Seireitō Hyūga

* Seireitō
* Masked Man

## Nature Type

 Water Release
 Wind Release (Affinity)

## Jutsu

* Gentle Fist
* Jeweled Branch of Hōrai
* Summoning Technique (Kitsune)
* Water Release: Ladies Tresses
* Wind Release: Wind Scar

## Tools

* Sword

**Seireitō Hyūga** (日向せいれいとう, *Hyūga Seireitō*) is a variant of the original Seireitou Hyūga from Tenshiki Ōtsutsuki's original reality. Famed as **Seireitō of the Golden Eye** (金眼のせいれいとう, *Kingan no Seireitō*) and a prodigy, even by Hyūga standards, Seireitō rejected his place as a member of the branch family of the Hyūga clan and left Konohagakure, becoming a missing-nin. He later became a subordinate of Orochimaru and part of Otogakure. After posting a threat to his home village, he suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of Naruto Namikaze and was thought dead. However, he later resurfaced as the **Masked Man** (仮面の男, *Kamen no Otoko*) with an unknown purpose.

## Appearance

* Seireitō Hyūga.
* The Masked Man.
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Seireitō has an extreme case of atavism, displaying many physical traits of his Ōtsutsuki clan ancestors, namely their long white hair. Like other members of his clan, he has the featureless white eyes of the Byakugan. However, since awakening his Bōenkyō Byakugan, he keeps the golden eyes activated at all times instead.

He wears a black tunic, baggy red pants, violet shin guards, and brown shoes. He also wears a white, bell-sleeved *yukata* over the top of his clothes. He typically sheds the right side of his *yukata*, exposing his tunic beneath, while fully wearing the robe on the other side. He keeps both tied together with a green *obi*. Another distinguishing feature is the black mask he wears over his left eye. The cloth is emblazoned with a white and red eye emblem. The significance of this emblem is unknown.

Seireitō recieved extensive wounds during his battle with Naruto. As a result, in his identity as the Masked Man, his body is covered in bandages that conceal his features and his signature white hair. He also wears simpler clothing: a black tunic and pants tied together by a similarly colored *obi*. He also wore a mask over his face identicial to Obito Uchiha's first mask from the original timeline. This mask exposes his left Byakugan.

## Abilities

Seireitō is among the most powerful shinobi in his world. He is an S-class missing-nin and among the few in the world who can go toe-to-toe with any one of the Five Kage. As a result of this, and having been the rival of the original Seireitou from his reality, Tenshiki Ōtsutsuki has proclaimed Seireitō "the most dangerous man in the world" (世界で最も危険な男, *sekai de mottomo kiken'na otoko*). A prodigy of the Hyūga clan, Seireitō was nevertheless a member of the branch family and thus forbidden to learn his clan's secret techniques. Rejecting his role as a retainer of the main family, Seireitō was the first member of the clan to break the family's curse seal and flee the village. With the aid of Orochimaru, he was then able to learn some of his clan's secrets while inventing and mastering some of his own.

Though he was discriminated against by his clan for his atavism, this rare genetic trait is part of the reason for his unusual power. Because of it, several physical and metaphysical traits of his ancestor, Asuka Ōtsutsuki, have manifested in him. Among these manifestations are his strong chakra and his ability to advance the Byakugan beyond its base stage.

### Dōjutsu

#### Byakugan

As a member of the branch family of the Hyūga clan, Seireitō possesses the Byakugan. This dōjutsu grants him a nearly 360° field of vision (with a blind spot at the upper thoracic vertebrae), x-ray vision, and the ability to see the chakra pathway system and its tenketsu. Since he almost exclusively uses the Bōenkyō Byakugan, he is rarely seen with the ordinary Byakugan activated. However, in his identity as the Masked Man, he reverts back to using the oridinary Byakugan to further conceal his identity.

#### Bōenkyō Byakugan

Another result of his atavism, Seireitō is the only member of the Hyūga clan and the only non-Ōtsutsuki to have awakened the Bōenkyō Byakugan. It is believed he awakened this advanced Byakugan by consuming the eyes of his uncle during his defection from Konoha. His Bōenkyō Byakugan is also slightly different from those found in the Ōtsutsuki, as his possesses a black pupil. Despite these oddities, Seireitō has displayed incredible proficiency with his Bōenkyō Byakugan, maintaining its activation effortlessly to the point that he is rarely seen without it activated.

His Bōenkyō Byakugan retains all of the Byakugan's generic abilities. Additionally, he can temporarily shrink their near-360º vision in order to greatly project his vision, allowing him to see hundreds of thousands of miles away. As the Bōenkyō Byakugan retains the ordinary Byakugan's x-ray vision and ability to see chakra, this essentially permits Seireitō to see anything he wants from tremendous distances at the loss of his near-360º awareness while this ability is activated.

Similarly to Isshiki Ōtsutsuki's transplanted Bōenkyō Byakugan, Seireitō's gives him a unique ocular ability. Namely, similar to the Preta Path, he can absorb any ninjutsu into his left eye. When he does this, the sclera of his eye turns black and his Bōenkyō Byakugan turns burnt orange. He can only do this with one technique at a time. If he wishes to absorb another technique, he must release the first one in a similar fashion to a Kāma. He can only keep a jutsu stored in this way for ten minutes. Then he must release it from his eye or risk serious ocular damage.

### Ninjutsu

After leaving Konoha and joining Orochimaru, Seireitō abandoned his clan's strict reliance on Gentle Fist and embraced the practice of some ninjutsu. While not his most noteworthy skill, he has developed a retinue of powerful jutsu he can employ in combat. He mostly channels ninjutsu through his *katana*.

#### Nature Transformations

Seireitō can use water and wind nature transformations. He can employ chakra flow to channel wind into his blade, using his signature technique to create a massive slash of wind chakra. This technique is capable of slashing through earth and metal and is nearly impossible to block. He can also use wind chakra flow to increase the cutting power of his blade, allowing it to slice through other weapons like butter so long as they are not infused with wind or lightning chakra themselves.

Uniquely, Seireitō can also imbue his blade with his water nature. He can use this ability to manipulate existing bodies of water with a flick of his weapon. He can also gather water around his blade in a dense, high-pressure water vortex that can either increase the power of his swings or be fired in a super-condensed stream of water that can slice through nearly anything. Both uses of his chakra natures make him an incredibly deadly swordsman as he can turn his sword arts into long-range abilities.

#### Summoning Technique

After making a pilgrimate to Sōseijizan, Seireitō learned to use the Summoning Technique to call forth kitsune. As a chūnin, he was only able to summon small foxes. As an adult, he can summon foxes the size of the toads of Mount Myōboku. Seireitō has displayed tremendous synergy with his fox summons and can preform excellent combination techniques with them. He can also use their enhanced senses to track targets and use the larger creatures as mounts to ride upon. His white hair, combined with his proclivity to summon white foxes, has earned him the moniker **White Fox** (白狐, *Byakko*).

## Reception

To say the least, the character of Seireitou Hyūga has been polarizing within the *Naruto* fandom since his debut in 2008. Alongside his rival, Ryun Uchiha, written by Ten Tailed Fox of the Naruto Fanon Wiki, he gained noteriety as a mary sue character, as, despite being on a *Naruto* fanon site, he possessed powers from the *Dragon Ball*, *InuYasha*, *Bleach*, *One Piece*, and *Code Geass* anime franchises alongside several abilities that were considered exclusive in the *Naruto* universe. Additionally, the original character was written to have had sexual relations with a number of women across the aforementioned anime franchise, the most famous of which was Tsunade herself.

Seireitou's antics captured the attention of 4chan's /a/ board which later raided the Naruto Fanon Wiki in an attempt to troll the author and his various co-writers. The popular YouTuber, Nyantasha Nyanners, has credited the raid as the origin of her name, as she was one of the 4chan raiders who came to the site via Chatango and ended up staying. Seireitou also caught the attention of the *Naruto* fanbase more broadly. Numerous fans came to believe the character was an actual part of *Naruto* canon, discussed the character on various anime forum boards,, and even attracted recent dicussion on sites such as Reddit. Additionally, characters based upon Seireitou began appearing on other *Naruto* roleplay sites. The character also used to have a page dedicated to him on the popular TVTropes website, though it was later taken down. However, Seireitou is still quoted on some pages of the site as an example of God-Mode Sue.

In 2011, the original author of the character (also named Seireitou), remade the character on Naruto Fanon Wiki. At first, the author's intentions were to remake the character without some of the traits he had come to be known for across the fandom. Then, for at time, the character was reverted to his original state to serve as an example of a mary sue character for future authors to avoid. Finally, the author gave up on such notions and remade the character with an Ōtsutsuki clan background: as the transmigrant of Kaguya Ōtsutsuki, giving him access to her many abilities and the Rinnegan. While this iteration of the character did not attract as much attention as the original, it still recieved criticsm on the Naruto Fanon Wiki for being overpowered.

## Trivia

* Seireitō's name can also be written in kanji (精霊塔) meaning "spirit tower."
* The original character, written by Seireitou on Naruto Fanon Wiki, was heavily inspired by Gintoki Sakata of the *Gintama* manga and anime. Namely, he borroed Gintoki's nickname as the "White Yaksha" (白い悪魔, *Shiroyasha*) and bore a physical resemblence to him.
	+ Likewise, this variant uses Rabō from the *Norigami* manga and anime due to possessing similar physical features to Gintoki, including white hair and similar clothing. He was also chosen because the original Seireitou was described as having long hair, which Gintoki never possessed.
	+ Yaksha are Buddist nature spirits which can be benevolent, tricksters, or outright malevolent.
* Tenshiki's quote about the threat Seireitō poses comes from one Dainslief says about the alchemist Albedo in *Genshin Impact*.
* While the original Seireitou Hyūga had godlike power due to the innumerable abilities he possessed, this version of the character is stated by the author to be comparable in strength to Madara Uchiha before obtaining his Rinnegan.
* Seireitō's identity as the Masked Man is partly taken from Hizashi Hyūga's role as the same character in Tsunade's Infinite Tsukuyomi dream during the Infinite Tsukuyomi anime-only filler arc.

## References

1. ↑ Seireitou's "sexcapades" were remarked upon on a forum board for *Sonic* fans
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Origins of Nyan"
3. ↑ "Who is Seireitou from Naruto?" on Quora
4. ↑ Seireitou Hyuga on GameFAQs
5. ↑ "Behold the Character Seet of Seireitou Hyuga" on Reddit
6. ↑ Seireitou Hyuga on *Naruto* Shinobi Legend
7. ↑ Quotes/God Mode Sue on TVTropes
8. ↑ Seireitou Hyūga on Naruto Fanon Wiki