Narrowing his eyes, Zou Hyuga looked at the two figures, one large and one small, who had stopped outside the clan grounds.
They wore kimonos very similar to the Hyuga Clan's attire. The older man had a smile on his face and looked over fifty.
The younger one kept his eyes tightly shut. He looked no more than four or five, about the same age as Neji and Hinata.
So much so that Zou Hyuga almost mistook him for Neji himself.
But Zou Hyuga did not understand why the boy kept his eyes shut. Did he have some kind of illness?
Puzzled, Zou Hyuga walked toward Hiashi and asked softly, "Lord Hiashi, who are these two?"
Hiashi shook his head. "I don't know either, but there's something familiar about them."
Zou Hyuga was even more confused. If even Hiashi did not know their identities, who could they be?
Just then, the old man activated his Byakugan and looked toward Hiashi and Zou Hyuga.
"The Byakugan?!" Shock filled Hiashi's eyes, and he instinctively took a Gentle Fist stance.
The Byakugan was a Kekkei Genkai unique to the Hyuga, yet this man possessed it. More importantly, there was no Caged Bird Seal on his forehead.
Were they thieves who had stolen the Byakugan, or clansmen who had ended up living outside the clan?
Whichever it was, as the Hyuga Clan Head, he could not ignore a Byakugan outside the clan.
After a moment's consideration, Hyuga Hiashi offered, "Since you possess the Byakugan, why not come in and sit down...?"
"A good chance to rest." The old man with the Byakugan nodded and accepted the invitation, following Hyuga Hiashi with the little boy beside him.
Zou Hyuga followed too. As he passed the old man with the Byakugan, the man gave him a