[Hyūga Honnō]

… Silent. A little too silent.

Returning to the Hyūga’s compound was relieving, but there was a constant air of tension threatening to break through the makeshift defenses of any Hyūga who prayed for the reform to prevail. Hon knew that things were far from done. Centuries, nay, more than a millennia of godsent tradition could not be toppled over so easily. Living in the confines of his family’s space seemed to make the Jōnin more alert and attentive… and equally suspicious.

Still, today was a new day… Hon now had a Genin team of three – Yamanaka Itsuki, Uchiha Tokaku, and the star of today, the fragrant heiress herself. Hyūga Asuka. He could not allow himself to be late for today’s tutoring, for despite training her along the other Genin in broader Shinobi arts, when it came to the Gentle Fist, then it was strictly for her alone. The others... might understand that, as Hon was a Hyūga himself, he would have a bloodbound oath to allocate more of his time to teaching Asuka, since he was also in possession of certain Gentle Fist Techniques that only she could learn.

For example... hmh, yes, that could be a useful Technique. It was one he’d mastered years ago, but one step at a time.

Since it was pretty quiet this morning, Hon awaited Asuka’s arrival in the middle of a slightly sandy field between a few houses that used to be reserved for Main Branch members only. Weirdly, he was sitting atop his wooden staff with pristine balance, in a cross-legged position and playing a somber melody on his dragon flute. It was a pleasant way to wake up his family, and both Tsumori and Hirohito tolerated such an alarm clock.

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The Hyuuga compounds was quiet. It had seemed this way for a long time now, ever since her father died. It was a different kind of quiet now than it had been before. When Urashi was alive, the quietness was more forced, everyone from the servants to the other clan members tiptoed whenever they were walking around the compounds, careful not to catch his attention. She remembered that since the beginning of time she too had been careful, not wanting to enrage her father at all costs. And it would seem that everyone else shared that same sentiment.

But the calm she now felt was one foreign to her. She had asked her new teacher and subsequent team leader, Hyuuga Honno to teach her. As a member of her own clan, he knew things that she didn't know, and as Shigure was now absent most of the time from the compounds, she rarely had a chance to train with her older brother. Indeed, that was to be expected, since Shigure hadn't really had the time nor the energy to train her anyway. And now that she was part of a new team and finally freed from the shackles of her father and her home, she would be able to go out and train again, and learn new things from people she wanted to learn from.

The first person who came to mind was Honno.

He had peaked her interest as a person from the second she met him. The coffee jelly, his seemingly nonchalant personality and how he carried himself were all points of interest. And it didn't help that the first and last time they interacted was the bell test. Asuka would keep it to herself that secretly really liked that test, as a testiment of her own strengths and weaknesses, while testing her ability to work together in a group. Dressed in her usual Hyuuga hoddie and khaki pants, the girl made her way to the training grounds, where she would hear the sound of a dragon flute, humming somewhat of a sad tune. She would find Honno sitting on top of his staff, looking like somewhat of a sage.

"Honno-sensei!" she would call out to him, breaking the tranquility with a timid call of his name.

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[Hyūga Honnō]

… Perhaps that was more than enough flute for the morning. Its distinct tone had fulfilled its purpose, so Hon tucked it away and threw his field of vision over the distance between him and the younger Hyūga. Today’s lecture was aimed towards increasing Asuka’s arsenal of Gentle Fist Techniques, and while not a reserved Jutsu was planned to be taught today, Hon felt that its usage could prove bigger than many others.

When she called out to him, he rose his hand up in a gentle greeting, somewhat bashful that the Fragrant Heiress had gotten so familiar with him. Bless her. "Good morning, Asuka,” he greeted her with a faint smile before suddenly leaning on his hand grabbing the edge of his still standing wood bō. Then, with a fluid motion, his feet hit the ground and he spun the staff around in his hand before unequipping it and resting it tied to his back.

Of course, as per common courtesy in the household, he planted his right fist onto his left palm and bowed with a straight back. Branched or not, she was still the current Heiress until Lord Shigure begot children of his own. Also, it was just good manners to bow to your clansmen, like c’mon…

"It’s no secret that today’s lecture will be concerning the Gentle Fist… and if I recall correctly, you’re pretty good at exerting chakra from your palms already. It’s… it’s impressive for a Genin to have mastered the Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms such as you have. I mean it.” Hell, even he himself hadn’t mastered any of the consecutive palm-strike techniques yet… but he had been prohibited from doing so up until now, and it’d just feel dreadfully awkward to ask his own student to teach him anything. He wanted to be a role model, not a pushover…

"But… you technically don’t release chakra from your palms. You may know this, but we Hyūgas pride ourselves for our skill at controlling Tenketsu points,” he began to explain while performing the Tiger seal. His eyes would appear to turn pale, and bulky veins would appear around his face – his Byakugan had activated, and he highly prompted Asuka to do the same thing. "We have… all over our body, we have Tenketsus. They all – each and every single one of them – have the ability to release chakra. From the Tenketsu in your soles when you walk, to the Tenketsu in your palms when you strike… but also the Tenketsu in your belly. Your back. Your knees. Your scalp. Everywhere.”

Then, he sat down again on the blank ground and crossed his legs. "The first step in this lecture… you’ve been graded as having a solid grasp on regulating your chakra, Asuka. Show me if you can release chakra from somewhere other than your palms – simply release chakra from anywhere you decide.”

[Hyūga Asuka]

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As Honno bowed to her, she would extend one of her arms, palm facing upward as to stop the the man from such formalities. "Honno-sensei, there's no need for such formalities, especially between you and I..." The girl would bow to him in return, the respect shown of a student to a teacher. She understood the Hyuuga family traditions and culture, the strained relationship of branch and main house, and how the branch family were always seen as subpar. Although Shigure was actively trying to right the family's many wrongs in that regard, she still couldn't help but think that some people were too stuck in their ways. At least she herself would try to right the little wrongs that she herself was seeing.

Jyuuken training...she thought to herself, knowing that one of the main reasons she had really liked the prospect that her new teacher was a Hyuuga member was the fact that he could teach her Jyuuken techniques. Of course, she wanted to learn other things from Honno as well, and knew from the moment she laid eyes on him the very first day they met that he was one who was willing to part with knowledge without too much prompting. But it was rare to find a teacher who wanted to teach her her own clan techniques, especially because she was the clan heiress. Many main house members steered clear away from her, with the exception of her older brother, but her brother was never really there to teach her, for good reason.

When he mentioned the tenketsu points, the girl would nod her head. She had known for quite some time that one of the main points of the Jyuuken techniques was their ability to release chakra from any one of their tenketsu points, although admittedly, she had only been able to use the palms of her hands, much to the agreement of Honno. The only exception was when she had learned the Tenketsuj Needle technique, which used her fingers. But she had never tried to release chakra from any other point in her body. Of course, she had had no reason to up until this point. The girl would nod her head and close her eyes, focusing on her chakra flowing through her body. Her energy felt displaced, as though it wasn't focused. The girl struggled and when she opened her eyes again, she would simply stare at her teacher with a confused look on her face.

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[Hyūga Honnō]

… She tried, but upon close look, her chakra wasn’t released from any other Tenketsus than small mists of bluish energy emitting from her palms and fingers. It was a strange concept… to master Chakra Control, one had to teach one’s body how the entire network functioned. Knowing this as mere trivia, however, wasn’t enough – you’d need to train your body to be able to channel the chakra itself. When mending chakra with a handseal, your brain was doing most of the work – an image of chakra running through your body was the pathway to performing Jutsus – but in order to perform this Technique, she’d have to let all of her limbs do the mending themselves. Each part of her form had to grow capable of releasing chakra as if it was second nature to them.

She may not have been aware, but her palms releasing chakra wouldn’t require too much thinking either. Her palms… just did it.

"… We can still work with this, but it’ll take a while,” Hon informed her before walking up. As he now stood behind her, he rested a palm on her back – a blind spot without the Byakugan, but also a commonly vulnerable spot for ambushes – and she should be able to register that he was holding a hand on her back like this. "Let’s try and use pressure therapy. Right now, my hand’s on your back – should make it a little easier releasing chakra exactly here. As soon as you do that, I’ll narrow the area I’m pressing on, until you can release a needle’s size from your back. We’ll take it at your pace, so focus.”

[Hyūga Asuka]

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She was somewhat frustrated at this inability, unsure of what it was that she was doing wrong. The confused expression was matched with a certain degree of empathy as Honno walked up to her, telling her that it would take quite some time for her to be able to master this. Indeed, she had been relying too heavily on the use of her two hands, releasing chakra from them had come like second nature that she had now long forgotten how she had gotten to this point. He walked over to her and placed a hand on her back, the very place she knew that was the blindspot for all Hyuugas using the Byakugan.

"Pressure therapy..." she whispered quietly, closing her eyes to concentrate her energy yet again. The way his hand pressed against the point where he wanted her to release chakra did help, the pressure reminding her of the need to concentrate chakra to that point. It was like a push and pull effect, in some instances, where her once scattered brain and chakra found their focal point. Her brows furrowed slightly despite this, her energy traveling slowly towards the point where he was pressing against until she could finally release some of it from that point. It felt weird, weird enough for her to open her eyes in a jolt and look back at her teacher.

"Sensei..." she whispered quietly, her eyes still slightly wide from this revelation.

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[Hyūga Honnō]

… There it was. His own Byakugan could clearly see chakra slowly traveling towards the area on her back pushed on by his palm. Ever so slowly… the chakra accumulated, and then it released. A soft blow of chakra escaped from her blind spot and pushed his hand off. It sounded like a gentle clap.

Step 1 was on its way now. Clearly, this wasn’t enough to fully master the One-Blow Body Technique, but it was a good start. Hon had to let her repeat this exact thing plenty more times, until she could both do it with tougher impact and without him pressing a hand on her back.

"That’s it… repeat that. Just like you’d repeat your other Gentle Fist Techniques,” he beckoned her, "At some point, I’ll just remove my hand from your back. Just keep releasing chakra exactly from the same spot, got it?”

In these scenarios, cracking the code alone wasn’t enough. She needed to cramp down plenty of repetition and accumulate experience in this one method – the One-Blow Body Technique demanded that she mastered releasing chakra from every Tenketsu in her body…

But if she managed to master this Technique, then Kaiten – a Technique previously reserved for the Main House – would be so much easier for her to master as well.

"… Are you thirsty?” he asked after a while had passed by. It was important to keep the fragrant heiress refreshed… and some elders were watching them both. A few scoffs, a few commentaries, and then the elders left them alone again. Just like back when he trained with Lord Shigure… some people refused to learn.

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It was like learning how to ride a bike or learning how to skate or swim. She remembered distinctly the last time she had learned something that required such guidance, that wasn't a jutsu or anything related to the life of a shinobi. The girl could recall learning how to swim as a child, having her hands held until they were let go. The thought at the time had been frightening, and her body had reacted to the feeling, tensing immediately. Asuka had struggled the moment her hands were let go, flailing and trying to grasp at what she was to do now that she didn't have support. And she would have almost drowned, having been rescued in time.

The memory stuck with her for years.

Luckily, her Jyuuken training was different, and she wouldn't be placed in a life or death situation. Yet, even as Honno said that he was going to let go of his hold on the point on her back, her body subconsciously tensed, the chakra which had been flowing from her body through the point of contact disrupted. She closed her eyes, squeezed them shut as she tried to not think about her first ever swimming lesson. And it was fair to say that she didn't go swimming for many years after that, developing some form of unspoken trauma every time she even looked at water. It had taken years of coaxing before she found herself able to be in the water again. She didn't want this to happen to her training, still wanting desperately to prove to the world and to her clan that she wasn't just a useless figurehead compared to her older brother.

Despite the disruption, Asuka somehow managed to change her focus to the present, releasing chakra steadily after a few seconds of waver. It was helpful that she had the careful guidance of Honno, and soon she was able to release chakra without his help. In fact, it would surprise her later on that he would have removed his hand from her back awhile back, without her even realizing. When she finally stopped, the girl would nod her head to his question, although slightly confused by it, realizing then that there were some elders that had been watching them. "Would you like...some tea, sensei?" She smiled at Honno sweetly, thinking of the new sweets and tea she had seen in the kitchen earlier.

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[Hyūga Honnō]

She had improved at a steady pace. Good. His teachings were taking effect… maybe his old sensei was right. This teaching duty suited him, and it was very refreshing after his years of solitude. He felt like a solid, all-rounded Jōnin again, and he had his dear Genins to thank for that. Asuka included.

But while he had to train these Genin, he also had to train himself. Lord Shigure was insistent on him mastering all of the Main House Techniques in short time, to crack a hole through tradition itself and bring forth a wave in his revolution. He had that in the back of his head, even now… but he widened his eyes a little at the offer for tea. It wasn’t coffee, but it’d do.

"… Yes,” he simply answered with a still, monotone-as-ever look, which might’ve confused a few given the context of his grateful words, "You worked hard, so let’s rest. Afterwards, we’ll continue on another area, until our goal is reached… do you have coffee jellies? Do other Hyūgas-”

Hon went completely silent in the middle of his sentence. His eyes were aiming at someone else, now… a certain, elderly lady who passed by on the small, wooden bridge that connected several of the Main House complexes together. She glared at him for a brief moment, but nothing more. He could almost hear her scoff at the very sight of him…

His mother. Hirohito’s wife. She disappeared quickly.

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Asuka was delighted when Honno replied that he would like to have some tea, remembering instantly at the mention of coffee jelly, the first time the team had met up and how he had been eating one after another. She couldn't help but give a small giggle, having commented on how he loved eating coffee jelly from the moment she saw him. "Ah, I believe sensei loves coffee..." she said a little more lighthearted now that she was slowly warming up to the man. "And yes, we have coffee jellies regularly in our kitchen..." Although she was certain that not many of the main house liked it particularly.

She was about to say something else when she noticed Honno stop abruptly, perhaps mid-sentence, and stare at someone who had appeared at that moment. Asuka turned to allow her eyes wander to where he was looking, meeting the gaze of an older woman. From her memory, the woman was Honno's mother, having seen his mother once or twice in the Hyuuga compounds. The look he gave her was one of perhaps a caring son to his parent, and the fact that she said nothing and simply disappeared around the corner was somewhat sad. But then again, her father had done the same to her quite a few times in her lifetime, so she knew painfully well how devastating it seemed. Trying not to dwell on the matter, the girl pulled on one of his sleeves towards the main house kitchen.

"Come, sensei!" Asuka was perhaps a little more energetic than she usually carried herself. Some of the elders watching them turned to leave at this point, perhaps still unnerved by the fact that a branch family member was in their compounds. She shot some of them visible glares, pulling her teacher in a half run half walk. "I'll get you all the coffee jelly you want!" She smiled at the man genuinely at that point, leading him past a sliding door and a long hallway before reaching the kitchen. "Have a seat at the table and I'll go make you some coffee and take out some jelly"

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[Hyūga Honnō]

Regularly? Nice. Hon-sensei was genuinely surprised to be taught that – he often thought his tastes in sweets rather… unorthodox. Uncommon, maybe. But it only benefited him, in the long run, for it made his old residence of the Hyūga clan more homely. A note to call him home, to take him back from solitude once and for all.

But without his mother’s approval, it appeared. Would she ever grow out of her prejudice? Even if he was a smear on the wall, he was still her son. But Asuka pulled him out of his misery very quickly, impatient to treat him to their coffee jellies… hopefully, they were sour enough to make him forget things. That was what sour things were meant to do.

Man, still, the scene did catch the attention of other elders around them, and Hon-sensei didn’t really want to put Asuka under the bad spotlight. However, she appeared to pay no mind to it… she was stronger than he thought.

In order to honor that strength, he simply took a seat at the table as she said and rested on his knees patiently. Just a small break, then they could continue her training… and in due time, her control over her chakra would be phenomenal. Far sharper than when she first received her headband.

"Just a couple coffee jellies…”

He'd still occasionally play on his dragon flute, just to contribute to what was supposed to be her break, not his.