Solo training (NK)

Sura woke up early this morning like usual before the sun had even rose he was up. Wiping the sleep from his eyes he traveled to the bathroom, washed up, and took a shower. He finally stepped out after about thirty minutes. It felt so good but he had to. He got dressed and cooked some high protein, low fat breakfast like he was use to. This which consisted of mostly eggs but who could forget the bacon that should be added to every breakfast finished off with milk. He scarfed it down like normal then cleaned the dishes and set them aside to dry. Thinking to himself "It is about time for me to get stronger." He walked out the door and locked it behind him. Walking down the stairs he took note of the weather. He noted "No humidity, warm, and a slight breeze." This was gonna be a excellent day for training. Though if it was colder he would be able to tell how hard he worked. He walked past the old man who seemed to be there all the time, or he was an early to rise and late to bed type of person like Sura was. He waved to the old man as he past by as the old man said "Out so early? You remind me of a young boy who use to live here as well. You remind me a lot of him." This stopped Sura in his tracks and asked "How so?" The old man chuckled a bit and said "Well he was quite, and very intelligent, but he was a genin. Though he was more powerful than a chuunin at his age. He was blessed with the power of water control at will not jutsu." Sura tilted his head and thought to himself "A user that could control water at will. An element known to have its own personality this boy could control. Sura smiled and said "Thank you for the compliment." He jumped off onto a roof and took off towards the training grounds.

He arrived to an empty training grounds which he liked. The silence, with a hint of running water from the river, made it quite peaceful. He looked around a bit seeing tree trunks with bulls-eyes on them. There were dolls that you could test taijustu skills on, or at least that is what he thought. Though he would like to have a tree trunk to try what he wanted to do. First off though he started with stretched and a bit of warm up. He stretched as many muscles as he could to get him ready for a run. He ran two miles right after that he started doing one hundred jumping jacks followed up by one handed push ups. Sura did seven hundred push ups on each arm. At this point he was just broke a sweat on the warm ups. Shaking off the warmth of his muscles he walked up to the training dolls. They did seem a bit off to him as if they looked untouched and they were not what he has trained with. These dolls really had no support and stood on their own. He asked himself "Are these changed out everyday? Why are they standing up on their own." He figured "We shall see." He jumped up about the height of the training doll's head and spun his body around for a spin kick. His foot connected to the doll. Sura could feel the impact as he recovered nicely afterwards spinning on the ground a bit and faced back towards the doll. He found it odd that his kick connected but the doll did not seem to take damage. The other thing was that it did not fall. Sura smiled and said "Well I hope this is a challenge." He jumped off the ground same as last time performing a spinning kick but harder this time. He recovered but with one leg on the ground he let his momentum carry him to a leg sweep against the doll and connecting that as well. He stopped spinning and stood up. Sura noticed that the doll did fall but not onto the ground. It was as if it was being stabilized by something. Sura could only assume it was a chakra device holding it in place. The force of his kicks were pretty powerful and only knocked that doll a little out of place. It was taijutsu but there were names for what he was doing. They were the Leaf Whirlwind and Leaf Gale that he had read about.

Sura put some distance between him and the doll. He ran to it as fast as he could jumping up into the air about the level of the dolls chest. He went for a straight kick to the chest. The instant he felt the kick connect he would push off the dolls chest doing one back flip before landing on the ground. At that moment of contact on the ground he used that force to spring him forward and up doing another spin kick. The kick connected as he recovered making one leg keep contact to the ground as his spinning momentum used his leg to sweep the dolls feet. At that moment when his momentum kept him spinning as soon as he saw the doll lean over Sura took that chance. He sprang forward with all his might and punched the doll in the chest as hard as he could. Sura felt the doll give to his punch as the doll went flying into a tree bending to the shape of the trees trunk. The doll fell down to the ground. Sura tilted his head and wondered why it did not stabilize. He walked over and brought it back to its original position and stood it back up. It stood straight up on its own. Sura smiled as he would continue with a barrage of low and high kicks. He had to sit down a bit to rest, and he could feel his muscles pulsating from the work out. He got back up and decided to keep working at it but this time he wanted to do a lot of leg workouts. He decided to do a rock climbs; going into a push up position with both hands on the ground and keeping his back straight as a board. He put on leg in front of the other and alternated them as fast as he would. This was a major cardio workout and his leg muscles could get a real work out. With each time he alternated he would count that as one, and he kept going until he hit five hundred. When he got around the four hundred mark he could feel that he was getting at a wall. After all the kicking his legs already had a good workout. He pushed through to five hundred and jumped up. He did ran another two miles not giving his legs a chance to relax or else that would be it. He picked up a small boulder and balanced it on his feet. He did what was essentially leg presses with a boulder expect he was on his back. He could feel the strain of his legs but he worked out through the pain. He passed up the figurative wall and kept going. Sura was determined to keep going till he could not push the small boulder up anymore. He reached one hundred then one hundred and fifty and then two hundred. He could feel his leg muscles starting to sting in pain, but he kept going until two hundred and fifty. He pushed it off of him as he then laid there breathing heavily and he could not feel his legs. He did not know if he tore up his muscles but it should not be that much of an issue. He stood up and felt his legs almost give way, but he forced himself up and walked. He laughed and headed back to the apartments where the old man was still out side. Sura was stumbling past him as the old man laughed and said "I take it that it was a good day of training." Sura chuckled and said "Yeah and hopefully more tomorrow." He went into his room and though it was only mid day he took the rest of the day to rest. He would hope that his muscles had recovered by the next day.

(1417 WCT)
(+ 7 stats, 1417 words towards second spirit sphere, 1250 completed training of Leaf Whirlwind )
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