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Hato flexed his fingers, and then quicker than his eyes could follow, he slammed them together in the attempt to form the Ox handseal, and then to use the genjutsu release he was trying so very hard to learn.
At first he thought he was getting it, but he was concentrating too hard on the speedy formation of the handseal that he didn't notice he had misplaced a few of his fingers.
Seeing this mistake, he almost immediately threw his hands apart, and then slammed them back together with such force and intensity that he had perfectly formed the Ox handseal.
He felt his chakra system faltering once again, and knew that he had completed one more trial of the jutsu.
He did the exact same thing, throwing his hands out, and reforming the Ox hand seal, and he got the same result!
Excited, Hato tried to do it another 3 times, but with the energy and excitement, his hands had started to shake with exhaustion and nervousness.

*I'll just take a small breather. At least I got another 2 successes down.*

He flexed his fingers and took a deep breath until his fingers stopped shaking, and then prepared to do it again.
Just as he was about to start the technique, he noticed that he was sweating.

*Aww, am I really so preoccupied to not even notice heat?*

He stood up straight and cracked his back while looking around the hot springs.

*Wow, this place really is a great place to train.*

Hato was feeling comfortable with the heat, so he just took his hand and wiped the sweat off his brow. Getting ready to do the technique once more, he relaxed and tensed his fingers, getting ready to form the handseal.
Seriously hoping that the Ox handseal was the factor that would help him in the success of learning the jutsu, he once again visualized what it was supposed to look like, thought about how to form the seal with his fingers, and prayed that he would not mess up.
All Hato wanted to do right now was to be out on a mission, either with a small team of genin or even by himself. Any kind of outdoor adventure would do, he was getting restless sitting in the village doing nothing.
He knew that he could be doing some good for the village by catching bandits, or attacking rogue ninja, but he would have to wait until his training was done to go out on a mission, and even longer, probably until he was an ANBU or a jounin to go atttack rogue ninja.

*Dragon, Dog, Rooster, Rabbit, Tiger*

Hato repeated these words to himself as he prepared to do all 5 in quick succession in the hopes that they would help him perform Genjutsu Kai.
He kept his focus on those words, on the forming of the handseals, and on the flow of chakra within him.
He found certain areas of chakra with each hand seal, with dragon, he was focused in on his leg area, and couldn't break any flow.
With Dog, he found his heart, and he immediately knew where to break circulation.
With Rooster, Hato felt his arms chakra, but he couldn't break flow there either.
Using the Rabbit hand seal, he found his head, or his brain area. He had to delve into the deeper parts of his subconscious, but he found the perfect place to cut of chakra circulation. He felt a little light headed after that particular try, but he kept going.
Finally, with the Tiger hand seal, he was feeling an area along his back, but he couldn't feel any strong emanations of chakra, so he couldn't find a good place to use the jutsu.
Even with 2 successes out of the 5, Hato wasn't satisfied.
Although his experiment seemed to be working, he didn't know if it was absolutely certain that using those certain handseals would give him the effect he wanted.
To further prove that the hand seals were working, he visualized another 5, and was about to do that, before an instant headache assaulted him.

*Is this an aftereffect of breaking the chakra circulaton in my brain?*

Hato was dazed, and he fell down. He couldn't feel his arms or legs, and he started to become worried.

*Crap, how did it come to this..*

Hato closed his eyes and visualized again the chakra system within his mind, and found that it wasn't flowing as properly as before. Searching a little further, he found a chakra node that was functioning properly.
Intrigued, Hato pulled his will power together and turned it back on, allowing chakra to flow correctly through his brain.

*Wow, who knew a jutsu like this could be so dangerous if done wrong.*

Hato could now feel his arms and legs, but he was still slightly dizzy.

*I should be more careful how I approach this jutsu.*

Now wary of the dangers of breaking chakra flow, he stood up and prepared to do his next set of drills much more carefully.

Almost immediately after casting Sly Mind Affect, Hato found himself sprawled on the floor of the hot springs. Curious as to what happened, he had the sudden urge to find someone to help him learn the kai: release technique.
He started walking out of the hot springs room and entered into the dojo's main room. There was still nobody here, and the place wasn't lit, giving it an eerie feel about it.
Shrugging the lack of light off, Hato attempted to proceed out of the room and into the open village, but it seemed that for every step he took, the door looked 2 steps further away.

*I must have caught myself in the genjutsu!*

After realizing this, Hato was slightly proud of himself that he successfully used the jutsu at least on himself, but now he was getting worried.

*What if I can't break out of it?*

Shrugging off his lack of confidence, he placed his hands together in the Ox seal and attempted to use the jutsu.
Almost immediately after forming the seal, he could feel the genjutsu lifting, or at least that's what it felt like.
Again, he formed and Ox seal and now he could obvously tell he was in the genjutsu. Confident in his abilities, he tried another hand seal. He went in order of Rabbit, Tiger, Dragon.
All of the seals he made after Ox failed miserably, but at the very least he had realized he was in the genjutsu, and in realizing he was in it, he had broken free of it.

*Glad I didn't do any harm to myself.*

Hato felt proud inside that he had been able to cast the genjutsu on himself, and then defeat his own genjutsu.
After reveling in this success, he got ready for the next 5 drills.
He decided that instead of re-casting the genjutsu on himself, he would simply try to use the jutsu without it, now that he knew how it felt to be IN the genjutsu.

Kazuma came into a large area where he decided to sit down and read one of his parents many books, this on was on how to build-up chakra and utilize it through handseals, he had another book that was on the basics of Ninjutsu, mostly relating to the ones learned while in the Academy. Kazuma, being the genius he is though, decided to get a head start and learn everything on his own without a teacher and just books to guide him. First he had to read books on both topics, one then the other before he would feel comfortable trying to do either. He cracked open the book and did what he did best, read. The very thought of reading a book on a topic he didn't know was far more fun than reading on one that he already knew or that he felt mocked his intelligence such as the children's books in his own personal library. As he read on the topic he slowly understood what was needed in order to do it. Though he didn't have to read too hard to get the first parts of the book.

As Kazuma went through the book he flet the book thining on the one side which he was turning, he smiled at the progress he was already making. But as soon as he felt comfortable with his porogress he hits a hard place and hasto stop turning the pages to read and re-read it until he gets the meaning of a certain word he had run arcoss. Though it was a book on a simple subject, it was written for a teacher to read to help instruct a class. This was the only downfall of the book he supposed. He hoped there weren't this many hard words through the rest of the book.

Kazuma looked in the back of the book, finally tired of trying to decide what it meant going to the dictionary in the back of the book. As he read it carefully he finally figured out the meaning of the word and continued on reading the book. He had finally got past that little problem and had finally gained a little peace of mind. If he had figured it out it would have ate him alive in the long run.

Once again Kazuma ended up in the same place again. Stuck on a word. He got up and walked around. He was fed up with getting stuck on the book and needed to do something to vent his frustration. So walking around was all he could think of doing to do that. He kept reading scratching his head on what the word might mean, not exactly sure. Reading these adult books were a pain, buit one that must be done in the name of excelling.

Kazuma nearly got stuck once more on a word but flipped to the back real quick and kept reading from there. As he continued he wondered how much more the book had to discuss on the topic, going through theories and in class experiments on it as though chakra usage was a scientific topic. It didn't shock him much though, they probably had topics on several different strange things in the world that they had a scientific topic about.



(Thank god for my +2 Int mod. >.>)