Yamashita Shiro Training

[Yamashita]

Wind Surf
Rank: C
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: Use wind to surf on land.
Special: Hand seals: Rabbit
Drawback: None
Description:The user focuses their chakra to their feet. Then they are able to adjust thier body and weight to the winds current. After that they push their chakra to the back to of their feet in the direction they want to travel.
Limit: Must have Wind Release
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Shiro hiked to an open area, just outside the village. Tucked under his arms were several pages of notes he had taken after asking a few mist shinobi about different techniques that interested him. He sat them down on a rock, placing another small stone on top of the pages to prevent the wind from blowing them away.

He took the first paper he layed eyes on. It had general directions on how to preform a simple technique called "Wind Surf". It read:

" Form the rabbit handseal. Focus chakra to feet. Feel the wind as it blows past you and then push the chakra to the back of your feet. Maintain focus and use the chakra to surf on the wind. Keep balance and don't lose focus"

Shiro laughed and said "Sounds easy enough..."

He began focusing chakra to the back of his feet. He made the Rabbit handseal and maintained it. He felt the surge of energy in his toes at first and then he felt the sensation spread to the rest of his foot. A slight green aura of chakra emanated from this feet as he maintained focus, gradually shifting the chakra to the back of his heels. He felt the wind in his hair and then...... he fell forward, landing on his knees.

He had lost balance.

"Dammit!" he said to himself before standing back up and trying to repeat the process. He noticed that the sun was already halfway down its dissent, and night would come in a few hours. "I have to hurry... maybe I just need to shift my weight back a bit and ease up on the chakra I release..." he hypothesized.

He tried again, focusing some of his chakra to his feet while maintaining the rabbit handseal. He leaned back slightly and felt the wind again. He shifted the chakra to his heels and felt himself hover a bit off the ground. He maintained focus and pushed more chakra to his feet. Suddenly a gust of wind came and pushed him forward, startling him. He lost focus and fell, barrel-rolling as he landed.

He stood up, slightly dizzy from the fall. "This is getting tiresome, and its probably dinner time... but I really need to get this jutsu down before I leave so..." he said before standing and repeating the same process several times. Each time, he was able to go a bit faster and a bit further before falling.

The sun had begin to set when he finally made an almost completely successful surf. He rode the wind, going about three times his average running speed. He felt the air rush past him as he traveled at an extremely fast pace.

Without warning a bird flew in his way. He panicked and lost control, skipping off the ground on his back. He layed there for a while, letting the pain subside before getting up and walking back to the pile of notes he had brought with him. He layed down on the ground and stared at the darkened sky, he had surfed on the wind, and it left him exhausted.

"Stupid bird... " he finally groaned.

He passed out later with a smile of pride on his face.

[Deleted]

+6

[Yamashita]

Wind surf:
6/30
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Shiro awoke the next day and tried again to preform the technique he was sure he had mastered the previous day. He preformed the rabbit seal and then forced a ton of chakra to his feet, wanting to take off towards the distance at an incredible speed. He felt the energy surround his foot when........... He shot several feet in the air, falling hard and twisting his ankle.

"So I need control... this is almost more trouble than its worth.." he grumbled. He limped over to a large rock and sat with his back against it. Without a medic nearby he would have to try to wrap it and maybe make a splint. "He reached out and grabbed a nearby branch that had fallen recently, making it still quite springy and green in the middle. Unsheathing his sword he split the branch in half and cut it small enough to hold his ankle still without getting in the way of his training. He then unwrapped his hand and used the bandages he always wore there to bind the splint to his ankle.

After he finished repairing his ankle he crawled to his feet and walked around, getting used to the new restriction of movement in his ankle. He finally managed to be able to move nearly as well as he could without the splint or injured ankle. As he tenderly finished checking how much weight he could put on it he remembered about the training.

"So... how to work on control over chakra..." He asked himself before coming up with an idea. He would simply try to move a little at a time. He knew it would take some restraint, but he would see exactly how much chakra usage would be neccessary for him to even begin to surf.

He slowly began pushing the chakra to the back of his feet while making the necessary handsign. He first only let out drops of chakra, barely opening his reserves, but nothing happened. He allowed the steady drip to become a trickle, and then slowly to a steady flow. Just as it started to become neccessary for him to put some effort into the technique, he began to hover. He maintained the exact amount of chakra needed to stay airborn. After memorizing the feel of the chakra release needed for the basics of surfing, he could flawlessly hover a few short feet before needing to regain control.

He had made some progress but his ankle began to bother him so he stopped training for a bit and rested his ankle.

[Yamashita]

Needless to say, after a while of resting and allowing the throb in his ankle to slowly ease, he became extremely bored. He couldn't just waste his precious hours of sunlight sitting around, moping over a bummed foot. He took a breath and pushed himself up. His ankle gave a rebellious twinge but he gritted his teeth and pressed forward. He would not be denied the mastery of this skill, even if it killed him. He began the process for what felt like the hundredth time. He made the necessary hand seals and focused his chakra. He then maintained a steady control over exactly how much chakra he was allowing to go to his feet. Wind began to lift him and he began to move through the air, riding the wind as if it were water.....

...Very slow pond speed water. There had to be a way for him to move faster. He casually surfed around at a snails pace while contemplating on how exactly he was going to get his wind surfing ability out of the "kiddy pool" speed. He finally thought of a possible solution to his stagnant surfing.

"If I were to run while focusing the chakra, would I not start at a faster speed? Therefore I would also be moving faster from the beginning, causing momentum to work with me and keep me balanced... But running right now would almost guarantee that this would be the only skill I learned this week... oh well, might as well give it a go!" He muttered to himself. The desolation was making him slightly lonely so he had discovered that he could hold conversations with himself in order to maintain the power of speech without being near any other humans for a few days.

He began to limp along at a good pace... approximately 7 miles per hour; the wind began to push around him. He made the hand seal, focused his charka (He was getting really good at this restraint stuff) and jumped. Time seemed to slow down as he leapt from the safety of the ground, and into the air. He maintained focus, anticipating failure, as that had been the recent trend in his training of this technique that he thought would have been easy. He never needed too worry, because he was surfing. Not just going in a straight line either. He could actually turn, slow down, speed up, and increase altitude ever so slightly. He felt amazing, now that he was off his feet and his ankle had ceased his pain.

He tested out his mobility by surfing around the area. He went over rocks, zigzagged around a few trees, sped up to chase a rabbit, and then slowed down to avoid running into an elderly mans house in the middle of nowhere. He made a mental not to visit later as he headed back to his campsite where he was keeping all his notes. He almost made it back from his half hour surf, when his chakra gave out, forcing him to limp the rest of the way. The pain in his ankle brought him out of his euphoric state as he finally arrived at his destination. He rested his leg; he was done with training for today!

[atem.]

[+20]

[Yamashita]

Wind Surf
Rank: C
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: Use wind to surf on land.
Special: Hand seals: Rabbit
Drawback: None
Description:The user focuses their chakra to their feet. Then they are able to adjust thier body and weight to the winds current. After that they push their chakra to the back to of their feet in the direction they want to travel.
Limit: Must have Wind Release
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Shiro had taken a break back at the village and had found himself dragged into a B rank mission after eavesdropping on two stronger ninja. He had to get this technique mastered now, before the mission began. He needed the extra speed.

He got up and began to surf again. He pushed himself to go faster and faster until everything around him was a complete and total blur. He then realized he would have no control over where he went so he stopped only 3 seconds after hitting his maximum speed. The sudden stop caused him to be disoriented for a few seconds. He rubbed his head and focused himself before turning around and gasping. He had gone exteremely farther than he had predicted. He estimated that in the 10 seconds of steady acceleration he had gone roughly 2/3 the length of the Hidden Mist Village. He stood there, utterly shocked by his own speed.

He then turned and made the rabbit sign. His chakra pushed him forward oin the wind, at a slightly slower pace than before. He knew that the kind of speed he had used had expended alot of his chakra, and he had not een able to see where he was going. If a tree had popped up in his way he probably would have been dead, twisted around a tall tree somewhere. He then made a resolution that he would only go to that extreme speed in an emergency. He made it all the way back to his camp site this time before running out of chakra. He landed on his feet but his ankle barley twinged anymore. He had recovered and had progressed in his training to a level where he believed he had mastered the windsurfing technique. He hovered around a bit more for fun before heading back to the village gates to check up on the status of his impending mission.

[atem.]

[+4; Learned]

[Yamashita]

Knowledge of the Mekuraban
Rank: C
Skill: Supplementary Ninjutsu
Effect: Before the user can learn to place or draw the Mekuraban Seals they must gain the knowledge of them.
Special: None
Drawback: None
Description: The Seals of the Mekuraban are very wide and various, but to be able to use the Seals in battle the user must first gain the necessary knowledge.
Limit: This technique is gained automatically after learning: Blood Ink Mixture, Seal Activation, and Seal Placement. After gaining this technique, the user will not have to learn it again to utilize any other Mekuraban Seal.
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Techniques known: 0/3
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Blood Ink Mixture
Rank: D
Skill: Supplementary Ninjutsu
Effect: The user will learn how to make the mixture of blood and ink used in the Mekuraban seals.
Special: Handseals after over the mixture: Snake, Dragon
Drawback: This mixture can only be applied three times before it must be created again.
Description: The user must take some of their blood, already naturally filled with their own natural chakra and mix it with ink. This in is simple mundane ink that is used in writing. The real power comes from the blood and the two handseals formed over the bottle of the mixture. The handseals must be formed over the mixture after is has been mixed together in a small bottle.
Limit: After learning this technique, the user will not have to learn it again to utilize any other Mekuraban Seal.
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Training points: 0/10
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Shiro decided he would visit the old man that lived in the hut he nearly crashed into while training his Wind surf technique. He wanted to go partially to talk and also to see if the man knew of any interesting techniques. The guy was old so, if he was a ninja, he would obviously know how a few tricks that he would be willing to teach. He surfed over to the hut in about a minute and then knocked on the door.

He stood there for a while, waiting, but nobody answered the door. He knocked again, and received no answer. There was smoke coming out of his chimney on his roof so he knew somebody was home. “HELLO! OLD MAN!?” Shiro shouted at the top of his lungs while knocking. He waited a few minutes and when he heard no movement he pulled out his sword and tried to unlock the door by cutting the lock. It was a bad idea.

As soon as his sword entered the crevice, a shock ran through his arm and he flew backwards. From behind the door he heard someone shout *Release* and the door flew open. “Sorry about that boy, I was cooking and didn’t hear you. You seem to have triggered a seal I had used to keep out intruders. Any way I can apologize for nearly frying you.” The old man said, very sincerely. This caused Shiro to perk up a bit as he thought he knew the perfect repayment.

“Well, if it is okay with you, could u teach me how to use a seal that would be useful in combat? Preferably one that doesn’t require too many complicated things… then I may forgive you for nearly electrocuting me.” Shiro said, quickly. This caused the old man to look taken aback before sighing and said, “How about I teach you how to use the Seal of Chains? It is simple to use in battle, but requires a certain amount of know-how to set up.”

Shiro simply nodded his head and followed the man inside. The cozy shack was not very impressive but it felt safe enough, and removed from the outside world. The recent chaos in the village had not tainted it, as it had affected most everything else. The only trace of smoke was that of the man’s dinner, which had apparently burned during the brief conversation outside. The man looked sadly at his dinner for a second and then turned and said sharply “I will teach you only one thing today. Your first lesson will be on how to mix a special ink that is used when creating the seal.”

The man walked over to a small cabinet above a fireplace, and grabbed a small bowl, a vial, and a bottle of writing ink. He then brought them to Shiro and said “Follow My directions very carefully. If you screw this up we may have an unstable seal tomorrow that could very well backfire and cripple you.” The sheer bluntness mad Shiro cringe, and then nod quickly.

The man smiled and said “Pour out the ink into the bowl and break the container it came in.” Shiro poured the ink and the carefully tapped the container on the desk, not wanting to cut himself. The old man quickly grabbed the hand Shiro was holding the glass bottle with and smashed it on the table, breaking the glass and cutting Shiro’s hand. The blood dripped from the wound and before Shiro could scream and tell the old man that he was going senile and batty the old man spoke and said “This is not the only way to get blood from your body, but since you made me burn my food, I thought it would bring me the most joy. You can also bite yourself, or cut yourself with a shuriken.”

The old man smiled, took a breath and said, “Mix a small amount of blood from your wound with the ink in the bowl. After you do that, wipe off your hand and wait further instructions.” Shiro remained silent and mixed the ink and blood until the black gained a red tint he then wrapped his bandages a little higher on his arm, to cover most of the wound caused by glass breakage.

“Your final step is to make the handseals ‘snake’ and ‘dragon’ over the bowl and pour it into the flask.” The old guy said in a monotone, as if growing bored. Shiro placed his hands over the bowl and made both handsigns. As if to signal the process was complete, the ink gave off a brief, split-second glow. “So I made blood ink? What do I do with it?” questioned Shiro.

The old man paused and then said, “Put it in the vial. Wait until tomorrow.. I am tired, hungry, and do not want to continue this until I sleep. You may sleep on the floor.”

With that he went to his bed, leaving Shiro to camp out on the hard dirt flooring.

[atem.]

[Learned]

[Yamashita]

Knowledge of the Mekuraban
Rank: C
Skill: Supplementary Ninjutsu
Effect: Before the user can learn to place or draw the Mekuraban Seals they must gain the knowledge of them.
Special: None
Drawback: None
Description: The Seals of the Mekuraban are very wide and various, but to be able to use the Seals in battle the user must first gain the necessary knowledge.
Limit: This technique is gained automatically after learning: Blood Ink Mixture, Seal Activation, and Seal Placement. After gaining this technique, the user will not have to learn it again to utilize any other Mekuraban Seal.
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Techniques known: 1/3
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Mekuraban Seal Drawing/Placement
Rank: D
Skill: Ninjutsu/TaiJutsu
Effect: The before the user can write the Mekuraban seal on a person or anything, they must first learn the special way how to draw the seals.
Special: Requires Ink and some sort of painting or marking tool just to learn. When used in battle this technique requires a mixture of blood and ink.
Drawback: None
Description: Before the user can use the Mekuraban seals, they must first master the correct way of drawing the seals. This technique is rather easy to learn, as the proper way of drawing a Mekuraban seal is only slightly different than regular kanji drawing. The user must draw the kanji so that the ink stays wet for the most amount of time possible, and runs so that the kanji drawing won’t lose its power.
Limit: After learning this technique, the user will not have to learn it again to utilize any other Mekuraban seal.
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Shiro Awoke the next morning with a throbbing back and a stiff neck. The floor had felt like it was made out of brick, not dirt. He sat up and noticed that his whole body was covered in markings of wet paint. He went to stand and he heard the old mans voice say “You might not want to try that.”

He turned and saw the old man make a few handseals very quickly and then something very strange happened. It felt like gravity increased tenfold and Shiro fell on his back, unable to move. He turned to look at the man and noticed that the man was still standing perfectly upright, meaning only one thing, “The ink all over my body is a seal! You weird old man! Sneaking up on me when I am asleep and painting all over me is creepy!” Shiro shouted, scared.
The old man laughed and said “This is a demonstration. You simply need to catch your opponent off guard and draw the seal, which is basically a straight line for the Seal of Chains.” Shiro looked puzzled and then said “How about letting me up now, so I can practice?” The old man released the seal and then allowed Shiro to get up and wash off the ink. The old man then held out a brush and said “Use this to draw a line on some paper. I will tell you how close you are to accurately drawing a seal.”

Shiro dipped the brush in some ink, not the blood ink; it was to be used later. He then made a line on the paper that looked almost identical to the lines that had been on his body. He held up the paper and the old guy said “It’s to dry; it needs to maintain wetness so it won’t run out of energy.”

Shiro nodded and applied the ink heavily to the paper. The ink ran all over and was pooling when he finished. “That is way too much! Are you trying to use a seal or drown your enemy in ink?” The old man yelled. Shiro wanted to make a vulgar comment about how he wished he could drown someone in ink, but he decided against it, swallowed his pride, and made a third attempt. The ink was applied so it remained wet but did not pool.

The man simply nodded and said “That is good enough, it will work. Next we learn how to activate the seal… but first, we take a break.”

Shiro groaned at the need to wait longer but waited anyways.

[eclipse]

+8.

[Yamashita]

8/10

The old man returned and said "Before we continue, you should learn how to place the seal on a moving human.." When Shiro looked confused the old man said "I will try to avoid you while u attempt to put the seal on me."

Shiro Jumped up and lunged with the paintbrush at he old man, who dodged the swipe. Shiro tryed several times and failed evey single time. Apparently a direct attack wouldn't work on this surprisingly nimble old man. He remembered the floor was made of dirt and picked up a small pile of it. He then threw the dirt on the old mans face and rushed forward, making 2 seal marks before the old man managed to evade him again. The old man smiled and said "Now I believe that you are ready top learn how to activate the seal."

[✗ Kaeor ✗]

+2

[Yamashita]

Knowledge of the Mekuraban
Rank: C
Skill: Supplementary Ninjutsu
Effect: Before the user can learn to place or draw the Mekuraban Seals they must gain the knowledge of them.
Special: None
Drawback: None
Description: The Seals of the Mekuraban are very wide and various, but to be able to use the Seals in battle the user must first gain the necessary knowledge.
Limit: This technique is gained automatically after learning: Blood Ink Mixture, Seal Activation, and Seal Placement. After gaining this technique, the user will not have to learn it again to utilize any other Mekuraban Seal.
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Techniques known: 2/3

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Mekuraban Seal Activation
Rank: D
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: The user will learn exactly how to activate the Mekuraban seal they are utilizing.
Special: Handseals after the Seal is placed: Dragon, Dog, Boar
Drawback: None
Description: After the user applies the Seal, they can wait as long as they want before actually activating it, adding a strategic value to any seal of the Mekuraban. After applying the seal the user must learn the handseals and the amount of chakra needed to activate the seal that has been drawn.
Limit: After learning this technique, the user will not have to learn it again to utilize any other Mekuraban Seal.
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“Now that you have marked me with the seal, try to follow my instructions to the point!” the old man said. “That’s what I have been doing you old … wise man!” said Shiro, correcting himself before he said something that would anger the old geezer. He may have not like being treated like a moron by an old man, but this was the only way he would be able to learn such a useful seal.

He mimicked the man’s handsigns as he watched. The first handsign was “Dragon”, followed by “Dog”, and then “Boar”. The old man then told him to push his chakra forward into the seal he had placed. He felt the charka leave his body in the same trickle pattern he had used for the Wind surf Technique. He slowly increased the chakra flow and waited for some signal that the seal had been activated. He continued pushing a bit more, closing his eyes to focus. Suddenly he heard a thud and his eyes snapped open. The old man was lying on his back, spread eagle on the floor. The seal had been activated!

The Old man tried to get up, but couldn’t. He turned and said to Shiro “Now... you have the person in your mercy. Even at your low level, the weight placed on the person’s body is equal to 400 pounds. There is one thing you must practice before I can truly say you have mastered this seal. You must be able to use it quickly... that means that you cant take 3 minutes to activate the seal because if it takes you that long you will be dead before you can even activate it.” Shiro stood there, with a slightly annoyed look on his face. “Is there an easier method that I can use instead of trying to find the exact amount of chakra needed for this seal?” Shiro asked the old man.

The old man looked at him with a smirk and said “I never said you had to be exact.” Shiro looked confused so the man sighed and said “You can just use a lot of charka, there is no penalty for using too much charka except you will make yourself tired.” Shiro was then allowed to place a fresh seal on the man’s left arm and he stood back, ready to use the seal.

He focused on the seal and pushed a lot of chakra directly to it. The seal activated instantly and the old man dropped again, unable to pick up his left arm. He looked at Shiro and said “You got it. I would say you have it down well enough. And I will let you keep the vial with you.”

Shiro made a new amount of blood ink, capped the vial, and headed out of the man’s house.

[Deleted]

+8

[Yamashita]

8/10

Yamashita was just about to walk away from the house when the old man called him back. "Shiro! You need to learn one last thing!" At this Shiro turned with an audible groan. He was getting tired of the old guy, and was beginning to wonder if this seal was worth the time he had to spend with the guy.

He walked back and said "What else do I need to know?" The old man looked at him for a moment and said, " You must Practice your activation every day you can... If you always rely on releasing way more chakra than necessary then you will be worthless if a battle drags on. This seal is meant to give you an advantage, not drain you of all the energy you have."

Shiro nodded. "So how can I train for this?" To which the old man replied, "You cannot, it will be learned through use of the seal in battle or on missions. It is a skill that is acquired through use. Now I believe that is all. Don't bother me unless it is necessary."

[Deleted]

+2

[Yamashita]

Raiton: Sakurai, —‹Œõ: ’OF –Ø —‹Œõ, (Lightning Style: Cherry Blossom Lightning)
Rank: C
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: The user creates a mass of blue-white lightning petals.
Special: gHand Sealsh
Drawback: Not a complete technique, but a set-up for others.
Description: The user forms the hand seals, focusing chakra around them. They then mold the chakra into several hundred blue-white sakura petals of lightning in a three-meter radius around the user, like the Sand of a Saton user. These petals float gently around the userfs body. Each one gives out minor shocking, but together they can give strong shocks and burns akin to a C rank shock. The petals last until the user chooses to dispel them. The user can control these techniques in a fifteen meter radius around them.
Limit: Must have Raiton.
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Shiro walked back to his training spot he had used for his wind surf training. He remembered his notes he had brought and looked at another. This one was apparently for a technique that could form lightning into the shape of many small cherry blossoms, which then had numerous uses in both attack and defense. He read up on the technique and discovered it was going to be a difficult skill to learn. He read further until he came to a small training schedule that he had learned of and copied down. It was broken into three steps, the first being meditation. The second was activation, and the third was restraint and control.

He began with the first step in the notes he had taken while in the villagec meditation. He sat down, crossed his legs, and closed his eyes. He tried to remember the exact instructions he had copied down. They told him to focus and think inward, locate his lightening release within himself, and then try to mentally manipulate the lightening within his chakra into the shape of a single cherry blossom. It reasoned that this mental training would help when he actually created the lightening cherry blossoms outside of his mind.

He began with deep breathing. He focused on the airflow until he was breathing in a completely steady rhythm. He then allowed his mind to become calm, shutting out everything around him. All was silent and dark. A flash illuminated his consciousness and he mentally followed it deeper into his own thoughts. After a few minutes he finally caught up to the lightening. It was wild image in his mind, dancing and flowing, constantly moving. And it was powerful, extremely powerful. His thoughts became hazy as the sheer energy threatened to break his concentration. He made a mental push and his mind became clear. He pushed again and managed to subdue the pure elemental energy.

He then began the final step of his meditation training, he began mentally pushing that the lightening from all sides, attempting to compact it into a single cherry blossom shape. The energy pushed back, causing him to mentally flinch before making another push, slowly adding pressure to the lightening. It shrank and became the size of a kunai. He pushed even harder, straining his mental power to its limit. The lightening took the shape of a lightening cherry blossom.

Shiro looked at the fruits of his labor and reached out, touching the blossom with his mind. The effect was instant. The energy was released all at once, pushing Shiro out of his meditative state. His eyes sprung open and he jumped up. He felt energy coursing through his body and knew that he had succeeded at step one. With all that energy he had discovered, he knew he was ready to move on and create the cherry blossoms outside of his mind, and make them a reality.

[Yamashita]

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“Activation” Shiro Spoke aloud. This one word summarized the second step of the training for the most basic of the Sakurai techniques. He actually needed to use the knowledge of his own energy to force his chakra into creating small electric, “Lightning Blossoms”. He focused as much as he could on the air around him and calmed himself down. He thought back to the actual place he had learned about the technique.


[FLASHBACK]

The man walked out to meet with him and his tutor while they were in the middle of training the hunting shuriken technique. Shiro’s tutor bowed and said “This is one of my colleagues, and fellow mist ninja, Tsukira Shibimaru. He is a master of the lightening release, and he has been kind enough to come demonstrate one of his more elegant techniques to you. So please… pay attention.” The man looked coolly at his audience, showing no emotion whatsoever. He then locked eyes with Shiro, causing Shiro to cringe from the sheer willpower in the mans gaze.

“I am about to show you a technique known as ‘Sakurai’. It is known by the lesser shinobi as the ‘Cherry Blossom Lightning’ technique. It is a technique known for its beauty, versatility, and power in both offense and defense.” He spoke in a monotone, continuously keeping eye contact. “You must have absolute control at all times or else you will receive painful shocks. At your level, the shocks you receive while training may singe hair and sting a bit, but shouldn’t particularly be too life threatening.”

Shiro was about to argue that he was stronger than he looked but the eye contact Shibimaru was making kept him quite silent. The ninja then focused, made several handseals, and a bunch of cherry blossoms filled the air, dancing around the man as if he was in the center of a blue tornado. He did a few more techniques with the petals before dispelling the beautiful scene instantaneously.

He then bowed and began walking away. He paused a moment and said “Kid… you might have the potential to master this technique. When you do, locate me and I will teach you a more advanced jutsu that builds on the technique I just showed you.”

[END FLASHBACK]

Shiro stood quietly. He began focusing his chakra, feeling it begin to flow faster throughout his body. He inhaled deeply and held the breath. As he held his breath he made the handseals he remembered from the encounter with Shibimaru. As he exhaled he forced the Chakra from his body in more of a general pulse. The breath control was not necessary but it was helpful in training chakra control. He held onto his chakra, keeping it within 15 meters, and then focused with all his might.

Slowly the Blossoms began forming until he had hundreds of small, charged cherry blossoms around him. They floated, beyond his control, casually drifting where they please. He then cut of the chakra supply and the blossoms disappeared instantly. He tried the technique a second time and was able to summon the petals in less than 10 seconds. He decided that that was quick enough and felt he was ready to begin the final stage of training.

[Yamashita]

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He kept the petals he had previously summoned floating in the air around him. “Now time to see how much control I can gain over these little things” He said casually. He focused on a few of the petals at first, willing them to go to the left. They slowly drifted to the left and then stopped on command. He then shifted the same amount to the right and stopped them. Everything seemed to be fairly easy to control.

He then tried to move a larger quantity of the petals, about a fourth of them, to the left and then upward. They slowly obliged and went to the left, slowing down when they were told to move upwards to the sky. Shiro glanced at the sparkling lightening blossoms and said “It’s only natural that they slow down. I am fighting gravity when I make them rise farther off of the ground.” After speaking aloud his thoughts he focused even harder than he had previously on the area of petals he wanted to move.

With the increase in focus, the flowery lightening moved faster and was more responsive to the commands Shiro issued mentally. He then tried to focus on half of the petals and found that as long as he maintained focus, the control of the technique was easy for him… at least until he tried moving them all at once. It seemed that whenever the petals swirled behind him, they escaped his control. This caused Shiro to suffer through quite a few shocks to his back and the back of his head.

After about the fifth shock, Shiro realized that he was either going to have to change his approach or invest in a wig to make up for the singed areas of his hair. He decided that focusing intently on the ones in his visual range would be no help unless he only used them in front of him. He closed his eyes and tried a trick he had been taught by his tutor.

[FLASHBACK]

Shiro’s tutor sat down and told Shiro to do the same. “Now Shiro… for some of the more advanced ninjutsu you will learn you will have to be able to focus on your chakra, even when it is behind you. You must reach out and feel your chakra, manipulate it just by allowing your body to sense where it is around you… like this.” He made a small wind tornado behind him while never taking his eyes off of Shiro.

[END FLASHBACK]

Shiro quit focusing in one place and began allowing himself to feel his own chakra move outside his body. He then willed it all to spin counter clockwise, then clockwise. He then willed it to stop. The cherry blossoms did exactly what he wanted. He had discovered the trick to controlling all of them at once. Even though this was a basic control over the skill, it weas meant to be a basic skill so he believed he had done enough training for the day and was about ready to meet up with Shibimaru to go even farther.