Chapter 56 I Did It

Naruto's change has brought some fun to Ryosuke's dull life.

Apart from training, there are not many things that can interest him now.

Even the contact with the future pillars of Konoha in the class did not arouse his interest.

Compared with Naruto, who was influenced by him and was exposed to the dark side in advance, other people, including Sasuke, seemed a little too naive.

Whether in terms of strength, personality, or behavior, they are a little childish.

Of course, this childishness is still relative to this world.

However, although he was interested, Ryosuke always kept a distance from Naruto.

And Naruto, after realizing the significance of his existence to the village, also began to keep a distance from him and no longer took the initiative to contact him like before.

He knew that if he was too close to Ryosuke, it would hurt him.

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 all the time.

Sometimes it is a day, sometimes it is a week, Naruto always finds 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 book who would shamelessly get close to the crowd, this Naruto was obviously unwilling to put too much energy on socializing, and he paid more attention to improving himself.

And this means that until now, his friend has always been only Ryosuke.

Of course, because of Ryosuke, Hinata is also quite nice to him...

"This time... Hinata should win."

In the noisy and sweaty training ground, there was only one place where no one approached.

Ryosuke relied on the benefits brought by Naruto and did not have to squeeze with a lot of people.

And in a place farther away, with the flat ground as the fighting environment, Hinata and Inuzuka Kiba stood opposite each other.

"If Inuzuka Kiba is still the same as last time, without any progress, he will lose."

Ryosuke crossed his arms, smiled and stared at Hinata on the battlefield, while answering Naruto's questions.

Although Hinata is theoretically much stronger than Inuzuka Kiba, after all, she has mastered the soft fist and awakened the Byakugan, and is superior to her peers in terms of physical qualities and chakra.

But... real fighting is not just a matter of talking, and Ryosuke's combat experience is not rich, so there is no way to directly judge the outcome from a short battle.

A few months have passed since he returned to the village, and Hinata has begun to challenge boys of the same grade.

She did not choose those children from ordinary ninja families. Her goal was set on the children of the family from the beginning.

However, Ryosuke did not stop this. This goal was correct. With her ability, she would never gain or make any progress in the battle against those ordinary children.

But unfortunately...

She did not easily win her first battle in the boys' group as Ryosuke thought. She was entangled with the first target, Inuzuka Kiba, for several months.

Fortunately, because of Hinata's strong character, she was not discouraged, and she fought and failed again and again.

"The battle... begins!"

The student who was acting as the referee gave the order.

Hinata opened her Byakugan directly and rushed towards Inuzuka Kiba.

And Inuzuka Kiba was not afraid of a close combat with Hinata. He rushed forward like a sharp sword, and even ran a few points faster than Hinata.

The two figures soon crossed in the center of the field, and the rain-like palm strikes and fierce claw strikes collided with each other.

The strong wind from the fists and feet whistled, blowing up the nearby dust.

Facing the claw strikes that hit her from time to time, Hinata suppressed the pain and fought back expressionlessly.

Although the two people in front of her fought back and forth, this was the result of Hinata's hard work in the past few months.

You know, when she first challenged Inuzuka Kiba, she was knocked down in a few rounds, and her soft fist was useless.

"Looks good, the technique is getting more and more skilled, and the response is getting calmer."

Ryosuke chuckled at her movements and nodded with satisfaction.

In the past few months, he felt that Hinata's gains might be much greater than several years of hard training.

Inuzuka Kiba is not as weak as imagined, although due to his age, he has not mastered any family secrets, and even his ninja dog has not grown up.

But as a family, his strength and foundation are not much worse than Hinata.

The Inuzuka clan is a family that raises ninja dogs and fights with them.

But this does not mean that their single strength is weak.

When they fight with ninja dogs, sometimes they can't be regarded as one person and one beast, but should be said to be... two beasts.

Perhaps because they have been mixed with the ferocious canine beasts for a long time, their clan has the same innate advantages as the beasts in terms of physique.

Whether in terms of strength or speed, they are 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 can defeat Hinata in the past few months.

The most important point is that their clan has the instinct of wild beasts.

Their fighting style is mostly based on this intuition.

Driven by instinct, Inuzuka Kiba can avoid most of the soft fist attacks and win by using the method of exchanging injuries for injuries.

His beast-like fighting instinct is exactly what Hinata lacks.

Her nerve reaction speed is very slow, and she can never react quickly when facing the enemy's counterattack.

This lack of ninja and fighting talent makes Hinata unable to exert her own strength in battle, so she can only rely on her own efforts and sweat to make her muscles form instinctive reactions and let her body adapt to the battle.

This is a particularly stupid way.

It is also the way most ordinary people will use.

Without talent, you can only rely on sweat to make up for it.

But this process is certainly effective. Hinata's own foundation and ability are not inferior to Inuzuka Kiba. What she lacks is the way to exert her strength.

And the challenge of more than a dozen times in the past few months has made her adapt to Inuzuka Kiba's fighting rhythm.

After each battle, she can launch more counterattacks little by little in the next battle. She has tried hard to persist until now and can 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 specialty of the Inuzuka clan, and Hinata has memorized their rhythm with her muscles.

When she keeps up with this rhythm, when Inuzuka Kiba has not made great progress and has no new fighting methods.

He can only lose.

When Inuzuka Kiba was not careful and was successfully entangled by Hinata's soft fist, and he had no time to change his injuries, he had already lost.

The soft fist strike landed on him fiercely, and the soft 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, his body began to become stiff and slow.

When the chakra and speed changed, the outcome of this battle was determined.

"Plop."

A dull collision sounded.

Even though he had been biting and not admitting defeat, the stiffness of his body made Inuzuka Kiba fall to the ground helplessly.

In this battle, Hinata won.

At the cost of several months, she grew up.

Standing in the training ground panting, Hinata, who won the victory, did not enjoy the fruits of being a winner.

Ignoring the cheers and congratulations of the people around her, she turned around, looked directly through the crowd, and found Ryosuke standing at the back with Naruto.

Their eyes met.

Neither of them spoke, but they smiled at the same time.

"I did it, Ryosuke."

It seems that through this smile, Ryosuke heard Hinata's inner voice.

Thanks to the book friends Four Days of Sunset and Shark Dinner for their support.