Hinata's Second Personality

The door creaked.

The study door was pulled open, and a small figure slowly entered the dim room.

Moonlight streamed in from outside, stretching the little figure's shadow long.

Menma stepped out from the shadows, scratching his head in confusion. "What a pain. I thought you wouldn't follow me."

The Limited Tsukuyomi World was clearly fake, so why had Dark Kurama followed him here? And why had his girlfriend come too?

Inside the Hyuga clan head's study, one tall and one small figure stood less than two meters apart, staring at each other.

Uzumaki Menma removed the White Three-Eyed Fox Mask and lowered his head to gaze at the small figure standing in the doorway beneath the bright moonlight.

Hyuga Hinata.

Unlike the gentle, timid Hinata, this Hinata standing before Menma had her Byakugan activated. Veins bulged around her temples as she stared fixedly at the unmasked Menma.

Resentment and indescribably complicated emotions churned within those pure white eyes.

Hinata raised one hand, gathering Gentle Fist chakra in her palm, and charged straight at Menma.

"You!" Hinata shouted as she leaped forward, but her tears fell before her fist could.

"You scumbag!" That Gentle Fist strike landed squarely on Menma's chest, and his Transformation Technique immediately collapsed.

Boom!

As the smoke cleared, Menma returned to his original form—a child.

"I'm sorry, Hinata."

That soft apology finally shattered Hinata's restraint.

She threw herself at Menma and burst into loud sobs.

"You knew! You knew! No matter what you did, I would forgive you!" Through her tears, Hinata opened her mouth and bit down hard on Menma's shoulder, venting all the grievances she had endured over the years.

"Hiss—you really bit me!" Menma sucked in a sharp breath, yet he indulged her willfulness.

If it had been the gentle Hinata from the Hokage manga and anime, she would never have done something like this.

But if it was the impulsive, hot-tempered Big Sister Hinata from the Limited Tsukuyomi World movie, then everything made sense.

A moment later, after crying herself tired, Hinata sat on Hiashi's desk. Tear stains still lingered in her eyes as she propped up her round face with both hands and watched Menma use the Transformation Technique to turn back into an adult while he rifled through the books her father had collected.

After waking up earlier, Hinata had been escorted back to the main residence. From the guards, she had learned about the attack that night and heard that a mysterious person wearing a White Three-Eyed Fox Mask had attacked the Hyuga clan.

So after returning, Hinata had kept her Byakugan activated. She vaguely remembered that Menma was very interested in the Hyuga clan's history, so she knew he would definitely come back tonight.

That was how she caught Menma red-handed in the study.

"If our world was fake, then why do I exist?" Hinata asked.

"I find it strange too. It's not just you—Dark Kurama has also revived inside me." Menma flipped through the books, sending anything useful or historically valuable directly into the Storage Scroll.

After all, there were too many books to finish reading in a short time.

"But I can clearly feel that world's rejection, as well as how unreal everything felt. There weren't even any legends of the Sage of Six Paths. Yet the feelings you all gave me were so real that sometimes, I truly can't tell anymore." As Menma thought more deeply, his head began to ache again, and his temples throbbed twice.

"Um... how should I put this..." Little Hinata wore a white kimono, her two bare little feet swinging in the air.

"Actually, there's another personality in this body of mine—or rather, another soul. Her personality is completely opposite to mine." Little Hinata pointed at her chest.

"Hm?" Menma turned to look at Hinata.

He had thought that once Big Sister Hinata appeared, the other Hinata had disappeared. So they were two souls in one body?

"Little Hinata, let me introduce you. This is the scumbag boyfriend I always tell you about, Menma." Hinata raised her chin and spoke to herself, then lowered her head again.

The next moment, Hinata suddenly lifted her head, her face filled with flustered, shy panic. "S-Sister... don't do that..."

This Little Hinata, whose face was bright red as though steam might rise from it, seemed to be the original Hinata from the manga and anime.

Uzumaki Menma looked at Little Hinata with great interest, then reached out and placed a hand on her head, rubbing her short hair. "Nice to meet you. My name is Menma."

"H-Hello... my name is Hinata too..." Little Hinata's voice was as soft as a mosquito's buzz.

Feeling the gentle hand atop her head, Little Hinata's face reddened even more. She lowered her head, twisting her small hands together before her chest, while her jade-like feet curled together shyly.

"Then how should I address the two of you?" Menma bent closer to Hinata.

"Um... usually... I'm the one outside... Sister spends most of her time asleep..." Little Hinata said softly, shyly looking at the face so close to hers.

It seemed Big Sister Hinata's soul also needed chakra to remain active.

Menma fell into thought.

As he remembered, in the Shinobi World, the relationship between chakra and the soul was extremely subtle.

"Mm-hm. Then I'll call you Little Hinata." Menma rather liked this Little Hinata.

"You can call me Menma, or you can just call me brother-in-law." Menma raised a thumb and pointed it at himself.

Little Hinata's round face was full of shyness, and there seemed to be light in the Byakugan she turned toward Menma.

Ever since she could remember, she had known there was an older sister inside her body with a fiery temperament.

As the heir to the Hyuga shinobi clan's Main House, Hinata had received strict training since childhood. But her gentle and somewhat timid personality had greatly disappointed her father and the Main House elders.

At crucial moments, Big Sister Hinata would always emerge. Not only did she display extraordinary learning ability, she also verbally demolished her father and the Main House elders.

She called Hiashi and the Main House elders things like "old fart," "old bastard," and "old man."

It could be said that not a single Hyuga ninja, whether a Main House elder or a Branch House guard, had escaped Big Sister Hinata's sharp tongue.

Hyuga Hiashi both liked and felt helpless about Hinata's second personality. He liked her learning ability and decisive style, believing she was well suited to become the Main House heir.

What left him helpless was that she was always calling him "old fart," showing none of the refinement expected of a great clan.

Little Hinata had often heard her sister mention her scumbag boyfriend, and she had become very curious about the man her sister could not forget.

Smack—

Hinata suddenly raised her small hand and slapped Menma's arm away.

"You scumbag! Don't you dare set your sights on my little sister!" Big Sister Hinata seized control again, accusing Menma of being a complete scumbag.

"Back when we were in bed, we were so lovey-dovey! You said all sorts of mushy things! You even said you'd have a son and a daughter with me!" Remembering how this man had tricked her into giving him her body in that world, Big Sister Hinata gritted her teeth and clenched her small fists.

"In bed..." Within Hinata's mental space, Little Hinata's face had turned red like a steam engine as she covered it with both hands.

"Ah, so you know it was on a bed too." Menma withdrew his hand with an awkward laugh.

"Go to hell, you filthy scumbag!" Hinata's Gentle Fist came flying straight at him!