An: still stuck here. So more silliness. On an iPad so spelling etc is not easy.

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I had taken to playing hide and seek with my twin out in all of Konoha to get a break from my training. We had lots of civilian cousins and so massive village wide games were a thing. No one paid much attention to it. If I took a water bottle and a pouch with snacks, well I made sure Lee did too and while half the time we set off together more often I would go in the opposite direction.

I wasn't playing. I was hiding for my sanity.

I won a lot of the time because that stupid training meant I could twist and climb and end up weird places and not get found until the adults came out. My Tou-san usually found me and would sigh, shake his head but not lecture me. Ever since we found out my chakra control was through the roof the lessons and such turned almost frantic and creepy by the adults in my life. One day I decided to try and get somewhere that wasn't just guesswork and sneak in a visit to my party Hyuuga friend while I was at it.

His name is Kou by the way. He is kind of a stick in the mud but every so often he makes a joke and he is amused by me at parties so it works. Seriously Hyuuga are all catty teenage girls on the inside I think.

I had gotten his name out of him by promising not to talk the rest of the event for it. That had actually proven fun as the minute I made the sign to my mother for "training" when she asked why I wasn't speaking..I got out of the annoying old people talks for a whole party. Turns out you can get a lot across without words. Who knew?

Of course the Hyuuga had waited until he was walking out the door, stood there, nodded once and said "Kou" before leaving.

I swear I saw his and his fathers shoulders shaking in laughter as they left.

I had not actually dared to approach him at home before. Just polite hellos and how are you as he was a little older and recently started the academy.

I had been saving up my annoyance points.

Now seemed a good time. Feeling so out of place in the purple qi pao and pants at the big compound where the pale eyed pale dressed smug silent ones lived (Yanno as opposed to the Uchiha where it was dark eyed darkly dressed. No one had heard of symbolism here clearly) I smiled at the guards. I could so rock the adorable little girl look with my hair up in my traditional side buns.

"Hello Hyuuga-samas may I please see Kou-san?"

They both lifted an eyebrow. Seriously they trained at that because they each lifted a different brow, the one closest to the gate.

They waited.

Yeah I didn't give a name. Come on like they didn't know ..oh they didn't know me. Probably. They all looked alike.

"Is he expecting you, miss?"

"No but it is important and if you tell him I promise to not talk to him at the next party unless it is to insult the Uchiha he will know who I am. Or you can tell him Lee Ziwei is here but the first is more likely to jog his memory." I want props for making both of them crack the tiniest bit with a lip twitch. They made me wait as one went and came back with Kou. Whom did not look amused at all. Of course that's his resting bit**h face so it works.

"Hello again, what is so important?"

So friendly. "I really don't mind your clan hearing this but can you check no one else is around? Please?"

Okay I know Hyuuga faces by now and they were interested. Humoring me the elder two did as asked, byuakugan flaring and vanished in a heartbeat. "Cool.." Yeah I said that aloud. Matching smug looks then lifted a brow again waiting for my answer as they both nodded, but didn't answer. Yeah I'm not stupid.

"Does that nod mean yes you know that is really cool or there is no one around or someone is around or.."

"So mistrustful in one so young." Lefty stated. I shrugged.

"Have to start early?"

Kou rolled his eyes well he looked like he wanted to. "They would have said if someone was around, now what is it Ziwei-san? I need to work on my calligraphy."

"I need your help with chakra control exercises."

The annoyed look on Kou is exactly why I phrased it that way.

"When you get in the academy"

"nope. Not like that. I have too good of control apparently and my kaa-sans family do not know how to teach in a shinobi fashion and my tou-San never had the best control and.."

"Too good?" Yeah Kou was curious now. Gotcha.

"Yup. They've been making me do some really foolish things trying to test my limits so I figured I should come ask someone from the experts on chakra control. Common sense says it is Hyuuga or Uchiha and so here I am." My arms were out as I shrugged, helpless. Frankly I didn't know any Uchiha and Kou I did.

"Tell them to look up leaf twirling."

"Already way past that."

Whoa. Three sets of eyes paying close attention now..

"That is impossible." Kou sounded irritated and I got why. He had likely just mastered it, ahead of schedule yeah being first year at the academy and Hyuuga standard but ..oh right. Touchy touchy boys.

"No really. Grandpa thinks it is great fun to stick plum blossoms all over me and make me twirl them, it is so humiliating." And it was.

Kou hesitated before sighing. "Come in, we can see if you are telling me the truth and ask my Tou-san"

Take that. Not even in the academy and I got access to the Hyuuga compound. Whoot! Bowing to the guards I did as said, quietly as I could walk. I knew better than to talk before Kou did, he had this thing about silence. I also knew he was insanely curious so he had to find out now if what I was saying was possible because it was a crazy anomaly.

On the level of someone who couldn't use chakra being a feared taijutsu master jounin which Lee would be someday and able to open many of the lotus gates. Whoa. Deformed chakra coils could be awesome who knew?

A very Long awkward silence later as Kou handed me four leaves and just looked at me after we sat. He started to glance at his own, focusing hard and the leaf began to turn. Uh...

Oh.

Biting my inner cheek I just shrugged as he stared at me. Pale eyes staring is really quite unnerving for the record. I didn't get why he had to focus so hard, I just told the leaves to turn and they did, one on each hand and because why not, one on the back of each hand.

"..."

Yeah I didn't say anything. I didn't want him mad. I really hadn't thought anything of it that maybe my family was just fussing because no one had seen what you could do with good chakra control?

Kou actually had his mouth open. Looking at me again he shook his head. "I will go get my Tou-san . Can you keep it up?"

"I have small reserves but for a bit yeah."

"Then rest , I will..I will be right back."

It didn't take him long to return with his bigger clone. Once again I set the four leaves spinning. He had me do it again while he used his Byuakugan. Then he asked me to reverse how they were spinning.

"You do not hesitate.."

"Well no, I want it to do something it does it..isn't that how this works?" My confusion only let me see two Hyuuga looking baffled.

"No."

"I suppose it could be from how small your reserves are.."

I shrugged at that. "Yeah, but my family keeps having me do this with lots of things and I do not think that is going to help do anything but amuse them."

"That is true. Have you tried to do this with anything heavier?"

"Bells." I said the word with loathing and Kou actually chuckled. I had ranted to him about my training before. "I have to do agility training with bells so I focus on holding them still. They found out what I was doing and it is worse now."

The elder Hyuuga nodded once and then stood. "You are to come back tomorrow. Kou you shall be advancing your chakra lessons with your friend. As you have managed to unlock your Byuakugan for short times focusing on how she directs her chakra will be a good lesson for you."

I bowed low thanking him before popping up my head and grinning at Kou. "Congratulations on your eyes!"

I actually got to see him smile as he nodded his thanks.

I was pretty quickly shood away after that and went to wander to where Lee would be. It was a twin thing, we just always ran into each other. With this news it would be a good thing and a very very bad one and I knew that. But I was done amusing people and not getting better with my chakra.

"Found you!" Lee can tackle like a good Boulder rolling down a mountain. Slamming chakra to my feet and body I willed it to keep me from falling. I stumbled of course, not that much chakra and I had been using it earlier, but I didn't end up with a face full of cobblestones.

"Yup! Hi Lee!" My next words bubbled up and couldn't have been stopped if I tried. "How is my other half? Have you escaped the Lee clan cousins so far?" Yes. It is seriously infectious. I am so doomed.

"Yes! We are uncaught! Let's go hide in the park?" Lee wasn't very good at hide and seek but I wasn't about to spoil the real kids fun. Nodding I braced myself for what came next. Low on chakra did not mean I was going to give in without a fight.

"Let's race! First one to the picnic tree must do twenty sit ups!"

"Loser has to do forty!" Why did I say that?

We took off.

With just barely enough chakra in my system to help speed me along I could sense at the halfway point those forty sit-ups were mine. I was slowing down.

I gave it my all anyways. When finally I flopped without any grace down by the tree Lee was already on his fifth sit up. Chakra use wears you out. Who knew? Still I had given my word, and so I rolled onto my back and waited for Lee to settle on my feet, his arms around the lower half of my legs to provide counter balance. Made it easier. The sweetie.

"One! Come on Zi-chan! 39 to go!"

Yeah yeah...