Like Neji, Hinata had also been pondering Takasaki's matter the entire way.
Even after arriving at the training room with Neji and changing into her training clothes in the changing room, her mind was still occupied with Takasaki's previous actions.
"Since Takasaki has already learned the Three Body Technique, why did he ask to borrow my class notes?"
"Why did he specifically come to my residence, wanting me to teach him the Three Body Technique?"
Even up to the moment before sparring with Neji, Hinata still hadn't figured out these two questions.
Oh, right, Takasaki wrote in his diary… Takasaki likes her.
Hinata seemed to suddenly remember something, her cheeks instantly flushed crimson, and she was so shy that she kept her head down even when she arrived at the training room, as if afraid others would see her embarrassed expression.
Takasaki must like her, otherwise, he wouldn't have written in his diary that he hoped to marry her in the future.
Just thinking about this made Hinata inexplicably happy.
However, as soon as she thought that Takasaki also wanted to marry other girls, Hinata felt strange.
She even felt a little annoyed.
Takasaki's affection for girls was clearly not exclusive.
It was quite infuriating.
If she wasn't afraid that Takasaki would write something bad about her in his diary, she would have wanted to beat him up just for his philandering thoughts.
At the same time.
Neji, who was standing ten steps away from Hinata, preparing to spar with her, saw Hinata first looking shy, then with a hint of anger, and couldn't help but ask, "Hinata, it's sparring time now, don't get distracted thinking about random things! Please focus, treat me as your enemy and don't hold back, I can handle all your attacks."
"Okay!"
Hinata looked up, her gaze fixed on Neji, and took a stance with her hands.
Thinking about Takasaki's philandering recorded in his diary still made her uncontrollably angry.
So, she imagined Neji as Takasaki.
It was a good opportunity to test how much her strength had improved after the diary increased her Chakra amount by 10%.
Hinata closed her eyes, formed a few hand seals, and then opened her tightly shut eyes.
"Byakugan!"
The blood flow in Hinata's body suddenly accelerated, especially the rapid blood flow in her eyeballs, which caused the veins around her eye sockets to bulge noticeably.
With the Byakugan activated, Hinata bent her knees and extended her arms, taking a stance.
After imagining Neji as that philandering Takasaki, Hinata appeared full of fighting spirit.
She extended one arm, her palm facing forward in an attacking posture towards Neji, while her other palm hovered in front of her chest, in a defensive stance: "Neji-nii-san, let's have a match!"
Hyuga Hiashi's figure appeared at the entrance of the reception room, watching Hinata and Neji spar.
To be precise, he was watching Hinata.
His expression was a little somber.
Normally, Hyuga Hiashi would be working at this time, handling various clan affairs, and would not specifically come to watch his daughter's sparring session.
The key was that he had previously received a report from a clan member saying that Hinata had brought a classmate named Takasaki to the reception room, treated him to barbecue, and personally tutored him.
This delayed her sparring time with Neji, causing Neji to fly into a rage and kick Takasaki out of the Hyuga Residence.
When he learned about this, he felt that Neji had done the right thing.
It wasn't that he didn't allow Hinata to bring classmates home; it was just that the classmate Hinata brought was utterly useless.
He had no parents, no family background to speak of, and was destined to be mediocre in the future.
It wasn't that Hyuga Hiashi looked down on children from poor families.
Children from poor families should work even harder to make a way for themselves, because only they can help themselves.
But what about Takasaki?
He was usually lazy in his studies, seemingly still not over the pain of his parents' deaths, which made him the class's dead last.
Given this, why should Hinata associate with him?
Especially when he learned that the content Hinata was teaching Takasaki was the Three Body Technique, Hyuga Hiashi felt it was a complete waste of time.
Next Monday was the Ninja Academy's final exam, and Takasaki, who usually didn't study hard, was now trying to cram by asking his daughter to teach him the Three Body Technique?
If he had known about this before Neji, he would have done the same as Neji and directly kicked Takasaki out!
To prevent this from happening again, he felt it was necessary to give Hinata some ideological education.
He came this time wanting to have a good talk with Hinata, to make her realize that her status was different from most of her classmates.
They were not in the same social class at all.
After graduating from the Ninja Academy, those classmates whose backgrounds didn't match hers, unless their talent was truly astonishing, there was no need to keep in touch, especially that classmate named Takasaki.
The main goal was to correct Hinata's mindset.
If her mindset wasn't right, no amount of sparring or improvement would be useful.
Hyuga Hiashi was about to speak up and interrupt Hinata and Neji's sparring when Hinata already made her move.
She stomped her foot on the ground, took a step, and quickly rushed towards Neji.
"Hinata is actually taking the initiative to attack today in sparring?" Neji didn't notice the clan leader's arrival; his attention was entirely on Hinata, and he was quite surprised.
According to Hinata's usual timid nature, she never dared to attack first in sparring.
But it didn't matter.
With his strength, defeating Hinata was as easy as flipping a hand.
Just like now, facing Hinata's incoming palm strike, Neji had no intention of dodging, merely instinctively raised his palm, gathering inner strength to meet the blow.
First, he would neutralize the force of Hinata's palm, then counterattack, ending the battle within a minute, just as he usually did when sparring with Hinata.
But in the next second.
Bang!
A numbing sensation spread from his palm throughout his entire arm.
Neji felt a powerful force, following Hinata's palm, strike fiercely into his body.
It was truly unexpected.
Neji didn't have time to make another move; the Chakra flow in his body was disrupted, and he stumbled back seven or eight steps before firmly regaining his balance, preventing himself from falling.
"How is that possible!"
Neji raised his hand and looked at his palm, which was completely red.
He quickly channeled Chakra to prevent the numbing sensation from spreading up his arm.
Neji's eyes were filled with shock: "I couldn't defend against Hinata's palm strike? Have I become weaker?"
The next second, he realized something.
Neji suddenly looked up at Hinata, his expression becoming more serious than ever: "It's not that I've become weaker, but that Hinata has become stronger!"
At the training room entrance.
Hyuga Hiashi, who was about to speak and interrupt Hinata's sparring, was first stunned when he saw this scene, then swallowed the words he was about to say.
Hinata actually managed to push Neji back seven or eight steps with one palm?
Such a situation, let alone Neji, even he, as the Hyuga clan leader, found it unbelievable.
He understood how astonishing Neji's talent was, and also how great the gap was between Hinata and Neji.
In the past, such a situation would have been impossible.
In other words, his daughter has become stronger?
Hyuga Hiashi patiently continued to watch Hinata.
Originally, he only wanted to teach Hinata not to associate with dead last like Takasaki in the future, but now he felt that, in addition to that, it was also necessary to ask Hinata how she had become so much stronger in such a short time.
…
At this moment, Takasaki had already returned home.
After his Chakra fully recovered, he continued to grind Ninjutsu proficiency, exhausting all his Chakra.
He opened the control panel to check his current Ninjutsu proficiency.
[Level 3 Clone Technique Proficiency: 0 / 500]
[Level 1 Substitution Technique Proficiency: 2 / 100]
[Level 1 Transformation Technique Proficiency: 2 / 100]
"The Clone Technique proficiency has finally reached Level 3."
Takasaki formed a hand seal with one hand, and four white smoke clouds appeared around him.
As the smoke dissipated, four clones identical to him appeared.
This far exceeded the requirements for the Clone Technique assessment during the Ninja Academy's Ninjutsu test.
Takasaki was currently mainly training the proficiency of the Clone Technique.
He actually really wanted to increase the proficiency of the other two Ninjutsu as well, but the key was that he didn't have enough Chakra.
He could only focus on improving one first.
Moreover, only when the Clone Technique reached Level 3 could he unlock the writing permission for the next diary entry.
Overall, Takasaki felt that his rate of grinding Ninjutsu was still a bit slow.
The main reason was his low total Chakra amount and high Chakra consumption for Ninjutsu.
Even though Takasaki's Chakra consumption for these three Ninjutsu had already been reduced by one-third through Hinata's guidance.
The problem was that if the total Chakra amount didn't increase, the speed of leveling up Ninjutsu would still be slow.
How to increase total Chakra amount?
According to the methods of normal Ninja, it was through diligent training, day after day, year after year.
His current total Chakra amount was 20 points; with 10 years of diligent training, accumulating little by little, his total Chakra amount might double.
However, Takasaki clearly did not intend to use the methods of normal Ninja.
Why wouldn't he use his cheat?
He specifically went to see Hinata today, not only to have Hinata teach him how to improve the Chakra efficiency of the Three Body Technique, but also to accumulate material for his diary entries.
Takasaki had a thought, opened his diary, and tried to casually scribble a few lines in it.
After discovering that the diary permission had been unlocked, he then confidently wrote the second diary entry.