Naruto Blackened Neji

Neji said goodbye to Hyuuga Hizashi, but he still didn't quite believe Hizashi's statement.

Moreover, the mark of the bird in his cage has not yet been released, so he can't just let it go.Full of doubts, Neci took advantage of the night to come to the Hyuga clan.

He felt that there might be a way to unlock the mark on his forehead.

Because he has natural energy, Neji can sneak in very well.

He flipped through the genealogy of the Hyuga clan, and his brows gradually furrowed.

"Sure enough..."

Ningji discovered that during the Warring States Period, there were a large number of marriage records between the Hyuga clan and the Kaguya clan.

However, the vast majority of women from the Kaguya clan married into the Hyuga clan, and almost no women from the Hyuga clan married into the Kaguya clan, so there is no record of the Byakugan leaking out.

From the few words in the genealogy, it can also be clearly seen that the Hyuga clan and the Kaguya clan have a blood relationship, and they should be two bloodlines under the same ancestor's lineage.

But with the establishment of Konoha, Kirigakure and other ninja villages, the relationship between the Hyuga clan and the Kaguya clan, which belonged to two different villages, quickly cooled down.

"what..."

Suddenly, Neji, who was flipping through the family tree page by page, suddenly realized something.

In the more than 900 years of genealogical records, the population of the Hyuga clan has remained at around 3000 people.

And during the chaotic Warring States Period, this was the top and largest ninja clan like the Senju and Uchiha.

But for unknown reasons, starting from 300 years ago, the population of the Hyuga clan began to decrease year by year.

Nowadays, counting all the people hidden by the family, there are only more than 700 members of the Hyuga clan, and the vast majority of them are old, weak, women and children.

In the long 300 years of changes, the tribe's population has decreased from [-] to [-], which may not attract much attention, but in the ten minutes that Ningji flipped through the genealogy, the year-by-year decrease in the number of tribe members was obvious to him. It seems particularly eye-catching.

"Is it because of the war?"

Neji muttered.

War is the main culprit for the sharp decline in the population of many ninja clans.

The previously huge Senju clan took the lead in several wars after the founding of Konoha, resulting in heavy losses for the clan and a sharp decline in population.

Coupled with the first generation's policy of completely integrating the Senju clan into Konoha, a large number of Senju clan women intermarried with ordinary villagers, further diluting the Senju clan's bloodline.

The "Thousand Hands" clan has now ceased to exist in name only.

However, Neji quickly denied his speculation.

Because he looked through the genealogy and found that except for the mysterious death of hundreds of clan members 300 years ago, there was no record of a large number of clan members dying in a short period of time.

But this is natural. Even in wars, the Hyuga clan plays more of a reconnaissance and garrison role. They are not like the Senju clan who take the lead in every battle, nor are they as war-loving as the Uchiha.

The number of casualties is undoubtedly far lower than the average.

"It's not because of the war. There has been no large-scale rebellion or internal strife within the clan. Why is the population of the clan getting smaller and smaller? And the decrease is so smooth and unnoticeable, as if there is a pair of big hands secretly controlling..."

The doubts in Neji's heart became more and more intense.

In ordinary people's perception, the Hyuga clan is already the top clan in Konoha. The Uchiha clan, which is equally famous, seems to have only one-half of the Hyuga clan.

However, this view is just a misunderstanding among those who do not understand the Uchiha clan.

The real situation is that the Uchiha clan has far fewer ninjas than the Hyuga clan, only about half of the Hyuga clan.

However, the Uchiha clan does not have fewer members than the Hyuga clan. On the contrary, if all clan members are included, the Uchiha clan has far more members than the Hyuga clan.

It's just that the vast majority of the Uchiha clan have neither awakened the Sharingan nor have the qualifications to become ninjas. They are almost the same as ordinary villagers, so it seems that the Uchiha clan has fewer people than the Hyuga clan.

You must know that the Uchiha clan has the largest clan area among all the ninja clans in Konoha, and it is far larger than other ninja clans.

There are all kinds of shops inside, and it is almost self-sufficient. It looks like a village within a village. It is only because the location is too remote, in the corner of Konoha, that it seems inconspicuous.

"The demise of Senju was due to the decision-making of the first generation, which was caused by human factors. Uchiha has experienced the departure of Uchiha Madara, the internal strife when developing Izanagi, and the large number of casualties in several wars, but the clan's The number, however, still remains at a normal value. On the contrary, Hinata has been steady all the way, but the clan members are slowly decreasing. This is too strange."

The more he thought about it, the weirder Neji felt.

At this moment, he suddenly thought of the Otsutsuki clan on the moon.

In his impression, the Otsutsuki branch family on the moon already had the giant reincarnation eye when they officially launched the rebellion. Because of this, the branch family was almost unscathed on the battlefield with the Zong family. Zong family.

In other words, the Otsutsuki branch, which could mobilize thousands of troops in the decisive battle, suffered no human losses at all.

Then a very strange question arises. The Otsutsuki branch family with a total population of nearly [-] people died for no reason on a moon with no foreign enemies. Only Otsutsuki Toneri was left.

"In a relative period of time, the total amount of chakra is fixed, so the Otsutsuki clan on the moon gradually gathered the white eyes of the deceased into the giant reincarnated eye, which directly caused the giant reincarnated eye to become stronger and stronger, and the deceased's The chakra was absorbed into the giant reincarnated eye and could not be reincarnated. The number of newborns was naturally greatly reduced, so it was the giant reincarnated eye that suppressed the population of the Otsutsuki branch. The stronger the giant reincarnated eye, the more people from the Otsutsuki branch. The less”

In a daze, Neji had a bold guess in his mind.

This guess is the condition for awakening the reincarnated eye.

"If my guess is correct, then Otsutsuki Toneri was able to be born under the suppression of the giant reincarnation eye. Doesn't it mean that he must have the qualifications to awaken the reincarnation eye?"

Following this train of thought, Neji's eyes returned to the family tree in his hand, and he wondered: "What exactly is it that is suppressing the population of the Hyuga clan?"

The population of the Hyuga clan in the ninja world is decreasing year by year. Although it is not as exaggerated as the separation of the Otsutsuki clan on the moon, which almost caused the clan to be wiped out, it is still real.

Unconsciously, Neji's eyes fell on the record of the mysterious death of hundreds of clan members 300 years ago in the family tree.

Based on the style of the Otsutsuki branch on the moon that wiped out the clan, after they knew that a large number of Byakugan could create a giant reincarnation eye, they would never be willing to dig out the Byakugan of their own clan.

They will definitely use various means to plunder the Byakugan to create a giant reincarnation eye.

The Hyuga clan living in the ninja world is obviously a good target.

After all, in terms of physique and skills, the Otsutsuki branch, which directly owns the inheritance of Otsutsuki Hamura, can be much stronger than the Hyuga clan, and the Hyuga clan's Byakugan also meets the standards for making giant reincarnated eyes.

Calculating the time, it seems that it was 300 years ago...

But when Neji was watching anime, he remembered that the giant reincarnated eye on the moon was all made of the Byakugan of the Otsutsuki clan.

The bizarre deaths of hundreds of clan members on the family tree were caused by the Otsutsuki branch plundering the white eyes, or the Hyuga clan at that time also...