Hinata Hyūga

1. 1
   The disinherited heiress

   Judged too gentle to lead

   Hinata is raised as the Hyūga heiress, but her father decides she is too timid and too soft for the role. In a match to settle the succession she will not truly hurt her sister Hanabi, and is passed over — handed instead to the care of Kurenai Yūhi.

2. 2
   Team 8

   A place outside the clan

   Placed on Team 8 with Kiba Inuzuka and Shino Aburame under Kurenai, Hinata finds a corner of the shinobi world away from the Hyūga main house and the pressure that came with it.

3. 3
   Chūnin ExamsDebut Arc · Chūnin Exams

   Standing her ground

   In the Chūnin Exams, Hinata is matched against her own cousin, Neji, who tells her she cannot change what she is. She loses the fight badly — nearly fatally — but for the first time she refuses to back down.

4. 4
   Watching Naruto

   An example to follow

   Hinata takes Naruto's stubbornness — his flat refusal to quit — as the model for the person she wants to be. Away from anyone's notice, she trains, and slowly stops being the girl the clan wrote off.

5. 5
   Pain's Assault

   Stepping in front of Pain

   When Pain has Naruto pinned and helpless, Hinata throws herself between them. She tells Naruto she loves him and fights on though she is hopelessly outmatched — the bravest thing she ever does.

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   Fourth Shinobi World War

   On the front line

   Hinata fights through the Fourth Shinobi World War as a capable kunoichi in her own right, and steadies Naruto on the battlefield in the moment his will nearly breaks.

Hinata fights in the Gentle Fist, the Hyūga clan's signature style. Paired with her Byakugan — which sees through obstacles, gives almost a full sphere of vision, and reveals the body's chakra network — the Gentle Fist lets her strike the exact points where chakra flows and shut them down with the lightest touch. Judged weak as a child, she built most of her strength through quiet, stubborn training meant to prove that judgement wrong.

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• Who is Hinata Hyūga?+

  Hinata Hyūga is a kunoichi of Konohagakure and a member of the Hyūga clan, originally its heiress. She begins the series as a timid girl overlooked by her family and grows into a brave fighter, best remembered for standing between Naruto Uzumaki and Pain.
• Do Hinata and Naruto get together?+

  Yes. Hinata admired and loved Naruto for most of the series, and confessed it during Pain's assault on Konoha. After the events of Naruto: Shippūden the two marry. Narutodle freezes character data at Shippūden's end, so the game lists her by her Hyūga details.
• What is the Byakugan?+

  The Byakugan is the Hyūga clan's ocular kekkei genkai. It grants the user almost 360-degree vision, sight through solid objects and across long distances, and a clear view of the chakra network — the basis of the clan's Gentle Fist fighting style.
• Why was Hinata disinherited from the Hyūga clan?+

  Hinata's father, Hiashi, judged her too gentle and unsure to lead the clan. In a match meant to decide the succession, Hinata would not bring herself to truly hurt her younger sister Hanabi and lost, so Hanabi became heiress in her place.
• What is Hinata's fighting style?+

  Hinata fights with the Gentle Fist, the Hyūga clan style. Using the Byakugan to see an opponent's chakra network, she strikes the precise points along it — the tenketsu — to do internal damage and shut down chakra flow. Her own signature technique is the Twin Lion Fists.
• Has Hinata Hyūga been a Narutodle answer?+

  Hinata is in the daily answer pool of 210 characters. The Previous Narutodle Appearances list on this page shows every date she was the Classic answer, each linking to a replayable archive puzzle.
• How do you guess Hinata in Narutodle?+

  Hinata's Hyūga clan and the Byakugan in her Kekkei Genkai column always appear together and narrow the board to the roster's Hyūga. Her Genin rank then separates her from the clan's jōnin-level members.