Do You Also Want to Embrace a Brilliant Youth?

Afterward, Nohibi gently soothed them in a low voice. "You four got quite a scare. Get back to whatever you were doing."

The moment he finished speaking, the Security Force captain suddenly spun around.

The spring-breeze warmth from a second ago vanished without a trace, and his face instantly switched into that of a vicious demon.

He strode up to the Chunin curled up on the ground, raised his leather boot, and stomped heavily on the Chunin's back.

"You've got some nerve!"

Nohibi roared like mad, pointing at the Chunin on the ground.

"As a Konoha Chunin, you actually dared to deliberately attack students from the village in broad daylight! I think you bastards are tired of living!"

"Guards! Bring out the heavy chains and cuff them!"

"Drag them straight back to the prison and interrogate them thoroughly! I strongly suspect they're spies sent by another country!"

The two Chunin were both furious and horrified upon hearing that upside-down verdict.

Their eyes rolled back, and they spat out blood before passing out completely.

Obito and Asuma stood nearby, swallowing with difficulty.

As the Hokage's son, Asuma had always believed that throwing one's weight around was a subtle art.

But today, he had truly seen something that opened his eyes.

The Uchiha's shameless protection of their own was simply outrageously arrogant!

They called black white without even bothering to draft an excuse!

Just what kind of absurd status did Uchiha Ye have within this clan?!

[ Ding! Guard-Break Points from Asuma Sarutobi: +666! ]

[ Ding! Guard-Break Points from Obito Uchiha: +888! ]

[ Ding! Guard-Break Points from Unknown Chunin A: +999! ]

[ Ding! Guard-Break Points from Unknown Chunin B: +999! ]

The farce came to an end.

After the Security Force marched away with their prisoners, the four-man team headed straight for the Training Ground.

After this battle, Guy's fighting spirit was completely ignited.

He immediately entered strict-instructor mode. "In order not to betray Ye's protection and our bond! Today's training volume will be super doubled!"

Under the setting sun, Guy first arranged a hellish fitness test for Obito and Asuma.

After figuring out their limits, he casually threw out two training plans brutal enough to make someone shed a layer of skin.

Obito wanted to publicly slap Kakashi in the face tomorrow, while Asuma did not want to disappoint Brother Ye's "careful cultivation."

The two gritted their teeth and swallowed their pain, desperately pouring sweat across the Training Ground while howling miserably like dogs from exhaustion.

Meanwhile, relying on his Peak Genin physique, Ye easily kept up with the pace.

Before they knew it, night had fallen.

The streets along Konoha's outskirts were so quiet that only insects could be heard.

With all four limbs pointed skyward, the four of them walked on their hands all the way from the bustling district to an abandoned dirt road outside the village, where there was not even a streetlamp.

It was pitch-black all around. Not only was there no light, but the road was uneven and covered in gravel and weeds.

Obito supported himself with his hands, sharp stones digging painfully into his palms. Just as he was about to remind everyone to slow down and not sprain a hand—

Guy, who was walking at the front, suddenly pushed off with both arms, nimbly performed a backflip, and landed steadily.

"My friends! It is time to use that Youth Relic!"

In the darkness, Guy's voice was incomparably solemn and fervent.

Under Obito and Asuma's baffled stares, Guy reached down and opened the Ninja Tools pouch at his waist.

With utmost reverence, as though he were holding a sacred heirloom, he slowly pulled out a bundle of cloth.

Before their eyes, Guy decisively pulled up that bundle of glowing green underwear and smoothly slipped it over his bodysuit.

The instant he put it on—

Buzz!

A violent fluorescent green light exploded on the spot!

The green light illuminated more than a dozen meters around them, while a beam shot straight into the night sky like an anti-aircraft cannon.

Even the veins of the grass blades were visible in perfect detail.

The two unprepared boys were blasted full in the face by green light, and their pupils contracted sharply.

The sight completely shattered their understanding of normal human beings.

Their arms went weak.

Asuma's wrist immediately gave out, and his shoulder slammed into the mud with a bang.

He even forgot to get up, simply collapsing onto his side and staring upward at Might Guy, who stood ahead with his hands on his hips like a human searchlight.

Obito's cerebellum shrank, while Asuma's worldview collapsed.

The same thought surfaced in both their minds: Did I accidentally join some kind of evil cult?

What the hell was this underworld fashion?!

Wearing underwear outside was bad enough, but it even glowed green?!

[ Ding! Guard-Break Points from Obito Uchiha: +666! ]

[ Ding! Guard-Break Points from Asuma Sarutobi: +555! ]

"Th-This is way too hard on the eyes!"

Obito stood in the wind, utterly disheveled, his lips trembling.

He imagined himself wearing that thing and immediately felt nauseated.

If Rin saw him like that, he might as well smash his head into a block of tofu and die.

Asuma swallowed frantically and desperately began backing out in his mind.

He was the Hokage's son, yet here he was doing handstands with a lunatic in the wilderness in the middle of the night. This was going to ruin his reputation in his later years!

Listening to the incoming points in his head, Ye remained expressionless and even gave him a considerate reminder.

"Asuma, don't lock your elbows while doing handstands. It can easily injure your ligaments."

Asuma's face darkened.

Brother, are ligaments really what I'm worried about right now?!

Guy, up ahead, had not noticed at all that the martial resolve of the two behind him had shattered into pieces.

"Set off! Youth cannot tolerate even the slightest hesitation!"

Guy let out a vigorous roar, moving his arms rapidly and kicking up a cloud of dust.

Ye alternated his hands against the ground. Driven by his Peak Genin physique, he did not even break a sweat.

His palms moved over the rough ground as though walking on flat land, pushing onward beneath the "searchlight" ahead.

Obito and Asuma could only grit their teeth and force themselves onward.

With the green light, the first fifty meters were barely manageable.

But Guy's speed kept increasing.

The two had already been drained dry at the Training Ground, and now they were hanging on by their last breath.

Their arm muscles spasmed wildly as they panted without pause.

Yet the distance between them kept widening.

Twenty meters.

Fifty meters.

The light ahead rapidly shrank, degrading from a searchlight into a firefly before finally becoming nothing but a green dot.

The two were completely abandoned in boundless darkness.

The moonless night was dark, the wind howled, and the wilderness was silent.

The moment their vision went black, the pain in their bodies instantly doubled.

"Hiss!"

Caught off guard, Obito slapped his hand down onto a sharp piece of gravel.

A piercing pain shot through his palm, and he bared his teeth as he hurriedly switched hands.

But the instant his left hand came down, it landed right on a dried caltrop covered in sharp thorns, drawing blood from the web between his thumb and forefinger.

He hurriedly switched back to his right hand.

Splat.

His palm landed on a lump of some unknown substance.

Obito completely broke.

"Holy shit! Wait a second..."

Just as Asuma was about to respond, his right hand plunged straight into a mud pit.

The two wanted to shout for Guy to stop, but their pride kept the words stuck in their throats.

On one side was their dignity as normal human beings; on the other was suffering in the dark.

In the end, Obito finally collapsed to his knees, his arms so sore that they had gone numb.

Humiliating.

Too humiliating!

He had come here to get stronger, yet on the first day he had gotten his hand covered in something unspeakable out in the wilderness!

But Kakashi's aloof dead-fish eyes immediately flashed through his mind.

If he fell behind tonight—

Tomorrow, when they returned to school, Ye would definitely mock him in public for being useless!

Obito finally could not endure any longer.

He tore his throat open and shouted desperately into the darkness, "Guy! Stop... fucking stop for a second!"

The racing green light suddenly came to a screeching halt.

Guy supported himself with one hand, flipped upright, and quickly headed back.

He gave the people behind him an incredibly standard thumbs-up, his large white teeth reflecting under the fluorescent green light.

"Obito! Has the flame of youth burned too fiercely? Do you need to rest?"

Obito trembled as he struggled closer with his aching arms.

He swallowed hard, chewed up what remained of his pride and swallowed it, then stammered through gritted teeth.

"Um... that glowing thing you're wearing... do you have any extras?"

The moment those words left his mouth, Obito felt that his soul had been forever tainted.

Beside him, Asuma lay in the mud and nodded wildly.

Going blind was still better than eating shit in the dark!

"Hahahaha!"

Guy threw back his head and laughed. "This Youth Relic was custom-made for me by my friend Ye! Want to wear one? Then you'll have to ask Ye!"

Obito and Asuma stiffened from head to toe and mechanically turned around.

Three meters away, Ye had long since stopped doing handstands.

With his hands in his pockets, he watched the two mud-covered figures with the interested expression of someone watching monkeys.

"You want one?"

Ye slowly reached into his Ninja Tools pouch and flicked his wrist.

Whoosh!

Whoosh!

Two clusters of green light immediately lit up, bathing their faces in a sickly green glow.

Ye held two pairs of underwear and slowly waved them through the air.

"What, do you want to embrace this dazzling youth too?"