Chapter 67: Hinata - This Mountain Is Mine - The White Eyed Princess of Konoha

### Chapter 67: Hinata - This Mountain Is Mine 'Bang! Bang! Bang… Clang! Clang…' Hinata used her 'Rotation' technique to deflect the sand rushing to aid Gaara. Just as she stopped spinning, she witnessed hundreds of Narutos surrounding Gaara, delivering a relentless beating. The scene was almost unbearable to watch. It’s often said that unity is strength. For example: a single dollar might not buy much, but a hundred million one-dollar bills can buy a lot. One Naruto might not be formidable, but hundreds or thousands of Narutos… well, still not very formidable! Once Gaara's sand was deflected by Hinata, it immediately redirected itself to aid Gaara again. 'Bang bang bang…' Naruto's shadow clones exploded like firecrackers, one after another. However, Gaara was truly getting a severe beating. While Hinata would need to repeatedly punch to break Gaara's sand armor, Narutos simply swarmed him, shattering the armor in mere moments. Taking advantage of the moment when Gaara's sand armor had not yet recovered, Hinata moved her feet, charged forward, and reached Gaara at the same time as the sand. "Rotation!" At close range, Rotation can also become an offensive jutsu. The sand was once again scattered by Rotation, and Gaara was flung away by the force. Hinata dashed towards Gaara, grabbing onto his clothes to stop his backward momentum... "Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms!" 'Bang bang bang...' There are two offensive modes for Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms: one seals chakra points, meant to restrict an opponent's chakra flow for sparring; the other is direct soft punches, delivering sixty-four strikes powerful enough to incapacitate anyone except monsters. In this regard, Neji in the original work held back both against Hinata and Naruto. Of course, with enough skill, one can switch between sealing and soft punches during the sequence. Hinata first used soft punches to strike Gaara harshly, observing through her Byakugan that his internal organs were severely damaged. She then switched to sealing his chakra points, stopping him from generating chakra. When the sixty-four strikes were complete, Gaara completely lost consciousness, dropping to the ground with a 'thud.' The raging sand waves immediately lost their energy and turned into streams of sand settling on the ground. "Phew~" Hinata turned to Naruto and Sasuke with a triumphant 'V' gesture, smiling sweetly, "Job done, let's wrap up!" For a magnet-release ninja like Gaara, unless he attacks with overwhelming waves of sand, anyone faster than his sand with sufficient attack power can easily defeat him. After all, Gaara struggles with taijutsu. Naruto's support was crucial. Without Naruto’s shadow clones dispersing Gaara's sand armor, Hinata wouldn’t have easily defeated Gaara. Naruto leapt down from a tree, finding the 'Heaven' and 'Earth' scrolls on Gaara's team, and smugly declared, "Haha! We now have all the scrolls. If we head to the central tower now, our Team 7 will be the first to clear the exam." "Hinata, you're amazing!" Hinata, equally pleased, waved her hand nonchalantly, "It was nothing!" That was Gaara! Remember when Gaara first appeared, arms crossed, standing still and effortlessly defeating his opponents? He was awe-inspiring! Yet the battered Gaara before them had nothing to do with the word ‘awe.’ Of course, the battered face was courtesy of Naruto, not Hinata. Sasuke jumped down from the tree, silent. Naruto scratched his head awkwardly, "What do we do with these three?" Hinata took a steel wire from Sasuke’s ninja tool pouch and tossed it to Naruto, "Tie them to a tree." Sasuke: "..." Sasuke looked at Hinata, asking solemnly, "Are we still going to ambush others?" Sasuke felt eager; instead of wasting time resting at the tower, he preferred fighting opponents in the forest of death. Hinata, thrilled, said, "Sasuke, it seems you've finally figured it out. Didn’t we originally decide to ambush opponents for profit?" Sasuke: Heh! I just wanted to find opponents to fight, not just stay here and collect tolls. ... "Someone's approaching; it's Kiba, Shino, and Sakura." Hinata, Naruto, and Sasuke stood atop a tree. Hinata whispered to the other two, "You two take care of this group; I’ll hold off Sakura. Kiba and Shino are yours." Sasuke gave a slight, battle-hungry snort, "Fine by me!" Naruto was just as eager, having wanted to beat Kiba since school, only failing to match him at the time. Months after graduating, Naruto felt his strength had improved and was now full of confidence. Meanwhile... Kiba and Shino, being reconnaissance ninjas, sensed something long before reaching the tower. Akamaru barked softly, "Woof!" Kiba's face turned grim as he said in a serious tone, "Akamaru, you're saying those three from Sand are here too, and you smell something familiar?" Sakura, exasperated, retorted, "Akamaru just barked once; how did you gather all that?" "And about those three from Sand..." At this, Sakura trembled, "Maybe we should leave!" Shino extended a finger, letting a small bug land on it, and said calmly, "It's Hinata and Sasuke." "Sasuke!!!" Sakura shrieked, worriedly, "What if Sasuke's fighting the Sand ninjas? We must help them!" Kiba scoffed, "That idiot Naruto better still be alive!" Shino, with his usual calmness, added, "We need to hurry over, because after all, they're our fellow villagers." Akamaru: "Woof!" With that, Sakura's team rapidly sprinted forward, but barely a hundred meters later, Kiba abruptly ordered, "Stop!" The three siblings landed on a tree, with Sakura hurriedly asking, "Kiba, what happened?" Kiba pointed below, shocked, "Look..." Sakura and Shino followed his finger to see that the Sand trio, who had effortlessly defeated a Rain Shinobi team just hours earlier, were now tied and suspended from a tree with steel wires. Temari and Kankuro were bloodied, and Gaara had a swollen, bruised face... Who could have done this? It was brutally done! Sakura exclaimed, "Could Sasuke's team have done this?" Shino calmly hypothesized, "If Sasuke's team did it, they should have both scrolls by now." Kiba continued grimly, "So, the reason they stayed is to..." "Exactly!" Hinata shouted as she descended with Naruto and Sasuke, aggressively proclaiming, "This mountain is mine, and so is this tree. To pass this way, leave passage toll!" Everyone: "..."