Of Crimson Eyes and Feathered Minds - Ninjutsu Training

Ninjutsu Solo training for Kumiko Kyoko

 After a quick break
the woman brought herself up to par with what she was planning on doing. With
the older man sitting and watching she started to look into her inner library
of jutsus. She could practice several of her Ninjutsus, but which one did she
want to work on the most? Perhaps refining one of her water techniques? Or her
wind? She had practiced the seal often for several weeks, before Kaiiaki’s
labor – so she didn’t really need to practice that one. Perhaps she should
practice some of her Wind Techniques? They were considerably her weaker
techniques. Though one was quite powerful in its own right.

She had practiced the technique quite extensively, after she
learned it as a Chuunin – through her iIchibi and Ikken. She knew how to make a
formidable blade for closer range combat, but she knew – from her Ancestor’s
memories – that she could refine it into a much more dangerous weapons.
Multiple nearly invisible blades on wind that could be flung rapidly like
Kunai. Which could be quite useful in the long run. Having more long ranged
capabilities would be useful for the Jounin, and with that old man watching her
she stood up and dusted herself off.

She formed the needed handsigns, focusing on her Wind nature
and developed the normal blade in her hand. It took a bit of work, but like an
old friend the Jutsu returned to her palm and formed into a whisper thin blade
of razor sharp wind. That was the easy part, now the harder part was to
modulate her chakra and refine that blade down into several smaller blades. She
turned her attention to a rock outcropping nearby, narrowing her eyes and
nodding. She knew that the old Uchiha was watching her, but she didn’t do
anything other than stare at the rock. Her eyes closed as she focused on the
blade that was in her hand. She imagined, as she was quite good at that, that
the blade was fracturing into many smaller crescent shaped wind blades.

She made a small sound of surprise as she felt a few cuts open on her arms, she
knew this technique was dangerous even to her. She had known for a long time.
With that she turned her attention to the rocks and began flinging the wind
blades. Learning how to project them properly would be the hard part. She had
never used the technique in this way, though it was an aspect of it that she
remembered from her Ancestor’s memories. She was getting a bit frustrated, as
she watched the blades miss their target several times.

“It’s like learning how to throw Kunai and Shuriken all over
again. Don’t give up.” The man said as Kumiko looked at him for a moment. Her
head nodded as she directed all of her attention solely on the task. She
reformed her signs, pressed her chakra forward and then started flinging the
blades again. She needed to treat this as if she was doing Taijutsu while using
her Wind Nature. That’s all it was really, it was one of her most underhanded
techniques next to her A rank Genjutsus.

The woman began moving then, treating it as she did her
shuriken training the day before. Her body moved rapidly as she continued to
form the jutsu and then continued to form blades. Eventually she realized that
as long as she kept the Wind Nature going, she didn’t need to redo the
handsigns really. She just had to keep using the Jutsu in order for it to be
maintained. She moved as quickly as she could her body running back and forth
as her hands flung the blades of wind. As she worked her accuracy continued to
improve at a surprising rate. It was actually very satisfying to see her work
progress the way it was. She knew that with time, she would continue to get
better at this.

But the problem was figuring out other ways to work with it.
Once she got the blades to go the way she wanted, then she realized that with
any technique that used nature that she could manipulate it with her chakra in
ways that others might not believe. She began throwing the blades but using her
mind and chakra to manipulate them to send them on curving arching paths.

“There you go, that’s what you need to do.” She heard him
say, stopping for a moment to pant and look over at him with a gaze of
frustration.

“Can you please be silent for a bit longer, I want to try
something.” She said as she concentrated on her hands again, the wind coming to
life and forming into two large blades that she formed to be thrown like the
other crescent wind blades. With a deep sigh she flung them as hard as she
could towards the rock outcropping. Already it had started to show signs of
wear, but as the two blades arched into the rock it cracked and split a bit.
Yes, that was exactly what she was looking for. She adjusted her chakra and
then flung the Blades of Wind as hard as she could pouring a larger amount of
chakra into it. All of a sudden the rock she had been attacking was cut
cleaning and started to fall apart.

She dropped to the ground, resting on her rear, and taking
in shaking breaths. “That was harder than I thought.” She admitted as she
scratched the back of her head and shuddered. She was really not looking forward
to the task she had coming at hand, after this she would have to work on her
Genjutsu again, somehow she would need to make him fall into her genjutsu. She
wasn’t sure what they were doing with that. She shuddered again and then just
laid back on the ground, her hands resting above her head as she took in
shaking breaths, her caramel eyes closing as she let herself relax finally.

The day was almost over.