Nearly half a year passed like this. From Fugaku, Mirai learned that the Hyuga Clan seemed to have discovered Hinata's talent for medical Ninjutsu and had been repeatedly asking Tsunade to take Hinata as her disciple.
Mirai merely smiled at that. Tsunade's medical Ninjutsu was indeed quite renowned among the Sannin, but that was all. Just because someone became the disciple of an expert did not mean they would certainly become an expert themselves. The Hyuga Clan was only trying to make Hinata famous. After all, the Hyuga Clan currently had no combat geniuses at all! Their only one, Hinata, had been thoroughly overshadowed by Mirai. If this continued, the Hyuga Clan would truly become a laughingstock. Under such pressure, they urgently needed some way to stand out.
In truth, it was like a celebrity desperate to make the headlines—neither popular nor obscure, but on the verge of fading away completely if no one noticed them.
The Hyuga Clan was truly desperate now. They had always called themselves Konoha's strongest clan, yet they had now fallen so low as to compete for the title of a powerful medical clan. It was rather laughable.
Although Mirai wanted to help Hinata, the clan's higher-ups would certainly criticize him for it. Still, Tsunade taking Hinata as her disciple was surely only a matter of time. Tsunade's current position was rather awkward, after all.
For one thing, Hinata was a member of the Hyuga Clan. That alone was reason enough for Tsunade to take her in. The Third was already getting on in years and would likely step down within seven or eight years. Once he did, who would become the next Hokage would be a major question.
Although Mirai knew that Minato Namikaze would become the Fourth Hokage in the future, from the