The weekend was a collective holiday for the ninja school, so Ayane stayed at the Hyuga clan's territory and didn't go anywhere.
In the Hyuga clan, the living areas of the branch family and the main family are separated.
People from the Zong family rarely associate with the branch family. For the Zong family, the branch family only needs to complete the tasks assigned to them honestly.
Ayane is one of the most talented members of the Hyuga branch family of this generation. Not only the branch family, but the main family is also looking forward to her future.
Whether it is as a protector of the clan, or as an excellent mother body that gives birth to children for the Hyuga clan, its fate seems to have been decided from the beginning.
"Ayane, someone from the Zong family came here before. They want you to be the maid who takes care of Master Rizu's daily life. This is a great honor for you as a branch family."
Seeing her mother's smile that she was proud of having such an outstanding daughter, Ayane was just stunned for a moment, then nodded obediently.
However, would people from the Zong family use a word like hope that has a meaning of request?
It is better to say that he wants her to do this than it is a threat and an order.
After all, as a member of the branch family, she had no right to bargain with the Zong family.
When she had witnessed several members of the family who resisted the clan and ended up being in agony by the Caged Bird Curse, she had already considered what kind of attitude she should use to face the clan.
"Master Hizu is an excellent ninja. He is fourteen years old and is already a famous chuunin in the village. Everyone says that he can become a jounin before he is twenty years old."
Ayane sat on her knees on the cushion, her long black hair draped over her shoulders, her silent white pupils showing no emotion of excitement or joy, just quietly listening to her mother's constant nagging.
Her mother is a relatively traditional woman who accepts everything.
Perhaps she had seen too much, but the dissatisfaction she once felt towards the Zong family had turned into awe and humiliation over the past thirty years.
The branch family has no right to resist the clan family.
It is natural for the branch family to dedicate everything, love, life, and dignity to the clan family.
Everything in the branch family was given by the clan.
Such traditional thinking, influenced by her ears and eyes for so many years, must have turned her mother into a tool that obeys the orders of the clan.
Therefore, Ayane never engages in meaningless arguments with her mother.
Habits are a terrible thing.
"Ayane, don't resent the clan. They are considering the future of the Hyuga family. The Byakugan of our clan has always been coveted by outsiders. The caged bird is not a curse. It is done entirely to protect the Byakugan from outsiders. One day, the rest will The separated family members will also understand this."
"I know, mother."
Ayane does not hate her mother, even though she has become a tool of the clan.
However, the caged bird is not a curse, which Ayane cannot agree with.
Maybe the caged bird had a reason to protect Byakugan, but should those ninjas who were killed by the caged bird's curse be killed by their own people silently and without dignity?
What's wrong with them?
Why doesn't the village care?
Ayane didn't believe that the Hokage and other senior officials didn't know about this.
This kind of harm to a colleague should be put in jail.
Shiraishi-kun is right, this village is twisted and boring. And we are all just part of this twisted and boring village, the most humble part. Ayane remembered what Shiraishi once said to herself, and she felt the cruelty and distortion of this helplessness more deeply than at that time.
Therefore, every time the Hokage personally hosts the opening ceremony to promote the will of fire, Ayane will feel out of place, strange and afraid of the village.
The blood flowing through his body now is the blood of not surrendering to this fate.
She wants to be that bird that flies freely in the sky.
Rather than being locked in a birdcage by the Zong family, a bird with broken wings.
One day, she will break free from the birdcage that is tied to her body and fly into the sky.
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The sun is full and the day is full.
This name is still very loud among the Hyuga clan.
He is the young master of the Hyuga clan and a famous genius chuunin in Konoha Village at a young age.
In this village, he is destined to become a big man who is looked up to by countless people.
Ayane never thought that she would become this person's maid, and she was the member of the clan whom she hated the most.
However, considering that the guards of the Zong family have always been chosen from the branch families, this seems to be a reasonable thing.
"Master Hizu, I am Hinata Ayane, who will serve as your maid from today on."
Sitting on the corridor of the courtyard, a handsome young man with long straight black hair looked at the pond in the courtyard with pure white pupils.
After hearing a voice from beside him, he slowly turned his head and glanced at this innocent girl with pure white pupils like himself.
There was no emotion in her eyes, but it would be wrong to say they were dead water. There was only a soft smile on her face, with a hint of sadness in it.
"Do you hate the clan?"
Hizu asked.
Ayane was slightly startled, not expecting that the other party would ask her such a question.
"hatred."
Lying will lead to suspicion, and sometimes being honest will make the other party relax their vigilance.
At least they won't be so hypocritical when getting along.
Rizu nodded and muttered to himself:
"I also hate that because of this rule, Hizashi has not smiled at me for many years. All he has is indifference and hostility. Hizashi is my favorite brother. We used to play together and laugh at each other. For When fighting for snacks, you can fight regardless of your identity..."
"Really? Master Rizu is a gentle man."
Ayane said with a smile.
"I am not gentle at all, nor can I be gentle. Three years ago, I had a competition with Hizashi, and I lost on purpose. I wanted to make the people of the clan look at Hizashi with new eyes. Unexpectedly, after I returned, my father used the curse seal to Let Hizashi scream and beg for mercy on the ground in pain... My father told me that as the heir of the clan, he should always let the branch family remember his identity and not cross the line and be rude to the clan."
Hizu looked at the blue and clear sky and let out a sigh of regret.
Ayane was silent after hearing this.
"Since then, I finally understood what rules are. In the Hyuga clan with strict rules, Hizashi...no, everything of the branch family is arranged by the clan. They cannot resist and cannot be free."
Hizu stood up from the corridor, and then glanced at Ayane:
"So, it's right for you to hate me and the clan. But you must remember not to show hostility or murderous intent towards me, because I am the clan and the master of your branch."
If the imprisoned bird glares at its owner and makes the owner unhappy, it will lead to a ruthless death.
It expresses exactly this meaning.
Therefore, the so-called requesting her to become a maid was an act of coercion from the beginning.
"I understand, I will pay attention to my own propriety, Master Rizu."
Seeing that Ayane was so understanding, Hizu nodded with satisfaction.
Hizu walked back into the house and took out a birdcage with a white bird in it.
Ayane looked slightly unnatural when she saw this scene.
Rizu didn't pay attention to Ayane's unnatural expression and murmured in a low voice:
"Do you know? I have never changed this birdcage, but the birds in it have been changed to seven. This is the eighth bird. I bought it for you today."
"Before that..."
"The moment they flew out, I killed them."
"Why did Master Rizu do this?"
"Before you, there were seven maids by my side. All of them were executed by my father for various reasons."
Nizu hung the birdcage outside.
"I hope you won't end up like this..."
This sentence seems to be said to the bird, but also to Ayane.
