It was midnight.
Hyuga Sho returned to Konoha.
It was already one o'clock.
Konoha was quiet.
Aside from some essential guards, nearly everyone was deep in a long slumber.
Easily passing through the Perception Barrier, Hyuga Sho took a brief tour of Konoha before heading to the Hyuga Clan's settlement.
Konoha had changed quite a bit during the six months he had been away.
For example, there was the extensive Underground City and all kinds of newly added facilities.
The Five Great Nations were no longer limited to the surface.
To deal with various threats.
Many ninjas and residents had moved underground.
The Hyuga Clan was among them.
Beneath the Hyuga Clan's main estate, a new settlement had been established.
It also contained various training grounds.
Hyuga Sho looked around.
Then, he chose one of the rooms and walked inside...
It was late at night.
Hyuga Natsu was already fast asleep.
The Hyuga Clan had endured a difficult life over the years.
As the saying went, the same person could bring both success and failure.
Hyuga Sho had led the Hyuga Clan to rise, but he had also caused its reputation to plummet.
Unable to defeat Hyuga Sho.
Everyone had turned their hostility toward the Hyuga Clan.
This scene.
It was just like back then, when Uchiha Madara became an S-rank Rogue Ninja and left the village.
The Uchiha Clan had immediately become the target of public condemnation.
But Hyuga Sho differed from Uchiha Madara in one respect...
Hyuga Sho had never said that he wanted to become a rogue ninja.
It was Konoha that had unilaterally listed Hyuga Sho as a fugitive.
However, such things did not matter to Hyuga Sho.
Rustle...
The door closed.
Hyuga Sho deliberately made some noise, waking Hyuga Natsu from her sleep.
"Who is