Hyuga Hiashi himself spoke the answer: "She is honing her martial arts with the help of your older sister, integrating several martial arts, trying to find her own fighting style, and making up for her shortcomings.
This is an extremely talented Ninja."
Hanabi thought of the Genjutsu from before and said like she was presenting a treasure: "Ino-neechan's Genjutsu is also very powerful.
She just blew a few whistles and I fell into Genjutsu.
But some classmates in our class say she's a money-grubber, that she's fallen into the money pit.
Is that really true?"
Hyuga Hiashi's tone was a little mocking: "You are still young; you will understand those complicated things when you grow up.
There are even people in the Village who say I am timid and cowardly.
Is that really true?"
He pointed at Ino below: "Don't look at how people appear in public, but how they are behind closed doors.
Hanabi, I will only tell you one thing: a Ninja who is proficient in Ninjutsu, Taijutsu, Genjutsu, and Sealing Technique, and also has a brain and works hard, is hard to find in the entire Ninja World."
After sweating from the sparring, Ino took a shower at Hinata's house, then bid farewell and left.
"I'm leaving."
When she reached the door, she stopped and stared intently at Hinata.
"Is there something on my face that I haven't washed off?" Hinata touched her face.
Ino pondered: "No, I just thought of something."
Hinata's life trajectory was slightly influenced by her, but her lack of self-confidence still remained.
Ino often instilled in her beliefs that women should be strong and independent.
Stop thinking about doing housework and raising children all day.
Look at you in boruto, you're practically living like a widow.
How tragic is that?
You need to stand up for yourself!
When they first met, or rather, when Ino first transmigrated, every time she asked Hinata what her hobbies were, she would stammer and say she didn't have any.
Later, she let it slip once that she liked pressing flowers.
Ino "???".
Our family sells flowers, and I use Flower Release, but your favorite thing is pressing flowers?
Are you here to cause trouble or do you have other intentions?
Ino would never let her press flowers; this hobby had to change.
Thinking of this, Ino decided to give Hinata some motivation for change.
This girl was too passive; if no one pushed her hard, it would be difficult for her to change.
She asked Hinata to come to the Yamanaka Flower Shop to find her tomorrow morning; she wanted to find some new hobbies for Hinata.
Jiraiya's tale of the gutsy ninja received unanimous praise from all circles.
Everyone considered it a good book, and it had absolutely nothing to do with whether he was Hokage-sama or not.
Shueisha took the lead, collaborating with Yamanaka Flower Shop, the Ninja tool seller Mandotang, and Konoha Village's publicity department.
The four parties jointly funded the project, preparing to bring the big IP of tale of the gutsy ninja to the big screen.
Ino was quite curious about making movies in the Naruto World.
In her previous life, she had never participated in such work.
Studying corpses and souls every day was very hard, and she felt she should be more positive.
As soon as the project started, as a financier, she actively participated.
When Hinata arrived at the Yamanaka Flower Shop, she was rewriting the script.
Ino asked Hinata to help her design some feminine lines.
She wasn't good at writing these, and Jiraiya's original version didn't have many lines for the Female Ninja, it was all the male protagonist giving long speeches.
The protagonist of tale of the gutsy ninja was a Ninja named Naruto.
The prototype for this book was Nagato from the Akatsuki Organization, and at a deeper level, it was Jiraiya's self-narration.
The protagonist's personality was easy to grasp, but the two supporting characters, the handsome male Ninja and the beautiful Female Ninja, were somewhat elusive.
Jiraiya wrote very vaguely.
Ino pulled Hinata into the scriptwriting team and made drastic changes.
When the script was finished and returned to Jiraiya, the original author was dumbfounded: Is this the novel I wrote?!
"There's too much emphasis on the Female Ninja's role, isn't there?" Jiraiya didn't yet have the concept of a strong female lead.
Just looking at the script, this tale of the gutsy ninja seemed to have become a story about a Female Ninja and two male supporting characters.
Ino said confidently: "Anyway, I revised it according to Lady Tsunade's image.
If Hokage-sama is not satisfied…"
"Satisfied! Satisfied! Very satisfied!" Jiraiya immediately put on a smile and repeatedly stated that a strong female lead was the core idea of his book!
This revision was very good.
Hinata, in a daze, followed Ino to the set.
This was a typical director-centric system.
Even with the titles of producer and screenwriter, Ino's influence in the crew was not as great as the director's.
However, her request to add a disciple character for the Female Ninja was approved by the director.
"Me? Let me be a movie actor!" Hinata was stunned, her voice involuntarily rising two octaves.
Ino gave a thumbs-up, yes, that's the spirit.
Hinata was dumbfounded.
She was always careful when talking to strangers; could she really be an actor?
She waved her hands repeatedly, indicating that she couldn't do this job.
Ino put her arm around her shoulder: "Look at the script, this passage describing the Female Ninja as heroic, and this one, where it says the Female Ninja defeats the enemy with a shout.
Doesn't it really resemble my teacher, Lady Tsunade?"
Hinata had barely seen Tsunade a few times and knew very little about her.
At this moment, she instinctively nodded, "Yes, yes, whatever you say is right."
Ino continued to show her the script: "Look here again, the Female Ninja has a disciple.
She is a bit timid and cowardly, and only becomes strong with the Female Ninja's encouragement.
Then the Female Ninja takes her as a disciple.
Doesn't it sound a bit like me?"
I don't think so!
Hinata stared intently at her.
Her friend seemed to have never been timid from beginning to end.
Cowardly? No way!
Late at night, when she stood there, that chilling aura could make ghosts tremble in fear.
My timidity, however, is real.
With a change of thought, she felt as if she understood Ino's intention.
This script was talking about her, wasn't it?
Ino said meaningfully: "Right? Overcoming timidity, overcoming yourself.
The characters in the play can do it, and I think you can too!"
Hinata hesitated.
At her age, she had some longing for movie stars, to play another life in a movie?
Ino encouraged her: "The Female Ninja will be here soon.
You can try a scene with her.
Just act naturally, no pressure.
Will you just try it?
Give yourself a chance?"
Hinata didn't know the saying "try it and you'll die."
Her eyes were unfocused, as if she was thinking, or perhaps just zoning out.
Ino was still coaxing her when an assistant suddenly rushed towards her.
"Ninja-sama, Ninja…sama, something happened, something big happened!"
The assistant ran out of breath: "Santayu-sensei was…was…attacked by a Ninja from your Village!
Please go and see quickly!"
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