On the training grounds.
Aokawa was surrounded by several people, none of whom were willing to back down.
Might Guy scratched his head sheepishly, realizing he seemed to be a step too late.
Kakashi watched it all with great interest.
"Kakashi, what's going on here?" Uchiha Obito leaned over and asked.
Beside them, Rin Nohara was also very curious, waiting for Kakashi's explanation.
"What else could it be? They're fighting over a capable teammate," Kakashi replied listlessly.
"Him? Is this pretty boy actually strong?" Uchiha Obito looked surprised.
Kakashi wore an expression as if looking at an idiot. "You're probably the only one who can't see how strong he is."
Uchiha Obito was immediately displeased and jumped up. "You can see it?! If you can see it, why didn't you pick him?"
"Isn't it because of you, you idiot!" Kakashi said with a flat tone, his eyes looking like dead fish.
"Kakashi!" Uchiha Obito rolled up his sleeves, ready for a fight.
"Alright, Obito!"
Rin Nohara quickly pulled him back. "Stop arguing with Kakashi."
On the other side.
Uchiha Inabi and the others refused to yield to one another, reaching a stalemate.
In the end, they had to let Aokawa, the person in question, judge who had arrived first.
Aokawa's gaze swept over the three of them, finally landing on Uchiha Shisui's hand resting on his shoulder.
He truly was the person who would make a name for himself as 'Shisui of the Body Flicker' during the Third War.
After realizing that Uchiha Inabi and Hinata Iruha's target was him, Shisui had still managed to act later but arrive first.
He had reached him before the other two.
Seeing this, Uchiha Inabi and Hinata Iruha's expressions both turned somewhat sour.
Although Aokawa didn't speak, his eyes said everything.
Uchiha Inabi, in particular, turned red in the face upon being outdone by a junior of the clan. "Impossible! I clearly charged out first!"
"Aokawa, look closer. I must have been the first." The veins around Hinata Iruha's Byakugan bulged; he clearly couldn't accept this result either.
The crowd of onlookers buzzed with discussion. No one expected that an ungraduated Ninja Academy Student would become the object of competition between three Chunin experts.
Those who had previously mocked Aokawa now felt their faces burning with embarrassment.
Uchiha Shisui withdrew his hand and smiled gently at the other two. "Seniors, since everyone's goal is to team up with Senior Aokawa, why don't we decide in a different way?"
"What way?" Uchiha Inabi asked irritably.
"It's simple." Uchiha Shisui's smile remained unchanged, but his tone carried a hint of indisputable confidence. "We'll have a spar. If I lose, I'll withdraw immediately."
Before the two could speak, he added, "By the way, you two Seniors can come at me together!"
As the words fell, the entire field went into an uproar.
One against two!
And the opponents were elite Chunin from the Uchiha and Hyuga clans!
"Shisui, you're too arrogant!" Uchiha Inabi laughed out of sheer anger.
Hinata Iruha also snorted coldly, staring at Uchiha Shisui with an unfriendly gaze.
Seeing this reaction, Uchiha Shisui belatedly realized there might be a problem with his way of speaking.
He simply felt that fighting them one-on-one would be bullying them, so he increased the difficulty by letting them fight together.
He didn't mean to look down on them.
He waved his hands repeatedly and hurriedly explained, "I'm not targeting you, nor do I mean to look down on you. I just feel that you'll only have a chance of winning if you come at me together; otherwise, it wouldn't be fair to you."
Aokawa almost burst out laughing upon hearing this.
Is he a Great Master?
This isn't Uchiha Shisui.
This is Uchiha Duanshui.
Is a Genius's explanation also this much of a Genius move?
He didn't stop them; he wanted to see just how far the future world-renowned 'Shisui of the Body Flicker' had progressed by now.
Uchiha Inabi and Hinata Iruha's already gloomy faces turned a deep, bruised purple upon hearing those words.
Uchiha Shisui wanted to say something more.
He was forcefully interrupted by Uchiha Inabi, who said with burning rage, "Say no more! Let our skills do the talking!"
The three put some distance between them, confronting each other in the center of the training grounds.
Uchiha Inabi and Hinata Iruha exchanged a glance and tacitly spread out to the left and right, forming a pincer attack.
"Go!"
Uchiha Inabi barked, and both launched their attacks simultaneously.
"Gentle Fist Art: Eighty Trigrams Thirty-Two Palms!"
"Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique!"
For a moment, the two attacked Uchiha Shisui in the center from two different directions.
However, Shisui's figure vanished from the spot an instant before the attacks landed.
"So fast!" Hinata Iruha's Byakugan tried its best to track him, but he could only see a series of blurred afterimages.
Uchiha Inabi's Sharingan was also spinning at high speed, attempting to predict Shisui's next landing point.
"Behind!" He spun around abruptly, sweeping a kick behind him.
However, what he kicked was still just an afterimage.
Only then did he suddenly realize that Uchiha Shisui was everywhere in the entire field.
The next moment.
Standing behind Hinata Iruha was the Uchiha Shisui he had already confirmed was an afterimage.
A hand-knife struck the back of his neck with precision.
Iroha didn't even have time to react; his body went limp, and he fell to one knee on the ground.
"Iroha!" Uchiha Inabi was shocked and hurriedly looked back.
At the same moment he turned, Shisui's ghost-like figure was already close in front of him.
"It's over, Senior."
A palm was pressed lightly against Uchiha Inabi's chest.
His whole body stiffened.
He knew that if this had been a life-and-death battle, he would already be dead.
The entire process had taken barely ten seconds.
The entire field was dead silent.
Everyone was awestruck by the overwhelming speed Uchiha Shisui had displayed.
Aokawa had his Byakugan active, taking in everything that had just happened.
As expected of Shisui of the Body Flicker, switching seamlessly between afterimages and the real body.
This was a kind of talent.
"I lose," Uchiha Inabi sighed in the field and said quite bluntly.
The Uchiha were like this; the recognition of strength stood above all else.
Hinata Iruha also stood up, rubbing the back of his neck with a bitter smile. "It wasn't an unfair loss."
With that, there was no longer any suspense about the team's composition.
Uchiha Shisui became the Chunin captain of the squad.
"We're still short one person!" His gaze swept across the Genin formation, then he walked toward Might Guy.
Everyone's eyes focused on the thick-browed youth wearing a green jumpsuit and a bowl cut.
Might Guy was stunned for a moment, then excitedly gave a thumbs-up, revealing a row of flashing white teeth.
When the three found Suzuki Shinj on the field to register, his gaze swept over Aokawa from time to time.
"This kid has something! A Ninja Academy Student coming to the Front Lines, and so many people are fighting to take him, even coming to blows!"
"Could he be some Young Master from the Village's high-ranking officials, here to pad his resume?"
He very enthusiastically helped the three register their team information, but as he watched them walk away, the doubt in his heart grew stronger.
"No, I have to find an acquaintance in the Village to help me find out where this kid came from."
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