Patricia
Hon suddenly stiffened up as she realized she had fucked up, not even thinking of the slight as something wrong or weird, I mean most Aburame did it right? It wasn't that creepy to know your friend or family member could snoop on you at any point? I mean especially if you were close with them if anything it was a sense of security to Hon whenever she had a few of her sisters adorable cherry moths around. She lowered her head slightly, looking like a dejected dog who got scolded for taking treats. She kept this dejected look even though Ayane didn't seem all too angry.

"I won't leave them around you anymore.. Sorry." She said quietly, slinking out of the way to give the girl room to demonstrate her kata with its wide, powerful swings that could tear the girl in half. Part of it scared her in a way, the fact that one mistake and her friend could bisect her with ease, but at the same time it gave her plenty of ideas. "...Hey Ayane? Just how strong do you think you are? Think you would be able to lift, or gods forbid swing that thing while im on it? Cause uh.. Okay here me out." She smiled deviously and stood up, walking over to take a look of the sword. "Wouldn't it be quite a... Interesting technique if you were to use your sword to launch me in the air or throw me at enemies, and I follow up with a beautiful barrage of of assorted blades." She smiled and pulled out a set of shuriken for a brief moment before slipping them back into wherever she hid her tools.

"Different time, for now, lets focus on sharper blades for cleaner deaths yeah?" She sat back down and cracked open the book, muttering to herself as she carefully read it over."
Daisy
"I actually don't mind you leaving them with me. However had I found that moth before I found out why it was there, I could have harmed it." *She shakes her head as she does, before smiling at Hon.* "I'm not saying to stop- it's a very useful thing to keep around and have help... Just that it might be a good idea when doing it with your allies who aren't used to it to let them know, you know?" *She shrugs, before resettling.*

"As for that idea... I don't... Know?" *She thinks, looking down, before frowning.* "Maybe if you set up some wires? Did a few things to make it easier... Then I could use it to launch you. Heh, if you get some razor wires you could even turn it even more lethal by using them to lacerate people as you go. Sounds pretty horrific... But I'm definitely going to need a bit more time training some core muscles before I even try it..."

*At that, she nods, before flipping the page of her book, humming as she does, clearly in a bit more happy of a mood... It was nice having a friend compliment her... But after a moment's thought she glances up...* "... So... Mushi's not a good one, huh?"
Patricia
Hon nodded, still seeming a bit out of it with the whole, "Being the weird one for leaving bugs with people" Thing. When she actually thought about it it made a lot of sense, but it caused her to start double guessing a lot of her other actions and habits on if they were just Aburame things or actual normal behavior. "Thanks for telling me I guess.. If there is anything else like that tell me so I can stop okay?"

With the idea anything but rejected Hon grinned wickedly and chuckled, already poking around her head for ideas on how to make this terrible ideas of hers an actually functioning technique. Maybe she could use wind chakra and give her a small boost when she shot off the blade? Ahh later issues, for no she had Nintaijutsu to learn. She pulled out her book in one hand and got to reading while spinning a shuriken on the other, partially to satisfy her need to do something tactile, and also because she could practice as she read like this.

It wasn't too foreign of an idea to her, it was kinda similar to manipulating attack blades where you chare the thing up with chakra before you throw it, except this time she needed to get it down with wind chakra and not the plain jane stuff. She kept spinning the star and tried to add bits of wind chakra to it, though found it difficult to send wind, and not just generic chakra, probably because she hasn't unlocked the bug gates or whatever. "Hm..." She growled out, looking at the shuriken with a scowl.
Daisy
*Ayane, meanwhile, was continuing to focus her attention on her blade, watching Hon's manner of handling her energy, and trying to apply it to her blade. Energy flowing along the edge as she frowns, focusing... It seemed like it flickered, however, and wasn't quite managing... Applying energy to the edge of a massive blade wasn't quite the same as applying the same energy to a small shuriken... So she was going to have to change the method.*

*Slowly, she repositions the blade, before looking at a book as she does.* "Hmmm... It seems you are right... Applying it isn't quite so easily placed between shuriken and this... At least, I'm having trouble following your lead on that... Hey, Hon, that thing you're doing where you spin it? Any particular reason?" *She asks, before pulling out a shuriken of her own and trying to do the same thing.*

*It seems to work... Kinda...? Although the same flickering was happening, causing her to frown in annoyance. It was clear to her she wasn't quite 'settling' the energy right, but what was that supposed to look like? How did you do that?*
Patricia
Hon didn't respond at first, she was dialed in on figuring out her chakra and getting this shuriken to work with her. It shouldn't be this annoying right? I mean Nintai was the basis of all the good high ranking shurikenjutsus, she shouldn't be struggling this much. She frowned and stopped the spinning shuriken, still ignoring Ayane, *One more attempt..*

She got the shuriken spinning once more, making sure it had some speed behind it before she took a deep breath and started to feed her chakra into it. As she did so she focused on the sensation she got when using wind release, the sort of light, floaty feeling that came whenever she channeled the winds and tried to blend it with the chakra itself. She had.. No idea what that really meant or did, she was just trying to make her chakra as light as possible really, thinking windy thoughts, just kinda following her gut with what she should be doing to get it to work.

To her surprise her strategy of thinking about doing windy things seemed to work, causing the shuriken to spin on her finger impossibly fast, enough to hover on its own like a helicopter for a few seconds before it burned through the chakra and dropped to her hand. "Spinning it cause that kinda forces the chakra to spread out, like spinning a jar throws the waters to the side of it. The likelyhood that that wasn't absolute bullshit was low, but it did seem to work for her, if only by having good instincts.
Daisy
*She frowns at this... That seemed to make sense... And trying to do it seemed to work a bit better with the shuriken... But how would that work with her sword? Maybe she was thinking about this wrong... Well, in that case, she spun the shuriken a bit more, thinking about how that worked as she watches it, before focusing, conjuring up winds as well and enveloping the blade as it spun. True to word, it did seem to... Work? It was working... That helped, at least...*

*If that was the case, it was time to try to figure out how to apply it to her sword... Setting the shuriken down, she picks her blade up, looking it over, before focusing on it similarly to how she focused on the shuriken. She couldn't easily 'spin' the sword... So... How did she manipulate that?* "Maybe... If I spin the chakra instead?" *She says with a frown, before closing her eyes. Instead of simply 'shunting' energy along the blade, she began to focus it into swirls, seeing if she could 'spin' her chakra along the length of the blade.*

*It... Seemed to work? The energy was a lot more stable than earlier, at least... But it was imperfect... She would clearly need a bit more training than this, but it was a breakthrough! Instead of the strange, flickering, insubstantial energy that wasn't doing much before, little lacerations of wind seemed to course along the edge of the weapon. It would clearly do a wicked amount of damage on a hit. Sighing with relief, she smiles slightly at Hon.*

"This... This is progress, if nothing else... Although I still feel like I could be doing a lot more with it..." *She frowns as she looks toward the sword... Feel like it? Was it even possible for her to control the wind to that extent... She didn't know... Maybe she had to try to build up more potency? That... Didn't feel right... But how else could she approach it?*
Patricia
Honmushi knew better than to push herself and try to get her throwing up to snuff, she had gotten her nintai down, and for now, that was enough. If she were to push herself she would just burn out and likely hurt herself in the end. She instead opted to watch Ayane try and get it to work with her massive blade, curious how she was going to manipulate chakra over such a large area, especially since the two Were struggling just to coat some shurikens. 

She watched with her wild eyes, studying the girl just as much as the blade she was using, and while sure enough she did get her chakra to flow through the blade, it wasn't enough for either of them. "Your holding back." Mushi said in a monotone voice, as though it was an obvious fact. "Oh yeah, Mushi is fine. Sorry I forgot you talked about that and-" She cut herself off and shook her head. She walked up to the girl and gave her a small push, leaving a few moths on her as she did so. "Come on Ayane! Put some feeling into it! Get it right now! Don't wait till you have to save your life with it or prove you can do it to the branches prove it to me!" She shouted, trying to get the clanless girl to quit limiting herself and go for it. "I can do it and I suck with my chakra come on!" She gave her another light push, while Hon wasn't the easiest person to read with her dissonant voice and feral attitude, but it didn't seem liek she was trying to demoralize her with ths light bullying.
Daisy
*Ayane yelps slightly at the shove, before frowning up at Mushi, using a hand to brace herself, keeping the other hand on her sword as she does.* "What do you mean, holding back? It's not like I'm some prodigy who has all this spare talent... I'm just the daughter of some frontier workers, nothing more..." *She says, a sad look to her eyes, before quickly shaking her head, replacing it with a smile... Perhaps for the first time letting that smile truly slip beyond a pensive look...* "I... I appreciate you expecting more of me, but I don't want to disappoint you..."

*She shifts, resettling as she does with a shrug.* "Everyone else out here seem to have gotten training in all of this stuff since you started, it only makes sense that I'm a bit behind. It just means I have to go back an double down on the basics, doesn't it?" *She shifts, looking back to her sword, and back at Mushi.* "If I can't do it yet that... Just means I can't do it yet, and there's just something else I have to do? That's how I lost to..." *She shifts, looking away, trying to recalibrate... She had to recenter. She hadn't expected Honmushi to start talking to her like that and it shook her up some. She had gotten to comfortable, it seemed... After a moment, she takes a deep breath, and looks back at the girl.*

"I'll give it a go, I guess..." *She says, standing and trying to focus on her sword again, interlacing the chakra and trying to build it up through her blade. Slowly, she poured energy across the edge, but this time tried to focus inwardly instead of on the blade itself... That was the issue, right? That was always the issue, after all... It was clear Mushi seemed to think something else was up, but Ayane knew she had to get past her own hurdles first...*

"I... Don't... Know..." *She says after a moment, trying to keep the tone of defeat out of her voice as even less happens than earlier.* "... A shinobi is supposed to be strong... Right?"
Patricia
Hon, despite still being focused on motivating Ayane, was starting to get rather worked up about her being so quick to give up and say that she can't do it, the sentiment was clearly getting under her skin almost as much as her bugs did. "Yeah they were frontier workers and you are Ayane god damn Utsukushīoto! You're a full-on shinobi who has the fucking gall to take a greatsword into a stealth job and make it work!" She sounded frustrated, though it didn't seem to be at Ayane. 

She didn't want to get physical again after that yelp, especially while she was channeling her chakra, sounds like a great way for one of them to get injured really. "You can do it and we both know it your just not trying as hard as you should be." Her moths were growing restless, a large number of them fluttering free from her body and getting some distance on her, a decent number of them landing on Ayane as though she would protect them. "Complacency breeds death dear so quit this bullshit and show me what we know you got."

She crossed her arms and glared a the girl as she started and didn't put her all into it. "I don't know how you keep sabotaging yourself. You are strong come on! It's time to hit the pavement Ayane show me what your made of."
Daisy
"I've got it! I've got it alright!" *She says hastily, the happy veneer seeming to vanish entirely with an almost pained look as she grips the sword, shutting her eyes tightly as she does.* "Fine! If you really think I've got something special like that, fine!"

*She takes a half step back, gripping her sword angrily now as she grits her teeth... If thinking through it wasn't helping... If Mushi seemed so intent that Ayane was holding back... Then fine... She would just stop thinking! She wasn't going to just rely on her emotions, but what she would do is simply stop. Taking a deep breath, she forced it all out... The thoughts... The emotions... The memories... Pushed it aside, and forced it all off. She pictured it, this time... Not as the wind running through her... She didn't feel like the wind, running free, and simply existing. That... That wasn't what it felt like... What it was like, was...*

*Strange... Was she crying? No... That wasn't it... Slowly, the humidity around her seemed to be altering... But she could feel it... Something growing within her... That energy was slowly forming, coalescing... It didn't form around her sword, but it seemed like her chakra- which she had tried so hard to focus on swirling and flowing around her- swirled in a different way... She wasn't causing water to actually form around her, but her chakra flowed across her body in waves... Strange... Was... That why it always seemed so... Flickery?*

*She aligned herself to the concept of water, then... Smooth, ebbing and flowing... The expression on her face slowly softened, breathing in tune with what she felt within herself... This push and pull of chakra, running through her system... It felt... Simple? Controlling it suddenly was so much easier than she thought... Like running her hand through the pond, on a summer day... Was that the answer, all along? As the energy finally seemed to pull easily, aligning cleanly at last...*