Sometimes, Hyuga Hiashi had to admit that being a woman had its advantages.
At least Uchiha Yi and Hyuga Rinka got along well. From the increasingly mature air about Rinka lately, Hiashi could tell that Yi had already made her his, though he had no idea when it had happened.
If it had been anyone else, Hiashi would have been furious. He might even have hunted the man down and skinned him alive.
The women of the Hyuga Clan were not so easily courted. Under normal circumstances, the clan did not marry outsiders.
Even a daughter of the Main Family was no exception. She would be branded with the Caged Bird Seal and lose her standing in the Main Family.
No member of the Main Family could accept that. They were used to their status. To be branded and reduced to a branch-family member would be a humiliation.
No one would accept such a fate.
But this woman was Hyuga Rinka. Taking on the entire Hyuga Clan alone would be no great challenge for her, and Uchiha Yi was currently the strongest person in the Shinobi World. Many said he had surpassed even Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju.
He was also Konoha's Fourth Hokage, and the Hyuga Clan had already pledged its loyalty to him.
So they would have been delighted for Rinka to do something so "disgraceful" to the clan.
"How much do you know about the origins of the Hyuga Clan?" Rinka suddenly asked.
"The origins of the Hyuga Clan?" Hiashi paused, unsure why she had brought that up out of nowhere.
"There are rumors that our clan has ties to the Sage of Six Paths, but I don't know the details. The clan's earliest records date back only five hundred years. It seems we once had a