"Ahh... You caught me... As expected of the famous Hyuga clan," Kisuke came out from the side of a tree. He had a walking stick in hand and a smile on his face. It was the first time any Hyuga member had used their Byakugan on one of the shinigami, and suffice to say, he was taken aback.

He couldn't see the chakra lines; all he could see was that Kisuke was actually made of chakra (or in this case, energy). He was taken aback by this. He had never faced this kind of situation before. When he was focusing on the head ninja, he didn't notice much of his surroundings, but he knew that someone was following him, keeping a distance.

But now that he was up close with the person and used the Byakugan on them, he was a bit terrified.

"Who are you?" Hiashi asked.

"Aiya... Did you forget the shopkeeper that you often visit?" Kisuke asked. By this time, Aoto and Corazon had also come out. He could see the small chakra lines on Aoto's body, but it wasn't much, and there were no chakra lines on Corazon's body.

He couldn't make heads or tails of it. This was absurd. But he didn't voice out his questions. He was outside Konoha, and he didn't know if they were spies or enemies.

"It's you. Aoto? Do you want to be an enemy of Konoha?" Hiashi shouted.

"Hiashi-san, why would we be enemies of Konoha? We just came here to see if everything is alright," Aoto said. "And you should go and get Hinata checked. We can talk about what happened here later."

Hiashi had many questions in mind, but he knew that this was not the moment to discuss and find answers. He just looked at them for a moment and then ran back to Konoha so that he could take Hinata to the hospital.

The trio just looked at the departing figure of Hiashi and didn't move an inch.

"I think he saw through your body," Aoto said as he looked at the departing figure of Hiashi. He had noticed that Hiashi had flinched when he saw Corazon and Kisuke. Aoto could already guess that he had seen that Kisuke wasn't a 'normal' person at all.

"That was going to come out one way or the other. At least this time it will be on our terms," Kisuke said.

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"Did we get him?" Corazon asked.

"Yes. Unohana is looking after him," Kisuke said as he checked his communicator. Seeing that everything had ended, they went back to the place where the first confrontation happened. There they saw the unconscious Kumogakure ninjas. They were still out cold.

Without any delay, Aoto revolved his hands and had sent them to his home. Of course, before he did so, he tied their hands and legs using a magical seal.

If they moved a lot, the seal would inflict bodily pain. It would take insane strength to break it, and it was almost impossible for them. They too went back home using the portal. As soon as they reached they saw Unohana healing the head ninja. This guy had a hole in his right side of the chest. The attack was one of the signature palm pressure attacks of the Hyuga clan and it went straight through the body of head ninja.

"Will he survive?"

"He should be able to pull it off." Unoahana said.

"Good. We will need to him to bring down Kumogakure a notch." Aoto said. Konoha was put into high alert that night and it was on curfew mode. Nobody moved and waited for the dawn to break. It didn't take long for the sun to be out and a small rumor spread that something happened had happened to the Hyuga clan but didn't know what.

Aoto in the morning was expecting some people from either Hiruzen's side or Hyuga which was quite odd but he didn't go and knock on their doors. The whole day went and nothing happened until at evening Hiashi showed up with Hizashi.

And from the looks of things both of them were stressed and anxious. Aoto sent Naruto to be with Torune for the night.

"Welcome.. I thought I will be taken to police by now under the suspect of being a spy." Aoto joked. Hiashi just smiled half heartedly and hook his head. They both sat across the table.

"We need your help." Hiashi said.

"Oh! What can I do for you? How is Hinata?" Aoto asked.

"She is doing well. Nothing happened to her. Yesterday, you saved the head ninja didn't you?" Hiashi asked.

"Eh! Why are you asking that?"

"It's because the Kumogakure had sent a letter asking us to hand over the head ninja and his team or they want my life in return. They say that I have killed them but.." Hiashi stopped after saying that,

"But?" Aoto asked.

"That circular thing. Though I could only get a sneak at it, it seemed like its some kind of space-time ninjutsu and you and your friends sent the guy to a safe place. I know that you are not some kind of spy as you have helped Konoha. I dare say that Hokage-sama trusts you more than us, since he even gave that kid to you."

"That kid has a name you know." Aoto didn't bother to reply to the other and hung up on the last part. Hiashi instantly understood that he rubbed Aoto the wrong way when he didn't mention him by the name. He has heard that Aoto was protective of him and even was ready to go to war with some of the villagers for him. He apologized immediately.

"That's fine. Lets go over the fact. So you want me to hand over the head ninja?" Aoto asked. Hiashi nodded.

"Then you are stupid if you think that handing over live head ninja and his team would do the job." Aoto continued. This made Hiashi's pupils contract a bit and then sighed.

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