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Alright, now that Tsuyoshi had finished the first part of the training regiment, it was time to work on the second part. The second part being the part that involved him actually setting the place on fire. Well, throwing the fire outward towards whatever he wanted to throw it at. Of course this was quite hard to get started since the entire place was covered in highly combustible things like leaves and grass and trees and other things of that nature. More than likely the people back in the village, the ones who were in charge, would look down on him turning the village hidden in the leaves into the village hidden in the ashes of the leaves that the village was previously hidden in. To make matters worse, it was likely that he would have little to no control over the flames that he started throwing out of his body. Fire was notoriously unstable and notoriously dangerous to suddenly try and use; but it wasn't like that would stop him this time. Tsuyoshi started working on manipulating that oh so useful flaming chakra that had caused him a bit of annoyance before. But now, he was ready to start using it, since he had control over the chakra. Of course this took a bit of time for him to get ahold of, because while he had in fact managed to get the flame chakra in a manipulated state, he hadn't really figured out how to make it useful to him. In fact, the flames scared him a bit, since being admitted to the hospital over third degree internal burns would both be humiliating as a jounin, but also incredibly painful. They'd probably sit around and just watch him suffer for hours to teach him a lesson about trying to breathe fire without anyone to watch over him. Regardless, he took his time to manipulate the fire chakra, feeling it swirling around inside of him as he tried to figure out the best way to get it out of him. It wasn't like there were lots of different ways to throw it from his body; so it was time to actually experiment with this, consequences be damned. Tsuyoshi only hoped that he didn't manage to set himself on fire and get himself a horrible burn scar that everyone wanted to ask about. It would completely take away his everyman persona.

Katon: Hibashiri (Fire Release: Running Fire) Stage 2
Roll: d20 + Ninjutsu (+50)
CP Cost: 4
DC: 30
Successes: 0/8

Nat 20! Two Successes.


Tsuyoshi moved anything flammable that he cared about away from his body, since he had no idea what might happen next. If it went anything like his previous attempt, he might end up lighting everything on fire again. Not that that would be a bad, but setting himself on fire would be the most likely thing to happen. And that was no good at all. He stood up and got away from all his things, and tried to focus his chakra again. This time, he wasn't going to screw up. Or at least, he didn't plan to screw up. He built up the fire chakra again, and took a deep breath, ready for the inferno that was building inside of him. Then, he let the flames loose, making sure to not panic and to take far better control of his chakra. What he had expected to have happened was for a small fireball to have erupted from him, looked pretty, and then vanished. Quick, simple, and efficient. What he had not expected was for his focus to suddenly become completely centered, the chakra suddenly taking on a much more powerful form as it expanded outwards, creating a truly large fireball in front of him. The fire expanded outward, singing the grass and the nearby trees from the flames and the heat. Then, he ran out of breath. The flames died out, and his concentration broke so that he could start panting before he passed out from lack of air. Then he got a better look at what he had done; the grass had been burned, and some of it was still on fire. Tsuyoshi began stomping out the flames, making sure that they wouldn't burn everything else down around it. He also made sure that he hadn't set any trees on fire, since that would be kind of dangerous if any of the people in town saw it. Luckily, none of them were set aflame, but a few of the leaves were a bit singed. Oops. Still, it had been a success, and if he could use that again he'd be really well off. Tsuyoshi went back and began taking down specific notes regarding what he did and how he did it, making sure not to leave anything out that might help him out later in case he forgot what he had done. In this case, what he learned would be far more help than just guessing until he burned himself alive.

Katon: Hibashiri (Fire Release: Running Fire) Stage 2
Roll: d20 + Ninjutsu (+50)
CP Cost: 4
DC: 30
Successes: 3/8

14+50 = 64. Success!


Once again flames leapt from his lips as his chakra left his body. By now, Tsuyoshi was doing more than well, and he felt that his method of transferring his chakra from his body to the outside world was getting smoothed out rather quickly. At the very least he was able to control it a bit better, and he hadn't lit himself or anyone else or anything else on fire just yet. It wasn't like there was a forest fire or anything... but he then realized he managed to set the ground on fire. Oops. He quickly moved to stomp it out, but it kept spreading before he could completely go away. For the next few minutes Tsuyoshi continued to stomp around, doing his best to get the grass to stop burning, or at the very least to stop smoldering. Because at the end of the day it was a bit annoying. How annoying? Really annoying. But in the end he stopped the fire from getting all the way over to the trees, or to anything that was even more flammable, or from getting over to his notes. Maybe he should have put it into a tree or something just to be sure... fire was quite dangerous and really annoying. Then, once it was safe again, he moved to begin writing what he had learned down, which basically came down to avoid setting things on fire accidentally in case it spread too quickly. This was why he liked genjutsu; it was manageable or at the very least controllable. Unlike this fire jutsu, which was akin to trying to control a typhoon in a bottle. Needless to say that regardless of the control he had over the fire inside of him, once it caught on on the ground, he was without any real way to manage it; the fire used any fuel it could find to continue its own survival and path of destruction. Maybe that was the point, but it was really annoying for Tsuyoshi, who preferred calm and controlled techniques that he could manipulate effectively. Yet, the whole point was to have techniques that went against his mold so that he wasn't just a one trick pony. Too often ninjas seemed to specialize, and Tsuyoshi refused to allow that to happen. He wanted to be the ninja that was unpredictable if his genjutsu was beaten somehow. Then again, if that happened, he would probably be doomed anyway.

Katon: Hibashiri (Fire Release: Running Fire) Stage 2
Roll: d20 + Ninjutsu (+50)
CP Cost: 4
DC: 30
Successes: 5/8

Nat 20. 2 Successes!


Tsuyoshi was ready to be done with this. In fact, he was ready to move on as quickly as possible. However, even he couldn't have forseen what he was about to do. Without warning, he executed the same technique he had been practicing before; however this time when he did it, the flames exploded outward, creating a torrent of searing fire that scorched everything in his path. Granted, this was an accident on his part; he had given the flames too much fuel in his haste to actually be done with this technique. But it had been worth it; as the flames died down and he finished stomping out all the little embers that remained, he suddenly felt confident enough in his own abilities to move on. Surely he didn't need any more training with this part of the technique after two successes like that! Anything more would just be punishing the innocent grass and trees and flowers... or would have been punishment for them if he hadn't accidentally burned the ones in his area. He was definitely going to have to find a way to fix this before someone got angry at him; the last thing he needed was for the joy of his success to be ruined by someone wanting him to play gardener.

Katon: Hibashiri (Fire Release: Running Fire) Stage 2
Roll: d20 + Ninjutsu (+50)
CP Cost: 4
DC: 30
Successes: 8/8 Done!

8+56 = 64. Success!


As he had expected, keeping his cool while control a stream of fire as it leapt from his mouth was easy enough. In fact, it was almost like child's play for him. Of course, this was to be expected, since the technique was usually learned by people who were much lower in rank than him. It was almost stupid that he was trying to learn how to do such techniques as a jounin; most of the other ninjas that he knew would probably expect him to be learned more sensor or genjutsu techniques. In reality, he probably should have been; but for now, he was enjoying the feeling of doing something other than those things. The flames that left his lips may not have been the hottest, or the most devastating, but they were accurate. And that's what this particular training session was all about; accuracy. Well, it was about his concentration too, but he needed to concentrate in order to be accurate. If he lost his concentration, there was no way he'd be able to use this technique in any kind of combat situation, because there would be no way to hit anything. The stream of fire, and what it hit, were completely dependent on his ability to keep his concentration. As such, it only made sense that this was what he was practicing now. If only he had teammates or someone to try to aim for; it would make this a bit more exciting.

Katon: Hibashiri (Fire Release: Running Fire) Stage 3
Roll: d20 + Concentration(+56)
CP Cost: 4
DC: 28
Successes: 1/8

9+56 = 65. Success!


Before long, it was clear that switching between the figure eight and the circle, and even the straight line, was losing its appeal for Tsuyoshi. It was just becoming overly mundane, if mundane could ever be used to describe what happens when a man throws fire from his body. His chakra manipulation was flawless by this point; only his own mind kept teetering on the edge of being able to distract him. That was the real test here; could his own boredom, brought on by all this training, distract him from his current task and cause him to mess up? Thus far it hadn't, but the chance was always there. Now, it was time for something new. Tsuyoshi began to manipulate the flames into a square formation which one might think was quite easy, seeing as it was just four straight lines. But to make it challenging enough to keep it as training, Tsuyoshi made the square around himself. This meant that he had to move the rest of his body while also keeping the flames straight. If he messed up, they would probably burn his legs, or set some other part of his body on fire. Flames were dangerous, even if they were from his own body. Regardless, for now he wasn't having a problem... but that little voice of boredom was already starting up again.

Katon: Hibashiri (Fire Release: Running Fire) Stage 3
Roll: d20 + Concentration(+56)
CP Cost: 4
DC: 28
Successes: 3/8

11+56 = 67. Success!


Now that he was done recording things in his journal, Tsuyoshi got back up and returned to his practice spot. With what he had done thus far recorded for posterity, he could now focus on dealing with more... complex maneuvers. It was time to stop acting like he was a genin or chunnin again. It was time to start acting like the jounin that he was, and start making things more difficult and more complicated. He took a few deep breaths, centering himself before once again breathing out the fire that he had practiced so much already. As the flames left his mouth, he began to move them not just on the ground, but into the air as well, creating a torrent of flame above him. The heat was intense, but nothing he couldn't deal with. In fact, the heat was part of his training regimen this time; Tsuyoshi was attempting to keep his cool even while he was being exposed to intense heat from his own flames. This was decided whether or not he could deal with using the jutsu at close range, or if it would have to be used only at mid to long range. As luck would have it, neither the heat nor the flames affected him all that much; it seemed his focus was far greater than he had given himself credit for.

Katon: Hibashiri (Fire Release: Running Fire) Stage 3
Roll: d20 + Concentration(+56)
CP Cost: 4
DC: 28
Successes: 5/8

19+56 = 75. Success!


With one last blast of flames, Tsuyoshi released the another rendition of the jutsu. Once the flames finally died out, and he was sure that any embers had been properly stomped out or buried in the dirt, he made his way back to his ever present notebook and began writing down everything that he had learned. He finally considered every aspect of this jutsu well and truly learned. At the very least, he found himself quite bored with his constant repetition. He craved something more interested, something more powerful or challenging. Now that he had managed to perfect this technique, or made it as perfect as he cared to make it, he could move on. Tsuyoshi closed the notebook and put his pen back in his pocket; it was clear he had learned a lot. Well, learned how to make fire jutsu anyway. He got up and stretched his legs, groaning as he realized how many more techniques he could possibly learn. Sure he had managed to figure this one out with enough time and energy... but he hadn't really even made a dent in how much he could have learned by now. With his own excitement well and truly buried, he began contemplated what his next move would be.

Katon: Hibashiri (Fire Release: Running Fire) Stage 3
Roll: d20 + Concentration(+56)
CP Cost: 4
DC: 28
Successes: 8/8 Finished!