Red Dawn (Training)

The young Uzumaki was hanging out at his normal training spot in Sunagkure no sato. Just catching some shade under a tree thinking about the legendary jutsu he had learned not too long ago. Tsuki debated on trying to make use of one of the more popular jutsu, despite the Flying Thunder God Technique being a lot more useful in battle. The Body Flicker Technique would be useful but not if he had to always go in a straight line forward or back. He stood there and thought about it for a while before taking a step out of the shade and thinking "Hell lets do this..."

The young red headed kid stood facing the dune in front of him, its crater looking steep and dark for being in an oasis of sunlight. This is where he was going to train his technique to be better. He gathered chakra in his feet and took a step forward. As he predicted he just went in a straight line and ended up ankle deep in the dune."Hmmm... I have to figure out a way to turn while using this jutsu." He went back to his starting point to try again, and gathering chakra in his feet he faced slightly to the right of his target.

Maybe if I try and turn during the actual motion of the jutsu I might be able to make this happen the young Tsuki thought. He took a step forward slightly turning his feet and leaning as one would normally take a turn if they were just running. As he came out of the blur he noticed that he did in fact turn a bit but not as much as he would have wanted. One more time he thought I can get this there is nothing I can’t do, thought the Uzumaki. He charged chakra into his feet for his last shot at this jutsu for the day. If he didn't get it right he would have to go onto another jutsu and start all over tomorrow.

Tsuki let loose taking a step forward releasing his pent up chakra at the same time. While leaning and almost running during his body flicker, he became utterly surprised when he blurred around the pond he had gotten it almost arcing around the pond like a crescent moon. His feet were on fire but he had accomplished the task at hand and now would be able to add it to his arsenal of jutsu to use during combat. Tsuki slowly limped back to the spot he was at first under the cover of shade, he took a seat under the tree and leaned up against it nodding off into a nap.

An hour passed, when the young Uzumaki woke up like he missed something. But the day was still young, and Tsuki had enough time to train his other techniques. The wind blowing around him gently, and his eyes closed; Tsuki stands quietly and motionlessly as he listens to his surroundings. He had been training his chakra techniques for a while recently and decided this time it was time for a little physical exertion. His eyes snap open and he moves forward in a quick dash towards a nearby tree only to stop a second before impact. Quickly he pushes backwards running back to the spot he was at before and comes to a quick halt. Rolling his shoulders and tilting his head Tsuki leans forward and makes a mad dash through the long stretch of walkway, the nearby path extended into a tree. Dust and dirt kicking up behind him as he increases his speed he forces a slight amount of chakra into his ankles and legs, and as he moves, he moves increasing his speed. In the blink of an eye his speed suddenly doubles and a loud crash is heard as he clips the side of the tree sending him into a spin and crashing into a large nearby rock. Picking himself up slowly he shakes the stars from his head, looking around, trying to figure out what happened.

He’d intended on training his abilities to hone them some more, apparently he’d let out too much of his chakra, or at least more than he’d intended. Turning around he looked at the chunk of rock his body cracked and removed himself from the large, near boulder sized, rock he’d impacted. Moving back to the path he dusted himself off a little more and sent trace amounts of chakra into his legs. Pressing forward he dashed along the ground continuing down the long walkway leading through to another lone tree, in the semi-barren rock filled garden he’d been training in. Pushing himself more he felt the wind whip slightly harder against his face as he picked up speed yet again. A small burst of chakra and he nearly tripped over his own two feet but managed to keep going. He’d not been regulating the chakra pulses in any normal pattern. This training was to enhance himself. Coming up on a rather large tree Tsuki increased speed and aimed directly at the tree. Within moments he reached the tree and gave a slight incline in his direction moving UP the tree this time instead of into it.

Like a thrown kunai passing your head Tsuki darted up the tree. The tree climbing technique allowed ninja to climb vertical surfaces to reach their destination thus allowing him to scale this tree. Unfortunately he had not bothered to think through his method of completion in this manner and upon reaching the top of the tree, his steadily increasing speed made it near impossible to stop. With a quick solution thought, and a strong leap, Tsuki flew backwards into a graceful backflip landing softly on his feet. Not waiting around to see if sharp pain would raise through his legs Tsuki leaned forward and began his dash again. This time past the tree he’d just ran up and onto the walking path behind it. This path , separate from the original he’d been following, leads the walker back around where he started from. Pressing forward harder Tsuki’s body image shimmers as he increases to breakneck speed tearing dust and sand into the air. Tsuki stopped with a sudden break, exhausted and warn out.

WC: +1000 Total: +1000

250w for E-rank for Transforming Technique:

250w for E-rank for Tree Climbing Technique:

750w for D-rank for Body Flicker Technique:

750w for D-rank for Genjutsu Kai:

1000w for C-rank for Finger Carving Seal:

This has probably been the most work than Tsuki has put since learning the Flying Thunder God Technique. Although feeling himself getting stronger, the new genin was finding himself also just as tired. More charkra will be needed for Tsuki to become effective in the battlefield, and this was becoming really clear. The young Uzumaki yawns widely, laying back on the ground with his head rested against a sand hill. 'I can't be this tired, I really can't.' The red haired shinobi said lazily, raising one arm to shield his eyes from the sunshine. 'I'm sleepy too.’ The young Uzumaki thought as he noticed the sun begin to set. ‘Today's just too warm and too calm to not do much.' Tsuki tried to affirm himself. 'But you know... If I am really going to get stronger, I really have to keep working not be bogged down by low ranking techniques... It's a drag, that's for sure.' Tsuki said reluctantly to himself, still not moving. 'Well, maybe I should train something easy? Something that doesn't require too much stress or effort?' Tsuki suggested to himself, playing absent-mindedly with a few strands of his fire colored hair.

'Little effort, I like the sound of that.’ He again confirmed with himself. ‘Oh, i know, I'll work on transformation! I get to stand still if i'm training that, huh?' Tsuki thought. Instead of getting up, the tired Uzumaki merely performed the Henge no Jutsu hands eals from where he laid. 'Transform.' He yelled, and his body disappeared in a puff of smoke, revealing an exact copy of the dean within the Academy that recently graduated the young Uzumaki. 'Close, but I missed his freckles.' Tsuki said with a smile, as he rubbed on his newfound face. Tsuki performed the hand seals once more, revealing the same sight, but with a spattering of small freckles across his cheeks, just beneath his eyes.
'There you go, now you can pass as the head of the Academy' Tsuki said with a grin. Tsuki released the jutsu and yawned again. 'I should try transforming into an inanimate object' The young Uzumaki suggested for himself, soon after, performing the transformation jutsu hand seals once again.

This time, when the word 'transform' was said, Tsuki disappeared, and there was a log laying in his place, propped against the sand hill where Tsuki laid. The log then poofed back into the red headed kid. Tsuki, although tired, knew he had time to train one more jutsu before sun down. Needing to better his sealing techniques, the young Uzumaki decided to practice the Finger Carving Seal. For this technique, Tsuki decided to meditate. The reason for the meditation was due to the technique itself requiring the user to be highly focused on pinpointing the chakra one specific area at the tip of the finger. This requires needle like precision.

While meditating, Tsuki lifted his right pointing finger out. With absolute focus he began to collect all of his chakra to the tip of that outward finger. Slowly but surely, the young Uzumakis fingers began to ooze with chakra, a black neon like glow. Tsuki felt as the atoms at the tip of his fingers began to vibrate with such velocity that heat was produced. Oddly enough, the heat was one directional as Tsuki felt no direct burn but felt his finger close to a high temperature source. Tsuki then brought down his finger where he sat, and began to trace a familiar symbol to him. The Flying Raijin Symbol was carved onto the desert sand, causing glass to be created in the shape of the symbol itself wherever the young Uzumaki hovered his finger atop of the sand.

The young Uzumaki would continue to dissect this Finger Carving Seal. He was starting to notice he could do certain things to improve the mold itself. It was like finding he could create the puzzle pieces for a puzzle rather than find a piece to place. The way he creates the chakra in the tip of his fingers signals could be more fluidly crafted by him since he is an uzumaki. Some of the things he tried failed and some did not. But he would continue to experiment with his fingertip to try and make his writing perfect. This was a daunting task indeed.

Tsuki would start to develop a method of experimentation. He would cycle through crafting a mold that might work then trying the technique. If the change was deemed effective he would incorporate it into how he preformed the technique. He was building this technique up so that any carving he engraved became near permanent. He would keep up with experimentation and continue to make changes until he had it perfect. He was starting to notice how slow this process was but with the work involved he was finding molding the chakra was getting easier.

It appears as if the technique was finally learned and more over perfected, after pain staking hours of training. Unlike the other jutsus, the young Uzumaki finds sealing techniques and other fuinjutsus to be rather easy to learn, a trait he heavily credits to his clans bloodline. Understanding now what it takes to become a true shinobi, Tsuki thought that this training session was over. With the sun finally out, and the moon shinning on the Sunagakure village, the young Uzumaki felt accomplished and thought that he needed to be well rested for another days worth of hard work. Heading back to his home, he felt more confident in his ninja abilities and didn’t feel a need to rush home. Usually, bandits would scare the young Uzumaki in this time of night, but now Tsuki is feeling more like he is the one that should be feared in Sunagakure no sato. More training is needed, but Tsuki is noticing that he is years ahead of his class and is competing now with an older generation of shinobi. His talent is not only being noticed, but also rewarded with the early graduation.

WC: +1000 Total: +2000

250w for E-rank for Transforming Technique:

250w for E-rank for Tree Climbing Technique:

750w for D-rank for Body Flicker Technique:

750w for D-rank for Genjutsu Kai:

1000w for C-rank for Finger Carving Seal:

On his way home, his bravery was tested. A thug stopped Tsuki in his tracks. He told the young Uzumaki that if he didn’t give him everything he had, that he would place him in a Genjutsu. "Now back to where I was…" Tsuki thought as recounted that he has never trained Genjutsu counters so now should be an ideal moment to sharpen his skills. Tsuki who seemed to have finished his last days exercise routine, was exhausted, but he also thought that he shouldn’t be since his training wasn’t a big deal, after all it was just some chakra control with extra steps, now he wanted to try something else, something with more use of chakra control, after a couple of secants he came up with something, he'll use Genjutsu Kai whenever he got placed, maybe it was time once again to continue his training.

"Well, hand it over!" the thug said. Putting his hands together, now he began to inspect himself to try to have a better chakra control, standing on the ground with his eyes closed and with his hands together the fuinjutsu specialist began to expand his own chakra around him, this took a lot of energy but it was worth it, he began to get used to his surroundings, this would help him to know the difference between the real world and a genjutsu. A prime requirement to know the technique already, if he did not have any idea of how the real world felt, then it would be impossible for him to dispel a genjutsu because he won't even be able to feel the difference.

The Sunagakure no sato shinobi began to use his chakra and move it around, as if the chakra would be another part of him, like a young kid running around the park, getting used to everything around from him, he knew that the place would change but not the character, so he began to inspect himself, the chakra would began to go through his skin and touch him, trying to find the difference between a half sleep skin like one in the genjutsu and the awoken one, any kind of exercise using his chakra out of him was accepted now, this one took several secants, but not only to the part of getting used to the external place but to the chakra itself. Soon after, the young Uzumaki heard, “You think this is a game?!”

Tsuki was focused, he knew that his focus was the difference that would help him to get used to the technique, to know if something was bad or not around him, this would help him too for further versions of the same technique, knowing already how to move his chakra around would be a great beginning step for it, now it was just about practice. Tsuki soon felt his chakra network starting to get disturbed. Of course, this was a low level thug that performed this genjutsu, so for the young Uzumaki it was relatively easy to snap out of it. The thug was surprised that the kid was capable of breaking out of the Genjutsu and decided to attempt a strike.

It was noticeable then, that this thug never even finished the academy and was no shinobi and that genjutsu was most likely the only technique he knew. Tsuki quickly took out his flying raijin kunai and threw it in the air, and before the thug was able to swing, the young Uzumaki teleported atop of him. By the time the thug noticed where Tsuki went, it was too late. When the thug struck, Tsuki wasn’t there any longer but he did strike back from on top of the thug surprising him. It all happened in a flash, and while the bandit was concussed, Tsuki thought it to be wise for him to contact the authorities before leaving. Stopping a man he saw in the street, Tsuki asked for help, but soon realized that the man wasn’t trying to help at all. Before Tsuki was able to utter a sound, the stranger swung at Tsuki and made contact.

It was apparently clear by then that the stranger was partnered with the first thug who attempted to place Tsuki in a Genjutsu. Tsuki was soon after robbed for what he had, which being poor, wasn’t much. The most valuable procession the young Uzumaki had was the flying raijin kunai which the bandit stole. Tsuki hurt, saw as the stranger helped his concussed partner get up and flee from the scene of the crime. Tsuki, enraged that it occurred showed little to no emotion because it already occurred. Instead, the young Uzumaki looked up at the desert stars and promised that he will gain enough power to walk anywhere in the world free. The young shinobi grasped up into the sky, appearing to want to grab a star and instantly after he began to blackout.

Tsuki began to wake on a hospital bed, after seeing a medic hovering over him with his mother by his side saying, “It appears like he wasn’t struck hard, but he was very fatigued so the adrenaline knocked him out. He should be alright.” His mother was glee said, “Thank god!” Tsuki’s mother then saw Tsuki waking up and began to scold him. “What were you thinking? I told you to come back if you see the red dawn! Youre alays getting into trouble Tsuki! Why would you do this to me?” But in the midst of her rant, Tsuki was slowly fading out. Tsuki then closed his eyes and blacked out again. The young Uzumaki was indeed tired, exhausted even, after a long day of training, his body wasn’t prepared for the utilization of the Flying Thunder God Technique. This was ample evidence for the young Uzumaki that he should utilize the Flying Thunder God Technique with reservation at least until he is capable of performing the technique without major drawbacks. The young Uzumaki had a new mission at hand, so the journey continued.

WC: +1000 Total: +3000

250w for E-rank for Transforming Technique:

250w for E-rank for Tree Climbing Technique:

750w for D-rank for Body Flicker Technique:

750w for D-rank for Genjutsu Kai:

1000w for C-rank for Finger Carving Seal: