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Under the bright moonlight, the young Neji raised his head, trying to see the face beneath the mask.

Before he knew it, it was already late at night in the heart of the Hyuga clan. As the current patriarch of the Hyuga clan, he was also the protagonist of this birthday celebration.

After a busy day, Hinata Hiashi felt a little tired.

'Hizashi and Neji did not show up. As expected, they still have a hostile attitude towards the main family. The conflict between the branch family and the main family has reached an irreconcilable situation. In the end, they can only rely on the bird in the cage.'

Immersed in sadness and hesitation, Rizu was about to return, but the premonition honed by his long experience on the battlefield made veins bulge in his eyes.

"Blind eyes!"

It was late at night, and everything should have been quiet and everyone was asleep, but a sneaky shadow flashed out from the heart of Hyuga.

The direction was exactly the bedroom of his daughter, Hyuga Hinata.

"There are thieves secretly spying on me..."

Hyuga Hiashi's face was gloomy. Secretly kidnapping the eldest daughter of the clan was a provocation to Hyuga's bottom line. No matter who the person was, he must pay with his life.

Not far ahead, the leader of the Hidden Cloud Envoy Group, with his face concealed, was secretly delighted. After all, the Hyuga clan had been at ease for too long and lacked even the most basic vigilance.

This time, we can capture the bloodline of the Hyuga family and obtain the Byakugan. It is worth it even if we temporarily break off relations with Konoha.

"The Anbu of Konoha is useless. No wonder there are traitors like Orochimaru. Take this opportunity to escape from Konoha Village. As long as you can return to the Land of Lightning, you will be successful."

In the excitement, the leader of the Hidden Cloud Messenger Group revealed a flaw, and this flaw was infinitely magnified with the sudden figure before them.

'Hinata Hiashi!'

"Thief, die!"

In a hurry, he was about to swing the kunai in his hand, but Hyuga Hiashi's figure was already close to him. He used soft fist to hit his vital point with a palm, and fell to the ground dead.

On the other side, the three Konoha Anbu who were confronting the figure and trying to capture him alive had their pupils shrank. The figure that was delaying time in front of them turned into lightning and dissipated.

"Damn it, I was almost..."

"Lightning Release: Shadow Clone. Not good, hurry up and inform the Third Hokage, what exactly do these guys from Kumogakure want to do?"

The leading Anbu captain's face turned pale, they were actually fooled by a shadow clone, he hated himself for making the wrong judgment, he should have cut off the shadow clone's arm earlier.

At this time, in the heart of the Hyuga clan, the Hyuga members who received the warning hurried over.

When the family members saw the unconscious Miss Hinata and the thief lying on the ground, they thought to themselves that it was terrible.

The thieves not only sneaked into the heartland of the Hyuga clan, but also secretly kidnapped the eldest daughter. If the clan leader had not intervened, I'm afraid the Hyuga clan's Byakugan would have really fallen into the hands of others.

"Master Hiashi, what happened?"

"Damn thief, how dare he sneak into the clan's important place? I want to see who he is!"

The Hyuga clan elder hurried over, and with just one glance he roughly deduced the specific situation, and angrily removed the black scarf covering his face.

"this!?"

"It turns out to be the leader of the Kumogakure envoys!"

The Hyuga clan members standing by realized the seriousness of the matter. Hyuga Hiashi immediately stood up from the ground and walked to the corpse of the leader of the Kumogakure envoys with a grim expression.

"No wonder, no wonder he felt so proud for a moment after realizing it was me. He fell into the trap."

A moment later, Sarutobi Hiruzen led a group of Anbu and arrived. Looking at the leader of Kumogakure who was killed by the gentle fist, his old face was wrinkled and his expression was gloomy.

The next morning, the members of the Cloud Hidden Village envoy group carefully examined the cause of their leader's death and took the lead in attacking Konoha.

The envoy group began to exert great pressure on Konoha, using the excuse that Konoha did not want to reach peace with Kumogakure and brutally killed envoys in Konoha.

The Third Hokage and his two advisors were experienced in politics, and they pointed out directly that the Kumogakure faction's so-called peace was actually for the bloodline limit of the Hyuga clan.

The parliament ended in a bad mood. Before leaving, the Cloud Village side even clamored for Konoha to prepare for war.

......

In the meeting room of the Hokage office building.

"After a vote by Konoha's jonin, most of them still don't want to start a war rashly, but a few are willing to go to war..."

Mitomon En looked through the opinions of many jonin and gave a specific answer. Utane Koharu had already expected this and sighed softly.

"Alas, the more rare and valuable a bloodline limit is, the more people want to obtain it. If the strategic significance and reconnaissance ability of the Byakugan were to be lost outside the village, the consequences would be disastrous."

Things have come to this point, and since it concerns the Hyuga clan, the problem cannot be left entirely to the village. The Hyuga clan must take responsibility. This is what Utane Koharu meant.

"That's enough. The Kumogakure side also has excellent think tanks. They don't care whether they can get the Byakugan or not. They just want to take advantage of Minato's death to start a war."

Sarutobi Hiruzen turned and left. Seeing his attitude, one was afraid that the peace in Konoha that had lasted for three years would disappear again at this moment.

"What a sinister plot! We can only prepare for war with all our strength..."

Boom!Boom!Boom!

The door of the conference room was slowly opened, and the Hyuga clan ninja bowed his head respectfully.

"Master Third Generation, the head of the family and the elders would like to invite you to the clan. The elder knows the distress of the village, and he has a way to avoid this dispute and war."

As soon as these words came out, Sarutobi Hiruzen was very surprised. Could it be that the elders of the Hyuga clan really had a way to avoid war and prevent this event that might very well become the fuse of the Fourth Ninja World War?

Late at night, the candlelight flickered slightly, and the Hyuga clan gathered together, most of them looking unhappy.

"I am deeply sorry for the trouble this has caused you."

Hiashi bowed his head to apologize, and Sarutobi Hiruzen waved his hand. This time, the Kumogakure came for war, and it would be the same whether the Hyuga clan was there or not.

"No need to say more. No matter what, you have to hand over the bodies of your companions to quell the war. Konoha has not fallen to this point yet."

His tone was solemn, and after these words, many members of the Hyuga clan were convinced of the Third Hokage.

"No need to go to so much trouble, Third Hokage. Since Kumogakure wants it, just give it to them."

The Hyuga elder came hurriedly. Hiashi raised his head and looked at the figure behind the elder, with a bad premonition in his heart.

"What are you here for?"

"Alright, Hiashi, the destiny of the Hyuga branch is to protect the Byakugan. Even if we follow the rules and express Konoha's attitude to Kumogakure, we must not show weakness!"

"Let Hizashi die in your place. This will show Konoha's attitude and give Kumogakure a reasonable answer."

The Hyuga elder spoke in a serious tone, and after a brief moment of confusion in Hyuga Hizashi's eyes, it eventually turned into relief.

"In the end, I was not able to gain freedom, and could only choose my own way of death. I'm sorry, Neji, that I can't see you grow up."

"Father! Assholes, what are you going to force me to do?!"