Naruto: This Uchiha is too innocent.

Regarding the matter of Hyuga Amane becoming Uchiha Sora's regular partner, the right to interpret it rests with Shinnosuke, and for Shinnosuke, the final right to interpret it ultimately lies with Sarutobi Hiruzen.

Therefore, unless Uchiha Sora can persuade Hiruzen Sarutobi to change his mind, this is an indisputable fact.

As for Uchiha Sora going to kill Hiruzen Sarutobi to carry out the order, that was naturally impossible. Putting aside whether he was qualified to meet Hiruzen Sarutobi, Hiruzen Sarutobi's attitude towards the Uchiha clan alone would make it impossible for him to refuse the order.

Therefore, he accepted the fact that Hinata Ame had become his regular partner.

After getting to know her for a while, he roughly figured out the girl's personality. She was quiet, aloof, and had a cold demeanor, though she would occasionally stare at him for no apparent reason.

He asked, and each time he only got a picture of the back of the head, but he didn't think there was anything wrong with the other person and generously expressed his understanding.

……

One month later,

December 11th, Konoha 49.

Dark side martial arts arena

"Eight Trigrams Palms".

Two palm strikes were unleashed in quick succession, but Uchiha Sora dodged by tilting his head, the force of the palms grazing his ear.

"Four palms."

Two more palm strikes were unleashed, but Uchiha Ku stepped back to dodge.

"Eight Palms".

This time, four palms were struck. Uchiha Sora narrowed his eyes, and his Sharingan quietly bloomed. Instantly, his senses were greatly enhanced, and he dodged.

"Sixteen palm strikes."

The palms seemed to dance wildly like demons, like overlapping waves, each palm stronger than the last, faster and faster, with increasing power. Uchiha Sora raised his sword sheath to block the attack.

"Thirty-two palm strikes."

At this stage, the Sharingan could no longer keep up with the speed of the palm strikes. Uchiha Sora's eyes swayed wildly up, down, left, and right. Compared to the Sixteen Palms, the Eight Trigrams Thirty-Two Palms had undergone a qualitative change. He gradually lost his rhythm, and his body was occasionally hit by the palm strikes.

He watched as Hinata Ame moved like a blur, blocking her attacks while frantically trying to anticipate her next move.

"After the thirty-two palms... comes the sixty-four palms. If she manages to unleash the sixty-four palms, it will be troublesome." As he pondered this, the scabbard fell off, and the Kusanagi sword was thrown into the air. While blocking the attack with his hands, he kicked out when the Kusanagi sword reached waist height, using his foot to control the sword, finally interrupting Hyuga Ame's attack.

That's how it is when fighting against Hyuga clan ninjas; if you can't quickly stop their Eight Trigrams Palm, you're the one in trouble.

The Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms technique doubles the speed and power of each subsequent palm strike. If one were to successfully unleash all sixty-four palm strikes, even a Jonin might not be a match for it.

Meanwhile, Uchiha Sora interrupted Hyuga Ame's attack during the 49th Eight Trigrams Palm, thrusting his sword towards the opponent's throat.

Faced with such a vicious attack, Hyuga Ame's forehead veins bulged. The next moment, she could clearly see the flow of chakra within Uchiha Sora's body, and she also knew the point of Uchiha Sora's power.

She raised her hand and struck out with a slap at an odd angle.

This palm strike caused Uchiha Sora's Kusanagi sword, which she thought would definitely hit, to deviate from its trajectory in mid-air. She dodged to the side and opened her palms.

A hint of surprise flashed in Uchiha Sora's eyes as he instantly realized that she had used the Eight Trigrams Palm to disrupt the trajectory of the Kusanagi sword by compressing air. Seeing Hyuga Ame's posture, he immediately sensed something was wrong.

"Oops……"

As expected, as Hyuga Yu dodged the Kusanagi sword, her hands began to spin rapidly... no, her entire body spun like a top-down spiral.

"Return to Heaven."

The terrifying chakra shield sent Uchiha Sora and the Kusanagi sword flying.

He flew out in a terrible posture. In mid-air, he formed the Tiger Seal, intending to counterattack with the Great Fireball Technique. However, just as he finished the seal and was about to release the Great Fireball, he suddenly choked, and his chakra got stuck in his throat.

With the Great Fireball Technique failing to be released, the match came to an end, and Uchiha Sora was thrown out in a terrible posture.

After a while, the smoke and dust dissipated.

He shook his head, feeling as if the sky and earth were far away. Just then, a jade-like hand reached out. He looked up and saw that Hinata Ame was about to help him up.

"It's not as bad as you think." He slapped her hand away, patted his bottom, and got up.

A sharp pain shot through his body, and he finally understood what had just happened.

Acupressure.

Just as he was about to unleash the Great Fireball Technique, the Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms that had previously struck him came into play, directly disrupting the flow of his chakra through his meridians.

Pressure point striking is also a specialty of the Hyuga clan. By precisely striking pressure points on the human body with the Byakugan, one can easily interrupt the enemy's ninjutsu.

Hinata Amane's eyes dimmed for a moment at the distance in Uchiha Sora's tone, but she quickly regained her composure, nodded indifferently, and rested to the side. The use of the Sixty-Four Palms had taken a lot of her energy.

Uchiha Sora pondered to himself. Although he didn't want to become too close to Hyuga Amane, a month of getting along with him had made him more and more used to having another person around.

Moreover, he discovered that Hyuga Yu was stronger than he had imagined. Even he would probably be defeated by those sixty-four palm strikes. Furthermore, he had no advantage against the Gentle Palm. Every attack he made was easily blocked by the opponent, and even his secret scrolls could be blocked. He estimated that if he did not use the Mangekyou Sharingan, he would not be a match for Hyuga Yu.

This discovery truly shocked him. He had thought he was in a league of his own among ninjas of the same age, but suddenly a formidable opponent like Hyuga Ame appeared.

"Is it the butterfly effect again...?" He thought to himself, feeling a headache coming on.

If there's one Hyuga Ame, there will probably be a second, a third. The ninja world is so vast, who knows, a monstrous genius might just appear out of nowhere.

"Overall, Naruto is still developing according to the established future. Everything that was going to happen has happened, and everyone who was going to die has died. However... some details have changed because of my existence."

For example, the death of Uzuki in the wind, the rescue of Tsunade, and the inexplicable appearance of Hyuga Ame.

He didn't know whether these events or people actually happened in the original history, and he had no way of judging, so he could only accept his fate.

He felt uneasy about the impending Wubi Bridge incident. Could he really change the future?

Because he had another thought in mind, which was about killing Pakula.

In the final moment before he killed Pakula, he clearly felt a resistance stopping him, and he wasn't sure if it was Pakula's doing.

If so, then everyone is happy.

But if that resistance doesn't belong to Pakula's power, then things are worth pondering. Someone might be secretly behind the scenes... or perhaps it's the will of the world?

"Are you alright?" Suddenly, a voice rang in his ears, and he snapped back to reality.

The pair of pure white eyes that met his gaze belonged to Hinata Ame.

"Your hand..." Hinata Ame pointed to his palm.

Only then did he realize that he had unknowingly dug his fingernails into his flesh, causing it to bleed profusely!

"What are you thinking about?" Hinata Ame stared into his eyes and asked seriously.

"It's nothing." He avoided eye contact, hid his hands behind his back, and said in a low voice, his eyes flickering.