And then the Uchiha and Hyuga really did start fighting.
The Uchiha had been on edge lately.
That damned Jing Uchiha had done something they could never wash away, even if they jumped into the river at the Valley of the End.
Fortunately, Kazan had seen through the matter and stood firm against the objections at the meeting, allowing the Uchiha to weather the storm.
They never mentioned Minato Namikaze. After all, Kazan had been good to the Uchiha since the Third Shinobi World War.
Kazan was the one who had stood up for them.
But being falsely accused still felt awful.
Now that five-year-old Itachi had gone to the battlefield to prove the Uchiha Clan's innocence, these brats might have been childish, but they could not tolerate the Hyuga slandering him.
Half of what the Hyuga said was true: Kazan had indeed taken Itachi as his apprentice because he owed the Uchiha a favor. But the other half was wrong, wasn't it?
Get them!
The Hyuga Clan refused to back down. They rose one after another and tangled with the Uchiha.
The two clans deserved their reputation as Konoha's strongest Shinobi Clans. Each had several times the population of other clans, and together their students made up nearly half of the new generation of Ninja.
They showed some restraint, using only the Three Techniques and Taijutsu, but the classroom still descended into chaos.
The remaining students rushed out of the classroom and gathered to watch.
This was something new.
The Uchiha and Hyuga had always been at odds, with every generation competing for first place.
But a brawl like this? That was a first. How could anyone not be excited?
"Uchiha Izumi's amazing!" a girl suddenly exclaimed.
Before her eyes, Uchiha Izumi took down two Hyuga on her own.