Did I Tell You to Use X-Ray Vision?

"What is this... a Byakugan?"

Kaguya's uncertain voice interrupted Hyuga Wuye's jumbled thoughts.

Only then did he realize that Kaguya had already flashed in front of him and was staring at his eyes.

The Hyuga brothers were drawn over as well. "What strange eyes."

"What's wrong with my eyes?"

Wuye got up and walked to the window, using the reflection in the glass to get a better look at his eyes.

No wonder they were surprised. Even with all the colored contacts he had seen in his previous life, he had never seen eyes like his current ones.

The veins at his temples had not bulged out. Instead, his eyes seemed to be covered in a hazy silver-white glow. They looked extremely similar to the Byakugan, yet flickered with a faint white radiance.

"You must have awakened the Byakugan, right?" Kaguya asked.

Wuye nodded. "Yeah. When I saw Sis activate her Byakugan just now, I suddenly understood how to stimulate the bloodline."

"So your Byakugan was always there, merely concealed," Kaguya said with a nod. "And just now, you spread your ocular power over the Hokage Building, which was why the Third Hokage sensed it?"

Wuye scratched his head. "I didn't expect to be able to see inside the Hokage Building."

Kaguya suddenly fell silent.

But Hyuga Hiashi could not help crying out, "You could see three thousand meters away the first time you awakened your eyes?!"

"Uh, how far could you see when you awakened yours?" Wuye blinked.

Hyuga Hiashi turned his head away and showed him the back of it.

"When Hiashi awakened his eyes, he could only see one thousand meters." Kaguya spoke calmly.

Pfft, pfft, pfft...

That finishing blow nearly made Hyuga Hiashi cough up blood. What a loving older sister!

"Why do his eyes look different from a normal Byakugan?"

Hyuga Hizashi said somewhat enviously, "His veins don't need to bulge, and they even glow. They look better than ours."

Hyuga Wuye spread his hands, indicating that he did not know either.

After pondering for a moment, Kaguya guessed, "Maybe it's because your Byakugan was hidden, while the Sharingan was what appeared outwardly. It couldn't replace your original eyes, so it could only cover their surface with a layer."

"Also, because it's only a covering rather than the activation of your original eyes, it doesn't require blood to rush in and engorge them. There's no need for the veins to bulge."

The ancestor-level Byakugan expert's analysis was perfectly sound.

"That's good too. On the battlefield, enemy ninja won't know it's a Byakugan, so it'll be harder for them to target you," she added.

The Hyuga brothers immediately looked even more envious.

Kaguya suddenly said, "Right, try seeing whether you can activate the Sharingan at the same time. If you can use two bloodline limits simultaneously..."

"I'll try."

Hyuga Wuye once more gathered chakra and sent it through different bloodline channels toward his eyes. His spiritual energy instantly surged.

The next moment, a pair of scarlet Sharingan appeared in his eyes, but the Byakugan's fluorescence vanished at the same time.

No. The two methods of activating the eyes require different chakra. The Byakugan uses non-elemental chakra to stimulate the bloodline, while the Sharingan uses Yin Release chakra and extreme spiritual energy. In the end, both bloodline limits travel through the same channel to reach the eyes, so only one can be activated at a time.

Hyuga Wuye tried activating the Byakugan again, and sure enough, the Sharingan immediately disappeared.

"Looks like the two kinds of eyes can't merge. What a pity," Kaguya said.

Yet Hyuga Wuye was not disappointed. Instead, he secretly thought, The current Byakugan is activated with non-elemental chakra. What if it were seven-element chakra? Wouldn't that mean it possessed the conditions to activate the Sharingan?

He raised his head and stared straight at Kaguya... Fall in love with me soon, Sis. Then you'll get to see the wondrous sight of the Sharingan and Byakugan activated together.

"What is it?" Kaguya asked strangely. "Do you not know how to use the Byakugan?"

"The Byakugan has two modes. What you did just now, focusing your ocular power outward, was X-ray vision. Now you can spread your ocular power around your body in a hemisphere. That is the Byakugan's Insight Eye, which observes in every direction." She explained.

"He could see three thousand meters before. In theory, his all-around observation range should be at least one hundred meters, right?" Hyuga Hizashi asked curiously.

Hyuga Hiashi curled his lip. "That's not how it works. Forming a hemisphere around your body requires far more ocular power than observing in a single direction. When I could see three thousand meters away, my all-around vision could only reach sixty meters."

Wuye could clearly feel that the Hyuga brothers' attitude toward him had finally begun to grow closer. They no longer looked at him entirely as an outsider.

People do not fear having too little; they fear having less than others. Now that everyone had cataracts, no one would discriminate against him... That was probably how it worked, right?

"Ocular power spreading in a hemisphere, observing three hundred and sixty degrees..."

Hyuga Wuye suddenly felt as if he had unlocked the entire map, instantly gaining a god's-eye view.

He could even see himself in the center... a well-proportioned body, refined features, perfection!

So does this mean I'm controlling a hero with the full-map view enabled?

Upon closer examination, however, it was somewhat different.

Though he had an all-around perspective, the main view directly ahead was clearer and more lifelike.

The view behind him was like looking through a rearview mirror. He had to process it before he could form an accurate picture of the situation.

"How is it? How far can you see?" Hyuga Hiashi asked impatiently.

"Mm... about ninety meters," Hyuga Wuye said.

Hyuga Hiashi's expression fell again.

"It's great not to have your ocular power restricted. My X-ray vision can now see as far as five thousand meters, but my Insight Eye can only reach eighty meters. And there's still a one-degree blind spot behind my head that I can't see," Hyuga Hizashi said enviously.

Once he said that, Hyuga Hiashi could no longer bring himself to pull a face... after all, he had not been branded with the Caged Bird.

"Alright, you two go spar," Kaguya said, waving her hand. "Wuye, come here. I'll start teaching you the Gentle Fist."

"Oh, okay."

Hyuga Wuye eagerly trotted after her.

Although the Gentle Fist was rather underwhelming later on, in this era before combat power had inflated to the point where Kage-level fighters were everywhere and jonin were worthless, it was still very useful.

"Strictly speaking, the Gentle Fist is not gentle at all. It is an extremely fierce ninja taijutsu."

Kaguya extended her jade-white hand, her four fingers pressed together like a blade. A faint layer of chakra light appeared at her fingertips.

"Because the Byakugan can clearly see an opponent's chakra pathways, we can strike chakra into the acupoints of those pathways, cutting off their chakra flow and preventing them from gathering chakra."

Her hand suddenly thrust forward, producing a sharp whistle through the air.

"Like this. Only with sufficient force can you successfully drive chakra into an opponent's acupoints. That is the Gentle Fist."

"Next comes identifying the acupoints."

Kaguya took a step back and gestured to Wuye. "I'll circulate chakra through my entire body. Activate your Insight Eye and look at me. Every point where the chakra flow turns is an acupoint."

"Let me see."

Wuye answered and activated his Byakugan, carefully looking toward Kaguya's body.

But Kaguya's jade-like face instantly turned rosy, like a drop of fresh blood falling onto snow—breathtakingly beautiful.

"I told you to use the Insight Eye! Not X-ray vision!"

Before Wuye could get a clear look, he flew into the wall in the shape of the character for "big" with a bang...