I Joined the Chunin Exam, and It Was Livestreamed! Chapter 50

"It seemed I really had influenced her." Kitahara Kaede's thoughts were crystal clear.

Looking at the dejected Neji, Kitahara Kaede continued, "I trained Hinata before, so she may have split off a new personality."

"And the emergence of many personalities comes from an accumulation of negative emotions."

"Neji, you should pay more attention to yourself too."

"You have quite a lot of negative emotions as well," Kitahara Kaede said.

"..." Neji fell silent at those words.

Because...

How was he supposed to believe that?

Would negative emotions continuously piling up really turn someone into this?

Hinata had just left him without even a chance to fight back!

So would his accumulated negative emotions make him stronger too?

Of course not.

Because Kitahara Kaede wasn't by his side.

Watching Neji limp away, Kitahara Kaede lightly patted Black Hinata's arm.

It had been fine when Mei Terumi held him in the Land of Waves.

But she had been the Mizukage-sama, while Hinata was still too young.

Holding his arm like this only made her feel like a bean sprout—bony and uncomfortable.

"Hehe!"

Neji had left, but Black Hinata remained where she was. She had no idea that Kitahara Kaede found her flatness somewhat off-putting.

Instead, she enthusiastically continued hugging Kitahara Kaede's arm.

After all, this was her first appearance.

Although he seemed to have seen her less-than-gentle side, she had successfully made up for it.

Kitahara Kaede had even taken the initiative to find the reason for her appearance, so... that meant he acknowledged and accepted her, right?

And then... she had gotten the chance to be alone with Kitahara Kaede.

She had practically hit the jackpot!

Kitahara Kaede led Black Hinata out of the alley.

"Have you eaten dinner?" Kitahara Kaede asked.

The sky was already pitch-black. Night had officially fallen, and scattered stars could be seen appearing overhead.

The ninja world had relatively little pollution, so the starry sky looked like a spiderweb. Although it was incredibly clear, it was also a little nauseating to look at.

"I have... oh, no, I haven't." Black Hinata had just raised a hand to rub her stomach when she hurriedly changed her answer.

"..." Kitahara Kaede.

"Then let's go get some donkey-meat fire-roasted buns," Kitahara Kaede suggested.

This boiled snack, somewhat like oden, would not fill one up. Even if they had already eaten, they could still have some.

"I like that!" Black Hinata immediately agreed.

Kitahara Kaede had already noticed that Black Hinata's personality was livelier and bolder than Hinata's.

Still, since she was a personality he had accidentally created, it would be a shame to simply discard her.

So Kitahara Kaede decided not to interfere too much.

After all...

Kitahara Kaede glanced at Miss Black Hinata, who was happily clinging to his arm.

No matter which Hinata it was, as long as she liked him, that was enough.

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July 17th, sunny.

Nine in the morning.

"Kitahara-kun—"

"Kitahara-kun—"

Three classmates were waiting outside Kitahara Kaede's home.

From left to right stood two boys and a girl.

They were Naruto, Sasuke, and Hinata Hyuga.

"..." Kitahara Kaede.

Kitahara Kaede had not expected all three of them to arrive at his doorstep at the same time to pick him up for the exam.

But on one side were his teammates, and on the other was his girlfriend. Kitahara Kaede's choice was straightforward.

"Hinata, you changed back." Kitahara Kaede chose to speak to Hinata first.

"Mm~"

Hinata nodded gently.

She looked reserved, with a hint of shyness.

This was the Hinata Hyuga everyone knew.

Yesterday and the day before, she had been in Black Hinata's state, but today she had returned to her original self.

That further proved that Black Hinata was merely one of Hinata's alternate personalities.

The trigger mechanism was still unclear, but it was certain that the timid Hinata Kitahara Kaede knew still held the dominant personality.

"Come to think of it, Sasuke, Kitahara, and I are on the same team."

"And Teacher Kakashi said that the Chunin Exam is organized in three-person squads."

"Hinata, you're not on the same team as us, so why did you come to find Kitahara so early too?"

Naruto asked curiously, leaning half his body out from where he stood to the side.

"..." Kitahara Kaede and Hinata.

It had to be said that Naruto's maturity level still matched his current age; he was not mature enough on the inside.

He should learn from Sasuke.

Sasuke was a very self-disciplined person, after all.

He had never spoken to Hinata.

"I asked Hinata to help me prepare some things," Kitahara Kaede said.

"Ah... y-yes—" Hinata hurriedly took out a scroll.

It was a Sealing Scroll, capable of storing ninja tools inside.

She handed the scroll to Kitahara Kaede.

At the entrance of the Ninja Academy, there were notices listing what was allowed and forbidden in the Chunin Exam.

It had already been confirmed that the first test would be a written exam, but no one needed to bring pens or paper.

However, as ninja, they would definitely be tested on practical skills, so ninja tools and the like were all permitted. Even Summoning Beasts and ninja hounds were allowed.

Naruto had felt somewhat depressed after reading the notice, because he had not learned any summoning techniques at all.

However, Naruto remembered that Hinata's teammate, Kiba Inuzuka, had a dog.

"Speaking of ninja tools to prepare..."

Sasuke chimed in as well.

With one hand, he pulled a thick stack of Exploding Tags from the ninja tool pouch he carried with him.

He divided the Exploding Tags into three portions.

They were divided evenly.

Each portion contained roughly thirty Exploding Tags.

He kept one portion for himself and pushed the other two toward Naruto and Kitahara Kaede, splitting them evenly between the two.

"I prepared some ninja tools too," he said.

"Exploding Tags!?" Naruto was extremely sensitive to Exploding Tags. "Aren't these things expensive?"

He had visited a ninja tool shop for the exam as well and knew that Exploding Tags cost anywhere from 1,000 to 5,000 ryo.

They only received 500 ryo each for completing a D-rank mission, so Exploding Tags were something Genin could only look at longingly.

Even Chunin would find them painful to buy.

But Exploding Tags were highly effective, because they were sealing talismans containing Fire Style ninjutsu.

They could also be detonated from a distance.

So, attaching an Exploding Tag to a Shuriken and throwing it was equivalent to tossing a grenade at the enemy.

In the ninja world, where high offense and low defense were the norm, it was simply devastating.

So the Ninja Academy had a mandatory ninja tool course—how to use and inspect Exploding Tags.

So they would not... run outside and get blown away.

Just look at Hashirama Senju's Grandson, the First Hokage's grandson. He had it pretty bad.

Because of what happened to him, the Ninja Academy added this course.

"Exploding Tags are expensive," Sasuke replied to Naruto. "But if you make them yourself, the cost is very low."

"One tag only costs fifty to one hundred ryo."

"You all know that the Uchiha Clan excels most at Exploding Tags... pfft, I mean Fire Style ninjutsu."

"So I sealed Fire Style: Great Fireball Jutsu into the Exploding Tags myself."

"As a member of the Uchiha Clan, their power won't lose to the Exploding Tags sold on the market."

Sasuke said proudly.

Kitahara Kaede and Naruto thanked him before accepting them.

Sasuke might have made it sound easy, but even a genius would experience failures during the crafting process, let alone Sasuke, who was merely outstanding rather than a genius.

So making nearly a hundred Exploding Tags like these had probably taken him a great deal of time.

The proof was the dark circles beneath both his eyes.

He must have stayed up late making them.

Although he did not feel he particularly needed Exploding Tags, considering Sasuke's efforts, Kitahara Kaede accepted them anyway.

Though he knew the Hyuga Clan's eldest daughter had definitely prepared a whole pile of them in the ninja tool scroll she had given him.

And at that moment.