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Yoshi wakes up and notices the time. "God. I'm late to Shika's training. I hope he is still there." Yoshi hurrys out the door to Shika. He gets there and runs up the stairs. "Shika?!?!?" He sees him sleeping on a chair.
"Did I doze off? Wasn't I supposed to meet you here after lunch?" He said as he was getting up.
"Ya. You did tell me. So let's get the training started. What am I going to do first? By the way, you can run me as much as you want. That sleep really gave me energy." Yoshi said with much enthusiasm.

"Well...I am awake, and I did tell you that I would help you prepare so here goes. Next lesson will be to call other shadows to you. There are two ways. If you really want a fighting chance, then learn them both. This is how it works. You know the feeling you have when you bend and move your shadow? This technique has the same feeling. Just imagine yourself calling the shadow to you. Once you imagine that, see yourself doing whatever you want with the shadow." Shika watches Yoshi with a grin; waiting for him to mess-up.

Yoshi tries as hard as he could. "It isn't working. Did I do something wrong?"
"Ya. You came late. I was just making up the part that you imagine the shadow. Naras don't need to imagine when it comes to shadow. All you need to do is move your inner chakra. When I say this, I mean that Naras are the only clan, that I know that can manipulate something that isn't part of them. People always say that Aburames can control bugs. However, they can't. They just tell them what to do and they obey for life-threatening reasons."

"So you mean that there is no clan that you know of that can manipulate something that isn't part of them? Then how can we?"
"We can't. We see ourselves as part of every shadow we touch and that shadow touches and so on. That is why we can move shadows and people that are touching our shadows. Because at the moment that our shadows touch them, they are part of us."
Yoshi starts to scratch his head. "Then how can we move a shadow we aren't touching?"

"That is why these techniques are the hardest of the clan. You have to attach yourself to the shadow. You have to use chakra to connect yourself to the shadow. You might think that connecting chakra to your shadow will take some time. It would, but you are connecting a special chakra. The chakra we have is not like all the others."
Yoshi still confused askes some questions. "So this chakra can't be absorbed by other people not in the Nara clan?"
"They can. However, I am talking about connecting shadows here."

Shika keeps going. "My point is that you need to think of yourself as part of the shadow. Here are the hand signs." He shows him the hand signs. "Then just put some chakra in one part of your body. This is how you will control it. When you feel like moving that part of your body, the shadow will move. However, you should remember that you still can move your legs. It is like attaching another nerve to your brain, and attach that nerve to the shadow. You wil move them separatly, but it will feel like it is another part of your body." Shika starts to think "Maybe I still need to explain more to him." "Do you need anymore information?"

"No. I have all the info. Can I start to try it? I will try to pull your shadow." Yoshi tries to pull Shika's shadow, but is unsuccessful. "Why can't I move your shadow? I did all that you told me."
"That is because my shadow has been moved, and controled by me so much that it is only controled by me, or someone stronger than me. Try with the can over there. Do Shadow Gathering then Shadow Sewing."
"OK." Yoshi does Shadow Gathering and the shadow of the can comes to him. Then he does Shadow Sewing. This turns the 2D shadows to 3D.


He turns the form into a wolf without any problems. "I think I can get the hang of this."
"There is one thing that you should know. When you do Shadow Gathering or Shadow Summoning to a person, it is an automatic Shadow Imitation. The only difference is, when you do Shadow Summoning, and automatic Shadow Sewing appears also."
Shika gets ready to leave. Then Yoshi asks. "Will you be here tomorrow. I need to learn the other two."

Shika stops and asks. "What other two? Do you mean Shadow Summoning and Shuriken Shadow Imitation? I will be here tommorow. See you then. Wait. You need some info on the other two techniques"
"No. I think I know what both of them do. Just tell me in short what they do."
"Sure. Shadow Summoning calls shadows to you and does Shadow sewing at the same time. It is very related to the technique that you just learned."
"OK. I got that one. What does the other one doe?"
"The other one is my favorite. You do a hand sign, put some chakra into a sharp object and throw it on your shadow. This pins down the opponent that you are facing. Then you can do Shadow Imitation."
"I have to go. Thanks for the lessons." Yoshi runs home before his parents get mad.

Shadow Gathering 900SP

Yoshi wakes up. "Finally. It is the next day. Now I can go and learn more techniques. Who first? I could go to ... Asuma, because he is right there." He does the Body Flicker technique to get to Asuma. "Hey Asuma. Do you know any blade techniques? I need some to learn for the Chunnin exams."
"I know a few. The easiest one is called Flying Swallow. It makes your sword longer by your chakra. If the chakra touches someone, it will cut them. Do you wanna learn it?"

"Sure. How does it work? Do I just send my chakra through my sword?" Yoshi slowly grabs his swords and pulls them out. "If that is it, I think that I can do it very easily."
"Those are some cool swords. Where did you get those? Forget about that question. Let us just get back to business. It will be easy for you to learn this technique because you are a Nara, and a samurai. Just remember that all you are doing is making your sword longer. Your sword will become longer. Your chakra will be as strong as your sword."

"Now control your chakra to form a blade. If you do this with just chakra, it will take a lot of chakra to keep it going. It is really easy for you because you have a sword to keep your chakra on. You could do this in the same way with shadows. However, it could be a bit harder. Anyways, all you have to do is make a chakra layer on top of your sword. This will absorb the properties of the sword, and make it the same way."
"The shadow part sounds easy. Let me try them both."

Yoshi tries both the ways that he knew. "You are right. Using a shadow is harder. Shika tells me that the more I use my shadow, the easier it will be to use it in the future."
"That sounds fine. Just remember to practice this often. Bye" Yoshi turns around, and says. "Bye. By the way, the sword was a gift."
"It is an Ancient Katana. The only thing that can break it was a man with an Ancient Medallion. The medallion was broken, so these swords are indestructible." Yoshi then walks away.

Flying Swallow 400SP

Tai felt slightly dissapointed that he hadn't performed to Lee's standards. "Lee sensei?" Lee turned to look at him and asked "What is it?" Tai felt nervous hoping that Lee wouldn't deny his request. "Umm i was wondering if you could teach me a specific style of fighting rather than just a lone technique." Lee blinked twice and replied "Well you are skipping a few steps in the training process i took but...alright. Which style are you interesed in learning? There's the sleep fighting style, Drunken Fist Style, and my favorite, Strong fist style."

1/9

Tai lit up with excitement and said "All of them! That is if its ok with you." Lee laughed at Tai's enthusiasm "Ok but which would you like to learn now?" Lee said. Tai laughed and replied "Well first i'd like to learn Strong fist style. It seems to be the most usefull. Then Drunken, and then sleep fighting." Lee beamed a grin at Tai and with a thumbs up he said "Your following in my footsteps. Thats the same order in which i learned them." They both then laughed together once more. Lee then got serious and said "The strong fist style is my choice of fighting in a match."

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"Its is focused on causing your opponent extreme damage and shattering their bones. Because it is such a strong fighting style, it is a bit on the slow side as compared to other more speedy styles. This style is so strong that even if your opponent blocks your hit, you will still cause them damage. Now it took me alot of time to entirely master this style, but since your in a hurry i'm going to have to have to skip a few steps. Instead of just training your muscles to become stronger, your going to have to focus chakra directly into your muscles till you develope them naturaly."

3/9

Lee then grabbed the log they were practicing on and drove it firmly into the ground. "Now, lets get started on strengthening your legs. Your going to kick this log two hundred times with each leg." Tai's excitement quickly turned to dissapointment. He then gave a groan and said "There's no other way i can master this style?" Lee then answered "Nope. This is a style of fighting, not a fancy jutsu that you can master just like that. It takes time and practice. Now i'm going easy on you so i don't want to hear any complaining." Tai then walked up to the log to start his training.

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Komen stretched as he searched the village in a relaxed walk looking for Rikkou who had sent him the Letter. The Letter was asking komen to teach him the Technique Symphony of Water which was the technique his Sensei had taught him. What amazed Komen was that Rikkou knew that Komen knew Symphony of water. But after that suspicious thought Komen continued his search for Rikkou. "man...where is that guy."

Komen shrugged again as he heard the request. "Ehhh sure Come to the lake with me then." Komen started to go to the Training field that laid next to the lake that was near the Village.

"Hmmm well did you want to learn the technique through fighting? or did you want a more traditional way of learning the technique." komen asked as he stretched his arms and gave a yawn. he hadn't had much time for sleep these days as he had this bad feeling something bad will happen in the upcoming Chuunin exams. Hopefully it was just his mind playing tricks on him.

Lee carefully watched Tai's form as he began kicking the log. As Lee did his inpection, he said "And count out loud....and don't forget to focus your chakra in your legs. Thats the only way your going to do some damage to that log." Tai felt a bit irritated and thought to himself 'geez you sound like my mom' He tapped into his charka network and transferred his charka into his legs the same way he did whenever he used the bruising sky leg. Little by little he could feel his legs getting stronger and stronger. "Thirty-one, thirty-two, thirty-three, thirty-four..."

5/9

Tai began reaching the first hundreds when the wood began to crack. "Ninty-three, Ninty-four, ninty-five, ninty-six...." Suddenly the log split straight in half. Tai lit up with excitement and said "Alright! Now i can move on to my arms right?" Lee laughed and slammed another log in the place of the old one. "Nope. Now for the other leg" Tai gave an annoyed sigh and said "Alright....one, two, three, four, five..." As Tai continued kicking the log Lee said "Now that you know how to balance your chakra in specific parts of your body, it will soon become instantanious."

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"You'll be able to call on your chakra whenever need be and little by little you'll use less and less chakra because soot it will be your natural strength smashing and shattering bones." Lee said trying to encourage Tai. Tai kicked the log over and over again. "thirty-six, thirty-seven, thirty-eight..." when suddenly the log split in half the same way it had before. Lee lit up with excitement and said "Thats great! Your getting stronger! And so fast! You'll be my best apprentice ever!" Lee's eyes had a gleam as a waterfall of joy poured out of his eyes. Tai stared in confusion. "Its not that big of a deal..." he said.

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