Naruto: Starting from Eating the Gold Fruit

Chapter 485

Hinata Hyuga understood.

But it was precisely because I understood that I did understand.

This has left her somewhat dazed.

"Father, do you mean... those Hyuga clan members working in the Hokage Building and various public facilities in the village, they are all from the branch family, and none of them have received a promotion?"

Hiashi Hyuga sighed: "Yeah, what can I do?"

Now your father, my own brother, is really going to separate from me, not just talking like before…”

Hinata remained silent.

What could she say?

To paraphrase a saying we learned in school, "The devil is always one step ahead of the saint."

Hiashi Hyuga felt confident that he could handle the current Hokage.

After all, if we really had to say...

Everything he did was within the rules set by the Hokage.

The operation was very good, but when I turned around and looked...

Good heavens, all those who split up the family have been completely controlled by Youya.

Youya really doesn't need to do anything.

When these outstanding members of the branch families enter officialdom, they have to accept the unspoken rules of officialdom.

And this rule is...

Even if you put Hiashi Hyuga in Yua's position, he still wouldn't be able to promote these people.

At the very least, these people won't be promoted so easily.

Otherwise, regardless of who the Hokage is, most of the power is controlled by your Hyuga clan. What do you want to do?

If you want to be Hokage, then come on! Yua will step down without hesitation, and you definitely won't do as well as Yua. It's a foregone conclusion that you'll be criticized by future generations.

Hiashi Hyuga would definitely not want to accept this.

Simply put, Hiashi Hyuga wanted to not become Hokage, but to hold some high-ranking official positions.

Well, the last person who thought and acted this way was Danzo Shimura.

However, Danzo Shimura didn't want to play by Yua's rules, so he's no longer around.

Hiashi Hyuga chose to comply with Yua's rules, and then he lost the fight miserably.

It can be said that they lost both their wife and their army.

These people may have initially been grateful to the Hyuga family after entering officialdom.

But when they learned that it was the main family that was blocking their path to promotion...

What could they possibly be thinking?

Hinata Hyuga learned about a different Hokage from her father that day.

To the younger generation of children, Yua, the Hokage, is a high-ranking and respected ruler of Konoha Village.

But today Hinata saw a different Hokage.

How to put it? It's more real, more realistic, and more in line with actual circumstances.

This made Hinata feel that Yua seemed to have lost some of his divinity and become more human.

only……

Now that she knows all this, what should she do?

What can she do?

Hinata was confused.

The next day, she found her homeroom teacher, Iruka, and asked him, "Teacher, I want to ask, if your relative did something that wasn't illegal but was quite excessive, and the person who did it discovered their intentions and retaliated within reasonable limits, causing your relative's plan to fail, how would you view this situation?"

Iruka looked at Hinata Hyuga with a blank expression, then said to her earnestly, "Child, I didn't understand what your teacher said."

Hinata: "..."

However, Iruka could also tell that Hinata seemed to be troubled by something, perhaps the pain of growing up...

Iruka then said to Hinata, "Go to the third floor of the Konoha Library and take a look. There should be books there that can answer your questions."

Hinata then went to the Konoha Library after school that day.

The transformation of Konoha Library from its initial bustling state to its current deserted state is certainly not without reason.

Since the digitization of the library, Konoha Library also has an online app, but you need to register your personal information if you want to read books on the third floor and above.

Hinata is not yet an adult, so she cannot search for books in the Konoha Library online and can only come to the Konoha Library with her student ID to read the paper versions.

Iruka initially thought Hinata was probably experiencing some kind of trouble on her path to adulthood, since most of the books on the third floor of the library were about emotions and psychology.

This was also specially arranged by Youya.

Only when you have a clear understanding of yourself, such as knowing who you really are and what you really want, will you not lose yourself when you go up to the fourth floor and see all kinds of books related to revolution and come into contact with higher-level knowledge.

In a way, Iruka wasn't wrong.

The most important thing for Hinata right now is to understand herself.

From childhood to adulthood, she has always lived in the eyes of others.

Her father said that since she was a member of the main family, she couldn't bring shame upon herself.

Despite not having a particularly good talent for Gentle Fist, Hinata continued to train relentlessly.

Even though the people in her family only nodded at her and said she was the princess of the Hyuga clan, she began to view herself with even stricter and harsher standards.

But it seems...

From childhood to adulthood... she never thought about being her true self...

Suddenly, Hinata felt a cool sensation on her forehead.

Looking up, she saw Naruto holding a bag of ice cream and touching her forehead.

Hinata blushed immediately: "Naruto-kun?! What are you doing here?"

Naruto casually handed Hinata an ice cream bag and said, "I heard from Iruka-sensei that you seem to be in some trouble... Well, although it probably won't do much good, you know I can't do any of the homework at school, so I probably can't help you much, but..."

Would it feel better to say it out loud?

Hinata held the ice cream bag in her hand, her little hand tightening slightly...

After a long while, she raised her head and looked at Naruto: "Naruto-kun... could you walk with me for a bit?"

Naruto paused for a moment, then nodded.

As evening fell, the glow of the sunset shone on the two children. The slightly thin and short girl spoke softly, while the boy listened attentively beside her.

After a while, the two sat on a bench by the roadside. Hinata threw the leftover ice cream wrapper into the trash can next to her and said softly to Naruto, "Naruto-kun is right. It does feel much better to talk about it."

Hinata then looked at Naruto, who had a conflicted expression on his face, and said with a smile, "Naruto-kun, what's wrong? Why do you look like that?"

Naruto looked at Hinata, shook his head, and said seriously, "I just don't understand why you take this so seriously?"

"Huh?" Hinata asked, somewhat puzzled.

"You just said it yourself, your father probably doesn't expect anything from you at all. If that's the case, why are you going through all this trouble trying to find a solution? Or rather..."

Naruto looked at Hinata and said something serious that made Hinata's heart race: "Actually, everything you did was following your heart's guidance. You wanted to do it this way, you wanted to solve this problem, you wanted to... solve this problem that even the Hokage couldn't solve?"

Hinata looked at Naruto with a racing heart.

In that instant, Naruto enlightened her.

That's right, strictly speaking, this matter has nothing to do with her at all.

Her father told her the story just like she told Naruto now; he simply wanted to get it off his chest because keeping it inside was too painful.

As for a solution...

Hiashi Hyuga never expected her to solve this problem.

After all, even the Hokage Yua, when faced with such a situation, could only wait for the Hyuga clan to make their own choice.

So what exactly is she busy with?

At that moment, Hinata understood.

She is indeed living in someone else's world.

But... she also wanted to live like this, in someone else's world...

She wanted to do something for others...