final tune up

It is the day before Izo is scheduled to take his Genin exam; a huge step for any aspiring shinobi. With his exam date so close, he decides to make better use of this day off. Instead of reading out by his favorite tree as he usually does on his days off, Izo decided he would go to the academy to hone his skills.
Upon arriving at the Academy, Izo is greeted by the bald headed cleaning person. Izo asks if he could use one of the empty training rooms to hone his techniques. The cleaning person tells him that a class just got out of room 203 and that it would be free until after lunch.

Excited that he would have the room to himself for a full three hours, Izo hurry to the room.
When  he arrives at class room 203, the door is already open so Izo walks in and places his bag down on the floor by the door.

The training room was a 20 by 20 meter room with more than enough ceiling space to jump around perhaps 15 feet high. Although he would not be doing much jumping today, it was nice to have the added luxury. Along the left side of the room where ceiling 2 floor mirrors, the front wall had cushioning all over it and in front of the cushions where target with a box of training knives all the way of to the front right of the room. The right wall had big windows to let in the morning sun and the back wall was littered with random papers and notices.

Izo, not wanting to waste any time, immediately jumps right back into his transformation training from yesterday. Trying to remember all that the instructors taught him yesterday.

“first I have to create an image in my head..let’s try granny again” Izo says out loud to himself as he closes his eyes and begins to create his mental image. this time being more mindful of the intricate details.

“next I have to gather and MAINTAIN my chakra” he thinks to himself while still molding his mental image.

Once he gathered the required amount of chakra, Izo flashes the hand signs Dog boar ram. And poof a cloud of dust and smoke surrounds him as it did yesterday. When the smoke clears he turns towards the mirrored wall to see Granny staring back at him. Or what looked like granny but was in fact him perfectly transformed into her.

Excited that he was able to get it again on the first try, Izo quickly remembers what the instructor said about it being easy when you know the person who you are transforming into. Knowing this Izo decides to challenge him self and try and transform into the cleaning guy he met at the Academy entrance.
Knowing that this will be a harder endeavor Izo tightens his bandana around his arm. He takes one last look at himself in the mirror in front of him and closes his eyes.

Izo focuses in, trying to remember all the details of the man who he only saw in passing for 30 seconds. “mental note, pay more attention to details as your living life” Izo thinks to himself as the difficult part of the jutsu now is creating the mental image. “this sucks” he says under his breath as he opens his eyes looking at the same image of himself that was their when he closed them.

Not ready to give up he darts towards the door in hopes that he would see the janitor so he could get a quick glance, this time making sure to pay attention.

Lucky for izo, the janitor had just finished cleaning the room down the hall and was walking in the direction of Izo’s classroom. Izo asked the  middle aged looking  janitor the time, to which he replies “2 hours and 15 minutes till lunch time.” And walks to the next classroom at the other end of the hall.

This time Izo made sure to scan the janitor over before returning himself to his spot in front of the mirror. A little exhausted from using so much chakra, Izo decides this to be his last attempt of the transformation jutsu until the exam.

With that Izo closes his eyes and focuses on the janitor who he just saw in the hall. This time creating the mental image with more ease. Gathering up his chakra to an adequate level he begins to flash the signs dog-boar-ram.  

This time from the cloud of smoke appeared a middle age looking balding man stared back at him. Izo had done it, he had transformed into a person that he did not have much prior knowledge of!

Looking over at the clock on the back wall, Izo sees that he has 2 hours left, just enough time to work on his aim using the practice blades and then he planed on using the last hour of so to work on his clone jutsu.

Walking over to the wall with the targets in front of it, Izo picks up the box of training blades and places it down 15 meters from the wall.  Izo  removes from the box three of the blades with his left hand and stands to face the targets. With his hands down to his side, he takes aim at three targets lined up next to each other. Raising and cocking back the blade killed hand to his right ear, he takes final aim and shoots his left hand forward in a semi circle.
With three loud bands. All three of the blades make contact with their targets. Although no out right bulls eye;  this is not bad for his first time using thee blades. Walking towards the targets to retrieve the blades Izo decides to try again only this time while moving.

Izo slowly walks back to his starting position next to the blade box. He reaches in and grabs out three more bring the total number of blades to six. Placing all six blades on his right hip he picks out six targets and begins to run in a straight line towards the window but facing the targets.

Letting them go one by one, Izo can hear that some of his shots are missing their targets. After releasing the final blade he looks back to see that of the six blades thrown only 2 of them have hit their intended targets and neither being a bulls eye.  

After reclaiming his blades, Izo decides to try again only going at a much slower pace this time; practically walking speed. Which does the trick and 5 of the six are on target this time.

Beginning to feel a little fatigue, Izo decides to cut his blade practice short and skip to working on his clone technique.

Checking the clock before starting Izo sees that he has a hour and a half before lunch. After returning all of the training blades to the box and placing the box back where he found it, Izo prepares himself to make two perfect clones of himself.

Standing again in front of the mirror Izo closes his eyes and starts to clear it off all clutter. Thinking of the perfect clones that he procured the other day on his own, Izo flashes the signs Ram-Snake-Tiger and poof next to him he sees standing a perfect clone version of himself. Not satisfied with just the one, Izo again flashes the signs and a second clone appears.

Now armed with the two. Clones Izo wants to see if he can get them to replicate his movements . With his back to the mirror and the two clones a 2 meters in front of him Izo begins to do jumping jacks, hoping the clones will follow his lead. Which they do so perfectly. Izo filled with joy sends the two clones away. Only two call back two more clones this time doing so more quickly “it seems I’m getting the hang of this” thought Izo to himself.

Content with all the practice he has done and still wanting to read some of his book, Izo decides to call it a day an hour before lunch. As he is walking out the class room Izo grabs his bag pulls out his book and begins to read it while walking out of the training room.

(Exit).

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