Three months earlier, the election had concluded smoothly. The next day, Minato Namikaze assumed office as the Fourth Hokage.
Yet on the very day the Hokage took office, turmoil erupted within the Hyuga Clan. An internal rebellion broke out. Taking advantage of the entire village's celebration over the new Hokage's inauguration, the traitors stormed into the room where the previous Hyuga Clan head was recuperating. They intended to use force to make the old clan head abdicate and pass the position to Hyuga Shinsuke, the "Hyuga Clan's foremost Gentle Fist master," a man of immense prestige both within the clan and throughout the village.
However, the former Hyuga Clan head seemed to have anticipated this. When the traitors threatened him with force, he found an excuse and deceived them. Then, after fooling them all, he activated the Caged Bird Seal. Of the more than fifty people who had come to force his abdication, everyone except their leader, Hyuga Shinsuke, died to the Caged Bird Seal.
After activating the Caged Bird Seal and executing those fifty-plus people, the former clan head had exhausted his Chakra and fell gravely ill. Yet the old clan head was shrewd to the very end. In the last days of his life, he purged Hyuga Shinsuke's followers and forced Hyuga Shinsuke to commit suicide. Using this as a precedent, he reassigned every Hyuga clansman apart from the line of the current clan head, Hyuga Hiashi, into the branch family and branded them all with the Caged Bird Seal, without exception.
From then on, apart from Hyuga Hiashi and his wife, everyone in the Hyuga Clan bore the Caged Bird Seal. Rebellion was no longer possible.
Furthermore, before his death, the former clan head issued one final order to the clan. From then on, the main family