Hinata charged forward with both palms raised, using the Gentle Fist against Sai.
The ink lion Sai rode suddenly burst apart into splattering ink, which formed a black curtain around him.
Sai's ink was meant to block her vision, but this move was clearly useless against Hinata.
Hinata's Byakugan could see straight through the curtain of ink, her eyes firmly locked onto Sai's position.
The Byakugan is really troublesome... Sai thought.
Hinata passed through the ink, half her body stained black, and pressed a palm toward Sai's abdomen.
Since Sai wore a midriff-baring outfit, Hinata's palm was about to strike his waist.
Suddenly, Sai, who had taken her palm strike, melted into ink that spread all over the ground.
Hinata was startled. It seemed she had been careless.
The real Sai was riding an ink hawk as he swooped down from high above.
The Byakugan has a three-hundred-and-sixty-degree field of vision, but it cannot see far. If it sees far, it loses that three-hundred-and-sixty-degree field of vision. Sai thought. That counts as one of the Byakugan's flaws.
It turned out Sai knew that Hinata possessed the Byakugan. As a Root member, he had intelligence on Konoha's major clans.
Danzo Shimura had established Root under the banner of the Third Hokage, claiming it would help ANBU select more outstanding ninjas to serve the Third Hokage. Thus, he created the "ANBU Training Department."
In name, Root selected talented newcomers, trained them, and sent them into ANBU to serve the Hokage.
In reality, Root had become Danzo Shimura's private organization. Taking advantage of his position, Danzo Shimura scouted exceptional talents from Konoha's major clans and trained them as his assassins.
Because of this, Danzo Shimura understood the intelligence of Konoha Village's major clans, including the Hyuga Clan's Byakugan.
The Root organization Danzo Shimura