Rotation: Modified

These reports were all experimental records on becoming a Jinchuriki and using the power of the Bizarre Creatures within one's body.

Among these reports, Hinata found one that interested her.

An experimental report codenamed "Headcutter."

When she saw "Headcutter," Hinata did not react at first. Only after reading the details did she realize—wasn't this the experimental report on the rope in her hand?

Why give it a name like "Headcutter"? She had nearly failed to recognize it.

But then again, "Headcutter" really was a fitting name.

Wasn't this rope's method of killing people to hang them by the neck and then strangle them apart?

According to the report, "Headcutter" had been sealed inside a ninja.

That ninja's method of using "Headcutter" was actually to make ropes extend from his palms or various parts of his body, then use them to bind enemies. The headless giant corpse could also be controlled, but that would accelerate "Headcutter's" erosion of the body, so there were not many experimental records on it.

Emmmmmmm...

Seeing that no one was in the room, Hinata released "Headcutter (Large)."

She watched ropes descend from the beams overhead. At first there was one, then two, then three, gradually filling the entire ceiling before retracting again.

Next, she spread open her left hand. Blood seeped from the strands of hair wrapped around her left middle finger and dripped onto the floor.

The fallen blood gathered on the ground into a headless blood figure less than ten centimeters tall. Under Hinata's control, it performed all sorts of movements before turning back into blood and flowing into the hair that sealed it.

It somehow felt different from what the report had described.

In the end, Hinata attributed it to her physique. After all, people's constitutions could not be lumped together.

After reading all the reports, Hinata left the study.

It was time to eat, and her mother was waiting for her.

As for Hyuga Hiashi, after leaving the study, he headed straight for the Hokage Building.

He had done everything he could to keep his daughter away from those Bizarre Creatures, yet on her very first day of school, all his efforts had become useless.

The Third Hokage had to give him an explanation for this!

One could imagine that he would not be the only parent kicking open the Hokage's office door today!

During the meal, Hinata looked at her mother sitting across from her, her belly swollen.

Before long, her younger sister Hanabi would be born.

But Hinata was thinking about a question now.

Throughout the entire story of the Hokage, it seemed her mother had never appeared at all!

Hinata did not know why, but with her here, her mother would not die even if she wanted to.

"Hyuga Hinata, duel me!"

Hinata looked at Sasuke, who was blocking her path, and spoke. "Fine."

Three years had passed since the start of school. Hinata and the other members of her class were already eight years old.

"This time, I'll definitely win!"

"When haven't you said that?" Shikamaru muttered from the corner.

"Shikamaru, are we going to watch again this time?" Choji, the chubby kid eating beside Hinata, asked Shikamaru.

"Of course."

In this dull school, only the usual duels between Hinata and Sasuke could add a touch of color to their boring lives.

"No!"

"Hinata, don't agree!"

But some people did not want to watch Hinata duel Sasuke, such as Sakura, Ino, and the other girls.

It was not because they wanted to see the adorable Hinata get hurt, but because they were worried Sasuke would get beaten into a pig's head again.

Over the past three years, Sasuke had challenged Hinata to countless duels and lost countless times. He had not won even once.

Every time, he was beaten black and blue. The miserable sight made Sasuke's fangirls' hearts ache terribly.

Sasuke naturally knew he was no match for Hinata, but today was different.

Once the two arrived at the training ground, quite a few students had already gathered around them. Even a teacher had come to serve as referee.

After forming the Seal of Confrontation, Sasuke immediately leaped far away.

From his painful experiences in the past, every time Hinata got close to him, he would be beaten until he could not fight back at all, then lose in the most stifling manner.

The key was that they were still young, with insufficient Chakra and unable to use many ninjutsu. When they fought, they relied on Taijutsu at most, with a few thrown weapons mixed in.

But this time was different!

Under the astonished gazes of the watching students, he began forming hand seals.

"Fire Style: Great Fireball Technique!"

That was not all. After releasing one ninjutsu, he began forming hand seals again.

"Fire Style: Phoenix Sage Fire Technique!"

Two ninjutsu in succession—one large fireball and several smaller ones—flew toward Hinata.

"Not good!"

Seeing the fireballs strike Hinata, the referee teacher sensed something was wrong and moved to rescue her.

But just as he moved, he realized Hinata's presence had not changed at all, as though she had not been hurt.

Then, the teacher revealed an expression of shock that even Sasuke's back-to-back use of two ninjutsu had failed to produce.

The raging flames produced by the several fireballs striking Hinata began to distort, then dissipated.

Amid everyone's stunned expressions, Hinata emerged completely unscathed.

"Rotation: Modified!"

"How is that possible?!"

Seeing her take a Taijutsu stance he did not recognize, Sasuke cried out in shock for everyone.

Of everyone present, Sasuke found this outcome the hardest to accept.

To defeat Hinata just once, he had kept the Great Fireball Technique hidden for a long time despite having learned it long ago, because he felt that knowing only one ninjutsu would not be enough to beat her.

After learning the Phoenix Sage Fire Technique, he had impatiently sought out Hinata for a duel. Yet he still had not won.

"A decently powerful Fire Style."

Stepping across the scorched grass that had been set ablaze by the Fire Style techniques, Hinata walked toward Sasuke.

Sasuke: "#!"

Sasuke felt insulted. The Fire Style had not even damaged a single hair on her head, yet she actually called it decently powerful?

But he could not afford to think too much now, because the duel was still ongoing.

Although after using two ninjutsu in a row, the Chakra inside him had already run dry, and squeezing out even a trace of Chakra was extremely difficult.

But making Uchiha Sasuke admit defeat was impossible!

Then, beneath the pained gazes of the watching students, Hinata raised her delicate fist and smashed it into Sasuke's face.

At once, the sounds of fists striking flesh and Sasuke's muffled groans rang out.

In the end, the teacher stopped Hinata's one-sided beating.

After forming the Seal of Reconciliation with Sasuke, Hinata left the training ground.

Sasuke left as well. Every time he dueled Hinata, he would slink away from the training ground afterward.

Then, with a face covered in bruises and swelling, he returned home in deep conflict.

Hinata and Sasuke had gone home, but the scene of their duel had left the watching students deeply shocked.

After all, only a few years had passed since they learned how to refine Chakra.

Their bodies had not yet fully developed, they had had too little time, and their Chakra was insufficient. Most of them did not even have enough Chakra to use a single ninjutsu, much less fire off two in succession.

But what shocked them even more was the Taijutsu Hinata had used to block those two ninjutsu.

"What a pain..."

Shikamaru had already imagined his father making him train in ninjutsu after learning about this duel.

He could only call it troublesome, because he truly hated trouble.