Hiashi's mind races. He has an older brother? His mother didn't know anything? Keeping his face as calm as possible, Hiashi focuses on the most important things. "So I have an older brother I never knew about," he muses. "And my mother named Hizashi after you for the same reason I named my younger daughter after her: so that you would not discard the younger sibling as not worth your love. But why were you not kind to Hizashi?"
"Aside from him being in the branch family?" says their father, frowning. "He is far too like his mother for his own good!"
"Losing your wife does not justify neglecting a child," shouts Hizashi, angrily. "No matter how much they remind you of your dead loved one!"
Hiashi turns to look at his brother. At the same time, his father raises his hand in a half ram hand seal. Hizashi screams, clutching at his head in agony as the Curse Mark Seal activates.
Hiashi steps forward, punching his father square in the gut. "I think it's about time someone did something about the way we with the byakugan treat our clansmen." He says firmly. Then he activates his byakugan and whispers in his father's ear, "Don't you dare hurt my brother again."
His father staggers backwards, holding his stomach and glaring at Hiashi.
Hizashi falls to his knees and holds his head, panting raggedly.
Hiashi sees something in his peripheral vision, inside the compound. He turns towards the compound just as Toneri comes running out, holding his bleeding face. "Mr. Hiashi!" yells Toneri, running towards him. "They found me!"
Hiashi runs to the distraught child and stops his headlong flight. "Calm down and tell me what happened."
Toneri nods, and tells Hiashi what happened.
Hinata drags Toneri into the compound, down some identical hallways to a room where a seven year old girl is braiding a boy's hair. The girl turns and grins at Hinata. "Neji is finally letting me do his hair!"
"Our Dads are back," says Hinata. "And look! They brought us a new friend."
"Hi," says Toneri. "I'm Toneri Otsutsuki. I'm from the moon."
It is roughly ten seconds before Toneri is sitting beside Neji getting his hair brushed while Hanabi and Hinata discuss what to do with it. Toneri is not too bothered, since he sometimes lets the girls at the orphanage play with his hair. The big ones think it's funny and the little ones are just happy a big kid is paying attention to them.
While the girls are picking which hair clips to put in Toneri's hair and which ribbon to put in Neji's, Toneri discreetly activates his byakugan to scope out the area. He sees eight Otsutsuki men headed straight for him. Toneri stands up so fast he knocks over Hinata.
"Hey!" protests Hinata.
A sparkly pink unicorn bursts through the wall, neighing loudly.
"RUN!" says Toneri, heading for the door. "They found me!"
"Who did?" demands Hinata, holding her chest and winching in pain. "Sparkles, what's wrong?"
The unicorn rears, letting out a screeching whinney. A moment later, the Otsutsuki men burst into the room, byakugan activated. Neji leaps in front of Hinata, byukugan ready, mirroring the same fighting stance Hiashi and Hizashi used. Hanabi joins him, her own byakugan awake and ready.
"What is this?" asks one of the Otsutsuki. "There are humans with the byakugan?"
"We are the Hyuuga clan," says Neji. "You have no right to be here."
"Take the earthling children," says one Otsutsuki. "We have precious few children left on the moon."
"Yes sir," agree the others, leaping forward to attack the three Hyuuga children.
"RUN, TONERI!" shouts Hinata, and coughs. "Find my Dad and Uncle!"
Toneri runs from the room, and two of the Otsutsuki follow him. One of them grabs him and Toneri activates his byakugan, ready to fight. The Otsutsuki stabs at Toneri's eyes, screaming about insolent branch members not being allowed the byakugan. The unicorn stamps on the Otsutsuki man's back, forcing him to release Toneri. The blow aimed for Toneri's eyes misses and cuts his forehead. Toneri takes the opportunity to run. This time he gets away.
Hiashi checks with his byakugan and discovers that the Otsutsuki are fleeing from the compound with every other Hyuuga either on their tail or heading right for them. Hiashi turns to his father and says, "Father, look after Toneri. I am going to kick some moon alien booty."
Hiashi strides across the courtyard and heads for Hinata's room, where Sparkles is lying with a gash down his left side. Hiashi calls over a nearby clansman and orders him to take care of Sparkles. Then Hiashi heads after the Otsutsuki, telling the rest of the Hyuuga to fall back. He's got this.
The King of the Moon will give his throne to no one. He has no wife, no children, no family members left who could challenge his rule. Yes, he is old - but he will find a way to live forever and reign as king of the moon. His only concern for a long time was his sister, who left long ago for the Earth with a baby from the branch clan. But, after many years passed and his sister did not return, the King of the Moon felt sure she would never return. A rebel movement has started up claiming they are following Princess Hanabi's legacy, but they will soon be crushed beneath the king's heel.
The King is sitting on his throne musing over the branch member his retainers discovered on Earth, when one of them returns with a report. "What have you to report?" asks the King. "I trust your search was successful."
"My Lord King," says the retainer gravely, lowering to one knee. "We had not recovered the child when I left Earth. However I felt you should know that there is a clan on Earth known as the Hyuuga clan which bears the byakugan."
"I know of them," says the King, coldly. "What is your point?"
"My squad encountered two of the Hyuuga," says the scout. "They took the child and killed the rest of my squad easily. That in itself is no real cause for concern. However, these two were exactly identical, and their chakra resembled that of your own and their physical appearance reflects pictures I have seen of your sister. I thought they were her children until they denied knowing anything about her. It is possible they are her children and do not know who she is."
The King of the Moon feels afraid for a moment. There is someone who could challenge his throne! Then he smiles. Finally he knows where to find his sister so he can kill her and any descendants she might have produced. "This news is good," says the King. "Now I can finally stamp out my sister's line."
"Yes my King," says the scout, smiling a bloodthirsty smile.
The King turns as more members of the scout party arrive. They have prisoners, but none are the branch child. "What is this?" demands the King.
"My Lord King," bows one of the scouts. "These three are children of the Hyuuga clan - children of the two we suspect to be your sister's sons."
The King smiles. "Well done. Bring them here so I can kill them!"
"How about you come over here and fight me!" says a strange voice.
The King turns to see a man with glowing byakugan and long dark hair standing in the throne room doorway. He is wearing combat gear and a forehead protector with a leaf on it.
"Who are you?" asks the King of the Moon.
"I am Hiashi Hyuuga, shinobi of the Hidden Leaf, head of the Hyuuga clan," says the man evenly. "You probably know my mother - Hanabi Otsutsuki." He points to the three children the King's scouts have prisoner. "I am here for my daughters and my nephew."
"My sister's son, are you?" asks the King, smiling. "Then I had better kill you and these children, then go to earth and kill the rest of your family! No one can exist who has the power to challenge my title!"
"Your title?" says Hiashi Hyuuga. "Would that be King of the Moon and head of the Otsutsuki clan?"
"Yes," says the King of the Moon.
"Fight me," says Hiashi. "Fight me to the death - the winner shall be King of the Moon." His eyes turn to the glowing blue tenseigan.
"...and then I kicked his ass with my new eye powers," Hiashi finishes telling his brother the story. "And got Neji, Hinata and Hanabi back. I am also King of the Moon and have these weird tomoe things at the base of my neck."
"Do you think I could awaken the tenseigan?" asks Hizashi, looking up at the night sky, where the moon hangs, shining.
"Probably," says Hiashi. "But don't try. The Caged Bird Seal will destroy your eyes if they get too powerful."
"So how are you going to run the Moon and the Hyuuga clan?" asks Hizashi skeptically.
"I was hoping you would help me," says Hiashi. "After all you are my brother."
"Alright, I will help you," agrees Hizashi.
Over in the Unicorn House, Sparkles nickers softly. Hinata has not left her unicorn's side since she got back from the moon. Sparkles got hurt trying to protect Hinata. Any misgivings about the animal Hiashi and Hizashi had are gone because of Sparkles's heroics that day.
"So which one of us will adopt Toneri?" asks Hiashi. "If we don't decide soon the orphanage will take him back."
Hizashi holds out his fist. Hiashi mirrors his brother.
"Paper, Scissors, Rock!"
Hiashi goes with scissors.
"I win," says Hizashi, grinning from behind his rock-shaped fist.