The words "Caged Bird Seal" came out, which scared Hinata. She widened her white eyes, looking at the scroll in her hand, her eyes full of incredulity.
"Heh, are you scared?"
Neji took in all of Hinata's reactions, he put his hands in his pockets, and said expressionlessly: "Is it strange? Strange why the family wants to engrave the legendary Caged Bird on the noble young lady of the Hyuga clan?"
"Hinata... perhaps, this is the last time I call you young lady. Because from today on, Hyuga Hinata is no longer a member of the Hyuga clan."
"After all the higher-ups discussions of the Hyuga clan, your sister, Hyuga Hanabi, will inherit your position."
"Your high and mighty status has fallen to the bottom."
Then Neji suddenly found that Hinata herself did not seem to be very shocked by what he said, nor did she show any fear.
Hinata's startled reaction seemed to be limited to the Caged Bird.
She doesn't seem to care about being kicked out of the main family.
She doesn't seem to care about becoming a member of the branch family.
On the contrary, other people were very shocked.
"Hyuga Hinata is no longer the young lady of the Hyuga clan?" Shikamaru felt like he had heard a big secret, his subconscious told him that this secret would cause a lot of trouble.
Especially before Hyuga Hinata, she said something that was deafening, which made Shikamaru feel even more troublesome.
Can you guys stop revealing one secret after another from your family?
Can they consider whether others want to know the secret?
But then again.
Caged Bird Seal...
Sounds familiar!
Shikamaru remembered hearing this term from his father, but he was not remember it clearly.
"What is this seal?" Chouji, who doesn't learn his lesson, suddenly came up with a question.
And he said it out loud.
Shikamaru suddenly had a look of despair: "Chouji!"
"It's nothing, this is just a tool for the Hyuga main family to control the Hyuga branch family."
Neji didn't care about revealing the darkness of the Hyuga.
He revealed everything about the Caged Bird.
And under the public eye, he actually untied the bandage on his forehead and revealed the Caged Bird Seal on his forehead.
"From the moment the seal is engraved, the people of the Hyuga branch family become puppets of the Main family. From the moment I was engraved with the Caged Bird, my life... can only be sacrificed to protect the young lady of the Hyuga clan."
Neji suddenly smiled, his smile was a bit sad: "Even if Hinata is no longer that young lady, my fate has not changed, it has just changed from protecting her to protecting her sister."
Neji, who revealed the darkness of the Hyuga clan, as expected, received a dumbfounded expression from Shikamaru and Chouji.
Naruto, Karin, and Haku, the three of them had already learned about the darkness of the Hyuga clan from Hinata's mouth.
Shikamaru and Chouji were the first to really know.
"The Hyuga clan is a big clan comparable to the Uchiha clan!" Chouji wrinkled his chubby face, his expression full of confusion: "How can they do this?!"
Shikamaru couldn't help but interject: "Using such dark means to forcibly divide the main family and the branch family... don't those people in the main family fear that the people in the branch family will kill them? There are many ways to kill people without revealing murderous intent, right? Like poisoning in advance, framing..."
Shikamaru didn't understand why the Hyuga clan would do this.
There was originally no conflict within a family, but doing this, isn't it adding an irreparable conflict to the family out of thin air?
Perhaps this conflict is suppressed because of the Caged Bird Seal.
But what if one day the Caged Bird Seal is broken?
Then the conflict that has been accumulating in the Hyuga clan for many years will become the biggest powder keg. Once it explodes, the entire Hyuga clan will rebel, and neither the main family nor the branch family will be able to escape.
"This is a very evil seal, which is also a very sad rule, and Hyuga clan is even more a very conservative clan."
The above sharp comments came from Haku who suddenly spoke: "Neji-kun, do you think I'm right?!"
"Quite right." Neji replied.
As long as it's Haku's question, he can always answer patiently, without any impatience.
"Neji-kun, don't you want to sweep this evil seal into the dustbin of history? Don't you want to completely remove that sad rule from the family rules of the Hyuga clan? Don't you want to completely change this conservative family and make it a bit more normal?"
Haku asked a lot of questions in succession.
"It's useless." Neji laughed self-deprecatingly: "A person who almost died after encountering a foreign village ninja; a person whose father died and was also marked with the Caged Bird Seal... is he worthy of breaking this unbreakable fate?"
"It's simply...dre..."
Before Neji finished speaking, his face suddenly took a punch. The huge force made the skin on his left cheek ripple, and he was punched several meters away.
Neji didn't see clearly who made the move at all.
He just felt a sharp pain in his face, and he was punched several meters away.
When he covered his face and gasped for breath.
Only then did he see clearly...
It turned out that the person who made the move was Uzumaki Naruto!
"You..."
Neji's cheek visibly swelled.
He gritted his teeth and stared at Naruto.
"This guy is a big idiot!" Naruto snorted, his face full of disappointment. He had been listening for so long, Neji didn't get anxious, but he got anxious.
Naruto gritted his teeth and said: "You, the first genius of the Ninja Academy, how can you be so negative? Everytime you always talk about fate, and then talk about destiny, it's so annoying!"
What Naruto hates the most is fate.
If he is a person who believes in fate and is willing to drift with the tide in fate.
Then he could not become Whitebeard's son.
Even less likely to be the captain of the Whitebeard Pirates' first division.
"Since you think the Caged Bird Seal is wrong, since you think the Hyuga clan shouldn't be divided into a main family and a branch family, since you think the clan is very conservative, then you should change all this! If you think you can't do it alone, then find someone who shares your ideals!"
Naruto's voice got louder and louder: "Even if you are marked with the Caged Bird Seal, the people who share your ideals are not marked with the Caged Bird Seal! You can cooperate with them to fight against fate! There are so many ways, but you are willing to succumb to fate."
Naruto gritted his teeth: "YHow can you become the first genius of the Ninja Academy in this state? Your name is Hyuga Neji, right? Your courage is even less than Hinata's!"
"At least Hinata really wants to change everything about the Hyuga clan, but you dare not change it."
"Hinata even dares to give her life for this path, but you are afraid of a so-called Caged Bird Seal!"
Naruto snatched the scroll of the Caged Bird Seal from Hinata's hand.
He tore the scroll into pieces in front of Neji.
The fragments of the scroll scattered all over the ground.
"See! The 'Caged Bird Seal' that you see as a nightmare, I easily tore it apart!"
Naruto said: "It's clearly so vulnerable! As long as you find a way to resist, as long as you find like-minded people to resist together, there will be a day of successful resistance!"
"Even if it's not successful, even if you give up your life for it, there's nothing sad, and there's nothing to be afraid of."
"And!"
Naruto's eyes flashed with killing intent: "You just said, this is an elder of the Hyuga clan, that order you put the 'Caged Bird' on Hinata? That guy... his name is Hyuga Taisou?!"
This has touched Naruto's inverse scales.
Hurting his family is something Naruto absolutely does not allow.
That guy called Hyuga Taisou...
Has already made Naruto unusually angry.
And aroused Naruto's killing intent!
"You chose to give up putting the 'Caged Bird' on Hinata, isn't this your resistance? You dare to resist this order, why don't you dare to resist a little more?"
Every word Naruto said.
Made Neji speechless.
"I can see that you want to resist in your heart." Naruto said: "I'm going to do something next, if you want to join, then I will personally prove to you in front of you, the fate of your Hyuga clan, can be easily broken!"
Do something?
Naruto's last sentence made everyone have their own thoughts.
Haku, Karin, vaguely understood what Naruto wanted to do.
Because they all noticed the killing intent on Naruto.
Chouji showed a confused expression.
Hinata was a bit confused, she didn't know what Naruto meant by that thing... what exactly was he going to do?
Neji stared in disbelief.
Shikamaru had a vague guess.
He hurriedly looked around, found no ninjas frowning, lowered his voice and hurriedly said: "Naruto, are you crazy? That's an elder of the Hyuga clan! Hyuga Taisou, even I have heard of this name!"
"You..." When Shikamaru said this, he found that Naruto's eyes, in addition to being filled with killing intent, were also very firm.
Shikamaru's superfluous words were held in his mouth and not spoken.
Because he already knew Naruto's decision.
And it's a decision that can't be persuaded back.
"You..." Shikamaru took a deep breath: "It's illegal to assassinate ninjas from the same village! We have to find a way to do it quietly, we absolutely can't let other ninjas find out. It's best to make a few reliable plans, just in case."
When he said this.
Shikamaru himself was stunned.
He wished he could slap himself, why did he say such a thing?
The idea that popped into his head just now was not "can't do this", but "need to be careful to do it".
Shikamaru couldn't help but look at Haku for help.
He really hoped that Haku could persuade Naruto.
Let Naruto calm down a bit.
"This is the decision of our Whitebeard Pirates' first divisio captain!" Haku smiled, he naturally noticed Shikamaru's idea.
He said to Shikamaru: "Even Pops, in many cases, will respect Naruto's decision!"
Shikamaru: "....."
"If that Hyuga Taisou is a big shot in the Hyuga clan, then he must be at least a Jonin, right?" Haku thoughtfully said: "With us, it's not easy to kill him!"
"Especially if we can't make too much noise, otherwise it will be discovered by other ninjas, then the assassination may fail, then it will be even more difficult."
For Haku... the actions of the Hyuga clan elder also touched his reverse scale.
Haku cannot accept anyone wanting to harm his family.
Especially when the "Caged Bird" seal is carved on his family members.
Haku had long known the horror of the Caged Bird from Neji and Hinata.
Karin also pondered: "Or we can choose to poison? I feel that the person who encouraged Neji and Hinata to get the Caged Bird seal is not just the Hyuga elder."
She said: "Perhaps other members of the Hyuga clan are also involved, we can't let any of them go. As long as they exist, Hinata will be in danger."
"Perhaps, we need to kill them all."
Karin was even more extreme.
Three little pirates from the Whitebeard Pirates were discussing how to kill an elder of the Hyuga clan.
They spoke so openly.
They were not afraid of being heard at all.
It can be described as loudly conspiring.
"Ah? Ah?? Ah???" Hearing their loud conspiracy, Chouji suddenly understood what Naruto meant by "doing something".
Chouji was dumbfounded, he stammered: "Naruto, are we going to kill a Hyuga elder?"
"Ha..... haaa....."
Chouji swallowed a mouthful of saliva, feeling that today was too exciting.
"Hinata is my family!" Naruto said very seriously: "I absolutely cannot let anyone harm my family, I must get rid of him before he makes a second move!"
"Chouji, are you willing to assist me?" Naruto looked at Chouji: "It's okay if you don't want to, after all..."
"No! I... uh... uh..."
Chouji's face was full of struggle.
To be honest.
He was scared.
Because this is not a fight, this is a conspiracy to murder!
But, Naruto is his friend.
And Chouji felt that the guy called Hyuga elder seemed to be doing something really wrong. Why does that person want to control a child's destiny with a so-called Caged Bird seal?
"I..." Chouji muttered weakly: "I can... I can keep watch for you."
Naruto showed a smile.
Shikamaru: "....."
"Ah!" Shikamaru gave up: "Knowing you, Uzumaki Naruto, is the biggest bad luck for me. I have placed my future on you, don't let me down! Naruto!"
Naruto smiled brilliantly: "Don't worry! I am Uzumaki Naruto! The captain of the first division of the Whitebeard Pirates, the future Fifth Hokage! I will definitely not let you down!"
Then, Naruto looked at Hinata. "Hinata, you are my family, I absolutely will not allow anyone to harm you, absolutely not."
Hinata's little face flushed, she was so dizzy by Naruto's words.
Steam was floating on her head.
In a daze.
Hinata lowered her head, her little hands' index fingers poking each other, her face flushed and she murmured:
"Naruto-kun, whatever Naruto-kun decides, I... I support it 100%."
Her reaction made people doubt whether she had heard clearly what Naruto was saying just now.
In the end.
Everyone's eyes couldn't help but fall on Neji.
You can see that Neji's expression showed a bit of dullness.
His eyes were filled with deep astonishment.
Because, Neji really didn't expect that there would be people who wanted to conspire to assassinate an elder of their Hyuga clan.
What Neji didn't expect even more was that the high and mighty Hyuga clan elder, in front of these people, was like a lamb to be slaughtered.
"Neji-kun." Haku smiled and said: "Your innate fate was set by people like Hyuga elder, right? Are you willing to do something that is very rebellious for you with us? Neji-kun?"
Neji: "....."
At this moment, he suddenly felt that the fate of the Hyuga clan was ridiculous, so ridiculous that even Akimichi Chouji, a timid fat man, dared to join the camp to conspire against the Hyuga elder.
Apart from their own clan members of the Hyuga clan, other people have never taken the so-called fate of the Hyuga clan seriously.
Neji couldn't help but touch the Caged Bird seal on his forehead.
He thought of his father's death.
He also thought of his own pathetic future that he could see at a glance.
Looking at the group of people in front of him.
Neji knew that this group of peers, the youngest is only one year younger than him, and the oldest is only one year older than him. They all dare to do some rebellious things.
Why doesn't he dare?
Because of the Caged Bird?
Or is he afraid of death?
Neji was examining his own heart, is he really afraid of death? If he is afraid of death, he will not join the Ninja Academy, right?
He's not afraid of death.
What else is he afraid of?
".....Hyuga elder is the most respected elder of our Hyuga clan, he is 82 years old this year. He was indeed a Jonin of the Hyuga clan, but now he is very old, his strength should have been not as good as when he was young."
Neji said: "But... he has two elite Chunin protecting him all year round. If you want to kill him, you have to lure those two Chunin away first."
"And..." Neji paused: "His residence is next to the Hyuga main family. If you start there, it will attract a group of ninjas in less than a minute."
"Huh!" After saying these words, he took a deep breath.
"Then count me in!"
Neji smiled casually: "I want to use my pathetic life to see if the fate of the branch family is really unbreakable."
Hyuga Neji.
Joined.
Clap!
Clap!
Clap!
But at this moment, a sudden round of applause scared the group of little devils who were conspiring to kill a Hyuga elder here and whose average age was not more than ten years old.
Shikamaru's heart was about to jump out of his throat from fright.
As a result, he quickly turned his head to look.
Shikamaru was stunned.
".....Is it you?" He found that the person clapping was actually Naruto's shark-faced family member!
Kisame clapped his hands and walked out of the shadow of the alley.
"Naruto, you need to practice Observation Haki more! I deliberately hid my breath, and you couldn't sense my existence. Your Observation Haki is far worse than Pops'!"
Kisame grinned, showing a mouthful of sharp teeth, his eyes full of bloodshot, and continued: "Little brats, you are here secretly discussing such interesting actions..."
"Can you add me to your plan,?"
Kisame's murderous intent seemed to make the air thicker: "Wanting to carve an evil seal on my family members..."
"The elder of the Hyuga clan are really bold!"
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