"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh..."
Hyuga Wuye's figure leaped swiftly through the forest.
Countless distant memories surged into his mind as he carefully recalled them.
After the Second Shinobi World War, Kumogakure Village began researching how to use Tailed Beasts in actual combat. But after repeated failures and no progress whatsoever, they set their sights on Konoha Village.
In particular, on the Uzumaki Clan descendant skilled in sealing techniques—Uzumaki Kushina.
So they sent a delegation, ostensibly to sign a ceasefire agreement. In secret, however, they put their talent for sneaking around to use and abducted Kushina...
"The biggest problem is that Kushina now isn't the original Kushina. She became the Nine-Tails' jinchuriki ahead of time, so how could she be captured that easily?"
Hyuga Wuye could not figure it out no matter how hard he thought. He even began suspecting that this was the world timeline correcting itself through plot-induced death...
"No matter what, I should save her first!"
Setting those thoughts aside, he activated his Byakugan and searched ahead.
The pursuit route he had chosen on the spot naturally headed toward Kumogakure Village, but he was not sure whether they would really go that way.
"I'll first see whether Kushina left behind any red hair. According to the original story, she would tear out strands of her red hair as markers..."
Hyuga Wuye searched for a while and quickly found red hair along the straight route leading toward the Land of Lightning.
He rather admired the original Minato. How had he spotted such tiny strands of red hair in the pitch-black night?
Even with his Byakugan wide open, he had searched for quite some time.
Was this the power of a forcibly assigned official couple?
"Looks like Kumogakure had no intention of taking a detour. They planned to return to the