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― Hinata Hyūga’s entire jutsu arsenal

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This post will contain evidence in picture format directly from the manga Naruto (1999 - 2014) created by Masashi Kishimoto and published by Shueisha in 1999. I will also use information from the official databooks of Naruto.

In this informative post will explain all the jutsu that Hinata Hyūga has used in canon, meaning this will only include techniques that the author of the manga and the novels, illustrated by Kishimoto, have given her.

This analysis will be crossposted in AO3.

Sakura’s jutsu arsenal (with 24 techniques) Ino’s jutsu arsenal (with 14 techniques)

In order to talk about any jutsu, like ninjutsu, taijutsu or genjutsu, the term of stamina must be explained.

Stamina is accomplished by mixing mental and physical energies together, and it is the energy that fuels any kind of jutsu, with chakra or without chakra. These mental energies are different from the Yin and Yang Release.

The amount of stamina is proportionate to the number of jutsu the user can perform. This means that the more stamina the ninja possesses, the greater the repertoire of jutsu attacks and the more quantity there will be to transform into chakra, and, therefore, into a jutsu.

On the other hand, in order to perform ninjutsu or genjutsu, chakra is kneaded and expelled through hand seals.

Although Hinata does not have a high statistic for hand seals and, therefore, she would not perform any jutsu as easily, she acquired a fair knowledge for a ninja from a shinobi background after the time skip. Her proficiency in hand seals went from 1 point in the first and second databook, to 3 in the third databook.

Hinata is known for her taijutsu skills, which stem from being a member of the Hyūga Clan. Hinata does not need to transform her stamina into chakra because she does not use ninjutsu. However, she is able to blend her natural energies to create stamina and perform taijutsu. She does not have great amounts of stamina, but she counts with delicate chakra control, able to perform one of her clan’s most difficult Hiden jutsu.

The third databook describes stamina as the foundation of chakra and the hand seals as the knowledge in that art, the medium in which a jutsu is performed and the proficiency in executing said techniques.

Although Hinata has always had low stamina, her proficiency in taijutsu has always been her highest value and on par with Sasuke Uchiha and Kiba Inuzuka. Chakra reserves, or the stamina required to perform jutsus, are increased with time and training.

Hinata is only proficient in taijutsu and that is her field of expertise. She is originally a short-range fighter that counts with visual sensing skills. Her statistics indicate that she has a fair knowledge of ninjutsu, able to use one form of it.

All of her Hyūga hijutsu are mostly of attack nature (A), but she can also use defense and supplementary techniques (D & S) and classified as Kekkei Genkai; she is a close-range fighter (C) but she can use one mid-range technique (M).

Hinata has a low stat in genjutsu and she has never been seen using it in battle, as well as ninjutsu, but she makes up for it by taking advantage of her eyesight to spot ninja using illusions.

This problem probably stems from the lack of Yin Release that would limit her to use certain techniques like genjutsu, or Yang Release hindering her from learning medical ninjutsu, among others.

KEKKEI GENKAI - DŌJUTSU:

A blood limit is a special kind of technique passed down from parents to children within a clan. This special technique can only be genetically inherited and is different from Hiden techniques. Kekkei Genkai and Hijutsu are not the same, Hiden jutsu can be taught to anybody.

Hamura Ōtsutsuki passed down his blood limit, Byakugan, to the Hyūga Clan.

» BYAKUGAN (Kekkei Genkai): The White Eye is an eye technique inherited from generation to generation within the same family by Hamura Ōtsutsuki. The Byakugan is one of the Three Great Dōjutsu along with the Rinnegan and the Sharingan, being the weakest of them.

This eye technique is able to see several kilometers in the distance and the range is increased with time and training, also it also has a 360 degree of vision. Moreover, the Byakugan acts like a technique similar to X-rays, able to see the chakra points, bones or even internal organs.

Hinata possesses the longest ranged Byakugan known in the clan. She is able to see 20 kilometers ahead of her and this is probably an ability inherited from her father as a member of the main branch. Hiashi was also able to see the destruction os a very far-off city during the Fourth Shinobi World War.

TAIJUTSU:

The art of ninjutsu is the molding of stamina for physical exertion. The proficiency in taijutsu depends on the training and strength of the ninja rather than in the chakra or chakra control. Taijutsu is mainly a game of attack and evasion.

Hinata’s style of taijutsu consists of the gentle fist technique, which is the power of inflicting internal damage affecting the chakra pathway system and the organs.

Her area of expertise is striking the keirakukei, disabling the enemy physically. The Hyūga Clan’s signature taijutsu style is actually called Gentle Fist due to their characteristics.

As an adult, even if she does not actively participate in missions or fights, Hinata is recognized as a master of the Gentle Fist.

» GENTLE FIST (Hijutsu): The Hyūga signature taijutsu, regarded as the strongest form of hand-to-hand combat due to their ability to disarm an enemy or even kill them. This fighting style attacks the enemy’s chakra pathway system, closing their points and damaging their internal organs in the process.

An enemy without the ability to regenerate internal organs or reactivate the flow of chakra will fall victim of the Gentle Fist.

The Gentle Fist is a fighting style, meaning that they are classified as hijutsu because their moves are passed down from generation to generation known as “Hyūga style”.

The majority of these moves or techniques must be used together with the Byakugan in order to see the keirakukei and the tenketsu and know which places to target. However, the hijutsu fighting style of the Gentle Fist can be used in battle for those who do not possess Byakugan as one more form of taijutsu, which is the case of Boruto Uzumaki.

The Hyūga Clan use these special moves and they inflict this damage by inserting their own chakra into the enemy’s points using their fingers or the palm of their hands.

Hinata’s techniques are all derivations of the Gentle Fist:

— Eight Trigrams Sixty Four Palms (Attack, ?-rank): This powerful taijutsu technique is passed down to the members of the Main Branch of the clan. It hits 64 of the chakra points, making the enemy unable to move.

Hinata achieved this technique at 16 years old.

— Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm (Attack, ?-rank): Upon locating the vital points of the enemy, the user unleashes an extremely fast strike forceful enough to blow them away with a powerful shock wave.

This technique is similar to Neji’s rotation, but focusing on one target instead.

• Derived jutsu — Eight Trigrams Vacuum Wall Palm: This jutsu is a derivation of the Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm and it is used to push an enemy back with a powerful shock wave together with an ally. It can be used as a defensive technique. Hinata used it together with Neji during the Fourth World Shinobi War.

This technique is a collaboration jutsu too.

— Palm Bottom (Attack, ?-rank): Despite not being described as a technique, this move is used by Hinata during the Chūnin Exams and is the basic Gentle Fist move. Similar to the Sixty Four Palms and Vacuum Palm, the user directs chakra into the enemy to inflict damage.

— Twin Lion Fists (Attack, Defense & Supplementary; ?-rank): Hinata’s signature jutsu, this high-level technique is passed down only to the Main Branch of the family. It is extremely difficult to learn because it requires delicate chakra control, a feat that requires a dōjutsu.

The user of this technique can use a superior form of the Gentle Fist that drains the keirakukei and amplifies the destructive power. It is also a technique that enhances the power of the Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms.

However, Hinata is the only user of this technique and she has never successfully landed a hit on a target, so the power of his technique is actually unknown. Without the help of the databook, the Twin Lion Fists would be a technique that is only visually pleasing but with a mysterious strength, so it is a strong technique due to its description, not of its accuracy.

• Derived jutsu — Twin Lion Fists Crumbling Attack: This technique is the same as the normal Twin Lion Fists. However, this time it is allegedly infused with Hamura’s chakra, given to her in order to destroy the Tenseigan, although unable. The lions change their color to purple, possibly due to the power given to destroy the vessel.

COLLABORATION JUTSU » Ninjutsu-Dōjutsu - Byakugan-aided Mind Body Switch (?-rank): Using her Byakugan, Hinata helps Ino locate Obito Uchiha in order to manipulate him and redirect the Bijū Bomb.

» Taijutsu-ninjutsu - Spiraling Twin Lion Fists (?-rank): Because Hinata can touch the Tenseigan, she combines her best jutsu, the Twin Lion Fists, with Naruto’s destructive Rasengan through a chakra transfer technique. This way, their chakra are symbiotically merged, allowing Naruto to receive immunity to the Tenseigan and allowing Hinata to gather enough quantity of chakra from the Rasengan to make up for her low power.

This collaboration allows them to destroy the Tenseigan.

NINJUTSU:

» Chakra Transfer Technique (?-rank, ?): This jutsu allows one person to share their chakra with another for their use or simply mix them together. This is a simple technique and it requires transforming stamina into chakra so it becomes ninjutsu.

Hinata does the same thing she did when she performed the Spiraling Twin Lion Fists. In order to save him from the draining effects of the Tenseigan, Hinata merges her chakra with Naruto so Toneri cannot extract more power.

Contrary to popular belief, Hinata does not replenish Naruto’s reserves because received chakra did not augment her natural pool of stamina. Sasuke and Naruto coming in contact with Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki and obtaining the power to seal Kaguya away did not augment their chakra reserves because they are naturally blessed with large pools.

It is also impossible for somebody to have as much chakra as Naruto, who counts with Kurama, his own reserve and a little of the Bijūs’ chakra. Hinata could not destroy the Tenseigan alone because the lacked power and chakra. The received power did not boost her abilities as a ninja.

Likewise, Hinata is not a reincarnation of Hamura Ōtsutsuki and her immunity to the Tenseigan comes from being a member of the Hyūga Clan, his descendants.

Hinata is not a very versatile ninja in terms of jutsu styles, being only proficient in taijutsu, but she can perform different styles of taijutsu, which add to her combat variety. Although she is taijutsu oriented only, she can merge her chakra with others, a common form of ninjutsu.

She never meant to surpass anybody but her own limits, but she became a ninja worthy of being a member of her clan and a very capable kunoichi.

Hinata is currently still of chūnin rank and she has no plans of ever being promoted. She is a retired kunoichi that does not go on missions anymore, she takes care of her family as a full-time housewife. Still, Hinata does train her children in the art of the Gentle Fist.

This list features 10 techniques. Of them, 7 are taijutsu, 1 is her dōjutsu, 1 is ninjutsu and 3 are collaboration jutsu. Her taijutsu stems from the Gentle Fist, making it 1 technique with 6 variants:

1. Byakugan 2. Eight Trigrams Sixty Four Palms 3. Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm 4. Palm Bottom 5. Twin Lion Fists 6. Twin Lion Fists Crumbling Attack 7. Chakra Transfer Technique 8. Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm Wall 9. Spiraling Twin Lion Fists 10. Byakugan-aided Mind Body Switch.

She performs 8 of these jutsu by herself (derived from the Gentle Fist):

She performs 3 of these jutsu with somebody else as a collaboration:

8. Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm Wall 9. Spiraling Twin Lion Fists 10. Byakugan-aided Mind Body Switch.

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