“Boss! One hundred servings of dango! Hurry up!”
After learning from Obito that Ichiraku Ramen hadn’t opened yet, Yusuke brought the three kids to a dango shop.
He had no idea whether it was the same shop that Anko Mitarashi would frequent in the future.
“Lord Yusuke, we can’t possibly eat that much!”
Rin Nohara was startled by Yusuke’s order.
“Exactly, Uncle. Can you even afford that much?”
Obito couldn’t resist running his mouth.
“It’s fine. Everyone can split the bill.”
Yusuke smiled cheerfully.
“Damn!”
Obito cursed inwardly.
He had never seen anyone so shameless.
Eating with three six-year-old children and actually suggesting they split the bill!
The two little girls were speechless as well.
As it turned out, even one hundred servings weren’t actually that much for Yusuke.
Ever since he had transmigrated, he had spent all his time thinking about what he should do with his future and had never eaten properly.
Now that he could finally relax, his appetite naturally opened up.
Besides, he had already gone two consecutive meals without eating anything.
In the blink of an eye, half of the one hundred servings of dango were gone.
“Could it be that the secret to becoming strong is eating?”
Obito’s expression changed as he thought he had discovered Yusuke’s secret to becoming powerful.
He immediately began stuffing dango into his mouth as well.
Rin Nohara and Yuhi Kurenai, on the other hand, were much more elegant.
They actually needed two bites just to finish a single dango.
Just then, the entire dango shop fell silent.
Obito sensed that something was wrong.
His chewing froze, and he raised his head toward the entrance.
Several shinobi wearing gray flak jackets and masks walked into the shop.
“AN-ANBU!?”
Obito and the two little girls were immediately startled.
The ANBU were the Hokage’s direct forces.
To children like them who were still attending the Ninja Academy, they were practically untouchable figures.
“Yusuke, come with us.”
The ANBU soon walked over to Yusuke’s table and spoke indifferently.
However, after hearing them, Yusuke swallowed another skewer of dango and took a sip of green tea.
Being ignored, the ANBU members immediately felt that they had lost face.
One of them shouted again, “The Hokage wants to see you! Come with us!”
“I still have something to do. You can go ahead. I’ll come by myself later.”
Yusuke picked up another skewer of dango, slowly bit off one piece, and glanced sideways.
“I need to go check on that brat Kakashi.”
The three children were completely dumbfounded. Get faster updates on g.com.
He actually refused the ANBU?
This was the Hokage’s direct force!
Then the three of them froze again.
Kakashi?
Their classmate?
He hadn’t come to school for several days now.
Because White Fang had primarily carried out classified missions, his fame among ordinary civilians wasn’t as widespread as that of the Three Ninja.
Therefore, Yuhi Kurenai and the others had no idea what had happened to Kakashi.
At this moment, the leader of the ANBU squad shouted angrily, “Yusuke, don’t think you can become arrogant just because you drove away the Nine-Tails! White Fang is already dead. No one can protect you now!”
Yusuke raised his eyes toward him.
Recognizing the man’s mask, he mocked with a smile, “Oh? Isn’t this Captain Shinnosuke, the Hokage’s son?”
Sarutobi Hiruzen’s eldest son, the future father of Konohamaru, Sarutobi Shinnosuke, was an ANBU squad captain who had been Yusuke’s equal in rank before Yusuke left the ANBU.
He had also been one of the people who had harshly and viciously blamed both Yusuke and White Fang after White Fang had failed the mission while saving him.
The original Yusuke had always been on bad terms with this man.
Yusuke continued with a smile, “What? The person who drove away the Nine-Tails isn’t allowed to be arrogant, but people like you who were beaten by the Nine-Tails until you were running for your lives are allowed to be arrogant?”
Pfft!
Obito couldn’t hold back and spat out the dango in his mouth from laughing.
“Bastard!”
Sarutobi Shinnosuke became furious and immediately moved to grab Yusuke and drag him away.
During last night’s battle against the Nine-Tails, he had truly realized just how terrifying the strongest of the Tailed Beasts was.
As an elite Jonin, he had been beaten down like a helpless child.
Meanwhile, Yusuke, who had always been at odds with him, had somehow gained such terrifying strength that he could actually drive away the Nine-Tails.
That made Sarutobi Shinnosuke even more resentful.
And now, being mocked by Yusuke in front of so many people made him completely lose his temper.
“Heh~”
Just as Sarutobi Shinnosuke’s hand was less than a centimeter away from Yusuke’s collar—
BOOM!
A loud explosion rang out.
No one inside the shop saw what happened.
Sarutobi Shinnosuke had already vanished from his spot.
Outside on the street, a figure slammed heavily into a utility pole, snapping it in half before crashing to the ground.
BOOM~
The tremendous noise immediately drew the attention of countless pedestrians and shinobi responsible for the reconstruction work nearby.
“What happened? What happened?”
“What happened here?”
“Did someone start fighting?”
Inside the dango shop, the ANBU members turned to look outside.
They saw Sarutobi Shinnosuke had been blasted out of the shop.
All of them became furious and charged toward Yusuke together.
“Damn it!”
Bang!
Bang!
Bang!
One loud impact after another rang out.
Several more figures flew out of the shop like soccer balls, one after another, piling onto Sarutobi Shinnosuke like a stack of bodies.
“S-so powerful!”
Obito’s eyes widened.
“I can’t even see what he’s doing!”
Yuhi Kurenai and Rin Nohara were dumbfounded as well.
“Sigh. You Sarutobi and Shimura clans really are something. When there are no tigers on the mountain, the monkeys declare themselves king.”
Yusuke swallowed an entire skewer of dango and leisurely walked toward the ANBU squad, made up of members of the Sarutobi and Shimura clans, while the surrounding civilians and shinobi stared at him in stunned silence.
Smack!
He kicked them directly in the face, sending all the masks flying off their faces and revealing their battered appearances.
“I really don’t understand. Where exactly did you weaklings get the courage to come and provoke me?”
Yusuke stepped directly on the face of a Shimura shinobi and raised an eyebrow.
He had thought that after showing his strength against the Nine-Tails the previous night, no one in the entire village would dare provoke him.
Yet, just one night later, someone had already come looking for trouble.
“You… you’re far too arrogant! You’re nothing but a civilian-born shinobi, yet you dare attack Konoha’s great clans again and again?!”
Blood trickled from the corner of Sarutobi Shinnosuke’s mouth as he glared at Yusuke unwillingly.
Ever since the Senju clan had declined and the Uchiha clan had failed to produce another Kage-level powerhouse, the Sarutobi and Shimura clans had grown accustomed to acting arrogantly.
How could they have imagined that a civilian shinobi would actually dare attack them?
“Hm? Is being arrogant against the law?”
Yusuke didn’t care in the slightest that the man was the Hokage’s son.
He kicked him again.
Smack!
The surrounding civilians and civilian-born shinobi were completely stunned.
They seemed to hear the sound of a nose breaking.
“What law in Konoha says that people aren’t allowed to be arrogant? Hmm?!”
Smack!
Yusuke raised his leg high and brought it down with a powerful stomp.
Everyone around them trembled at the sight.
They all thought the same thing:
Konoha has no law prohibiting arrogance, but it does prohibit fighting among yourselves!
However, they only dared to say this in their hearts.
Not a single person dared to speak up and stop him.
Yusuke wasn’t White Fang.
If someone dared to provoke him, he wouldn’t swallow his anger and let it fester inside.
He would really make them pay the price.