The only ones still standing guard, with some strength left, were Darui and Hyuga Hiashi. Izumo Kamizuki, Kotetsu Hagane, and even Choza Akimichi, who had borne the brunt of the attack, had already been defeated head-on by Madara Uchiha and appeared seriously injured. Tenten had exhausted her chakra as well.
Darui, having used his Kekkei Genkai several times, was already at the end of his rope. Hyuga Hiashi still had some strength left, but he could not hold the line alone. Before Madara Uchiha, he was simply not enough.
"Judging by your appearance, you must be Madara Uchiha, who died decades ago. Having returned to the Shinobi World through the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu, what exactly do you want?"
Madara Uchiha cast a disdainful glance at Hyuga Hiashi, who was gasping for breath.
"It was not my choice to return to this world in such a ghastly state... You are from the Hyuga Clan, aren't you? Without the Caged Bird, you must be the head of the main family! A clan of ignorant, decayed cowards—defeated by me long ago—dares speak before me?"
The Hyuga Clan was in an awkward position. So long as the Senju and Uchiha existed, it would never be their turn to take the lead. Only after the Senju Clan gradually faded away and the Uchiha Clan neared extinction did they begin boasting about being the foremost noble clan of the Shinobi World.
Divided into a main family and branch families, the Hyuga Clan had virtually no chance of developing the true potential of the Byakugan, much less elevating it into the Tenseigan.
Compared to the Uchiha Clan, where geniuses emerged one after another, the Hyuga Clan truly had little to be proud of.
Still, they were a great clan with a millennium of heritage, and the