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Hakkeshou Kaiten (Eight Divination Palms of the Hand, Heavenly Spin)
Rank: D, C, B, A, S
Type: Offensive / Defensive / Clan Taijutsu
Range: See special!
Special: Blocks taijutsu and ninjutsu of equal rank. Kaiten dome extends as far as the Hyuuga's maximum Hakke range.
Description: Like many of the Jyuuken techniques, Kaiten is a special technique passed down through the main family line. Kaiten takes advantage of several of the unique abilities of the Byakugan eye, including an almost complete 360 degree view of their surroundings, so that the member to see all angles around them. As such, if an attack is near, the clan member will release a large of amount of chakra from their tenketsu and, simultaneous to the release, begins to spin like a top, creating a whirling vortex that can nullify almost any attack. Said to be a Hyuuga's ultimate defense.
Domain: Hyuuga. Main House exclusive.

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Laying her bag on the floor, the raven-haired girl had taken a decision that may slow her progress, but would ultimately ensure her survival. Well... help her survive anyway. It would certainly come in useful in any case.

She took her position in the small clearing, the trees around her acting like walls, keeping her enclosed. It was like a temporary home....

Home...

No, don't think about that, keep focused. It's time to train...

"Byakugan!"

The veins that had become so familiar, so... easy to manipulate. And she didn't know why it had become so. It's not like she was in combat every single day, so why had she become so familiar with this. Maybe it was just intuition, being a Hyuuga and all. She could feel the chakra coursing through her eyes, her vision extended and her mind able to process the different chakra signatures around her... not that there was any.

She took a deep breath, her stance shifting to defensive, her frontward arm extended outward, as if prepared to block some imaginary strike coming from the front. In her imagination, she could see a shuriken moving quickly through the air towards her, pushing aside all in it's way.

And upon instinct, she moved...

She spun, at extremely high speeds, forcing chakra from her tenketsu as she rotated, pushing it outward as far as she could. It was like a solid wall of chakra, pushing back the imaginary shuriken, forcing it to spin and hit the tree, producing no sound.

She needed to push herself harder...

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Not bad...

But more power was needed...

To be able to defend against something like a shuriken is laughable in the face of the enemy. She needed to be able to defend against other things, like Ninjutsu. She needed to keep focused, force out more chakra to allow it to defend against larger objects, a greater outward force.

She remembered the demonstration she had received of the technique by her father several years ago. And remembered it extending much further and having a much more deep colour, unlike her one, which was pale in colour, and extended only five meters.

"Hakke Kaiten!"

She sighed again, slowly pushing chakra from her tenketsu and then spinning rapidly, this time closing her eyes to focus. She then intensified the chakra output, forming it into a dome shape around her, instead of letting it go outward on it's own. The modifications seemed to work well, as the ground below her was damaged below her, the grass and dirt being forced aside as the chakra tore through it.

Again, not bad. But of course, improvements needed to be made. She needed to solidify the chakra a little more to make it able to defend against other techniques.

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Flexibility. Stamina. Fluidity like water. All of which the Kaiten taught. A deep breath followed by one more attempt at the spinning technique, the solidified chakra forming a wall with which to block the incoming strikes. Yet the timing of her movements was off. In combat, no movement could be spared. She would have to focus, allow herself to stop when needed. To carry the technique fully to it's longest note was like singing on the highest note possible for as long as possible. There was no point to it, variation was the key. The ability to change, to be one with the technique, not using the technique, as if it were an extension of your own being.

She took a leap forward, bending low to the ground, before spinning faster than before, the released chakra firing out at a rapid pace, forming the protective swirl of energy. She was entirely fixated upon her goal and her progress showed no signs of slowing.

"Hakke Kaiten!"

Extending her arms out this time, in order to balance herself and allow for retrieval of weapons caught within the globe. And then she realized, Kaiten could allow her to throw such weapons also. A valuable technique indeed then. This time her spin made a soft whirring sound, signalling that it was now beginning to take form.

She would soon be there...

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The sound had excited her, letting her know that she was making progress. She continued training with a smile on her face now, her spirits lifted by the amount of progress. Yet as she looked down on the sweat that was falling off of her body, she quickly realized that her kimono was sticking to her. Sliding her arms out of the wide sleeves and out of the front opening, she revealed a light blue tank top which had been worn underneath.

"Hakkeshou Kaiten!"

She dropping low to the ground this time, an experiment. To see if concentrating the chakra a smaller area would be a step forward, at least for now, like training wheels. It didn't seem to help much, but it was a good start. To play around and experiment with a technique was a good way to learn it on higher levels.

Could the chakra used in the Kaiten be applied to other, more domestic and offensive styles of the Hyuuga? It seemed likely but it'd be best to try something like that when she had gained a better understanding of the technique. Practical application was not something to be taken lightly, as she had seen when her older sister had tried to apply the Sanjuuniishou to Basic Goken Taijutsu. The combination had torn several holes in her tendons and her ligaments had snapped, meaning that she had to spend the better part of a year in hospital.

The thought of her older sister made her want to try harder than she could physically accomplish. A foolish thought, yes, but she wished to be on the same par her sister had been when she... passed on.

"Hakkeshou... KAITEN!"

The whirring sound grew louder and the dome of chakra spun faster than ever before. With every attempt, she grew more and more powerful. And she now knew the technique well. It had become second nature in only a couple of tries.

Lets see how long until she mastered it...

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Strike. Defend. Strike again. The general use of Kaiten is to break up the combat if not to defend against an attack, to push away what harms to give breathing space and allow for a counter attack.

A deep sigh followed by a gradual release of chakra as she again spun rapidly. She amplified it's outward force, allowing it to push away all around it, like a thousand hands forcing away a tumbling giant, protecting oneself from the crushing mass of flesh.

A purely defensive technique, the Hyuuga's ultimate defence and Mio's main defensive method. In fact... it was her only defensive method. It suddenly clicked in her mind... the Hyuuga were mostly offensive in nature, though they claimed to be defensive. It was contradictory on an ironic scale.

"Hakkeshou Kaiten!"

Her hands dragged through the spinning chakra, clutching at imaginary objects that had been stopped with the torrent, her slender and graceful coordination beginning to show through as she stopped directly facing the way she had been before. Which meant her footwork was getting much, much better, though it could still stand for some improvement, as could everything else in the world.

She was halfway there...

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