The next day, the sun rose as usual.
Hyuga Yuto woke up early. Like young ninjas of his age, he would usually take a few days off after returning from a mission to enjoy the peaceful days in Konoha Village.
However, Hyuga Yuto got up before dawn. After a simple wash and taking a small bag of dry food, he left the clan grounds alone and came to the dense forest on the outskirts of the ninja village.
He walked familiarly to his secret training ground - a clearing surrounded by dozens of tall giant trees.
The clearing was not large and was quite remote. If one observed carefully, they would find that the ground in this woodland was extremely hard, like rock.
Hyuga Yuto took out a box from under a certain big tree and took out the contents: super-heavy wrist guards and plate armor, a special dummy with acupuncture points and meridians drawn on it, sealed drinking water, emergency bandages, and hemostatic medicine...
He put on heavy protective gear, tied metal blocks to each finger, took a few deep breaths, and began to practice in the dense forest.
He stepped, punched, activated his Byakugan, and used the Gentle Fist meticulously every time. The coordination of chakra and body movements was a profound knowledge. During practice, if the striking part deviated slightly, even by just one millimeter, Hyuga Yuto would punish himself with a blank expression and repeat the action a hundred times.
Over the years, the soft soil of this narrow woodland had been trampled by him to become harder than rock.
How did a Hyuga branch family boy who lost his parents earn the reputation of "Hyuga's Jewel"? It was nothing but one word , "Perseverance".
Every drop of sweat, every punch, pushed him one step closer to becoming stronger.
A stupid method is still a method.
However, even so, Hyuga Yuto could clearly feel that his progress had been getting slower and slower recently.
On the secret training ground, Hyuga Yuto suddenly jumped up, pounced on the dummy like a bird, his hands almost turning into a pool of water, destroying sixteen large acupoints on the dummy's chest and abdomen with lightning speed.
After Hyuga Yuto landed, he checked the dummy and sighed silently.
Of the sixteen holes in the dummy, only three were "drilled to the bone," and the remaining thirteen holes did not penetrate the dummy's heavy armor.
——His finger strength and hand strength were not "penetrating" enough, not "fierce" enough.
The so-called Gentle Fist was a direct attack technique using the body and chakra with the Byakugan as the core. To put it bluntly, it was actually a family-inherited kekkei genkai ninjutsu.
For ninjutsu, body training was an extremely important part.
Hyuga Yuto was certain that no one of his age in the village worked harder than him. Children couldn't put down all the food and fun to find hardship in the woods.
However, even though he had worked very hard, he hadn't made much progress in a long time.
——The talent of this body had been developed to its limit by him.
Hyuga Yuto had good physical conditions and a decent amount of chakra, making him a genius, but only at the level of an ordinary genius.
As time went on and his body grew, Hyuga Yuto would definitely become a Jonin, but it would be extremely difficult to go further.
With the branch family Byakugan, which had some of its abilities sealed and had a natural blind spot, Hyuga Yuto could not surpass Jonin and would not even be able to see the heels of a Kage-level ninja in his entire life.
The transmigrator used sweat and effort to shorten the time it took to "grow from a Genin to a Jonin," but absolute talent restricted his possibility of going further.
Unless... he obtained the training methods of other super ninjutsu and broke free from the shackles of the Byakugan and the Gentle Fist.
Flying Thunder God, Sage Mode, Edo Tensei, Wood Release... these famous ninjutsu or kekkei genkai were Hyuga Yuto's only hope to break through his own limits.
Otherwise, with just the Byakugan and the Gentle Fist, he would have no hope of revenge in his lifetime.
It should be known that even the Hyuga main family, whose Byakugan was not sealed and possessed the complete Gentle Fist secret technique, had not produced any other Kage-level powerhouses in all these years, except for the legendary "Hyuga Tennin".
"Don't worry... take it slow." Hyuga Yuto murmured in his heart and still completed his heavy training task for the day.
After finishing all the training tasks, eating all the dry food, and cleaning up the secret training ground, it was already evening.
Hyuga Yuto changed into clean clothes and returned along the original path.
After becoming a Genin, his life was very simple. He either went out of the village to do missions or came to the training ground to practice. It was very regular.
It was also because of this that he had few friends and not many people he could talk to.
Therefore, in the eyes of outsiders, although "Hyuga's Jewel" had a gentle personality and treated people well, he also had the aloofness of a genius and was not considered very easy to get along with.
On the way back to the village, Hyuga Yuto was not alone. People who had been busy with farming returned, and low-level ninjas who had gone out of the village to carry out missions also returned one after another. Although the major countries were constantly having friction during this period, the atmosphere inside Konoha Village was very peaceful and peaceful. People talked and laughed, and those who had seen Hyuga Yuto would greet him.
Of course, with the approaching Third Shinobi World War, Konoha Village would eventually be shrouded in a grim and tense atmosphere.
After entering the village, Hyuga Yuto headed towards the clan grounds, but he didn't expect that on this road, the famous trio from the manga suddenly appeared in his field of vision.
"Obito, you're late again!" Next to the street, in a fried dumpling shop, a pretty girl with purple markings on her cheeks widened her apricot eyes and scolded the boy who was running over.
"Rin, I'm sorry, I was wrong..."
The black-eyed boy wearing sunglasses and a sunny smile scratched the back of his head, sweating profusely as he apologized:
"I went to help an old lady cross the road..."
"That shouldn't have made you thirty minutes late!"
"And then I went to help the tofu seller draw water and bandage the injured kitten... I, I saw they were all so pitiful..."
"You! You!" Nohara Rin widened her apricot eyes, looking at Uchiha Obito's miserable appearance, wanting to scold him but also feeling reluctant. She could only turn to look at her handsome white-haired companion:
"You guys always make Kakashi and me wait so long. Next time you can go out and play by yourself!"
"Eh? Don't, Rin." Uchiha Obito shouted:
"What's our relationship? Classmates who have gone through life and death together! The most ironclad triangle in Konoha! We can't be missing anyone... Right, Kakashi?"
"Hmm?" The young Kakashi looked up in confusion:
"Rin, did a fly just fly in front of me?"
"Ahhhh Kakashi, you jerk, you're pretending again..."
Kakashi tilted his head to dodge Uchiha Obito's "neck hug" and saw Hyuga Yuto on the street.
He nodded slightly towards Hyuga Yuto as a greeting.
——Hyuga Yuto was one year older than Kakashi, and they were of similar age. When they were in the ninja school, they were often pulled out by the teacher to do physical technique demonstrations. They had become quite familiar with each other after going back and forth.
Hyuga Yuto smiled and greeted them warmly. They were all classmates, so they were not strangers.
"Yo! Yuto! You're working too hard! Come and try the takoyaki from this shop!"
Under the orange-red sunset, Uchiha Obito's voice was full of vitality, like an enthusiastic and unrestrained sun.