Chapter 55

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Chapter 55: I Achieved

Naruto's transformation brought some fun to Ryosuke's otherwise dull life. Apart from practicing, there were not many things that could interest him now. Even the encounters with the future pillars of Konoha in his class did not excite him anymore.

Compared to Naruto, who was influenced by him and exposed to the dark side early, everyone else, including Sasuke, seemed a little too naive. Whether in terms of strength, character, or behavior, they were somewhat childish.

Of course, this kind of naivety is still relative to this world. Despite his interest, Ryosuke always kept his distance from Naruto. And after realizing the significance of his existence to the village, Naruto also began to keep his distance from him and no longer took the initiative to contact him like before. He knew that if he got too close to Ryosuke, it would harm him instead. Because he is the head of the Hyuga family and represents the Hyuga clan.

However, keeping a distance from each other does not mean that there will be no contact. Sometimes it was a day, sometimes it was a week, Naruto would always find an opportunity to confide in Ryosuke and share his progress with him. Ryosuke could see that he was really lonely.

Compared to the carefree Naruto in the original work who would shamelessly get close to the crowd, this Naruto is obviously unwilling to put too much energy into socializing. He focuses more on self-improvement. This means that until now, his only friend is Ryosuke. Of course, because of Ryosuke, Hinata is pretty nice to him...

"This time... Hinata should win."

In the noisy training ground filled with the smell of sweat, there was only one place where no one approached. Thanks to the benefits brought by Naruto, Ryosuke doesn't have to squeeze together with a large group of people. And further away, on a flat ground, Hinata and Inuzuka Kiba stood facing each other.

"If Inuzuka Kiba continues like he did last time and doesn't make any progress, he will lose."

Ryosuke crossed his arms, staring at Hinata on the battlefield with a smile, while answering Naruto's questions. Although theoretically speaking, Hinata is much stronger than Inuzuka Kiba, after all, she has mastered the gentle fist and awakened the Byakugan, and is superior to her peers in all aspects of physical qualities and chakra.

But... a real battle is not just paper talk, and Ryosuke does not have much combat experience, so there is no way to directly judge the outcome from a brief confrontation. It had been a few months since he had returned to the village, and Hinata had already begun challenging boys in her grade. She did not choose those children from ordinary ninja families. Her target was set on the children of her family from the beginning.

However, Ryosuke did not stop this. This goal was correct. With her abilities, facing those ordinary children, she would definitely not gain or make any progress in the battle. But unfortunately... She did not win her first battle in the boys' group easily as Ryosuke expected. She spent several months grappling with her first target, Kiba Inuzuka.

Fortunately, Hinata's strong character allowed her to remain undeterred and she kept fighting despite repeated failures.

"The battle... begins!"

Next to him, the student acting as referee gave the order. Hinata opened her Byakugan directly and rushed towards Inuzuka Kiba. And Inuzuka Kiba was not afraid to engage in close combat with Hinata. He rushed forward like a sharp sword, with such momentum that he even ran a few points faster than Hinata. The two figures soon intersected in the center of the field, and rain-like palm strikes and fierce and sharp claw strikes collided with each other. The strong wind from the fists and feet made a whistling sound, blowing up the nearby dust. Facing the claw attacks that hit her body from time to time, Hinata suppressed the pain and fought back with an expressionless face.

Although the two people in front of him were fighting back and forth, this was the result of Hinata's hard work in the past few months. You have to know that when she challenged Inuzuka Kiba for the first time, she was knocked down in just a few rounds, and her gentle fist was of no use at all.

"It looks good. The technique is becoming more and more skilled, and the handling is becoming more and more calm."

Ryosuke chuckled at her actions and nodded in satisfaction. In the past few months, he felt that Hinata's gains might be much greater than those of several years of hard training. Inuzuka Kiba is not as weak as imagined, although due to his age, he has not yet mastered any family secrets, and even his ninja dog has not grown up.

But as someone who comes from a family, his strength and background are not much worse than Hinata's. The Inuzuka clan is a family that raises ninja dogs and fights alongside them. But this does not mean that their individual strength is weak. When they fight together with the ninja dogs, sometimes they can't be considered as one man and one beast, but rather... two ferocious beasts. 

Perhaps because they have been living with ferocious canine beasts for a long time, their physique has also gained the same innate advantages as the beasts. Whether in terms of strength or speed, they are much stronger than ordinary people, especially in terms of the five senses, which are almost the same as those of wild beasts, and the most powerful one is the sense of smell.

However, these factors are not the reason why Inuzuka Kiba was able to defeat Hinata in these few months. The most important point is that they have the instincts of wild beasts. Their fighting style mostly relies on this intuition. Driven by instinct, Inuzuka Kiba can avoid most of the gentle fist attacks and win by using the fighting style of exchanging injuries for injuries. His beast-like fighting instinct is exactly what Hinata lacks. Her nerve reaction speed is very slow, and she is always unable to react quickly when facing the enemy's counterattack. This lack of ninja and fighting talent means Hinata is unable to fully exert her strength in battle, so she can only rely on her own efforts and sweat to allow her muscles to form instinctive reactions and adapt her body to the battle.

This is a particularly stupid way. This is also the method most ordinary people would use. If you don't have talent, you can only make up for it with sweat. But this process is certainly effective. Hinata's foundation and abilities are no worse than those of Inuzuka Kiba. What she lacks is only a way to exert her power.

And these dozens of challenges over the past few months have made her adapt to Inuzuka Kiba's fighting rhythm. After each battle, she would launch more counterattacks little by little in the next battle. She had persisted hard until now and could fight back and forth with Inuzuka Kiba, and even...

"Eight trigrams, two palms!"

"Eight trigrams, four palms!"

"Eight trigrams, thirty-two palms!"

High-intensity, fast-paced battles are the Inuzuka clan's forte, and Hinata has memorized their rhythm with her muscles. When she kept up with this pace, when Inuzuka Kiba had not made much progress and had no new fighting methods, he could only lose.

The moment Inuzuka Kiba was not paying attention and was successfully entangled by Hinata's gentle fist, and had no time to recover from the injury, he had already lost. The gentle fist's palm strike landed on him fiercely, and the gentle fist chakra burst out from Hinata's hand, entering his body through various acupuncture points and invading his meridians. At first, his chakra was cut off. Then, the body began to become stiff and sluggish. When both chakra and speed changed, the outcome of the battle was decided.

A dull thumping sound was heard. Even though he kept biting his teeth and refusing to admit defeat, his body was so stiff that Inuzuka Kiba fell to the ground helplessly. Hinata won this battle. At the cost of a few months, she grew.

Hinata, who won the victory, stood in the training ground, panting, but did not enjoy the fruits of being a winner. Ignoring the cheers and congratulations from the people around her, she turned around and looked directly through the crowd to find Ryosuke who was standing at the back with Naruto. Eyes met. Neither of them spoke, but they smiled at the same time.

"I did it, Ryosuke."

It seemed that through this smile, Ryosuke heard Hinata's thoughts.

(End of this chapter)

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