After they understood each other's feelings, Oto Uchiha's eyes never stopped smiling, and the way she spoke to him became much more intimate.
Zou Hyuga had the strange feeling that he had fallen into a trap. Come to think of it, they had been living together for quite some time, and everyone around them seemed to take their closeness for granted.
Was I the clown all along?!
Putting his jumbled thoughts aside, Zou Hyuga sent Oto back to the Uchiha Clan Compound to consult texts on sealing, while he lay on the sofa and contacted the Tailed Beast Merchant Association.
Sealing the Leyline and becoming its jinchūriki was no simple matter.
Besides advanced Sealing Jutsu, he needed large quantities of materials to construct a vessel that would prevent the Leyline from running wild when he used it.
The Leyline was a tailed beast-level existence, after all. Even powers like the Five Great Nations had to go through considerable trouble to seal a rampaging tailed beast.
Not every ninja had the strength to wrestle a tailed beast with their bare hands, let alone treat one as a pet.
Just then, a new question occurred to Zou Hyuga, leaving him momentarily puzzled.
A tailed beast amounted to a Tailed Beast Bomb plus vast quantities of chakra.
He also possessed vast quantities of chakra and could use a Tailed Beast Bomb. Did that mean he was his own jinchūriki...?
The absurd thought soon faded. After instructing the association to find ways to gather materials in bulk, Zou Hyuga quietly went to the Basement and opened a Storage Scroll. Inside it rested a pair of pure, flawless Byakugan.
These Byakugan were his uncle's final legacy, entrusted to him along with the responsibility of protecting the Hyuga.
But that responsibility was not his only reason