Arashi's Water Training

## Participants

Inochiryoku

Guest\_ShadowSenju

Inochiryoku: -Inochiryoku opened his eyes after his early morning meditation. Having held the tiger seal for some time during his entrancement, he looked around himself, seeing the small body of water that rested before him.  Inochi's body was relaxed, even though the odd position he found himself in looked extremely uncomfortable.  With one foot upon his bo staff below, he easily balanced upon the end of his 6' long staff. Seeing as how he was on a wooden dock currently, he was unable to do what he loved doing to get down. Instead, he leaned backwards and began to fall. Before he hit dock bottom, he spun his body into the upright position again, preparing his feet for impact. Just right before landing on the dock, he would swipe at his staff to keep it from falling. After impact with the wood and his feet, he immediately spun the staff behind him and holstered it to his back. With meditation out of the way, he began to walk throughout Hoshigakure. He walked through the town while still maintaining his tiger seal, training his chakra molding prowess. This time, Inochi made sure to wrap his hair around himself, just to avoid hitting anyone this time. Inochi had two rings, visibly on both middle fingers as well as tattoos all throughout his arms. On his right ear was a small, white fishhook that simply hung from his lobe. Without wearing a shirt, he simply wore loose and baggy legwear that bore a faint resemblance to those he wore at his ministry. Around his neck were his Meditation Beads, though they looked more like balls. - As he continued to walk down the roads, he took note of the people walking by as well. One in particular caught his eye. -

Guest\_ShadowSenju: -Arashi was sitting ontop of an old rusting house the he was supposed to fix for friend when he noticed his sensei walking through Hoshigakure. He stood up to call out to him but fell through the rusting roof beneath him. Arashi got up dusting off the rust from his body and ran out into the street to greet his sensei but noticed the suspicious look on his face. Arashi's eyes went in every direction possible until he spotted the person that Inochiryoku was steering at, he took out his kunai and looked at his sensei wating for him to approach the suspicious individual -

Inochiryoku: - Inochiryoku called out to the person who caught his eye. "Miss Yarinakamo! What a pleasant surprise to see you out and about." The monk walked over a few feet to the woman in front of him. As he greeted her, he bowed though still maintaining his tiger seal even to this point. The young Yarinakamo bowed in return with a smile. Today she wore a wonderful Kimono, filled with different patterns and designs. A dragon raced around the bosom towards the underlings that guarded themselves on the sash of the kimono, breathing blue fire upon them as the red sky faded to night. Even the young woman's face was well guarded by beauty, hair drawn up and her hazel eyes focused with eyeliner. "You look simply stunning madam," He stated as he looked about her. "Have somewhere to be?" The beautiful woman nodded and began to speak to Inochi. "Good to see you as well, Ino." she said, greeting him. "And actually yes, I am. I am headed to a formal breakfast with someone special." She smiled as she responded to him.  "Please enjoy yourself then!" He says as she begins to walk away from him to meet her 'someone special.' "May we meet again!" he calls out, having her respond with a wave goodbye as she hurried off. 'Someone special?' He thought to himself. 'Like Father?' - As she walked away, Inochi's eyes fell to a boy on the street not too far from where he was standing. The boy was rusty and dusty and needed a cleaning. The boy had a visable kunai out in the open. "Arashi?" he called out to the boy. "What are you doing with your weapon drawn like that?" Inochi paused for a moment and turned to face the boy properly. "And why are you filthy?" -

Guest\_ShadowSenju: -Arashi threw away his kunai and acted as if he never drew the weapon. He looked at his sensei with a confused facial expression " I taught u were going to attack that person i guess i was wrong" he said. Arashi picked up the kunai he trew away and holstered the weapon. He continuously scratched his arms and asked "Who was the lady u were talking to". Arashi sat down in a mediation position, opened his bag and took out a bowl of rammin. He proceeded to eat his delicious lunch while waiting for Inochiryoku to answer the his question-

Inochiryoku: - "Atta..." Inochi begins but slowly fades out as his student would even begin to think that he'd attack someone. "We are in the middle of Hoshigakure. There shouldn't be any surprise attacks here." Inochi walked over to the boy (Once again, still holding tiger seal) and bent his knees down to the child, crouching before him. The boy had pulled out a bowl of ramen, seemingly out of nowhere and began to eat it. Presumably uncooked ramen the boy had just pulled out of his bag, Inochi simply ignored that part. "She was a good friend. Known her for a very many years." He says with a bit of snark in his voice. Of course he had only been there for a short while and had only seen her once before. In fact, he was pretty certain her name actually started with a Q or something. Returning back to the food situation, he looks at the boy who was now sitting in the middle of the street eating his uncooked ramen. "Now? Right here, right now?" Inochi asked the boy. "Of all places you could be eating. Here and now?" Inochi shook his head before looking around. "Here, come with me to the benches at least." - He stood up and began walking to the benches before turning around and saying something again. "And dust yourself off before you eat too. You could get sick that way." -

Guest\_ShadowSenju: -Arashi got up and dusted himself off he was holding his bowl of uncooked ramen (that still tasted delicious) in one hand and he was courteously scratching his neck with the other hand until it turned red and looked blistered. Arashi stopped scratching his neck and continued to eat his ramen ignoring Inochiryoku. After eating out half of the ramen Arashi walked over to the bench and sat down continuing to eat the rest of his ramen. He rest the bowl of ramen on his lap and asked " What type of training am i going to do today".

Inochiryoku: - Inochiryoku sighed as the boy slowly made his way towards the bench to sit down. The boy sat down next to him and began to continue eating his ramen. He had dusted himself off a bit, but there were still clear signs that he needed a bit more then a pat down. The boy asked Inochi what their training was for the day, to which Inochi shrugged. Like he was supposed to know what the boy needed to know. Honestly, this was the first time he was ever given a pupil of his own. It was a new experience for him and even though he enjoyed new things, he wasn't exactly given an exact schedule or duty.  Taking a deep breath in through his nose, he smelled something mild but distasteful. It didn't take long enough for him to realize where the smell came from. "You seem to have been busy with some other work. But seeing how you are now, you're probably more wanting to learn something," He says out loud. Inochi then comes up with an idea. - "Finish your noodles, Arashi. We have a place to be and people to see," he says with a smile. Even so, he continues to hold the Tiger Seal as he stands, beckoning the boy with his shoulders as he offers to have him follow. Inochi knew this would be a perfect place to train. -

Guest\_ShadowSenju: -Arashi looked at Inochi raising his left eyebrow and shrugged his shoulder not caring where they go as long as he go to train.Arashi agreed and finished eating his uncooked ramen (still delicious) he got up dropping his empty bowl on the floor and ran over to a nearby fountain. The boy didn't care who saw him and what anyone would would say about he jumped in the fountain and began to wash all the dirt and rust off hhis skin with the crystal clear sprakeling water while he was in the fountain he decided to pick up the coins that people threw into it. Arashi found 5 gold coins and a few bronze coins in the water he took them and placed it in his bag. He stepped out of the fountain and ran behind a building. Arashi appeared in front of Inochi in a black and red ninja outfit he placed his bag on his back and grabbed Inochi's hand pulling him off the chair " Can we leave now I'm all clean and i changed my clothes" he asked. "I hope ur gonna help me find my first element" Arashi asked while swinging his sword show off his skills and smiling at Inochi-

Inochiryoku: -Inochiryoku shook his head at the boys actions. Inochi was always for the "At one with nature" type ordeal, but there was a time and a place for everything. He saw the boy taking money from the fountain though never brought up anything about it. Unbinding his hands, he grabs his staff from his back while the child was distracting himself with the various tasks he set before him. Using his staff, he grabs the empty cup of ramen with the end of it and promptly throws it in a direction. Quite skillfully, it finds its way into a trashcan on the side of the street. Quickly, Inochi looks around to see his miraculous freethrow shot. Unfortunately, not a single person in sight was able to witness his spectacular toss. "Aww man," He mumbled under his breath. "No one is ever around when I'm super awesome." Inochi places his staff back on his back and returns his chakra molding Tiger Seal. - The boy returns to him wearing a different outfit and holding a fair amount of dust left. Unfortunately, the smell that resided on him still maintained itself. "Follow me," Inochi said as he continued down the road. - Soon after Inochi arrived at a Hotspring. He looked at the boy who had (Presumably) followed him. "First off, let's both get cleaned up. Besides, been rather stiff all morning," He said.  Walking inside, he prepares for the hotsprings, removing his monk garbs and placing his staff against the wall. Grabbing a towel, he wraps it around himself before heading out into the springs. Walking to the spring, he slowly walks his way to one of the many corners of the spring and sits down. Only his arms, the upper part of his chest, and his head are visible from the water. Finally sitting down, he returns his special seal of the Tiger once again. -

Guest\_ShadowSenju: -Arashi sat on a bolder and opened his bag counting the coins he got form the fountain he then took out weighted bans ( 5 pounds each) and struggled to put it on. His hand fell to ground lifelessly and he struggled to raised them up. Arashi then took out ankle bracelets (5 pounds each) and put them on, he slowly got up and walked over to a tree still struggling to even move a limb. When he finally reached the tree 10 minutes later, slowly lifted up his hands and started to punch the tree.When his hand became to weak to even lift a finger Arashi bagan to kick the tree until his legs gave up. Arashi collapsed staring at they sky and began admiring the clouds he the looked over at Inochi and started to crawl to the hotspring. He didn't even bother to take off the weights he just fell into the hot spring and sank to too bottom staring up at Inochi. Arsahi had used up all his energy and damaged his hands and legs but he didn't let that stop him he was so determine to get stronger that he began to punh the bottom of the hotspring very slowly until his hands became numb.

Inochiryoku: -Inochi once again found nothing but an unkindled mind from the boy as he bore witness to the mindless acts of the child. Seeing the child flail about was almost too embarassing to watch. Eventually Arashi wound up inside the hotspring still wearing his gear and weights around his limbs. Inochi had finally stood up and attempted to pull the boy out of the water. "It's hard to train you if you mindlessly burn all of your energy now, isn't it?" he asked the boy. "And  now that your clothes are all soaked, what do you plan to do now? You'll get sick." If the boy allowed himself to be picked up, Inochi would pick him up (Breaking his Tiger seal) and place him out of the hotspring. "Go get into proper bathing attire and hurry back. Hopefully by then your clothes will be dry." Inochi said that, even though he was almost certain that was an impossibility. Upon the child's return, if he did return, Inochi would beckon for the boy to stand in the middle of the hotspring. "I know you've already worn yourself out," he began. "But that's your fault. I still want to see progress." - Inochi sighed and placed a hand onto the water in front of him.  He then pushed chakra into his palm, keeping him holding it in place and hoisting himself out of the water. Doing a quick handstand, he then began to fall and land back in the water causing a fair sized wave in the hotspring. The wave could cause someone to fall over if they weren't expecting it or if they were weak and unable to hold themselves up.  "Do that," he said to the child. "Stand upon the water and you'll be good to go as a shinobi." Inside Inochi's head, he simply laughed. How was he supposed to know what'll be good as a shinobi? He was a monk after all. He then sighed once again. 'Oh well,' he thought. 'Might as well teach him this anyway. Seems important enough.' -

Guest\_ShadowSenju: -Arashi allows Inochi to lift his life less body out of the water he then takes off the weights and disappears into the forest the boy opens his bag and takes of his swimming trunks he then takes off his shirt hanging it onto a tree to dry. Arashi puts on his swimming trunks but before he goes back to the hotspring he says to himself " I'm from the Senju clan and i can't do anything I'm useless" . The boy walks black to the hot spring in a sad mood but cheers himself up by saying "he will prove to everyone that he is not worthless" . Arashi watches Inochi as he raises him self up off the water and then falls back into the hotspring, Arashi steps into the hotspring relaxing his body he then focuses his chakara onto the palm of his hand and rests it on the water allowing it to carry his hand along the tiny ripples in the water, Arashi begins to lift himself off the water but just falls into the hotspring. He tries again and again and again and again and again and again (basically 5 hours later), the boy has almost used up his chakara and is out of breath he falls face first into the water and dosent want to try anymore but encourages him self to do it one more time. Arashi allows his chakara to flow onto the palm of his hand and places it onto the water he then lifts himself up for 30 seconds and falls back into the water, he had made some progress by lifting himself up longer than before but not long enough.

Inochiryoku: -Inochiryoku spend hours watching this boy try and fail once again. Of course what did he expect? The child wasted a ton of energy even before beginning. Inochi shrugged as the boy continued. 'Even though he doesn't have energy, he hasn't given up yet. That's a plus,' He said, thinking to himself. At this point, Inochi had already recovered his belongings and was just sitting at the edge of the hotspring awaiting for the boy to either succeed or give up. - After seeing the child dunk in and out of the water, Inochi finally stood. As the boy fell back into the water, Inochi focused chakra to his feet and began walking to the ninja in training. As he finally makes it to Arashi, Inochi squats down and offers his hand to the child. If the child were to accept the assistance upward, he would be in for a surprise. Inochi was funneling a portion of his chakra very slowly through his palm. Upon contact, the boy would slowly receive a small amount of chakra from Inochi. If the boy had held the hand of the monk, he would help the boy back upon the water. "Focus on balancing. You'll need to find a place to where you don't push too much chakra out, but also keep a strong enough stream to keep you above water."  Inochi began to walk back to his previous resting spot. He quickly found his spot and sat down, facing Arashi in the water. He quickly formed a tiger seal and held it in an attempt to recover the chakra he had lost, though it wasn't much to begin with. "I won't give you much Chakra," Inochi began again. "It's actually better that you conserve your chakra. It'll help you from expending too much of it anyway." Now watching the boy for any drastic improvements, he awaits to see if Arashi can use what he had given him. Worst case scenario, it would take weeks for the boy to completely learn it, but Inochi had hope for the better of the scenarios. -

Guest\_ShadowSenju: -Arashi allows Inochi to help him up he then fells the flow of Inochi's chakara into his own he stops gasping for air and begins to fell a bit releaved. Inochi went back to edge where he was sitting and Arashi listened to what he was saying took note of it. "thanks for the chakara" Arashi said as he takes a deep breath and clears his mind, the boy then flows a tiny portion of his chakara onto his palm as he places his hand on the water he begins to flow more chakara onto his palm and lifts himself off the water standing on his hand. Arashi does the same on the other hand and starting with a little bit of chakara and increasing it until he can balance himself onto of the water, the boy launches himself into the air with his hands and flows chakara onto his feet using the same method that he used for his hands and stands on the water. Arashi looks at Inochi and smiles at him saying " I have finally done it", Arashi then walks over to Inochi and sit on the edge next to him asking " Can we please find my first element now"

Inochiryoku: -Inochiryoku sat and watched the boy attempt to stand on the water again. As Inochi watched the boy, he still maintained his chakra molding. He knew why he molded chakra. It was a habit he had developed at the ministry. An old habit that he could have long forgotten about, but instead decided to keep it as a memento. After a bit of time continuing to wait for the boy to succeed, Arashi had finally managed to hold his ground upon the water and makes his way to Inochi to sit down. Arashi then asks Ino if he can learn his first nature. Inochi simply responds by shaking his head. "With what chakra?" he asks his student. "Not only have you physically depleted yourself of energy by punching and kicking things, but you've also depleted most of your chakra." Ino sighs a moment before continuing. "A part of training is having patience." - Inochi stood up and began walking back upon the hotspring. "A mindless man is only a danger to himself." Inochi sat down upon the water, flowing his chakra at the perfect frequency to the parts of his body that would allow him to do so.  Now facing the boy who was sitting at the edge of the hotspring, he began to speak again. "Take a breather for today. It's been quite a few many hours and you are more than likely drained. Go home and get some rest. " - Inochi released his molding and formed a Tiger seal again. "On another note: Could you pay the bill for me with those coins you picked up earlier from the fountain? It seems I forgot my pockets," he said with a chuckle. Having all of his gear already with him, he used his tiger seal to use the 'Body Flicker Technique" away from the area. In reality, he had flickered outside the entrance to the hotspring and began to walk away. Watching students was a good training, especially for patience, but it was now time for Inochiryoku's own training. -

Guest\_ShadowSenju: -Arashi knew that all his effort had payed off and he was getting stronger day by day, he watched Inochi disappear and reappear outside of the entrance to the hotspring, realizing that Inochi tricked him into paying the bill Arashi sets off a smoke bomb and grabs his gear using the trees to escape the area without paying anything. The boy still running through the trees stops and lies down on a branch relaxing his body, he thinks to himself "I'm now one step closer to my goal and nothing can stop me". Arashi opens his bag and takes out the coins he get from the fountain counting his money and laughing at the taught that Inochi left him there to pay his bill-