Seeing Hanare in such a weak and pitiful state, Kirito naturally could not abandon his companion. He picked Hanare up and carried her home.
To be honest, this was the first time he had been to the Hyuga clan territory.
Compared to the Senju and Uchiha clan territories, the Hyuga clan territory was not very large, about half the size of the Uchiha clan territory and about one-third the size of the Senju clan territory.
In fact, the Senju clan actually has the largest territory in Konoha, and it occupies a lot of real estate, concentrated in the area around the commercial street. Even the Death Forest, which is rich in resources in Konoha, actually belongs to the Senju clan.
It can be said that the Senju clan can support its people just by collecting rents, and the clan's wealth is immense.
In the past, Senju Hashirama and Tsunade often lost money, tens of millions or even billions of ryo, but the Senju clan never went bankrupt, precisely because it was the largest landowner in Konoha.
However, the Senju clan is now sparsely populated, with few strong people. The only Kage-Level powerhouse is Mito, a figure who has already been declared dead, and guarding such a large fortune is undoubtedly a very dangerous thing.
It is not an exaggeration to say that possession of great wealth brings great danger.
To put it in more alarmist terms, if the Senju clan were to have most of their real estate confiscated, Konoha's financial problems would be solved immediately, and there would even be a large surplus.
It wasn't late at night yet, and there were still many people walking around the Hyuga clan territory.
Kirito, an outsider, was undoubtedly very conspicuous entering here at this time, especially since he was carrying a Hyuga girl on his back. It was hard not to attract the attention of the people here.
Within moments, Kirito, who had entered the Hyuga clan territory, was subjected to a barrage of Byakugan.
At this time, Hanare's condition was obviously very bad. Her face was pale, and she looked weak and helpless. Coupled with the fact that Hanare usually gave people the impression of a soft and cute girl like a little bunny, it was easy to make people think that she might have been bullied and suffered serious injuries.
Fortunately, Kirito was now quite famous in Konoha. Not only was he a master of sealing techniques, he was also an outstanding medical ninja. His reputation was all positive.
Therefore, many people from the Hyuga clan knew him as a Konoha genius. None of them thought that he had done anything bad to Hanare; most of them thought that he had performed a heroic feat.
"Isn't that Hyuga Shan's youngest daughter? I heard that she graduated today and became a ninja. How did it turn out like this on the first day? She probably didn't just graduate and go on some dangerous mission. It looks like she's hurt really badly."
"Who knows? I heard that her instructor, Jōnin Orochimaru-sama, is a very dangerous person. Hanare is following him, so it's possible that she will be sent on a very dangerous mission on her first day."
"Is that guy Hanare's teammate? He looks familiar to me."
"If I'm not mistaken, he seems to be a disciple of Lord Mito, named Kirito. I heard that he is a very talented ninja and graduated even earlier than Hanare."
"Is that so? What is Hanare's relationship with him? That little brat seems to trust this kid a lot. She looks really happy right now..."
"Let me see, that's really the case. Oh, I remember now, that guy Hyuga Shan seems to be this kid's physical education teacher. This kid also knows our Hyuga Clan's Gentle Fist, and I heard that he has learned it pretty well."
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Many Hyuga matrons couldn't help but start talking when they saw Kirito carrying Hanare home.
They all had the Byakugan bloodline, and although many of them had not succeeded in opening their Byakugan, their vision was still very good. From their homes, they could see the two of them clearly through the glass windows, their expressions and appearances.
Hanare was a ninja, and her ears were sharp. She could vaguely hear the low voices of her family members discussing things, and she blushed with embarrassment.
She buried her head on Kirito's back and whispered, "I'm sorry, Kirito-kun."
"It's okay, they just misunderstood. I don't mind. Is that your house up ahead? Is that your brother at the door? He doesn't look very friendly."
Kirito said nonchalantly.
His hearing was even better than Hanare's, so naturally he could hear the whispers of the people around him, but he just laughed it off and didn't take it to heart.
Hanare was only 8 years old, and although she was cute, he didn't have any special feelings for her at all. At most, he somewhat admired her spirit of daring to defy fate.
Hanare heard Kirito's words and quickly looked up, then she heard an angry voice: "What did you do to my sister? She went to the graduation celebration, and she was fine when she left the house, but when she came back, she was like this. Tell me, did one of your people bully her?"
Kirito looked at the Byakugan boy in front of him, who looked seven-eighths like Hyūga, and knew that this person must be Hyūga Ishi, Hyūga Shan's son and Hanare's six-year-old brother.
He used his natural energy to observe the amount of chakra in his body, and had currently reached the jōnin level.
At the age of 14, he had this level of chakra, so he was undoubtedly a genius, and could only be described as worthy of being Hyūga Shan's son.
This is a talent that can be won over to our side.
So, without paying any mind to Hyūga Ishi's bad attitude, he replied with a friendly attitude, "Hello, my name is Kirito Tosaka. I'm Hanare's classmate and currently a medical ninja at the hospital. Hanare is just a little weak right now because she used up some of her chakra."
"Kirito Tosaka?"
When Hyūga Ishi heard Kirito introduce himself, his expression became even worse, and the look in his eyes towards Kirito became increasingly dangerous and malicious.
Just as he was about to say something, Hanare quickly spoke up, "Brother, you're being rude. Kirito-kun isn't a bad person. I asked Kirito-kun to bring me back, and I really am fine. It's just that I accidentally used up too much of my chakra. You don't need to worry."
After she finished speaking, she struggled to get off Kirito's back.
Hyūga Ishi quickly went over and carefully helped Hanare up, then glared fiercely at Kirito before leading Hanare home.
Hanare only had time to cast an apologetic glance at Kirito before she was taken home by Hyūga Ishi.
"Why is this kid so hostile towards me? I remember this is the first time he and I have met, it's really strange,"
Kirito watched as Hyūga Ishi led Hanare into the house, puzzled.
Using soul perception, he knew that Hyūga Ishi was not at home and should still be on duty at the hospital.
Since Hyuga-san was not there, there was no need for him to go in and visit, and he decisively turned and left.
Soon, he walked out of the Hyuga territory and then came to an empty field nearby. He suddenly said, "Come out, you've been following me for a long time, is there something you want to tell me, Hanare's brother?"
"I'm warning you, you're not allowed to look for my sister again, do you hear me?"
Upon hearing this, Hyūga Ishi suddenly walked out from behind a nearby tree. His Byakugan had already been activated, and he stared at Kirito intently, speaking in a cold, commanding tone.
Kirito was a little confused by Hyūga Ishi. The other party was undoubtedly a sister-control freak, but he had not done anything to Hanare that would be detrimental to her, and he had even given her a lot of benefits. Then this person inexplicably stood up and warned him, which really made him a little unhappy.
At least tell me the reason.
Without saying anything, he can't convince him.
"Hyūga Ishi, is that your name? You're forbidding me to get in touch with Hanare. Can you tell me why? You're not giving me any reason, and you're just ordering me around. That's really difficult for me."
Kirito sighed.
"Stop talking nonsense. Just do as you're told. What's the point of all that nonsense? You don't need to know the reason. I'm warning you again: if you dare to get in touch with Hanare again, I don't care if you're a disciple of Mito-sama or a Konoha genius, I'll teach you a lesson just the same."
Hyūga Ishi shouted angrily.
Of course, he could not tell Kirito that Hanare had been secretly taken away by the head of the family when she was researching sealing techniques with Kirito. This was a secret within the family that he could not tell, nor did he need to tell Kirito, an outsider who had caused his sister to be tortured by the head of the family.
After he finished speaking, a terrifying murderous aura emanated from his body, directly towards Kirito.
He is an elite member of the Hyūga clan who survived the battlefield of the Land of Rain, not some genius brat who is still enjoying the peace in the hinterlands of Konoha. What's more, this genius from Konoha is nothing but a pampered flower that has never seen blood and is not worthy of his time.
Geniuses who can survive on the battlefield are the real deal.
For example, him, Hyūga Ishi, a Konoha genius who has already killed two Amegakure jōnin.
"Interesting, Hyūga Ishi, you seem to be very confident in your abilities. How about this, if you can defeat me, I'll listen to you, what do you say?"
Kirito saw that Hyūga Ishi was intimidating him with murderous intent, and he suddenly laughed, a slightly cold smile.
This Hyūga Ishi is obviously a hot-headed young guy, but he had the strength of a jōnin at the age of 14, and he does have the right to be proud.
Moreover, he has obviously been to war and seen the world, but now there is something wrong with his psychological state, and he may even have developed a serious violent tendency. Now he has an absolutely condescending mentality towards this 8-year-old kid who is still living in a greenhouse.
This guy has no intention of communicating with him as an equal at all, and just wants to order him around, just as he used to unconditionally obey the orders of the strong and order the weak on the battlefield.
In short, this guy is going to use violence to solve problems whenever he disagrees.
The only way to make a guy like this talk properly is to knock some sense into him with your fists.
"Then I'll teach you a lesson so that you'll know how to speak to your seniors in the future."
Upon hearing Kirito say this, Hyūga Ishi's eyes flashed with a bloodthirsty gleam for a moment, and he coldly laughed cruelly before hesitatingly slapping Kirito across the face with an empty palm. A high-density chakra instantly released from the palm of his hand, forming a powerful chakra shockwave.
Eight Trigrams: Vacuum Palm!
"It's over."
Hyūga Ishi sneered as he watched Kirito, who was too stunned to do anything.
Just as he had expected, Kirito was a flower from a greenhouse, not having the slightest warning against his sneak attack. Such a waste of space would definitely not survive in the battlefield, and might even die on the first day.
Rather than being killed in battle, it would be better to waste him here.
The Eight Trigrams: Vacuum Palm he had just used was very measured, and at most would seriously injure Kirito, not killing him.
But the next moment, a thick wall of water suddenly appeared in front of him, easily blocking his Eight Trigrams: Vacuum Palm.
Then, Kirito's voice came to his ears: "As a senior, isn't it a bit excessive to attack me in secret? But it seems that your Eight Trigrams: Vacuum Palm isn't very powerful."
"You've managed to anger me!"
Hyūga Ishi roared in anger and immediately charged in the direction where Kirito was.
Combining the technique of condensing chakra at the soles of his feet with the powerful body he had cultivated through years of training in the Gentle Fist, he instantly exploded into the speed of a jōnin.
The distance of ten or so meters was traversed in the blink of an eye.
Just as he was about to unleash an insidious attack from the Gentle Fist on Kirito, the pupils of his opened Byakugan suddenly widened, and he hastily stopped his forward momentum, launched his attack, and quickly jumped back.
He jumped more than 20 meters away, and then looked in shock at the ground in front of him.
"Senpai, what's wrong with you? Why did you suddenly run away? Weren't you going to come over and teach me a lesson? Now you've turned into a coward. This is different from what you just said,"
said Kirito sarcastically.
"You..."
Hyūga Ishi heard Kirito's sarcastic words and his face turned incredibly ugly, but this time he couldn't hold his ground.
He didn't want to use Gentle Fist to teach Kirito a lesson up close, but he really couldn't do it. Using Byakugan, he could clearly see a large number of seal techniques formed from Chakra lurking on the ground in front of him.
Although he wasn't sure what kind of seal techniques Kirito had released, he was still aware of the terror of seal techniques.
If he hadn't retreated decisively when he noticed something was wrong, he might have already been dealt with by Kirito's seal techniques.
"This guy is a monster, isn't he? The speed at which he releases his seal arts is terrifying. Is this how he does it?"
Hyūga Ishi looked at the huge seal formation in the ground and was shocked.
He had already discovered that Kirito had used seal arts to create a seal formation with a coverage area of more than 20 meters in just a few seconds. As long as Kirito wished, this seal formation would instantly take effect.
This was the first time he had seen such a huge seal formation and such a rapid release of seal arts.
It is no surprise that this 8-year-old brat in front of him can use Sealing Technique to fight flexibly in battle. Moreover, unlike ordinary Sealing Technique ninjas who want to spend a long time setting up Sealing Technique, in his hands, Sealing Technique is as simple as using the Three Body Technique.
He is not stupid, and he knows very well how terrifying a Sealing Technique ninja like this would be.
Just this Sealing Array in front of him, if he didn't have Byakugan, he would have definitely been caught and then surrendered.
Although he didn't want to admit it, the strength of the young boy in front of him was above him. The opponent could easily beat him, a taijutsu-type ninja whose main attack method was Gentle Fist, just by relying on the seal technique he had just revealed.
"Hmph, Byakugan is troublesome. It's too hard to sneak attack them with seal techniques."
Kirito cursed under his breath when he saw that Hyūga Ishi didn't send any help despite being taunted by him.
Then, he took out a summoning scroll and used the Summoning: Release Technique to take out the black rod that assisted him in using the Magnet Release.
Naturally, such a high cost greatly enhances the ability of the Black Rod to assist in the use of Magnet Release. It now has the effect of greatly reducing the consumption of Lightning Release Chakra and greatly enhancing magnetic force, allowing Kirito to manipulate five times more iron sand than before with the same amount of Lightning Release Chakra.
"If you're not going to attack, then I'll attack. Coward,"
Kirito taunted again, holding the Black Rod, before immediately infusing it with Lightning Release Chakra.
The Black Rod immediately lit up with a blinding white electric light.
"Don't underestimate me!"
Hyūga Ishi was once again taunted by Kirito, and finally, unable to hold back any longer, he yelled angrily.
As he spoke, he threw two Kunai with explosive tags out with all his strength.
Kirito saw this and swung the Black Rod in his hand, causing a large amount of iron sand to gush out from the ground.
"Boom boom~" Two sounds.
The two Kunai were blocked by an iron sand wall, and the explosive tags on top of them could not harm Kirito behind the iron sand wall in the slightest.
At this time, Hyūga Ishi's objective had already been achieved. He had already completed the hand seals with both hands, and then slammed his hands onto the ground.
Earth Release: Ground Splitting Technique!
The next moment, the ground under Kirito's body suddenly cracked, and the sealing technique he had laid underground was dismantled.
Hyūga Ishi seized the opportunity and rushed towards Kirito at high speed.
But to his despair, Kirito flew up unreasonably.
Under Kirito's control, a circular platform formed from iron sand carried him into the air, where he looked down at Hyūga Ishi, who was now dumbfounded.
"If you sincerely and loudly apologize to me now, I will forgive your previous rudeness."
Kirito said, standing high above and looking down at Hyūga Ishi below.
"Don't even think about it!"
Hyūga Ishi stubbornly said.
How could he do such a shameful thing? He had already seen through his Byakugan that a large number of clan members and other people had appeared around him. If he obediently did what Kirito said now, how could Hyūga Ishi continue to mingle in the clan and Konoha in the future?
"Stubbornness is useless. You are much weaker than me, Senpai!"
Kirito sneered, and his right hand immediately clenched forward.
A large amount of iron sand on the ground instantly turned into a huge iron sand hand, which grabbed Hyūga Ishi. Hyūga Ishi immediately dodged and tried to use the Eight Trigrams: Vacuum Palm technique on Kirito in the air, but he took a few steps and found that his feet were bound by the iron sand.
Moreover, a large amount of iron sand quickly spread from his feet to his whole body.
"Don't even think about catching me,"
As he watched the large iron sand hand about to close in on him, Hyūga Ishi angrily shouted, and a dense, powerful aura of chakra suddenly exploded from his body, before his body started spinning at high speed like a top.
Gentle Fist: Revolving Heaven!
In an instant, he successfully used Revolving Heaven to knock away the iron sand that was entangling his body, as well as the incoming large iron sand hand, sending them flying out of the way, and he regained his freedom.
However, when his countermeasure ended, he discovered that four iron sand walls had appeared in front of him, forming an iron sand pyramid that completely encircled him, leaving only a small gap at the top.
His only way out now seemed to be the sky above him, but as soon as he looked up, he saw Kirito's teasing eyes.
No, there was no escape for him.
The next moment, an iron-sand hand reached out from an iron-sand wall and grabbed Hyūga Ishi firmly, before a large number of seal techniques quickly covered it, completely sealing up all of Hyūga Ishi's chakra and rendering him completely unable to resist.
Then, the iron-sand hand flew Hyūga Ishi into the air and brought him in front of Kirito.
"Hyūga Ishi-senpai, remember to be polite in the future when you speak. Also, although I am young, not just anyone can make me obedient."
Kirito smiled as he gently patted Hyūga Ishi's face, which was now showing signs of defeat.