Federico decides to move fast

Federico decided to learn a new technique, this one involving speeding up the user’s movement speed temporarily. It was called the body flicker technique. This increased the user’s movement speed in 1 direction equal to the user’s chakra. At least that was what was said in the book anyway. He saw that the move was a very popular technique when trying to travel a short distance quickly, although there was a small warning at the bottom of the page that stated that one cannot do anything else at this time, thus use with caution. Federico decided to keep that in mind, although he was not immediately sure how that could be a problem.

He looked to see if there were any necessary hand seals that he might need, and although it was not clear at first, he eventually figured out that the hand seal was the ram. He also had to check the front of the book to figure out what the ram hand seal was. After figuring that out, he had to figure out how to make this technique work. He looked at the little description, and saw that the primary way to do this was to shoot chakra out from behind him forward for a certain distance. Apparently, the maximum distance was something to do with speed, although he was not truly sure how much or what. Either way, he decided it would not be a big deal, first learn how to do the tech.

On his first attempt, he tried doing the ram hand seal, and blasting out chakra from behind himself, and managed to go flying, or what would normally have been considered flying for a normal person’s speed, and managed to crash into a wall. Well, that was a good start at least. He thought about it, and realized tha the needed to imagine how far he was going to go, him being there at the place he was going to be, and finally imagine himself going there. Tho he soon realized after another failed test that this was not the order in which he was supposed to do it. After an hour of failed attempts, he tried reordering it, namely, imagining himself going there, then imagining how far he was going, and finally imagining himself being there.

He soon realized this was wrong as well.

He decided to take a little bit of a break, and look for a place with fewer places to crash into. He decided to look for a clearing in which he could practice with no obstructions, else he probably hurt himself crashing into one of them. He looked for about half an hour, looking at his new little map of the tornado country, and found that there was a little clearing close to shaddow country. At least it looked like a clearing, it wasn’t labeled as any sort of forest, or mountain, or city or anything.

He went over, and decided to continue his little practice, zipping around, when he soon realized that he need to think in the right order, in this case, finally realizing that he had to imagine the distance he was going, then going there, and then finally himself being there.

There were a few animals, around, most of which were elephants who were minding their own business, when Federico had the idea to see how far he could go with this enhanced speed. He stood from one end of the clearing, and decided to try to get as far as he can, perhaps to the other side. He soon realized what the warning at the bottom of the page was about.

As he sped along, he thought only about moving as fast as he could, albeit, not particularly fast for any trained ninja, but still fast for Federico’s standards. As he got to about the middle of his range, he soon saw an elephant walking into his path. He tried to stop, but since he was moving so fast, he could not, and crashed face first into the elephant.

The next moment, he was running as fast as he could away from the elephant as it was clearly enraged at being crashed into. Eventually, he got away after getting plenty of necessary practice running away from an angry elephant, and eventually made his way back into the clearing, now that the elephant had gave up chasing Federico. He proceeded to walk back to the clearing again, and continued his little practice, of speeding around and imagining where he was going, when he realized, that he was only able to go in a straight line. After a bunch of other attempts, and checking the jutsu encyclopedia at the library, he realized it was impossible to try to learn it in a way in which he doesn’t go straight forwards unfortunately.

Never the less, eventually, he practiced enough to go full speed quickly, and estimate the distance so that he would not crash into whatever objects, whether that would be trees, or elephants or walls, or other people.

He would go to the forest, and continue this practice, occasionally crashing into tress, but generally knowing what he was doing. He soon realized however after seeing a person run faster than him even when he would use the body flicker technique, that he was not very fast, and that his boost was not that good. He made a mental note to try to improve his personal fitness, so that he could be able to use this technique more effectively. For the moment, he would barely be able to move over 20 speed, and in trained ninja terms, that is actually quite slow.

After all that training, he eventually went back to his apartment, and unlike all the other times, he actually went back in a relatively safe manner, without any interruptions. When he got home, he sat down, and decided to get rest.

(exit, 1000 words, claiming 5 stats, and body flicker)

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