Chapter 10: Gentle Outwardly but Powerful Inwardly, Izayoi Brimming with the Feeling of Fulfillment
December 21, Konoha Year 54.
Unknowingly, the second semester was gone.
Throughout the semester, first-grade students had transformed quite a bit.
They had only culture and sports lessons in the first semester and no experience of battle, so they were exactly as they were upon enrolling at school for the first time.
The taijutsu fights that were introduced in the second semester helped them grow up through adversity, losing some of their innocence.
There was a side effect, however, that was teaching some students to use violence to solve problems.
Fights, brawls, and bullying infractions were a regular occurrence.
More importantly, the teachers and the school failed to step in.
Apparently, in their perception, cowardly people were not worthy of being ninjas.
Instead of being murdered upon completing missions after graduation, it was preferable to be bullied by their own men and drop out to lead a normal life.
Therefore, there were bullying instances that took place in each class and grade level, where poor students would bully excellent students.
Just like Uchiha Itachi in the past, just like Hyuga Neji, just like Uchiha Sasuke.
They all shared one thing, which was that they were handsome, geniuses, and aloof, and were highly popular among girls.
But they did not like joining or forming small groups, and seemed to look down on both boys and girls.
This lone wolf nature earned them the ire of many boys and made them want to teach them a lesson.
Unfortunately, all such bullying incidents were resolved, and even they got beaten up.
It was okay to be beaten up, but it was degrading that they could not beat one person, so many were.
Then they would also be bullied by the fan club of the other person, and be ostracized by girls from the same grade and class, and even be bullied by upper high school students.
Because of that, they hated these celebrity stars even more, and even hated people of the other person's clan.
For example, it snowed today.
Once the snow ceased to fall, Hinata, having the good fortune of being able to venture out as she pleased, stepped right out of the clan house and was prepared to wait for Izayoi at the old location.
Hinata had on a white snowman outfit and a red scarf wrapped around her neck, which made her look plump and very cute.
Six months later, Hinata's hair had been deliberately grown longer at Izayoi's recommendation, and now it reached to her shoulder.
She tied it up in pigtails using hair ropes, planning to modify her hairstyle when it reached to her waist.
Her small cute face was still chubby, slightly rosy in the snowy weather, and folks couldn't resist pinching it.
To avoid getting caught, Hinata did not knock on the door of Izayoi but headed to the open space beyond the ninja school and waited for Izayoi to come. This was their silent pact.
"Is that fellow Neji's relative?"
"White eyes, absolutely right."
"Let's go, let's give her a lesson!"
While Hinata was waiting for Izayoi, at the same time, she happened to overhear the conversation of some boys.
As she turned her head to the side, three boys, one or two years older than her, closed in on her.
Their faces were sporting sly smiles.
"Um. you have something?"
Hinata asked.
Her voice was very soft, but if you looked very closely, you'd notice that she didn't pull her head down but rather looked at the three boys with a puzzled face.
"What pesky eyes, just like Neji's!"
One of the boys looking at Hinata's eyes somehow recalled some awful memories and shouted loudly, "What're you staring at, white-eyed monster? You know that you insulted me? Get down on your knees and apologize to me!"
Hinata slightly bowed her head in bewilderment.
But at her cousin's name, she wondered and asked, "Are you friends with Neji-nii-san?"
"Who's Neji's friend?"
Without any hesitation, one of the other boys shouted loudly, "We are his enemies."
"Bend down hastily, shout sorry loudly, and apologize to us for Neji, or you'll get beat up!"
The last boy put out his hand to grab the shoulder of Hinata, and forced Neji's clansman to kneel and shame her.
Looking at the boy's outstretched hand, the eyes of Hinata changed instantaneously, and her little hand, with white gloves on it, stretched her index and middle fingers, and stuck them through the boy's chest at a faster speed.
"Ahh."
Though there were gloves on, Hinata's fingers were like silver needles, going through the thick winter clothes, and making the boy scream and sit on the ground.
Hinata also stabbed the remaining two boys at super-fast speed.
They also screamed and sat on the ground.
"It hurts, it hurts, wah."
They kept rubbing their chests, but the pain inside out did not subside at all.
Staring at Hinata in front of their eyes, they seemed to see Neji's form, just as powerful and condescending.
Then they were frightened and ran away.
Hinata, who naturally counterattacked, cocked her head again.
She didn't inject chakra into their bodies, but why were they crying?
With such strength, are they Neji-nii-san's enemies?
Clap clap clap.
A clap was reaching her ears at this moment.
Looking in the direction of the sound, Hinata's face immediately showed a happy expression.
"Izayoi-kun, you're here."
"Hinata, you were really cool just now."
Izayoi, also wearing a white snowman costume, came and thumbs-upped Hinata, saying, "You should be so firm when dealing with people who have ill intentions, or else they will just get more hostile and even have the ill habit of bullying others."
"Okay okay."
Hinata nodded again and again, very obedient.
Having seen her like that, Izayoi felt proud in her heart.
Hinata in the original narrative was bullied by schoolmates more than once.
It was very outrageous that the dignified eldest daughter of a wealthy family was bullied by some common boys.
What was even more outrageous was that Hinata had already started training Gentle Fist at that time.
Being bullied to tears like this was definitely a matter of personality.
But now it was Hinata who had bullied the bullies to tears, which meant that Izayoi's transformation had worked extremely well.
Through repeated beatings, her personality no longer stayed timid and cowardly but became unyielding and refused to give up easily.
She was still soft, but she would no longer present herself for others. She not only took out the enemy, but her counterattack became second nature.
Different from delinquent elder sister when it was Infinite Tsukuyomi, Hinata nowadays was hardened in her inner world but exhibited nothing but outer softness.
Izayoi would of course have pride in being able to reform Hinata so much within half a year.
But thank god, he reformed her that early. If he waited till Hiashi Hyuga and Neji Hyuga destroyed the soul of this girl, then it would be difficult to change her.
Hiashi Hyuga is highly in debt to Izayoi.
Freedom to go outside freely provided by Hinata was the final reward.
"Let's go, let's cultivate."
"Okay!"
Two children dressed up like snowmen headed to the ruined training ground.
(End of this chapter)
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