Yato sighed,he was a Hyuuga. Not from the main branch but from the side branch, he wore a bandage around his head, which he then used his headband to cover the seal, but it did not hide the truth.
He was supposed to protect the main branch, at his age that was supposed to be the heiress to the clan, Hanabi Hyuuga. What happened to his cousin, was something he did not want to repeat. Neji was declared a prodigy, but at what price? He still was a servant… One could even say he was a slave.
Yato's opinion of the Hokage was truly changeable, when he thought of how the Hokage simply allowed the Hyuuga's to enslave their own members so easily, even ignoring it he hated him. But when he saw Ryu, a cheerful boy who helped him overcome his hate, he did not know what to think.
The different choices he could make, could impact the entire village. As he was in deep thoughts, a voice interrupted him, it was Ryu.
"You want to talk with me about anything?" Ryu said with a smile in his face, as he handed Yato a drink."Here." Yato accepted it,"Thank You." and started drinking from it.
Ryu looked at the blue sky in the air and said,"You see,I find it ironic. Hyuuga's can see kilometers away with the use of their dojutsu, but they fail to see what is the most important, and what is literally in front of them." He chuckled, earning confuse by Yato.
"What do you mean by that? What does the Byakugan's large radius have to do with this at all?" Yato said with an eyebrow raised above the other. " What is the most important thing a person can possess,Yato?" Ryu smiled.
"That is…" He answered,"Family?" His answer was rather blank, as he himself was not sure of his answer. Ryu sighed and drank from his drink and his eyes revealed sadness.
He still hated himself for leaving his mother in that situation, to be sealed into a moon hopelessly, by his own sons of all people. She hasn't seen the light of the world for a thousand years.
Immortal or not, a thousand years were a long time, even for an Otsutsuki. Ryuu could see that, as he himself was a God, and Gods were immortal, a thousand years were too long, even if you weren't bored in all those years.
"It's love, love for one's family, love for one's dearest, love for one's lover. It is also the worst thing a human can feel, and why Uchihas always enter the Cycle Of Hatred, their love is so big, that when they feel despair, their hate reaches unimaginable levels."
Ryu said as his grip on the drink in his hand increased, his mother had raised him for 16 years, not complaining once, and he had ignored her dying, no matter what evil she had done, she was still his mother.
"Yato, you want to get stronger? Right?" Yato nodded,"My original currently is training Ken, I'm offering you power, Yato. Do you want it?"
"I, Ryu Uzumaki Namikaze make an oath, that I will help you become powerful, do you Yato Hyuuga accept?" Ryu said with a gaze which overflowed with confidence,Yato chuckled,"Yes."
That day, two members of Team 7 accepted to become legends in the world of the Elemental Nations, legends comparable to the Sage Of The Six Paths and Hamura Otsutsuki, creator of the Hyuuga Clan.
Yato awakened the Pure Byakugan, which gave him a 360 degrees sight, a perfect byakugan one could say. Ken awakened his 3rd tomoe, and was close to the Mangekyou Sharingan, who was only awakened due to Ryu messing up with his DNA.
Ryu looked over his friends, their chakra reserves had increased to low Jounin level, and their power was around that too. Ryu himself had reached middle-high Jounin level with the mokuton, and with the addition of the Rinnegan, a whole new path was revealed to him.
Only Ken and Yato had seen the Rinnegan, Yamato had slightly witnessed it but he was injured, so he only remembered a massive shock wave. Of course, Ken and Yato had told the jounins what had happened afterwards, and the three were now discussing about it.
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Yamato sighed as he ate some food, the three genins were outside training, while the three jounins were eating food, to recover their stamina. " Ryu's powers are amazing, he managed to fight four jounins alone." He said," His Wood Element is far more powerful than mine, it's probably even higher than that of the First."
Hayate coughed," I'll have to ask him to heal my chronic disease, his healing power is incredible, he healed all my wounds from fighting those jounins easily." He was a bit ashamed to say this, but he was not a full fledged jounin. He was still weaker than most jounins.
He did have hidden attacks which could heavily wound any jounin, but that was it, in the long term, he could be defeated, due to the fact his Chakra Reserves were lower than most Jounins.
"He also possesses the Rinnegan, something only the father of chakra had, the Eyes of Samsara, it is said that whoever has it, can either become a God Of Destruction, or a God Of Creation." Hayate said with another cough.
Yamato smiled weakly," Let's hope it's the latter, and not the former. We don't need another villain around here, Konoha has enough enemies as it is right now." They had enough enemies in Kumo and Kiri.
Yugao chuckled,"I also felt it when he sent me and Hayate into a safe place when we were thrown away by the missing nins of Kirigakure… Gato seems to have plenty of money, to secure so many jounins."