"Hinata, I'm sorry. I did many terrible things to you before. From now on, I'll fulfill my duties as a member of the Branch Family and protect you with my life."
In the Hyuga Clan's courtyard, Neji cried as he apologized to Hinata. He seemed to have truly recognized his mistakes, tears streaming down the face of the boy who had once gone astray. Hinata also forgave him through her tears, and the scene was utterly harmonious.
"Naruto, can you stop cutting onions already?!"
Neji finally couldn't take it anymore. He grabbed Naruto by the collar and stopped him from continuing to slice onions with a kunai.
"You think I want to? Sob... I told Hinata before that I'd make you apologize while crying, but you refused to cry. Sob... My eyes are burning!"
Naruto's tears wouldn't stop flowing either. In the end, he was just trying to make the apology more effective.
"You really are sick in the head!"
"Want to fight?"
"Two idiots."
Standing far away and refusing to join their tearful idiot duo, Hanabi watched the two boys clutching each other and gave her assessment.
"Hanabi, even if I'm not asking you to call me Brother Neji, you should at least show some respect. How can you lump me together with Naruto?"
"That's what you're focused on? I'm really going to beat you up!"
"You, the Hyuga Clan's number one genius, were defeated by a Dead Last. I'd like to ask how that feels."
"Guh... This girl isn't cute at all."
Neji let out a wounded sound. He knew Naruto's strength, but other people didn't. Those who hadn't watched the match only knew that he had been defeated by a Dead Last. And Hanabi was rubbing salt in the wound. Compared to her, Hinata was ten thousand