naruto studied become a seal master

chapter 5-today is the day

Hiashi Hyuuga sat at his desk shifting through the mountain of paper work that was the bane of all clan leaders in Konoha. As he worked on his proposal to another clan, he found his thoughts drifting back to the puzzle that had surrounded his eldest daughter.

It had been two years since the incident within the Hyuuga Clan library, and his mind was still trying to process what exactly had happened.

For centuries, the main family was tasked with advancing the research and decryption of the mysterious stone ring. After numerous attempts and years of research, only a handful of lines had ever been translated. Only two things were known for certain about the stone: that it required the byakugan to read its contents and the history surrounding how the stone arrived under the clan.

The monument had been a treasure safeguarded within the Hyuuga compound long before they migrated to Konoha. During the times of feuding clans, it was a shrine where the current leader would come under the full moon and meditate in the center. It was said to contain the secret origins of the clan, the byakugan, and the true duty of the clan. In the clan's early years, only the current clan leader was informed of the secrets within the tablet and how to reveal them.

Now, no one knew its contents. Many cited this due to a particular fire that had erupted during a surprise attack on the clan's compound. The raid from a rival clan resulted in almost half of the clan's documents being destroyed. While some scrolls could be rewritten from memory, some information was forever lost. The leader of the clan had perished during the battle, and had failed to pass on the secrets of the shrine to his heir.After this incident, it was decided that any discoveries regarding the Hyuuga ring were to be shared with the entire elder council in fear of losing such knowledge again.So much time and effort had been poured into recovering what they had lost, only to yield poor results. Others may have given up and simply left it as an unsolved relic to be forgotten to time, but they were the Hyuuga clan. They were drenched in tradition and would never back down from a challenge just because it was difficult. Their pride and sense of duty would not let them.

So to say that the elders had been uncharacteristically flabbergasted at Hinata's reaction with the monument would be an understatement. It wasn't well hidden that the council thought poorly of his older daughter and favored her prodigious younger sister. For her to finally elicit any sort activity from the relic that they themselves had failed at achieving was a massive blow to their pride.

Even Hiashi had felt a momentary stab of jealousy due to his own efforts, but it had been quickly overcome by a swell of pride. The incident had given him a much-needed advantage with dealing with the council.

They had recently brought up the topic of who would be chosen as clan heiress and who would be sealed once again. Hiashi had tried his best to postpone the decision for as long as he could. He had been buying as much time as he could so his daughters could enjoy what little time they had without the pressure of the seal looming overhead.

Now, the council was torn apart. They still favored Hanabi, but this incident created an unprecedented problem. If Hinata were branded, she would be unable to return to the floor reserved only for main branch families, ruining their greatest breakthrough in the mystery of the ring. While they could alter the seal along the door and make an exception for her, they were uncomfortable with the idea for making exceptions for the side-branch. So they settled to postpone the decision for an undecided amount of time, until they could come to a consensus. In the meantime, they wanted Hiashi to make Hinata interact the ruin as much as possible.

Shortly after the incident had occurred and Hinata had finally settled down, Hiashi attempted to bring Hinata back down again and recreate the event.He almost chuckled as he remembered Hinata's reaction. She had been uncharacteristically adamant and refused to go back down to the bottom floor. Even after he delivered a direct order, she still wouldn't budge.