In Konoha: Three Choices at the Start

"How about this, Mikoto? Agree to become my wife someday, and I'll make him one of my personal guards!"

"Uchiha Fugaku! Call me Uchiha Mikoto. We're not close!"

Anger burned across Uchiha Mikoto's face, and her voice was icy.

"You... snapped at me?"

Uchiha Fugaku froze. He clearly hadn't expected that tone from her.

His expression twisted. He threw the flowers in his hand to the ground.

His cold voice carried a threat. "You should know that you're nothing but an ordinary commoner in the Uchiha Clan!"

"And me? I'm the clan heir. You should be honored that I've taken an interest in you!"

"Push me far enough, and I have countless ways to make Uchiha Liuyun disappear from this world!"

"Uchiha Fugaku! Don't you dare!"

Uchiha Mikoto's voice was frigid, her face like frost. A faint trace of murderous intent flickered in her eyes.

Uchiha Fugaku smiled arrogantly.

"Why wouldn't I dare? I'll tell you the truth: I decided you'd be my wife back when you were at the Ninja Academy!"

"I won't show mercy to anyone who stands in the way. You're destined to be my woman!"

"How many times have I come to bother you now? And what has Uchiha Liuyun done besides warn me? He's just a useless fool!"

"Oh, I'm so scared!"

A mocking voice sounded behind Uchiha Fugaku.

Then came a powerful rush of air.

Uchiha Fugaku had barely turned his head when a dark shape entered his vision.

He could just make out a leg.

Bang!

The kick struck home, sending Uchiha Fugaku spinning through the air.

He spat blood, and several teeth fell to the ground.

"Uchiha Liuyun! How dare you!" Terror crossed Uchiha Fugaku's face when he saw who stood before him.

Bang!

Before he could say another word, a foot stamped onto his face and ground back and forth.

A voice thick with killing intent sounded beside his ear.

"Kill me? Who do you think you are? You, a worthless fool? The Uchiha Clan heir?"

"You're only the clan heir because I let you keep that title!"

"Without my goodwill, you're nothing! You dared bully my Mikoto? And you ignored my warning?"

"Even if your father, Uchiha Fuchu, came today, I'd still break one of your legs!"

His loose hair whipped in the wind. Liuyun was wild and domineering now, nothing like the gentle man he had been before.

"Uchiha Liuyun! Let me go, or I'll make sure you can't stay in the Uchiha Clan!"

"Do you know who you've crossed?"

Pinned beneath him, Uchiha Fugaku kept shouting.

"Who?" Liuyun smiled as he ground his right foot against Uchiha Fugaku's cheek.

"Liuyun! That's enough!"

Uchiha Mikoto hurried over and wrapped both arms around Liuyun's right arm.

For a moment, he seemed unfamiliar to her.

"It's fine. He's just a worthless fool. Don't worry!"

Liuyun gave Uchiha Mikoto a reassuring look.

"But... Liuyun, let's go. He's the clan leader's son!"

Worry filled Uchiha Mikoto's fair face.

If the Uchiha Clan were a royal court, Uchiha Fuchu would be the emperor, Uchiha Fugaku the crown prince, and she and Liuyun mere commoners.

Liuyun understood Uchiha Mikoto's concern. A year ago, he never would have acted like this.

But a year had passed, and Liuyun now had more than enough strength. He could say with confidence that once he broke Uchiha Fugaku's leg, no one in the Uchiha Clan would be his match.

With strength, an act like this was bold. Without it, it was idiotic. Liuyun had overwhelming strength, so why should he back down?

Pretend to be weak to catch an enemy off guard? Sorry, he couldn't do that.

Liuyun gave Uchiha Mikoto an affectionate pat on the head and smiled gently.

"Don't worry. I'll handle everything!"

At the sight of that familiar smile, Uchiha Mikoto's nerves eased at once.

Liuyun was still Liuyun. He hadn't changed. "I trust you," she said softly.

She didn't care how this ended. At worst, they would die together.

"Uchiha Fugaku, you should never have crossed Mikoto, and you should never have ignored my warning!"

"This time, I'll teach you a lesson you won't forget. Even in the Uchiha Clan, there are people you can't afford to offend!"

"You think I'm afraid of you?"

Uchiha Fugaku formed hand seals with both hands. Chakra surged through his body, and he roared.

"Fire Style: Great Fireball Technique!"

Scorching flames burst from his mouth. In the next instant, something terrifying happened.

The temperature plunged. A wave of cold swept through the area, freezing the ground and coating his body with ice crystals.

The flames he had spat out were snuffed out by the cold, then quickly became an Ice Ball.

"That's impossible!" Uchiha Fugaku stared in disbelief.

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Uchiha Fugaku's Broken Leg! "What's impossible about it? Is this the strength you're so proud of?"

Liuyun gave a disdainful snort.

"How pathetic! And you dared mouth off to me?"

Uchiha Fugaku grew afraid when he saw Liuyun's cold, emotionless eyes. Not a single feeling stirred in them.

He had seen eyes like that on the Uchiha Clan's death-sworn fighters.

He opened his mouth to beg for mercy, but the ice on his shoulder spread in an instant and froze his mouth shut.

Liuyun raised his leg and brought it down hard on Uchiha Fugaku's frozen right leg.

"Stop!" an anxious voice roared in the distance.

Liuyun turned his head. A figure was rushing toward them at tremendous speed.

A cold smile touched his lips. His raised right leg slammed down!

Crack!

It wasn't the sound of bone breaking, but the sharp crack of shattering ice.

Uchiha Fugaku's ice-covered left leg bent at a ninety-degree angle.

Uchiha Fugaku couldn't see it, but he could hear it.

His face twisted with rage, his eyes nearly bulging. He wanted to tear Liuyun apart.

Liuyun studied him. This was the first time in a year he had used the Ice-Ice Fruit against an enemy.

There was only anger on Uchiha Fugaku's face, no pain. The cold must have frozen his pain receptors and sensory nerves, leaving him unable to feel a thing.

Not bad, though the Ice-Ice Fruit's power still had room to improve.

Once a single touch could turn someone into an ice sculpture that crumbled into countless shards, the Ice-Ice Fruit would have reached the level he wanted.

Ding! Congratulations, host, on completing option one. You have earned the chance to evolve your three-tomoe Sharingan into the Mangekyō Sharingan. Use it now?

"No!"

The Mangekyō Sharingan would be one of Liuyun's greatest trump cards. He didn't want to reveal it yet.

Whoosh!

A figure cut through the air, and Uchiha Zhongtong appeared before the three of them.

He took in Uchiha Fugaku's condition, and his face darkened.

"Uchiha Liuyun, didn't you hear what I just said?"

"I heard you. So what? Uchiha Fugaku dared bully my Mikoto. What's wrong with breaking one of his legs?"

Liuyun laughed brazenly, paying Uchiha Zhongtong no mind.

Elite Jonin and Kage Level might seem only one step apart, but the gulf in strength between them was vast.

"Uchiha Liuyun! You're asking to die!"

Uchiha Zhongtong shouted, killing intent pouring from him.

"Mmph! Mmph!" At the sight of the newcomer, Uchiha Fugaku shook his head frantically.

"Don't worry, young master Fugaku. I'll make him suffer twice what you have!"

Uchiha Fugaku glared at Liuyun with venom in his eyes and nodded furiously.

"Honestly. I'm a decent man. Why do you insist on making me kill someone?"

Liuyun shook his head. Cold gathered around his hand, forming a Kunai of ice crystals.

"Hmph! Uchiha Liuyun, after what you've done to young master Fugaku, you won't leave here alive. There's no point resisting me!"

Uchiha Zhongtong's face was cold. He looked at Liuyun with detached confidence.

"Is that so?" A mocking smile crossed Liuyun's lips.

"Have you never heard that even a lion uses its full strength to hunt a rabbit? The Uchiha Clan... heh."

With that, Liuyun released Uchiha Mikoto and strolled toward Uchiha Zhongtong.

"Brat, you really are asking to die!" Uchiha Zhongtong could hold back no longer. He was about to move.

In the next instant, his expression changed. His anger vanished, replaced by terror.

"Gen-Genjutsu? When did you cast a Genjutsu?"

"You'll find out in your next life!"

In the real world, Liuyun stepped up to Uchiha Zhongtong and drew the sharp ice Kunai across his throat.

A thin red line appeared, and Uchiha Zhongtong's life as an Elite Jonin came to an end.

"Mmph! Mmph!"

Uchiha Fugaku watched, his pale face filled with terror.

"Relax. I won't kill you. I just want you to know that there are some people you truly can't afford to cross."

Liuyun patted Uchiha Fugaku's cheek and smiled gently.

Snap.

He snapped his fingers. The ice vanished, the withered trees revived, and everything around them returned to normal.

If not for Uchiha Zhongtong's corpse and his own broken leg, Uchiha Fugaku would have thought none of it had happened.

"Ah!"