Chapter 3 Making Friends

In the morning, the sun shines on the earth, and the air is filled with the fragrance of flowers, making people feel comfortable, everything is vibrant.

Kadoya didn't feel tired from his early morning training like before. Instead, his whole body felt lighter and more powerful than before. Even he himself was quite surprised by this change.

Is this the benefit of adding points?

Kadoya decided to not think too much about it, for now, his sister has revealed their identity as the children of Kagami Uchiha, meaning either one of them would give birth to the later Shisui of the Body Flicker.

The boy who kick-started the Uchiha Massacre.

If it wasn't for Shisui's naivete, revealing his Mangekyō to the Third Hokage, and getting one of his eyes stolen by the Third's Best Friend, Danzo. 

Then he won't need to give his other eye to Itachi and commit suicide, leading to Itachi unlocking his Mangekyō Sharingan and later swinging his blade down on his own clansmen. 

Although the ones who performed the massacre were Itachi Uchiha and Obito Uchiha.

The one who actually started it was none other than Shisui.

"If I ever meet that boy and he starts to think like in the original story... I'll show him what true pain is like." Kadoya murmurs to himself.

Noticing he still had another hour before school started so he continued his training.

...

Sitting in class, Kadoya just stared at his teacher diligently teaching her class while he who mastered the art of sleeping with his eyes open, sat quietly at his seat, his head resting on his left hand, and his unblinking black eyes just stared forward.

Sitting beside him was a boy who had his hair tied up in a pineapple-shape, who narrowed his gaze toward the unmoving Uchiha sitting in the corner close to him.

Shikaku Nara stares at Kadoya for a bit, although Kadoya Uchiha is disliked by almost everyone in the class and no one seems to want to sit with him. Shikaku, reluctant, was forced to sit beside Kadoya by his other classmate.

"Kadoya, are you alright?" Shikaku whispered seeing Kadoya has been sitting still like a statue for over one hour already.

Curious, Shikaku moved his hand over and lightly waved it in front of Kadoya, but the Uchiha didn't respond, flinch, or even react to his movement.

'Don't tell me...' He realized, quickly pulling his hand back and looking at Kadoya with a jealous gaze. 'Kadoya Uchiha, you can actually sleep with your eyes open!? How do you even do that!?'

Shikaku's lazy nature wanted to join Kadoya in sleeping in class, but he didn't know how to fall asleep with his eyes open like Kadoya, so he could only reluctantly stare back toward the board, listening to the teacher's boring lecture.

Kadoya has over-exhausted himself again, leading to him sleeping in class using a skill his other self developed, created from endless hours of boring lectures in class.

After class ended and the afternoon came, Kadoya just bought some simple bread and milk. His family isn't wealthy, and despite being a Uchiha, he and his sister have been ostracised by the clan due to their father's relationship with the Second Hokage.

"Hey, Uchiha." A voice called out, and Kadoya narrowed his gaze to his right seeing Saiguu Hyuga standing with her arms crossed looking at him with her glaring white eyes.

"Oh? Need something?" Kadoya asks after returning his gaze back to his lunch and bitting into his white bread.

Saiguu seemed annoyed by how swiftly Kadoya ignored her, he didn't even have the decency to look at her while they were talking.

"Is this how you Uchiha treat others? What, too proud to talk to others normally?"

Kadoya narrowed his gaze back at her, his bread still halfway in his mouth. 

Seeing her fiery personality made him wonder if this is how a regular Hyuga would act and not the kind and gentle Hinata in the story.

Kadoya bit off his breath and swallowed it before speaking. "I'm looking." 

Saiguu's eyelid twitched in annoyance seeing how casual and nonchalant he was, but the Hyuga girl tried to not let his attitude get to her.

"Later at Sparring Class, let's have a match again." She said, her voice firmed and sharp.

Kadoya: "..."

It has been over a week since he joined the Ninja School, and from the sparring matches he has, only a few students who are too proud and full of themselves are willing to fight him.

Those like Shikaku just surrender immediately upon stepping into the circle to face him, so a few smart ones and those who are too afraid to face him all just give up, and Ms. Mayabi actually accepts their surrender without even letting them throw a punch or two first.

Now seeing someone willingly want to spar with him, Kadoya almost jumps off his seat and agrees to Saiguu's offer. 

But instead of doing that, Kadoya just looked up at Saiguu with a calm smirk.

"Sure, I'll spar with you each day during class, but under the condition of you must provide lunch to me that day." 

He spoke in a calm yet casual tone that made Saiguu widen her eyes.

"Huh!? What kind of condition is that!?" She asks, her Byakugan activated.

"Well, you ask me to spend time sparring with you so of course I'll need the energy to do it. So providing me food should be more than reasonable." 

"Seriously? You are asking for food from a Hyuga? Is your Uchiha so poor that you now have to seek food from the Hyuga?" She asks, her tone filled with anger.

During their last sparring match, he promised that they would spar again. And now when she asks him for that match, he claims that she must provide food for him if she wants to spar with him.

Just how shameless can you be? Asking for food from a girl only to later beat her up!

Where is your Uchiha's pride!?

"Fine, tomorrow I'll bring extra food." After a few seconds, Saiguu decides to give in.

She is quite interested in his weird fighting style which seems to focus on countering his opponent. During all of his sparring matches, Kadoya always waited for his opponent to make the first move before he swiftly found holes and openings in their attack and abused the hell out of it.

Saiguu knew that her Gentle Fist was nothing to be proud of, many members in her clan who are older are more talented and more powerful than her.

So by facing an opponent whose Taijutsu's style is to adapt and counter, she would discover those holes in her own style and could improve on it.

That's why she wanted to spar with Kadoya again, despite him being somewhat of a jerk plus he isn't as stuck up and proud as the other Uchiha in her class.

"Then tomorrow we spar then." Kadoya calmly said returning to his simple lunch.

"What? Why not today?"

"We have a deal, and if tomorrow you provide the good, then tomorrow I'll spar with you." He said finishing his bread with one more bite.

Saiguu just glares at him before storming off to her seat.

Kadoya narrowed his eyes to the blonde boy who had been watching their exchange sitting just in front of him.

"Need something?" He asks looking down at Minato, who is staring at him.

"Uhh, Kadoya-san, can we train after school?" Minato asks somewhat timidly.

Although Minato would be later known as the Yellow Flash, and the Fourth Hokage, the current Minato is just a regular five-year-old civilian boy, with the dream of becoming the future Hokage like many others in his class.

He has been wanting to spar with Kadoya for some time already but he still couldn't muster up the courage to do so, seeing how almost everyone who sparred with Kadoya Uchiha gets sent to the infirmary with some form of injury.

"Although it isn't much, I could share some of my lunch." Minato said holding up one of his sandwiches and handing it to Kadoya.

Kadoya just smiled reaching out to Minato. "Kadoya, Kadoya Uchiha, I'm looking forward to training with you."

Minato also smiled back and handed the sandwich to Kadoya before replying. "Minato, Minato Namikaze, it's my honor."

Congratulations! Quest Complete: "My First Friend"

Reward: + 1 System Point

Unlike other extra and background cannon fodder in this class, Minato was the only one Kadoya found worth befriending. 

After all, he is the future Fourth Hokage so by building up their relationship early, he might later become the Fourth Hokage's assistant. And by then they could get to play out the iconic interaction between the Third Hokage and his assistant.

Where Minato would slam his palm onto the table and shout "Kadoya! I'm the Hokage!"

And he would storm out not before saying "Minato, you will regret this!" and slammed the door.

Although the interactions seem somewhat hostel, they clearly show even though they have their disagreement, the two still regard each other as great friends.

"Hey, I also want in too." Narrowing his gaze toward his right, Kadoya notices Saiguu has come back now holding a bento box in hand.

"Heh!? In on what?" Kadoya asks since his mind was playing the scene of him and Minato playing out the role of the Third and his assistant's usual discussion.

Saiguu glares at him before sitting down beside him and opening up her bento box. "The after-school training," She said before using her chopstick to pick up an eggroll, and bringing it toward Kadoya. "Here eat up."

He was caught off guard by this since she was directly offering to feed him.

"Don't get the wrong idea! I'm just doing this to make sure you didn't eat everything in my bento and leave me to starve."

She quickly said, her white eyes staring back at him.

"Sure, I totally believe you." He said with a smirk while making sure to make it sound sarcastic, gaining extra Evil Points.

Annoyed, Saiguu just shoved the eggroll into his mouth, the tip of her chopstick struck the back of his throat and made him swallow the eggroll whole without even chewing on it.

The young Uchiha coughed as Saiguu pulled her chopstick back looking at him with a smug look, Kadoya narrowed his gaze toward her, glaring at her.

Kadoya wanted to yell at her for doing something like that but upon realizing he was using her to farm Ninja Points and Evil Points, he decided to not push this matter further.

After all, his mind has already started to think like an adult, so there is no point in arguing with a child.

Congratulations! Quest Complete: "The Joy of Being Spoon Fed"

Reward: + 1 System Point

Kadoya: "..."

Joy? What joy in nearly choking to death on an eggroll?

Kadoya wants to argue with his system but seeing the reward of 1 System Point, he decides to not push this matter any further.

Saiguu chuckled, seeing how calmly he reacted to her previous bold action, before grabbing and piece of vegetable and bringing it closer to his mouth. "Open up, or do you want me to shove it in your mouth again?"

She said the last part with a hint of amusement, finding his suffering pleasing to the eye.

'Evil Woman' He thought, and her Byakugan suddenly activated.

"Did you just think of something mean?" She asks.

Kadoya: "..."

Is this the legendary woman intuition they talk about?

But she is just a girl!

"No, not at all." He lies calmly, and she unable to prove his lie, accepts his words before feeding again, this time not trying to make him swallow the chopstick too.

Smirking, she turns back to eat her lunch while sharing some with Kadoya.

"So where should we start our after-school training?" She asks already acknowledging herself as part of this group.

"Minato, where do you usually train?" Kadoya asks, seeing how both he and Saiguu couldn't bring each other and a commoner into their clan training ground. So their best option is to come to Minato.

"I usually train at training ground #7 after school." Minato answered, happy that he actually had training partners now.

"Then let's meet up there. School ends around 4 PM, so we can train until 6 PM before calling it a day." Kadoya said taking a sip of his milk.