Once again, dray found himself on the path of a river. A river not really known in the village hidden in the leaves since dray had not really heard much of it from most people.
It was the naka river. A river that flowed through konohagakure no sato... On the land of the uchihas... But where exactly were these so called uchihas who where feared for their hatred. The havoc they could wreck.. Their blood shot eyes... But dray had not caught sight of any of them recently. Where they were was unknown to him. Probably in hiding he guessed. He could remember that the uchihas were one of the founding members of the leaf village. Their most famous ancestor being Uchiha madara. A rival to the senju's lord.. God of shinobi.. Senju Hashirama. Dray was told that when both clashed, they fought for days until madara uchiha was brought down...

As dray walked the river path, it was all quiet as a graveyard. Though faint tweets from birds could be heard by someone straining their ear but as dray was well familiar with the forest surrounding and was pretty conscious, he needed not strain his ear to listen. Dray wondered what more his clan abilities had to offer than just creating of wood. He was aware that his clan's wooden abilities could prove pretty useful as he had created a small hut for himself back at the village of takigakure.. But dray knew that there was more to it.. Just a few days ago, he remembered being in the southern forest of konoha, remembering a griefing incident when he suddenly snapped out of it with a beasty roar only to find plant vines all around him... It was like they were responding to his emotions though he had not yet confirmed if he could control them to his will or not... Leaving this discovery to another day, dray thought about his life. How to make it better. He had stayed in the village hidden in the leaves long enough and he felt like his own life was hidden. He wanted to explore. An idea that had never came to his mind. All he wanted was to be recognized as a ninja of the leaf but now, he felt like he could achieve that by seeing the other shinobi countries..

Seeing the water of the naka river flowing gently, dray gathered chakra on his feet and stepped on the water walking softly on it.. He felt different. Like he had left somewhere and he was pretty sure that that was exactly how he would feel if he left the leaf village though he would get used to it as he was getting used to walking on the water now.. He could feel himself walking like he was on real ground since he rarely used this academy technique though it could prove quite useful.. He changed his pace and started walking a little bit faster now.. Still feeling normal, dray began to run on the water. Though, he could feel splashes as his leg hit the water, it was still as if he was on the normal ground. Feeling the day pretty well now, dray was feeling excited.. He hadn't had any fun in day and he felt like a matured fun was on the way..

Gauging how deep the water was, dray increased his speed as he strengthened the muscles on his feet and leapt really high into the sky diving down into the water... Enduring the situation by holding his breath for a few seconds, dray re- surfaced as he started swimming gently through the water... He had not really had any tough training since his rank up but thing were about to change real quick...

WC:630

Still swimming gently in the water like a fish who had had a pleasant meal, he looked up to the sky with a sigh but just continued swimming ignoring what was happening as he was now enjoying the swim..
The clouds were darkening sounding a warning to dray and also to anyone in the leaf village that was out of their homes... With a pretty loud rumble and a quick ligthning flash and a thunder strike effect, the heavens opened up the gates on rain as it poured down heavily unto the earth... Seeing this ugly scenario, dray attempeted to swim to the side of the river so he could go home but the window for his escape was long closed.. As the rain poured down heavily, it began increasing the level of the river as it created large current headed in dray's direction... Seeing this, dray thrusted both of his arms forward as he began swimming with all his might. He was a bit lucky since his huge stature helped in fighting little current and his muscular legs did a great deal of work in propelling him forward.. As he endured the little bits of water that flowed into his mouth, his nose, his ears and also blurred his vision, he still mustered enough strength to continue swimming as he reacted swiftly by moving away from the small harm that the little rocks shooted out of the river could cause him... As dray was not bent on getting drown by the river that had now grown pretty high, the river also was not ready to give up on the challenge dray had put up.. Man VS Nature.. With the thought of wanting to live swarming his head, dray continued swimming though his arms and legs were getting pretty tired... Then, his shinobi instinct kicked in... All this time, he had been thinking like a normal, ordinary civilian... Where did the thoughts of jutsu go?? The ability to utilize technique... Scanning his abilities in his head, he strained as he dipped his head into the water and he could see visible earth beneath him... Perfect... As he stoppped swimming, he planted his legs unto the ground as he wave was now coming his wave.. As the wave sought to drown him, dray timed his jutsu as the earth beneath him rose three metres above the ground in the form of a mountain with the wave splashing against it... Dray sighed as he sat on the mountain top with the rain still drenching him....
WC:424

The cold rain fell so heavy that it now took dray back to the old times..old memories that were worth remembering... He knew that the right path to becoming a true shinobi was not easy but he was also aware that he had well started preparing for it from the start of his dear life .. Not one little day in his life had he ever thought of not trying to get better in everything he did either related to being a shinobi or just a normal civilian or even none of it at all as he felt pretty cold due to the rain that was continuing drenching him.
Not succumbing to the harsh cold, dray still sat on the elevated earth made by his earth jutsu(doryu joheki) as he flashed back to his younger days...

It was a cool afternoon as as usual, dray was in the forest relaxing when suddenly, Draygglez stopped and listened carefully. The birds were tweeting out loud, the leaves were falling unusually and animals in the forest were making uncomfortable sounds of distress. Draygglez thought maybe some animals were just fighting between each other and disturbing the rest as he continued his training until he was interrupted again. This time,the animals were running helter skelter and the ground beneath him was trembling. This must be serious he said. He traced the direction of one of the birds pin pointing what direction the disturbance or danger was coming from. Draygglez headed toward the direction. Not knowing what he was up against,he slowed his movement and camouflaged himself within the trees. Right before his very eyes, he saw two boys, a bit older than him. Probably from the shinobi academy also, lashing out at the trees, animals, and vegetation with their swords for fun sake. Not like they were training or so... Due to his likeness of the forest, Draygglez was filled with rage but he tried to keep his cool. He came down from the tree and gently asked the boys to leave. They laughed and asked him what he was going to do seeing that they were pretty much older than he was. They moved closer to him with their weapons. Each with one medium lengthed sword as they tried to harm him but being a pretty talented person himself, he skillfully manuevered around their blades and placed two of his blades at their necks. The boys begged for mercy but one of them was pretty relunctanct as they ran out of the forest. Once again, the forest was safe for the plants and animals but one of the boys gazed at dray as his eyes turned a bit red with one black spot beside his iris...
Wc:456

As dray walked out of the forest, he saw a small abandoned house on his path... Feeling curious, Draygglez opened the door to the abandoned house. He saw nothing but a wide black table covered in dust . When he looked better he saw that the table which was probably made of ebony, mere looking at it had a few glasses on it and one of them was filled with milk . He wanted to vomit due to the awful smell from it but he stopped when he heard a crack in the floor . Draygglez knew then that he had been followed all the way there . He put his hands to his swords ready for a full-out attack , but when he took a quick look he saw nothing but the door left open. Draygglez returned to the kitchen and saw that all the milk had disappeared . He felt quite good that the milk was gone because of it's awful smell but he also knew that something strange
happened so he left the house and yelled...I know you're there!Show yourself!... No response . He looked at the ground to find the tracks of his follower. Just as he taught , there were two pairs of tracks on the floor thanks to the dust that covered the house , one was Dray's track and the other was the track of a naked foot.

Draygglez felt a chilly sensation run down his spine as he barely dodged a kunai aimed at his head . He turned around and he saw nothing but still the empty door opened widely.. .He was already annoyed by the fact that he had not yet seen his enemy . Draygglez hates cowards or people who don't face him directly so he yelled as loud as he could being one with a pretty lousy mouth...Stop hiding! JUST WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK I AM!? FIGHT ME LIKE A MAN!. A deep silence landed upon the house...Who do i think you are? You are no one compared to who I am.. You failed to live up to ur expectations....SON!. Draygglez was a little
scared because the voice he had just finished hearing said....SON......so he knew that there was more to this situation than what he thought. As he calmed down he
began to see a silhouette,a small one that became bigger. The person shocked Draygglez as he approached.He thought he was going insane.The person was his father. He started to panic but It was already too late for him as he collapsed. When he woke up he found himself in the hospital of the Konoha village.He realized then he has been caught in a genjutsu , because his father had died about ten years ago in a war...

After remembering this, dray was now sure that the boy in the forest was definitely an uchiha clan member as the boy's suspicious gaze and red eyes proved that.. Dray had heard that some uchihas could cast a genjutsu on an opponent just by looking at him or raising a finger but how the boy did it was unknown to dray...

As the rain came to a stop, dray lowered the mountain to level ground as he stepped into the water not gathering chakra to his feet this time.. It was time to continue now.. He headed home to rest and also to prepare himself to go to the administration building the next day to request a mission from the hokage as he had not received any since his rank up...
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EXIT
Total wc: 2118
Training:
Strength: D3-C(525/2118)
Endurance:D3-C(525/2118)
Reaction time:D3-C(525/2118)
Perception:C-C1(remaining 543 + 76 from Here = 619