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

Chapter 250 Hyuga Hizashi: Brother, it's all time to end this.
"Ugh!!"

"My hand! My hand!"

"Danzo! You treacherous bastard... Ah!!"

A agonizing, inhuman scream, interspersed with curses interrupted by the intense pain.

The sound echoed in the Japanese-style room, originally used for elegant meetings, and struck the sliding door covered with white paper, but was blocked by the pre-arranged barrier, preventing it from escaping even slightly.

Hyuga Higo and the other three main family elders were like live shrimp thrown into a vat of boiling oil, writhing and screaming in their own splattered blood.

The expensive tatami mats were soaked and left in a mess. The strong smell of blood replaced the faint sandalwood fragrance, filling the entire space and making people nauseous.

The flickering candlelight cast their distorted shadows on the wall, amplifying every spasm of their pain.

However, even more intense than the excruciating pain of severed limbs was the horror and chill that emanated from the depths of one's soul.

They struggled to lift their heads, their gazes fixed on the two standing figures, their eyes filled with incomprehensible anger and a hint of fear they themselves were unwilling to admit!

"Danzo! You, how dare you do this?!"

Higo Hyuga's face was ashen, and he forced out a roar through clenched teeth, his voice trembling with rage, as he endured the excruciating pain: "What do you want?!"

"Rizu!"

The gaunt elder stared intently at the figure standing beside Danzo, his eyes filled with disbelief: "Why, why did you join forces with him?"

"You're the head of the main family! Are you insane?! And what about your forehead..."

Their questions were hoarse and chaotic, but they could not conceal the trembling and panic deep within them.

The reality before them was too absurd and terrifying for them to accept, even though they saw it with their own eyes, and they desperately tried to grasp at any possible straw.

"Even after seeing it with your own eyes, are you still unwilling to accept the bloody reality before you?"

Danzo Shimura spoke slowly, his voice hoarse and low. His single eye coldly swept over the four men struggling and huddled in the pool of blood, making no attempt to hide his contempt and disdain.

He shook his head and said, "Even now, are you still deceiving yourselves and refusing to believe that the person standing in front of you is the very Hyuga Hizashi that you once sacrificed with your own hands?"

Hyuga Hizashi...

The name seemed to carry some kind of curse, like a heavy hammer striking the hearts of those four people, freezing all their struggles and screams in an instant!

Their gazes were fixed on the silent figure standing there, their eyes fixed on the face that was almost identical to that of Hiashi Hyuga.

Yes, that face is exactly the same as Hiashi Hyuga's!
However, what struck the four most as jarring, and was also the most irrefutable evidence…

On his forehead was the clearly visible, ugly and hideous Caged Bird Curse Mark!
The eerie green mark, in the dim, flickering candlelight, resembled an ugly scar that would never heal, brutally tearing away all pretense.

At the same time, it also brutally exposes the facts they least want to face, laying them bare before their eyes and completely destroying their last shred of hope and self-deception!
No one from the main family could possibly possess the Caged Bird Seal!

The person in front of me is not Hiashi Hyuga!
Instead, it was Hyuga Hizashi!
It was Hyuga Hizashi, the member of the branch family, who was pushed out without hesitation to die in place of Hiashi in the name of "protecting the Byakugan from being leaked" many years ago!

The “sacrifice” they tried to bury, forget, and even take for granted has actually, in such a horrifying way, reappeared before them!
"No! Impossible!!"

An elder shook his head and screamed, staring intently at Hyuga Hizashi, his eyeballs trembling violently as if they were about to pop out of their sockets: "You, you are clearly dead!"

"That night, in Yunyin, we clearly saw with our own eyes the corpse that was handed over to them..."

"Are you a human or a ghost?!"

Higa Higo's voice was filled with horror and distortion, and he even forgot the pain of his broken arms as he roared, "Where's Hiashi? Where is Hiashi? What did you do to him?!"

"When?"

"When exactly did it start?"

Faced with their hysterical, fear-filled questioning, Hyuga Hizashi simply looked down at them, his eyes showing neither the ecstatic joy of revenge nor the slightest pity, only coldness.

“From beginning to end,” he said in a terrifyingly calm tone, “there was no Hyuga Hiashi.”

"just me."

“Only from the moment you pushed me out to die in your place, I have been wearing a bandage around my forehead, day after day, year after year, playing the role of my brother… me.”

His gaze slowly swept over the four faces on the ground, utterly distorted by fear, excruciating pain, and a collapse of cognition.

"No! No, no!" Hiugo Hyuga shook his head repeatedly, his voice hoarse. "How could this be? How could this be? How could you have hidden for so long?!"

Hyuga Hizashi slowly squatted down, looking directly at the collapsed Hyuga Higo.

His movements were slow, with a cat-like composure as he played with a mouse.

“I’m curious too,” he said, his voice eerily soft. “How come you all didn’t notice?”

"Speaking of which, haven't I done a good job as the clan chief all these years?"

A slow, slanted smile appeared on his lips, not a genuine smile, but a mocking and self-deprecating expression: "Clearly, there's only a bandage covering it, yet you'll never notice."

"You people are so arrogant and ridiculous."

His words completely shattered the last line of defense in the hearts of the clan elders.

Looking at the glaring curse mark on Riji's forehead, they seemed to see everything they had always believed in and upheld collapsing before their eyes.

The fear and absurdity of being utterly fooled and judged by the very "victims" they created, mixed with excruciating physical pain, nearly drove them to the brink of collapse.

"Why, Hizashi! We... cough! cough cough!"

The gaunt elder beside him wanted to say something, but coughed up blood from the excruciating pain, his voice trembling as he said, "We did it for the Hyuga clan!"

"It's for the sake of the Hyuga clan's order! It's a necessary sacrifice! Don't you really understand?!"

“A necessary sacrifice?” Hyuga Hizashi turned to look at him, repeating, the mocking smile on his lips widening as he laughed, “Well said.”

"Then," his gaze slowly swept over the four of them, "now, for me, and for the 'new life' of the Hyuga clan..."

At this point, he suddenly paused, and then, under the intense gaze of the four elders whose pupils contracted sharply, he abruptly reached out and touched the thin elder who was still coughing!
"Please do it."

Let's make the 'necessary sacrifices' too!

"No..." The gaunt elder let out a scream of extreme terror.

But his resistance was meaningless in front of Hyuga Hizashi at this moment, whose fingers precisely and ruthlessly dug into his eye sockets!
puff!

"what!"

With the sound of flesh being torn apart, a shrill scream suddenly rang out.

Fresh blood mixed with some indescribable tissue gushed from the empty eye socket, and a pale eyeball, still with nerves and blood vessels, was already in Hizashi's hand!
This sudden and cruel scene completely froze Hyuga Higo and the other two elders, and boundless fear surged from their hearts!

"You! What are you going to do?!"

Higo Hyuga screamed hoarsely, kicking the ground frantically with his feet, trying to drag his broken body backward and away from Hizashi Hyuga, who had crawled out of hell!
The other two also let out terrified whimpers and desperately shrank back!
"Hizashi! You can't do this!" Higo Hyuga roared. "You're destroying the Hyuga clan! Destroying the Hyuga clan's heritage! You're a madman!"

Hyuga Hizashi slowly stood up, holding the still-bleeding eyeball in his hand.

"I said that."

He walked slowly and deliberately toward Hyuga Higo, who was struggling and retreating, his voice as soft as a whisper: "This will be the rebirth of the Hyuga clan."

The moment he finished speaking, he was already in front of Hyuga Higo.

Ignoring the other's frantic head shaking and futile struggles, he reached out with his other hand, grabbed Hyuga Higo's constantly shaking head, and forced him to stay still.

Then, two fingers were extended towards Hyuga Higo's bulging Byakugan, which was contorted with fear. "No! No! Please! Hizashi! No..." Hyuga Higo uttered the most humble and desperate plea of ​​his life.

puff!

Another chilling sound!

"what!!"

Higo Hyuga's pleas for mercy abruptly ceased, replaced by a terrified and painful scream. His body collapsed to the ground, curled up and convulsing, clutching the two bloody holes in his face.

The other two elders witnessed all of this, their faces as pale as corpses, their teeth chattering and making a clattering sound, unable even to utter a scream.

They could only watch in vain as Hyuga Hizashi walked away expressionlessly towards them, and then...

puff!puff!
Hyuga Hizashi straightened up, took out a container filled with green liquid from his pocket, and gently placed the four Byakugan eyes, still warm from his body, into it.

He carefully sealed the container, making sure there was no leakage, before turning to look at Shimura Danzo, who had been watching coldly from the sidelines.

“There are still some clan members outside. I’ll go help Neji and the others clear them out.”

Ignoring the fleeting glint of greed in Shimura Danzo's eyes, Hyuga Hizashi said coldly, "I'll leave this place to you."

Danzo Shimura narrowed his one eye slightly, a calculating glint in it, and nodded.

"Mm," he responded hoarsely, "Don't forget our promise."

Although he was somewhat envious of the main family's disdainful looks, for him, 'emptiness' and the division of the family were more important.

It's not worth turning against Hyuga Hizashi over a few pairs of Byakugan.

"I won't forget." Hyuga Hizashi said without turning his head, and walked towards the door. His figure quickly disappeared into the thick darkness outside the door.

Inside the room, only the painful gasps and screams of the four elders remained for the time being.

However, shortly after Hyuga Hizashi left, Hyuga Higo seemed to suddenly awaken from his pain and fear.

He noticed a terrifying piece of information in Hizashi and Danzo's conversation that he had overlooked.

"Wait, wait a minute!" he struggled, screaming with all his might, his voice distorted and deformed, "What are you talking about? What cleanup?"

"That scream outside just now, could it be... couldn't it be... Ah!!"

Before he could finish speaking, he felt a foot wearing wooden clogs stomp hard on his shinbone and begin to slowly grind down on it!
Kaka! Click!
The sickening cracking sound of bones breaking rang out again, and Hyuga Higo let out an even more shrill scream than when his eyes were gouged out!

Danzo Shimura had somehow appeared in front of him, looking down at him with a cruel mockery and icy killing intent in his single eye.

"You don't actually think that those screams we just heard..."

Danzo's voice was hoarse and full of malice. He continued to slowly increase the pressure under his feet, grinding the already broken bones, and laughed, "Is it my 'roots' helping you clean up the branch families?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Higa Higo's screams abruptly stopped.

Even after losing his eyes, the expression on his face instantly froze into fear, horror, and disbelief.

"The real prey." Danzo's cold voice slithered into his ears like a venomous snake. "From the very beginning, it was you self-righteous main family members, you fools."

As soon as he finished speaking, Hyuga Higo and the other three elders of the main family realized something. A strong chill surged out, almost engulfing them.

It is not the 'root' that is being acted upon.

Instead, they split up!
The prey that is slaughtered is not a separate family.

Rather, it's the main family!
"No! No! You're all crazy! You're all insane!"

Hyuga Higo completely broke down, blood gushing from his empty eye sockets as he roared furiously, "You can't do that! The main family is the root of the Hyuga clan... Ah!!"

Danzo Shimura straightened up, shook his head with a cold smile, and stomped hard on Hyuga Higo's other leg, crushing it and causing him to scream in agony!
"This is not something you should be worrying about right now."

A cold smile appeared on his face: "It's a pity that you had Hyuga Tokuma take his family out to maintain secrecy, otherwise I could have had a few more fusion materials."

"But that's enough."

"Don't worry, I won't let you die so easily."

"In order to increase the probability that you will become 'Hollows' after you die, before you die, I will make you fully experience what it means to experience extreme pain and fear!"

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At the same time, Hyuga Hizashi did not go to assist the other branch family members in cleaning up the main family, as he had told Shimura Danzo.

After leaving Hyuga Higo's blood-soaked Japanese-style room, his footsteps turned directly towards his own... no, it should be said, Hyuga Hiashi's mansion.

The mansion was eerily quiet, a stark contrast to the faint sounds of chaos coming from the outside.

He first silently arrived outside Hinata Hyuga's bedroom.

Gently push open a crack in the door, and you can see Hinata Hyuga still fast asleep, and in an even smaller cradle, Hanabi Hyuga, who was just born and sleeping soundly in her swaddling clothes.

Neither of them was aware of the night that was about to change their lives.

Hyuga Hizashi's gaze lingered on them for a moment, but he didn't go in. He just took one last deep look, then gently closed the door, as if he had never been there.

Then, he returned to his room, the spacious bedroom that belonged to the "patriarch," walked to a seemingly ordinary wall, and pressed his finger on it.

Click...

With a soft click of a mechanism, a cleverly concealed hidden door slid open silently, revealing a stone staircase leading downwards, from which cold, damp air rushed out.

Without the slightest hesitation, Hiji stepped into the darkness.

The hidden door closed silently behind him, completely cutting off outside light and sound.

Snap... Snap...

He descended the familiar steps, his footsteps echoing softly in the narrow space.

Soon, they arrived at the deepest part of the secret room, where a figure sat.

The man was dressed in old but relatively clean clothes, his hair was somewhat disheveled, and his face was haggard, but his face was almost identical to that of Hyuga Hizashi, who was standing in front of him at that moment.

His forehead was smooth, without the menacing Caged Bird Curse mark.

Hearing footsteps, Hyuga Hiashi slowly raised his head.

His long imprisonment had made his eyes somewhat unfocused, but when he saw the face of the person who had come to him, extremely complex emotions appeared in his eyes.

There was anger, pain, confusion, and even a faint glimmer of hope.

"What are you doing here?" Hiashi Hyuga's voice was hoarse. "Are you going to let me out to see the fireworks?"

Hizashi did not answer immediately, but simply looked at his elder brother, the one who had taken his place for countless days and nights, his gaze sweeping over Hizashi's clean forehead.

After a long silence, Hizashi finally spoke, his voice eerily calm: "It's all time to end this, brother."

“…What?” Hiashi Hyuga was taken aback.

Then, Hyuga Hizashi took the container out of his robes. Four pairs of Byakugan eyes, still seemingly filled with lingering fear, gleamed eerily in the dim light.

Hiashi Hyuga's gaze fell on those eyeballs, his pupils suddenly contracted, and his face drained of all color!
He knew that this day had finally come.

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