konoha's biggest troublemaker and public enemy, hated by the villagers almost as much as Naruto Uzumaki would be in the future.

The clan, on the other hand, did nothing. They merely labeled him a member of the Hawk Faction, since some of the clan's hawks said and did things even more excessive and extreme than he did.

The only pity was that despite all Feng had said on the streets and all the people who had spoken with him, he never met Uchiha Fugaku, the person he most wanted to see. He did not even meet his backup choice, Hiruzen Sarutobi.

A month later, the study period Kentaro Uchiha had agreed upon with Feng came to an end.

Kentaro had originally thought Feng would not be able to learn much in a month. Yet after Feng selectively picked what he wanted to learn, Kentaro discovered that he had run out of things to teach first.

But that was normal. Aside from seriously learning how to throw shuriken and form hand seals, Feng learned everything else among the so-called ninja basics only to forget it immediately.

After all, using a kunai was inferior to simply using a sword, and throwing Fūma Shuriken was inferior to casting ninjutsu.

What? You said using ninjutsu instead of tossing shuriken around was flawed logic? That people did not have that much chakra to cast ninjutsu?

Heh. Feng planned to seal a tailed beast inside himself in the future. Naturally, he was not going to become some chakra-starved ninja who had to pinch pennies after casting a few jutsu.

Thus, with the Sharingan and enough chakra in his body, he first learned shuriken throwing and hand seals. After learning hand seals, he learned the basic Three Body Technique. There were only five things in total, so even if Feng's talent had been terrible, one month was more than enough.

And knowing the Three Body Technique meant he could become a genin. So after finishing his studies under Kentaro, Feng went to the Konoha Military Police Force to take the clan's genin examination.

They were all Uchiha, family. Naturally, the test was little more than a formality. He received a Military Police Force uniform and a Konoha genin forehead protector.

On the second day after joining the Konoha Military Police Force, Feng eagerly began patrolling with his clansmen. Of course, it was not because he loved the job. He intended to cause some trouble and draw Fugaku Uchiha's attention.

He had already been in Konoha for over a month. At most, he had another month before he needed to run.

Otherwise, once the village finished dealing with reconstruction, he could disappear or die suddenly at any time. Considering all the nonsense he had been spouting around the village this past month, that possibility was practically approaching one hundred percent.

Under such circumstances, over the next few days, Konoha's villagers discovered that the Konoha Military Police Force, which had always found even trivial matters like shortchanging customers and street fights difficult to handle—offending people no matter which side they favored—

Now, as long as Feng was the one who encountered them committing an offense, it did not matter who was right or wrong. It did not matter whether they were ordinary civilians or members of the Hokage's Sarutobi Clan. They first received a beating from random clubs, then obediently knelt on the ground and waited for him to investigate at his leisure.

And what if Feng was weak and encountered powerful offenders he could not defeat?

Heh, that was not a problem.

Normally, if an Uchiha faced a non-Uchiha opponent of the same rank in a one-on-one fight and lost, not only would their clansmen refuse to help, they would consider it a disgrace to the Uchiha name and mock them mercilessly.

Feng, who understood the Uchiha's arrogant nature, naturally would not allow that to happen.

So would he ever make a one-on-one move? Impossible. Every time, Feng beat up both sides of the dispute, starting by turning it into a one-against-many situation.

That way, if Feng could not win against multiple opponents, the other Uchiha would say, "Do you think the Uchiha have no one?" Naturally, his protective clansmen would activate their Sharingan and step in to help.

Still could not win? No problem. Three genin and one chunin or jonin formed a small squad. Above ten squads was a jonin captain who had definitely awakened the Three-Tomoe Sharingan. Above the captain was the commander, whose strength might approach that of a Kage—Clan Head Uchiha Fugaku.

The proud Uchiha disdained causing trouble and bullying weak trash. But if someone refused arrest while the Uchiha Police Force was handling a case, or dared act as though the Uchiha had no one, the other Uchiha would not be polite.

So, in just one week, the streets Feng patrolled, which had originally suffered somewhat unstable public security after the Nine-Tails Night, became unexpectedly peaceful under his clubs.

The other Uchiha took one look and thought, Well, well. We used to enforce the law civilly, and you unruly commoners were dissatisfied with everything, filing complaints everywhere and refusing to learn.

Now Feng uses Club Enforcement, and every last one of you behaves like an obedient grandson. Though you're still dissatisfied with everything and filing complaints everywhere.

But comparing the two, why would the Uchiha's temperament leave room for further thought? From then on, every member of the Police Force began enforcement by swinging clubs.

Then, unsurprisingly, the entire Police Force was summoned for talks by the village. And those who were summoned directly used Feng's results as grounds to refute the village's questioning.

Even when they had no justification, there had been Uchiha who wanted a revolution against Konoha's higher-ups. Now that they had reason on their side, even members of the moderate and dove factions began shouting, "So what if we hit a few people? Hasn't the village become safer? We Uchiha made the village safer, and you higher-ups are still giving us trouble. Are you deliberately targeting the Uchiha? Revolution! We must have a revolution!"

As a result, the talks between the Uchiha Clan and Konoha's higher-ups ended on bad terms, making the conflict with the village even more severe.

And naturally, as the instigator of all this, Feng was summoned for a talk as well. This time, the Third Hokage personally took time to speak with him.