Naruto, be my son.

At one glance, she was stunned, and the pupils in her eyes shrank involuntarily.

"Whitebeard Pirates?!!"

Some civilians in Konoha Village and even some genin may not know what the Whitebeard Pirates' logo looks like.

However, in addition to being Fugaku's wife, Uchiha Mikoto herself is also a Jounin of Konoha.

How could she not know the symbol of the Whitebeard Pirates?

When she blurted out these five words.

Uzumaki Kaoru smiled and looked at her: "It seems that this lady is no stranger to our Whitebeard Pirates. My name is Uzumaki Kao, and I am a crew member of the Whitebeard Pirates."

Uchiha Mikoto: "..."

Uzumaki Feng clan? swirl? The same last name as Kushina?

Could it be that she is also a descendant of the Uzumaki clan?

"Not only are we no strangers, your group's reputation in the Leaf Village is as thunderous as it is in the ears of us ninjas." After calming down the ups and downs in her heart, Mikoto calmed down a little.

Fortunately, she had seen Whitebeard with her own eyes yesterday.

And I had a few exchanges with Whitebeard.

"Madam... you are a member of the Uchiha clan, right?" Uzumaki Feng looked at Mikoto's outfit, and then looked at the Uchiha clan emblem hanging on the wall.

"My husband is the head of the Uchiha family." Mikoto introduced herself: "You can call me Uchiha Mikoto."

Uzumaki Feng was a little surprised.

But only a little bit.

"You are the wife of the Uchiha clan, then you should be the mother of the child named Uchiha Sasuke and the Konoha ninja named Uchiha Itachi?" Uzumaki Feng smiled and said: "I am in the Whitebeard Pirates Here, I have been listening to Naruto nagging about the child Uchiha Sasuke."

The next moment, Uzumaki Fengshi said without any surprise: "I also heard Uchiha Shisui keep mentioning Uchiha Itachi."

"Uchiha Shisui? Shisui?!" Mikoto couldn't help but widen her beautiful eyes again. The name Uchiha Shisui is definitely famous among the Uchiha clan.

However, according to the information she had, the child Shisui...

Didn’t he already die at the hands of Konoha’s top brass?

What is going on here?

Could it be that Shisui didn't die at the hands of Konoha's high-level officials, that he is still alive, and that he has met the Whitebeards before?

She tried hard not to let her inner emotions show to the surface.

Uchiha Mikoto said: "I have also learned some tattoo techniques, why don't you let me tattoo this pattern for you?"

She wanted to take this opportunity to find out some news about Shisui.

Uzumaki Feng was startled for a moment.

……

time flies.

Soon it was evening.

"Ring ring ring——"

"Ring ring ring——"

The end of the school bell at the ninja school was very loud. The expressionless Hinata Neji stood up and left the classroom alone. He didn't even wait for the other companion who was separated.

What the guy named Bai said to him today is still echoing in his mind.

"Fate...is determined by people?"

Hyuga Neji repeated what Shiro said to him, and then recalled some sad stories Shiro had told him.

After he walked out of the classroom, he looked up at the birds flying freely in the sky, his cold eyes showing a bit of envy.

Yes, he was actually envious of Asuka, who had a very low IQ.

Although the life span of those flying birds is very short.

It may only be a few years, or at most a dozen years.

But at least at this moment they are free, no one can restrain them, they don't need to die for anyone, and they don't need to protect any clan.

Neji stared at it for more than ten seconds.

Then he withdrew his gaze.

"We meet again." A sudden voice sounded from behind Neji, and a small white hand patted his shoulder.

Such an action, even the children of the Hyuga branch who had the best relationship with Neji, would not dare to do it to him.

But surprisingly, Neji was not angry at all.

He just frowned slightly.

Slap this hand away.

Then, Neji turned around and looked at Shiro, who was close at hand.

With a pair of brows furrowed, he asked Bai with confusion in his tone: "Aren't you going back with that guy named Uzumaki Naruto?"

Bai's standing posture looks quite ladylike at first glance. This is not because he is deliberately so dignified, but just his normal posture.

Shiro smiled and replied: "Naruto and the others were fighting and walking very slowly. Even if I followed them half an hour later, I could easily keep up with them. Aren't you curious about Hinata Hinata? The eldest lady of the clan, why don’t you go back to the headquarters of the Hyuga clan and follow us instead?”

Neji was stunned for a moment, and then he realized why he always felt that something was very wrong with Hinata today.

"Why?" Neji looked past Shiro and looked at the backs of Naruto, Karin, and Hinata.

"Because she is fighting her fate!"

Shiro said the words in a calm tone that made Neji's eyes widen: "Hinata is now semi-detached from the Hyuga clan. Rather than saying that she is the eldest lady of the Hyuga clan... it would be better to say that she is a member of the Whitebeard Pirates. New crew!”

"She recognized my father as her father!"

Neji: "!!!"

……

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Wow, I forgot to update_(`‖∠)__

Chapter 140: Ningci, you come and carve a caged bird for Hinata, don't

Hinata Neji's thoughts were very confused now, and he was still digesting what Shiro said to him. Because the amount of information contained in what Bai said was too great.

Hinata, the eldest lady of the clan, actually joined the Whitebeard Pirates?

And recognized that white beard as his father?

How can this be?

Neji's first reaction was to doubt the truth of these words.

Because in his impression, judging from the style of the Hyuga clan, they would never allow this kind of thing to happen.

Especially the head of the Hyuga Clan, Hyuga Hatsuzu, and those old and pedantic elders...how could they let Hinata join the Whitebeard Pirates?

Neji looked at Shiro in front of him, but found that the expression on Shiro's face was not false at all, at least he couldn't see any falsehood.

If this person named Bai hadn't lied in front of him...

No, Neji still felt it was unlikely.

Even if the sun comes out in the west, even the head of the Hyuga clan and the elders of the Hyuga clan, everyone has taken the wrong medicine.

But it can't change Hinata's weak and cowardly character.

That kind of person is only suitable to be the reproductive tool of the clan.

Because this is the fate of the so-called eldest lady of the Hyuga clan.

How dare Hinata do such a thing?

"..." But Neji didn't know how to question Bai.

Because he was looking at the backs of Hinata and others.

Hinata followed Naruto and Karin away, which shows that she does have an unexplainable special relationship with those people.

"This is Hinata's struggle against 'fate'." Shiro said with a smile: "Even a person like her who lives a good life is not willing to succumb to the 'fate' written for her by others."

"Although I don't know Hinata very well, I know that Hinata's character is indeed not brave. However, when she encounters this kind of thing, she will burst out with a special kind of courage."

"Hinata will use her invisible 'courage' to fight against a fate she doesn't like. Instead of staying in a cage and feeling sorry for herself alone."

"The free-flying bird longs for the time when it can fly higher; the caged bird also longs for the day when it can fly out of the cage."

When Shiro said this sentence, he had already made it clear that he meant something, and it also made Neji's expression change a bit.

Hinata...fighting fate...

Neji clenched his fists tightly, and bad memories came to his mind. He gritted his teeth and said, "She is already the eldest lady of the Hyuga clan. We split the family to protect her. For this protection, we split the family. You even have to pay for it with your own life.”

"She has such favorable conditions. She is destined to be a success and the heir to the Hyuga clan." Neji's mood has become a little out of control: "What is the need for her to fight against her enviable privileges?" Fate?"

"Father...Father...dreamed clearly during his lifetime that he wanted me to become the heir of the clan."

This is something Neji doesn't understand, and it's also something where his defenses are broken. In the final analysis, he still yearns for Hinata.

This yearning does not mean that he is interested in Hinata.

Simply because, Neji longed for the "clan" position.

His father, Hyuga Hizashi, had always told him during his lifetime - "With this talent, you are the best heir to the Hyuga clan. It's a pity... alas!"

Such remarks made Neci hate the Zong family and at the same time have a very strange admiration for the Zong family.

He hated the clan for treating his father like this.

I also hate that I am not a member of the Zong family.

This is Neji's troubled heart. It's not clear whether he will be like this in his heart in the future, but he is indeed like this now.

The position of "Heir to the clan" that he and his deceased father had never dreamed of, the position of "Heir to the clan" from above, was actually a fate that needed to be fought against in Hinata's eyes?

At the same time as Neji broke through the defense...

A little confused again.

"Are you interested in talking to me about your father?" If Shiro had said this to Hyuga Neji in the morning, it would have definitely stepped into Neji's minefield, and the two sides might start fighting.

But after a day of getting to know each other, and Bai taking the initiative to speak out about his tragic experience.

The sentence he was asking was no longer a minefield.

At least Neji didn't feel that offended.

Explain that compared to Shiro's Mouth Release and Naruto's Mouth Release, one is more euphemistic and the other is more direct.

Each is different.

Each has its own advantages.

"My father..." Neji took a deep breath. He knew that he had lost his composure. He tried to calm down, with a hint of recollection in his eyes: "My father... and the Hyuga clan are now The heads of the clan are twin brothers. Both of them are geniuses of the previous generation of the Hyuga clan."

Neji's relatively closed heart was forcibly dug into a small hole by Bai's verbal attack.

Even Neji didn't know why he said so many unnecessary things in front of a person he had only known for a day.

But those words that I was holding back in my heart...

It would be even worse if you didn't say it.

Besides...

This isn't really a secret either.

Just say it and say it.

"Hyuga Hizashi, Hyuga Hizashi... As twin brothers, even their names are so similar. But because my father, Hyuga Hizashi, was born 15 minutes later than the current head of the Hyuga clan, .”

"So, Hyuga Hizatsu became the head clan of the Hyuga clan, and my father... became a branch of the Hyuga clan, and when he was three years old, he was engraved with the Caged Bird Curse on his forehead."

"From then on, my father's fate was doomed. He must use his own life to protect the clan and his brother, who is the current head of the Hyuga clan."