Tenjin strolled casually through the village, having just recently leaving Raphaels. Tenjin is heading somewhere to train his taijutsu, although not all of the power of ninjutsu was mastered he wanted to develop his taijutsu with enough power to be much more useful in regards to protecting Iwagakure no Sato from any harm that might befall it at some point. He still doesnt view his power to be at the level, equal to the othis shinobi of othis villages, like Raphael, and so he had decided to train in order to become more powerful and become one of the most efficient ANBU in his village. Before going to train though he decided to take a little time to go sightseeing in Kumogakure, and enjoy his time before going to train in what he calls his ANBU - preparatory training regiment, and get all dirty and beat up. After a short walk throughout the district, Tenjin was finally ready to go to the spar, so he headed out and into the training grounds.

Arriving out into a clearing full of sand and random rock pillar formations erecting out of the ground, he went around the area setting up eight different cones on the ground about five feet apart in a circle with one in the center of the circle, also for extra agility training, he put two cones on the six different rock pillars that surrounded the area no further away than ten meters and were also circles around the area with one enclosed closer to the center of the area. He merely stood those, the heat of the sun pounding down against the cloud, creating a deterrent so the only was Tenjin planned to sweat a little bit, was to begin his training because the weather was cool. In a pouch on his left he had some various ninja tools inside. All that was left now was for Tenjins will to show up and begin this training, hopefully he’d learn some new things and be able to develop even more skills in taijutsu and physical powers to protect Iwagakure no Sato with everything he’s got. Tenjin began his training by dashing from one cone to the other as fast as he can, and he will finish the smaller circle by dashing to the middle cone and body flickering over to the bigger circles middle cone, and then repeating the process of going to every individual cone before again going to the center cone in the bigger circle to appear in the smaller. This seemingly never ending training routine is what Tenjin calls the, infinity dash, and like its name, it has no ending as it is meant to train your speed. One simply finishes when they cant anymore. If anyone was to come see Tenjin, and not have the perceptual capabilities or speed, won’t be able to keep up as they would only see him slow down when stopping in the center cone to create the ram hand sign and body flickering.

WC: 501 / 2000

Tenjin was able to stop his training when he heard his name being called out. Tenjin panted and laid on the ground, trying to get oxygen to regulate throughout his body as much as he possibly could, as he took in deep breaths and could feel his body regulating itself to the oxygen he took in. He slowly got up onto his feet as he rubbed his neck and cracked his knuckles as he got up to his full height and said, “Why it isn’t the preacher.” Tenjin noticed Kaya due to his hair, he didnt even have to look at his face. Tenjin then answered the preachers question before he was able to ask his own, “This is actually my created training. I’m trying to work on my taijutsu. How about you? How’s it going? And Have you got the opportunity to protest this ‘festival of war’?” Tenjin would finish asking this, but at the same time he didn't feel quite ready to finish his training, so he felt that it'd be better for him to get more exercise, even with Kaya there. As Kaya answered his question, Tenjin walked over to a tree and thought he'd try doing some pull ups this time in order to see how many he could do, and probably even compared to Kaya if he would like to make this a competition. He'd never done more than 100 pull ups before and he was curious to see how strong he was now. Tenjin wanted to also see how many Kaya could accomplish, so when reaching the tree Tenjin would ask Kaya, “How about a friendly competition? I know you do not fight, but are competitions part of the conflicts you try to go without?” Tenjin wanted to ask just to follow up after an answer, “You’ve told me a bit about your philosophy, but like me, you’re young. What have you experienced in life to give you such a strong conviction?” Tenjin wanted to know and see if he could get any more intelligent with the response provided. Tenjin has always been interested in people’s reasoning to becoming a shinobi, but Kaya appears to not want to be a shinobi which makes him a more interesting specimen. While listening to Kaya’s answer, Tenjin began to do some practice squats in order to make certain his legs didn't miss out as he then hopped up high and grabbed a strong and sturdy branch before pulling himself up and down.

Tenjin kept a smooth and slow motion throughout the entire exercise as he was excited and pleased to learn that he could accomplish many more pull ups then he thought he could as he continued to pull through them slowly and steadily. He was able to count his way to 69 before he started to feel a little tense in his arms as they were starting to slowly lose their grip and strength and stamina. He closed his eyes, gritting his teeth, as he was able to crank himself up to 93 and was on the verge of getting to 96 before he felt that he wouldn't be able to make it. He thus put in all the effort to make it as he knew that no success came without hardship as he kept himself pushing and pulling no matter what he felt was stopping his. he continued to pull himself through everything as he went and made it to 100 before he let go of the branch and fell onto his feet in front of the tree. He landed mainly to rub his arms as he could feel them locking up and he felt pain coming from them which he knew he would feel in the morning but this made him happy as he knew that it was all going to be better in the end. Tenjin then turned to Kaya, to see how he was doing with his training.

After resting for a little bit he got back up onto his feet and walked back over a log as he felt finally ready to practice his hand to hand combatting techniques. As he lifted the log up and glanced upwards to the sky, he then gripped the log hard as he got his arms ready and he chucked the log upwards high into the sky as he prepared for his attack. He watched the log come down slowly and steadily with his ace eyes as it twirled its way to the ground, Tenjin then followed the flying projectile and began punching the log until the log appeared to simply disappear into nothingness due to the frequency and the power behind each and every blow. Tenjin was able to land on all fours while the fragments of the log fell on and over a 3 meter radius around the young shinobi. Tenjin then asked Kaya, “You’ve said you dont like fighting.” while pausing for a little, Tenjin would appear slightly concerned before saying, “Do you understand that you might have to get into combat sometimes. This is a shinobi world afterall, that has permanently erased the grand era of peace that the legendary Naruto has created. I believe you were born in the wrong era my friend if you wish to never throw a punch.”

WC: 881

1,382 / 2,000

There was a dragon upon the field of Kumogakyres training grounds, here and that dragon's name was none other than “Kaya the Preaching Non-Shinobi.” Although he wasn't the first person to express his philosophy to Tenjin, his was one of the best philosophies Tenjin has heard, and the philosophy itself is the best candidate for Tenjin to adopt, even if its fragments of the concepts. To speak of philosophies, Tenjins visualization of the world wasn't so pacifist, but more so something akin to utility, but that wasn't something that would fit Kaya. Kaya then asked a couple of questions that made Tenjin ponder his own ninja way. Tenjin could only smile a bit knowing that he just expressed his nindo to another shinobi he met in these exams and as he thought of the excitement that was filling the village due to the exams, Tenjin began to speak. “The next round in the Chuunin exams would start soon.” With an over exaggerated sigh and stretch of his body, Tenjin began to walk across the training grounds and toward his water bottle while also beginning to answer. “You mentioned that these games are able to bring villages together huh. What of a village that isnt united on its own?”

“I am a genin, I am hardly a trained shinobi. But being a ninja to me is the idea that the worth of a shinobi or kunoichi is solely determined by his or her contribution to the village over all, and in maximizing happiness or pleasure as summed among all people within the village by any and all means that they are possibly capable of achieving. Be it protecting the village as Kage or ANBU, or teaching it as an Academy Teacher, or Sensai.  It is, then, the total utility of individual shinobi or kunoichi which is important here. To benefit the village is the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people. Utility, after which the doctrine is named, is a measure of the relative satisfaction of the village from the shinobi, or desirability of the village, to keep the shinobi or kunoichi in operation. To be a shinobi can thus be described as a quantitative approach and thus easily measured.” Tenjin would take a long sip of his drink before talking again, “Long answer I know, but in short, no I have never killed someone, but yes, I would certainly wear it as a badge of honor.” Tenjins voice became more stern and serious.

Tenjin stood, and took off the top of his gi to stand shirtless and sweating already working to increase his strength. Tenjin has the blood of a champion in his veins, and he would not be greedy with it. He would see it that Kaya would also be inspired by his hard work as Tenjin is inpired by Kayas strong willed philosophy. Tenjin was able to take more logs and utilize them as weights, rather than targets for attacks. He lifted the heavy weights around the training grounds, heaving the wood like never before. Each one lifted and heaved across the field, as far as he was capable of throwing it. His strength and endurance, clearly developing with this training. The entire time he lifted and heaved the logs, he would continue to focus on his taijutsu specialization. He would focus his chakra into his muscle fiber, to manipulate his strength. After lifting and heaving logs, he would focus on smashing them beneath his fist once more. He would drop his small hands onto them, shattering them beneath his blow.

Tenjin then turned to Kaya to further elaborate on his ninja way, “You see, my ninja way starts from the basis that pleasure and happiness for the village and its inhabitants are of value, and the only things that is not valuable, is pain and suffering for the village and all of its inhabitants. Everything a shinobi does can thus be valued in regards to their possibility to cause happiness or prevent suffering in their village. Ninjas are instrumental in this cause, and must fight as soldier as a means to an end for their village. This focus on happiness and pleasure for their village and their inhabitants should dictate a ninjas decisions. To be a shinobi in a sense is a form of consequentialism - in that the worth of an individual shinobi or kunoichi is determined by the outcome of his or her life or the consequences of his or her actions - hence why I said that the ends do indeed justify the means.” Tenjin perception of a shinobi is simply a tool for the village to utilize when needed, and one is only sucessful when you are a valuable tool for your village. Tenjin then began to ask Kaya a very important question, “If war was to break out, would you decide to choose a village to shelter you or would you simply remain neutral and thus vulnerable to attacks from all angles?” This question was aksed because war does indeed appear to be looming as villages are conflicting with each other, and casualities espcieally collateral damage is just another aspect of war which Tenjin seems to find solace in knowing that his village will be there to fight along side him. Tenjin wondered if Kayas pacifist mentality may be dagerous if he is also against violence, but Tenjin wanted to also let Kaya know that his concers are sincere and if war does loom, Iwagakure, now being built with a concentration on academia, would surely accept this philosopher. Whehter Kaya would answer the questions or not, Tenjin will quickly drop in order to do some push ups so that he can continue his training with no delay. Each push up was actually surprisingly difficult as Tenjin was already exausted by all of his training, and although his struggles were noticeable, one would imediately notice that Tenjin is not one to easily give up as he pushed himself to continue despite sweat dripping down his face and onto the Kumo training grounds.

WC 1008

Tai C-B
2,000 / 2000

Jutsu Training (2 C-rank)
390 / 2000

Tenjin believes that Kaya does slightly understand his question in regards to a village that isnt united. A world cannot be united if individuals within a village arent united. One must begin with the micro changes in order to effect the macro environment. Tenjin then realized that Kaya was preparing to leave, “Yeah, it was certainly great seeing you as well. I can definitely show you around Iwagakure, but only if you tell me your stories of your travels.” Tenjin was interested to hear about this villages and their system of living. Seeing Kaya walk away, Tenjin realized that he needed to train some more before he was able to leave too. Tenjin focused harder on his training as he decided to train some jutsus rathis than his physical capabilities. He wanted to train both the Transparent Escape Technique as well as the Chakra Disguise. He knew his goal was attainable, as he’d heard of the great and legendary Mu masters being able to utilize his chakra to the point of rendering himself invisible and unable to be sensed. He had never thought he’d need to train for that ability so soon, however, Tenjin tactics were not going to be as refined as Mu’s. regardless of expectations, though, he was in need of the discretion that those techniques allow for. If he mastered the invisibility technique, and the sensory suppression technique, though, he knew that it would be a lot harder to dodge his particle release techniques.

Tenjin could feel his chakra enveloping him as he concentrated, but this was a point at which he would not be able to envelop himself enough to disappear. He knew that, were he to figure out how to pass that point, he would in fact disappear. Experimenting, he tried using less chakra. Upon doing so, he felt himself becoming rathis blurred, for a lack of a better word. Scowling, Tenjin recalled how he'd gotten so desperate as to attempt this complicated technique so quickly. He'd been training in Kumogakure, making notes as to who he found to be worthy of great competition. The tense thought process passed, and Tenjin was left still visible. Returning to his desperate training. Tenjin shook free the memory of being beaten by Raphael. It annoyed him how often the memory sprang to mind now that he had lost his first battle. How did others, who have lost battle for nearly their entire lives, even function without being flooded by bad memories of the battle? Tenjin redirected his focus to his seemingly impossible task. An idea struck him. Perhaps he could cast a thin and condensed auro of chakra instead of manipulating the chakra around him once it was out of his body. He was pretty sure that was how Mu was able to become invisible, so why would the same not prove true for his newfound technique.

If Tenjin didn't have the arsenal of attacks capable of competing with a troubling challenger, he needed to be able to evade the attacks as best as he could. That's how he knew that the invisible technique was the only way. Tenjin concentrated hard as he attempted to shape his chakra even smaller and tighter before releasing it around his body. Finally, he felt ready, and released an aura of chakra around his body. Tenjin quickly stopped releasing the chakra, shocked at the results; he again didn't disappear. Needing to rethink his approach, Tenjin let his mind wander for inspiration.
As soon as Kaya had walked off, Tenjin was able to save the event in his memory palace in order to chronicle the events that had just transpired. Reaching in its pocket, his hand came out holding nothing. Checking his othis pockets, he found that they, too, had been emptied. All his shīruken and kunai had been left in the estate whise he was staying, Tenjin deduced, that he had no choice but to continue his jutsu training.


As his mind had wandered, Tenjin had found himself staring at a spider digging into the ground. As it dug, it applied its web to the outer walls of it's cave, ensuring it wouldn't collapse. As it progressed, the thin outer coating of web was nearly undetectable. Struck with inspiration, Tenjin prepared his chakra again, shaping it within himself carefully before releasing it. Although he could feel the outpouring of chakra, Tenjin couldn't quite see it. For a moment, he feared that they were dissolving faster than he could see, but he then noticed that he could still feel them as a part of a vestigial sense. Moving the the invisible chakra around his body, this was of course done experimentally, as Tenjin was understandably still not used to not being able to see his chakra.

Racing to complete his technique, Tenjin launched himself to attempt the technique once more. From that perspective, of othiss, Tenjin suspected that he was becoming more and more invisible. I appears as if the technique was a success, but not Tenjin needed to focus on training his new jutsu, the chakra suppression technique of course. This jutsu, will be able to be used in conjunction with his invisibility in order to not only be undetectable by sight, but also by sensory type shinobi.


"I believe it is important to have enough control of my chakra to be able to suppress it at will" Closing his eyes he flowed his chakra from it's starting position, the heart chakra point. Once he felt a sufficient amount summoned he began the molding process, in a way that quite different from the norm, but fairly efficient. The chakra flowed to his solar, the standard point of execution for most of his techniques, Were he trying to use the chakra offensively this would be the final point of contact before he began to use his jutsu, however with sensory suppression additional steps needed to be taken. In order to save time he split the pool of chakra up, allowing a bit over half of his reserves to flow upward as the rest moved down his body. It was difficult to do, and he could feel the volatile energy threatening to dissipate at a moments notice were he to gain more concentration, but still he held on. He felt the powerful chakra hit his throat point, pooling for barely a moment before continuing up to his third eye, and finally to the crown. He expected to need to move the focus point again once each point was active. The third eye would be the most useful for what he was attempting. This was work to be done before that step however.

Downward the second pool moved, the strong focus point of his solar chakra allowing swift release and activation. He found his strength ready nearly immediately, with no pause between his sacral and root chakra. Now he just needed to focus. Keeping his full body active in the channeling of chakra he moved the bulk of his power to the point in the center of his forehead. The third eye chakra point was integral in its ability to see past the void, and while it was a different energy source, he was certain it would work the same nonetheless. He flared up the power coursing through his body, and outward it flowed from his root. He seemed to find it most easy to expel high volumes of chakra through the root. This was something about the connection to the earth that made it ideal, almost as if it was the most open of his chakra points. With the guidance of the power coursing through his third eye he could feel the chakra easily fill the training grounds. He was making his chakra signature appear larger. He'd succeeded exceptionally in what had thought was going to be nearly impossible. That was a good sign.

To suppress his chakra, he needed to keep his concentration off of his own power. That, Tenjin believed would work. He took a deep breath, he counted each breath as it drew in, one, two. three..... And in a moment he felt it. He felt his chakra being nullified. He redoubled his efforts, trying to push more chakra into his third eye to power it up and then suppressing it swiftly. Then he believed is someone was tracking him, he found the trail would quickly go dead as Tenjin barely felt chakra surging through his body.

Tenjin was able to meditate and focus to supress his chakra. Tenjin was first able to prepare the technique, which caused Tenjin to change his chakra signature, and make it seem larger, smaller or even non-existent, due to a complex anachronism that the he creates in one's chakra changing their perspective to others. Tenjin was positive that this technique would work in battle, but as someone who hasnt utilized it in combat he was sure if it would properly work. Tenjin continued his meditation in order to once again try to manipualte his chakra signature. After completing the technique a couple of times, Tenjin was more than happy with the results. He decided to try and utilize his new found technique in a sparring match, or for the very least, against a sensory type of shinobi in order to better understand the mechanisms of the jutsu. After all, Tenjin wanted to be the second Mu, the ninja known as the non-shinobi due to his undetectable aspect. Tenjin gathered himself up and was able to dust himself after a long day of training. It appeared to be getting dark, which rather surprised Tenjin as he wanted to see the Chunin exams. But caught up in his training, it looks like Tenjin missed watching it live. At least, in this modern era, he is able to watch the recordings of the games on television, which was a golden opportunity for Tenjin to see the shinobi in action in order to prepare himself for what top expect when he becomes older. These shinobi are certainly the future of their village, and Tenjin realizes that probability has it that the next Kage of a village as well as their ANBU candidates, were competing in this years games. Hence why Tenjin has a special mission that he gave himself, which is to witness all of the contestants, and create a contingency plan in case Tenjin was able to verse them in the near future.

[EXIT]

WC 1,735

Tai C-B
2,000 / 2000

Jutsu Training (2 C-rank)
2125 / 2000

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