Speed Training

All this time he had been trying to get stronger and grow more powerful, he had failed to defend his home village from assault due to that lack of power and now he was the Raikage and needed to be able to defend the village from anything and be a top tier shinobi in all categories. Something had to be done, he had to start training his speed more, make his training sessions more intense and focused on getting faster. Now that his Kekkei Genkai was activated he needed to make use of it and become a better shinobi, not just for his sake as being Kage but simply for the sake of protecting Kumogakure. He stood at the top of a hill, somewhere outside of the Kumogakure village near the border of Kaminari no Kuni. One of the things that had been holding him back was his speed, he wasn’t the fastest of shinobi and he wanted to at least be able to keep up with some of the faster shinobi, at the ones around his age group. This was the perfect place to do that, out in the open with a large hill to help him train his leg muscles.

He quickly started running down the hill, going even faster due to the momentum of traveling at a downward pace from the top of the hill all the way to the bottom of the large hill. His feet hit the ground hard with each step, crushing the small blades of grass that covered the hill. It was somewhat difficult to stay balanced on the hill, but using chakra in his feet he was able to strike the ground with each step and not go tumbling down to the bottom and landing on his face. Before he knew it he was at the bottom of the hill, and continued traveling. He put emphasis on each step he took, nearly stomping his feet on the ground as a way to make his legs have to do more, his muscles constricting more than usual and having to exert more energy than they normal would be required to do for such a simple task as running. It may have slowed him down some to stomp his feet down as he ran, but it was going to pay off. He slowly but surely got more adjusted to the harder steps.

Turning back around he pivoted on his left foot to face the hill he had come back down from. Now he’d test himself out to see how much easier and faster it would be to run like normal. Dashing quickly for the hill, he didn’t stomp his feet into ground; more so, he simply made quick light steps off the ground to make himself dart across the ground faster than before. He pumped his arms up and down from his side up to his chest, sprinting as fast as he could possibly get his leg muscles to allow him. As he reached the base of the large hill, he realized why he had picked the hill. With its steep incline and large size, the strain it would put on his muscles to run up the side of it would be intense. This was definitely going to help him develop a larger amount of speed to use. At first he slowed down rather abruptly, albeit it was not by his choice though, it was definitely much more difficult to dart up the hill rather than simply run down it. The incline had forced him to strain himself just move at a fast walking type of pace. He could barely muster the type of muscle power that would be required to run up such a steep and long type of incline.

As he strained his way to the top of the hill, he inhaled and exhaled deeply, it wasn’t as easy as it would appear to be. It wouldn’t have been a challenge for the faster and more agile shinobi of his village, and of all the villages. If he wanted to be among those that were elite and truly prove he deserved to hold the title of Raikage, he’d have to get the hang of it and run, not only faster, but with much more ease and less strain on his body. He knew that if he used his Kekkei Genkai that it would increase his speed and make his muscles work more effectively and that if he combined that with his Raiton no Yoroi, his speed would in fact be not among the elite shinobi of the world, but probably in the top tier. His base speed was a different matter and it needed to be in the elite category so that when he did use his enhancements, he’d be nearly the fastest shinobi in the world. Those enhancements could in fact help him train his muscles, as the lightning chakra effects did put a strain on his muscles and if he could make his body get faster with the enhancements than it would obviously make his base speed increase at the same time. It was a win-win situation that he was putting himself in, he’d train on his Kekkei Genkai some more and develop a strong sense of control with his Raiton no Yoroi, while at the same time he’d increase his normal base speed so that he didn’t exactly have to use those enhancements to keep up pace with everyone.

Tensing up the muscles in his body and releasing an immense amount of chakra he activated his Raiton no Yoroi, which doubled his speed and strength. By doing this he could feel his body bulk up slightly and become stronger, but just by moving his legs up and down in a sort of no forward movement jog, he could easily feel that he was in fact much faster than before. Closing his eyes, he flowed some chakra towards the center of his eyes; another increase in his lightning power took over, with his Kenseigan activating to its stage one level. His pupils shrunk in his eyes, increasing the size of his iris which became filled with light blue lightning bolt patterns throughout the entire surface of the iris. It was as if he was becoming one with his lightning based chakra and thus he knew that if he could become as fast as the lightning itself, he’d be hard to handle. It was all a matter of developing more control over the lightning chakra and enhancing his base speed to make the effects even more effective.

Running back down the hill, he was surprised at just how much speed he had gained from his enhancements, noting that combining his Kenseigan’s stage one with his Raiton no Yoroi, he was unbelievably fast. Reaching the end of the hill in only a matter of seconds and then going as far as one hundred feet past the end of the hill within only a few more seconds. He didn’t even feel like he had put forth much effort at that point, it seemed too easy doing it that way. He sighed and deactivated his Raiton no Yoroi deciding it was simply better to save it for a time when he truly needed to use it, such as during a battle. He was only training so there was no point in going all out with his lightning chakra techniques. He did however leave his Kenseigan activated as it did not give the same type of increase to his speed, just increasing his speed a small amount and making his agility much better.

He dashed back up the hill, ignoring the stressful feeling it put on his legs and pushing past the pain of the lactic acid build up in his leg muscles from the strain of running up the steep incline. He had no intentions of letting his body get the best of him; it was all a matter of holding himself to the idea of ‘mind over matter’ in order to push himself to truly get faster. He continued to go through the routine of running down the side of the large and steep hill and then going right back up the steep incline of the hill, continuing to train his leg muscles and increase his base speed. He knew that it wouldn’t take much more for him to truly be able to keep pace with some of the faster shinobi, especially when he took things seriously and used his Raiton no Yoroi. After a few hours of the training, he called it a day and stopped for the time being, walking back into the village and heading for his office area in order to rest for a while.

(Word Count 1455 +7 Speed +7 Jutsu Points.)

7 stats, 7 JP

Note: Approving as temp due to staff seeming busy.

Officialy approved >.>