Contemplation and Training - Taijutsu Training

Solo Training Session for Kumiko Kyoko - Taijutsu

Meeting her
Genin had helped her get herself in order. But Kumiko knew she had a long way
to go. She needed to work on herself more, and after she realized that she was
coming up on some hard choices – she had started to work out what she was going
to do. Meeting Jin had been a few days ago, their training had been a few days
ago. Today she was going to work on training her Taijutsu again, this time with
weapons, her Stamina, and her Speed. But first of all she was going to open
with her Taijutsu. There wasn’t much she could do with hand to hand just yet,
she was still sore from before, but knowing weaponry was part of Taijutsu. She
was good with her senbon, her Shuriken and her Kunai. So she could continue to improve
those skills with practice.

Practice was
exactly what she needed, so she could begin to formulate how she was going to
work with her next Genin. One of Kaiiaki’s family, from the looks of her name.
She hadn’t had a chance to meet the girl yet, but she was honestly looking
forward to the kind of students she had been given. She prepared herself for
the day, making sure she was clean and prepared. She gathered her weapons, left
an incense burning for Masaki and a ‘breakfast offering’ and then left her home
again. Training earlier in the morning worked for her, it warmed her up for the
days activities and she found it brought a strange sense of piece of her ‘old
bones’.

There was
still no word on what was being done with the Hoshikage, but she hoped that old
man would rot in a fucking cell. Part of her wished she could figure out that
final stage of her Kekkei. It’d be nice if it was some form of a mind rape,
which that was startling for the woman to realize she was even thinking. She
was walking to the training grounds now, that contemplation rolling through her
mind. She pushed her glasses up her nose and looked into the distance in
confusion. She was usually quite neutral, but something about him threatening
to kill a newborn drove her up a wall. She hated that man with a burning
passion, and she was making it her life’s purpose to make sure he never
attained power again. She would push and put forward any sort of statement she
had to, in order to make him lose his position.

With a small
sound of annoyance, the woman walked on to the training grounds. Her head
cocked to the side as she pulled free a set of Senbon.  She would practice with these first, using the
training dummy with specially marked points. This was specifically for Senbon,
as it helped show the major striking points for the needles deadly points. She
was quiet and calm as she walked towards the dummy, starting at a close distance
and then slowly walking herself back as she threw the senbon over and over
again. After she threw all her senbon she would walk forward and collect all of
them. Step back a bit further and repeat that process over and over again. She
knew that this was the best way to train with them, but she spiced it up a
little by moving to the side now, running back and forth and letting the senbon
sink into the wood with a satisfying thunk. It was actually quite cathartic and
she wondered if either of her Genin happened to like using senbon. She could
possibly help them with their training.

When she
felt she had accomplished enough he woman turned her attention to the training
dummies used for combat with Kunais. She drew her Kunais, holding one in each
fist and started to ‘dance’ around the dummy. It was quite similar to the one
for hand to hand, in that it rotated and required you to respond. Block, dodge,
duck and weave. Her body wound around the training dummy as she focused herself
on this singular task. Her mind focused on nothing more than using her Kunai to
their utmost ability. Her body rocked back and forth and she fell into a
pattern with her practice. Her body moving, small and delicate, like a
whirlwind of flashing blades, as she lost herself in her focus on her Taijutsu
training. When she felt she had accomplished enough with the kunai she stepped
back and started looking at the variety of targets for the training of
Shuriken. There was a lot of options and she would need to pick the best ones
for herself.

She put her
Kunai away and pulled out some Shuriken, looking at the targets and deciding on
stationary first. She followed the same process she had with the Senbon, and
then when she had accomplished that she stepped back and then started to do a
moving practice with her shuriken. She was calm, methodical, and the sound of
metal striking wood became quite wonderful to her mind. She quietly
contemplated how she was going to continue this training, and decided that the
best way to do so was probably to start aiming for the harder to reach targets.
Those outside of her usual range of capabilities. So with that in mind the
women started to through her shuriken at targets that were further and further
away.

When that
was not enough she turned her attention to trying to figure out how to hit the
targets that were for curved Shuriken attacks. Well that would be interesting,
she began practicing and it took her a couple tries to figure out how to knock
shurikens against each other to get to the harder to reach targets. It was such
a rewarding feeling though, she realized, after she continued this pattern for
awhile. Learning how to do this was quite a useful thing, but learning how to
increase her skills was even more important. She stopped after awhile and sat
down to take a bring to drink some water.

Overall it
looked like the training had happened quite nicely, and she was pleased with
her progress. Next she was going to work on her Stamina.