Sitting on the picnic cloth, the three ate the boxed lunch Ino brought.
"Tomorrow is the graduation exam day, Hinata, are you confident?" Ino asked suddenly.
"Well, I am confident."
Hinata nodded and said softly.
For more than two years, Hinata has actually been secretly practicing with Ryosuke.
Almost two and a half years ago.
It was at the end of the year before that Ryosuke accidentally found Hinata sitting by the river in a daze, so he went over to chat with her for a while.
Later, he found out that it was because Hinata was scolded by her father again, so she was a little depressed, and she ran out to relax.
As a result, she accidentally ran to the outskirts of the village while walking.
Ryosuke had a long chat with Hinata that day.
That was the first time the two of them had spoken so much.
Hinata herself is not a talkative person, and she easily gets shy at every turn, and even faints when she is too shy.
So before at school, Ryosuke only occasionally said a few words to Hinata, or said hello.
It was also after that time that Ryosuke persuaded Hinata to let her practice with him when she had time, and he would also guide her in taijutsu training.
According to Hinata's personality, she would definitely be embarrassed to agree.
Even if she had this idea in her heart, she would refuse it because she didn't want to trouble Ryosuke.
But who made Ryosuke have the talent entry of "King of Mouth Release"?
After a few words, Hinata was directly convinced by him.
Without even thinking about it, she agreed.
After that, Hinata would come out to practice with Ryosuke two or three days a week, and Ryosuke also took this opportunity to subtly change Hinata's personality.
A person's character is not innate.
It is closely related to the environment in which they grow up.
Hinata is still young, and to be honest, her character has not yet been fully formed.
At this time, Ryosuke used his power of persuasion to instill his thoughts into her over and over again, making Hinata unknowingly change into his ideal version of her.
Now more than two years have passed.
Hinata has indeed undergone quite a change in character.
She is no longer as shy as she used to be.
Although, she is still quite introverted, and not very talkative, at least in front of close people like Ryosuke and Ino, she has begun to relax.
Whatever thoughts she has in her heart, she expresses them boldly.
In addition, after more than two years of training, Hinata's strength has also been greatly improved.
More than a month ago, she had already successfully learned Eight Trigrams: Sixty-Four Palms, and even the Hyuga family's unique skill Revolving Heaven has been successfully displayed.
According to Ryosuke's evaluation of her, in terms of strength, she has reached the level of a Chūnin.
Despite having little combat experience, she will not lose to most taijutsu type Chūnin.
In contrast, Ino's strength improvement is not as great as that of Hinata, but she herself is not too keen on this aspect.
Hinata is motivated because she wants to become stronger, and prove her determination.
That's why Ryosuke let her practice with him.
The situation with Ino is different. Her parents are very good to her, and there are no strict requirements.
As long as she can learn her family's secret techniques, they hardly care about Ino's performance.
Therefore, Ino has also developed a character that is not keen on training.
But no matter what, Ryosuke will chose to support her ideas.
After all, whether it's Hinata or Ino.
They all belong to Ryosuke, there is no distinction between who is more important.
...
"I almost forgot, tomorrow is the day of the graduation exam."
If Ino didn't say it, Ryosuke would have almost forgotten.
During this time, he was so absorbed in his training that he almost forgot the time.
He vaguely remembered that Iruka seemed to be talking about the graduation exam yesterday.
But Ryosuke was wandering and looking in the sky at the time and he did not hear clearly.
"The graduation exam content should be the Clone Technique." Ryosuke thought to himself.
Although the memory of his previous life had been awakened more than two years ago, his memory of the plot of Naruto had not faded with the passage of time, but had become clearer.
This is mainly because the spiritual power of Ryosuke has been greatly improved with the development of Sharingan, so the memory of the past has become more and more clear, and has not gradually faded over time.
"But this time, Naruto will not need to steal the Scroll of Seals." Ryosuke thought with a smile.
For more than two years, Naruto has been practicing hard, and has completely given up using pranks to attract attention.
Therefore, a mere Clone Technique assessment would not trouble him at all.
He just didn't know, if Naruto graduates successfully, how will our dear Third Hokage build a good relationship with Naruto?
Would he just give a ninjutsu scroll containing the multiple Shadow Clone Technique as a gift?
As for telling Naruto to deliberately fail the exam?
Ryosuke is not that bored.
Doing this will only yield him the Scroll of Seals which is unlikely to be the real deal.
Either it would be tampered with, or it would simply be a counterfeit.
There is a high probability that there is only one multiple Shadow Clone Technique in there.
After all, with such an important thing as the Scroll of Seals, Sarutobi Hiruzen wouldn't mess around.
Even if there is only a 0.01% chance of an accident, he will not take the risk.
And, neither Naruto nor Mizuki have actually seen the Scroll of Seals.
Facing a few people who have never seen the real Scroll of Seals, why use the real one?
Just replace it with a fake one.
As for the fake Scroll of Seals, Ryosuke doesn't like it either.
Naturally, he is too lazy to do this.
"Really, Iruka-sensei didn't say in advance what the test will be tomorrow. Would he let us fight those official Genin? I heard that the former students' graduation assessment was to fight with an official Genin."
Ino talked about the gossip that she had got from somewhere unknown.
"Don't worry abou the test. At most, it'll be just a test of the Three Basic Techniques."
Ryosuke directly revealed the correct answer to them, lest they guess here and scare themselves.
"Testing the Three Basic Techniques?"
Both Ino and Hinata looked at Ryosuke in surprise. Obviously they didn't expect the exam to be so easy.
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