I Liked You Better When You Were Acting Tough

The two moved as if they had rehearsed it. Their Sharingan flared to life at the same instant, their scarlet glow especially piercing under the reception hall lights.

Shisui's right hand settled on his Ninja Tool Pouch, his fingertips already touching the grip of a Kunai.

Itachi's hands hung at his sides, but his fingers were slightly spread, ready to form Hand Seals at any moment.

They had positioned themselves with precision, blocking every one of Yongye's best routes of attack.

The fat man froze when he saw the famous Uchiha Twin Stars bracing themselves as though facing a deadly enemy.

He looked at Shisui's tense profile, then at Itachi's Three-Tomoe Sharingan. Following their gazes, he looked toward the Uchiha boy standing in the doorway.

"What are you doing?"

The fat man's voice was shrill and loud, edged with offended anger. He raised a pudgy finger and pointed at Yongye.

"That brat dares touch me? Give him ten times the nerve, and he still wouldn't dare harm a hair on my head—"

Uchiha Itachi cut him off coldly. "He's Uchiha Yongye!"

The fat man's finger froze in midair.

His mouth remained open, but not a single word of the bluster on his lips came out!

He swallowed. His Adam's apple shifted with difficulty beneath the folds of his chin, and his eyes began to dart around.

Uchiha Yongye!

Of course he had heard that name.

Every merchant in Konoha was talking about the Uchiha boy named Madmen who had beaten Elder Danzo until he coughed blood, broken Lord Hokage's son's limbs, and even forced the Third Hokage himself to give way.

The fat man had assumed someone as terrifying as Uchiha Yongye would be broad-backed and thick-necked, with a brutal face!

So when he had seen a handsome young Uchiha,