Hinata also activated her Byakugan, and then, with a face full of surprise, saw in the center of the Chūnin Exam arena below, that suddenly erupted astonishing chakra.
'What is that?'
'Why is it so massive?'
———
"Partial Tailed Beast Transformation..."
'Is the goal to test my strength?'
Looking at Gaara, whose arm had tailed beast features exposed, revealing a partial Shukaku exterior, charging at him with a murderous aura, Uchiha Kage unhurriedly dodged the attack.
Then he continued to look toward Orochimaru in the stands.
Upon seeing that Orochimaru had separated into several shadow clones and was standing still, watching him and Gaara as if enjoying a show, Uchiha Kage instantly confirmed who caused the power outage.
And he also understood the opponent's intentions.
'So you actually set your sights on me.'
'After all these years without seeing each other, and upon meeting again, you're already lusting after my body.'
'Orochimaru is really heartbreaking.'
Though he used to lust after Orochimaru's jutsu too...
"But what disappoints me the most is you, Miss Lily."
In a flash of lightning, aside from Gaara before him, Uchiha Kage also sensed a murderous intent from behind.
However, that killing intent quickly disappeared.
Lightning Style: Lightning Tyrant Horizontal Chiyo Dance!
Lightning burst forth, and Uchiha Kage gathered lightning chakra into his hand, then with a hand blade sliced open the tailed beast coat on Gaara, continued to break through the sand armor on his body, and fiercely struck his neck.
"You...", Seeing Uchiha Kage effortlessly swat the half-tailed-beast Gaara to the ground like a mosquito, Samui, who had just used lightning chakra to stimulate her body and teleport behind him, didn't even have the courage to draw her sword.
'Impossible, there's no way I can ever kill him...'
"I only rushed over because I was worried someone else would kill you."
Afraid Uchiha Kage would find another excuse to torment her at night, and also afraid he would target her brother in anger, Samui restrained her killing intent and quickly explained.
"Is that so?"
After finishing Gaara, Uchiha Kage finally turned to glance at Samui who had arrived behind him.
"I thought you were just scared, so you didn't dare to act."
He also noticed her hand on her sword hilt.
"Ho-How could I be afraid of you! Afraid of someone like—mmph!"
'Shameless bastard!'
'There are still so many people around, and you actually...'
Samui, feeling her chest being subtly violated again, was full of resentment.
But this somehow made her less worried about Uchiha Kage getting angry.
She even, in order to ease his anger, found herself wanting him to touch her a little longer.
'Damn it...'
'If this keeps up, I really will become completely defenseless against him...'
"Oh? I didn't expect you to be so loyal to me either. The moment something unexpected happened, you rushed here to save me?"
Uchiha Kage applied a bit of force as a warning to the kunoichi in front of him.
Then he turned to the surroundings and used Fire Style for illumination.
Fire Style: Phoenix Sage Fire Technique!
Each of the small fireballs from the Phoenix Sage Fire Technique appeared precisely near the enemies who were ambushing the Konoha jōnin.
And with the help of this firelight, Kurenai, Guy, and Hiashi Hyuga quickly finished off Orochimaru's shadow clones.
At the same time, buzz—a sound.
The circuit breaker was repaired by the hastily arriving Konoha staff, and the indoor arena lights finally returned to normal.
Once the surroundings were visible again, the chaos among the ninjas quickly subsided.
"Sunagakure examinee attacked an examiner, disqualified from the exam."
Uchiha Kage threw the unconscious Gaara toward Orochimaru disguised as the Fourth Kazekage in the stands.
"Everyone else, continue the exam."
———
'Defeated the rampaging tailed-beast Gaara in just one move...'
"This guy... even I couldn't see what jutsu he used."
Orochimaru could barely see the lightning on Uchiha Kage.
He could only roughly guess that the opponent used a Lightning Style jutsu.
But as for the exact jutsu, he really couldn't see it clearly.
Because Uchiha Kage's speed was too fast.
"Still, this Uchiha Kage is really interesting."
Catching Gaara's body thrown to him, Orochimaru couldn't help but smile in appreciation.
Also, because Uchiha Kage dealt with Gaara too quickly, he had to abandon his attempt to mark Sasuke with the Cursed Seal again.
"Gaara's been banned from the tournament?", Temari and Kankuro were shocked that Gaara lost, and even more shocked that the situation had strayed so far from their original plan.
They originally planned to let Gaara release the tailed beast during the Chūnin exhibition match in the open square to disrupt Konoha, while Sunagakure launched a full-scale assault.
But now...
"It was my failure to control him properly. However, as a genin, he just wanted to test the strength of that young examiner during the chaos. It was nothing more than youthful impulse, with no malicious intent. I'll personally explain this to your Hokage."
Orochimaru, in the tone of the Kazekage, explained to the surrounding Konoha ninjas.
And stated the power outage was just a sudden incident unrelated to Sunagakure.
———
Elsewhere, at the Hokage building.
"Nothing at all?"
'How could that be?'
'Didn't Lord Danzo say the item was in the Hokage's office?'
After using Kabuto and Orochimaru's men to distract the remaining guards inside the Hokage building, the Root members stationed nearby rushed in immediately and began searching the office.
But unfortunately, they found nothing.
"Is this really it, time to retreat?"
Such a great opportunity to infiltrate the Hokage's office, yet they found nothing.
You could imagine with your feet how Danzo would punish them after this failed mission.
"Never thought comrades from the same village would betray the Hokage like this," Just as the Root members hesitated whether to retreat, a group of ANBU who had been guarding nearby had already blocked all exits.
The Otogakure genin Kabuto sent couldn't distract the ANBU for long.
"Damn, there are still so many ANBU left!"
"No choice, let's fight!"
And so, a completely uncoordinated and leaderless brawl between ANBU and Root broke out.
Which also triggered a significant disturbance in the village.
Almost every Konoha villager knew that on this day, the Hokage building was attacked.
"It's all because of that bastard Danzo!"
'No wonder there are so few Root members in their headquarters. No wonder Danzo needs so long to remove the bandages over his Sharingan.'
'It really is all for that "Future Diary".'
Sarutobi Hiruzen, thinking he'd gained Shisui's Sharingan and Danzo's loyalty, felt triumphant, but upon returning to the Hokage building and seeing the wreckage, nearly blew a fuse.
"Go! Add another three years of confinement for Danzo!"
———
"How does it feel to be a judge among your peers?"
After the Chūnin Exam came to an end—
Kurenai could finally lead her three disciples walking under the setting sun.
As for Ino, Shikamaru, and the others, they were sent to visit the grounded Asuma.
"Pretty good."
Thanks to Orochimaru's meddling, he gained more ninja fragments.
Otherwise, even gaining one Action Point would've been a struggle.
"It also brought me a step closer to reviving the Uchiha."
'Isn't that right?'
'Temari, Ino, Tenten—almost all the female ninja fragments I can get, I got.'
Uchiha Kage could already imagine how lively his dream space would be tonight.
Only issue is, the newly earned Action Point might not be enough again.
'How annoying...'
'Why hasn't the Fourth Ninja War started yet?'
"You're right, you were the star today, and the Uchiha name gained some reputation too. But if you really want to revive your clan..."
Based on Uchiha Kage's performance today, Kurenai thought to herself, 'If I was as young as Hinata, I'd probably be one of the girls screaming for him from the stands.'
But seeing so many girls blushing over him, Kurenai also felt a bit sour.
Then recalling Uchiha Kage's usual "dense" behavior, she hoped he would finally understand the charm of girls.
In short, Kurenai was feeling conflicted.
And this conflict was no less than the white-eyed girl walking behind her.
"What do you mean by 'should'?"
Uchiha Kage also noticed Hinata's strange mood.
He also knew why she kept hesitating to speak.
This girl who always liked to peep at him, 'She probably... no, definitely saw Samui's identity. Maybe she even saw me place my hand on Samui's thunder melons.'
'But thankfully, only Hinata knows everything.'
Uchiha Kage had more than enough means and strength to make this white-eyed little girl obediently keep quiet.
Of course, given Hinata's inexplicable "loyalty" to him, he might not even need to say anything. She'd probably keep the secret willingly.
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