Naruto: I, who fooled the ninja world, was hailed as a savior.

Chapter 114 We are only connected by hatred

Compared to the once glorious head of the Zong family.

At this moment, Hiashi Hyuga looked extremely disheveled, his face was deathly pale from being in darkness for so long, and his white eyes were filled with fine blood vessels.

Time seemed to stand still in the darkness.

He had no idea how much time had passed in the outside world.

One day? One week? One month? Or one year?
Having been imprisoned in darkness for so long, he had completely lost his ability to perceive the passage of time.

However, he was not thin, nor was his face gaunt, indicating that he was well fed and clothed.

It can be said that Hyuga Hizashi had already shown his brother the highest level of respect, while ensuring that Hyuga could not escape.

However, the high-ranking head of the Hyuga clan's main family, having been framed and replaced by his own younger brother from the branch family, is clearly in a very poor mental state.

"Brother, it's been a long time."

Hyuga Hizashi greeted him calmly.

Hiashi Hyuga didn't speak, but stared intently at him, his voice hoarse as he asked, "What... exactly do you want to do..."

Even though he is blind now, he can still express extremely deep hatred.

“That’s not up to me,” Hizashi replied calmly. “I think you know how terrifying that man is. I can only do what he tells me to do.”

Click! Crack!

Upon hearing this, Hiashi Hyuga's expression turned ferocious, and he began to struggle violently, the chains rattling as he moved.

"Hyuga Hizashi!"

Hiashi's eyes nearly bulged out of their sockets as he struggled and roared like a madman, "You know perfectly well that guy has ill intentions! Do you want to destroy the Hyuga clan?!"

How could he not know how terrifying that guy was?

It is precisely because we know that we feel fear!

Since he was switched at birth and manipulated into entering the secret room, he has only learned about the outside world from Hizashi.

He didn't know what the relationship was between that monster who single-handedly killed Magnet Release ninja Troy and hundreds of Cloud Village ninjas and that guy.

All he knew was that the guy who seduced Hizashi into betraying, deceiving, and replacing him, his brother, was a complete and utter devil!

"The current division of the family is a good thing."

Hyuga Hizashi said calmly, "Neji has emerged from the shadows and is working even harder. I even let him peek at the unsealing of the library. Without the constraints of the main family, he will only go further."

"As for Yun Chuan, having broken free from the constraints and burdens of the Hyuga clan, he has become a 'hero' of Konoha, making significant contributions on the battlefield against Kumogakure."

"On the other hand, the main family you value is still stubborn and self-willed, rotten to the core."

"So stop wasting your energy, neither you nor I can change anything."

Hyuga Hizashi placed the thermos full of food on the table, and while opening it to take out the food, he calmly said:

“You chose to be the head of the main family, and I simply made my own choice, which is to be Neji’s father.”

"Whether the final outcome is good or bad, at least this choice was made by myself."

As he spoke, he held the food to Hiashi Hyuga's mouth, but Hiashi only opened his dim white eyes, seemingly staring intently at Hizashi in front of him.

The next moment, he completely lost the demeanor of the head of the Zong family.

"Pah!" "..."

His chest was splattered with stains, but he didn't react or even wipe them off. He just watched his brother's ugly state with indifference.

Uncontrollably, feelings of hatred, pity, pain, and... twisted pleasure arose within him.

"Ugh...cough cough! Cough!"

Hyuga Hizashi expressionlessly stuffed food into Hiashi's mouth, his deep voice echoing hollowly in the underground chamber: "Can you feel it?"

"Think about how coldly you treated me when you controlled me with the curse mark."

"Think about how you made that decision, pushing me out to take the blame for your mistakes."

"The pain of being 'out of control' and the despair of 'helplessness'."

Hyuga Hizashi's voice was calm and even, yet every word was like a knife cutting into Hiashi's nerves, his cold words spitting out on Hiashi's face: "Can you empathize now?"

Having said that, he straightened up and looked down at Hyuga Hiashi, who was like a lump of mud.

There was no victor's expression on that face, only a bottomless weariness and a heavy sorrow that seemed to drown him as well.

"You must live, you absolutely must live." Hyuga Hizashi's voice suddenly turned icy. "You are the head of the main family, and I am Neji's father."

"If we cannot be family, then we can only be connected by hatred."

"Therefore, I want you to live and see what the future of the Hyuga clan will be like."

After saying that, Hyuga Hizashi did not wait for Hiashi's response any longer, but simply fed Hiashi again, his actions revealing an almost eerie care.

After doing all this, Hyuga Hizashi didn't look at Hiashi again, turned around and walked out of the tomb-like secret room.

He never took any steps to prevent Hiashi from committing suicide.

Because Hyuga Hizashi knew very well that this guy simply didn't have the courage to face death.

boom……

The door to the secret room closed, and the darkness once again swallowed Hiashi's dejected face, leaving only a few dim candlelight flickering and casting distorted shadows on the walls, like a silent mockery.

Only the chains binding him, trembling with his body, continued to make a faint yet suffocating clattering sound, echoing repeatedly in the deathly silence of the underground.

Meanwhile, in Hyuga Hizashi's eyes, Hyuga Neji, who stole the library seal to learn ninjutsu, was actually searching for a book he had never seen before.

Inside the huge but low stone chamber, bookshelves reaching the ceiling were densely packed together, the smell of decaying books mixed with the smell of dust.

This is the forbidden library located deep within the Hyuga clan's ancestral hall, a place that contains the clan's secret history, incomplete ninjutsu, and many other unknown dark secrets.

"I247.5, L632...I247.5, L632..."

Neji Hyuga, dressed in clothes suitable for nighttime movement, moved silently through the narrow shadows cast by the bookshelves, muttering to himself.

Those white eyes filtered through the mountain of ancient scrolls and heavy books before them, while cold fingertips swept across the rough spines, brushing away layers of accumulated dust.

Time passes little by little.

Neji Hyuga's heart was pounding faster and faster. Even for him, stepping into this core forbidden area that symbolized the absolute authority of the main family and countless secrets, it was hard to avoid feeling a little nervous.

Finally, deep within the bottom shelf of an inconspicuous corner, his fingertips touched an unusually thick book, and his steps suddenly stopped.

Seeing the number "I247.5·L632" on the book, Hyuga Neji's heart skipped a beat.

that's it!
(End of this chapter)