Water Release Ninjutsu Talent Rivaling the Second Hokage? A New Ninjutsu, the Yin Seal?

Hyuga Hiashi watched his daughter apologize to Hizashi Hyuga, and his expression softened considerably as he asked with concern, "Hinata, you've been missing for an entire day. You probably haven't eaten yet, have you?"

"The clan has always kept meals prepared for you. They're still warming in the pot. Should I have someone bring them over?"

Hinata Hyuga nodded at first, then shook her head. "Father, I am indeed hungry, but preparing food for just me won't do. You also need to prepare the same amount for Roman.

"It has to be of the same quality."

Hearing that, Hyuga Hiashi glanced again at Roman, the blond standing beside Hinata with a goofy grin, and anger welled up inside him.

But when he recalled the three conditions he had agreed to earlier, he could only grit his teeth and say, "Fine. I'll have someone prepare it and send it to your room once it's ready."

"Alright, then we'll be going." After saying that, Hinata took Roman's hand and prepared to leave. But just then, she seemed to remember something and turned back to Hyuga Hiashi.

"Oh, right. Let my former guard, Hyuga Fuyu, rest properly. After all, she couldn't even beat me."

"..."

Hyuga Hiashi silently nodded. Then he stood there and watched his daughter Hinata skip away with Roman, his eyelids twitching uncontrollably.

Still, Hyuga Hiashi quickly composed himself and said to everyone around him, "Until my daughter Hinata grows up, information about her being able to defeat a Jonin must never be leaked."

"That's right. I agree."

Hizashi Hyuga was the first to step forward and nod.

After all, he had no desire for word to spread that he had been defeated by his underage niece.

If that news truly reached Konoha, he would be utterly humiliated.

The senior members of the Hyuga Main Family nearby also nodded in agreement. In their eyes, Hinata Hyuga was the Hyuga Clan's hope for the future—the new Hyuga Celestial Ninja of this era!

There was even a slight possibility that she might one day grow into an existence comparable to the God of Shinobi, Hashirama Senju, or Madara Uchiha!

However, those were merely expectations for Hinata's future... At present, Hinata could only defeat a Jonin. She could defeat a Jonin, and nothing more; she had yet to reach the strength of a Kage.

That meant she could still be killed by external forces. Since that was the case, information about her had to remain confidential.

Thus, the Hyuga Clan's upper echelon reached a consensus and issued a notice to those below:

Members of the Hyuga Clan were forbidden from revealing Hinata Hyuga's true strength to outsiders!

Afterward, Hyuga Hiashi, Hizashi Hyuga, and the elders of the Hyuga Main Family went elsewhere to hold a meeting. The meeting's purpose was simple: to inquire further into the detailed information surrounding the Hyuga Clan's prodigy, Hinata Hyuga.

When had she mastered the Eight Trigrams One Hundred Twenty-Eight Palms? And even the Eight Trigrams Palms Rotation?

Even Water Release: Wild Water Wave.

And the Fourth Hokage's signature ninjutsu, the Rasengan?

Faced with the questioning looks of the Main Family Elders and his own younger brother, the Main Family's clan head explained everything he knew, immediately causing immense shock among them all.

She had taught herself, mastering Chakra control methods such as tree climbing and water walking at the age of three.

More importantly, Hinata's Rasengan had not come from the Scroll of Seals. She had recreated and reproduced it herself when she was four years old.

As for the Eight Trigrams One Hundred Twenty-Eight Palms, the Eight Trigrams Palms Rotation, and even Water Release: Wild Water Wave... even he, her father and the head of the Hyuga Clan, had no idea when Hinata had mastered those taijutsu and ninjutsu.

Finally, after recovering from their shock, everyone voiced their amazement.

"A genius, a true genius!"

"Hinata has hope of becoming the Hyuga Celestial Ninja of a new era!"

"Once Hinata truly comes of age, perhaps she can lead the Hyuga Clan to rise again. She may even have a chance to ascend to that position and become Konoha's Hokage!"

After everyone finished marveling, Hizashi Hyuga seemed to recall something and continued, "Throughout the battle, I used my Byakugan to observe the flow of Chakra in Hinata's body. I confirmed that her Chakra reserves were only at the level of an ordinary Chunin. But at one point, I discovered that her Chakra suddenly increased, reaching the level of an ordinary Jonin!

"If that hadn't happened, there was no way she could have unleashed so many ninjutsu!"

One elder nodded. "I noticed Hinata's increase in Chakra as well."

Hyuga Hiashi nodded too. "The same goes for me. I observed that phenomenon with my Byakugan."

Those words gave everyone present an idea.

Could it be that, at such a young age, Hinata had developed a new technique—a ninjutsu capable of storing away Chakra refined during ordinary times and unleashing it at a critical moment?

It was possible. Very possible!

After all, this was Hinata—the genius ninja Hinata Hyuga, who had once recreated the Rasengan! It was understandable for her to develop a new technique, one capable of storing Chakra...

Just then, Hyuga Hiashi thought of something and said, "But why is the effect of this technique so similar to the Yin Seal possessed by Lady Tsunade?"

Upon hearing that, everyone thought it over carefully and felt that the method Hinata had used to drastically increase her Chakra during her battle with Hizashi Hyuga was indeed extremely similar to the Yin Seal.

At that moment, Hizashi Hyuga spoke again. "Right, there's something else I noticed during the battle. At a critical moment in her fight with me, Hinata released two ninjutsu simultaneously!

"They were Reverse Eight Trigrams Palms Rotation.

"And the Rasengan!

"She seemed able to divide her attention between two tasks. Without a doubt, she is a true combat genius!"

Hearing this, everyone became even more convinced that if Hinata Hyuga could truly grow up, she might really become the Hyuga Celestial Ninja of a new era and lead the Hyuga Clan to rise again.

Then everyone seemed to think of something else and began urging Hyuga Hiashi to treat Hinata Hyuga better in the future, to fulfill as many of her requests as possible, and to raise Hinata as well as he could.

Hyuga Hiashi was slightly stunned by this. Then he remembered one of the requests Hinata had made not long ago:

To be trapped together with Roman!

Did they have to grant even that kind of request?

Grant my ass!

No matter what, Roman was just an ordinary person. He could not cultivate chakra and was not worthy of his daughter!

Meanwhile, Roman and Hinata had already returned to Hinata's girlish bedroom, where a faint, pleasant fragrance of incense lingered in the air.

As they waited for the servants to bring their food, the two communicated through their gazes and minds.

Hinata: "A fist really is reason!

"After I taught those stubborn Hyuga Clan members a lesson, Father really did agree to let you remain in the Hyuga Clan. He even agreed to raise your status to the same level as mine."

"Of course, it was all thanks to you. If you hadn't transmitted the chakra in your body—equal to that of a Jonin Kakashi—to mine from afar during the battle, "and linked your consciousness to my body, fighting alongside me with your mind so that I could multitask and use both the Rotation and Rasengan at the same time, "I really wouldn't have been able to defeat Hizashi Hyuga, that Konoha Jonin."

"Piece of cake."

Roman waved a hand, then seemed to think of something. "You and I disappeared together for a day, and the Hyuga Clan searched everywhere. It must have alerted Konoha. I'm afraid plenty of people in the village are already spreading rumors that you eloped with me."

"Why care about them? Besides... in a sense, they're not wrong. We went to the Chaos Temple together, stayed there for a day, and even held each other... that really could count as eloping.

"And as long as the two of us stay together for a while longer, our strength will rapidly rise and grow at an unimaginable pace, like using our left foot to step on our right foot! Then, through the first, second, and third fetal movements, we'll awaken the Tenseigan and enter Tenseigan Chakra Mode!

"By then, if anyone in Konoha still dares wag their tongue, I'll show them what it means when I say I don't eat beef!"

Roman: "Makes sense."

At that, the two broke into laughter in their mental conversation.

Just then, the voice of a Hyuga Clan servant came from outside the room:

"Lady Hinata, Lord Roman, lunch is ready!"