Naruto: The world has misled me a lot!

The land of the Hyuga clan.

"What do you mean, Sun Foot Patriarch?"

In the tea room of the clan leader's mansion, the servants were sent away by Hyuga Hiashi, and only Hyuga Hiashi and Hyuga Hizashi were left in the room.

The brothers, who were born of the same mother, now seemed like sworn enemies. Hinata Hizashi glared at the good brother in front of him.

Different from the Uchiha clan's principle of cultivating members based on merit, the Hyuga clan, also one of the oldest families, took another path, the system of primogeniture.

This resulted in the Hyuga clan's extremely conservative style of doing things and an extremely cruel internal exploitation system.

Members of the Hyuga clan have an artificial upper limit placed on them from the moment they are born, a cage that they cannot escape no matter how talented they are. This seal is called the bird in a cage!

Coupled with the slave-like education of the clan's separate families, any member of the separate family who wants to break free from the shackles of fate will hate this system.

Originally, Hinata Hizashi had given up resisting, but an incident that happened recently made him subconsciously want to break free from it all.

In addition, just now, Hyuga Hiashi handed the conscription order signed by the Hokage to him, the head of the branch family.

Even Uchiha Fugaku wanted to throw away this hot potato, but Hyuga Hiashi actually picked it up and put it in the hands of the branch family. After accepting this task, one can imagine how many members of the branch family will die in the war.

"Watch your attitude, Hyuga Hizashi. The Hyuga clan has never been absent from any war. Reconnaissance is the Hyuga clan's strong point. Moreover, the Hokage has agreed to let Ino-Shika-cho lead a large team for protection. What else do you want?"

Hinata Hiashi didn't want to argue with his brother, but normally the other party wouldn't listen.

Considering the blood relationship, he could tolerate it once or twice, but he would never indulge it without limits.

"Oh, since it's not your main family that's sending people here, of course you don't care. But the ones who were carried back as cold corpses are all from our branch family!"

Hinata Hizashi stood up from his seat, clenched his fists, and looked coldly at his elder brother who once loved and cared about him.

The scenes of family love and friendship in childhood come to my mind. I don’t know when the warmth was replaced by indifference, and the gap is like a chasm.

It's fake, all fake. No matter how well Hinata Hiashi does, it can't cover up the pain he brought to himself and the misfortune he inflicted on his baby.

The index finger and thumb were intertwined, as if he could feel the warmth of the pink little hands holding his fingers, and the hideous blue veins around Hinata Hizashi's eyes emerged.

"You are going to rebel?!"

Looking at his brother who opened his Byakugan, Hinata Hiashi's eyes turned cold, his pale pink pupils condensed, and the colorful world instantly turned into a black and white vision.

He had always protected his only brother and shown him great tolerance, but he would never let him go down the path of rebelling against the clan.

Hinata Hiashi knew better than anyone that neither he nor his brother had the ability to change the clan rules, and blind resistance would lead to death.

He didn't want to die, nor did he want his brother to go down a path of no return. He saw no other choice except to maintain the status quo.

Wow!

As the two men were confronting each other, the door of the tea room was violently pushed open.

Hinata Yoshimitsu, dressed in the white family uniform, walked in slowly and stood between the two brothers. He glanced at their open Byakugan eyes, his eyes hurt for a moment, then quickly retracted, and he sat down on the couch.

"Maintaining success requires a method. If you think that everything will be fine if you just stand still, you will only push your family into an abyss of no return."

When Hinata Hiashi heard this, he frowned and looked at the figure next to him.

"Father……"

Hinata Yoshimitsu raised his hand to stop him from speaking.

"It is harder to maintain an established business than to start one. The difficulty lies in the fact that an increasingly rigid body cannot keep up with the ever-changing world. Hiashi, can you tell your brother why you have never refused a request from the Konoha Elders?"

"That's because the Elder Council has the right to mobilize all the ninjas in Konoha. This is the agreement signed when the major families joined Konoha."

Hinata Hiashi's speech went from stumbling at the beginning to becoming smoother and smoother later on, and the look he gave his father became clearer and clearer, as if this was supposed to be the way it was.

But he didn't notice that the window of Hinata Yoshimitsu's heart was filled with disappointment.

"What you said is just superficial. You are not following the agreement between Konoha and Hyuga, but your fear of the power of the Elders. You are afraid of them and the people around them, Orochimaru, Tsunade Senju, Jiraiya, Minato Namikaze, Kato Makoto, etc."

At this point, Hinata Yoshimitsu stared into Hinata Hiashi's eyes.

"You don't even have the courage to find a way to overcome this fear."

Ignoring his eldest son, whose face was covered in sweat, and his younger son, who was standing blankly beside him, Hinata Yoshimitsu poured himself a cup of warm tea and continued,

"Throughout history, one can remain neutral and have a good ending only in a situation where both sides are equally matched, and Konoha does not have this condition at all.

You, go down and think about it carefully first."

Hinata Hiashi felt as if he had been pardoned. He did not even bother to wipe the sweat from his head and quickly left the tea room.

Looking at the figure leaving in embarrassment, Hinata Yoshimitsu sighed inwardly. He knew better than anyone that his eldest son had a weak and emotional heart beneath his seemingly tough appearance.

If it were peacetime, there would be no problem in being a conservative head of a family, but it happened to be the time of a change of leadership in Konoha.

It is not possible not to take sides during this period.

Turning his gaze to his youngest son, Hinata Yoshimitsu personally poured him a cup of tea and motioned for him to sit down and talk.

"Your eldest brother is gone. Now there are only two of us left. We can talk about some things now."

Hinata Yoshimi smiled as he picked up a cup of warm tea and savored the bitterness.

Hinata Hizashi did not pick up the teacup. He showed a polite smile on his face, but his eyes were full of sarcasm.

It was this man who carved a bird in a cage on his forehead, putting himself in the shackles of fate.

"Why, you want to persuade me to go to the front line on behalf of Hinata Hiashi?"

"No, I will lead the members of the branch family this time."

These light words were like thunder in Hinata Hizashi's ears. He looked at the old man with half of his hair white in shock.

Whether it was World War I, World War II, or the ongoing World War III, the Hyuga clan was the one that led the charge while the main family reaped the benefits. This is also the reason why some members of the branch family are dissatisfied with the status quo.

How could the old man in front of me have such an idea?

"What father wants to see his son go to the battlefield?"

A stone fell into Hinata Yoshimitsu's eyes, which were like an ancient well, causing ripples.

Hinata Hizashi lowered his head, not daring to look at the old man's eyes at this moment.

His mind was a mess. The admonitions of his childhood, the teachings of his youth, and the estrangement of his adulthood all appeared at the same time, and he didn't know how to think or how to respond.

In a trance, a warm and heavy hand from the depths of his distant memory rested on his shoulder.

"Hizashi, you must also remember what I said to your brother. Although the peak of power in Konoha is the Four Elders, it is actually two parallel lines, one bright and one dark.

Given your brother's cautious character, it's no surprise that he will wait until the Fourth Hokage is confirmed before going to join him.

If you have a chance, go visit Kato Makoto. Only the two of you can support this broken ship of Hyuga with one bright and one dark."

Having said that, Hinata Yoshimitsu looked at his youngest son who refused to look up at him, and was filled with sadness.

I stood up and gently stroked his head. Although he was young, he had a few white hairs.

"Also, thank you for giving me a grandson. Neji is awesome."

Hinata Hizashi felt the warmth on his head disappear, and his heart felt empty. Then the sound of the tea room door moving was heard, and he heard a faint voice in his ears.

"It would have been better if he hadn't been born into the Hyuga clan!"