Chapter 014

In the Hokage office,

"How could she have Byakugan," Hiruzen surprised while watching at the battle through his crystal ball .

Hiruzen was sure that he was not caught by a genjutsu. If he was not in genjutsu, Ten Ten's Byakugan could not be explained. He had already investigated Ten Ten's ancestry and there was no hyuga among her ancestors.

"Is it an advanced version of transformation jutsu? But she didn't use any hand signs. Maybe a new jutsu she developed recently. Well, I have to asked Ebisu about that matter after he returns. "

The more he looked Ten Ten, the more he felt she was really similar to Minato. Both were not from famous ninja clan and like to develop ninjutsu without hand signs. But he must be careful when cultivating this kind of genius. Otherwise she would not become another Minato and instead might become another Orochimaru.

.......

In the training ground,

"Ten Ten, we agreed not to use genjutsu, right?" Neji said and tried to counter genjutsu.

" Genjutsu Kai"

Ebisu who was hiding on the tree also thought he was caught in a genjutsu. He thought so because he knew the No.1 rookie of last year was really good at genjutsu and he could not believe that Ten Ten had Byakugan.

However they still saw Byakugan in Ten Ten's eyes even after that.

Ten Ten laughed and told Neji.

"It's not a genjutsu. My Byakugan are real. "

"No, impossible. How could you have Hyuga bloodline?" Neji argued.

"Lee, what is Byakugan? Is that a powerful jutsu?" Naruto who didn't understand asked Lee about Byakugan.

Before Lee replied, Konohamaru answered him.

"Hey, big brother Naruto, don't you really know about Byakugan? It's a dojutsu kekkei genkai like sharingan. And only those who have Hyuga bloodline can open Byakugan."

"Oh, I understand it now," Naruto said.

' Actually I don't understand. What is dojutsu? And what is Kekkei Genkai? I don't know but I have to pretend like I know.' Naruto thought.

......

In the training ground

"Hehehe... actually my mom is a hyuga. That's why I could open Byakugan" Ten Ten teased Neji.

" Impossible. Main house would never allow a hyuga to marry an outside. And you! You shouldn't use Byakugan restlessly even if have. You don't know what will happen to you if main house know about this...."

Looking at the serious Neji, Ten Ten felt that her joke was a bit too much.

"Neji, umm... I'm sorry. I really thank you for your worry. Actually it's not Byakugan. It's called 'Eyes of Watatsumi ', a water release jutsu I recently developed with the help of Ningame." Ten Ten explained.

'Eyes of Watatsumi' was also a jutsu without hand signs like most of the jutsu she developed. Ten Ten had a strong shape transformation ability and was not a fan of hand signs. So when she developed a new jutsu, not needing hand signs was her priority. Moreover she tried her best to decrease the number of hand signs to use jutsu which she learned from Kakashi.

She developed 'Eyes of Watatsumi' after she knew that Ningame had an innate ability, telescopic vision. His telescopic vision was unlike Byakugan's. A layer of chakra was formed on his eyes when Ningame activated his innate ability. And the thicker the layer of chakra, the farther he could see. She tried to imitate this and formed a contact lens on her eyes by using water chakra.

Naturally she didn't tried this kind of dangerous thing by herself. She instructed a shadow clone to do that. After a few weeks, she (her shadow clones) succeed but it only had a very low level telescopic vision. And due to water chakra, the user's eyes would turn into blue while using this jutsu.

Although she was disappointed as the jutsu was not as good as she expected, she still didn't give up. While she was trying to improve the telescopic vision, she unexpectedly found another use of this jutsu. That was it could change the color and pattern of the user's eyes. Even though this jutsu was not powerful, it was still useful to scare some enemies.

"Neji.... I'm really sorry. How about this? I'll treated barbecue to you as an apology." Ten Ten apologized.

"No need. Just stop making trouble." Neji said and left the training ground.

'What a troublemaker! If she uses this jutsu and pretend to have Byakugan in front of a member of main house, she would be in trouble. That lunatic wouldn't believe her even if she explain like this. But what if her mom was really a hyuga like she said and she developed this jutsu to cover her Byakugan? I should asked uncle Ichito about Ten Ten's mom if I meet him next time.'

After that, their combat training was continued. In the next two battles, Lee was defeated. After all he was weakest among three of them if he doesn't use eight gates. And Guy sensei would not also allow him to use eight gates during combat training among friends. Then five of them went to Ichiraku ramen together and ate ramen happily.

.......

A few weeks later,

Ten Ten was studying fuinjutsu in her room. During these days, something unusual did not happen. Ten Ten was enjoying the last peaceful period of Konoha. It was still a few weeks before Konoha Crush. Moreover Akatsuki was also dormant at this time. After the next chunin exam, Konoha would no longer as peaceful as now.

In the morning, she went to train taijutsu with Guy sensei, Lee and Neji. After coming back to home, she rested for a while and took a bath. Then she started to study fuinjutsu. If you ask someone 'what is the most overpowered thing in Shinobi world ', some might answer 'wood release ' or 'mangekyou sharingan ' or some other kekkei genkai. But Ten Ten thought fuinjutsu was the most overpowered thing in Shinobi world. You know even chakra ancestor, Kaguya Otsutsuki was defeated by fuinjutsu.

Fuinjutsu was like a bug in the chakra system. Do you want to teleport? Use fuinjutsu. Do you want to revive dead legendary Shinobi to fight for you? You need fuinjutsu. You could even summon 'Shinigami' to fight for you if you are proficient enough in fuinjutsu although you would die after that. Moreover in the Otsutsuki level battle, ninjutsu and genjutsu were not useful as they could easily absorb chakra. Taijutsu , Fuinjutsu and Senjutsu were effective against those aliens. So Ten Ten was studying fuinjutsu seriously. She even bought Uzumaki bloodline to improve her fuinjutsu talent.

However initially she didn't make much processes in fuinjutsu as she did not have a teacher for fuinjutsu. Gai sensei was not good at fuinjutsu and Kakashi sensei was busy now with his genin. But fortunately Sandaime occasionally guided her in fuinjutsu. So her fuinjutsu level has risen a lot.

Apart from learning fuinjutsu, she made more preparations for chunin exam. In next chunin exam, the biggest threats will be Gaara, jinchuriki of one tail and Orochimaru, one of the legendary Sanin. So fuinjutsu was what she needs most, and followed by lightning release and genjutsu. So she was trying to develop a powerful lightning style ninjutsu and improve her genjutsu level as much as she could. Moreover she felt that she could open 'the gate of pain' very soon. Now she was looking forward to upcoming chunin exam.