Hyuga Minori

It was a depressing year for Hyuga Minori. Her father died due to old age when her mother was pregnant with her younger sister, Hyuga Yumi.

Around the time, Yumi was born, a powerful elder of the clan, brought an orphan, claiming him to be his grandson. Since her family was from the main clan, and by account of conserving bloodline purity and in line with the clan traditions, a match was made with Yumi and the boy.

Since the family had not much backing in the main clan, Minori herself was forced to marry a guy she detested, Hyuga Dai. His family had a significant power in the clan. He tries to take advantage of unfortunate branch clan girls, covertly, and gets away with it. And even if he was complained against, it won't matter, since it was the words of a main clan member against a branch member.

But Minori was aware of his actions and when he tried to take advantage of her, she voiced out the issue in the clan meeting. Dai was lightly punished but Minori suffered serious consequences. She was forced to either marry Dai or have the 'Caged Bird Seal' placed on her and be a ninja. Obviously, she decided to be a ninja and once graduated from the academy, she planned to stay far from the main branch to not be abused by the cursed mark.

As she never thought her peaceful life would take such drastic turns, she had not enrolled in the academy at 5, instead trained under the clan itself. While her sister Yumi joined the academy at 5 along with that boy and they were now in their third year of the academy. And at eight years of age, facing troubles from the clan, Minori too joined the academy for her dream of attaining freedom and she was on her second year.

No matter how she tried to get rid of the pest, it comes back again to haunt her. Dai also decided to enroll in the academy along with her and always came to the academy escorted by an orphan of the main family who was taken in by his family. Dai was a single child and now 10-years old. The orphan named Hyuga Meiji was a 20- year old chunin, he always treated Dai as his brother and the family sees him as one of their own with him having the main family bloodline being one of the reasons.

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At the academy grounds,

Dai had a depraved expression on his face as he said: " You thought you could escape from me by reporting me... And you thought you could hide from me using that brat! Hahaha... I will use you like the rest of them, and make sure you scream every time. How about I introduce you to my brother here? You will surely see more of him, along with me... hehehe"

Minori was safe from Sai's harrasment in her academy years due to her sisters fiance watching over her. But part of her sister's class had to go for outdoor camping trip as a part of survival training. As the last batch of her class to do so, both her sister and her fiance were in that batch.

Dai knew this and took the opportunity to pick on Minori.

" Now, for the first time, how about you kneel... I'll enjoy breaking you bit by bit... Now, kneel! "

Minori didn't say anything back, or more accurately couldn't, because she was under the pressure of the chunin, Meiji. She also had a dead eyed expression, like she gave up on life.

' My sister and mother are safe, due to that boy! I don't care what happens to me anymore! Such an unfair life... I wish I could live a free and happy life.'

Seeing her nonchalant expression, Dai was incensed. His voice slowly raised as he said:

" It's okay... Let's celebrate your first scream!"

Dai gave a signal to Meiji as he commanded: " KNEEL!"

Meiji who was on the side, didn't expect Dai to act in public. He was also cut from the same cloth as Dai and was light years away from being a saint. But that didn't mean he was an idiot. He knew it was shameful for a chunin to bully an academy student and if caught by the teachers or reported, he will face a lot of trouble. So, to deal with the issue at hand he stealthily infused chakra in his hand and was about to grab Minori. But the next thing that happened made him confused.

Minori saw Meiji trying to grab her, and she activated her Byakugan to see the chakra infused in his hands. She knew she was in for a lot of pain, so she gritted her teeth to prevent any screams from escaping her mouth as she prepared to retaliate. She didn't want to give any form of satisfaction from her scream to the depraved Hyuga. Nonetheless, a scream was heard.

She heard someone scream like a pig, she looked upto see Dai holding his head crying in pain and saw a projectile flying from the direction of Dai head to another person's hand less than 5 metres away under her byakugan.

Minori de-activated the Byakugan and saw a boy wearing a dark-blue shirt and white shorts, with an aesthetic mix of black and dark-blue hair, walking over to her. His face was covered by a dark-blue mask from the face down and a headband was tied to his forehead covering his left eye. His hair was a bit long as some of it sticked out till the bottom of the headband on the forehead. His only visible jet-black eye, was like an abyss that would suck the soul of those who stare at it. From his eye expression and the way he walked towards her, she felt he was bored and disinterested.

She found that the projectile in his hands was a small and smooth pebble.

He came to her as he said : " Good! A person who endures. You will be a good shinobi, kid!"

She then looked at Meiji and was shocked to see that his hand that he infused chakra with was now heavily bruised.

'Too fast and precise.'

....

Meiji was shocked by the what he barely saw. A pebble that somehow came from the direction of his hand striked Dai's forehead as it made a bruise and flew back from the strike right into the hands of the one who threw it.

He went to immediately check Dai who was holding his hands to his forehead. But suddenly, felt severe pain from his hand and saw that there was only a heavy bruise, and no broken bones, that looked exactly like a blunt force trauma. Meiji understood what happened and went to check on Dai. Dai also had a bruise on his forehead and nothing else. He was relieved that Dai was fine, except for the pain and went to get payback for them, as he saw the kid who threw the pebble was talking to Minori, and the kid's back was facing him.

Meiji couldn't believe that he kid was able to strike both of them precisely and that too this fast.

Meiji extended his hand to pull the shirt of the kid. But as he gripped and pulled his hand back, he felt no obstructions. He didn't expect the kid to dodge this fast and that too something that came from his back.

....

Seeing Meiji using his power as a chunin to subdue Minori. All her classmates and Rayzen's were about to respond. And three people from both Rayzen's class and Minori's class were already prepared to make a move.

The three from Rayzen's class being Derei, Minato and Shiroka. And the three from Minori's class looked like an Ino- Shika- Cho trio.

Nonetheless, all were surprised by Rayzen's actions.