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

Chapter 160 They've rebelled! They've all rebelled!
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The air seemed to solidify into a heavy block of lead, pressing down on everyone's hearts and suffocating them.

Higo Hyuga's facial muscles twitched violently; the strictness and arrogance he had developed from being in a high position had transformed into unbelievable fury and terror.

He looked at the dozens of raised arms with dozens of gruesome, bleeding wounds, and it was as absurd as seeing a group of ants trying to shake a giant tree!
"Hyuga Kumokawa! Do you! Do you know what you're doing?!"

A sinister glint appeared in Hyuga Higo's eyes, and his voice trembled slightly with extreme anger: "You are inciting rebellion! You are challenging the bottom line of the main family!"

"Do not."

Hyuga Kumokawa seemed oblivious to the murderous intent in Hyuga Higo's eyes. His unusually calm and clear voice reached everyone's ears as he said, "We are simply fighting for what we deserve."

"We simply refuse to become disposable expendable resources that can be sacrificed at will."

“We simply refuse to allow the Caged Bird Seal to become a tool for torture and murder.”

"We are only asking for the most basic fairness and respect."

As he spoke, his gaze swept over the few members of the main branch of the Hyuga clan behind Hyuga Higo, whose eyes were darting around, and he said softly, "Respect our equal status as fellow members of the Hyuga clan."

"Respect our sacrifices and loyalty in protecting our family honor and the scorn of others."

"We willingly carve caged birds to protect them, not to be enslaved and die!"

Hyuga Kumokawa's words were like several heavy hammer blows, slamming into Hyuga Higo's face and into the hearts of the branch family members behind him.

The expressions in the eyes of the split family members gradually changed, like dry tinder being ignited, their eyes surging with burning anger and fanaticism.

That invisible yet heavy and oppressive aura pressed down on the members of the main family as if it were a tangible force.

The main and branch family members standing behind Hyuga Higo felt their palms sweating as they gripped their weapons, and instinctively took a half-step back. Hyuga Higo's expression also changed abruptly.

He had never seen a division of the family like this before, nor had he ever seen such a united division of the family.

I have never seen so many branch families that dare to defy the main family.

Shock, anger, and a hint of fear intertwined in Hyuga Higo's heart at that moment.

But soon, an even stronger sense of humiliation and anger overwhelmed all emotions!

"It's a rebellion! It's all a rebellion!"

Hyuga Higo roared, his old face contorted with shame and rage, and he suddenly raised one hand, his index and middle fingers pressed together, and shouted sternly, "Hyuga Kumokawa! You asked for this!"

He was going to use the cursed seal, the mark that controlled the life and death of the branch family, to torture Hyuga Kumokawa severely in front of all the branch family members!

His pathetic, begging image must be etched into the hearts of all the rebels who split up the family!

Only in this way can we regain our crumbling authority and suppress the resistance of the divided family!

But just as Hyuga Higo raised his hand to form a hand seal, the gazes of the branch family members focused on him like knives, and bulging, menacing veins appeared in their eye sockets.

In that instant, Higo Hyuga's fingers froze in front of him as an unprecedented pressure and fear gripped him!

He felt those gazes piercing his heart, neck, back of the head, and other vital areas, as if needles were hanging in front of his eyes, getting closer and closer, causing a stinging sensation.

Higo Hyuga felt a chill run up his spine to the top of his head.

Because he actually saw the will to die in the eyes of some of the people behind Hinata Kumokawa.

He had no doubt that as long as he truly formed this seal, or forcibly took anyone away...

The next second will mark the beginning of the complete disintegration of the Hyuga clan.

The anger and humiliation that the family had suppressed for years would erupt like a volcano at this moment. Someone in the family would definitely take action against him, and the consequences would be something he absolutely could not bear!

He wasn't even sure if the men he brought with him could protect him from these reckless lunatics!
Therefore, he dared not!
However, Hyuga Kumokawa and his branch family members had no intention of backing down an inch. If he were to back down now, it would be tantamount to putting his own face on the ground and trampling on it!
"Damn it! Damn it! These guys!"

Higo Hyuga, who had held the power of life and death over countless branch families, felt an unprecedented sense of powerlessness and frustration at this moment, and his body trembled.

The atmosphere gradually became so tense that it reached its peak, like a fully stretched string about to snap!

"Enough!" Just then, a furious shout rang out, tearing through the stagnant air.

Turning my head, I saw two figures striding towards me from a distance.

One of them was Hyuga Hizashi, who was becoming increasingly adept at playing the role of "Hyuga Hiashi".

And the other person...

Upon seeing the other person's face, Hyuga Higo's expression turned even more ashen, and his body began to tremble uncontrollably.

Because that was his daughter, Hinata Aoi.

Without a doubt, it was Hyuga Aoi who went to inform 'Hyuga Hiashi'.

Seeing that Hinata Kumokawa was still standing there unharmed, Hinata Aoi breathed a sigh of relief, but when she saw the blood flowing from his arm, her expression changed slightly.

He quickened his pace unconsciously, walked up to Hinata Kumokawa, leaned close, and asked in a low voice, "What are you up to now?"

The wounds from the battlefield in the Moon Kingdom hadn't fully healed yet, and now he'd inexplicably inflicted another new one.

What on earth is this guy thinking all day?!
However, when faced with Hinata Aoi's question, Hinata Kumokawa remained calm and said softly, "You shouldn't ask me this question; you should ask your good father."

Hearing the coldness and rejection in his words, Hinata Aoi felt a tightness in her chest for no reason and pursed her dry and astringent lips.

Turning to look at Hyuga Higo standing opposite her, a faint resentment welled up in her heart as she looked at her always strict father.

She knew she shouldn't have these feelings; after all, the other person was her father.

But she just couldn't help it.

'I finally managed to get this guy's attitude to be a little less cold, but now it's inexplicably back to how it was before...'

During the time Hinata Kumokawa was recuperating at home, she was even more diligent than Hinata Takashi, and she made up all sorts of excuses to come over.

As a result, now...

At this moment, Hyuga Hizashi walked between Hyuga Kumokawa and Hyuga Higo, and subconsciously frowned as he looked at Hyuga Kumokawa and the branch family members.

On one hand, she was shocked to see the wounds on their arms, and on the other hand, she was afraid because of the radical nature of the splitting of the family, especially when she saw Hyuga Neji in the crowd with the same wounds.

In his view, if that old guy Hyuga Higo had been a little more ruthless, if he didn't genuinely care about the Hyuga clan, Yunchuan, Neji, and the others would have been severely tortured by him.

"What kind of behavior is it to gather here so late at night!"

With this in mind, Hyuga Hizashi frowned and said in a deep voice to the branch family members, "Disband immediately!"

His original intention was for the good of everyone involved in the division of the family, but the anticipated immediate dissolution did not occur.

All the branch family members still stood behind Hinata Kumokawa, like a silent and stubborn forest in the night.

They actually ignored the clan leader's orders?!

Looking at those figures, some expressionless, some sweating profusely, yet still standing in place.

Hyuga Hizashi opened his mouth but couldn't speak, suddenly feeling a dryness in his throat.

But soon, he took a deep breath, suppressed the turmoil in his heart, and turned sharply to look at Hyuga Higo and the people behind him.

"Elder Riwu!"

Hyuga Hizashi's voice wasn't loud, but his tone was exceptionally cold and stern as he questioned, "Didn't I say that the Caged Bird Seal must not be used without conclusive evidence?"

"You can keep it from me all you want, if it's just a normal interrogation and investigation, I won't say a word! But what's the meaning of this commotion you're putting on now?"

Without turning his head, he suddenly pointed at the remaining members of the branch family who were still standing silently, and said in a deep voice, "Are you going to take all the branch family members away as murderers and torture them severely?"

"Do you even respect me as the clan leader? Do you even respect the rules of the Hyuga clan?!"

(End of this chapter)