After leaving the Main Family estate, Zou Hyuga did not return to his own Small Courtyard.
The Small Courtyard held too many memories of the past. He always found himself thinking of the missing Hyuga Yu, and even his happy memories had become mired in suspicion and conspiracy.
So he had chosen to live with Oto Uchiha. Running away like this might have been shameful, but it worked.
Who could say no to waking up with a beautiful girl draped over them?
When he reached Oto's cottage, Zou Hyuga found Vortex Shizuko awake. Her Uzumaki bloodline seemed to have lost its potency. Her face was pale, and her skin had grown shriveled and sunken.
Without wasting time on pleasantries, Zou Hyuga slipped out of the Village with Shizuko and entered the vast Forest.
After activating his Byakugan and surveying their surroundings, Zou Hyuga entered Ryūchi Cave Sage Mode.
Looking at the few scales on his arms, Zou Hyuga extended a hand, and the surrounding soil parted to clear a path.
At that sight, Zou Hyuga could not help marveling that senjutsu truly was the most advanced productive force.
Before long, Zou Hyuga and Vortex Shizuko arrived at the underground Laboratory. The one who greeted them was not Sasori, the human puppet, but Oto Uchiha, dressed in a white lab coat and black-framed glasses.
Her reason for being there was simple: she was monitoring the Box of Ultimate Bliss.
After Danzo had been sent into the Box of Ultimate Bliss that day, the box had become unstable. Apart from Zou Hyuga, who had authority over it, only Oto Uchiha, with her mastery of Sealing Jutsu, could restrain it.
Come to think of it, Sealing Jutsu was practically omnipotent. From ninjutsu to demons and tailed beasts, even Kaguya Otsutsuki, the progenitor of