A marriage proposal?
Itachi?
No way!
Yanbai looked bewildered, even a little puzzled.
As far as Yanbai was concerned, he wouldn't pay much attention to Fugaku and Mikoto's family.
Even though Itachi was, by design, a genius, a top student, and a child impossible to overlook.
But Konoha was a cradle of geniuses.
The Land of Fire was even more of a cradle now. Geniuses and top students would keep emerging; Itachi was hardly indispensable.
The children Tobirama Senju had brought into the Land of Fire through his unrestrained experiments back then were scattered across the nation.
Many of these children were artificial humans created by combining the genes of deceased powerhouses. Undesirable genes had even been removed, giving them greater talent than the original bloodlines possessed.
Now they had all grown up. Raised on patriotic education in the Land of Fire, they were currently working hard, just like Junlin, to make enormous contributions to the nation.
In the Land of Fire, involution was the norm, and excellence was an expectation etched into every child's common sense.
Getting A's in every subject was normal. If a child couldn't get an A, surely something had gone wrong?
The so-called bottom of the class were most likely children who fell only a few points short of excellence, with little real difference between them and the others.
They weren't scorned. Instead, they received sympathy and compassion, along with help from the teachers and students around them.
All these tangled butterfly effects.
They had also made Uchiha Itachi far less conspicuous.
As Hokage, Yanbai was extremely busy and had no time to pay attention to these "plot characters." He didn't think he would have much to do with a junior like Itachi.
With the trait of being so outstanding that he demanded attention stripped