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

Chapter 237 Hyuga Kumokawa has already taught us, hasn't he?

The entire ward fell into a deathly silence.

The air seemed to freeze, and even the rapid breathing disappeared.

Sunlight streamed through the glass, reflecting off those lifeless white eyes, giving them a chilling, icy glow!

"How is this possible?!" Hyuga Neji's voice trembled uncontrollably, filled with disbelief and shock, as he blurted out.

He stared intently at the pair of white eyes floating in the glass jar, like those of a dead fish, and the color drained from his face at a visible speed.

A chilling sensation, like a venomous snake, shot up his spine and instantly to the top of his head!
No one knew better than him who killed the two members of the main family.

Because he's the murderer!
This is why he stayed by Hyuga Takashi's side all night; he felt guilty towards Hyuga Takashi and even the entire branch family.

In Hyuga Neji's view, if it weren't for him, Hyuga Takashi wouldn't have been deliberately targeted and harassed by Hyuga Yoto, and the conflict between the Hyuga main family and the branch family wouldn't have been so acute.

However, those two white eyes had clearly had their pupil power drained and turned to dust by him!

What exactly is the Byakugan in Hyuga Himon's hands?

"The evidence is irrefutable!" Hyuga Himon's voice was icy and chilling. "Hyuga Takashi! He is the murderer who attacked the main family member and gouged out his eyes!"

He put the glass jar back into his pocket and stared at Hyuga Takashi, who was trembling violently on the hospital bed due to excruciating pain and fear!
"Whoever it is, any rebel will be considered an accomplice, treated as a traitor, and killed without exception!" His tone was filled with undeniable killing intent.

Kill without mercy!

These four words struck the hearts of all the guards like a hammer blow!

Most of them were branch family members who had submitted to the main family, like Hyuga Himon and Hyuga Tokuma.

Even if they felt a slight pang of reluctance towards Hyuga Neji because of Hyuga Hizashi, the moment they heard the name Hyuga Himon, they could no longer hesitate.

The guards present instantly turned fierce, their hesitation and fear replaced by ruthlessness.

"on!"

Several guards rushed forward again, their fists and feet enveloped in fierce chakra, creating a series of ruthless and gentle gusts of wind that swept towards Hyuga Neji, who was blocking the hospital bed!
Some even bypassed Hyuga Neji's front and rushed towards Hyuga Takashi, who was lying on the hospital bed with a panicked expression and was trying to get up!
boom!boom!
The whooshing and colliding sounds of fists and feet cutting through the air rang out continuously. Hyuga Neji gritted his teeth, exerted the full power of his Byakugan perception, and turned his hands into afterimages as he continuously blocked, dodged, and counterattacked!
However, he was only one person and was still too young.

Facing several experienced ninjas and their well-coordinated attack, and distracted by protecting Hyuga Takashi behind him, he quickly fell into a complete disadvantage.

boom!
A tricky, gentle fist strike landed hard on Neji's left shoulder!

"cough!"

Hyuga Neji let out a muffled groan as a sharp pain shot through his shoulder. His chakra instantly became disordered, and he staggered back several steps before his legs gave way and he collapsed heavily to his knees!
Seeing this, Hyuga Takashi gritted his teeth and tried to raise his still-mobile left hand, while Hyuga Iroha, who was kneeling beside Hyuga Himon, also recovered and struggled to stand up...

The two middle-aged men dressed in the main family's kimono, who had been standing behind Hyuga Himon, showed impatient expressions.

They exchanged a glance and simultaneously raised their right hands, their index and middle fingers together!
hum! !

A wave swept by, and Hyuga Takashi, who was on the hospital bed, and Hyuga Iroha, who was struggling to get up from the ground, both froze abruptly.

The indescribable pain felt like millions of red-hot steel needles piercing my brain and penetrating deep into my soul!

"what!!"

A piercing scream, so shrill it was inhuman, emanated from deep within their throats!
Hyuga Takakazu and Hyuga Iroha's bodies convulsed and twitched violently, their eyeballs bulging out in pain, blood vessels like a spider web covering their eyes!

"Uhhhhh!!"

On Hinata Takashi's forehead, where he wasn't wearing a headband, the exceptionally ugly Caged Bird Curse Mark had veins that bulged and twisted outwards from the center of the mark as if they were alive!
It instantly covered my entire forehead, then climbed up my temples and cheeks!
His body rolled and twisted on the hospital bed, making strange hoarse noises in his throat. The bandages were torn, the wounds reopened, and blood instantly stained the white sheets!

Hyuga Iroha was curled up on the ground screaming, clutching his head tightly with both hands, his fingers digging deep into his scalp, tearing off his headband and clumps of hair.

The entire ward was filled with these piercing screams and pain. The guards of the Zong family present stood frozen in place, feeling the horror of the terrible pain and their own fear.

Finally, Hinata Takashi's body stiffened abruptly, the violent convulsions stopped abruptly as if a pause button had been pressed, and the heart-wrenching screams came to an abrupt end.

His eyes rolled upwards, white foam gushed from the corners of his mouth and nostrils, and his body lay limp and motionless on the bed. Clearly, the pain had exceeded his limit and he had passed out.

Seeing this, the two middle-aged men from the main family simultaneously lowered their raised hands, and the chakra fluctuations gathered at their fingertips quietly dissipated.

The ward fell into a deathly silence.

The only sounds were Hyuga Takashi's faint, almost inaudible breathing and Hyuga Iroha's painful, suppressed, intermittent gasps as he curled up on the ground.

The two members of the clan glanced at the group of guards who were trembling with fear in the ward. Seeing the fear on their faces, a hideous and twisted look of pleasure spread across their lips.

Cool!
So cool!
Who knows how long these main family members have tolerated these damned branch families!
Ever since that damned Hyuga Kumokawa appeared, relying on Sarutobi Hiruzen's support, he forced the clan head and elders to order the main family to arbitrarily use the Caged Bird Seal on the branch family!

This left them with no choice but to watch helplessly as these former branch families, who had once been subservient and obsequious to them even when they were bossy, gradually stood up straight!

Gradually, they dared to look at the main family with an equal or even condescending gaze!

They gradually became more daring to outwardly comply with orders but inwardly defy them, obeying commands but refusing to follow instructions!

Even someone like Hyuga Takashi openly learned, used, and modified the Gentle Fist, a secret technique of the main family, in front of everyone, defeated a member of the main family, and slapped the main family member hard in the face!

Wrong!

So frustrating!

It's like having a stone stuck in my chest, making it hard to breathe day and night!

Now, Elder Higo has hardened his heart to set things right, and the other elders have finally been unable to tolerate the branch family's rampant arrogance, allowing them to once again use the Caged Bird Seal to control the branch family's lives.

Hiashi Hyuga, the clan leader, seemed to have been persuaded and chose to ignore this option.

They finally didn't have to endure it anymore. They could finally let these arrogant branch families taste what it meant to have the power of life and death, and what it meant to have the authority of the main family!

This pent-up resentment has finally found an outlet!

The thrill of regaining control of everything was simply intoxicating for them!
"A bunch of idiots, what are you standing there for?" one of the clan members coldly shouted. "Hurry up and take this guy away!"

The two guards closest to him trembled violently, their faces still showing lingering fear as they looked at Hyuga Takashi, who lay unconscious on the hospital bed like a lump of mud.

That face, contorted in agony, and the menacing Caged Bird Curse mark on its forehead, were once again deeply etched into their minds.

One of them, almost instinctively, lunged forward and roughly grabbed Hyuga Takashi's right arm, which was bandaged and splinted and still had an unhealed fracture! "Uh..."

Even while unconscious, Hinata Takashi's body twitched from the rough action, and he let out a weak groan of pain.

The other person quickly stepped forward and grabbed Hyuga Takashi's left arm. The two of them dragged him away roughly, as if he were a bag of garbage, ignoring his terrible injuries.

"asshole!"

Hyuga Neji's eyes were bloodshot as he struggled to rush forward, but two guards held his shoulders down tightly, their powerful strength rendering him unable to move!

"Let me go! Is this how you treat your own kind? Are you even from a branch family?!"

Neji roared angrily, struggling violently, but the two guards remained unmoved, their throats bobbing.

Only after everyone had taken Hyuga Takashi away from the ward did the two guards look at Hyuga Himon, and only after seeing him nod slightly did they release Hyuga Neji.

The moment he let go, Hyuga Neji charged toward Hyuga Himon in a fit of rage.

Hinata Himon smirked and raised his right hand, gathering chakra in his palm.

boom! !

Hyuga Himon's palm slammed into Neji's chest, and a powerful force erupted instantly, sending Neji flying backward and crashing heavily into the wall!
Hyuga Himon looked down at Neji, who was slumped on the ground with a trickle of blood at the corner of his mouth, and then glanced at Hyuga Iroha, who was curled up in pain on the ground.

“Once Hyuga Takashi has explained everything, the main family will gather all clan members and publicly execute him.”

His icy voice, word by word, clearly reached their ears: "You had better pray that you weren't involved in the deaths of the main family members."

"Otherwise, you won't be able to escape either!"

With that, Hyuga Himon snorted coldly, turned his head, and strode out of the ward.

boom!
He slammed the door to the ward shut from the outside, making a dull thud!

Cut off from outside light and sound, the ward fell into a deathly silence, with only the heavy stench of blood left by Hinata Takashi.

Hyuga Neji slumped against the wall, his chest heaving violently. He stared at the closed door and the glaring bloodstains on the floor, his mind blank.

Fear, anger, despair, helplessness...

Countless complex emotions overwhelmed him like a tidal wave.

"Cough cough!"

Hyuga Iroha let out a violent cough, jolting Hyuga Neji out of his daze.

"Brother Iroha!"

He struggled to his feet, staggered to Hyuga Iroha's side, helped him up, and asked with uncontrollable trembling and panic, "What... what do we do?"

Hyuga Iroha's face was ashen, the veins around the hideous Caged Bird Seal on his forehead were still bulging, and his whole body was trembling uncontrollably.

"Ne... Neji," he gasped, his voice hoarse, "We must bring Takashi back..."

"The fact that the main family dared to use the Caged Bird Seal on me and Takashi means they have decided to completely break off relations. With Takashi's current severely injured body, he cannot withstand the main family's intense interrogation for long."

"Either you die during the interrogation, or you have to admit that you killed the person and gouged out their eyes... cough cough!"

He took a deep breath, as if using his last bit of strength, his voice filled with fear: "Once Xiao admits to these things, the main family will have a reason to take action against him!"

"If the main family were to execute him in front of everyone using the Caged Bird Curse, the deep-seated fear of the Caged Bird Curse etched in the memories of all the branch families would be awakened!"

"Lord Yun Chuan finally managed to get the branch family back on their feet, but they'll have their legs broken by the main family and be forced to kneel down again!"

"but……"

At this point, Iroha's body suddenly went limp, and she curled up again, clutching her throbbing head tightly with both hands: "I...I don't know what to do."

"I can't think of a solution."

"Even if we rescue Xiao, we can't clear his name. On the contrary, the main family will take action against the entire branch family, and may even purge them!"

"At that time, I, we will all..."

His words were like a blunt knife, cutting deeply into Hyuga Neji's nerves.

Hyuga Neji lowered his head, his body gradually trembling.

His gaze was fixed on the ugly Caged Bird Seal on Hyuga Iroha's forehead, and he smelled the strong, suffocating stench of blood in the air.

Before his eyes, the image that haunted him like a nightmare from the depths of his memory resurfaced!
He saw his father curled up on the ground, with the same caged bird curse mark, the same bulging veins, the same bulging eyes, the same bloodshot eyes, and the same heart-wrenching screams!
Scene after scene flashed wildly through Neji's mind, magnified!
Fear! Despair! Powerlessness!

And that which grows wildly and ultimately devours everything...

Hate!

Hatred for the main family! Hatred for the caged bird! Hatred for this unjust fate! Hatred for my own weakness and powerlessness!
All emotions instantly overwhelmed the dam of reason!

"Do not!!"

Hyuga Neji suddenly let out a low growl, his body swaying as he straightened up, his face twisted and ferocious with rage!
"No! There's a way!" He gritted his teeth, which chattered as he strained, and blood seeped from his gums, staining the corners of his mouth red.

"The solution..." he said in a hoarse voice, "...has already been handed over to us, hasn't it?!"

Upon hearing this, Hyuga Iroha stiffened, abruptly raising his head to stare intently at Neji's face, which was contorted with hatred and rage.

Those pupils, which had been dilated from pain, suddenly contracted, and the blankness and fear on his face were instantly replaced by an unbelievable horror!

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