บท 209: 209: Calm down, Satan

Chapter 209: Calm down, Satan

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After passing the quiet Hyuga clan compounds, where some servants bowed to him, Neji found himself walking through the night streets of Konoha, the middle of the well-lit and dazzling busy market of the village.

The night streets of Konoha were honestly refreshing to Neji's modern world senses. There were no skyscrapers, no cars, and there was instead a smell of freedom in the air. It almost reminded him of the few villages and towns he had visited with Kimi in his early life, except the people felt a bit happier and cheerful.

No matter what anyone said, Konoha was the safest place in this damned world. Sure, it was not safe enough; since a few random red-eyed psychos and fish-men broke in from time to time, but the villagers were happy with this alone.

"Hey, Papa! How does it feel to have long hair? You look like a girl!"

Kurai was letting her awe and fascination know to him while also asking him useless questions as he passed the red light district of the village, getting eyed by both males and females, as many truly mistook him as a girl since half his face was covered by the blindfold. He contemplated if he should cut his hair right away, but rather decided to stay like this until the end of this world.

When they were in front of the hot spring house after a few more minutes of walking, Kurai figured it was a good idea to go and see the rest of the village by herself instead of waiting for Hinata to come out. In this world's setting, she became his summoned beast when he was 10 years old, so she clearly had memories of the village in her mind just like Neji, but she was a cat who liked to see things with her own eyes, and Neji didn't stop her.

"Just don't cause any trouble, okay? Most Chunnins and above know about you, and the ones who don't will recognise you because of the headband on your collar, but you still mustn't cause any trouble, okay?" Neji told Kurai seriously, watching her nod before she ran off.

Now with her gone, Neji turned to the Konoha Onsen, a wooden building located close to the Forest of Death where a natural hot spring happened to be located.

-…!

Just now, when Kurai ran off, he had noticed something orange and yellow flee inside the forest, and upon more channelling mana into his eyes to see through more than just his blindfold and through the bushes, he confirmed that no, it wasn't an enemy Ninja.

It was the protagonist, Naruto Uzumaki, who fled inside the forest from a yelling man, possibly a guard.

…Was he peeking inside the hot spring to see some naked skin?

'Ew, loser.'

Neji shook his head, figuring it was none of his business as he then looked inside the building with his mana channelled enough to penetrate the walls. There, he saw a commotion happening inside, probably because they noticed someone was peeking at them, and so the girls' side of the Onsen were freaking out.

He could notice Hinata in there too, her naked chest covered with a towel as she stood with her knees submerged in the water, her demeanour quite… confident.

…That was also another small change in this timeline. But maybe calling it 'small' wouldn't be right. That confidence wasn't the only thing different about her.

There was also Ino and Tenten inside, the only people he knew from the show amidst the crowd, though he knew many of the other girls via this 'life'.

Neji went to sit under a tree, figuring he would wait it out until the commotion ended, however fate had something else for him in the rack.

"Ah, I think I found the pervert!"

The guard, who Neji had noticed was looking for Naruto, peeked out of the bush with his torch pointed at Neji.

Neji blinked under his blindfold and soon sighed. Did the guard think he was the pervert? How did he even reach that conclusion? No, even if this guy didn't know who Neji Hyuga was, he was still wearing a blindfold which would make him appear blind. So why did he reach the conclusion that Neji was a pervert?

He figured the guard was simply trying to impress the ladies inside.

"Really?!"

Neji heard a feminine yell from inside the onsen.

"Bring him here, we can't go out!"

"Yeah, do it!"

Some others yelled, as the guard nodded.

"On it!"

The young guard, looking to be in his early 20s, strode toward Neji and glared at his blindfold covered eyes.

"Acting blind now, ehh? It won't work on me! Now come with me, you suspicious-looking bastard." He grabbed Neji by the wrist.

Neji was wearing a casual white kimono-shirt instead of his Jounin costume, and he also wore his ninja headband around his thighs, as it had pockets to store kunais on it and keeping it to his thighs meant easier access. That's why the guard didn't notice the headband in the darkness of the night, or a mere civilian wouldn't dare do this to a Ninja. Rather, the ambitious guard simply made a disgusted snort.

Neji mentally shrugged as he was pulled inside the building, towards the female bathhouse. He would have resisted, kicked the guy's jaws in half, but hey, he was getting a free ticket into the female part of the onsen, why should he stop?

On top of that, nobody would actually believe that he's a pervert, and he was correct to assume so if the worried gazes of the girls inside were anything to indicate at.

"...Hey, guard-san. You are new in Konoha, correct?" The owner of the onsen, a busty woman in her mid-30s, looked at the guard with a scowl after taking a single short glance at Neji.

"Uhh?" The guard who was blushing hard from all the half, -naked female around him, blinked repeatedly before smiling, feeling this was a great opportunity. "Yes, yes, I am. Hehe, but as you can see I am pretty good with my job."

The owner, along with most other girls present in the spring (their bodies hidden behind their towels) face palmed.

"Do you even know who that is?" The owner asked, speechless.

"...Huh?" The guard looked confused for a moment, his eyes soon twitching and he reached a conclusion of his own. "Wait, is he infamous here? Is peeking here an occurring event for him?" Soon his eyes shook as he turned to glare at Neji, pointing a finger at his face. "Oh, I get it! You bastard, you garbage of a man! How could you-"

-Slap!

"You are fired!!"

Before the guard could make a fool out of himself further, the owner moved and struck the fool down, making him lose his consciousness in a single hit. It seemed she was a Ninja herself, albeit a retired one.

[Mira Tsubakihara - High Tier 3]

Yet Tier-3, which was the same level as Todoroki in his old world, and Todoroki could take out skyscrapers. Even after being a retired Ninja, and possibly married with kids, she was as strong as the chilly-chilli boy.

'Guess that's the perk of worlds like Naruto. Even if she doesn't have the same destructive capabilities, her ninjutsus play a big role.'

"I am sorry, Neji-sama!" The woman then bowed immediately, great shaken. First, he was a Jounin, and second, he was the head of the Hyuga branch family. If the first didn't give him enough power, just being the head of the branch gave him enough authority to tear down her business with a word.

"It's fine, please stand up. He was just a naive fool, it's not your fault." Neji touched her soft arms and helped her get up, watching as she blushed but then bowed.

"You are wise beyond your years, my lord. Thank you."

She seemed like a nice woman, so Neji decided to drop the subject. However, not everything went so smoothly.

"This doesn't end here!"

A yell caused Neji's eyelids to twitch as he turned his head to the steamy water, watching as an enraged Haruno Sakura stomped out of the water to come towards him, one of her hands clenched into a fist and another covering her chest with a towel.

"You, Neji Hyuga!" She stops in front of him, having to look up quite a bit because of Neji's current height, standing at a whopping 6 foot 5 inches. "I heard about you, you can't fool anyone. You've been hitting on girls, trying to persuade many commoners and ninjas alike, for a while now. I have heard about it all. It's not weird for you to peek into a hot spring knowing that fact. And with the Byakugan, it's not exactly hard to accomplish the feat either, is it?" She glared at his blindfold, scoffing. "Tsk! Do you hide your eyes behind that blindfold to make sure nobody sees your eyes when you look through women's clothes? You disgusting freak."

"..."

Now that was sudden. Did he do something to make her hate him or something?

'...Oh yeah. Because of the changes, this Neji never went to persuade Sasuke even though many others did. I guess that's why she sees me in a bad light. Also, her claims are kinda logical, though irritating.'

There was silence between them for a minute while the other girls around them chattered amongst themselves, slowly each of them found themselves agreeing to Sakura's logic. As it turned out, Neji had hit on a few of them before. Oh no.

"Hey, why aren't you saying anything? Are you getting aroused from being insulted? I heard that's what perverts do. Say something, admit your wrongdoings!" When realising she was getting the support, the annoying girl kept pestering him. However, just as he was about to open his mouth, her hand came flying on his cheeks.

-Slap!

He could have dodged, but… aah, he needed this bit of motivation to decide if he should hate fuck her or not. Now, he had decided.

'Fucking bitch.'

"And here I thought better of you, Neji Hyuga!" The girl yelled.

Neji felt a tick of irritation rise to his head as he looked down at her trying to cover her nonexistent breasts with a towel.

"Take off that blindfold before you speak! I can't trust you, who knows if you aren't having a peek even now?!"

Though she said that, she didn't allow him to take his blindfolds off. Rather, she reached out her hands and yanked down his blindfolds herself.

"Now let's see-..."

However, she, along with everyone else in the room, fell silent as his blindfold came off.

"Ah…"

"Wo…whoa."

He heard some gasps from the side, all their gazes focused on his shining cosmic blue eyes, giving no heed to the cursed seal on his forehead.

'This always happens, haah.'

There was a reason why he wore sunglasses every time he went outside his home in the MHA world. His eyes… they were beautiful. Too gorgeous. People got charmed by it a bit too often. Now that it had evolved, the charming effect was obviously stronger. So no wonder he could hear all their heartbeat speedup all of a sudden.

"Those aren't Hyuga eyes though…"

Someone calm enough managed to point out something that was missing. Only the Hyuga clan members knew about his eyes, so their surprise was justified.

Sakura Haruno herself who was staring at his eyes, her mouth slightly agape, blinked after hearing that.

"Ah… oh." She looked flustered. "I… I am sorry. All my claims should be invalid since you don't even have the Byakugan-"

"I do, but they just look different." Neji corrected her, sighing. "Either way, looks like there's been a misunderstanding."

The building owner took this opportunity to slip in. "A-aha, yes, yes, it's a misunderstanding ladies. I am sure they can figure things out amongst themselves, can we clear the room for a bit?"

Even as the commoner girls left, their eyes were locked on Neji's face with their mouths agape.

"Aha, um, you guys take your time. Nobody will bother you." The owner said, pulling down the curtains and leaving through the door.

Now, only Neji, Sakura, Hinata, Ino, and Tenten remained in the bathhouse. They were ninjas, so the owner didn't dare drag them out.

"U-um… about this…" Sakura fidgeted in her spot uncomfortably, unable to look into his eyes.

Neji simply smiled at her.

"Thing is, I don't have the vein-popping effect of the Byakugan. I can just activate my powers by pouring chakra into it. Meaning, even though you never see veins in my face, I always have my eyes activated since I wouldn't be able to see otherwise while wearing my blindfold. In other words, I always have seen you and many other people naked, girls and dudes alike. Always, every day."

Salura, Ino and Tenten flinched at his words, but Hinata stayed calm.

He was lying, and he knew that Hinata knew about it. He, along with all the other Hyugas, could control what he wanted to see through and what not.

"As you imagine, miss Haruno, that can be a problem in combat. So we Hyugas are specially trained to control our sexual desires. We can't get aroused in a battle just because we have our eyes active, after all. You can ask Princess Hinata there for confirmation." He gestured at Hinata who sighed and nodded. "See? With that in mind, I don't think any of the Hyugas are perverts, it just wouldn't make sense."

He actually wasn't sure about the last part. From his memories… he recalled noticing many Hyugas gazing into distant moaning sounds with their Byakugan active late at night. But he wasn't going to say that here, of course.

"I-I… I am…" Sakura stuttered, unable to form her words as her face burned. "I am really sor-"

"More importantly," he interrupted her. It was payback time. "I am sure if anyone came to take a peek here, let me give you an assurance, that person wouldn't be here to look at you. You are safe. Because- look in the mirror once you return home, miss Haruno. You don't really have anything to take a peek at.""

Sakura's eyes suddenly widened, her head snapping to meet his eyes before immediately looking away, her gaze falling on her chest as she… froze.

"Yup, that." Neji said in a sad tone. "Look around you. There are only three more people left in this place." He glanced behind her, followed by Sakura's distant gaze, watching Hinata, Ino and Tenten standing with their towels covering their chest.

Recalling Neji's words just now, how he could see through everything, meaning the towels were useless, both Ino and Tenten looked away from Neji's gaze, both blushing, though Tenten blushed a bit too bright. Hinata simply stood, facing his gaze calmly.

Neji spoke again. "Ino has tall legs with well-rounded thighs, big breasts and a slim waist, she's a real super hot blonde." He then looked at Tenten. "My teammate, dear Tenten has trained with a lot of weapons, varying in sizes and weight, so her body is slightly muscular and therefore well proportioned, with moderate breasts and a nice butt." Then, he looked at the last person. "At last. Forgive me princess for looking at you like this but- lady Hinata herself has the biggest breasts of our generation. Her body is soft, like a cushion, and her butt is huge too, though as soft as a marshmallow. In short, she's thicc as hell." Neji finished, watching Ino and Tenten's faces go blazing red while Hinata frowned cutely, a small blush on her face too.

They truly were frighteningly hot. They were all in their 20s, and lord knew how hot naruto characters became in their 20s.

"And then let's look at you." Neji turned his head back to Sakura, looking down on her even as she stared at the other three girls, very self conscious of herself suddenly. "What do you have better than them? You are slightly better than the civilian girls, I will give you that, but even that doesn't apply to all the civilian girls I saw in this house. So why would anyone, even the lowest grade pervert, come here just to take a peek at You? That's why I couldn't understand why you were getting so worked up, even though everyone else who was the likely target of the true Mr.Pervert else was silent."

"..."

Much of it was lies. He was pretty sure Mr.Pervert, aka Naruto, had come here to peek at Sakura particularly. Additionally, Sakura actually had a really great body, especially that ass. She trained under tsunade, so of course she had gone through a lot of physical training, making her body slightly muscular and well built, though she was skinny. However, without a mirror around, she couldn't really compare to others.

Neji continued with a shrug. "Also hey, I did hear the 3-year-old rumour where it said you tried to seduce Sasuke Uchiha by going to his room naked, yet he turned you down and left the village? Looking at you today, I guess it's really true, huh? I mean I doubt anyone other than Naruto would be seduced by you, miss Haruno. A word of advice, you should treat that boy a bit nicer."

His words were fired. If anyone, even the lowest grade of pervert, wouldn't come to peek at her, why would he, as he indirectly claimed to have seen thousands of female bodies in his life, come here to peek at her, of all people? So, even if he was the pervert, what gave her the authority to slap him? Not like he was watching her body anyway.

"..." Sakura's eyes were red and teary by then, her lips quivering while the other girls were looking at the scene with shock and pity (for Sakura) present in their face.

"My dear," at last, Neji put a hand on her shoulder, leaning lower to come face to face with her as he gave her an eye-closed smile. "Sorry to break it to you, but you aren't the prettiest girl around. No, not even close. Please think deeply before you try to act like one ever again, am I clear? Now shoo, go home, it's getting late."

Sakura did go, freeing her shoulder from his hand as she ran out of the door with a trail of tears flying out of her eyes and her nose sniffing out loud.

[Master Satan, that was too much. You killed the poor girl.]

Neji shrugged at Sisty's words that was followed by a streak of cute laughter.

Meanwhile,

"..."

Both Tenten and Ino were silent, staring at the door. Ino tried to run after Sakura, but once her eyes met with Neji's, she froze and looked away.

She couldn't do anything to help her friend. Not unless she wanted to be slaughtered just like her.

This man, she never knew he could be so intimidating.

Amidst all this, only Hinata looked at him with her expression blank and arms crossed.

"That was unnecessary." She said calmly. "You also revealed the Tenseigan. Why didn't you stop her hands when she reached out for the blindfold? I can and should punish you severely for it."

"First, no, that actually was necessary. I didn't want Ino and my dear Tenten to take me as a pervert, it would have ruined the clan's image too, even if I am from the branch. Also, about the second part. No, I actually didn't reveal it. It's you who just did it by saying its name out loud." Neji pointed out. "But sure, feel free to punish me, if you truly deem it as worth it."

"...You and that blabbering mouth of yours. Useless as always." Hinata grunted, turning around to pick up her clothes from the side, bending over to pick them up which gave him a good view of her thick apple-shaped ass, but she was uncaring of it.

"Wait outside, I will come meet you in a minute." Turning to meet his eyes, she ordered firmly.

"Whatever my princess wishes." Neji gave a short bow and walked outside.

"It's 'the princess', not 'my'. It's your first time making that mistake, so I will let it slide."

She only saw him smile softly before he simply walked outside.