Chapter 7

Uchiha Itachi graduated, and Chiyako's life returned to its usual calm.

In his spare time from training, he often went shopping with Uchiha Izumi, and they would exchange gifts from time to time.

Of course, in most cases, it was Uchiha Izumi who gave gifts to Chiyako, like his clothes, which were all gifts from Izumi.

There was no way around it; Chiyako was poor, relying on the meager allowance provided by Konoha to get by. If not for Izumi, a little rich girl, helping him out, his family would have been in dire straits.

As time passed, their relationship grew even closer.

Chiyako clearly felt that Izumi was developing a different kind of affection for him, and he didn't mind it. He decided to let things take their natural course, thinking that perhaps living like this in the future wouldn't be bad.

Before he knew it, Fujiwara Chiyako was already 11 years old.

He was almost at the age where he would graduate from the ninja academy.

He had grown taller, and his cultivation had advanced to the fourth level.

The Heavenly Gang Technique was well-learned, and he could now store a vast amount of senjutsu chakra within his body.

In other areas, he had also made significant progress.

During his five years at the academy, he used the Shadow Clone Technique to thoroughly master all the martial arts techniques recorded in the Heavenly Gang Technique.

He bought chakra paper from a ninja supply store and determined that he had fire and lightning chakra natures.

After much persuasion, he obtained various ninja techniques from Uchiha Izumi's family.

He said, "What's mine is yours, and what's yours is mine. At worst, I won't use the Uchiha clan's unique techniques until I'm of legal age."

This frightened Uchiha Izumi quite a bit, and she blushed and ran away.

But the next day, she brought a small bag of ninja scrolls to Chiyako.

The only downside was that her family's collection only included a few fire release techniques, notes on fire chakra nature transformation, and some genjutsu and summoning techniques that required the Sharingan, but no lightning release techniques.

With no other choice, Chiyako began practicing fire chakra nature transformation based on the notes provided by Uchiha Izumi.

He also improved the Body Flicker Technique, combining it with the flash ability inherent in the Heavenly Gang Technique to create a new, more advanced Body Flicker Technique.

Fortunately, there was always a way out.

At the age of nine, Chiyako met a little girl, and the system issued a task, allowing him to learn perfect lightning chakra nature transformation.

It was a cold winter day, with snow and wind making the streets empty.

At that time, Chiyako had just celebrated the New Year with Izumi and was returning home after dropping her off. As he passed through a snowy corner of Konoha, he encountered a beautiful girl with pure white eyes.

She was wearing a black outfit and was running through the snow, crying and stumbling. She fell to the ground, her face full of fear and confusion, and finally squatted in the snow, shivering and sobbing.

Without much thought, Chiyako picked her up and took her home.

Only when he saw the Hyuga family name on the gate did he realize that the little girl was Hyuga Hinata.

He also learned that this day was the funeral of his uncle, Hyuga Hizashi, and the anniversary of the death of Hyuga Neji's father.

In a daze, Chiyako recalled the peace treaty signed between Konoha and the Cloud Village not long ago.

Tobirama, who had facilitated the treaty, even held a grand welcome ceremony.

The whole village was bustling, but unfortunately, his actions were seen as a sign of weakness by the Cloud Village.

That night, they went to the Hyuga clan and kidnapped the three-year-old Hinata, attempting to steal the Hyuga clan's bloodline limit, the Byakugan.

The result was predictable; the people sent were killed by the Hyuga clan leader, Hyuga Hiashi.

Despite the failure, the Cloud Village was right in their prediction that Tobirama was a weak person.

Facing the Cloud Village, he not only denied the theft of the Byakugan but also accused Konoha of killing the Cloud Village ninja, threatening war to force Konoha to hand over the culprit, Hyuga Hiashi, in an attempt to continue their pursuit of the Byakugan.

The Third Hokage, who was always weak in dealing with external threats but harsh internally, compromised again.

This ultimately led to the tragic death of Hyuga Hizashi, who went to his death in place of his brother.

...

Today was also a cold winter day, with snow falling heavily, creating a cold and bleak atmosphere.

The snow covered Konoha in a thick blanket.

It was almost dark.

Chiyako, who had just finished a full day of training, took a shower and changed into clean, tidy clothes.

He was preparing to go find Uchiha Izumi to celebrate the New Year, as he did every year.

But as he passed through a snowy corner of Konoha, a sudden situation made him stop.

Not far ahead, three children, two boys and a girl, were bullying a little girl who looked about five or six years old.

"Hey, I heard you're from the Hyuga clan. Show us your Byakugan."

"If you don't want to, don't look this way."

"Those creepy eyes, you must be a monster, a Byakugan monster."

The girl had short, light purple hair and pure white eyes, and she was very beautiful.

The three children taunted and mocked her, making her big eyes fill with tears as she covered her face and cried.

"Hinata..." Chiyako murmured, looking at the familiar face of the little girl.

At that moment, a long-awaited system notification sounded in his mind:

[Ding, as the strongest lolicon, how can you stand by and let a little girl be harmed? Go help her.]

[1. Go up and help, so the little girl is no longer bullied by her peers. Reward: Earth chakra nature transformation.]

[2. Ignore it, reward: Danzo's underwear.]

"Again with the underwear, and it's Danzo's again. Do you really like Danzo's underwear that much?"

Chiyako was speechless but chose option one without hesitation. More skills never hurt, even though he didn't have any earth release techniques to learn yet, he would have them in the future.

However, to solve the bullying problem, he couldn't just go up directly.

The reason was simple: Chiyako was much older than them. If he went up today, they might run away out of fear, but they would continue bullying in the future.

Moreover, this was just treating the symptoms, not the root cause. The key was to teach Hinata how to defend herself.

With that in mind, Chiyako formed a hand seal.

Transformation Technique activated.

With a puff of smoke, Chiyako transformed into the appearance of a six-year-old child.

"Hey... Is bullying fun for you?"

The three children, used to being bullies, were very annoyed by Chiyako's words.

Seeing Chiyako approach, who was not very tall, they all laughed.

"Where did this bean sprout come from? Trying to be a hero?"

"Haha, the bean sprout monster wants to save the Byakugan monster."

"Since they're both monsters, it makes sense for the bean sprout monster to want to save the Byakugan monster..."

The leader of the three children stepped forward, ready to punch Chiyako. The other two children watched with malicious grins, as they were not ordinary children; their parents were ninjas, and they had already started ninja training, even though they hadn't yet entered the academy.

Their fighting skills were far superior to those of ordinary civilian children.

But soon, they couldn't laugh anymore.

Facing the leader's attack, Chiyako simply raised his right hand and easily blocked it, then countered with a straight punch to the leader's face.

Before the other two children could react, Chiyako took a step forward and punched them with both hands.

The three children slowly crouched down, holding their bleeding noses and crying loudly.

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