Thank you...
Naruto!
The girl slowly raised her lowered head. As she did, her Byakugan seemed to begin radiating a brilliance that had never appeared in her before.
At that moment, the boy standing before her, the boy who had turned back to look at her, showed a slight change in expression.
At this very moment, there was no longer any timidity in the girl's fully raised eyes, nor the slightest trace of fear, not even a hint of shrinking back.
She merely looked straight into his eyes. There was no confusion, no evasion born of fear. There was only that unwavering resolve.
A resolve he had never seen in this girl before.
For some reason, the boy's mind suddenly went blank for an instant. Or rather, his thoughts fell into momentary turmoil.
Scene after scene from since he had first met this girl suddenly flashed before his eyes.
Never...
He had never seen such resolve in this girl, who had always been so insecure, so timid, and so lacking in confidence.
For a moment, he could barely react.
"If you don't forfeit, I can't guarantee what will happen afterward!"
However, his inability to react and his astonishment lasted only an instant. Soon, his expression gradually darkened, and his words turned cold and harsh.
To be honest, after coming back to his senses, an inexplicable anger rose within him.
It was as if the fury he had suppressed for so long was slowly being ignited.
"Byakugan!"
Yet his words received no direct response. What answered him was the girl closing her eyes, forming a series of hand seals, and then, after the seals were completed, the same protruding white pupils as his own.
The girl's ocular power slowly spread into his perception.
I don't want to run away anymore! At