"You're saying Black Zetsu made you give your eyes to someone else?"
Meanwhile, in Otogakure in the Land of Rice Fields, Yakushi Kabuto had been further refining his Impure World Reincarnation. But after Hozuki Gengetsu brought Kimimaro back, Kabuto saw the state he was now in.
"And they were a pair of Byakugan, too!"
Hozuki Gengetsu added from the side. He had only just learned that Kimimaro had other companions.
"Byakugan?"
"So he asked me for Kimimaro because Kimimaro could awaken the Byakugan?"
"Does that mean the Kaguya Clan is actually related by blood to the Hyuga Clan?"
Yakushi Kabuto laid Kimimaro on the operating table and used Medical Ninjutsu to stimulate the somewhat atrophied nerve cells in his eye sockets.
"They probably are related."
"Black Zetsu and that Uchiha took me before the Hyuga Clan's Great Tenseigan and had me receive its chakra. The stimulation from that chakra awakened my Byakugan."
"I could even feel that if I kept receiving chakra stimulation from that Tenseigan, my Byakugan could evolve further."
"They didn't hide much from me at first. From what they said, I also learned that the Tenseigan is another kind of sage eye."
Kimimaro had only recently joined the Akatsuki Organization, so there was no way he would be utterly devoted to it. Even if the Tenseigan chakra had initially been able to treat his bloodline disease, he had already returned the Byakugan to them.
As far as Kimimaro was concerned, he no longer owed the Akatsuki Organization, Black Zetsu, or Obito anything!
"Another kind of sage eye..."
"No wonder your bloodline disease has improved so much. If you stop abusing the Kaguya Clan's Shikotsumyaku, your body should have no trouble lasting another twenty years in its current condition."
Yakushi Kabuto withdrew his hand from Kimimaro's eye sockets,