Hyuga

Outside Konoha, the weary, dust-covered group revealed their identities and was ushered inside. Although the guards outside tried not to make the welcome too grand, their respectful manner still caused the merchants being inspected to speculate among themselves.

"Where are we going now?"

In Konoha's central residential district, Tsunade removed the cloak disguising her. They had needed to be careful about their identities outside, but things were different here. Basically, only the hereditary ninja clans of Konoha were allowed to live in this area, so there was no need to worry too much.

Most of the residents here belonged to ninja clans. It was not that Konoha deliberately oppressed civilian ninjas, but... the housing prices were simply too high. Unless one belonged to a major clan, one could not afford to buy a house here.

Just look at Sakura in Boruto: after punching her own house to pieces, she had spent ages feeling heartbroken over it. She was a Kage Level expert, yet she was still short of money and a home. Real estate was a highly profitable business in any world.

Of course, for clans like the Uchiha, Senju, and Hyuga, which had possessed deep foundations since the Sengoku era and had been among the founding families of the first ninja village, owning a mansion in a place like this was standard. In fact, owning more than one mansion was not unusual.

The Uchiha later moved to the edge of the village because of the rumors circulating within it, but even there they started with mansions. By then, however, the Uchiha had already been pushed out of the village's inner circle and were naturally facing a tremendous crisis.

Of course, in this era, the Uchiha were still regarded as one of the village's heroic clans. Aside from some arrogance