The boy made his way casually out of Kumogakure. He didn't appear to be suspicious, and, in fact, many of the people he passed, be they shinobi or commoner knew him, at least by name. The man was young and he worked as a page in the main villages office. He usually spent his time running messages around the village or copying memos and the like. It was a simple existence, and it suited the boy n well. After all, the man had skill in chakra manipulation, and he had never had the stomach for taijutsu. Not to mention, if he did his job well, he could be promoted and eventually become a secretary or historian, or any number of other jobs key to the running of the village. That was the man's dream, to become important through the skills he exceeded at.

Today though, he had been given a rather odd task. As a messenger and employee of the offices of the Kage, he had been all over Kumogakure and was familiar with most of the village. But now, this assignment... His boss had brought him a sealed scroll. He was told to deliver the scroll to a low stone wall several miles outside the village. No one would be there and he was to leave the scroll under a rock at the base of the wall 200 feet down said wall from the road. No, as he waved to the village shinobi guarding the gates, he wondered just what kind of delivery this was.

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At the location specified, the boy glanced around cautiously. He was standing at the drop point, at the low stone wall. It was true, there wasn't anyone nearby that he could see. But he couldn't shake the feeling that he was being watched. No matter where he turned, there was no one around, and there were hardly any sounds but the chirping of birds and the chirping of grasshoppers. A chill ran up the young genins spine and a cold sweat was forming over his skin as he placed the scroll beneath the stone that stood out a bit from the rest of the wall. The shinobi turned and ran as fast as he could back to the road and back towards the village. Just what the hell had been on that scroll? It had occurred to him before that it was the right size and design for a ninja scroll, and such things could be highly dangerous for non-shinobi to carry. Who knew what was written on the scroll, but if it had been something of vital importance or if he was supposed to have risked his life to keep it safe, he would have been told so. So he was out of there just as fast as his legs would carry him.

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T sat in a tree on the tree line at the edge of the field surrounding the stone wall the man had dropped the scroll at. He chewed a long piece of grass, languishing against the trunk of the tree. The guy sure had taken off in a hurry. For a pencil pusher he had some pretty good instincts. he had probably felt T monitoring him from afar. The feeling of being watched was something most anyone could feel. It wasn't a skill limited to just shinobi. Rolling to his right,T dropped from the tree, landing gracefully, and started across the field towards the wall where the Boy had left the scroll.

Taking the scroll out from under the rock, T studied it for a second, making sure there wasn't anything suspicious about it before breaking the seal and flinging the scroll open across the top of the stone wall. The scroll was a copy of a jutsu scroll. Normally, scrolls like this would be kept under complete control and supervision, and copies would rarely ever be made. But, this jutsu wasn't anything the village was concerned about keeping hidden. Indeed, the secrecy in the scroll's delivery was more for T benefit than the scroll's.

The jutsu on the scroll was the simple Spiritualism Technique summoning ability. The technique was one of the more basic of jutsu. It could be found most anywhere in the world.T had left a signal at the outpost that he wanted to send a message. When he had seen the responding signal, he left his message in a secured location, and it had been transferred to Kumogakure, to the office of the Raikage. It was unlikely the Raikage himself had dealt with the request for the scroll. It was likely that he had at least one staff member set up to deal with the unimportant requests and duties of the Black Ops. And so, the scroll had been sent.

Studying the jutsu on the scroll, T smirked. It really was simple. He was surprised he had overlooked it back when he was in school. Of course, at that time he hadn't known the skills that he would eventually develop, and how this jutsu would become necessary in his future. Taking a few more minutes to study the technique, he then picked up the scroll and, lighting a match, he lit the scroll on fire. He allowed it to burn for a minute or two before dropping it to the ground. He stood there, watching it burn until he was satisfied that it was completely destroyed. Even though the jutsu wasn't all that important, it was still a document from Kumogakure, even if there were no identifying marks. As T made his way away from the drop site, he chuckled to himself. "Honestly, so simple. I'm surprised I didn't figure it out on my own."

Stopping in a little clearing back within the tree line, T took a moment, listening to the wind. He didn't hear anyone nearby, his accute sense of hearing telling him he should be safe. Alright, time to see if I can't put this into practice. T took a moment to run the jutsu through his head. The basic summoning technique was the root for all summoning abilities. It revolved around the simple premise of using one's chakra to summon a being or object to one's current location. It seemed to him that the idea would be to almost call out with one's chakra for the target being you wanted to summon. Like a transmission of sorts. That made him wonder, did the summoning technique release readable chakra into the surrounding atmosphere? Would using the technique alert any sensor-type shinobi in the vicinity of his presence?

Well, he was within the borders of the lightening country, and not all that far from Kumogakure. Though he had to be careful about being found out by other Kumo shinobi... He shouldn't have to worry too much about enemies moving in on his location. He began forming hands seals. It was slow at first. He was taking his time memorizing the seals. It was very important to make sure one had the right seals in the right order. Mistakes could be deadly on the battlefield. After he thought he had the seals down, T decided to give the technique a try. He cycled through the seals with the speed of an experienced shinobi and slammed his palm into the ground.

Nothing happened... T stood there in the rather awkward palm-to-ground stance for a few seconds... Just to be sure nothing was going to happen. Rising from his position, T scratched his head. He knew he didn't have a summon on which he could call... But still, there should be some smoke or something. T had seen summons performed before, and there was usually a big puff of smoke or something. T took a moment to think about how he had performed the jutsu and what mistakes he could have made. He thought back to the scroll he had been reading just a few moments before. Could he have misread the required hand seals? He didn't think so... But then, there were certain hand seals that looked similar to one another. T began moving through the hand seals slowly, considering them one by one. After a few moments of consideration, he decided on a likely change that needed to be made.

His course of action decided on, T prepared to try the jutsu again. His hands flashed as they sped through the hand seals. Slamming his palm against the ground once more, T watched, hoping that he would get some reaction this time. From between his fingers, a small *poof* of smoke arose. T smirked sarcastically. It was good that he got at least some reaction... But it was still pretty pathetic. Since he was able to get a reaction, though, that should be an indication that he had the hand seals correct. So, it was probably something to do with his chakra manipulation.

Sitting down, T slowly made each hand seal in the proper order, stopping on each one to focus on how he was distributing, gathering and releasing his chakra. He tried making some changes to the flow of his chakra for each of the seals he made. He had to get a feel for how he used his chakra with each hand seal, because he wouldn't be able to analyze or over think that sort of thing when he was out in the field. It was like using a sword or riding a horse or any number of other things such as this. Whenever someone became truly skilled at something, their body would memorize the feeling of the movements they needed to make to perform a task, so they could do them without thinking to much about them. It was the same thing here. Yuan's body memorized each burst of chakra that he released so that he would remember the feeling and be able to perform the chakra manipulation virtually subconsciously.

Standing again,T took a deep breath. Once again, his hands flashed through a series of hand seals. He bent down and slammed his palm against the ground. This time, there was a large blast of smoke that sot out to all sides around him. Again, nothing showed up to his summons, but T was satisfied. That attempt looked just like the summoning techniques he had seen in the past.T was honestly becoming irritated at his numerous attempt to summon. he would suddenly remember the rather irrelevance of summoning when concering Ts rather....Intent fighting form,where would he ever get a chance when he was in the enmies face.


getting up from he spot he walked futher into the land of lighting. finally T sat, cross-legged in the middle of a pine forrest in Kumo. His long sleeveless jacket hung from a tree behind him and he was shirtless. He was currently in between safe houses at the moment and had found this nice quiet spot to work on some training. This time, it wasn't as simple as basic elemental release. No, what he was trying to learn now was a combination style unique to Kumogakure. Very few, even within Kumo knew how to use this style. Few had the appropriate chakra, and even amongst those that did, it wasn't very common to find those who could use it. It was Storm style. This style combined suiton and raiton chakra to form what people commonly referred to as simply "storm". It was basically liquid lightening, and it was powerful.

The jutsu that T was going to try to start out with was known as the "Strobe Show Technique". It was one of the more simple storm style techniques, but it was still going to be difficult to figure out, especially in the beginning. The technique involved forming "storm" from each finger by combining the suiton and raiton chakra on that point and then having the chakra flow into the center of the hand, forming a needle-like projectile. The projectile then fired and whatever it hit, it would be able to pierce many substances as well as splash, each drop carrying with it piercing power of its own.T figured he had the idea of how the jutsu worked down pretty good as he ran it through his head again.

Turning his focus inward, T started drawing on his suiton chakra. The suiton chakra was what T was most familiar with working with thus far, and so he figured it would be easier starting with this and then adding the raiton chakra. Once he thought he had gathered enough suiton, he started trying to draw on his raiton chakra. It wasn't the easiest task, drawing on both at the same time. Slowly, he began to feel the raiton chakra flow into him as well while he held on to the suiton that he was already gathering. Making the quick hand seals, T raised his right hand and focused on the tips of his fingers. The suiton and raiton chakras mixed pretty well actually, the raiton current running through the suiton fairly easily. Small amounts of "storm" formed at the end of his fingers, and he manipulated the chakra to flow in towards his palm.

Turning, T pointed his palm at a tree to his right. The storm projectile fired off towards the tree, hitting it and piercing the bark. The storm splashed, each drop scaring the bark of the tree. T smirked. The storm was indeed powerful, providing the piercing power of raiton in liquid form. This would be incredibly deadly when used correctly.


T stood UP once more in his secluded little clearing in one of the forests of Lightening Country. This place was fast becoming his favorite place to do his training. It was quiet, secluded, and rather refreshing to be honest. With all the travel he did and the fast pace of his life, he rarely had the time to sit back and enjoy the fresh air and the natural beauty. But even now, he still had work to do.

Sitting back down he begin Turning his focus inward, he began drawing on his suiton chakra. He was working on a simple suiton technique this time. The "Dousing Jet" wasn't very useful as far as jutsu went. It couldn't really be used as an attack or defense in battle, and it didn't really produce enough water to put out any sort of sizeable flame. But, the jutsu was the basis for other, more advanced techniques, so it could prove useful.

T drew his suiton chakra into his chest and gathered it there for a moment. Making a very brief string of hand seals, he inhaled deeply and blew out of his mouth. A jet of water shot out of his mouth. It wasn't very strong, and it didn't go very far. Honestly, the technique wasn't very useful at all, but if it led to the ability to learn more techniques, T would do whatever he needed to.

He could see how the technique could be useful as a practice technique for some of the other suiton technique he knew of. The process of gathering chakra to the chest and expelling it through the mouth was different from releasing chakra through the hand or other body parts. At what point in the technique the chakra formed into water was a very important point. If the chakra changed into actual water in the throat or too far back in the mouth, one ran the risk of actually drowning one's self in their own water. You couldn't inhale during the technique either, which is why the deep breath before launching the technique was essential.

focused inwards once more, drawing on his suiton chakra again. He pushed it into his chest and gathered it there. Making the quick stream of hand seals once more, he inhaled deeply and then blew hard out of his mouth. The stream of water shot out again. Again, there was little force, and little distance, and the amount was not all that impressive, but there it was. It was the gateway to other things that could be more useful in the future.he fell back scooting againt a near by tree to rest switch quickly turnt into a full on sleep.

T woke up and sat up, leaning against the trunk of a tree in his same spot once again. It was early morning and the sun was rising, but the numerous mountain ranges of Lightening Country blocked the light of the sun from reaching the valley where T was training, so the clearing was lit by several lanterns he had set up during the night. Now, the early morning fog was rolling through the valley and the lamps cast an erie glow around the area. With the sun only just starting to rise, it was still pretty much night time where he was. The fog and the glow from the lamps made it feel like a scene from a horror story, but T didn't mind. He was used to being in places fraught with danger and filled with fear.

He didn't have time for all that right now. He had to focus. Turning his attention inward once more, he started drawing on his suiton chakra. This time he would need more than he had before when he had been learning a lower-level technique. This time he was learning a higher-level technique and it required him to create much more than a mere five gallons of water. The technique T was attempting to learn was the "Imitation Surfing Technique". It was a very useful technique indeed, as it summoned a large amount of fast moving water and used it to to attack the enemy. Not only that, but the user could ride atop the water to close the distance between themselves and the enemy. The technique involved summoning a large amount of water and forming it into a wave with chakra, then having that wave sweep across the battlefield to try and over throw enemies who were unprepared for the wall of water that was about to come crashing down over them. Meanwhile, the user could stand atop the large wave and be ready to attack as soon as the enemy was overtaken by the wave.

A very useful technique indeed, T looked forward to seeing it in action on the battlefield. But first, he had to learn to create and control the technique. He focused on drawing forth more chakra. For a technique like this, a fair amount was needed, and he had been training mostly in lower level techniques thus far. Once he felt that he had gathered enough chakra, T made the appropriate string of hand seals. The jutsu required more hand seals than most of the ones he had been training in before, but T was more than skilled with hand seals, as most shinobi of his rank were, and he sped through them in no time. He pushed the chakra he had gathered into his chest and inhaled deeply. Opening his mouth wide, he lurched forward. Huge amounts of water came pouring out of his wide open mouth, gathering around his feet. More and more poured out, and the water at his feet began to rise. Focusing some chakra into his feet, Yuan used the principals behind the water walking technique to stand atop the rising water.

As the last of the water exited T gullet, he focused on manipulating his chakra to form the water into the large wave. The water below him sloshed back and forth and then curled upwards into a large rolling wave. The wave was about ten feet high and twenty feet wide. Definitely large enough to mess with some people who weren't expecting it. Alright, time to see about moving this beast. Making a hand seal to help his focus, T started guiding his chakra forward. The wave started moving, and picked up speed quickly. The wave was surprisingly fast actually. T had heard that the speed of the wave depended on the control of the user, and he had pretty good control himself. The wave arced and rolled across the clearing at high speeds, quickly covering the distance from one side to the other. Much quicker than T had been anticipating, actually. The trees on the other side of the clearing were coming on fast. T tried to manipulate his chakra to turn the wave, but nothing happened. It was right about then that he realized that his mentor had never said anything about being able to change the direction of the wave. As the wave slammed into the trees across the clearing from where it had started, T leapt up off the wave and grabbed onto one of the branches hanging above him. Clutching to the branch, he watched as the wave pounded through the trees. The trunks of the trees ripped through the wave, but it reformed, being made of chakra, and kept moving through the thick forest. The trees groaned under the strain of the large quantity of fast moving water. T admired the strength of the wave, but if he had remained atop the water, he would have been slammed against one of those trees. As he hung there, he realized that he was still manipulating the chakra in the wave. Releasing his hold on the chakra, the wave crashed down to the ground, the water pouring outwards over the ground. Dropping from the tree, T brushed himself off. He was happy with the technique, but he would have to be careful about how he used the technique in the future so that he could avoid the same oversight in the future.


T quickly started making hand seals. This jutsu required more hand seals than any that T had been training in thus far. Even with his skilled, flawless motions, it took him a second to get through the chain of seals. As he completed the chain, he inhaled deeply. Leaning forward, he faced forward instead of down like with the Imitation Surfing technique. This time the water wasn't going to be gathering at his feet, but rather, shooting forward and molding itself into a rather dangerous form. Yuan opened his mouth wide and water began gushing out of his mouth.

The water that T spit forth rushed forward, expanding quickly as it poured forth from his mouth. The water spiraled and crashed inward upon itself for a second and then began forming into the head of a long serpentine dragon. The head thrashed as though it were alive, gnashing its long watery fangs. As the massive amount of water finished pouring from T mouth, the dragon suddenly shot forward, the water elongating into a long serpentine body. The dragon continued forward, rushing ahead like a raging river. It came in contact with a small tree and snapped it in half with its sharp fangs and rushing power


T was stunned. This was indeed an incredibly powerful technique. It was beyond belief how useful such a technique would be in the future. T had often worried that he did not possess enough actual strength in his ninjutsu. This would aid him immensely in putting this concern to rest. Turning his focus inward, Yuan paid close mind to his chakra. Most notably to the feel of the levels of chakra he had gathered to cast the jutsu. He focused hard, committing to memory the feeling of gathering the chakra so that he would be able to do it virtually instantly in the future. He had it down now. The jutsu was officially added to his arsenal. T smirked. This time off had been more productive than he had dared to hope.

He let his chakra levels droop to normal levels as he feel on his back onto a soft patch of grass,the cool dew on the grass cooled his back,this was almost as physically demanding as lifting all those small boulders.he rose to his feet stretchering all his joints out before casually walking out the pine forest and back into the village.