Game of Shadows by Adrian King1

Chapter 81

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Cover Art: Kissuli.

Chapter 81

"You are doing great Hanabi," Eiji praised as he looked at both Hyuuga sisters move through the Gentle Fist katas next to each other. Both of them had sweat running down their brows as they concentrated both on their movement and also on something else. Hinata had green chakra pooling on her hands as she moved, applying her knowledge of Iryojutsu as she moved through her combat stances.

Eiji was fairly sure she was trying to combine the Gentle Fist with medical techniques. That had potential, he supposed, but it sounded to him like something a little out there. Coming from him, that said a lot. Then again, maybe the Byakugan and the Hyuuga's fighting style could help with that? That, he didn't know.

On the other hand, the younger sister was doing the same thing but instead of medical techniques, she was using the Living Thread technique he'd taught her. He'd had to ask for permission from Hiashi, obviously, and the man had been present through the whole 'lesson' as it were. Even now, the Hyuuga Clan head was sitting next to him, overseeing the training with him.

The girl had been very enthusiastic about the Jutsu, and had dived right into it once she learned how to do it. Hanabi had been even more eager to get better at it when her father had asked if the threads could be used just like the tip of their fingers in their Gentle Fist style. That was something Eiji wasn't sure about, obviously, but some experimentation had the Clan Head saying that it may be possible.

That brought some concern to Eiji though, as he looked at both girls.

'They are both good,' He thought, which would normally be a good thing. Instead, it worried him. 'What will you do, Hiashi? Will you have one of them under your clan's Cursed Seal?'

Obviously, he couldn't just ask that to the man, but it was something that had been in his mind a whole lot at that moment. He'd been interacting with the Hyuga sisters a lot more, especially the younger one, and that had brought to mind things that had slipped his mind before. Eiji didn't know what he would do if one of his friends was placed under such a thing.

He might go full Danzo on the whole place, if he was honest.

He hoped everyone realized that. He'd made abundantly clear that he cared about his group of friends and the lengths he would go to keep them safe. If the Hyuuga Clan tried their luck... well, that would be their undoing, he supposed.

"Worries for the future, Eiji," Hachi said in his mind and he reluctantly agreed. It was still something to think about though.

With the crackle of lightning, his hand twitched and his expression turned into a grimace. 'Lightning Manipulation training sucks,' He thought, momentarily distracted. He waved off Hinata when she started moving to heal his fingers.

The first step for that particular nature manipulation was to have sparks fly between the user's fingers without damaging them. Anko had joked saying that it was the fastest to either be picked up or dropped since it was the only chakra affinity that hurt the user when trained. Granted, it was just a static shock at most, but when done constantly it piled up. It also, inconveniently, made it impossible to train that with clones.

Thus, his clone was working on Fire Manipulation instead, in an exercise where he had lit up the center of a leaf and then had to stop the burn from reaching the borders. It was something that had stirred old memories in Eiji's mind about seeing that somewhere, but he couldn't, for the life of him, remember where. Maybe he'd seen something similar in a story back in his old life? It was a possibility, he supposed.