Training - Runing out of air

A new day had come. Sanae still was unsure what would happen now that she was Genin. How would she acquire missions and such things? Would she become part of a team or didn't they have the capacity of ninja to form regular teams? So far she had heard of nothing so she was again back at the academy where she sat down reading some scrolls about easy technique concerning her element. She had been revealed to use Air as her main element and so she now thought about learning some jutsus using that element. As she had found tree from which two where complimenting each other she headed outside. Her destination was the training grounds of her former school. The training facilities were still open for any shinobi that wanted to train since the city was quite unforgiving towards its shinobi, they did not really like having them around using their sometimes scary abilities. With great power comes great responsibility and she could slowly understand, why those people did not trust the shinobi with those powers. Now she stepped on the field alone and collected.

First up was the quiet footstep. It was a good and useful technique to come around unheard and silent. So she would try this jutsu first. If she was to move silent and swift with wind under her feet, maybe she could use this in combination with her Kaguya Taijutsu? Who knew? She then concentrated on her Inner self. Focusing her chakra and collecting it inside her centre. When she felt everything had come together just as she had anticipated it she would direct the chakra into her feet. Felt it running down her legs. Like a shiver down her spine. Did other shinobi feel it all the same? She did not really know but it was alright. She was always that connected to it because of her bones being infused with chakra a lot to make them harder than they were. Now the hand signs she hand to make to perform the Jutsu she was trying to do. Ram, a sign she had often made this sign as a part of transformation or clone technique and now the silent step required it as well. How fortunate that everything felt quite the same while doing it. Then the horse, which looked nothing like one she thought as she entangled her three closed fingers and then pointed her index finger against each other. The thumbs pointed to the inside of her hands and this was it. Then putting her fingers into a T-position folding them together and then pointing the index ad small finger up and then the middle and ring finger down, this was the Ox sign. It looked like it had the horns of an ox at least. But then she looked down. Whatever should have been the case, there was nothing. She had read in the scrolls that wind should have covered her feet, but it did not.
After she took a few steps she could confirm that there was no Jutsu going on under her feet, no pillow of air which should have appeared by now. So she signed in frustration and tried again. The hand signs again went flowingly over her Hands. Ram sign, then Horse sign and ox afterwards. When the ram hits the horse it turns into an ox or something like that. Why was there no Bird in it? It would have been so much cleverer. Because it had to do with wind and the flight of a bird was quite silent as well. But she was not the one who invented the jutsu so she could not decided which signs would come into it. Maybe there was some scroll that was going into more detail about why certain signs were used for certain jutsus. But right now she could feel it happening. Something seemed to work here and therefore she deemed herself successful. She could feel the wind around her foot and even see when the white dust seemed to surround her feet while she used that jutsu. This kind of felt like walking on a cloud or at least what she thought walking on a cloud would feel like. It was soft and kind of bouncy. She smiled satisfied. It worked onto the next one.

Next up she wanted to try to create the wind bow. This should really compliment the wind arrows she wanted to try to learn later on. She then thought, after she had learned both of the jutsus, she should train the use of both bow and arrow so she could shoot at something and also hit it. Then thinking about how best deal with the Idea of it. She needed to lead her chakra into the Air around her and make it pressurize the air around her to form something out of it. This was the first time she just formed something out of thin air, she thought about. So she first had to really get an image of what she wanted to do. So she started to draw the shape of a bow into the ground. Then she tried again with her eyes closed again until she felt like the shape had found a place in her memory. The she started what she always did, collecting her chakra inside her hands and then pointing the palms of them towards the open space before her. Trying to make the jutsu work was when she realized that she needed to do the hand signs first for something to happen. She face palmed and then did the hand signs first then trying to forge the bow like described in the scroll she read earlier on with her chakra. But as far as it concerned her nothing really happened besides that she should have looked pretty dam ridiculous while she held out her hands with nothing happening at all. She then begrudgingly took her gloves off and threw them on the ground. Maybe she needed a little more contact with the air that she wanted to form and pressurize. So once again she formed the hand signs. Boar, the fingers clenched to the palm of her Hand and turned fingers down and pressed the palms against each other. Afterwards Ram again, this was really used quit often, it struck her mind again while she stacked her hands upon each other again to concentrate her chakra inside her hands to make them more suitable to give up Chakra into the air and mending it with the force of her will. This time it got better and better. She could see the shape of the bow slowly taking for in mid air. She could see the bow appear it looked beautiful as for her perspective of how a bow should look like but as she tried to grab it, it vanished. With a frustrated grumble in her voice she growled and hit her legs with closed fists. Then again, she wanted it to work so badly and tried again, there had to be a way to make it. Almost with anger she tried it over again since there had to be a point in time where it worked when she just tried hard enough and this time she shook with stress while she was forcing her chakra to morph the air in front of her into a bow, but this time she could grab bit, but as she wanted to pull the string it dismissed. Why what did she do wrong? She decided that she would try it later again and for now tried to take a break and then do something else until she had relaxed a little.

She leaned back against the fence that surrounded the area and took a sip out of her water bottle.
Then she closed her eyes and rested relaxed and breathing in deep in and slow out. Then she poured a little water over her head and rubbed in over her face and over her neck. Then she nuzzled into a blanket and on the sidelines leaned against the fence she just closed her eyes and took a nap. Just like that without caring what others could be thinking. A growling stomach made her wake up. Indeed she had not eaten something in some time. And this was the point when she remembered the sandwiches her mother had given her. She got them out of her bag and started eating. They were awesome with bacon and some lettuce and that sauce she made so wonderfully. After she had eaten she stood up again doing some warm up before she turned back to learning.

So now she went for the arrow jutsu first. This should be a little easier because it had a lower difficulty rating than the bow and therefore should be not that difficult to master. She then started off like she had before. Trying to memorize the shape she was going to pressure the air into. So that she had an image on her mind and as it was in her mind she was to work it into her hands. She started to paint it on the ground over and over again. Maybe this time it would make the effort to create the arrow a little less tiring affair. Nothing compared to the bow that had failed on every scale right now. So she was waving her hands a little throughout the air like moulding something out of it. Forming something out of a cloud or this kind of candy you got at a fair called cotton candy. It would be amazing if the air would taste just as sweet, but then she would end up eating her bow and arrow, so it would have only been a weak perk. Because she would start eating her stuff but this was no danger at all, because well air did not taste like cotton candy at all. So now she was standing there infusing her finger with Chakra again and then again forming the signs she'd need for the Arrow to work. Then she stopped in her tracks. She tried to think back to the scroll there had not been any hand signs concerning this jutsu. She grid her teeth against each other how was she supposed to do the Arrows now? She held out her Hands and tried to put her chakra out to pressurize the air above it ad closes her eyes. The shape of an arrow, she needed slim body, pointy tip and three feathers at the end. Her Chakra burst out of her Hands and she could feel how it tried to mend the air into the shape she wanted. Slowly the chakra made the air take that a form she wanted. Soon there manifested an arrow of air inside her hands and she looked at it closely. In amazement she raised it up and held it against the light. I was like fragile and on the other side strong. This breeze could harm people, maybe even fatally but inside her Fingers it seemed so easy to break. With a strong throw she made it fly off and hit the ground.

So she went back to doing the bow. Since that was the only thing still missing and it was going to go along with the arrows perfectly. So she sat down, crossed her legs and put her Hands in her lap like holding a soup. Taking deep breaths of air into her lounges she meditated over the technique she was going to perform. It kind of was like the other one with the arrow but she had to do the signs and the thing she wanted to create was a little bigger ad supposed to last even longer. So she hand to concentrate a little while longer and had to make it harder. So that it would withstand the pull on the string and the used of the arrow. So when she felt prepared she rose up again. Her fingers made the signs she was supposed to do, short and quick, she had done them a lot of times already today. So they felt just so common flowing from her fingers and then she tried what she had worked with before. Concentrating on her hands, infusing them with her chakra and making it take the shape she wanted it to have. While she was in deep focus she could slowly see or more likely getting a feeling of how it was creating a bow inside her hands. After she could clearly feel the shape of the weapon she wanted to make emerge from her hands she started to give it a material by compressing the air into it. So that she then could gently put her hands and fingers around the arch and turn the bow a little while the string forged itself out of thin air and then there it was, her bow created out of nothing as it seemed. With a smiles she put it in position holding it in her left Hand like she was about to aim at something within her range. Then she took the string and softly pulled it back. For it was out of air, it was not that hard to deal with, but it still needed some strength to get fully pulled back but that was okay. Bothe eyes pointed at a tree she tried to aim and then released the string with it lightly hitting her cheek as well. It was a little stingy when it hit her like this, but she would indeed survive it. Now it was time to test the bow along with the arrow. So she again pulled the string back until it could not further be drown and then tried to collect the thoughts again. Since the arrows did not need hand signs she did not need to let go of the bowstring.
So then with a little effort on her side she could forge the arrow to appear perfectly placed on the tips of her fingers and put against the string of the bow where she pulled it back. Because it was air she was working with, it was no problem that it sneaked in between her fingers and then she was standing there calmly taking her aim. When she thought she had the arrow manifested and taken and aim she would not be able to miss she let go of the string. This time it did not hit her face just pushed forward the arrow which pierced the air, as if it was real and then hit a tree. Not where she had pointed it at, but at least she hit it. This technique would need a little more training, but at least she was sure, that she could at least do it. So while she had still daylight she was testing her limits with this. Seeing where the breaking point of those jutsu where and improving her aim a little. She did this training until she needed a rest because her chakra would not last forever and also her stamina was kind of run down. This was the moment when she stood there panting heavily and having her hands grab her knees. It was like the philosophy of her father to always go to her limits if she wanted to be taken seriously because if you don't plan on giving something at least one hundred percent, it is not even worth the effort of ten. Her water was empty, her food was eaten and her energy was broken down. She collected her stuff on the sidelines and then took a look back. She had accomplished a lot, she thought as she was leaving.

Exit
wc: 2627

Claim
Stats: 13
Jutsu:
Wind Style : Quiet Footsteps
Wind Release: Wind Arrow
Wind Release: Recurve Bow

Approved.