Akemi Lattini's Training

[Akemi]

Akemi stood in a circular clearing of trees where the river from the eastern falls runs by. 'Alright,' she thought. 'I'll start off with something easy to train for.' She sat down under tree and sat criss-crossed, thinking. 'Well, it IS usefull.' she thought. She stood up. "I'll train for the Shunshin no Jutsu!" she told herself. All she had to do was practice her speed...physiclly. Also, she needed to work on her reflexes. "Okay!" she said, confident she could make it. ((The real training starts the next post)) ;D

[Akemi]

"Shunshin no Jutsu (Body Flicker Technique)
Type: C-rank, Supplementary
High-speed movement technique. It is described as 'appearing with the wind and disappearing like the wind.'
It's a very basic jutsu and it appears that most shinobi above Genin-rank know it.
Using chakra to activate the body, the user is able to move from one point to another with extreme speeds. This super-fast movement is almost impossible to see with the naked eye. To a normal person, it would seem as if the user has teleported. The amount of Chakra used depends on the distance and elevation between the user and the destination."

"Okay, lets seeee..." Akemi muttered, walking back through the forest looking for the right kind of trees. "I need trees like...those!" she pointed at two thick, tall trees that were side by side and hade a little distance inbetween them. Perfect for practicing reflexes and speed...WITHOUT using chakra. She breathed in, and breathed out, ready. All she had to do was make it to the top in record time. She ran at the tree on the left and jumped to the tree on the right, going back and forth, dodging all the branches. She was surprised at herself...she thought her reflexes sucked. "Okay!" she whispered, realizing that she was above this level in training. The girl's speed increased rapidly, still not using any chakra. Higher still, she climbed back and forth from the trees. The branches were coming faster now, but they were thinner. "Faster!" she told herself. You could barely see her movement. It was all just a blur. 'This was going to be easier than I thought.' she thought.

"Oof!!!" she had let her gaurd down, and ran straight into the tree trunk of the tree she was jumping over to. Falling, she looked down. It was going to be a long fall and a hard landing if she didnt do something quick. "Oh, crap!" she yelled. Desperately, she started grabbing at the tree, hoping to catch a branch. She didnt catch one, but she landed on one. Good thing it was thick, she would have broke it right in half. She sat up, clutching her stomach with both hands, wincing. "God..." she muttered. "That miracle couldve hurt a lot less!" Oh well, she was just thankfull something had stopped her fall. She stood up, clenching her fists. "Again." she willed herself, this time with her chakra.

The girl started climbing up the trees her style, and with the chakra, she was even faster, dodging the thick branches even quicker. Already she was at the top! She couldnt believe it. She sat down on the highest branch, catching her breath. She looked down through all the branches. It was record timing for her. The girl had made it. 'I think... Im ready...' she thought. "Not yet though..." she said. She wanted to enjoy the scenery for awhile. It was pretty nice up here... the girl jumped down from branch to branch, noticing some branches that she broke or twisted instead of dodged. She had reached the ground, and started walking back to the clearing.

When she had made it back to the clearing, it was almost dusk. She knew she had to get it before nightfall. She closed her eyes to concentrate, gathering her chakra. She heard the sound coming from her mind, signaling it was all gathered. She opened her eyes, rapidly making the hand signs. "Shunshin no Jutsu!" she yelled. She closed her eyes again, waiting for it to settle in. She concentrated only on the focus of her chakra and her destination, the other side of the clearing. It was a fair distance, and she was good at making fast, accurate handsigns. Once again, she made the hand signs and shouted "Shunshin no Jutsu!" and took a step forward.

Everything seemed to go in slow motion except herself. The wind that was moving the trees was slower, even the birds that were flying over-head were moving slower. "Is this how it works?" she asked herself, confused. She ran to the other side at full speed. Once at her destination, everything was normal again, moving at it's normal pace. Did I just do the Jutsu backwards? She scratched her head. "Did I do it right?" she asked no-one in particular. What had just happened? The girl was as confused as a rock.

[kajou]

+5 [5/30] sorry Shunshin is C-Ranked on this site o.o

[Akemi]

She realized that she had performed the jutsu wrong. She collapsed onto her back, with her arms resting in an akward position on her fore-head. Really, she didnt even use up a lot of her chakra and she was already tired. 'Are you kiddin me?' she thought. 'I cant believe this...Im HAVE to get it before nightfall.' Speaking of which, it was almost sunset. She jumped up, hands already in thier position. She poured chakra into her legs, arms, and most importantly, her feet. She could feel the chakra flowing quite nicely, and decided it was now or keep on waiting 'till it was too late. 'Maybe I should do some more reflex training...' she thought. Suddenly, she felt all her chakra let loose. "Dang it!" she yelled in frustration, her arms flailing. It was going to take forever! She was getting distracted from her concentration too much from other thoughts. "Okay..." she told herself, blinking drastcilly. "Concentrate." She closed her eyes, and channeled her chakra once again. Once she felt that the flow was good, she shouted "Shunshin no Jutsu!" and opened her eyes.

Everything was blue, once again in slow-motion. Looking around, the girl thought 'Maybe this is supposed to happen...no wait, concentrate and just start running, idiot!' She did what she was told. As time passed, her feet got clumsier, the more she ran around the circular clearing. She was sweating. "C'mon!" she yelled. "Keep it up!" She regained her focus and confidence and picked up her speed, her feet not so clumsy anymore. The wind rushing by sounded like a sheer whistle. She wasnt going fast enough. She pushed herself even harder, going even faster. Akemi kept on wondering the same thing... 'How do I know if Im doing it right?' That was something she was going to have to figure out...LATER. Her breath gave out and she collapsed. She rolled over onto her back, trying to regain her chakra flow. Everything was normal again...but it was getting harder to breathe. The girl needed a break. She wouldn't allow herself, though. She got up on one knee, her chest throbbing... she didnt care. The stars were beggining to come out. "Whats wrong with me?" she asked the stars. Her agility and speed were always in top form...so why couldnt she have gotten this jutsu down earlier?!?! Akemi stood up, barely being able to do so. She inhaled and exhaled slow, deep and easy. With her breath regained the girl started to channel out her chakra once more.

"Shunshin no Jutsu!" she whispered, being so she didnt have enough breath to even say it in a normal voice. This time she ran through the forest, so she would have to dodge and wind through all the trees, obviously making it harder. 'I better not run into any trees.' she thought, smiling to herself. She wouldnt give into her body, no matter how much it screamed for her to stop training. She knew it would be a matter of time before something drastic happened to herself. She didnt show it, no matter how much she wanted to. She kept on pushing herself harder and faster, trying to make it so she just KNEW that the jutsu was mastered. Her face lit up. She had an idea. She jumped up into the branches of the trees above her. She stood on the branch, leaning against the trunk, catching her breath. Her plan was this: If she marked the branch she was standing on, and focused on a branch about maybe...fifteen branches away, and she did the jutsu, she SHOULD be on that exact branch! Her way of knowing if it was the right branch AND that she had done the jutsu correctly, was to mark the branch she appeared on, and count the branches back untill she found her starting branch. It, was perfect. Akemi took out one kunai, and bent over to mark the branch several times, and shoved it back into her thigh pocket.

Then the girl, once again, regained control of her chakra flow, and channeled it all throughout her body, mainly to the feet. She concentrated deeply, and finally she opened her eyes and shouted "Shunshin no Jutsu!". Everything faded into a light-blue, signaling it was time. Akemi knew what she was supposed to do for it to work. She closed her eyes. That was the trick. She knew the branch she wanted to appear on. It was twenty-five branches away. She had confidence in herself and was continuing the flow of chakra throughout her body. Akemi wasnt thinking anything, her body moved on it's own. She couldnt tell if she moved or not, as long as she kept on focusing on her destination. She opened her eyes and looked down...she smiled. This branch was unmarked and there-fore, not the same one! "Yes!" her voice echoed throughout the forest. Her smile faded, realizing, she could be from twenty-five to one branch away from where she started from. Akemi took out her kunai once again and kneeled down to mark the branch several times. She stood up, anxious to find out the result. The girl started jumping from branch to branch, counting. 'Nine...' she thought. 'Ten...eleven...twelve...' eventually, she reached her starting branch. Akemi turned to punch the tree-trunk. "Nineteen?!?!?!" she shouted. Calming down, she told herself 'At least it wasnt one...' She sat down on the branch, the moon reflected in her eyes, finally starting to come into the night-sky canvas. It reminded her of her dead mother. With the crickets chirping, and the glow from the moon and all the stars, Akemi almost fell asleep. She didnt, becuase she had almost slipped off. Fully alert now, she stood up on her feet. Still deciding if she wanted to do more training, or just go home.

[kajou]

+6 [11/30]

[Akemi]

Akemi woke up to the sound of birds chirping, and a searing pain all over her body. The girl was laying on the ground, looking up at the trees. She stood up to do a back-bend. It always strectched out her back. When she stood straight, she realized that she had fallen off the branch. She was surprised it didnt wake her up. She smiled. Her chakra had re-generated fully. "Time for more training!" she said. Akemi was confident that she had gotten at least one-third of her training done the day before. Her stomach growled. Akemi didnt want to go home yet, she wanted to get a little more training done. She jumped up into the trees. She couldnt use the same marked bunch of trees, so she started to move away into a different area. She took out a kunai and marked the branch she stood on. The girl knew that with her chakra now full, her results should be much better. Concentrating, she channeled her chakra through-out her body. With the sound signaling her chakra was ready, she shouted "Shunshin no Jutsu!" Akemi was all too familiar with her blue slow-moving surroundings. She closed her eyes to focus on her destination that was twenty-five branches away. She took a step and almost lost her focus. When she opened them, she looked down. It was unmarked. 'What now?!' she thought and smiled to herself. She knelt down to mark it with a kunai and started back to the original branch. When she had gotten to the branch, she had counted twenty-three. The girl was getting frustrated. She should have gotten it by now! She was almost there anyway...but still. 'I have to get it DIRECTLY where i want to go, or Im not going to consider it mastered.' she thought. Akemi moved once again to a different area, with different trees. 'I have to get it right this time!' she thought. Her temple was pumping she was trying so hard. Her chakra was surging through her body, again and again. "Shunshin no Jutsu!" she shouted. The process was done once again, and she had counted thirty-one. "Dang it, I went to far!" she said, kicking the trunk of the tree she stood on. She sat down, breathing heavily. The girl had wasted a lot of chakra.

"Not as much...chakra...next time." she said in between breaths. Her stomach growled. Akemi remembered that she needed food. She still didnt want to go home yet. Her training wasnt complete. "I dont know..." she said. Akemi decided that it was a good chance to meet someone to help her train. "Yeah right!" she said. "Not in this good-for-nothing village! It's like everyone's a walking zombie..." she kicked the tree one more time and headed home for rice nuggets and fish.

[Akemi]

Returning from her dissapointing trip back to the village, she walked out into the middle of the clearing where she did her daily training, looking around. The girl was frustrated and angry with herself for not getting the Jutsu right away, thinking her speed was superior over any other skill she had. The girl had a lot to learn. "Well..." she thought out loud. "My speed IS a talent, and im going to show it whether I master this Jutsu or not!" She held her fists up to her chest, biting her lip. She was having doubts upon herself. She shook her head into a face of confidence. "It's easy!" she said, smiling. "I'll master it in at least two more days!" The light in her eyes returned. 'Okay, lets get started.' She sprinted into an area in the forest that she hadnt used for training already. Rolling her eyes, she thought 'Geez, not the same routine again...' Realizing that this thought was automatic, she knew she wouldnt last long in her training if her mind was bored to death. (Kinda like the Waterfall Village!) So she decided to do soemething different that would help her learn the techinque. The girl grabbed her only Kunai and ran up the chosen tree-trunk. When Akemi had reached the very top and looked down through all the branches where she had just used to climb up. The girl had cut every-single branch so that if even one ounce of pressure was put upon them, it would totally break off the tree. She repeated this technique on two other tall trees, and she was now at the bottom of the tree on the far right. The plan was in order to help her master the Shunshin no Jutsu techinque, she would use the Jutsu to jump from branch to branch, with the branch not budging one bit. Akemi looked up into the traps she had created. Was she going to be able to pull it off? Ofcourse! Speed was everything...she had been praised for it by almost everyone she's ever known...and that wasnt going to change.

She got herself in position, closing her eyes to effectively focus on all of her destinations: which was branch after branch after branch, non-stop. The girl channeled her chakra throughout her body, solely focusing on nothing else but that. Once her body signaled that it's chakra was ready for use, she opened her eyes to shout "Shunshin no Jutsu!" Akemi stowed her kunai away back into her thigh pocket, and jumped up onto the first branch using the super-speed of the Jutsu. She felt the branch give way beneath her. She was anxious to know what was going to happen, and didnt have enough focus and there-for, too slow. Before she fell too far down, she regained her entire focus on the task at hand and she jumped from the branch onto the next branch. She knew she couldnt stop now, because the higher she went, the more chance she had of possibly getting killed if she ever fell. When she had reached about mid-way up the tree, she had almost lost her balance, forcing her to lose focus. When the girl had lost her focus, she desperately tried to jump up to the next branch. It was too late. Akemi didnt get enough air, and so she threw her hands up and thankfully, caught onto one of the branches. Quickly realizing she didnt have enough time to think about anything, she swung her legs up over the tree and flipped over some branches, skipping them, and landing on a further up branch. She kept on going up, branch after branch, all of them crackingand breaking under her feet, with her almost going down with it. At the moment, Akemi didnt care if she mastered the Jutsu or not, she just wanted to survive through what she was putting herself through. 'Maybe I oughtta just jump over to a more STABLE tree...' the girl thought. 'No! If you keep it together, you can SO do it!' She kept her confidence, along with her focus, and as she got higher, the branches under her feet only occasionally cracked, but they no longer gave way.

When she had reached the top of the first tree, she jumped over and went down the second tree. And when she had reached the bottom of the second tree, she jumped over to start climbing up the third and final tree. Akemi was relieved that the branches beneath her feet were no longer cracking, or, well, budging at all! But the girl was frustrated that she had gotten herself into life-threatening training. If she survived through this final tree, she was going to do Taijutsu training on all three of them untill they fell to the ground. Once she had reached the top, she jumped over to a branch of a stable tree and collapsed on her back, gasping for breath. The chakra in her body was screaming to take a break...and so she released the Jutsu for everything to retake it's normal color and speed. Gasping for breath, she turned her head so she could see all of the branches. The girl winced at the site of the first tree, where almost all the branches had gotten torn off, but then it relaxed a little as she gazed upon the second tree, where only one-third of the branches were broken off. Akemi smiled after looking at the final tree where she had trained, where only three branches were broken off. After regaining her breath, she sat up and took out one of her windmill shuriken from the small rectangular verticle pouch on her back. (It stayson there from the straps that come from the corners of it and around Akemi's arms like back-pack straps, but remember, IT IS STRICTLY NOT A BACKPACK) She threw it, succesfully chopping off al remaining branches so the trunks of the trees were bare. She caught it when it winded back, and put it back in the pouch with the other windmill shuriken.

[kajou]

+4
+6
[21/30]

[Akemi]

Akemi yawned. 'What now?' she thought. It's not like she could do it over again...she had already cut off all the remaining branches. The girl realized how stupid she was. "Geez..." she muttered. She stood up and looked around. How could she practice the Jutsu now? Akemi's face lit up. She knew what to do. Jumping down from the tree-branch, she sprinted back and through the clearing, to the river bank where the waterfall roared down. The girl thought it would be more exciting to practice the Shunshin no Jutsu across the water. Akemi would activate the Jutsu, and shunshin over to the other bank. If she couldnt make it...then she would have to swim out before the current could carry her down the whole river. ((The river was very long and she didnt know how to walk on water yet with her chakra)) She knew it was a challenge and she knew it was going to be hard...but at least it wasnt life-threatning.

The girl stood on the very edge of the bank, her feet sinking a little into the muddy river-bank. She closed her eyes, concentrating on her chakra flow. It was going nicer than expected, especially from the intense training in the forest before. It was nearly mid-day by now, and the sun was shining bright. "Shunshin no Jutsu!" she said and opened her eyes. She almost lost focus, the flow of the water had slown down due to the effects of the Jutsu and Akemi was finding it peaceful. "Snap out of it and get moving!" she told herself. The girl nodded and closed her eyes, focusing on her destination. She opened them and screamed. The girl was off and had fallen into the river. Well, she sure felt dumb. All she had to do was stand and she could touch the sandy bottom. She trudged up to the side of the river-bank and turned to face the river once more. Ofcourse, when she had fallen, the Jutsu was broken, so once again, she activated the technique. "Shunshin no Jutsu!" this time, she nearly fell into the water, she was JUST on the river bank. When she had regained her balance, she sighed. Then she realized, she had done it right! The gir'ls face got serious. It may have been a fluke. "One more time." she said, confident she could do it again.

"Shunshin no Jutsu!" this time, it was automatic, and Akemi opened her eyes to find that she was standing on the other side of the river. She didnt even focus on her destination hat hard! All the girl had to think of was 'that river-bank and she was there. Was she getting closer to mastering this Jutsu? (FINALLY??!?!?))

[Hyuuga Ryuujin]

+9 TP

30/30 TP

Learned.

[Akemi]

She grinned. "Yes!" she shouted. She had finally mastered the Jutsu. Still smiling, she lay on her back, wanting to do even more before the end of the day. Akemi turned her head to face the river, thinking but still happy she had learned it. Her mother...she missed her. The girl thought of her necklace, it's twin somewhere out in the village. Mai...they still needed to find her. She could only do that by learning as many powerful jutsus as possible. As soon as that happened...they were ready. Akemi knew what she had to do. She stood up, flashbacks of her early childhood when her mother was still alive. Fists clenched by her side, no longer smiling. "Next is Suikoudan no Jutsu."

Rank: C-Ninjutsu
Name: Suiton: Suikoudan no Jutsu (Water Element: Water Shark Missile Technique)
Description: Generates a single, spinning vortex of water that flies directly into it’s
target, with a shark’s head, adding punishment to pain.

[Akemi]

[0/30]

She started to run back past the circular clearing and back to the trees where she had cut all the branches off. Akemi faced the middle tree, with her eyes closed, hands positioned, channelling her chakra. Once she felt it flowing nicely, she focused all of it on the water molecules in the air right in front of her. It was done. "Suikoudan no Jutsu!" she shouted and opened her eyes. The girl was surprised to hear bubbling and gurgling sounds coming from the water molecules in the air in front of her gather. Akemi looked at it as it took on the form of water. It kept on swirling. Realizing the process was taking too long, she got back into focus, gushing all the water molecules together with her chakra. The vortex got bigger and bigger. The girl was draining all her chakra because of the slow process. She winced, knowing she had to pick up the speed. Speed was everything. Once the vortex in front of her was big enough, a shark's head appeared, and it shot forward. It was too much. She collapsed on her butt, breathing heavily. Akemi's chakra was almost totally drained. "It's only...about one o' clock..." she whispered. 'Save your breath.' she thought. 'You'll need it to regenerate your chakra.' The girl nodded in agreement with herself.

She stood up, and got back into position. She could barely feel her chakra. Concentrating solely, her remaining chakra was slowly getting it's feel back. "Suikoudan no Jutsu!" she shouted and began reforming the water molecules in the air in front of her into a spinning of vortex of water. This time, she had a target. It was the tree in front of her. Akemi had to cover a thirty-foot distance when the attack charged. Lets focus on gathering up the vortex of water first. Akemi closed her eyes even tighter, a sign of very deep concentration. The sound of the water gushing all together was the sign it was ready. That took about three minutes of chakra...all of it wasted. The girl knew she had to work on her speed of gathering all the water molecules with her chakra into a spinning vortex of water. She opened her eyes to look at the big ball of water rushing in different directions in front of her. Her reflection was dark. She wasnt looking at herself. Why are her eys filled with hate? "No!" she screamed and sent a monster shark out of the vortex right at herself.

She flew backwards, straight into a nearby tree. The shark-head felt real. Especially the teeth. Her face was cut up. She was going to have to treat those wounnd later. Right now, Akemi was focusing on herself. She didnt want to change into a selfsih, cold, dark person filled with hatred. She liked herself the way she was. Loud, happy, and friendly to everyone. The truth was...she wasnt really happy. She needed to avenge her mother...but the girl did not want her life to solely be for the purpose of avenging her mother. She needed to be happy in her life as well...to laugh and have fun with the people she loved. She lifted her hand. She was still strong enough to do one more practice of the Jutsu.

Still sitting down, she concentrated on her chakra, molding the water molecules in front of her into water with it. The water gushed, and churned violently, rapidly forming into a spinning vortex of water. "Suikoudan no Jutsu!!!" she yelled, eyes fierce. The shark head made of water shot out from the vortex and sped into the tree, damaging it. "I did it..." she said. 'But it could've been a fluke, and I've only done it three times.' she thought. The girl noticed she still had some chakra left, for that time the process was not slow, it was pretty fast. Akemi stood up, ready for another round. The previous event had given her a nice idea for training. She ran back to the middle of the clearing. Focusing, she gathered all of her chakra. Now that she knew how to pick up the speed quite nicely, she wouldnt have to waste her chakra anymore. "Suikoudan no Jutsu." she said and the gushing of water immediately formed in front of her. Making sure her focus never left the Jutsu, so there would only be a big spinning vortex ball of water, she took many steps back. Once she was far enough, she formed the shark head and it sprung out of the vortex of water at an alarmingly surprising speed. As in, Akemi was surprised. She didnt expect it to go that fast.

The girl tried to dodge it by using shunshin, but it was too fast and so she took the hit, her own jutsu not showing any mercy. She breathed in more and more water, it kept on gushing at her. She put her arms in front of her, in an X form, to block it. It wasnt helping. The shark's teeth were tearing into her skin all over her body. "Stop!" she tried to say. Her mind was working overboard she forgot how tos top it with her chakra. She made the Jutsu deactivate, but that only made the vortex of water drop dead all over the grass. Finally though, the gush of water stopped and the girl collapsed on the ground, choking and trying to cough up the water. Her face was red when she had finally stopped choking. She turned over on her backwith the momentum of one of her arms and she brought it down in a fist upon the ground. "Im so STUPID!!!" she shouted. 'Yeah, you are.' she thought. 'You almost killed yourself, you idiot.'

Akemi frowned. The girl felt blood all over her body. She sat up to exmine herself. All over her body, were bite marks. All open cuts and bleeding. Two were really big gashes, the rest were only minor cuts. It hurt to stand up, and she winced from it. Akemi knew she had to do much more training, but for now, she had to go home to treat her wounds.

[amane]

+9

10/30

[Akemi]

[10/30]

It was early morning, and the sun had not come up yet. Akemi was already at her secret training spot, focusing her chakra. She figured she needed to upgrade her chakra balance, so she had been running laps around the clearing for nearly an hour. Once the sun was up, she took her break, trying to get her breath back. Now that the girl's chakra had regenerated, she was ready for even longer and even harder traing. She stood in the center generating her chakra throughout her body. The swirling vortex in front of her was already forming, gushing into one of her best yet. Still focusing, she took several steps back. This time, she was ready to dodge it. She knew the speed it was going to travel at, and as the time passed, it would just get faster and stronger. "Suikoudan no Jutsu!" she shouted and the from the ball of water came a shark-head and it was blasted straight at her. Akemi had decided earlier that she was to show no mercy on herself. She had also decided NOT to Shunshin out of the way but to use her normal speed. This way, her normal speed would improve along with learning the Jutsu.

The shark head formed from water was speeding towards her, almost touching, its mouth open teeth showing. She braced herself...watching it's speed. She saw it and at last minute, sped to the side of the clearing. Her timing was a little slow. Her whole entire left side was engulfed in the water. She was knocked to the ground. Good thing the cuts were all minor. She winced and stood up again. She gathered up all her chakra once more, the speed of creating the vortex kept on increasing each time she practiced the Jutsu. "Suikoudan no Jutsu!" she shouted. She took action to fast and forgot to step back to get a distance between herself and the vortex. Quickly thinking, she sent the shark in a different direction. The shark was blasted at a nearby tree, nearly knocking it over. Akemi just forgot about it all and tried all over again, the vortex splashing to the ground. She faced a different direction, and molded the water molecules together, rapidly creating the vortex of spinning water in the form of a ball. She almost did it again, but she remembered at the last minute. She moved back. The distance was about twenty feet. The key was focusing the whole time. "Suikoudan no Jutsu!" she yelled and the shark immediately shot out from the water vortex. This time, she took no chances, and as soon as the shark was blasted, she jumped up. What? Akemi was shocked to see that the shark-head had followed her up. She could control the direction. Suddenly, the shark-head exploded into water droplets. Her face relaxed and she landed on the ground, smiling. That was pretty fun. The girl realized that she could only control the direction of the shark for only a short amount of time.

She got back into position, ready to start again. This time she was going to send it even faster. The gushing sound signaled it was done. She jumped back and into a good distance away from it. "Suikoudan no Jutsu!" she shouted. The shark-head was sent at her, with the girl's eyes closed, focusing. She opened them, watching. She jumped to the side. She was getting better. It didnt even cut her, she just brushed the water as it sped by into a nearby tree, cutting the bark into pieces. Akemi had not lost focus, and the vortex was still spinning with chakra. She looked over at it, swirling around. Realizing the more time she wasted the more chakra she wasted, she got herself back into position. "Suikoudan no Jutsu." she said. The girl watched carefully, she needed to fully dodge it, and this was only the normal speed of her Jutsu. Akemi looked on in slow-motion. It happened so fast, it was almost as if she used Shunshin. She jumped up, the shark following her. This time, the shark was not destroyed in thin air. It was because she was putting more chakra into the Jutsu. It hit her in the air full-on and she fell crashing to the ground. The blood from the cuts flowed into her mouth. She wiped it away, hoping there were no fatal wounds. Luckily, there were not. The girl realized that the more chakra she put into it, the faster and more powerful it will be. Plus, it will also cover more distance.

She decided to see what was the best she could do. Concentrating hard, eyes fiercely closed, she molded the chakra rapidly throughout the water molecules in front of her. The usual gushing sound was violent this time, it was spinning so rapidly it was creating a sort of wind that blew all around her. She kept her focus. Akemi was going to give this one her best shot. She jumped several times backwards, making a very great distance between her and the vortex, she could feel the wind from it's spinning increasing. It was getting stronger, the more chakra she put into it. She opened her eyes, ready. "Suikoudan no Jutsu." she whispered, almost scared of the result. The shark- head bubbled out of the vortex powerfully. The girl increased her chakra as soon as she saw it, the wind increasing still. The shark-head charged full speed. It had covered a fifty-foot distance in almost 2.7 milli-seconds. Akemi screamed. It was coming to fast. Why did her personal challenges always end up life-threatening? The sharks's teeth looked even bigger and sharper then ever. She definately needed to dodge this one.

She remembered NOT to use shunshin...so she jumped back rapidly, into the forest. She kept the focus on her Jutsu, making sure it hit no trees so she would know how long she could keep it chasing her at this speed. Her hair was every-where, from the speed of going backwards knocking it forward, and the wind coming from the wind of the water spinning the shark-head into it's shape knocking it back. She was surprising herself nearly every second. The girl would of thought it be destroyed in thin air by now, but it kept charging. She was doing good. She turned around in a curve, back to the clearing. Once she sensed there were no trees behind her, she knew that she was there. Akemi looked at the shark-head, never losing it's speed. The girl noticed her chakra supply...it was dangerously low. 'No!' she thought. 'Not yet...' Her hair got in her eys once again. 'Geez...I really need to put my hair in a bun before i train. I'll have to remember that.' "Oof!" she had jumped backwards right into a tree due to loss of focus on one of the ends of the clearing. She had keeping focus for so long, she couldnt stop the shark-head. She braced herself for impact, putting her arms in front of her in an X form. She could barely catch her breath. The girl suddenly thought 'Im going to die if I let this thing hit me.' She tried to lose focus...but it was hard, it was automatic. She looked at the vortex on the side of the clearing. Yes, that was the key. Quickly, she took out one of her windmill shuriken from the pouch on her back and opened it. Akemi threw it straight at the vortex, well aimed. She looked back at the shark-head of spinning water and was surprised to see it right in front of her, her head inside it's mouth, not yet making contact.

Suddenly, it blew up into water molecules, most of them raining down on Akemi. She looked on, her face screwed up in utter horror, trembling. Her eyes were widened, remembering the site of her reflection in the water from inside the shark-head's mouth. Her eyes turned to the vortex. It had blew up as well, due to her windmill shuriken. She stopped trembling and relaxed against the tree, breathing heavily. "Thank...god." she whispered.

She stood up, and ran over to get her shuriken and returned it to the pouch on her back with it's twin. She sat down, her chakra almost totally drained. The girl was still breathing heavy, heart racing and lungs burning. Akemi's cuts had stopped bleeding, and the remaining dried blood she chipped off. She touched the charm on her necklace. She was just getting better and better. Realizing she only had little chakra, she stood up and got back into position. She was going to do it again. By now, it was almost three. The sun still shining brightly. She grinned. "I will keep on taking my challenges...no matter what." 'Although...' she thought. Her smile faded. 'That last challenge almost killed you, you idiot.' "No matter." she said, smiling once more. "As a shinobi, your SUPPOSED to put your life on the line, right?"

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[Akemi]

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The sun was setting, and Akemi was in position, already gathering her remaining chakra. Her temple was pumping...it hurt to channel chakra throughout the body. This time, she her target was the tree in front of her. The girl wanted to know what she could do with the rest of her remaining chakra, and gathered up all her strength, the pain slowly increasing. The vortex of spinning water formed in front of her with great speed. Feeling it's power, and the pain, she opened her eyes, determined. "Suikoudan no Jutsu!" she shouted and from the vortex blasted a shark-head, it's vicious teeth tearing through the air, aimed at the tree. Akemi realized she was losing chakra and screamed to help her increase the power. Surely, the shark got much faster. Sending into the tree, it's water didnt just explode all over the place, but it exploded into a wave, crashing to the ground, sending wind back to Akemi. After all the water had receded, the girl stood proudly and grinned, fists raised up. The tree had been totally destroyed. She had almost made a whole entire hole through the tree. The bark where it was hit was torn apart. It was dark and the moon and stars were already shining. "Yes..." she said, smiling. All of a sudden a searing pain throughout her whole body intensified, and she doubled over, her face turning into a face of extreme pain. Her heart and lungs felt like they were cracking under a giant boulder. The girl was shaking violently. Her brain felt like the viens were twisting and breaking each other...her muscles not aching, but felt like they were being sliced through. Her chakra supply was dangerously low. She fell to the ground. The grass was cold and wet. Akemi kept quiet...and listened to the crickets and the small breeze moving along the trees. The moon and stars shining down. The girl slept there, on the forest floor.

[Akemi]

The sun woke Akemi up. Her clothes soiled, she stood up to stretch. Her chakra had regenerated and it was flowing nicely. She smiled and did her usual back-bend to crack and strecth out her back. She stood back up to look around. From the sky, she had slept till noon. Noon?! She had slept through half the day! Quickly she got in to position. How did she want to train this time? She got it! Since she had already gotten down the speed and power along with the distance to her liking, she was going to see how many she can produce at one time. 'Not many...' she thought. 'Just one shark-head almost killed me.' The girl shook it off, literally. "No way!" she said, confident. "I can make trillions if I wanted to!" Immediately, she started forming the spinning ball of water. The vortex of water conjured up rapidly, sending wind through-out the area. "Suikoudan no Jutsu!" her voice echoed throughout the clearing. The shark-head was blasted out and into a nearby tree. She tried to get another one out, but the Jutsu only allowed one. So much for that...well, she was going to make the most of it. She directed the shark-head back at herself, and she took out one of her windmill shuriken, planning to destroy it. Akemi threw it, and it hit. The water screeched over the metal and it blasted in thin air, sending water raining over the gorund. The vortex had been dropped long before she threw the shuriken. She shunshined over to get her shuriken and stood up, tall. 'So much for that...' she thought.

[amane]

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[Akemi]

The girl felt she had learned the Jutsu, so she wasnt going to practice it any longer. She was happy that she had learned the Jutsu, but she was seriously lacking motivation. 'Just think, greatest femal ninja.' she thought. "Yeah, but the real reason is to find mom's murderer." she said and sat down. 'Geez, Akemi...dont let that be your sole purpose in life. Live a little.' She looked at the ground. "Maybe I should learn a Jutsu with less Chakra." she said. 'I've got it!' she thought. Akemi had been wanting to teach herself this Jutsu for awhile now since her primary weapons are two windmill shuriken. She took out both windmill shuriken from her pouch and opened them in each hand. "I'll learn the Shadow Shuriken technique!"


Kage Shuriken no Jutsu (Shadow Shuriken Technique)
Type: D-rank, Offensive, Mid- to long range (5+m)
Users: Uchiha Sasuke
The user of this technique throws multiple large shuriken in such a way that the first shuriken hides the subsequent ones by blocking the line of sight. To the target, it would look like only one shuriken was thrown.
Sasuke and Naruto successfully used this technique (with two shuriken, one of them being a Henge of Naruto) against Momochi Zabuza and Naruto throwing a throwing knife forcing Zabuza to dodge and cancel his Suiro no Jutsu, freeing Kakashi from it.
Sasuke masqueraded the attack by calling it "Evil Windmill" (from fansubs) perhaps implying a different attack, or simply an attack with his large shruiken

[Akemi]

She quickly sighed, wishing that her teammates would finally get off that mission. "Oh, well..." she muttered and looked up once again. "I hope their doing good on it." 'Now, lets see...' she thought. Looking around, she knew that the clearing was a good area for throwing the range of windmill shuriken. She didnt NEED her chakra...she was just going to use it later on for an inhancement of the Jutsu. For now, she was going to have focus on using the technique correctly with sheer skill. The girl knew shadow was key, so she threw one of them to get the feel for it. It was only one o' clock, so the sun was still shining quite bright. She looked at the shadow of the shuriken, knowing it would have to be exactly right, or the Jutsu wouldnt work. She worked her chakra through the shuriken and it flew back, Akemi catching it by it's handle. She got the other one ready, she knew exactly where to throw it. "Shadow shuriken technique!" She threw them, not really using power because of her focus on getting the shuriken in the shadow correctly. She smiled. It was easier than she thought. The girl had aimed exactly correct, sending the shuriken right into the exact shape and spin of the shadow. Akemi used her chakra to spin it around, and was surprised to see another shuriken still there. She had forgot to turn the other one around with the first one. She was going to have to work on that...she caught the first one as it came by, and then Shunshined over to retrieve the second one, and shunshined to the middle of the clearing.

Now that she had both, she was ready to try it again. Akemi planned to use the shadow shuriken technique around the clearing, getting the shadow timing perfectly right. She closed her eyes and invisioned the jutsu working perfectly. Usually, when she invisioned things happening that involved her aiming for something, it happens. She opened them. "Shadow shuriken technique!" she said and threw both of them towards the edge of the clearing. The girl focused her mind, channeling the surging chakra throughout both of the windmill shuriken. She turned both of them to the left, keeping the second shuriken up with the shadow of the first. Her eyes followed them like a hawk's, never leaving them. She was going to work on the power and speed of the throw next, and then afterwards, she needed to learn how to use the technique without her eyes following it's every move. The two shuriken flew all the way around the clearing and back to Akemi, where she caught them with both hands expertly. She smiled once more, she had gotten the shadow down nice and easy. Now was time to work on the speed and power. The girl's goal was to throw them using the technique perfectly, while giving them the best speed and power she could. "Shadow shuriken technique!" she said and threw them with all her might.

The shadow timing was perfect, untill the shuriken in the shadow went faster than the original. "Dang..." she muttered, and sent them flying back to her. She did this process numerous times, eventually getting the speed in power in each shuriken exactly right to match each other. She couldnt wait to start training to use the technique without her eyes, so it would be automatic. She wanted a target first. The girl withdrew her shuriken back into the black pouch on her back, and ran into the forest to find some trees that weren't too thick and werent too thin. When she had found them, she whipped out her shuriken. How many of these trees could she wipe out in a row? She generated her chakra towards her hands, in order to intensify the shuriken's power. Even thought plenty of ninja would be laughing at the use of two windmill shuriken, the girl was quite creative when it came to using her primary weapons. "Shadow shuriken technique!" she yelled, and threw them, experianced. The two shuriken over-lapped each other perfectly, the shadow timed, and the speed and power exact, even as it was intensified with Akemi's chakra. It cut through three trees, the fourth almost knocking them to the ground if the girl hadnt seen it coming. She turned them around, still using her chakra to intensify the shadow shuriken technique. She caught them, in both hands. Suddenly, she started creating scenarios of what she could use this jutsu in, such as other jutsus or what-not. She liked this jutsu...it was going to be helpful none the less.