Hmph. Banned, huh?
You'll show
them banned.
In your own good time, and in your own inscrutable fashions that may appear to the less educated and distinguishing eye to be just waiting out the duration
but are in fact clearly distinct, perhaps. But you will.
It can't just be said that any old library woman can manhandle you about without consequence, after all.
For now, though, you have made no progress on figuring out Gai's not-Genjutsu
thing.
And that is unacceptable.
Unacceptable.
Maybe if you watch him more?
... You sit down on the roof and shut your eyes, calling to mind the encounter.
For the next hour and a half you focus the entire intensity of your being on the appearance of the illusion. How it appeared. When. What Guy was doing when it appeared, before, and afterward. You analize it down to every single shift of microfiber over his flexing abs.
...
Nope, it didn't help. You feel a little funny in the gut, but that's about all and could be put down to clenching your own muscles in an attempt to reflect what he was doing, just a little bit.
Or it could be that you just had one too many meat-products in a bun recently and need to lay off for a couple extra weeks.
Still, it doesn't seem like that particular encounter has anything to offer you.
You could watch him again, but you're a little skeptical about what you'll gain
for this from doing so. Of course, Maito Gai is a skilled Jounin, and so anything you were to pick up from watching him would probably be valuable.
Just... maybe not in
this sense.
You flop backward onto the tiled roof, rubbing your nose and thinking.
Well, it stings your pride a whole lot to even consider the fact that you might be missing something, but while the elders would likely tear strips off your back and rub salt, vinegar, and lemon juice in for suggesting it, it's much easier to believe that the Sharingan is just inadequate for what you're trying to do. You can't directly copy bloodline techniques or special jutsu with no handsigns, after all, though it does make it easier to work the latter out.
What you need is...
You consider Gai's 'advice', such as it was.
... What you need is to get a good close look at what Gai is doing
inside his body. What's going on with his Chakra network. Now, the Sharingan isn't really so good at that.
The other famed Doujutsu of Konoha, the Byakugan, however... that
is.
And wouldn't you know it? You've got a pair of those sitting right in your own classroom.
You're up and moving and several blocks away before you slow down. ... Much as you hate to stop and think about things much before actually following through with them, now that you
are thinking about it, you have to reluctantly concede the point that that set of Byakugan are currently lodged in a girl. That's a fact.
And that girl is, in fact, the Hyuuga head's daughter.
So...
... It's not to say that you're concerned about what would happen if you, the objectively
best Uchiha, but with admittedly less in the way of political clout within the clan, were to barge in and kidnap the Hyuuga Head's daughter for your own nefarious purposes, but...
Well, the good thing about a clan, when it comes down to it, is that there are a lot of people with the same last name and general set of abilities. And the good thing about the Hyuuga Doujutsu is, as far as you can tell, that unlike the Uchiha everyone with the correct last name has it, and there's no fiddly 'unlocking your true power' to go through.
Probably. Could just be another clan secret, and they're only passing down so many Byakugan eyes down through the generations or some such, but if you dwell on that for two long then you're going to get into conspiracy theories and the bad thing about that is that you might accidentally hit a bullseye on a real conspiracy and get murdered for it.
But in any case, that leads you back to the first good thing about a clan.
... By this point you have the schedules of the instructors pretty well memorized, and while things are trapped up in case of students getting into private areas, they can't be
too trapped up in case students get into private areas. It's a nifty little conundrum that you'll take full advantage of.
You aren't sneaking in to get at anything
sensitive, anyway.
Just the roll call for all the classes.
.... Aaaand got it. There's a good option a couple years ahead of you, not too far distant from your own age. You memorize the name and face and head out looking.
And if you're looking for a Hyuuga, then where better to look than the Hyuuga compound? That makes perfect sense to you. You heave yourself over the walls to a section that looks like the laundry and start poking around, ignoring the befuddled older Hyuuga with loads of cloth in their arms.
After a moment, they seem to decide that this is someone else's problem to deal with and hurry along.
Eventually you find her though, and don't have to go too far before then. She's still in the large laundry section, in an area that seems to focus on linens.
"Hyuuuuuuga Saki!" you declare, pointing her out.
"Whu?" she intelligently answers, before grabbing a headband and tying it quickly on to cover her brow. You picked out marks there, but it's unimportant for your aims.
"Borrowing you." you declare, simply.
"Wait. What?" she replies. "You can't just borrow-"
"Watch me!" you respond, stepping forward and throwing her over a shoulder before she can think of the words or actions to reply to you with. You wobble a little before balancing the weight.
"Hang on, I'm in the middle of-!" she babbles, clearly flabbergasted at your rudeness to the point of indecisive paralysis. "You can't just
walk off with a Hyuuga!"
"Relaaaax, I'm going to bring you back later." you say, heading back to the section of wall that you came over. "Besides, your clan's eyes can see through anything for, like, miles. There's got to be at
least a dozen people watching me right now, and if I'm not being stopped then that means it's fiiiii.... ne..." you trail off.
Standing in front of you and looming slightly, looking down with an arched brow and arms crossed arms, is the goddamned Hyuuga clan head himself. You feel like whistling. It was this sort of thing you were trying to
avoid by changing targets!
"Hi, Hiashi-sama!" Saki babbles. She doesn't
quite vocalize the words 'oh no' or 'help', but you get the feeling they're written all over her face.
"Can Saki-chan come out to play?" you ask, just going for broke now that youre here.
Your cheekiness must win you points or something, because Hiashi sighs deeply.
"She will be returned unharmed." He says, flatly. "Or your own clan will handle matters."
"Uh huh." you agree, vaguely.
"And you will have the decorum to properly use the entry gates." he continues.
".... Suuuuuure." you say, despite having little intention of actually doing so.
He stares you down, then sighs, mumbling 'children' under his breath.
"You will finish other chores later." he says, this time to Saki, before turning and striding away.
"wai... b-bu..." Saki says, reaching out behind you as you go ahead and head for the gates, not because he told you to, but because you feel like it and it would be a pain to carry her over the wall anyway. "... Hiashi-sama..."
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