Seeing that Uchiha Shinichi was about to make a move right in front of his house, Hyuga Kyo reluctantly agreed to his challenge.
They headed to a secluded grove, where Hyuga Kyo took a quick look around, his gaze lingering briefly on a large tree in the distance before he said to Shinichi, “Alright, let’s spar here!”
Shinichi nodded, looking proud. “Let me be clear, I’m not like Shisui. I won’t hold back.”
“Oh.”
Shinichi’s eye twitched. “Hey, are you even listening? I said I won’t hold back. If you’re not careful, you might die!”
Hyuga Kyo sighed, “I really have things to do. Can you make this quick?”
“Curse you!” Shinichi activated his Sharingan, glaring at Hyuga Kyo with hatred. “Ignorant fool, today I’ll show you the true power of the Uchiha!”
With that, Shinichi quickly formed hand seals and shouted, “Fire Style: Great Fireball Jutsu!”
Hyuga Kyo dodged Shinichi’s Great Fireball Jutsu just in time.
Using the Fire Jutsu as cover, Shinichi used the Body Flicker Technique to appear right in front of Hyuga Kyo, the three tomoe in his Sharingan spinning rapidly.
In an instant, their eyes met.
Looking into Shinichi’s Sharingan, Hyuga Kyo was momentarily stunned. Then, his whole body seemed to lose its spirit, his head drooping as he stood motionless.
Shinichi sneered, “What a weakling. How did Shisui lose to this trash?”
Muttering to himself, he approached Hyuga Kyo.
In his Sharingan vision, Hyuga Kyo’s chakra was in complete disarray, indicating he was fully trapped in the genjutsu. Confident and without any caution, Shinichi planned to place a kunai at Hyuga Kyo’s throat before releasing him from the genjutsu to humiliate him thoroughly.
Just as Shinichi raised his right arm, Hyuga Kyo suddenly ducked and struck out with both palms.
With a series of thuds, Shinichi’s face contorted in shock as he fell to the ground, unconscious.
Dusting off his hands, Hyuga Kyo said calmly, “Alright, you can come out now.”
A figure landed in front of Hyuga Kyo. It was none other than Uchiha Shisui.
Glancing at the unconscious Shinichi, Shisui bowed to Hyuga Kyo and said with a smile, “Thank you for your trouble, senpai!”
Hyuga Kyo had already noticed Shisui secretly following Shinichi and guessed that if Shisui hadn’t given him a heads-up, Shinichi probably wasn’t much of a threat.
Otherwise, given their relationship, Shisui would have warned him.
Hyuga Kyo asked, “This kind of trouble won’t happen every day, will it?”
Shisui shook his head seriously, “Of course not. Shinichi is a Special Jonin. After losing so badly, the clan’s troublemakers will need some time to come up with a new plan. I estimate it will be at least a few days before the next challenge.”
Hyuga Kyo was exasperated, “This is never-ending, isn’t it?”
Shisui hurriedly reassured him, “Don’t worry, senpai. The clan won’t send elite Jonin, just regular ones at most.”
Hyuga Kyo’s face darkened, “So I’ll have to fight almost all the Uchiha? Will I end up with a weird title like ‘Uchiha Bane’?”
“Hehe, thank you for your hard work…thank you for your hard work…” Shisui laughed awkwardly before picking up the unconscious Shinichi and running off hastily.
Hyuga Kyo shouted after him, “Hey, don’t run so fast! Next time, give me some information beforehand!”
The reason he had easily defeated Shinichi this time was largely due to Shinichi’s arrogance. By using his Tenseigan to disrupt the chakra flow in his body, Hyuga Kyo easily deceived the overly confident Shinichi. Against a more cautious Uchiha, victory would not have come so easily.
“Don’t worry, senpai,” Shisui’s voice echoed from afar. He was counting on Hyuga Kyo to put the increasingly arrogant Uchiha in their place and would certainly assist whenever necessary.
After dealing with Shinichi, Hyuga Kyo’s plans remained unchanged as he headed to the Forest of Death.
With the previous day’s experience, he collected the toxins with even greater efficiency. In less than two hours, he had gathered twice as many poison sacs and glands as the day before, exceeding his mission objectives.
Just as he was about to head home to formulate the compound poison, he heard a rustling sound from the forest.
Hyuga Kyo stopped and looked in the direction of the sound.
From the dense underbrush, the mottled wild boar he had encountered the previous day emerged, staring blankly at him.
“Oh, you’re still alive?”
Hyuga Kyo was surprised to see the little boar.
Logically, the poison sac from the snake should have been enough to kill the boar ten times over. If it had eaten the snake, it should be dead.
“Did it not eat the snake? Or did it remove the poison sac?”
As this thought crossed his mind, Hyuga Kyo noticed something strange. The wild boar, which had no chakra flow the previous day, now had a faint trace of chakra in its body.
“This…”
This change surprised Hyuga Kyo even more.
It was possible for wild animals to accidentally learn to use chakra, but the probability was very low. Usually, those who did were intelligent, strong, and old. He had never heard of a young wild boar learning to use chakra.
The boar ran up to Hyuga Kyo and grunted, “Oink, oink…”
“You want food? I don’t have anything you can eat!” Hyuga Kyo began but then reconsidered. He pulled out a thumb-sized poison sac from his pouch and tossed it on the ground, “Will you eat this?”
Wild animals typically had a natural ability to seek benefits and avoid harm. Hyuga Kyo wanted to see if this peculiar little boar would eat the poison sac.
Normally, the strong odor of the poison sac would repel animals. Even those who dared to eat it would not be ordinary.
To Hyuga Kyo’s surprise, the boar did not sniff or lick the sac. It immediately leaped up and swallowed the poison sac whole.
With a slight smile, Hyuga Kyo remarked, “Interesting.”
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