Training begins (Training)

Heading to the Training aware once more Mika had a plan, as she walked she weaved more silk for use in her training exercise, it would be needed and she needed it to be strong and resilient, she also had the large leather patch she used the last time she did this kind of training, as well as an extra patch, she figured she would need it considering she was stepping things up a bit. She was also carrying one of the large rocks that had come in, likely for breaking apart for later, but she hoped they wouldn't mind her borrowing it for her training. Setting everything up like before to train her defense she instead used the large Rock as the striker, and she set herself up, bracing herself and pushing it away and letting it hit her, and all she did was hold her ground and take the hit before pushing it once more to repeate the whole thing. It had worked before to strengthen her defenses so it clearly worked for her, so the next logical step was to increase the weight and hardness of what was hitting her. it just made sense to her anyway. As she continued, she wondered if she should start practicing with a log next, that would be better for variable weight, as she could attach more weight to the log as needed, and even use additional silk ropes to keep it steady on top of the fact that she could carve it to a point at one end and fire harden it later to help train herself even more. Though as the large rock hit her, that thought would have to wait for later as she held her ground and slid back a bit from the impact due to being partially distracted, so with a grumpy little huff at herself for letting that happen she pushed the rock once more and took a step forward and braced yet again.

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As she finished setting up things for her training Again Mika smiled as she checked it, then nodded a bit as she added more weight, she would have to keep doing this, but later she would need to start using an actual tree she figured as she moved to her position and then gave the large Stone a push and braced herself for the coming impact. As it hit she didn't move, and she felt that impact turn into a bit of energy in her body, her adrenaline increasing as she pushed the Rock again and as it struck her, once more she slid back a moment, and she frowned and as she pushed the boulder away once more she stomped her feet and spread her stance a moment and braced herself again taking the next strike and pushing into it to absorb more of the energy and in doing so she smirked as she didn't move, it wasn't much but it was advancement in her mind and that was all this was about, improvement. With a hard shove she got ready again, the boulder striking her and Mika pushed back again to stop from sliding back, she didn't know when she would need to ever use this sort of skill, pushing back against a force so much larger then her, but she knew it would need to be done just in case. Pushing back once more to give the Boulder more energy, she then started to hover above the ground, bracing against the ground was one thing, taking a hit in the air was completely different, and as he boulder hit her she pushed forward in midair, trying to keep her position in the air as she pushed back once more it took more energy but it would be another skill she would likely need, just because she could fly quickly didn't mean she couldn't be hit in the air, so learning to take a heavy blow in the air and keep her wings would be a skill she was sure she would need.

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Heading back out to the Training grounds once more, Mika smiled as he wore the weights once again "soon.. my design for my one should be done and then I should be able to commission it being made, though hopefully they worked the way she wanted them to, and as she trained, lashing out with attacks, learning her limits and how to push past them, This style was something she had learned about, it was the only way she could think of other then a few other things, that could possibly be useful in closing the gap between her and the other students here, She still believed she was so far behind all of them, she was one of the oldest Academy students, at least it seemed that way from what she seen, and she also didn't come from some long standing clan, or even from communities where Shinobi were well known, she had studied somewhat on what she could when she decided to come here, and it was actually a little after she came here where she learned of this style, it was dangerous, but it was also the only way someone like her, that couldn't utilize Chakra like everyone else, was able to compensate, and so she was focusing on training not only it, but her body as it was all she had to work with, she had a few other skills she could use of course but in the end it all boiled down to her utilizing her physical body rather then in some energy like Chakra.

As she trained she was practicing her breathing as well, she had to continue to focus and forge her body, and her mind in what ways she could to increase he chances to keep up, and so she concentrated as she worked, the training was hard but she was working on things she knew she needed to work on, Shuriken arts was another she would have to learn at the very least so she had a more long ranged option for later. Striking the training dummy she heard a cracking sound, and as she struck it once more in a different location she heard another cracking sound, and she frowned a bit, she had been using the same dummy each and every time, but it sounded like perhaps it was old or she was putting to much force into it, she would have to get a new one, maybe one designed for her to use specifically? Ether way she struck the training dummy once more and another crack could be heard, and the final strike she landed caused the training dummy to break and fall in two pieces. Watching the dummy fall apart Mika sighed for a moment and then she picked up the damaged pieces and started to fix it with her Webbing for the time being, reinforcing it by wrapping more Webbing around it till it was fully wrapped and then she set it up once more.

"Okay lets see if this works" she said as she started to strike the Dummy again, as she did so she nodded as she felt the Dummy didn't feel like it was going to fall apart and so she continued her training like this for a while longer before changing to push ups, adding more weight this time as she worked all four arms to lift her. As she worked she also went through her thoughts on other Technique she could use thanks to her Heritage, she had already started to use Her Webbing, there were other things she could do as well, but she wondered if they would even be helpful against what she may be dealing with later. Though thinking of it she had been going forward thinking almost anything could come in handy later, so perhaps it was safer to continue with that line of thinking?

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Mika found a nice place once again to go train, and as she set up the dummies she got she made sure to reinforce them somewhat with her Silk, she then also tied one up and lifted it up using her Silk so that she could have a moving target to chase with her strikes as she trained, and she weighted it to make sure it would at least weight a bit more then a normal person so she could get a feel for striking something that heavy.

With her set up done she looked it over once more and nodded it all was set up how she wanted and nothing seemed to be a miss, so she started her training, from what she remembered Utilizing the Eight Gates was going to place a lot of stress on her body, stress she wouldn't be able to do anything about really since most of it would be the body reacting to being pushed past its limits, the best she could do was to train herself so she wouldn't have to use it unless absolutely needed, but she could condition her body to at least make better use of the time she would have, perhaps even make it last longer so she could make more out of it. Granted at the same time the longer she used it likely the more damage she would end up doing to her body, but that was something she would have to live with, and she would have to read up on things that could help her healing later.

As she trained, she moved from Arial combat to ground based, even to grapples and striking, she wasn't going to leave anything behind in her training, she even got some training Kunai and Shuriken to work on her aim, and for a few tricks with her Silk, but other wise she was fully focused on training her combat style and pushing her body to its limit, a limit she would need to learn to exceed for longer periods of time, as the more she did so, and the more she understood her body, the more she could make out of the Eight Gates, and if this was going to be how she caught up with everyone else in the class, in the Academy, hell in the whole Shinobi profession, she would need to make the most out of not just this skill but any others she was going to apply, and to that end she had Ideas going through her mind, she had already created quite the skill before, one that was rather dangerous granted, but it was one of the things she was keeping as another ace up her sleeve.

By this point she figured that she would need so many cards up her sleeve she would likely need a whole deck up those sleeves... and likely a few extra on the sides if she was going to match up with what people able to use Chakra would be capable of, though... that did put a few Ideas in her mind, Ideas that could prove to be quite helpful if she could get the Items made, but that also meant money... and research to see if the things even existed, if they didn't she would have to figure out something else.

As these thoughts passed through her mind, Mika continued to lash out at the Training dummies, slowly increasing her speed and striking force as she pushed herself closer and closer to the edge of her limits and soon she was having to push all the harder as her body was telling her it was tired, and so she took a short break, this was about learning her limits then pushing past them true, but she had to do it smart, if she didn't she could only end up hurting herself instead.

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Having set things up once more for her Training Mika Took a deep breath, and dropped into the stance of her personal style, it was one made through training and through realizing what she was capable of, at least in regards to making her own style. With everything set up she threw her first strike, an explosion going off as she made contact, this was what she needed to train, she needed to strike faster, harder, she needed to make this style something she could rely on when she absolutely needed it, it was a style that helped her own body as well, as it seemed to cause her adrenalin to rise making her feel more energetic, something that happened when she was hit by an attack that couldn't get through her defenses, she didn't quite understand why it happened, all she knew was that it did happen and she wanted it to happen when the explosions went off, and so far it seemed to work, pumping her up as she flew in to a combo of strikes, her arms and legs each lashing out and causing more explosions as her blows snapped out or landed on target, the pace increasing and as it did the tempo of the explosions also increased.

She knew she would need to study more not just about chakra, but on how to use these explosions as more then just attacks, there were ways to use them in other manners she just needed to figure out how, and while this style was useless for stealth, it was perfect if she needed to work as a decoy or distraction or if she needed to fight large numbers alone, likely even against larger foes if she ever needed to deal with anything like that, and as her blows continued to rain down on the training dummy, she thought of other applications, defense, utilitarian, there was a large amount of things she could do with this style the more she thought of it and each one opened up new Ideas in her mind for even further uses.

Then an Idea hit her... what if she made more then explosions? her ability to utilize Life energy like how she made her silk, what if she used that to make other things possible? could she make up for what she was lacking in her inability to utilize chakra? Perhaps the Eight Gates were not her only ace after all, She would need to cultivate each of these advantages as best she could, that way she could have some sort of answer for anything or at the very least surprise opponents when needed with skills they didn't expect to have happen from someone unable to utilize chakra.

A smile started to grow on Mika's face as she kicked the Training dummy into the air with an explosion, and chased after it, launching more and more attacks on it as she kept it air born, this was another thing she could do, her flight opened up a lot of options for her, something she would have to take a great deal of advantage of when she could, though that meant taking very good care of her wings, or making sure that despite damage she could repair them or fly with them even when they were damaged. On that thought her mind went to her silk, it was light, strong, it could likely work to repair her wings if needed, it was something she would have to try in some manner, like simply placing a bandage of silk on her wing and trying to fly with it, but for now her attacks on the dummy continued as she chased it through the air before sending it back down to the ground where she landed on it with another explosion.

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With more time to herself to train Mika had set up a large boulder, borrowed from the school grounds and likely meant for having the students work on them to break them down for building material, though this one was much larger then the ones she had seen when she was doing that work, regardless she has set it up and was putting Dummies around to utilize as well, all of them wrapped up in the Silk she could make to add some extra padding as anything to make them last longer would help her in the long run to make sure she didn't have to replace or at the very least let her reuse the dummies she was using for her training, she even wrapped the Boulder in her Silk, though that took a great deal of time and effort, though it was something she figured she should at least consider training more so she could produce more Silk for those moment of emergency when she needed silk quickly.

Ether way she set up the dummies for the time being, making sure they were far enough from the boulder to ensure they would not be caught in the explosions if she struck the boulder, and far enough away so that more then one couldn't be caught if she attacked one of the dummies, she also made sure to anchor the Dummies down with more silk, so they wouldn't go flying from the explosions, unless she wanted them to, practicing aerial combos that one time was rather handy after all, but she didn't want that to happen again without her planning it... then again having something that moved around in that manner made it a lot easier to simulate combat with a person reacting to the hits, maybe not in a manner like they were trying to escape or dodge but at least it added movement, so she would look into doing that as well later.

For now she finished all the set up and set herself up a bit away from everything, taking a deep breath she focused herself and then got into the combat stance of her self made style, all for hands held out in front of her, a decent distance apart in a diamond formation, and as she lined herself up with the boulder she took another breath before kicking off the ground and launching herself at the silk wrapped boulder striking it and causing an explosion as she started to lay into it with knee strikes, elbow strikes, punches, kicks, headbutts, she even did a wing slap and each blow was followed by an explosion, and she only continued her strikes.

Her training continued like this for a while, she would need to make proper techniques for this style eventually, at the moment she only had one and that was to strike a bit harder to cause more concussive force, though that was hard to train on just Dummies and boulders as she couldn't see the effect her blows were having, she would need sparring partners to measure herself up to eventually, that alone would likely enlighten her as to what else she could work on. But for now she was content to work on what she had, and practice other skills she needed to learn like perhaps a third fighting style to keep options open for herself, or to add to her list of skills and techniques she could call on when in a fight, as it stood she only really had her own style her physical conditioning and the Eight Gates, and she wasn't exactly going to be opening those for little to no reason every fight.

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It was time for more training, and so Mika took this time to instead meditate on things and so she sat in her room, taking a deep breath and slowly letting it out, working on her breathing as she focused her mind as she thought about further training she could do, different ways she could focus and hone her body, she could increase her strength, she could focus on her defenses, her senses, all of these could be enhanced, maybe even her speed, her mental defenses that she had learned to slowly increase, there were many things she could work on, and they were things she would have to work on in the end simply because her options were low at the moment.

But then she thought about her other skills, her Beast Arts were quite helpful what if she trained more in that? enhanced her Silk maybe? Make use of her other natural abilities, train more in them to throw off opponents so that they don't know what to expect, in fact, perhaps that was the right path to go to increase her ability and to get skills and techniques that people would not expect from an opponent normally, granted some could guess but a guess wasn't enough to make a proper defense, so maybe it would be the best Idea? not to mention her ability to utilized skills she had witnessed that could be used in a way to enhance herself?

As she continued to meditate she took in another deep breath holding it as she sat there perfectly still, taking the time to focus her mind and hold the breath as long as possible as she though on things like that, Defense, that was a Key that she could make use of, if she made herself harder and harder to harm, then she would be able to deal with situations better, or at the very least hold on till someone could arrive that could deal with it if she couldn't, as she let out the breath she nodded to herself, but at the same time she remembered hearing that it would reduce her natural healing ability... would that mean she would lose out on a natural ability? But what if she could enhance that as well? Then she could train to make that work couldn't she? Well that would have to wait for now.

Taking another deep breath and holding it as she thought more on technique Ideas and training Ideas she could use as she let the breath out and started to stretch her body, just meditation wouldn't be enough she knew that, so she decided to take the time to also stretch and limber up her body as she worked to make her body even marginally better in any way possible as it was all she had at the moment.

That same thought kept popping into her head, she was behind everyone here, they had grown up learning about and knowing about this stuff in some capacity, they could utilize Chakra, she couldn't, some were from long prestigious bloodlines, or from clans with a long history of having Shinobi, in fact her research had found that some clans could possibly even have secret techniques or even things they could naturally do that others just couldn't, all this and here she was trying to step foot into all this with out the ability to utilize Chakra, it seemed farcical but it's what she wanted, and she knew she would have to work all the harder to stand out or even to at least be mediocre and if that meant she had to work all the harder then so be it.

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It had been a hard day of classes and training for Mika, and as she put her books down in her room she sighed and stretched with a smile as she had a few new Ideas in her head about what she could be doing to get stronger, Weights were an option, more extreme exercises or rather more intensive, all this could be done, she had to stop thinking small scale, doing several hundred laps wasn't going to be enough, she had to learn new tactics as well, learning more about her limits and applying that to stronger and more varying techniques. It was after long hours of thinking and considering things that she decided that Having just one trick up her sleeve was only going to lead to her getting into a situation where she didn't have anything else to rely on, and while it would be powerful the fact that it harmed her body so much... Something that she learned when using it in training... That couldn't be ignored, she would have to reconsider everything she knew about what she was going to do from here on out.

She would still train all her skills as she had been doing, but she would need to think of more things she could do, First would be to think of what she could do with her webbing, and her nature as a Faunus, something she knew already gave her a bit more unpredictability then most opponents would consider, then again one look at her would give them and Idea what to expect, and that thought made her smile "Wonder how many will judge me by how I look?" she asked herself as he finished her stretches and then sat on her bed and started to meditate, Her eyes closing as she focused on getting her breathing into a steady rhythm, in pause hold out, in pause hold out, and soon as her body centered on that rhythm she started to let her mind wander, trying to empty it never seemed to work quite well for her, letting it wander though? That always seemed to help relax, calm, and center her mind, she didn't know why, maybe it was because she was always full of energy and just sitting still and not doing anything didn't feel right? Whatever the issue she found a way around it, though she knew eventually she may one day need to know how to properly meditate.

As her body fully relaxed and she sat there letting her mind wander, Ideas came to her mind of what she could be learning, or rather, What Techniques she could likely make up using her unique skills and abilities She may not have a bloodline Trait like many of the clans and she was unaware of any skills her Family had to evade Shinobi if they even had such things, she knew they were Couriers, but would they need anti-Shinobi skills for a job like that? Why didn't she ask before? That was something she would have to ask when she next got the chance, for now though while she had no specific blood line skill, she did have something due to her heritage, and it was something she could utilize in a manner that would be very unexpected. Continuing her Meditation she started to go through maneuvers in her mind, Attack sequences and possible counters she might encounter and possible counter measures to such things, the issue was with everything that Chakra was apparently capable of, the amount of situations was near infinite, and that didn't even consider bloodline abilities of which she had no clue about how many unique ones there were. But she smiled at this, it just meant she would have to keep training.

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Mika walked out to the training yard, and started to look for a good place to do her meditation, she had done this before for many reasons, though this was to strengthen her mind and protect it from other forms of attack that her body couldn't normally protect from, such as mental attacks it would be important to have a focused mind even in a heated battle and this helped with that as well, it also meant if she ever had to deal with a lot of Genjutsu she could likely fight it off more effectively, or at least that was the hope. After looking around she found a good place, it wasn't as quite as before, but it also wasn't too loud, that was exactly what she wanted to find for her training, finding a good place to sit she smiled to herself and set about taking in deep breaths, holding them, and slowly releasing them, in, hold, out, in hold out, till she could feel herself relaxing, and then as she reached that point she started to relax her mind on filtering out everything she was smelling and feeling, slowly letting it all build her Faunus senses were sharper then most others, and she had to learn from a young age to filter things out or they would overwhelm her mind and give her headaches and cause other issues, these days she had a great handle on filtering things, but she needed now to get used to the overstimulation of her sharper senses, and so taking another deep breath and holding it she then opened her eyes this time, three senses were exceptionally sharp, and the last time she trained she only allowed one to be fully relaxed, while she kept one somewhat filtered and had left her eyes closed, this time she had let one relax fully, but was now filtering two of them rather then just one, the extra information she was getting was... a lot to handle, but she kept sitting there taking slow breaths, in, hold, out, and soon she found herself slowly, but surely getting used to it.

As she sat there she continued to relax, and she started to think of how else to increase this training... perhaps irritating smoke? nothing dangerous just irritating, or trying to train with her senses unfiltered once she was use to sitting there with all her senses unfiltered. She was a bit away from that to be sure but she was always having to plan ahead for further training to make sure she didn't hit a wall she couldn't get past until she thought of a way past it, granted it was likely she would still have that issue but the more she could reduce that chance, or at least prolong how long it is till it happens so that she could at least try to keep up with everyone in the class, that was the goal as she continued to meditate and let her senses relax somewhat as she started to look around as she simply sat and looked around and felt the presence of things around her, and smell everything around her and she felt the pressure on her mind from the amount of information going into her mind, but she was starting to acclimate to it though she knew it would take time to get completely used to it, but at the same time she knew she wouldn't likely need this other then as to strengthen her mind to pressures like this. But that's all it would take in some cases, to have some sort of defense some sort of protection against such things, in a fight that could matter greatly and she had no doubt in her mind she would have to deal with such things eventually.

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Once more Mika moved to the Training grounds, her over all training was going quite well, her mental training though she wanted to get stronger with, and with how her training went last time, now it was time to step things up, so this time she had brought along her training weights, and a few dummies which she had already wrapped in silk to give them a bit of extra strength, She then began setting them all up for her normal hand to hand combat training, and once everything was set up she moved to where she would normally stand to begin her training where she took a seat and closed her eyes. Sitting there still she started to slowly take breaths, long deep breaths that were as deep as possible followed by a holding of that breath, before exhaling slowly once more till her lungs were as empty as possible, and then holding once more before taking a deep breath again, and then she did so again, and once more, slowly getting her body to follow the rhythm she set until she got to the proper rhythm and timing to start her meditation, but rather then meditate she stood up, her breathing still controlled, before she started to relax her filtering on her more enhanced senses, letting the information of the world flood into her slowly, she then opened her eyes.

Dropping into a combat stance Mika could feel the breeze, smell the grass and trees around her, and her eyes were darting to small movements as she picked them up exceptionally well, before focusing on her training dummies, and if she focused her eyes just a bit she could make out the individual threats of silk they were wrapped with, normally this would overwhelm her somewhat, but she had been training for this, for getting her mind used to massive amounts of stimuli, and so she smiled a bit and pushed off the ground launching herself at one dummy and striking it, she could feel the impact on her hand, the weave of the dummy under the silk, the feel of the silk on her knuckles, and she could feel it give under her blow before she pulled her arm back and kicked off the Dummy into a flip her hands hitting the ground as she landed and she could feel every pebble and blade of grass, but she didn't let that distract her, the scent of the dummy still lingered as well but she simply ignored it rather then filtering it out and she pushed on her mind focused in a near meditative manner as she trained, the information of the world Bombarding her senses, but at the same time, she was slowly but surely getting used to it, and very slowly she was picking up speed as she trained in this manner.

A few hours later Mika sat on the ground, some of the dummies were just outright destroyed, others were just badly damaged, and even a few were okay but the Silk that had been protecting them had been destroyed. Mika herself was meditating again, she had realized at some point she had stopped her meditative breathing and that caused her to slip back into filtering her senses once more, but the training had proven one thing to her, she was getting more used to the over stimulation, her mind was hardening to the stress, stopping her meditation she smiled a bit, that's exactly what she was hoping for, hopefully this had the effect she was hoping for when the time came, but for now she would have to focus on something else she needed to keep a balance after all.

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Mika was enjoying the day, she had a long jog, with heavy weights, and that had gone well, she could feel herself already starting to be able to compensate for the extra weight, more then likely she would need to be having heavier materials incorporated into a set of weighted clothing and weights and some other things for her other training processes. That included more sturdy Training Dummies, making them heavier would be good to so she can increase the training even further, Maybe sharper Kunai and other projectile weapons, spears, javelins, bows and arrows, maybe even demon wind shuriken's, things she can use to get used to the flight speed of certain things in case she ran into someone that used them, so she would also need to consider things like Senbon as well, nails.. there were so many possible things she would have to consider.

She started to put her weights away, and take down her training set up for dodging weapons and taking hits from the weighted boulder, she would also have to consider perhaps switching from a boulder that was weighted to perhaps a proper ram? It would be more optimized for her training and it would deliver more focused blows, perhaps a ram with interchangeable heads? then she could give it blunt heads to strike, or bladed heads for cutting and piercing strikes, that would be quite helpful really, though it would mean starting with lighter weights as she had only been using blunt strikes so far so anything with a blade she would have to be more careful with during her training. Training was all good and well but only if she actually lived to improve, so that would be imperative but she couldn't go to light or she wouldn't get any benefit. It would truly be a balancing act.

After everything was taken down and put away Mika Sighed and stretched, this next part was going to take her into some painful places, but she needed to train this skill, as far as she could tell this would be her trump card, at least till she was able to get better trained is other things, but for now she stretched the body, all four arms, her legs, her neck, taking the time to flap her wings to hover and allow the muscles there to stretch, she then flexed and bent to stretch her back, taking time to stretch every muscle she had, as she knew this would take a toll on her body that she had to be careful about, but there was no way to train this without actually doing it and so after doing all those stretches she stated on her breathing, taking in long deep breaths, followed by slowly exhaling and as she did so she slowly sank to the ground in a sitting position crossing her legs as she sat there doing breathing exercises and light meditation centering herself for the trial she was about to put herself through.

Finally as she got herself centered, her body prepared, her heart rate steady and her breathing in a good rhythm she focused her mind and as she sat there she opened the first gate, it was a subtle thing on the outside, but inside she could feel the strain, the pain, and the increase in her body, but she stayed sitting, and focused her mind further, opening these gates like this was easy for her, the reason she was taking her time was to get used to the wash of pain from doing so, Later she would train each gate separately to get the most out of them, but she would have to do that on her own it would seem. She smirked a bit when she remembered how she stumbled upon the gates, during intense training she had actually forced herself past her limit, and without even realizing it she had forced open the first gate, she had felt unimaginable pain, and then Power, she felt more resilient, stronger, everything seemed to slow down around her till she realized that wasn't the case, her senses were just sharper then they had been before, she wondered what was going on, but took it as a second wind, and so continued her training at the time.

Then... then it all ended and she felt that unimaginable pain once more, it nearly made her pass out the first time, and the cramps and damaged muscles had left her unable to fully and properly train for a long time, she had even gone to the infirmary and they took care of her and asked her what she had done to herself, she couldn't really answer she only told them she was training, but one of the instructors came to her and informed her what she did.. how dangerous the eight gates were to the user, it was due to that danger that she was informed, she had stepped into it by accident, simply by trying to force her body beyond it's natural limit, and technically she had succeeded, she just wasn't aware how dangerous doing that could possibly be.

She then opened the second gate as she stood up and started to do Kata, just like the first gate the second gate had no outward signs, and as she went through the motions her mind drifted back to her reading up more on the technique, though she was told it might be better for her to forget about this skill, she couldn't help but look into it, she had so little to work with when it came to being a shinobi, not even counting the likely lifetimes of advice and skills the others likely had, she was also unable to mold chakra like most here could limiting her options even further, she was also somewhat clumsy with weapons, and while she didn't rule out their use she knew she would be better without or maybe with weapons specialized for unarmed combat. As she went through the Kata again, this time faster she remembered finding the book, old and hidden away, seemingly not touched in a long while, perhaps the others seen no use in a skill that they could likely do more then thanks to their ability to use Chakra? She didn't know but she decided she would use this style, it was her chance to perhaps make up for what she lacked.

With that thought she then opened the third gate, with the second gate there was still pain... but the gate itself seemed to help her ignore the pain, the third gate though replaced it with more pain as her pure white skin suddenly took on an angry red as her blood flow increased and she could feel her strength increase, her Kata became more complex now, and she added lunges and strikes against imaginary opponents, her minds eye imagining enemies movements and she chased after them striking at them, despite her obvious increases in speed, strength, durability, senses, she was still missing.. still losing.. they were capable of all the skills that those with the ability to mold Chakra had, she had no doubt that would include skills that could block her attacks, or allow them to rapidly reposition, she had already met someone that could basically negate her physical attacks through the use of making bone armor out of their own bones and then infusing it with Chakra, she was under no illusion that this Technique she had at first stumbled upon was going to be something to win her a fight, if anything it was more then likely only going to buy her time in a fight, even her classmates likely had skills that could counter her without issue, after all what good was increased speed and strength against what was essentially Magic? But she would train regardless, sometimes, time is all one needed to find a way to win after all.

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Mika was busy designing the new equipment she wanted to have made, once she is able to get the resources to do that, but any help in training would go a long way, so it was a good investment to get such tools, preferably if they where somewhat adjustable and customizable after the fact so that she could get even more use out of them. As she finished her design she smiled a bit and then took the time to stretch, she had already gone through a lot of her training exercises, she was taking a small break to do these designs and to let her body relax a bit since her next training was going to be a bit more straining as she was already planning to train her gates once more, the Training wasn't really that bad. it was the aftermath and recovery that was the hard part, but it was something she had to do if she wanted to get used to it, and to get better at it, hold the effects longer or at least make the most of them while she kept them open, but she was well aware of the damage they could cause to her body that was something she would need to keep in mind constantly as she trained it and learn to gauge the damage she would take afterwards, that would be imperative to learning when to use it.

As she thought this and went through some limbering up stretches she thought back to the time she used it, against Gado, she didn't try anything else, she hit a wall she couldn't get past and then immediately opened the gates, and while it had seemed to be unexpected it still lead to her being able to do nothing in the long run. If that had been a real combat situation she would have used the gates to no advantage at all, and she needed to stop that from happening, she needed to strengthen her base first, but she also needed to strengthen the gates so that when she did use them she was going to get something out of them, so after this she resolved herself to train her body further so that she could co more without relying so much on the gates, that was all she could really do as she had nothing much else to fall back on, not weapons, and not any skills that required her to manipulate her Chakra.

Taking a deep breath as she finished her stretches Mika put her things away and then went out to the training area, she couldn't really train this inside after all, though she was aware eventually she would have to consider it's use in an enclosed space but that would be more fine tuning after she had expanded her use of it and gotten better control, and as she got to her little training spot she took a deep breath and sat down, closing her eyes a moment she got her breathing into a good Rhythm, breathing was something important after all it was a means to pace ones self if you focused on your breathing you could fight longer and better then if you ignore such an important aspect of your body, and as she finished pacing her breathing she braced herself and opened the first gate, and once more she felt that pain followed by a surge in power and performance of her body, and rather then continuing sitting there like last time, this time she got up and started to move, to get better acquainted with this stage of the gates, the first gate, the Gate of Opening, the gate she opened by accident while training and that lead her to learn of this powerful technique and fighting style, but that was also dangerous to not just her opponent but to herself, She started her Kata, keeping her breathing steady, keeping her movements measured, which was harder then one would think but her body was passed natural limits at the moment, so trying to act within them was actually much harder then just using full force, but this training was important, it would help her maintain precision and dexterity two things she would need to make the most of when in this state.

Then as she was mid Kata she opened the Second Gate, the Gate of healing, and she felt the pain then it all melted away, the pain the fatigue that built up from the training thus far and even from the gates themselves, but she was well aware that this didn't mean damage wasn't happening to her body, the Gate of Healing didn't actually heal her, it revitalized her body yes, but it mostly just increased her pain tolerance, making it easier to move while under the effects of the First Gate, however the damage of forcing her body past it's limits was still piling up, and it also meant any attacks she took while like this didn't just heal, they still happened and the pain of them would affect her after the gates closed, the trick was to train all her gates separately after she learned to open them properly other then the forced method she was currently using, but this method would work to at least get her some Idea as to their affects, and perhaps as a means of training this was currently better then simply learning each gate one at a time? Only time and experience would tell her in the end though.

As her Kata started to pick up speed Mika started to move into her Shadow fighting, chasing and attacking imaginary attackers once more, using her increased abilities to press herself to go after them to catch them, to launch attacks just a bit faster, just a bit more powerfully, and as she moved she focused her mind even more and forced open the Third Gate, the gate of Life, her pure white skin taking on that angry red as she moved even faster her body producing and making use of more blood as she pushed herself even farther to chase down her imaginary attackers, kicking off the ground to chase them down, her wings rapidly beating to change course, her eyes tracking them as her antenna twitched to keep track of her surroundings. her senses were so much sharper, the increased blood in her system allowing her to preform even better then before, she needed to get past this though she needed to push herself even farther, and so she focused on doing just that, She could see it, feel it, the Fourth Gate, it was just in reach.

The Gate of Pain would be her goal this time, then she would have to train to get beyond that, to the Fifth Gate, the Gate of Limit, but she would have to do this one at a time, forcing open more then one new gate could have horrible side effects, for instance she wasn't exactly sure how much pain she would be in and how much damage she would take from forcing open the Fourth Gate, and then she would have to get used to that first before forcing herself to that next gate, so for now she continued to push to try to get to the Goal of the Fourth Gate, The Fifth Gate could wait till she was prepared Physically and mentally.

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Having decided to take some time off from training her gates, at least for now, Mika had started to focus on her bodies ability to resist, she knew of Genjutsu, techniques that could mess with the mind, and then there were Poisons, Diseases, and Fabrication, that could mess with the body, she didn't quite understand the effects of Fabrications just yet, but she knew it was something she would have to train her body against regardless of if she knew about how they worked exactly or not, it was just going to be something she would likely run into and the Small moth girl wasn't about to be caught lacking if she could help it, she had even trained her own mental defenses and physical resistance as much as possible in the case that something could make it through her natural toughness as a Faunus. This would just be another step in that direction but something that would hopefully be more lasting if the technique she was training was any indication.

As she sat and meditated on this, learning to move every muscle in her body individually, something that was hard to even imagine doing, but it was something she had to train to overcome such abilities, and in the end it would help her to do other things as well with enough refining, it would take quite a while, but some results were already showing, though hopefully she wouldn't have to run into such difficulty and test out if her training was going to do the trick, at the same time she wish she did have a means to do just that, in a way inoculating herself against some of the more common of such skills, but she couldn't really waste time on something that specific, no right now she had to focus on training herself generally, and then focus on specifics once she had at least more of the basics down.

As her meditation and training continued however she allowed her mind to wander, not only did she need a defense against such things, she would have to think up a means of attack other then the style she made up herself and the Eight Gates, her own style was still being formed, the Eight Gates were a trump card that she had to train more to make the most out of it. So then it fell to her to think up more techniques and skills she could use.. Gado had mentioned perhaps using spirit energy to enhance her strikes.. that would work, like sharpening her claws to attack with much the same way he had used them to strengthen his bone armor, but other then that she only had her webbing, and some skills she knew she could do simply by virtue of what she was, But if she could utilize that, and perhaps even find a way to allow her people's Traditional healing to affect her more, then perhaps she could make up for what she lacked?

Granted there was also the question of her Clans fighting style.. she knew her Mother and Father knew it, but something started to bug her, as Couriers how had her family been able to avoid and even escape Shinobi? or even just some of the beasts out in the wilds of their old home? It was something she hadn't even considered before, but after being here at the Academy, and learning about the possibilities of Ninjutsu and the many uses of Chakra alone, that question started to take more and more prominence in her mind as the days passed, it was quite a topic, and one she would have to ask about once her time here in the academy was done.

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having decided to take some time off from training her gates, at least for now, Mika had started to focus on her bodies ability to resist, she knew of Genjutsu, techniques that could mess with the mind, and then there were Poisons, Diseases, and Fabrication, that could mess with the body, she didn't quite understand the effects of Fabrications just yet, but she knew it was something she would have to train her body against regardless of if she knew about how they worked exactly or not, it was Once more Mika was Meditating on her body, focusing on trying to move muscles independently, controlling her breathing, and even trying to focus and unfocus her eyes anything to increase her control over her body, but it wasn't only that, she started to consider other things, Resistance training, but rather then just against weights, she thought of doing so against her own muscle power, trying to move when your body wasn't letting you would be a good Idea, and apart from letting herself be exposed to the more commonly used Genjutsu, Poisons, and Fabrications, she had no other recourse but to simply make up for that in whatever means she had at her disposal, and that meant her own skills and her own resources, and those she could barrow from the school of course.

So with that in mind she continued to focus on her breathing as she got up, meditation was great and all but with this next stage came stepping things up to resistance, she thought to herself, and so she headed outside and as she continued to focus on her breathing, her pacing of her movements, she started to make more of her webbing and lace it around the trees tethering things in such a way that she could loop them around her limbs and when pulled they would put the strain mostly on her rather then the objects she was wrapping the webbing around, it would likely eventually give in granted, but it was the best she had at the moment and so set it all up and looked it over to make sure she set it up properly before nodding to herself and going to where the Lines converged, this wasn't about coordination, that would come later, this was about resistance, forcing her body to move against itself and this was the best she had to work with.

With a nod to the set up once more she set herself into it, and she started her training, and she smiled as she found it hard to move against herself, that's exactly what she was hoping for, and so she strained but she started to slowly overpower her own resistance, it wasn't much, it couldn't be much with the set up she had, but it was something, maybe if she added weights next time to increase the effectiveness? Anything really would help, adding simple weights could help in the resistance since most of her strength was going to overpowering her own strength though she realized that perhaps her dominant arms where just stronger then the non-dominant ones? she had to change this, training to be Ambidextrous that would be along side this from now on, starting with building up the muscle to match perfectly, and so she began her training with renewed purpose.

Then an Idea hit her, the best way to train it was simply to stop using her normally dominant arms for everything, and switch her fighting style around so she was leading with the opposite side, granted that would likely make her seem a little less coordinated, but in the end it would mean if she switched back to her dominant side she would seem like she improved right? at least to the enemy, and then a smile grew on her face, if she couldn't use Chakra to make illusions and other such things then why not do so through purely physical means? Feints and the like could be just as unbalancing to the enemy then illusions and the like, and could be much simpler to set up and faster to take advantage of. The smile grew as Ideas formed in her head and she giggled a bit to herself, this would likely work fairly well with her inability to use Chakra at the very least.

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Once more Mika started her training, movement focused on making sure she memorized how to move each muscle, and then trying to improve on that by moving just the muscle itself, focusing her eyes and unfocusing them separately, tuning out the world or focusing on specific sensations, anything and everything she could think of you hone her body and control it when needed, even if it refused to move in the way required, this was her only recourse for such a situation, as she had learned that the main way of releasing oneself from a genjutsu or likely even a Fabrication was through the use of Chakra to break out, as she was unable to use that method, she would ether have to rely on someone else to do so, or she would simply have to use pain compliance or be able to perfectly control her body to such a degree that she can tell if she is moving or actually experiencing the things genjutsu or fabrications are telling her body and mind, and the only way to do that was to put herself into situation where she could feel that sensation.

yes this even meant subjecting herself to attacks she set up with the boulder, the kunai and other throw weapons, even striking herself and submitting herself to explosions from her own style, all to memorize the feelings, to feel the reaction, the proper reaction her body could have to them, if someone was going to mess with her mind or body, they wouldn't know exactly how it reacts, they could only approximate it, that means if she beats them to it.. if she learns exactly how her body reacts and feels, then she could tell the difference between the fake and the real... granted that also meant she would have to be subjected to the real thing at least once to make a reference, but that was a small price to pay, hopefully though it wasn't a cost that ended up ending her life, from what she understood such things were used to distract to escape or set something else up or otherwise deal with a problem without taking to much time on it, so it was unlikely that she would be killed while in a genjutsu or fabrication, at least that was the hope.

for the other times where it wasn't going to go in such a manner, the best she could do was train her body so that she could survive such a situation, she was also aware that great pain could release one from genjutsu, so opening her gates could do the trick to release her, though she would only want to do so in the most dire situations since the issue of using the gates was one she still needed to train more in to use them more effectively, and she would prefer to use them as a fight ender rather then just to escape a genjutsu or fabrication that would otherwise simply wear off and she would learn to ignore.

As she started to wind down her training, she considered other things like poisons and possibly targeted disease, how could she combat those? Well thankfully poisons and Illnesses where things she already had some experience with, well maybe not proper poison granted, but she knew it would affect her body in rather obvious manners, as for illness she had gotten sick a few times with different illnesses so she had that as an Idea of what would happen, but again without the specifics being suffered at least once, she was basically forced to feel it once and memorize it so she could counter act it with her training, at the very least it would mean she could adapt rather rapidly if given the chance, but things like food pills, antidotes and the like would all be things she should consider carrying on her on mission just in case, so that if anything happens she at least has something she can use to weaken the effects of it on herself.

But that would have to wait, she had trained hard already on getting to this point, she needed to take a break and fuel her body, so food and drink were needed, though as she packed up her things and started to put them away she wondered if through this training she could reduce her need to eat, sleep, and drink? If that was possible then even longer range missions would be easier, and harsh conditions wouldn't be such a detriment to her, in the long run it would mean better use of resources when on longer missions as well, though likely this type of training would be rather hard but it was something else to deal with that she could at least work towards.

As she sat down to eat her meal Mika was still somewhat training, her breathing in this case, it was important to breath, but with that in mind she considered training to increase lung capacity so she could hold her breath even longer, maybe even fight off the affects of lack of air for longer then a normal person could? That alone would prove advantageous, especially if someone used poison smoke or something else of that nature or held her underwater, or just on the chance she needed to go underwater to get to something, the ability to hold ones breath for extended periods of time was one she couldn't ignore, she would also have to start training to use her Burst Knuckle style in confined spaces and underwater more efficiently. All that though would have to wait, she needed to finish this training at least before moving on to something else.

Taking a bite of her food she sat there stretching and flexing her legs and wings, and twitching her antenna, the strenuous part was done with but that didn't mean she couldn't continue to work on the finer details, even now she was focusing on taste and feel of things, on hearing and scent, there was so much to work on, but she was going to work on it all, it was needed for making sure she was ready, as it was quite likely all the other students were doing other training since they didn't need to deal with the issue of Genjutsu, fabrications, and poisons the way she had to, and so she would have a lot of ground to cover once she was done with this training.

The good news was such things would at least fall into her normal training more then what she had been doing lately, so falling back into her normal training pace should help with that, but it also meant picking up the pace to make up for the time spent doing this training specifically. Finishing her meal she also considered stepping up her training on other things perhaps learning a few of the other styles listed in the library? That would increase her repertoire at least, so she wasn't so one note, and figuring out a few extra tricks with her natural abilities would be good as well, it would all help her in the end so really no line of training was truly useless, even studying things about chakra would help her understand how things worked, and thusly how to stop them from working.

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Mika didn't know exactly what had changed, she just knew something had changed, but she had a very good Idea what it was, as she did her training to day she was moving better, more focused, more accurately she was able to adjust her attacks and movements with greater accuracy and finesse, and as she went through her normal exercises she could feel all the movements with her body, and then after some time during the day it hit her, she was now unconsciously moving her muscles in the manner she had been intensely training for the last few weeks, it wasn't perfect, but it had made a difference in her motions, it altered her accuracy to a noticeable degree, and thanks to it, she was becoming less fatigued as she moved with more efficiency, this was something she would have to explore as another avenue of training, especially with her own style and the Eight Gates taking a toll o her ether through fatigue or through pain and some damage.

But as she trained she started to focus less on adjusting her movements and letting her body do it automatically, and she could see the difference once more, if she took the time she could increase her efficacy of movement, reduce the strain she felt from said movement, and even take energy from the movement and put it back into more movement, but while it was noticeable to her it was small in comparison to anything else, but it was a starting point she could use to train it up, become more efficient, and then she could last even longer in a fight, that would be key to all this, if she couldn't out fight she could attempt to out last, and while it wasn't the most elegant of solutions, it wasn't going to be the only tool in her tool kit, she had already focused a great deal on trying to think up new tactics and strategies she could preform with her limited ability, and this was simply going to be just another one.

Though she was aware she could learn more, like her Clan's fighting style, she had heard her mother and father speak of it, and how it helped them when they were doing their courier work, especially against Shinobi since they could disrupt handseals, but she also had to wonder what other skills her parents had used, as from what Mika could tell most shinobi while stealthy, seemed to also be rather capable combatants,  so how had her parents gotten away from them? They were all question for later and hopefully skills to make use of later as well. For now she focused on her training, on controlling her muscles, on adjusting her movements and memorizing how they feel when they move, how the strain feels, the fatigue, this was her tell, this would be her way to realize she was in a genjutsu or being affected by a Fabrication.

She knew she was doing this in a very crude manner, that likely if anyone seen her training they would laugh at how inefficient it was, but it was all she had at the moment for combating such abilities, others had the use of Chakra to release them from it, and while she could likely rely on an ally to help her in such a situation there could be times where she was alone separated from the group and so she would need to figure it out herself, and to be able to identify real sensations from the fake ones, if she couldn't break out... well she smirked a bit, then she will make sure it doesn't stop her ether if she can help it as another Idea formed in her mind, one that likely would catch many off guard.

Well it would as long as it was the first time they had seen it.. or had never heard of her doing it before, but thankfully considering the situation she was in she doubted she would become well known at all, but that wasn't going to stop her from taking missions, training to become better, or aiming to at least prove that she could be just as skilled as those who had more to work with then she does, she may not get much renown, but considering the more clandestine nature of Shinobi.. well that wasn't really an important goal, though on thinking of that, she blushed a bit as she had made a style that basically forgoes stealth entirely, and that was rather foolish of her, she would need to make another style more useful for silence and stealth, and that would likely be very needed.

As she thought of this she thought of sharpening her senses even more, she could do that training as well, being able to focus enough to pick up sounds and vibrations would do wonders for her abilities on the field and in missions where her lack of Chakra ability would other wise make her fairly useless. Normally one would be daunted by the amount of training required to do all this, but Mika simply seen it as a good thing, it meant she could still improve, as well as it gave her new Ideas for training, which was something she had been stuck on for a while, and some of these skills she would be training would be things she could do all day every day, which meant she could be nearly constantly training, even as she went to classes she was already thinking of ways to train even if she was just sitting in a chair listening to a lecture. the smile grew on her face as she did a spin to dodge a sharp Kunai from her training rig and caught it before throwing it to intercept another Kunia, focusing on the feel of her muscles moving, and then focusing on the feel of the Shuriken scraping along her body as she barely dodged it in time due to her previous motion, the pain reaction was another thing she would need to memorize as well as she had no clue what kind of Genjutsu or Fabrications she would run across.

This was how she was going to advance, through perseverance, training, and trying to at least somewhat predict what she may run into on mission, She had so much work to do, she had to catch up with the others, and she had to keep that pace so she wouldn't fall behind, but it would all be worth it if she could at least stand at the same place and many with the ability to use chakra, or with their own family traditions of Shinobi and Kunoichi, she didn't think she needed to surpass them, she just wanted to be considered equal and have her hard work recognized, and if it wasn't? Well at least she would have the knowledge she tried her best, others could seek fame and glory. she wanted to at least be able to show she could do the missions and handle herself well during them even with what she lacked. That was all she needed really, and maybe she could start a family tradition of her own when she was older? It was a lot to consider, and she decided it was far to early to even consider that part of it, she had a long way to go just to catch up after all.

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A new Day a new training, now that she had moved forward in her other training she had to start focusing on other things, and so she was working on her endurance, having added weight to her body, more then before, she was pushing herself to increase her distance traveled by doubling her distance run, and then pushing further by planning on also doubling all her other exercises while wearing the weights, this was all to increase her own endurance, her natural Faunus toughness was great and all, but she already was aware that there were ways around it, like Chakra, so she was training this to better withstand such things, making herself tougher in other ways, it was the main focus of her training really so that she could stand up to things she couldn't do herself, but still have a chance to come out on top with enough work.

After some time passed as she finished her laps, barely, she went to where she normally did her other Exercises and started on her push ups, the extra weight was hard to move, as it was far more then she was used to, but that was the point, if she only stayed with what she was used to she couldn't get better, so now she was trying to push pasted her normal, and push further to better her training, and better her body, if it was going to be her only tool, then she was going to make sure that tool was forged and formed to the highest quality she could manage, and so she continued her push ups, going form normal push ups to hand stand push ups, the weight increased even more as it was now focused more on her hands but she continued on.

After that she was doing Kata with the extra weight, it was hard and grueling but she knew it would work out, it had before after all, and she wasn't going to stop now, even as her body screamed at her to do so, instead she pushed on, eventually finishing her training routine and going to go rest

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Once more Mika was out with what many would consider a ludicrous amount of of weights, her morning job had slowed down a bit, but she continued to do her laps, it would take her a while but she had decided she could work on speed later when she was use to this weight, right now was time for her to be focusing on endurance, on her longevity, so even if it took her twice as long, she was still going to do all her laps, and all her other exercises as well with the new amount of weights. Some might consider this training insane, but for Mika it had already produced results, and it wasn't causing any harm to her body, so it seemed fine enough, though one could argue that her training so hard she accidently opened the first gate was maybe pushing herself a bit to hard, she could counter that if it wasn't for that she wouldn't have learned of the gates at all and thus she couldn't be wary of them when training, or even training how to open them if needed.

And now she had to prepare her body to be able to use the gates, The pain of using them as she was was incredible, but if she prepared her body, if she trained, and if she improved herself, she had no doubt that she could not only utilize the gates properly, but perhaps even reduce or completely remove the recoil if her body was in the right condition to sustain them, there was also the fact that at the moment she was doing the least efficient method of opening the gates, she was simply brute forcing them open, rather then opening them in a trained manner, it was because she didn't have the full and proper training, she was only focusing on her base understanding of the gates, rather then looking deeper into them to perfect each one.

And as she finished her laps and started on her other exercises she continued to thing and ponder on the gates, she had managed to get to the point where she could forcefully open them yes, but after she learned that she also realized how much training she herself needed to go through to withstand them, and so she had started all her other training again in earnest, she couldn't stay like this, not if she wanted to keep up with everyone else.

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Now Miri had started to focus on her Physical training, this time rather then endurance she was using lifting to get stronger, that meant staying within her limit, but increasing the repetitions. This was meant to help her get stronger, and so she was focused on that rather then jogging she was lifting weights, using all the weights she could gather and was using them to work out. Deadlifts, Curls, changing lifts to work different muscles in her arms, legs, thighs, hips, back, even her neck. It was all required to be worked, to make sure she was developing her body properly. Though as she did her weight lifting she had to consider what she would do once she got stronger, she would need larger weights or heavier weights, something to keep the weight in line with her growing strength. So she would have to look up better materials that she could get custom works made.

As she finished that thought, she changed lift styles and started to go over what she knows about things lately, She needed to get stronger, she also needed to train some new skills so she could increase the tools she had at her disposal and that would help her figure out where to go from there, but on top of that she had to wonder how far behind others she was at the moment, she hadn't taken the time to see how strong others were at the time, and thinking about it she would have to figure that out so she would know exactly how much she would have to push her training, or at least figure out exactly what she should focus her training on so she could make sure she was keeping up so she could give a good showing during a test at least.

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continuing with her training Mika had started to set her weights up so that they would be better positioned, after all if they were not positioned properly she wouldn't get the most effect out of them, and so with that dealt with she started her strength exercises, weight training and making sure to focus on each muscle group properly for a decent amount of reps, this wasn't endurance training after all, this was to increase muscle strength, that meant not working her self to exhaustion and then pushing past it, this meant staying in her capabilities and moving on to a different muscle group and after some time starting over again, to keep lifting as long as possible and lengthen her time by letting parts of her body rest. Then once she hit her full limit she was to take a break, rest up, and do it all again before she had to do class or go to bed.

As she worked she had thought of other things she could do, and a smile was on her face as she worked the weights., a few Ideas came to mind, but she would need a bit more training then she had prepped for at the moment, likely she would have to think of ways to utilize different training tools to simulate what she needed, till she learned the skill enough to get it going for proper training. At the very least, she had a good Idea on how to start, and what the Skills she was going to train were, some of it would be more innate then anything so it would be more about learning to utilize it properly.

Her Training came to an end later that day, a full day of nothing but strength exercises, and she once more hadn't seen anyone training as much as her, it was starting to make her wonder though, how does one Train Chakra? perhaps it's like Meditation? that would explain why no one was Training like she was, when one Had Chakra they likely could simply skip over certain trainings by using the Chakra in ways to simulate the same effects. like that one guy did to make that bone armor and strengthen it.. With Techniques like that out there, she could understand why they wouldn't go to the same lengths as her.

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With classes progressing Mika had to step up her training even further, and so she started to focus on training her gates, During her training she had already accidently opened the first gate, and after that she had trained to force open more in a more controlled manner, however through that training she had learned to open them properly, rather then just through brute force, and the difference it made was remarkable, the first Gate was one she was more familiar with at the moment, so for the moment she was learning more about the second gate, she had learned she could skip the first gate and open the second gate, and the release from pain was.. it was quite the feeling, but the recoil on her body after was harsh, so she was training to reduce said recoil, or at least to get used to it.

So Mika had started her training as normal and then as her body got tired she continued to push herself till she got her second wind, and then increased her training, this was the only way she could think of to make sure she was training with just the effects of the Gate of Healing, it would also give her a good Idea of how far it could carry her if used in battle when she was in a situation where she needed to use it like this. She was under no Illusions to thinking the Gates were something she could just use whenever she wanted, they were dangerous, the pain from using them alone was enough to tell her that much, but it was also the only tool she had to close a gap she felt she would never surpass on her own without accepting risk, and considering what she was training to be risk was part of it.

As part of the training she had started to practice the Kata for a different Fighting style, not every situation would be suited to her Personal style, and it was better if she also kept that style hidden and secret until needed But Goken? Everyone knew of Goken, it would be a good basis, and it had techniques with in it that she could perhaps incorporate into Burst knuckle, and best of all it would keep her other skills somewhat secret until she needed them, and since she was somewhat restricted in the tricks she could possibly have, she had to keep the ones she did have as well hidden as possible.

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