The audacity of youth

After thinking it through, Bieshu Feifan suddenly felt that Might Duy's dress and behavior were not all that Jiahao.

This was natural camouflage, a super disguise technique that could fool Hiruzen Sarutobi.

Then, after finishing his physical training with Might Duy, Bieshu Feifan went to a barbershop in Konoha.

Bang, bang, bang.

Bieshu Feifan knocked heavily on the barbershop's door.

The utterly bored owner saw Bieshu Feifan enter and immediately broke into a broad smile.

"Customer, what sort of head would you like?"

Bieshu Feifan plopped onto a stool and pointed at his head.

"Boss, do you see my perfect hair?

"Today, I want you to unleash your imagination and make it as eye-catching as possible."

Hearing this, the young owner looked Bieshu Feifan over carefully.

"Customer, are you sure?

"With my imagination, I'm afraid someone your age couldn't handle it."

"Heh, boss, do you know who I am? I'm Lord Hokage's brother. Someday, my face is going to be carved on Hokage Rock.

"Go all out. I'll take your art and make it famous across the world."

Although the owner did not believe him, he wanted to see what sparks would fly when he combined his skills with his imagination.

An hour later, Bieshu Feifan left the barbershop, satisfied.

He swaggered along as though he recognized no one, making passersby stop and stare.

The hair on the left half of Bieshu Feifan's head had now been almost completely shaved off, leaving only three portraits.

A closer look revealed that it was none other than Hokage Rock.

Even Hiruzen Sarutobi, who was not dead yet, had been carved onto the left half of Bieshu Feifan's head, right above his ear.

Bieshu Feifan's left ear sat just below the neck, making Hiruzen Sarutobi's portrait look like a Hiruzen Sarutobi growing out of a tumor.

The hair on the right half of Bieshu Feifan's head had been dyed every color of the rainbow.

The colors had no pattern whatsoever, making them uncomfortable to look at.

It had also been styled into an afro. Paired with the Hokage Rock on the left, it was shocking in a way that left people unable to laugh.

Seeing that he had attracted everyone's attention the moment he stepped outside, Bieshu Feifan was very satisfied.

This was exactly the effect he wanted.

Looking at his masterpiece, the barbershop owner had already collapsed onto the floor laughing.

"Whose kid is that?"

"No idea, but judging by his clothes, he should be a Shinobi."

"A Shinobi? Lord Hokage needs Shinobi like that? Is Konoha about to lose the war?"

Ignoring the worldly stares along the way,

Bieshu Feifan went to a clothing store to change into a new outfit, then headed straight for the Hokage Building.

When Bieshu Feifan reached the mission hall, everyone bustling about suddenly hit pause.

They all turned to look at Bieshu Feifan.

Besides his bizarre hairstyle,

the clothes Bieshu Feifan wore had four large characters printed on them: "I love women."

His pants, however, were the green tights Might Duy had given him.

Most importantly, Bieshu Feifan also had a ninja tool pouch hanging at his waist, and his forehead protector was tied over his backside, showing that he was a Konoha Shinobi.

Looking at the hall full of dumbfounded Konoha ninjas, Bieshu Feifan deliberately tossed his hair and waggled his eyebrows at a fairly attractive female ninja.

"Aaaaah!"

The female ninja Bieshu Feifan had flirted with suddenly clutched her head, screamed, and leaped out of the mission hall.

"Bwahahahaha! Look at that brat! Hahahaha!"

"My god, is that one of our Konoha Shinobi?"

"Get the Anbu! This guy was definitely sent by an enemy village to smear our name."

Looking at the mission hall, which had erupted into an uproar again, Bieshu Feifan tossed his hair.

"Philistines."

Then he headed upstairs, singing as he walked.

"Braces girl, oh, such beauty~~"

At the same time, he glanced toward the female ninja from earlier, who had poked her head back into the mission hall.

Singing and bobbing his head, Bieshu Feifan went upstairs.

"Stop him! Something's wrong with that brat!"

Someone shouted.

But Jianyi, who was guarding the second floor, had already frozen. He did not know what to do.

If he rushed to inform Lord Hokage over something like this, he had no idea how to explain it.

But not reporting it felt wrong too.

While Jianyi hesitated, Bieshu Feifan once again pushed open the door to the Hokage's Office on the second floor.

"Brother Hokage, your little brother's here to see you!"

Bieshu Feifan shouted as he struck coquettish poses.

Hiruzen Sarutobi, who was assigning missions, and several Shinobi heard the commotion and turned around together.

The entire Hokage's Office instantly fell deathly silent.

Hiruzen Sarutobi stared wide-eyed for quite a while before crushing the document in his hand and springing to his feet.

"You, you, you... you~~"

Hiruzen Sarutobi pointed at Bieshu Feifan, his face flushed scarlet, but he could not get any words out.

Of the dozen or so Shinobi receiving missions in the office, one burst out laughing on the spot at the sight of Bieshu Feifan.

"Hahahahaha! Whose kid is this? Hahahahaha!"

The others could barely hold it in either, their whole bodies shaking.

"Shut up!"

Hiruzen Sarutobi roared, and the office fell silent again.

"Bieshu Feifan, what's going on with you?"

Bieshu Feifan shook his somewhat unbalanced head, walked over, and threw an arm around Hiruzen Sarutobi.

"Brother Hokage, you still haven't given me my reward from last time.

"I know the village is struggling right now. Just give me some forbidden technique and call it done. Your little brother won't ask for much.

"After all, I'm the inheritor of the Will of Fire you personally named."

Hiruzen Sarutobi's face immediately twitched, and he hastily pushed Bieshu Feifan away.

The Shinobi in the room laughed again.

When Bieshu Feifan emerged from the Hokage Building, he had another ninjutsu scroll in his hand.

Wind Release: Wind Cutter Technique.

Quite a few Shinobi who had stayed waiting in the mission hall turned pale with shock when they saw Bieshu Feifan coming downstairs.

"He actually wasn't beaten to death? Don't tell me he really is one of our Konoha Shinobi?"

Bieshu Feifan chuckled and left the Hokage Building singing, leaving nothing but an uproar behind him.

Meanwhile, in the Hokage's Office, Hiruzen Sarutobi had already dismissed the Shinobi who had just accepted their missions.

"Jiahu."

Hiruzen Sarutobi called into the empty air, and an Anbu immediately appeared.

"Go arrest the barbershop owner who did Bieshu Feifan's hair. Hand him over to the Uchiha and let him suffer a little."

"Yes, Lord Hokage. But on what charges?"

Hiruzen Sarutobi thought for a moment.

"Deliberately damaging the reputations of successive Hokage, enticing an intellectually disabled child, and undermining Konoha's unity."

"Should we forcibly deal with Bieshu Feifan too?"

Hiruzen Sarutobi fell silent at that.

Although he badly wanted to pin Bieshu Feifan down himself and burn all his hair off with a Great Fireball,

after thinking it over, he still decided not to act against Bieshu Feifan.

Because Bieshu Feifan had already become an example of his care for intellectually disabled children, and he did not want people calling him petty.

Even after the Anbu left with his orders, Hiruzen Sarutobi still could not recover from Bieshu Feifan's appearance. His mind was filled with that portrait of himself hanging above Bieshu Feifan's ear, looking as if it had a goiter.

Bieshu Feifan was very satisfied with his performance today, whether or not it could keep him off the battlefield.

At least when he had asked for a ninjutsu earlier, Hiruzen Sarutobi had finally stopped being stingy.

Early the next morning, Bieshu Feifan had just eaten and was about to go running to build his endurance when someone knocked at the door.

When he opened it, Might Duy greeted him with his thumb up and his front teeth gleaming, just as always.

"Feifan, today..."

At that point, Might Duy's smile froze on his face, and his thumb withdrew too.

"You're Feifan?"

"Yeah, it's me. What's wrong, Brother Duy? Now this is youth."

As he spoke, Bieshu Feifan gave Might Duy a thumbs-up too.

Might Duy looked at Bieshu Feifan and stayed silent for a long time before nodding.

"Your youth far surpasses mine, Feifan."

Bieshu Feifan knew he had been Jiahao'd. He patted his shoulder and said with a smile,

"Let's go burn up my youth."

"...Okay."

Might Duy only offered a feeble reply before running laps around Konoha with Bieshu Feifan.

But as they ran, Might Duy disappeared from the running route at some point.

And Bieshu Feifan was quite certain that he had not completed five hundred laps.

Bieshu Feifan shook his head. Brother Duy's audacity level was still too low.

After finishing his laps, Bieshu Feifan went home.

Next, after eating, he still had to keep training to improve his strength.

Although he was now even more Jiahao than Might Duy, there was no guarantee Hiruzen Sarutobi had given up on his designs.

After all, Might Duy would also die on the battlefield in the future.

Just as Bieshu Feifan returned home, a ping-pong paddle stood at his door with its back to him.

The visitor looked like another Jiahao.

"Bieshu Feifan, you..."

The visitor was Uchiha Ji, who turned around as he spoke.

Then, the moment he saw Bieshu Feifan's appearance, the show-off lines he had prepared instantly jammed in his throat.

After a long silence, Kagami Uchiha suddenly yelled, rushed up, and punched Bieshu Feifan.

Today, he had handled an interrogation personally ordered by the Hokage. The prisoner had been a barbershop owner.

He had originally come to see how the brat had been led astray, but he had never imagined he would see such an eyesore of a hairstyle.

As he beat Bieshu Feifan, Uchiha Ji felt that

he had gone too easy on that barbershop owner earlier.