On the road to Genin !

Ryunata had snuck the dojo field of the village, she did not want to interrupt the actual shinobi so she picked a quiet secluded place off on the sides with just forest. There were trees with broken bark littering the grounds, some with knife marks from her previous attempts at throwing shuriken and kunai.
The air was cold, and each breath invigorated her. Eagerly, she started running laps, increasing speed whenever she passed her favorite white oak tree. The sun was rising and shone into her eyes, but it was fine; she could run this track blindfolded.

She wondered how long she could keep training without anyone knowing she had snuck off again. Ryunata would love to include her family in this, but her mother was just a bit too overbearing when it came to her safety. Being a shinobi was not safe, but she didn't want to be safe; she wanted to be known and admired.

As she finished her warmup, Ryunata climbed the white oak tree and in a crevice took a small book bearing the family crest. It was filled with her family's taijutsu style, White Fang. She tried her best to emulate the old drawn pictures. She thought of her little brother Daichi and how happy they would both be when they could finally train together. If they got lucky, their progress might entice their father to help them out as well.
“Today is the day,” she murmured to herself, tightening the wraps around her hands. “Today, I will give it my all! Chores be damned.”
With a determined mind, she launched into a series of kicks and punches, each movement brimming with her will to get better. She imagined becoming a renowned kunoichi and the thought brought a smile to her face and renewed energy to her body.

She heard someone approaching. "Damnit, caught already," she thought. Out from the bushes stepped Emi, carrying a small basket of food.
“Dad thought you might need a snack,” Emi said shyly, holding out the basket.
Ryunata smiled warmly, taking the basket. “Thanks, Emi. Tell Dad I appreciate it.”
Emi nodded and scampered off, leaving Ryunata to her training. She set the basket aside as she was not that hungry yet and took a deep breath. It was time to focus on speed. She started with basic agility drills, using the broken logs around the training site. She jumped on them and tried to swiftly jump to the other ones focusing on speed and balance trying to maintain a swift and steady rhythm.

Next, she set up a series of sticks about 20 meters apart for shuttle runs. Ryunata sprinted back and forth between them, pushing herself to run faster with each lap. Her lungs were burning and muscles aching, but she refused to give in. The thought of becoming stronger and faster kept her going, despite the fact she thought of quitting.

Heaving from exhaustion she decided to snack a bit, she sat down and opened the basket grabbing an apple. Thinking on what to do next, a plan was forming as she leaped back into action. Grabbing a sturdy log she performed a series of box jumps onto it, aiming to reach higher with each jump. She focused on landing softly and using her legs to absorb the impact, which would help improve her explosive power.

Taking a moment to catch her breath she surveyed her surroundings to see what she could do next. She decided to train her depth jumps next, climbing atop the old white oak she picked a spot to jump down from, her first attempt was kind of timid. After all this tree was a good few meters tall. As she grew more confident her leaps started improving in length and height. She tried a few different ways of landing, rolling, jumping and landing purely on her legs.
Next up was a thing called carioca drill she would run while sidestepping with a crossover motion, moving quickly right and left. She stumbled quite a few times as she increased her speed falling over her own feet. But she was not the type to back down because of a little stumble and rose every time to her feet. After a while she started to get the coordination down, continuing until she felt satisfied with the volume of her practice.

She then continued to do standing long jumps and as she was in the air raise her knees as far up as she could. It took a while for her to get the hang of it but she did. Every jump landed just a bit higher and her knees were raised to her chest each time, today was turning out to be a great day for training.
Taking a moment to craft a sturdy ladder she hung it from a sturdy branch nearby. Trying various patterns of feet placement to ascend quickly and jump off the top to train her landing some more, with every successful exercise she fell her coordination and foot speed increases. Intoxicated with the feeling of improvement she pushed harder and harder until the ladder finally snapped and she landed awkwardly on her gluteus maximus.
"Enough of that" Ryunata chuckled to herself.

Picking herself up she want back to the basket Emi brought her and finished off the rest of her food. Now she would try a form of running again, she started to do her laps and tried to slowly shift into a series of exaggerated running steps, leaping forward with each stride. trying to keep this up to increase the power to her legs. She could feel the blood pumping and with each bound she was hellbent to improve on the last.

She finished off by practicing high knees, standing still in place and raising each leg as far up as she could in an alternating lock step. Her legs started to cramp because this day was filled with heavy leg exercises, she would feel this in the morning, believe it ! Ryunata started cleaning up her training grounds, resetting the logs, cleaning up her broken agility ladder and as she was winding down the ache of her training started to catch up with her.
Happy and exhausted she went back home to finish her chores and get ready for the next day, maybe not train legs this time but focus on her Jutsu`s.

Bunshin No Jutsu
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Ryunata felt the sun shining on her face and as she gained consciousness she immediately cursed "Damn it I overslept" hurriedly she gather her things and got dressed, rushing out the door and grabbing a few apples she rushed to her little training ground. When she arrived she dropped her stuff to the floor and grabbed her notes on the Clone Technique.

"Right it was the Ram sign." She mumbled to herself, hurriedly forming the seal and activating her chakra. 1 and a half clone appeared and their faces were devoid of features. "Calm down." She told herself, "This is no flurry of kicks, it is a precise uppercut. Steadying herself she once again made the Ram sign, inspecting it closely to see if she had formed it correctly.

Facing forward she assumed a shoulder width stance while firmly holding the seal. A deep breath in and a slow one out while gathering her chakra as best as she could. She visualised herself being surrounded by five copies of herself.

"Bunshin no jutsu!" she said calm but loudly.

In a puff of white smoke she was now surrounded by 5 exact copies of herself, proudly she looked around herself pleased with her accomplishment. Now to get it every time, for the next few hours she kept dispelling and performing the jutsu again and practiced by running and jumping while summoning clones.

After taking a short break she tried doing the clone technique in every circumstance she could think of to be fully prepared when it was requested on the genin exam.

Henge no jutsu
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From her previous practice Ryunata went straight home for some much needed sustenance. After a large meal she proceeded to the barn where she had prepared a big mirror and some random items she found during the week.
She grabbed her school notebook and started reviewing the technique they had learned about in the past few weeks.

"Okay so we have to form the Dog seal and proceed to concentrate chakra while clearly picturing us as the item or person we want to become."

Sounded simple enough, she formed the handseal, pictured the table plant in front of her and shouted "HENGE" in a puff of smoke she transformed into the table plant but her leaves were yellow instead of green. Not easily deterred she tried several times to get the colour just right.

Up next was a wall painting of her grandfather that she found while digging through closets. This had alot more colour variation and detail so she focused up. Carefully making the Dog seal and summoning her chakra, only when she had it clear in her mind did she yell "Henge" and transformed in a perfect duplicate of the painting. Pleased she undid the transformation and proceeded to transform herself in the various pictures she brought along and for giggles into her notebook as well!

Now it was on to the tricky stuff, people. She stood in front of the mirror and pictured her dad, forming the seal and focusing her chakra she yelled out 'Henge!" And to her surprise nailed the transformation on the first try !

Stat Training
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Ryunata Hatake woke up from yesterdays jutsu training in an extremely good mood, determined to train her body for the genin exam. She had convinced her parents to let her train for a few days in the dojo field. The forest clearing, littered by the signs of her previous training session, was a perfect setting for a few intense workouts. Today, she focused on building strength, an absolute necessity for her style of fighting. As she got closer to the training ground with her tent and snacks she got so excited she started running full blast.

''LETS GO'' She screamed at the top of her lungs throwing her tent and bags to the side.
She started with an all-round warm-up to prepare her muscles for what was to come. She began slowly with a set of arm circles, gradually increasing width of the circular motion to loosen her shoulders, "Keep the pace nice and steady, if i do this right then ill reap the benefits tomorrow" Ryunata kept telling herself. She followed this with leg swings, going front to back and then side to side, making sure her legs were ready for the grueling day ahead. Finally as the last part of the warmup, she performed a few sets of lunges while carrying a log, feeling her muscles stretch and warm up.

Ryunata lowered herself to the ground and assumed a position for push-ups. Performing a set of 20 push-ups, then holding a plank position for three minutes and then start pushups again. As she pushed herself up and down, she focused on maintaining a good form, breathing steadily with each exercise. She kept repeating "Just one more." to push her body past its limits. Her body was aching but in a good way.

Next, Ryunata went to a sturdy branch she had selected for pull-ups. She grasped the branch with a firm grip and pulled herself up until she could see clear over the branch, then she lowered herself back down slowly to really make her muscles work. Each pullup strained her more and more but she kept going. She completed as many pull-ups as she could, continuing until she could not move a single centimeter.

Squats was next on the agenda. Standing with her feet spread to about shoulder width, she lowered herself into a squatting position, keeping her back straight and her knees aligned with her toes. She pushed through her heels to return to a standing position. These exercises helped to build explosive power but man were they a drag, she was feeling the burn in her muscles with each squat but soldiered on regardless.
She surveyed the area for a log that would help her with deadlifting, Ryunata found the perfect log to lift not far from where she was. She stood with her feet a shoulder width apart, bent at her hips and knees, and grasped the log with both hands. She then straightened her hips and knees to lift the log, keeping her back straight throughout the movement. Ignoring the burning sensation once again she pushed on deadlifting until her legs were so weak that when she tried to lift the log she would involuntarily sit down.


"Time for some arm and shoulder training" She said to herself. Using a large rock as her weight, Ryunata practiced lifting it above her head. First she lifted the rock to her chest, then pressed it above her head until her arms were fully extended. She then lowered the rock back to her chest slowly and in control. This exercise would train her arms and shoulders to become stronger, she continued until she felt that holding the rock was no longer an option.
Ryunata then decided to train her legs some more and so moved on to lunges, an excellent exercise for building leg strength and stability. She stepped forward with one leg, lowering her body until her back knee was almost touching the ground and then she pushed back up to a standing position and repeated the movement with the other leg. She kept up a good pace lunging about the dojo fields.

This next exercise is something she made up from watching her father work and would help to build overall strength and endurance. She picked up two heavy rocks, one in each hand, and walked across the clearing, emulating something her father did every day namely hauling heavy things around. The exercise required her to maintain a strong grip and engage her entire body to stay balanced. She walked for a minute before resting and repeated the exercise a few times.

After completing her strength training day, Ryunata took time to cool down a bit. She walked around the clearing, gradually letting her body return to normal. Then she performed a series of stretches, focusing on the muscles she had worked. Stretching her arms, legs, back, and shoulders, holding each stretch until the ache disappeared.

As she stretched, Ryunata thought about all she did today while training. Each exercise had pushed her limits, even though she was exhausted to an previously unknown level. She knew that training herself was a gradual process one that wouldn't be done after a camping trip, and each session brought her closer to her goal of becoming a formidable kunoichi. She thought about all the people that would admire and love her and how her parents would finally know how amazing their distant relatives and they themselves were.


WC count 2518
WC 3007 total

For Stats i would like

+15 Strength
+10 Speed

For Jutsu i would like

375 WC E-rank Genjutsu Release  250 WC and 250 WC Mastery

375 WC D-rank  Storage utility

375 WC D-rank  Body Flicker Technique

375 WC D-rank Leaf Gale

375 WC D-rank Leaf Whirlwind

262.5 WC E-rank Basic Medical Ninjutsu


Total amount using discount 25%
375*5 + 262.5 = 2512.5



Genin exam, here i come !

Ryunata Hatake wrote:

WC count 2518
WC 3007 total

For Stats i would like

+15 Strength
+10 Speed

For Jutsu i would like

375 WC E-rank Genjutsu Release  250 WC and 250 WC Mastery

375 WC D-rank  Storage utility

375 WC D-rank  Body Flicker Technique

375 WC D-rank Leaf Gale

375 WC D-rank Leaf Whirlwind

262.5 WC E-rank Basic Medical Ninjutsu


Total amount using discount 25%
375*5 + 262.5 = 2512.5



Genin exam, here i come !

Approved! Also approving exit from thread.