Chapter 22: Graduation Exam
"Didn't we promise ourselves yesterday that the exam today would be short? You didn't need to bring me breakfast."
Izayoi deactivated his Byakugan and came out of his room.
Looking around, he noticed Hinata sitting at the dining table, having laid some bento boxes on it.
Though Izayoi said these words, he sat down without any politeness and ate the breakfast made by Hinata with caution.
"I didn't want to make it at first, but I forgot to remind Hanabi yesterday."
Hinata put her palms on the table and said with a smile, "Hanabi got up earlier than me today and made you a special exam bento."
"I see, Hanabi put effort into it."
Izayoi nodded slightly, and saw seaweed rice balls with shredded radish specifically made for exam success in a bento, and suddenly felt a better appetite.
These years, he did not spoil his little sister-in-law for nothing.
"You eat too, I can't eat so much alone."
Izayoi gestured to eat.
"No, I've already eaten at home."
Hinata shook her head, then got up and went to the refrigerator.
When she opened the refrigerator, she pulled out a bottle of milk and filled a glass for Izayoi and herself.
From waking Izayoi up to pouring the milk now, Hinata felt so natural, not at all strange, as if this was her house.
And indeed it was.
Izayoi and Hinata hadn't visited their old meeting spot in years.
Although Izayoi never even went to the Hyuga clan, Hinata and Hanabi had already made his house a second home.
Hinata and Hanabi each had a key to Izayoi's house.
They would go to play in Izayoi's house at every spare moment.
All the milk and food in the fridge were bought by Hinata and Hanabi.
Even the housework was either done by Hinata alone or by the three of them together.
Both Hinata and Izayoi were used to this kind of conversation.
After breakfast was done and the dishes washed, Izayoi and Hinata departed from home together and headed towards the ninja academy.
The combination of handsome boys and cute girls created a significant stir on the road.
Six years passed, and not only did Izayoi become a handsome youth, but his height also grew to 1.63 meters.
This height was obviously nothing in the Cloud Village where white people and black people were everywhere.
However, in Konoha, with the peers' average height merely at about 1.5 meters, Izayoi with a height of 1.63 meters excelled in his grade and class.
The same could be applied to Hinata by his side.
Izayoi had totally forgotten how Hinata's height was in the original work.
But one thing was certain was that Hinata in the original work was not as tall or as muscular as the current-day Hinata.
Hinata, whose trait was that she had a huge appetite, had not lacked in nutrition since childhood, and her level of exercise was also amazing. She had reached 1.55 meters tall, six or seven centimeters taller than her peers.
She was only a few centimeters short of being as tall as she was during the original Shippuden.
This also made Hinata, already mature at twelve years old during the original work, go through a rush of conscience.
Even wearing a loose white windbreaker, her proud physique could not be hidden.
If she lowered the zipper of her clothing, revealing the tight black fishnet undershirt, and leaned forward, the view would be extremely shocking.
This is why Izayoi's eyes were deflected the moment he awoke.
He couldn't help but let out a sigh in his heart that this was the beauty of the second dimension.
Only in the second dimension world would there be such a high-grade loli at this age.
"Izayoi-kun, Hinata, good morning."
"Good morning, Minako."
"You two are still together. You two aren't a couple, are you?"
Today was March 21st, and the first to fifth-grade students had already taken the final exams the day before yesterday.
The graduation exam for the sixth-grade students was one day later than theirs.
So when they arrived at school, the campus was much quieter than usual.
The ones they met were all sixth-grade students.
Outside the door, there were many parents waiting. They did not send their children to school today and waited outside for the result.
Six years of hard work, whether their children could break the cycle of mediocrity and become ninjas depended on today.
Of course, the parents outside the door were all ordinary people or civilian ninjas.
The children of the ninja families had no parents drop by.
They came today only to go through the motions.
The headband of a ninja was already in their pocket.
Even if they failed the graduation test, they could utilize their family secret skills to enter a department with special privileges and become special ninjas.
While going to the classroom, Izayoi and Hinata met a series of classmates, male and female, welcoming Izayoi and Hinata with smiles.
Those who knew them even mocked the two's relationship between Izayoi and Hinata.
Izayoi smiled and said nothing.
Hinata bowed her head slightly, her face flushed.
Just as popular at school, Izayoi, the top student, was less popular and accepted than Sasuke Uchiha.
The reason being, of course, Hinata by his side.
The two of them, classmate since grade one, clung to each other every single day.
There were some girls initially who hadn't understood the similarity between the two and used to gang around Izayoi.
But when Izayoi declined their invitation and found out that Izayoi's demeanor with Hinata wasn't similar to his with them, they gradually stopped tormenting Izayoi.
But of course, if Hinata was a regular girl, then those girls would definitely be envious and even bully Hinata.
But Hinata was not only the eldest child of a wealthy ninja clan, but her grades were also always within the top three.
With her acupuncture power, she was the big devil in taijutsu battles.
It wasn't so much that people were afraid of being punched and kicked, but of being stuck in a particular acupuncture point, and then all of a sudden they had a sharp pain or numbness run through their body.
That feeling was worse than getting punched.
Besides the three boys and Hinata, all other members of the class had already tasted acupuncture's flavor.
Those girls therefore didn't dare to annoy Hinata.
Besides Izayoi, there was even Sasuke Uchiha in the class, and they had another choice.
In due time, everything surrounding Izayoi became tranquil.
With Hinata covering him, he did not need to make up excuses to decline his classmates' invitations every day, and needed to spend some time dealing with them sometimes.
Upon reaching the classroom, numerous students had already arrived.
There were students who were whispering to one another, without having a clue about what they were discussing.
There were a few students seated in their seats, fists clenched and faces pinched, for that was as nervous as they could get.
Even Naruto Uzumaki, who had just signed on the Hokage Rock the day before yesterday, and which made everyone in the class study the Transformation Technique under examination today, was rather quiet today.
After Izayoi and Hinata were seated, they too started muttering to each other.
Seeing the top student and the second-place student conferring with each other in low tones and not at all serious about the graduation exam, a girl beside Hinata was jealous.
A top student was confident.
She had been tense since yesterday and didn't sleep well at night in comparison to her.
(End of this chapter)
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