Byakugan Cat Swing

# Chapter 18: Byakugan · Cat Swing

[Ding, you have completed one Dance Activity, Dance Experience +15, General Experience +1, current level LV2 (15/500)]

[Ding, you have completed one Dance Activity, Dance Experience +15, General Experience +1, current level LV2 (30/500)]

[Ding, you have completed one Dance Activity, Dance Experience +15, General Experience +1, current level LV2 (45/500)]

"System, stop reporting similar activities one by one. Just give me a summary when I'm done!"

The notifications finally stopped, and Hyuga Ningyuan could dance in peace and teach the dance in peace.

He discovered that Yūhi Kurenai had surprisingly good talent in both learning and dancing. After teaching her something, she could pick it up after practicing three to five times, and afterward she basically never forgot it.

Moreover, her body was very flexible, with few movements she couldn't manage. This was probably due to her foundation in Taijutsu.

But in the future, she was clearly an Illusion-type ninja, not good at Taijutsu.

"Was it because Yūhi Shinku died?"

Without a parent in the house, there would naturally be a lack of proper guidance. Sasuke, born into a Fire Release clan, training in Lightning Release was another example.

Two hours passed in a flash. Yūhi Kurenai had basically learned Phoenix Dance of the Nine Heavens 1.0, and Hyuga Ningyuan could see his own progress too.

[Ding, you have completed a total of 24 Dance Activities, Dance Experience +360, General Experience +24, current level LV2 (360/500)]

[Ding, you have completed a total of 120 Breathing Activities, Breathing Experience +480, General Experience +120, current level LV4 (680/1000)]

Current General Experience Points: 444.

"Breathing level is rising pretty fast. Now I get 4 points per minute, 240 per hour. Only 320 points left to level up, just over an hour!"

Hyuga Ningyuan said goodbye to Yūhi Kurenai, and they each went home.

He had just arrived home—no, he had just stepped into the clan compound—when he felt something off about the clan's atmosphere.

Everyone was walking hurriedly, their expressions tense, as if something major was about to happen.

"Was war about to break out?" Hyuga Ningyuan thought. The Third Shinobi World War should still be far off, right?

Then, the Second War?

But the Second War had ended long ago, hadn't it?

Confused, Hyuga Ningyuan returned to his house and found Hyuga Mie busy in the kitchen as usual, nothing seeming out of the ordinary.

"Go take a bath first, then rest a bit. Dinner will be ready soon!"

"Okay!"

Ten minutes later, after putting his old clothes in the washing machine, Hyuga Ningyuan came downstairs and saw Hyuga Mie already placing dishes on the table.

Much more lavish than breakfast. There was even meat.

"What's the occasion today? Why are we eating so well?" Hyuga Ningyuan asked.

"It's your first day of school! And we'll be eating like this from now on!" Hyuga Mie smiled. "Starting today, you'll be undergoing formal training. How can you train on an empty stomach?"

"Oh, oh." Hyuga Ningyuan nodded, then heard Hyuga Mie ask with a teasing smile: "By the way, that girl with you—she's very cute, isn't she?"

"Huh?" Hyuga Ningyuan was startled, looking up: "How do you know?"

Hyuga Mie's lips curved: "After school let out, I saw you weren't back yet, so I went to look for you at the academy. I just didn't expect my child, only five years old, to already know how to find a girlfriend!"

Hyuga Ningyuan didn't have the tsundere attitude normal children would have. Instead, he nodded seriously: "Finding a girlfriend really should be done early. Otherwise, by the time you grow up, all the good girls will have been picked off by others!"

Hyuga Mie nodded at this. It was indeed true.

"By the way, can the Hyuga Clan marry outsiders?" Ningyuan asked.

He didn't really care about this rule. If by the time he was old enough to marry he still couldn't take control of the Hyuga Clan, then he'd have truly wasted his reincarnation.

He was just worried that the Branch Family members might not even have the right to befriend or date girls from other clans.

"You can!" Hyuga Mie nodded. "As long as she's not from the Uchiha!"

"Oh, oh!" Ningyuan nodded. But there weren't many named female characters in the Uchiha Clan—just Uchiha Mikoto and Uchiha Izumi.

The former had no hope for now, and the latter hadn't even been born yet.

[Ding, you have completed one Diet Activity, Diet Experience +2, General Experience +1, current level LV1 (6/100)]

"I'm full!" Ningyuan put down his chopsticks and asked: "By the way, when I came back, I noticed the clan seemed really tense. Did something happen?"

"I'm not sure about that!" Hyuga Mie shook her head. "I generally don't get involved in clan affairs."

"Oh!" Hyuga Ningyuan nodded. He was just curious anyway. Even if he found out, it wouldn't mean much. There was nothing he could do about anything right now.

Grind levels, grind levels. Get stronger first!

He walked around the room and the yard, picking up a few odds and ends, then clambered upstairs.

Closing the door, he held his breath and focused, then!

"Open Eyes!"

Chakra surged into the eye meridians, and Hyuga Ningyuan instantly felt his vision shift from color to black and white.

And his field of view shot straight through the room, expanding outward. In an instant, it spread nearly 500 meters!

"So my Byakugan observation range is 500 meters—is that close or far?" Hyuga Ningyuan recalled that Karin Uzumaki's observation range seemed to be 10 kilometers.

In other words, his observation range was pretty terrible.

"So this is the Byakugan. So this is someone else's chakra!" Hyuga Ningyuan saw over a thousand clusters of chakra, scattered haphazardly within this 500-meter radius.

In front of the Hyuga Clan was the Uchiha, behind them the Sarutobi and Shimura, and the Ino-Shika-Cho clans—almost all of Konoha's elite shinobi were concentrated here. With the Byakugan active, he naturally saw a massive amount of chakra.

These chakra clusters varied in shape and size. Though they were all blue, their shades differed in depth, and even though he was seeing with his eyes, he could distinctly sense warmth and coldness.

For instance, the Uchiha Clan's chakra felt cold and dark, as did the Nara and Yamanaka clans', while the Akimichi and Sarutobi clans' chakra felt warm.

Connecting this to the elemental affinities each clan specialized in, did the sensation of warmth and cold come from Yin-Yang Release?

Yang Release chakra was warm; Yin Release chakra was cold and dark?

Chakra, of course, didn't label itself with a clan name—Hyuga Ningyuan was judging all of this based on where the chakra was located.

He now understood how the Byakugan determined whether an enemy was a Jonin or a Chunin. Once you used it enough, observed enough with the Byakugan, you could sum up the experience yourself.

Not only could you judge Jonin and Chunin, but if you stayed on the battlefield long enough, you could even identify which ninja clan an opponent belonged to, what elemental chakra they used, and what elemental jutsu they specialized in!

"But this X-ray vision, though..."

Tsk, tsk.

Many forum threads and message boards had discussed the Hyuga Clan's X-ray vision. The moment it came up, faces would twist into lecherous grins.

But after experiencing it firsthand, Hyuga Ningyuan realized that this X-ray vision was nothing like the kind in adult animations.

Once the Byakugan was active, the whole world turned black and white. Even the most stunning beauty would lose most of her charm in this field of view!

What's more, this X-ray vision literally saw straight through flesh, all the way to a person's chakra and bones.

Seeing people as nothing but pink skeletons was utterly uninteresting!

Hyuga Ningyuan also noticed the 1° blind spot behind his head, but he felt it wasn't a big deal.

A mere 1° blind spot, and people acted like it was life or death. Normal humans only had a 120° field of vision, and they got by just fine!

Besides, this 1° blind spot wasn't unsolvable. You could learn from Gao Qisheng and keep shaking your head during a fight!

It might feel a bit awkward at first, but after fighting long enough, you'd get used to it.

Shaking your head was also a combat technique called the Pendulum Swing, designed to shift the brain off the centerline and reduce the chance of being hit by an enemy.

Combine the Pendulum Swing with the Gao Qisheng Swing, and you could create a practical Taijutsu skill that eliminated the Branch Family Byakugan's blind spot!

Hmm, this skill would be called Cat Swing. Because Ningyuan had seen a short video of a cat swinging its head like that—beautiful, fierce, and utterly domineering!