Training Spirit

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Suiton: Tottei No Jutsu (Water Release: Art of the Breakwater)
Rank: "D," "C," "B," "A," "S"
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: The user creates a wave of water in front of them to ward off techniques from the front.
Special: "Handseals"
Drawback: User must know the same level of this technique as the technique they wish to affect. For the user to block a Fire and Lightning techniques, the user must know this technique one rank above the technique they wish to block.
Description: The user performs this technique right after they perform the handseals for it, the user will whip their hands up into the air and have them meet near the level of their head, creating a sort of "v" or wedge shape in the air. Once this is done, water will rise up from below the user to create this same shape. This is done just as a long or medium range technique is flying towards the user, this technique will cut the technique in half so that the two sides fall harmlessly on either side of the user. This technique works in steps, if the user wishes to cut a "D" level water technique, the user must know the "D" rank version if this technique, and so on.
Limit: Water Release

o/7o B/Rank Part 1

Yuna didn't know if she disliked being awake before the sunrise more, or the bitter morning cold that accompanied herself and her mother as they traveled to a more appropriate training spot for the jutsu. At least that's what her mother told her. Naturally Yuna was curious as to where they would be going today since yesterday it was to the hot springs for some training and relaxation. She hoped that she could get the same relaxation she experienced after the training, when she sat in the hot springs and let her body get loosened out by the heat she coveted so much.

Yuna's mother walked briskly in front of her, trying to get wherever they were going quickly. They walked down a single icy road in the snow country, passing many warm-looking wood log houses and a sparse arrangement of ever-green trees that were naturally warm. At least something here likes the cold. She thought to herself feeling envious of the trees who had conquered the cold so many generations ago. Coming around a large bend in the snowy road, the trees became much thicker. Yuna's mother made her way onto a dirt path through the trees so Yuna followed. They emerged a few minutes later to a clearing with rocky mountain terrain that was covered thickly in the winter green trees. In front of all of that was a large lake, freshly melted by the rise of temperature in the early spring season.

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The two ladies walked to the snowy edges on the North side of the lake. Now all the mountains were behind them.
"Begin by doing the hand seals for this jutsu 300 times. When your finished attempt the jutsu twice, then repeat the cycle."
Yuna took the directions easily and immediately began streaming through the numerous chain of hand seals. Taking great care to try and increase her speed but remain accurate, Yuna weaved the seals flawlessly. Then she repeated it 299 times.

Her arms burned vigorously but the hot springs from the day before helped her out greatly. Her arms only felt slight fatigue, and didn't hang limp like before. Not losing her rhythm or concentration Yuna moved right on to performing the jutsu and she let her chakra run freely in response. She knew that she would be making a larger version of the wave so she released more chakra into her system.

Streaming through the various hand seals, Yuna molded her chakra into the water laying almost still in the lake. Forming her hands together into a v-shape, she thrust her hands upwards and the water from the lake came bursting free of the lake in front of Yuna. This wave stood nearly fifteen feet tall, and towered menacingly in front of Yuna. The wave held the v-shape that Yuna formed, and stayed tall for a few moments.

The tall wave splashed back into the lake, splashing a cold mist into the air. Small ripples traveled across the surface of the lake, hitting the opposite side and echoing back to Yuna. That was easy enough. Yuna thought confidently to herself.

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Suiton: Tottei No Jutsu (Water Release: Art of the Breakwater)
Rank: "D," "C," "B," "A," "S"
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: The user creates a wave of water in front of them to ward off techniques from the front.
Special: "Handseals"
Drawback: User must know the same level of this technique as the technique they wish to affect. For the user to block a Fire and Lightning techniques, the user must know this technique one rank above the technique they wish to block.
Description: The user performs this technique right after they perform the handseals for it, the user will whip their hands up into the air and have them meet near the level of their head, creating a sort of "v" or wedge shape in the air. Once this is done, water will rise up from below the user to create this same shape. This is done just as a long or medium range technique is flying towards the user, this technique will cut the technique in half so that the two sides fall harmlessly on either side of the user. This technique works in steps, if the user wishes to cut a "D" level water technique, the user must know the "D" rank version if this technique, and so on.
Limit: Water Release

o/7o B/Rank Part 2


She still had to do the jutsu again. She wasted no time and began the hand seals for the next attempt. Her hands moved so quickly that to the regular naked eye they would have been nothing but a blur but to a ninja's eyes it would have been graceful but not fast enough to not be seen.

Yuna focused hard on her chakra, releasing it quickly and molding the chakra to the water in the lake. She concentrated hard on the water and then thrust her hands upwards in the shape of a v. In response, the water swayed to her and then lifted into a large wave. The wave stood high in the same shape as Yuna's hand gesture, held tightly together by the same chakra she molded into the water itself.

After ten seconds the water dropped back into the lake by itself, splashing a cold mist into the air. The water in the lake turned turbulent for a few moments after the water splashed heavily back into lake. Yuna took a cold burst of the mist, but held her ground. The cold mist woke her up a little more.

She began the next set of three hundred. Stringing together the hand seals, she streamed through the first set of seals for this technique. She repeated it again, and again, ignoring the burn that she felt in her arm muscles. She hated the burn, but she began to love proving her mother wrong because secretly she knew that her mom expected her to fail. She would prove her wrong.

After a few minutes Yuna wrapped up the seal drill. Her mother walked over to the water's edge where Yuna was standing.
"Rest for a moment." She pulled out a bottle of water. "Drink this, and try not to push yourself too hard." She said encouragingly.
Yuna took the bottle and drank. "Thanks." She managed in between gulps. Yuna let her chakra flow freely as soon as she put the bottle down and a purple chakra aura formed around her. "I'm ready."

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Suiton: Tottei No Jutsu (Water Release: Art of the Breakwater)
Rank: "D," "C," "B," "A," "S"
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: The user creates a wave of water in front of them to ward off techniques from the front.
Special: "Handseals"
Drawback: User must know the same level of this technique as the technique they wish to affect. For the user to block a Fire and Lightning techniques, the user must know this technique one rank above the technique they wish to block.
Description: The user performs this technique right after they perform the handseals for it, the user will whip their hands up into the air and have them meet near the level of their head, creating a sort of "v" or wedge shape in the air. Once this is done, water will rise up from below the user to create this same shape. This is done just as a long or medium range technique is flying towards the user, this technique will cut the technique in half so that the two sides fall harmlessly on either side of the user. This technique works in steps, if the user wishes to cut a "D" level water technique, the user must know the "D" rank version if this technique, and so on.
Limit: Water Release

o/7o B/Rank Part 3

Yuna got set to continue her next attempt. She began streaming through the next three hundred hand seals. Each seal blurred past until she finished the string of seals for the jutsu. The she would continue again, not stopping until she did three hundred of these in total.

Halfway through the completion of the seals, a gentleman could be seen in the distance. He walked the same path that Yuna and her mother had taken to get to the lake through the dense trees. Pausing on the other side of the lake, he sat down slowly, almost lazily, and pulled out a small magazine from within the white and black robes that he wore. The white robes on top would have made him blend into the snow if there weren't so many trees around. He carried a wooden cane, the better to help with his subtle limp. He had a few deep wrinkles etched into his old smooth skin.

Yuna continued her training at the same pace, not slowing up at all.
"Be right back." Her mother ran off speedily, gracefully stopping on a dime right next to the old man across the lake. Yuna couldn't hear their words but she watched the two talking casually.
No danger yet, Yuna thought. She finished the mental count she had going at three hundred.

She wondered briefly if she should practice the jutsu while the man was there. It was quickly pushed from her mind as Yuna wanted to continue her training. She made the hand seals for the jutsu, streaming her hands through them quickly. She released her chakra at the same time, molding it to the water in the lake. Yuna concentrated on the water for a moment and then thrust her hands upwards in the shape of a V.

The water jumped high out of the water, forming the tight shape of a V. Yuna's chakra held the tall wave in front of her and even though it towered over her, she was not going to get hurt by something she created. The water splashed back into the lake, causing ripples to shutter through the surface of the lake.

Yuna's mother and the Old man were both watching intently. The old man said something back to her mother, and then her mother came flying back over to her at top speed.
"Come with me." She whispered.
"Is it safe?" Yuna asked.
"Of course it is. The man just wants to meet you."
"I'll trust your judgement for the time being. Just remember that I reserve the right to change my mind."

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Suiton: Tottei No Jutsu (Water Release: Art of the Breakwater)
Rank: "D," "C," "B," "A," "S"
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: The user creates a wave of water in front of them to ward off techniques from the front.
Special: "Handseals"
Drawback: User must know the same level of this technique as the technique they wish to affect. For the user to block a Fire and Lightning techniques, the user must know this technique one rank above the technique they wish to block.
Description: The user performs this technique right after they perform the handseals for it, the user will whip their hands up into the air and have them meet near the level of their head, creating a sort of "v" or wedge shape in the air. Once this is done, water will rise up from below the user to create this same shape. This is done just as a long or medium range technique is flying towards the user, this technique will cut the technique in half so that the two sides fall harmlessly on either side of the user. This technique works in steps, if the user wishes to cut a "D" level water technique, the user must know the "D" rank version if this technique, and so on.
Limit: Water Release

o/7o B/Rank Part 4

Yuna didn't really want to meet the old man, but certainly if her mother was being polite to him, than she would be polite to.
"Good morning young lady." The old man's voice was raspy but echoed an air of power behind it.
"Good morning sir," Yuna began politely, "How are you today?"
"I'm doing well. I was just talking to your mother and she said you were doing some shinobi training."
"Yes, just some simple drills and such for today."
"Do you mind giving me a demonstration?"
Yuna looked over to her mom for a confirmation. She gave Yuna a slight nod, and so Yuna excitedly said, "Of course!"

The old man yawned, but was still watching Yuna intently. Yuna streamed through the hand seals for the jutsu, her hands quickly blurring through each seal. She paid no attention to the audience she held, she wanted to look good and so she ignored the two sets of watchful eyes on her.

Yuna released her chakra and molded it to the water in the lake with the use of the hand seals she blazed through so speedily a second before. She concentrated momentarily on the water in the lake and then she thrust her hands upwards in the shape of a V. The water jumped out of the lake in the same shape that Yuna now held her hands in.

The large wave held the v shape tightly, Yuna's chakra flowing around it and holding it together. The wave hung in place for a few moments, but then began to collapse. Yuna let the wave crash back down into the lake, a light mist of cold water shooting into the air as the water fell back into the lake.

The old man smiled widely. "That was great for someone as young as yourself."
"Thank you." Yuna responded warmly.
"Well, I really do need to be going." He rose to leave but then turned around as if he had forgotten something. "By the way, I'll be teaching Senbon classes pretty soon." He moved his gaze from her mom to Yuna. "If you want to learn this style of fighting, be on the look-out for a flyer of some sort."
Yuna thought about for a moment. "Yea, if I see the flyer I'll definitely stop by."
"You should. You have a great deal of talent hidden beneath the surface."
"Thank You!"
"Alright, I'll be on my way. Good bye."

The old man walked back through the trees and disappeared.

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Suiton: Tottei No Jutsu (Water Release: Art of the Breakwater)
Rank: "D," "C," "B," "A," "S"
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: The user creates a wave of water in front of them to ward off techniques from the front.
Special: "Handseals"
Drawback: User must know the same level of this technique as the technique they wish to affect. For the user to block a Fire and Lightning techniques, the user must know this technique one rank above the technique they wish to block.
Description: The user performs this technique right after they perform the handseals for it, the user will whip their hands up into the air and have them meet near the level of their head, creating a sort of "v" or wedge shape in the air. Once this is done, water will rise up from below the user to create this same shape. This is done just as a long or medium range technique is flying towards the user, this technique will cut the technique in half so that the two sides fall harmlessly on either side of the user. This technique works in steps, if the user wishes to cut a "D" level water technique, the user must know the "D" rank version if this technique, and so on.
Limit: Water Release

o/7o B/Rank Part 5


"You knew who he was, didn't you?" Yuna asked her mother suspiciously.
"He's a master of the senbon fighting style amongst other things. He wanted to see a little example of what you were capable of before he extended his invitation to his class. Apparently he had been watching you for a little while."
Yuna shuddered. "Sounds creepy."
"Regardless, he's not gonna start the training class for another few weeks so you have some time to relax. But you need to get back to the training at hand."
Yuna didn't need to respond to that one. Instead she began the next three hundred hand seals.

Her arms began to throb with exhaustion. Ignoring the pain she weaved seal after seal, her hands blurring through the drill. She pushed herself harder not wanting to give up or fail, not after being complimented by a stranger who was also a master of a tai style.

She finished the count, and she quickly moved along to the training of her jutsu. She repeated the set of hand seals she had just performed, while simultaneously releasing her chakra. Using the seals to mold her chakra into the lake, Yuna stood on the lake's edge, her aura a light hue of violet.

Yuna concentrated on her molded chakra, forcibly making the water come jumping out in the shape of a large v shaped wave. Yuna held her hands in the same shape, and the wave stuck tightly to the same formation. Yuna held the wave there, towering largely in over her, while she fed more chakra into the wave, holding it together a little longer.

A few seconds later the water wall came crumbling back down into the water remaining in the lake. The water crashed in upon itself, spitting water and mist into the air. Yuna avoided the mist, not wanting to feel the cold that the wave offered. She walked calmly back to the water's edge, watching as the water rippled back and forth in the lake.

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Suiton: Tottei No Jutsu (Water Release: Art of the Breakwater)
Rank: "D," "C," "B," "A," "S"
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: The user creates a wave of water in front of them to ward off techniques from the front.
Special: "Handseals"
Drawback: User must know the same level of this technique as the technique they wish to affect. For the user to block a Fire and Lightning techniques, the user must know this technique one rank above the technique they wish to block.
Description: The user performs this technique right after they perform the handseals for it, the user will whip their hands up into the air and have them meet near the level of their head, creating a sort of "v" or wedge shape in the air. Once this is done, water will rise up from below the user to create this same shape. This is done just as a long or medium range technique is flying towards the user, this technique will cut the technique in half so that the two sides fall harmlessly on either side of the user. This technique works in steps, if the user wishes to cut a "D" level water technique, the user must know the "D" rank version if this technique, and so on.
Limit: Water Release

o/7o B/Rank Part 6

Yuna was definitely tired. Her arms hung lamely at her side. She really didn't want to continue any more, but her urge to finish something she began started to take over. She honestly hated herself sometimes.
Can never leave things un-done huh?She asked herself sarcastically.

Yuna released the flow of her chakra, letting the static like feeling of her chakra loose under her skin. She stood straight and rigid as she blurred through the hand seals for the jutsu. She didn't even think of the seals anymore, they just seemed to come naturally now.

Her loose chakra was molded to the cold, icy water in the lake, by the same seals she weaved for the technique. Her concentration was so intense her mother was sure that nothing short of an explosion would break it. Yuna moved her concentration to the water that was now molded together with her chakra in the lake. Thrusting her hands upwards, Yuna kept her hands tightly wedged into the shape of a V.

The water responded in simultaneous to her thrust. It jumped free of the lake, forming a towering wave that was held tightly together in the shape of a v that Yuna still held with her hands. Yuna pushed more chakra into the wave, making it grow another foot in height. Yuna kept her chakra compressed tightly around the water to make sure it didn't fall prematurely.

Yuna held the wave up for as long as she could, before it came crashing back down into the lake. Yuna was hit by a few spare drops of water, and the brisk wind in the air made the cold water sting on her face. The water in the lake swayed and rippled back and forth from the impact of it falling back into the lake.

Yuna wouldn't give her mother the time to say anything at all. As tired as she was she continued on.
Right back to the beginning. She thought.
She streamed through the seals, another two hundred to go. Her arms burned deeply but she wanted to finish. She wrapped up the seals, and was blessed with another bottle of water from her mother.
"If you keep pushing yourself so hard, you're gonna cramp up."
Yuna took the water and guzzled it thirstily.
"I'm still young, I don't cramp up." Yuna laughed back to her mother.

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Suiton: Tottei No Jutsu (Water Release: Art of the Breakwater)
Rank: "D," "C," "B," "A," "S"
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: The user creates a wave of water in front of them to ward off techniques from the front.
Special: "Handseals"
Drawback: User must know the same level of this technique as the technique they wish to affect. For the user to block a Fire and Lightning techniques, the user must know this technique one rank above the technique they wish to block.
Description: The user performs this technique right after they perform the handseals for it, the user will whip their hands up into the air and have them meet near the level of their head, creating a sort of "v" or wedge shape in the air. Once this is done, water will rise up from below the user to create this same shape. This is done just as a long or medium range technique is flying towards the user, this technique will cut the technique in half so that the two sides fall harmlessly on either side of the user. This technique works in steps, if the user wishes to cut a "D" level water technique, the user must know the "D" rank version if this technique, and so on.
Limit: Water Release

o/7o B/Rank Part 7

The water opened up her dry throat, and seemed to give strength to her arms. She picked her arms up even though they still felt like jello. Her mother took the empty water bottle from Yuna. "Rest for a few minutes."
Yuna wanted to finish this up quickly, maybe go home, shower, take a nap, eat, basically anything besides training right now. She hated being sore from training. The only time it ever felt good to be this sore was in the morning when she did her stretching.
Speaking of stretching. She thought lazily to herself. Picking up her arms, she stretched them out across her chest and instantly felt the tight muscles relax as more blood was allowed into the veins of her arms.

Yuna took a few minutes of this, before deciding to finally continue. Her arms still felt weak, but it was better than the burning sensation she had a few minutes earlier. Yuna began streaming through the seal, her hands barely visible as a blur. Yuna began releasing her chakra, the normal static feeling of her chakra slowly being replaced with a slight burning sensation. The strain was starting to get to her.

Yuna molded her chakra into the lake, combining her life-force with the water there. Yuna thrust her hands upwards in the shape of a v, and the water jumped high out of the lake. The high wave took the shape of the v that Yuna held with her hands. It was held tightly together by the chakra Yuna had poured into it.

The wave dismembered itself and crashed into the lake. Water splashed around it's edges, causing the lake to become turbulent with ripples. White mist was spit into the air, chilling Yuna for a few moments. She recovered from the cold quickly with a shudder, and then she took a quick seat on top of a large rock to catch her breath.

"I told you to take a break. Now your all tired out. You need to learn how to pace yourself. Otherwise your body will be used to working in bursts instead of working consistently." Her mother stood with her hands on her hips, her facial expressions changing from concerned, to confused.
Yuna stood up."I don't know how many ways I need to tell you this but, I'm not as old as you. My body does what I tell it right now. When I get older I can train for that." She giggled a little bit.
Her mother smiled widely, "True, but better for you to learn it now, than to wait until later."
"Ok, I'll try to learn some self control. There. Happy now?"
"Yes, very."

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