My Villainous Life Starting with Naruto

Chapter 77 Cultivating External Relationships

Shikulin Forest.

In the clearing in the center of the endless swamp and the vast forest, Hyuga Yuto lay comfortably on the slug's back.

This slug wasn't very big, only a little over four meters long, and it was soft and tender, making it a perfect spot for Hyuga Yuto to lie on.

He changed into normal attire—a wide white robe embroidered with the Senju and Hyuga clan crests, Konoha's standard Jonin armor, and black flowing steel wrapped around his right arm.

But unlike usual, Hinata Yuto's eyes were covered with a white bandage.

"Yuto-kun, does it still hurt?"

The slug beneath her suddenly spoke, its voice still gentle and affectionate.

"It hurts." Hinata Yuto smiled and pointed to the bandage covering his eyes:

"If I weren't afraid of losing face in front of others, I would be screaming right now."

"You can call me that, Yuto-kun. I'm not just anyone, well, I'm not even human."

"...That's just a colloquial way of speaking, Slug-sama."

"Ah... Humans are such complex creatures, even their speech has so many nuances." The slug sighed, its tone somewhat mournful.

Hinata Yuto inexplicably wanted to laugh.

As the "only one in the world," the slug, a summoning beast, has lived for over a thousand years. Its wisdom is in no way inferior to that of humans, and it is also very knowledgeable about the rules and intricacies of the ninja world—at least its true form, the "Slug Sage," is.

However, the slugs that split off from the Slug Sage were not only much weaker and smaller, but also far less intelligent and experienced than the original. The slug under him felt like a naive college student from his previous life, innocent, cute, and easy to fool.

"However, Yuto-kun," the slug spoke again:

"That ninjutsu... I should use it less often in the future."

"A companion eye technique, is that it?" Hyuga Yuto chuckled.

"I'll be careful. It was my first time using it, so I didn't have any experience, which is why I hurt my eyes. It will be much better next time."

"...Yuto-kun, the Byakugan is one of the three great dojutsu of the ninja world, so you should take good care of your eyes."

"Hmm, next time, as long as I control the transmission speed of my eye power and chakra, I can minimize the burden that technique places on my body and optic nerve. Although pain and exhaustion are unavoidable, at least I won't be bandaged up and hiding in the Shikkotsu Forest like I am now."

Hyuga Yuto sighed, still shaken by the unexpected incident that day.

That night, he used his innate eye technique to instantly kill Killer Bee in his Seven-Tails form.

The "Half-Eye of God" is incomplete, and the power of the Sage's Eye is also incomplete. His unique eye technique even has its name cut in half, and he can only say the words "Murakumo-kiri".

Even with its power weakened to this extent, Hyuga Yuto was still frightened by his own innate eye technique.

It activates at an extremely fast speed, releasing its power instantly; even Killer Bee, with his speed, can only withstand it.

It was as if the moon goddess had cast a spell of light; that power was no longer limited to the physical realm but involved multiple levels.

From Hyuga Yuto's perspective, he only "glanced" at Killer Bee before the ground beneath him caved in, and both the Jinchuriki and the Tailed Beast inside were pierced through. The Eight-Tails Gyūki was alright, since it was a chakra aggregate, so being pierced through wasn't a big deal, but Killer Bee almost died on the spot.

Of course, with the Eight-Tails sealed, weakened, and bound, and Killer Bee fighting in a half-tailed beast form with seven tails, the combined strength of the two is nowhere near as formidable as when they were fully transformed into tailed beasts in later generations.

Hyuga Yuto was always a ruthless guy. Seeing that Killer Bee had already fainted, he thought he might as well go all the way and kill him.

Unexpectedly, just as this thought arose, an unparalleled pain erupted deep within his eyes.

This is a completely different kind of pain compared to the activation of a caged bird; it's more like "the human body has lost 30 percent of its water" or "working on a work report for three days straight without sleep."

That was extreme overdraft and exhaustion!

Hinata Yuto almost fell asleep on the spot.

But he held on with his indomitable will, uttered a harsh threat, used his last strength to escape, and summoned the slug beneath him with a psychic spell. After mumbling "Let me in," he rolled his eyes and fainted.

Fortunately, the slug understood his meaning. It wrapped Hyuga Yuto inside its own flesh and entered the Shikkotsu Forest together.

Yuto Hinata slept for a full fifty hours.

During this time, the Slug Sage used Sage Techniques to inject a large amount of nutrients into his body, preventing Hyuga Yuto from overexerting himself in his sleep and suffering hidden injuries.

Finally, he slowly woke up and began to recuperate using medical means. To prevent further eye problems, he also used medicated hot compresses as a way to maintain his optic nerve.

Now, seven days have passed since that fierce battle where he fought three opponents at night.

Hyuga Yuto has recovered a lot; at least he has the energy to crack a joke now.

Although he was almost drained dry by his companion eye technique, as the saying goes, practice makes perfect. Next time he uses it, Hyuga Yuto is confident that he can maintain a state where he can continue fighting and will not faint on the spot.

As he lay comfortably, the slug beneath him made a sound again:

"Yuto-kun, will it have any impact if you don't appear in the outside world for seven days?"

"Probably." Hyuga Yuto thought for a moment. With Minato Namikaze not around, and not being very familiar with Orochimaru, his superior, he really needed to be careful.

"I plan to leave today... Slug-sama, could you tell me what's been happening outside these past few days?"

After this incident, Hyuga Yuto's relationship with Slug went a step further. In the past, Slug Sage's attitude towards him was to "turn a blind eye" and watch from the sidelines as long as Hyuga Yuto caused trouble, without telling anyone.

But now, Hyuga Yuto can ask Shikkotsu-rin for help to a limited extent.

"Yuto-kun, just a moment."

Not long after, a scroll was sent to him in reverse. Hyuga Yuto thanked him politely and then carefully examined it.

He laughed when he saw just the first line.

"An extremely dangerous man, Luna Shinichi Kudo, ha... Luna."

For the Uchiha and Hyuga, the moon is a very special existence. The Otsutsuki clan, Infinite Tsukuyomi, Tenseigan—everything is related to the moon.

He quite liked the title.

Hyuga Yuto quickly read through the information about the fake identity and focused his attention on the war.

Despite his own meddling, the course of the war remained unchanged, with the five major powers still embroiled in chaos, and even a small country was destroyed during this period.

"Seven days without any news, I have to show my face..." Hinata Yuto thought to himself, stretching on the slug.

He removed the bandages, revealing pure white eyes.

"Oh, I almost forgot, before we leave, we need to move those Kaguya family corpses to the secret base... Luckily, the slugs dealt with them beforehand, and there are no microorganisms in the Shikkotsu Forest, otherwise those corpses would have rotted long ago."

"In that case, I'll have to trouble myself to continue killing."

(End of this chapter)