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As Asuka walked to the training yard, he considered what to try and learn next. As he considered his current repertoire of jutsus, Asuka realized he had absolutely no defensive techniques. He knew his offense was great, but that wouldn’t always prevent the opponent from landing a hit. So Asuka considered what to do about this lack of defense. He thought about his elemental chakras, which were wind and lightning. Asuka considered their applications and realized that they were both very offensive elements, and wouldn’t be able to do much to protect him. Since Asuka knew he couldn’t protect himself with his elements, he came up with the idea to simply provide a disincentive to attack him. As Asuka reached the training yard, he decided he would practice a Lightning Armor technique. That way, even though he wouldn’t necessarily be protected from the hit, the opponent would regret striking him. The thought made Asuka grin as he stretched out and prepared to train.

Asuka realized he hadn’t used his lightning chakra since the academy where he learned his lightning shuriken jutsu. So Asuka decided to warm up for the Lightning Armor by throwing a couple lightning shurikens at a training dummy. After remembering the feel of using lightning chakra, Asuka felt he was ready to start. He decided to build the technique by covering one body part at a time with the armor and building it up until it covered his entire body. Asuka was right handed so he figured his right arm would be a good place to start. Asuka focused his lightning chakra and released it into his right arm, then powered it up enough to create lightning on the outside of his skin. Unfortunately, something happened that Asuka didn’t account for. When the lightning extended out of his arm, it just came right back and electrocuted Asuka. When Asuka realized what was happening, he cut off the chakra flow as he yelped in pain. There was a trough of water nearby that he ran over to and stuck his arm into the sooth the burning. Asuka realized that because he only knew how to throw lightning elsewhere, he hadn’t considered that it could still hurt himself.

When the burning stopped, Asuka took his arm out of the water trough, but decided to stay standing next to it in case a similar incedent occurred. Asuka was determined to learn this technique. His life may end up depending on a good defensive jutsu some day. This setback would not discourage him from continuing. After contemplating what happened, Asuka decided that the best way to protect himself from chakra lightning was with more chakra used as a protective layer around his skin. So Asuka held out his right arm again, and focused his chakra to form a thin layer around his skin. When he was convinced that it covered his whole arm completely, Asuka began focusing his lightning chakra again. Asuka built up the chakra and then released the lightning so that it left his body and covered his right arm. Asuka let out a sigh of relief as he realized that the chakra layer was doing its job and the lightning was not electrocuting him.

Asuka realized that the lightning he was releasing was too random. It was not staying close to his arm, and was not very focused at all. So while the lightning was still around his arm, Asuka attempted to focus it so it would stay closer to his arm, more like armor. Unfortunately lightning chakra is difficult to control simply through will. Asuka remembered the basic principles of lightning techniques and remembered how to handle this. He focused more lightning chakra, but kept it within his arm instead of releasing it. Because this electricity was present in his arm, the lightning outside his arm was attracted to it and so stuck much closer to his arm, but could not go through because of the layer of chakra acting as a shield. Asuka realized he was using a lot of chakra, and decided to cut off the lightning since he had made some success.

Asuka didn’t want to use up all his chakra before he even finished learning the technique. So he grabbed his back pack and pulled out a soldier pill. He was hoping to save these for a serious conflict, but this training was important to him so he could return home. Asuka decided this training was serious enough to use them. So he put the soldier pill in his mouth and swallowed it. Within seconds, Asuka felt revitalized and ready to keep training. He put his backpack down and refocused himself.

Asuka decided to start spreading the lightning armor out from his arm, so next he would add his torso. Asuka recreated the chakra shield on his arm and extended it to his torso. After focusing it for a while and making sure it covered his whole front and back, Asuka started focusing on his lightning chakra. He released it over his right arm but made sure to keep some stored inside his arm to keep the electricity from straying away. After the lightning was tight to his right arm, Asuka began spreading it over his torso, and then focused the chakra on his insides as well to focus the lightning into armor. He was pleasantly surprised to see that the armor of lightning fit smoothly over his torso, and was seamlessly connected with his right arm.

One by one, Asuka began extending the armor around his body. First he added his right leg to complete that side of his body. Then Asuka added in his left leg, followed by this left arm. He was quite hesitant to put the armor over his head, for fear of electrocuting himself to death. So after a little extra caution, Asuka managed to extend the armor over every inch of his body. Asuka released the chakra, and prepared to summon the entire lightning armor at once. Asuka placed his hands into a focusing hand sign and formed the chakra shield as quickly as possible, followed by creating the lightning armor around his entire body at once. Pleased with his accomplishment, Asuka released the armor and sat down for a short rest.

training for Lightning Armor complete.

Asuka relaxed and ate some more snacks from his backpack as he reflected on the training he had just completed. He was pleased that he now had a more powerful lightning based attack in his repertoire. However, he felt he could do more with that. Asuka decided to train one more lightning technique while he was in the Village Hidden in the Mist. He wanted to train for a lightning technique that would blow someone away with its raw power. Asuka pondered how he would accomplish this. The Lightning Bolt Fang jutsu he had just learned was an extremely powerful blast that engulfed the opponent in electricity. Asuka wondered how he could create a blast even more powerful than that bolt. Asuka knew he couldn’t focus more power into a single bolt. So Asuka decided to only way to create a more powerful blast, was to add an additional lightning bolt to his jutsu and fire them both at the same target. Once Asuka had come up with the idea, he decided there was no time like the present to figure out the technique. Asuka wanted to try and create this new technique while the feeling of his lightning was still fresh in his mind.

So Asuka got up and stepped back up to a training dummy that he hadn’t blown up quite yet. Asuka knew that he would need to create a separate lightning bolt in each hand and fire them at the target. However, he also knew that the bolts would just collide together into a single bolt unless he charged them both with the same charge. Asuka figured he’d start with that thought in mind. So Asuka focused his lightning elemental chakra and charged up electricity in each hand. When his palms were full of lightning, Asuka focused on giving each of his hands a positive charge. Asuka threw his hands out and fired the lightning bolts in each hand at the training dummy. The bolts began flying straight for a while, but as they got closer to the training dummy, they got closer to each other as well and eventually the alike charges repelled the bolts apart from each other, missing the training dummy completely.

Asuka stopped channeling the lightning and put his hands down. He needed a way to get the lightning bolts to get close enough to hit the same target without flying away from each other. Asuka remembered his experience with the Lightning Bolt Fang jutsu he just learned. Although Asuka couldn’t control the shape of his lightning after it leaves his hands, he can control his regular chakra, which just so happens to attract his lightning elemental chakra to it. So this time, Asuka planned to focus a straight beam of chakra at his target, so the lightning bolts will stay close, but still separated. So Asuka began charging up his lightning chakra again, one bolt in each hand. As he collected the lightning in his palms he gave both hands a positive charge. Once again Asuka threw his hands out and this time put them together, firing the two lightning bolts, as well as a straight beam of regular chakra. Sure enough both lightning bolts flew straight towards the training dummy. Something even happened to Asuka’s pleasant surprise that he didn’t expect. The lightning bolts, while staying away from each other and being attracted to the beam of chakra, began spiraling around and forming a double helix pattern. This created an additional amount of force from the rotation, and when the lightning bolts hit the training dummy it was completely blown away.

Asuka liked the result of his last lightning strike, but wanted more out of the attack. If he could get the rotation to speed up, it would make the blast hit faster and much harder. So Asuka planned to increase the power of his central chakra beam so that the lightning bolts would be slightly more attracted to it and hopefully spiral around faster. So Asuka found a new training dummy and relocated himself. He performed the same process again and when he was charged up, Asuka fired the blast once again, this time with a stronger and more focused central chakra beam. Just as Asuka had hoped, the lightning bolts tightened their path and spiraled closer together and much faster around each other. They were close enough that it was hard to tell the difference between them. The blast simply looked like one giant spiraling wave of lightning, thunder, destruction, and death. When the blast hit this training dummy, it not only destroyed it. When Asuka stopped the beam and went over to inspect his handiwork, there was absolutely nothing left of the wooden figure. All that remained was a giant scorch mark across the ground that still sizzled as the surrounding mist cooled it rapidly. Asuka could even still feel the hum of electricity lingering in the air.

Asuka, pleased with his progress, sat down and grabbed his backpack again. As he began to eat another snack, Asuka realized he had developed his newest attack very quickly, and that he still had quite some time left in the day. Asuka remembered as he was learning his Lightning Bolt Fang jutsu, how he wished he could shape it like a dragon. He considered how much more powerful this attack was than the last jutsu he developed, and figured that given his current amount of spare time and the power of this new jutsu, that he might as well invest the effort to make it look awe inspiring. Asuka attempted to stand up and realized that he had once again drained himself of chakra and could barely move. He grabbed another soldier pill and swallowed it. Asuka hated the idea of putting off the training of a jutsu in progress until another time. Invigorated by the soldier pill, Asuka got up and prepared to keep training. He knew he could not control the shape of his lightning by sheer willpower, nor was there a plausible way to use chakra to shape the lightning into such a complex form as a dragon.

Asuka wondered how it was that there were other shinobi out there with the ability to create dragons from there elements. He had heard of the great mist shinobi Zabuza Momochi and his incredible water dragon jutsu. Then there was the Enkou clan of his own village that created dragons from fire and controlled them with incredible precision. Asuka could not fathom why they could perform this feat of skill and he could not. The thought made him jealous and eventually Asuka became very angry. It wasn’t fair to him. He worked as hard as anybody to achieve his goals. Asuka, filled with rage, began charging his lightning elemental chakra into his hands, more powerful than he had done yet. When his anger peaked, Asuka gave a great battle cry and fired his tornado of lightning at yet another training dummy. Only this time something strange happened. He felt his anger and rage pouring into his blast, and as the lightning fired towards the wooden dummy, it began to create a new form. At the front end of the spiraling lightning, A dragon’s head and arms appeared and roared triumphantly as it completely incinerated yet another training dummy.

Asuka was filled with pride and joy as he saw his own handiwork. Unfortunately, many other people began noticing him and the amount of equipment he had destroyed in the training yard. So Asuka grabbed his bag, went to his room for the rest of his belongings, and ran for the to find yet another village to learn from.

training for Lightning Dragon Tornado complete

"What is that? A shark on dry land? Maybe it's dying! I should help it!" A young sounding voice declared through the mist, before a dark haired figure came running outwards, dashing forwards towards Tiburon at a rapid pace. His eyes widened in what could only be worry, as he moves forwards rapidly, his loose clothing flapping around him. As soon as Enki made it around half way there, he stumbled, certainly upon his own feet, as he continues to fall, crashing onto the ground and into an instant roll, sending himself barreling forwards and towards the shark like figure. His light gray eyes widening even further as his body is sent crashing, and the skidding across the ground, face first. The moment his body stops skidding, he leaps back up onto his feet, immediately falling backwards and landing on his a** before he was even standing correctly. With a short pain filled sound, something close to that of a yelp, two black furred ears and nine black furred tails seemed to suddenly appear around him, though obviously still attached to his body. Both hands were held upwards and clutching his face, his eyes held tightly shut, before a single ear flicks and his eyes snap open. "Don't worry! I'll save you fishy!" Enki exclaims, before leaping back onto his feet and half diving, half tackling towards the shark man, intent on grabbing them, and bringing them to the closest water source before it's too late.

Success! He managed to grab hold of the poor scaly creature, and now was time to bring them to the water! They were flailing around now too, clearly it was a life or death situation! Though the moment the fish man started speaking, and using more force to push themselves away from Enki, was when Enki's already weak grip formed too minimal to hold onto the creature. The male in his hands pushing out of his grip, and actually shoving Enki to the ground, as he lands upon the ground hard. "Wha!?" He exclaims, as his gaze shoots towards the roaring fishy. "Stop flailing fishy! I'm going to get you to the water!!" Enki yells as he leaps back to his feet, and moves forward rather swiftly to attempt grabbing hold of the shark boy once again. The young Kitsuna already attempting to grapple with the fish boy once again, he could see a pool of water not too far away. Though he wasn't sure whether it was a deep pool, or a puddle. Enki decided that any water would be better then no water! "It's a good thing you're in this misty environment, or you would have died already, Fishy! It's okay though, I will save you now!" Enki continues, while trying to force the shark boy with his minimal almost below average strength towards the possible puddle not too far away. His nine tails flicking around behind him with a tad bit of excitement, at being able to save such a clearly pain ridden creature, he wasn't even paying attention to the fact it was speaking audible words now, even though he had above average hearing, he was only paying heed to his own thoughts, which were all based around saving this abnormally large fish before it died outside of it's watery habitat!

While trying once again to get this poor fishy to the water, they seemed to have become caught on something? Enki's eyes widened as he tugged a few times, midst the thrashing of the poor fishy as it both tried to escape his grip, and to free itself from whatever it was stuck on, Enki felt himself become struck a few times, and then pushed away at the shoulder, once again he was falling straight down onto his a** with a thump. "Hmph!" He stated, crossing his arms across his chest, as frustrated expression came across his face. His gaze leveling on the fish boy as he rises back to his feet. "Don't worry fishy! I'll bring water to you!" He says as a grin soon sweeps across his face, before he quickly dashes off and away from the shark boy. His gaze sweeping back and forth until he could find a container, a bucket soon crossing his vision as the grin widens. Diving for the bucket, he makes a clean miss of the handle, and tumbles right into the wall beside it. His forehead slamming against the wall as he yelps and raises one hand to his forehead, a small bit of blood dripping down his face now. With tears starting to form at the corners of his eyes, Enki grabs the bucket and rushes off looking for water. soon finding some and filling the bucket. Without too much time passing, maybe a minute or so, Enki had returned with a full bucket of water being barely held by his weak arms in both hands. Twirling around, he throws the contents of the bucket towards the shark boy, "I found water! You'll be okay now!" He exclaims with a slight bit of glee in his voice.

"All fish need water! It's okay fishy, I'll get you more water and then you'll be feeling better, and thinking more rationally!" Enki says excitedly, as he grabs the bucket from where it had dropped upon the ground and leaps into a run excitedly, he was certainly fast. Which seemed to be the advantage over his lack of strength, to which was quite obvious. Enki raced back to where he had gotten the water the last time, scooping the bucket into the water, and pulling it free, before taking the painstaking course as quickly as he could in order to bring the water back. The moment he spotted the poor fishy, he threw the contents of the bucket forwards towards the fish, this time releasing the bucket by accident as well. With another loud yelp, and his hands instantly raising to cover his face, Enki exclaims just as loudly. "Sorry Fishy!" His face scrunching, as he holds his eyes tightly, awaiting some sort of painful remark from being hit by the bucket and the cold water. He was only trying to help after all, but it wasn't like he was the most graceful of Shinobi to begin with.

After a crash, and a few seconds of silence, Enki peeked through his fingers to look at the fish boy who he was trying to save. Fright formed immediately upon his face as he looked upon the now fallen figure. "Oh no! Fishy is dying! The water's not helping!!! What do I do!? What do I do!?" Enki screams, already beginning to frantically look about, trying to find some thing that would help the poor dying fish before it was too late. "Of course!" Enki says as his eyes widen with glee once again, running forwards and lifting as much of the fish as he could, he began running forwards towards the water he had been using for filling the bucket. He would out the fish into the water, and then it'll be fine again. This plan had to work, fish were meant to be IN water after all, not splashed with it once and a while! Dashing forwards and dragging the fish boy by the arm, he draws them towards the water it wasn't too far away, just about a waist high pool of water, made by the condensation of the mist into what seemed like a small basin like hole in the ground. It was certainly big enough for a few people to fit in, and certainly large enough for a fish to swim in! Enki grinned, actually stopping, and then attempting to lift the boy with a staggering step, almost falling over from the weight before throwing the body into the water. "You're saved Fishy! You're back in your natural habitat! Mission Accomplished!" Enki exclaims, before falling down and laying on the ground, panting heavily from the running and physical labor that he wasn't all too used to.