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Hinata Uzumaki (うずまきヒナタ, Uzumaki Hinata), née Hyūga (日向) is a kunoichi of Konohagakure. Formerly the heiress of the Hyūga clan, she lost the position after being deemed unsuited for the responsibilities of leading the clan, despite persevering and following in Naruto Uzumaki’s nindō. Through her membership with Team Kurenai followed by being personally trained by Shindō Shunsoku, she sought to become strong enough to change herself. As a result, Hinata joined Anbu, codenamed Kage (影, Literally meaning: Shadow),[6] resulting in her becoming a pariah in the Hyūga clan. Years after the Fourth Shinobi World War, Hinata joined the Uzumaki clan upon marrying Naruto.
Background[]
Personality[]
Appearance[]
Abilities[]

Hinata repelling a Ten-Tails mini-clone with the Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms.
Originally, Hinata’s gentle personality hindered her performance, to which she was deemed too weak and unworthy for the role of heiress to the prestigious Hyūga clan.[7] After committing herself getting stronger in her training for Naruto, she began to receive consistent praise from her team, teachers, and clan for her improving skills and strengthening character.[8][9][10]
Over a decade later, while rusty as she retired to be a housewife, Hinata’s prowess still remained formidable. Despite being unprepared and reluctant to fight her two children with her full strength, she defeated them but was impressed with their growing strength and acknowledged the genius of using their Hyūga and Uzumaki heritage in tandem with teamwork and understanding the Will of Fire and the world’s which they swore to uphold as shinobi.[11]
Chakra Prowess and Control[]

Hinata’s Gentle Step: Twin Lion Fist.
From her special clan training, Hinata has advanced control of her chakra. In the anime, Hinata’s additional training between Parts I and II resulted in her ability to free herself from constraints[12] and manipulate nearby water sources, turning them into projectiles.[13] By Part II, Hinata’s control has advanced enough to match a medical-nin’s, able to heal those who were wounded and even herself. She was also taught a D-rank genjutsu and learned to dispel genjutsu alongside her teammates.
Byakugan[]
Main article: Byakugan

Hinata’s Byakugan.
As a Hyūga, Hinata possesses the Byakugan, a dōjutsu that grants her penetrative vision in a near-360° around herself, with one blind spot at the back of the neck above the first thoracic vertebra.[14] With it, she is able to assist others frequently in tracking, scouting the area for their target(s); by focusing her vision in a single direction, Hinata can see across vast distances, able to see at least 1 kilometer during her first Chūnin Exam, and reaching as far away as 20 kilometers by the battle against the White Zetsu clones. Hinata’s Byakugan grants her attacks pinpoint accuracy, which she can share with others to also improve their own.[15] She can also use it to identify genjutsu, searching for the caster in the nearby area;[16] however, she failed to get out of Sasuke’s Sharingan-based genjutsu and was only rescued by Sakura during the Tenchi Bridge reconnaissance mission. Hinata can use infrared vision and magnify in to see tiny targets.[17] By adulthood, the chakra sensitivity provided by the Byakugan allows her to pick up on the slightest presence of chakra.[18]
Physical Prowess[]
Main article: Gentle FistAs is traditional in her clan, Hinata has been extensively trained in the Gentle Fist fighting style. In unison with her Byakugan, Hinata can attack accurately target an individuals’ chakra pathway systems and the 361 tenketsu that run along it, constricting or cutting off their chakra flow from only minimal contact.[19] Although this enables Hinata to attack an opponent’s internal organs, she can also use it in a supplementary function, such as by setting dislocated shoulders back in place.[20]

Hinata and Neji combining their Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palms.
While Hinata had not yet mastered her clan’s most advanced techniques in Part I, she created the Protecting Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms[21] as an alternative, effectively protects her and attacks anything within range with sharp streams of chakra emitted from her techniques. By Part II, she had grown accustomed to more of her clan’s techniques while further developing her own like the Protecting Eight Trigrams One Hundred Twenty-Eight Palms just prior to the mission to the Land of Whirlpools. During Pain’s invasion, Hinata could use the Gentle Step Twin Lion Fists, a technique that drains the target of their chakra where struck. During the Fourth Shinobi World War, Hinata could use the Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm to attack targets outside her physical range or deflect incoming attacks,[22] which increases in power if used in conjunction with others.[23] She also mastered the Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms in the war.[24] By the time she reaches adulthood, she became well-known for her mastery of the Gentle Fist.[25] As an adult, she could even knock out a target with a single strike to their tenketsu.[26][27] Hinata is also proven to be very resilient, having survived her mortal injuries and able to free Naruto from Pain’s chakra rods.
Other[]
In Part II, she has an affinity to Lightning and Water nature transformations. She also demonstrated proficiency in medical ninjutsu, able to use the Mystical Palm Technique to heal the wounded and herself.[28][29] Hinata is also proven to be a gifted knitter and cook as stated by Naruto and their two children.[30]
Nature Transformation[]

Hinata’s Lightning Release: Dragon Bullet Technique.
Part I[]
Prologue — Land of Waves[]
Main article: Naruto: A Shinobi Story/Prologue — Land of Waves
Ōizumi Village[]
Main article: Naruto: A Shinobi Story/Ōizumi Village Crisis
Chūnin Exams[]
Main article: Naruto: A Shinobi Story/Chūnin Exams (Arc)
Konoha Crush[]
Main article: Naruto: A Shinobi Story/Konoha Crush (Arc)
Sasuke Recovery Mission[]
Main article: Naruto: A Shinobi Story/Sasuke Recovery Mission
Part II[]
Tenchi Bridge Reconnaissance Mission[]
Main article: Naruto: A Shinobi Story/Tenchi Bridge Reconnaissance Mission
Akatsuki Suppression Mission[]
Main article: Naruto: A Shinobi Story/Akatsuki Suppression Mission
Land of Whirlpools (Arc)[]
Main article: Naruto: A Shinobi Story/Land of Whirlpools (Arc)
Itachi Uchiha Pursuit Mission[]
Main article: Naruto: A Shinobi Story/Itachi Uchiha Pursuit Mission
Pain’s Assault (Arc)[]
Main article: Naruto: A Shinobi Story/Pain’s Assault (Arc)
Five Kage Summit (Arc)[]
Main article: Naruto: A Shinobi Story/Five Kage Summit (Arc)
Fourth Shinobi World War (Arc)[]
Main article: Naruto: A Shinobi Story/Fourth Shinobi World War (Arc)
Birth of the Ten-Tails’ Jinchūriki[]
Main article: Naruto: A Shinobi Story/Birth of the Ten-Tails’ Jinchūriki
New Era[]
Main article: Epilogue
Trivia[]
- The name “Hinata” means “a place in the sun”. It can be written with the same kanji as her family name as “Hyūga” (日向).
- In In the Live Spectacle Naruto, the role of Hinata was played by Saki Takahashi.
- Hinata placed well in the Naruto character popularity polls, reaching an all-time high of sixth most popular.
- According to the databook(s):
- Hinata’s hobby is pressing flowers.
- Hinata’s wishes for a rematch with her cousin Neji, and for a match with her father, Hiashi.
- Hinata’s favorite foods are red bean soup and cinnamon rolls, while her least favorite are dishes such as crabs and shrimp.
- Hinata has completed 33 official missions in total: 10 D-rank, 14 C-rank, 8 B-rank, 1 A-rank, 0 S-rank.
- Hinata’s favorite phrase is “self-confidence” (自信, jishin).
- Hinata’s name is referred as a pure white lily,[31] the same flowers that were put on Neji’s grave.[32]
- In the fourth databook, Hinata’s nature affinity is Fire and Lightning, but in the fanon storyline her affinities are Lightning with Water being a close second which the author intended to make her to become the first Hyūga to break old traditions, becoming a more rounded ninja and forging her own path. This would set an example for the rest of the Hyūga clan to evolve over stagnating in their ways.
- During a 2010 interview, Kishimoto stated that many who work with him have told him Hinata is more of a heroine than Sakura.
- In the omake for Naruto: Shippūden episode 165, Sakura accuses Hinata of trying to become the main heroine of the series because of her popularity, much to Hinata’s confusion.
- In a series of interviews from 2015,[33] Kishimoto revealed he had planned on Naruto and Hinata getting together since the middle of the manga, even commenting that Naruto and Hinata were meant to be since she acknowledged him before even Iruka. Not only that, Kishimoto confirmed that Hinata was his favorite female character during an interview with Viz in October 2015 due to her kindness.[34]
- According to Hyō no Sho, while in the Academy, Hinata had an A in taijutsu, cooperation, and classroom attitude, a B in ninjutsu and genjutsu, and an F in positivity.
- In the anime, Hinata holds the title of “Legendary Queen of Gluttony” (伝説の大食い女王, Densetsu no Ōgui Joō) at Ichiraku Ramen, having finished a record of 46 bowls of ramen in a single sitting.[35] In the 260th chapter of Naruto: A Shinobi Story, Hinata and Naruto hold the record of 50 bowels of ramen in one setting, holding the titles of Legendary King/Queen of Gluttony (伝説の大食い王/い女王, Densetsu no Ōgui Ō/Joō), respectively, at Ichiraku Ramen.
- Studio Pierrot’s Settei’s sheets show that Hinata was 120 cm when Naruto saved her from three bullies.
Quotes[]
- (To Neji) “I will never go back on my word… Because that too is my nindō, my ninja way!”[36]
- (To herself) “Naruto… I have always watched you… Watched you for many years… Why? I don’t know why, but whenever I look at you… I feel more courage within me… It makes me feel like I can accomplish something if I try… It makes me feel like I am worth something…”[37]
- (To Naruto) “In my eyes…you’re a proud failure! When I look at you, I get an intense feeling in my heart… Because you’re not perfect… Because you fail…you have the strength to get back up… Because I believe that is what true strength is…”[38]
- (To Naruto) “I used to always cry and give up…I made many wrong turns… But you… You helped me find the right path… I always chased after you… I wanted to catch up to you… I wanted to walk beside you all the time… I just wanted to be with you… You changed me! Your smile is what saved me! That is why I’m not afraid to die protecting you! Because… I love you…”[39]
- (To herself) “Naruto… I’ve always been chasing after you… Even now… But once this war ends, I’m going to stop once and for all… Because next time, I will be by your side, holding your hand…walking with you! Please wait for me!!”[40]
- (To Naruto) “Neji just said…that your life is not just your own anymore… Do you understand what he meant? Your words and desire to not let your comrades die… Neither of them are lies! What inspired Neji and carried him this far were those very principles! It’s not just you, Naruto…we all hold those same words and feelings within our hearts. They’re what bind our lives together and make us comrades. If we all give up and discard those words and feelings now, Neji’s sacrifice will have been for nothing… And that is when your comrades truly die, for you are no longer comrades then. That’s how I feel… Therefore…stand up together with me, Naruto… Because never going back on one's word…is my ninja way too!”[41]
References[]
- ↑ Zai no Sho, page 31
- ↑ The Last: Naruto the Movie
- ↑ Boruto episode 18
- ↑ Naruto: A Shinobi Story chapter 260
- ↑ Naruto: A Shinobi Story chapter 201
- ↑ Naruto: A Shinobi Story chapter 201
- ↑ Naruto chapter 78, page 10
- ↑ Naruto chapter 80, pages 8-9
- ↑ Naruto chapter 437, pages 10-12
- ↑ Naruto chapter 526, pages 10-12
- ↑ Naruto: A Shinobi Story Epilogue
- ↑ Naruto episode 151
- ↑ Naruto episode 150
- ↑ Naruto chapter 196, page 8
- ↑ Naruto chapter 611, page 11
- ↑ Naruto chapter 394, page 15
- ↑ Naruto episode 149
- ↑ Sasuke Shinden: The Teacher’s Star Pupil
- ↑ Naruto chapter 78, page 10
- ↑ Naruto chapter 617, pages 12-13
- ↑ Naruto episode 151
- ↑ Naruto chapter 614, page 10
- ↑ Naruto chapter 521, page 10
- ↑ Naruto chapter 633, pages 5-6
- ↑ “Boruto: Road to B”, page 2
- ↑ Naruto: Shippūden episode 284
- ↑ Sasuke Shinden
- ↑ Naruto: Shippūden episode 293
- ↑ Naruto: A Shinobi Story chapter 514
- ↑ Naruto: A Shinobi Story Epilogue
- ↑ Jin no Sho, pages 154-157
- ↑ Naruto chapter 699
- ↑ ANN Interview
- ↑ SJ Podcast Interview
- ↑ Boruto episode 12
- ↑ Naruto chapter 80, page 1
- ↑ Naruto chapter 80, pages 6-7
- ↑ Naruto chapter 98, pages 12-13
- ↑ Naruto chapter 437, pages 10-12
- ↑ Naruto chapter 573, pages 9-10
- ↑ Naruto chapter 615, pages 10-12