Reborn Into Naruto World With Tenseigan
The Oddity Within the Hyuga Clan
At the same time, in the secret library of the Hyuga Clan.
“Truely.. the relationship with the Kaguya Clan is exactly as I thought..”.
Looking through the genealogy of the Hyuga Clan, Kuroto discovers that during the Warring States Period, there are records of marriages between the Hyuga Clan and the Kaguya Clan, and, although it was quite strange that only women from the Kaguya Clan were married to men from the Hyuga Clan. The Hyuga clan, not the other way around, was probably doing so to prevent the Byakugan's exit…
By the way, after reading this wedding note, Kuroto could indeed confirm that the Hyuga Clan and the Kaguya Clan had a close relationship and that the two clans were blood brothers who were descendants of the same ancestor.
But with the founding of Konoha, Kirigakure, and other Shinobi Villages, as well as the multiple wars that ensued that led to the deaths of countless shinobi, the relationship between the Hyuga Clan and the Kaguya Clan became distant, alienated, and alienated, cold, and tense due to the hostility and hostility between the two Shinobi Villages .
All of this information was already in line with Kuroto's expectations, so it didn't really surprise him too much and he continued to drill down through the history of the Hyuga Clan in hopes that he would find something that would help him reach an answer to his question.
"It…!"
Not long after, he found something…
As he looked at the population records of the Hyuga Clan, Kuroto quickly realized that in the history of the Hyuga Clan throughout the millennium, the population of the Hyuga Clan had largely survived in the number range of three thousand to four thousand. , there were even times when the population of the Hyuga Clan reached five thousand to six thousand, The Hyuga Clan was comparable to the Senju Clan and the Uchiha Clan, at least in half the population…
But for some inexplicable reason, having reached the peak value of 5894 about three centuries ago, the population of the Hyuga Clan began to decline and has continued to decline ever since.
This decline was so serious that to date, the number of Hyuga Clans that were still alive was only around seven hundred people, including all the men, women, and children from both the main family and the branch family.
In just three centuries, the population of the Hyuga Clan had declined from 5894 to 1200… this decline in the population of the Hyuga Clan might not be particularly interesting given its slow and steady decline and repeated over a period of three centuries, but when Kuroto read the entire Lineage in ten minutes, the Hyuga clan began to decline, he felt this slow and steady decline was quite strange…
"Is it really because of the war?" muttered Kuroto with a serious expression.
The war between the Clan and the nation has always been the main cause of population decline among the Shinobi Clans.The former greatest Clan, the Senju Clan is a prime example.After the founding of Konoha Village, during the first great shinobi war, the, and the second great shinobi war, the shinobi of the Senju Clan took the lead on all the battlefields and took the most casualties, the death rate of the Senju Clan reached such a high point that the number of men in the Senju Clan decreased drastically and the ratio of men to women was greatly affected…
The low ratio of men and women along with the policies implemented by Shodaime Hokage with the intention to integrate the Senju Clan into Konoha thoroughly resulted in a large number of marriages between the Senju Clan women and the villagers ordinary, which further led to the dilution of the Senju Clan.the blood and decline of the Senju Clan.
The decline of the Senju Clan was so severe that currently the Senju Clan only had a name left, and Senju Tsunade was the only member to shoulder the entire clan on his shoulders, when he was about to die, the Senju Clan would truly cease to exist.
After all, Tsunade-hime seemed to have no intention of leaving a descendant, so there was nothing left to continue with the Senju Clan, or perhaps, that would not be the case given the fact that Shimizu's nephew Naomi, was not, Mika also carries the blood of Senju. Even though Mika is only a quarter Senju, she is still a Senju, and may carry the flag of the greatest clan in the future…
Returning to the main topic, Kuroto initially speculated that the cause of the Hyuga Clan's population decline was also due to the war, after all, all the deaths occurred in the war between clans and villages, but upon second thought, he denied it...
Because, after rereading the entire history of the Hyuga Clan, Kuroto did not find too many death records at once, except for one time in which several hundred Hyuga Clans died from mysterious causes.
Although the mysterious cause that led to the death of hundreds of clans was an unwelcome matter, Kuroto decided not to focus on this moment.
However this was also natural, considering that the Hyuga Clan did not have any great enemies during the Warring States period.
During the Warring States Period, relations between each Shinobi Clan were strained, and fights between shinobi from different clans were commonplace, but even if that happened, it was the case, it never reached the point where the two clans were mortal enemies, except the Senju and Uchiha Clans, of course.
This means, even if the Hyuga Clan had some conflicts with the shinobi of other clans, scale conflicts with other shinobi clans should never reach a level that would result in a drastic decline in the clan population.
Since this was the case, the cause of the Hyuga Clan's population decline was not war, nor was it a coup from a branch family?
After further research, Kuroto immediately realized one more detail…
“This is it.. The number of births in the Hyuga Clan also decreases every year.”.
The cause of the Hyuga clan's decline was not the increase in the number of war deaths, but the decrease in the ratio of births compared to the number of deaths per year.
If the number of children born in the Hyuga Clan decreases every year, and along with that, the ratio of the number of deaths to the number of births decreases, then obviously the population will decrease.
While this is quite understandable, why exactly is this happening? Why is the number of newborns declining every year?
The population decline of the Hyuga Clan from time to time seemed so subtle that at first glance it did not even attract attention…!
After finding out the cause of the decline in the population, the doubts in Kuroto's heart not only did not diminish, but became increasingly severe.
In the knowledge of ordinary villagers, the Hyuga Clan had the most number of Shinobi compared to other Clans, even surpassing the Uchiha Clan, this was another reason why everyone thought that the Hyuga Clan and the Uchiha Clan were rival clans. Although the Uchiha Clan had some fairly powerful shinobi, the Hyuga Clan was able to compensate for the lack of such power with its excess in numbers.
However, this was merely their misunderstanding as they did not really understand the Uchiha Clan.
Indeed the number of Shinobi Uchiha is less than that of the Hyuga Clan, the number of Shinobi Uchiha is only half that of the Hyuga Clan, but that does not mean the overall population of the Uchiha Clan is less than that of the Hyuga Clan. . Conversely, if the entire population of the Uchiha Clan was taken into account, then the number would definitely be double that of the Hyuga Clan…
The problem with the Uchiha Clan was that not everyone in their clan awakened their Kekkei Genkai Sharingan, unlike the Hyuga Clan where almost everyone woke up the Byakugan. This was why, the ordinary Uchiha, who were just ordinary villagers and did not have the qualifications to become shinobi was sometimes forgotten by everyone, which was obviously not the case in the Hyuga Clan, as everyone woke up the Byakugan.
The destruction of the Senju Clan occurred due to the decision of Shodaime Hokage-sama, and Nidaime Hokage-sama.The downfall of the Uzumaki Clan was due to the fear that other shinobi villages had, the extinction of the Kaguya Clan occurred due to their curse… now only the Uchiha Clan and the Hyuga Clan remained…
It is said that, after the Uchiha of Madara left Konoha, internal strife broke out within the Uchiha clan for the position of Patriarch of the Uchiha. This showdown featured 'Izanagi' several times, and led to the development of 'Izanami'. This infighting caused many casualties in the Uchiha Clan, however, if Kuroto saw now, the entire population of the Uchiha Clan did not decline due to the internal fighting and remained stable…
“Then why is the number of Hyuga Clans reduced? It's too weird!”