Last minute preparations (training)

[Ishin Shakuya]

After gathering up his supplies for a mission Ishin decided to stick around his home for a bit to brush up on some training that he might need. Due to the nature of his mission he wouldn't really need much in the way of genjutsu, so he had to start chipping away at his ninjutsu. He started studying through any scrolls that he could find about the subject, and from the looks of it it seemed that the ice release was especially tempting to him. Though it did require both water and wind releases first. And due to the nature of where he was about to go it looked like the water release would have to be first. He sat with his legs crossed, eyes closed, and a handseal held for the sake of focus.

His breathing started slow and calm, his muscles slowly relaxed as he focused his chakra into the handseal. He could feel the chakra building up nicely, it was having a small conduit for hands, however he eventually had to surge all of this chakra through his body to, in theory, unlock the water release that he sought to achieve.

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Suiton no Jutsu (Water Release Skill)

Rank: "C"

Skill: NinJutsu

Effect: ---

Special: ---

Drawback: ---

Description: With this skill, or release, the user is now capable of using, and performing techniques that deal with the element of Water. This means that any NinJutsu or specialized TaiJutsu that deals the Water Release will need this in order to be performed correctly.

Limit: ---

With one last breath he forced the built up chakra in his hands to surge through his mind and eventually spread throughout his body. The sensation was incredible, and after that he felt something in his mind "tick". Granted it was an odd theory, but it certainly felt like it worked; the water release was his now, or at least he was getting there.

[Ishin Shakuya]

With the sensation slowly fading away, Ishin felt that he had to keep going. He could feel like he was getting closer and closer to realizing his goal. He took another deep breath to calm his mind against before repeating the process several times, with each one more powerful than the last, and inch by inch, he could feel his mind becoming more open. As he continued he also felt that he could pull more and more chakra from the center of his body, and put as much of it into the handseal as he could stand. Slowly his fatigue rose, his breathing becoming heavier, and sweat forming above his brow.

However, no matter how tired he became, he couldn't stop now, not while he was so close. With a moment of unshakable resolve he continued with his fatigue only becoming more apparent, and his mind becoming more open, hoping that with each surge he could force through himself, the closer he would come to gaining the release. His body started spasming and shaking in a few random places such as his stomach and right bicep. It was a weird and somewhat disturbing feeling at first, but eventually he decided to ignore it, figuring that the mix of chakra and adrenaline was causing these odd things to happen.

[Ishin Shakuya]

With sweat dripping from his face and being nearly out of breath, Ishin had become practically exhausted. He wiped his face quickly before shakily reforming the handsign in an attempt to build up his chakra once more. Ishin could barely feel it; when once his chakra had flowed like a relentless tide, it now felt like a few small hairs, weaving their way through his body in a careful and entrancing dance. His body was shaking, and he could feel every muscle in his body being taxed from rushing the chakra through his mind and spreading the rest of it throughout his body.

Sadly by this point he could barely do another one, or even attempt it what with how little chakra he had left to use. Deep down, however, he could feel it, he could feel himself on the edge of gaining the water release, and he could feel that he only had to do this hellish process one more time to achieve it. With one last huff of breath and a spark of determination he reformed the handseal before collecting as much chakra as he could into it before sending one final surge into his brain. The following sensation was nothing but an intense headache with pain wrapping around his head like a malevolent vice grip. He clutched his head with both hands, curled up on the floor. 

When it finally subsided he felt different, he felt something click in his mind that he didn't realize was even there before, he knew what he had done. After hours upon hours of that exhausting practice he had finally achieved the water release. Or at least that was what it felt like to him, but after wiping his forehead again, he had decided to retire for the night to get as much rest as possible before his mission.

[Madame Loki]

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