It was late into the night in Tsuchi no Kuni, and violet light filled the skies after the sun set. The nocturnal animals awoke for their daytime slumber and took over the night. A cool breeze whistled through the local flora filling the air with the crisp, warming smell of nearby flowers. From the many close by waterfalls, icy water poured into Gisei Lake filling the deep pool with rippling waters. At the edge of the waters a sickly, wandering ninja sat focusing and delved in meditation as he began to form an image in his head. Once he had reestablished the image that he was trying to form in his head, He rapidly went through the necessary hand seals, "Boar, Dog, Bird, Monkey, Ram." He then cut his hand on his tooth before slamming his palm down onto the ground. He had trained long and hard to finally master this skill because teaching himself to use his chi for this technique was an arduous process that he doubted he would do again if he had the choice. If not for his eccentric teacher there are a lot of things that he would have never done. As the jutsu began to off he thought back to the training that he had been doing here for the past week.

The shivering ronin looked over the edge of the cliff as the sun beamed down from above warming most, but leaving Go as cold as he always was. He was too absorbed in the beauty of this place. Legend has it that this place was created artificially and normally that would bother the cold, D-rank ninja, but this place because it was artificially created could show the beauty of nature better than it otherwise could have. The plant and animal life sprung up in this area that it once couldn't exist, and showed mankind's potential to work with nature as opposed to against it. When Go arrived at Gisei Lake, there were no other people that he could see, so he thought he would take the time to familiarize himself with this place. To try and understand his own chi, he had been searching for a place that he could meditate away from the hustle and bustle of people. He folded up the many layers of shirts and placed them by a little bag and a long scarf. He slowly walked to the edge of the cliff and looked down into the bright blue pool beneath him. He clenched his teeth in anticipation for both the cold and the adrenaline that was about to rush through his veins. He had a rock in his hand that he didn't remember picking up as he pumped himself up to take the dive. Then, in a moment where his mental inhibitors waned for just a moment, he sprinted to the edge of the cliff and dove head first into the large lake.

He hadn't started training his chi like chi was supposed to be trained at a young age, but instead started a little bit late his body attempts to convert a lot of his body fat to chakra, but since his body uses chi he is left with a body that releases too much energy when he uses jutsu and siphons heat from his body. This also has had the side effect of causing his chi to wildly flare and bubble preventing him from doing even the most basic of chi or chakra techniques. According to his eccentric teacher though, supposedly, if he were to purposefully lower his body temperature then it would also cause his chi to flare and bubble in the same way that his ailment would cause it to. Therefore once more Go submerged his body in the cold water and clapped his hands into the boar seal and began trying to imagine and feel his chi slowly reigning in the flares that it created, and  he would continue trying this practice over and over over the next few days.

There was a loud clap early in the morning of Go's 8th night here at Lake Gisei as he created the boar symbol once more. He began becoming frustrated as his training had proven to be fruitless his chi would flare up again as he tried to imagine condensing it back to a single shape and confine it to the shape that he believed it was supposed to take. he watched as his chi caused ripples around his body and disturbed the surface as he tried resisting against his chi some more. As he continued struggling more and more his chi began causing more and more large ripples forming around him. This caused him to pause as he realized he was disturbing the life around him; fish began fleeing the area he was in, the nearby birds stopped chirping, the frogs hid, and the insects went silent. He stopped as he remembered why he came here. He came here to enjoy this beautiful lake for its serenity and splendor, not to become the one to who was obstructing the wonder and sublimity of this place. He was tempted to blame his chi, but now that he had stopped trying to force is chi and construct it to his whim the water was still enough that he could finally see the light of the moon reflect off of the surface.

This time Go attempted to try and figure out the shape that his chi was trying to put itself in and widen its presence in any place that he felt needed to be filled in. This time he slowly put one hand in the shape for the boar seal and the other in the ram seal he tried to feel the shape that his chi created with each symbol, and he attempted to take the excess chi from the boar symbol and create the chi shape he needed for the ram symbol. Upon his success there, on land, he slowly began walking into the water with his eyes closed in an attempt to not disturb the waters even as he moved further into its depths. Once again over and over again his chi attempted to flair and bubble, but Go simply would move the chi from one symbol to the other causing little to no bubbling or flares to fully manifest. Slowly the now shivering ronin began transitioning from using two hand seals to just using the boar hand seal with both hands. Each time his chi would begin to flair or bubble, he would recycle the chi that was in the area that the deformity was going to occur in and he would move it to another area. He manage to walk until the water came to his shoulders before the his fingers began to go numb, and as he opened his eyes he saw that the water around him was perfectly still. On the surface of the water reflecting as if off of the surface of a mirror he could see the stars painting the its surface and the moon beaming at him from Lake Gisei's surface.

It was late into the night and the moon was floating in the middle of the dark purple sky among the stars, releasing its radiance down upon the young, wandering ninja. He absorbed the sounds of the local fauna: fish splashing in the water the cries and hoot of nocturnal birds, the singing and chirping of frogs and their prey, and the occasional yip of a far away lupine creature. The crisp, cold, clean night air blew the smells of broken glass, sweet flowers, and wet rock into Go's nose. Go was meditating on the edge of the water as he tried to imagine the form of the thing he was going to try to summon. Once he had the image formed in his mind of the rotund panda bear bubbles that he had seen his teacher summon, he stood up from his seated position and then went through the hand seals for the summoning jutsu. as he did so his chi would bubble and flare, but after his nine days of training he had finally figured out the trick to maintain the integrity of the jutsu. He thought back to his old teacher once more and how pitiful he was when he had first met her, but now in his 16th year he was able to cast a jutsu. While it may have seemed silly to celebrate your first jutsu at age 16 when there were jonin his age, Go couldn't help but feel misty eyed satisfaction as he slammed his hands onto the ground. The symbols of the jutsu sprawled across the ground beneath the D-ranked ninja as he attempted to retrieve the Panda Bear Contract Scroll.


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