Intense Training part 2 (private no killing)

The day had started out peaceful as zanji remained within the confines of his bedroom. He slumbered peacefully dreaming of becoming a shinobi of great strength and respect. But more importantly his dream focused on on thing being the Hokage. He stood above the Hokage's building at the coronation ceremony. The crowds were silent as he moved towards the railing cloaked in a white garb. He had on the traditional land of fire hat worn by past Hokage as he lifted his head the people cheered in reverence to their new leader. When he opened his mouth to speak nothing came out something was wrong. He tried to speak again but once again nothing came out but silence. The crowds cheering soon turned to booing at the show of lack of respect.He tried to scream out but nothing once again came out suddenly there was a blinding flash of light people were screaming and falling over as a large explosion suddenly engulfed the entire area.

People screamed as they were engulfed in the blast flesh ripping from bone leaving nothing behind but burned bones. He tried to run away from the explosion but it just kept following him and growing larger and larger. Soon he fell victim to the blast and screamed out in pain as he watched his body burn up. He awoke startled and sweat dripping down from his face. He was hunched over slightly and buried his face in his hands and took in a few breaths. He spoke to himself in a soothing manner "it was only a dream just a dream everything's fine." He exhaled a shaky breath as he got out of bed and moved towards his bathroom. He needed to wake up and splash some cold water on his face. He sighed and entered the bathroom and turned on the faucet and felt the cold water and splashed it upon his face. The water felt soothing on his skin and put him at ease. He turned off the faucet and shook his head and dried it with a nearby towel. He looked himself over in the mirror and frowned as he had terrible bed head. He shook his head and got out his brush and slowly began to comb the wild mess of crimson hair.

After what seemed like a eternity he finally combed out his hair and got dressed. Once again today was going to be a training day for him. He really should be focusing on doing more missions but on the other hand improving his skills so he would not die seemed to take a higher priority on his list of things. He chuckled to himself as he stretched out cracking his back to get him nice and limber and to help wake his sleepy ass up. He yawned loudly and headed out from his home heading straight towards the training grounds as per usual. After all the training grounds were the best place to get training done and not do anything destructive to the city. He arrived shortly to the training field and began to stroll around. For this typ[e of training he was going to need to find a water source. So he strolled quietly until he found a large river dividing up the training field. A smirk appeared on his face as he moved towards it.

He bent down at the waters surface and saw a few fish swimming under the waters surface. He would need to make a mental note of this area was a perfect spot for fishing. Perhaps he would come here with his father sometime and do a little father son bonding. He smiled and stood up straight and brought his hands together and then formed the tiger handseal. The water rippled in three areas and soon formed into humanoid shape and then took on the exact appearance of Zanji. He would need to thank the mist village for this lovely little technique it had its uses even if the range on them is limited. He made a mental not to learn the shadow clone jutsu someday much more handier and the range was not limited. He smiled as he looked at his clones and spoke in a narcissistic tone "My my aren't you all so handsome." The clones chuckled and it was infectious and the real zani chuckled along with them. after a few moments of laughter they all stopped and the real zanji took a few steps back and the clones followed him. "Well then boys you know why I made you lets get this show on the road lets start with two on one."

The clones nodded there head and two of them moved and started to charge towards zanji while the third one stayed out of the way but maintained his distance so the jutsu would not break. The clone would be much weaker than he was but he would try his best to fight on there level. After all where is the fun in the fight if you can end it so quickly. Each clone thrust out their arms and fired out three snakes from there hand hoping to entrap the real zanji. Oh but he wasn't going to have that He quickly used his earth style hiding k like a mole technique and sunk into the ground sealing the hole above him. giving him a temporary place to hide out and think properly. He nearly had let it slips his mind that his clones possessed the same abilities as he did stupid rookie mistake. He slammed his hand into his face in a frustrated manner and sighed. He quickly tunneled underneath the clones and came up behind them and jumped out after creating a hole and emerging from the ruble. He narrowed his eyes and quickly dusted off his shirt.

The clones charged at him once again but this time they moved closer together one clone hand out his hand while the other began to move his hands over the top of the clones. Chakra funneled into the clones hand as zanjis eyes opened in fear. So they were going to use his new technique against him. Guess they weren't playing around either. The clone compressed the chakra into his palm and created a blue sphere and charged towards zanji his hand outstretched. Zthe realy zanji quickly formed the snake hand seal and hardened his entire body with a earth spear and was struck in the chest. He grunted as he felt the ball of compressed chakra rotate into him his shirt tearing apart as it dug through the fabric. Soon he was launched backwards rotating and hit the water and sunk into the cold depths. the clones quickly ran after the spiraling zanji and dove into the water to grab him. Thankfully his earth spear armor had protected him against the damage but his shirt was ruined which really pissed him off. He ended the earth spear and swam to the top of the water and pulled himself up to the surface and walked on it. That technique of his really hurt he had to give the fourth hokage his praise for creating such a ingenious and powerful jutsu.

Wc 1205/1700

Zanji swam to the top of the water and quickly puled himself on to the waters surface. He growled in a annoyed manner as he was now soaking wet.  He grabbed his  remnants of his shirt and tore them off his body. water dripped down his body returning to the river as he looked around. His clones Had really pissed him off but that's what he would get for fighting with himself. He smirked and threw the shirt remnant onto the ground as he reached the shore. His clones soon emerged from the water and he quickly turned around and stared at them as he heard the water trickling down from them.  He sneered at the two clones and spoke with a most annoyed tone. "Not bad gentlemen not bad at all but you have caused me pain I do not like that!"

Lick a flick of a switch  his personality changed He became much more cold heartened and tactful. His mind buzzing with ideas and strategies to take out his clones. He could simply just end the jutsu but that would not be productive but more importantly fun. He flicked his wrist and took off at full speed at his clones. He dashed though  a small opening between them and began to form the hand seals for his most powerful water style jutsu. His clones quickly realized what he was doing and went on the defensive and began to from there own giant vortex jutsu hand seals Oh but they were much to slow for zanji had the upper hand since they were weakened in strength. He smiled as he finished the hand-seals first while the others were left in the between the middle. He narrowed his eyes and aimed at his two clones and spoke "Suiton: Daibakufu no Jutsu!" He unleashed the powerful water wave straight into the clones they were easily engulfed by the raging waters from his jutsu hurtling them back. The area behind them would suffer some major terrain change but  he didn't care all that much, he was pissed and was going to make his clones pay for harming their creator.

He watched as his clones pun around inside the vortex and then dissipate returning them back to there watery original state. He panted a few times and  looked over at the devastation he had just wrought upon the land. He chuckled happily as he had beat the other two clones in combat but there was still one more clone left. He spat onto the ground  and got into a fighting position and looked at the remaining water clone. "Alright just you and me my friend  come on lets see if you can fair better than your two fallen brothers." The clone nodded his head and smirked at the original and charged straight at him. Oh how this was going to be so much fun. He easily dodged bobbing his body back and forth as the clone attempted to use taijutsu on him with a barrage of kicks. He smiled and patted the clone on top of the head in a mocking manner and  jumped back wards throwing his shurkien straight at the clone. The clone had little time to react and quickly used a earth spear and formed the armor around his arms and used them and deflected the shuriken to the side.

He narrowed his eye brows at the clever defensive matter his clone had taken upon himself. It seemed this clone was not as ignorant as the others. He smiled  and gave a sarcastic clap at the clone. He spoke with mild enthusiasm and said "well well looks like your not a complete waste of chakra after all your smarter than the other two I'll give you that much." The clone smirked and gave a bow to his creator and smirked. He then proceeded and smashed in the ground around him and began to throw rocks at the real Zanji. The real Zanji's eyes widened and  quickly ran circling around as the clone threw stone after stone at him hopefully trying to hit him. Not a bad scheme but it was a delaying the inevitable tactic. The real Zanji had greater speed and reflexes than the clones but he was doing his best to fight fairly. A stone flew passed the real Zanji's head and he skidded to a halt. The clone  was watching him studying his movements something he usually tended to do when fighting against a opponent. But he wasn't that surprised he was fighting a copy of himself of course they would have the same tactical measures. The key was he needed to out think himself.

He took a few calming breaths and stared down at his duplicate. It was sort of like looking into a mirror but this reflection could hit you back. He was not in a good mood his temper was beginning to boil over. He had ruined one of his favorite shirts but he supposed there was a price to pay for fighting. It could of been worse after all he could of had internal bleeding or at the worst case scenario he could be dead. His fingers twitched nervously as he and his doppelganger decided to have a little stare down. He needed to be quick and calculating with this  he had other more important training regiment to get down to. He needed to rid himself of his Rasengan's weakness and need for a clone to help form it. He flexed his fingers once again and then proceeded to crack them Well it was now or never to see what he was capable of. This clone was going to go down and hard his rasengan training took precedent at the moment. Though a though had occurred to him perhaps he could do that training with this clone.

He held up his hand to his clone for a moment in signal for a pause. He cleared his throat and spoke with a calm tone "Enough of this quibbling you and i both know its going to end in victory for the original lets cease this confrontation and focus on something more beneficial for the both of us. His clone raised a eyebrow and smirked and walked slowly towards his creator. "Agreed you do need to become much more stronger if you wish to take leadership of the leaf." Th clone smiled and moved out towards the grass and sat down. He held his hand out in front of him to try and form a rasengan alone. The original zanji would soon follow suit not wishing for his clone to disperse and leave him with more work than he had to do.  He closed his eyes and held out his hand in front of him and tried to concentrate. he needed to remember the training perhaps there was a clue on how to materialize the rasengan alone hidden withing the training regiment.

The rasengan was a epitome of shape manipulation jutsus if one could masster the rasengan a person would master shape manipulation in turn. He focused on a sing point in his hand and began to slowly go through the course of work he had to do to even learn the rasengan. He had first started out using a water balloon for training water balloon. He needed to start by spinning the water inside the balloon in multiple directions at once using only the his chakra, which emphasizes rotation.  it tok him weeks to get this down so he combed through his memory remembering the final training day and he had succeeded in making the water move about. It was a great victory for him that day and so he had moved onto rubber ball. He needed to pop the ball from the inside which emphasized using power. He needed to make his chakra  into dense physical spherical manifestation in order to do this. It took him little over a week to even pop a single balloon. the third step was combine steps one and two without moving the balloon itself emphasizing  stability in a spherical state.

His eyes burst wide open as he had a epiphany he muttered to himself "thats it its so simple." He held out his hand and looked into it and went through the process of his old training regime. his chakra quickly became visible and compressed itself into the sphere and inisde it his chakra swirled . He laughed to himself in amazment  and deactivated the rasengan and got down onto one knee and panted. The clone smiled and got up and patted zanji on the back and the real zanji canceled the water clone jutsu. He got up and slowly began to walk back towartds the leave village. A giant smile on his face as he returned to his home to rest and recuperate. he had done enough training today to last him quite a long time.

(Zanji Exit)
A2-M1 650 Rasengan training (800 words)
WC 1489/1300

(trained ninjutsu up to master and learned rasengan no clone needed.)