Konoha: This Uchiha is extremely sneaky

Chapter 56 Stealing the Bell

"My name is Uchiha Toshiro, and I'll be eight years old in a month. I enjoy reading quietly by myself and soaking in hot springs, and I hate trouble. My dream is to experience the different scenery of this world, taste all the delicacies in the world, and meet different beautiful girls! And make friends with them!"

"Wow, Toshiro's dream is really grand!"

Upon hearing of his last student's unique dream, Uchiha Shigemasa was momentarily speechless, only able to let out a sigh.

[This kid is already thinking about making friends with lots of pretty girls at such a young age. Will he grow up to be a little pervert?]

Even Homura and Tetsuya, who were standing to the side, stared wide-eyed, their mouths slightly agape, looking at Toshiro with disbelief.

"Ha! Ha! Ha! Don't look at me like that! We've all introduced ourselves, but the teacher hasn't done it yet!"

We're simply shocked by your shamelessness. X3 →_→

Looking at the three pairs of eyes beside him, filled with shock, astonishment, and disdain, Toshiro was speechless. Weren't these humanity's most basic dreams?

"My turn. My name is Uchi Shigemasa, and I'm 33 years old. I like drinking tea, I hate pointless killing, and my dream, like Tetsuya's, is to become Hokage!"

[It's just that this dream will never come true!]

Looking at the energetic Uchiha Tetsuya, he silently thought that he couldn't bear to shatter the boy's existing fantasy.

"Alright, let's do a little test. Your goal is to snatch these two bells from me before noon. Any means are acceptable, but be prepared to kill me!" As he spoke, he pulled out two bells from somewhere and waved them in his hand.

"Hey! Another gun bell? Teacher, this test is so old-fashioned!"

Upon hearing this, Toshiro retorted. As far as he knew, both the legendary Sannin of the past and the future main characters had all participated in this activity. "But isn't this too old-fashioned? Can't they come up with something new?"

"Hey! Is this a cliché? To be honest, I don't have much experience as a mentor; I learned this from my teacher!"

As he spoke, he also explained this fine tradition of Konoha to Homura and Tetsuya, who were standing beside him with puzzled expressions.

"But Toshiro, how did you know about this test?"

"I've only heard of it before!"

He gave a casual, perfunctory answer. Just as he was about to ask another question, Uchiha Tetsuya's voice interrupted him.

"Alright! Let's begin now!"

With a powerful slam of his right fist into his palm, Uchiha Tetsuya spoke with boundless energy.

"Alright, then you can attack now..."

At this moment, Uchiha Shigemasa stood in the center of the training ground, looking at them with a smile on his face.

"Don't make a move yet, let me go first. This is a fair and square duel between men!" Uchiha Tetsuya said arrogantly, taking the lead. (⊙o⊙)

"What?!"

At this moment, a thousand alpacas were stampeding through Toshiro Uchiha's mind. He never expected that the Uchiha clan, known for its aloof personality and meticulous mind, would produce such an oddball besides Obito, and that he would be his teammate!

Even Uchiha Homura, who was usually calm and collected, couldn't hold back any longer. His fists clenched tightly, his forehead creased with dark lines, and veins bulged on his forehead. However, noticing Toshiro's gaze, he immediately put on a cheerful, smiling expression.

How did these two get together? Is this a case of "different strokes for different folks"?

He couldn't understand why Yan had taken a liking to Zhe. No matter what, the two had such different personalities. Their ways of dealing with people were worlds apart.

Does he have some kind of peculiar fetish that I don't know about?

"Then let me see what kind of person Tetsuya, who dreams of becoming Hokage, is truly magnanimous."

Seeing his enthusiastic disciple, Teacher Chongzheng did not discourage him. Instead, he laughed and encouraged him.

"oh!"

He responded enthusiastically without pausing. He reached into his ninja tool pouch at his waist, pulled out a shuriken, and shot it towards Professor Shigemasa.

Homura and Toshiro exchanged a glance, then stepped aside, leaving the space to the two of them. They watched their performance quietly from the sidelines.

Facing the incoming shuriken.

Teacher Shigemasa showed no panic, nor did he draw his kunai to defend himself. Instead, he stretched out his hands, gathered chakra at his fingertips, and flicked them lightly.

Then a chain reaction occurred. The shuriken that Zhe had shot out of the field collided with Teacher Chongzheng's fingers and changed direction multiple times, bouncing erratically in the air like a bouncy ball.

In an instant, the shuriken, whose kinetic energy had been canceled out by their collisions, were scattered all over the ground.

【sharp!】

That was a brilliant move!

Having watched his teacher's performance from the sidelines, Toshiro couldn't help but remark in admiration. Even without activating his Sharingan, Uchiha Shigemasa, as a Jonin, possessed observational skills far exceeding those of an average Jonin.

"As expected, they're not simple!"

Undeterred by his unsuccessful initial attack, Uchiha Tetsuya brandished a kunai in each hand, unleashing a burst of chakra from his feet and charging towards Shigemasa-sensei at incredible speed. He intended to use taijutsu as a breakthrough to turn the tide.

Faced with a kunai attack that was quite ruthless for someone his age, Shigemasa remained calm and composed. After dodging one of the attacks, he extended a finger of his right hand and passed it through the ring at the end of the kunai. With a gentle force, he snatched the kunai from Tetsuya's hand.

"Swish! Swish! Swish!"

With a flick of his fingers, the bitter fruit danced like a butterfly flitting among flowers, displaying a dazzling array of moves in Teacher Chongzheng's hands, making it difficult to discern the direction of his attacks.

Taking advantage of Uchiha Tetsuya's momentary distraction by the kunai in his hand, Shigemasa-sensei deflected the attack with his own kunai and twisted his wrist. The kunai in his hand then thrust towards Tetsuya's wrist. If Tetsuya didn't let go now, the consequences would be dire.

Reluctantly, he put down the kunai in his hand.

Uchiha Tetsuya, empty-handed, didn't just sit and wait to die. Instead, he twisted his waist and raised his leg, launching a vicious whip kick towards Shigemasa-sensei's waist.

"brush!"

With a nimble forward somersault, Shigemasa gracefully swept over Uchiha Tetsuya's head, appearing behind him and dodging his attack while simultaneously seizing an opening behind his opponent.

"hateful!"

With a roar, Uchiha Tetsuya did not surrender despite being caught out from behind. Instead, taking advantage of his relatively shorter stature compared to his teacher, he crouched down and swept his right leg out with a sweeping kick, attacking Shigemasa-sensei's lower body.

(End of this chapter)