Gua saw every move they made.
Not just the person coming straight at him, but everyone else off to the sides as well.
His Sharingan captured all their movements, factoring everything into its calculations: their attacks in the next second, the trails their fists had traced through the air in the last.
Even every subtle expression on their faces.
Too slow!
Gua tensed his muscles slightly. He was ready to strike!
The next instant.
Thud!
A dull impact rang out.
Someone stepped in front of him. The back of a blade struck the charging burly man's arm, blocking his attack and knocking him two steps backward.
A figure landed between Gua and the burly men.
Gua stopped his attack and deactivated his Sharingan, looking ahead in surprise.
It was Kakashi.
"Gua!!"
Just then, Nai and Dashan rushed over too.
They had only spent a moment picking out a toy for their son in the toy shop. When they turned around and caught up, this was what they saw. They came running over in a panic.
His mother, Nai, still held the little fox plush she had just bought.
"Gua!"
"A-are you all right?"
His mother, Nai, grabbed Gua's shoulders and checked him all over.
His father, Dashan, stepped straight in front of Gua.
"Gua, what happened?" his mother, Nai, asked, touching his little face anxiously.
Gua shook his head. "Mom, I'm fine."
"Don't you think grown adults bullying a child is going too far?"
Kakashi spoke coldly from the front.
Uchiha Oyama stood beside Kakashi at the front, his gaze dark. "You Kumogakure people have gone too far!"
"Gone too far? Going too far?!"
The burly man from Kumogakure was angry too. "Someone from Konoha seriously injured one of our Kumogakure children!! And you're saying we're going too far?"
"Isn't