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[ Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind used ]

Lahlil striders into the dojo confidently. She had been training with Karuto for a long time now and she figured that it was finally time to put his training to the test. Hopefully she wouldn't let him down, her plan was to start making secret strides in her learning as he trained her physical body. This way she would be able to surprise him at the end up a sudden and mich further knowledge than he would be excepted. Ugh this is gonna be hard though. Lahlil bite her lip in procrastination before eventually working up the nerve to get started. 1

The first few bits were easy of course. She started with learning the basics as those would be the easiest with her increased muscle mass. Kicking, punching, stances, Lahlil found that it was all about forms and how one used them. Once she started thinking of it like that it didn't feel so hard. 2

Next she moved onto the moderately difficult. Here she started to repeat basic training that she learned from Karuto. Not just muscles exercises either, but real practical applications of what she had learned. It was burning her abs already but she had to continue onward. The constant repetition was starting to take effect now and her strikes were delivered with much more force. 3

Slowly this progress was gained over the next few minutes, hours, even days. Lahlil never once listed the determination to better herself. Then over time there was an improvement, her fists didn't bruise and easy and her muscles felt stronger. Like she was breaking out of a shell she didn't know she was trapped in. Day in and day out those physical styles were drilled into her brain as soon as Karuto wasn't watching over her shoulder. 4

By a good few weeks later Lahlil's body had become much more toned. Sweat glistened off of her abs and still she pressed ever forward. Moving onto the next stage in her training the young Kage set to work on the mid to high tier abilities. Many of which she noticed started involving the use of chakra into their abilities. At least now there could be SOME common ground with what she was already familiar with. Honestly it was so much less work to just learn ninjutsu but Lahlil knew that this was about more than just ability. This was about dedication to herself. 5

Shockwaves, gale forces, memorizing the human pressure points. It was all stacking up on her quickly and Lahlil was forced to spread out her training over the course of the next few weeks. Giving each of her studied styles a specific time frame where she could go over them individually as opposed to bundling them all together and learning them in a si able sitting. Occasionally she was ask question of her teacher too, all while keeping her learning a secret. 6

Eventually it all came to fruition when Lahlil had seen her first victory against Karuto! The look on the man's face was suprising but Lahlil still knew that even this was only a fraction of what he could do. It was only because he believed her to be weaker than she was that he underestimated her, but that wouldn't work for long. Which meant that there was only one thing she could do, and that was to learn the master level taijutsu. Weeks now turned into months of careful planning, all while trying to fit in the duties of a Kage. 7

It took longer tha she would have liked but she was able to steal moments here and there. Instead of taking that age would instead go for a jog. Instead of eating her chocolates she would do push ups. Every waking moment of hers was set torwards reading the scrolls she had checked out from the dojo, a perk of being Holage was that nobody questioned you of when you were going to return them. 8

The time was now almost the end of the year, snow was falling outside but Lahlil was ready. The cold didn't bother her as much now. Warm flooded her body and time felt slow around her. This was her peak physical condition and she was more than ready to tackle those master level techniques. Traveling first to a excluded area, Lahlil set to work by dedicating her entire day to formulating her chakra and muscles into the perfect lethal combination. The small meal girl from when she started this journey was dead and had been replaced by o e who could hold her own with some of the strongest warriors of her time. 9



[ Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind used ]

Much time after her physical training did Lahlil returned to the academy. She had mastered the physical adts as far as her body would be able to take her, now she sought a different power. Over the last year or so Lahlil had begun to notice a strange effect taking hold of her body. One that she didn't quite understand until recently. The vampiric powers that were dormant in her body were coming to life. Her thoughts idly traced back to her time with Katsmi and a blush fell on her cheeks. The taste of that stole blood touching her lips... well she never could have imagined that it would lead to this. Although it made sense that without her Sakkakugan to fill the role, that another bloodline would become the dominant one.

Pulling from the bloodline release methods Lahlil began studying the learnings from the blood release bloodline. Her condition it seemed, wasn't actually an uncommon one. There had been a few such cases where the powerful bloodline had turned a few individuals. It was explained that in order for it to happen the target usually has to have a predisposition torwards it as the blood from a main Saiketsu member could oftentimes be fatal. A fact that Lahlil would remember for later. 1

[ Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind ] Used

Lahlil stepped into the dojo coolly. Her eyes flickered over the styles that were available to her as she decided just what she wanted to learn. It had been months since she had been here now, the job of a Kage was never truly done after all. Really it was regretful, but the the few oppurtinues that she DID get to herself was well spent in here. She used to hate it but there was something about the attraction of power within her now that drove her to push forward. She had to be the best in the village. 1

In fact, speaking of the village, starting out by learning the fighting style that had originated in old Konoha seemed as good a place to start as any. Like a tiger punching on it's prey, so to was Lahlil pouncing on her training. She started out taking ng a sturdy step forward and lofting off into a kicking motion. It wasn't anything nee ti her, she had specialized in a couple taijutsu before this one that had dealt with the empowerment of leg muscles. 2

Still the movement was not exactly the same. Had the Hokage not already practiced toning her body before this she likely wouldn't have been able to perform such a kick on her first try. The speed build up behind was what was considered crucial. A fact she would remember for later. 3

This continued inwards for some time after until Lahlil had the exact amount of chakra control she needed to be able to master the most weapon in the arsenal, the cherry blossom fist. With her fune chakra control Lahlil found that even the rocks of earth before her crumbled into dust. There standing in this floating mess that was once her training park Lahlik smiled to herself. Why hadn't she done this before? 4

The next few hours were spent learning many more styles, the Kage had wanted to continue to use this time to diversity her palette in case she ever got into a fight with another taijutsu specialist. It simply wouldn't do to let herself be schooled in an area that she had do recently redirected herself into. And so she went on like this until her freetime was completely spent and the call to work pulled her away. 5