Chapter 32: Hyuga Haruka
As he wondered what his grandfather meant, he thought back to the day he heard about Rayzen, after coming from the camping trip.
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Haruka and Yumi practiced the gentle fist style together like always in Haruka's courtyard. After practice, they were in the middle of sparring, when they saw Minori coming in a bit sweaty and tired.
Yumi asked a bit concerned: " What happened Sister?"
Minori smiled as she replied: " Nothing, I met an interesting guy at the academy. "
Haruka and Yumi decided to take a break, as they came to Minori's side to hear more. Yumi asked with a mischievous smile:
" Fufufu... Are you in love, sister?"
Minori blushed a bit, but remembered Rayzen telling her that he will help her get a girlfriend, which made her want to beat him up. She chided Yumi: " Is my little Yumi getting all naughty, after having a fiance? "
This time both Haruka and Yumi blushed, looked at each other and then avoided each other's gaze.
Yumi retorted in irritation : " Hmmm... Tell us about your lover! Or I'll tell Mother!"
Minori sighed as she narrated what happened at the academy to them.
Yumi: " Hmph... that dummy Dai deserves a beating. "
Haruka also remarked as he clenched his fist: " I heard he is banned from going to the academy. Such a bad person deserves a beating. I'll make sure to beat both of them when I have enough strength, Sister."
Minori was happy that Yumi got such a person of quality as Haruka and she acknowledged his remark.
Minori continued speaking as she said: " Anyway, he made a deal with me, he will help me get stronger."
Yumi asked mischievously : " Oh! What does he want in return?"
Minori sighed as she said : " I don't know, he didn't ask anything. He told me that we are friends and if he needs anything, he will not hesitate to ask. "
Yumi: " What if he says, he wants you?... hehehe"
Minori was speechless by her sister's remark. She thought of her interaction with Rayzen and came out clean: " Well, even though he is a good guy, he is a bit of pervert and a playboy and the main thing is that he thinks I am a boy."
Yumi and Haruka couldn't hold their laughs.
Yumi was literally laughing in tears, while Haruka tried his best to maintain his composure. Minori then chased her sister to give her a nice 'massage' on the butt for her naughtiness.
After playing around, the three of them decided to spar with each other as was their routine. Minori always had the upper hand being more experienced, but she was closely followed by Haruka.
Even though Haruka was young, he was closing the margin between his and Minori's combat power at a very fast pace. Yumi always tried to keep up, but still for her age she was much better than average.
But, in today's spar, both Haruka and Yumi could feel the difference between them and Minori. Yumi couldn't help but ask Haruka: " Did you feel that she is stronger, Haru?"
Haruka replied: " Yes, her combat power has increased. Her fighting style is a bit more refined than the last time."
Minori cleared their doubts as she said: " Told you didn't I? That guy is really strong and a top genius in fighting. He helped me improve this much over the days you guys went for camping. "
Haruka deep inside his soul felt that he would have a tremendous change, if he too trained with him. So he asked: " What's his name?"
Minori replied : " Uchiha Rayzen!"
Both Haru and Yumi was suprised as they asked in doubt: " Uchiha! Are you sure?"
Minori smiled as she said: " I know what you mean. But he is an oddball! "
Haru then asked a bit hesitantly: " Sister, Can you ask him If I can train with him too? I feel that a variety in training might provide me with some benefits."
Minori nodded to her brother- in- law.
' If he too can get stronger, I don't have to worry about Yumi.'
Yumi feeling left out also wanted to join: " Me too! If Haru goes, I want to go too."
Minori smiled as she pinched her little sister's nose as she said: " Then you need to get stronger and keep up with us."
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Haruka would never have thought at that time, that he would want to beat to a pulp the person he previously respected.
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The knowledge of Hyuga's are not to be underestimated. It is evident from their signature move, Eight Trigrams : 64 palms, that with each set of palms, the speed of the strike increases so much so that you could only see the afterimages of their hands.
So for an old well established clan that specialised in fighting at close combat and short range, they would surely have methods to increase the body's strength and agility without any setback or permanent harm to the body. And these methods had been improved up on for generations.
Over the days, Haru felt the rising prowess of his body following the instructions of his grandfather, using certain herbs and training accordingly.
And sparring with Rayzen accelerated the process and made his flaws visible for him.
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As the days passed, Rayzen was not able to relax, rather he barely took the time to relax . But he still never forgot to eat at the right times and sleep for the right amount of hours. This could be mainly attributed to something bad he experienced in his previous life.
He made increasing amount of shadow clones for training and studying, on par with the increase in his chakra. He used one of the shadow clones to sit in class and the same clone was used for sparring with Haruka. Not only did it do that, but the clone was used to train and spar with the rest of his friends and sisters.
The only one he fought with his real body was Asami. It was because she knew he could use shadow clones and will actively try to instant kill his clone. Even though it was useful experience for him, it disturbed the concentration of the real body, when it was doing something that required intense focus, whenever the clone died.
His intense accumulation of knowledge from the library aside, he invested his time in trying to create chakra vibration, inspired from the concept of true essence vibration, and refining the C rank nintaijutsu, Ninja Art: Micro-Burst.
It should also be known that Rayzen had a motive in sparring against Haru on his request. The nintaijutsu, Micro-Burst was inspired from the Hyuga's Gentle style. Hence the source of inspiration for the technique would help Rayzen with refining Micro-Burst jutsu. Sparring with Haru, helps him understand the intricacies to their technique and provide him with inspiration to improve the nintaijutsu.
It could be argued that Rayzen could just copy the fighting style of the Hyuga's using his two tomoe Sharingan's copying ability. But that would just be blindly copying the technique and he would need to spent a considerable number of years to make the technique his own and more years to further receive inspiration from the technique.
It would be much easier, if he was just fighting Haru and taking what he want from his technique and receiving more chances of inspiration from the spar. Spars with Minori further helped the cause. Nonetheless, he helped in their training and pointing out their flaws, as a means of compensation.
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