Tengoku no Ito

Tengoku no Ito (天国の糸, lit. Heavenly Strings) is a technique developed by a small faction Hyūga Clan members that reside in Kirigakure. Adapting the chakra thread technique that were used to control puppets and other items (such as weapons) and improving even more on their already excellent chakra control, clan members have come up with the idea of utilizing this with their taijutsu to extend their range of attack and to efficiently perform assassinations. However, this combat style differs from their traditional Gentle Fist for it causes not only internal but also physical damage to their opponent.

Users create chakra threads that are so thin that they are almost invisible to the naked eye and can only be seen by those with the Byakugan. They can wield these threads around like whips to either send a lash targeting the chakra pathway system or ultimately slice the enemy however they want. They can also send these threads at a straight line to disrupt a particular tenketsu in an opponent's body or even target a vulnerable spot of the anatomy (e.g. the spine, the neck) by literally piercing it at a precise location for a quick kill, making this an effective assassination technique.

Those who are well-versed in the Hyūga Clan tecnhiques have also intergrated this style with a few of their own, like the Eight Trigrams Palms Revolving Heaven and the Protection of the Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms. While these two techniques concentrate their attacks at a limited range, applying Tengoku no Ito has immensely widened both of the techniques' reach. With the Revolving Heaven, the user can also send out several lashes of chakra that can fly out randomly in different directions, making it hard to dodge. The same principle applies to the other technique, but adds the active factor of the lashes that attack anyone or anything while being protected by the 'barricade'.

A few handful who have mastered both combat techniques have developed more jutsus that are a marriage of both styles, however, these are well-guarded secrets and are only passed on by word of mouth.