Training Day

## **Training Day: Crystal and Samurai 6-28-16**

Kaiiaki:-Today was a change of scenery for the young teenager Kaiiaki Kurisutaru. She had handed the baby to Dahlia earlier in the morning. Her sister had thankfully been back from a mission. And she had agreed to watch the baby while she was recuperating. Kaiiaki suspected that her sister had just missed the baby Yukio. But she decided to not call her out on that and lose the offer. Instead, Kaiiaki had left the house early. Masaru wasn't around the house, and she supposed that he had already left to do something. In his wake, she had dressed herself in her usual ninja gear, grabbed some food, kissed the baby, and left the house. After she had left the house, she decided to walk around the village a bit. It was nice to see the usual buildings around the village. Although, there weren't many merchants or citizens around these days. Most of the citizens had lost their lives in the Chakra Virus incident that had happened months ago. Most of the merchants now were only visitors, trying to take advantage of the situation. "The greedy disgusting fools..." She had muttered under her breath. It revolted her, looking at all of them collecting their money. She wanted to flip over their stands and stab them in the heart. And she almost did. However, she saw no benefit in it. And she realized that she needed to expend her energy elsewhere. Who knew how many days or hours she would have to herself. She needed to make the best of it. So that brought her to where she was now, at the Training Grounds. She was currently stretching out her muscles in order to start up some training. ~Stamina, Speed, and Strength...those are all my weak points. That has to be fixed in order for me to achieve Jonin...~ Kaiiaki thought to herself. She was so close to being eligible for a Jonin position in the village. She just had to keep training and stepping on people to get what she wanted. Nobody was going to get in her way. Jonin was something she had to get. She had to get stronger in order to protect her baby and family from a certain people. The same people that had murdered and experimented on the Kurisutaru were back. And this time they knew where the Kurisutaru were again. They knew their targets. And they were not going to back down. It was clear that this was only the beginning. They had their list. Dahlia was next, and then it was Kaiiaki. Shortly after her last mission, Kaiiaki had warned the family that they were on a list. A list like a grocery list to be taken out and disposed of. It had concerned all of them, especially since the infant's name was last on the list. Lately, everyone had been stepping up more. They had been taking shifts in taking care of the baby. It had been agreed upon that such a thing was neccessary. They all needed to become stronger in order to fend off this enemy. Since the Kage was a bust, they were on their own in such a manner. At least until a new Kage was elected. Kaiiaki's mind filled with worries, but she needed to stop the worrying if only for a moment. Making progress was her main priority. If she was making progress, it increased her chance of keeping the baby safe. With that thought in mind, Kaiiaki finished stretching up her muscles. Her grey eyes stared around at the darkned grey skies and the blackened soil. The few trees around barely had any leaves upon them. The area of the training grounds was small as well. Hoshigakure ninja mostly focused on training from the power of the Star. However, it was clear that this era of ninja were trying to rely on their own power.-

Akira:‘Another day gone easily.’, Akira thought. His eyes were gazing upon the field he was laid upon. He had passed his days since the last time he saw his superior in the squad training for the Genjutsu. It was a nice training and taught him some stuff. He enjoyed it, even if he passed little time with her. He sighed though and stood up. He held in his left hand a katana, one that had a short blade and he held it with the hilt looking upwards, while the blade looked downwards. He closed his eyes and took a stance. He was like a statue, if anybody watched him, though he was in a seriously deep part of the whole forest area of the training grounds. Around his body a sense of dread was emitted, as if one came close, he would be dead. That sensation came from the stance he had at that point. Being a master of his art, he had power that could kill anyone, if it actually was able to connect with the enemy. But if it did connect, it would be a clean cut. A decapitation, with no blood loss from the action of cutting the head. This time though, he had cut a boulder, the size of it was around two meters in depth. He then opened his eyes, after the move he did and checked the cut he had done. ‘Clean. A clean cut. Good.’, he thought while he looked at the blade of his weapon, in case of it having chipped or anything. And afterwards he sighed for the fifty eighth time for today. He was filling a bit tired, but he did not mind that much. Nonetheless, he knew he should find something to train. He was unsure what he should focus for now and thus he was doing his everyday training of his kenjutsu. And then he felt someone. He stopped training and hid. He was unsure if it was an enemy or something, but he could feel some coldness from that person. As he remained hidden and as time passed, the person appeared. It was a woman. He could not make how she looked, but he remained hidden. And then realized one thing. ‘I have left al the boulders I have cut in open view. Bravo Akira, bravo.’, he said in full irony within him. He was unsure if the woman would be able to understand how old the cuts on the boulders were, but if she understood that they were fresh and if she was actually an enemy, then he would have to fight and kill. And he smiled, wanting to see what this woman would actually do.

Kaiiaki: -As Kaiiaki was looking around at the scenery, she noticed something unusual. Some of the boulders in the training grounds had been cut. "What the hell..." She walked over to the boulder nearest to her, about 5 feet. The boulder was approximately 6 feet in height and 5 feet in width. It wasn't too big, but not too small either. It was odd in the way that it had been cut, like a clean cut from a sword almost. Kaiiaki had seen the Training Grounds ruined before from jutsu users, but nothing like this. "A sword user must have been practicing here...a talented one in that case. Or at least, one that has a sharp ass blade." She narrowed her grey eyes at the boulder, and put her hand to it. She felt the smooth texture of the boulder with her small hand. It was as smooth as the blade of a Katana. She thought the whole scene was an odd sort of mess. But as far as she knew, the village alarm hadn't been raised. If it had been, or close to been, she would have been informed. So as far as she knew, it was probably some sword trainer that had been practicing here. She shrugged it off, not caring about the boulders in the slightest. She had bigger problems to face than just a different change of scenery. "Training my stamina..." She spoke aloud, trying to figure out how to train such a thing. It had seemed to work last time when she used her chakra and ran at the same time. Perhaps today she would do the same thing. She would just push it even harder than she did last time. Although, she hoped she wouldn't have a repeat of Masaru leaving her in the dirt again. That was one thing that she would probably never get over. She tried to push it to the back of her mind. Even though she knew the demon fox within her would just feed off the dark memory. He tended to take anything bad that happened and use it against her. She was sure it would be something that she would have to deal with sooner or later. Perhaps a full frontal confrontation would be best for that sort of thing. But right now, she neither had the time nor care to deal with it. Kaiiaki shook her head, trying to clear her mind of such things. She then pushed her body into a light jog. She was going to jog for a bit, and get her heart-rate up. Once she got going, she was going to push herself to keep going harder and better.-

Akira:He remained still, gazing at what the woman was doing. She checked on a rock and then she actually acted as if saying, ‘fuck that’ and she she started running. He inclined his head, unsure on what to think of such an action, but he still remained hidden. As she had started jogging, he caught a glimpse of her being from the Hoshigakure, so he felt relieved. ‘So they did not come.’, he thought, thinking about them. He shrugged the idea off, though and concentrated on his kenjutsu. He breathed in and then he let the air out and by using the force of his body’s momentum he rushed forth and cut several trees and boulders in his path, for around five hundred meters. He was sure he had made a huge amount of sound, seeing the trees falling and he hoped he did not disturb the girl from whatever she was doing. He sighed gently and looked behind him. ‘Nice. I seriously need a place where I can go one hundred percent though.’, he thought and sighed again, as he got a hold of the katana at his left side with his right hand. He held it and drew it out, getting immediately in a stance and started performing a kata, fighting against imaginary enemies. His movements were graceful, dancelike, having extreme flow and extremely deadly. The force that he was generating, from the way of moving the weapons held in his hands, was such that made cuts in trees and boulders in an area of fifty to seventy feet around him. He did not mind about the trees and the boulders, but he did mind about wildlife and about hitting the woman, in case she came nearby his training. It would definitely be fatal if she got hurt by his moves. Also he had fused within his kenjutsu, his wind attribute chakra, thus further enhancing his own power of speed and cutting ability by far. And he enjoyed this sensation of actually being free, able to move as he wanted once more. The times in which he trained his own kenjutsu, were the times he felt he was the most happy. At least for the last five years.

Kaiiaki: -Lap after lap she continued to jog around the training field. Each lap she ran more distance than the one before. She was slowly adding more circumference to the jogging lap each time. The Hoshigakure Training Grounds were small at the actual part where she trained at. She always trained in the open area, where there were few trees and she was surrounded by nothing but the black soil. At the most there was the few boulders were someone had cut them earlier. She made a mental note to not trip over anything and smash her head upon the rocks. That would be an automatic concussion at least. For the next two minutes, Kaiiaki continued her light jog. She kept moving at this pace until she felt her pulse increase to about 98. Once she felt her heart beating fast, she knew she was ready to pick up the pace some. Kaiiaki increased her speed to that of a sprint. She continued to make laps around the field. It was a distance of about a mile every lap. Not too short and not too long. In the middle of her sprint, a sound off to the distant forest made her ear twitch. It sounded as if trees were just sent crashing to the ground by an unknown force. Kaiiaki didn't cease in her jog. But the sound did get her mind into gear. ~Who the hell is doing this?~ She thought. Perhaps it was the same person that had sliced the boulders up. Whoever it was, was cutting into her concentration and getting her off task. If the sounds were to continue, she would have to go and confront the source. But then, she would also have to cease her training. ~Oh decisions, decisions... Why does someone have to go and try to ruin my day off from the baby?~ She complained shortly. But for now, she decided to not cease in her training. After she decided this, she began to pick up the pace some more. And with that, she also began to mix her chakra with the moleclues within the air. She wouldn't need hand signs to form her old favorite jutsu. Although, it was getting to the point where she wanted to learn to perfect new jutsu. But for now, this simple one would do. Kaiiaki began to form a Crystal Thorn branch in the middle of the Training Grounds. She formed it from the ground up, making a solid base for the tree to stand great and tall. With that, she continued to grow and form the crystal upwards. The crystal grew upwards, stretching with a width of 8 feet wide. It grew up to a height of 90 feet. When it topped off at this height, she grew 16 crystal branches off to the side, branching them off up towards the sky and downwards towards the ground. She continued to do all of this as she sprinted. She was trying to push herself harder and harder each time she trained. And she would not go home until she accomplished this.-

Kaiiaki:- Lap after lap Kaiiaki continued her run without ceasing in speed. If she could take a guess, she estimated she was running about 52 miles per hour at this point. Which of course, wasn't much to some. But to her it was certainly impressive. Right now however, that was the max speed she could handle. She would have to train her speed later if she wanted to increase it. Which she did want to increase it, in order to beat her mate at his own game. However, Stamina was her main priority right now. Kaiiaki kept pushing herself, longer and harder. She continued at this same speed for any hour. There was no way she was going to give up and give in. The blood of relentless killers flowed through her bones. Becoming stronger was simply the only option. Kaiiaki continued to run, pushing herself to keep going hour after hour. She simply ignored all outside forces pushing them all aside. They didn't even matter to her. After sustaining her same speed for a solid 3 hours, Kaiiaki was feeling the sting of pushing herself. She had not rested once, but had been pushing herself the whole time. Her breath came out in huffs, her heart was pounding out of her chest. But still, she refused to stop until she felt she absolutely couldn't take anymore. ~Watch and see what all I can do...~ Kaiiaki thought to herself. Now was the time to put in more action. Kaiiaki began to mix her chakra with the molecules in the air. She was mixing them, combining her chakra with the natural elements of the universe. Carbon, Nitrogen, Oxygen, H2O. All of them were at her disposal when she formed crystal. They mixed so easily with her chakra. It was if she was simply born to be a natural at Crystal Release. Kaiiaki continued to from her chakra in the middle of the field. She was going to build on to the crystal tree she had formed from thorn branches earlier. Kaiiaki mixed her chakra forming Crystal thorns in intricate shapes and forms. She formed tree after tree, each of them varying in sizes and shapes. Most of them were about the size of the famed adult creature the Onbaa. Those were rumored to have been extinct long ago, but Kaiiaki suspected that there was more than that. They were hiding out somewhere, just waiting to be found. Once Kaiiaki had formed about 20 crystal trees, she began to slow her sprint off to a jog. She had worn herself completely out. She would have kept going if she had the energy. But to have it simply put, she was done for the day. Kaiiaki slowed herself to a jog, in order to cool down. She continued this for another minute, finishing up another mile in the process. When she felt like she had cooled down adequately, she slowed to a walk and then stopped. She was still breathing hard, and was going to take it easy until her body caught up with her. Her grey eyes gazed over the Crystal Trees she had formed in the middle of the field. It was enough to be about a 8 story building. "Now that...is what I call...impresssive..." She spoke between breathes. Once she had calmed down enough, she brought her arm over and waved it over the crystals. This shattered them at once, breaking the molecules back down to their original forms. All evidence that she had been training here was gone except for her own prescence. "Rule of being a ninja, never leave behind a trace that you were there. Dumbass" She muttered off into the distance of the forest. She assumed some show off was still playing ninja out there. He still had a lot to learn. After she spoke, she turned around and made her way back to her home.-