Tilting her head slightly, Hinata looks on confused a moment before the whispers that had made the rounds of the compound drifted back to mind. Her expression shifting from confusion to shock and settling into mild amusement as realization dawned on her.

"So that was you, someone said one of the jounin had been practicing creating a new jutsu and it backfired on them." The village might be full of people that talked, but the story always ended up mutating somehow along the way. Though it's clear that she's taking that story with a considerable amount of doubt. So far the only confirmed details she had was that a jounin was involved.