Early the next morning, someone knocked on the door of Ye Feng's home.
He opened the door to find Uchiha Fugaku, Sasuke Uchiha, and Uchiha Itachi.
After returning home the previous night, Sasuke Uchiha had kept pestering Uchiha Fugaku to put in a good word for him and ask Ye Feng to take him as a disciple. Failing that, even a few months of instruction would do.
Uchiha Fugaku was naturally delighted by the prospect, so he had brought Mikoto, Itachi, and Sasuke to visit Ye Feng that day, looking for all the world like an old friend paying a social call.
But just as Uchiha Fugaku explained why they had come, another knock sounded at the door.
Feng Yu hurried to open it and found Minato Namikaze, Kushina, and Naruto outside.
The moment Naruto entered the house, he spotted Sasuke and immediately shouted in exasperation:
"I knew you'd pull something like this! You actually snuck over here first!"
But the next second, a sharp rap landed on Naruto's head. The person responsible was Kushina Uzumaki.
Then Kushina Uzumaki looked apologetically at everyone and said:
"Sorry about that. How embarrassing!"
And so the two little rivals, Naruto and Sasuke, sat together, neither willing to give an inch, each haughtily turning his head away from the other.
Seeing this, Ye Feng said:
"I take it you're here because you want me to take Naruto as my disciple too, Minato!"
Minato Namikaze froze at his words, glanced at Uchiha Fugaku, and asked him:
"Don't tell me you're here for the same thing?"
Uchiha Fugaku could only nod awkwardly.
Since Uchiha Fugaku had the same idea, Minato Namikaze saw no need to beat around the bush and said outright:
"After we got home yesterday, Naruto kept clamoring to become your disciple. I really