A comic book journey to see the Eye of Antiquity

Why did Choji, Shikamaru, and Ino become Asuma's disciples? It's because these three families have deep ties with the Sarutobi family, and the Sarutobi family is a witness to the alliance of the three families.

The three major families of Ino, Shika, and Cho have a rule unknown to others: after the head of the family decides on the successor, he will give the head of the family's unique earring to a Sarutobi clan member. Only after the successor gains the Sarutobi clan member's recognition and receives the earring from him can he officially become the young head of the three major families.

In other words, the earrings Asuma gave to Choji and the others in the original story were not without reason; it shows that he had recognized their strength and acknowledged them as the next clan leaders.

It is precisely because of this friendship that even though the Sarutobi clan does not have its own unique secret techniques or bloodline limits, it is not much inferior to other top-tier aristocratic families. To put it another way, if the Sarutobi clan suffers a major blow, the Ino-Shika-Cho trio will do their best to help them. The four families are like one family.

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Even in ordinary times, the four major families would form a mutually supportive relationship on political issues.

In addition, the Sarutobi clan is very low-key and usually doesn't show off, but when they need to take responsibility, they will not hesitate to do their best, which makes them very respected and loved by the village.

It was precisely because the Sarutobi clan's prestige was growing that rumors began to circulate in the village that the Hyuga clan was going to arrange a marriage between the clan head's daughter and the Sarutobi clan. This made Hyuga Hiashi very unhappy, which led him to throw a tantrum and argue with a child.

It was precisely because of Hiashi Hyuga's momentary lapse in judgment that Yang Lei temporarily set aside his romantic feelings and devoted himself wholeheartedly to rigorous training, which allowed him to acquire his current formidable strength.

He's only twelve years old, yet he already possesses the strength to kill Jonin, or even dozens of Chunin. This proves that his strength is at least at the Kage level, or even Kage level.

This news startled everyone who knew about it, not just Hiashi Hyuga at that time, but also the Third Hokage, Danzo, the heads of the Ino-Shika-Cho clans, the heads of the Inuzuka and Aburame clans, as well as Kakashi and Might Guy.

· ·····Requesting flowers·······

In short, on the night Yang Lei returned to the village, an undercurrent was slowly flowing in the shadows of Konoha Village.

. . . . . .

"Yang Lei".

After taking another sip of the bitter matcha, Hiashi Hyuga felt that the matcha no longer had that refreshing fragrance, only a bitter taste remained.

Looking up at Yang Lei, Hiashi Hyuga sighed and said, "Do you think I don't care about Hinata? Because her talent is not as good as Hanabi's, I have given up on her and even wanted to use her as a sacrifice for a political marriage?"

Upon hearing this, Hinata's face drained of color, and a fleeting look of sorrow crossed her eyes.

Hanabi also felt uneasy. Although she didn't quite understand the adults' ways, she vaguely knew that she had cheated her sister. Because of her existence, her sister was having a hard time and suffering.

. ..... .......

"Ugh."

Mrs. Hyuga appeared beside the two sisters at some point, hugged them one in each arm, and said, "Hinata, you've suffered. Listen, your father is about to explain his reasons."

In Japan, when a mother talks to her child, she will also call her husband "Dad," but it doesn't mean she calls him "Dad" like a child would. Instead, it means "your father."

For example, when Mrs. Hinata said to the two sisters, she meant that their father was their father.

Just as Mrs. Hyuga was comforting Hinata, outside, Yang Lei looked at Hyuga Hiashi and gleaned some clues from his words, realizing that Hyuga Hiashi was about to reveal some secrets.

I think so.

After thinking for a moment, Yang Lei said, "All parents love their children. Unless there is no other way or there are other hidden reasons, they will never mistreat their children."

"so."

Yang Lei suddenly changed the subject, deliberately saying, "You must have had some reason for treating Hinata that way, am I right?"

"Yes."

Hiashi Hyuga nodded and sighed, "I had no choice. Otherwise, Hanabi would have suffered for the rest of her life."

"If we choose to mistreat Hinata, although it will make her life difficult, she can still find happiness once she gets through her childhood."

0140 Hiashi Hyuga's arrangements

"Yang Lei".

Hiashi Hyuga looked at Yang Lei with an equal gaze and said, "Do you know the clan rules of the Hyuga clan's main family and branch families?"

Regardless of the strength Yang Lei displayed, his so-called Tenseigan, or the maturity he showed, Hyuga Hiashi could no longer treat him as an ordinary child. It was as if he were facing an adult who was equal to him in both strength and status.

"I know a little bit."

Yang Lei nodded and gave a vague answer to get by.

In order to keep the conversation going, he couldn't say that he knew nothing, lest Hiashi Hyuga take the opportunity to end the conversation.

Why should I waste my breath talking to you when you know nothing?

At the same time, he couldn't say that he knew everything. As an outsider, how could he know so much about the Hyuga clan? Did he have some ulterior motive?

Hiashi Hyuga was very satisfied with Yang Lei's answer and continued, "I'm not bragging, but the Byakugan is a very powerful dojutsu. In order to protect the bloodline limit of the Hyuga clan, our ancestors had to make a choice, distinguishing between the main family and the branch family within the clan, and inventing a cursed seal called Restoration B to prevent the branch family's Byakugan from being taken away, and then making the branch family do their best to protect the main family."

"The so-called branch family members are the younger brothers or sisters of the main family, who were just born a little later. For example, my twin brother Hizashi was assigned to the branch family because he was born a few minutes later than me."

At this point, Hiashi Hyuga let out another long sigh. He didn't continue to explain about the restoration of the B family, nor did he talk about the clan rules. Instead, he said, "After Hizashi died in my place, I wanted to abolish the branch family rules, but it's impossible. I simply can't do that on my own."

"But Hanabi was born at that time. I really didn't know what to do. According to the clan rules, Hanabi would have to be reinstated to B-level when she turned five. This was a scene I absolutely did not want to see, just like what you just said."

Hiashi Hyuga gave a bitter smile and repeated what Yang Lei had just said, saying, "No parent doesn't love their child. So I've been thinking about what I can do to save my daughter from this disaster."

"I understand."

Yang Lei suddenly interjected, saying, "Hinata's talent isn't necessarily lacking; rather, it must be insufficient. Only then can Hanabi's talent be revealed, allowing her to replace Hinata as the heir to the Hyuga main family and thus avoid being assigned to the branch family!"

"That's right."

Hiashi Hyuga nodded, closing his eyes to hide the guilt and remorse that was about to burst forth, and said, "It's not that Hanabi's talent is much better than Hinata's. The sisters' talents are actually not that different. It was because I left a foreshadowing from the beginning that I didn't put in my best effort when training Hinata, which is why she seems so ordinary."

“When Hanabi turned three, I started training her secretly. By the time she was five, she had already surpassed Hinata in training courses, so it was only natural that she could defeat Hinata.”

"And so, Hinata's status as heir was removed, and Hanabi smoothly became the heir."

"Because Hinata is the eldest daughter, no one could suggest that she be assigned to a branch family. That's how I was able to keep both sisters with my husband and me."

At this point, Hiashi Hyuga let out another long sigh. He sighed many more times than usual today, but he really couldn't bear it anymore. Both daughters were his flesh and blood, how could he not love his eldest daughter?

To this day, he still remembers the emotion he felt when he first held Hinata in his arms, the tears welling up in his eyes, the feeling of being moved, and the happiness he felt when his daughter called him "Dad" for the first time.

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But in order to protect his younger daughter, he had caused his older daughter countless hardships over the years, and he was filled with self-blame. This time, with Yang Lei's sudden rise and revelation, he could no longer hold back and poured out all his words and methods.

Hinata.

Turning around, Hiashi Hyuga looked at the door behind him and said to the mother and her two daughters inside, "It was my fault. I'm so sorry for all these years. I've made you suffer."

"no."

The door opened, and Hinata walked out with tears streaming down her face. Although there was still some grievance in her eyes, she thought of the family rules and her younger sister, shook her head, and said, "Father did the right thing. If it weren't for your arrangement, my sister would have been taken away to separate from the family long ago."

How could Hinata not feel wronged? It turned out that it wasn't that she lacked talent, but that her father had planned to bury her talent from the very beginning, so that Hanabi's talent could be highlighted.

Is Hinata not talented enough?

In the original work, putting aside the fact that her strength was never inferior to her peers, and she even fought Pain to a standstill (though she certainly couldn't defeat him), consider that Pain was a powerful ninja who could easily defeat Kakashi. Compared to him, Hinata possessed at least Jonin-level strength.

Furthermore, Hinata also developed her own unique Gentle Fist style, first the TV original Guardian Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms, and then the Gentle Step Double Lion Fist.

Why is it said that Hinata developed the Gentle Step Double Lion Fist? Because no one else knows how to use it, or at least no one else has ever used it.

So, she is quite talented. She may be slightly less talented than Neji, but she is by no means inferior to Hanabi.

However, it was because of her father that her talent was buried. It was also because of her increasingly poor performance that she felt increasingly unable to bear the identity of the eldest daughter of the main family, which made her more and more self-conscious and introverted.

In short, it was all Hiashi's fault.

But then again, Hanabi is her own younger sister. When they were little, she helped her parents take care of her sister a lot. So why is Hanabi still so attached to her now? It's because Hinata has been good to Hanabi since she was little that Hanabi likes her older sister so much.

Just like the relationship between Sasuke and Itachi, the two sisters are bound to each other, and their blood ties are an inseparable bond.

That's why she could easily forgive her father's actions, because she didn't want Hanabi to leave the family either. Just thinking about what Neji had gone through made her even more afraid to imagine how much suffering Hanabi would endure if she were also assigned to a separate household.

"elder sister."

Hanabi leaned against the doorway, watching Hinata's retreating figure. Her small face, barely 1.2 meters long, was filled with emotion and happiness, and her big eyes held a tear, sensing her older sister's love and care.

She was a little young, but she wasn't stupid. In fact, people from large families are rarely stupid. They've been exposed to many things since childhood and know far more than children from ordinary families.

"Speaking of which..."

At this moment, Yang Lei interrupted the family's warm gaze and reminded them, "First of all, I congratulate Mr. Rishi and his family on clearing up the misunderstanding. However, will you grant my request from earlier?"

"hehe."

With his worries completely gone, Hyuga Hiashi gave a forced smile and said, "What did you say? I don't know. Well, it's getting late, you should go home soon."

"Holy crap! This is like killing the donkey after it has done its work? This is taking advantage of people too much!"

0141 Danzo's Covert Operations

Yang Lei was dumbfounded.

He genuinely sensed that Hiashi Hyuga was deliberately using him as a pretext to bring up certain topics; otherwise, he wouldn't have cooperated with him so readily.

But no matter what, he never expected that Riji, who was already such a grown man, would still have the nerve to play the trick of killing the donkey after it had served its purpose. He was caught off guard.

"What are you saying?"

Hiashi Hyuga was still unhappy. He rolled his eyes. Having resolved his conflict with his eldest daughter, he seemed quite cheerful and was happy to say a few words to his great benefactor. So he scolded, "You two are only twelve years old, still children. How can you arrange a marriage so early?"

"Besides, didn't I just say that Hinata is also my beloved daughter? How could I easily marry her off to you? You should think carefully about how to please my daughter and get our consent."

After saying this, Hiashi Hyuga flicked his sleeves, got up, and left. As he passed Hinata, he coughed slightly stiffly and gestured, "Come to the training room with Hanabi for morning lessons tomorrow morning."

After saying that, Hiashi Hyuga walked away in 16 quick steps, ignoring Yang Lei's calls.

"Oh, Lord Hiashi? You can't just leave like this, we're not young anymore."

Yang Lei called out repeatedly, somewhat unwilling, but saw that Hiashi walked faster and faster, entering the room in just a few steps. Amidst Mrs. Hyuga's teasing, the elderly couple gradually walked away and went straight back to their room.

"This."

Yang Lei was furious. He had originally planned to take advantage of the opportunity that his reputation had just spread back to the village to confront Hyuga Hiashi, and he was even prepared to potentially expose his Eye of Revelation.

After all, even the Third Hokage and Asuma know about the Eye of Revelation. If we can establish his relationship with Hinata, it wouldn't be a big deal to let Hiashi know.

But no matter what, he never expected that his original speech was relatively normal, and he even made some jokes to help Hijikata. Otherwise, if he had been a little less clever, Hijikata wouldn't have been able to talk about what happened back then.

He thought that his excellent performance would make things go more smoothly for him and Hinata.

Unfortunately, he was overthinking things. Just like Hiashi said, that was his beloved daughter, only twelve years old. Why was he in such a hurry?

From the moment Hanabi was born, Hiashi had been making preparations. He had wronged Hinata quite a bit over the years, and now that the conflict was resolved, he naturally wanted to make it up to her. How could he easily let his daughter leave?

Even if Hinata and Yang Lei were sixteen or eighteen now, let alone twelve, Nisashi would still not agree to their marriage. They'd rather wait until later.

"puff."

Seeing Yang Lei's indignation, Hinata couldn't help but burst out laughing.

She finally understood her father's good intentions, and her inner knot was lifted, leaving her feeling comfortable. Otherwise, she used to feel very restrained at home, as if she were a guest in someone else's house, not her own.

Let alone laughing so naturally, I used to be the kind of person who didn't dare to laugh out loud, just because I was afraid of being criticized for my manners.

She already showed a lack of talent; if someone were to find fault with her manners, how could she possibly be called "Miss"?

Another thing is that Yang Lei came to her father to confess his feelings and wanted to establish a relationship with her, which made Hinata extremely happy. Although Hiashi did not agree, she had already decided in her heart that she would marry no one but Yang.

Besides, even though Hiashi turned and ran away, the young couple still saw Hiashi's attitude. Although he didn't give a direct answer, before he left, Hiashi said that Yang Lei should find a way to please Hinata and then find a way to get their consent.

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In other words, Hijikata has tacitly acknowledged their relationship, but the decision of marriage is still up to them.

"What are you laughing at?"

Seeing that Hinata's smile was much more relaxed than usual, Yang Lei was happy for her. He deliberately put on a stern face and teased her, "You too, why don't you come out and say a few words? This is between the two of us."

"Pooh."

Hinata spat, her face instantly turning bright red. What did she mean by "the two of them"? They really dared to say anything. She was too embarrassed to agree.

After Hiashi left, Yang Lei and Hinata sat down face to face and talked for a while. The young couple talked about everything from their first meeting to their dreams for the future, even discussing how many children they planned to have. Their conversation ended when Hanabi was sent by Mrs. Hyuga to get rid of her.

. . . . . .

At midnight, Konoha Village was quiet, and most people were asleep. Apart from a few security personnel still on patrol, only the Anbu and Root members were still active.

Meanwhile, at the Root headquarters, Danzo sat alone in his room looking at a scroll in his hand. The contents written on it were exactly the same as the mission report submitted by Kakashi.

In other words, although the Root forces were greatly weakened a few years ago due to the assassination of the Third Boss, some remnants still managed to survive, and even managed to steal the Third Boss's documents, which shows how powerful they were.

This mission report is no simple matter. It focuses on describing Yang Lei's strength and talent. In addition to seeing the Eye of Reanimation, Kakashi even wrote about Yang Lei awakening the Tenseigan.

Regarding the issue of the Eye of Juko, Kakashi was seriously warned by Asuma from the beginning. The impact of this matter was too great. As long as Yang Lei could grow up smoothly, Konoha Village would gain a peerless powerhouse comparable to the Sage of Six Paths.

Once outsiders learn of his extraordinary talent of 510, countless people will want his eyes. Even if they don't know if the Eye of Learning can be obtained by others, they will still want to dig it out and try.