Chapter 259 "Death of a Ninja from the Hyuga Branch Clan, Hyuga Neji!"
Chapter 259 "A ninja from the Hyuga branch family - the death of Hyuga Neji!"
Hokage's Office
Uchiha Nan took out a manuscript that he had prepared long ago from his drawer.
"Luyuan, Taojian, before sunset today, you must spread this article to every street and alley in Konoha!"
《A ninja from the Hyuga branch family, the death of Hyuga Neji! 》
Senju Momoma, Nara Shikaon, and Uchiha Tomita, the attention of the three was immediately drawn to this article.
This huge title
Quite impactful!
It makes people want to continue reading.
[In the 24th year of Konoha, I received news of the death of my ninja school classmate Hyuga Neji.]
[When he died, he had become a jonin in Konoha and had more than one million taels in his bank account, but he still liked to wear cheap training clothes worth 1500 taels.]
[It took me half a month from receiving the news of his death to deciding to write this article to seeing it today.]
[I picked up the pen five times, put it down five times, and couldn't write any more. I knew very well that this article would probably not be published due to strong obstacles in the village, and it would be a useless effort, but in the end I still chose to write it.]
[The following refers to myself, but it is actually the author's personal experience. Please listen to me tell a story about the pursuit of freedom! ]
Great!
Nara Shikato couldn't help but admire in his heart. With just a few lines of words, he was able to draw a picture of a simple and frugal Hyuga branch family in his mind, and his favorability rating instantly skyrocketed!
The words "huge obstacles" are interspersed in the middle to further attract the reader's interest, and the first-person technique is used to enhance the authenticity of the story.
[To be frank, I have had very little contact with Hyuga Neji. The friendship we built up at the ninja school has almost been exhausted.]
【But because of his departure, I almost fell into a state of depression.
[I recorded everything about him today, not only because of my guilt and redemption as a friend, but also because his departure made me reflect on my life in the past few years, on my relationship with Konoha, and on whether everything I did for the Will of Fire was really meaningful.]
Read this.
Nara Shikayuan couldn't help but shudder.
Are you already starting to accuse others of something?
Lord Hokage, you are so cruel!
[To be fair, there isn't much I can recall about him. I'm sorry, but this is the truth.]
[What I can still remember clearly are some vague images. He was not tall, about 160cm, had acne on his face, spoke with a heavy accent, and didn't look very smart.]
[But this is purely my prejudice. I must apologize to Hyuga Neji. I judge people by their appearance. ]
[But he is a genius, a true genius! ]
[We started to study the subject in the Ninja Secret Language class, learning one section at a time, and then taking a test on the subject in class. The test questions were extremely difficult, and the key was that we had not had time to digest the knowledge right after we finished listening, and we complained every time. ]
[However, starting from the third special test, Hyuga Neji has been the first in the secret language class in the class, and he has never dropped down from that position after the graduation examination. Not only that, he was also the first in our graduation examination that year! ]
[Later, we gradually became familiar with each other, and I gradually got to know Hyuga Neji from his mouth. He was born in the Hyuga branch family, and whenever he talked about the glorious family history of the Hyuga clan, his eyes always sparkled. (ps. At that time, the author did not know the darkness within the Hyuga clan, so now I must distinguish between the Hyuga branch family and the Hyuga main family.]
[At that time, he only spent 3000 taels a week, including all food and expenses. He had a younger sister at home who was three years younger than him. Her name was Hyuga Hinata. She would also come to the Ninja School in a few years. She was also very smart.]
[The tuition for his study at the Ninja School was raised by the members of the Hyuga branch family. They all said that he was the pride of the Hyuga branch family.]
[It is hard for me to imagine that after the Sandaime-sama led Konoha to work hard for so many years, a ninja born in a wealthy ninja family could live in such a difficult situation, especially when I heard that his father was a ninja who was seriously injured during a mission and died shortly after returning to Konoha. According to Konoha's regulations, Hyuga Neji can receive a large amount of compensation. What happened in the meantime?]
【Until now, I am still thinking about this question in my mind. 】
[Our Ninja School gives free milk to all students in the morning. I never drink milk, so I just throw it into the trash can. One time he saw me and was shocked. He said, "Don't you waste things! You don't have to sell it to me, but can you give it to me at a lower price?" I asked him, "Don't you have some too?" He smiled and said, "I can bring it to my sister."]
[I'll give it to him. I won't take the money. Just lose to me next time during taijutsu practice.]
【After the first winter break at Ninja School, everyone gathered together to chat. It was always like this during school days. The first day back from winter break was a tea party. Everyone was different after the winter break. Everyone wore new clothes and shoes, and some people changed their hairstyles.】
[The same goes for Hyuga Neji. A green mark appeared on his forehead that day, making his head stand out.]
[When the class was over, a few boys came over and said half-jokingly, half-teasingly: "Ningji, your mark is very trendy. You have learned to act cool after the winter vacation."]
[Everyone sitting nearby tried hard to hold back their laughter, but some people still couldn't help but burst out laughing.]
[I didn't say anything and pretended to be reading a book seriously. After everyone left, he secretly handed me a note that read, "Is the mark on my head really that ugly?"]
[I replied that it was indeed not very pretty, and the next day, he wore a headscarf to cover the green mark.]
【I was very curious at the time. Since this mark was not good-looking, why didn't he erase it? I hesitated several times and wanted to ask him. But people with high IQs have good eyesight. He clearly saw my hesitation and said to me during the morning reading: "This is the mark of my Hyuga branch family. It is called the bird in the cage. The meaning of the branch family's existence is to dedicate themselves to protect the main family and repay the kindness of the ancestors to the branch family.】
[My father was protecting the Zong family. At the end of that failed mission, he blocked the fatal blow for the Zong family. During the subsequent investigation, he also took the initiative to take responsibility for the Zong family and bore the blame.]
[I think that was the first time that Hyuga Neji talked about his family background in person. He didn't play the victim, didn't say anything extra, he just spoke to me in a tone that couldn't be calmer.]
【Neither humble nor overbearing.】
[I have been studying the will of fire in school since I was young, so I have believed everything that Konoha promotes since I was young - Konoha is an extremely free, equal, and humanitarian ninja village! ]
[So when I heard him talk about these things, my first reaction was disbelief. Such an appalling system actually still exists in our Konoha, which can even ignore Konoha laws, reverse right and wrong, and use Konoha ninjas as slave tools! ]
Nara Shikaon suddenly felt like he couldn't breathe. Hokage-sama!
How many hats have you worn?
[It's not just Hyuga Neji, most of my memories of the entire ninja school are very vague. But every time I talk about it, there is a link that I can't skip. Our Konoha is probably one of the few ninja villages in the ninja world that really promotes quality education. Mathematics, physics, and chemistry are electives. There are real club activities and many courses that guide thinking. Every afternoon, each class will watch the "Konoha News" in the classroom on time.]
[At a class meeting two months before graduation, our head teacher, Mr. Iruka, quickly wrote the word "ideal" on the blackboard.]
[There are not many people I admire from the bottom of my heart in my life, but the head teacher of the ninja school is one of them. When he taught us, he was in his 30s, and he taught shuriken throwing. He was a pure and passionate person at heart, and he never discriminated against the poor or loved the rich, and never asked parents for any excuse to receive a single benefit. He treated students equally, and even taught the most mischievous student in the class, Uzumaki Naruto, who had the guts to scribble on the Hokage Rock, with a friendly face.]
[That day, he said to us: "You are the best students in the Ninja World School. You have received the best education since childhood. Most of you will enter the combat ninja sequence of Konoha in the future. But I want you to remember that no matter how many tasks you complete or how much money you earn, I will not look down on you.]
[You must remember the burden you bear. If this ninja world and Konoha are destined to need great people, why can't it be you?
[You have all the best educational resources, but you don’t have the dream of changing the world. Who else do you expect to have it?] Then he asked each of us to tear off a piece of A4 paper and write down our ideals on it. It didn’t matter how many words we had.]
[If you can’t think of an ideal right now, just write down what kind of person you hope to be in 10 years. ]
【At that time, the whole classroom was filled with young people, full of youth and vigor, with passion in their hearts and light in their eyes. Under the passionate leadership of the class teacher, we quickly got into the atmosphere and fell into serious contemplation. Every word we wrote was very cautious and firm, as if we were signing a military order.】
【Then everyone stood up one by one to share their dreams. Some wanted to become Hokage, some wanted to join the Konoha Research Department, a department that could change the world, some wanted to develop a cure for blood diseases, some wanted to join the Anbu, and some wanted to become a Shadow Guard. I didn't dare to be careless either, and wrote on a piece of paper: "I want to be a reporter, work diligently, be upright, and speak for Konoha."】
[In the midst of a passionate and sentimental ideal, Hyuga Neji's ideal was: "I want to become a Hokage." This is a very common ideal among ninja school students, but after shaking his head, he crossed it out and wrote on the paper again: "I want to find the meaning of life and pursue true freedom in my lifetime."]
[We laughed at him: "You are too perfunctory, aren't you?" He also laughed and said: "How can a swan know the ambition of a sparrow?" All the ideal notes were finally collected by Teacher Iruka. He made us a ten-year promise. He said that if anyone can still remember it ten years later, they can go back and ask him for it. ]
[Later, Hyuga Neji joined the Konoha Science and Technology Department and began to study the sealing technique. He worked day and night and became a senior researcher in the Science and Technology Department within a few years.]
[In that bottomless well, he held onto the broken rope that the Six Paths Sage handed him all the way, and people invited him to take shortcuts countless times.]
[If you send us some internal secrets, we will have enough living expenses for a year. ]
[If you play around with the scientific research funding accounts a little, you can get more money than you've ever seen in your life.]
[But even if he was beaten to a bloody pulp, he would rather fall to his death than take these roads.]
[But in the end, Hyuga Neji still died, dying on the road to pursuing his ideal of freedom. He had always wanted to break free from the cage that had bound him since childhood, but in the end he still failed, and his secret research was discovered by the Hyuga clan.]
[That day, Hyuga Neji walked into the room of the elder of the main family and never came out again. His big eyes that usually yearned for freedom seemed to be destroyed by some kind of spell. His sister Hyuga Hinata cried miserably, and her crying was heartbreaking.]
[We are the ones who have been walking an easy path in this life, but we immediately strayed from the path when a little temptation appeared beside us, yet we kept saying that we were forced into prostitution. However, Hyuga Neji, who was truly forced into a desperate situation like a caged bird, never complained once.]
[When has Konoha ever forced me? Or have I blamed Konoha for all the suffering I have endured because of my desires? ]
【I don’t know the answer! 】
[After he left, I kept thinking about a strange question. Everyone has his own epitaph. The epitaph of the first generation is "As long as it is to protect Konoha, I will not let go of my brothers, friends, or family members."]
[The second generation's epitaph is "This inherently evil ninja world, I must completely destroy it!"]
[I have always wanted to write a suitable epitaph for him, one that sounds impressive and better than these people, but I could never think of a suitable one until I thought of the ideal he promised ten years ago.]
[So, perhaps this is the most suitable epitaph for him - "A bird out of a cage!"]
Read the whole article
Uchiha Tomita, Nara Shikaon, and Senju Momomama all felt unsatisfied.
When their minds are pulled away from this article.
Uchiha Tomita, Senju Momorama, and Nara Shikaon began to sweat profusely.
Lord Hokage is trying to force the Hyuga clan to death!
Blasphemy against the will of fire, embezzlement of compensation and pensions, confusion of right and wrong, disregard of Konoha laws, and resort to lynching.
Damn, this is true!
None of the three of them can escape the blame, and all of them must bow and apologize at the Konoha high-level meeting.
"Hokage-sama, is everything in this article true?"
Uchiha Tomita swallowed, unspeakable anger brewing beneath his trembling tone.
As an Uchiha, I cannot interfere in the family affairs of your Hyuga clan.
But you, the Hyuga clan, have become so outrageous.
Such horrific things could happen during the Uchiha clan's rule. It simply shows that they don't take the Uchiha clan seriously.
Uchiha Nan was very satisfied with Uchiha Tomita's performance.
This article was born in an era of information explosion. After being baptized by countless public intellectuals and poisonous chicken soup, it still resonated with countless Chinese people and finally became a hot search.
Uchiha Nan could already imagine the public outrage that this article would cause once it was published in Konoha.
Hyuga clan
You could have lived a decent life.
How
The death of a top scorer in the college entrance examination from a poor family
This is the pinnacle of public intellectual writing. The whole article is made up, but the writing is good. You can go and have a look if you are interested.
(End of this chapter)