Naruto: I'm in Konoha, my name is Uzumaki Menma

Chapter 119 Hyuga Hizashi's High-Stakes Gamble!
Konoha Hospital became quite busy after taking in more than thirty injured people.

Hyuga Hizashi, who was placed in a single hospital room, had already woken up.

He just didn't want to open his eyes.

He started pretending to be dead after being kicked away by Shura.

Despite his apparent inaction, Hyuga Hizashi could still clearly sense the chaos on the battlefield.

The arrogant and domineering Shura swept across the battlefield with overwhelming power, leaving the Third Hokage and others helpless when he left unscathed.

After the medical ninja finished treating him and left the ward, Hyuga Hizashi slowly opened his Byakugan.

He stared at the pale ceiling, the air thick with the smell of disinfectant, his mind still replaying the battle in the council hall.

The mysterious ability that Shura displayed could actually interfere with the Byakugan's perception! This was something he had never heard of in the history of the Hyuga clan!

The nine summoned beasts further suppressed the many Jonin led by the Hokage.

Hyuga Hizashi was initially worried that many of his clansmen would die in this battle.

But while pretending to be unconscious, he overheard the medical ninjas discussing how such an intense battle hadn't resulted in a single death.

In a battle of this magnitude, how could they still manage to control casualties with such ease?!
Just how powerful is Shura?

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The sound of rain accompanied by a gentle breeze swept across the windowsill.

Hijiki suddenly sat up and turned his gaze toward the source of the sound.

That familiar figure leaned against the windowsill, the moonlight shining on the white three-eyed fox mask, giving it a divine, cold glow. The cloak behind him trembled slightly in the night wind, exuding mystery and a sense of oppression.

His Adam's apple bobbed, and he finally bowed his head and uttered a respectful phrase: "Thank you for your mercy, sir."

Before anyone knew it, Hyuga Hizashi had started using honorifics.

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Menma jumped down from the windowsill and slowly walked towards Hizashi.

"I remember saying when I left last time that I hoped to hear your reply when we meet again." A deep voice came from behind the white three-eyed fox mask.

Shura has proven his strength on numerous occasions.

Whether it was his two incursions into Konoha as if it were empty, or his solo attack on Kumogakure, it all demonstrated Shura's immense strength, enough to overpower a major ninja village!
Its power is comparable to that of Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju in the past.

With such a powerful protector, Konoha's pursuit force is indeed nothing to fear.

After all, this is no longer the era of the Warring States period when ninja clans were the dominant force. The Hyuga branch family is also a member of Konoha. If Hizashi takes away some of his clan members, it will inevitably provoke the pursuit of Konoha.

There are just too many things to consider regarding daily variation.

"I still have a few questions. Can you answer them for me, sir?" The sir walked barefoot on the floor, his posture no longer arrogant as before.

"Ask." Shura's robes fluttered even without wind.

Hyuga Hizashi seemed to see something twitching inside Shura's white fur collar.

However, he didn't pay attention to it, and instead asked in a solemn voice, "My first question is, what is your connection with my Hyuga clan?"

"My second question is, will you use my clan's Byakugan to synthesize that giant eyeball?"

Although Hyuga Hizashi only raised two questions, they were both crucial, even concerning the safety of the Hyuga clan members he led who had defected.

After all, he didn't want to lead his people in a defection only to become livestock to be raised.

"My fiancée has ties to the Hyuga clan. Is that reason enough?" Menma slightly raised his head, his white three-eyed fox mask staring directly at Hyuga Hizashi. A red light seemed to flash in the empty eyes of the mask. Hyuga Hizashi's breath hitched. In an instant, countless possibilities flashed through his mind. Was this mysterious powerful man's fiancée also a member of the Hyuga branch family? That's why she knew so much about the Hyuga clan?
Or are they Hyuga clan members who have been separated from their clan?
What is the connection between the other party and the mysterious clan that hunted the Byakugan of the Hyuga clan in history?
He couldn't figure it out, no matter how hard he racked his brains.

"As for the second question." Menma raised his hand and took out a glass tube, inside which a pair of white eyes were immersed in a pale green liquid.

"You can rest assured, I would never stoop to conducting live experiments like Orochimaru. The sheer number of Byakugan needed to synthesize the giant Tenseigan is beyond the reach of the currently sparse Hyuga clan." The voice beneath the mask was indifferent.

'So that giant eyeball made up of countless Byakugan is called the Giant Tenseigan?' Hyuga Hizashi secretly memorized this key term.

Seemingly seeing through Hizashi's thoughts, Shura turned to look at the moon outside the window: "In a few years, I will go and snatch that giant Tenseigan, if your strength is still so weak."

"You are not worthy to participate in this war." Shura's voice was icy.

To steal that giant Tenseigan?!

Hyuga Hizashi was startled, involuntarily recalling the 'history' that Shura had shown him using illusion magic.

That beam of light was incredibly powerful, capable of destroying an army of thousands with a single strike, and powerful enough to flatten mountains!
Those who guard this giant Tenseigan must be no ordinary people either.

Hyuga Hizashi had never heard of this history, nor had he ever seen those mysterious people who hunted Byakugan in the ninja world, but the brutality of the battlefields they fought in that period of history could not have gone unnoticed.

So where will they hide?

Hyuga Hizashi realized for the first time how limited his understanding of the ninja world was.

"Then, one last question." Hyuga Hizashi took a deep breath, his Byakugan fixed on the mysterious pattern on Shura's cloak, and asked, "The Land of Bears... it should be called the Land of Stars now, and the upheaval in the Star Village, were those your doing?"

The upheavals in the Land of Bears and the Village of Stars were no secret in the major ninja villages, especially for someone like Hyuga Hizashi, the head of a branch family of a powerful ninja clan. After all, he was a high-ranking member of the ninja clan and the younger brother of the Hyuga clan leader.

When the news of the massacre of the daimyo and nobles of the Land of Bears by the Star Ninja Village came last year, Hizashi had a vague idea of ​​what was going on.

Shura does indeed possess such abilities; he can control a ninja village and wipe out the ruling class of a country.

But what exactly is he going to do?
“That’s right.” Since Menma was planning to abduct some of the Hyuga branch family members, there was no need for him to hide it from Hizashi.

"If you're asking about the goal, is unifying the ninja world and ending this ridiculous continuation of the Warring States period enough?"

"Hashirama Senju ended the chaotic era of the ninja clans. He clearly had the strength to destroy other countries and ninja villages and completely unify the ninja world, but he didn't do it. This is the most regrettable and also his most foolish decision!"

"Imagine if Hashirama Senju had unified the ninja world back then, would there still have been three Shinobi World Wars?"

As if struck by lightning, Shura's question opened up a whole new world for Himashi.

Following the hypothesis of Shura, the various countries in the past went from being enemies of ninja clans to creating ninja villages, thus ending the Warring States period.

If Hashirama Senju had continued on his path and accomplished the feat of unifying the ninja world, although there might still have been conflicts and deaths, it probably wouldn't have turned out like it is now, with three Shinobi World Wars fought in just over fifty years, and the casualties from each war far exceeding those of the Shinobi Clan Wars during the Warring States period.

More importantly, once Shura unifies the ninja world, Hyuga Hizashi, as the vassal who led the Hyuga clan to surrender...

The moonlight stretched and overlapped their shadows.

As Rishima watched Shura's retreating figure, he took a deep breath, beads of sweat forming on his forehead, and slowly knelt on one knee.

He wanted to seize this opportunity to break free from the caged bird!

This was not merely a defection; it was a high-stakes gamble with the fate of the entire clan at stake.

If they lose the bet, all they will do is die. These defectors will be forgotten, their remains lost forever, and after another hundred years, no one will care about them.

He won the gamble; he will be the new clan leader who will make the Hyuga clan great again!
　This is what I owed yesterday.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)