Chapter 210: Naruto: Wood Style - Hotei's Technique!
BOOM BOOM BOOM!
In an instant, green chakra spheres shot towards the Hyūga crowd from all directions, causing a series of violent explosions.
The intense roar and soaring firelight startled the birds in the forest, causing them to flee in all directions.
When the dust and smoke dissipated, it revealed the weak and pale faces of Hiashi and the others. The chakra in their bodies had been completely drained.
"Why does he also possess the Byakugan? And why isn't he branded with the Caged Bird? What is his purpose in taking the Byakugan?" One question after another surfaced in Hiashi's mind.
He possessed the same Byakugan, yet the other party seemed to despise the Hyūga, with arrogance and disdain etched into his very bones.
And those puppets controlled without chakra threads, as well as his strange chakra-absorbing ninjutsu...
Hiashi searched his memory but could not figure out the other party's identity.
Just then,
"Mmm... Father, why is it so noisy?"
A tiny Hyūga Hanabi rubbed her eyes, staggering into the courtyard.
But as she groggily opened her pure white eyes and saw the devastated courtyard before her, she was so frightened she froze on the spot.
"Fa-father..."
Ōtsutsuki Tatsuhito followed the sound and looked at Hanabi's eyes, a look of pleasant surprise instantly appearing on his face.
"This is it! There's no mistake! A high-purity Byakugan!!"
Among the Ōtsutsuki clan on the moon, a clansman with a high-purity Byakugan was a rare sight, seen only once in several decades.
But in this filthy and evil ninja world, a pure Byakugan had actually been born.
"Toneri, do you see?"
Ōtsutsuki Tatsuhito stroked Toneri's head: "If you can transplant her eyes, you can possess the Tenseigan."
Toneri also stared intently at Hanabi's Byakugan, then looked at Hanabi's timid expression.
To possess the power of the Tenseigan, he had to gouge out her eyes?
"Damn it!"
Hearing this, Hiashi was suddenly alarmed and turned to protect Hanabi.
But before he could react, several puppets had already entangled him.
Other clansmen also tried to rush towards Hanabi but were similarly blocked by several puppets, outnumbered.
"Hanabi, run!"
"Hand over your eyes to me."
As Ōtsutsuki Tatsuhito's voice fell, several puppets quickly rushed towards Hanabi.
Although Hanabi had shown considerable talent during training,
she was, after all, just a three or four-year-old girl. She was directly scared stiff by the scene before her.
Just as the puppets were about to reach Hanabi,
"Silly girl, didn't I tell you to sleep obediently in your room?"
A crisp female voice came from behind. Hinata appeared before Hanabi with a Body Flicker.
Her body sank slightly, and her pair of pure white pupils seemed to glow with a faint light.
BOOM!!
Accompanied by a great roar and boom, chakra burst forth from her body.
The approaching puppets were all blown away by the materialized repulsive force.
After flying back several meters, they barely managed to stabilize their forms.
"Waah! Big Sister!"
Little Hanabi, having survived the disaster, finally came back to her senses and immediately hid behind Hinata, starting to cry.
Hinata, without turning her head, vigorously ruffled little Hanabi's head, messing up her black hair.
"Little children should be sleeping obediently. This is adults' time now."
Saying this, she gently pushed Hanabi towards the entrance hall, then focused her gaze again on Ōtsutsuki Tatsuhito.
She hadn't wanted to make a move and expose herself.
But this fellow laying a hand on her "cheap" little sister... her fiery temper couldn't hold back.
"Phew~"
In the distance, Hiashi also sighed in relief upon seeing this.
"Fortunately, thankfully we have Hinata."
The other Hyūga clansmen also looked at Hinata with relief.
Although Hinata had been branded with the Caged Bird Cursed Seal, a symbol of the branch family, in the hearts of the branch family members, she was still a young lady worthy of respect and reliance.
"You..."
Ōtsutsuki Tatsuhito frowned slightly, staring intently at Hinata's eyes.
Unsure if it was an illusion, those pure white eyes seemed to reveal a blue light.
Such eyes...
"You are... the Byakugan Princess?"
No, that's not right.
These were simply eyes that were pure to the extreme, without any impurities.
Ōtsutsuki Tatsuhito's face showed astonishment and greed.
However, upon seeing the cursed seal on Hinata's forehead, his expression instantly became twisted and furious.
"You people! Such a reckless waste of a God-given treasure!!"
The Byakugan Princess?
No, this was clearly atavism!
This single Byakugan alone was enough to rival a hundred ordinary Byakugan.
In the records of their Ōtsutsuki clan, such a pure Byakugan had never appeared before.
"Such pure eyes, to actually appear in the filthy ninja world, and even be defiled by you sinners! Simply unbearable..."
SWISH!!
"So much chattering nonsense!"
Before Ōtsutsuki Tatsuhito could finish, Hinata, amidst the sound of tearing wind, flashed before a puppet and swung her chakra-condensed palm at it.
The puppet subconsciously raised its arms to protect its front.
But the hand, glowing with a cold light, slashed past like cutting tofu, neatly severing the puppet's protecting arms at the elbow joints, leaving only smooth stumps.
Before the other puppets could react, Hinata's figure flashed again, appearing behind two other puppets.
Sensing the surge of airflow behind them, the two puppets wanted to turn and knock her away.
But their bodies had only turned halfway when they were each slapped fiercely on their sides.
CRACK!!
Amidst a crisp sound, the two puppets smashed into each other, their upper bodies directly shattered into parts.
Seeing the remaining puppets surround her, Hinata's figure leaped directly into the air.
Seeing this, Hyūga Hiashi subconsciously pulled back, shouting loudly to the surrounding clansmen: "Retreat!"
The other clansmen immediately reacted, no longer entangling with the puppets before them, proactively retreating ten meters.
"Wind Style - Eight Trigrams - Rotation!"
A large amount of Wind Release chakra surged madly from Hinata's body, luxuriously transforming into a rotating airflow of astonishing scale, even forming a violent hurricane with a ten-meter radius around her.
The puppets within the range of the chakra, which had poured out and condensed into a hurricane, were swept into it without any ability to resist, turning into countless scattered parts flying in all directions.
Even if some puppets attempted to attack from a distance with chakra spheres, they would only be blocked head-on by the high-speed, multi-layered violent hurricane, or even thrown back.
All of this happened in just a few short seconds.
After smashing all the surrounding puppets, Hinata didn't pause in the slightest, as if the high-intensity output in that extremely short period was just a casual move where she didn't use her full strength.
Her hands directly became sharp claws. With a leap, she grabbed the heads of the last two puppets.
Screech-crack!!
Amidst a teeth-grinding, twisting sound, the puppets' bodies were twisted into a ball like dough, and their two heads, with parts scattering, were directly ripped off.
Tossing the two puppet heads to the ground like trash, Hinata looked at Ōtsutsuki Tatsuhito and Toneri with cold eyes.
The young Toneri was directly stunned by Hinata's violent fighting style.
Noticing the chilling gaze directed at him, his small body couldn't help but stiffen, and he subconsciously retreated half a step to hide behind his father.
"Fa... Father, she's so scary."
From his father's previous meaning, besides needing to transplant a Byakugan, he also needed to choose a person to be his future wife.
Could it be... this terrifying person?
No, please no!!
"Such sharp taijutsu, such a crude style..."
Ōtsutsuki Tatsuhito, who had been manipulating the puppets from mid-air, also had his mouth twitch. He had a very clear understanding of how swift and sharp this girl's taijutsu was.
Faced with her no-nonsense taijutsu, many of his techniques couldn't be displayed in time, and the puppets he controlled were quickly destroyed.
And the ninjutsu used to drain chakra actually failed on this girl.
The refined chakra around her body was as unmoving as a rock.
"Your resistance is completely useless."
Looking at Hinata standing on the puppet, Ōtsutsuki Tatsuhito said with a grim face: "Crude taijutsu is nothing. I will make you understand..."
BOOM!!
With a loud explosion, Hinata stomped and crushed the puppet's head, directly cutting off Ōtsutsuki Tatsuhito's words.
Immediately, Hinata spat out two words, one by one.
"Idiot. Moron."
Hearing this, Ōtsutsuki Tatsuhito's face instantly flushed red, but he was choked for a long time, unable to say a word.
He abruptly turned his head to look at the Hyūga clan head in the distance, questioning him furiously: "Is this the etiquette of the Hyūga clan?!"
As a great clan that inherited traditional etiquette and was self-important, the eldest daughter of the Main Family's clan head was actually spouting such foul language.
Even when facing an enemy, it shouldn't be like this!
Simply... simply detrimental to public morals!
Hiashi's old face also couldn't help but turn red, but he still braced himself and replied: "When facing friends who have come from afar, we will naturally treat them with courtesy. But when facing uninvited intruders, the Hyūga have always responded with the Gentle Fist."
As soon as these words were spoken, the branch family members beside him immediately showed strange expressions.
Why hadn't they discovered Lord Hiashi's thick skin before?
Just then,
Swish swish swish!!
"Who's there?"
"Is it an enemy who has infiltrated Konoha?"
Accompanied by several sounds of tearing wind, the Konoha ninja attracted by the sounds of battle, as well as the nearby patrolling ANBU, successively arrived at the Hyūga clan grounds.
In the swirling dust, the crater from the explosion, the broken puppets, and the toppled trees, the surroundings were in a mess. It was clear a fierce battle had broken out here.
The recent events had already made them feel their scalps tingle.
Forces outside Konoha were constantly causing trouble, and now unknown personnel had invaded Konoha.
Has the current Konoha become so incompetent that anyone can just invade?
However, upon seeing the petite Hinata in the center, these later-arriving ninja couldn't help but be stunned.
The Hyūga's eldest young lady, who had disappeared recently, actually dealt with so many enemies by herself?
"Troublesome."
Ōtsutsuki Tatsuhito's face showed hesitation.
But after a moment, he coldly stroked Toneri's head.
"Toneri, remember those two girls. You will have use for them in the future."
With that, Ōtsutsuki Tatsuhito immediately raised his hand, condensing one chakra sphere after another, and launched them at an astonishing speed. All the puppets in every corner stood up, dragging their broken bodies and limping as they charged towards the crowd.
Seeing the intruder attempting to escape, Hiashi was the first to react, wanting to intercept him after knocking away a puppet.
But Hinata beside him said in a low voice: "Father, there's no need to pursue."
This is the Hyūga clan's territory. Besides ninja, there are also many civilians.
After all, it is the Ōtsutsuki clan with a deep foundation. If they were really pushed into a corner, who knows what would happen.
What's more, if there were no surprises, someone else was waiting for them up ahead.
"This... alright."
Out of trust for his daughter, although he didn't understand her intentions, Hiashi still stopped his steps and turned to join the team cleaning up the puppets.
Before long, the puppets on the scene were cleaned up.
The ANBU squad leader stepped out from the crowd, walking to Hiashi with a deep frown.
"Lord Hiashi, could you please explain what exactly is going on here?"
If he wasn't mistaken, that intruder also possessed the "Byakugan."
Could it be that the Hyūga clan was having an internal conflict?
But from the combat traces and their appearance and attire, the other party didn't seem to be from the Hyūga clan.
Or perhaps... the Byakugan was leaked?
"We..."
Before Hyūga Hiashi could finish, Hinata beside him spoke up: "Sorry, it was just that a new puppet we developed went out of control. Sorry to have troubled everyone."
Hearing this, Hiashi and the squad leader were both somewhat speechless.
Could you at least make up a reasonable excuse?
The Hyūga clan developing puppets... that's a bit far from their usual business.
"...Alright, I believe you."
The squad leader suppressed his desire to complain, turned to Hyūga Hiashi and said: "It is not convenient for us ANBU to interfere in the Hyūga clan's affairs. But no matter what, we still need to understand what happened."
"However, it is too late today. I hope you can come to ANBU tomorrow."
What was scattered on the ground were all puppet fragments. There were no dead bodies, nor any smell of blood. Plus, the Hyūga clan's affairs were rather sensitive. The squad leader still decided it was better to go back and report to Lord Third first.
Hiashi nodded decisively: "Alright, sorry for the trouble."
"You're welcome."
After the ANBU and other ninja had gone far, Hyūga Hiashi also dismissed all the clansmen, leaving only Hyūga Hinata and Neji.
"Neji, Hinata, you two should know what's going on, right?"
Neji hesitated and nodded.
But when Hiashi turned to look at Hinata,
he only saw her with her head lowered, a timid and weak appearance.
Hiashi's face twitched fiercely, feeling his blood rush backwards.
"...Huff!"
He closed his eyes and took a deep breath for a good while, finally suppressing the feeling of frustration, and slowly opened his eyes to look at Hinata.
"Hinata, ah."
A stiff smile appeared on Hiashi's lips: "Could you let her out? I have some things I want to ask her."
"Fa-father, big sister says... she says..."
"What does she say?"
"She says she's going to sleep and doesn't want to listen to an old... old man nag. If you have any questions, go ask Neji."
Hearing this, a vein popped on Hiashi's forehead.
"This damn girl, how could I have believed her nonsense."
...
Meanwhile, taking advantage of them cleaning up the puppets, Ōtsutsuki Tatsuhito had already flown out of Konoha on a flying ninja tool.
When he was enraged just now, he really wanted to control the giant Tenseigan, controlling a meteorite or even the moon to smash down here and end it all.
But regretfully, with just him alone, he could at most pull down a small meteorite.
Let alone controlling the moon to crash into the ninja world.
"Only the Tenseigan can communicate with the giant Tenseigan and unleash its true power. At that time, controlling the moon to crash into the Earth will be no problem at all."
Ōtsutsuki Tatsuhito's eyes were venomous, and he secretly made a decision in his heart.
When he gets back safely this time, he will start teaching Toneri.
But just then,
"Wood Style: Hotei's Technique!"
BOOM!!
A giant wooden hand suddenly drilled out from the ground below, smashing towards Ōtsutsuki Tatsuhito in mid-air with a roar.
"You still want to leave after coming? What do you think this place is?"
SWISH!
Ōtsutsuki Tatsuhito and Toneri directly abandoned the captured flying ninja tool, appearing on the ground with a Body Flicker, looking up with icy eyes.
Under the faint moonlight, a figure wearing a three-eyed cat-face mask appeared on top of the wooden hand, looking down at Ōtsutsuki Tatsuhito with indifference, high above.
"Damn it, another even more troublesome fellow has come..."
Ōtsutsuki Tatsuhito's heart instantly sank.
In his chakra perception, this fellow was simply like a burning furnace. The amount of chakra casually emanating from him reached an exaggerated degree, simply suffocating.
(End of Chapter)
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