"Kiba, those things downstairs just now... could they be...?"
To Kiba's surprise, Hinata spoke up first.
He saw her clasping her hands nervously, her pale eyes flitting away as she whispered the question.
"Huh? Hinata, you actually know what that is?" Kiba exclaimed in astonishment.
"N-no! I don't know!" Hinata hurriedly denied it, her face burning.
But her panicked denial only made her look more suspicious.
"So what exactly are they?"
In the end, it was Shino—the most book-smart of the trio—who admitted his ignorance and turned to Kiba for answers.
Kiba sighed.
He had been hesitant to explain, partly because of Hinata, the seemingly shy and innocent girl of their squad.
But now, Kiba realized a disturbing truth: she might actually know more about this than he did!
On second thought, it wasn't entirely surprising.
Among the existing Konoha clans, the Hyuga Clan was the most rigid, their strict family rules often overriding standard village law.
As a member of the Inuzuka Clan, Kiba had heard grim stories from his elders about the Warring States Period, usually told to highlight the First Hokage's monumental achievements in creating peace.
During the Warring States Period, the average human lifespan was less than thirty years—and that applied to ordinary civilians, not frontline ninjas.
Even this dismal average was inflated by the rear-line peasants, nobles, officials, and merchants who lived far from the actual bloodbaths.
It's said that during that brutal era, the shinobi of the Inuzuka Clan didn't even live as long as their own hounds.
Even Senju Kawarama and Senju Itama, the younger brothers of the First Hokage and sons of the Senju Clan Head, were slaughtered at the tender age of seven.
Seven years old—a critical turning point in the shinobi world.
Some died at seven.
Others, at seven, could think from the sociopathic perspective of a Hokage.
Still others, at seven, had already awakened god-tier eyes like the Tenseigan!
In an era with such a tragically short average lifespan, where children were regularly sent to the meat grinder at age seven, how could a clan ensure its survival?
First and foremost, a clan could not afford to produce a seven-year-old who thought like a Hokage.
Otherwise, they would probably slaughter their own family.
Once that crucial condition was avoided, the rest was simple math.
A clan is nothing without its population.
As long as no single catastrophic battle wiped out the entire compound, all that mattered was maintaining a steady flow of fresh blood.
Sending seven-year-olds to war was already a desperate measure.
Fortunately, the Shinobi World had Chakra, which drastically accelerated human physical development, allowing children to become lethal combatants in just a few years.
Once these child soldiers reached basic reproductive age, the clan elders immediately made arrangements.
Because no one knew if a teenager would survive their next skirmish!
As for why the age of military conscription wasn't delayed until after they had children:
First, time was a luxury they didn't have.
Keeping kids off the battlefield for a few more years meant sacrificing a massive chunk of the clan's combat power.
Second, natural selection.
Those who couldn't survive on the battlefield were deemed genetically unfit to leave descendants.
Their offspring would only be weaklings. It was deemed better to reserve the breeding opportunities for the strong who could survive and produce more outstanding killers.
As for the Clan Head's sons and daughters, they enjoyed certain political privileges, such as being kept in reserve for strategic marriage alliances.
In short, regardless of the ethical circumstances, all the major clans began this kind of "birds and bees" education very early and without any modern reservations.
This grim reality only changed when Hashirama ended the warring era.
Children no longer had to go to war at seven or become parents at ten.
Given the Hyuga Clan's rigid adherence to ancient tradition, Kiba reasoned that this specific, biological education likely remained a mandatory part of their private curriculum.
But the reality of Hinata's knowledge was quite different.
As everyone knew, in this Shinobi World, the children of major clan heads often held a surprisingly lowly status among their peers.
Whether it was Kushina, Uchiha Itachi, or Hyuga Hinata, they were all subjected to childhood bullying.
Apart from the designated protagonist characters, no average clan members would ever stick their necks out to defend them.
Isolated in this situation, young Hinata developed a habit that, if the genders were reversed... would have gotten her arrested by the ANBU, for example :
Stalking and peeping.
Naruto was naive.
Though he invented erotic Ninjutsu techniques, he only grasped the visual surface of them, treating the jutsu more like a child's prank to shock adults.
Plus, being a dumbass, he couldn't really comprehend the actual reason behind such things.
Hinata, however, was a different story.
When Hinata stalked Naruto and observed him reading a porn, her curiosity naturally peaked.
With her Byakugan—an absolute cheat-code ability granting both X-ray clairvoyance and telescopic vision—no physical wall or book cover could prevent her from acquiring the specific, adult knowledge she desired.
Consider the events of the movie The Will of Fire Inheritors.
During the film's climax, as Kakashi smiled warmly at Naruto and everyone relaxed, Hinata suddenly ruined the wholesome moment by muttering, "How utterly vulgar."
She immediately followed up with, "I never imagined Kakashi-sensei had such... peculiar tastes regarding Naruto-kun."
This successfully derailed the entire scene, making the rest of the Konoha 11 genuinely suspect Kakashi harbored twisted feelings for his teenage student!
Years later, during the Boruto era, while Sakura next door was still blushing over hearing her husband's name, an adult Hinata was known to casually flip through Jiraiya's smut series in front of her own son—without a hint of embarrassment or a change in expression.
This hidden anecdote offers a terrifying glimpse into the Byakugan Princess's true nature.
"Woof, woof!"
Akamaru, having devoured a hearty meal of premium Pakkun brand dog food, trotted out of the kitchen with a crumpled piece of paper clutched in his jaws.
"What's this?" Kiba asked, taking the note after finally finishing his awkward, whispered explanation to Shino about what the mysterious fluid on the floor actually was.
The messy, handwritten note read:
Beware of Kakashi Hatake.
He is a masked pervert and a repressed horndog. - Sincerely, A Concerned Citizen who held Naruto as a newborn.
"This solves the mystery!" Kiba exclaimed, clutching the note as he stood up.
He pointed dramatically to the shattered windowsill. "A righteous masked hero must have passed by, used a sensory jutsu to witness Kakashi-sensei's depraved acts, and, unable to stand by, shattered those jars to expose his evil deeds to the village!"
The Masked Man had left the petty note for a simple, selfish reason:
He wanted Konoha's HR department to punish Kakashi and stop him from using his Kamui Sharingan to absorb shit all day long!
Kakashi's new hobby was severely disrupting the other tenant's normal life and combat training inside the shared dimension.
"Sniff, sniff..."
"Wait a minute, why does this specific room smell like... shit?" Kiba wrinkled his nose, sniffing the air.
This was the lingering scent from when the Masked Man had accidentally tracked some of the sewage from the Kamui Dimension onto his boots earlier.
After visiting Kakashi's house to smash the jars, he left the foul odor behind on the rug.
"Poor Naruto-kun..." Hinata covered her face with her hands, her imagination running wild with cursed scenarios.
"Uh..." Kiba's bewildered expression froze.
'How is it that Hinata always understands these sick implications instantly? This is really making me look bad.'
Fortunately, after racking his brain to process the smell, Kiba finally figured out the horrific narrative.
"You can know a person's face, but you can never truly know their heart. Kakashi... I never imagined he would actually... rub Naruto's shit... all over his apartment!"
Inuzuka Kiba gazed sorrowfully at the ceiling, his head tilted at a dramatic forty-five-degree angle of pure despair!
"Should we report this severe misconduct to Lord Hokage?" Shino suggested, adjusting his glasses.
"Of course! We must report this to the authorities immediately!" Kiba agreed.
"But before we go to the Hokage Tower, we need to gather more concrete evidence here," Shino cautioned rationally.
"If we leave the crime scene now and Kakashi returns to destroy the evidence, we will be out of luck. Remember, our opponent is an elite Jonin. His cover-up skills will be thorough."
"Hmph, so what if he's an elite Jonin?" Kiba scoffed, pounding his fist into his palm. "Kakashi is done for now that he's up against us three geniuses! We're all specialized reconnaissance trackers—Hinata, Shino, let's tear this place apart and find his stash!"
At Kiba's command, the trio and their hound began ransacking their superior officer's house, determined to find evidence of his crimes!
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