Naruto: The Strongest Sage.

The Hyuga family's presence in the later part of the story is not strong. Except for the scene where Neji died, Aoba has basically no impression of their performance in the later part.

But when he was in the ninja world, Aoba realized that he could not ignore the existence of the Hyuga clan.

Even the Hyuga clan is the most important part of his future plans.

In the evening, Hinata Hiashi prepared a family dinner for Aoba. He knew that Aoba didn't like grand banquets, so the few times he invited them were all small family dinners.

In fact, at this time, the Hyuga clan's position in Konoha had begun to become increasingly embarrassing.

The Hyuga clan is most proud of the Byakugan's detection ability. Even Aoba admits that this ability is more valuable than the Sharingan on the battlefield.

But the current situation is that, because of the research institute's achievements, Konoha has begun to form a new perception class.

A normal perception ninja naturally cannot be compared with the Byakugan.

However, if combined with the Chakra Coat, many traditional sensory ninjas can ignore the consumption of chakra and maintain their sensory ninjutsu indefinitely. In this way, even if they are not as good as the Byakugan, they are actually not much worse.

Aoba is not just talking about weakening the influence of the ninja clan.

Among the various achievements of the research institute, most of them are aimed at the secret techniques of various families.

The reason why the ninja clan can survive for a long time is that the secret techniques of each of their clans have some irreplaceable effects.

Such as the detection of the Byakugan, the tracking of the Inuzuka family's ninja dogs, the Yamanaka clan's secret technique of mind transfer, etc.

The first thing the research institute did was to study these secret techniques and find alternative methods that ordinary ninjas could use.

Hinata Hiashi is now the Hokage's advisor and can see most of the information. Naturally, he understands Konoha's current policies.

These days, Kamikawa Aoba seems to have not continued to target the ninja clan, but in fact he is already digging out the roots of the ninja clan.

Once a more common substitute for their own secret technique is found, the status of the ninja clan will naturally be greatly weakened, and may even disappear completely in history as time goes by.

"Aoba, you and I have known each other for a long time. My Hyuga clan is currently at a turning point. I need your help... on where the Hyuga clan should go."

From the plot, we can see that Hyuga Hiashi is not the kind of clan leader with great talent and strategy. In fact, in a clan like the Hyuga clan, a person with that kind of personality cannot become the clan leader. What they want is a conservative like Hiashi.

However, due to the current situation, Hiashi has realized the shortcomings of his own abilities, so he has sought advice from Aoba more than once.

Well, before he was asking for advice, but this time he was talking about asking for help.

"Have you thought it through, Hiashi? If I interfere in the affairs of the Hyuga clan, many things will not be under your control."

"Haha, you may not believe this, but the family is already showing signs of losing control. Because of Konoha's reforms, the family's interests have been greatly weakened. There is even a voice in the family that the Hyuga clan should leave Konoha and go to other ninja villages to continue our status."

Aoba's expression immediately turned serious. It was easy for Hiashi to say, but to Aoba, a high-ranking official in Konoha, it sounded like the Hyuga clan was showing signs of defection, and this was no joke.

It seems that Rizu has lost control of the situation within the tribe.

"Everyone knows the Hyuga clan's biggest problem. I want to know, are you ready, Hiashi?"

"...Do you have a solution for the caged bird?"

"Not yet, but with the current technical reserves of the institute, it is not impossible to solve this problem if we really want to."

To be frank, the bird in the cage is also an application of sealing technique. Even according to some speculations on the Internet in the previous life, the bird in the cage may involve souls.

It's not like the current research institutes haven't studied the soul. Solving a seal from hundreds of years ago isn't as difficult as one might imagine.

The reason why this thing has no solution in the plot is that Konoha has no position to concentrate its efforts to solve this problem.

And now that Hyuga Hiashi has spoken, it is actually giving Konoha a reason to intervene in the Hyuga clan.

Of course, this is also the result of Qingye's constant pressure over the years.

He had long wanted to change the stupid rules of the Hyuga clan. Now that Hiashi had spoken, he had a reason to officially intervene.

"What do you need me to do?"

"First of all, all Hyuga children must not be labeled as caged birds. After that, I need you to provide all the information about caged birds."

"no problem."

"Also, during this period of time, control the situation within the clan and don't cause any chaos."

Aoba already had enough to deal with right now. Hinata's caged bird was about his own needs, so he could use some attention.

However, he had no desire to deal with the opinions within the Hyuga clan. Hyuga Hiashi also understood this and said that he could suppress it for a while.

"Very good, that leaves one last question. I need Hanabi to cooperate with my research."

Hyuga Hanabi may be the member of the Hyuga clan with the highest Byakugan purity, maybe even higher than Hinata.

But this does not mean that her overall talent is stronger than Hinata's. Hinata's talent is actually more introverted or hidden.

It was mainly because of her personality that she looked a little weak. In fact, Aoba was very optimistic about her. As long as she could overcome her personality problems, or beat Naruto badly enough, this girl would definitely be able to burst out with strong enough energy.

Moreover, in the movie, Toneri's purpose of kidnapping Hinata and preparing to marry her is also very strange.

Because Otsutsuki Toneri followed the so-called will of his ancestors and wanted to destroy the world left by the Six Paths Sage.

This is actually one of the important factors why Aoba is interested in the Hyuga clan and even Hinata.