As long as the [Caged Bird Seal] problem could be solved, everything else was negotiable.
Even if they were left with nothing but their lives, without any other "personal property," they could accept that!
Ninja earned money quickly anyway.
At worst, they could work for the Great Love Group for a few days and earn enough to cover their living expenses for a while.
"That's not what I meant..."
Uchiha Minamoto shook his head.
"I'm a member of a shinobi clan myself. A shinobi clan's most precious assets are none other than its ninja."
Little Hizashi finally understood what the Fifth Hokage meant.
A faint, odd expression appeared on his face, but he quickly suppressed it.
"Here's the situation, Lord Fifth Hokage."
Little Hizashi offered a brief explanation.
"In the Hyuga Clan, the Branch Family members outnumber the Main Family members, and by a very wide margin."
The Hyuga Clan's internal structure was a very typical pyramid.
The lofty Main Family had extremely few members.
Yet through the [Caged Bird Seal], the Main Family strictly controlled the Branch Family, which made up most of the clan's population, and lorded it over them.
Almost no one in the Hyuga Branch Family felt anything but hatred for the [Caged Bird Seal].
Now that the Branch Family had finally found a chance to escape the [Caged Bird Seal], they naturally flocked to it.
That included the Branch Family members who had previously hoped Little Hizashi would only resolve the [Caged Bird Seal] issue without abandoning their clan surname.
After agonizing over it, these wavering fence-sitters had ultimately chosen to stand on the same side as Hizashi Hyuga.
To put it bluntly.
A clan surname was ultimately something intangible, something that existed in name alone.
They could call themselves "Hyuga" today, change it to