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The Uchiha approached Amarante from her left and spoke. “Perhaps it was a bit too soon to try and teach you this technique; after all you’ve already had quite the training session already today, it may be best to stop here for a while.” Amarante scowled at the mans worry.

“No I can continue” she assured the man, shaking out any dulled senses in her hand. “You really shouldn’t worry about me that much, makes you seem weak you know?” she teased the man. The Uchiha nodded and backed off to give Amarante some space.

“Then by all means continue” he sanctioned. “Just know that when you do pass out I’ll be here to pick up your unconscious body, I might also do some things to that unconscious body of yours so it’d be in your best interest to get the jutsu down.”

Amarante’s expression became disgusted by the Uchiha’s sleaze. “Don’t be weird” she ordered, the Uchiha stifling a giggle. ‘Snake. Dragon. Rabbit. Bull. Dog. Rat. Snake. Dragon’ Amarante mentally counted in her head. ‘Lightning Hound Jutsu’ Amarante pushed her lighting chakra forward creating a two foot long bolt of energy more detailed then she previously had.

Her arm collapsed from underneath her though and the jutsu dispersed. Amarante began to pant. “*Pant, pant* damn it!” she wailed in frustration. It was taking much too much chakra for her to do this simple thing but she couldn’t do it any other way.

Feeling thirsty Amarante used her natural affinity of water to snatch the liquid from the air itself and cupped it in her hands for her to drink. She didn’t have a water bottle so this seemed like a fairly efficient way to get some clean water to drink. The Uchiha looked on fairly impressed

“So you’ve already mastered Suiton to that level have you?” he mused aloud. “Considering your age that is quite a feet to accomplish, and now you’re looking to Raiton?”

Amarante nodded. “Yeah I’m looking to master them both” she informed the man. She needed to master it, she needed to become stronger, the land of Kusa needed to pay so she would become as strong as she could so she could destroy it with her own two hands.

The Uchiha nodded. “Well then if that is your prerogative then allow me to give you some advice. Let the lightning sort of… Flow through you in a way” he informed the girl. “It’s got to be a natural movement, you can’t go into the technique treating the lightning chakra as something unnatural compared to your Suiton jutsu.”

Although she thought that Uchiha was being pompous, Amarante could se his point. She was treating the lightning jutsu as something different then the water jutsu she was used to so she decided to give it a shot.

Forming the hand signs, she stopped trying to compound and limit the jutsu like she had been and let it free in a way. She didn’t exactly know how to explain it to herself but still whatever. She formed the hand signs and relaxed her arms. The electrical energy surged through her body, making her fell more lively and energetic.

It was a nice feeling really; it felt so natural for her, like she was born to use it. Smirking she let the jutsu unfold and brought out a bolt of lightning which shot out for two meters this time, its unhindered ability being let loose. It held no dog like appearance though and just shot out straight.

Amarante tried to get it to alter it course but had no luck so she let the jutsu die down and tried again. ‘Snake. Dragon. Rabbit. Bull. Dog. Rat. Snake. Dragon’ the mental of the hand signs went down and she held the dragon. “Lightning Hound Jutsu!” the call rang out from Amarante.

Another bolt of lightning shot out of her right hand and stretched three meters long this time, Amarante putting more chakra into the technique as a hopeful means of controlling the technique better. She had some limited success with tis, she was able to move it from left to right a little but the jutsu was just too limited in length.

This would have to be what she worked on next if she wanted to master this technique and she had a feeling it wasn’t going to be that easy.

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The Uchiha made some trivial comments about Amarante’s progress. “You seem to be getting better; my advice must have helped out a lot.”

Amarante sneered at him. “Yeah just don’t go getting a big head would you? I don’t need another Hoshigaki to go around spouting how great they are” she hissed, her hands going into the snake hand sign. “Also I’d appreciate it if you keep the trying to kill me thing to a minimum.”

The Uchiha couldn’t help but giggle. ‘Hn Hoshigaki you devil you’ he internally mused at his acquaintance’s extreme training methods. Maybe he should think of some things like that too. He’d already started teaching Amarante this one way for this technique but maybe for another jutsu… He let the thoughts escape his mind as Amarante flipped through the hand signs again.

The girl seemed to be focusing intently on what she was doing, building chakra within herself to a reasonable level to what the Uchiha held in his standards. He could see what the girl was doing with his sharingan so he knew what level the girl was at so he still thought that she was beneath him but knew that it was only a matter of time.

Amarante’s concentration paid off. She produced a bolt of lightning five meters in length and was able to bend it a lot easier this time having a longer length to work with though even this progress was still far from mastering the technique.

She still had sixty-five meters to catch up on which really was more then an incredible amount of distance in comparison. Five meters was hardly anything in comparison but still, small steps at a time she told herself letting the jutsu die down and shaking her fingers.

The constant feeling of electricity running through her veins was enough to just let her continue on with her training, really she was hoping in a way that she could just train like this forever, she loved the feeling of lightning chakra it was so magical to her. Forming the hand signs again and holding the dragon though she focused on the technique.

She built up as much chakra as she could and pushed it forward in a bolt of electricity, Amarante’s mouth watering at the feeling, ecstasy pulsing through her. The bolt reached six meters in length and she scowled at her lack of progress. “Damn it still not long enough!” she whined, moving the lightning from left to right in amusement.

The Uchiha gave her some words of advice. “Patience Amarante, things will progress in time you just have to be patient.” Uchiha brushed the hair from his eyes in cool guy anime style and continued. “I know you want to learn the jutsu just like that but I’m afraid that’s not how it works, you have to commit yourself to the training and respect the art of the shinobi.”

Amarante grunted in annoyance. “Gr I know that” she bellowed, forming the hand signs. “It’s just it gets frustrating at times you know, don’t mind my complaining I’m not going to throw that big of a tantrum.”

The Uchiha mused at her words choice, her admission of being prone to throwing a tantrum was amusing though he was sure Hoshigaki would approve of her honesty, he wasn’t one for lying despite his career choice as a shinobi.

Amarante let the jutsu drop and gave herself a moment before trying again. “You know I’ve only ever felt this exhausted twice before” she spoke aloud gaining her companions interest.

Intrigued the Uchiha questioned her about it. “And when were these times?” he asked, honest curiosity in his voice.

Amarante was torn whether to answer him or not. “The last time was when I was training with Hoshigaki once. I think I was training the water shark projectile jutsu but I don’t remember exactly. The point is that I trained so hard I collapsed for a few hours, completely out of it.”

“The other time…” Amarante began. “I’d prefer to keep that to myself” upon speaking she performed some hand signs and brought forth a large bolt of electricity that reached out ten meters. “It’s funny, just remembering those times makes me want to train even harder you know?”

The Uchiha nodded. Her scarring on her back had not eluded his eyes, his mastery of the sharingan being under whelmed from its obviousness. He wondered if they had anything to do with it? Maybe a question for another time he mused as Amarante went through another set of hand signs.

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Amarante went through another set of hand signs, memories of her training session with Hoshigaki flowing through her mind. If she could push herself so much that she’d pass out then why not now? She attacked her training with an improved vigour, recklessly expelling chakra like it was air.

She pushed forth a bolt of electricity which was once again ten meters long and not very easy to move around. Really with the extra length she though it would be easier to move by now but no she could hardly budge it.

She must have to train it even further she rationalised letting the jutsu dispel and building her chakra once more. Her chakra reserves were getting low by now but she didn’t care. The worst that would happen would be that she would collapse from exhaustion which she wasn’t a stranger too.

She’d already collapsed from it before, really all that would happen would be that the Hoshigaki would be back and brewing his awesome stew sooner something she wasn’t against in the least. ‘Snake. Dragon. Rabbit. Bull. Dog. Rat. Snake. Dragon’ the hand signs were routine for her by this point in time having flipped through them so many times before.

She produced a bolt of lightning thirteen meters in length this time which was once again an accomplishment in itself. She tried to move it around again but once more it was so difficult. ‘Come on how freaking long do I have to make this thing before I can control it properly’ she whined on the inside, her expression becoming annoyed once more.

It was getting annoying she should have more control then she did by now. Grunting in frustration she did something really stupid and pushed more chakra into the technique then she had even tried previously, her right arms chakra veins straining upon the build up and release as she made the hand signs.

The worst didn’t happen however and thankfully her jutsu went out to a distance of twenty-five meters though she was now panting once more, the energy being sucked straight from her body from the attempt. As she panted she tried to move the electricity to her liking but still nothing was working like she wanted it to.

Yes it was moving but not at the same control level as the Uchiha’s, it just sort of lazily moved to the left while Uchiha’s made quick and accurate movements that proved to be very nimble in comparison to her. As the girl let her jutsu stop, The Uchiha piped up.

“You shouldn’t push yourself so hard Amarante the consequences could be dire.”

Amarante shot the man a very angry glare. “Why aren’t the movements of my technique as good as yours? She forcefully enquired, off putting the Uchiha a little.

Uchiha’s expression became blatant. “Oh so that’s what your were trying to do” Amarante nodded. “Well that’s easy to answer, I mean its called the lightning hound technique for a reason.” Amarante looked at the man in question, urging him to continue with his explanation.

“You haven’t created the canine aspect of the jutsu. The hound created at the front has two uses, one that it intimidates the enemy and two that it provides for faster and easier movements” he explained, Amarante nodding in under standing.

“Well then can you show me the jutsu again so I can see how it works?” the young teen enquired, the Uchiha complied and formed the hand signs. A bolt of lightning stretched from his hand and quickly morphed into a snarling hound from hell which lashed out at the open air around it.

The dog crackled with electricity and Amarante seen how the front paws of the technique helped it move and gained some understanding of the jutsu. She formed some hand signs in preparation of her own attempt at the jutsu, ignoring how tired she was in the process.

She created a bolt of lightning that shout out for ten meters before she stopped it so she could work on creating the canine like the Uchiha had. First she focused on creating the head of the electric animal and attempted to mould it onto the top of her jutsu.

The lightning bolt crackled and ripped but still created the dog head she was looking for, the beast howling once its creation. Amarante let the jutsu drop as did Uchiha. It was some small progress but now she had made some leeway into controlling the technique which was a step in the right direction.

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Forming the hand signs for another go at the jutsu, Amarante cast forth another bolt of lightning which spread and stopped ten meters in front of her. She focused on creating the hounds head once again and after a few seconds she did, the beast snarling upon creation.

Next up was the all important front legs of the dog, the jutsu didn’t have any back legs which really it didn’t need them, Amarante’s arm was providing the support it needed, the only reason it needed the front legs was so that it could move easier.

Two little stubs erupted from the lightning under the dogs head which didn’t really serve the purpose of legs so injecting more of her chakra she tried to make them bigger.

This worked though only to a limited degree and they became about half the size she needed them to be. Grunting Amarante dropped the jutsu. She really was running on empty with her chakra level so she couldn’t exactly waste much more, she had to get this part of the technique down quick, she’d let herself have a small rest after that.

Until then however, she had to train the technique so she reformed the hand signs, focused her chakra and pushed out a bolt of lightning. She formed the dogs head which she already knew how to do and when she tried for the legs she was able to recreate the half stumps she finished with last time.

Now here was the tricky part again. She had to make the legs longer before she could do anything with the techniques mobility so pushing more of her almost nonexistent chakra into the jutsu she tried to extend them.

She pushed them out as much as she could before feeling as though she had gotten to a level where she could use the legs for some greater mobility easier. Unsure whether to be proud of herself yet, Amarante tried out her technique checking out its movement.

The dog moved fairly freely though she still had some kinks to work out. That would have to wait until her next attempt however. Her time limit was running out and she really wanted to keep this arm of hers. Letting the jutsu drop, she collapsed to the ground, landing on her knees, and sighed a deep, long and exhausted sigh. “God this is so damn exhausting!” she whined, Uchiha taking it as a chance to take a shot at her.

“Maybe you’re just a terrible shinobi?” he jeered a smile on his face. “Really it took me hardly any effort to master these jutsu but it’s taking you so long just to master this one? Really maybe you should quit?”

Amarante scowled and clambered to her feet. “I’ll show you, I’ll master this jutsu the use it against your bitch ass!” the young blonde screamed. The Uchiha smiled. Ah yes that was the fire he wanted to see in her eyes, usually he’d intervene and ‘get her back’ for talking like she did but really he wanted this reaction out of her so he’d let it slide.

Amarante, with renew spirits, formed the hands signs and summoned forth another bolt of electricity which shot out for fifteen meters, the lightning hound quickly coming into existence. Now then, she was working on her control of this technique so she tried walking it from left to right, back and forth and in a circle.

Good, she was able to do that so now what she was doing was to quickly zig-zag the dogs’ movement very quickly. This was a requirement if she was to use this in a battle with an opposing shinobi; she had to match their speed as well as their maynover ability so she’d spend as much time as she could on this aspect of training.

Circling her now twenty-five meter long electrical lead around a tree, Amarante cancelled out the jutsu and dropped to the ground once more exhausted. She tried to get up but couldn’t do it.

Sighing thought pants, Amarante decided that this would be where she took that break of hers. She said she’d train until she passed out but really she’d take collapsing as an alternative.

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Uchiha looked at the girl he was training in a mixture of confusion, anger, annoyance and… Something. “What are you doing?” he questioned raising an inquisitive eye brow, Amarante shifting in the water to look at him.

“I’m training what else?” she spat back. She was currently neck deep in the lake/river she always trained by when attempting water jutsu and on this off occasion lightning style Ninjutsu. She’d been in there for about an hour now as Uchiha looked on, which sort of crept her out.

The Uchiha sighed, his question seemingly having not gotten through to the girl. “And how is this a part of your training?” he once again questioned, his eyes closing in annoyance. “Are you even wearing clothes under there anymore?”

Amarante smirked. “Well to answer your second question, wouldn’t you like to know” she splashed him with water as she replied and before continuing. “And to answer your first question, I was exhausted so right now I’m taking a break to replenish my chakra levels. Water helps with relaxation as well so I thought hell why not.”

Tilting his head back in thought, the Uchiha supposed it was a good enough explanation but still urged her to continue with her training. “Well how about you hop out of the water now and continue with the training, you still have a lot to do you know and it’d probably be best to get it over with quickly so that you can show it off to Hoshigaki later.”

Amarante turned away and pouted. “I think you just want to find out if I’m naked or not!” she bickered causing Uchiha to blush lightly. Peeping at the black haired man Amarante saw him scratch the back of his head in embarrassment. Smirking at her victory she complied with his demands. “Alright I’ll train some more” she said, walking up to the shoreline and out of the water.

Uchiha held his breath. She was walking so slowly, his eyes were fixed to her, sharingan activated and when she emerged chest height from the water… He seen she was still wearing a shirt. Amarante chuckled as she emerged completely. “Looking at something in particular?” she teased, Uchiha waving her off by forming some hand signs.

A gust of wind then blew past her drying her off. “Just thought I’d dry you off so that the lightning jutsu doesn’t backfire” he assured her, Amarante giving a half hearted ‘sure, sure’ in response.

Cracking her neck and stretching out her back, Amarante readied herself for her next jutsu attempt. She formed the hand signs, ‘Snake. Dragon. Rabbit. Bull. Dog. Rat. Snake. Dragon’, and called out the techniques name, “Lightning Hound Jutsu!”

At her words a dog compressed of lightning chakra erupted from her hand and sprinted forward whilst still being attached to her hand via leash of lightning. The hound shot forth thirty meters, having gained some distance now that Amarante had rested a little.

The Uchiha shook his head. “That’s still far to short a distance for this to be considered a successful attempt” he informed her, Amarante looking to him in question.

“Then how long should it be?” she asked him, the Uchiha walking up beside her and forming some hand signs. Another hound of lightning shot out from his hand and easily doubled the distance that Amarante had managed to make with her attempt. “So that’s how long huh?” she nervously muttered aloud to herself.

Determined she shot out another wave of chakra into her technique and increased its distance to thirty-seven meters. “Damn it still not enough” she grumbled as she let her jutsu drop.

She took a deep breath in before forming the hand signs again. She pushed chakra into the jutsu to a greater level of her previous attempt and instantly felt the drain it had on her system. “Already huh?” she whispered aloud to herself as the jutsu shot through her hand.

The canine of lightning snarled as it was unleashed and quickly took a distance of fifty meters. “Damn it it’s still not enough!” she loudly and angrily complained. She pushed more chakra into the jutsu allowing it to reach fifty-five meters.

“Not enough” she commented throwing even more chakra into the technique. This time it reached sixty-three meters and had almost caught Uchiha’s who was readying himself to recall his own jutsu. “Just a little more” she once again said aloud, injecting even more chakra.

The jutsu edged closer and closer to Uchiha’s until finally it hit the seventy-meter mark. The young blonde let out a squeal of delight as Uchiha recalled his hound and smiled in recognition of Amarante’s success. The girl made her hound run around in circles. “Good job” she heard Uchiha compliment before she dropped her jutsu, thoroughly exhausted.

(OOC: God this took FOREVER! Really I've spent most of the day working on this thing, so annoying.)

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You literally just made me pull my hair out... And then I read the bottom...

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Raiton – Karasuhebi no Jutsu (Thunder Style – Shocking Snake Technique)
Rank: C, B
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: Allows the user to spawn a raiton based snake from either of the palms of their hands. It can stretch out for up to ten meters from its origin, and slither around rather rapidly, at the speed equal to that of a taispecialist of the user’s rank. From here, the snake can either snap at its target, or wrap around an unsuspecting victim, delivering hundreds of shocks at once. Additional ‘C’ ranked training can increase the distance the snake can travel by ten meters each time, for a maximum of up to fifty meters. Additional 'B' ranked training allows the user to apply the constricting attack. Snake does not loose speed of movement when farther out from the user.
Special: ‘Handseals’
Drawback: Cannot do other handseals unless one knows one handed seals. Some attacks do not discriminate against friend or foe. Snake can be destroyed. If used more than five times (learning the B ranked version raises this to ten) by a single hand, said appendage will grow numb and unusable for the next two turns. If 'coil-and-shock' attack is used, the entire snake is destroyed and must the entire technique must be recast.
Description: Through their talents in the Raiton release, the user is allowed to use their chakra to manifest a snake that will do their bidding. This snake is made comprised of pure lightning, and has advanced intellect of its own. It can communicate with the user mentally and follow orders well. This snake is useful for quick gashing and shocking attacks, and if one can manage to coil around the user, the equivalent of a strong 'B' ranked worth shock coarses through their body whole, constricting and shocking. Since the snake is made of raiton essence, it can be cut by blades ‘B’ rank or higher. However, it takes only a ‘C’ ranked extra charge to regrow the lost appendage; the severed part quickly blows up to blind all in the area except the user himself.
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Chewing on some candy to replenish her chakra reserves Amarante and Uchiha stood around, once again waiting for Hoshigaki to arrive. He was taking his sweet ass time wasn’t he? The guy says he’ll only be a few minutes and then takes hours to go and get a few things, so freaking annoying.

Amarante kicked a stone out of her path and sat down on the ground. “I’m bored” she naively spoke aloud. She’d regret her loose tongue soon though as Uchiha offered her a solution to her boredom.

“How about you train a little more then” he posed, his red eyes shimmering in the morning sun light. Yes despite all her hard work and her exhaustion it was still morning.

Amarante instantly began to complain. “But I just got through learning that damn lightning Hound technique. I’m tired” she grumbled though the Uchiha just laughed.

“All that proves that you’re still just a beginner” he criticized whilst smiling. “Here let me show you a little easy one” he beckoned, moving away to a safe distance. He formed some hand seals really quickly and a snake of electricity protruded from his hand. “It’s a technique similar to that of your lightning hound but in its own right it is different.” He explained.

The snake wavered and coiled for ten meters then stood up and hissed towards her. It was a fairy intimidating sight, a snake of electricity staring you down, but Amarante held strong. “Yeah this seems like a good jutsu to learn” the blonde pipped up. “Show me that hand signs and I’ll give it a go.”

Complying, the Uchiha let the jutsu drop and showed Amarante the hand signs. The young blonde held confidence as she attempted the jutsu for the first time and formed the hand signs. She attempted pushed forth a stream of lightning from her hands but once again, like her training with the lightning hound began, she only created sparks.

Uchiha took this as a moment to comment. “Though I said it was like the lightning hound jutsu, the hand seals are different meaning that you’ll have to learn the technique all over again but when you get to the later stages of the jutsu you’ll advance more quickly” he explained.

Amarante pouted. “Yeah you could have said that sooner” she criticized, reforming the hand signs. Well if she had to relearn the jutsu, she’d do it right. She wasn’t going to let something as trivial as a C ranked technique get the best of her.

Building up her lightning chakra, she pushed forth a stream of lightning that reached a whole foot in length. ‘Progress yes’ the thought registered in her head as she retried the technique. This time the lightning chakra reached a foot and a half in distance. ‘Hmm no progress’ she mused to herself.

She thought she’d be making faster progress then that but oh well; it was only her third attempt. Most people said third times the charm but she didn’t think that it applied to Ninjutsu training. Forming another set of hand signs, Amarante pushed out another lightning bolt of chakra.

The lightning bolt reached out for two meters this time and began to crackle with a lot more zest. “Good, good. If I keep this kind of progress up, I’ll be able to conquer the world soon enough mwahaha” the young blonde cackled. Shooting a malevolent sideways glance towards Uchiha, she successfully creped the guy out.

‘This girl is insane’ he inwardly mused.

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Having had some more minor success, Amarante turned to Uchiha. “Any particular trick to preforming this jutsu?” she enquired.

Uchiha ran a hand through his hair, popular anime guy style. “Yeah, shutting up and doing it” he replied, angering Amarante. “Really if you would focus on your training a bit more you’d learn them so much faster.”

Amarante really did not like criticism. “Shut up… Jerk…” she responded angrily, glaring daggers at the sharingan user. Forming the hand signs once again, Amarante shot forth a bolt of lightning which reached two meters in length. “OH yeah getting better with this jutsu!” she exclaimed, letting the jutsu go.

Uchiha rolled his eyes. “Yeah you’re a real prodigy” he said sarcastically, Amarante glaring at him in response. The Uchiha sighed. “*Sigh* Amarante just focus on your training.”

“Like I need you to tell me that!” Amarante bellowed forming the hand signs. She cleared everything from her mind and took a deep breath in. Focusing her chakra she charged her arm with electricity and pushed it forth in a great bolt of lightning, stretching out eight meters.

“Yes!” Amarante cheered continuing the jutsu. It didn’t remain immobile however and the jutsu quickly stood up and turned to face Amarante. The young blonde was met with the face of a lightning snake which hissed a warning before striking out at her, attempting to kill the girl.

Though Amarante was smart enough to disable the technique herself, Uchiha intervened and separated her from the quickly dying lightning snake. After moment of silence to let what happened sink in, Amarante turned to Uchiha and questioned him of the actions of the now dead lightning snake.

“What the hell was that?!” she shouted at that black haired man. “Why the hell did my own technique try to kill me?!”

The Uchiha parted from Amarante and spoke. “The snake in this technique has the ability to think meaning that it has an intelligence of its own” he explained. “Meaning that you not only have to control the lightning style ability of this technique but the snake itself.”

“Ah now you tell me!” the young blonde sighed. IF he had told her sooner maybe she wouldn’t have just faced what she just had, so annoying this guy, so fucking much like The Great Hoshigaki. Forming the hand signs once more, Amarante cast the technique once more focusing on a way in which to control her snake, the jutsu reaching five meters in length.

Upon creation, Amarante worried about the thing trying to attack her again but after a few seconds of non-attacking, just swaying, she was happy that it wasn’t going to happen. She did feel something though but she wasn’t sure what it was. It was almost as if something was in her mind.

Pushing it from her thoughts, Amarante dropped the jutsu and tried again with a greater focus on the length of the jutsu. The technique pushed ten meters in length and still did not attack her but once again Amarante was met with the same feeling, it was… Almost as if she… Could read the snakes thoughts…

Turning to the Uchiha with a look of confusion on her face, the man gave her a knowing nod. Amarante’s expression light up. She really could read the snakes thoughts, how cool! This jutsu was so much more useful then she had originally thought.

One thing still remained however; she needed to test the technique out and she still needed to get revenge on Uchiha. Assuming that the thought reading went both ways, Amarante conversed mentally with her snake, the two of them coming up with a plan.

With something to do now, the snake slowly but surely made its way over to the Uchiha, nonchalantly going about its business before quickly lashing out at him with its fangs bared. Managing to surprise the man, the snakes fang penetrated the mans skin until he burst in a cloud of smoke.

Knowing what was going to happen next, Amarante turned around with a sour look on her face. She was met with the smiling face of Uchiha staring at her, amused. ‘God damn it…’ she complained. This guy was so damn annoying, why couldn’t he just let her get him back just once!

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With Uchiha dodging out of the way of the lightning serpent, the snake went ballistic and rampaged directly towards Amarante, violently lashing out at the girl. Amarante moved out of the way however, dropping the jutsu in the process. Before the snake died however it lashed out at Uchiha with a final attempt of killing.

It reached to about a foot in front of the unmoving mans face before finally being destroyed by its lack of chakra. Uchiha looked towards Amarante before commenting. “Looks like you don’t have total control of the snake yet” he remarked.

Amarante rolled a kink out of her shoulder. “Yeah looks like it” she replied in an easy going tone. “Well really it’s not that surprising I mean hell I only tried the technique twice after that first catastrophe, goes without saying that it’d probably not get it down.”

“Then you should continue training” stated Uchiha.

Amarante raised an eyebrow. “And I needed you to tell me that why?” she implored getting no response. She reformed the hand signs and created another stream of lightning which took the image of a serpent. Looking at the snake, Amarante spoke. “Now are you going to listen to me?” she asked it.

In response, the snake looked over to Amarante and then looked away disinterested. “You son of a-!” Amarante cussed before cancelling the jutsu, the snake dying. “That one was even less compliant then the last one!” the young blonde bellowed before forming more hand signs.

Another snake of lightning stretched from her hand and looked up at her. “Now are you going to listen to me?” she asked the snake which shrugged in return. “Sigh good enough I suppose I mean hell how good can one control something with intelligence of its own.”

The Uchiha seemed to think differently. “No you must fully control the snake despite the jutsu having intelligence of its own.”

“I know I just-!” Amarante began but was cut off by a surge of exhaustion flowing through her. The jutsu was obviously taking a toll on her and was beginning to deteriorate. “Well it looks as though I need to work on how long I can sustain the technique anyway.”

Motioning for Uchiha to take out his timer again, Amarante let the jutsu drop. “I guess I can work on control while I’m working on how long I can maintain the jutsu anyway.” Uchiha nodded, taking out his timer and formed some hand signs.

Five posts grew out of the ground in front of her, lining up perfectly. “This will help you gain control” the black haired man enlightened. “Just have the technique go through these posts for a while and then control will come naturally.”

Agreeing to the mans suggestion, Amarante formed hand signs. “And how long do I have to do this for?” the young blonde enquired.

“Forty seconds” replied Uchiha as the snake came to life from the electricity in Amarante’s arm and clicking the timer starter. Amarante wished for her jutsu to travel through the small obstacle course Uchiha had set up for her and the snake complied without argument.

‘Really this was easier then it looked’ Amarante mused but when the twenty second mark came around she began to struggle. The jutsu was taking to much out of her, her training earlier in the day coming into play. Try as she might she wasn’t up to the level of Uchiha and Hoshigaki as of yet, keeping up with them was incredibly hard.

Thirty seconds rolled around and the snake was still going through the obstacle course. ‘Come on, just ten more seconds’ Amarante inwardly told herself. Her face became slightly pained in the final moments of the jutsu, Uchiha counting down the seconds in his head.

‘Five… Four… Three… Two… One…’ Stopping the timer, Uchiha spoke up. “And that’s time!” he shouted, Amarante dropping the jutsu and falling to the ground. It was strenuous exercise and she was feeling sleepy now so she decided to take a nap and fell asleep, lying down quietly on her back.

Uchiha loomed over her and rolled his eyes.

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Raiton - Rairyuu no Tatsumaki (Lightning Dragon Tornado)
Rank: B Rank
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: Creates a large Tornado to where a massive dragon like element pushes forth creating a large like vortex.
Special: "Handseals"
Drawback: ---
Description: Rairyuu no Tatsumaki is a Ninjutsu technique utilizing the Lightning Element. The ninja does a long string of hand seals which then causes a bolt of lightning to drop from the sky. The current will be contained within and around the user's form. They will then begin to spin in place forming a whirling vortex of wind and electricity. The vortex will take on the form of a dragon and strike out against his opponent. Even if the attack doesn't directly connect with his foe, the lightning can jump from the vortex to hit a nearby target.
Limit: Must have the Lightning Release

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Amarante woke up and stretched out her arms and legs, yawning. She and her Uchiha companion had been waiting for The Great Hoshigaki for what seemed to be forever and he had still not returned, seriously how long did it take for someone to get some freaking stew ingredients.

It was almost nightfall now, the sun was just beginning to set, and Amarante could see Uchiha sitting a few meters away with his eyes closed and leaning against a tree. Unsure of whether he was awake or not, she just stared at him for a little bit, waiting for the man to comment, an outcome which was imminent.

“… You know it’s rude to stare” the black haired man commented through closed yes. Amarante sighed, another useless comment from someone who was stronger then her. How annoying, just like Hoshigaki. Speaking of which…

Where was the gilled man? “Hey did Hoshigaki come back yet?” the young blonde enquired. She really wanted to show him the jutsu she had learned, she was sure the guy would be impressed, maybe have a heart attack or something. “Sigh… You know what that means right?” Amarante once again questioned.

Uchiha’s eyes opened. “Jutsu?” Amarante nodded and clambered to her feet. The Uchiha also rose to his feet though a lot more gracefully. “Follow me then” he ushered, leading Amarante back to the river/lake she always used to train by.

Arriving at the lake, the Uchiha made it clear that she would have to stand back. “Stand back Amarante else you may be caught up in the extremity of the technique you’re about to learn.” Amarante was caught a little off-guard.

He used the word extremity. A word that used by any other person would be a signal of a powerful jutsu that could hurt you very bad if used incorrectly but when spoken by this Uchiha, who was an acquaintance of the Hoshigaki, she was sure it meant that she was about to witness an incredibly powerful jutsu that would kill her if performed wrong.

Backing away a few meters, Amarante watched as the Uchiha performed a few hand signs, well actually more like a hell of a lot of hand signs, and a bolt of lightning struck down from the sky. The lightning began to spin around Uchiha and formed a vortex around him.

The vortex took on the form of a dragon of lightning and directed itself to strike out against a tree on the other side of the river/lake, destroying it and scorching others nearby with electricity burns. Amarante stared in wonder… “Whoa…” she trailed off; staring at the remnants of the techniques after Uchiha had dispelled it.

“Impressive huh?” he remarked, smiling. Amarante nodded. “Well how about I teach this one to you?” he offered, Amarante nodded. “Well look here and let me show you the hand seals required” he instructed, Amarante nodded in compliance.

Amarante absorbed the hand signs like a sponge and quickly jumped away from Uchiha so she’d be a safe distance from him so she could try the jutsu out for herself. She formed the hand signs slowly, going through them properly so she wouldn’t mess up and sent her chakra upwards.

A bolt of lightning crackled in the sky from her attempt but did not reach her down at the ground. “Huh?” Amarante said in confusion. Reforming the hand signs she tried again and once again another bolt of lightning crackled in the sky, so very far away from her. “Gr get down here you piece of…” she trailed off in frustration.

She reformed the hand signs once more, and once more, and once more and each time the lightning just crackled in the sky, never reaching her. “Stupid nature won’t let me harness you and such” she criticized the lightning as she reformed the hand signs for another attempt.

The lightning snapped and reached half way down towards her and thought she made progress, Amarante once again criticized nature. “What so when we do want you, you won’t come and yet when we don’t want you, you send a freaking tornado to destroy a fucking village… Stupid nature…”

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Lightning crackled in the air as Amarante’s attempts at her jutsu were rendered useless. Amarante’s frustration boiled. “Gr god damn it get down here!” she cried, forming the hand signs in annoyance. A bolt of lightning struck down beside her and startled her, knocking her to the ground.

Amarante landed on her butt and after a moment to recognise what happened, she began to cry… Loudly. The Uchiha rubbed his temples and sighed in annoyance. “Amarante stop it with those crocodile tears” he beckoned. He really didn’t like it when children cried, even when it was fake.

Amarante sniffled. “But the lightning hurt me and made me fall down” she whimpered.

Uchiha walked over and kicked her in the side. “And whose fault was that?” he frowned to the girl. Amarante pouted and pushed him away as she separated herself from him by a few meters. Uchiha frowned. “You’re playing with the forces of nature here, don’t take them lightly or they’ll do worse then knock you over.”

Amarante sniffled whilst pouting. “Nature hurts my feelings… And my bottom” she mumbled, standing up. Uchiha face palmed as he moved away to let her practice some more. Patting herself down Amarante reformed the hand signs, now prepared for the bolt of lightning that would come.

The lightning bolt shot down and Amarante tried to move it but it was much to fast. It struck the ground and created a small smoky fissure, pushing her back a little in the process though not knocking her down. “Damn that’s fast!” she spoke in awe, her Uchiha clan member chuckling.

“Well of course it is, its lightning after all “he jeered. “Haven’t you ever heard the saying: as fast lightning?”

Amarante scowled. “It has been mentioned” she said innocently. Refocusing on her lightning dilemma, Amarante had to think of a way to control it. It was part of the jutsu that probably would be the hardest, unlike her teacher; she didn’t have a sharingan to help her see things past the normal limits of the human eye.

Forming the hand signs, Amarante called forth another bolt of lightning which fell from the sky and slammed into the ground a little bit in front of her, creating another small cater. Once again it was to fast for her to even recognise, the jutsu really did look like it was at a dead end for now.

“Not giving up are you?” asked Uchiha, a hint of curiosity in his voice.

Amarante shot him an agitated look. “No way, I’m not giving up on this jutsu until I mater it!” she screeched, reforming the hand signs. Lightning shot down from the sky and Amarante did nothing but guess as to its speed; it was all she could really do seeing as though she couldn’t see it.

She then focused her chakra according to her guess and tried to rotate the lightning around her, attempting to create the vortex of spinning lightning around her form. The lightning sped down and struck the earth in front of her causing a small crater to form once again.

Uchiha commented. “Good work, you’ve managed to move the lightning a little towards you” he informed her. “Though you are still very far from mastering the technique.” Amarante didn’t care about that last remark however, if she could move the lightning then she could perform the jutsu, simple as that.

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Having managed to somehow move the lightning to bend towards her, Amarante set out on her next part of the technique; forming a vortex around her with the lightning that could shield her from attack. After that she’d move onto offensive means with the technique.

Forming the techniques hand signs, Amarante called forth a lightning bolt from the sky and bent its form towards her. The lightning bolt struck the ground a few feet to her right, not injuring her but getting damn close. The Uchiha took this time to comment on her performance.

“You’re getting better” he complimented. “But if you don’t want to die anytime soon you’ll probably have to increase your efficiency very quickly else you’ll end up a pile of smouldering ash, killed by your own technique.”

Amarante scowled. “I’m not going to kill myself!” she assured the man, screaming. She didn’t want to die, not yet. She had things she wanted to do, to die from her own lightning bolt? That was not going to happen.

Reforming the techniques hand signs once more, Amarante called down another lightning bolt and weaved it around her. It created something similar to a vortex, swirling around her at a fast pace but it wasn’t exactly fast enough and lacked the construction that the Uchiha’s version of the jutsu had.

“Ah, well that’s a bit better now isn’t it?” Amarante’s black haired companion commented. “Now I feel confident that you won’t kill yourself… Well… Maybe not one-hundred percent confident but at least you’ve eased my worrying a little bit.”

Rolling her eyes, Amarante condemned the Uchiha’s words as her jutsu died down. ‘Come on Uchiha, do you really think I’d kill myself? I mean I’ve trained jutsu just as powerful if not more powerful then this, I’m pretty sure I’ll make it through this’ the young blonde internally monologue.

The something struck her and she giggled. “HN you’re worried about me?” she jeered getting no response from Uchiha. “Fine then I guess I’ll have to live then, wouldn’t want you to cry now would I?”

Amarante’s continued attempts at agitating the Uchiha clan member would fail as she turned to continue with her training, the man holding a slight smile as she practiced. Reforming the hand signs, Amarante called forth another bolt of lightning from the sky but this time she did things a little differently.

She focused her chakra on moving the lightning bolt around her vigorously in an attempt at forming the techniques vortex. It really wasn’t that different from what she was trying before but this way the ‘tunnel’ created by the vortex should have a larger span of life as it spun.

This worked for her and the vortex was now able to protect her to a degree but was still incomplete. The vortex went from the ground to about a foot over her head in a semi-clean form. Next up was to increase the techniques composition so trying to continue on with the techniques function, she tried to mould the jutsu into the shape of a dragon.

The jutsu around her lifted up another foot but still didn’t form the dragon she was hoping for though she still tried. She was trying her absolute best to get it to move but the jutsu eventually fizzled and died. “Damn it!” the young girl cried. “Well… at least it’s progress.”

“Yes it is progress” Uchiha piped up. “And once again you’ve eased my nerves.”

‘Well when you put it that way’ Amarante inwardly chastised. Like she cared if she was easing the nerves of this guy! All she wanted to do was master the damn jutsu but no, the fucking lightning would move like she wanted it to. ‘Sigh so annoying.’

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Reforming the hand signs, Amarante called forth another bolt of lightning which curved and bent around her form, creating another vortex of lightning around her, tipping about a foot above her head.

She tried once more to get the thing to form into a dragon she could use for offensive purposes but still the lightning just did not want to move like she wanted it too. The jutsu would rise another foot or so just like it did with her previous attempts but it would not morph or anything like the Uchiha’s did.

It was just so hard to bend the lightning like she wanted to; it was almost as if the lightning she was using was just too weak. Something in her mind clicked at the thought. Was that it? Was her lightning the reason that she was messing up the technique like she was?

Turning to the Uchiha, Amarante questioned him on the fundamentals of the technique. “Hey Uchiha about this jutsu… Is there a certain power the lightning is supposed to be for me too being able to use the technique properly?” she enquired from the man.

Uchiha held a blank stare and spoke calmly. “I thought that was obvious” he replied, causing Amarante a bit of grief. “You can’t power an electrical appliance without sufficient electricity; this also applies with lightning jutsu.”

Amarante wavered on the thought of hurting the man. It was true that it was ‘fairly’ obvious that she’d need a lot of electrical energy to perform the technique but she didn’t like how blatantly the man put it, it was a little insulting. Electing not to strike the man, Amarante instead focused on her training.

Forming the hand signs again as the jutsu dissipated, Amarante cast a great deal of chakra into the sky above her, summoning a great lightning bolt to fall from the sky. She used her chakra to alter the bolts direction and have it engulf her form in a protective shield of lightning which turned itself into a type of vacuum.

The lightning sprang up and took the form of a dragon like the young girl had wanted but it was diminutive in size in comparison to the Uchiha’s showing that she still had a lot left to do before she learnt how to use the technique effectively. Though what she was doing now was progress, the dragon moved around aimlessly before Amarante couldn’t hold the jutsu any longer and let it drop, taking a knee in the process.

Panting, the young girl was approached by her companion. “Well you’re getting better with this jutsu aren’t you?” he asked rhetorically. Looking her over, he continued albeit he had a sense of belittlement in his voice. “You’re expending way to much chakra through this technique though.”

Looking up to hold eye contact with the Uchiha, Amarante spoke. “Well then why don’t you help me with that?” the young girl posed. “Why don’t you help me use less chakra while I’m performing this technique?”

Uchiha raised an eye brow. “And how do you suppose I do that?” he honestly enquired, having no ideas come to mind on how he should do so.

Amarante reminisced of her training with Hoshigaki. “Well…” she began; unsure on if she should proceed. Her training with Hoshigaki almost killed her, to request that Uchiha do the same seemed a bit strange but she proceeded either way. “… When Hoshigaki trained me he used a teleportation jutsu to send me somewhere where the natural elements of the area would help with my training.”

Uchiha pondered this for a moment. “Yes that may just help then wouldn’t it…?” the man spoke aloud to himself. “But where to send you…” He pondered this for a moment more until coming to a decision. “Ah yes that would do just nicely, well are you ready to go?” the man then asked, offering his hand.

Amarante shrugged and rose to her feet. “May as well be” she rationalised, taking the mans hand. Uchiha made some hand signs, much faster then Hoshigaki whose hand signs were already faster then her eyes could follow, and the two of them disappeared in a could of smoke… Never to be seen again… Or not either way you know.

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Smoke cleared from Amarante’s line of sight and she was now met with the site of an empty room, a door on the wall to her right. Confused Amarante looked to Uchiha in confusion, the man taking opportunity to explain. “Look out the window” he beckoned, Amarante turning around to see the rooms only window behind her.

There was nothing special about the window as Amarante walked over to it. That was until she looked out of it however. Lightning crackled in the sky, for as long as the eye could see, there was lightning crackling in the sky. “Where are we?” the bespectacled young girl enquired, wide eyed.

Uchiha walked up behind her and explained. “We are at an area called the thunder plains. It is a land far from the leaf village” he explained. Amarante thought she knew where so she voiced her guess.

“In the land of lightning?” she posed.

Uchiha remained non expressional. “No” was his only reply.

Oh well, it was just a guess. Amarante quickly moved on and focused on what her training would be. “So I’m assuming that this place will help out with my training then, how?”

“The environment of this area would be beneficial. The atmosphere is always in a state of a thunder storm, very electrified. Producing a lightning bolt here will be a much easier task meaning that you can get down the details of the technique meaning that you’ll only later have to worry about the power” Uchiha clarified.

Amarante nodded and made her way outside stopping at the door with a nervous look on her face. “And what’s stopping the lightning from hitting me?” she asked.

Uchiha tilted his head into his cloaks collar and smiled. “Absolutely nothing” he informed her. “You’ll just have to be careful.”

Amarante’s expression became even more puzzled. “Right…” the young girl trailed off as she made her way outside. Uchiha followed behind her though he was much more composed. He stopped a few meters behind her as Amarante chose a place where she felt a little safer that she wouldn’t be hit by lightning though she was sure she was just telling herself that. The lightning probably could still reach her.

She quickly, and nervously, formed the techniques hand signs and cast her chakra up into the sky. A bolt of lightning quickly fell and so she used her chakra to alter its course and created a vortex around herself. The vortex’s power was greatly increased just from the environment she was in.

She had only used as much chakra as she would have from the first attempts she had made which only encased herself in the vortex foregoing the dragon creation but she was able to create the diminutive dragon she had created when she had when she incorporated as much chakra into the technique as she could.

“Well this is beneficial” Amarante said aloud to herself as she let her jutsu drop. She wasn’t expecting the environment to have that much of an impact but then again, looking around she could see why. The sky was literally littered with lightning, she probably didn’t have to build up nearly as much chakra as she usually would have, the lightning was probably already formed in the sky, Amarante just moving its course along a little faster.

Forming more hand signs, Amarante checked out what would happen when she injected more chakra into the technique. The result was that, when the lightning struck down from the sky and she moulded it to surround her, she was able to create a dragon of lightning comparable in size to Uchiha’s.

Amarante smiled. ‘Yes, not much longer and I’ll have this technique down.’

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Amarante’s smile was quickly shot down as lightning bolts from all around struck out and crashed into her dragon. Her technique became something similar to over loaded with electricity and exploded, crashing inwards towards Amarante. The young girl braced herself for the incoming impact, one which would surely kill her, and closed her eyes.

It never came however, all that happened was that she heard a very loud crash and when she opened her eyes, she could see a barrier around her, the barrier having protected her from the blast. Looking around she could see that Uchiha was standing with his hands in a tiger seal.

“Well that was close” the man nonchalantly spoke. “I imagine that this would be a good time to tell you that lightning attracts other lightning so you should be careful of how you use your technique.”

Amarante’s face turned to a scowl. “And how the hell am I supposed to do that? In case you haven’t noticed this entire place has lightning, if I use this technique at all I’m going to have the same damn thing happen!” she bellowed in annoyance.

Uchiha took centre stage and formed his hand signs. A bolt of lightning then dropped down from the sky and formed around him in the form of a protective dragon of electrical energy. The dragon loomed over Amarante’s form and reached over the landscape in a monstrosity of power.

Lightning surged toward it and for a moment Amarante feared the worst however… Lightning ripped from the dragon and intercepted the incoming bolts saving the original dragon from harm. This continued for a moment until Uchiha called off his technique and returned to Amarante.

“The technique when performed correctly will allow steams of lightning to jump from the technique” he began. “And with lightning attracting lightning the techniques own lightning should cancel out the effect of the natural lightning… Theoretically of course.”

Closing his eyes, Uchiha continued. “You could reduce yourself to charred ash before you get to that point and then you wouldn’t even have the chace to get up to that point. My shielding technique isn’t instantaneous after all, next time… I may not get to you in time.”

Amarante waved the man off with false confidence. “Don’t you worry about that, now I know that the lightning in my jutsu attracts more lightning so I’ll get this down easy as pie.” This was all just empty words however, Amarante was really actually very nervous about this. She didn’t want to die.

Building up her chakra, Amarante concentrated on the task at hand as the Uchiha commented. “I should also mention that water conducts electricity and with the human body being seventy percent water, you’d want to learn this technique fast else the lightning will strike you.”

Amarante began to sweat. ‘Shit…’ She had to learn this technique fast; Uchiha was exactly like the great Hoshigaki. She didn’t want to die! Forming the hand signs, fuelled on by the threat of looming death, Amarante compiled more chakra into her technique and shot it up into the sky.

Lightning then fell from the heavens, lightning which Amarante moulded to her whims. The bolts took form into a vortex around her person and quickly formed into a dragon of electricity. Lightning from the sky began directing itself towards Amarante’s dragon as it spread across the ground in front of her, its size comparable to Uchiha’s.

‘Now or never’ the thought crossed Amarante’s mind as the lightning approached. Her own dragon’s lightning intercepted it on the way bringing a smile to Amarante’s face, the young girl cancelling her technique before she pushed her luck any further. “Right now that’s enough!” the young girl screeched at her companion.

Running over to him she pleaded. “Now take me back!”

Uchiha wasn’t so quick to act however. “Are you sure that’s enough?” the man asked inquisitively. He was giving off the air that he was being concerned about Amarante’s training but Amarante knew that he was just trying to annoy or scare her.

“Yes god damn it!” she screeched once more in return, the Uchiha smiling in return and placing his hand on her shoulder.

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Appearing in the training ground in a cloud of smoke Amarante kissed the ground at her feet. “Yes! Yes! We’re not going to die any more yes!” she cried… Being a little happy to be out of the storm of the thunder plains… Uchiha raised an eyebrow at her in a suggestion of the word ‘we?’

A chuckling was then heard across the path from the two. “Hehe yeah she was like that when we got back from the ocean as well. Weird girl isn’t she?” The Great Hoshigaki revealed himself with this sentence drawing Amarante’s attention, and rage, towards him.

“Gr… What the hell happened to you? Did you forget that you were training me? You said that you were just going out ‘real quick’ to get some damned ingredients but you took like forever!” the girls screeching could be heard for miles, deafening Uchiha and Hoshigaki.

The large blue man rubbed his eardrum, trying to get back some of his hearing. “Well what the hell do you expect, you asked me to get you some of my special stew and only the finest of ingredients will do” the man replied in retort.

Uchiha’s face froze up upon hearing this. “K- Kis – Hoshigaki’s special stew?” the man spoke with a look of horror on his face. “You can’t be serious you’re really eating that? Amarante nodded. “D – do you even know what’s in it?” the terrified man questioned.

Amarante shook her head. “No he said it was a secret, why do you know what it is?” the young girl asked.

Uchiha exchanged glances with Hoshigaki before responding. “No not a clue” he replied, lying through his teeth, Hoshigaki gives a victorious grin. Amarante shrugged it off, thinking it was a good enough answer. “Anyway” the Uchiha clan member of the group began. “You’d best continue with your training.”

“Oh yeah” Amarante said as she snapped back into training mode, separating herself from the group so she could have some space. Forming hand signs, Amarante pushed her chakra skyward and called a bolt of lightning from the sky.

“So what jutsu is the girl learning?” Hoshigaki asked, only to be interrupted as the bolt of lighting struck down earthward and encased itself in Amarante’s form as a vortex of protection, quickly taking the shape of a dragon.

“She’s learning the ‘Lightning Dragon Tornado’ technique” needlessly replied Uchiha. “Though she is still a fair bit away from truly mastering the technique.” The dragon was of diminutive size in comparison to Uchiha’s but it did ‘jump’ like it was supposed to, lightning emerging from the technique.

“At least my venture into the thunder plains wasn’t a complete waste of time” Amarante supposed as she let the jutsu drop. “But I still can’t get the damned dragon to form properly, it’s still too small.”

Amarante’s frustration began to build up but she knew better then to loose control when learning the technique she was, she didn’t want to same thing to happen when she was knocked on her ass from the lightning. Taking a deep breath the blonde calmed herself, reforming the hand signs with a calm mind and more chakra.

“The girls not as hot headed as before, her time with you must have been beneficial despite it being short” Hoshigaki remarked as a lightning bolt struck down from above.

“You speak as though I’m going to leave” retorted Uchiha as the dragon began to take shape. Hoshigaki shot the man a look that asked, “Are you?” but Uchiha just closed his eyes and looked away. “I did promise you that’d I’d train her if she had potential… So I guess that I’m stuck here with you a little bit longer.”

Hoshigaki smirked as Amarante’s dragon took shape. Its size was larger and it was sparking viciously in a threatening demeanour. “Potential is something the girl has but will she ever be able to reach it?” the man asked rhetorically. “If we are to call ourselves her teachers we’ll have to work hard not only on her training but on ourselves as well.”

“No matter how hard we train her, we have to work just as hard when we’re apart from her so we can keep training her, else she’ll surpass us and we’ll be left in the dust, left behind…” The man trailed off. “And to call that girl master, doesn’t sit well with me.”

Meanwhile…

Amarante was reaching her limit; the technique was draining on her even if the thunder plains helped her along. The dragon was at what she believed to be and acceptable level and she was maintaining the technique for as long as possible but once the jutsu hit it’s twenty second mark it dropped, Amarante reaching her limit.

She took a knee and panted for a few seconds before climbing to her feet and trying again. Lightning fell from the sky after her hand signs were performed and she moved onto creating the vortex. The creation for the dragon soon followed and soon she was in the centre of a large tornado of a dragon.

The dragons’ size was the same as Uchiha’s and although it took a lot of chakra to maintain, Amarante smiled. ‘Not long now…’


(OOC: 500 ryo to whoever can guess what I'm reffering to by thunder plains, first come first serve of course.)

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