He had learned that he was weak and that he needed to train in order to better deal with a variety of situations. Like when his water jutsu becomes useless. He needed another element to fall back on and began to focus on finding his spark. He left a note for Shiru to meet him, as he did not want to be alone in his training. He walked slowly towards the well dragging his sword in the dirt. He finally reached it as he placed his sword next to the well. As he looked down the well he remembered the night his grandmother passed away.

***Flashback***
"Ren,Ren,Ren, come inside now it is raining you going to get all wet if you do not come in right now" As the old woman called out to the small six year old boy. As the boy appeared all wet not bothered as he pouted slightly. "You take all the fun out of a rainy day". The old lady smiled at the small boy as she patted his head gently and rubbed, the boy enjoying it lost his pout and smiled. The old lady laughed and said, "You are too easy to please, why don't you ask for expensive toys to play with like all the other children". The boy got a sad look on his face, then turned away. "The other kids hate me, and i do not want to play with toys, I want to play with the rain". As he said that his granny hugged him and said, "the rain wants to play with you too, but rememeber the rain always falls and you need to get up and rise into the sky". He looked to her, "The rain always leaves me, mom left me, dad left me, you will always be with me" as the boy hugged her she could not help but have a sad face as she hugged the little boy rubbing his hair. Lightning strikes as the rain begins to pour hard.

***Flash Back End***

"I miss you" as he looks down the well, a few tears dropping from his eyes as he wipes his eyes clean and then focuses. "I will rise above the rain"

Training Raiton C-->B = 368/2000

Her form was moving up sleepily from the bed she had rented for a night, only wearing her brazier and undergarments. Kamikira was to train her secondary element today with her student, so they could both become stronger individuals, and thus stronger as a whole. The female silently yawned and pulled on her skirt, the black frills with red trims giving her a slight smile. She loved these colors immensely for reasons she was not altogether sure of herself. After pulling this on, she pulled up her long legging-style socks, which came just above her knees, continuing after that to slip on and zip up her black shinobi boots. After that was done the girl pulled on a red collared blouse, buttoning it up quickly and putting her vest on over that, buttoning that up as well. She looked at herself in the mirror for a moment, admiring the outfit before she dawned her cloak. The cloak itself was large and loose around her body, she sighed noting her flaw in design after putting it on and buttoning the buttons all the way up to her chin. After a moment she pulled her hood over her head, which cast shadows, completely concealing her face in them, only allowing her crimson eyes to be seen. As the last part of getting ready, the girl grabbed her scythe, twirling it around her hand to slip into the loop-type sheath upon the back of her cloak letting it sit in a diagonal position across her back.

Exiting the hotel, she silently made her way out towards the entrance of the village, trying to remember exactly where she was to meet her student. Something about a well. SHe shrugged, noting that she would probably figure it out eventually and she quietly and quickly made her way out of the village gates, towards the wilderness. She kept her hands at her sides, the cloak's long sleeves going three inches past her fingertips to completely conceal all parts of her body. She had only been walking for a few minutes when she noticed a trail on her left, and she took it, noting that it went into the kirigakure mist woods. Or whatever they were called. After another five or so minutes continuing on this new path, she arrived at the well to find her student gazing into it. She coughed, making him aware of her presence and waited.

406/2000

Suiton C>B-Rank

He was still looking down the well when he heard a familiar cough. Being somewhat startled he looked back with a somewhat scared look on his face, then just as it looked like he was about to burst out laughing, he gave an expressionless pale look on his face. "Hi Shiru, I'm glad you found the way, I did send you the ..." He paused for a moment as he noticed he had something inside his shorts pocket. He has a fairly plain shorts which was a dark blue color. He had on a different shirt from what he usually wore as it had his clan symbol on the chest. He was barefoot as he did not want to take his shoes out for training, his feet were clean even though he should have worked up a sweat as he did not even notice the sun had risen quite a bit. The hot weather might have been an annoyance for Shiru, but just as he began to worry he thought that maybe she was dressed thick in order to train in harsh hot weather. He also had problems with the harsh weather and he still could not believe he told her where to meet him, but forgot to leave proper directions to the place. As he had all these thoughts running through his mind he finally stopped wasting her time and spoke up. "I am glad you here and I am ready for us to train to become stronger". He stood there as it seemed a small spark formed as there were slight marks on his left palm of his hand. He had been focusing his lightning for sometime. His natural water element had been focusing and because of that the lightning chakra shocked him occasionally. While he had been fine using D-rank raiton jutsu. He realised if he tried raising his ability to use lightning that he had to deal with being in pain. However if he could master an element other that water he would be able to do far more than what he does now. He did not know whether he should shake her hand or just hug her but he just lifted his good hand on the right and nodded slightly. "Sorry i did not greet you better". It was clear he was serious about his training even though he was a kid.

Raiton Training C-->B : 766/2000

Kamikira quietly looked at the boy, sighing. She was concentrating her own chakra to begin gaining a better control over the Suiton nature. She needed to become stronger and so did her student, with them working together, perhaps this would be possible. She stretched a bit, holding out her hand to concentrate her chakra into the palm of her hand, focusing on the element of Suiton and pushing her chakra to feel and flow as water. She could feel her body starting to accept the water flow of her chakra, moving quickly and forming slight condensation of water in her palm. She smiled, continuing to do so before it faltered, leaving her staring at her palm which had only slightly become wet with what could be construed as sweat. She shook her head, looking back at her student, thinking for a moment. She got an idea and nodded, quietly speaking to him.

"We need to do much more than concentrate our chakra. I find the best way to train is to test your limits and prove yourself through rigorous and repetitive battle. If we fight against each other, focusing our chakra, I believe it will make us that much stronger in the end. And that will put us one step closer to achieving our ultimate goal. Are you with me then, Ren? We can do this only if we work together and help each other out."The woman silently looked on to her student, hopefully awaiting his answer. She did not just want to attack him and blindside him to make him stronger. Not yet, he still had a lot to learn before she would be able to do that and strengthen him. For now, she would have to make sure he was ready for the training to become that much more intense and painstakingly hard, otherwise he would never learn anything, and never grow stronger.

WC: 722/2000

Training Suiton C>B-Rank

He looked to her and noticed her failed attempt at mastering a higher level of suiton. It made him feel slightly releaved as he was beginning to think he was a failure for a moment. As he looked at her she spoke to him and mentioned that they should train the elements through battle. He did not like the idea of fighting her, but then he thought maybe if he impressed her she would ruffle his hair again. Even though he might not get that, he wanted to be praised by her and he wanted to make her proud. As he stood there with a blank spaced out expression on his face the wind was blowing through his hair as the chakra on his palm kept sparking every now and then. He was doing his best not to break his concentration. However his hand was sore and he would now have to fight as well.

He closed his eyes for a moment before looking at her with determination in his eyes as he finally nodded. He agreed to her request as he could not think of any reason not to. He slowly took a stance as he put his sword down. His sword skills were not at the level where he could use them with his ninjutsu yet, as he stretched a bit, twirling his one ankle as he did not want to be stiff. He then focused a bit before looking at her again. "Are you ready?"

Raiton Training C-->B : 1014/2000
Chakra = 170/170

Upon the boy agreeing to her request and asking if she were ready, she nodded as well, pulling her scythe from the loop like sheath upon her back. She twirled it around her hand, watching her student. After which, she pulled her arm around, throwing with all her might to a tree near their position about three meters away. The blade of the scythe rotated, catching the face of a wide sequoia  tree, embedding he weapon into its surface. This was going to be relatively fun, although she only had one rank of speed higher than her student, she was sure he would give her some sort of challenge. Without wanting to waste another moment the girl undid all the buttons upon her cloak, slowly pulling it away from her form to show her clothing and slender form. She removed the Shiru cloak, folding it up and putting it upon a stump near a larger tree, turning back to her student, thinking for a moment on what to do.

Her crimson eyes shone as they stared at him and her body moved forth quickly and fluidly. Her fists came to the small boys stomach, with a bit less power than normal. She intended to work the boy up to things much harder, so starting him off a bit easy seemed appropriate. After the strikes, she'd aim a kick at him, sweeping across his chest. With another fluid movement, she'd back flip away from him, turning her back to quietly prepare herself. She crouched, tensing her leg muscles, especially her calves, turning back to her student. She was not that gifted in taijutsu but she knew enough to protect and defend herself as well as harm an opponent.\

wc: 951/2000

Training Suiton C>B-Rank

He must have been caught day dreaming as he only realised her close the gap being not too much faster as she delivered a punch to his stomach. To which he was too slow to do much else as he did not manage to grip her as she pulled away slightly kicking his chest as he released some electricity to shock her slightly.

He used a raiton jutsu as he figured that the best way to train his skill with lightning was to use it in battle. The reason he did not want to use his sword is because they had not sparred before, and it would be reckless to spar with weapons when you have not faced eachother before. The way she back flipped away he could not tell if she got hurt or if she had actually managed to dodge lightning at point black range, which was not really possible unless she had a secret skill he did not know about. His shirt was blown up, revealing his chest being slightly pinkish and his stomach slightly reddish too. He did not seem to have any muscular features but fortunately she did not hit too hard, as his body could not really take too many blows.

He breathed slightly heavy due to having been training the lightning element, but he took a firm stance as the wind died down as his shirt lowered over his small frame once again. He looked at her as he charged up his chakra planning to run at her directly with a lightning technique. He did not want to hesitate anymore, his one weakness he had to overcome. Many never noticed this as he on many occasions would have a chance to finish his opponent, but would stop for a moment. Only highly skilled Chuunin could pick up on it or Special Jounin and above.

He ran towards her as he thrust towards her the lightning building up as he was going to hit her with his best lightning technique. "Raiton Kangekiha!"

Raiton Training C-->B : 1352/2000
Chakra = 150/170
Jutsu Used

Raiton Hiraishin:

Raiton Kangekiha:

She had received a slight shock to her side when retreating but hadn't really noticed. It wasn't that strong of a shock so it didn't really hurt but she did have a first degree burn now. When she had landed she noticed he had stopped for a moment. She wasn't going to dismiss it as he was just resting, instead she made a handseal, concentrating chakra into her palm of her right hand. She then quickly placed her palm on the ground setting a seal upon it. If he came straight at her, he would trigger the seal and be blasted eight feet into the air, being pushed by a gust of fuuton chakra. Once she set that, she noticed he was running at her now, raiton chakra charged into his hands. He was running straight at her. Perfect. Once he got close enough, she jumped backwards and into the air, contrating her chakra once more, watching him step upon the seal. The seal activated pushing wind up from under the boy and if he couldn't  respond fast enough, he'd be blown into the air eight feet from the ground, a slave to her seal.

Upon landing after jumping back, she'd watch the male ensuring if he was caught in her jutsu she would not do anything, but if not she was formulating a plan on what to do next. She quietly watched her student, somewhat annoyed that she didn't have more suiton techniques that she could use against him but had quite a few fuuinjutsu ones. She began to think harder on what she could do in the position she was in right now, looking over at her scythe and remembering that a good portion of her jutsu happened to be bukijutsu as well.

WC: 1254/2000
Training Suiton C>B-Rank

185/200:

He probably should have paid a bit more attention to her when he charged his technique, but if he spent time focusing on her he might miss his chance since she was somewhat faster and more experienced. As he had dashed towards her he was a bit late to pick up on the seal she placed on the ground. When he stepped on it he did not hesitate as he realised he could not take back an action, since he already knew that she gave him a chance. He launched his technique as he the edge of the lightning just barely singed her top slightly as he stepped on the seal. If she had not taken that moment to back flip he may have made direct contact. This attack showed he was willing to take a small risk to get an opening on the opponent.

As he knew he could not avoid it he was hoping at the very least that the seal would not be painful.
He felt a large gust of wind from the seal as he was blown into the air, his hair blowing around his face randomly as he realised the wind was blowing in a way that did not allow him to move around. As he balanced himself he enjoyed the feeling of flying but he knew that she controlled the situation. He could not dodge from here nor could he launch any real attacks from this position.

After moving around a bit actually enjoying the feeling, his shirt began blowing into his face. He decided to take of his shirt as it was annoying, so he through it up in the air towards her but the air natural picked up under it and it floated to the side and fell on the floor. He was shivering thinking maybe this was not the best idea for a plan, but he figured it was better than doing nothing or being blinded by a shirt that was not really doing anything. He did blush slightly, but he tried to ignore his embarrassment and focus on a plan to get her. He needed time so he could launch his attack again, so in a sense she had helped him a lot.

Raiton Training C-->B : 1725/2000
Chakra = 150/170

Kamikira watched her student struggle with the air for a moment and then take his shirt off. She assumed it was only because his shirt would blow up into his face from the sheer force of the wind jutsu she had used against him. She was beginning to think upon her next move while watching him when she had a sudden though. Why was she doing this in the first place? She could easily become stronger on her own but she was actually considering using her scythe on him just a moment ago. At this point  in the battle it was fine for them to exchange blows. But if she kept on fighting him, she was afraid that she may injure him badly, or worse, kill him. The woman quietly moved back towards where she had folded up her cloak, picking it up and slipping it onto her slender form. The large cloak fit loosely around her body and she liked that.

She began to button it up to the top-most button just below her chin, while walking over to retrieve her scythe. She finished buttoning the buttons and grabbed hold of the scythe handle, jerking it out of the bark of the tree. She quietly and quickly spun it around in her hand for a moment,pushing it back through the loop like sheath on the back of her cloak. It would then sit in a diagonal fashion across her back, while she pulled the hood of her cloak back up over her head. The shadows from her cloak's hood cast shadows down onto her face, completely concealing it from view and allowing only her bright crimson eyes to be shown to anyone who could not see through shadows. She smiled to herself, turning back to watch her student fly in the air on her vortex of fuuton chakra. Without a word, she went back down the same path she had taken to get there, her hands down at her sides, the sleeves going past her fingertips by three inches. Upon reaching the path out of the wilderness, she got back onto the main road and continued back towards the village.

When she had gotten far enough away, her jutsu automatically cancelled itself out, the wind being disrupted instantly and becoming nothing, having the boy fall back down to the grass where the seal had once been. They had trained enough today, she would allow him to rest and enjoy himself before things got any harder. The next time she would not hold back, once he got stronger the training would get tougher. That's how it had to be at least, and with her once things got tougher they never went back to the way they had been before. She shook her head at that though. If her student wasn't ready when she decided to be tougher, then he would most suredly die from the training plan she had in store for him and any others that would have the pleasure of coming under her command. She had to remember that's what this kid was, a pawn under her command, regardless of the soft spot she had for him.

Upon reaching the village gate, she informed the guard that once the boy had come back to tell him that they would leave once their business in the village with seven bells was resolved. Until then there would be no more training for the time being and he should go out and enjoy himself until they had to take on more missions. Once she was sure that the guard understood all of that and would let her student know, she went off to wander around the town, thinking hard on everything that had happened so far, what could happen, and the seven bells clan's attacks. There seemed to be so much going on at the point in time that forcing her student to train under those conditions just seemed to add too much onto the pile of what was already more than enough. She would make things simpler on him when she could, and was glad she got to test his abilities today. Maybe he wouldn't be so useless in the future after all. As long as he would study hard and learn all the many ways to counter-act the jutsu that would ensnare and trap him, he may just be a good student. But him getting caught up in her seal that she had placed upon the ground showed that he still had a lot more to learn and a long way to go before he was ready for her to make the training much harder than it was now.

WC: 2043/2000
Training Complete, Exit Thread

He looked on as he noticed as she walked away. Putting on her cloak slowly as she then took her scythe placing it on her back. He looked at her closely from the air, he did not understand why she was walking away. Why did she stop when they had only just begun. Did she not want to train him? Was he too weak for her? He could not understand any of it as he watched her walk away without even as much as a goodbye. Even though he got a nice view of her he realised she was beautiful, but cold as ice on the inside. She was very much just like him. As he stopped bothering, he had a plan to escape the technique, but it seems he will not even get a chance to show it off. As he looked on as the technique began to fade a tear rolled down his cheaks. Behind the tree where they were training someone looked on. A stranger from the shadows who grinned. As Ren felt the eyes he looked back seeing no one.

"Shiru" as he fell slowly too the ground. He picked up his shirt and slowly put it on over his head. Walking over he took his sword and placed it correctly on his back at a perfect angle. He then headed deeper into the wilderness towards his home. He needed to rest in order to recover for the following day. The lake was where his home was hidden away, a place that no one could reach, a place that lives outside of the war. He was once asked why he was fighting the war, when they were allowed to not be involved in the war. He never answered them and he stood still about to head all the way to the lake but turned back and went to the well. He dropped something unseen into the well before he said in a distant sad voice.

"In the end, everyone will leave me"

Raiton Training C-->B : 2061/2000
Chakra = 150/170

Exit Thread