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Vretyel had decided to take it easy today and do some speed training and some strength training for a few hours. He was going to borrow the weights from the academy to work on some speed and he was going to then use the weights to work on his strength. When he got the weights from the academy they were about 100 pounds each and they attached to both sides of his legs, making it difficult for him to move but allowing him to gain some endurance for running long distances fast. Once he got the weights onto him he immediately began running to the training grounds where he was going to do his strength training. It was easier than the first time he had done this because he had gone through a lot more mental and physical change than what he was just a few months ago. He ran towards the grounds at the fastest possible speed that he could go even going as far as to use the lightning speed justu that he had learned and developed from his clan jutsu pages inside the book of the Inazumahis. He was moving at almost half the speed of sound and he was not even breaking a sweat, he then began to move with as much speed as he could possibly go for about 3 miles from the academy to the grounds. This was not as easy as just running over there, not only was he sprinting but he was also holding his staff in hand and was carrying the weight of 200 pounds on his legs. This was going to be fun, Vretyel thought. After an hour of running in the warm sun he reached the training grounds in almost half the time it took him just a few months ago. When he saw how much more progress he had made he smirked at himself. Over the months he had realized that he had become more confident in himself and improving his abilities more and more.
Once he finally got to the grounds there were only a few short minutes for Vretyel to rest before he began training with those weights. He decided that he would have the weights on his staff and he would throw the unit high up in the air and then catch it again with only one hand. This was going to be just a fun day.
[WC: 402, +2 Stats and 4 JP, will continue more for this training.]

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Vretyel decided now that he was going to do some speed training around the hidden leaf village and since he just done his pathetic battle Sanji he had a lot of time on his hands to do some training. He went through the village and got to the base of the faces of the Hokages, also known as Hokage rock. These people were the strongest and most powerful men and woman in existence and he was standing beneath them. This was where he belonged at the moment, beneath the most powerful people in the land of fire. He wanted to show himself that one day he could come to the level of these Hokage but now he was just fighting with the lowest of the low, he now wanted a real challenge to show himself of his power but sadly nobody in the leaf was near his level to train with so he opted to train with himself. He started a sprint to get up to the top of Hokage rock and back, going as fast as he possibly could. This training was going to be easy, but it was going to be something to open his mind for the possibility of being great. During his training up to the top Vretyel thought hard about what it meant to be alive and to be a ninja:

What does it mean to be a ninja? Does it mean to train for your entire lives just to wait for the one day to prove that you are a successful shinobi by killing others in the process of killing yourself? Does it mean to sacrifice your life for others often whom you do not know? From now it has seemed like that was my reason to exist. I have been told to train and get stronger for my entire life without any possibility of being someone great. I have always been told to be loyal to the Hokage and do what he asks and they will help you during your times of trouble if they can. But that was not the case; so many ninja have been killed for the protection of the Hokage without any remorse from the Hokage himself. He has shown no remorse for the countless shinobi that he has had to kill. Sometimes it is easy to wonder if he did to protect the leaf or if it was to show that others how powerful it was. For some reason I feel like I should try to protect those who are weak, but I as run up the faces of the past Hokages of legends I wonder about who protected them in their times of struggle. There was nobody that can protect the Hokage truly if he is danger; the only person that could protect the Hokage is himself, so why should his subordinates be any different? That is what I have always thought was wrong. I have always thought that I should protect those who are too weak to protect themselves, but now I am not sure. I should worry about myself before anybody else; maybe I would have been able Ayama if I was able to save myself. Maybe I would be able to know my clan more if I knew more about myself, I wish I knew these things, but who knows.

Vretyel was losing focus and concentration and once he finally reached the top of Hokage rock he laid and looked up at the city. He would be doing more training later, but now he wanted to look at the sky for a while, something that he had not had the privilege of doing for quite some time, for the next part of his training would be much more difficult to achieve.

[WC: 627, 3 Stats, 6 JP]

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Inch by inch, foot by foot, mile by mile Vretyel learned to increase his speed and his abilities through the use of training, now that he was on the top of Hokage rock he realized that the greatest challenge was going to be upon him which would require him to climb down the Hokage rock in the fastest time that he had ever recorded for himself. This was defiantly going to be challenge as for his standards he was very fast and had competed the task in a record time before this, it would mean that he would need to run faster than what he had ever run before in order for him to complete this task without losing balance during the entire time of the long downward journey. After taking a few minutes to look at the Hokages and the village from this position Vretyel concentrated Chakra to his feet, giving him his ability of the lightning speed jutsu, this jutsu was powerful and amazing speed would be something that would give him the advantage when it came to completing his task. As he began his decent he was running faster than even his time before that and he was maintaining control. At this point there was no way that he was going to complete this goal because he then went almost half way down the trail and was not even phased, shattering the halfway make of his previous time without even breaking a sweat. He was going to need to find a new challenge for him if he was going to have any chance of doing any actual training. He decided that he was going to run through the village for as long as it took him to complete his training the last time he went down Hokage rock when he was not stronger. Although he reached the bottom of the trail in only a quarter of the time he had done before he was not entirely impressed with him. He knew that he would never beat the speed of Navi when he moved, but he wanted to be more and more like him when he trained, and he felt like he needed to improve more if he was going to be Jounin. He learned that through some outside sources that if he did well on the mission with Navi in the next few days he may be given the rank, so he trained hard and was going to see how far he could go.

[WC: 418, 2 Stats, 4 JP]

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