Chapter 7: Searching For Clues To The Tenseigan
Swish——
Swish swish——
In the forest on the outer perimeter of Konoha Village, four Anbu Ninjas continuously leaped and shuttled through the trees, gradually converging from various directions.
“No target discovered!” An Anbu Ninja stopped, standing on a branch of a big tree, using sensing ability to probe the surroundings, then reported to the other comrades via the communicator hanging on his ear.
Speaking of which, the Ninja World’s technology tree is very strange. Thermal weapons development has basically stagnated, technology levels are uneven, yet they already possess radio communication and even microphone products.
The other Anbu Ninjas also stopped one after another, each standing at high points on tree branches, staying alert to the surroundings.
“Strange, where did the person go?” The sensing ninja formed hand seals again, chakra rippling out like waves, yet still finding nothing.
Swish——
The sound of breaking wind suddenly arose, and Kakashi, wearing a white cat mask, landed not far away.
As Anbu Captain, Kakashi wouldn’t normally move out easily, but this incident involved the Hyuga Clan, one of Konoha’s two great noble families.
The Third Hokage personally ordered Kakashi to lead a squad of Anbu Ninjas to investigate the situation.
“Captain!” The other Anbu Ninjas turned their heads to look over.
“You haven’t discovered anything either?” Beneath Kakashi’s white cat mask, his single eye was grave.
After that mysterious person vanished into the night, Kakashi immediately led the Anbu Ninjas in pursuit, dispersing like a large net to chase.
But they were almost at the Village Protection Barrier, yet still no trace of the opponent.
“The orphanage has been cleared, no anomalies.” An Anbu added: “This area has only scattered buildings, the director is Nono Yakushi.”
“A wandering miko?” Kakashi murmured lowly.
He had naturally heard of her reputation, after all, Root is considered one of the Anbu’s subordinate divisions, and much of Root’s spy and personnel intelligence is reported to Anbu.
As for the ninjas Danzō secretly trained, they were not included.
“Continue the search! You two follow the Village Protection Barrier eastward, the rest come with me westward!” Kakashi ordered.
“Yes!” The ninjas quickly moved out.
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Konoha Hospital, special care ward.
After rescue by medical ninjas, Hizashi Hyuga had escaped life-threatening danger and was arranged in a separate ward for recovery.
After all, Hizashi was not only a jonin, but also the head of the Hyuga Branch Family, the younger brother of the Hyuga Clan Head.
Yet at this time, Hizashi Hyuga, who should have been sleeping and recuperating, couldn’t fall asleep no matter what.
He lay on the hospital bed, a pair of Byakugan staring at the hospital ceiling, deep furrows etched between his brows like knife cuts.
The battle scene from earlier flashed repeatedly in Hizashi’s mind.
Facing the attack from himself and Hiashi, the mysterious person had directly struck his missing point, as if he knew the Hyuga Clan situation extremely well.
Bang bang——
A knock sounded at the door.
“Come in.” Hizashi on the bed turned his head toward the door.
The door slowly opened, and Hiashi, now changed into casual clothes, walked in.
“Brother…” Hizashi struggled to get up and bow, but was stopped by Hiashi raising his hand.
“Lie down, your condition isn’t good.” Hiashi walked to the bedside and sat on a stool, looking at his brother wounded like this on the bed, his face somber.
Although due to recent events, he had major issues with his brother, he had to admit that Hizashi’s combat power was on par with his own.
He and Hizashi attacking the mysterious person from front and back had resulted in one heavy injury and one light injury!
Such a powerful ninja was absolutely not ordinary, he shouldn’t be someone whose name they’d never heard.
And moreover…
“I came here to confirm with you the techniques that mysterious person used earlier.” Hiashi snorted lightly, putting on a serious face.
“Yes…” Hizashi lay on the bed, recalling dimly: “That person knew us very well, or rather, knew the Hyuga Clan very well.”
“At the start of engaging him, when my Gentle Fist struck his acupoints, he could surge chakra from those acupoints to counter, and use chakra to protect those acupoints. Each time it felt like hitting iron, making it very hard for Gentle Fist to seal his acupoints, even harder to inject Gentle Fist chakra into his meridians.”
Hiashi Hyuga’s clash with the mysterious person was very brief, and he hadn’t used Gentle Fist acupoint strikes, instead directly using Eight Trigrams Palm.
So hearing this, Hiashi’s face grew even more grave.
“I tried to use Byakugan to see his face under the mask, but found endless dark abyss beneath his mask, his chakra vast beyond description.”
“And he seemed to know my dead point…” Thinking of this, Hizashi’s body trembled slightly.
The dead point brought by the Caged Bird to Hyuga Branch Family members was different for each person, basically very hard to probe in a single clash.
For a jonin like Hizashi, who had experienced many brutal battles, he’d basically never had his dead point found.
But today’s mysterious person, in just over ten exchanges—
Hiashi crossed his arms over his chest, silent for a moment, then slowly said: “I was defeated by his Twin Lion Fists.”
“What?!” Hizashi on the bed was suddenly shocked.
After being struck flying by the mysterious person, he was in a semi-comatose state and hadn’t seen Hiashi being struck by Twin Lion Fists.
But as the branch family head, during spars with Hiashi, Hizashi had seen his brother use Twin Lion Fists plenty of times.
Twin Lion Fists, full name ‘Gentle Step Twin Lion Fists’, was an advanced taijutsu that only the Hyuga Main Family could learn.
With hands clenched into fists, gathering massive Gentle Fist chakra, shape-transformed into two lion heads attached to the fists, combined with footwork, greatly increasing attack power and strike range.
Its learning difficulty was no less than Rotation, even Hizashi Hyuga, who had developed Rotation himself, hadn’t developed Twin Lion Fists.
In an instant, countless possibilities flashed through Hizashi Hyuga’s mind.
The Hyuga Clan… could there be a defector?
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Late night, Hyuga Clan, Main Family residence.
After shaking off the Anbu Ninjas’ pursuit, Uzumaki Menma doubled back again.
While Hizashi Hyuga and Hiashi Hyuga were both at the hospital, Uzumaki Menma casually strolled into Hiashi Hyuga’s study.
The little Nine-Tails jumped out from Menma’s fur collar, onto the desk, and began rummaging through drawers.
“What did you say we were looking for?” Opening a drawer, the little Nine-Tails paused, what were they looking for again?
“Clues about the moon and the Tenseigan.” Menma stood before a bookshelf full of books, reaching out with his right hand to search for something.
The moon’s Otsutsuki Hamura descendant couldn’t possibly have no dealings with the Ninja World’s Hyuga Clan.
Otherwise, it couldn’t explain why among so many bloodline limit families in the Ninja World, only the Hyuga Clan developed a curse mark technique like ‘Caged Bird’.
What they guarded against wasn’t necessarily other Ninja World families stealing Byakugan.
Other Ninja World families stealing Byakugan could at most obtain one or two like Ao.
But the Otsutsuki on the moon were different.
Moreover, in the Hokage theater version, Otsutsuki Toneri as a child had come to the Ninja World with his father, found the Hyuga Clan Territory, and observed Hinata from afar.
After growing up, Otsutsuki Toneri even arranged a meeting with Hiashi Hyuga, who brought two trusted subordinates to attend.
Evidently, Hiashi Hyuga might have learned some things about the moon from clan ancient records.
“Menma.” The little Nine-Tails rummaging drawers suddenly sensed something, quickly jumping back into Menma’s fur collar.
“That Big Sister is here.” After saying that, the little Nine-Tails shrank into the spirit space.
“Hm?” Uzumaki Menma, who was flipping through a《Byakugan usage manual》, paused.
He extended his malice perception, and a somewhat familiar chakra was approaching.
And the other party seemed quite angry.
