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 on his own, he focused on practicing the Chakra Refinement Technique.
As for the things Kentaro taught during that time—how to throw Shuriken, hold a Kunai, form hand seals, set traps, how ninjas were tools and had 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 ideology and rules taught at the Ninja Academy. Having grown up paying miscellaneous school fees and possessing morals even lower than Jia Xu's, it would have been a miracle if he agreed with any of it.
Because of this, Kentaro and Kenjiro, both graduates of orthodox ninja schools, argued with him many times.
When this happened within the clan grounds, Feng would usually just smile and ignore them. But outside the clan grounds, especially on Konoha's streets, he turned into a keyboard warrior, firing off all kinds of verbal attacks. The more people around, the crazier he got.
For example, Kenjiro said, "To complete a mission, a ninja must endure what ordinary people cannot. They must give up everything outside the mission. Anyone who abandons a mission is trash, a sinner of the village."
Feng replied, "Right, right. If any of you know a piece of trash who abandoned a mission to save his teammates, please introduce him to me. I want to know as many such pieces of trash as possible. As for you real ninjas, please stay far away from me."
Kentaro said, "The strongest Hokage, the Third, once said that wherever leaves fly, fire burns. The shadow of fire shines upon the village and allows new leaves to sprout. A ninja's sacrifice is to protect Konoha's future, its next generation, and its continuation."
Feng replied, "Well said. But the ones dying most in Konoha are the fresh sprouts who have just graduated from the Ninja Academy. The ones sent to the battlefield are all teenagers. Meanwhile, the great Third and his Elder Council buddies are already in their sixties, yet I've never seen them burn."
A passing ninja said, "Ninjas are tools..."
Feng replied, "I'm already a tool, not a person. What are you still yammering at me for? Do the tools in your house understand your reasoning?!"
Feng had no idea how many remarks like these he had made. Because of them, quite a few people came to talk to him.
His attitude was simple. When facing Anbu or village higher-ups: "Yes! Yes! Yes! You're right about everything. You're the bigger official, so whatever you say is right."
When the clan's higher-ups came to speak with him, he would say a little more, analyzing one or two aspects of the Uchiha Clan's doomed future.
As for Root, hehe. They showed themselves once and tried to take him away for questioning. He immediately went crazy, secretly stabbing himself twice to spill some blood before lying on the ground and shouting, "Root is trying to steal the Uchiha's Sharingan! Root is killing people indiscriminately! Root has betrayed the village!"
Then, more than ten Uchiha from the Konoha Military Police Force who had been patrolling the village surrounded the Root agent trying to take Feng away, their scarlet 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.
And Danzo, who was still occupied with other village matters, placed Feng on his death list the moment he received the news, intending to act as soon as he finished what was on his hands.
After that, Feng became Konoha's biggest troublemaker and public enemy, hated by the villagers to a degree comparable to Naruto Uzumaki 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 everything Feng had said in the streets and all the people who had spoken with him, he never got to meet Uchiha Fugaku, whom he most wanted to see. He did not even meet his backup choice, Hiruzen Sarutobi.
A month later, the period Kentaro Uchiha had agreed to teach Feng came to an end.
Kentaro had originally thought Feng would not be able to learn much in a month, but after Feng picked and chose what to study, Kentaro discovered that he himself had run out of things to teach.
That was only natural. As for the so-called basic ninja knowledge, aside from seriously learning how to throw Shuriken and form hand seals, Feng forgot everything else as soon as he learned it.
After all, using a Kunai was worse than simply using a blade, and throwing Fūma Shuriken was worse than casting ninjutsu.
What, you said using ninjutsu instead of throwing Shuriken around was flawed logic? That people did not have enough Chakra to keep casting ninjutsu?
Hehe, Feng planned to seal a Tailed Beast inside himself in the future. Naturally, he had no intention of becoming some Chakra-starved ninja who had to scrimp and save after casting only a few jutsu.
With Sharingan, sufficient Chakra in his body, Shuriken throwing and hand seals learned first, and then the basic Three Body Technique after learning hand seals, there were only five things in total. Even if Feng's talent had been terrible, one month was enough.
And knowing the Three Body Technique meant one 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 examination was merely a formality, and 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, but because he intended to stir up trouble and draw Fugaku'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 die suddenly or disappear at any moment. And after all the nonsense he had spouted around the village this month, that possibility was nearly one hundred percent.
Under such circumstances, Konoha's residents discovered over the following days that the Konoha Military Police Force, which had always struggled with trivial disputes like shortchanging customers or brawls, constantly caught between sides, unable to please anyone and liable to offend people—
Now, as long as Feng was the one they encountered while committing an offense, it did not matter who was right or wrong. It did not matter whether the offender was an ordinary civilian or someone from the Sarutobi Hokage family. They first received a round of Club Enforcement, obediently knelt on the ground, and only then waited for him to investigate them slowly.
As for Feng being weak and unable to defeat powerful offenders?
Hehe, that simply did not exist.
Normally, when an Uchiha faced a non-Uchiha enemy of the same rank, if he could not win a one-on-one fight, not only would his clansmen refuse to help, they would also consider him a disgrace to the Uchiha and mock him mercilessly.
Feng, who understood the Uchiha's arrogant nature, naturally would not allow that to happen.
So fighting one-on-one? Impossible. Every time, Feng beat up both sides involved. From the start, he turned it into a one-versus-many situation.
Thus, if Feng could not win a one-versus-many fight, the other Uchiha would say, "Do you think the Uchiha have no one?" Naturally, his protective clansmen would activate their Sharingan and rush in to help.
Still could not win? No problem. Three Genin and one Chunin or Jonin formed a squad. Above ten squads was a Jonin captain who would definitely have the Three-Tomoe Sharingan. Above the captain was the commander, whose strength might approach that of a Kage—none other than the clan head, Uchiha Fugaku.
The proud Uchiha disdained causing trouble and disdained bullying weak trash. But if someone resisted arrest while the Uchiha Police Force was handling a case, and even dared to act as though the Uchiha had no one, the other Uchiha would not be polite.
So in just one short week, the streets Feng patrolled, which had originally suffered somewhat unstable public order because of the Nine-Tails Night, became unexpectedly peaceful beneath his baton.
The other Uchiha took one look and thought, Well, well. When we enforced the law civilly before, you unruly commoners were dissatisfied with everything, complained everywhere, and never learned your lesson.
Now Feng uses Club Enforcement, and every last one of you behaves like an obedient grandson. Though you're still dissatisfied with everything and complaining everywhere.
But comparing the two, why the hell would the Uchiha consider anything else? During subsequent patrols and law enforcement, every member of the Military Police Force started with batons.
Then, unsurprisingly, every member of the Military Police Force was summoned for a talk by the village. Those who were summoned directly used Feng's results as grounds to refute the village's questioning.
Even when they had no justification, some Uchiha dared to clamor for revolution in front of Konoha's higher-ups. Now that they had justification, even people from the Neutral Faction and Dove Faction began shouting, "What's wrong with hitting a few people?! Isn't the village safer now?! 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!"
Under these circumstances, the talks between the Uchiha Clan and Konoha's higher-ups ended on bad terms, and their relationship with the village grew even more strained.
And as the instigator behind this entire affair, Feng was naturally summoned for a talk as well. This time, the Third personally made time to speak with him.
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