Learning(Training)

[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]

I'm Learnign: Raiton(Lightning Release)- [0/10]



After meeting with the Raikage and ironing out the treaty agreements, Genshuku decided to learn something that would be helpful during his time in cloud, learning the lightning release. Gen had only been taught basic ideas about it and that mastering the release required a near perfect tranquil mind, devoid of any strife and shame. "First, calm the mind...let your emotions, your feelings, your thoughts remain within your complete control. Keep your mind focused and completely centered on what you're trying to do" Genshuku said softly as he as he sat down on the hill in meditation. Calm the mind....calm the mind...think of nothing...remain in complete control Genshuku the jounin thought as he continued with his meditation. As the twenty year old cleared his thoughts, he felt himself emmersed into the calm serenity in the world. He felt himself become in tune with the planet's calm, rhythmic melody. For what was 2 hours, the man made not a single sound save for a sigh, a small release of breath indicating his readiness to learn how to learn one of nature's more powerful weapons, lightning. "remember Gen...calm mind and serene flow...do not unbalance nature...go with its flow, its cycles...move with it...not against" He said as he stood up and slid into his stance.

"Let your energies flow...don't obstruct their paths, don't control them...you guide their route, humbly and silently" Gen said repeating the words of one of his masters. Feeling the energies flowing within his body, Gen knew the time was at hand. "Mentally, it involves a complete absence of emotion and peace of mind, and physically it requires separating the energies of yin and yang (also an interpretation of positive and negative electric charge). When the forces collide, the bender only guides, rather than controls, the lightning's direction" He continued to repeat as he moved his hands in a circular motion trying to create the lightning, focusing his yin and yang chakras into the air causing it to superheat the air creating the lances. As he made the motions, he instinctively felt the need to combine the forces and thus he followed his instincts knowing that he is the lightning's humble servant. However, when he combined them and tried to shoot, nothing came as in....no lightning was produced...what did Genshuku do wrong? He didn't know...but he tried again, following the same routine, performing the circular dance and combining the two forces of yin and yang and shooting out their uneasy alliance only to find he created nothing but sparks.

"hah...do not be dismayed by failure...instead let it humble you further, and become even more in tune with the very fabric of nature itself" Gen continued as he quoted another of his masters. After he finished speaking, Gen went into the calm dance of creation as he tried to perfectly mix the two forces of yin and yang into the graceful melody mastered by many of the village. After failing once again, Gen did not let the failure affect his state of mind and his entire thought process. "Keep thyself in a complete state of serenity, let not the thoughts of this world cloud your thought" Gen said softly as if he was teaching another these abilities and skills. Forming the movements, Gen faced yet another failure as he tried to create the lightning. Feeling the breeze glide across his face, Genshuku calmly went into another series of dances as he continued to try and learn the lightning release. keep theyself in a complete state of mind... was the only thought that ran through Gen's mind at this point. "...sigh..." he breathed as he went through another dance, combining Yin and Yang only to be denied lightning once again. Letting out a calm breath, Gen went through the motions as if he was performing a sacred ritual, to those around him, Gen at this point, seemed detatched from the world and enveloped in the spiritual world. As failure gripped his attempts, Gen, surprisingly, remained calm and kept performing his dance, attempting to create lightning and thus master the abilities of this village.

[lash]

((Very nice, thoughtful meditation. I'm not sure how the training for releases would go, but you have done just about everything I would've done. I can almost see you out there, stretching your body in your attempts to release the strength of the jutsu within you, it's very fantastic.

I'm gonna go ahead and say 8/10 of the release; I'd give you the full ten, but the post really isn't long enough for you to learn a full technique in one and you yourself said you weren't finished.))

[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]

((Thanks Lash, yeah, I didn't think I deserved the full ten either...
Raiton- 8/10

Feeling the harsh heat of the sun beat down upon his neck, Gen took off his cloak as he continued in his training. "Keep your mind clear...don't let even the heat disorient your thoughts..." He sighed as he kept his mind on his training on not on his body. Forming the motions, Genshuku separated the forces of Yin and Yang, guiding them as if in a graceful ballroom dance with the abstract forces. Letting them collide in the final steps of his graceful dance, Gen felt the chakra he released to create the polar forces do its job and create the lightning. Although it was a relatively good amount of lightning produced, it wasn't enough to consider that Genshuku had mastered the release. Simply sighing, Genshuku simply moved back into stance as if nothing had happened and performed his ritualistic dance once more. To any and all onlookers, the sound jounin seemed immersed in his thoughts and his body moved on its own will. In reality, Genshuku's mind and body were moving together, in perfect harmony, mirroring each other's movements and the very forces of Yin and Yang, the forces that Gen was guiding in his dances. As he once again brought the two together in his final steps, Gen released them from the tips of his fingers and shot it out upwards towards the sky, aiming for the sun.

Feeling the breeze slide across his roasted back, and the gentle vibrations that nearby animals created, Gen was reminded of the sacred balance he was in. THe sacred balance he entered into, the balance he forced his mind to become conscious to. Performing the dance, Gen felt the forces of light and darkness, positive and negative seperate as he moved his hands in the rhythmic circular movements, moving in tune with the planet's sacred beat. As he mixed the energies on his final step, Gen knew what he had done and the moment he released the lightning, he knew...he knew he had done it...he knew that lightning was the planet's gift and that he like the ninja of this village, had accepted it with humility and honor.

[lash]

10/10