Hyuga Jisuke's face darkened.
He was absolutely certain...
Those evil Uchiha were doing this on purpose!
Only when he saw Yamanaka Weiyi and the Uchiha playing off each other did Hyuga Jisuke realize that the clan they actually meant was the Yamanaka Clan.
But Uchiha Orochimaru's deliberately ambiguous description at the start had made everyone think he meant the Hyuga Clan, and that the Uchiha were seizing the opportunity to dismantle it...
Now, however, it seemed that although the Hyuga were not their real target, these bastards had certainly driven a wedge into the Hyuga Clan along the way!
Although the Uchiha Clan Head and Orochimaru were now acting as though they had not been talking to him and had only exchanged a few words with him because he spoke first, Hyuga Jisuke knew perfectly well that they had done it on purpose!
And what had just happened would definitely get out... with plenty of embellishment, at that.
He could disregard the branch family's little schemes. They were nothing more than birds in cages. But what Konoha's other ninja thought was something Hyuga Jisuke worried about.
Hyuga Jisuke had never approved of his father Tennin's decision to join Konoha...
After all, they could not put the Caged Bird seal on Konoha's other ninja!
For both the Hyuga Clan's main and branch families, this was an entirely unprecedented way of interacting with others. The main family struggled to open up to other ninja clans, while the branch family developed more and more ideas through frequent contact with outsiders...
But the Uzumaki Clan's fate actually proved that Tennin had been right-in the age of ninja villages, ninja clans could hardly survive independently anymore!
As for the other problems, they needed to be solved, not avoided...
Hyuga Jisuke had spent a long time