A Deal in the Cave

After asking his mother upon returning home, Neji learned that his father had already returned to the village. The reason he had not come home was that he had remained at the Hokage Building to undergo questioning.

Clearly, because the matter involved the God Organization, which the village cared about most, Hizashi had been forced to remain at the Hokage Building for questioning.

But the cause of the incident had been a secret meeting between the Hyuga Clan and the Otsutsuki Clan on the moon. The Main Branch regarded this matter as the clan's highest secret. Before the Main Branch relented, Hizashi, as a member of the Branch Family, had no authority to reveal it to outsiders—not even to the Hokage. Thus, the village's questioning of him had stalled from the very beginning.

As a result, the village could only detain Hizashi while pressuring the Hyuga Clan, urgently seeking to discover what had happened, why the God Organization had become involved, who the mysterious enemy was, and what role the Hyuga Clan had played in all this.

To the Main Branch, since their distant relatives on the moon had displayed such intense contempt and hostility, reporting the other side's identity to the village would actually serve two purposes. They could earn the village's trust while also borrowing its strength to protect themselves and prevent the clan from suffering an attack by the Otsutsuki Clan.

However, after Hiashi privately met Hizashi at the Hokage Building and learned that Otsutsuki Toneri's true purpose in arranging a meeting with the Hyuga Clan was to obtain a mysterious object called the "Tenseigan," the Main Branch became indecisive.

Although the Main Branch did not know what the Tenseigan was, Toneri's actions clearly showed that he was convinced it was within the Hyuga Clan, and under