"Father… is dead!?"
"And he even killed all the adult members of the Hyūga clan…"
Even though Hinata had matured a lot after going through the incident of her father being imprisoned, upon hearing what Neji told her, her heart still could not calm down for a long time.
Her mind uncontrollably replayed scene after scene of her time with her father. Perhaps Hiashi had often looked at her with disappointment, perhaps he had been extremely strict with her.
But… that was her father!
She couldn't even bring herself to blame Uchiha Keizumi. After all, her father had done something like that—something only slightly better than what Uchiha Itachi had done…
"I'll go to the Academy to request a few days of leave for you. And I'll also apply for early graduation."
Neji looked at Hinata, her eyes filled with tears yet completely lost. In the end, he couldn't bear to tell her what Hiashi had truly done. Even the matter of the ??tsutsuki clan on the moon—he intended to keep it buried in his heart.
"When I go to the Academy, you'll take charge of the Tenseigan!"
"This is the ultimate power of the Hyūga clan. During the process of controlling it, the Tenseigan's chakra will flow into your body. That will be beneficial for you, Hinata."
"And finally—no matter what, no matter who comes looking for you, do not hand the Tenseigan over!"
Neji didn't say anything more. He simply guided the Tenseigan behind him to float in front of Hinata.
After realizing that he had virtually no chance of awakening the Tenseigan himself, Neji had already stopped drawing power from it. He was worried that extracting too much Tenseigan chakra might affect Hinata's awakening!
As for Hinata, although she didn't quite understand why the Hyūga clan suddenly had such an eye, she still, in a daze, reached out and touched the Tenseigan before her.
As her fingers made contact, it was as if the Tenseigan had finally found the one it had been waiting for all along.
A deep azure chakra surged out from within it. In an instant, a cloak of Tenseigan chakra formed around Hinata, its color approaching a dark blue!
Even her own Byakugan, stimulated by this chakra, began to shift toward a pale blue hue!
"This is… Father's… and Uncle's chakra…"
Hinata didn't understand what was happening to her. As the Tenseigan chakra cloak formed, her entire body began to float into the air. Yet what concerned her most was not this power, but the chakra within the eye.
Within the Tenseigan, she could clearly feel the chakra of her father, Hyūga Hiashi, as well as the clan elders… even Neji's father, Hyūga Hizashi!
'So this is… the origin of the Byakugan Princess…'
Neji watched as Hinata's Byakugan was completely dyed with a faint blue tint. The shock in his eyes was impossible to hide.
He himself had drawn upon the Tenseigan's power before, but by his own estimation, even with its nourishment, it would take at least three years for his Byakugan to gradually evolve toward the Tenseigan.
But Hinata—this was her first contact with it!
...
"And again… the power of the Tenseigan?"
The disturbance caused by the chakra cloak around Hinata wasn't large, but it still alarmed quite a few people.
For example, Jiraiya, who was preparing lessons at the Ninja Academy. Although he had ulterior motives for becoming a teacher, he still considered himself responsible—at the very least, he prepared before every class.
At this moment, Jiraiya looked toward the direction of Hinata and Neji's temporary residence, uncertain whether he should go take a look.
"No… this chakra is even purer than Hyūga Hiashi's yesterday!"
"You people of Konoha actually have a little one capable of awakening the Sage's Eyes!?"
At that moment, Fukasaku stared toward Hinata's direction, his expression turning uncertain and alarmed.
He could feel it—the Tenseigan chakra in the distance wasn't merely a passive enhancement. It felt more like someone who had already awakened the Tenseigan was actively controlling it!
"Wait—you're saying there's a little one who can awaken the Sage's Eyes?"
Jiraiya's pupils shrank sharply. He had seen the Sage's Eyes before—his own disciple Nagato possessed them. He had even once believed Nagato to be the Child of Prophecy.
But now Fukasaku was telling him—there was another one!?
Wasn't the Sage's Eyes supposed to be the power of the legendary Sage of the Six Paths?
How had such a power suddenly become so… commonplace in this era?
"There's no mistake. I may not know who awakened the Tenseigan, but I can't be wrong!"
"I think I understand now—the condition for the Hyūga clan's Byakugan to evolve!"
Fukasaku frowned deeply. The birth of the Great Tenseigan alone was already troublesome enough—he had even been considering whether to find a chance to take it away.
But if there was also someone who had awakened the Tenseigan…
Fukasaku knew very clearly: Mount Myōboku no longer had any chance of taking the Tenseigan. If they dared to take both it and the child who had awakened it, Konoha would definitely go to war with them!
"So… it requires a true Tenseigan to induce the evolution of the Byakugan?"
After a moment of thought, Jiraiya also grasped the condition for awakening the Tenseigan.
He even thought further—why Hiashi had gone so far as to massacre the Hyūga clan to create this eye.
In Hiashi's plan, perhaps even he himself was nothing more than a sacrifice—everything done so that this Great Tenseigan could be entrusted to the one in the clan who possessed the potential to awaken it.
"If I remember correctly… the Main House only has Hinata and Hanabi left, right?"
"Is it Hinata… or Hyūga Hanabi?"
"Did he know early on that one of his daughters had the potential… but couldn't bring himself to make the decision?"
Jiraiya gazed into the distance, deep in thought. Then he turned his gaze toward the direction of Keizumi's home.
And the moment he looked—
His expression gradually twisted into horror. His mouth opened involuntarily.
Not just Jiraiya—at that moment, everyone in Konoha couldn't help but look up.
Even the shinobi out on missions were drawn by what was happening in the direction of the Uchiha clan compound.
"This… this can't be real, right?"
"Why is there… suddenly a sun rising over the Uchiha district!?"
"That's a sun, right?"
"That's definitely a sun, right!?"
Naruto, who had just woken up and was about to go to school, stared toward the Uchiha clan's direction. His jaw practically hit the floor.
Naruto swore—he must still be half-asleep.
Because there was no way… Konoha could have two suns in the sky.
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