the Will of Water [T]

[Yoshino]

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Toughness
Rank: "C" (Always 30 Training Points)
Skill: Supplementary
Effect: User has enhanced physical stamina.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: User gains +5 Armour Points. For every Class Level beyond "D" Class, user gains an additional +5 Armour Points. At "B" Class, user additionally gains a +1 bonus on Fortitude Saves.
Limit: Must learn from Universal Miscellaneous.

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It was 6 am, Yoshino hadn't been able to sleep that night so she decided to venture outside. She put on her black battle cloak, placing the hood over her head, and headed out for the day. Upon leaving her home, she was greeted by a raging sun ready to shine over the planet. The skies showed the perfect blend of blue and orange. She had still been wearing her deep blue shinobi uniform. Her katana attached to her left hip just incase anything happened. 

For how early it was, there wasn't many people out. Walking out the main gate, she ventured toward a local waterfall. As she approached the roaring waterfall, which stood 5 meters high. She proceeded to take off her cloak and walk underneath the frigid down pouring waters that traveled at 25mph came into direct contacts with Yoshino's shoulder blades and back. She stood beneath the waterfall for one minute before stepping out, standing in the 30 degree weather, and stepping back underneath for another interval of enduring. 

She did so for about an hour, increasing how long she'd stay underneath the waterfall as well as adding how long she took a break outside of the water. All in attempt to tell her body to fight the frost, forcing herself to undergo a hypothermia. At the same time, however, she'd run a small amount of chakra through her body to keep her blood moving and providing a small amount of self generated heat. 

Next she would throw a series of punches, aiming to penetrate a hole through the waterfall. With every punch, the speeding waters would break open momentarily creating a small circular space within the waterfall, but it wasn't enough. She aimed to successfully pierce the waterfall causing it to halt in falling for even a few milliseconds. After 20 minutes she managed to create a small hole the size of a grapefruit through the waterfall. After 5 minutes of resting, she drank some water to stay hydrated, and then did different styles of kicks, attacking the waterfall once again. After another 20 minutes went by, barely being able to walk home, Yoshino stumbled her way back to the village. 

[Yoshino]

Waking up in the late evening, Yoshino quickly got dressed and headed out the door, taking some bandages with her. Approaching the front gates she noticed two guards standing on watch, a few late night merchants traveled through the town. It was a particularly active afternoon. 

She waited for the guards to look in a different direction before weaseling her way past them like a snake in the grass. After leaving, she walked along the dirt road listening out for any slight sounds. She reached a rather large tree, standing about 40 feet high and stretch about 5 feet wide. This tree had clearly been here for quite some time. Yoshino pulled out a kunai marking an "X" in the tree.

She would reach her right arm back, punching into the tree with tremendous force. As she did so she heard birds fleeing the area. Yoshino continued to throw a series of punches ranging from light to heavy damage; practicing different counterattack measures and testing her raw strength. Her knuckles began to bleed, so she wrapped them in the bandages she grabbed from earlier. Next, she would proceed to attack the mark in the tree with just her fingertips, mimicking how a snake moves. 

Over a short amount of time, Yoshino managed to start breaking through the wood as she increased in speed of the incoming punches. Once an average hole was creating in the tree; she would do jump kick into the same mark with her shin impacting the tall oak tree, her body would begin to get tired. Twenty minutes later, with her arms and legs soar, she practices climbing up the tree with using only two kunai. The steel tools would pierce the tree about 4 inches deep. She climbed the tree about 15 feet before misplacing where she stuck the one kunai, falling straight on her back without being able to brace herself, she laid on the ground for about a half hour stuck in thought. Standing up finally, she proceed to make her way home for a hot shower.

[Cadoc]

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