Chapter 11: Chapter 11: 1 Year and Results of Training
Two figures darted through the training ground exchanging blows at high speed. Every hit and block was accompanied by a clash of little spikes of chakra. Though those spikes seemed harmless, if someone were hit in a tenketsu by those he would be quickly incapacitated.
Those spikes were the manifestation of the Gentle Sealing Pulse style. At that moment, only Hijiri and Hue were capable of utilizing it with such proficiency. The patriarch and the elders were still struggling with the Gentle Pulse style because of its steep requirements in chakra control.
At some point, while they were battling, Hijiri used the force of a collision to put some distance between them. Then he took out some explosive kunai and threw them at Hue.
Since they were too fast to dodge, Hue started spinning: "Eight Trigrams: Revolving Haven".
Hijiri unfazed prepared his next move. He started puffing his stomach and cheeks, preparing to launch "Wind Release: Vacuum Grand Sphere" when the Revolving Haven stopped spinning.
But, outside the norm, the revolving sphere of chakra didn't stay still. Instead, it was quickly launched towards Hijiri.
Hijiri was hit by the technique, only to, shortly after, disappear in a cloud of smoke. Instead, he appeared behind Hue, who was still in her original position. As he was going to hit her she disappeared in a big cloud of smoke only to reappear a meter ahead with her palm outstretched: "Eight Trigrams: Vacuum palm".
The vacuum blast passed through the smoke without hitting anything. Caught in a premonition, she sidestepped, so evading a chop aimed at her head.
(Hijiri): "Ho? You evaded that."
Hue answered puffing out her non-existent chest:: "Of course. Even if I don't know how you manage to evade my byakugan, my instincts honed through flicker and chops to the head will never lie!"
(Hijiri): "Okay… And I see that you already mastered the "Charging Revolving Heaven" that I showed you."
(Hue): "Of course. I worked hard and I now can easily shoot the "Revolving Heaven" every time. Now, will you tell me how do you manage to evade my byakugan?"
(Hijiri): "It's a combination of the camouflage technique and senjutsu chakra."
(Hue): "I know the camouflage technique but what is senjutsu chakra?"
(Hijiri): "Is the combination of natural energy with chakra. Something I grasped through meditation."
(Hue): "Ugh. Not meditation again"
She was thinking about her sufferings due to boredom and all the times she fell asleep only to be woken up with a chop on her head.
(Hijiri): "Don't worry. You don't have to learn it. First of all, you would need about 5 times the amount of chakra you currently have. Secondly, even if you manage to perceive natural energy there is a high risk for you to die. Even I came close to death trying to master it."
(Hue): "Now I kinda want to learn it."
(Hijiri): "It needs at least 5 additional years of meditation."
(Hue): "And now I don't want anymore."
Hue pouted.
(Hijiri): "Pfff. Hahaha."
(Hue): "Why are you laughing?"
(Hijiri): "You're cute when you are pouting."
(Hue): "Hmpf."
(Hijiri): "Come on, let's go home."