Naruto: Naruto's Uchiha girlfriend is too arrogant

Chapter 513 The Only Dead End

"How dare you ignore me!"

The red-haired giant, brandishing a large club, caught up with Neji. "Is this how you treat heroes?!"

Neji stopped in his tracks, coldly staring at the arrogant fool before him. "...A hero?"

"That's right! The hero who saved Konoha! It's me!"

The burly man puffed out his chest and proclaimed the long list of titles in his loudest voice, "I am the son of the Fourth Hokage! The disciple of the Fifth Hokage! The successor to the Yellow Flash!"

"Naruto Uzumaki!"

Neji's eyelids began to twitch uncontrollably.

A surge of anger welled up in his chest, stuck in his throat, and gave him an urge to do something. He hadn't felt this way in many years.

But now, he's really angry, really angry.

That's strange.

Neji spoke up again, "If you are Naruto, then who is the Naruto currently in Konoha?"

The big man's smile froze on his face.

"Wh...what?"

His eyes darted around, trying to salvage the situation. "I already told you I'm on a classified mission! How would an ordinary person like you know my whereabouts!"

As he spoke, he leaned forward, trying to use his height advantage to create a sense of intimidation. He was much taller and more muscular than the young man in the white kimono in front of him; if he could intimidate the other man, he might be able to fool him.

He lowered his head and looked down at the other person.

Then he saw those eyes, those eyes that he hadn't paid much attention to before, yet were so clear they were blinding.

Pure white eyes, without pupils.

The big man broke out in a cold sweat.

That's the Byakugan, the bloodline limit of the Hyuga clan of Konoha, a dojutsu renowned throughout the entire ninja world.

This guy... is a Konoha ninja?!

The burly man felt a chill run up his spine and straight to the top of his head. His hand gripping the club trembled slightly, and his back was soaked with cold sweat.

My luck is just too bad! I randomly stopped someone and ended up stopping the Hyuga clan of Konoha?

What should I do?

Two thoughts flashed through his mind like lightning.

My first thought was to keep bluffing.

What if this guy has never seen the real Naruto Uzumaki? What if he's only heard of him but doesn't know the real person? If we can intimidate him and get him to hand over the money, then we can run away with it and never show our faces on this road again.

The second thought was even more ruthless and dangerous.

If this guy really had met Naruto, then there was no way he could hide it from him. Those Byakugan eyes had already seen the flaw in his headband, already seen his guilty conscience. If he got away, if he went back to Konoha and told everyone—

The imposter is the son of the Hokage.

Impersonating a disciple of the Fifth Hokage.

If this gets back to Konoha, will the real ninjas let me off the hook? Will those who uphold the village's honor allow an imposter to swindle and deceive people outside?

He dared not think about it, but he knew that if it really came to that, he would be completely finished.

Therefore, there is only one way.

If bluffing doesn't work, then it's right here...

Kill him.

The burly man gripped his large club tightly, a fierce glint in his eyes.

Hyuga Neji, of course, had no idea that the big man was plotting to kill him to silence him.

He wasn't interested in knowing either.

He just wanted to subdue the guy as quickly as possible and then hand him over to the local law enforcement. Impersonating a ninja and robbing someone on the street—these two charges combined were enough to put him in jail for a while.

Neji raised his hand, preparing to adopt the Gentle Fist opening stance.

"What an ignorant fellow!" the burly man continued shouting, trying to cover up his guilty conscience with his loud voice.

"How could an ordinary Konoha ninja like you possibly understand my mission! You don't even acknowledge the hero who protects your territory!"

"Mission?" Neji's voice remained calm.

"That's strange. Naruto Uzumaki just got married to his fiancée, Satsuki Uchiha, not long ago. He should be on his honeymoon right now. Why would Konoha assign him any missions?"

The big man's smile froze again.

"Huh? This..."

His eyes darted around rapidly, his brain working at a fever pitch. "That's definitely... a more important task than the wedding!"

He finally managed to utter a sentence, his voice rising several decibels, "I bear the weight of the entire world's safety on my shoulders!"

Neji was truly speechless.

Why is this guy so self-righteous? Why can he claim someone else's identity as his own without any shame? Doesn't he know what kind of person the real Naruto is?

...And her hair was still red! She should have put more effort into the disguise.

"Then tell me," Neji said, putting his hand down. "What exactly is this mission?"

"this……"

Fine beads of sweat began to appear on the burly man's forehead. He racked his brains, trying to come up with a believable reason, a reason that this Hyuga clan boy in front of him could believe.

Got it!

"Alright! If you want to know, I'll tell you!"

He straightened his chest and shouted in the loudest voice.

"My mission is to investigate the whereabouts of the [Ember] organization!"

The rumors he'd heard over the years, the snippets of information about that mysterious organization, flashed through his mind. He'd never met a single member of that organization, nor did he even know where they operated, but that didn't matter—what mattered was that the name was terrifying enough.

"To completely eradicate this scourge of the ninja world! That rat lurking in the shadows!"

His voice grew louder and louder, more and more self-righteous.

"Destroy Menma! Destroy that organization! That's my mission!"

He thought with satisfaction that this name would surely intimidate this Hyuga brat. Who didn't know how terrifying the [Jin] organization was? How impressive it would sound to say he would destroy that organization, how much like a true hero.

however.

next moment.

The big man suddenly shuddered.

He saw a pair of eyes, pure white eyes, with bulging veins around them, and dense blood vessels distributed around the eyes like a spider web.

That's the sign of the Byakugan being fully activated, the posture of the Hyuga clan when they're ready to fight with all their might.

But what made him tremble was not those bulging veins.

It's what's in those eyes.

murderous look.

An overwhelming, tangible killing intent.

The young man, who had been as calm as ice just moments before, now exuded a suffocating aura of oppression. His pure white eyes burned with a furious rage that seemed to want to tear people to pieces.

It was as if he were his greatest enemy.

"You...you said...what?"

Neji's voice was very soft, so soft it sounded like it was being squeezed out from between his teeth, and the suppressed anger inside made the big man's lips tremble.