Chapter 511: Hinata Takes a Master
Konoha had repelled the invasion of the Sky Ninja and Pain, but not without suffering its own significant losses.
In this timeline, there was no Nagato to perform the Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique on the entire village. The dead were dead, and they weren't coming back.
Rebuilding the village, cleaning up the battlefield, and compensating the families of the deceased—all these tasks required people.
Even though Jiraiya had the thought of resigning and handing the Hokage title back to Minato Namikaze, and the two had even discussed it seriously several times, it couldn't be implemented immediately. At the very least, the village's reconstruction had to be completed before they could talk about resignation and succession.
Kakashi had used too much chakra during his use of Kamui. After the battle, he had collapsed and was once again sent to the Konoha Hospital.
With the head of the Jonin corps hospitalized and Advisor Koharu Utatane also hospitalized, the village's workload suddenly became immense.
Not only did Jiraiya and Shikaku have to deal with a mountain of work, but even Tsunade was drowned in a sea of documents.
As an advisor, Tsunade's position normally involved a lot of official duties.
Now that Koharu was hospitalized, many of the old woman's responsibilities had also fallen on Tsunade's shoulders.
For three consecutive days, Tsunade didn't have a single drink. Shizune would periodically bring in huge stacks of documents for her to handle. For the first two days, she would still look at the contents, but later, just the sight of words gave her a headache. She stopped reading them and would just grab her seal and stamp, stamp, stamp a red seal on them, and that was that.
"So boring..." she muttered, propping her chin on one hand and looking out the window, while her other hand stamped documents reflexively.
Koharu, who was discharged after only two days of rest, saw her work attitude and gave her another scolding. Ino didn't even pay the old hag any mind, let alone Tsunade. She didn't even give her a proper look, just grunted in response.
"Oink, oink?" Tonton had a basket hanging from his neck, filled with Tsunade's favorite sweet bean jelly.
Seeing that her pet pig had bought back her favorite food, Tsunade waved her hand magnanimously. "One-hour break!"
"Sigh..." Her assistant, Shizune, let out a heavy sigh. Thank goodness Lady Tsunade isn't the Hokage. If she were, with such a perfunctory work attitude, Konoha would be doomed!
In Tsunade's office, Ino met Koharu Utatane and received some rather strange news.
Ino frowned. "Wait, wait, old lady. Maybe it's the recent stress, but my hearing is a bit off. I didn't quite catch what you said. Could you say it again?"
Koharu didn't even glance at her. "I am older than your grandmother. You will use a respectful title."
This isn't the time when you were making me feed pigs and pull weeds, and desperately trying to block my promotion to Jonin, is it?
Ino didn't actually have any major conflict with Koharu, but the two were just naturally incompatible. The old woman had always suppressed her, but with Ino's growing strength and status, as long as she didn't defect, any administrative measures against her were useless.
Tsunade watched the show from the side with a grin.
Shizune coughed quietly, signaling Ino to give the advisor some face. The woman was old, and she had just rendered a great service to Konoha. Don't drive her to her deathbed with anger.
Ino picked her ear. "Alright, alright, my respected old Advisor-sama. What did you say about Hinata just now?"
Koharu's triangular eyes glanced at her. Calling me advisor is fine, Advisor-sama is also fine. What's this 'old Advisor-sama'? I'm not old at all!
"I am preparing to take Hinata as my disciple."
"Cough, cough, cough—!" Ino choked on her own saliva and coughed repeatedly. Tonton climbed onto the table and patted her back with his hoof in concern.
Ino coughed for half a minute, then looked at the old woman with a strange expression. "No... out of the blue, why have you taken a fancy to Hinata?"
Koharu snorted. "Hinata is a piece of beautiful jade, and you two fools are incapable of teaching her."
The old woman's finger swept over, including the still-eating Tsunade.
Ino and Tsunade exchanged a look, and both saw the confusion in each other's eyes.
The old woman continued, "I admit that your combat ability, Ino Yamanaka, is astonishing. 'Rising star of the ninja world' is not enough to describe your strength. But you don't know how to teach, and you can't teach Hinata. Only I can teach her."
When it came to Hinata, Ino also got serious. "I've taught Hinata ninjutsu, genjutsu, sealing jutsu, and some taijutsu, but the results were not good. How do you plan to teach her?"
The old woman pointed out the key problem. "Hiashi Hyuga's way of raising Hinata is completely wrong. And your training method of grabbing at everything, trying to teach her everything, is even more foolish. Hinata does not have your exceptional talent. When she encounters something she can't do, she can only feel lost."
The old woman slowly walked out of the office. "I am not here to ask for your opinion, just to inform you."
Ino thought it over and, in the end, did not stop her.
When Hinata asked for her opinion, she rarely said a few good words about the old woman.
I really don't know how to help Hinata train. Maybe the old woman has a better way?
Two days later, in the presence of the Fifth Hokage, Jiraiya, and Homura Mitokado, Hinata formally became Koharu Utatane's direct disciple.
Hinata's seniority shot up like a rocket.
Ino was even less worried about Hinata and Naruto getting together now. Good heavens, from the Hokage's lineage, Hinata could now call Jiraiya her martial brother and Tsunade her martial sister. Ino and Minato Namikaze were both her martial nephews, and Naruto, let alone him, he was of the grandson generation...
Another two days passed.
When Ino was bringing food to Hinata, she finally saw the old woman Koharu's training method.
The old woman had Hinata temporarily stop practicing the Hyuga clan's Thirty-Two Palms and Sixty-Four Palms. The messy things Ino had taught her were also to be stopped. She was to focus solely on practicing the Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm.
She would only practice this one palm. Once she had mastered it, she would add another palm, becoming the Eight Trigrams Twin Vacuum Palm, and then gradually increase the difficulty, but never exceeding eighteen palms.
Ino understood. This was the same principle as Hong Qigong teaching Guo Jing. Don't practice the complex things, and don't practice the too-basic things. Just hammer away at the Eighteen Dragon-Subduing Palms, and eventually, you'll achieve enlightenment on your own.
Hinata was not smart, and she had major personality issues. But her aptitude with the Byakugan was extremely high. After a period of hard training like this, in Ino's eyes, her strength was indeed improving rapidly.
The Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm was a long-range attack that used the palm to release a high-density chakra palm strike from a distance.
Once this move was mastered, it could also be used in close combat.
If this move were to be developed in its current direction, to its ultimate form, what would it be? It would be Kaguya Ōtsutsuki's Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack.
The old woman Koharu Utatane had certainly never seen Kaguya Ōtsutsuki, let alone known about the Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack. But the old woman had seen at a glance that the Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm was very suitable for Hinata. Even Ino had to admit, that old hag had a good eye.
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