Hiashi waits. He is not disappointed.
"You can't take one of my orphans just like that!" the orphanage matron says, snatching Toneri - apparently that's the boy's name - out of Hizashi's arms and backing away from the Hyuuga brothers.
"Okay, look lady," says Hiashi calmly. "I know you hired us to find this kid, but there's an army of moon aliens with byakugan eyes that can actually see 360 degrees in any direction through pretty much everything for like, 50 kilometers. We need to be able to protect him until further notice."
"We could stay here, you know," suggests Hizashi, helpfully.
"I will not have two strange men staying in my orphanage," snaps the orphanage matron.
"What the hell do we have to do to protect an orphan?" asks Hiashi, annoyed. "Adopt him?"
"I call dibs!" says Hizashi.
"You can't call dibs!" snaps Hiashi. "I saw him first!"
"Paper, Scissors, Rock?" says Hizashi, holding out his fist.
"Yes." Hiashi holds out his own fist. "Paper, scissors, rock!"
Both Hiashi and Hizashi go with paper.
"A tie? Let's go again," says Hizashi, disappointed.
So they do. And both choose paper again. So they go again. And again. And again. And again, drawing each time.
"What do you think you are doing?" demands the orphanage matron, who is still holding on to Toneri.
"Deciding which one of us is going to adopt Toneri," says Hizashi without any hesitation whatsoever. "Hiashi, you already have two kids, let me have this one."
"Yeah, but I saw him first!" insists Hiashi. "Besides, I'm clan head! You know what the elders will think if you adopt him. You know he'll be better off with me."
"Yeah, but Neji might like a brother," argues Hizashi, crossing his arms. "And if you really want another kid, make like Fugaku and have sex with your wife!"
"There are children present!" snaps the orphanage matron, gasping.
"Oooh, you said a dirty word!" crows one of the orphans gleefully.
"Since when was Fugaku's name a dirty word?" Hizashi asks, raising his eyebrow.
"I dunno," shrugs Hiashi.
"I was talking about s-e-x," whispers the orphan conspiratorially, giggling.
"Sex isn't dirty," shrugs Hizashi. "It's spying on your wife in the shower with your byakugan that's dirty." Hizashi raises his eyebrows pointedly at Hiashi.
Hiashi can feel himself turning red. Hizashi knows! How many other people know? Hiashi knows Akira knows he does it - heck she does the same thing to him! - but does the entire Hyuuga clan know?!
"OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHH!" all the kids chorus gleefully. "You're dirty!"
Hiashi decides to make like Fugaku did that time he got a mustache drawn on his face and own it. "Yes," he assures the orphans. "Yes I am." Hiashi holds his head high and adds. "But only with my wife."
"At least you still have a wife," mutters Hizashi. Then in a louder voice he says to the matron, "So are you gonna stand there staring at us or are you going to clean that kid up and get him some food and water?"
Hiashi looks at Toneri to see that the poor kid is starting to wake up.
Toneri opens his eyes and sits up, immediately on the defensive. Then, upon seeing where he is, the poor boy calms down and throws himself into the orphanage matrons arms. Toneri starts crying, shaking like a leaf.
"So, Toneri," says Hiashi cautiously. "Why were those men from the moon chasing you?"
Toneri turns his head slowly to look at Hiashi and Hizashi. "You're...you're…"
"We saved you - for now, at least," says Hizashi gently, crouching down to Toneri's eye level. "But now the men who were chasing you think we are part of some rebel army. Do you know what they were talking about?"
Toneri nods slowly. "My Dad told me, before they killed him."
"But…" the orphanage matron stares at Toneri like he's grown a second head. "But you were left here anonymously as a baby!"
"Well...um…" Toneri looks uncomfortable.
"Toneri," says Hiashi, knowing what Toneri wants to do, but is not sure he should. "Please, flashback away. We are shinobi. We can take any tragic backstory you throw at us. Infact, my brother has one of his own. So start telling us your life story."
High up on the moon lives the descendants of Hamura Otsutsuki, the Sage of Six Paths' lesser known twin brother. Over time, the Otsutsuki clan grew in number until an entire civilization lived inside the moon. But the Otsutsuki clan is divided into two groups: the main house and the branch house. In the center of the moon civilization is the machine known as the Tenseigan. This machine, powered by the eyes of the branch clan, provides energy to sustain life on the moon.
Toneri was born into the branch clan. His mother died giving birth to him and, in a desperate attempt to save Toneri's eyes, his father took him to an orphanage on Earth. Toneri's father pretended his child died with his wife. As Toneri grew up, his father visited him secretly, teaching him about the moon and the byakugan.
But all that changed when a Rebel Faction, following the current King's sister, decided to rebel against the current system. When Toneri's father was a child, the king's sister voiced her opposition to the practice of taking the branch clan's eyes at birth. After being told in no uncertain terms that she was being an idiot, the princess left for Earth. She has not been seen since. The Rebel Group did not leave and go to Earth, but they do oppose the eye-taking practice.
Toneri's father joined the Rebel Faction and as a result was followed to Earth where his deceit was discovered and he was killed while visiting Toneri. Toneri ran for his life.
"And that's when you two found me," finishes Toneri. "While I was running for my life. I guess I am an orphan for real now."
Hiashi privately thinks this kid needs to learn how to flashback properly. His tragic backstory was very under-told. Ah well, that's something Hiashi can fix once he has adopted the kid. That's assuming he wins the Paper, Scissors, Rock. "Hmm," Hiashi muses. "I didn't know there was another clan of Hamura's descendants. But that's not that important. Why do they need eyes to power this Tenseigan thing?"
"Because Tenseigan is the byakugan's perfect form," explains Toneri. "It's equal in power to the Rinnegan. Hamura Otsutsuki had the Tenseigan eye and the Sage of Six Paths had the Rinnegan eye."
Hiashi considers this. "Fugaku has Rinnegan...alright, I am going to get me Tenseigan."
"So now that you know what Toneri is caught up in," says Hizashi, addressing the orphanage matron. "Will you let us take him to the Leaf where he will be safer?"
"While we're there we'll settle on who's going to adopt him as their very own," adds Hiashi.
"You can't adopt a child without the proper paperwork," says the orphanage matron, holding onto Toneri. "And I have to approve of whichever of you that will adopt him."
"Hey, this one knows her stuff," says Hiashi, impressed. He thought only Fugaku had such a good grasp on legal things.
The door to the large sitting room the children, their matorn and the Hyuuga twins are in opens. A man in the same style uniform as the matron enters. "What's going on in here?" he asks. Then he sees Hiashi and Hizashi. The man's eyes sweep the room in an instant, stopping on Toneri. Then the man turns his attention back to the two shinobi. "So are you the shinobi I requested?" he asks.
"Yes we are," says Hiashi. "I am Hiashi Hyuuga and this is my brother Hizashi. We found your missing orphan by accident on the way. He is still in a great deal of danger and we would like to take him back to the Hidden Leaf until the danger is gone. Then one of us will adopt him."
"Which one?" asks the man.
"I called dibs," says Hizashi.
"I saw him first!" says Hiashi.
"You already have two kids!"
"You already have a son!"
"See what you've started?" sighs the matron.
Half of one of the scout parties returns late. The commander in charge of finding the missing branch child is unimpressed. He is even more unimpressed when he learns the patrol found the child but was thwarted by two rebels.
"Rebels, you say?" the commander asks, interested. "Did you at least get any information we can use?"
"One of them said he was the head of something called 'The Hyuuga Clan'," one of the scouts says. "Is that what the rebels are calling themselves?"
"Hyuuga…" the commanders blood runs cold. "You idiot! The Hyuuga clan is a clan of earth shinobi descended from Hamura Otsutsuki! They do not know our civilization exists! If they learn about us, who knows what they will do!"
"Commander…?"
"Gather the other patrols," orders the commander. "We are going to find the Hyuuga Clan of The Village Hidden in the Leaves and kill Toneri before he can reveal our secrets."