The Byakugan Became a Taboo

Shinichi Hyuga used the force of the recoil to flip once in midair and land on the ground.

He walked toward Ao's battered remains.

Even in death, Ao's eyes were wide open, unable to believe what he had witnessed just before he died.

He had relied on this very technique to disembowel a Hyuga Main Family ninja and take that Byakugan.

Why had the same technique produced such completely different results?

With that question in mind, his soul departed for the Pure Land.

Shinichi Hyuga shook his head. Ao had certainly been an elite jonin.

Unfortunately, Shinichi wasn't like those Hyuga Main Family members from the past who had never experienced a battlefield.

He had never believed the Main Family's boast that Rotation was the ultimate defense.

It was an old saying: there was no strongest ninjutsu, only the strongest person.

Were Madara Uchiha's Great Fireball Technique and Sasuke Uchiha's Great Fireball Technique the same jutsu?

"Let your body serve as a warning to the greedy!"

Shinichi Hyuga landed beside the Byakugan among Ao's two eyes—the one that belonged to the Hyuga Clan.

Now he was certain Ao had possessed a relatively strong Six Paths bloodline. Ao had nurtured this Byakugan well.

Even after Ao's death, the Byakugan was still absorbing energy from his body.

"Byakugan: Devour!"

Shinichi Hyuga opened his only remaining eye, aligning it with Ao's.

A channel of ocular power formed between them.

Pale blue light flickered incessantly in Shinichi Hyuga's eye, weaving together blue and white radiance.

"Whew..."

Shinichi Hyuga exhaled a breath of stale air and let out an involuntary moan.

The veins around Ao's eyes bulged one after another, and the optic nerves within his Byakugan burst.

The Byakugan that had fallen into foreign hands became nothing more than a decoration.

As the Byakugan drained the nourishment from Ao's body, he was reduced to a desiccated corpse.

A cool sensation spread through Shinichi Hyuga's eye. His soul itched, as if it were about to burst free of his body.

At that moment, the blue in his Byakugan grew even richer, bringing it close to the Tenseigan.

Shinichi Hyuga had a feeling that once it finished absorbing the chicken he had deliberately created, his eye would evolve.

A commotion reached Shinichi Hyuga's ears.

People from Kirigakure.

They had arrived at the battlefield.

He activated his Byakugan and spotted a dozen ninja wearing the same masks as his, dispersing the thick fog.

"Has Kirigakure been infiltrated this badly? Obito really knows what he's doing!"

At a glance, these figures appeared to be Kirigakure Anbu.

In truth, they were elite White Zetsu!

If his Byakugan hadn't been on the verge of evolving, he would only have thought these Anbu seemed suspicious.

"Time for a fresh start!"

Shinichi Hyuga took out the Explosive Tags he had prepared in advance and plastered them all over his body.

He made sure to move away from Ao's remains and put up a shield as well.

Only then did he ignite the Explosive Tags!

Boom~~

A thunderous explosion rang out from within the dense fog, and the shock wave blew it away.

Shinichi Hyuga had already lost consciousness.

At the border of the Land of Fire.

An abandoned port. It had once been an important route to the Land of Water.

After the Land of Water declared itself closed to outsiders,

the port had been abandoned.

"Sniff, sniff..."

At the bottom of a derelict little boat moored at the pier, an unknown chunk of flesh wrapped in scraps of cloth

began to shudder. Black particles spun around it, distorting the space of this world.

Gradually, the outline of a black figure emerged from the piece of flesh.

Shinichi Hyuga woke once more, greedily drawing in the surrounding air.

"Was that a chunk of thigh meat? So this is how an Ajin reconstructs. Amazing!"

Shinichi Hyuga opened his eyes and looked around.

He had prepared many revival points like this.

Soon, he turned his attention back to himself.

The parts of his body that had been missing were restored, leaving him completely naked.

Gurgle~~

A human-shaped gap had appeared in the bottom of the boat, right where Shinichi Hyuga had been lying.

That was the material dissolved by the particles during an Ajin's reconstruction.

After putting on the clothes he had prepared beforehand, Shinichi Hyuga examined his body.

Every vital indicator was at its peak.

The only imperfection was that his long-damaged Byakugan had not evolved. It was just an ordinary Byakugan.

He already had plans for that eye.

He wanted to try following the path of the Sage of Six Paths and evolve it into a Rinnegan.

As for the Byakugan he had kept all along, it remained the same one that had nearly become a Tenseigan.

"Haha..."

Shinichi Hyuga couldn't help laughing.

The Ajin's ability to never die worked exceptionally well for him.

All negative effects had been eliminated, leaving him with his body in its best condition.

With a mighty leap, he jumped onto the pier.

He looked toward Konoha.

Who would take the bait he had put out?

Bzzzz~

Both Byakugan activated, especially the one that had nearly become a Tenseigan.

It released a wave of power.

Across the Ninja World, it searched for the marks he had planted.

After a long while,

beads of sweat appeared on Shinichi Hyuga's forehead.

Searching like this was a strain even for him.

"Four Byakugan in Kumogakure!

Two Byakugan in Iwagakure!

One Byakugan in Sunagakure!

Three Byakugan in Konoha!"

The approximate locations of ten Byakugan appeared in Shinichi Hyuga's mind.

He felt a little perplexed.

Sunagakure?

Were they really that poor?

If they couldn't afford it, they shouldn't have bought one.

Now he had to travel all that way.

He began plotting his route in his mind.

One month later.

Konoha.

Inside the training room reserved for Shinichi Hyuga by the Hyuga Clan,

he was experimenting with his Tenseigan.

No one had noticed he was missing during that month.

That was because the Black Ghost, Conan, had mastered the use of chakra,

making him the equivalent of a real clone.

This clone only showed up at key moments,

while Shinichi Hyuga's real body had returned ten days earlier.

He had successfully found the four Byakugan in Konoha.

They had all been transplanted into the eyes of Root ninja.

After he successfully absorbed them, his Byakugan, which had been on the verge of evolving, finally became a Tenseigan.

His Tenseigan

had evolved by fusing the ocular power of many Byakugan.

After experimenting, he found that it had three outstanding abilities.

First: it could control gravity and repulsion, especially the moon's trajectory. At that moment, he could already sense another Tenseigan on the moon.

Second: it could extract other people's chakra. Ninja with special Kekkei Genkai could resist this ability. This included ninja with Byakugan, Sharingan, and the Sage Body Kekkei Genkai.

Third: it could enter Tenseigan Chakra Mode. In this mode, it was a pseudo-Six Paths form and could produce prayer beads resembling Truth-Seeking Orbs.

According to his memories, there was another ultimate technique: Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion. Its power was enough to destroy a planet.

Shinichi Hyuga gently touched his eyes, sensing the terrifying power within them.