“Yes, and so what?
Do you think a child a thousand miles away can be used to threaten me?”
Hizashi feigned indifference, raising his teacup, blowing away the steam, and sipping lightly, a hint of mockery in his expression.
Knowing Hizashi’s true nature, Naoki Kaguya paid no heed and spoke calmly.
“I want to give him a gift.”
“A gift he will absolutely like.”
Upon hearing this, Hizashi couldn’t help but lean back slightly, becoming more vigilant.
“In that case, I’m curious what you plan to give him.”
“A choice.”
As Hizashi’s eyes filled with doubt.
Naoki Kaguya slowly took out an object with a faint metallic sheen from his side.
It was a Kirigakure forehead protector.
“I think, for you branch family members who have had no choice since birth and have only lived in the shadow of fate.
Giving Neji the right to choose, whether to accept the fate of a branch family servant or to come to Kirigakure and find his new world.
Is the most important thing a relative like me can do.”
As his voice echoed, those pure white eyes remained calm, but his hands, hidden under the table and unseen by Naoki Kaguya, clenched tightly around his sleeves.
Servant?
Fate?
Indeed.
But since it is something that can be called fate, how can it be easily broken?
I couldn’t, Neji couldn’t, and you, Naoki Kaguya, cannot either.
Since it can’t be done, why hold out hope?
Hizashi was about to speak slowly.
Naoki Kaguya spoke again.
“As for the purpose, you’ll understand once you see it.”
Naoki Kaguya stopped trying to persuade with words.
He wasn’t Naruto; a thousand heartfelt words wouldn’t compare to showing them the future they wanted directly.
Byakugan, activate.
Chakra gathered.
Naoki Kaguya smiled and said.
“Please activate your Byakugan, Hizashi.”
“When you see it, you’ll understand.”
With those words, Hizashi silently formed the seals and activated his Byakugan!
In the next instant, Naoki Kaguya went all out, blue chakra gushing from his body, stirring up a violent air current.
The air swirled, the table overturned, and Hizashi pressed it down with his hand, his eyes fixed on Naoki Kaguya, his expression becoming serious.
What a genuine genius, possessing so much chakra.
Moreover, he mastered the skill of releasing chakra from all parts of his body so quickly.
Are those eyes really that pure?
At this rate, he’ll soon master the clan head’s secret technique, the Eight Trigrams Palms Revolving Heaven.
This really is something.
As he thought, he felt his heart pounding at the sight before him.
Not only did the blue chakra not continue to spread wildly, but under Naoki Kaguya’s control, it slowly formed a huge, pale blue hand centered around his body!
What kind of technique is this?
No, what level of control is this?
No, no.
Hizashi recalled what he had learned.
Each move and technique clearly appeared in his mind.
To release chakra from all parts of the body and better control it to form Revolving Heaven, the key is the purest Byakugan!
Even his extraordinarily talented elder brother and other main family members couldn’t do it.
Not to mention, Naoki Kaguya’s eyes came from someone considered a failure in the main family.
How could those eyes support such feats?
He looked up, ignoring Naoki Kaguya’s half-smiling expression, and focused on those pure white eyes.
A terrifying thought made Hizashi’s heart race.
Could it be that these eyes, merely from an ordinary main family elder, underwent some mutation in Naoki Kaguya?
“It seems you’ve guessed something.”
Naoki Kaguya said as he observed Hizashi’s changing expression.
“These eyes, after entering my body, merged and integrated over a long time, undergoing some abnormal change.”
“I once had normal main family Byakugan, so I know this is a perspective the Byakugan never had before.”
Hizashi’s expression turned solemn, seriously examining those eyes.
Compared to his brother, the chakra was richer, the chakra pathways broader.
And there was the extended pale blue hand.
He might be right!
After all, these eyes surpassed his brother’s in purity.
That main family elder never had such eyes.
Just then, a fleeting light caught his eye, further shaking his heart.
Millennia of friendship?
Mutual support in the past?
The historical fact of intermarriage.
Recalling the whirlpool of history, Hizashi couldn’t help but have a thought that was both profoundly agreeable and absurd.
Could it be that Kaguya and Hyuga clans are naturally connected?
But why have I never known this?
Right.
I’m from the branch family.
A bitter taste welled up in his heart.
How could he, a mere branch family member, know such things, unable to read the archives or know the past?
At this moment, Naoki Kaguya spoke again.
“I seek Neji to see what kind of monster would be born from combining the genius born from your superior genes with the genius of the Kaguya clan.”
“Of course, he will also be given a future without the Caged Bird, a future of freedom.
A future where he truly belongs to Neji.”
“A credibility guarantee.”
Naoki Kaguya touched his Byakugan, about to say something, but suddenly widened his eyes, looking at Hizashi’s forehead.
The forehead bearing the Caged Bird seal.
At this moment, Hizashi ignored Naoki Kaguya’s reaction.
He thought of many things due to one phrase, feeling a sourness in his heart.
Giving Neji a future that truly belongs to him.
Neji’s life, like Hizashi’s, would likely be similar.
Images in his mind inevitably played out.
Opening his eyes for the first time, fifteen minutes later than his brother, sealing his fate as a branch family member.
Byakugan is of the same purity as his brother, with talent no less than his.
Even though he learned slower and less than his brother, he could still match him.
Until after the age of three, it changed.
His Byakugan had a flaw, no longer pure.
His combat ability declined, his talent faded, and he became subservient to his brother, losing everything.
Missions, life, wife, promotions, everything was arranged by the main family.
His so-called life was just that of a puppet.
The images moved, freezing at the moment Naoki Kaguya raised his hand on the high platform, causing the crowd to cheer.
How he longed for a life like that!
No need to worry about Neji’s future in this person’s hands!
As long as it’s not the hopeless fate of the branch family, he could definitely break the cycle!
After all, if the Kaguya boy could break fate.
Why couldn’t Neji?
“I agree.”
A breath was released, shedding the burdens in his heart.
He couldn’t help but smile.
Neji.
Little Neji still learning to walk.
You must work hard.
What I can do is prevent you from falling into the despair of the branch family.
Once you have your own Byakugan, you can strive to choose your own life.
Tears filled his eyes uncontrollably.
Hizashi’s life, let it be.
He reached out, about to put on the forehead protector as a sign of sincerity.
“Wait.”
Naoki Kaguya suddenly extended his hand, stopping Hizashi, his eyes fixed on his forehead.
“Hizashi.”
“Wait, let me take a look.”
Hizashi glanced at the hand holding his arm, extending the other to wipe away the tears.
Suppressing the emotions stirred by the conversation, he saw Naoki Kaguya staring intently at the green seal on his forehead.
Hizashi instinctively wanted to hide it.
It was the caged bird, the ugliest mark and the most hated symbol restricting his life.
Of course, he wanted to hide it from others.
【Hizashi’s fate has shifted, defecting to Kirigakure】
【Defected character Hizashi, rated SS, gained 2 exchange points】
【Recorded Secret Technique: Caged Bird】
Reviewing the information, he found it only recorded the planting process of the Caged Bird.
This meant Naoki Kaguya couldn’t use the system to unlock the Caged Bird.
But he wasn’t disappointed.
His Byakugan wide open, he excitedly observed.
Because he had found a new possibility.
“Don’t move, Hizashi. Maybe I can free you and the branch family right now.”
Naoki Kaguya stared intently at the green seal, looking closely.
There was a cluster of green chakras, which was not usually calm but spreading from the forehead to the nerves.
In Byakugan’s view, this green chakra also eroded and consumed the chakra around Hizashi’s brain, using it as fuel.
So this is the truth of the Caged Bird?
This truth is only visible to evolved Byakugan.
Naoki Kaguya rubbed his eye sockets, ignoring Hizashi’s agitated gaze, and focusing on the green chakra.
The main and branch families, perhaps, need to be reconsidered!
After all, for a thousand years, the Hyuga clan has been the only clan on par with the Uchiha in terms of ocular abilities.
In all these years, countless Mangekyō Sharingan have been born among the Uchiha.
If the Hyuga clan could maintain its reputation without falling behind in ocular abilities, it couldn’t be just due to
Gentle Fist.
Maybe, long ago, the Hyuga clan did have higher stages of the Byakugan!
Otherwise, they couldn’t have created the Caged Bird, specifically targeting the Byakugan!
At that time, higher-level Byakugan likely had the ability to unlock the Caged Bird, making the seal a protective measure for the clan.
But at some point, the Hyuga clan declined, no longer producing even one higher-level Byakugan.
Ultimately, they relied on the few techniques they could master, leading to the current situation of the main family enslaving the branch family.
These are just guesses.
The real key is, that my eyes, capable of seeing the seal clearly and releasing chakra, might actually have the potential to unlock the Caged Bird!
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