What Am I Supposed to Do About Being So Talented?

"Watch closely!"

Hinata gave a soft shout and slammed her fist into the ground. With a bang, the ground cracked inch by inch, blasting out a crater one meter wide and thirty centimeters deep.

Hinata was quite satisfied. That punch had barely consumed any chakra; she only felt a faint sense that she could no longer maintain it.

"Phew!"

Taking a deep breath, Hinata aimed at the ornamental rock in the courtyard and used the force-generating technique of Air Palm to punch toward it.

A brilliant blue Chakra Fist flew from her hand at incredible speed, striking the ornamental rock almost the instant it was launched.

Boom!

The ornamental rock exploded, its body nearly reduced to powder.

Hinata had seen it clearly just now. At first, the Chakra Fist had punched into the rock, but afterward, she could no longer maintain the chakra, causing the rock to explode.

The chakra's cohesion was still insufficient.

In Hinata's mind, this punch should have pierced straight through the ornamental rock. The penetrated area would be shaken into dust by Gentle Fist chakra, while the rest of the rock remained completely unmoved.

Only then could it be considered a success.

She still had a long way to go!

Hyuga Hiashi, standing in the distance: "..."

Early that morning, Hyuga Hiashi discovered that Hanabi was missing. He activated his Byakugan and searched around, only to find that Hanabi had stayed with Hinata last night.

What Hyuga Hiashi was most satisfied with about Hanabi was her diligence.

If talent was lacking, then hard work could make up for it. That was good.

If Hinata had been willing to work as hard as Hanabi, her strength would certainly be far greater than it was now.

Sometimes, Hyuga Hiashi would think—dream—that it would be wonderful if Hanabi's perseverance could be combined with Hinata's talent.

Having found Hanabi, Hyuga Hiashi had intended to drag her back for morning practice, but then he saw Hinata demonstrating a new ninjutsu she had developed last night.

Hyuga Hiashi still remembered that he had rejected her Heavenly Spin Bomb last night and told Hinata to try other techniques.

Yet he had never expected that after only one night apart, Hinata would give him such a tremendous surprise.

Hyuga Hiashi had keen eyesight, not to mention that his Byakugan was active.

With nearly a single glance, Hyuga Hiashi saw that the Chakra Fist Hinata had formed was not merely a collection of immense chakra.

Within the Chakra Fist were also chakra threads acting as human meridians. These chakra threads connected to the meridians and acupoints in Hinata's arm, allowing the Chakra Fist to produce the effects of the Gentle Fist in close combat.

Originally, that would only have enhanced the Gentle Fist's attack power and striking range.

But Hinata had actually used the force-generating technique of Air Palm to launch the Chakra Fist.

Such talent, such ingenuity...

Hyuga Hiashi was stunned.

She had achieved such results in only one night. If Hinata could develop a ninjutsu every night, wouldn't the Hyuga Clan's secret techniques fill an entire room?

Hyuga Hiashi asked himself honestly: even he would find it difficult to learn Hinata's move.

The difficulty of this move did not lie in compressing a large amount of chakra. It lay in simultaneously forming that compressed chakra into a Chakra Fist while creating chakra threads within it and connecting them to the meridians in one's own arm.

Without those chakra threads, this technique would actually be nothing special. Its power would merely be somewhat greater.

But those chakra threads were precisely what Hyuga Hiashi could not achieve.

Hinata's chakra control was simply too strong.

"Awesome... Big Sister, you're amazing!"

Hanabi did not even know how to express her excitement. She could only race over and throw herself into Hinata's arms, using a huge hug to express her admiration for her sister.

Hinata reached out and caught Hanabi, saying proudly, "Hanabi, what do you think? Is this move impressive?"

"It's amazing!"

"But this move hasn't been perfected yet. When you're as old as Big Sister, I'll teach it to you, all right?"

"Big Sister, you're so nice!"

"Mwah!"

Hyuga Hiashi walked over. Before he even arrived, they heard him ask, "Hinata, what is this move called? And in your mind, what will it look like once it has been perfected?"

"Good morning, Father!"

Hinata and Hanabi greeted him together. Hinata then explained, "This move is called Twenty Gods Vacuum Attack! It requires incredibly strong chakra control to learn. Once it's perfected, the Chakra Fist I form will be just like my own palm."

"Just think about it, Father. If I use Air Palm with a Chakra Fist, then no matter how much chakra I gather, it won't harm my meridians, and the power will be even greater."

"Just like before, if I hadn't launched the Chakra Fist and instead used Air Palm through it, wouldn't that have been even more powerful?"

"And, and, a Chakra Fist isn't like a human body. It can be modified however I want. I could even use Air Palm dozens of times within a single move, leaving the enemy nowhere to hide."

This was what the perfected Twenty Gods Vacuum Attack looked like in Hinata's mind.

She would form the meridians and acupoints of more than a dozen, even dozens of palms within the Chakra Fist, then use Air Palm dozens of times in a single punch, trapping enemies with an all-encompassing barrage they could not evade.

At this point, Hinata lowered her head dejectedly. "But that's only theoretical for now. My chakra reserves aren't enough, and my control isn't good enough either. It'll be a very long time before I can perfect it!"

"This..."

Hyuga Hiashi was shocked by Hinata once again.

What did the Hyuga Clan lack most?

What the Hyuga Clan lacked most were techniques for group battles, especially techniques that delivered all-encompassing strikes.

Mountain Breaker was extremely powerful. If Hyuga Hiashi used it, he could carve a path straight through a mountain.

But Mountain Breaker was a technique that attacked a single point, whereas Hinata's Twenty Gods Vacuum Attack, if perfected, would deliver an all-encompassing attack.

Hinata's idea was especially brilliant.

By gathering chakra within the Chakra Fist, there would be no need to worry about chakra harming the meridians in her hands.

The greatest limitation of the Hyuga Clan's Gentle Fist was, in fact, the human body's meridians.

Restricted by fragile meridians, they could not unleash attacks with overwhelming destructive power.

Hyuga Hiashi could even imagine it: if one day Hinata perfected this move and used both hands to unleash Mountain Breaker...

Perhaps it could even become a group-targeting Mountain Breaker!

Hyuga Hiashi was confident that if he could learn this move, he might reach Kage level combat strength.

But reality was often cruel.

Even though Hyuga Clan ninja possessed chakra control far beyond that of other ninja, it would still be difficult for Hyuga Hiashi to learn this move.

If the Chakra Fist contained too little chakra, it would be far too fragile.

If it contained an enormous amount of chakra, it would require focused control, not to mention forming chakra threads within the Chakra Fist to serve as meridians.

Although it was embarrassing to ask his ten-year-old daughter about cultivation methods, for the sake of strength and for the Hyuga Clan, Hyuga Hiashi could not help asking, "Hinata, how do you usually train your chakra control?"

Hinata had truly trained her chakra control with great care.

She had already attained her current strength through casual training, let alone when she trained seriously.

Hinata looked up at Hyuga Hiashi and slowly said, "I just train the way you taught me!"