The fight continued.
The commotion also attracted many onlookers.
Lee's teammates Neji and Tenten, other classmates like Kiba, Shino and Hinata, the clan leaders like Shikaku and Hiashi... and Kakashi, who was lurking in the shadows, responsible for monitoring Sasuke during this time.
When they all saw that Lee was able to suppress Sasuke, they were all shocked.
"Lee... how did he become so strong?"
"He can fight with his eyes closed... what kind of godly technique is that?"
"I remember Tsunade-sama just performed surgery on him two months ago. What's going on?"
Seeing the growing crowd, and especially hearing Kiba's comment, "The Uchiha aren't all that after all."…
Sasuke's expression changed drastically.
His eyes transformed into the six-pointed star Mangekyo Sharingan in that instant.
Immediately, Kakashi, hiding in the shadows to monitor Sasuke, panicked.
Kakashi rushed out, shouting, "Sasuke! Don't use that technique!"
At the critical moment, black tears of blood flowed from Sasuke's eyes. Amaterasu's black flames, carrying an aura of utter destruction, suddenly ignited on Lee's left arm.
Lee exclaimed, his tightly shut eyes snapping open, "This is Makoto's!?"
Just as the Amaterasu flames blazed, about to burn through Lee's jumpsuit and ignite his arm,
Suddenly, another new Amaterasu flame ignited right on top of Sasuke's.
Amaterasu devoured Amaterasu.
The black flames, enveloped by another layer of black flames, were extinguished rapidly.
The flames burned away the shoulder of Lee's green jumpsuit, turning it to ash, but hadn't yet touched his skin.
At the last moment, the Amaterasu voluntarily extinguished itself.
Everyone turned to look.
Makoto was strolling towards them, his expression calm.
The Eternal Mangekyo in his right eye was still slowly spinning.
Everyone immediately understood what had happened.
Lee snapped back to reality and gestured to Makoto: "Thanks, Makoto!"
Makoto nodded, then glanced at the Sasuke.
"Kid, were you just trying to kill Lee?"
To be honest, Makoto felt quite sympathetic towards Sasuke.
But what he just did was really over the line.
'If you're in a bad mood and want to vent, that's your business.'
'But you can't use someone else's life to vent.'
Sasuke looked down, silent.
He had calmed down by now and also realized he had gone too far.
Ace walked directly over and kicked Sasuke in the chest.
Sasuke's body flew backward, tumbling twice on the ground before stopping.
"What the hell did you just do?"
Ace's eyes were full of anger.
He had only known Lee for a month, but he had taken a liking to him.
After all, with Lee's pure-hearted personality, any normal person might not end up loving him, but they definitely wouldn't hate him.
Naruto and Sakura quickly helped Sasuke up.
"Sasuke! Are you okay?"
"Sorry, Sasuke really went too far just now..."
Sasuke clutched his chest, coughed twice, and didn't talk back.
This time, Makoto didn't side with the Sasuke either.
"Lock him up."
Sasuke didn't resist, allowing Genma and Tatami to take him away by his arms.
Naruto opened his mouth to speak, but seeing Makoto's expressionless face, ultimately swallowed his words.
Sakura covered her mouth, tears welling up in her eyes.
Watching Sasuke being escorted away, Makoto couldn't help but comment inwardly.
'In some ways, Senju Tobirama wasn't wrong.'
In recent years, many authors of Naruto fanfiction had cursed out Tobirama.
After all, his level of targeting the Uchiha was unprecedented.
Isolation, surveillance, marginalization... it could be said he pushed the Uchiha into a corner step by step.
And most authors and readers view the Naruto story from the perspective that the 'Uchiha are the victims'.
Naturally, characters hostile to the Uchiha, like Tobirama and Danzo, are criticized.
But frankly, Makoto felt it was a bit insulting to that master of Forbidden Jutsu, Tobirama, to put him in the same category as Danzo.
At least Tobirama gave the Uchiha a slim path to survival. Though to be honest, Tobirama certainly wanted to kill them too.
And in some ways, his evaluation of these Uchiha guys was really not wrong.
This group of people truly was 'born evil psychopaths'.
You could see it from the conditions required to awaken the Sharingan.
They needed strong emotional fluctuations... love and hate.
So the Uchiha Clan's emotions were much more intense than normal people's. They loved deeply and hated deeply. Once they lost emotional control, they could easily become extreme.
People like that needed to be monitored.
After all, these people had poor mental resilience. When things didn't go their way, they tended to go crazy.
Frankly speaking, aside from the subjective factor of Senju faction suppression, there was also an objective reason why no one with the Uchiha surname had ever become Hokage in Konoha's history.
Namely, the Uchiha were really only suited for going to the front lines to kill enemies. They were genuinely unsuited for leadership.
After all, their personalities were terrible.
At the slightest change, their mental state would implode.
Good for going to the front lines to kill, but management? No way!
Subsequently, Lee immediately became the center of discussion.
Younger generations like Tenten and Kiba couldn't help but ask Lee: "Lee, how did you suddenly become so strong?"
"What was that Ninjutsu? How could you fight with your eyes closed?"
Lee scratched his head, smiling sheepishly.
He turned to look at Makoto, his eyes full of gratitude.
"Makoto had Ace teach me Haki."
"Haki? What's that?"
"A new type of physical technique! It's completely different from the Eight Gates! But you can train it without Chakra."
Lee's words were full of gratitude towards Makoto.
Makoto waved his hand, indicating he didn't need to worry about it.
He never skimped on rewarding those who had helped him in the past.
Hanabi stood in the crowd, tugging at her father Hiashi's sleeve.
"Dad, I'm learning Haki too! Once I learn it, I'll be no worse than the thick-eyebrows guy!"
She pointed at Lee, her eyes full of fighting spirit.
Hiashi was very surprised.
"You're learning it too?"
"Yep!"
Hanabi replied matter-of-factly, then pointed at Makoto.
"Leader has a pretty older sister teaching me. Though that big sister has a bad temper, always likes to look down her nose at people, and keeps fawning over Leader."
Hiashi's gaze fell on Makoto, his eyes full of astonishment, but even more so, pleasant surprise.
He felt something could be arranged here.