The answer was only the wheeze of an elder who was on his last breath.
Now, the preparations for the rebellion, conducted in the utmost secrecy, looked ridiculous - the members of the main branch of the clan, steeped in their own pride and superiority, had not even suspected until the very last moment that something suspicious was going on, despite the power of their dojutsu.
Centuries of obedience had sedated their vigilance, and the most stubborn of the... slaves, killed in their youth or broken by pain, had become docile and unthinking of resistance.
Eventually, this was what led to the downfall of the masters of life - it was very easy for the servants to poison the food with a long-acting poison, colorless and completely undetectable to the taste.
And the next morning, the clan's "best" fighters turned out to be no stronger than green genin against the battle-ready jonins of the clan's side branch.
The fact that there were more than twice as many of them as there were Hyuga with clear foreheads, and the usual method of control suddenly didn't work, only made things worse.
- What... will... happen to... the... others? - Elder Takeda whispered quietly, barely clinging to life and apparently resigned to his fate.
- Everyone who used the seal will die, but you won't see it," Hizashi shook his head and brought his foot down on the elder's neck in a sharp motion, breaking it and interrupting his agony.
Looking at the frozen body, the young jonin shook his head and stepped over him, moving further into the house. His goal, for which he had to sacrifice a personal confrontation with his father and brother, was not only to destroy the most odious of the elders.
Ignoring the woman and the little girl who were hiding in one of the rooms of the house and watching the events with a byakugan, Hizashi went down the stairs to the basement and after searching for a while, came to the one who was blocking the eyes of the dojutsu.
Placing his hand on it, Hyuga sent a few pulses in a certain sequence that soaked in without a trace, after which the surface flowed, exposing a huge chakrometal door with a narrow slit in the middle.
Taking a thin plate of symbols from his inner pocket, the jonin inserted it into the slit and infused it with chakra.
Nothing happened for a moment, but then the door shook and slowly opened, revealing a large room filled with cabinets and shelves filled with scrolls. Hyuga's archive.
- Hishi-sama was right," the shinobi smiled happily, "all the knowledge of the main branch will now be available to every biakugan wielder, regardless of talent, strength of dojutsu, or purity of blood.
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