Becoming the Tsuchikage in the Naruto World

Chapter 299: The Cloud Ninja Delegation

Hiashi Hyuga became wary of Danzō's words and began to wonder who in the branch family might betray him. But upon thinking this, Hiashi discovered that it seemed anyone was possible, including his own younger brother.

As for who had the opportunity to contact Orochimaru, although the number was relatively small, it still included most members of the branch family.

However, because the branch family had the Caged Bird Seal, they were not afraid of the Byakugan being lost, so many branch family members often performed missions outside the village like normal ninjas.

Just as Hiashi was still struggling with this, Danzō spoke again, "The most urgent thing now is to find out the reason why Orochimaru covets the Byakugan, and the possibility of him breaking the Caged Bird Seal."

"Clan Head Hiashi, I need to inspect all of the Hyuga clan's secret documents, including those about the Caged Bird."

Hiashi was shocked. So this was what Danzō was waiting for. Could it be that what he said about Orochimaru just now was false? The one who was truly after the Caged Bird was Danzō himself?

Thus, Hiashi said in a tone that brooked no argument, "The Caged Bird is the foundation that ensures the Byakugan bloodline does not flow out. Even if you truly have an order from the Fifth, Advisor Danzō, I will not give it to you."

Danzō feigned great anger, then forced himself to endure it, saying, "Then Clan Head Hiashi can inspect the matter of the Caged Bird himself. As for the other documents, surely you won't find another excuse to refuse?"

Hiashi couldn't help but frown. Why did it feel like Danzō was after these documents from the start?

But at this time, it was not good for him to refuse again; otherwise, he would completely offend Danzō.

Hiashi was aware that the Konoha higher-ups had been targeting the Uchiha clan. He didn't want to attract the attention of Danzō and the others to his own side.

After thinking for a moment, Hiashi still reluctantly nodded.

Then, Hiashi sent someone to summon Hizashi Hyuga, and had Hizashi take Kinoe to the Hyuga clan's archives.

Not long after, the two of them came to the reception hall carrying a large pile of documents that looked ancient.

Danzō just glanced at them and knew that there were many things left over from the Warring States period inside, so he nodded in satisfaction.

These secret documents collected by the Hyuga main family were actually not of much use. These things were considered secrets during the Warring States period, but times had changed. It had been decades since the founding of the hidden villages, and these things had long since lost much of their use.

Of course, if these things truly contained any secrets that the Hyuga clan was unwilling to make public, then Hiashi would not have been provoked by the trap in Danzō's words and compromised so easily.

However, Danzō's inspection this time was purposeful, so he really did discover something amiss.

On a scroll left over from the Warring States period was written this passage: "Distant relatives came to visit... their ninjutsu is strange..."

This made Danzō's eyes light up at once. He pointed at this content and asked Hiashi.

Hiashi's brows furrowed slightly. He said, "My father was suddenly killed on the front line of the battle with the Mist. He never told me anything about distant relatives."

Danzō also frowned. He was not satisfied with this answer from Hiashi, but it was also a fact, and he had nothing to say.

However, the purpose of Danzō's trip had been achieved. The Byakugan, valued by Orochimaru, must have a special ability. Perhaps Orochimaru had met some distant relative of the Hyuga clan.

After pondering for a moment, Danzō said, "Clan Head Hiashi, since the Hyuga clan is unwilling to join Root, then I need a pair of Byakugan to transplant to my subordinate."

Hiashi was furious. The Hyuga main family had only one person per generation, passed from father to son, son to grandson.

In this generation, the main family only had Hiashi. Even his younger brother had been branded with the Caged Bird Seal.

The previous generation's main family head was his father, and his father's eyes had been gouged out by the Mist ninjas.

Further back, the eyes of every generation of the Hyuga main family had been preserved, but these eyes belonged to his ancestors. How could he be willing to hand them over to Danzō?

If Hiashi had the Byakugan of some other unrelated person, it wouldn't be impossible to give Danzō a pair. Anyway, Danzō was also a Konoha ninja, and he wouldn't use a powerful tool like the Byakugan to aid the enemy.

Facing the deadpan Danzō, Hiashi could only suppress the anger in his heart and say, "Advisor Danzō, please return. I have shown you all of my clan's secret documents. Don't think about anything else."

"Hmph!" Danzō snorted coldly. He was not the Hokage and had no way to use a greater cause to pressure Hiashi. He could only push the boundaries, using the Hokage's name as a pretense to test him.

Now that Hiashi was putting on a posture that said it wouldn't work even if the Hokage came, he had no other way.

Danzō, who had parted on bad terms with Hiashi, was not very angry. He had long guessed Hiashi's reaction; just now was indeed just a test.

Next, what Danzō had to consider was how to reply to Orochimaru. Danzō certainly would not give him the Byakugan he needed. Not to mention he didn't have one, even if he did, he would keep it for his own use and would not generously give it to Orochimaru.

Since he couldn't produce a Byakugan, Danzō had to use other things to exchange for it. But looking at Orochimaru's attitude, he was afraid he would have to bleed this time.

On the other side, after Danzō left, only the two brothers, Hiashi and Hizashi, were left in the Hyuga main family's reception hall.

Hizashi asked Hiashi with some uncertainty, "Big brother, the distant relatives recorded in the secret documents, could they be the distant relatives on the moon that father told us about when we were young?"

Hiashi also frowned. He hadn't read these documents in detail either. When he first took over as clan head, he had only given them a simple glance.

When they were children, their father, Tokuhiro Hyuga, had indeed told them stories about their relatives living on the moon.

However, the brothers, who were still children at the time, had both regarded this as a legend or myth.

After pondering for a moment, Hiashi said, "Previously, I also thought this was a legend, but from Danzō's purpose, I'm afraid we really do have a line of distant relatives. As for whether they are really on the moon, it's still hard to say."

Hizashi hesitated for a moment and then said, "Big brother, just now, Danzō seemed to be more concerned about the abilities of our Byakugan than about our distant relatives."

Hiashi recalled for a moment. Indeed, Danzō's eyes had only lit up when he saw the words "strange jutsu," and he had shown an "as expected" expression.

Glancing at his younger brother and seeing his look of wanting to say something but holding back, Hiashi snorted and said, "Don't overthink it. Don't you know what abilities the Byakugan has?"

"You're not unaware of how many Gentle Fist secret techniques there are. Where would we have any other strange ninjutsu?"

Hearing his brother's words, Hizashi was still unwilling in his heart. "What if the Byakugan really does have other abilities? What if this ability was lost in the long river of time?"

In fact, what Hizashi didn't know was that Hiashi was definitely thinking no less than him at this moment. Even more so, as the clan head, Hiashi hoped more than anyone that the Byakugan had other abilities.

The family records were very clear: Madara Uchiha's Sharingan back then was superior to the three-tomoe Sharingan. Those mysterious eyes could even summon a demon god comparable in size to a Tailed Beast to help in battle.

And the Byakugan, which was clearly as famous as the Sharingan, only had the combat ability to be coordinated with the Gentle Fist. The pressure on him as the Hyuga clan head was immense.

After Hizashi left, Hiashi let out a long sigh alone.

That night, the two brothers, in their respective homes, activated their Byakugan and watched the moon all night.

...

While Danzō was still thinking about what conditions to use to satisfy Orochimaru, and while the Hyuga brothers were moon-gazing, Orochimaru's side had already begun to act.

Orochimaru had long anticipated that Danzō would not agree to his request, so he had long since been seeking a way out in other directions.

A few days later, the Daimyo of the Land of Lightning suddenly announced with great fanfare that he wanted to sign a peace treaty with the Land of Fire. The Village Hidden in the Clouds also announced that they would send a delegation to Konoha to discuss the specific matters of the peace treaty with the Konoha higher-ups.

The news came suddenly, and the ninjas and civilians of the entire ninja world felt it was inexplicable.

If there was peace in the ninja world, there was peace. Where was the need to sign any formal peace treaty?

There had never been any peace treaties in the ninja world, only war reparations treaties between victorious and defeated nations.

What's more, the initiator of this peace treaty was actually the Fourth Raikage.

A hot-tempered Raikage who wished he could fight someone head-on every day would actually proactively request to sign a peace treaty?

Had the Raikage taken the wrong medicine?

What was even more puzzling was that Konoha hadn't even replied yet, but the delegation sent by the Cloud Village had already left the Land of Lightning.

When Ishiro first heard this news, he felt something was wrong. In the original story, the Cloud had also pulled such a stunt, using the life of one of their own high-level officials in exchange for Hizashi Hyuga's body. But the timing of the Hinata kidnapping incident in the original story should have been a little later.

This was no big deal. The timeline of the Naruto world had already been thrown into utter chaos by this big butterfly, Ishiro. In this life, even the Fourth Great Ninja War had already been fought. The final battle in the original story, if it still happened in this life, would have to be at least the Fifth War.

But Ishiro had just told Orochimaru the intelligence about the Byakugan, and not long after, the Cloud was going to make a move on the Hyuga clan. This was too much of a coincidence.

The development of the situation might be different from what Ishiro had seen in the original story. This made Ishiro really want to go to Konoha himself, but unfortunately, he was busy with other things and couldn't get away right now.

There were two major events in Iwagakure recently, and both were good things.

The first matter, Ishiro had almost forgotten. That was that Kitsuchi had suddenly become a Near-Kage. Ishiro didn't know the thought process Kitsuchi went through when he became a Near-Kage; he only knew that during the Fourth War in the original story, Kitsuchi did indeed possess Kage-level combat power.

Ishiro didn't know at what time the original Kitsuchi became a Near-Kage, nor did he know if it was earlier or later in this life.

But one thing Ishiro was sure of was that the path Kitsuchi chose after becoming a Near-Kage was different from the original.

In the original story, Kitsuchi only had one attribute: Earth.

But in this life, when Kitsuchi became a Near-Kage, he completed the chakra nature transformation of a new attribute.

Kitsuchi had obtained a second attribute: Fire.

Ishiro didn't think Kitsuchi could develop a Kekkei Genkai combining fire and earth, but having more combat means was also a good thing for Kitsuchi.

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