Last Preparations

Another day of training was ahead of her. She had made a list of techniques she wanted to learn or her father suggested learning. So she had made herself some lunch and packed enough water to keep her going and then went to the Academy Training grounds were she could train without disturbance. There she set down her backpack at the sideline and started to warm up by bending her head from side to side and then turning it in circles. Then stretching her arms to left and right, left and right up and down, making them rotate to loosen up the joints. Bending the Fingers was next so that they would be warmed up and flexible to do seals as quickly as possible.  Then she started bending her rump leaning back to look into the sky and leaning forward to touch her toes and then the ground with her hands while humming along a little. Right hand, left toe, left hand right to, the other hand straight into the air like wings stretched into the air. Then she started leaning onto one leg and bending over to the other one and then changing sides. Last but not least bending her legs apart into a split and laying her upper body onto the ground she was sure her muscles were relaxed enough to do some work. Now it was still up to her to get warm enough. Starting with a push by her legs to get back up on her feet she then set out to run around the court following the track. Three laps jogging slowly then three to pick up the pace, sprinting to really get the blood pumping and three to slowly run it out and get control of her breathing again. When her body felt warm and her heart was beating promptly it was time to start the real training. (314)

First step memorizing the seals she needed to do for each jutsu. So she sat down with the notes to the first one she wanted to learn the Great Breakthrough. A Fuuton jutsu that would form a wall of wind to defend her and people close to her something that had been missing from her portfolio in case of a more wide ranged attack against her. So she now sat down trying out the seals she would need to perform without infusing any chakra into them for now. Because it was such a gigantic technique it also needed five seals to be done on a whole to work. Tiger, Ox, Dog, Rabbit and Snake. She needed to learn them by heart and then have her fingers know the follow up so well, that they could do it blindly. The tiger eats the ox and the dog eats the rabbit before the snake could swallow it. This might have been a little odd to say the least, but it was a good way of making herself a little reminder in which line she had to do the seals. Then now mumbling the line over and over she tried to do the hand seals while kind of competing if she could form the signs faster than she could say the sentence. But at first she kind of needed to concentrate too much on doing the seals accurately than having them be fast or even in the right place and order. But with time progressing she got better at doing it and more secure with the rhythm she had gotten while mumbling about. One more time she tried it without any chakra what so ever and indeed the seals made themselves like automatically, if her body knew perfectly what to do without her even thinking about it. This was the point from where she was to progress to try it out.

She got up from the ground where she had been sitting while training the seal and walked up into the middle of the training field. This was where she now stood and concentrated. Like she knew from Sakana, she would take a good posture that would stabilize her stance and keep her air ways open, because air was what she needed for the jutsu. So now while performing the seals again this time there was chakra going into the performance but not the real amount needed because she knew from earlier trainings, that jutsu like this would not work on the first try so until one had the right handle to the jutsu it was advisable not to just throw all Chakra at it and expect it to go all dandy. It could be the entire contrary, if you just powered up too much it could spiral out of control and one could get hurt. So just a little Chakra for now to see how the Jutsu would progress and then upping the amount until she could be sure she reached the strength of the real jutsu and she was able to control it. So now that she was using Chakra she could feel how air was filling her lounges and then she spit it out forming a miniature wall of wind that strength wise was not doing anything at all but still was quite good structured because with the power reduction she could control it so much better. She would try this several times over until she was sure this was not only by surprise done that well. After she had gotten a little bit accustomed to the Jutsu she decided to the try something else so that she would not be stuck on something and under the impression she was not getting better.  (623)

Next on her list was a Genjutsu since she recently met Orokana and could not say that she had learned something new, she was now going to learn a technique with the name Mist Servants. It was basically a Gen that created the image of many people who were attacking, if you slash them they would disappear spawning two more. Unfortunately they did not do damage but she could use them to cover for her movement while using her Kaguya dance and make it more difficult to block her attacks. So this was the one Jutsu that had sparked her interest while doing her research. The seals to this were quite easy Boar and Rat but while she was doing this it was hard to think of a sentence to say along to the training. But sometimes you did not need it, since they only were two seals and it was quite easy to memorize them at least enough to just do them blindly. After a while she was kind of fusing Boar and Rat to Boarrat which almost sounded like parrot which made her chuckle. But as said it was kind of easy to memorize the seals to this jutsu so this was why she was eager to try it out, but there was no one around really. Signing she almost gave up on trying it out, because most gens were only visible for the victim, but this one was visible to her as well because she needed to coordinate with it. Maybe she could even use this to train her dances taking them as fake enemies to work against. This was brilliant.
She jumped to her feet and she was bursting with excitement, this technique could indeed help her with training because it could generate fake enemies. So she formed the seals again and infused them with some Chakra and waited for something to happen. She waited but it did not work, because she was not good enough yet, or maybe she was missing an enemy to do it at? She looked into the surrounding trees couldn't there be an animal around or something? But no, there was never something or someone around when you desperately needed one so what was she to do? Then she paused, she had a victim, herself, but did that work? Well there was no harm in trying. So she formed the seals again and concentrated to work the jutsu on herself. And not perfect but at least somehow working there was there manifesting a fog like kind of person that was walking towards her and trying to slash her, but well she knew that it would not hit her so she punched it making it break into two pieces and now have two enemies. But as she hit it the second time the jutsu broke all together because she had not done the jutsu not as good as she could have been. But it was nice to have it especially if it was working like she thought it would. Slowly she tried that jutsu one or two times over to get a better grip on it and until she had managed it to at least get it to have five mist Servants before the jutsu broke apart. As she reached that goal she took a deep breath and leaned back against a tree. (561)

Out of her bag she took a sandwich and bit a bite off it. She drank some of her water and relaxed a little while taking in her Lunch after that she decided to try the first thing again, because it was the most difficult. The tiger eats the ox, the dog eats the bunny before the sake could. This really helped to remember all these seals pretty good and now a little more confident she was putting a little more Chakra into it and it was like her lounges were filled with air like in an explosion but just the other way around. Usually explosions burned the air making a vacuum, this time it was like air was rushed inside of her and filling her like she was a balloon inflated by someone else. It kind of hurt, as it was happening so fast that she could not really regulate it because she was not really prepared for it to have such a quick reaction. Her body kind of felt like bursting into bits as it filled with the air necessary to perform the jutsu. In the middle of it she kind of felt like a really stretched out balloon at its breaking point until she could release it into a wall of air that she was supposed to make with the jutsu that was still held up by her slightly shivering hands. But this time the barrage of air that was coming out of her mouth did not really meet its purpose since it was going literally everywhere and not really compressing into a wall like it was supposed to. This would require much more work she reckoned. So she tried it again, this time reducing the chakra volume she used again to a minimum which she could control a little better and for at least a wall like it was supposed to be. A second time she managed the wall to be a little bigger but still not big enough to match what the details in the scroll said about it. But wind was a quite instable and non consistent element to make it form a solid or almost solid wall was not its normal use at all so she could understand quite well, why it was so hard to perform this jutsu, but she had done so many other things before, so why should she stop trying now. So she was trying over and over again until she felt better doing it. At the end she could at least do a small wall at least her size that had close to the kind of substance that she wanted it to have, but she was quite out of breath and needed to recover a bit at least chakra wise because she had used a lot of it trying over and over again. (475/1098)

Time for some Taijutsu was what she thought to herself and warmed up her muscles again before stepping up to the centre. What she wanted was a pretty simple thing. The Inside to outside block, that was simply to describe as blocking a punch or kick towards you with either den palm of your hand or your fist. It had some various uses. While she was simply performing the movements of the hands over and over she was reciting in her head what was important to notice doing this way of blocking. By using the palm of her hand it was easy to have the next movement be accelerated because while just directing the attackers arm or leg into another direction you had to make your body slim, almost align itself to have as less attack space for the enemy as possible. This could be used to have your other first be driven by the turning of the hip into a front facing attack that was slightly faster than simple punching in which you never took the extra time to turn out your hip that much, because although it provided more speed for the next attack it also was time and energy consuming, but as a block it was okay to do it. Next possibility was to make the other one slower by pushing him out of balance. So instead of motion of the hip one could push the palm of the hand against the attacker and move out of the way destabilizing him with the small push one used to get away from him quickly an making his next action a little slower, because his bodies centre was out of balance.
How ever there was a third option that would not use and open Hand as block and not really an evasive move more like a evade through stepping in. Like if a fist got towards you, you would not step out of the way, you would close your first let it slide down your arm and there by opening your opponent to a hit from your which would gain you a little boost on your physicals, but this was a kind of ballsy approach since this could very easily be countered and used against the defender who turned himself into the attacker. Most of the times it was not really wise to just take offence as the best means to defend but it had always been a possibility provided. Sanae thought about it while she was doing the movements over so that her body could learn to remember them, what her father would prefer her to do? Sure he loved the direct approach, but he also always told her running blindly into a trap although one could be sure to survive it, was stupid. Taking risks was okay unless there was no other way and this was the same thing. Better a save block than the slight chance of a harder hit on the next punch. So in the end it all comes together posture, stance and movement, like a dance and she was feeling so very confident about it all. (532)

After training so long on the movements for the Inside to Outside block she came once again back to the ting she had worked on since she started to day. She was kind of getting annoyed by it but what good did it not to work on it? So again the Tiger at the ox while the dog ate the rabbit before the snake could do it. She was almost chanting it while she was then doing the signs again to create the wall of wind. It worked so much better she thought to herself, but how could she know, that it had a satisfying effect, meaning that it was strong enough to hit someone off his feet? Well there was only one thing to see if it worked. She took a bench form the sidelines turned it up so it was standing up and then stood up facing it. Now this was her enemy and she was to push him or her over. Was it a female or a male bench? Well it had a reddish colour so it was a female bench. Benchett or so to say, So she formed the seals again and breathed in. But Bencherella seemed a little to sturdy to be just thrown down by such a light breeze. Well the fight was on. Over and over she tried to really knock out the bench or at least knock it over. Slowly but evidently she got a little power behind what she was doing. She was focusing more in compressing the air into a hard shape that could hit the bench while pressed into the shape of the wall with also the power of one but it was again not that easy. Next time she thought to herself, she would try to shape earth. This was possible even without jutsu like when you were making sandcastles. But no use in complaining she seemed to be getting better little by little and that was worth something as well.
Atfer a while it felt like she had every piece of air already in her mouth or body. Like having used any part of air around her already and it started to taste kind of washed out. She was kind of rubbing her chest to easy the funny feeling inside from stretching it to her limits today. Shortly she sat down to eye the Bench in a little bit of fury. Like if they had a thing to settle between them. She was going to win this fight. Even if the bench indeed had not done a single thing to deserve this hate from her but right now this piece of sitting furniture represented her inability to perform the jutsu she was training so desperately. She got up again and on last time before she went on to do something else before she started to pull out her own hair or something. The seals war done in the blink of an eye and then air was filling her lounges and then with a big gust out of her mouth she spit out the wind forming a wall hitting against the bench and then and there it started shaking and then crashing down. As the bench hit the ground she was satisfied now she only needed to make sure the Jutsu was strong at every corner of its area. (561/1659)

Back to the other thing she had neglected the Genjutsu that was supposed to help her train her Taijutsu by giving her almost infinite enemies to hit on and with rising difficulty the more hits she would land. So what was it again the Boarrat indeed that fit. Boar and Rat and soon she was faced with some of the Mist servants that were walking towards her like creepy zombies and as she started to hit them they were indeed coming back. Two for one destroyed but it was hard keeping it up all the time if she was focused on other things but this was okay since on the battle field she could come in situations where she would need to concentrate on more than one thing and maybe even two jutsu at one time because especially if you knew Jutsu that did not require the use of seals it was especially inviting to use the fingers to do another one beside them. So as the Servants broke away and faded into mist he looked around and signed. This was eating her up how was she able to sustain this? But well she had been using chakra all day log in big and small amounts it was no shame that she was getting worn out by it. Well who would not? She had a huge session this time but this was not going to get her down. So after a short time recollecting she did the seals again and this time it was more vivid and faster, therefore she had to be faster punching left and right and left a kick there and the Jutsu was still holding up. Kind of freaky thinking to have herself trapped in a Genjutsu of her own. Orokana would sure be proud of her doings in confusing herself with it. After just a few punches and kicks the place seemed to be crawling with Mist Servants that were never growing tired, never yielding because they were only illusions and if she did not know she would consider it kind of scary as this ghostlike figures were swarming her more and more. She had given up the counting but she had reached the drastic time which she could not pass the times she had used it before. The control of it was getting harder and harder the more the place was swarming with people and she was shivering a little while it was tearing at her reserves. In a fight she could never let it get to this point. A Kaguya was strong and determined and so there was no way she could not push it further. More hits more Servants more of everything to go through her head in crazy spinning circles and she thought of what to do? Maybe one last try of the wind wall was to end it best. ( 479/1040)

So while she started dodging the Servants around her she was again forming the Seals for the Great Breakthrough because she wanted to really hit it out of the park with her last try of the Jutsu while she made her way to the one side of the field getting the seals with her fingers. Chakra was pulsing through her body and she was so full of excitement because she was not sure if this was going to work since she felt kind of worked up already for everything coming to an End somehow right now. She would have achieved everything she had planned for today. Her lounges where filling with air for the jutsu and she could here herself breathing in then it stopped she had reached her capacity she had also reached the end of the field still followed by the sweet and nice servants that were trying to catch up with her. Good the best time to test it. She let the Chakra loos like unclipping the leash of a dog and sending him off to run and get a stick you just threw. Air released from her, spread and formed a wall in front of her rushing over the field like a wall running all the Mist Servants over and making the disappear while the illusion tried to replace the one ones with new ones but soon it broke down because they were just too many. The wall had rushed over the field and smacked the illusion into pieces. So fast that Sanae was quite amazed as the training ground that to her had seemed crowded with illusionary people was almost feeling much too freely open to anyone. Then slowly here and there the Persons were popping up again but as the wind had reached its end the first Servents tried to come back making the place seem even more crowded but then it was her chakras end. She was empty there was not much more to go off and therefore the jutsu ended. She sank to her knees this was what the jutsu was supposed to be like, pretty amazing and literally breathtaking. She was shaking with exhaustion and slowly lying down. (367/2026)

Slowly she got up after breathing in deeply. Gently she brushed off the dirt of her pants and back. The slowly walking over to the bench she had placed on the field returning this to its place on the sidelines. She had not done any damage to it but maybe the paint had peeled off at some spaces more. Well maybe next time it would become a green one. Drinking her water and finishing the rest of her food she looked around. What a day. She grabbed her bag afterwards and then she started walking off slowly. In the background the sun was going down as well ending the day with a beautiful colour scheme in the sky. (118)

TWC: 4030

Exit Claim

Stats: 20
Jutsu:
532/500 Inside to Outside Block
1040/1000 Mist Servant
2026/2000 Great Breakthrough

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