Hikaru Hokage

"Injuring people for no reason? Is there such a thing?"

Hino Hikaru pretended not to know and asked Yuhi Kurenai.

"I'm just saving my disciples. Who let them bully Hinata?"

Yuhi Hong looked at Elder Hinata in front of her with a straight face, thinking that she shouldn't have deflected the water break wave just now, and just beat him half to death.

I won't be jumping around here now.

"Really? In other words, the great elder made the first move?"

Hino Hikaru moved his gaze back to Elder Hinata's head.

"What qualifications do you, a foreigner, have to interfere in the affairs of my clan?"

"However, Hinata is indeed Kurenai's disciple. From this point of view, it is right for the teacher to save his disciple."

"That's not the case. I just held a ceremony for Hinata to become a family member in accordance with the clan rules. I didn't mean to bully or hurt Hinata."

It's just a curse mark, it doesn't harm the body.

The great elder felt that he was capable again.

"Is that so? Hinata?"

Hino Hikaru did not look at Yuhi Kurenai or Elder Hinata this time, but looked at Hinata with questioning eyes.

"I……"

Hinata looked at Hino Hikari who had resolved the fight between the two sides as soon as he arrived, feeling both happy and a little guilty.

Because she wanted to become and be carved into a caged bird, she had never mentioned it to the other party...

Now sure enough...

Brother Hino must be angry when he talks to me in this tone, right?

"No, they obviously planned to use the curse seal to turn my sister into a slave. I heard everything! What they said!"

Seeing that her sister was still hesitating, her sister Hanabi quickly stood up and pointed to the Hyuga ninjas not far away, led by Mai Hinata, who wanted to carve a caged bird on Hinata.

"Nonsense, they are lying to you. They are just carving a curse mark to prevent Byakugan from being taken away. It is not for slavery."

Elder Hinata glared at his daughter, and then smiled at Hanabi and explained as if coaxing a child.

"Let her speak for herself!"

Hino Hikaru just focused on Hinata's face.

Look carefully at the girl who is so shy that she lowers her head and blushes slightly.

"Why, didn't you have the guts to stand in front of your father just now and say that you would protect the people in your own way? Now that you see me, you can't say anything? Was it just a lie just now?"

"I...I'm not, I didn't lie..."

Hinata looked up into Hikaru's eyes.

Then he felt a little uneasy, but finally walked to Hino Hikari's side unswervingly.

"Brother Hino said that what Konoha needs are strong trunks and prosperous green leaves, not rotten leaves and rotten roots. That's why I want to resist the system of the branch family and the clan."

"Oh? Have I ever said that?"

"Uncle Hizashi told me that it was my brother who said this when he promulgated the new rules of Konoha."

Oops, Hino-nii's tone is still so unfamiliar, he must be very angry with me...

What should I do?

Although Hinata explained her wishes clearly, she was still worried.

"I see."

Hino Hikaru nodded.

"You, the Hyuga clan, have done a really bad job. If you want to enslave your clan members, you should carve them a caged bird when they are three years old. It will be difficult to control your children when they grow up. How could a 16-year-old ninja be enslaved so easily? ?”

"That's right, it's all Rizu and him...well."

The elder who was almost taken into the ditch by Hino Hikaru quickly covered his mouth.

However, Hino Hikaru ignored him and looked at Hinata Hizashi, the patriarch of the Hyuga clan.

"Hyuuga Clan Leader, what do you think about enslaving fellow tribesmen?"

"Of course this is..."

Directly pressure me to clear my clan rules?

But if this is the case, the elders' faction and the clan members of the clan will definitely not agree.

Hinata Hizu was still speculating on Hino Hikaru's thoughts.

"It is not to enslave our companions. The curse seal is an important tool to prevent the enemy from taking away the Byakugan. It is not to enslave the clan members. Don't let the rumors misunderstand the rules of our clan, Hino boy."

Before Rizu finished speaking, the great elder quickly sealed the caged bird with a curse seal.

"Really, that's good, but since this curse seal is so easy to use, why not everyone is engraved with the curse seal?"

"no!"

Before the great elder could speak, the clan members behind him could not hold their breath and retorted.

After seeing not only the branch family members, but also the Hyuga sect family members, they also have a deep understanding of what will happen after being carved as a caged bird.

Hence the rush to deny it.

"That's right, our clan ninjas are hundreds of times stronger than clan ninjas. We don't need a curse seal, we can protect our own Byakugan by ourselves."

"Even if you are confident, it is too dangerous. There are always times when you are negligent. I think it is better to carve a curse seal on them all, so that no one can take away the Byakugan of Konoha from me."

Hino Hikaru looked coldly at the Hyuga clan that had begun to look ugly in front of them.

"Our Hyuga clan's affairs are not the concern of outsiders!"

Weren't we discussing Yuhi Hong's hurting others? Why did the topic suddenly turn to carving a caged bird for everyone?

Elder Hinata was rubbing his neck to object to Hino Hikari's words, while thinking in his mind about how to bring the topic back.

"Isn't it the outsiders' turn to worry? It turns out that the Hyuga clan is planning to rebel and stop being the ninjas of my Konoha Village? That would make it much easier..."

Hino Hikaru first glanced at all the Hyuga clan members nearby with his cold eyes.

Then he suddenly burst out the huge tailed beast chakra.

"The Hyuga clan is born evil, I will personally send you Konoha traitors on their way!"

boom!

Absorbing the four tails, five tails, six tails, and eight tails, the chakra power of the four tailed beasts swept across the entire Hyuga clan like a mountain.

Coupled with the momentum that Hino Hikaru himself had honed on the battlefield, the entire Hyuga clan's ninjas were unsteady under the pressure of this moment, and some even fell to the ground.

Elder Hinata, who was the first to bear the brunt, almost knelt on the ground.

This was even more amazing and terrifying than the chakra burst out by Yuhi Kurenai just now.

There is no need to use any ninjutsu, just with the burst of momentum, the buildings around the Hyuga clan will automatically crack without wind.

The red chakra visible to the naked eye is like a hurricane. Everywhere it passes, it becomes a mess.

"No, no, I, the Hyuga clan, have absolutely no intention of rebellion!"

Faced with such unreasonable chakra courage, Elder Hinata knelt directly on the ground.

"Then why did you just say that Konoha has no right to control your wanton enslavement of your companions?"

Hino Hikaru sealed back the tailed beast chakra that overflowed from his body.

After the pressure around them dropped sharply, the ninjas of the Hyuga clan also breathed a sigh of relief.

"Let's do this. I'll just carve a curse seal on you. You will definitely not accept it. Then I will randomly pick a ninja from the branch to compete with you. If he wins, you will all have to carve a caged bird. If he loses, I will allow you. Continue to enslave the people."

"really?"

The great elder didn't bother to refute the "slavery" thing.

How could a random branch family win him over?

You know, in order to control the branch family, all the high-level ninjutsu and secret techniques in the clan have not been taught to the branch family.

Even Soft Fist was only allowed to be understood by them.

Compared with the carefully educated Zong family, the Fen family has no comparison at all.

"Of course, I keep my word."

Hino Hikaru casually searched among the crowd, and then saw the young ninja hurried back to the clan.

"It's just you, Neji."

"I?"

Hyuga Neji had just understood what happened in the clan, and before he could remember to digest it, he saw Hino Hikaru pointing at him.

"You're not confident?"

"No, I..."

Neji shook his head, then lowered his head sadly.

"The branch family cannot defeat the clan family no matter what, Hino-senpai."

"Because of the caged bird?"

"……Yes!"

Neji clenched his fists.

"Then I'll help you get rid of the caged bird first, and then you fight him."

"what!?"

“Removing the caged bird…can the caged bird still be removed?”

Doesn’t it mean that you can’t take it off for the rest of your life?

After hearing Hino Hikaru's words, not only Neji, but also the other branch families couldn't help but get excited.

The elders of the Zong family were even more disbelieving.

"The caged bird is the ancestor of the Hyuga clan who spent hundreds of years..."

"Okay, take off the forehead protector quickly."

"Yes……"

Although Neji didn't quite believe what Hino Hikaru said about helping him get rid of the caged bird, he still took off his forehead protector as told, revealing the caged bird curse mark on his forehead.

"Let me ask first, have you ever bullied Hinata?"

According to the iron rule of Hokage, hitting Hinata would really lead to death, and Hino Hikaru didn't want to waste his energy on a dead person.

"No, no...how could I treat Miss Hinata..."

Although he was jealous of Hinata's status, Neji was not stingy enough to target his sister.

His father is not dead.

So the resentment towards the Zong family is not as deep as in the original work.

"Okay, it's over. Try to win later, otherwise you will be labeled as a caged bird again."

It didn't need to be as complicated as breaking the curse. Hino Hikaru directly used his energy absorption ability to quickly remove the curse mark on Neji's forehead.

"I... solved it? Is it solved?"

Neji touched his forehead, then used the polished forehead protector as a mirror to look at himself, and found that he no longer had the curse mark of the caged bird on his body.

Free yourself!

Such a complicated curse seal, so simple and gone?

Neji looked at his own shadow reflected on the forehead protector with confusion, feeling a little at a loss.

Then he suddenly woke up with a look of ecstasy.

He is really that free!