Hinata Hyuga: Eight Trigrams One Hundred Twenty-Eight Palms, Eight Trigrams Palms Rotation

Ever since Hyuga Hiashi had someone retrieve Roman's information from the Hokage Office and confirmed that Roman was an ordinary person incapable of cultivating Chakra, he concluded that Hinata had lied before:

Her claim that she wanted to achieve some goal through Roman was nothing but a lie. She had simply fallen for Roman's looks.

After all... Roman was just an ordinary person. What secret could an ordinary person possibly have that was worth a ninja coveting?

Tap tap.

Just then, a burst of dense footsteps rang out.

It was Hizashi Hyuga, arriving with a group from the Hyuga Branch Family.

They all wanted to see how Clan Head Hyuga Hiashi would deal with Hinata and Roman.

A while later, the Hyuga Clan's Family elders, as well as members of the Main Family, arrived. Their eyes urged Hyuga Hiashi to swiftly punish Hinata for suddenly disappearing and making the Family spend vast resources searching for her.

Their gazes also hinted that he should quickly drive Roman, a weak commoner who could not even cultivate Chakra and was not even a ninja, out of the Hyuga Clan.

Under the pressure of countless watching eyes, Hyuga Hiashi took a deep breath and said to Hinata Hyuga, "Hinata, give up the idea of keeping Roman, and tell your father where exactly you went when you disappeared yesterday."

Hinata Hyuga gently shook her head. "I refuse."

Hyuga Hiashi paused, then discreetly glanced behind him at Hizashi Hyuga and the group of Hyuga Branch Family members under him before sternly addressing Hinata Hyuga:

"You refuse?

"Hinata, you are still young. You do not understand the reality of this world. You do not yet understand that there are many things in this world where an individual's unwillingness is useless!

"For example, your uncle Hizashi Hyuga is my twin brother. Simply because he was born a little later than I was, he had to be branded with the Caged Bird Seal and accept the fate of becoming the Branch Family Head. Do you think he was willing?

"And the Branch Family members—do you think they willingly accepted the Caged Bird Seal?

"Unwilling? Sometimes, a person's wishes are pale and powerless...

"Hinata, leave Roman and come to my side immediately."

Hearing this, the Family elders found his words immensely pleasing and revealed approving smiles.

Meanwhile, Hizashi Hyuga, the head of the Hyuga Branch Family, and the Branch Family ninja all wore complicated expressions.

After all, just as Clan Head Hyuga Hiashi had said, some things could not be avoided merely because one was unwilling...

For instance, they had never wanted the Caged Bird Seal branded upon them, but whether they wanted it or not was meaningless. The Caged Bird Seal's formula never cared about the recipient's consent. It was forcibly engraved!

No one in the Hyuga Branch Family could escape the fate of becoming a bird in a cage.

And once the eternal Caged Bird Seal was inscribed, it would not disappear until they died.

According to the Family elders, this was also to prevent the Byakugan on their corpses from being taken by members of other Families...

And now, Hinata, the eldest daughter of the Main Family Head, might be a genius who could even become a powerful member of the Hyuga Clan in the future. But at present, she absolutely could not defy the authority of the Main Family Head.

And it was not only the adults who thought so. Even the boy in the crowd, Neji Hyuga, who had been forcibly branded with the Caged Bird Seal, thought the same:

Being marked with the Caged Bird Seal was the fate of those from the Hyuga Branch Family!

Likewise, the Main Family's eldest legitimate daughter could not possibly unite with an ordinary person. That was Hinata Hyuga's fate as well!

Yet just as everyone was certain that Hinata Hyuga would obediently heed Clan Head Hyuga Hiashi's words, she shook her little head. Her short black hair swayed with it, declaring her unwillingness to obey.

"Then do not blame me, Hinata."

Hyuga Hiashi clapped his hands. In an instant, Hyuga Fuyu, Hinata Hyuga's former guard, stepped out from the crowd. "Hyuga Fuyu, you have always been Hinata's guard. Now, give it your all and bring Hinata back."

"Yes."

Hyuga Fuyu immediately dropped to one knee in acknowledgment. Then she turned to Hinata and gave her a faint smile.

"Lady Hinata, I failed to notice when you and Roman slipped away and played at disappearing before. But this time, I will not let you sneak away again."

In Hyuga Fuyu's eyes, she was a Chunin who had passed the Chunin Ninja Exams, while Lady Hinata, though a genius,

was only five years old, after all.

The Chakra in her body was likely not even as great as that of an ordinary Genin.

Under these circumstances, Hyuga Fuyu was certain to win!

Tap tap.

Hyuga Fuyu shot forward like an arrow loosed from a bow, intending to take Hinata down barehanded.

But just then, Hyuga Fuyu noticed that Lady Hinata before her had assumed an extremely strange stance. It was the Eight Trigrams One Hundred Twenty-Eight Palms.

Impossible!

With Lady Hinata's amount of Chakra, it was impossible for her to use this move. She should not even have been able to use this move's prerequisite technique, the Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms.

Though that was what Hyuga Fuyu thought, she still formed hand seals and changed techniques:

Clone Technique!

Bang!

Two Hyuga Fuyus appeared in the air, attacking Hinata Hyuga from the left and right.

"Eight Trigrams One Hundred Twenty-Eight Palms."

Chakra circulated within Hinata's body, and a huge Eight Trigrams formation appeared on the ground. At the same time, her little hands shot out like lightning, striking Hyuga Fuyu's real body.

One palm.

The clone shattered!

Six palms.

The acupoints around Hyuga Fuyu's body were struck, interrupting the circulation of nearly half her Chakra and bringing it to a halt.

Twelve palms.

Twenty-eight palms.

The Chakra within Hyuga Fuyu's body rapidly stopped circulating.

When Hinata reached the sixty-fourth palm, the acupoints within Chunin Hyuga Fuyu's body were finally completely sealed. Her Chakra stopped circulating, and her entire body went limp like noodles as she collapsed onto the ground.

At the same time, in the instant she fell, Hyuga Fuyu saw that Lady Hinata was preparing to strike the sixty-fifth palm. In that moment, she understood one fact:

Lady Hinata had truly learned the Eight Trigrams One Hundred Twenty-Eight Palms. It was just that with her current physical condition, Hyuga Fuyu could not withstand it at all. She could not even endure the sixty-fifth palm.

Meanwhile, Hyuga Hiashi, Hizashi Hyuga, and the rest of the Hyuga Clan all widened their eyes at the sight:

Hinata had already learned the One Hundred Twenty-Eight Palms?!

But even if she had learned it, where had she gotten so much Chakra to use this technique?!

Byakugan!

In that instant, veins bulged around the eyes of the Hyuga Clan members.

And so, they saw that the Chakra within Hinata Hyuga's body had already reached an amount normally possessed only by an ordinary Chunin. This made them realize an even clearer fact:

Hinata Hyuga was a genius!

Not only had she learned the Hyuga Clan's ultimate technique, the Eight Trigrams One Hundred Twenty-Eight Palms, at such a young age, she also possessed the amount of Chakra that only an ordinary Chunin would have at her age.

But it was precisely because they understood this that they found it even more unacceptable that a girl from the Hyuga Clan had actually fallen for a commoner and wanted to keep one.

Hyuga Hiashi turned to his biological younger brother and said:

"Hizashi, you do it."

Hizashi Hyuga looked at the short-haired, five-year-old Hinata in the distance with hesitation. "Is that appropriate? If I make a move, I may use too much force and injure Hinata."

Hyuga Hiashi said, "There is nothing inappropriate about it. It is time for Hinata to understand that there is always someone stronger. As for getting injured, Hinata is destined to become a ninja. A little injury is nothing, and staying home to recuperate properly would not necessarily be a bad thing."

Having received permission, Hizashi Hyuga charged out like an arrow loosed from a bow. At the same time, he threw a large number of kunai from his ninja tool pouch, sending them toward Hinata Hyuga's nonlethal areas.

Then Hizashi Hyuga saw Hinata Hyuga assume the opening stance of a familiar Hyuga Clan ultimate technique:

Eight Trigrams Palms Rotation!