'Byakugan' Ao!

During the Third Shinobi World War, Kirigakure obtained the most precious trophy of all: a Byakugan from the Hyuga Clan!

Although it was only one eye!

The functionality of the Byakugan!

Was something every major ninja village desperately craved.

It was truly no easy feat for Kirigakure to acquire such a Byakugan.

Because one had to understand.

To obtain a Byakugan.

One had to target a member of the Hyuga Main Family.

The Byakugan of branch family members were already locked away by the Caged Bird Seal!

Furthermore, once the individual died.

The Byakugan would be destroyed instantly.

It was impossible to extract and use them.

Unless one could capture a branch family member alive and possess the ability to break the Caged Bird Seal, everything else was out of the question. Throughout the many years of the Shinobi World War, all four major ninja villages had captured Hyuga branch members, yet not a single village had ever managed to bypass the restrictions of the Caged Bird Seal. In other words, the Byakugan of any captured branch prisoners were completely unusable.

The Byakugan currently in Kirigakure's possession was taken from one of the few Hyuga Main Family members who had stepped onto the battlefield during the Third Shinobi World War. After being defeated in battle, they had failed to destroy both eyes in time, managing to ruin only one before the other was plundered, becoming one of Kirigakure's most precious war trophies!

And the Kirigakure ninja who appeared before Naruto at this moment.

Was none other than Ao, who in the original story first appeared as a bodyguard to the Fifth Mizukage, Mei Terumi, and held the right to utilize that very Byakugan!

If there was anyone in this vast ninja world who didn't need to rely on their own