Watching the kunai embedded halfway into the tree trunk, Hyuga Gen nodded slightly in satisfaction.
"Teacher Asuma, that throw was pretty good this time, right?" Hyuga Gen asked Asuma happily.
Hyuga Gen had spent most of the day looking for Asuma and had finally found him that afternoon. When he found him, Asuma was out strolling with Yuhi Kurenai.
"Hello, Teacher Asuma. I'm Hyuga Gen, Teacher Might Guy's student. Could you teach me some Wind Release?" Hyuga Gen asked with a sincere expression.
"Teacher Asuma, is this your girlfriend? You really have good taste. This is the first time I've ever seen such a beautiful older sister," Hyuga Gen praised sincerely, unable to stop himself from looking at Yuhi Kurenai a few more times.
Yuhi Kurenai truly was beautiful, especially those ruby-like eyes of hers. They were incredibly captivating, enough to make one lose oneself in them.
The two of them were clearly a little embarrassed, their expressions turning slightly unnatural as they glanced away in opposite directions. Seeing this, Hyuga Gen found them rather innocent and amusing.
"You're from the Hyuga clan?" Sarutobi Asuma asked in surprise as he looked at Hyuga Gen's Byakugan.
A member of the Hyuga clan had come to ask him about Wind Release, which caught him off guard. As far as he could remember, this was the first time. The Hyuga clan only practiced their own Gentle Fist ninja arts and rarely studied anything else.
The Hyuga clan members he knew were somewhat rigid and set in their ways. They focused wholeheartedly on practicing their Gentle Fist techniques, and few of them learned other ninjutsu.
"Yes. Teacher, can you teach me? How do you incorporate wind-nature transformation into ninjutsu?" Hyuga Gen looked at Sarutobi Asuma with hopeful eyes.
In Shippuden, when Asuma taught Naruto