"Shinji Uchiha! How dare you! Committing violence within the clan grounds and barging into an elder's residence! Are you trying to rebel?!" Hachiro Uchiha shouted, trying to cow him with his status and authority.
Shinji tossed Ryuichi Uchiha to the ground like garbage and met Hattaku's gaze without a trace of fear. "Eighth Elder, you know perfectly well why I'm here. Withholding death benefits, allowing your family to bully a clan widow, stealing keepsakes, and even scheming to seize my home—is this how a Uchiha elder behaves?"
His voice rang throughout the courtyard, reaching even the clansmen watching from outside.
An uproar immediately broke out among the crowd.
"You-you spout nonsense! Those are vicious lies!" Hattaku's face flushed red with fury.
"The bruises are still on my mother's wrists! Ryuichi admitted himself that he stole my father's keepsakes! As for your attempt to force us to sell our home, do I need to bring the people you sent here to confront you?" Shinji pressed him relentlessly, his argument clear and his presence overwhelming.
"Insolent brat! Even if there have been a few misunderstandings, that gives a junior like you no right to run wild!" Humiliated and furious, Hattaku rose to teach this presumptuous young clansman a lesson.
But Shinji moved even faster!
"Fire Release-Majestic Destroyer Flame!" His hands formed a single Horse seal, and an enormous fireball erupted from his mouth.
"Hmph, showing off before an expert, are you? (Not his exact words, but that was the gist.) Fire Release—Majestic Destroyer Flame!" Confident in his standing as a veteran elite Jonin with a three-tomoe Sharingan, Elder Hattaku thought little of a child with only two tomoe.
Boom!
The two enormous fireballs exploded on impact. Yet the expected one-sided victory never came. Despite the obvious age gap between the old man