Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles.
K A L I H I M I T S U
Practice is a means of inviting the perfection that you desire from yourself.
K A L I H I M I T S U
Practice is a means of inviting the perfection that you desire from yourself.
Kali was exhausted, drenched in sweat, out of breath, and in desperate need of rest as well as water, no one could contest that. Previous elemental training sections hadn’t been this hard, at least not to her knowledge or memory, so why it was taking her forever to manifest Futton was beyond her. It was probably just two years ago when she had learned her first element, that being Suiton, and a couple months ago since she had learned Katon, two elements that could make the very dangerous Futton. So under the guidance of her teacher, an individual who hailed from the Terumi clan who possessed Futton and Futton alone, she was attempting to learn how to manifest the element. But for some strange reason she had been able to do so, it coming close to a week since she had begun training.
She was slowly growing frustrated by the entire thing, annoyance evident on her face and tiredness in her eyes. She was about ready to call it quits and work on something else, for if fate didn’t want her next element to be Futton, than who was she to force the concept’s hand? Yet her teach, Mikasa Terumi, wouldn’t allow for her student to give up, especially when said student was apart of the original bloodline. She had known her mother, a powerful shinobi who wielded both Futton and Yoton with deadly precision, and she knew that her daughter had inherited those two bloodlines. She refused to allow this opportunity to slip through her fingers, and she refused to allow Kali to deny Kirigakure a true Terumi. So she forced the fifteen-year-old Chunin to continue to train, motivating the individual along the way though she found herself getting annoyed as the days went by without any sign of Futton surfacing.
Perhaps she was doing something wrong. Perhaps her body wasn’t ready to learn another element, having only learned her second one days before. Was she moving too soon? Maybe, Kali’s body not yet having become accustomed to her second element was a possibility. Now that she thought about it, they had waited a year after Kali had learned Katon to try learning another basic element, so she most definitely was starting too soon. Or, perhaps Futton wasn’t the element that wanted to surface now. She didn’t have the elements necessary for Yoton just yet, but that didn’t mean that the last component of the element didn’t want to poke its head out. Yes, perhaps she should start Kali on a training regimen to learn Doton instead of Futton, and if that didn’t work, well that told her that her student’s body needed more rest before it was ready to take on another element.
Her eyes gazed at Kali, the fifteen-year-old laying flat upon the ground, greedily gulping down air as her body temperature began to decrease. Yes, she would start on Doton, for it wouldn’t hurt for Kali to have another basic element under her belt, and if Doton was the correct element, well than Kali could learn Futton and Yoton at a later date, and perhaps even at the same time though Misaka would have to find a Terumi who possessed Yoton with the time to train Kali. With a sigh, Misaka stood up, walking out from underneath the shade the tree had provided her and over to Kali, the child’s breath having become even. She knelt down, placing a hand upon the younger female’s head before smiling down at her.
“That’s enough for the day, Kali-san,” Misaka said as she idly smoothed Kali’s hair, “we pick up next week, your body needing time to rest, and when we come back we shall make another attempt to unlock another element.” She continued to smooth Kali’s hair, her brown eyes looking into Kali’s eyes, allowing silence to descend between the two. “Return home and rest, okay?” She finally stated, and only when Kali nodded would Misaka grin down at her, standing up as she bide the child farewell.
With bones aching, and feeling the effects of an incoming headache, Kali pulled herself into a sitting position as her eyes looked around the training ground. She may have been exhausted, but she had managed to muster the strength to walk home, collapsing into her bed upon arrival. She was happy that Misaka was giving her one week to recover, she desperately needed it, and she would definitely be sleeping for the duration of her vacation. She wanted both her body, mind, and soul to be prepared for the grueling training section that awaited her in a week.
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