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

Chapter 7 Searching for Clues to the Tenseigan
call out--

shhh-

In the forest surrounding Konoha Village, four ANBU ninjas leaped and darted through the trees, gradually converging from various directions.

"No target found!" An ANBU ninja stopped and stood on a branch of a large tree, using his sensory abilities to scan the surroundings. He then reported to his comrades through a communicator hanging on his ear.

The technology tree in the ninja world is quite strange. The development of firearms has basically stagnated, and the level of technology is uneven, yet they already possess technological products such as radio communication and even microphones.

The other ANBU ninjas also stopped and took up positions on the highest points of the tree trunks to keep watch over the surrounding area.

"Strange, where did they go?" The sensory ninja formed hand seals again, his chakra rippling outwards, but still found nothing.

call out--

A whooshing sound suddenly arose, and Kakashi, wearing a white cat mask, landed not far away.

As the captain of the Anbu, Kakashi wouldn't normally be mobilized easily, but this time the incident involved the Hyuga clan, one of Konoha's two powerful clans.

The Third Hokage personally ordered Kakashi to lead a squad of Anbu ninja to investigate the situation.

"Captain!" The other ANBU ninjas turned their heads to look over.

"Didn't you notice either?" Kakashi's single eye was serious beneath his white cat mask.

After the mysterious man disappeared into the night, Kakashi immediately led the Anbu ninjas in pursuit, and they dispersed to form a large net.

But even though they were almost at the village's protective boundary, they still hadn't found any trace of the other party.

"The orphanage has been thoroughly investigated, and no abnormalities were found," an undercover agent added. "There are only a few scattered buildings in this area, and the director is Yakushi Nonou."

"A wandering priestess?" Kakashi murmured.

He had naturally heard of this man's reputation, after all, Root was one of the divisions under the Dark Division, and many of Root's spies and personnel information were reported to the Dark Division.

As for the ninjas that Danzo secretly trained, they are not included in this list.

"Continue the search! You two search eastward along the village's protective barrier, the rest of you follow me westward!" Kakashi ordered.

"Yes!" The ninjas quickly sprang into action.

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Konoha Hospital, inside the intensive care unit.

Hyuga Hizashi has been out of danger after being rescued by medical ninjas and has been placed in a private ward to recuperate.

After all, Hizashi was not only a Jonin, but also the head of the Hyuga branch family and the younger brother of the Hyuga clan leader.

However, Hyuga Hizashi, who should have been sleeping soundly to recover from his injuries, was unable to fall asleep.

He lay on the hospital bed, his white eyes staring at the hospital ceiling, his brow furrowed with deep lines.

The scene of the battle just now flashed through Hizashi's mind.

Facing his own and Hiashi's attacks, the mysterious man directly hit the missing point in his attack, as if he knew the situation of the Hyuga clan very well.

bang bang-

There was a knock on the door.

"Come in." Lying on the hospital bed, Hizashi turned his head to look at the door.

The door slowly opened, and Hiashi, who had changed into casual clothes, walked in.

“Brother…” Hizashi tried with difficulty to get up and bow, but was stopped by Hiashi raising his hand.

"Lie down, your condition isn't good." Hiashi walked to the bedside and sat on a stool, looking at his younger brother's injuries on the bed, his face somber.

Although he had a lot of resentment towards his younger brother because of what happened some time ago, he had to admit that Hizashi's fighting ability was on par with his own.

Despite attacking the mysterious man from both sides, he and Hizashi were both seriously injured and slightly injured!

Such a powerful ninja is definitely not an ordinary person; one should have heard of him.

and……

“I’m here to confirm with you the technique used by the mysterious person just now.” Hiashi snorted lightly, putting on a serious face. “Yes…” Hiashi lay on the hospital bed, recalling with a gloomy expression, “That person knew a lot about us, or rather, about the Hyuga clan.”

“When I first fought him, when my Gentle Fist struck his pressure points, he could release chakra from those points to counter it and protect those pressure points with his own chakra. It was like hitting a block of iron. It was very difficult for Gentle Fist to seal his pressure points, let alone inject Gentle Fist chakra into his meridians.”

Hiashi Hyuga's fight with the mysterious man was brief, and he didn't use Gentle Fist or pressure point techniques; instead, he directly used Baguazhang.

So when he heard this, Hiashi's expression became even more serious.

"I tried to see his face under the mask with my Byakugan, but I found that there was an endless abyss of darkness under the mask, and his chakra was so vast that it was indescribable."

"And he seems to know my blind spot..." Hizashi thought to himself, and his body trembled slightly.

The blind spot that the Caged Bird Seal presents to each member of the Hyuga branch family is different, making it extremely difficult to pinpoint their weaknesses in a single battle.

Jonin like Hizashi have experienced many brutal battles and have never been exposed to any weakness.

But today's mysterious man, after only ten or so rounds of fighting—

Hiashi crossed his arms and remained silent for a moment before slowly saying, "I was defeated by his Twin Lion Fists."

"What?!" Hizashi, lying on the hospital bed, was suddenly startled.

He was already semi-conscious after being knocked away by the mysterious man, and he didn't see the terrible scene of Hiashi being sent flying by the Twin Lions Fist.

However, as the head of the family after the division, Hizashi often saw his older brother use the Double Lion Fist when sparring with Hiashi.

The full name of the Twin Lion Fist is 'Gentle Step Twin Lion Fist', a high-level taijutsu that only the Hyuga main family can learn.

By clenching both fists and gathering a large amount of Gentle Fist Chakra, the form changes into two lion heads attached to the fists. Combined with footwork, this greatly increases the power and range of the attack.

Its learning difficulty is no less than that of the Rejuvenation Technique. Even Hyuga Hizashi, who was able to develop the Rejuvenation Technique on his own, did not develop the Twin Lion Fist.

In an instant, many possibilities flashed through Hyuga Hizashi's mind.

The Hyuga family... could there be a defector?
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Late at night, at the Hyuga clan's main residence.

After shaking off the pursuit of the ANBU ninjas, Uzumaki Menma launched a surprise attack.

While Hyuga Hizashi and Hyuga Hiashi were at the hospital, Uzumaki Menma strolled into Hyuga Hiashi's study.

The little nine-tailed fox jumped out from the hempen collar, landed on the desk, and started rummaging through drawers and cabinets.

"What did you say you were looking for?" Little Nine-Tailed Fox paused for a moment as she opened a drawer. What was she looking for?

“A clue about the moon and the Tenseigan.” Menma stood in front of a bookshelf full of books, stretching out his right hand to search for something.

It's impossible for the descendants of Otsutsuki Hagura on the moon to have no connection with the Hyuga clan of the ninja world.

Otherwise, it would be impossible to explain why, among so many clans with bloodline limits in the ninja world, only the Hyuga clan developed a cursed seal technique like the 'Caged Bird'.

What they are guarding against is not necessarily other clans in the ninja world taking away their Byakugan.

Other clans in the ninja world who seize the Byakugan are at best able to obtain one or two, like Ao.

But the Otsutsuki on the moon is a different story.

Furthermore, in the Naruto movie, when Toneri Otsutsuki was a child, he and his father visited the ninja world, found the Hyuga clan's territory, and observed Hinata from afar.

After Otsutsuki Toneri came of age, he sought out Hyuga Hiashi for a talk, and Hiashi went to the meeting with two trusted aides.

It is possible that Hyuga Hiashi also learned something about the moon from the family's ancient records.

"Mianma." The little nine-tailed fox, who was rummaging through the drawer, suddenly sensed something and jumped into Mianma's fur collar.

"That big sister is here." Little Nine-Tailed Fox said, then shrank into its mental space.

"Huh?" Uzumaki Menma, who was flipping through a "Byakugan User Manual," paused for a moment.

He pulled away his sense of malice, and a somewhat familiar chakra was approaching.

Moreover, the other party seemed to be quite angry.

(End of this chapter)