"Good morning, everyone."
"Tsunade-sama.."
In less than half an hour.
Tsunade, stretching with a yawn, entered the private dining area full of energy and a smile.
Kiyoshi, Karin, and Shizune were already waiting for her.
She acted nonchalant, showing no sign of anything unusual, only throwing a mildly annoyed glare in Kiyoshi's direction.
Shortly after, the four finished breakfast.
"Well, now that the Summer Festival in the Land of Hot Water has ended."
Tsunade tapped her fingers on the table, drawing everyone's gaze.
She smiled and announced, "It's time for us to move on."
"Yeah, there's no need to stay here any longer."
Kiyoshi nodded with a smile.
Karin and Shizune had no objections either.
They had lingered here for some time, mainly to adjust to the new powers each of them had acquired.
Aside from training, they had taken the time to visit many of the scenic and tourist spots in the Land of Hot Water.
"Where to next, Lady Tsunade?" Karin raised her hand to ask.
"How about we check out the Land of Whirlpools? It's not too far from here, maybe we'll find something useful there." Kiyoshi suggested directly.
He wanted to explore the Land of Whirlpools to see if he could obtain information on the sealing techniques of the Uzumaki Clan.
Since fully absorbing the Uchiha Clan's secrets and integrating them into his own foundation, Kiyoshi had only grown stronger.
The ninjutsu, secret techniques, and even forbidden jutsu he had mastered continued to multiply.
Beyond the forbidden jutsu he originally proposed to Tsunade, he had other ideas constantly emerging in his mind, urging him to pursue them.
Kiyoshi could hardly wait to start experimenting with new techniques.
After this stop in the Land of Whirlpools, he planned to part ways with Tsunade and the others temporarily, dedicating himself entirely to developing forbidden jutsu and enhancing his own abilities.
"The Land of Whirlpools?"
"The homeland of the Uzumaki Clan?"
Both Shizune and Karin were astonished.
Even Tsunade, who was just about to name their next destination, looked at Kiyoshi with surprise.
"Alright."
She had a hint of understanding but did not intend to stop him.
With her approval of Kiyoshi's suggestion—
In less than half an hour.
After settling their expenses for the days spent there,
The innkeeper and his wife, smiling from ear to ear, reluctantly bid farewell to the group of four as they departed the inn, setting off toward a new destination.
….
Several days later.
Far across the sea, they arrived on a small island called the Land of Whirlpools.
A wooden helicopter descended from the sky, landing softly.
The four of them, along with a small pig, disembarked.
"So, this is the Land of Whirlpools?" Karin's eyes widened in surprise.
She stared at the desolate island, littered with ruins and overgrown with moss.
Faint traces of past battles remained scattered throughout the area.
Having been here before, Tsunade sighed, "The Land of Whirlpools was always more of a small island, a bit larger than the Land of Waves, but nothing extensive."
"Don't get your hopes up too high."
Tsunade turned to Kiyoshi, crossing her arms and warning, "Over the past few decades, this place has been thoroughly searched by major powers and rogue ninjas alike."
"Yes, I'm well aware of that."
Kiyoshi nodded with a smile.
With his right hand raised, he placed his fingers in front of him.
Under Tsunade, Shizune, and Karin's stunned gaze—
"Byakugan."
Veins bulged around his temples.
His dark eyes turned into an intense white, with a faint, barely perceptible blue glow.
What was even more surprising—
In the next instant, his pure white eyes were engulfed in an unusual red chakra.
The contrast added a hint of ferocity to his face.
"Huh?"
"Byakugan?"
Both Karin and Shizune were shocked.
They had never expected Kiyoshi to possess the Byakugan and were seeing him use it for the first time.
But Tsunade was less surprised, she knew that with Kiyoshi's unique Wood Release abilities, which allowed him to integrate various bloodline powers seamlessly, it was unlikely he would overlook Konoha's Kekkei Genkais.
Yet she hadn't expected him to be able to activate both the Byakugan and the "red eye" simultaneously.
"He's combining the Byakugan and the red eye?"
"Back in Konoha, I asked Hinata for a few drops of her blood." Kiyoshi explained with a smile.
While teaching Hinata in Konoha, he had taken the opportunity to ask her for some of her blood.
Using his mutated Wood-Wood Fruit abilities—or rather, the power of the God Tree itself—he had fused the blood into his own being, naturally unlocking the Byakugan.
And the result was immensely pure.
He had gained a terrifying level of visual power beyond even the Hyuga Clan's imagination.
Not only did he have extreme perception and an incredible range, but due to continuously merging various Kekkei Genkais and incorporating parts of the Otsutsuki lineage, he felt his body transforming in strange, visible ways.
Perhaps he was evolving closer to a true Otsutsuki.
His eyes often experienced unusual fluctuations, as if something was being nurtured within them.
"Tenseigan, perhaps?"
Kiyoshi speculated.
With his pure bloodline and vast chakra reserves, he should have already met the conditions for it.
Thus, after obtaining the Hyuga Clan's Byakugan, his eyes had begun an unknown transformation.
However, it would likely take some time to fully mature.
Now—
Countless scattered rocks, weeds.
In an instant, he pierced through it all with his 360-degree vision, layer by layer.
A three-dimensional, black-and-white view appeared before him.
"Swoosh… swoosh..."
One mile, five miles, ten miles.
With his red eye and Byakugan activated simultaneously,
Kiyoshi expanded his view layer by layer, scanning carefully.
He even examined the underground areas meticulously.
"Swoosh…"
Initially, Kiyoshi hadn't anticipated that the Byakugan and red eye could fuse so perfectly.
The combined powers produced astonishing effects.
No jutsu or barrier could hide from these eyes.
It seemed, just as he suspected, that the red eye was indeed an Otsutsuki branch dojutsu.
Its relationship to the Hyuga Byakugan was likely similar to the connection between the Senju Clan and the Hagoromo Clan.
Although outwardly opposed, they shared a common origin.
Suddenly, his gaze sharpened.
He smiled, "Found it."
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