I started my horror resurgence from Naruto

The sound of the night wind blowing across the ground and the fallen leaves hitting each other was mixed with some strange noises that came into my ears from outside the window.

The sound was hard to describe, as if some animal's paw stepped on fallen leaves. It felt very heavy, but the arch of the foot was strangely and nimbly bent, and it slid over the leaves almost silently. The leaves did not break, but strangely, they seemed to be corroded by acid and made an almost inaudible dissolving sound.

even,

If it had not been late at night and Hinata Kawaki's eyes had not been gouged out, causing him to toss and turn in grief and unable to fall asleep every night, and his hearing had not been greatly enhanced in sensitivity, he would have ignored the sound from the wind sweeping the fallen leaves.

If he had a pair of Byakuyans at that time, Hinata Kawatani would have opened his eyes to see which kind of nocturnal animal the strange footsteps in the yard belonged to.

unfortunately,

He didn't, and he didn't think too much about it. He just couldn't sleep, so he pricked up his ears out of boredom and continued to capture the movements in the yard.

He heard the footsteps gradually moving from the courtyard to the southwest corner, and then after a brief pause, he heard the sound of the wooden window being quietly pushed open.

Then there was the sound of heavy objects flying into the air and lightly falling to the ground, and the wooden window was closed from the inside.

Then the sound was isolated, and after a while, the wooden window was pushed open again, and the footsteps returned to the beginning of the courtyard.

It’s just that the footsteps felt a little heavier than at the beginning.

At that time, Hinata Kawaguchi sensed something was wrong, but before he had time to think about it, he heard footsteps approaching the window of his house rapidly.

The window was pushed open a little, and Hinata Kawatani suddenly sat up from the bed and turned his head towards the window. Then, the footsteps retreated and completely disappeared from his hearing range in a few breaths.

Hinata Kawaki sat up and waited for a while, but there was no sound. He felt that he was completely useless and it was difficult for him to form a valid picture of the sound just now, so he lay back in bed.

"That's right. I'm not sure whether the sound I heard last night is related to the disappearance of my tribesmen. It's possible that I just heard it wrong, or I'm just suspicious and worried because I can't sleep." After Hinata Kawano expressed his doubts, he stopped talking.

Hinata Hiashi listened to Hinata Kawaki's story with a frown. He wanted to blame him for his lack of vigilance, but when he looked at the eye sockets stuffed with gauze, he swallowed the blame that was about to come out of his mouth.

It is really too much to ask of a blind person.

"What do you think?" Hinata Hiashi looked at the other two elders.

"The southwest corner of Elder Kawatani's residence is..." Hinata Fuji, the most haggard and old elder of the clan, flipped through the list of missing persons expressionlessly, stroking his fingers along the names from top to bottom, and suddenly stopped and said in a hoarse voice, "It's Hinata Matsu, a Genin, and the time of disappearance is confirmed to be yesterday."

With these two things confirmed, the credibility of the auditory story told by Elder Kawatani increased dramatically.

Half an hour later.

In Hinata Matsu's room, in front of the wooden window, Hinata Fujiichi stretched out his hand along the window sill and felt a layer of mud on his hand. He rubbed the mud on his fingers that were as old as keratin. In addition to the unique grittiness of the soil, there was also a layer of semi-solidified mucus.

Hinata Fujiichi rolled his eyes, observed like a microscope, and made a judgment: "The soil, the corroded leaves, and the dried and condensed special liquid. The sound of the leaves being corroded and dissolved that Kawatani heard should be caused by this liquid."

but,

That was all he could give. He couldn't continue to infer what this liquid was, or why the soles of the shoes of the people who sneaked in were covered with this corrosive liquid.

Yes,

Hinata Kawatani believed that the footsteps he heard did not come from any nocturnal animals, but from people wearing special sound-absorbing shoes!

"Someone sneaked into the Hyuga family at night, and almost silently knocked Hyuga Matsu unconscious while he was sleeping and kidnapped him without alerting anyone."

Hinata Touichi's old face trembled with anger.

"As a member of the Byakugan clan, our eyes have been blinded in vain. The Hyuga clan has not only lost face, but also lost all dignity."

Hinata Hiashi's face was extremely gloomy. He basically agreed with Hinata Fujiichi's judgment that the root of the problem was the village's unwritten "ban on rolling eyes". However, it would not happen again from now on. He would specially select a team of tribesmen to take turns to monitor every blind spot in the tribe 24 hours a day.

It will never be possible for any outsider to come and go as they please.

"Who do you think it is?" asked Hinata Hiashi.

Hinata Fujiichi snorted coldly, thinking that the answer was obvious. Although there was no direct evidence, that was the only person in the entire Konoha who dared to attack the famous Hyuga family so unscrupulously.

"Instead of killing him, they chose to quietly take him away. It's obvious that the other party was only trying to get rid of him." Hinata Fujiichi saw everything clearly, "So the other party didn't kidnap Kawatani who had no power to resist, because Kawatani was already blind."

This was also the reason that Hyuga Hiashi thought of. He also thought of what happened to Hyuga Neji and why he killed members of the Root for no reason and fled for fear of crime.

He can't be crazy.

The answer is naturally...

even,

Did Hyuga Neji really flee for fear of crime? Could it be that he has actually been secretly captured by the Root, and like the other 11 clan members who disappeared one after another, they are now lined up on the Root's secret laboratory table.

"All members of the branch family are protected like caged birds, but Danzo..." Hinata Hiashi gritted his teeth. He was always full of weakness and hesitation in his bones.

Hyuga Fujiichi frowned. He was an old antique who survived from the era of the Shodaime. He was a little disappointed with the current head of the Hyuga clan, but he didn't show it on his face. Instead, he said coldly, "Although the bird in the cage has not been cracked for thousands of years, there has never been an iron bar in this world that can block all prying eyes. Never underestimate the greed of the human heart, not to mention that the man is Shimura Danzo."

Hinata Hiashi's face turned pale blue for a while.

"You know the real reason why the Uchiha clan was exterminated, so..." Hyuga Fuji's voice was so cold that it seemed to freeze the blood, "When the butcher's knife is raised to the heads of the clan members, you must be prepared early. You can make concessions, but you must hold the bottom line. Do you know where the bottom line of the Hyuga clan should be, Hiashi?"

Hinata Hiashi raised his head, his eyes filled with a cold light.

"Very good!" Hinata Fujiichi was very satisfied with Hiashi's eyes at the moment. He turned and walked out of the room, and paused slightly when he stepped out of the door.

A vicissitudes and suppressed sigh faintly entered Hinata Hiashi's ears.

——You can’t be Uchiha Fugaku!

The sound has dissipated, but its aftertaste seems to still linger in Hinata Hiashi's mind.

For a long time,

Hinata Hiashi let out a long breath, turned his head and ordered the last elder of the clan, Hinata Miyagawa, "From this moment on, all members of the clan will suspend all tasks assigned by the village until we find the missing members of the clan."

"Hey!" Hinata Miyakawa accepted the order. He knew that once this order was executed, the conflict between the family and the village would be brought out into the open.

"Arrange the clan members to monitor the defense 24 hours a day. There cannot be any more negligence or carelessness." Hinata Hiashi's words were both an order and a warning to himself. He could not keep giving in to the Hokage or harbor unrealistic fantasies.

"Hi!"

"Send a message to the tribesmen who are out on missions, and have them return to the tribe as quickly as possible."

"..."

After a number of orders were issued in succession, Hyuga Miyakawa understood that things in Hyuga were going to change completely. No, it should be said that things in Konoha were going to change. He wrote down the orders of the head of the family one by one in a notebook. He looked at the murderous intent on the face of Hyuga Hiashi, who had always been weak and yielding, and the same dead look in his eyes.

cold!

The coldness that penetrates the soul.

If the Uchiha clan's power comes from their extremely twisted love and hate, then the Hyuga clan's power comes from their restrained and repressed indifference.

Indifference to life, especially indifference to one's own blood.

This is a kind of restraint that is almost pathological, and even requires a bird in a cage to be confined!

Outsiders always misunderstand that the bird in the cage is the high-ranking main family who orders the branch family around like livestock and enslaves them. Even members of the branch family who are unaware of the truth harbor resentment in their hearts.

but,

They all don't know that the real object of the caged bird is the clan.

The ancient system that has remained unchanged for thousands of years, and every time of submissive compromise, appear to be the cowardice and cold-bloodedness of the clan, but in fact, the clan is afraid. They are afraid that once this cage is broken, the demon imprisoned in the deepest part of the clan's blood will be released.

"Sarutobi Hiruzen, and Shimura Danzo, you have no idea how cruel the nightmare of being imprisoned in a cage can be, so..." Hinata Hiashi closed his eyes, as if praying for them and the future of the Hyuga clan, "Please don't push me into a blind spot!"

because,

The Hyuga clan would never be destroyed by outsiders. On the contrary, the blood of every main family here runs with a more vicious and cold-blooded indifference than that of Uchiha Itachi.

……