Simultaneous travel: I am proving the great way in the heavens

#120 - The transformation of Kamui! Kidnapping Hinata!

Luo Fu didn't have to wait long.

After Luo Fu delved into the power within the depths of his bloodline, a power incorporating a Bloodline Limit, and developed a series of gravity-related techniques that could be unleashed without hand seals, even with just a thought.

The Hidden Cloud Village envoy, whom the entire Konoha high-level and countless clan heads had been waiting for, finally arrived late.

Even though Luo Fu had already been selected by the higher-ups as Konoha's envoy to the Land of Lightning.

After the arrival of the Hidden Cloud Village envoy, Luo Fu was specifically instructed not to approach those Hidden Cloud Village envoys.

Luo Fu, who was already eager to see a good show and stir up trouble, of course, wouldn't refuse.

Since the arrival of the Hidden Cloud Village, Luo Fu had been paying close attention to the Hyuga clan's movements.

Finally, on the fourth night.

At the place where the Hidden Cloud Village envoy was staying, a sneaky figure, hiding his head and showing his tail, sneaked into the Hyuga clan's residence.

Despite possessing the Byakugan, a Bloodline Limit with such powerful perception, this member of the Hidden Cloud Village envoy easily entered the Hyuga clan and quickly left with a little one in his arms.

Unfortunately, this member of the Hidden Cloud Village envoy ran into the Hyuga clan head, Hyuga Hizashi, before he could leave Konoha Village.

Even more tragically, the one he was holding in his arms was none other than Hyuga Hizashi's only daughter, Hyuga Hinata.

After all, the current Hyuga Hizashi hadn't considered having a second child with his wife.

The Hyuga clan's rules dictate that only one person in the main family can inherit.

The short time difference between Hyuga Hizashi and his twin brother, Hyuga Hiashi, at birth had caused the tragedy of one being the main family and the other being the branch family.

As the clan head, Hyuga Hizashi was well aware of the tragedy of the branch family.

Having already had one child, he couldn't imagine inscribing the Caged Bird Curse Seal on his own child's head, what a heartbreaking thing that would be.

As for the future Hyuga Hanabi, her appearance was due to Hyuga Hizashi's disappointment with Hinata's aptitude, which ultimately led him to choose to nurture the younger Hyuga Hanabi.

The moment he recognized Hyuga Hinata, the furious Hyuga Hizashi immediately attacked.

With decades of experience in the Hyuga Gentle Fist style, even as the head of the Hyuga clan, Hyuga Hizashi rarely had the opportunity to directly fight in life-or-death battles on the battlefield.

But with one attacking in anger and the other responding hastily, the Hidden Cloud Village envoy who wanted to steal the Hyuga clan's Bloodline Limit was beaten to death by Hyuga Hizashi in a very short time.

Just as he killed the guy who wanted to steal the Hyuga clan's Bloodline Limit, Hyuga Hizashi was shocked to find that his daughter, who had been knocked unconscious, was gone.

Even though he had subconsciously activated his Byakugan during the battle, he still couldn't figure out when or how Hyuga Hinata had disappeared after killing his opponent.

A moment of creepiness made Hyuga Hizashi unable to react.

Those Hyuga ninjas who had been alarmed by the sound of the battle and hurriedly left the clan's residence all discovered that the guy who had died miserably under the Hyuga Gentle Fist Eight Trigrams Palm was actually an envoy from the Hidden Cloud Village who had come to Konoha to discuss a peace treaty.

Now, countless Hyuga ninjas panicked.

Hyuga Hizashi couldn't even care about his daughter Hinata's whereabouts.

He hurriedly took advantage of the night to go to the Sarutobi clan's residence and personally seek an audience with the Third Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen.

On the other side, in the Kamui space.

Luo Fu wasn't like Uchiha Obito. Since he had discovered the gravity ability deep within his bloodline, he had still come up with new tricks with the Mangekyo Sharingan's Kamui.

You must know that although Kamui is both offensive and defensive, it also has a disadvantage that isn't exactly a flaw, which is that the time spent hiding in the Kamui space is limited, and furthermore, after entering the Kamui space, it is impossible to attack. At the same time, the main body in the Kamui space will synchronize all its movements with the illusory image outside.

But Luo Fu was someone who had mastered gravity.

His gravity completely surpassed Uzumaki Nagato's simple and crude application of the Rinnegan.

In Uzumaki Nagato's hands, the Rinnegan, which could control gravity and repulsion, was only used to pull the opponent over with gravity, or to forcefully repel the opponent and all attacks unfavorable to himself with repulsion, or to condense a point of powerful gravity to create a Planetary Devastation to seal the opponent.

But Luo Fu had many more tricks.

His use of gravity had already reached the point where he could distort and deflect light.

Simply put, Luo Fu's main body remained in the Kamui space, but his image could be distorted to any place under the effect of gravity. With Luo Fu's current strength, this range could reach a radius of two to three kilometers. Within two kilometers, he could even pinpoint the location accurately.

In the range of three kilometers to two kilometers, he could also deflect and distort an image that was difficult to distinguish between truth and falsehood.

Even beyond three kilometers, the distorted image would still be somewhat distorted, but even so, the distorted image could still achieve the effect of an ordinary Clone Technique.

Ordinary Clone Techniques are completely different from those with many variations.

Whether it's the Shadow Clone, Water Clone, Earth Clone, Wood Clone... these clones are all physical clones that can directly fight. Unless they are hit by an instant heavy blow, even the Sharingan often can't distinguish them.

But ordinary Clone Techniques are just a visual trick.

Some clumsy Clone Techniques don't even have shadows, making them so fake that people can tell at a glance.

Luo Fu's ability to deflect and distort his influence in reality to other directions, combined with the Kamui Mangekyo, allowed him to appear silently anywhere without being noticed by anyone.

After all, he didn't even have an influence in his current position. Ask, who would have thought that the influence a few kilometers away would actually have his main body in another position?

Unless relying on the sixth sense in the dark, otherwise, with the real body hiding in the Kamui space and the external image being deflected and distorted to other positions.

Without including coincidences and super-strong sixth sense, it was almost impossible for anyone to notice the location of Luo Fu's real body.

Hyuga Hizashi was the first victim.

Luo Fu used this method to directly stand in front of Hyuga Hizashi and watch the entire process of how he discovered the so-called peace envoy from the Hidden Cloud Village and then beat him to death with the Gentle Fist.

Even in the process, Luo Fu instantly snatched the unconscious Hyuga Hinata into the Kamui space.

This was why Hyuga Hizashi didn't notice how Hyuga Hinata disappeared when he activated his Byakugan the whole time.

Because Hyuga Hinata was sent into the Kamui space in front of his eyes by Luo Fu, but Luo Fu manipulated gravity to distort Hyuga Hinata's image and leave it in its original position.

While fighting with the Hidden Cloud Village envoy, even if he activated the Byakugan, Hyuga Hizashi couldn't truly focus on Hinata's direction.

In addition, he didn't expect that someone like Luo Fu would be so bold. Who in the ninja world didn't know that the Byakugan's Bloodline Limit was almost the best in the ninja world in terms of perception.

But precisely in Konoha Village, someone dared to attack the daughter of the Hyuga clan head, right outside the Hyuga clan's family residence, and even in front of Hyuga Hizashi, the Hyuga clan head, someone took his daughter away.

It was because of coincidence and a momentary negligence in mentality that Hyuga Hizashi completely lost hope of finding Hyuga Hinata.

For Luo Fu, the current Hyuga Hinata was still a little bean sprout, even several years younger than Uchiha Izumi, completely lacking the demeanor of that future wife.

Luo Fu didn't have any dark thoughts about snatching Hyuga Hinata. He was just looking forward to what kind of choice the Hyuga clan, who had lost both their wife and their soldiers, would make under the pressure of the Third Hokage and others.

Would they, like in the original fate, force their own brother to die in their place with a plausible reason, or would they be tough to the end with the loss of Hyuga Hinata as the reason?

That night, before dawn, the entire Konoha Village exploded.

And through the Kamui space, Luo Fu, who had returned to his room silently, quietly overlapped his image with his main body.

Even Uchiha Izumi, who was not far away, didn't notice that Luo Fu, who was right in front of her, had just not only left but had even abducted the daughter of Konoha's prestigious Hyuga clan head into his Kamui space.

Unsurprisingly, after Hyuga Hinata's disappearance was reported to the Third Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen, by Hyuga Hizashi.

Sarutobi Hiruzen immediately called his old partners.

The two elders, Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura, and the founder of Root, Shimura Danzo, gathered in the Hokage Building in a short time.

Their faces still had a bit of sleepiness from not having woken up yet.

Sarutobi Hiruzen had to take a big puff of his pipe to perk up.

In the swirling smoke, Sarutobi Hiruzen said, "Hizashi, please tell us the situation again so that the elders can also know what happened in the village just now!"

"Yes." Although anxious about his daughter's situation, facing the long-standing prestige of Konoha F4, even if he was anxious, Hyuga Hizashi had to patiently recount his recent experience.

"Hyuga clan head, you said that the Hidden Cloud Village envoys, who came in the name of signing a peace treaty, actually sneaked into your Hyuga family under the cover of night and stole your daughter, and you accidentally discovered the Hidden Cloud Village envoy and fought with him, but in the process, you, who had been keeping your Byakugan open, didn't notice how your daughter disappeared?"

A clear look of suspicion flashed in Shimura Danzo's single eye.

The Hyuga Byakugan's perception is known to everyone in the ninja world. It is a powerful perception that can directly see the flow of chakra within a person's body.

Especially since the Byakugan also has a 360-degree view, combining the abilities of a telescope, perspective, and perception.

Purely in terms of perception, even the Sharingan, which Shimura Danzo had been coveting for so many years, couldn't compare to the Byakugan's specialization.

But now, Hiashi Hyuga, the head of the Hyuga clan, was telling him that his daughter was kidnapped right under their noses, and he, with his Byakugan, didn't even see the process.

Danzo Shimura simply couldn't believe such an absurd claim.

"That's right!" Hiashi Hyuga nodded expressionlessly.

Almost laughing in anger, Danzo Shimura slammed his cane forcefully on the ground and said, "If I'm not mistaken, the members of the Cloud Village envoy must have died at your hands, right?"

Already anxious about his daughter's safety, Hiashi Hyuga, now being questioned by Danzo Shimura, couldn't contain himself and said angrily, "Elder Danzo, are you suspecting me of deliberately killing the Cloud Village envoys?"

"I didn't say that," Danzo Shimura sneered. "In the ninja world, everyone knows that the Byakugan's perception can see the chakra flow within a ninja's body clearly, let alone you, the head of the Hyuga clan. Your Byakugan must be even stronger than that of ordinary Hyuga clansmen. So, I suspect…"

"Enough," Sarutobi Hiruzen interrupted in time, seeing that Danzo Shimura was about to say something that would completely enrage Hiashi Hyuga. "Danzo, no matter what, Hiashi is a ninja of the village. You shouldn't suspect and question him with such an attitude."

After a slight pause, without waiting for Danzo Shimura to respond, Sarutobi Hiruzen directly looked at Hiashi Hyuga and said, "Hiashi, I and the elders need to first confirm the identity of the Cloud Village envoy. As for your daughter, perhaps she hid because she was scared when you weren't paying attention. You can mobilize the Hyuga clansmen to look for her whereabouts. I, as the Third Hokage, guarantee to you that if things are really as you say, then even at the cost of war, Konoha will never allow anyone to harm our comrade."

This kind of perfunctory official response made Hiashi Hyuga's heart tighten.

In Hiashi Hyuga's heart, Hinata's life and death were still uncertain, so how could he have the mind to go back and slowly search for his daughter?

Could it be that his, the dignified Hyuga clan head's, Byakugan couldn't even see how his few-year-old daughter left on her own?

But no matter how unwilling he was in his heart, Hiashi Hyuga could only brace himself, bow to the Third Hokage Sarutobi Hiruzen, and say, "Thank you, Third Hokage-sama. Please, Third Hokage, no matter what, you must find out the whereabouts of my daughter from the Cloud Village envoy, otherwise, my Hyuga clan's thousand-year-old reputation may face the danger of bloodline outflow."

"Rest assured, as the Hokage, my Will of Fire will never allow the village's comrades to be harmed," Sarutobi Hiruzen still used seemingly high-sounding words to deal with Hiashi Hyuga.

After Hiashi Hyuga left.

Danzo Shimura immediately said angrily, "Hiruzen, can't you see that Hiashi Hyuga is simply testing us? Hmph, since they are both dojutsu clans, Hiashi Hyuga must be using such clumsy means to test us because we are targeting the evil Uchiha. As the head of the dignified Hyuga main family, with the Byakugan activated in close proximity, he doesn't even know how his few-year-old daughter disappeared. Is his Byakugan blind?"

"Alright, Danzo!" Sarutobi Hiruzen glanced at his old friend and said, "The village is now in a time of turmoil. The influence of the Nine-Tails attack has caused us to lose the Fourth Hokage, and that Uchiha Rofū is also an unstable factor. In this situation, we must try our best to appease the various ninja families, rather than force them to become our enemies!"

"Just a mere decaying Hyuga clan," Danzo Shimura said, but he didn't continue to insist on his tough stance.

After all, no matter how absurd Hiashi Hyuga's statement was.

The current Konoha was indeed at its weakest since its founding.

Even Danzo Shimura had to compromise. He would endure this humiliation for the time being. If he solved the Uchiha clan, who were like thorns in his side, in the future, he would definitely let the Hyuga clan know what he, the Darkness of the Ninja World, could do for Konoha.

Early the next morning.

While Rofū was waiting with interest.

As expected, the Cloud Village envoy went berserk.

You should know that even if Hiashi Hyuga rescued his daughter, under conclusive evidence, the threat of war from Cloud Village would force Konoha to compromise, let alone now.

Rofū, who was regarded as an unstable factor by Konoha, had accepted the mission to go to Cloud Village as a peace envoy, but unfortunately, he was still in the village now.

Who knew what Rofū would do if they turned against Cloud Village now?

At this stage, the village had to be conciliatory on the Cloud Village issue.

Faced with the aggressive Cloud Village envoy, Sarutobi Hiruzen, Danzo Shimura, and others had no choice but to throw this problem back to the Hyuga clan.

Although Sarutobi Hiruzen and others didn't directly say that they suspected the Hyuga clan, they only wanted the Hyuga clan to produce evidence.

But everything was obvious. What evidence could the Hyuga clan produce?

Sarutobi Hiruzen and others' irresponsible approach ultimately led the Hyuga clan to sacrifice the clan head's twin brother, the head of the branch family, Hiashi Hizashi, and use Hizashi's body to impersonate Hiashi Hyuga as an explanation to Cloud Village.

The Hyuga clan was so docile, even to the point of being submissive and lying flat.

Sarutobi Hiruzen was certainly satisfied.

But because of this, their previous plan to use Cloud Village to trap Rofū completely failed.

Because after obtaining the Hyuga clan's body, these Cloud Village envoys immediately agreed to the terms that they had been arguing with Konoha over before, and even said that they would directly sign a peace treaty.

This instead made Sarutobi Hiruzen and others feel awkward.

It could only be said that Sarutobi Hiruzen had lost the demeanor of a ninja hero because he had been away from the battlefield for too long.

Konoha's strength had fallen into an unprecedented low period due to the Nine-Tails attack, but wasn't Cloud Village the same?

In this ninja world war, Cloud Village had even lost the Raikage in battle.

Konoha's so-called threat of war was just a bluff.

Even Cloud Village itself didn't expect that Konoha would be so weak.

Being able to obtain a Hyuga clan's body was a huge unexpected gain for Cloud Village. They now couldn't wait to end the war with Konoha, even if they suffered a slight loss in territory.

Once Cloud Village obtained the Hyuga clan's bloodline limit, they could simply take back this loss with interest from Konoha in the next ninja world war.

Anyway, for the five major countries in the ninja world, tearing up peace treaties and launching ninja world wars were completely commonplace.

The Cloud Village envoy's huge change turned out to be a slap in the face for Konoha.

The conditions that they initially thought Cloud Village would not agree to were now almost completely accepted by the Cloud Village envoys after obtaining Hizashi Hyuga's body.

Konoha couldn't possibly take the initiative to start a ninja world war, right?

Forcing himself, the Third Hokage, signed the peace treaty with Cloud Village as if he had eaten shit.

As for the previous plan to contact the Land of Lightning's Cloud Village and trap Rofū, which was jointly decided by the heads of various families, it naturally went bankrupt due to Cloud Village's sudden change.

But no matter what, although they couldn't use Cloud Village to solve the unstable factor of Rofū, being able to sign a peace treaty with Cloud Village was still more beneficial than harmful for Konoha.

After all, Sarutobi Hiruzen, the Third Hokage, had to stand up and take over the position of Hokage again due to the sudden sacrifice of the Fourth Hokage.

But theoretically, Sarutobi Hiruzen could only be temporarily acting.

Once the situation stabilized, Sarutobi Hiruzen could only choose the Fifth Hokage.

But when he completed the signing of the peace treaty between Konoha and Cloud Village under his leadership, this achievement alone was enough for Sarutobi Hiruzen to regain his position as Hokage.

The main reason why Sarutobi Hiruzen stepped down before was because the Third Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen, commanded poorly during the Third Ninja World War, leading to Konoha's loss of troops and generals. Sarutobi Hiruzen's stepping down could be completely regarded as taking the blame and resigning.

And now, the signing of the peace treaty with Cloud Village gave him a chance to regain his position as Hokage.

This truce with Cloud Village was definitely a cause for celebration for Konoha, except for the Hyuga clan, who sacrificed the head of the branch family, leaving Hyuga Neji an orphan at a young age.

Of course, besides the sacrifice of the head of the branch family, Hyuga clan, even the daughter of the head of the main family, Hyuga Hinata, was still missing.

It was as if, that night, after Hyuga Hinata was kidnapped from the Hyuga clan's residence by the Cloud Village envoy, she disappeared into thin air.

Even though the Hyuga clan searched the entire village with the Byakugan, they couldn't find any clues.

On Rofū's side, because his identity as an envoy to Cloud Village to sign the peace treaty was canceled, Rofū finally had time to send Hinata out.

Rofū didn't have the patience to take care of a little bean sprout who was even smaller than Uchiha Izumi. You should know that even Uchiha Izumi, who lived with him, mostly took care of herself, and even had to take care of Rofū in turn.

Although Rofū did have some innate goodwill towards Hyuga Hinata due to his previous life, this goodwill was not directed at a little one who hadn't even grown her teeth.

Relying on Kamui's undetectable space-time ability.

Rofū quietly went to the Akatsuki organization and handed Hyuga Hinata over to Yōkura and Konan to take care of.

Yōkura didn't really like children, but Konan was different.

Konan liked Hyuga Hinata very much that Rofū sent. From a young age, Konan had always liked picking people up and bringing them home.

Including the leader of the Akatsuki organization, Uzumaki Nagato, was picked up by Konan from outside.