Chapter 17 - Hey, Sensei, Did I Win?

"Ah, no thanks, " Hikaru said as plainly as possible.

"H-huh? What do you- no, it doesn't matter whether you agree or not, you're going to be my rival! My stepping stone for killing Itachi!" Sasuke yelled with his eyes clouded in anger.

Hikaru predicted he would say that partly because of his previous words and the other is his reasons for revenge. But it doesn't matter, Sasuke is going to get his ass kicked by him.

Iruka on the other hand is panicking, he thinks that Sasuke has just angered Hikaru and that would result in the young Uchiha being beaten to death, even though Hikaru doesn't have that kind of motives.

"S-start!" he stuttered to say that due to his fear of Hikaru.

As soon as Iruka announced that, Sasuke quickly dashed towards Hikaru at an amazing speed... for his age, at least. While the other students could barely follow Sasuke's movements, Hikaru could clearly see it.

As he reached Hikaru, the young Uchiha tried to do a feint by punching towards Hikaru, when suddenly, he stopped his fist midway before jumping high enough to kick Hikaru's head.

The young undead just blocks it with his wrist. Sasuke followed up with another kick with his other leg, which Hikaru just blocks it again easily.

When his feet reached the ground, Sasuke backs away from Hikaru to prepare his next attack.

As he saw Sasuke back away, Hikaru grinned. This time, it's his turn to attack. He bent his knees a little before he blasted off in front of Sasuke's face by using the force to stop him just right in front of him.

Before Sasuke could react, Hikaru decided to end this as quickly as possible by uppercutting Sasuke. When his fist reached the boy's chin, the young Uchiha was blasted off 10 meters away by the impact of his fist.

Sasuke us now resting peacefully at the end of the metal fence, though, he was quite close being castrated because just at his no-no place, you can see a metal tube sticking out of the metal fence, which wouldn't have been good if his little birdie were to be crushed by that thing.

At first, the fangirls were cheering when they saw their dear Sasuke-kun kicking that nobody in the face but in just a few seconds, their dear Sasuke-kun was blasted off by an attack they couldn't see from that nobody. It was as if he just teleported there and punched the daylights out of their dear Sasuke-kun.

Everybody in the area was gaping in surprise. The top one in their class just got his ass handed to him by the new kid.

Out of all of them, Sakura was the first one to react and immediately ran after Sasuke.

"Sasuke-kun!" she yelled as she reached where Sasuke landed. She saw him having a purple bruise on his chin and she winced when she saw how large of an area that bruise took in his chin. His perfect face is completely ruined.

"Sasuke-kun, are you alright?" A pretty stupid question to ask someone who just got his ass kicked by someone he deemed a "Stepping Stone", for me at least.

The other fangirls also followed suit and started crowding Sasuke to see if he was hurt.

Meanwhile, with Hikaru here.

Iruka sighed with relief when he saw that was the only thing Sasuke received from Hikaru. As he was about to go and check how to grieve the young Uchiha's injuries was, Hikaru spoke.

"Hey, sensei, did I win?"

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(Evening, At Hikaru and Naruto's House)

At the dinner table, Naruto and Hikaru ate their food. Even though doesn't need to eat but he still has his tastebuds, which he is extremely grateful for. Ever wonder what's it like having no tastebuds? Yeah, it's terrifying.

As the two of them ate, Naruto started a conversation with Hikaru.

"You were so awesome back there! Like, in just one punch, you knocked out Sasugay!"

"Well, he deserved it. Calling me his stepping stone, if he was an enemy, he would've died ten times."

"Y-yeah. Anyway, Hikaru, I'm going to buy something in the store after we finish eating, wanna come?"

"Of course, I can't leave you alone after all, " Hikaru said with a smile.