jutsu training:

It was a new day, and Raishi had been feeling pumped up and ready, the moment he got out of bed. He had eaten a light breakfast, then headed out into the village, looking for a spot to train. He had never been to the Itami Mountain before and now looking at it, he wanted to go therre. Before, when he was younger, he had been scared of going there as it looked so high and monstrous in fact. Now things had changed. A lot of things had changed. Deciding that this was going to be his training spot for the day, he started on the route to the mountain.As he was going to the mountain, at a steady jogging place, he thought about what he knew about the mountain. Although it was beyond the official border of Iwagakure, it had been widely recognized as the territory of Iwagakure. That was basically all he knew, as he remembered at the Ninja Academy, they had spoken about it and it's significance briefly.....Raishi was never interested in history so he never actually bothered to listen during those lectures. He was more interested in the history of the ninja and jutsu.

Now at the bottom of the mountain, he began to realise just how monstrous the size of the mountain was, and just looking up at it gave him a slight head ache. The top of the mountain could not be seen because of how high it was, shooting into the clouds. Of course, he never planned on climbing THAT far, but just climbing the mountain at all seemed like hard work. He looked up one more time, and noticed that there was a little space with one tree on the side of the mountain....probably made by someone, not far up. This was going to be his destination.
Wiping some sweat of his forehead with the sleeves of his shirt, he began to climb the mountain.


WORDCOUNT: 330/1000

Rai was nearly there, but he was already panting, drenched in sweat. Just one more climb to go and he would be on the platform.

AS he lifted himself up, lying on the grass, he began breathing deeply, to slow his breathing rate. He had never climbed a mountain before and from the way he was feeling now, he would never in his life, climb a mountain again.At least I have done my post training exercise.... Standing up from the soft grass, he scanned the platform he was standing on. Basically, the platform itself was about 15 meters, curving round the left side of the Itami Mountain. Raishi was on the left edge of it, and there about 13 or so meters ahead of him was the tree , on the other end of the platform. Since the platform snaked to the left, ending behind the mountain, the tree was not exactly straight ahead, but rather, tilting with the platform.
Staying on one spot, he went into the usual push up position, just to get the weightless feelings on his arms. He started with the normal pushups, moving to the plyometric, then the diamond, and finally the one leg ones....10 reps for each. AS soon as he finished, he sprawled on the floor, feeling a bit lazy and weak on his arms.

The sun was out today, and the fact that Raishi was on the mountain didn't really help matters. He was sweating like a jackal, already taken off his shirt and Iwa flack jacket. He couldn't look up the sky properly, due to the bright rays of the sun so his relaxation time was cut short. As he stood up, bare chested, and body hurting, he realised that the jutsu he was about to train would take more than chakra moulding....it would also take imagination. Raishi was always a creative kid, but nowadays it seemed like his creativity was cutting short. Nonetheless, he would train this jutsu perfectly.

WORDCOUNT: 659/1000

The process of this jutsu was fairly simple; he was to channel some of his chakra into some nearby rocks, and then using his imagination, he would form the shape of a dragon. With this dragon, and using his chakra, he would control the movement of the dragon perfectly.Easier said than done.. He was no chakra flow specialist, so he really needed to control hard on channelling his chakra.
First of all, he started weaving the hand seals...... Horse, Dog, Bird, Ox, Snake. Then clapping his hands together and closing his eyes he started imagining about his whole chakra system, trying to visualise how it moved, going round his body. This took about 5 minutes for him to get the hang of....he got so in to it , that it was like he could actually feel his chakra flowing throught his body. So far so good. Now it was time for the channelling.
Since Earth was his secondary element, it would be fairly harder to channel his Earth natured chakra into the side of the mountain, behind him but he still tried as hard as he could nonetheless. He felt the Earth based chakra flow out of him into the side of the mountain, about 15 minutes afterwards; he had been trying and trying and trying until he got it now. Finally, it was time for the tricky part.

Being a fairly good artist, he had copied out a picture of what the dragon was supposed to look like from the Jutsu Section of the Iwagakure Library. Before he came to the mountain, he had looked at the drawing for several minutes, till the state when he thought the dragon was literally flying on the paper.
He started to imagine the shape of the dragon, forming from the rocks on the side of the mountain. Eyes still closed, Raishi imagined the same dragon, bursting out of the rock, and he imagined it snaking towards the tree. He heard a low rumbling and that was when Raishi opened his eyes. Out from the side of the mountain, came a.....form. It in no way, looked like a dragon in anyway....more like a mass of mud and rocks come alive. Raishi dispelled the jutsu, restarting the entire process.



Raishi had tried about 3 times now, and each bringing out the different results.Mud with a snout. Mud with eyes. Mud with eyes and a teeth. He was getting closer in bringing out the true dragon from.
He had been on the mountain for about 2 hours now, and he was getting really tired. He decided to try one more time to see the results.
Weaving the handseals for the fifth and final time, he started with the channelling. It was getting easier each time he tried which showed improvement. He began to imagine the form of the dragon, with his eyes closed, and shortly afterwards, the dragon, in perfect form, comes out of the side of the mountain. With a wide grin, Raishi then controls the dragon to impact into the tree, snaking round the opposite end of the mountain. It was a direct hit...the tree going down with a loud crash, flying off the mountain. Raishi had learned a new jutsu.




WORDCOUNT: 1197/1000