And that vessel of water, he accepted despite fiending for coffee. His eyes widened, however, right after touching the cup with his lips at Hitomi’s proposal to swap the Caged Bird Seal out with a new seal. Now that was idealistic, and idealistic things often took longer and required much more effort to realize. Another route he’d aid in to realize, wanting to free himself from his own fading chains that had no use today.
But he was hazed for a moment. Bringing up the Seal at any time brought him back to a very bad time in a very bad place. And yet, Hitomi’s words were at ends with his desires – he, too, wanted to eliminate the seal. Completely. And doing so was possible, just as anything else was – it just required his full dedication. There was no turning back once he decided to work this plan through.
"… If you’d asked me back when I returned, I… likely would’ve run out of the compound in fear,” he replied with a small cracking smile rising on his face, realizing that the words Lord Shigure spoke to him really did occur. He and his strength allowed him to return to his home and overcome many hurdles in his clouded mind, and now he was a fully functioning member of Konohagakure again. And a proud Hyūga who wouldn’t let any traum-
… His mother could scorn him all she wanted. She was only one, faulty human, after all.
But he wanted to hold his chest high for Hitomi’s sake. Her presence and encouragement gave him strength. "I’ll do it, then,” he replied, pure and simple, "You don’t have to worry about me, Hitomi. I told you before – to think less and do more can become our greatest strength. Ought to follow my own advice once in a while…”
To create a new Fūinjutsu required many things to be prepared – the sealing formula (design of the seal and the lines themselves), the chakra needed to manifest it in a stable state, focus on its targets that would be their eyes, and other parameters. "… It’s not impossible. I can convince Father to help as well – that is, if the other elders haven’t gotten him in a bind.”
The least he could do for the Main Branch after learning one of their techniques was to use it as a symbol – that the veil between the two branches was lifting off.
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