Hinata's Emerging Talent

To Neji's surprise, Hiashi simply smiled and nodded in greeting when Neji, and then had Neji and Hinata spar.

Neji's impression of Hinata was still from several years ago. Hinata was a delicate and shy girl.

Although they occasionally bumped into each other at school, Neji almost never paid any attention to her.

Even the smallest bits of information about her came from her observation of her junior Sakura Haruno, simply because Hinata and Sakura were close friends.

In what seemed like an instant, that shy little girl had grown into a graceful and beautiful woman.

The childishness in those once bright, white eyes has now been replaced by a radiant and captivating heroic spirit.

Looking at his graceful younger sister, whose brows radiated a heroic spirit, Neji was filled with mixed emotions.

How long has it been? He's been scrutinizing his younger sister like this.

Unbeknownst to them, that tail-like creature had grown into this ninja.

"Neji, please."

Hinata's voice was gentle and melodious, like a clear mountain spring, flowing into Neji's heart and pulling Neji back from his reverie to the training ground.

He dared not be negligent and adopted the same starting stance as Hinata, staring intently at his sister's shoulder.

After being defeated by the young girl Sakura Haruno, Neji never dared to underestimate these seemingly gentle and weak girls again.

Although he knew that his younger sister wasn't particularly talented and didn't stand out much at school, Neji was on high alert just because she was Sakura Haruno's friend.

Lions don't befriend sheep!

Neji's heart is right.

They remained locked in a stalemate for a long time, neither of them daring to make the first move.

Then, a leaf drifted down, swirling in the air before landing. In the next instant, the two attacked simultaneously!

The brother and sister charged at each other using identical fist techniques!

The moment their fists and palms made contact, even the battle-hardened Neji couldn't help but change his expression slightly. Hinata's seemingly delicate fists and feet were actually so swift and powerful!

Bang bang bang—amidst the continuous clash of fists and palms, two figures, one large and one small, darted and weaved, their movements so fast it was dazzling to behold.

The same Gentle Fist, but the two of them displayed completely different styles.

Neji's Gentle Fist is light and graceful, flowing like water, sticky and adhering, bending and stretching with each movement, never losing contact, never clinging or separating, reaching the ultimate in "gentleness".

Hinata's Gentle Fist combines softness and strength, as light and agile as the wind, sometimes swift and fierce, unpredictable and full of yin and yang, ever-changing, yet it follows the path of softness with strength.

No need. The Strong Fist style here is naturally influenced by Sakura.

Having a master of Chakra control by her side, Hinata's Chakra control naturally wouldn't be too bad either. In fact, Hinata's Chakra control was already quite good. After receiving Sakura's full assistance, her skills improved by leaps and bounds, Genin out among the genin.

With her exceptional Chakra manipulation skills, Hinata can also enhance her body by precisely controlling Chakra, allowing her to unleash unimaginable power. This skill, learned from Sakura, is a key reason why Hinata's Gentle Fist achieves a perfect balance of strength and softness.

Hinata's Gentle Fist has already taken a different path from the original. In Hiashi's view, this is a rebellious and reckless change. However, facing his eldest daughter who has become a formal ninja, Hiashi cannot force her to return to the correct path.

Hinata is a person who is gentle on the outside but strong on the inside. Once she has made up her mind about something, she will not easily change it. She believes that this kind of Gentle Fist is more suitable for her, and no matter how much Hiashi, it will be useless. Moreover, the Hinata became a ninja, Hiashi had already given up on her and chosen Hanabi as the heir of the Main Family.

From that moment on, Hiashi had no right to interfere with Hinata's training.

Hinata's strength Hinata that of the original character, proving the correctness of this path.

Neji, who was stuck in a stalemate, understood this best.

The Strong Fist is fast but lacks variety; the Gentle Fist is the opposite. By Chakra to penetrate and destroy the enemy's internal body, the Gentle Fist greatly compensates for its lack of lethality, but its inherent weaknesses still exist.

Hinata's approach of incorporating Nintaijutsu similar to Monstrous Strength Technique into Gentle Fist has given her fighting style the advantages of Strong Fist and Gentle Fist techniques, making it no longer simply Gentle Fist.

The moves remain, but the underlying principles have changed.

Hinata was surprised to discover that although she was only mediocre in Gentle Fist, she had quite a bit of aptitude for Strong Fist. This modified Gentle Fist was surprisingly powerful and unexpectedly suited her well!

The unassuming Hinata never publicized this to anyone. Her instructor, Kurenai, wasn't skilled in Taijutsu and didn't see anything wrong with Hinata's Gentle Fist. As for Hiashi... he hadn't trained Hinata in a long time, so he was unaware that Hinata's Gentle Fist had been modified in this way by her and Sakura. The only one who knew about this was Sakura Haruno, her long-time sparring partner who helped her develop her Ninjutsu.

Hiashi is a really bad father.

In the original work, Hiashi was completely indifferent to Genin's fate as Hinata, appearing extremely cold and ruthless. This contradicts his act of kneeling down to beg Neji's forgiveness, which showed his loyalty and compassion. Perhaps there are many hidden reasons or he was forced by the cruel rules of the Hyuga Clan, but Sakura still finds it difficult to understand such behavior.

It wasn't until recently, when Hiashi saw his eldest daughter suddenly make it into the third round of the Chunin Ninja Exams, that his passion for training Hinata was rekindled. Only then did he realize that Hinata had already forged a path in Gentle Fist that no one had ever explored before.

After realizing he could no longer guide Hinata back to the right path, and discovering that this path seemed quite interesting, Hiashi allowed Hinata to act on her own initiative.

Right now, Hinata has forced Neji to take her seriously with just this nascent Gentle Fist.

Then, Hinata demonstrated even more techniques during the battle.

For example, acupressure techniques that enhance Chakra circulation.

Both in Kakashi's original explanation and in the documents of the real Hokage world, it is clearly mentioned that: the Chakra or amplify it.

However, destruction is easy, but construction is difficult.

The Hyuga Clan possesses acupoint techniques that can impede the flow of an enemy's Chakra, but lacks acupoint techniques that can amplify their own Chakra. This is partly because the Hyuga Clan's Taijutsu consumes relatively little chakra, and members of the Hyuga Clan rarely fail due to insufficient Chakra, but naturally, it is also because the latter is more difficult to develop.

Several years ago, Sakura and Hinata, who were both struggling with Chakra (compared to Naruto), were drawn to the idea of amplifying Chakra. Relying on their superior Chakra control and unafraid of losing control of their Chakra, they began experimenting with Chakra Amplification Jutsu techniques with a fearless spirit.

The result of hundreds of experiments was that Hinata mastered a set of pressure point techniques that could amplify pressure to a limited extent, while the two reckless girls were so frightened by the enormous risks of the experiments that they cowered in fear.

Several times, after stimulating their acupoints, their physical strength, mental energy, and even life force would immediately and frantically be converted into Chakra. If Sakura hadn't had extremely high control over her Chakra and forcibly stopped the conversion, she probably would have died from the loss of life force in just a few seconds.

Sakura still remembers their last experiment, where they were preparing to stimulate an acupoint called the "Killing Intent Pressure Point"...

After that experiment, Sakura understood three things. First, there was another way to open the Eight Gates Released Formation. Second, she understood why so many people died during Orochimaru's experiments.

And thirdly, if you don't court death, you won't die.

After that experiment, the two, who were pale as ghosts, immediately announced that the Ninjutsu development was complete, and this set of pressure point techniques that could almost double Chakra became the final product.

Although this technique amplifies Chakra by hundreds or thousands of times compared to some other methods they had tried, its advantage lies in its safety and stability, with virtually no side effects. A one-fold increase is more than enough for Hinata.

Unfortunately, this technique is much less effective on others, probably because only one's own Chakra can effectively stimulate the pressure points.

In addition to amplifying the acupoints, Sakura also helped Hinata develop an Air Palm Technique that was somewhere between the Eight Trigrams Rotation and the Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm.

Its principle is almost a simplified version of the return.

The difference is that the return technique involves spraying Chakra from acupoints all over the body and spinning the body at high speed to form Chakra barrier that can block most physical attacks. However, this Air Palm Technique only sprays Chakra from a few Chakra acupoints on the palm, and then spins the Chakra at high speed to form a clever Chakra shield in the hand.

This Chakra shield can not only defend against attacks, but also be used to deliver Gentle Fist attacks from a distance, targeting close to medium range.

With this Sky- Air Palm, Hinata's Gentle Fist is both offensive and defensive, effective at both close and long range, and has become a complete system in itself.

However, compared to the Absolute Defense of the Eight Trigrams Rotation, the defense of the Rending Air Palm can only be called a relative defense.

The reason for developing this Ninjutsu was not only because the amount of Chakra consumed by the technique was too large and unsuitable for Hinata, but more importantly, Sakura discovered that Hinata just couldn't learn it. Later, she learned that the Ninjutsu required special aptitude to learn, and only a few members of the Hyuga Clan could release Chakra from all the pressure points in their bodies.

In the original work, Hinata was able to use a more advanced Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm without retaliating, which proves this point.

The techniques that Sakura helped Hinata develop all have a strong Sakura style: they are incredibly powerful, consume little Chakra, and require extremely high Chakra control.

Unfortunately, Sakura couldn't use any of these techniques. The pressure point techniques and the Vacuum Attack were modified versions of Ninjutsu unique to the Hyuga Clan, and Sakura's casual learning of them caused Hinata a lot of trouble. However, being able to get close to the Hyuga Clan's secret techniques was already a significant gain for Sakura.