"Roar!!"
The Fire Dragon roared, smashing the Lightning Dragon apart.
"Impossible!!" Hiruko could not believe it. The Fire Dragon seemed alive-no! It was alive.
He could even see the two dragon eyes moving within it.
Why had a ninjutsu come to life?!
The Fire Dragon charged toward him with the might of an army, about to swallow him whole.
He was going to escape using the Reverse Summoning Technique.
"Whoosh."
The Fire Dragon vanished, and Hyuga Akira slowly descended, bringing the blade in his hand to Hiruko's neck.
The Fire Dragon that had switched places with him circled once before gradually dissipating.
Although there was now a blade at his neck, Hiruko had already completed his hand seals. He could disappear with a mere movement of chakra.
"Teacher, I have no intention of killing you. I just need you to explain why you were with these rogue ninja," Hyuga Akira said with a chuckle.
Hiruko stopped his chakra and took a deep breath. "They haven't become rogue ninja. I don't know where you got your information, but it's absolutely wrong!! You'd better think carefully about how you're going to explain this to the Hokage."
These people had indeed been thinking about leaving the village, and Hiruko had been trying to talk them out of it. Several of the chunin among them were shinobi from his own class.
But they had still been wavering, and Hyuga Akira had actually killed them!!
What gave him the right?!
Just because he was a genius?!
The Hokage would never allow something like this. Their deaths would not simply be swept aside.
What he had not expected was that the genin he could once have killed so easily had grown strong enough to contend with him.
Still, he had lost his composure. In a proper