Flame Training and Chakra Control [P]

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The day had finally come for Nasamea to finally put a stop to missions and actually pick up some training. She felt weak and stuck in her “Genin form”. She barely had any progress, only learning a few new cockroach formations along with a few new types. Sure, they were rather useful in a few ways, but she had the craving for power like a starving wolf for meat. She needed more and fast.

When she first arrived at the training grounds she began her training preparations immediately. The skies were cloudy with a chance of rain and the forest kept a dark cool blanket beneath its canopy. Nasamea was working in an opened area within these shadows; her fists pumping out and leg flying out in the form of a roundhouse kick. A few giant boulders sat peacefully on the outskirts of this land; the grass lining the area in finely cut patterns. She was surprised it wasn’t tall considering it was rarely mowed and hardly anyone came here. It was a wonderful place in her eyes; but then again almost all forms of nature were. It held its essence of tranquility though compared to most places. One that allowed her to feel at peace without having to worry about sudden attacking forces who were ready to drive a kunai through her. Nasamea wasn’t so easily incautious though; her ears perked and eyes wide like a cat, she was ready for nearly anything.

”All right…” she whispered to herself, stopping her consistent moves and settling in a near mountain pose (think Yoga). She drew up her hands and formed the Tora seal then; one she tended to use when focusing and when she was preparing to use Katon chakra. This time the seal applied to both reasons.

From the depths of her inner core, a familiar presence materialized in its incomplete form. It took the shape a burning internal flame, ready to be used, before it began to spread through her chakra system. She took in the breath of life; allowing this feeling to take over before she sighed and kept it locked within her system. She was ready.

Preparing her first jutsu, Nasamea began to form the image of what she needed to do within her mind as she closed her eyes. She pictured the jutsu, the flames surrounding her in a protective barrier, and once she felt she was ready she opened her eyes to the silent realm around her. She focused this chakra and formed handsigns, drawing forth the energy and letting it flow out of her pours. She closed her eyes again, hunched down slightly, drew her arms in, and soon released more chakra in the form of true fire. She thrust out her arms to aid her as the flames burst out all around. They licked her arms, legs, and hair; burning the tips and causing her to sneer in pain. She grit her teeth a tad before she ended the chakra flow and thus the flames around her; leaving a few burning patches. She had control but was obviously untrained with this jutsu.

Minor fires were quickly snuffed out as she patted them down on her clothes. Lucky for her, her gloves were fireproof and thus made putting them out easier. ’Okay..’ she thought to herself, drawing up the Tora form yet again. ’A fairly good first run aside from nearly burning myself. At least they are minor burns,’ she thought while sending healing chakra over her body. Thankfully her clan allowed her to regenerate and the burns were minor; making them easy to heal. They faded in a matter of seconds.

Once again the time came for her to tackle the jutsu. She hoped the results of her second practice would be more fruitful. Nasamea focused, drawing chakra again while she continued to hold the Tora seal. Next she formed hand seals and the flames lit around her once more. They surrounded her like a warm blanket, protecting her from the elements except for the wind. She felt like true fire itself. As though she were the medium for the reason flames were creating. It felt great.

Nasamea kept control as she harnessed the power of these flames around her. They no longer burned her but were still a bit difficult to control due to the wind. It lightly pressed against her flames, challenging both her and them as though saying “we can easily burn you with one sharp breath”. Baring this in mind, Nasamea decided enough was enough with this part of the jutsu and she let them die. The next part required more chakra control of the flames and thus more training for her overall.

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Next up on her list involves a jutsu which dates back to when she first learned the Flame Pillar. The idea arrived to her after utilizing the jutsu so much. Seeing as how it required more chakra and provided a chance for longer range surprise attacks, she believed this was a good idea for a jutsu. A clone could simply hide and utilize this jutsu on a foe or vice versa while she distracted or planned a new attack. It would be a decent move to add to her list. Nasamea first began to prepare this jutsu by picking a target. A simple boulder set roughly ten meters away seemed perfect to assault. Nasamea sighed as she prepared her katon chakra yet again; her hands formed in the tora seal. She took in another deep breath and soon formed hand seals, exhaling and extending her chakra. She imagined it extending out to the ground beneath the boulder before she dropped her hands by her sides. By placing her index finger to her thumb she then felt the chakra shoot outward, surrounding the boulder and forming flames beneath its form. Had the fire been powerful enough she wondered if maybe one day she could cause that boulder to rise off the ground. For now though she was working on basic usage and control over the jutsu; specials would come later.

Considering she easily got the basic use of it down she decided to cut time in half by simply forming the handsigns necessary for the jutsu. She drew up some chakra as she would for any jutsu, formed the seals, threw her hands up as though ready to attack a foe, and felt her chakra extend to the boulder. There situation was different with a moving target, on some occasions, but by understanding how to time an attack; Nasamea felt she could practically hit any target between her and ten meters. She was stuck practicing instead though. Nasamea extended her chakra out to the length of ten meters this time and touched her index finger to her thumb; which queued the jutsu to go. This then caused the chakra to fly up from out of the ground in the form of flames that surrounded a boulder, burning its outer core. This jutsu worked much like her flame pillar, as stated, but with more edge to it and a greater distance.

Once she was finished with the second try she performed the jutsu once more by trying to add more of a bite to her assault; aka more flames. This casted a dark veil over the boulder as she hoped and thus she came to the conclusion the jutsu was a success. She sighed with a smile from the satisfactory of having one more attack she could utilize before she began preparing for further training.

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Nasamea seemed to return to ground zero and basic fire Ninjutsu at the mentioned of a new technique. Lucky for her, this jutsu was merely an alternation of another which meant that it would be much easier to use based upon experience. She simply had to imagine preparing the Flame Pillar technique while thinking about the focus required for the Fire Mole and wah lah, this new technique otherwise known as Flame Wall. It was simple and would only take maybe a few minutes to cover before she could move on to the next technique on her list of “things to learn”. She felt before but after these new few days of constant training that would all change. She had things to do and people to prove; her willingness pressing her to get their no matter what.

She first thought about the two jutsu she previously performed; the chakra control they took and the flame pillars form. She knew now this jutsu would take roughly three to four times before she was settled with it. Due to taking so much she would only apply a C’s worth amount of chakra and flames but when make sure she did so without hurting herself. End result would come later. First, Nasa started by drawing up chakra and forming the hand seals. She then added an extra Tora seal to the end of the Flame pillar handseal chain and felt the chakra spring forth from her feet. She imagined herself being under pressure, that an enemy was attacking her head on, and casted forth the chakra into the form of a fire wall before her. She then leaped back and prepared to fight afterwards, letting out a small breath of air to control her imaginary adrenaline and ending the jutsu. At least she was able to perform it right? This was merely the basic form though.

With the overall idea of the jutsu in mind Nasamea pictured another taijutsu assault from four ninja on all sides; her only means of escaping being this flame justu due to its defensive ability. It could stall the enemy and allow her time to prepare her next attack. The chances of someone being blinded by the flames light, smoke, or heat on their face was high as well; had they ran into the fire. If they stopped on the dime and threw tools, Nasamea had time between the use of this jutsu and them stopping to throw her own in counter or even attack with a new jutsu if she was fast enough. To many options, most requiring practice in battle.

Nasamea formed the seals once more and applied another C rank amount of chakra before casting out her chakra. She did so in a quick controlled burst that allowed the flames to spring out three feet away from her in a circular fire. These flames shot up two feet before she made a quick leap over them so they didn’t burn her. She kicked dirt over them then to put the fire out before nodding. She had done it and was ready.

With a B rank amount of chakra, the sufficient amount to make an adequate attack, Nasamea formed the seals needed and felt the chakra spring out five feet around her. Within two seconds or so of forming the seals the chakra burst out in a ring around her; creating a five foot high barrier to stop any who approached. She then sighed as she stood in the center and gazed around. One thing was for sure, she loved the feeling of controlling such a powerful element and couldn’t wait to create more to add to her arsenal. She just hoped these abilities would be useful for she hated wasting time.

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For the quality of this next technique to be sufficient, Nasamea knew without a doubt that she needed to break her training up into at least two to three days. The days could lean more towards three merely because she had also used previous jutsu during her training run. Nasamea got straight to business. Seeing as how she was limited on the usage of normal kage bushin, this meant she was even more limited when it came to utilizing this new technique. Most of this was based upon her chakra supply and rank. She figured when she was far more experienced she would eventually be able to utilize more so she thought for now she would have to just work on the basic steps; as any jutsu.

Nasamea figured she would be able to make at least 2 of these special clones for the day or roughly 4 or so B rank Kage Bushin. She could come back tomorrow and focus purely on this technique to master it but that was the agenda for tomorrow. For today she was working on basic elemental manipulation. Nasa formed the idea of a clone with explosive properties based upon fire within her mind. For now she would apply small quantities to her kage bushin so she could get a weaker version of an exploding tag. The general idea was for these to be more powerful than explosive tags though; much like a rip off of the explosive clone recorded in the jutsu records at the library. Due to also being made of katon chakra, she could control the degree of burn the clones release upon impact and even when they can impact. They would be living breathing exploding tags with far more force and usage; but more costly when it came to chakra supply as well. She would need to be careful.

To begin the actual segment of her training, Nasamea first began to find the feel of her katon chakra again. Small beads of sweat were already starting to form from the use of her jutsu; a relevance that she was a bit out of her normal ninja self. Appears she has neglected the training field far too long in exchange for missions. At least at this rate her mission results could improve due to her abilities; if she was lucky.

The sensation of an inner burn meant she was ready as she sighed; fueling this internal flame with a breath of life before forming hand seals. This jutsu required double focus and basic chakra control properties; casting a sort of determined snarl across her face as she finished the hand seals and felt her chakra spring off in the form a kage bushin. It appeared to her in a puff of smoke; its hands soon dropping with hers as though it were nothing more than a mirror image. The shape of the clone was near perfect, as always, but what mattered was what the clone’s make up was. Was its internal substance qualities created as planned? Nasa glanced over at a nearby tree before raising her arm and pointing with her finger; motioning the clone to go.

The clone simply nodded, allowing Nasa to drop her arm before it sprang forward towards the tree. This clone ran forward with a decent amount of speed, nearing the tree in seconds. Once it had, she would then leap at it while using her shoulder to plow into it and disperse. Sure the clone could have easily disappeared before Nasa but by utilizing trees she could get a good idea of how well placed her katon chakra had been within the clone.

The first time through wasn’t too shabby but still not fighting material. The clone plowed into the tree and dispersed into a light puff of black smoke. There was a small indent in the tree from the attack and tiny bit of explosive power within the clone but there was hardly a difference between her idea of this technique and the original kage bushin itself. She would have to simply keep trying. Considering the fact Nasa was able to implant at least a fragment of katon chakra within the clone though, while expressing control over her supply, Nasa felt a sense of hope for the jutsu that pressed her forward. The goal was to get at least a bowling ball sized indent in a tree’s side before the end of the day even if it meant her passing out and waking up later that night to continue.

Her objective was for the second try to be better now that she grasped a minor feel of what was required to utilize the jutsu. Nasa formed the hand seals once again and closed her eyes with the Tora seal, one of her favs it seemed. Before her appeared a kage bushin again; its eyes opening just as hers had to recreate the mirror image look. Nasa nodded and directed her attention to a tree at her right this time; the opposite direction of her original signal. The clone agreed loyally and dashed forward; like the other clone. This one, created by her inner desire, seemed to be more violent than the first clone despite there not being much personality change except a stronger focus. The clone plowed into a tree again, utilizing mostly its speed than much strength. When it popped, Nasamea felt the force of the blow against her shoulder but also saw better results from her masterpiece. Inside the bark of the tree were minor burn marks and a welt the size of a soccer ball. The clone had made a minor sound as well; its miniature sized ‘boom’ still echoing through the forest like a broken record. A smile crossed her face then and she nodded; perfect. With the feeling of satisfaction from getting the hang of the technique, Naasamea felt she was ready to utilize at least two more before she needed to rest to gain back what chakra she lost.

The next two rounds went fairly fast but left Nasa sweating a bit more from her focus. It was almost as though she were straining herself to form the clones when in reality she was calm; her facial expressions being her enemy to her actual emotion. The third clone formed possessed a bit more force and nearly left her tired; its impact leaving a rather larger ‘boom’ as it blew away some bark. It inflicted minor burn wounds to the tree and left Nasa with a little more hope. Sadly the last one of the day didn’t come out as well she wanted; its form only mimicking the third clone. It had not changed much but she was happy that she at least had some consistency. Seeing as how the training left her tired though, her chakra supply running low for the day, Nasamea decided to return home and chill. This way she could easily start off fresh tomorrow and complete the basic usage of this jutsu.

A night’s rest was all she needed before she was ready for more training. Nasa went through the daily routine of showering, getting dressed, and rushing out her apartment door before heading straight to her favored training grounds. Dawn had yet to come into picture when she arrived and began; the jutsu she wished to work on already in mind. She formed the seals and created a clone off the bat; her focus directed more towards her chakra control and the clone’s insides. Once again a copy appeared and was casted towards a tree. The birds in the area were already starting to chirp occasionally in the silent darkness but upon hearing this blast they scattered into the skies to seek shelter; animal instinct forcing them to think their lives was in danger.

Nasamea witnessed one of her best creations thus far. The clone left a welt the size of four bowling balls thrown in a connected fashion and left a depth of about nine inches into the tree; revealing its inner flesh. Bark had shattered outward as the clone left a puff of black smoke. Upon impact Nasa saw the resemblance of a tag exploding; the firey red color appearing from combustion before it also converted to black smoke and dissipated. The sound wave emitted from the clone nearly matched that of an explosive tag as well except was a bit louder. It wasn’t ear drum shattering or ground rattling like a bomb but that was fine with Nasa at the present time.

She dropped her hands after a second run through of the hands signs; her speed increasing as she got used to what seals she needed to form in order to use the jutsu. A clone emerged once more but unlike the others so far; Nasa believed this one contained more promise. The clone was casted to a new tree and once again met the same fate as he others. This time the sound of the explosion was far greater; along with the attack itself. Had it been a person, Nasa believed it could have nearly knocked them unconscious while blasting them back a meters or so. The welt left in the tree was deeper and Nasa realized what she hoped for; this clone possessed far more katon chakra than the originals and was better designed. Perfect. She wished for the next to be just as promising as the others, especially this last one considering the exception results.

It didn’t take her long to acquire what she wished for and soon enough another clone was formed. Already a small sweat also appeared on Nasa’s brow. She was using an A rank ability despite being B rank and was doing so repeatedly; tiring herself out rather quickly but also realizing how many clones she could create before she was tuckered out. This meant that she would have to be highly careful when forming this clone; probably only being able to use it once amongst other attacks. This gave her cautious some fuel as well; making her calculate some basic plans she could use in conjunction with the technique as she watched her latest masterpiece barrel into a new tree with expressionless eyes.

The clone left another welt into the tree but this time provided more damage than the others. The tree, weakened by its damaged support, soon creaked and hissed before its form fell towards where the clone once was. Seeing as how Nasa was in line of nature’s force she leaped back five meters before the tree crashed to the ground. Setting her eyes on this while trying to shake her ears of the echoing effect left by the clone; Nasa saw this tree was roughly three feet around as well. It was perfect; her jutsu in mind near complete. She was able to manipulate a kage bushin into a more unique form with far more damaging effects than that of a explosive tag. Sadly the drawbacks for this sort of jutsu are its limited amount of times, especially due to her current rank at the moment, but this can easily be made up by its other advantages if used right.

With one more clone available to use, Nasamea sighed and relaxed a bit. This last one would be the grand finale of this stage before she moved on to other things tomorrow. She formed the same seals and created yet another human bomb before her. Although she wished to test it on someone, just to witness what could happen to a human at blank range, she had to restrain herself and cast the clone at another tree instead. Once again the might of nature was assaulted; its main vein broken and body sent helplessly to the ground. The noise echoed yet again, the forest purely silent due to the birds fleeing and other forms of wildlife startled awake. Early morning training seemed like the best time to learn. Nobody was awake to disturb you or complain about any loud absurd noises. Had anyone heard these explosions Nasa would be long gone before they saw her.

Another sigh left her as she calmed herself down. She felt like she just woke up and was now ready to get some more sleep. It didn’t even feel like she had used that many jutsu since she got here and she could already feel her chakra levels lowered. Was she not handling her chakra levels well enough or was this attack truly able to leech that much from her? She believed it was more of the later but wished to work on her chakra control anyway.

This segment of her training was done for the day, or at least the morning, and thus Nasa was ready to go home. She figured maybe she would shower again, kick back, and watch a little TV so her chakra could replenish before heading out later in the night to practice some more. She still had one more thing to do with this technique but the later part would require more precision and actual burnable subjects. In other words, she was going to have to wait or else sacrifice some animals. But even then it was difficult to tell the burn rate without hurting multiple creatures. Human targets who had to go to the hospital were far better so yes, waiting sounded good.

Nasamea grabbed her black cloak before she flung it over her shoulders and put it on. She made a slight adjustment to cover herself from the vicious winds which lied ahead and was soon off. Through the night and desolate town she would go until she was finally snug as a bug as home. In her mind she could already imagine there being a hot cup of tea in front of the Television set before bed was in the agenda; an easy way to relax. Maybe she would make a pit stop and catch a meal on the way back from an unsuspecting human; that is, if there were any in this snow storm. No matter what though, training was over for now.

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A morning training and easy going day of rest allowed the young kunoichi some time to train once more. Her days had been dedicated to training and her willingness allowed her to serve. So far she had four more jutsu in the bag; each she believed would be unique and useful. Now she wished to add yet another to this bunch. Next up on her list of “things to learn” was none other than a jutsu incorporating more of the Taijutsu brand. However it also remained consistent with her katon related items of business. With this jutsu in her hands she could head straight in for close range combat and surprise the opponent with a charged assault. In her perspective it followed right along with her style due to its element of surprise. Had anyone dared come near her she wouldn’t have to spring forth a fire wall or utilize her fire fist to attack; those took more time. This however was a quick extension of chakra utilizing katon’s natural ability; to generate heat. Easy stuff which could leave a pretty decent effect if the opponent was hit; just what she needed.

At the moment Nasa couldn’t exactly test the burning portion of this jutsu on someone else, leaving her having to damage herself by creating a clone. She knew it would hurt upon releasing the clone, if the clone managed to be burned without popping, but sacrifices had to be made in order to perfect a jutsu. So, after utilizing a basic hand sign a shadow clone appeared and was ready for action, but Nasa wasn’t. First she needed time to actually attempt the jutsu before using it against someone else. Nasa simply focused on her katon chakra, moved into a stance, and pretended to fight someone. She placed them at seven meters and moving; their objective to attack Nasa with Taijutsu moves. She wouldn’t allow that to happen though. As she settled into her stance the invisible foe came forth and began to position their fist to attack. Once they were within a three meter range she then thrust her palm out, feeling the chakra extend forth from her as an invisible wave. The imaginary foe was baffled and sent backwards.

Nasamea wasn’t sure what the burning force of that thrust would be but one thing was for sure, she felt the heat radiate off the chakra as it pushed outward from her hand. The force also caused the grass to lean away from her underneath, causing a smirk to form on her face from confidence. Witnessing this, the clone looked at her with a faceless expression. They both knew what was about to happen and so the clone sprang back from near Nasa’s position while Nasa turned to her. Nasa sighed and settled back into a stance, her feet separated as a means of holding her ground while her two hands were in different positions. One was back beside her in a tightened first, ready to be thrown out as a punch. The other was in the form of a palm that was facing her clone; her hand placed before her. This left plenty of open places for the opponent to attack, which was the guise she wished for.

When she was ready the clone came forth at a running speed; its feet light as she prepared for combat. She neared Nasa and turned towards the right, aiming to strike Nasa from her right open side. Once within range of three meters though, Nasa took action. Her left hand, the one tightened into the fist sprang out as her hand spread into a palm while her other hand was casted back to her side as though charging for another attack had the first failed. This palm casted forth a wave of chakra, its pressure forcing the clone back with her arms raised to her face as a guard. It was almost like a force of wind except she was casting out a blast of heated chakra. The clone popped before she hit the ground and Nasa shuddered. She felt the burns the clone received; causing her to shudder and grit her teeth.

From what she could tell she was able to create a heat capable of creating a first to second degree burn. This gave her an idea of how much chakra she would need to use in order to increase the burn rate. Most of it relied on control though. For now she would probably only get up to second degree but in the future she would aim for third. This all came through practice though, of course, and at the moment the feeling of knowing how to utilize the jutsu in general was enough for her. After all, she would need human guinea pigs to test the burn rate more. For now though, she considered this jutsu temporarily complete and learned.

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A light huff of air escaped Nasamea as she slowly woke up from her slumber. She was laying flat on her stomach with her head mostly buried in the pillow and blankets surrounding her. It wasn’t average for her to sleep this way but then again there were quite of out of ordinary things she had been doing lately. One thing was actually trading in mission time for training. Considering she still had to find a way of paying the rent and other occasional utilities, besides clothes and ninja supplies, so she needed to hurry the training up or possibly take up a couple lowly D ranks. Easy jobs with little pay but every cent counted on her opinion.

When the red numbers on the digital clock struck 5am, Nasamea twitched to life and shuddered. She raised up, her back arching as she sat up on both arms and yawned. An odd movement still but maybe it was associated with what she was more so than her fake human half. She stopped shuddering once she finished yawning and turned her attention to those burning red lines; their numbers soon changing to 5:01am. Was she moving this slow? Nasa shook her head and turned onto her right side. She rubbed her eyes to wake herself up and yawned once more before pushing herself to get up. She had a lot to do today and was fully ready, just not awake yet. Once the warm water beat against her bare skin she would wake up then. But until that time, anyone could expect a sluggish yawning Nasa with nearly almond shaped eyes from not wishing to wake up. Were any lights turned on? Maybe the bathroom one but otherwise forget it.

After her morning ritual was complete and her ninja attire covered her frame; Nasa found herself in the training grounds once more. She was done yawning, done feeling tired, and ready for a full run of training. The good thing about this type of training though it wasn’t as hard to do and required little effort based on her physical activity and eating habits. She was healthier than healthy and could easily handle this sort of training without much fail. The main thing it would require of her was a lot of time, vast quantities of patience, and a true effort to grow for although easy it wasn’t something that could be easily learned in an hour or so.

Nasamea would begin by taking a place near the base of a boulder. A small pond lurked before her roughly five meters away, its form rather vast with various other boulders surrounding it. Up above all this were the typical hardwoods and pines; their mighty forms guarding the forest and wildlife which dwell beneath them. It was a calm setting; a place she needed to be in at the moment. Nasa stumbled upon this area before she made the place her usual training area due to its peaceful and natural environment. It was her place to get away.

Like always, Nasa was ready to get straight to business. She was in no rush this time though for doing so only created stress; the opposite objective she had in mind. In her agenda today she included meditation, “chakra flexing and forming”, jutsu practice, water walking, and more mediation. She had researched ways to balance ones chakra and gain control of it through exercises so she set up at least a five day plan centered on just chakra and raising her degree of control over that said chakra. By the end of this week she hoped to have mastered it on a new level. She knew mastering it completely would take months if not years so for now she was satisfied with at least like a control compared to none. The finale would also result in attempting to come out of her beast form again; something that required a vast amount of chakra control in order for her to not lose control. She was a beast at heart but had she not applied the right amount she would be unable to control her transformation and would perish from over exerting her body and supply. It was a terrible fate for many beginners at her age.

Now it was time to start. Nasamea took off her cloak and folded it up into a pad, placing it at the base of the boulder she stood before. She then sat down on it and sighed, moving into stretching positions so she could ease and relax her muscles. She had read that yoga helped you when trying to control your chakra and so she even threw in a few sitting poses. These allowed her to test her flexibility and relax at the same time; a perfect combination on her opinion. From what she saw she was rather flexible too. In her opinion flexibility was something every ninja needed, especially kunoichi. The more flexible, the more capability you have of dodging attacks and maneuvering in odd places. It applied into other areas as well but Nasa wasn’t concerned with those at all.

Once she was done stretching for about ten minutes with different yoga poses and basic static stretching, Nasa felt very relaxed. She wished for a cup of hot tea to relax her even more but she figured she could get some when she went home later. Maybe once she was home she could start to meditate there, which was what she started to do here. She sat in a posture that allowed her to relax and keep her back straight and resting against the boulder. She had crossed her legs and let her hands rest casually on her thighs. Finally, her eyes were closed to increase the sense of resting. Her awareness was wide awake though and growing, especially as she started to feel vulnerable to attacking forces. She opened her senses wide and listened all around as she took in deep breaths. For about three minutes she listened but after hearing nothing except the small chirps of awakening birds and the water which dwelled before her; Nasa began to ease her mind. She started by taking in deep breaths. Over time these breaths were then inhaled in exhaled with a time interval, or rhythm, of 4 seconds each. This made her sink deep within her mind and casted her focus to her internal control while her external rested.

Now she could feel her chakra. She felt it flowing through her body and began to imagine the charka of all forces around her. The sturdy strength of the earth beneath her and in the boulder, the ever flowing nature of water as it lurked in the stream just ready to be formed into a new shape, and finally the wind which lightly whispered through the trees and blew against her face. She felt all of this and grew a sense of balance within herself. She saw herself as a small fragment in the big picture and that was living for the earth, not that the earth was living for her.

After this realization she began to grow a deeper sense of belonging due to her animal nature. She connected her chakra to the flow of nature around her and dug into the pit of animalistic energy buried within her soul. The beast wanted out. She felt it press her into shedding her fake human skin and turn into what she naturally belonged so she could run about and fly like she should. This wasn’t something she was taught to do though. The nature she felt was the nature of a Toubousha; one of the wild ones of her clan. This was the nature that caused many members in the past to give up on their training as ninja and become a part of the wild. They hunted like beasts on animals and eventually began to grow the thirst of human blood. This led to them destroying villages and murdering numerous people just to devour them whole. Eventually their craving grew worse and they started to thirst on more than was necessary because to them “it was fun”. Nasamea began to realize the trials she would face as she did these exercises as she continued her path as a ninja. Her ancestors pressed her to be the beasts they once were; enemies of humanity and owners of this world. But her nature she had been taught to possess as a human kindled the kindness that dwelled within her heart and pressed this feeling of raging out. She could break lose right now but would only kill herself. Would this temptation intensify in the future? She could see the answer being a yes.

Nasa pushed passed this feeling of going of insane and focused back on her chakra supply. With it she now knew she would have to learn to control her temptations of beast form as well; especially when she was higher in rank. This made the training a fight as well but one she planned to win.

After feeling the rush of the beast energy and directing her attention back to her chakra supply, Nasa began to feel bits and pieces before the whole system came into picture. She felt her flow aligning itself with earth chakra of the boulder and earth around her. It made her feel stronger; as though she was the boulder fighting her way through the elements day and night to keep its large size. She had a plan for this same boulder that she would use later. For now though she began to change this feeling to her other element. The toughness of earth changed to the flowing blaze of fire within her system. It raged, ready to be launched out at her opponent. This feeling gave her the confidence she needed to take on numerous levels of life. It also made her feel like a weapon ready to destroy but as a bringer of life from what could rise from the ashes; a paradox element it was. Earth brought the sense of comfort, strength, and durability where as fire made her feel like a paradox that could create, destroy, and take on the heavens. She didn’t have an ability to bring the elements together, like old teacher Lady Coal, but she began to grow a sense of feeling if she could. Both elements slightly worked together, their energies conflicting within Nasa before she had them harmonize a bit. She imagined herself using Lady Coal’s magma ability but could only chuckle at the impossibility. Maybe though, just maybe, she could create something else with the partial harmonization of these two elements.

Now that she grew a feeling of these two she attempted to find out her third but it was no luck. It was still early for that sort of thing she moved on to stretching and flexing her chakra. She began by harnessing it. An image was in her mind of all her chakra supply formed together as a ball; her control drawing out chakra from this ball to form a smaller one that she could then use for jutsu. Drawing her hands up into the Tora Seal, she did just that. Luckily the morning was cool enough for her to use this jutsu without burning up. It was her E rank that allowed her to heat herself up by extending chakra out of her body. She was working on controlling the degree through chakra control; a decent way of practicing on opinion. She already had a lot of experience from her mission with Mitsu (Click) when she used this periodically through the day, so she already had a decent amount of control on her chakra but now she could fully focus on it.

She first aimed for drawing out a tad bit of chakra, feeling a very light breath easing its way out of her system. It was enough to create goosebumps from the temptation of heat but she could feel her control over the chakra as she did. Next, she began to apply a little more, drawing out an easy even flow that slowly heated her up. Eventually she had drawn out enough to make her warm so she wasn’t too hot or cold. She then began to feel the chakra recede, cutting the flow of it to where she expelled less and less. Soon enough she was no longer releasing chakra and thus the jutsu was cancelled. This recession gave her a new feeling of control over her energy though and thus she was ready to try other jutsu.

For now though she settled back into her casual chakra. She breathed in out, counting to four for her inhales and four for her exhales, and formed the Ram hand sign. She felt her chakra pulse now with her breaths before it began to slowly move through her once more. Her core, the center of the system, flexed it and out. She then released the signs and placed one hand out. She remembered the feeling of how much chakra it took to create a first degree burn and began to harness that. She then added a bit more to attempt second degree, wishing she had a human guinea pig, and brought her palm back to her shoulder. Upon pressing her palm out she felt the chakra she drew form her system, and core, flex and extend outward in a wave of burning chakra towards the river. Through control, Nasamea now had a better understanding of how to alter her fire jutsu in order to increase or decrease the degree value. She still needed some human guinea pigs though, but those would come later.

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After taking roughly a half hour of practicing moving her chakra about through the use of jutsu and by connecting with nature, Nasa felt she possessed better of her chakra and simply just wished to exercise it through the means of other simple E rank jutsu. She meditated for another good twenty minutes to center and focus but was shortly up on her feet afterwards.

One thing she never taught herself yet was to walk on water. Lady Coal taught her the basics of how and she practiced walking on snow, so how hard could t really be? It took chakra control to do it and once she knew it she could consider herself a true Sp Jounin. It was sad really, a rank above Chunin and had yet to learn how to walk on water? This was stuff Chunin taught Genin all the time. A shame Lady Coal vanished from sight though. It was one of the reasons she never learned aside from no other outer help nor self discipline. Well, now she would.

Nasa walked right over to the water and sighed as she stared at it. She truly did not want to fall in at all since she didn’t have an extra pair of clothes and planned to practice more afterwards. At least she would get a new jutsu out of this right? No pain no gain. Nasa focused chakra to her feet as the memories of Coal’s training ran through her mind. The cliff taught her chakra control as well and she was able to utilize it well. She soon stepped out with one foot and felt the water’s surface. It was different than a hard surface of course and even snow. Snow was actually easier and so after this she could probably walk on the white stuff with ease. She focused her chakra to flow just as the water did, growing a sense of its natural tendencies before stepping out. She walked out with a bit of imbalance but kept herself from falling without using her arms. This was what Coal taught her after all.

She focused her chakra between her feet as she walked across the water with ease. She was stepping gingerly, her mind amazed at the fact she could do this. She knew it was possibly but seeing and doing were two different things usually. She walked across with ease, nearly slipping up maybe once but keeping a decent control. Without getting cocky, she then walked across again and walked more causally. She went bath and forth several times before she finally decided she efficiently learned the technique. The water wasn’t moving as much as though as it would in a larger and faster moving body of water. She would just have to wait and test it out again on large bodies. For now though she believed she got the basic principles down.

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Her breathing exercises, manipulation exercises, limiting exercises, and water walking exercises completed 75% or so of her overall training thus far. However, she was not done just yet. The rest of her plan consisted of more breathing exercises for at least ten to twenty more minutes, some more stretching and yoga techniques, some beast form training, then a casual walk home to ease the body. She could only imagine what the beast portion would be like now or at least what she could turn into. She was a young child when the seal was apparently placed on her so she had no idea what she could turn into just yet, only that her eyes, teeth, and nails were easily manipulated. She remembered appearing in front of Mitsuhide with all three of those minor changes. It was the reason the two started to talk more.

Before her mind could wonder from training to Mitsu and Shi, Nasa focused once more. Next on her list was more breathing exercises so this was precisely what we did. She had taken a seat in the soft grass at the base of the boulder and began. In four, our four, in four, out four. She breathed like this, in seconds, for a good five minutes before her mind had become stable and clear of all the distractions around her. She was getting a lot done these past few days and was pleased at the result. She needed to rush a bit though; time was money and didn’t pay the rent. The thoughts regarding this though were not on her mind at the moment. Slow and easy was the objective of the breathing exercises aside from practicing with manipulating her internal chakra. Luckily this was the goal she achieved as well.

A good half hour passed before Nasamea was finished with her meditation. She had cleared her mind yet again and could feel the chakra within her clear as ever. She had practiced manipulating it from within again and was able to grasp a good control of her reserve and how much it took to form what she needed to. She wasn’t perfect at it just yet and it would probably take longer to acquire the higher degree of control but eventually she would reach there. For now she believed she was doing splendidly well considering she had improved since her last practice an hour ago. Of course, now came time for her next item of business: stretches and yoga.

Nasamea started off with a few basic yoga techniques, such as the mountain pose and what, before she did the usual static stretching. The stretch and yoga portion of her training took roughly twenty minutes to fulfill; ten minutes longer than what she originally was doing. Seeing as how her body was about to stretch from what it wasn’t used to she figured stretching beforehand would be a good idea. Would this transformation process hurt? Would she barely feel a tingle? She was kind of worried about it. The thought of her body stretching and reconfiguring itself was enough to cause her to shiver; but she needed to do this.

Her awareness was heightened even more now as she tune her ears into her surroundings and listened. She may have arrived before dawn but after doing all that practice training it was now roughly midday. Time sure flew when one was training. Considering it was midday, Nasa knew she had to be extra careful of any humans just happening to be strolling through the area. Had they seen her she may need to resort to knock out measures unless she disappeared quick enough.

Not wishing to dwell to long on this though, since the day wasn’t getting any younger, Nasa began to focus within herself again. She couldn’t quite imagine what her beast form looked like but knew that by focusing on the seal she could begin to release the form. She had to remain in control of her chakra and the form to do so though for the form may be too great to handle. She just wasn’t about to take any chances yet. So for now she would work on focusing on the basic eyes, teeth, and nails like she could always do.

The chakra flowed out rather swiftly as she summoned it up and closed her eyes. She formed no hand seals for this and was actually watching her hands; both held out before her. She could already feel the changes happening aside from seeing them. Her nails started to grow sharper until they were fine points. After this was done she then touched her teeth. They were all sharp and pointed like that of a vicious carnivore. She smirked a bit and walked over to the water to actually see her eyes as well. The same light gray color had pushed out the amber, making her hues appear softer. When she put on an angry face and felt a sense of inner fury they sharpened like cats’ pupils and appeared rather violent; making her chuckle a bit.

Nasamea wasn't satisfied with a few cosmetic changes and would soon grow anxious on pressing her transformation further. She toned down the E rank chakra built up around her eyes and nails before circulating it towards her teeth. These soon changed nearly as quickly as her other parts had and now came a new step. When the change was released, the main purpose just to see whether or not she could do it, Nasa soon shifted the chakra to surrounding her left arm. Rather than risking damage to her dominant arm she felt using her left was necessary to beginning the first step of her later overall transformation. She could feel the burning chakra of the ravaging beast rise up within her soul before it casted the sensation to her arm.

Her skin soon felt a bit hot as it turned darker from the rise of blood. The skin curling sound of bones cracking then soon took place as she watched her fingers become consumed by a thick hide of skin and grow into that of a claw. Her nails grew yet again, their paleness becoming black as they sharpened into that of a birds talon and thickened. Starting from her shoulder down she could not only feel her bones becoming manipulated but her muscles increasing in strength. It were nearly as though something else was controlling this arm; something typically seen in that of a horror movie. Nasamea herself was a bit amazed by her own ability while she watched; the black markings of the seal soon settling into her skin and appearing as though they had been tattoo'd on.

When this was all said and done Nasamea finally witnessed a bit of her inner beast form. It was only an arm but the appearance of the thick hide and markings only caused her inspiration to grow stronger intensify. She needed to rank up, train, and become that powerful creature she was born to be no matter what stood before her path.

Nasamea finished her beat segment of the training after she refocused chakra back into her arm and had everything revert back to normal. One thing that was interesting about the transformation was that due to her chakra control she was able to manipulate her body like this without entirely hurting it. Sure, she felt decent amounts of unbearable pain because her body had been stretching, but it was nothing compared to what she originally thought. She came to the assumption as well that over time this pain would fade due to a built up immunity. This, of course, would take practice though.

After the run with the beast inside she could feel her overall strength increased. Most of it had to with the mental thoughts that subconsciously told her she had grown. Activating and utilizing the beast form was a huge step to unlocking her true power in her book so this run through had surely been amazing to her. Due to her using this though, aside from various other chakra training moves through the day, Nasa felt ready to head home to rest. She had spent her entire day practicing with her chakra and felt a lot better but also tired. A day's rest would easily cure this though.

Nasa was quick to gather her cloak and put it on before heading home. She would walk until she reached the line between the wilderness and the city itself. From there she would lightly jog back to her house using the rooftops of the neighboring buildings. The purpose was to work out her body to make sure the transformation had knocked anything out of whack. Also, so she could work on better controlling her breathing patterns when running.

Upon returning home she would stretch lightly before slinking into the bathtub. Afterwards she would prepare some mint tea and relax on the sofa to catch up on some relaxation. She had spent the entire day training, her surroundings moving from darkness to daylight and back once more. Her internal clock read that it was about 6pm or so right now; a good day well spent. Tomorrow she would spend most of her day resting with the occasional chakra workout through mediation then the day after that she would hit the training grounds once more to practice the beast form some more. This sort of pattern would continue for the rest of the week until she was sure she had a handle on her form and the chakra control issue. One week of strictly training was all she had in her agenda; aside from the occasional hunt of course...