Xuanyu and Hiashi Hyuga—Let Hinata Come with Me!

"Mm, this is my home!"

Hinata was still timid and soft-spoken, but as she looked at the luxurious estate, she seemed somewhat afraid—she did not even want to enter this home.

It was clear what kind of life Hinata lived in this house.

Every day, she was suppressed by that old man and did not dare go home.

"Go on in. I should head home too." Seeing Hinata hesitate, unwilling to return home, Xuanyu rubbed her head and gestured for her to go inside.

Hinata nodded and reluctantly let go of Xuanyu's hand, preparing to return home.

But just then, the gates of the Hyuga Clan estate opened, and a man stepped out. His pair of Byakugan were especially conspicuous.

Behind him stood a middle-aged man with a Cursed Seal carved into his forehead. He looked eighty or ninety percent similar to the man in front.

Caged Bird?

Xuanyu looked at the complicated pattern on the man's forehead, carefully trying to see through it.

Putting everything else aside!

They were both Hyuga clansmen, yet some members of the main family considered themselves above everyone else and used this Caged Bird to control the lives of branch family members. Their stated purpose was grand and righteous—to prevent the so-called Byakugan from being passed outside the clan.

How ridiculous.

To put it bluntly, wasn't it simply a method for the main family to control those who were not of the direct line? Its purpose was to preserve the main family's authority.

Fortunately, the Uchiha Clan did not have this distinction between main and branch families. Otherwise... if he had been branded with this so-called Caged Bird from childhood, ordered around and tormented by the main family...

Xuanyu might have wiped out every last one of those main family members.

"You still know how to come back?" The middle-aged man saw his daughter standing at the gate along with a little boy he did not recognize and immediately barked out the question.

His voice carried the imposing aura of someone in power. Even without anger, he commanded awe.

He looked to be around thirty, with a proud and aloof bearing. If Xuanyu had guessed correctly, this was Hinata's father, Hiashi Hyuga. The man behind him, who looked much like Hiashi, was Hizashi Hyuga.

"Father..." Upon seeing the middle-aged man, little Hinata softly called out to him. She unconsciously retreated behind Xuanyu and secretly peeked at the man.

Xuanyu could feel her petite body trembling faintly, filled with fear.

Hiashi Hyuga looked at Xuanyu and Hinata, then stepped down the stairs and gazed down at them without speaking, staring at them fixedly.

Xuanyu could not help curling his lip. Trying to intimidate him with airs? He was not afraid.

Yet Hinata hid behind Xuanyu and timidly said, "Father..."

Hearing Hinata's trembling voice, Xuanyu became even more dissatisfied with Hiashi's stiff expression. "Tch, why is a grown man like you keeping such a stern face? No wonder even your own daughter is afraid of you. You really disgust me!"

Eh!

Sure enough, after Xuanyu said that, Hiashi Hyuga's rigid expression visibly froze in astonishment. As the Clan Head of the Hyuga Clan, he had never been spoken to like that by a child.

"Who are you?" Hiashi looked at Xuanyu's clothes, which bore the Uchiha Clan Crest, and knew that he was an Uchiha clansman. He did not know which family Xuanyu came from. Could he be the second young master of Uchiha Fugaku's family?

Perhaps only Fugaku's second son would dare speak so boldly.

Xuanyu puffed out his chest and raised his Double Pupils to meet Hiashi's gaze. "Uchiha Xuan Yu!"

"Uchiha Xuan Yu? You are Uchiha Hanjō's son?" Hiashi looked at Xuanyu with a trace of surprise in his eyes. In particular, when those Double Pupils stared directly at him, even he felt a little apprehensive.

He had heard that Xuanyu was the double-pupiled monster of the Uchiha Clan, but when he met Xuanyu's eyes, he could tell they were extraordinary.

With that thought, he activated his Byakugan and observed Uchiha Xuan Yu, seemingly intending to see through him.

Eh...

But the moment he opened his eyes, he discovered something unusual.

Although Uchiha Xuan Yu was only a child, there was merely a tiny amount of Chakra in his Dantian and meridians, no different from an ordinary person.

However—

He discovered that every cell in Xuanyu's body was like an individual entity, crystal-clear like jade and glimmering with a faint Chakra radiance.

It was as though Xuanyu's entire body was a storage space for Chakra.

Yet without Chakra in one's Dantian and meridians, one could not cultivate ninjutsu.

Xuanyu knew that Hiashi was examining him, but he said nothing, maintaining a calm smile.

The Chakra from the Nurturing Spirit · Great Chiliocosm he cultivated was stored in his cells and sealed away!

Even the Byakugan could not discern much that was unusual. At most, it would consider him an ordinary person incapable of cultivating ninjutsu.

When Hinata saw her father staring so solemnly at Xuanyu, even activating his Byakugan, she could not help taking two steps forward to stand in front of Xuanyu. "Father, Xuanyu is my friend!"

Her voice was already trembling, but her petite figure stubbornly stood before Xuanyu.

She was afraid that her father would attack Xuanyu. Hinata had already regarded Xuanyu as her friend.

Hiashi looked at Hinata in surprise. His daughter actually dared speak to him like this for the sake of a little boy. She had always been so obedient before.

At that thought, he deactivated his Byakugan and glared at Xuanyu. She had only gone out for half a day, yet his daughter's temperament seemed to have changed.

It was all because this little brat Xuanyu had led his daughter astray.

Xuanyu merely spread his hands indifferently, pretending not to notice Hiashi's glare.

Helplessly, Hiashi turned his gaze to Hinata. "You have grown up. You actually dared run away from home on your own. Get back inside!"

Hinata timidly agreed, then looked at Xuanyu with some reluctance. "Xuanyu, can you come play with me in the future?"

Without waiting for Xuanyu to answer, she turned around with a flushed face and ran toward the Hyuga estate, afraid she would hear him refuse.

Xuanyu laughed heartily. "We're friends now. I'll come see you when I have time. If anyone wrongs you, come find me. And if your father makes you go hungry again, go eat at Ichiraku Ramen. It's free!"

Upon hearing that, Hinata ran even faster.

After entering the estate, she poked her head out from behind the gate and secretly looked at Xuanyu. And he had even exposed her huge appetite—what would her father think of her now?

"Go hungry?" Watching Hinata secretly peer out from behind the gate, a look of surprise and bewilderment appeared on Hiashi's face.

The Hyuga Clan was one of Konoha's prestigious clans. When had they ever let their clansmen go hungry? Moreover, Hinata was his daughter.

Even Hizashi Hyuga behind him was stunned, looking at his elder brother Hiashi in disbelief. Did his brother really treat his niece Hinata like that?

"Little Hinata ate four bowls of deluxe ramen for dinner tonight. One look at her tells me you haven't treated her well as her father!" Xuanyu curled his lip as he spoke. "How about letting Hinata come with me? I guarantee she'll be well-fed and warmly dressed every day!"

As soon as those words came out, Hiashi's eyelids twitched in anger. Was he really such an inadequate father? He waved Xuanyu away. "Hmph. It's getting late. You should go home!"

As the Clan Head, Hiashi could not bear being lectured by a little child. He hurried Xuanyu away.

He was afraid he would not be able to stop himself from beating the little brat up.

"Little Hinata, if anyone bullies you at home, come find me!"

After shouting that, Xuanyu hurriedly ran off, afraid Hiashi would beat him up.

Hiashi was so angered that he could not help laughing.

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