Working towards self preservation.

Sat Jun 01, 2024 4:35 pm

He had just been promoted to Genin, but Hiroma wanted more. Sure he had been working toward it for years but it did not feel like something he should celebrate. After all, he was objectively below average, D-Rank, to him, did not even sound like something he would want to be for long, but that's just fine with him, he could use it as motivation. His goal was to eventually become strong enough for the world he envisions to become a reality, whatever it takes. Right now, that is keeping himself alive, which is why he is at the training grounds today. If took careful consideration he concluded that medical jutsu was something he would have to invest his time with. It took him even more consideration for him to determine whether he would start with working to learn how to heal others, or himself. Naturally, he chose himself.

Before one can learn to repair, one must know the makeup. He had been reading anatomy books but unless he received some practical experience with how the body was supposed to be, he wasn't going to get anywhere. He placed his hands together and performed the Ram hand seal, summoning a close of himself. It looked just like him but he couldn't touch it. After actually seeing it in front of him it was pretty creepy actually. He then dispelled it, realizing he learned absolutely nothing of his own anatomy and he would need to be in a more compromising position.

Hiroma was a very childish boy, in many ways. But in this particular situation, being childish manifested as pure unadulterated stubbornness. He simply could not allow himself to ask someone else for help in either sparring or even teaching him the ways of healing. Instead, he decided to work his body to its limits, skipping meals, working out constantly, and hitting himself on walls, trees, or any hard surface he could imagine himself hitting. Anything to get himself sufficiently beat up was implemented, though this montage left him more fatigued than hurt, not what he intended but it should be good enough to test it practically. Bird-Boar-Dog. He performed the hand seals multiple times but he couldn't really get down the feeling he was imagining.

He felt maybe his chakra control was off, as that was his biggest hurdle even when he was an academy student. His body would sting slightly, feel like it's vibrating before eventually it would fail. Even when he managed to produce a bit of healing chakra after looking at it he would get mildly excited, losing control over it and forcing him to try over and over again just to replicate it. But then he remembered that this was exactly the problem he had when he was attempting to learn the clone technique but reverse. He kept trying to project an image of himself onto the world through chakra transfer when he had to spawn it instead. For medical jutsu, he keeps attempting to create the chakra and then apply it over his flesh.

He performed the hand seals one more time, but this time he moved his chakra in such a way that it would be moving through and around his body and come outwards, almost like flushing out a bad taste by drinking plenty of water. In this scenario, pain and damage were the bad taste and the healing chakra was the water. understanding anatomy is only important for navigating it around the body but he could feel it as it traveled through him, simple contact would be enough to trigger the regeneration factor.

[WC- 601]