Clash

What Uchiha Ye Feng did not know was that word of their match had already reached certain people, and some were even helping push it along.

On the rooftop of the teaching building beside the field sat two men and a woman. One man had long black hair and golden eyes with vertical pupils; the other wore a forehead protector bearing the character for "oil," and his long white hair reached his waist. The woman had long pale-yellow hair and a blue-purple mark on her forehead. These three were none other than the legendary Sannin: Orochimaru, Jiraiya, and Tsunade.

"I heard you've been traveling the Shinobi World writing books. Why did you suddenly come back? Did you get tangled up in some romantic trouble out there and come back to hide?" Tsunade asked Jiraiya first.

"I'm not like certain people who lose at gambling, rack up a mountain of gambling debts, and come back to hide," Jiraiya retorted.

Instantly, a vein bulged on Tsunade's forehead, and veins stood out on her hand as she prepared to deliver a punch with her monstrous strength.

"All right, honestly, you two start arguing the moment you meet." Orochimaru knew Tsunade was only putting on a show, but stepped in to play peacemaker.

"As you both know, part of the reason I've been traveling the Shinobi World is that I wanted to get out and see things. The other reason is to try my luck and see whether I could meet the chosen child from the Great Toad Sage's prophecy and take them as my student. This time, I might have found them."

Orochimaru and Tsunade were very surprised. They had always rejected the idea of the Great Toad Sage's Child of Prophecy. They believed only in actual strength, not in pinning their hopes on some nebulous prophecy, and had not expected Jiraiya to find the Child of Prophecy.

Curious, the two asked, "Who is it? Who could actually make you think they're the Child of Prophecy, the chosen one?"

"I can't be sure yet. It's only a suspicion for now. In another couple of years, I'd like to go confirm it." Jiraiya's gaze also turned toward the two children preparing to fight on the field, and he sighed. "Kids these days really are combative. They're barely this big, and they're already arranging fights."

Standing on the field, Uchiha Shinichi spoke. "I'm older than you, so this counts as picking on someone younger. I'll give you a one-hand handicap."

"You'd better use both hands. Otherwise, don't blame me if you lose too badly in a moment," Ye Feng replied without holding back.

"Arrogant brat. Come on!" Uchiha Shinichi said to Ye Feng, actually putting his right hand behind his back, as though telling Ye Feng and everyone present that he would not use it.

"Since you have such peculiar tastes, I'll oblige!"

With that, Ye Feng charged forward so fast that Uchiha Shinichi could not even make out his figure before he was right in front of him. Uchiha Shinichi hastily raised his left hand to block the attack aimed at his chest and used the momentum to retreat, temporarily putting some distance between them.

"To have that kind of speed at such a young age." All three Sannin looked surprised at Ye Feng's speed, clearly finding it unexpected.

But Uchiha Shinichi, who had blocked Ye Feng's punch, knew that it had not only been fast, but extremely heavy as well. After taking that punch, his left hand was trembling slightly.

Uchiha Shinichi now knew he had underestimated Ye Feng. He immediately activated his Sharingan, his expression turning grave as he stared unblinkingly at Ye Feng and waited for his next attack.

The students and teachers watching were all surprised. After taking a single punch from Ye Feng, Uchiha Shinichi had not only turned serious but even activated his Sharingan. Wasn't that making a bit too much of it?

But what happened next put that thought out of their minds.

Ye Feng charged forward again with a kick. With his Sharingan activated, Uchiha Shinichi could now track Ye Feng's attacks. He hurriedly turned sideways to dodge and threw a left-handed punch straight at Ye Feng's head.

Ye Feng remained completely unruffled. He bent backward to dodge the punch and caught Uchiha Shinichi's wrist with his left hand, circling beneath his left arm and around behind him. He intended to pin Uchiha Shinichi's left arm directly from behind and leave him unable to move.

Uchiha Shinichi was experienced as well. At that critical moment, he went with the force of Ye Feng twisting his wrist and flipped forward, using the momentum of the flip to lash his trailing foot viciously toward Ye Feng's head.

Ye Feng could only release his left hand and raise his right arm to block Uchiha Shinichi's kick, while kicking his left foot toward Uchiha Shinichi's chest.

At this point, Uchiha Shinichi disregarded his earlier promise to give Ye Feng a one-hand handicap. He knew one hand could not block the force of this kick, so he immediately guarded his chest with both hands. The tremendous force sent him flying. He flipped over and landed in a half crouch, dissipating the force of the kick.

"Those punches and kicks pack plenty of force. They're a little like your monstrous strength, Tsunade. How about considering taking a student? He seems pretty well suited to you," Jiraiya teased Tsunade.

"I'm not interested in an Uchiha Clan brat." The Senju Clan had never had much fondness for the Uchiha Clan, especially now that the Senju Clan had dissolved and integrated into Konoha, leaving the Uchiha Clan dominant and even more arrogant and overbearing.

"Have you noticed that this Uchiha Ye Feng doesn't seem to have used any chakra? I can't sense any trace of chakra in his body either. Interesting." Orochimaru, however, had noticed what was different about Ye Feng.

"No chakra? Could it be taijutsu? Can purely physical strength really be that great?"

Hearing this, Jiraiya immediately tried sensing Ye Feng carefully as well. Sure enough, he found no sign of chakra. His knowledge of taijutsu was average, and Tsunade had the most authority on the subject, so he turned to her to ask.

"At such a young age, there's absolutely no way he could have that much force with his physical body alone. It looks like this Uchiha brat is no simple case. Orochimaru, you'd better find some time to look into him." Tsunade was also surprised by Ye Feng's strength.