Hinata: I've Grown Stronger! Hiashi: You Call That a Love Potion?

Konoha, Hyuga Clan Estate.

A deathly silence hung in the air.

The branch family ninja responsible for surveillance knelt on the floor, trembling like a leaf, his head nearly buried in the tatami.

Before him, Hyuga Hiashi, head of the main house, wore his usual stern and imposing expression—but now, his face was so dark it looked ready to drip ink.

Just moments ago, through a clan member's Byakugan "remote broadcast," he had watched with his own eyes as that "Demon Fox" he considered the clan's disgrace swaggered back from outside the village with a stunningly beautiful girl whose looks could topple a nation.

And that wasn't even the worst of it!

That girl had actually begun cleaning Naruto Uzumaki's filthy, pigsty-like apartment like an obedient little wife!

Meanwhile, his own daughter Hinata, who had been fed some love potion, was still training desperately just so she could be worthy of that brat!

Outrageous!

Absolutely outrageous!

"L-Lord Hiashi..." the branch family ninja stammered, cold sweat already soaking through the clothes on his back.

Hyuga Hiashi ignored him. An invisible, icy fury radiated from his body, dropping the room's temperature by several degrees.

The scene replayed endlessly in his mind—Naruto lounging lazily against the doorframe while that breathtaking girl diligently cleaned his room.

That image stabbed deeply into the nerve called "clan dignity" and "noble bloodline"!

How could the future head of the Hyuga Main House, the husband of a Hyuga Clan daughter, possibly keep some mysterious seductress in his home?!

What was more, he had tacitly reserved that position for his daughter Hinata!

An immense humiliation, as though an outsider had stolen his home, exploded within him!

"Where is Hinata?"

Hiashi forced out the words, his voice utterly devoid of warmth.

"R-Reporting to the clan head, Lady Hinata... is training alone in Practice Hall Three."

Hiashi abruptly rose. The wide sleeves of his kimono billowed without wind as he strode toward the training hall without a word.

Inside Practice Hall Three.

Drenched in fragrant sweat, Hinata was practicing the Gentle Fist over and over.

Unlike her usual timidity and hesitation, every movement she made now carried an unprecedented sense of strength and resolve!

"Hey!"

"Hah!"

The girl shouted softly, her pale palms carving sharp trajectories through the air.

Her body was light, her footing steady, and the chakra flowing around her was more active than ever before.

Even more strangely, each time she struck, faint threads of golden radiance seemed to emerge from that gentle chakra!

It was a... pure, blazing, domineering aura of Yang Release, brimming with boundless vitality!

"Eight Trigrams: Thirty-Two Palms!"

With a crisp cry, Hinata thrust both palms forward, striking fiercely at the wooden post before her with speed and force far beyond anything she had shown before!

Yet her palms did not land on the post.

A strong, weathered hand appeared out of nowhere and steadily blocked her strike.

"Bang!"

A dull impact rang out.

Hinata felt as though her palm strike had hit an immovable mountain. The powerful recoil sent her staggering back several steps.

She looked up in shock and saw that her father, Hyuga Hiashi, had somehow appeared before her.

"Father!"

Hinata jumped in fright. Her little face instantly turned pale as she hurriedly bowed.

Hiashi said nothing. He merely stared coldly at Hinata's palms with his emotionless Byakugan, then swept his gaze across her entire body.

For the first time, an incredulous flicker appeared on his face, as cold and unchanging as an ancient glacier.

"This chakra of yours..." Hiashi spoke slowly, each word seeming to squeeze through clenched teeth. "What is going on?"

His senses could not be wrong.

The fleeting golden aura in Hinata's palms just now possessed such purity and dominance that even he, the head of the main house who had devoted decades to the Gentle Fist, felt a trace of alarm!

That was not chakra the Hyuga Clan should possess at all!

"I..." Hinata's heart skipped a beat, and her eyes began darting about in panic. "I-I was only training hard..."

"Training?"

Hiashi's oppressive presence suddenly intensified. "All I see is the noblest bloodline of the Hyuga Main House being tainted by some unknown, barbaric power!"

He stepped forward and demanded sharply, "Speak! You've been running outside the village so often lately. Who exactly have you been going to see?!"

"N-No one..."

Frightened by her father's murderous expression, Hinata trembled all over. Her mind went blank, and she could only deny it instinctively.

But to Hiashi, her guilty appearance was no different from an admission.

Neji Hyuga, who had been standing silently at the entrance to the training hall, walked in then. A cold sneer rested on his handsome face.

"Clan head, why ask any further?"

Neji glanced at the bloodless Hinata, his tone filled with disdain for the main house and bone-deep hatred for Naruto.

"Other than that 'Demon Fox' who trampled the Hyuga Clan's dignity beneath his feet and stuffed my pride into a trash can, who else could have bewitched our noble Lady Hinata into such a state?"

The injuries on his face had healed, but the humiliation of being defeated by Naruto in a single move that day had become an eternal nightmare he could never erase!

"Uzumaki... Naruto!"

The moment she heard that name leave Neji's mouth, Hinata's body jolted. As though her greatest secret had been exposed, she blurted out, "N-No! Naruto-kun only... only taught me some... new methods... for refining chakra..."

It was over.

The instant the words left her mouth, Hinata wanted to slap herself hard.

The entire hall instantly fell into deathly silence.

In an instant, terrifying bloodshot veins filled Hyuga Hiashi's pure white eyes.

"Ha... hahaha..."

He suddenly began to laugh softly. The laughter was dry and cold, making both Neji and Hinata shudder.

"Good! Very good, Naruto Uzumaki!"

"A new method for refining chakra, is it?!"

Hiashi abruptly raised his head. There was no trace of dignity left on his face, only volcanic fury!

"Utter nonsense!"

"Preposterous!!"

A thunderous roar shook the entire training hall until it hummed!

"The young lady of the Hyuga Main House, the noblest bloodline passed down by the Hyuga Clan for a thousand years, actually went and mixed with the village's lowliest Demon Fox to learn his worthless, back-alley tricks?!"

"How disgraceful!!"

Hiashi trembled with rage, pointing at Hinata yet unable to bring himself to curse her. In the end, all his fury locked precisely onto the culprit—Naruto Uzumaki!

He had defiled his daughter's innocent mind!

He had contaminated his clan's pure bloodline!

And now, he had even hidden some mysterious seductress in his home!

Unforgivable!

"Guards!"

Hiashi suddenly turned and roared toward the doorway!

"Swish! Swish! Swish!"

Several branch family elites who had long been waiting outside instantly dropped to one knee.

"Gather every elite jonin guard in the clan!"

Hiashi's voice was cold enough to pierce bone, every word thick with murderous intent.

"Come with me to Naruto Uzumaki's home!"

With his hands behind his back, he turned and strode outside. What he left behind was an incomparably cold back and a verdict overflowing with endless rage.

"I want to see exactly what kind of love potion he fed Hinata!"

"If I don't cripple him today, then I'll write the name Hyuga Hiashi backward!"

At his command, the entire Hyuga Estate instantly transformed into a precise war machine.

More than a dozen branch family jonin in standard combat uniforms, their Byakugan activated, silently gathered from every corner. Each wore a murderous expression as they followed behind Hiashi, forming a suffocating torrent that surged toward the village's rundown civilian apartment district to kill!