Regaining Chakra Control

## Chakra Training 6-16-16

Kaiiaki: - "And shall you suffer in horrendous pain until your moment to leave this earth is upon you." Kaiiaki murmured under her breath. She was now leaving the Hoshikage building, roaming through the almost endless hallways. She took her time, until she ended up at the front entrance of the building. If she had to guess, she supposed Kumiko was still tagging along behind her. Apparently the woman still had a bit to say to the man after Kaiiaki torturing him. Black boots scuffed across the dirt road of the village as she made her way back home. The streets were quiet at this hour. No soul lingered here in this part of the village. Well, except for the few guards posted here and there. It was only to make sure the Hoshikage did not escape she guessed. "Chakra training?" Kaiiaki questioned Kumiko when the woman had caught up with her. "I guess. Since Masaru has the baby, he needs some bonding time with his son." Kaiiaki laughed a little bit at that. She then took off in a moderate jog off towards the Kurisutatu home. "But," She spoke between breaths. "I want to use the training spot behind the apartment just in case he needs me." Kaiiaki kept running through the village, taking in the sweet scent of summer. A small scent of salt blew through the air, catching Kaiiaki's attention. ~Perhaps the baby would enjoy a trip to the beach when he is a little older.~ Kaiiaki smiled at this, remember her parents taking her to the sea when she was little. The sun wasn't exactly pleasing. But the feel of the buoyant water caressing her scales sent a shiver through her. Before she knew it, Kaiiaki had arrived at the home of the Kurisutaru. Almost out of breath, she walked the rest of the distance into the back yard. Then, she came to a stop, her hands upon her knees. Her breath came out in shallow whisps, trying to catch up with the rest of her body. "I really need to get back into shape." She slightly chastised herself.-

ChikaKururugi:Kumiko was quiet as they made their way out of the compound. Kaiiaki asked a question about Chakra, which Kumiko had mentioned, and she nodded in response. “Mmhmm, I figure if you get more Chakra control it will help you with the Kyuubi?” She said lightly in a soft almost barely hearable whisper. It was meant for Kaiiaki’s ears only. The young woman mentioned wanting the training to be done behind her apartment, and she nodded. “That’s a good idea, Kaiiaki, it’ll be good for you to do that. I’m glad to hear you are willing to pick up training again. Besides, after something like that… Some Chakra control Training is just what is needed.” She commented as she walked with the young woman. “I prefer to use meditative approaches to chakra control. Have you done it that style before?” She asked as she slid her gaze to the young woman. “Just remember though, with picking up training again – baby steps. Don’t push too hard or you’ll cause undue stress.”

Kaiiaki: - "I have meditated before...in order to get more control over Kurama. I can control myself up to 4 tails raised now. But I believe that is probably my limit. Even though I am sure I could learn to do more than that." Kaiiaki smirked. She knew how the drill with meditation went. Although peace of mind was something most Jinchuriki's didn't have. Kaiiaki had trained with Auru before on the chakra training and it had been a success. Most people underestimated the amount of talent the young Kurisutaru had. But she was going to show them all how far she could go one day. As soon as Kaiiaki had caught up on her breathing, she adjusted herself onto the slightly wet grass. Dew was beginning to form on the ends of the grass shards. But she didn't mind. A little water was good for her. She shuffled herself into a criss-cross position, hands resting softly upon her thighs. Even in the dark of the night, she was still training. But the time of day or night didn't matter. Any free time that she could get, she would take advantage of. Kaiiaki took three deep breaths, in through her nose and out her mouth. That sent a message from her muscles up to her brain that it was time to relax now. And with that, Kaiiaki's eyes closed.-

ChikaKururugi:Kumiko gave a hum of approval at the young girls words. She was young but she had talent. It was probably what Kumiko could have been, if she had support at a younger age. She approached the young woman and dropped down in front of her, and then crossed her own legs. Her hands resting palm up as she stared across at the young woman. She didn't do anything other than calmly relax herself and prepare her mind. "I run things a bit different perhaps, I'm not sure how your old sensei trained you. What I am going to ask you to do is start relaxing yourself. From your toes, all the way up to the roots of your hair. Imagine you are water, that everything slowly ebbs and flows from you." Kumiko whispered in a voice that was even toned and soothing, calming as the waves of the ocean crashing on the shores of the beach. "Each breath you take is your body slowly ebbing and flowing like that water of which you will become. As you relax, and as you breath you start to shut your thoughts out. Your worries, your woes... Even the fox." She whispered as she reached out and put her palms over Kaiiaki's this was a different sort of Chakra Manipulation training she was giving the girl. She wasn't the same as the others. "As this happens, slowly but surely allow your chakra to pool in your palms... You'll feel mine brush yours but that is because I am being careful and on guard for you. I will help you watch for the fox." She intoned softly. "Do not even reside in your own mind, you are the water from which your blood first came."

Kaiiaki: - Kaiiaki raised an eyebrow at the woman's words. She had never heard of this method before. But perhaps it would work. She liked water, and like the feel of it. The flow, the coolness of it on her scales. The mixture of the pleasing of her senses made her shiver. ~Water...as if I was water...~ Kaiiaki tried to repeat this phrase into her mind. Over and over it repeated. Of course, Kurama was growling in the back of her mind. He wasn't going to be happy about her training her chakra. ~"Oh just shut it bitch."~ Kaiiaki growled right back at him. ~"I satisfied you earlier. So get over yourself."~ With a whimper, Kurama backed off from taking over Kaiiaki's mind and pulling her into the golden room. That was a place that she didn't like to visit. Not unless she needed to of course. Her eyes flickered around in her skull as she pushed him back with her chakra. Surpressing him and pushing him into a corner so to speak. Once she had him taken care of, she could get on with the actual meditating. Doing both things at the same time was going to be a challenge again. Since anytime that Kaiiaki trained her chakra, he tended to want to come out and play. Kaiiaki repeated the phrase into her mind over and over again. And finally, she began to feel the cool touch of a soothing water within her toes. The feeling easily rose from her toes up to her thighs. Then when another push of regulating her chakra, it went past her stomach and into her chest cavity. The next part would be the hardest part of course. She would have to surpress Kurama within her mind. And at the same time, get her own chakra flowing within her head. It would be no simple task that was for sure. But perhaps, if she concentrated hard enough, she would be able to. She struggled to push past her arms, and into her palms. But with the imagination of gentle waves within her arms and palms, she finally pushed past. With this, she felt that Kumiko's chakra was emitting from the her own palms just above Kaiiaki's. -

ChikaKururugi:Kumiko could see the struggle in the young woman and breathed softly as she manipulated her own chakra. Her element, one of the first she learned, had been water. She breathed out gently as she pushed that chakra into her palms, manipulating her nature and letting the water chakra wrap around the young woman's palms. "You are not alone, you have help. Remember I know the Uzumaki seal. I can use it if needed, just focus on manipulating your chakra. You feel my water around your palms, absorb it, let your nature enjoy it... Then slowly push out with your own chakra and see if you can form crystals with the water I have wrapped around you. That is your chakra nature, that is who and what you are. You are many things, you are water and crystal. You are mother and child." Kumiko said in that soft almost hypnotic tone. Her breath leaving her slowly and softly as her eyes remained focused on the young woman. "Once you do that slowly withdraw, feeling the water ebb and flow from your body. Each breath you slowly let the water fall away. As if you are stepping from the shore. Slowly but surely you are going to walk back into the world. But only after you manipulate your chakra do you let the water ebb away. Alright Kaiiaki?" Kumiko said still in that same tone. Her breathing even as she kept the water nature chakra around the girls palms.

Kaiiaki: - Kaiiaki's lip trembled, as she struggled with the amount of control she was going to attempt to do. She thought she felt the gentle cool of water around her palm. It had a soothing effect on her. Amazingly, this felt too real to be just imagined. Perhaps Kumiko was using her chakra to manipulate this effect upon Kaiiaki. Whatever the case, it was working. It was helping Kaiiaki to cooly make the fox submit without too much of a struggle. It was in fact a cooler, and more calming effect that Kaiiaki felt. Instead of threatening just brute force against Kurama. Instead, she was letting her chakra flow in a steady stream and keep him subdued. Instead of just using as much as power as she possibly could against him. Kaiiaki's physical body relaxed now, listening to the words that Kumiko was now speaking. Her mind was a blank at this moment in time. A blank canvas ready to be painted upon. When Kumiko suggested she use her chakra to form crystal, she obeyed without protest. Kaiiaki let the chakra flow in a thin string from her palms. Crystallizing an object proved to be a difficult task. But Kaiiaki had done it before in the Crystal Pentagonal Prison jutsu. The challenge to this was to make it small and in a more controlled shape. Kaiiaki continued to emit the chakra from her palms, stringing her chakra around the water upon Kumiko's hand. One string at a time, she formed the water in each palm into the form of a rose. The process would have been beautiful to see if one were watching at this point in time. Once Kaiiaki felt the weight of the now solid object between their palms, she began to slowly stop the stream of chakra from her palms. Kaiiaki's breaths were soft and slow, almost as if she were sleeping at this time. With each breath, Kaiiaki slowly let the water recede out of her body. Just as if it were the shores of the beach residing at low tide.-

ChikaKururugi:Kumiko was calmly watching the young woman, even as the sun seemed to start fully set on the horizon. She kept her caramel gaze locked on the young woman, and only when she saw the roses fully forming in the palms of the girl, did she smiled softly and slowly withdraw her energy and chakra. The roses were perfectly formed crystals, and Kumiko just let herself stare at them as she slowly reached up to push her glasses back up her nose. Now she turned her attention to Kaiiaki and gave a small chuckle as she began to let herself recede back to the ground. "Now slowly open your eyes and look what you created. Instead of using force and hatred, look at what you create with calm and something you love. Water..." Kumiko said softly as she stared the girl in the eyes. Perhaps Kaiiaki in time would see what Kumiko was trying to teach her, through this special meditation Kumiko might be able to teach the girl the value in what truly controlled the Kyuubi.

Kaiiaki: -Kaiiaki gave a deep exhale as she felt the calm feeling of water recede from her body. First from her head, chest, and then lastly toes. It only took a matter of minutes for her to do this. As compared to the time that she had taken to make herself calm initially. Kaiiaki's eyes flickered as she wondered how much time had actually gone by in this process. Upon opening her eyes, it was revealed that Kai had created two crystal roses in the palms of her hands. "Well hell." Kaiiaki smiled at the intricately designed roses that she had just formed into crystal. Kaiiaki stared at them, enjoying the look and shape of them. And then the thought crossed her mind as she didn't know what she would do with them. Perhaps she would give one to Masaru. But the other...Yukio was too young to have something like this. "I uh..." Kaiiaki fidgeted upon the ground. A blush crossed over her face and she looked off to the side with narrowed eyes. Her left hand stretched out to Kumiko, holding the crystal rose within it. "For your troubles." Kaiiaki spoke briefly, not looking at the woman as she offered it to her. As soon as she would take it, Kaiiaki would bounce up from the ground. But she at once realized she felt exhausted from the training chakra that had just ensued. "Damn...how long was I out?" Kaiiaki stared wide-eyed at the sky, noticing it was afternoon and they had first started at night. "Oh shit..." Kaiiaki opened the screen door, rushing into the house. "MASARU! PUT THE BABY DOWN!" .-