Chapter 83 – The Hyuga Clan Panics, the Shinobi World Trembles, and Obito Starts Sweating
While Aike was diligently contributing to the continuation of the human race (and the inn's structural integrity was being thoroughly tested),
the Hyuga clan compound had already exploded.
One topic dominated every conversation: Hyuga Neji!
Main-family council chamber. Every elder was present.
The Grand Elder, highest in seniority after Hiashi, slammed the table.
"Explain yourselves. How do we handle this?"
"The caged-bird seal is the foundation of the main family's authority. Now there's a breach!"
"How do we treat the first case in history?"
"No debate needed!"
A hot-tempered elder snorted.
"Neji may have lost his Byakugan, but he's still branch family. Re-apply the seal. End of discussion."
"Easy for you to say," another elder shot back. "What if it gets removed again?"
"The seal exists to keep the Byakugan out of enemy hands. He no longer has the Byakugan. Make him the exception."
The moment compromise was suggested, the hothead lost it.
"If every branch member starts sacrificing their eyes to escape, are we making exceptions for all of them?!"
"What happens to main-family authority then?!"
"Authority?" someone sneered. "You want authority? Go cry to the people who actually caused the problem."
Dead silence.
Even the hothead shut up.
Everyone knew exactly who "those people" were.
The intel reports were on every elder's desk.
Yesterday's mountain-sized Susanoo? One of them did that.
The visual alone was apocalyptic. Konoha as a whole would be annihilated. Only Hashirama's long-extinct Wood Style could have matched it.
The Hyuga clan? Not even a speed bump.
That was why this meeting existed.
Hiashi felt it deepest.
Without that overwhelming deterrence, these stubborn fossils would have sent assassins after Neji already.
Instead they were just yelling.
"Enough," Hiashi declared, ending the argument with a single sentence.
His reasoning was ironclad.
"That lord sent a message through Neji."
"He removed the seal. He took the Byakugan. Anyone with a problem can take it up with him personally."
Exception approved. Unanimous vote in three seconds.
Bullying the weak, fearing the strong—perfectly demonstrated.
Later, alone at home, Hiashi began seriously considering abolishing the caged-bird seal entirely.
In the past, resistance was too great. He saw no hope.
It drove a wedge between him and Hizashi. Eventually his brother died for him.
The seal had stopped protecting anything. It had become cancer.
For the clan's future, change was necessary.
And Hinata's relationship with Aike's group was the perfect opening.
The very next day,
a new shockwave rippled across the shinobi world.
Spy reports flooded in: a mountain-sized Susanoo had appeared above Konoha.
Every hidden village issued the exact same order within hours:
Find the source of that power. Determine its relationship with Konoha.
Iwagakure's reaction was the most dramatic.
When Onoki read the description of a titan that dwarfed mountains, his face cycled through five different emotions in two seconds.
"Impossible…!"
"Is the shinobi world about to birth another Uchiha Madara?!"
His mood flipped from gloating over Konoha's misfortune to cold dread.
The thought of that demonic power existing made his hands shake.
There was no second Hashirama anymore…
In a hidden cave somewhere,
Obito shook his head, irritation rising.
"That unremarkable little girl from back then… actually grew this strong?"
Itachi's death ruined all his plans for Sasuke.
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