Naruto: From Fake to Real, Deceiving the Ninja World.

“Enough, Senior Wujie.” Zhishui’s voice carried a hint of deep emotion that was barely perceptible. “You have no way out.”

"A way out?" Wujie grinned, revealing a smile mixed with blood and foam. "From the moment I embarked on this path, I never thought about a way out!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he took a deep breath, enduring the excruciating pain, and struggled to form a hand seal with his remaining right hand, as if he were making a final, desperate stand.

Itachi and Shisui's eyes sharpened, and they moved almost simultaneously!

Itachi's kunai pierced Mukai's heart, while Shisui instantly appeared on Mukai's flank, his short sword drawing a deadly arc as it slashed towards Mukai's neck.

However, at this critical moment.

Hyuga Kumokawa, who had been standing quietly to the side as if he were detached from the matter, did not form any hand seals or give any warning. He simply raised the fingers that were holding the sword in front of him.

Flowers in the mirror and moon in the water.

hum!

An invisible yet powerful mental wave spread out instantly, like a boulder thrown into a calm lake, disrupting the chakra of Itachi and Shisui in an instant.

Itachi and Shisui froze on the spot, maintaining their attack stance, but their eyes were vacant, as if a pause button had been pressed.

"Cough cough..."

The severely injured Kohinata Mukai was stunned by this sudden turn of events.

He looked at the two Uchiha geniuses who stood motionless like statues, and then, as if sensing something, he suddenly turned his head to look at Hyuga Kumokawa, who was still smiling in the distance.

"What...what did you do to them?"

Kohinata Mukai's voice was hoarse, filled with disbelief and horror.

"nothing."

Hinata Kumokawa slowly stepped forward, walked to the Boundless Gate, and said calmly, as if stating a simple fact: "It's just a simple illusion."

"I don't want anyone to overhear our next conversation."

After saying that, he looked up at the bushes in the distance, where there was only deep darkness, as if the spying he had just witnessed was just an illusion.

Ignoring Obito and his companion who were like rats, Hyuga Kumokawa turned to look at Uchiha Shisui, focusing on the finger that seemed to have twitched slightly.

Chapter 149 I Want You to Wait for Hyuga Neji's Defection from Konoha

"Illusion?"

Uchiha Shisui already harbored suspicions about Hyuga Kumokawa because of what had happened not long ago.

So he remained wary of Hyuga Kumokawa, who hadn't made a move, and almost the instant Kumokawa made a move, he keenly sensed the fluctuation of chakra.

I felt the scene before my eyes briefly distort, and I immediately realized that I had been under an illusion.

hum!

The three tomoe in Uchiha Shisui's eyes spun rapidly, gradually merging to form a whole that resembled a shuriken.

This is the Mangekyou Sharingan.

Shisui's pupil power increased by almost a level, and the scene in front of him began to become distorted, like an old television that had lost its signal, with a lot of noise filling his retina.

Finally, he "woke up".

The moment he "regained consciousness," the scene before him was that Kohinata Mukai, who had been forming hand seals, had also fallen into an illusion.

But Wujie only froze for a moment before uncontrollably taking out a kunai and suddenly slashing a long blade in front of him.

puff!

The knife sliced ​​open almost the entire chest and abdomen, revealing the internal organs clearly, and crimson blood splattered on Uchiha Shisui's face.

But he remained frozen in a daze, not blinking even as blood flowed into his eyes.

He wanted to see what Hinata Kumokawa was really up to.

He wanted to figure out why Hinata Kumokawa was hiding his abilities.

However, what happened next was beyond Shisui's expectations.

"What are you doing?"

Hinata Kumokawa's smile vanished, and he instantly appeared in front of Mukai, speaking in a deep voice.

"Cough cough! You brat, you actually know genjutsu? Even the Uchiha clan fell for it?"

Kohinata Mukai sat down against the tree trunk, coughed up a mouthful of blood, looked up at Hinata Kumokawa and joked, "As a member of the Hinata clan, you really are neglecting your duties."

As he spoke, Hyuga Kumokawa took out a first-aid bandage from his ninja tool bag, intending to bandage Hyuga Mukai, but Mukai shook his head weakly and laughed, "That's enough, it's useless."

"As a spy, I was put under a spell that would cause me to end my own life if my head was interfered with. This injury is beyond saving."

"What a pity. If you hadn't used your illusion magic to subdue me, I would have wanted to shine one last time before I died."

As he spoke, he looked down at the ripped clothes in front of him, revealing a large patch of torn explosive tags underneath, which made the "sober" Uchiha Shisui break out in a cold sweat.

At that close range, if Mukai had ignited the explosive tag, he and Itachi would have been seriously injured, if not killed.

So, Hinata Kumokawa saved the two of them?

No, that's not right. If it was to save them, there was no need to pull them into the illusion as well.

Hinata Kumokawa must be planning something.

"you……"

At this moment, Hinata Kumokawa sighed and took the initiative to ask, "Is there anything else you want to say?"

Kohinata Mukai didn't say anything, but struggled to raise his trembling left hand and rummaged through his pocket for something.

Hinata Kumokawa gently pushed aside Mukai's fingers and helped him take out what he wanted.

It was a pack of cigarettes and a lighter.

Snap... snap snap...

Hinata Kumokawa took a cigarette from the cigarette case and put it in his mouth. He tried several times with the lighter before finally lighting the cigarette.

"Hiss...hoo..."

Kohinata Mukai held a cigarette in his mouth, took a slow and deep drag, let the smoke flow deep into his lungs, savored it carefully before exhaling, along with blood.

"Although things have turned out this way, but..."

His eyes were lowered, his consciousness growing increasingly blurred, and he said in a faint voice, "What I did was a personal matter, and has nothing to do with my wife and children..."

"That's a nice way to put it." Hinata Kumokawa smiled, but still said softly, "I'll find out."

"Thank you."

Kohinata Mukai raised his lowered eyes slightly, seemingly seeing the ugly curse mark through his headband, and laughed, "I too have felt sorry for myself because of my rare bloodline."

"But I don't know whether I'm unfortunate or lucky compared to you."

"You must have something to ask of me for pulling them into the illusion as well. The only valuable thing I have is this white eye."

"If it's useful to you, take it. I just hope you can help me take care of them, mother and child. I'm so sorry..."

His voice grew fainter and fainter until finally, the cigarette fell from his mouth, and he fell silent.

"..."

Uchiha Shisui saw that Hyuga Kumokawa in front of him had fallen into a long silence. After a moment, he reached out and slowly pierced into the left eye socket of Hyuga Mukai.

puff.

Blood splattered.

Hinata Kumokawa withdrew his fingers, revealing a still-warm white eyeball lying in his palm.

One eye roll.

A white eye without the Caged Bird Curse mark.

Given the Kohinata clan's rare bloodline, it's already incredible that they were able to awaken a Byakugan; even the Konoha higher-ups didn't expect it.

If it weren't for Mukai's cleverness, he would have been forcibly taken back to the Hyuga clan, branded with the Caged Bird Seal, and become a branch family member.

"So, is Hinata Kumokawa doing this to get the Byakugan?"

Uchiha Shisui understood what was happening, and then he saw Hyuga Kumokawa put away his Byakugan, stand up, and throw the lit lighter in his hand at the corpse.

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Meanwhile, in the real world...

"What are you doing now?"

At this moment, the seemingly dead Hyuga Mukai in Uchiha Shisui's eyes was alive, watching Hyuga Kumokawa point the hilt of his sword at Uchiha Shisui in front of him.

“Apply a double layer of genjutsu.” Hyuga Kumokawa said casually, “Uchiha Shisui’s genjutsu skills are very high; one layer of genjutsu cannot fool him.”

"In their eyes, you are already dead."

Yes, everything Uchiha Shisui saw at that moment, including the death of Hyuga Mukai, was what Hyuga Kumokawa wanted him to see.

Although Uchiha Shisui's ability to detect the anomaly of "Kyoka Shuiyue" surprised Hyuga Kumokawa.

But that's all.

If one layer of illusion is not enough, then add two layers.

Two layers were not enough, so three layers were added.

Before Hyuga Kumokawa's chakra is exhausted, as long as Uchiha Shisui doesn't harden his heart and forcibly break free with "Kotoamatsukami," he will only be trapped in the endless illusionary corridor.

"Double-layered... illusion..."

Upon hearing this, Kohinata Mukai was taken aback at first, then looked at the stunned Shisui and the other person, and a smile gradually appeared on his lips.

"Two geniuses from the prestigious Uchiha clan were actually defeated by the Hyuga clan in genjutsu. This is truly... truly... hahaha..."

A moment later, Kohinata Mukai, a smile still lingering on his face, stared intently at Yun Chuan with bloodshot eyes and asked, "What... what do you want to do? Why did you save me?"

"I want you to leave Konoha alive, find a place to hide and recover from your injuries."

Hinata Kumokawa's voice was soft as he looked down at Mukai, who was leaning against a tree trunk: "I will take good care of your wife and children and make sure their lives in Konoha are not affected, and may even be better than they are now."

Upon hearing this, Kohinata Mukai's pupils suddenly contracted.

Wife and children...

This is his biggest weakness.

This was also one of the reasons he became a spy.

It was precisely because his wife and children were still in Konoha that he chose to fight to the death instead of fleeing from Yun Chuan and the other two.

"And the price?" Wujie's voice was hoarse and strained.

"wait."

Yun Chuan looked up towards Konoha, but it seemed as if he were gazing into the distant future: "I want you to wait for an opportunity, to wait for a major change to occur in the Hyuga clan."

"Waiting for a child named 'Hyuga Neji' to defect from Konoha."

As he spoke, Hyuga Kumokawa looked down at the stunned Mukai and said softly with a clear smile in his voice, "When he defectes from Konoha, I want you to find him and become his teacher and protector."

Chapter 150 Why Did I Defect? ​​I'm a Hero of Konoha!

"..."

Kohinata Mukai's eyes were fixed on Hinata Kumokawa, as if trying to find any trace of a joke in his eyes.

But those calm, expressionless white eyes were like a bottomless, icy pool.

This also made Wujie realize...

"This guy is serious."

Of course, Hinata Mukai knew who Hinata Neji was; he was the son of the former head of the Hinata clan's branch family.

In other words, Hyuga Neji is a member of the branch family who has been marked with the Caged Bird Seal. He is a bird imprisoned in a cage, unable to leave Konoha or even escape the Hyuga clan.

But now, Hyuga Kumokawa in front of me is saying that Hyuga Neji will defect from Konoha in the future, and that the Hyuga clan will also undergo a major change.

Kohinata Mukai's eyes flickered, and after a long silence, he suddenly asked, "Aren't you afraid that I'll tell Konoha's higher-ups what you've said?"