Konoha's Inherited Bullying

If teachers did not work hard, students would only grieve.

Maybe children lacking love were just like this.

So Masaichi called on everyone to treat their children well and let them grow up in an environment full of love.

Otherwise, when they grew up and some blond brat lured them away with a bowl of porridge, do not come crying.

After news of the Sand Village's surrender spread, the Ninja World suddenly seemed to freeze. Every village stopped fighting, apparently waiting to see what came next.

Honestly, they did not want to keep fighting this war. Too many people had died.

They were like headless flies, attacking this one moment and that one the next. Thinking about it carefully, they had gained nothing at all.

The first half of the Third Shinobi World War ended just like that.

On Kiba's birthday, Masaichi asked Teacher Orochimaru to handcraft a skateboard.

This skateboard could be charged with chakra and travel automatically.

Masaichi could not help sighing. If his teacher had spent all his time doing research, the Ninja World would have been playing Naruto mobile games ages ago. Yet for all those boring matters of human love and affection, he lived nothing like himself.

That Auntie Snake from the later Boruto story, the one who had seen through everything, was much better.

"Thank you, Teacher!"

Kiba hugged Masaichi, kissing him and jumping around. Sakata Yujin also kept praising Masaichi as a good teacher, eagerly anticipating what Teacher would give him on his own birthday.

"Hehe, as long as you're happy."

Masaichi felt that taking on a few students was pretty nice. The liveliness was good.

The moment Masaichi left, Kiba took Yujin and immediately rode their skateboards to find an old Ninja Academy classmate to play with.

Then, on the way, their skateboards were snatched away by several Genin a year older than them.

How could that be allowed?!

They dared to steal his cutest students' things!!

After Masaichi found out, he took the two of them over, beat those kids up, and took the things back.

Then those Genin went crying to find their teacher. He was also a Chunin—how could he possibly be a match for Masaichi? After getting beaten up, he called over friends from his circle, every one of them from ninja clans.

Could Masaichi tolerate that?

So Masaichi also called on his connections in the village.

Students from their graduating class! Even the Hokage's son was among them. Come on, then.

This matter blew up.

Seeing that Masaichi's side had more people, the other side called in relatives from their clans as well.

"Hey, hey." Kakashi had been dragged here halfway through a bath, wrapped in a towel. What exactly were they trying to do?!

His lean, capable muscles made it obvious that he had secretly been training hard in private.

"Even though Masaichi is a bastard! Even though he's no good, you're no good either." Obito, that little cutie, somehow made his words sound both nice and awful. He knew quite a few people among the Uchiha.

Among the Uchiha he called over was Shisui Uchiha, Konoha's newly emerged genius.

This brawl got a little intense. Both sides called in every connection they had, and it nearly spiraled out of control.

"They seem sturdier than us."

"Hehe, they're just useless muscles built in a gym. They can't compare to us, who study our clans' secret ninja arts."

The two sides squared off in Konoha Square, and neither could find a coward among them.

The other side's sudden words stabbed straight into the hearts of Masaichi's group.

Building muscle was not easy. You only knew that a lean physique looked handsome, but did you know how much they had suffered and how much sweat they had shed to build these bodies?!

Kakashi had not wanted to join the fight, but he seemed to spot someone on the other side who had once insulted his father. His fists immediately focused on that person.

Guy also saw someone who had called his father an Eternal Genin before. He could not beat them back then, but now! He was a Chunin too!!

Most shocking of all, everyone on Masaichi's side had shown up at the gym before. Every one of them had a body packed with muscle.

"You love bullying, huh?"

"You love bullying people, huh?!"

What good people could those who stole others' skateboards be? And what good people could teachers who taught ninjas to steal skateboards be?

Today, Masaichi was effectively carrying out an internet cleanup campaign on Konoha.

He had to clean it up. Who knew if they might bully him someday otherwise?

If Hashirama were alive, these people would probably bully him too. After all, at the first Five Kage Summit, if Tobirama had not stopped him, Hashirama had been ready to give tailed beasts to enemy villages.

That was terrifying.

Masaichi hit a little too hard.

Orochimaru arrived a little too quickly.

Such a serious brawl had broken out in Konoha Square. As the "acting Hokage," he could not ignore it.

The Uchiha Police Force also arrived. Seeing members of their own clan involved, they naturally spoke in their favor.

Both sets of judges were from their own side. Was that not terrifying? There was no fairness at all.

"Lord Orochimaru!" Seeing Orochimaru, the other side tried to play the victim. Since they had not been a match for Masaichi's group, they were covered in bruises and looked utterly miserable.

Unfortunately, they had no value to Orochimaru. Or rather, they were worth less than Masaichi.

Orochimaru's attitude toward them was terrifyingly cold.

No matter how much they had to say, they could only swallow it back.

The other side was locked in the Uchiha Police Force building for fifteen days, and they also had to compensate Masaichi's side for their losses. Just during this time, how much strength training would they miss at the gym? The losses were enormous!

They had to pay!!

From that day on, bullying incidents in Konoha decreased significantly.

Before, no one cared about bullying.

But now, bullying could really get you beaten up.

How would you know whether the person you bullied had connections?

These children who loved bullying others were very good at reading the situation.

With fewer bullying incidents in Konoha, Masaichi's mood improved greatly. While he was at it, he went and took the Jonin exam.

Another genius had advanced to Jonin at the age of twelve.

But Hiruzen Sarutobi held him back a little and added two words: Special Jonin.

A Special Jonin referred to someone with expertise in a particular field whose overall strength was still at the Chunin level. Those two extra words completely failed to do Masaichi's efforts justice.

He really wanted to ask Hiruzen Sarutobi: Had he ever seen Konoha at four in the morning? Had he ever seen his daily training regimen and dietary standards?

Their Orochimaru faction was like a stray dog by the roadside.

Inside the Jonin conference room.

"Orochimaru, report on Konoha's finances."

Masaichi had at least earned his way into the meeting on his own. Today's topic was the money Konoha had lost during the war.

In plain terms, Konoha had no money.

If war broke out in the Ninja World again, Konoha would have no spare funds to fight.

A single penny could stymie even a hero.

Konoha's F4 frowned as they thought about where to get money.