Time flies, and years pass like a shuttle.
In the blink of an eye, childhood drew to a close.
Late March, Konoha Year 60.
The most exceptional generation of new shinobi finally reached their graduation season.
"Izayoi-kun, time to get up. We've got the graduation exam today."
Izayoi, unusually, had overslept.
Lost in dreams, he was pulled back to reality by a gentle female voice.
The voice's owner was right beside him, yet didn't startle him awake—a testament to the trust Izayoi placed in her, with no guard up at all.
Opening his eyes, a girl's silhouette came into focus through his hazy vision.
A face, no longer childish but delicately beautiful, met his gaze.
Her jet-black hair, deliberately grown long since six years ago, cascaded like silk past her shoulders to her waist. Her skin, visible beyond her white trench coat and black fishnet undershirt, was snowy white.
Unlike other Hyuga, her Byakugan held a faint, almost imperceptible lavender sheen, making her eyes gleam like precious jade, crystal clear.
Her cherry-colored lips curved slightly upward in a soft smile. Hands behind her back, she leaned down, watching the just-awakened Izayoi.
Locking eyes with Hinata for a few seconds, Izayoi felt a moment of daze, as if her chubby, adorable face from childhood lingered just yesterday.
But his gaze soon drifted downward, a mischievous grin spreading across his face. "Hinata, have you grown again?"
"Eek…!"
Hinata yelped, suddenly aware of how improper her posture was.
She hurriedly zipped her coat to the top, her cheeks flushing as she turned away, her voice trembling slightly. "I-Izayoi-kun, hurry and get ready. I brought you breakfast."
With that, the girl rushed out of the room.
Chuckling at his habit of teasing his childhood friend, Izayoi got up, stretched, and headed to the room's private bathroom to freshen up.
While brushing his teeth, he studied himself in the mirror.
Six years had passed. The black-haired, blue-eyed boy with a chubby face had shed his childishness. His features were now chiseled, sharp, and strikingly handsome.
His black hair, just covering his ears, was slightly tousled from sleep.
His blue eyes, like a deep ocean, shimmered under the light.
But in the next moment, those eyes—same hue as Uzumaki Naruto's but deeper—shifted, their pupils turning white like Hinata's.
Under the light, they too carried a faint lavender tint.
Yet, unlike before, no veins bulged at Izayoi's temples.
In the past, activating his Byakugan always caused those veins to pop.
Since the start of the year, that trait had vanished.
Izayoi's eyes narrowed slightly. Then, a screen—visible only to him, not even reflected in the mirror—appeared out of thin air.
[Host: Izayoi]
[Talent Entries: Otsutsuki Bloodline (Red), Sage's Eye (Red), Prince of the Byakugan (Red), Six Paths Potential (Red), Kekkei Genkai: Byakugan (Gold), Chakra Control (Gold), Uzumaki Bloodline (Purple)「+」, All-Attribute Constitution (Purple)「+」, Medical Genius (Blue)「+」]
[Points: 12,391]
Six years at the ninja academy had made Izayoi's panel even more impressive.
Beyond the initial Otsutsuki Bloodline, he'd gained three more red-tier entries.
These were Sage's Eye (Red) from Uchiha Sasuke, Prince of the Byakugan (Red) from Hinata two years ago—automatically renamed upon fusion—and Six Paths Potential (Red), which he'd elevated himself.
While others had only ninja potential, or no talent entries at all, Izayoi boasted four of the highest-known red-tier entries.
Even Uzumaki Naruto, the Child of Prophecy with Asura's Chakra, half the Nine-Tails, and Uzumaki Bloodline, couldn't compare.
But a closer look at the panel revealed something curious. Nearly five years had passed since fusing Sage's Eye (Red).
Yet his entry list still lacked Kekkei Genkai: Sharingan (Purple) or Uchiha Bloodline (Purple).
The reason? Kekkei Genkai: Byakugan (Gold).
In late June of Konoha Year 58, Izayoi received a belated birthday gift: a red-tier entry from Hinata.
Upon fusion, its name changed. Over the next two years, his Chakra reserves grew almost monthly.
He didn't know how vast a Sage's Body's Chakra was, but Izayoi was certain that without half the Nine-Tails or malnutrition, Uzumaki Naruto's Sage's Body couldn't match his Chakra reserves.
His ocean-like Chakra included Yin Release Chakra.
If quantified, Izayoi's Yin Release Chakra had long reached the level to awaken the Sharingan—or even evolve it to the Mangekyo Sharingan.
Yet he hadn't awakened the Sharingan.
The Yin Release Chakra secreted by his brain was entirely absorbed by his Byakugan, unable to pool in his eyes to form a new dojutsu.
But the Byakugan, soaking up this Yin Release Chakra, had quietly upgraded from purple to gold-tier in Konoha Year 59.
Since fusing Prince of the Byakugan (Red), the range of Izayoi's Byakugan farsight had grown steadily.
Now, it reached a staggering eighty kilometers.
A full 360-degree farsight and x-ray vision, it surpassed even the Uzumaki clan's Kagura Mind's Eye.
Undoubtedly, Izayoi's sensory abilities were the strongest of this era.
Nearly a year had passed since the Byakugan's upgrade.
"Soon…"
Izayoi rinsed his mouth, spitting out the foam, and wiped his face with a cloth. Touching the corner of his right eye, he gazed at the faintly lavender-tinted Byakugan in the mirror, murmuring, "I have a feeling the first pulse is coming soon."
Izayoi's current setup far exceeded Otsutsuki Toneri's.
At nineteen, Toneri's potential was largely realized, his Otsutsuki Bloodline—like a Sage's Body—developed to a high degree.
That's how he awakened the ultimate dojutsu, Tenseigan, in mere days.
But now, neither Izayoi nor Toneri had fully tapped their potential.
Even transplanting Hinata or Hanabi's Byakugan wouldn't let them replicate the movie's feat of evolving to Tenseigan in days.
Yet, if both received a Byakugan transplant, Izayoi's speed to awaken the Tenseigan would far outpace Toneri's.
Sage's Eye (Red) was his trump card.
Possessing both Sage's Eye and Prince of the Byakugan, Izayoi was like someone running two cheat codes at once.
At twelve, he had the potential to awaken an ultimate dojutsu.
That was even more absurd than Uchiha Itachi awakening the Mangekyo Sharingan at eleven.
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