A day of training (P, NK)

Gekido woke up early in the morning feeling a bit sore from yesterday’s ventures. He sat up in bed, keeping his eyes closed because of the sun, and closed his curtains. He slowly opened his eyes so they could get use to the little amount of light coming through his window. He did not want to move but he was anxious to try out a new jutsu. He learned a new jutsu that created a shield around himself. He wanted to experiment with it to see if he could use it effectively. He slides to the right letting his legs hang off of his bed staring at his door for a short moment before getting up. He walked over to the drawer and started changing clothes. He put on some loose shorts and a muscle shirt. He stretched a bit trying to wake up as he opened his curtains to let the full brunt of the sun’s light into his room. His eyes adjusted slowly as he started to get use to the brightness. He walked down the stairs where he could smell food cooking. His father was always up before him no matter what time Gekido woke up. He walked into the kitchen to see his father cooking eggs, bacon, sausage, and other breakfast foods. Gekido’s stomach growled and his father turned to him smiling and laughing. He said to Gekido “Well are you hungry this morning?” Gekido chuckled holding his stomach with one hand replying “I do not feel like it but my stomach says otherwise.” His father laughed and said “Well good timing breakfast is done.” Gekido smiled and said to himself “It is good to eat a big breakfast in the morning. It will reduce the amount you feel like you need to eat later in the day. It is part of a diet.” Gekido has been on a diet that his father gave him for a couple of years now. He is muscular with little to no fat showing on his body. This diet pretty much allowed him to eat anything fattening in the morning but eating stuff with less fat later in the day. It has worked and is still working as long as Gekido keeps working out and training. His father asked “So are you going out training today son?” He asked this while putting plates on the table and filling them with food. They both ate a lot so there was a lot of food on one plate. Gekido and his father sat down and Gekido replied “Yes dad I am. I have a new jutsu I want to try out.” His dad nodded as he took some bits of food and swallowed. He asked “What is this new jutsu of yours?”  Gekido replied “It is space-time ninjutsu barrier.” Gekido’s father nodded in interest and replied “So you have taken a liking to space time ninjutsu huh? People like that are rare to come by but are scary to fight if you are fighting one. What does the barrier do? Doe it simply block an attack?” Gekido shook his head no as he was chewing of breakfast food. He swallowed and said “It does not “block” an attack so to say. If I am hit with a jutsu the barrier will absorb it, rendering it useless, and it will transfer the energy to my body.” Gekido’s father smiled and said “I am proud of you son for being able to use such a jutsu. Son, be careful space time jutsus are risky and you might end up in another realm or something.” Gekido thought about this and thought to himself “That is an interesting thought another realm separate from this one.”  Gekido nodded as he finished his breakfast right after his father. He washed the dishes since his father made the food. He went back upstairs to grab his katana and strap it onto his back. He walked out of his room, closing the door behind him, and walked back down stairs. He told his father that he would be back later at tonight. He father nodded as Gekido walked out the front door closing it behind him. Gekido roamed to the training grounds and saw that it was empty. That is how he liked it after all. Peace and quiet with no one to distract him. Though he did like sparring but he wanted some alone time for training. He unstrapped his katana leaning it against a tree next to the water. He stretched a bit and wanted to do a little bit of physical exercise.  He ran around the training grounds for about a mile. He slightly started to sweat as he got on the ground and started doing push-ups. He did about fifty of those then went into sit ups. He also did about fifty of those before running and jumping into the cool water. It was a tad cold but he liked it like that. He swam around for a couple of miles.  Gekido alternated strokes, breast, butterfly, freestyle etc. He pulled himself back on lap huffing and puffing from the cardio he just got done doing. He stood up stretching a bit more. He could feel a slight hint of soreness but nothing too major. He thought to himself “Well better start practicing on that barrier.” He stood there focusing the chakra around him and imagined a barrier. A barrier that would cover his whole body. He molded his chakra to make sure the barrier was not totally solidified. He felt the chakra leave his body and opened his eyes. There was a barrier but only up to half of his body. He laughed a bit and tried again, and again, and again. He got a bit frustrated as he poured a fair amount of chakra into it. He opened his eyes once again and the barrier was covering his body. He smiled and started moving around. The barrier moved with him so he could move freely. He did, however, had to keep concentrating on the shape and form of the barrier or it would loses its shape. He ran around jumped from tree to tree. The barrier kept its shape and Gekido was proud of himself. To be able to control his chakra and keep it in a form was amazing to him. He then knew how much he improved over time. He dispersed his barrier and took a break for a bit. He sat down and breathed a bit letting some energy come back to him. His initial adrenaline rush was over and he could feel the effects of keeping the barrier up. He stood back up and focused on the nara clan jutsu. He knew that the rat symbol was needed to use the basic shadow manipulation jutsu. He held his hands in the form and focused on his shadow. He poured chakra into it and kept his eyes open. He could see his shadow barely move.  He tried again and it still barely moved. He was about out of chakra but he kept going and soon enough it moved a little more. He was finally getting the hang of it but he would not be able to truly use it any time soon. He was just experimenting with it since he had the nara blood inside of his veins now. He tried one last time and got the same results as last time. He plopped down onto the ground and looked at his katana feeling bad that he did not train with it. He shrugged a bit before getting up again. He grabbed his katana and started off in a simple stance. He swung it around a bit not being sloppy with it. He did not have any training dummies for swordsmen ship in the training grounds atm. They had seemed to be taken down for repair. They had been looking quite tore up. He was now drenched in sweat and decided to sheath his sword, and strapped it to his back, He walked out of the training grounds and headed back to his house.
 
[1,353 WCT, +6 stats, +13 JP, Mastered Conversion barrier, added 1,353 to obtaining shadow element]

Approved.