Seeing Naruto's incredulous expression, Hanabi Hyuga grew a little anxious and threw a tantrum on his bed.
"Dead last, I'm not joking. The more I train, the more I forget!"
Naruto came back to his senses and smiled. "No, Hanabi. I was stunned by your talent. Sure enough, Hinata was right—compared to Neji, your talent is no less impressive, perhaps even greater!"
"Huh?" Hanabi Hyuga froze, looking a little adorably blank.
Naruto explained, "The ninjutsu, taijutsu, and genjutsu we shinobi use are all processed by the brain, then fed back to the body through thought."
"Mhm..." Hanabi Hyuga sat at the edge of the bed, gently swinging her little feet as she listened intently.
Naruto suddenly moved, forming a Rasengan in his hand and launching it at Hanabi Hyuga. He was so fast that she had never expected him to attack her without warning.
Yet Hanabi Hyuga's body moved on its own. Her slender arm knocked aside Naruto's arm, then she shoved forward, sending both of them tumbling onto the floor.
After rolling to her feet, Hanabi Hyuga immediately assumed a Bagua Palm stance and aimed it at Naruto, who had just gotten back up.
"Gentle Fist Art: Eight Trigrams Thirty-Two Palms!"
Naruto hurriedly condensed a golden chakra tail around himself for protection. Hanabi Hyuga's Bagua Palm strikes all landed on his golden chakra cloak.
After finishing all thirty-two palms, Hanabi Hyuga looked at Naruto with a wronged expression, as if she would cry if he did not explain himself properly. "Naruto, what are you doing? Why did you suddenly appear beside me and ambush me? Did I do something to make you hate me? Just tell me, and I'll change. Don't suddenly act like this..."
"No, impossible. How could I ever hate you, Hanabi? I was just demonstrating something