"That brat!"
Hyuga Hiashi looked at Hanabi, who had vanished in just a few sentences, and several veins jumped out on his forehead.
The good mood he had from soon having a Hokage son in law was pressed down quite a bit.
"Hanabi is still young after all. Becoming clan head is too early for her. When she grows up, she will naturally understand," Hyuga Ayako, who was sitting on the other side, saw her husband sulking and could not help comforting him.
As a mother, she could naturally see her younger daughter's dependence on Aoba. But there was no way around it. The main family had to have someone inherit it.
Both she and Hyuga Hiashi were getting older, and her health was not very good either. It was already not very realistic to try and have another child as an heir.
If there really was no other way, then they could only do what Hiashi had once suggested. Let Hanabi take over temporarily, and then after Aoba and Hinata had a child, have that child inherit instead.
"Sigh!"
Faced with his wife's comfort, Hyuga Hiashi could only sigh softly.
He never expected that what started as just asking Aoba to help save his eldest daughter's fate would end up dragging his younger daughter into it too.
Hinata did not take part in her parents' conversation. She crawled out from under the kotatsu and asked Hyuga Natsu, "Natsu, the one who came to look for me is not Aoba-kun, right?"
Hyuga Natsu nodded, "It is Karin, Kurotsuchi, and Fu."
Since she would become Aoba's maid in the future, she was familiar with the people around him and had carefully looked into them.
Of course, it was not anything secret.
It was investigations into daily preferences and personal habits.
"Karin?", Hinata blinked. She did not expect that the somewhat strange trio of Karin, Kurotsuchi, and Fu would come looking for her.
Karin she could understand, but she was not very familiar with Kurotsuchi and Fu.
Even so, she still got up with Natsu and prepared tea and snacks.
On the first day of the new year, when friends come to visit, of course they should be properly entertained.
Soon, Hanabi led Karin and the other two in.
But from the looks of it, they were not here just to visit for the new year. They came for something.
Because Karin looked very serious, while Kurotsuchi and Fu were relaxed, even in a watching for fun kind of mood.
"Uncle Hiashi, Aunt Ayako, happy new year."
Even though Karin was in a hurry, she still politely greeted the elders.
"Happy new year."
Kurotsuchi and Fu also slightly bowed.
"Happy new year. Sit down and have some snacks first," Hyuga Ayako smiled as she replied.
Hyuga Hiashi also nodded calmly to the three of them. From any point of view, today was a happy day, so he did not keep a stern face.
But when he saw Hanabi quietly hiding behind Fu, his brows could not help furrowing.
Seeing that he was about to scold her again, Hyuga Ayako quickly pulled him and smiled at the three girls, "You came to look for Hinata, right? If you have something to talk about, go ahead. Hiashi and I will go out for a bit."
Since his wife had already helped their daughter out like this, and with outsiders present, Hyuga Hiashi could not be too harsh. He followed her out of the room.
"Phew!"
"Good thing you guys came, or Father would have nagged me again."
As Hyuga Hiashi left, Hanabi patted her little chest, came out from behind Fu, and crawled back under the kotatsu.
Even though ninjas were pretty resistant to the cold, the kotatsu was just too comfortable.
"Fu, you guys come sit too."
After sitting down, Hanabi waved at Fu and the others.
She got along pretty well with Fu. Both of them were students at the ninja academy now. Even though they were different ages, they sometimes visited each other's classes or walked home together.
With the imposing Hyuga Hiashi gone, Karin and the others also felt much less pressure.
Fu happily sat next to Hanabi, and the two little girls happily started munching on oranges together.
Karin and Kurotsuchi each sat on one side.
When Hinata saw everyone seated, she placed the poured tea in front of them. Seeing how serious Karin looked, she directly asked, "Karin, did you come to see me for something?"
"Hinata, can you use your Byakugan to find Temari's current location?"
Since Hinata had asked, Karin asked right away.
"Find Temari?"
Hinata looked puzzled. Were the two of them not neighbors? And Karin also had sensing ninjutsu, so why did she need her help?
Karin saw her thoughts and said helplessly, "Temari probably used a special method to block her chakra, so I can only ask you."
Under normal circumstances, if it was just finding someone, her Mind's Eye of the Kagura was not inferior to the Byakugan.
But after Temari entered a mall earlier, she suddenly could not sense her chakra anymore.
With Aoba in Konoha, she was not worried that Temari would run into danger.
This situation was very clearly her being blocked by some special method.
This kind of chakra blocking immediately made her think of that special barrier at Aoba's house that was used every night.
But obviously Temari could not be carrying a barrier around with her, so she must have used some special jutsu to block her chakra.
Temari had been by Aoba's side for so long now. It was normal for her to know some special jutsu like that, since Aoba used it every night.
But in that case, it should not be able to hide from the Byakugan's sight.
"Blocking chakra? Is Temari deliberately hiding from you?", Hinata was even more puzzled.
Even though when Temari had just become Aoba kun's fiancée they had all been hostile to her for a while, it had been almost two years now.
And Temari was usually not competitive at all, so they had stopped caring long ago.
"Because right now I really want to beat her up!", Karin raised her right hand and clenched her fist.
She was clearly not joking.
This reaction made Hinata hesitate. She held her teacup with both hands and asked, "Why do you want to hit Temari?"
She had to understand what was going on first. If she helped someone unfairly, Aoba kun would hate her.
Karin looked at Hanabi, Kurotsuchi, and Fu, who were all watching with curiosity.
Then she leaned over to Hinata's ear, raised her hand to cover her mouth, and in a voice only the two of them could hear, told her about Temari sneaking off.
Ka-cha!
A crisp sound rang out.
Just as Karin finished speaking, the teacup Hinata was holding, without any chakra being applied, suddenly became covered in dense cracks.
Then, with a bang, the cup shattered, and the tea inside splashed everywhere.
"On... Onee-san?"
Hanabi was startled. She had not seen her sister this angry in a long time, and it scared her.
She raised her hand and wiped the tea that had splashed onto her face. It was warm, just like splattered blood.
"Huff!"
Hinata let out a long breath, then smiled at Hanabi, "It is fine, Onee-san will clean it up right away."
She stood up, gently picked up the fragments and threw them into the trash, then used chakra to evaporate all the spilled tea.
After cleaning up every last trace, she looked at Karin, who was also a bit stunned. The area around her eyes was already covered with bulging veins.
"Karin, let us go find Temari right now."
"Huh? Um, well... maybe we should eat something first before we go?"
To be honest, Karin was also a bit scared by the furious Hinata.
If they went right now, she was a little worried about Temari's life.
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