Naruto: Limit Breaker-Chapter 338: End

Chapter 338: End

Reaching his current state and standing meant there were positions Ryosuke could no longer choose to fight for or ignore.

No matter how high his level was, no matter what kind of danger waited ahead, as long as he still cared about the people around him, as long as he still had feelings, he could not stay out of it.

In the end, Ryosuke left the ninja world, and he left every world he controlled.

One morning, after breakfast, when the family was about to go out, he stated his decision calmly.

"I’m going to a very dangerous place. I might not be able to come back... but I might also return soon."

He did not hide the danger, and he did not go into the full cause and effect.

Even that single sentence was enough to freeze everyone in place.

The most panicked, of course, were the two children.

Before Ryosuke could say anything else, they rushed in from both sides, clung to him, and stopped him from leaving.

Even though they were still young, their bloodline already made them different from normal children.

Ryosuke’s words were brief, but both of them understood what it meant.

It meant he might not come back.

They did not dare to think any further.

"Father, don’t go."

Yuichi and Mai grabbed him with tears in their eyes.

What Ryosuke felt from them was pure fear and panic.

In the past, he would have smiled and comforted them, telling them with confidence that he would be back soon.

But this time, he looked down at them and could not find the right words.

"Dad is leaving to protect this family better. He’s going to do something very dangerous."

Hinata, who had known for a while, smoothly took over. She walked over and soothed them, voice gentle and steady.

"Even if Daddy is gone, Mommy will always stay with you..."

She kept whispering to calm them down.

Even Hanabi, usually unreliable, restrained herself in this moment. She showed the maturity a woman in her twenties should have, standing with Hinata and helping comfort the children.

After a long time persuading them, they finally managed to pull Yuichi and Mai away.

Even then, the two children kept asking what Ryosuke was going to do.

They were not the only ones confused. Hanabi and Hiashi were confused too.

If Yuichi and Mai were the most panicked in the family, then the most serious was Hiashi.

He had never seen this kind of emotion on Ryosuke’s face. From childhood to adulthood, Ryosuke had always looked confident in everything he did. But now, Hiashi could clearly feel that his son in law had lost the sharpness he once carried.

"This matter is extremely dangerous. When you’re older, Mom will tell you."

After looking at the two children, Ryosuke turned to the others and finally sighed.

"It’s not good for you to know too much before your strength catches up."

He had no doubt his children would be able to master rules in the future. It was only a matter of time.

But rather than letting them follow the hard road he once walked, he hoped his generation could settle this problem first.

He did not stay longer than needed. Since he had decided, there was no reason to delay.

Ryosuke had always been decisive. After saying what he had to say, he left without looking back.

The children were young, but Ryosuke himself had grown up like this. Whether as Boros in his first life, or as an ordinary man in his second, he had shouldered life alone from a very young age.

Yuichi and Mai were different. They had Hinata to raise them, Hiashi as their grandfather, Hanabi as their aunt, and countless Hyuga clan members supporting them.

Their starting point was already far higher than his had ever been.

Ryosuke understood one thing clearly. Children could not be spoiled.

After he left, Hiashi’s face grew even heavier. He took a deep breath to accept the fact, then looked at Hinata as she comforted the children.

"This news cannot leak out."

"I understand."

Hinata nodded and gave the two children even stricter guidance.

Ryosuke had always been Hyuga’s greatest umbrella.

Because he existed, every world under Hyuga’s authority was as obedient as a house cat, carrying out her orders without resistance.

Even though many Hyuga members had grown into capable people through massive resources, none of them carried the same deterrence as Ryosuke. If the news spread, Hyuga could fall into chaos.

So Ryosuke’s departure had to stay secret, at least until the two children were grown.

Hinata never doubted that Yuichi and Mai would one day shoulder the future.

They only needed time.

"Come to think of it... it was the same in the beginning."

Wrinkles appeared clearly on Hiashi’s aged face as he spoke.

"The clan endured and hid for a thousand years before we finally reached a future like Ryosuke."

"We waited for him to grow up, but it took a long time."

He remembered events from more than twenty years ago. Back then he had been young, ambitious, full of fire. Now he was old.

"Yes."

Hinata stood as if remembering too.

"Hanabi always regretted not being able to join us earlier. Now we have to wait for your two grandchildren to grow up. You, as their aunt, are going to be busy."

After that pause, Hinata looked at Hiashi again.

"Father, you cannot use up all those treasures the clan sent you."

"I know you want to accept life and death, but the family can’t do without you right now."

Hyuga now controlled more than twenty worlds. Making someone live longer was not difficult.

And it was not that Hiashi lacked talent. He only accepted his old age and did not want to live for thousands of years just to suffer through boredom.

But now the timing was wrong.

"I’m really old, but I still can’t rest easy."

Hiashi laughed as he said it, and despite the words, he did not look unhappy.

Accepting old age only meant having nothing to do.

Since the day Ryosuke and Hinata took charge and ran the clan smoothly, he had nothing to worry about.

At first he could still help.

Later, because his strength lagged behind their pace, he naturally stepped back.

Now even many of the original elders had abdicated, letting younger, sharper minds take the seats.

The high positions in the clan were mostly held by youth. They were quick, adaptable, and raised in a time with far better foundations than the older generation. Comparing them was like comparing different eras entirely.

If he truly lived for thousands more years doing nothing but basking in the sun and sleeping, that would be its own kind of suffering.

But now, he had something to do again.

That night, Hinata suddenly woke from sleep.

The moment she opened her eyes, as if guided by a sudden blessing, pale blue scenes appeared in front of her.

The Madoka world, the Teigu world, the Vongola world.

Control of the time space gates belonging to those worlds had transferred to her.

Along with them were several worlds she had never seen before.

In total, thirty seven worlds were now under Hinata’s authority.

Yet she did not panic, and she did not misunderstand this as Ryosuke’s failure.

She already knew this would happen.

With Ryosuke gone, control of the time space gates would naturally pass to her.

He had also told her there might be a few more worlds added.

Beyond those, the random time space gates that used to appear between worlds would never appear again.

All gates would be closed, and no one except Hinata and those she authorized could travel through time and space.

Correspondingly, anyone who could pass through those gates would not be constrained by the rules of the world they entered.

Those occasional gates had once been Boros’s escape route for Ryosuke. Now that Ryosuke had fully inherited everything, he had to seal the loopholes, and at the same time leave a back door for his own family.

So from beginning to end, Hinata never truly worried about what would happen to the family without him.

As long as Ryosuke held that position and did not fail, everything stayed firmly in his grasp.

After he left that morning, the reason Hinata explained danger to the family was simple.

She wanted them to be vigilant again.

Ever since Yuichi and Mai were born with talent far beyond ordinary people, and their succession became almost certain, the clan had lived too comfortably.

Vigilance and ambition had begun to fade.

Hinata did not know whether Ryosuke might fail someday.

But she knew her two children could not let their minds slack the way their father and aunt once did. They were Ryosuke’s successors. They could not become complacent like others.

To keep their ambition burning, it was not enough to rely only on their father’s example and their mother’s teaching.

They also needed a home atmosphere that felt like danger could arrive at any moment.

For children, the learning atmosphere mattered more than anything.

Because of Ryosuke’s disappearance, Hinata suspended her own exploration of other worlds.

After seeing Ryosuke controlling worlds like a creator god, she no longer cared about slow conquest.

She devoted herself fully to raising Yuichi and Mai into worthy heirs.

Hinata cherished them deeply, pouring all her longing for Ryosuke into them.

Hiashi and Hanabi were no less dedicated.

Time passed quietly, year by year.

One year, two years.

The children grew fast, almost beyond imagination.

They awakened the Tsenseigan early, and their strength surpassed ordinary people by a wide margin.

Later, they challenged Naruto, Sasuke, even Madara.

Without exception, those veterans could rely on experience to hold them off at first.

But soon enough, they were overtaken.

Yuichi and Mai had perfectly inherited Ryosuke’s talent.

Being surpassed by Ryosuke’s children made Naruto and the others realize something without meaning to.

The figure they once chased had left them far behind, and they had not even noticed when.

In the end, apart from silent acceptance, they gradually gave up.

They understood clearly that some heights could not be reached.

Ryosuke’s departure only caused ripples in the family.

In the Hyuga clan, no turmoil happened because the secret was kept perfectly.

Each world was managed by different people.

In the past, Ryosuke often disappeared for a year or two, and everyone knew he was always training.

He showed up most often in the ninja world, yet he also appeared in other worlds now and then, though usually only briefly.

Because of that, the clan hid his absence for several years.

People only began whispering and complaining after they had not seen him in a long time.

At first, familiar outsiders came.

Sakata Gintoki, Shanks, Allen.

One after another, they joined Hyuga as outsiders. They had permission to use the time space gates, so they sometimes came to the ninja world to report.

Whenever they failed to see Ryosuke, they asked questions.

After asking for a while without getting a clear answer, they gradually understood something and stopped.

Years later, new faces came.

Suzuki Toichuro, members of the GUTS.

They were less familiar with Hinata. They had surrendered because they understood the timing and knew how to avoid disaster and seek benefit.

They did not have permission to use the gates, and after Ryosuke sealed the loopholes, they had no way to travel through worlds.

Still, once Ryosuke had not appeared for more than ten years, they realized the truth all the same.

Some made noise.

Some watched in silence.

But without exception, every chaotic spark was crushed quickly.

Ten years was more than enough for Yuichi and Mai to grow into heights ordinary people could not touch.

Ryosuke had taken Hinata conquering when he was still a teenager.

Yuichi and Mai stood on giants’ shoulders. Naturally, they surpassed their teachers.

Before any true unrest could form, they stepped in and suppressed every hidden motive.

Their power of reading hearts, learned from Kaguya Ōtsutsuki, made that easier.

Yet no matter how strong they became, Yuichi and Mai never relaxed.

They did not set their gaze only on the worlds before them.

They understood a simple truth.

There was always someone stronger.

If their father once suppressed everything and still had opponents, then they would never grow arrogant over small victories.

As they matured, some clan members suggested restarting the development plan. 𝐟𝕣𝕖𝐞𝐰𝕖𝚋𝐧𝗼𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝗰𝐨𝐦

But because no new time space gates had been discovered, the proposal faded.

Even so, after ten years, people in the clan and the family could not help worrying about Ryosuke.

From beginning to end, only one person stayed certain.

She knew he still existed.

She knew he had never forgotten this family, and had never forgotten her.

Sunlight fell over the Hyuga courtyard.

Inside, a woman with a graceful figure and delicate features stared blankly at the sky, lost in thought.

Ever since Yuichi and Mai grew up and gained the power to protect themselves and overturn worlds, Hinata’s favorite habit was to empty her mind.

Or rather, she was staring at the control of the time space gates that only she could see.

One, ten, a hundred, a thousand.

At first she could count.

Later, they multiplied so fast that she could no longer tell how many existed.

No one in the clan knew that even after the development plan paused, the worlds under Hyuga had not stopped increasing.

They were still growing at a frightening pace.

Hinata did not know what Ryosuke was doing.

But as long as those time space gates stayed in her hands and continued to increase, he was still there.

This was Ryosuke’s special way of sending a message.

Yet these past few days, Hinata felt something subtle had changed.

She could not say what.

Only that the growth rate of the gates felt slower.

Maybe...

"It’s so hot. Can you cut me a watermelon?"

A familiar voice sounded beside her.

Hinata’s eyes widened. She jumped to her feet and turned.

The gentle man she had waited on was standing there, a plate in his hands, smiling softly...