Something very unusual happened at the Hyuga clan compound today — their little princess was walking around leisurely with Konoha's Troublemaker.
That wasn't even the strangest part. The key point was that Nayou, who normally had such a cold demeanor in everyone's eyes, was actually chatting and laughing all the way with this Uchiha brat.
"Nayou, do you think I should hire some bodyguards now?" Shen asked.
"Bodyguards? Why would you need those?"
"I'm Konoha's Troublemaker after all. There are quite a few enemies in this village," Shen said seriously, presenting a hypothetical scenario. "If I don't take proper precautions, you might find it difficult to see me again in the future."
"Why is that?" Nayou's voice carried some urgency, as if she thought this person was going to cast her aside for someone new again.
Shen raised his eyebrows, staring intently into her eyes, "Because you don't know which tree I'll be hanging from."
Then he widened his eyes dramatically, stuck out his tongue slightly, and let his head loll to one side like a hanged man.
"Pfft." Nayou couldn't hold back her laughter while shaking all over.
However, she quickly covered her mouth with her small hands and returned to her usual icy demeanor, pretending nothing had happened just now.
"You laughed! Hahaha, I won!" Shen announced his victory.
"No, you were seeing things earlier." Trying to maintain her expression, Nayou felt she hadn't lost.
The two had made a bet about whether Shen could make the Little Iceberg laugh, with the winner allowed to ask one favor from the loser.
Shen drooped his entire body dejectedly. "Okay, I guess I did see things wrong just now."
Seeing him admit this, Nayou couldn't help but reveal a smug little smile.
This genuine smile made Shen declare victory again. "I won! Hahaha!"
In an instant, the number of Byakugan eyes watching Konoha's Troublemaker jumped from more than thirty pairs to nearly two hundred.
When the Hyuga clanspeople heard this maniacal laughter and recognized Konoha's Troublemaker, they instinctively activated their Byakugan and silently followed behind.
Would Nayou admit defeat? Not in a million years.
But after more than a year, she had come to understand many of her own issues.
She believed that it was because Shen's new friend had such a lively personality that made her lose her edge.
Therefore, she decided that from now on, she'd try to chill out more around friends instead of always trying to win.
Only one person in the entire Konoha — scratch that, the entire world — got this kind of treatment from her.
Nayou solemnly bowed deeply to her only friend. When she stood up again, her face was full of smiles. "Shen, thank you for always taking care of me and giving so much. You're... a good person."
Shen was feeling great — until she said those dreaded words: "good person." That instantly soured his mood.
"Did I really just get *the* Nice Guy Card?"
A real man doesn't cry easily, and Shen vowed to treat this as a wake-up call — never again would he let himself get handed the Nice Guy Card.
"That doesn't make sense," he muttered to himself. "Would anyone in the Naruto world understand this reference?" He suddenly remembered — this wasn't his original world.
Within mere seconds, Nayou witnessed a complete transformation — from sorrow, to determination, to relentless perseverance, and finally to an energetic, cheerful state.
She couldn't wrap her head around how this person's mind worked. What kind of brain wiring could make someone so dramatically emotional?
Shen, now fully recovered, said with a meaningful pause, "Nayou, you must never call me a good person again. It might lead to something serious."
"???" Nayou looked confused. She didn't understand what he meant at all.
"You're a good person," Shen paused dramatically, implying more than just a compliment.
Ignoring his strange look, she asked, "So what?"
"You have to promise not to get angry first," warned Shen. After preparing himself for a quick escape, he continued, "Though you're a good person, we're just incompatible."
"???"
After a moment of silence, Nayou finally caught on to his meaning.
"Shen Uchiha! Come back here and explain yourself!" she immediately chased after that distant black figure who was getting farther away.
The Hyuga clan members who overheard this conversation were gritting their teeth in fury at Shen Uchiha.
"That puny Uchiha actually rejected our young mistress' confession? Does he have a death wish?"
"Forget that he's the 'Konoha Troublemaker' — I'll tie him up right at our clan compound entrance today!"
"Hurry up and chase them! If anything happens to our young mistress' hair, the clan leader will hang us first!"
"Brothers, you go ahead first while I notify others to join us."
"Alright, remember to bring more people. This guy isn't easy to deal with."
So, the Hyuga clan members started rallying up, getting ready to teach that notorious Konoha Troublemaker a lesson.
At the training ground within the Hyuga clan compound, Nisai was practicing alone when two figures dressed in black and white suddenly barged in, startling him.
Seeing that she had chased her target all the way to the training ground, Nayou without hesitation threw a small punch forward.
Shen, who hadn't exercised in quite some time, immediately activated his Sharingan and dodged the attack by shifting his body sideways.
Then he took a step back, assuming the starting posture of Wing Chun martial arts.
"Here we go!" shouted Nayou as she launched a straight punch toward him, channeling chakra within her body for the next strike.
Shen raised his arm to block the incoming punch. With the perception granted by his Sharingan, he stepped aside to evade the following Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm technique.
After landing, he calmly defended against Nayou's successive thirty-two palm strikes, even having enough capacity left to analyze which part of his body might be attacked next.
"This is the power of a Chunin?" Nisai stared blankly at the intense Taijutsu clash occurring before his eyes.
He realized he couldn't even begin to follow the seamless martial arts techniques being displayed.
[Uchiha Taijutsu: Gale Strike Combo!]
[Gentle Fist: Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms!]
Shen was surrounded by white lightning energy. Nayou had purple chakra shaped like lion heads on her hands. They exchanged blows at incredible speed, locked in fierce combat.
"Boom!"
The ground where Shen had just stood now bore a small crater, the result of a long-range strike.
[Sixty-Four Palms] combined with [Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm]? Long-range point striking really is hard to defend against. He murmured to himself. Then, he spread and clenched his fingers again, channeling wind chakra into every cell in his body.
[Uchiha Taijutsu Flow – Break the Void (Duan Kong)]!
Compressed, invisible Wind Blades formed around all ten of Shen's fingers.
From afar, he swept his hand downward, and the Wind Blades on his fingers instantly disappeared.
In Nayou's perception, she clearly detected five Wind Blades rapidly approaching her position.
Unable to dodge in time, she spun in place and activated [Huitian] for defense.
"Boom!"
The Wind Blades struck the chakra barrier of the [Huitian], leaving behind only a massive sound.
After silently estimating the power, Shen increased the chakra infused into the remaining five Wind Blades.
Then, right before the light-blue chakra barrier, he lifted his hand and tore it open effortlessly.
As she met Shen's calm and confident smile, Nayou knew she had already lost. The Wind Blades capable of breaking through [Huitian]'s defense had yet to dissipate into the air.
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