Hyuga Makino's Public Humiliation

Once Sasuke had gone far enough away, Kakashi's team regained their ability to move. They hurried over and helped Kakashi up.

"Captain, are you all right?! Let me check your injuries!"

"Cough, cough!"

Kakashi coughed twice and forcefully tugged at his bloodstained collar.

"I'm fine! Stop pulling my collar!"

"Uh... sorry, Captain. I just wanted to check the injuries on your face!"

The team member awkwardly withdrew his hand.

Kakashi shot him a speechless look, but this was not the time to dwell on such things.

"This involves both the Uchiha clan and the Hyuga clan. The situation is probably far more complicated than it appears. It's beyond what we can handle—we must report to Lord Hokage immediately!"

Kakashi's tone was exceptionally grave.

"Yes!"

Several team members quickly answered.

The spectators who had witnessed the entire ordeal had long since been left dumbfounded.

What had they just seen? A seven- or eight-year-old child had taken out dozens of Hyuga ninja in an instant, scared the ANBU into kneeling and not daring to move, and even slapped away the only ANBU ninja who had tried to intervene!

What kind of monstrous child was this? If they had not seen it with their own eyes, they never would have believed it.

And so, followed by a crowd of stunned onlookers, they arrived at Konoha's main gate.

Konoha had two legendary gate guards: Izumo Kamizuki and Kotetsu Hagane.

At that moment, the two were leisurely sitting by the gate, discussing what to eat after work when they saw a huge crowd flooding toward them.

Damn! What's going on?!

Startled, the two hurriedly rose to their feet. Then they saw a child dragging along a member of the Hyuga clan.

"Stop! What are you doing?! How can you treat a fellow villager like this? Release him at once!"

Izumo Kamizuki shouted a rebuke while Kotetsu Hagane stood beside him, backing up his best friend.

"Scram! Mind your own business!"

Sasuke merely swept his gaze over them. The two god-tier ninja who had been jokingly called capable of crushing Pain one-handed in his previous life immediately staggered back in fright.

After retreating to the side, the two patted their chests with lingering fear. That gaze had been filled with such indifference that neither doubted they would be killed on the spot if they insisted on stopping him.

They were merely gate guards. Their pay was not much, and there was no need to risk their lives.

With something like this happening, the village would naturally send someone to deal with it. They only needed to wait.

Thus, the two shamelessly joined the spectators.

Sasuke raised his head and glanced at Konoha's towering gate. The middle would be just the right spot to hang him.

Just as he was about to get to work—

"Uchiha Sasuke, if you truly go this far, my Hyuga clan will be irreconcilable with you!"

At some point, Hiashi Hyuga had staggered over.

Sasuke merely lifted a hand slightly, and Hiashi instinctively dodged backward.

"You trash think you have the right to speak of being irreconcilable with me? When the Hidden Cloud Village pressured you, you didn't dare resist. All you could do was use your own brother, Hizashi, as a scapegoat. Trash like you think you're worthy?"

"Your entire Hyuga clan isn't even worthy of a second glance from me!"

"You even divide yourselves into the main family and branch family, setting up some Caged Bird nonsense. How laughable. With your worthless Byakugan, I wouldn't want them even if they were given to me!"

Sasuke's mockery was utterly merciless, his eyes filled with disdain.

Damn it!!!

Bastard!!!

Hiashi Hyuga roared inwardly, his rage reaching its peak.

They said that when insulting someone, one should not expose their weaknesses, and when hitting someone, one should not strike their face!

Yet Sasuke had not only torn open his wounds, but rubbed salt into them. He was utterly outrageous!

Hiashi desperately wanted to rush forward and kill this brat, but when he thought of the difference in their strength, he could only leave it at that.

Sasuke ignored Hiashi's impotent fury and ordered the Uchiha behind him, "Go! Someone bring me a thick hemp rope!"

He had not expected anyone to obey, but the moment he finished speaking, an excited Uchiha immediately stepped forward.

"I've got one! I've got one! I prepared it long ago!"

He was a young Uchiha, only around sixteen or seventeen.

Ignoring Fugaku's sharp glare, he came trotting over with a thick hemp rope in hand.

"My lord, here! My family runs a pig-slaughtering business. This is the rope we use to tie pigs up. It's absolutely strong and sturdy!"

Sasuke took the rope and gave him a surprised look.

Noticing Sasuke's gaze, the Uchiha explained, "My older brother once went on a mission with a Hyuga clansman and they were ambushed. That coward from the Hyuga clan abandoned my brother and ran away alone, which got my brother killed!"

"So I'm very happy when someone can make the Hyuga clan lose face."

Sasuke nodded in understanding. So he had a grudge against the Hyuga clan. No wonder he had been so enthusiastic.

As he sorted out the rope in his hands, Sasuke casually asked, "Kid, I think you've got potential. Tell me your name. I'll look after you from now on!"

The young Uchiha was delighted. This was exactly what he had been waiting for.

He did not mind being called a kid by a seven-year-old child.

After all, in the ninja world, strength was everything!

He quickly gave his name.

"My lord, my name is Uchiha Two Pillars."

What the hell kind of name is that?!

Sasuke complained inwardly. No wonder he had cooperated with him so readily—it was fate!

"Mm. Not a bad name!"

Sasuke gave a slight nod, then waved him away.

Riiip!!

Sasuke tore Hyuga Makino's clothes to shreds with one pull.

At once, a pair of pink briefs patterned with little pigs came into everyone's view.

Oh? Who would've thought a grown man like you was into this... The crowd watched with great interest.

Sasuke showed no mercy. The hemp rope in his hands wound around him from top to bottom, and before long, Hyuga Makino was securely tied up.

Perhaps because the ropes were tied too tightly, the unconscious Hyuga Makino woke up.

The moment he opened his eyes, he saw people all around him. Every one of them clicked their tongues, their eyes full of mockery.

Where am I? Why are they looking at me like that?

Having just awakened, Hyuga Makino was still dazed, and his mind was not fully clear.

Very quickly, the tight sensation over his body brought him back to his senses, and he noticed his current state.

He was naked and bound up, with only a pair of pink little-pig briefs drawing everyone's attention.

At once, he understood why everyone around him was looking at him that way.

"Ah!!!"

He suddenly let out a shriek. The shame and rage in his heart twisted his face into that of a vicious ghost.

At that moment, he finally understood how Hyuga Taiju had felt back then.

"Bastard! What are you doing?! Don't go too far! Release me now! Let me go!"

Hyuga Makino screamed loudly.

What he was suffering now felt even worse than death.

"Stop barking. Wasn't this the punishment plan you proposed? I'm merely carrying it out according to your plan. If you want to blame someone, blame yourself!"

Holding the end of the rope, Sasuke leaped up onto the top of the gate.

He then threaded the rope over a wooden beam on the gate frame before gripping its end and jumping back down.

One above and one below, Hyuga Makino was immediately hoisted into the air.

"No! No! Please spare me! I was only joking back then! I never intended to do something this excessive! Please, let me go!"

As Hyuga Makino was lifted into the air, his view rose higher, and he saw more and more spectators gathering nearby.

He truly felt like he was about to die from shame and humiliation, so he began begging Sasuke.

Sasuke simply acted as though he had not heard him. After tying the rope securely to the gate frame, he spoke calmly.

"This guy will hang here for two days and two nights. Before that time is up, no one is allowed to take him down!"

At that, Sasuke paused. A pressure like the arrival of a king suddenly rose from his body.

"If anyone dares to take him down early, I won't mind hanging another person up there."

As he said this, Sasuke's gaze remained fixed on Hiashi Hyuga.

The latter's expression was exceptionally ugly.

A threat! This was a naked threat!

Hiashi believed that if he dared to take Makino down, this arrogant little brat before him would definitely strip him, the clan head, naked and hang him up as well.

With such a threatening warning, even if he forcibly ordered the clan's ninja to rescue him, likely no one would dare to do so!

Being stripped naked and hung at the village entrance for everyone to see was far too intimidating. No one wanted to experience that personally.

"Heh! Looks like the effect is pretty good!"

Seeing the fear in everyone's eyes, Sasuke nodded in satisfaction.

He turned around with a smile on his face, in a cheerful mood and pleased with himself for once again successfully returning a favor in kind.

He had only walked a short distance toward the Uchiha compound...

Whoosh!

The sound of something cutting through the air rang out!

A rapidly spinning shuriken flew from nowhere.

The shuriken flashed past, severing the hemp rope directly.

Sasuke's smile vanished. His expression gradually darkened, and his cheerful mood disappeared at once.

Who was bold enough to slap him in the face in public?!