Hearing Hinata, the originally lively atmosphere suddenly became silent.

Honestly, if it weren't for Hinata shouting, everyone would really forget her existence.

In everyone's mind, Hinata was regarded as the third-place by default. After all, Hinata has no sense of existence from beginning to end. Her battle with Haruno Sakura and Ino Yamanaka also ended quickly.

As a winner, she bowed and apologized like doing something wrong. There is no imposing-manner belonging to the expert at all. So everyone subconsciously thought that there should be nothing wrong with Hinata in this top three competition. Whether she should fight or should not fight for it; who knows what Hinata, who had been silent, was thinking about.

For a while, everyone really doubted that the girl in front of them was still Hinata himself.

Seeing the atmosphere at the scene suddenly became so quiet. Hinata shouted imposing-manner just now and then shrank back again, lowering her head, sorry and saying: "Eh... Eh... I'm sorry. Is that fine? If it doesn't, forget it..."

This voice! This cowardly performance…. That's right! This is Hinata, no doubt!

At this time, the audience finally recovered.

"DUEL! DUEL! DUEL!"

"Hahahaha! Hinata, I support you! Beat them!"

"Hinata, keep it up! Glory for our women!"

Then Naruto came to Hinata excitedly, holding her arms with both hands: "Hinata, are you serious? Are you really going to duel with us?"

Actually, these past years, whether it is Naruto, Sasuke, or Hinata, the three of them did not learn much from each other. It's just that when facing Hinata, everyone fights her less seriously. After all, in this small group, the cute mushroom head Hinata is their favorite. So they didn't want to hurt her.

Now hearing that Hinata wants to fight against them, the happiest person was Naruto. Because he also hoped to see Hinata be stronger and less cowardly. Facing Naruto face to face and catching her arms like this, Hinata's cheeks blushed, unsure: "Is this fine? Naruto, if you don't like it, then I won't fight."

"Of course, I don't mind! I like it so much!" Naruto quickly interrupted Hinata and then turned to Sasuke. "Sasuke, Hinata joined us in the duel, is that alright? Or don't tell me, you're afraid of losing to Hinata?"

"Ceh! Who's afraid?" Sasuke glanced at the couple disdainfully. But thinking about the growth for Hinata makes his heart happy.

Seeing all will come together, Iruka didn't really feel good at rejecting Hinata's determination. After all, ninja is gender-neutral.

"Okay. Since Hinata, you were the 3rd in the basic test just now. You first choose who you want to challenge." Iruka.

Hinata didn't even think it and directly replied: "I want to challenge Sasuke."

Hearing the words, Sasuke couldn't help turning his head and looked at Hinata with some confusion. He didn't understand why Hinata chose to challenge him first. But this puzzled expression quickly faded away, "Hinata, although I don't understand why you chose me, I am not Naruto. Therefore, today I will not be merciful."

Naruto was well aware of Sasuke's character. So when Sasuke said he would not hold back, he really would not hold back. At this time, even he was a little worried that Hinata would be hurt in the next battle. However, what Naruto didn't know is that Hinata did this to prove to him that she has also grown up!

She can be alone! Naruto doesn't need to shelter her from the wind and rain! She should not be a burden for Naruto! She wants to keep up with Naruto's pace!

Therefore, Sasuke's careful warning not only didn't greet Hinata's hesitation, but she also gave a very firm nod: "Well, Sasuke-Kun, please don't hold back. I won't hold back either."

Now that things have been decided, Iruka no longer delayed it. Soon, Iruka and Naruto returned to the crowd of people to make space for Sasuke and Hinata.

The two kept a certain distance. After that, a 'Seal of Opposition' was formed at the same time.

After the hand seal just finished, the place where 2 people stood originally suddenly became an afterimage.

Immediately afterward, the collision of weapons continued to sound.

Students who haven't refined Chakra yet couldn't capture the silhouette of Hinata and Sasuke with their naked eyes. As for the rest, as long as they look closely, they can observe the situation at this time. Currently, the two of them were in a situation of one advancing and one retreating. —And to everyone's surprise, it was Sasuke who was retreating, not Hinata. Only Naruto, who was watching the battle, felt normal about the situation in front of him. After all, the three have been spared so many times over the years. They understood well of each other's strengths and weaknesses.

On Taijutsu, Sasuke was definitely not Hinata's opponent. So, against Hinata, his biggest advantage is Ninjutsu and Uchiha Clan's most proud throwing technique! That's why Sasuke was at a disadvantage in the beginning.

Sasuke threw weapons at Hinata while keeping a certain distance from Hinata. And Hinata took out a Kunai in hand and rushed to Sasuke while blocking the throwing weapons, in order not to give Sasuke a good room to show his best Ninjutsu!

Of course, until now, the battle between the two sides has only been an appetizer. Both haven't tried their best.

Seeing that the battle continued like this, then there was no other way. Sasuke clenched his teeth, reminding: "Hinata, I'm going to be serious. You must be careful."

"Hmm!" Hinata nodded. At the same time, the veins around her eyes suddenly pierced! Byakugan. Open!

Seeing that, Hinata opened her Byakugan. Sasuke's expression also became serious. He threw two shurikens tied with thin wires. Unsurprisingly, Hinata evaded this wave of attacks easily. But Hinata's ear soon heard a 'buzz, buzz' sound. That was the sound of the wind-breaking, and the two shurikens that she had just been evaded stopped in the sky!

'Ugh, Shurikenjutsu!'

[TL note: Shurikenjutsu pertains to techniques that entail the throwing of shuriken, kunai, senbon, or any other number of bladed, hand-held weapons. Shurikenjutsu can be used in combination with taijutsu, Ninjutsu, and/or chakra flow in order to create more devastating techniques. Additionally, shurikenjutsu can pertain to techniques used through ninjutsu-made weapons.]

Sasuke hooked his finger and yanked. Immediately after that, two shurikens attacked Hinata from the rear.

CLANG! CLANG!

'Hateful Byakugan!'

Hinata stretched out her hand to her back handsomely without turning her head and blocked the attack again.

Sasuke was aggrieved in this scene.

'It seems that I can only win by quantity. Since 2 won't work, then 4! 4 will not work, then 8! Let's see how many attacks you can withstand!'

But just when Sasuke was about to pull out 4 shurikens tied with thin threads from his pocket and caught them between his fingers, the next scene made him even more speechless.

Because when Hinata saw him doing this, a scroll was hung around her waist at the same time.

Seeing this scroll... Sasuke suddenly had a bad feeling ...