The Ninja Academy was the premier educational institution created by the Leaf Village to train the next generation of shinobi.
Essentially, every child in the village possessing even a shred of ninja talent would be sent here to study, and even grand clans like the Uchiha and Hyuga were no exception to the rule.
“Yo, it’s the monster again.”
“Demon fox freak.”
“If you’re such an omen of bad luck, why don’t you just lock yourself at home forever?”
It was the very first day of school for the incoming class, but Hinata only managed to hurry over to register after the morning lessons had already concluded.
Waking up starving in the middle of the night, she had snunk into the kitchen to hunt for food, only to get caught red-handed by a patrol ninja who immediately reported it to Hiashi.
That led to an endless, agonizing lecture at dawn, causing her to miss the opening ceremony entirely.
As she strolled past the main classroom building, the sound of raised voices caught her attention.
Looking up, she spotted three familiar figures surrounding a fourth child.
It was Naruto Uzumaki, flanked by the three clueless brats who had failed to recognize her Byakugan yesterday.
Hinata glanced around.
A handful of students were scattered across the courtyard, but most remained completely indifferent.
She even caught a few familiar faces among the crowd, watching from afar.
Hinata stared at the scene, her brows furrowing.
“Hold it right there!”
She marched forward, calling out in a loud, commanding voice.
Her shout instantly drew everyone’s attention.
The crowd, the three bullies, and Naruto all turned their heads toward her.
“It’s you?!”
The faces of the three brats paled the moment they recognized Hinata.
“It’s the violent monster girl!” Naruto blurted out, recognizing her in an instant.
“So it’s you three again!” Hinata walked toward them, cracking her knuckles with an unsparing look of eager anticipation written across her face.
“Isn’t that the heiress of the Hyuga Clan…?” someone in the crowd whispered, recognizing her pale eyes.
“Is Lady Hinata trying to help the demon fox?” another student speculated softly.
Hinata’s grand entrance certainly made it seem like she was stepping in to rescue Naruto.
Why else would she bother putting a stop to three bullies picking on him?
“You…”
Naruto stared at Hinata as she stepped into the sunlight, his face shifting from sheer disbelief to a flood of overwhelming emotion.
Sniff…
I knew it!
I knew yesterday the second I saw her—she really is a good person!
“Ah…
Lady Hyuga, we…”
Sweating profusely, the three brats backed away.
They hadn’t been able to win a three-on-one fight against her yesterday, and now, backed by the terrifying prestige of the Hyuga Clan, they had zero confidence.
You call this bullying?!
“Allow me to show you how it’s actually done!” Hinata declared, her face radiating righteous fury.
“…”
Wait, what?!
Isn’t Lady Hinata stepping in to stop people from picking on the demon fox?
Does she want to bully him herself?!
“Huh?”
The three brats froze in utter confusion at her words, but quickly wiped the panic off their faces to offer flattering grins.
“R-Right!
As expected of the Hyuga Clan…”
Damn it!
This vicious, violent monster girl is definitely not a good person!
The emotion on Naruto’s face vanished instantly, replaced by gnashing teeth and a furious glare locked onto Hinata.
“All four of you, come at me together!”
Hinata pointed a finger at the three bullies and Naruto, her expression completely indifferent.
Help Naruto?
Are you out of your mind?!
To completely obliterate any possibility of Naruto ever falling in love with her in the future, Hinata was fully committed to playing the absolute villain right to the end!
Since she couldn’t just kill him, she would forge the ultimate image of an unbeatable arch-nemesis!
If there was even a fraction of a percent chance of romantic affection blooming, Hinata would crush it into dust right now!
“…”
Everyone in the courtyard stared at Hinata in dead silence.
No one had expected that, simply because she thought those three idiots were doing a terrible job at bullying Naruto, she would take matters into her own hands.
And by the looks of it, she intended to fight all four of them at once?!
“What?” Hinata scoffed mockingly, staring at the blank expressions on the three brats.
“Yesterday you called me a white-eyed monster, and today you want to pretend nothing happened?
Do you think I’m that easy to fool?”
Ah, so that’s why.
The surrounding students instantly understood why Hinata was targeting those three.
“B-But…
but we…”
The leader of the three brats looked like he was about to cry.
If they had known yesterday that she was the heiress of the Hyuga Clan, why would they have ever dared to pick on her?
The smartest move back then would have been to run for their lives!
“Damn you, you violent monster girl!
Isn’t beating me up once enough?
You’re picking on me again!” Naruto yelled, fuming with rage.
“I was trying to help you yesterday!”
“What kind of nonsense are you babbling?
I just don’t like the look of your face.
What’s wrong with giving you a few extra beatings?” Hinata looked utterly nonchalant.
“Boss…
should we run?” one of the idiots whispered, sensing the impending disaster.
“We can’t run!” Naruto interjected, his brain spinning so fast it was practically smoking.
“We all go to school here!
You can run today, but you can’t hide forever!”
“Besides, there are four of us now!
Our odds of winning are way higher!”
“Let’s join forces and beat this violent monster girl together!!”
“Huh?”
The leader of the three brats found Naruto’s words surprisingly logical.
“I didn’t expect a fox-kid like you to actually come up with something smart,” the leader said, rapidly reassessing the situation.
Truth be told, the title of clan heiress didn’t carry that much deterrence for the average Leaf villager—after all, people had even dared to slander the White Fang to his face.
So why should they be terrified of a six-year-old girl from the Hyuga?
Well said!
“Let’s get her!”
Realizing Hinata wasn’t about to let them off the hook, the leader knew that only by fighting back, just as Naruto suggested, could they earn any peace in the future.
Three against one couldn’t win.
Could four against one really lose?!
“By the way, I’m A-Da!
What are your names?”
“A-Er.”
“A-San.”
“And I’m Naruto Uzumaki!”
As the saying goes, the enemy of my enemy is a friend.
The three bullies who had been picking on Naruto seconds ago instantly forged an ironclad alliance with him against their common foe.
“A-Da, A-Er, A-San?” Hinata grumbled, rolling her eyes.
“What kind of stupid names are those?
Where’s your princess?”
“Enough talk!
Take this!”
Without giving them another second to prep, Hinata charged forward!
“Damn it!”
“Don’t you dare underestimate our bond!”
Driven by sheer rage, A-Da was the very first to take Hinata’s fist straight to the face!
The force blasted him clean off his feet, sending him rolling across the dirt!
“Boss!”
“You witch, I’ll fight you!”
Seeing A-Da wiped out in a single hit, A-Er and A-San rushed forward without hesitation!
A-Er caught an open-palm strike straight to the stomach, while A-San’s rear end took the full force of a spinning whip kick.
In the blink of an eye, A-Da, A-Er, and A-San were all sprawling on the ground, groaning in agony.
“Damn it!”
“How dare you bully my crew!”
“This is our unbreakable bond!”
Seeing his new allies wiped out, Naruto flew into a complete rage.
Disregarding the massive gap in strength, he charged straight at Hinata!
And immediately caught a crisp spinning backkick squarely against his face!
Four against one—a total, absolute disaster!
“Like I said before,” Hinata dusted off her sleeves, looking down at the four groaning bodies on the snow-dusted ground.
“Go home and train for another hundred years!”