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Vincent had always found that when he was training hard he would start to sweat. And he knew how much Hiniko liked him in such a way that he took off his shirt leaving him bare chested with his long black hair blowing in the wind behind him and the straps of the headband blowing behind it as well.

Again he molded the chakra to the bottoms of his feet. He concentrated on the balance between too much and too little. As he figured it, it was like standing on his own two feet. The balance between left and right. That was when he figured it out that he needed the chakra to be even and right at the same level.

With this realization he had finished molding his chakra and walked up to the branch of the tree. His placed his left foot on the trunk, then his right above that foot, then bringing his left foot higher up the trunk and he saw that he had gotten it. He wasn't falling. He continued his climb up the tree, further and further up towards Hiniko as if the tree was the stairway to heaven and Hiniko was his angel waiting at the gates.

At last he caught her.

"How about that reward, love?" Vincent said with his arms around her.

[Kinobori no Jutsu (Tree Walking Technique)/Kabenobori no Jutsu (Wall Walking Technique) attempt 5/5]

[Chakra reserve: 22/25]

"And now to pay you back for your help." Vincent said, "And if you get this one, I'll do anything you want me to with you. Massage your back, your feet, whatever you like."

"Let me be your motivation," Vincent explained, "I thought of doing something extra special for you since you were such a great motivator...and cheerleader...if I may call you that."

"well then, let's get to your training." Vincent said as he leaped off of the tree and landed on the training grounds. "Come on, my love. Hit me with your best shot."

[Awesome. I'll be sure to work at it. Is it only Ninjutsu, or does it include Doton and Raiton Genjutsu as well?]
"Thank you, Hokage. I'll be sure to work on this until I get it right. Again, thank you for the help." Jubei said, calmly and in a respectful tone, and ave the village leader a slight bow. It wasn't his thing, bowing and all of that, but he had to show some respect for the Hokage. He was, after all, helping Jubei out. He didn't have any scrolls on the Iron Sand, but he had given him some other scrolls and pointed him in the right direction. Jubei was going to develop his powers all by himself, on his own time, with his own hands and no help. Other than these scrolls to help, of course. Other than that, he would have no other help. He would make his clan great, and in the process, himself even greater. At least, that was the plan. Jubei stuffed the scrolls in a side pouch, gave the Hokage another bow, and walked off to another part of the training grounds. He wanted to be alone right now. For training purposes, he couldn't handle any distractions or interlopers. He didn't like distractions, since they tended to ruin whatever he was trying to do at the time. So, when Jubei was rather confident that he was alone, he pulled out a Raiton scrolls and began reading.

He began pouring over the scroll, going through its contents when his eyes scanned a certain skill. It looked very interesting, and it would be very useful if he planned on bothering with Raiton jutsu. Since he was actually going to bother with Raiton jutsu, this skill just became paramount to his training. "Teikou no Kuntou (Electricity Resistance Training). Interesting. current training standards in the academy show how a Raiton-attuned shinobi tends to make electricity through the use of chakra, turning most Raiton-attuned shinobi in to human capacitors, technically. Sounds good." Jubei examined the technique, sitting down on a protruding rock as he did so. He crossed his legs and shut out everything else, focusing on the electrical energy his own body produced. His Raiton energy, biological electrical energy that his body created, would be completely under his own control when he was finished here. He would have control, and that's what he wanted. Control. Normally, this technique took many months to master. Jubei, though, had a knack for things like this.

After much meditation, Jubei began to focus his own chakra into a Raiton technique he had read about, another clone technique. He had already done enough clone jutsu to have this one down the moment he read it, and with a single hand sign he performed the Raikou Bunshin no Jutsu flawlessly. Out of nowhere, a perfect clone composed out of electricity formed out of thin air, but more importantly than that, Jubei felt no discharge from using his own Raiton jutsu. No painful shock, no numb feeling, no adverse effects from using Raiton techniques. "Wonderful. That's two down." With that, Jubei began reading through the rest of the techniques in the scroll.

[Chakra = 28/32

Tactical: -4 posts for learning, -1 rank on learning jutsu at rank and below.
Speed: 2 jutsu per post.

Jutsu learned: Raikou Bunshin no Jutsu and Teikou no Kuntou]

(cool)

Taiji walked over to the edge of the lake, taking a seat near the water. He crossed his legs, and focused his chakra. The molding process was become much smoother to him, than it was when he had first started. This technique he was going to try and learn is in fact a very dangerous one, so he needed to make sure that everything went properly.

He gathered the necessary chakras, and began to form them, to attack his nervous system directly with the Ouda technique, one of his favorite Genjutsu.He forced his own chakra to invade his senses, to paint a beautiful work of art. Tai's very own master crafted illusion. The technique began to first attack his eyesight, calling forth an image of himself, standing on the water in front of himself.

The image was vivid, and lifelike, as it flashed tai, his trademark grin. The illusion began walking slowly towards tai, and it was then that he realized all too well how good his illusion was appearing to be. He could hear it's non-existent footsteps along the water as he crept closer. In a flash, the image was gone, and had now reappeared before tai, about to make the Mock killing blow.

But what looked back down at the image, were two, blood scarlet eyes, and a sinister smirk, the likes of which would make most normal shinobi's blood run cold. As the kunai came closer, Taiji put out his hand, and touched the tip of his finger to the blades point, and the illusion folded in upon itself, and refracted back. If the illusion was cast by someone other than Tai himself, it was very obvious that he would have had no problem defending, and redirecting it.

"The sharingan is a terribly scary tool...", Taiji noted to himself.

[Learned:Magen • Kyouten Chiten - Demonic Illusion • Mirror Heaven and Earth Change]