"Who goes there?!"
Hiashi abruptly looked up, the veins at the corners of his eyes bulging instantly. "Byakugan! Activate!"
Yet within his Byakugan's field of vision, the air ahead was clearly empty. But with his naked eyes, he could plainly see a masked man in a black cloak sitting leisurely in the chair across from him.
[Mirror Flower, Water Moon]!
The ultimate Yin Release, capable of perfectly deceiving even the Byakugan's x-ray vision and chakra perception!
"Don't waste your effort, Clan Head Hiashi."
Yue's Shadow Clone removed the disguise from his face, revealing those deep Three-Tomoe Sharingan. "If I wanted your life, you wouldn't even have had the chance to activate your Byakugan."
"Uchiha—Yue?!"
Hiashi was utterly horrified. How had this wanted S-rank rogue ninja appeared in the Hyuga Clan's main family secret chamber?!
"What are you here for? To laugh at the Hyuga Clan?!" Hiashi gritted his teeth and quietly tightened his grip around a kunai.
"Laugh at you? No, I came to make a deal."
Yue smiled faintly, then raised a hand and lightly clapped.
"Clap."
With that crisp sound, the air beside Yue rippled.
A figure dressed in a gray kimono slowly emerged from the shadows.
"Brother."
A familiar voice. Familiar chakra fluctuations.
The kunai in Hiashi's hand fell onto the tatami with a clang.
He stared wide-eyed in disbelief, his breathing completely stopping.
"H-Hizashi?!"
Hiashi lunged forward and grabbed the man before him by the shoulders.
That warm body temperature, that beating pulse—everything told him that this was a living, breathing person!
"But—the corpse Kumogakure took away—" Hiashi's mind was in complete chaos.
"What Kumogakure took away was merely a perfect fake I created with Yin Release and a special clone."
Leaning back in his chair, Yue explained calmly, "One second before the blade cut open