Takasaki Actually Wants to Marry Me

Takasaki was in the same year as her at the Konoha Ninja Academy, so of course she knew him.

What had made the biggest impression on her was Takasaki's striking good looks.

So when Takasaki had asked to borrow her notes on the Three Body Technique after school that day, Hinata had been so embarrassed that she lowered her head and hardly dared look at him.

She hardly ever interacted with Takasaki, and she had never brought him to her home, much less to the bathroom.

Why was Takasaki's Diary in her bathroom?

Had Takasaki sneaked in himself?

That was even more impossible.

The Hyuga Clan's estate was guarded day and night. Without permission, outsiders couldn't get in.

Even if someone wanted to sneak inside, they would need to be at least as skilled as their teacher, Kurenai Yuhi, who was a jonin.

No, to be precise, even Kurenai couldn't sneak in, since she specialized in genjutsu, and their Hyuga Clan's Byakugan could easily counter it.

As for Takasaki, who hadn't even mastered the Three Body Technique yet, he was out of the question.

"Whatever the case, this diary seems to belong to Takasaki. It's the weekend, so I'll take it to school on Monday and return it to him."

Hinata stopped wondering how the diary had ended up in her home. At that moment, what interested her more was its contents.

Even Hinata, who was usually so proper, had to admit that sneaking a peek at someone else's diary felt thrilling.

What might be in Takasaki's Diary?

At school, Takasaki was polite and well-mannered, and she had a good impression of him.

Surely Takasaki's Diary was full of serious things.

If she took a quick look and didn't tell anyone, it shouldn't be a big deal, right?

Curious, Hinata opened the diary.

To her utter surprise, the first few lines were all about her.

They were anything but proper—in fact, they could even be called flirtatious.

Hinata's eyes widened in shock, and her cheeks flushed. "Takasaki actually wants to marry me?"

Takasaki was still just like her, not even graduated from the Ninja Academy yet. Why was he already thinking about grown-up things?

To marry someone, to get married, you had to date first.

Did Takasaki like her this whole time?

Hinata blushed even more deeply.

A young girl's heart was sensitive to every little thing.

How could something like this not make her feel embarrassed?

But the later entries in Takasaki's Diary caught her even more off guard.

"So Takasaki doesn't just want to marry me. He also wants Hanabi, Sakura, Teacher Kurenai, and Temari and Mei Terumi, whom I don't know... They all sound like kunoichi's names. Does Takasaki want to marry all of them and bring them home someday?"

So Takasaki didn't just like her; he liked the other girls equally.

He even had an all-in-one plan to marry every one of them.

"This is clearly human trafficking."

"Takasaki's thinking is a bit too much. He absolutely can't do that, since Konoha is monogamous."

Kindhearted by nature, she really wanted to find an excuse for Takasaki, but she just couldn't bring herself to accept it.

The more she put up with it, the angrier she got; the more ground she gave, the more she felt she'd lost.

As expected, you couldn't judge a boy by his looks alone. At the very least, you had to read his diary too.

Boys' words could deceive you, and their actions could deceive you, but their diaries surely couldn't.

Hinata was about to close the diary, return it to Takasaki on Monday, and never speak to him again. But just then, two more lines appeared on the page.

[The first time Takasaki has written your name in his diary. Reward: Chakra increased by 10%.]

[Tip: The more often Takasaki mentions your name in his diary, the greater the rewards you receive.]

The diary could give her rewards?

She could gain chakra?

The sudden appearance of writing in the diary was already so absurd that it had caught her completely off guard.

What it said was even more unbelievable.

Chakra was the core of using ninjutsu.

In the first lesson at the Konoha Ninja Academy, Teacher Kurenai had taught them that every ninja had a base amount of chakra in their body. It wasn't impossible to increase it, but it was extremely difficult and required exceptionally harsh training.

If she trained hard for an entire year with a will of steel like Lee's, she might be able to increase the amount of chakra in her body by 10%.

But now the diary said her chakra could increase by 10% simply because Takasaki had mentioned her name in it.

How could there be such a thing as a free gift from the heavens?

Just as Hinata was reasonably suspecting that someone was playing a prank on her, she suddenly felt a warm current appear inside her body, coursing through all her organs.

Her strength returned.

The exhaustion from practicing with Hanabi earlier, along with the hunger that could have made her eat twenty bowls of Ichiraku Ramen in one sitting, vanished in an instant.

More importantly, Hinata felt that it wasn't just her physical strength that had increased. Her chakra had grown too!

Hinata drew on the chakra inside her. The feeling of it being so full that it was about to overflow left her both thrilled and stunned.

Unbelievable.

In just a moment, the amount of chakra in her body had truly increased by 10%!

Hinata pinched her cheek hard and found that it hurt.

She then gave her body a gentle twist and saw her chest move.

Only then did she believe she wasn't dreaming.

Even if she were dreaming, her imagination couldn't come up with a way to increase chakra like this.

"So the diary really is telling the truth!"

Once Hinata calmed down, she didn't even bother that she wasn't wearing any clothes.

She read and reread the diary several times, then came to a conclusion. "This diary really can make me stronger. Should I tell a teacher at school, or my father at home, or Lord Hokage?"

"If I hand it over to them to study, this diary might make my Hyuga Clan, or Konoha, or even the Land of Fire stronger."

No wonder Hiruzen Sarutobi was so good at indoctrination.

Having been steeped in the Will of Fire, Hinata's first thought after obtaining a diary that could make her stronger was to hand it over.

A classic selfless act.

But the moment that thought occurred to her, a feeling of extreme danger suddenly enveloped her.

The ominous danger seemed to come from the diary.

Hinata immediately guessed what was happening. She looked down and, sure enough, saw a line appear in the diary: [If you reveal anything about the diary to anyone, you will die].