Inner Beast [Solo Training]

Calesto would wake up fairly early in the morning from his hotel room in Dipugakure, from his alarm clock it was a few minutes before six in the morning. So he would roll out of bed placing his bare feet on the floor, the soft carpet tickling his feet as he could feel the artificial sunlight radiating onto his body. After doing his morning stretch and scratch His alarm would go off which he would turn it off, was nice not to be woken up by a blaring alarm if you asked him. He would walk across his room and enter the bathroom, as he looked at himself in the mirror he couldn't help but think about his team. Liara seemed to be incredibly shy, and yet she had an incredible power within her. Not only her medical justu's and those bugs that always seemed to follow her, but that one other technique, then one that allowed her body to merge with his own. The way her body was capable of heal his wounds almost instantly, perhaps there was a way for her to help him out when he gets over worked.

Then there was Takeshi, the new guy. Cale really didn't have a good read on the boy yet, he knew that he was an entity which explained the lack of a smell and that the boy was intangible. Which could be useful if there was a way for him to merge as well, however that was all he knew about him at the moment. So Calesto would turn on the shower and clean his body from any accumulated sweat gathered on his body during the night, then step into the almost scalding water. As the water hit his body Cale could not help but think about the one clone he was able to make while training, and knowing that the Kurogane were capable of using water release techniques. So as he would make a set of hand seals and focus his chakra on the water collecting around him. Then the water would seem to pull together until an exact duplicate of himself was standing next to him. However since there was a limited amount of space in the shower, Calesto was knocked out of the shower and somehow cut his palm open pretty deep. The clone would disperse and flood the bathroom momentarily as Cal examined the wound on his hand. Blood started to seep out, however it didn't run off his hand like he expected, but instead it started to pool in his hand. Weird.

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Cal had just woken up from his sleep when he had completely forgotten to remember exactly how he had gotten home the night before, the last thing he remembered was him being on his way to meet with his sensei Mujin for some training. And the next thing he know he was waking up just a moment ago, so what the hell had happened? His body was unbelievably sore, and every time the boy would move his muscles would scream. So he would just lay in his bed for the time being, just until he was able to move around and able to function for the days events. Wish he new someone who knew how to give a half decent massage in this village, then again he was almost certain that he could somehow convince Liara to help him out with the pain. It was the thought of our hero's love interest that made the boy remember what exactly happened the previous day, he was attacked out of the blue by some unknown person who had nearly killed him in their chance encounter. Just who the hell was that man to begin with, and why the hell did he attack him out of no where? That's when Cal would sit up in his bed, his body screaming in intense pain as he moved, however he was not in the mindset to care about his pain at the moment. So he would move his hand towards his stomach, feeling the bloodied bandages and yet the wound seemed to be healed in all the chaos that was yesterday.

After a few minutes of feeling up his body for signs of any other wounds, and coming up unsuccessful in each search, Cal would form a set of hand seals and would watch as a bone clone appeared besides him. I need you to go and find Liara for me, we need some of her tender love and care right now" Cal would say to his clone before it would calmly exit the room, leaving him by himself as he would attempt to move around on his own. "Usually I feel this bad after a good party, not after a royal ass kicking" He said to himself before moving his legs over the edge of his bed and placing his feet on the cold hardwood floor of his room, sending painful chills up his spine, bringing a groan of pain to emit from his mouth. It would be a few minutes before Cal would finishing writhing in pain before he would attempt to move again, and when he would try and walk by himself his body would just hit the floor. "Okay, that really sucked" He would mutter after letting out a blood curdling scream that would echo throughout the halls of the motel he was residing in while stationed in Dipu.

A couple of minutes would pass before Calesto was interrupted from his pained screaming by one of the attendants knocking on his door to his hotel room, he would only be able to muffle his screams through closing his mouth before the attendant would start opening the door. "By the Gods child, Quit you're hollerin'. You'll pop your stitches" An elderly would would say as she sauntered into the room to see his condition, it was like she knew what happened to him yesterday. Almost as if she could read his mind, the elderly lady would smile as she lifted him onto his bed. The movement of course was painful, forcing a groan from his throat as he was moved. "Do you have any idea on what happened to me yesterday?" He would say between pained grunts, to which the woman would respond with a grin as she was getting ready to examine his injuries. "A man came and dropped you off after you had sustained severe injuries. Said that you were ambushed and you went a bit feral, whatever that means" Calesto knew exactly what she meant, as his mind started to play back more of the events which had happened the previous day. This was something that he had to work on, who would be able to trust a man who turns into a wild beast? "Wait..... What did this man look like?" To this the woman would simply shake her head before checking his wounds, which to her surprised had almost fully healed. "Never got a good look at him, and he didn't give me his name. Just what in the hell are you? Twelve hours ago you were nearly on your death bed, and now.... Now" Calesto would slowly sit up in his bed and look out the window of his room. "I am the Alpha" He said in a serious tone, that was before the woman gave him a sharp poke to the midsection. "You won't be dominating anything until you learn to control yourself"


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Calesto had just finished off another healing session with his partner Liara on this fine sunny day, well at least for the time being it was going to be nice and sunny. He could smell the air getting slightly more humid, almost able to taste the moisture in the air which to be honest was quite pleasant. When it was raining heavily in the village the entire island chain seemed to sway among the waves, it was an explosion on all of his senses but it was incredibly soothing in a way. Nature had a funny way of showing an awkward balance like that, almost like the world was in an constant dance with itself. With the upcoming storm giving Calesto a bit of a spring in his step he decided he would go on over to the northern island in order to get some training done, who knew what the future would have in store for him, and he needed to prepare himself for anything. As the boy would make his way from one island to the next, the thought of what he could potentially do filled his mind. He could possibly train his senses to their peak condition so that one day he could use all 6 in unison, the thought of what one would be capable of, what one would be able to truly see...... Terrifying if one with nefarious plans had the means of pulling off.

With each step more and more ideas would flood the poor boys head, thoughts of making himself better, and thoughts of making his team a more functional unit as well. Take their clone techniques for example, say Takeshi's shadow clones, and Liara's bee hive clone merged together with either Cal's water or blood clone. The clone would be almost a living being on its own, and capable of taking multiple attacks before dispersing, or able to attack using several different elemental releases given the time. Then again it was really hard to come up with a combination of his entire team as one person. Like a comedic loner with a set of tits? Or possibly the shy introverted tough guy? Now that was a truly terrifying thought that sent chills down our hero's spine. If Calesto put his senses to the test he could possibly learn how to fight and function with one or more senses out of commission, that way no matter the situation and drawbacks he would be able to stay in control of the fight. Doing that would more then likely boost his remaining senses to extreme levels, allowing Calesto to make out nearly impossible details from any target or surroundings. Hell if he really got his act together quickly Calesto could work on obtaining his other releases and create a clone combo of his own capable of doing pretty much anything he would be capable of, just imagine a clone with capabilities to use the three basic releases of Water, Life, and Fire, combined with the ability to use both blood a flesh release? Cal couldn't help but become a little aroused by his own imagination.

Calesto was a few moments away from reaching his destination when another combination came to mind, another great team combo that would make them one of the best hunters in the entire world. So Takeshi is from a clan that is mainly known for their abilities to combat and heal the mind, so say he was capable of melding three separate minds and personalities together, while at the same time creating a barrier to form perfectly around Cal's body. Mean both Liara and Calesto physically merging to one body, you see where I'm going with this right? the clone idea but with actually people instead. That itself would change the world as the boy knew it, and it was strong enough that the three of them could probably come up with some killer tri combo fighting style that would dominate anything that came in their way. Not to mention their tracking abilities would be top notch, being able to correctly summarize what a potential target was doing in an area to the very finite of details. Then again there was much that the team could do well together, only if they could try and work together instead of Mujin separating them for individual training. Though that was something that Calesto felt he would have to take charge of, Mujin had flat out said that he would only be around for select training and higher ranked missions.

Calesto would finally reach his destination and thought it would do him some good to start thing out with a jog around the training grounds in order to get the blood pumping, so he would start off by doing some stretches in order to not pull any muscles while he did his training. Only after a few minutes of stretching Cal came up with the brilliant idea to up the stakes of the jog, by adding in a couple of his clones to throw in random attacks every now and then, if only just to keep him on his toes. The weather had finally started to turn grim as the once sunny sky was now covered in thick dark clouds, the smell of the on coming rain storm filling his nostril, getting him excited to play in the rain. So he would make a set of hand seal and would watch as a bone clone would tear it's way out of the ground, it was at this moment that the rain would start pouring down upon the village, drenching Cal as he would playfully grin as he made yet another set of hand seals. Using the water that was now drenching both himself and the training grounds, Calesto would create a Kurogane style water clone which would take off with the bone clone up ahead. Well the plan was to have them attack him, so it was best to give them a head start, only fair right?

So with the clones running off into the distance, Calesto would in turn follow suit, however at a slower pace then the clone so that he could give them time to prepare. The rain seemed to be pouring now as Cal made visible ripples of water on the ground as his feet hit the ground, each droplet of water flowing backwards off his body almost washing away any fatigue that he may have been feeling prior to this. This natural weather effect is one of the things that the Kurogane had most enjoyed since the entire village decided to relocate, there was just something about the artificial atmosphere of the old village that never really settled in with Calesto, he was almost certain that his senses could just tell they were false. He would continue his jog around the training grounds and was about a quarter way around the field when the first of his clones would try to attack him, from the way it moved in for an attack Cal was able to tell that it was a water clone. His ears listening to the water flowing within the clone, hearing it collide with the outer shell of the clone's body, which gave Cal an idea. He himself would move the blood in his body towards his hands turning them red, and then would strike the clone's torso with all of his strength, releasing his overdrive strike.

The strike would cause the water within the clone's body to halt, making the clone stop in it's tracks and dispersing in a puddle of water. So one clone down and only one remaining, he just hoped that the bone clone would be able to put up a stronger fight then his water clone. So with the water clone taken care of Calesto would continue his jog only this time he would pick up the pace to swift speeds, he could feel his body starting to warm up from the jog and the little run in with his clone. With his pace quickening to a full on run the boy would uses his senses to locate the final clone, the rain was muddling his tracking abilities, but he was still able to smell the bones that made up the clone. From the smell he could tell that he still had some distance until he would reach his bone clone, so he would just continue at his pace for a few more minutes just until he ended up getting closer to his final hurdle.

After finding the location for his Final clone Cal would continue his jog at swift speeds, at least for the time being because he was almost certain that he could now obtain a higher running speed. Which if he was correct he could defiantly do some good during missions if he was a bit faster, then again he would be better at his job if he had actually decided to get off his lazy ass and actually train his body. Surely that would have made for a better fight with the guy that nearly killed him a few weeks back, perhaps he could try and work on the density of his bones so that they could stand up to a higher damage before they are destroyed. Then again maybe his bone's weren't the actual problem, and more his ability to self heal his own body, then again if he did most if not all his missions with Liara his own self healing would be pointless since she could heal most of his wounds instantaneously.

It was after having this thought that his Bone Clone had spotted him and went in for the attack, which to be honest kind of caught Calesto by surprise. So he would pick up his pace until he was running at bullet speeds and tackle the clone with as much force as he could muster. Thankfully the clone had shattered in a hundred pieces of discarded bones, however to be honest he had felt cheated by the difficulty that his clones had put up with him, perhaps he had to do more training with his clones to ensure that they could hold out better in combat.

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It was well past midday when Calesto had finally decided to wake up, the sun peering in through the window warmed his body, almost begging him to spend the rest of his day off in bed. However he was more then certain that he had more important tasks at hand, such as training his body in order to protect those ones closest to him, well that and become the best damned hunter on the planet. For now though he figured that he would at least try and strengthen the bones within his body, all so that he could at least defend himself against a strong attack. Then again if he was to make his bones stronger, there was the chance that he could pull off more difficult techniques. Not to mention that with enough practice he would be able to shape weapons and armour, no reason why he was not allowed to make a bit of money on the side. Sure right about now he could probably make senbon or kunai type weaponery, but just imagine making a weapon that was comrpised of every bone in the body. The thought of this simply sent chills down his spine as his feet shuffled across the hardwood floor of his hotel room, he was about to head into the bathroom when a knock would eminate from his door. "Your lunch is ready Calesto, get it while it's hot" Came the voice of the elderly woman who had tended to his wounds after his near death expirenence, it still bugged him this far into the future to be honest, however he would not let it control him for much longer.

So he would walk toward the door and open it for the hotel worker who was wheeling his food into his room via cart, she was pleasant enough that talking with her about his problem was not difficult. Hell he almost thought of her like his own grand mother, which reminded him to write to his family later on. "You're up rather late today, you have a late training session with Mujin? Or were you out on another date with Liara" Chimed the woman as Calesto closed the door of the hotel room. "That's none of you're busniess, but no I just wanted to have a lazy day for once. I will probably do some training later on, you know with the lack of missions recently I have to keep my senses in peak form" He said sternly at first, changing his tone after his first statement to one more cheerful. This brought a smile to the womans face as he layed out Calesto's food for him on his desk and would move back towards the cart. "Well that good to hear, If you see any of your tam today be sure to say Hello to them for me" The woman would say with a smile before moving the cart out of the room, to which Cal would simply wave her goodbye before closing the door and continuing with his daily routine. "Hmm, to eat first or to clean myself first" He said contemplating eating his food first, but would opt out when his own scent entered his nostrils. "Too funky for myself" He would say as he moved into the bathroom.

He would start the shower before sitting his ass down on the porceline throne, releiving his digestive system of the meal he had eaten the night before of a prime rib steak and mash potatos. Truly a pundgent odur to behold for use, regular humans were lucky to be sure as their senses were not as attuned as his own. So after flushing the toilet (he didn't wash or wipe, that's all going down the drain anyways. Thug life, que music) he would enter the shower, his mind racing with the techniques he would be teaching himself today. There was so much he wanted to do, but only so much time left in the day for him to do so. So after cleaning his body of the funky odur that he seemed to accumulate overnight on his body, he would do his routine shake to remove the water only really using a towel to pat dry. He could smell his food starting to cool in the other room, so he would wrap the towel around his waist and exit the bathroom. Only to see a nice juicy steak with a side of potatos sitting on his desk, his mouth already filling with drool as he moved towards his desk. Just from the smell he could tell that the steak was seasoned to perfection, and to his supreme pleasure he was rewarded with the succulent meat which seemed to explode with juices.

It was like his taste buds were having a party in his honor, and boy was he ever glad to be invited to this one. He would eat the delicious meal that was prepared for him, reminding him of the last home cooked meal he had, Liara was such a nice girl to which one day he would make his wife, but for now close team mates would be the ideal situation. Although as he he thought about his on team mate Liara, his mind started to wander towards his other team mate Takeshi. He was an odd kid to say the least, being an Entity made it nearly impossible to track without having a physical body and all. Although maybe he could do some training with Takeshi one day, and learn how to track a person by their chakra signature. Learning how to do that would benifit him greatly in terms of tracking a future target, since most targets knew how to mask their own scents and tracks. Then again he was thinking of working on his basic tracking skills at some point, so why not today am I right? So after finishing his meal he would put on a pair of jeans and a black sleeveless shirt and a pair of jeans, then would open the window to his room letting the afternoon air fill his lungs. Ahh now thats refreshing, the fresh sea air was almost like an energy booster fully waking him up.

He would leap out of his window at bullet speeds sending him ont the adjacent roof, from there he would make a set of hand seals and watched as two bone clones appeared before him. "I want you two to try and get away from me, and set up an abush against me at some point. Today we're going to work on my basic skills" He would say to his clones before one would take off, the other would smirk and lean in closer to the original. "Does this include more techniques for us to use, or are we going to be stuck with the moves you know already?" The clone would say, quickly backing away as Cal swiped at the clone with a clawed hand, the clone struck a bit of a nerve with Cal but at the same time it was right. Cal had grown rather lax in his combat based techniques, but he was dedicating himself more towards his hunting skills right now. Perhaps once he was able to rank up he would start to focus more on his offensive techniques, then again with his first transformation already unlocked he would already be a force to be reckoned with, so maybe he could wait until even later.

After waiting a few minutes on the roof, allowing the clones a better chance at losing him even though it was pointless for them to even try. He had long since remembered the scent of his own clones, but thought it was best to play along with their tactics for the time being, just to see if he could pick up any new tricks. So he would jump off of the roof and would head in the general direction of their scent, his eyes examining the surroundings as he sped through the streets. Recognizing his own foot prints instantly from the crowd on their daily commute, Calesto would only smirk as he could smell that he was getting even closer to his opponents, well at least one of them. As Calesto ran through the streets, nearing his first clone he couldn't help but feel excited about what he would be learning next in his training with the team. Hell he even thought of a kick ass team name that would be sure to stand out, Bloody Stings of the Past. Sounds cool right? I thought so too. Anyways back to the story, Cal's nose was telling him that his clone was near to him so he would turn into an alley, which much to his surprise he could see his clone laying in a heap of bones. Just what the hell was going on here? Just why was his clone in a pile of bones in the middle of this dark alley? A question he would find to be answered fairly quickly.

It was at that time tatis second, more lippy clone would throw a smoke bomb at his feet, filling the alley with a cloud of thick white smoke. With the smoke filling the area, his sense of sight was now basically left useless. Which to a normal shinobi would leave them blinded and helpless in this situation, however for Calesto it would only make him grin and keep his eyes closed to the ordeal. With his remaining senses still intact he was now in an even better position to take on the clone who tried to ambush him, the sound within the alley seemed to make their way to his ears giving him a mental image of the area. His clone was getting closer, so he would leap into the air to meet the clone who was making his drop of Calm forcing his claws out of his fingers, to which he would swipe at the lippy clone again. "You know if you wanted to know more techniques, you could have spent the time waiting for me to learn some new taijutsu" He said as his claws came into contact with the skin of the clone. This caused the clone to become nothing more then a walking skeleton. However the skeleton would just let out a hollow laugh and watch as it's own bones would shoot out into spikes trying to save itself from a finishing blow, the bone spikes would plunge itself into one of Calesto's arms whih made the boy let out a howl in pain. To which he would grab at the bone and would use his feet to push off the bone clone with as much force as he could muster. To his luck he would be able to free himself of the grasp of the clones, but to his displeasure he would find that the force of the kick was enough to dispel the clone, sending it's bones to land on top of the other dispelled clone. "So it was the other clone that killed my first clone. Interesting"

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It was around five thirty in the morning when Calesto could be found tossing and turning in his bed, having something weighing heavily on his mind, almost like something bad was about to happen to him. So he would slowly sit up in his own bed within the hotel room, looking as he was able to start seeing the sun peeking out from over the horizon. Seemed like it was going to be a beautiful day, but for some strange reason he was still unable to shake the feeling of uneasiness that just seemed to float on the back of his mind. "Just what the hell am I feeling?" He would say to himself as he got out of his bed, and would shuffle towards the bathroom. Today seemed like the kind of day where a good amount of training would do him some definate good, then again he was almost always ready to do some training.

So he would do his morning ritual in the bathroom, exorcizing his own inner demons if you would. Spending just over a half hour getting himself ready for the day, Cal would walk out of the bathroom all squeeky clean and full awake despite the ungodly hour that he had waken up to. So he would dress up in his usual attire of jean jacket and pants, and a purple shirt, and a pair of sneakers. After getting dressed Calesto would walk out of his room, running into the elderly woman who had heped him before, who was currently delivering food to another hotel room. "You're up early Cal" She would say stopping herself from knocking on the hotel room door, to which he would stop in his tracks and lean up against the wall. "Well I couldn't fall back to sleep, so I figured I would get an early start on the day" He said placing his hands behind his head as he waited for the woman to deliver the food she was tasked to do. A couple minutes later she would reemerge from the hotel room, and the two would make their way back down to the lobby.

"By any chance are you going to see Liara today?" She would ask with a grin on her face, knowing full well that Calesto was harboring feeling for the girl, to which he would just shrug. "Perhaps, but mainly I'm going to work on making sure that I can protect her during a mission" He would say before leaving the hotel room, making his way towards the northern island so that he could do some training for the day. It would take him just under twenty minutes for him to show up on the island and woud take a seat under a tree, right now he had decided to work on the density of his bones. If what his clan had told him was true, he would have to work on his bone structure just to make sure that his life release techniques could handle higher damage then what any normal person's bone could withstand. Hell if he was also able to form his bones into weapons, then he would be able to make quite a bit of Xel by selling bone weaponry. Maybe then he would be able to take Liara on an actual date, or at least buy her something nice since she had made him a pincnic and a handkerchief.

So he would form a set of claws in his one hand and would drive them into his palm, breaking the skin causing him to bleed purfusly while letting out a small scream in pain. However he wouldn't let something like pain stop him from getting stronger, so he would force the bone within his arm to come out of his body through the gaping hole in his palm and would pull it out of his body. It was painful as hell but he would just have to grit and bare the pain as he removed the bone, feeling the replacement regrow as the one was removed was certainly unsettling as his muscles seemed to wrap around the old and new bones. "There has to be a less painful way of doing this" He would say to himself as the bone finally left his arm, landing on the ground between his feet. However thanks to previous training his bones were too hard for him to break himself, and he wasn't the type to ask his own friends to beat the shit out of him for the sake of training. Then again he really didn't know a lot about Takeshi, something that he would definatly have to remedy at some point in time.

After pulling out the bone he would force his chakra into it until it seemed to shap itself down to a point, almost resembling a rapier in design, and would then place the bone in his mouth as his bloodied hands would form a set of handseals. This would cause 2 bone clones to sprout out of the ground, both looking at him like he was some kind of idiot for cutting his own body open like that without having a medic nearby to tend to his wound. However they would notic the blood flowing out of his hand, and would appear to flow directly to the flask on his hip. Guess now was the time that they had to get serious, so the two would charge at Cal with a furious look on their faces, ready to beat their originator to a pulp. "You're nothing but a fool" One clone would say as it went to swipe at Cal's torso, however Cal was capable of blocking the clawed hand by using the bone he pulled out. "Or the genius acting like the fool" Cal would say bringing his own clawed hand up into the jaw of the first clone, his claws ripping through the false skin before he would tear out the clone's Jaw.

This caused the one clone to be dispelled into a pile of bones, but left him open to attack from the second clone as it drove it's own clawed hand into Cal's stomach. This caused him to scream out in pain, but also had gotten his adrenaline up to it's peak. The clone would grin as Cal's body start to change slightly, his first transformation was starting. However unlike last time Calesto had better control over his senses from going into a primal rage, he was now able to harness his transformation at a great scale. The clone would jump backwards at bullet speeds and make a break for it. However Calesto having upgraded his own tracking techniques the moment he transformed, was able to intercept the clone without much trouble. "Well at least your not as big a hassle as last time i trained with one of you clones" Calesto would say with a grin before driving the bone sword into the clones skull at crashing ground speeds with a grin on his face. "I now have some time to bury you out in the yard for a snack for later" He said with a chuckle before dropping the bone blade, causing the final bone clone to hit the ground in another mass of skeletal parts.

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