Valen's Ibara Training topic

The day had gone to hit mid-noon by the time Valen had made it to a spot near his parent’s house where he did a bit of mild training, but today, today he would be training to become faster so he could “Well first thing lets go on a run right?” He let loose a laugh as he started to run. First he paced himself by starting with a lite jog before switching to bursts of sprints then back to jogging. “Man this is going smoothly…” shortly after he tripped and face-planted. “Ouch, ouch, ouch damn that hurt.” He laughed softly as he got back up and started to run again.

Time came around when he needed to take a break he had been running for a good few hours and it was always good to take a break and let your body build back up, he unpacked his bag and took his bottle of water taking a draft of what was contained on the inside, which was water, “Mmm I can’t wait to get to more training after this.” Valen took a bite from the salmon sandwich he had before laying back. “Ahh.” He finished up his food and the first bottle of water he had brought with him before standing up and stretching. “Alright time to get back into my training.” Without knowing what he was doing he burst into Crashing Ground speeds, it was for a moment and not fully controlled but he had gotten to it now it was just to get it to be mastered. Unfortunately for Valen he ended up crashing into a bush and toppling over it. “Ouch!” he rubbed his head slightly before getting back up and out of the bush and running, he was able to tell that his speed was increasing but it was getting late so he would have to be out here another couple weeks to complete the training which he did. By the end of the week Valen maintained Crashing Ground speeds for about an hour and was able to do it normally now. “Ahh yes I think im getting the hang of this.” With a smile Valen started to run again going into Crashing Ground speeds without much effort as sweat would drip from his forehead in showing just how much he was dedicated to his training, nothing would stop him. “Finally! I got this down now.” It took him a while but he finally managed to get his speed up now he should be able to keep up with some people around his level. “Man this was a tough week.“



Training complete!
Word: 436
Jutsu learned:  

Name: Crashing Ground
Classification: Taijutsu
Rank: B-rank
Class: Supplementary
Range: N/A

Description: A fully refined Swift Release. The wielder can move beyond god-like speed only showing their footsteps crashing against the ground. This move is said to only be used the second the wielder grips their hilt giving so they waste no time when they need to attack.

Approved

Looking through the journal left to him Valen was learning about different types of chakra and ways to combat them also ideas for what he assumed were friends of his great grandfathers. There was a jutsu about crashing waters and another to his own surprise, it was a sort of fusion but there was no real information other than something about the kitsune elder. “Hmmm what is this….Crystal shuriken hmm?” He rubbed at his chin then scratched his head. “It says that it is a combination type. Well makes sense right? That thing is supposed to be huge. Hmm, a collaboration; between a water and crystal user. Maybe I can do both?”  Valen started to learn what was needed. First things first he needed some water, it didn’t need to be much but first he needed to learn the basics of how it worked. In his attempts he was able to create a lousy version of the shuriken which all it was, was a crystallized water disc “Nope not it!” he wasn’t sure what was wrong then it hit him, he was only using his crystal nature, could it be as simple as that? Valen tried a few more times trying to shape the shuriken properly. “I wonder if this is what a blacksmith feels like some times haha…” He finally was able to secure the proper design in shuriken and to his surprise it was rather light. He kept at making the ninja tools for a while longer before taking a rest, he was confident that he had produced great results and this would add to his tool collection as well. “I think this is it. Hmm it’s pretty light.” He quickly tossed the shuriken into a tree testing them out. “Awesome!” Next on the list was mention of hooks and shuriken, maybe they meant using hook weapons to use shuriken, which would make it a taijutsu type of attack but for Valen another idea came to mind, why not hooked shuriken. There were similar ninja tools like them but this case they would be like barbed shuriken. He began by forming up a normal crystal shuriken but this time didn’t stop forming it until there were four hooked blades. To make sure this formation wasn’t a fluke he made another two, they all looked the same, roughly. Valen proceeded to throw the hooked shuriken into the tree to see just how effective it was, to his surprise they did what he thought was a good deal of damage to the tree alone, because of the odd shape to Valen his first throw went slightly lopsided and nicked the side of the tree he was aiming for and took a chunk off. Whistling Valen smiled as he yawned and then climbed the largest tree near him. “It’s time to turn in for the night, I will pick it up tomorrow, but I don’t think I’ll leave the area so I can start on it once I wake up.” He wrapped himself up in his blanket while lying on a nice wide and rather flat branch quickly dozing off for the night.


Morning came creeping through the branches and leaves around Valen as he slowly stretched and yawned before gathering his things and climbing down the tree. His shuriken were still in the tree causing him to smile softly realizing he hadn’t been dreaming. “Okay, so now let’s learn that huge shuriken… hmm why not make it a hooked one, those do some good damage!” he nodded as he started to form a rather large crystal hooked shuriken. He had actually grown accustom to determining the right amount of water and crystallization was needed so this particular jutsu didn’t take too long to form, soon he had a large hooked shuriken. Although, it took a short time to form the shuriken he had already started sweating due to the heat and the exertion he was putting out. “Hmm wonderfully huge…” He tossed the large hooked shuriken at the tree he had thrown the smaller ones at causing it to implant into the tree breaking free the few normal hooked shuriken free from their spot and landing on the ground. Without missing a beat he went to retrieve the ones still in good condition and played with them a moment before attempting to try the next one in the book, controlling the shuriken, his first attempt didn’t work too well, he was able to cause the shuriken to change direction but it was only so slight, he tried again and again until he was freely controlling the direction of the shuriken he threw. “Yes! Got this!” with a grin plastered on his face he fell over breathing in deeply as he relaxed his body from the two days of training.





Training complete!
Jutsu’s trained
D - 2
C – 2
Word count: 799/600

Jutsu’s Learned

Spoiler:

Approved

Valen approached his special little training area that thankfully no one knew about, it was an area off the beaten path that happened to have a small lake with a river passing through so it was easy to find, but at the same time rather hard as well because once the river went far enough down it would soon branch out from into another river and then into another one later on giving someone following the river a one thirds chance of finding his training place.

First on his list would be the base sealing method he knew of a version that was similar and held more but this one would be good for storing smaller items without costing as much from him in the long run. So using the same ideas as the previous seal he took a leaf and drew the symbol for ‘store’ with in a circle then shortly after was able to seal a pinecone with in. “Wow that was rather simple haha I guess it’s good I know the other method.”  While he was at it, Valen soon started on with the modification methods he had read about both expansion and stacking. With the expansion formula he added a square to the first seal and wrote the characters for ‘expand’ then proceeded with another square and the characters for ‘stack’ then loaded up the seal with the maximum amount of pinecones he could fit into the seal. This was a success, but to make sure he knew he was doing this right he soon started to gather an additional ten leaves and started the process all over again first creating the standard seal then adding the additional modifications to each seal both the ‘expansion’ seal and the ‘stacking’ seal making sure he knew his stuff when it came to these seals.  

Valen looked out and noticed that the hours were just about to go out so making the decision he climbed the ladder that led to the small house that was within the largest tree in the area which was be enough to hold at least three people comfortably while at the same time allowing the tree to keep living.  He was out before first light now training his shurikenjutsus, first up a simple Shadow Kunai technique. At first like most people he had a little difficulty getting the timing right but with the next few days of constant training he was soon able to get the timing down with only a few milliseconds error but he decided he might need some more practice, but for now he needed to continue gaining his arsenal. Next he picked up some wire and sat down wrapping part of it around the tip of his finger and focused on channeling his chakra into the wire before making it leap to the shuriken lying before him. It took a while before he finally got the wire to take the proper amount of chakra and even longer to control the shuriken while focusing the chakra into the wire. “Damn.” He was freely sweating as he shrugged and then went to the lake and took a relaxing dip into the cool water. “Ahhh, I feel better already. This is a crazy thing I can see why puppet users like the techniques they do.” He out thinking about it he floated there relaxing before climbing back out and changing into new clothes and continued with training the Chakra threads jutsu. Now that he had some experience in training the ability to project the threads along a wire from his fingertips he now decided to try to extend one without the training wheels, it was slow at first, but soon enough he was projecting a thread from each finger and then attached them to a shuriken to test the waters. Valen swiftly tossed a few of the shuriken then started to control them in midair quickly turning them in different directions, nodding he smiled then dissolved the threads and decided to try it with the normal wire he had using a little chakra to curve the shuriken. “Okay I got this.” Eventually he got the hang of manipulating the wires.  His training had only begun as he began learning about how to change the direction and angle of his projectiles. To him this would have to be one of the harder techniques to learn because just a fraction of a difference in where he would hit could mess the new direction up. This process took a while to start getting the hang of hitting his own projectiles to knock them in the direction he wanted. Soon Valen would first toss a shuriken then when it got a certain distance he would swiftly throw a kunai which caused the shuriken to soon turn back aiming at the target he had selected. “Heck yes!”  He finally had the hang of this new technique.  

Being a water release user Valen felt it was time to start learning water style jutsus, so he began with a more deceptive type of jutsu, the hidden mist technique. Being close to the lake Valen stood still and focused on creating a mist roughly covering one hundred meters in diameter along with his added ability to lace a genjutsu with other jutsus he at the same time was able to do the mist servant technique causing both the mist and the eerie black ninja illusions soon appeared at the same time. Incidentally, although he knew what would happen, the sight even startled Valen as well.  Now with that he decided to take a break from all the intense type of training and do a bit of speed training and started to jog for a while, every so often Valen would burst into fits of speed attempting to go faster each time eventually he was constantly running at a swift release speed slowing down he smiled and relaxed in the cool shade while drinking some water. “Ahh this had been productive thus far haha tiring, but effective” Valen shut his eyes feeling at peace with nature shortly taking a nap on the cool forest ground. Soon he woke up feeling the rumble of hunger seemingly screech from his gut. “Well time to eat” unfortunately it seemed an animal had come into this training ground and taken some food from him causing him to need to hunt for some food taking a kunai Valen silently stalked the forest looking for a good elk to munch down on. Silently he slunk over to the dear without drawing its attention and with a thin bladed kunai he swiftly brought the blade into the elk killing it within a few seconds then carried it back to his camp, gutting it skinning it saving its pelt for later then took sections of its meat and started to cook it while preserving the rest of the elk for later. Shortly after consuming the meat he had along with other things such as vegetables, rice, and a large flask of water infused with some wild berries he found that were safe to eat, he realized that he Silently killed an elk and that it could even be used on an enemy.

Valen after eating went over to the lake and quickly washed himself down so he could get back into his training. After getting clean he stood in the shallow end of the lake parts of him hidden by the reflection of the moon on the water as he started to focus on the hand seals for creating a clone but instead of the non-physical clones they are normally taught he went through the process of creating water clones, at first he would be able to make squiggly humanoid clones that seemed to be like mindless pawns, then eventually their limbs would start taking shape. He was using the lake as a source to make the clones one after another failed attempt after failed attempt he finally created the perfect water clone then soon he switched his attention on another jutsu using the water clone to soon attack himself in training using a similar tactic by replacing his body with that of several gallons of water and without a skip in tempo he attempted to in one shot doing the water prison technique he had read in his great grandfathers journal and actually succeeded in pulling the jutsu off the first time, but to Valen once wasn’t enough to him he needed to keep practicing a few more times and he should have it down. Having taken the nap that he took earlier he decided to press on creating the same situation over and over finally mastering the water release prison, water clone, and the water replacement technique.

Now Valen rested up in the tree relaxing so he could recover the chakra he expended during the harsh training sessions, he would play with his shuriken or clean his equipment, he even went and washed the clothes he had dirtied from the training as well as repaired anything that needed to be mended. At first a day passed then another allowing him to fully recover from his training. Getting up after resting Valen started to walk over to the water looking out at the lake before yawning and stretching it was a good day to train the sun was yet to be up and he could easily take in the fresh air so he went for a run to help warm himself up by speed training. He started to dash forward moving at swift speeds while pushing himself to go to the next level of speed, it was one hell of a way to warm up with how strenuously he was pushing himself. Eventually with his blood warmed up he would eventually slip into bullet release speeds which at first came to a surprise to him at how he rocketed off even faster than before. He maintained the speed for a good while as he took the time to practice maneuvering through obstacle like areas to make sure he didn’t go flying into any walls while going this fast. Eventually he came back to his campsite and came sliding into a stop laughing softly to himself before cooking some more food, using another part of the elk he hunted down just a few days prior, his food supplies had dwindled down during the past few days and he realized he may have to hunt again for more food, but that wouldn’t be needed just yet. Now that he was feeling warmed up he decided to work on some more techniques.

Nodding and listening to the rhythm of the lake Valen slowly started to focus his chakra letting it draw into the palm of his hand as he brought them back the heel of each palm pressed together with his left hand pointing behind him and his right hand the opposite direction soon in both his hands he held water chakra balls they fluctuated gently as he soon pushed his palms out in front of him shooting a blast like stream of water out in the direction he indicated, with a smirk he was able to twist his hands and actually change the direction of the flow of water streaming out of his hands.  Then he cut it off feeling as though he pulled the technique off without a hitch, but decided to preform it a few more times to make sure. He would aim at a set of small targets as well as farther back targets seeing if he could actually use the technique in long range combat, unfortunately the jutsu would only be able to be used in a sort of mid ranged area of attack so he kept practicing for a little longer before moving to the next jutsu on his list. With only but a few more jutsu he wanted to learn at the moment on his list he started to section off types and such so he could easily blow through them with easy, for example water types were on his list he grouped them up to see what he would have to work on since it would be easy to work on water release jutsu while near a large body of water. So all he had to do was pick the next one to do. Without much thinking his eyes gravitated to the kenjutsu type of technique known as the Aquatic Blade, since he was well diverse in his Crystal Blade he was easily able to form the proper shape of the sword he wanted only differences between the crystal blade and the aquatic blade is the crystal blade is a means to be used as a catalyst giving the user if they have the proper knowledge to augment the crystal blade to make it effective alone it was no more than a little stronger than a normal sword. The aquatic blade could be fed different amounts of chakra to make the sword stronger and like the crystal blade they could both conduct electricity without harming the user. With a few tries to make sure the blade he made was ‘solid’ Valen, soon with the lake still as a source of water, created a second sword in his free hand. The swords were light weight being constructed of water and chakra which made it easy to swing around.  He tested the blades out before letting them disband then with only a moment or two started to perform the hand seals needed for a jutsu that allowed him to sink into water. His hand seals were near perfect as he knew almost all the ones needed for water release type jutsu. It took only a moment or two before he started to sink into the lake soon completely vanishing well almost completely. Valen felt like he was in almost a mirror like area as he felt like he was floating the water while having a three hundred and sixty degree view of everything that was happening around them. He floated there in the disproportional space the technique had created allowing him to hide. “Time to get out, before I get too wrapped up in this jutsu by dozing off.” Valen allowed himself to start creeping out of the lake by exiting the jutsu’s space. “Wow that was a very weird feeling so to speak.” He looked over to the camp site and walked to it. “Maybe a mix of mist and hiding in the water would be a good trap setup later on I’ll give it a try.” Valen noticed a small group of animals all grouped together heading off to the north which gave him the chance to fully stock up on food for the remainder of the training quickly he sucked in some water and then spit it out infusing it with his chakra shot it in a circle around the animals making it large enough for them all to become trapped prey in his hunt for food. He had a feeling he wouldn’t have been able to pull off the jutsu at first, but now he could see that he could normally he wouldn’t give a jutsu he rarely knew about a try when it came to catching food but it was one that would stop all the animals and allow him to catch them all and slice the pelts and meat from them before drying the meat out so it wouldn’t go bad.

“Damn that was a nice catch I’m going to be eating good tonight!” He looked back at the trap and noticed a couple baby foxes were trapped in the jutsu. He walked over to them being the contract holder for the Kitsune contract foxes were at peace with him he was able to gently get the foxes out and bring them to the lake to wash them down making sure they weren’t too sticky to move then fed them some of the meat that he got from the animals first stuck in the trap then walked over to the circle of sticky water he started to do the hand seals for the next jutsu but failed to produce what was meant to happen more than likely he goofed somewhere on the work through so he tried a few more times and the last try he did worked, soon a wave of wild bubbles came spewing out of his mouth as it soon started to ‘wash away’ the circle of sticky water, or syrup he had created soon there were no more bubbles let alone anymore of the sticky water known as syrup capture field with only a few more jutsus left to train to finish up his massive training session to help him be ready for the exams. He wasn’t sure if he would need everything here, but he would at least be prepared to wreak havoc on his opponent. Next thing he needed was a set of shuriken and his ninja wire again. Soon he set to work with his shuriken he would loop two together at a time before testing them out, the wires had a sort of elastic property to them so they would easily have a sort of rubber band effect to them. Getting up Valen headed over to a tree and wrapped one of the sets around the tree just like it was shown pulling back on either side as much as possible before letting it go, the force of the shuriken pulled the loosely implanted shuriken that was in the tree without taking too much power from the yo-yo effect given. Soon he gave it a few more tries one after another they flew as they should they looked incredibly deadly if they were to sink into flesh there was no doubt they would cause a good set of damage to whomever was to be hit. Valen whistled as he saw one of the sets he sent out took a chunk out of a tree and another sunk so far deep into the tree it struck it was almost impossible to see. “Well then haha, looks like im gonna get a medal haha” He shook his head and continued to practice with the shuriken technique a little while longer before heading off to bed up in his little tree house.

Yawning Valen stretched about as he slowly woke up from his sleep looking around before grabbing a few things and getting ready to train some more. “Almost done here and soon I can return to do a few missions.” He nodded gently before hopping out of the tree and went through all the jutsu he had learned just recently before sitting down at a table he had made with a scroll practicing the next rank of the storage formula. He drew many storage formulas practicing the craft work of the seal. Soon he finished the next few pages of the formula and set them down and soon went to work on the next of the few he had left. Writing down the first modification he wrote a larger version of the expansion formula and then jotted down the formula for the modification of stacking. Soon sealing a medium sized disc inside he had a very good understanding of how these particular jutsus worked as he already knew about their weaker sides, he easily adapted with this particular ones and decided to move on to the next of the few he had left. Now he was moving onto a different type of seal, the liquid state formula seal he sat down and started on what he needed for the seal and when he finished he used the seal as he sealed some of the water in the lake to gain knowledge over what he needed and soon was easily sealing water then unsealing it. Next up were the last seal was the base seal to for primary elemental sealing which he would later need to learn how to seal each element if he felt like using them later. He worked late into the night until he actually fell asleep at the table he was at while the two fox cubs laid behind him sort of guarding him while he slept.

Night slowly crept to day as Valen woke up to the early morning light wondering what had happened then noticed that he had fallen asleep while training and wondered if he got enough practice in so decided to keep working on the last two jutsus he had left until he needed to be back or until he felt like he had them down pretty good which after about half the day he did feel happy with the results of the training. Now to some people that would be it, but to Valen he decided to run through all the jutsus a few more times so he went for a run taking roughly about three hours he ran almost around the whole forest until he ran back to his camp site. He had gone from a standard speed to swift release, then to bullet making sure he had the hang of them both. With that out of the way he soon started to work on his shuriken techniques once by one he made sure they were down. Now that he had to think about it he wasn’t sure if he should fight a water clone or not finally he decided to summon a water clone and then two aquatic swords tossing one to his clone the two started to practice their swordsmanship. Without hesitation they were going at one another for blood. Valen would swiftly bring his sword down at the clone while the clone would soon block with it’s own sword then spin in attempt to slice his gut open. Valen was able to dodge with only an inch between him on the blade before thrusting his sword forward plunging it into the throat of the clone. The clone soon dispersed and reformed bowing at Valen before they prepared for the next few jutsus he had under his hat. Next up the two tried to stop one another with the syrup jutsu and the first one to be stopped would lose, this however didn’t work out too well as they soon had a good area covered in nothing but sticky syrup water so they both proceeded to wash the syrup away with another water style technique they both shared, the wild bubble wave washing the forest floor clean before taking a break. Valen let the clone disperse into nothing but water then proceeded to the camp grounds making some food for himself and then some for the foxes still relaxing near him the three of them ate happily while smiling, he assumed the foxes were smiling from how their lips curled.

With the food eaten Valen went to the lack and started to bath himself so to get the sweat off and relax before turning in for the night as tomorrow would come he could go back to his training. Soon night came into full effect as the moon hung over head while Valen laid on the table staring up at the stars relaxing and enjoying the sight of the shining stars above. After a while he got up and headed back up to his tree house to turn in for the night. Valen took in a good night’s sleep before waking up about mid noon from exhaustion which was foreseen as he was working his tail off for these techniques never knowing when he would need them, but it was good to make sure he had them. “Well little guys soon you will have to find your family or you can stay here and hunt there is a house up there” he pointed to the tree he exited “Just be safe this will be my last full day with you two.” He smiled at them rubbing their heads before going back to practicing for the last bit of day. He returned to that oddly disproportioned world, just before he entered the space he had activated the mist technique to get the hang of using them both together to him the world seemed to be like looking through a fish eye it was very head spinning, but he soon started to get use to the way things felt while inside the water. He quickly exited the water and fired off a water release cannon in to the air making it feel like it was raining all around the area the water felt good around him as it rained down. “Hmmm this has been productive, but now to continue.” He smirked and started running at swift release while forming two water blades and head into the forest to practice maneuvering through obstacle like areas while wielding a weapon like the two swords he had of course he would practice using said swords taking swings at the trees then darting back to find the next target. After a while Valen returned to the campsite dead tired from all the work he put into the training and made a meal for him and his two new friends. “Eat up” He smiled after finishing his food and went to bed that night only to leave in the morning back to Ibara he needed to get back before he was needed.


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Jutsus learned
12 D-rank
15 C-rank
27 day bulk
word count: 4232/4200

Jutsu's Learned:

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