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Tatsuya traveled silently through the craggy environment only pausing to allow his companion the leisure of small breaks between walking. The large lizard had so much more weight to swing and move around, but Tatsuya could only see the same small lizard that he had met such a long time ago, and while it had changed he still enjoyed the reptile's company, it was perhaps even his closest and most loyal friend; Aoiro was the only other living thing that wasn't reluctant to stay at the boy's side.

The journey was somewhat of a short one, he took all of a week to get lost many months ago, but it took less than a day to find his way back to where they had started, and as such he found the rest of his teammates there and Tsukiko, who had not been there when he got lost. While he wasn't happy to see any of them he wasn't angry, he was okay with his situation now, he would be able to communicate with someone if he got bored and Aoiro wasn't available. Maybe Ren was still training, he of course wasn't going to ask, if Ren wanted the boy to know everything then the older ninja would inform Tatsuya. No, he glanced at each individual and decided it would be more productive if he went and sat against a rock, now he played the waiting game. He understood what Quingfu had said eleven months ago and he had followed the instructions, so he was going to sit there and wait, a sort of serene expression plastered to his face.

Waiting for a month for their time to expire was going to be completely and utterly wasteful, in this environment their physical chakra was able to be seen by them so once one could complete the training they were designated to then the rest of the time was theirs. With this and the fact that he had no interest in communicating with anyone in the area, not Ren, not Denrei, not Tsukiko, and not this new kid, no, he was going to turn his focuses to training and master something he had thought of following the Chunin Exams. The boy had seen several jutsu in which you shot your chakra out of your mouth or out of your hands to weaken, or defeat your enemy, and the fact that he didn’t have one that could do that made him feel a little behind. Since then he had been attempting to think of a jutsu in which he could do just the same, and it was during his bout with Shuniji that he had finally figured out the sort of thing he wanted to do. He was going to gather lightning chakra into his hands, much like he would when he would use the technique that Buchi-man taught him, only instead of shooting streams of lightning chakra into Aoiro’s stream of water chakra he would focus the chakra into charges or perhaps one strong charge, and then shoot them at his enemy.

The young man stood from his place on the crag and moved towards one of the small areas in which no one was at and began his own training. Tatsuya stood silently as he slowly began drawing his chakra from his being and out into his hand sending an all too familiar tingle of electricity through the Udai Ninja’s system. The small sparks made his muscles spasm slightly under the old feeling returning after the extended period of rest but this soon ceased once Tatsuya began focusing properly. Once he could feel adequate amounts of chakra in his forearm the young man quickly performed the four hand signs that would activate the jutsu before unleashing the built up chakra into his hand. Once the easy part was done Tatsuya would then have to think of how exactly he would manage to shoot the chakra from his hand and at a target. In his first attempt he held his now abnormally glowing palm towards one of the massive rock formations before shooting out the large charge. However, upon leaving his hand it seemingly spewed off in a random direction before crashing into the enormous rocks, roughly twenty feet from where he was aiming. Obviously that mode of aiming would not be useful at all, and another would need to be thought up.

One of the great things of being in this plane of existence was that Tatsuya had a near infinite area to train in, which meant it would be rather difficult for two people to get in the way of each other, another great thing about this place was the way chakra manifested itself and revealed exactly what he was doing correctly and what he was performing incorrectly. It made it easier to see what he needed to improve on and what he no longer had to strain to focus on. In this case the young man had the obvious hand seals down, he had the gathering of the chakra down, and he had the molding of the chakra into a sort of charge down. That left the aiming and the firing to be worked on.

Tatsuya stood in his place and quickly drew forth a small burst of chakra from his gut and forced it out and towards his forearm. Once he felt the familiar tingle of lightning chakra sending small amounts of muscular tissue into slight spasms, Tatsuya slowly allowed the chunk of chakra further down his arm and on out the palm of his hand. For a moment Tatsuya let the florescent blue sparking orb rest in his palm, the longer and longer he looked at the chakra the more he became entranced by it. He could not help but think about how far he had come, all his struggles, all his triumphs, all the people he had met, and all the friends he had lost. It wasn’t a very special life, yes, he was the winner of the chunin exams during his first attempt, and yes, he was a member of a peace keeping organization but what had he really achieved? When he decided to become a ninja he followed his brother’s example blindly, which in hindsight wasn’t such a good idea in itself, but even if he had decided on his own to become a ninja the life he had lived thus far had more failure than success.

To the outside world it would only appear as if an average sized ninja was standing in the middle of a rock base with his palm outstretched and a small orb of chakra dancing around his fingertips, however, Tatsuya was nothing more than a mind raging a war at its memories. Tatsuya had began with so many strong ambitions, granted most of them were directly associated with Hiyo, but in all honesty he had accomplished absolutely nothing out of those goals. No, he had been living for someone else for the last three years, that sort of life always put a damper on whatever personal desires someone would have; in Tatsuya’s case following witnessing his brother’s death he took it upon himself to take over the genin’s life, all his ambitions, all his goals, everything were stolen from Hiyo the second Tatsuya got the idea in his mind, that was about three or four years ago, and not until recently had the personal internal argument came to a boil and Tatsuya was more than happy to begin his life for his own. He had sacrificed his youth for that ungrateful b*****d, and in all honesty it was perhaps his own worst mistake.

On the other hand, the path had led him to places and with people he would not have had the pleasure otherwise, perhaps one of his best friends, no matter how misguided the friendship was, was created while attempting to take over his brother’s last mission, that, led him to the chunin exams which led him to the Udai Counsel, and to all sorts of other friendships Tatsuya was going to cherish, and protect. That was why he was at this point, yes, his life did not belong to him for long, and he couldn’t go back in time to change it so he would make do with the hand he had been dealt. He was going to do everything in his power to make sure that he wasn’t going to let another one of his friends suffer, not Saru, not Suny, not Seika, not Shuniji. None of them would suffer at the hands of the man they would be fighting soon, the Otokage, even if he had to sacrifice himself he would make sure that that vile man paid for what he did to his own people.

It was almost as if out of nowhere, the boy snapped back to attention as he began to feel the charge he had gathered in his hand slip. It was beginning to rattle further and further from the center of his palm and began twirling violently around his index and middle finger. In a quick motion Tatsuya pulled his hand up and pointed the two charged fingers at his first rock while he pulled his other hand up to cross over the arm and shield his eyes from the bright glow as it soared through the arid air before colliding with a small point in the rock. It wasn’t until Tatsuya unshielded his eyes that he saw the sort of damage it did to the thing; not only was there a small hole where the chakra itself had went through, but there was also a small web of electricity formed around the hole. If this jutsu was used on another living being the amount of damage was by no means anywhere near his and Aoiro’s joint jutsu, but it would easily knock someone out along with some serious damage.

Well, now that the right hand gesture was discovered Tatsuya could begin focusing more on the real mechanics of his own abilities. First he needed to find out how far he could shoot this thing, second he could find out exactly how much damage it did on something other than a massive rock, and hopefully he would be able to find out how chakra extensive it was; the Udai member desperately needed to know how many of these shots he could fire off before he was completely winded and needed to start replenishing his chakra, hopefully it would be more than just a couple of shots, that would be a complete and utter waste. With that the boy slowly began traveling once more, only this time he wasn’t going to be heading off in one direction and getting lost, no, he was going down the massive crag he had started from and quickly descended onto the solid, level ground and began moving about until he found exactly what he was searching for.

After a moment of searching Tatsuya found a small group of cacti, seemingly four in total, perfect! From his spot he started roughly one hundred feet away and readied his new jutsu. He was going to aim continually until he finally hit his spot, gradually getting closer and closer to the plants, once he could efficiently aim and hit multiple shots he would be able to determine the rough range of his attack. From there he would continually use the attack until he felt himself go or until he just passed out, whichever came first. With his right arm outstretched and his left arm bracing the right arm’s bicep, as if it was going to help stop whatever recoil was going to flow through his arm, the boy aimed his index and middle fingers at the first cactus for a few moments and as the wind died he released the shot, and watched as it did everything but hit its target. No, the small orb shot out and quickly began losing aim until it fully left any chance of correctly hitting the cactus behind to chase random dust particles in the sky.

He took a few steps forward until he was about fifty feet from the first cactus and once again focused his chakra from his gut and out his arm, performed the hand signs accordingly, and pulled his arms back up into their firing position. Perhaps the first shot was due to lack of concentration in the aiming process, maybe more focus should have gone into it other than just a few seconds. Taking more time was no problem as of now, but he would need to find a way to do it on the fly as compared to standing and charging for thirty seconds, he wouldn’t always get that luxury. Either way, after a few seconds of steadying his aim Tatsuya shot the lightning bullet from his fingers and sent it sailing directly at the cactus. Once it reached and collided with the plant a small entry wound was easy to see before the electric web scars formed on the surface and the steam quickly billowed out of the newly formed hole. The water within the cactus had been removed due to the heat. Success, and now that he had the rough range Tatsuya could do something a bit more reckless. In an instant he quickly surged forward more chakra into his hand and performed the hand seals before quickly shooting off a charge at the second cactus and continuing forward. During his sprint forward he did the same as he had done before, gathered his chakra and quickly shot it at the third cactus. As he neared the group of the cactus he once more did as he had done before and drew in chakra and performed the hand signs, only this time, he took a running jump maneuver so that he would do a prolonged flip over the final plant, his head facing the cactus at the peak of his jump. Once he was there he fired the prepared shot downward, almost instantaneously the first two suffered the second and third cactus suffered the same fate as the original; however the last merely exploded in a pile of cactus skin and acidic water. The force from the ranged attack up close caused more entry wound damage, he would have to remember that detail.


(Lightning Release: Lightning Shot - B-Rank 2122/2000 [Training complete])