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This is the larger of the two mountains that flank the village of Iwa. It holds the Shi Plateau, a dead land that takes up nearly half the mountain.

Herbs and Search DCs
Plaintain - DC 15

Keiko looked up at the mountain. Well better get started. Keiko started to climb up, after about 1/4 of the way up she found a little plateau, "This looks good for the first part of training." Keiko looked down, Not to bad, Keiko looked up, but I would like to get to the top. Keiko starts to stretch out making sure that she doesn't pull anything. She finishes stretching, I will do 150 punchs to the mountain wall. She started punching the mountain wall, 1, 2, 3, 4...I will finish and I will make it to the top! After the 124th punch she was starting to get tried. She stopped. What I'm I doing?! Keiko started to punch again, 125, 126, 127, I've come too far to give up now! Keiko finished up with the punchs. "Good, 1/4 down 3/4 to go!" Keiko said. She started climbing again. She was tired but was wasn't willing to give up. She made it to the halfway mark. I will do 300 sit ups followed by 150 kicks. She flew pass the sit ups and it was on to the kicks. Come on Keiko, get though this, you can do it! 50, 51, 52 come on you only have 100 left! Keiko finished the kicks she looked up at the rest of the mountain, I can do it! She started climbing up to the 3/4 mark, but half way to it she sliped, she caught herself, Okay, that would have been really bad if I would have fell. She started climbing again and made it to the 3/4 mark. Okay, more kicks...150 to be on the nose and then 100 push-ups. Keiko struggled with the push-ups, she sucked at them...I need to become stronger. She finished, she sighed and smiled. Yes! Only one more to go and then the top of the mountain... Keiko climbed and climbed, she finally made it to the top. YES!! I DID IT!! Keiko ran around. I did it!! Keiko took a few minutes break, and started down the mountain with ease. She made it back down again without falling.

Reck sat up shortly after taking a break and looked at his legs as he sat there. “Whoa, I can feel that I’ve gotten stronger. So this is what it was like for him. Awesome.” He then looked at his vest and tugged at it with a smile on his face. “And thanks to this, I will become the greatest.” He then jumped to his feet and flipped backwards standing on his hands as though he was waiting for something. “Ok, I know he did this as an exercise so if I can’t do 500 full body push-ups, ten I have to do 10 rock breaks…” Reck then started to do push-ups while standing on his hands counting every push off the ground as he sweated with determination. “103…104…. 105…106….” He continued to do push-ups relentlessly until he reached 375, then he started to tire rapidly and could barely lift himself. “I can’t do…this. I need…my….” He reached into his bag, which was near by and put his headphones on and turned on a song all while on one hand. “Ahhh, better. Now I can do this.” He started to do his push-ups again showing more energy than when he started. Reck lost count of how many ups he did while he was listening to his music and just continued to push himself. Later, he realized that he was still working out then stopped and sat down covered in sweat wiping his forehead off. “Phew, I kinda lost track for a second. Hmm, wonder how many I did? I’ll just say 501 since that’s how it feels.” He didn’t actually know that while he was lost in his music, he actually did 744 ups. “Well, just to test myself I think I’ll do one rock break.” Reck stood up and walked over to a large boulder and got into an offensive fighting stance. “Ok, with everything I got!!” He punched the boulder as hard as he could and managed to make the entire rock shake but it didn’t break. He pulled back his fist and held his hand. “That was it? I didn’t get any stronger at all. My team is gonna kill me.” Saying that, Reck picked up his stuff and walked toward town and just as he was leaving the area, the boulder he punched started to crack and break in half and fell over shaking the ground violently.

Rykuu appeared at the bottom of the mountain his aim was to climb it to the top as his warm-up training exercise. Rykuu looked up upon it humm this should be a brease he thought as he placed his left foot in a foot place then his right foot in another. He looked for rocks coming out of the sides that he could grab he found one big one which he could easily fit two hands on but he'd have to jump a little to reach it. Wow harder than i could have imagined and im just begining he thought. Rykuu jumped ofr it anyways grabbing a hold of it but his legs are useless finding no ground at all for his feet to be able to reach he looks around finding a place he could place his foot upon. he found another and quickly found himslef in an awckward position. Rykuu quickly found more rocks and continued elevating up the mountain the higher he went the more easier it got to find rocks but the harder it got because of his fingers going numb. He ignored his bodys warning on a little rest stop and pushed himself harder. upon halfway rykuu reaches for a rock he grabbs it but slips not realizing it was covered with moss on top. He falls bakwards but lands on a bug ledge that stuck out behind him. He stands back up nad jumps up and grabs another rock. His buttox hurt from the fall and his knuckels were all bloddy from hitting rocks. but he continued to climb. He Finally reached the top of the mountain and looked around he could see the whole village from here. He plopped down on top of the mountain and overlooked the scenary resting his body a bit before continuing his training even further. He sat there for five minutes with his arms above his head catching his breath. Rykuu stood back up and decided to do some easy exercises before he went to kicking or hitting any hard rocks. He stood in a butterfly stance and started to do some jumping jacks. His jumping jacks werent ordinary after every five jumping jacks he counted it one. he did one hundred sets of jumping jacks which in reality ended up being five hudred. Rykuu started his count going off fast 1...2...3...4...5 after about the fiftyeth set rykuu was slowing down a lot. 60...61..62... You could see his body glistering in sweat his was being beaten hard but after all thats what training was. His sweat mixed in with his blood and cuts which caused severe pain but rykuu with standed it 81...82...83.... The wind blew and rykuu could feel himslef being throw off balance within the wind every time he jumped he'd straighten his body back out so he would'nt lose his balance. 98...99...100 rykuu finally finished his 100 set's of jumping jacks. He then is the ground to do 100 hundred push-p's yet agian rykuu made his a little differnet every time he pushed up he had to clap and if he didnt clap the push up didnt count. Rykuu's body rest on the cold mountin ground before he put his arms in a 90 degree angle and pushed himself up. He now worked on his push-up. Pushing him self up he really pushed up bringing his hands together for a clap and then putting it back on the ground so he didnt bust his face on the hard ground. Rykuu agian started off fast 1...3....6....9.

rykuu stoped his counting as he finsihed he pushed up for one more push up but was collapsed back down as a heavy object appers on top of him. rykuu pushed himself up even with this fat lug on top of him and stood up he heard a loud thud and puff of smoke start to rise he looked down and saw his classmate on the floor.

rykuu grabbed his hand and shook it. Nice to meet you Hiro, would you like to join me in my training. i just finished my exercises and am ready to move on to a busting rocks or a friendly duel. and then after that practice my jutsu.

alright then its settles rykuu said we will be training partners. rykuu spit in his hand and stuck it out there for hiro to shake after he spits in his hand too. it was the bloodlines way to agree to a wager or promise. Rykuu stood there waiting for his hand to be shaken his palm was wet and the sylvia was slowly reaching its way to the bottom of the palm. The wind blew agianst the spit and pushed it back up some this helped if from falling but it made rykuu's hand even colder.