บท 23: Dirty

"He just said something to Hinata Hyuuga." Shisui opened his mouth as he could see Eio's lips trembling briefly while he passed the stunned Hyuuga. Alas, he failed to activate his Sharingan on time. While he sighed, Kurenai also frowned. Unlike other Shinobis, Kurenai had dabbled in many exotic subjects.

Being a proficient lip reader did help her understanding some parts of Eio's sentences. While she frowned due to unable to form and heads or tail of the sentence, the part she understood still left a distaste in her mouth.

The only person who had a capable reaction time was the youngest out of the three.

Itachi Uchiha.

His sharingan already activated, he had already understood Eio's words and honestly, Eio's viewpoints about certain concepts allowed Itachi to see a whole new side of the young boy whose capabilities now seemed as deep as his mature mindset.

"Anyway, with just the reflex he showed, I am satisfied with his abilities."

Kurenai whispered before flashing away using the body flicker jutsu.

"Amazing... I could only deduce one minor mistake in her jutsu."

With a slightly raised voice, Shisui admired Kurenai's ability, meanwhile, Itachi frowned and deactivated his Sharingan.

"I don't understand. We all, including Kurenai Yuuhi, knows that when it comes to Body Flicker Jutsu, your expertise is unparalleled.

Then how can you openly praise others? While Kurenai Yuuhi broke my record of only having three minor mistakes, the fact remains that there is no need to admire something... weaker than you, right?"

"What about Sasuke?" Instead of replying, Shisui questioned Itachi.

"What about him?" Itachi asked with a frown.

"I've seen your gaze when you look at your younger brother. You admire him more than your own father and you definitely care about him more than your little cutie (sarada), although, that's wrong.

But you still do it nonetheless.

Why? He is weaker than you, right?

If given a single second, I have more than dozens of ways of making Sasuke's life a living hell... so do you.

Then why? Why do you admire your brother?"

Struck speechless, Itachi remained silent. Shisui really got him there. Even he did not know why he came to admire his own younger brother.

Unlike him, Sasuke failed to perfect his Fireball Jutsu at the age of 6. Unlike Sarada, Sasuke failed to master the advanced shurikenjutsu of the Main Family. And even then, Itachi held an undeniable respect for that little brother of his. When even his father had given up on him, he, Itachi Uchiha cared for him. When his own mother looked at his little brother with masked pity, he, Itachi Uchiha looked at him with undisguised respect.

Why?

These questions swirled around him, forming a malicious whirlpool that sucked all of his rational thoughts.

Letting out a sigh, Itachi shook his head as he decided to watch Naruto's upcoming match.

***

What came next was something unexpected. Naruto showed immense talent in fuuinjutsu and his abnormally large chakra capacity allowed him to finally trump the chuunin examiner, marking the first victory in the entire examination.

Lastly, Sasuke Uchiha battled the female examiner and showed his masterful display of Fire Style Jutsu alongside his high potential as he had already awakened his Sharingan, decreasing the female examiner's battle strength as she had a tough time analysing her opponent without being able to look straight into her eyes, leading to the second and last victory of an academy student over a Chuunin.

***

The next day, Ninja Academy.

Sitting at an appropriate distance from Hinata, Eio kept his head down while a fierce discussion was already going inside his consciousness.

"Come on! Let me out already!"

"The last time I believed you, I found myself surrounded by furious Kunoichis in the female section of the open bath.

So, no. I don't think I am itching to go through all of that once again."

"Now, now." Kefla took a moment before speaking out.

"Did you really forget the *stares* you got. Man, you are a beast. Your height may not be that different when compared to your peers, but you are a proud man... downstairs."

Scoffing, Eio immediately snapped back.

"I told you! We are not having that conversation again!"

"Oh?"

The scene changed as his consciousness was brought inside Kefla's realm of chakra. Still, in her red tights, Kefla laid on the swing lazily while a furry, brown tail swung behind her back. Being a chakra... partner, Kefla's existence had a different power system and could be compared with the number of tails. In the scroll, it was mentioned that the first tail, first pair of wings or even the first pair of hands represented the lowest of the power system with the highest known level being ten.

That means, Kefla would be an unstoppable existence, at least, in this world, if she actually gains enough power to manifest a total of ten tails of the same kind. Honestly, Eio first thought that since Kefla wasn't exactly a chakra beast, she would instead grow more pairs of breasts or buttocks. But he kept his healthy imagination to himself. After all, imagining Kefla with ten pair of breasts sent a shiver down his spine.

"Why did you bring me here?"

Eio frowned and asked the lady, who stood up from her swing and tip-toed towards him with a seductive smile on her face.

"Are you sure you won't let me out?" Her lips grazed his left earlobe as her hot breath made Eio's consciousness tremble. Her bent body made Eio come face to face with her modest bosom that almost touched his nose.

"No!"

He replied immediately while Kefla narrowed her eyes and she whispered softly.

"You left me no choice."

Letting her fingers trace Eio's neck, she softly kissed his earlobe while her other hand slowly ran up his thighs.

And immediately, the space collapsed as Eio was forced to leave under Kefla's manipulation.

"Hahahaha, that is your punishment, kid. Live with that boner!"

Her boisterous laugh made Eio clench his jaws as he felt his pants getting tighter in his crotch area.

"That's dirty!"

He hissed.

"What? I surely took a bath, Eio-kun?"

A soft voice immediately defended herself while he looked up only to see Hinata looking back at him with a red face and a blushing face that Eio regarded as her expression of indignation.

"No, I did not mean that."

He immediately shook his head and to prevent further misunderstandings, he slowly slid backwards, so that his hard-on couldn't be noticed that easily.

Before they could continue, Iruka Umino, their shinobi teacher, walked in and finally announced.

"Alright students! All of you did great in yesterday's exam. Yondaime even commented on how this year's class is filled with great potential.

But still, some of you did not pass the exam.

I will be taking the names of these few students.

Genta Nizuma, Kendar Takeshi, Raiko Kino."

While the whole class except for these three students let out a deep sigh of relief simultaneously, causing the whole class to resound with the sudden voice, Iruka's next words caused some students to feel tensed once again.

"Alright, now I will be assigning you guys your teams."

As Iruka expected, the girls of his class felt more tensed than the boys. Even though the ratio of girls passing the exam had become higher this time around, this knowledge caused the girls to feel even more tensed as they all looked at three particular boys simultaneously.

Sasuke, Naruto and Eio.

While the former two actually defeated the chuunin, strangely, many parents were actually praising Eio after the examination had concluded. After asking at their homes, they finally found out Eio's performance and how he willingly gave up after showing a tiny bit of his ability.

This information came to them as a wake-up call that while Eio's former brilliance of making Sasuke and Naruto taste the dust may have been dulled, it didn't change the fact that he was quite popular. While some felt guilty for distancing themselves from him due to his association with the Hyuuga princess, the others held no remorse and became the fangirls they were once again.

Meanwhile, the person in question started thinking about insects to calm his raging boner while he failed to notice Hinata lowering her head and closing her eyes only to have veins popping at the sides of her eyes, causing a raging blush to be seen on the end of her ears.