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Tanbogakure was vastly different from the lifestyle he’d led as a child, Kazuyuki was finding. He was used to a very rigid and inflexible schedule, and had expected much more structure than his days currently had. He didn’t even have a team or sensei at the moment, and while he had continued at least some of his home training schedule, he didn’t really have many obligations beyond the standard missions most genin were saddled with.

His pranks were fun, but they weren’t always the best training, and he was far behind his cousin in terms of strength. If he ever wanted to be on equal footing with the other, he had to endure he unlocked their clan’s Mokuton, which he knew would require considerable training. With the village as rich as it was for such a new one, their training facilities were top notch, perfect to work on his clan’s abilities. His father and cousin hadn’t really explained the whole concept behind Mokuton to him, but he figured it couldn’t be terribly hard to figure out for him if he actually put some effort in.

Even with his lack of knowledge on all the steps, he did know one thing: Mokuton was a byproduct of Doton and Suiton. Doton was his primary, natural chakra nature, he already knew to manipulate it. However, water was something he hadn’t learned to manipulate yet. Before even thinking of learning his clan’s element, he needed to learn Suiton. Today, he was going to take that first step. Having retrieved a bowl of water, he was ready to work on manipulating it, ready to work with his chakra until he could potentially use it in actual jutsu. Only when his skill with the element was combat worthy would he dare work on wood.

Sitting before the bowl of water in the middle of the training grounds, the young man closed his eyes and just barely brushed the surface of the water with his fingertips. His first step would be moving the water, and then he would see about learning it more proficiently. Gathering his chakra to his hands, the young man attempted to make the water stick to him. His approach was the opposite of the water walking technique, rather than attempting to stand on the water himself, he wanted it to stick to him.

Nothing seemed to be happening at first, though. Was he doing something wrong? Frowning, the young Senju opened his eyes as he continued his attempts, determined to figure out the art of manipulating this element.

WC: 425

Waking up in Tanbogakure Yashamaru yawned as he opened his eyes and rolled himself over to the side of the bed before sitting up and yawned again, he didn't really like the act of waking up but like everyone else he has to. He has to train and get himself stronger for the future were if there was ever action and everyone else was taking part he himself wouldn't look out of place joining in and becoming apart of the moblike characteristics of the other people in the World. Getting out of bed and getting dressed Yashamaru went to get breakfast and then once he was finished light up a smoke before he left the house, having got everything he needed to for a trek outside Yashamaru started to leave his house and make his way out into the town, he past a lot of farmers and other shinobi and the market place as he was on his way to the Advanced Training Facility were he would slowly start to try and get the grasp on another element that he needed for his Clans bloodline abilities but who knows how long that would take him to get done and completed.

As he was entering the Facility he saw a few other people around the areas training and others just talking together but he made his way into one of the areas he noticed a flashy dressed man in what looked like a Kimono in the middle of the training grounds sitting down doing something, from what he could tell it looked like he had a bowl of something in front of him and was concentrating on it. But Yashamaru didn't want to interfere and bring attention to himself so he walked to another part of the training grounds and sat himself down and lit up another smoke as he started to watch the wind of the smoke move around first going straight up past the point it was lit into the air. As a small bit of wind went past him he watched as the smoke started to slowly pull to the left or right then go back to the middle as the current died down, using that as an idea he closed his eyes and started to focus his chakra getting himself calm and collected his thoughts as he let the flow of the chakra and the current of the wind brush past him.

This didn't really make any difference in what he had thought about the whole concept of the other element he wanted to learn and how he was going to go about learning it, he sighed a little bit and then opened his eyes and started to look around the training grounds at the other people training and slowly started to finish his smoke.

WC: 468

Kazuyuki watched as a man entered the training grounds, seeming to ignore everyone else and move into his own space for some training. Wrinkling his nose at the smoke the other man had, he returned to his bowl of water, still attempting to get the water to stick and cling to him. If he could manipulate water enough for that, then he could move on to bigger manipulations. However, he just couldn’t seem to get it. Earth was solid, strong, unmoving. Water was a much more fluid substance… wait, that was it!

Nearly smacking himself on the forehead, the young man did end up groaning aloud in frustration. Of course water was fluid, what was he doing being so rigid for? He knew this wasn’t earth, so he really shouldn’t have been trying to treat water like it. Just barely skimming the surface of the water with his fingertips, the young man adjusted his chakra flow to be less steady, more adaptable, as he willed the water to cling the way he intended. This time, it did cling to his fingers, the water the he was touching with the tips gathering in small droplets. The real test, though, would be moving his hand from the surface of the water and seeing if the droplets still stuck. Hesitating for only a second, he slowly moved his hand, only to watch the droplets lose that stickiness and splash back into the bowl.

His elated expression at getting the initial cling right soured nearly instantly, though it was quickly schooled back into his more neutral expression. He would not get overly frustrated in public. That was what closed doors were for.

Pushing his bangs back out of his face with one hand, he returned his other to the bowl. He was determined to get this right today, so he could work on using Mokuton. He was smart, and he wasn’t the freshest genin here, he could do this! He’d learn this quickly. He just had to have a little more patience with himself.

WC: 340
TWC: 765

Yashamaru watched the other other Person in the middle of the training grounds look like he was getting frustrated with himself, from what he could see now it looked like the bowl was filled with water and the man was trying to move it? with his hands. He watched him a bit more and wondered if he himself was trying to learn a new element as well, from the looks of it if he was it would have to be Water that's for sure due to the bowl of water and the man trying to move it with his fingers. It was interesting watching others to see what they were up to and also gave ideas on how he could better train in other ways as well, to him the training of water with the moving of the water with his fingertips would definitely help with the image training and getting a better understanding of what he needed. For Yashamaru however his was like water but it was a more open ended source that being all around him and everyone else at all times flowing and billowing and blowing around for everyone to feel, either it was by a slight gust or a strong breeze that would be enough to move your hair or clothing. Or hell even strong enough to push at your body to move you away from where you had been standing when it started moving, this made it slightly harder for him to get down pat due to the multiple different ways it could be seen from and then trained and concentrated from.

Yashamaru had finished his smoke and was once again starting to close his eyes and concentrate his chakra in his body but this time on his fingers and in his ears as he wanted to be able to feel the slightest movements and hear the slightest sounds as the wind would slowly start to breeze by before turning into a gust of wind then slowing down and disappearing again, Having the thoughts of it in his head he slowly started to try and catch the wind as it slowly began to brush past him to see if he could shift its direction from going past him to maybe slowly spin in front of him or even to slowly move against the grain being pushed back the way it came. This didn't really work out the first few times he tried it but after a small while he thought he was getting the hang of it and was slowly pushing the air in front of him or making it move in a circle in front of him but he wasn't sure if he was doing that or if the wind has shifted directions, taking a deep breath opening his eyes releasing the breath and looking up at the roof of the training grounds he started to look around at the other members inside the facility to see if any of them had made any new progress.

WC: 502
TWC:970

Kazuyuki let his fingers dance on the surface of the water, doing his best to match his chakra flow to it and manipulate the water into clinging to his hand. The cling came a little faster this time, droplets slowly forming on his fingers and not just staying in the water. It was difficult to keep them up, though, the young man having to constantly adjust his chakra flow to match the shifting of the water in front of him. Once more, he lifted his hand, the droplets sticking for a few seconds only to splash into the bowl as before.

So he went again. Long fingers skimmed the surface of the water, not quite in the water, but hardly staying dry as he made his attempts. Once again, he worked on getting the water to stay where it was on his fingers, determined to be able to move the liquid with a simple touch. The droplets formed faster this time, but they still weren’t quite fast enough, nor were they sticking for long, he noted as he raised his hand. Water was a tricky element to learn, especially for someone like him who was so used to the solid and unyielding feeling of manipulating earth. It was almost like unlearning everything he’d learned on elemental manipulation.

Kazuyuki knew this was going to take a while, even as he made multiple attempts to get the water to stick for more than a few seconds. The work put into doing it, though, could only help. Putting work into one’s training was the only way to really ensure that the lessons stuck. This lesson on learning a new element would be one he’d never forget. He needed to remember that not all training would be the same. If he wanted to be a good, well-rounded shinobi, he’d need to have a degree of flexibility and adaptability to both his learning style and his personality as a whole. Being too rigid about things would only make everything harder in the long run.

WC: 339
TWC: 1,104

Yashamaru was watching the finely dressed man in the middle of the grounds continue playing or well practicing with the water in the bowl getting a little bit of the water droplets to stick for a few seconds then drop off again and just keep on doing that again and again getting it stuck in his brain to become muscle memory, watching that made Yashamaru go back to his training to continue trying to control the wind with his movements. Before Yashamaru continued he lit up a new smoke took a few puffs then slowly exhaled them as he looked at the smoke slowly billow out of his mouth and into the air above him and in front of him, he started to control his chakra in his mouth this time as he slowly started to breath out with a new puff of smoke and tried to will and force the wind to move the smoke into a small tornado in front of him but it only vibrated if anything. Closing his eyes he focused on the feeling of the chakra in his mouth and the feeling of the smoke being pulled into him from the cigarette and form in his mouth as smoke then slowly be pushed out and into the air, this feeling was a feeling he would have to get used to adding chakra to exactly that because most of his future techniques would be focusing on exactly what he just did but without the assistance of an outside help mainly the cigarette.

Yashamaru had been training for awhile and wanted to stretch his body so he stood up and started to stretch his back and legs before he walked around the training grounds to get his blood flowing and to give his head some time to think of a new idea of how he would go by to continue, as he was walking around he was slowly taking looks at the other people training to see if anything was going to be useful but it it mainly people just silently training themselves or a few people sparing in the distance or training Taijutsu so just your basic assortment of  people doing what you would expect in the facility. Having done half a loop Yashamaru walked into the main area that led to other rooms and changing rooms, he entered the changing rooms and went to the toilet then washed his hands and slowly walked to the area where he could get a quick snack to give his brain some energy so he wouldn't go stir crazy with nothing but training and no nourishment for the brain to keep the ideas flowing. Coming back towards the training grounds after having something to eat Yashamaru lit up a new smoke and started to go back towards his area he was in before with the finely dressed man in the middle of the grounds and start his training over again but this time with renewed vigor and a fresh mind. Coming back and sitting down he looked around once more and yea everyone was still there doing their own thing training their own subject of training, Yashamaru went and closed his eyes focusing his chakra all over his body and feeling the wind again and when the wind slowly hit him he tried sending the wind back the way it came as if to stop the winds direction as to hold it in the palm of his hand.

As Yashamaru did this the feeling of the wind just sticking to his hand was very very slight as if the size of a pea but he could feel it at least so he was going to use that as his next training idea.

WC: 623
TWC: 1593

Yashamaru concentrated his chakra into his hand as he felt the wind flow around him he managed to get a bit more then a pea size to start rotating in his hand and around it but not enough to count as anything significant,  having the wind slowly flow around his hand and get faster and faster as it started off really small and only get to the size bigger then a pea annoyed Yashamaru a little bit but he could live with it because it was progress and progress was good. Yashamaru was getting better and better at the controlling of the wind and now he started to throw his smoke from his cigarette into it to get the feeling of controlling that as well because he was going to be doing that a lot soon once he got his control on the wind element, by this time he was starting to feel exhausted so he got himself and started to leave the building to make his way back home to have himself a nap to reenergize himself. As he left the building he started to make his way home and he past by the market place and the stalls at this time were packed with people so he slowly dodged and weaved himself past them on his way to his house, As soon as he got into his house he took his shoes off and jacket and made his way to his bed and pasted out for Awhile.

While he was asleep he started to dream about having the Wind element training still go on with him doing amazing, this was rather interesting to him as how slowly he was improving when he was awake and actually training but he took everything he was doing in his dream into context and hoped it would assist him when he woke up in a few hours. As he woke up he tried to remember everything that was in the dream he had and only parts of it stuck in his mind, he shook his head as he put his jacket back on and then walked to the door of the house to put his shoes on then leave. As he left the house he made his way past the market place and stopped in at one of the stalls to get himself something to eat and drink, as he sat down he started to eat and drink his food and water then once he was finished he pulled out a Cigarette and started to light it up and smoke it. As the smoke hit his lungs and he breathed out he felt his mind start to clear a bit and he stood up and started to make his way towards the training grounds were he had been training. As he entered the building he started to walk back into the room he was in earlier in the day but this time he didn't pay attention to who was in the area but made his way to the section he had claimed for himself before and then he started to sit down and get himself ready to train once again, As he sat down and started to concentrate his chakra into his body and around his hands he felt the wind pick up and he started to use that wind as it hit him, he tried to catch it in his hand and suspend it in a spiral as if it was a small tornado in his hand. It was starting to form in his hand like he remembered in his dream but then it dissipated, with it flowing away from him he waiting for the wind to pick up again to try once more.

The wind started to pick up again and he concentrated again and started the spiral tornado again and this time it stuck for awhile longer but not long enough for him to do anything with it first, as he let it flow away from him he started to take deep breaths and calm his nerves as he did so because getting worked up wouldn't help him train properly. Once he had calmed himself he again waited for the wind to hit him and tried catching this time successfully catching it in his hand and started spinning it into the spiral tornado he had slowly growing, it grew bigger and bigger until it was almost forearm length before he tried to throw it on the ground and see if it would keep itself together. As he tried that it stuck together for a tiny amount then dissipated into nothing again, sighing he tried again with the same result but hey at least this was greater progress then before. With the progress coming faster this time Yashamaru stopped for a break and lit himself another cigarette, as he slowly smoked it blowing out the smoke he continued to watch it billow up out of his mouth and into the air then disappearing in the wind as if it was nothing. Yashamaru laid back on the ground and looked up at the roof of the training grounds and didn't look anywhere else as he started to let the smoke out of his mouth as he thought about what comes next in this training he was doing, to him this training was important and something he need complete as fast as possible but he also knew that if he rushed nothing good would come from it, he closed his eyes and continued to exhale the smoke and also concentrate his chakra while doing so to see what he would feel now he had a slightly better understanding then what he did before in his training.

Yashamaru could feel as if the smoke was trying to tug away from him faster then the wind that was flowing at him was as if the smoke and the wind were two different components in the air at the same time, to him that was kind of obvious as smoke contained different things then that of normal wind and air so he started to try and focus on those separate components. As he started to do this he noticed the wind was starting to move faster then that of the smoke as if it was wanting to follow him compared to the smoke that just wanted to disappear into nothingness, now that he had thought about it the wind itself was one thing and everything else was another thing and he had been trying to move everything at once instead of just the one part of it. Yashamaru opened his eyes concentrated his chakra into his hands and let the wind flow over him as he pushed his hand away from him and started to move his hand in a clockwise fashion concentrating and concentrating some more as he did so, with this he started to feel the wind form into a small spiral of air then slightly bigger and bigger until he had something he could actually call a mini tornado and he didn't stop at that as he kept it going trying to get it bigger and bigger until he couldn't control it anymore then he quickly threw his hands in front of himself and started to shake them as if to shoo away the air and wind that he had formed with his chakra, the wind disappeared slowly but he had surely enough created himself a tornado out of wind. He started to smile slightly as he then started to try it again and again making more and more tornados to make sure what had happened was not a fluke and actually did indeed happen in front of his eyes, with him now having successfully created a tornado and been able to control the wind chakra that had now started to flow into his body he tried with the smoke that he was breathing out of his mouth. He could move the smoke but all it did was dissipate from the wind he moved, so for that part of his experiment was a bust but he knew once he trained more and more with the wind that smoke release of his clan would come in time and he would be able to continue his clans legacy of being able to control smoke.

Now with Yashamaru done his training and pretty much learning the fundamentals of the wind element he was ready to leave this training facility and move on to trying it out in the real world maybe even learning to add speed to the chakra and element combo to get it to work in either attack or defensive situations for him, he took himself out of the facility and out into the street and could feel the wind and the sensations of how he could control it and mold it into something he could use as he was walking towards the market place to make his way home. As he was walking through the market place he stopped at a few stalls and got himself dinner before he started walking home, he had a big smile on his face as he entered his house taking his shoes off and his jacket before sitting down to eat his dinner then shower and finally go to bed for the day.

WC: 1557
TWC: 3150

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Claiming TWC and Learning of Wind Element 3000/3000 Due to 25% off from Advanced Training Facility Village Upgrade.
150 to Shadow Clone 283/1500 > 433/1500

Stats: 31 stats

10 chakra 90 >100
21 Speed 10 > 31
Total of 241 stats [+25 BL]

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Claiming 1,104 words towards learning Water Release.
Claiming 11 points to chakra.

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Claiming 1,104 words towards learning Water Release.
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