The Byakugan could see through objects, spot targets at extreme range, and provide a 360-degree field of vision with virtually no blind spots. It was an exceptional visual jutsu with almost no drawbacks. What ninja wouldn't want it?
Konoha had survived three Great Ninja Wars thanks in no small part to the Hyuga Clan's Byakugan, the Ino-Shika-Cho's mind and shadow techniques, and all its other secret arts—abilities unique and useful even by the standards of the ninja world. It could deploy their users to the battlefield again and again, where they played crucial strategic roles.
Konoha had such deep reserves, and almost certainly had a Nine-Tails Jinchuriki it could control, that it had somehow gone through all three wars without deploying that Jinchuriki even once.
That air of confidence and surplus had always grated on both the Third and Fourth Raikage.
Pick a fight! Take the Byakugan!
Years ago, Neji Hyuga's father had sacrificed himself because of the ambitions of the Raikage and Kumogakure. Hinata Hyuga's childhood abduction had been no different. Even the most patient person could only endure so much. But since the failed attempt to abduct Hinata years ago, Kumogakure had lain low. It had been a long time since they had made any move against the Hyuga Clan. Perhaps they had given up entirely.
That was what Yugito Nii had believed.
Who could have expected this? Two former comrades, long presumed dead during an infiltration mission in Kirigakure, were not only alive—they had returned to the Land of Lightning with two members of Konoha's Hyuga Clan!
According to what she had heard, the current generation of the Hyuga Main Branch consisted of Lady Hinata, who had once been abducted, and her younger sister. These two Cloud Ninja
comrades had brought both sisters back at once to