Inotsu wandered the forest until he found a suitable tree for his lumberja- um... his 'training'. Riku was specific about what they would be looking for in this place. Using his Sensing Technique, Inotsu read the flow of chakra through the roots of the forest, all interconnected and distributing their life force throughout itself. In that, however, there were trees which might be less connected or too connected in that they might be deprived of the lion’s share of the trees’ chakra. It took an hour or so, but Inotsu found one such specimen that fit what they were searching for, at least as far as it went relative to the rest of the forest. The tree was tall and thick and still full of chakra, but it seemed to have fewer connections to its surrounding trees.
To be safe, Inotsu concentrated on his own chakra system first, gaining a feel for it. He hadn’t used this a lot, but some animals from the forest were quite sensitive to life force, requiring him to suppress his chakra presence in this way. With a deep breath, his chakra flow seemed to slow, but in truth it simply became thicker as he entrapped and concentrated the chakra which irradiated off his body to stay within his internal systems, preventing external detections.
As the rest of the crew were lagging behind, Inotsu would begin his own “training” early, taking out a kunai and beginning to channel his chakra through himself, bolstering his power by clashing against itself. He hadn’t needed to use such a technique before when he lived with his dad, most animals going down with a single arrow or two, but for this plant it would require more of an edge. At first his internal energy found a difficult time pushing itself like this, barely making any difference as he whacked it against the tree. Over the next hour or so, however, Inotsu became more comfortable amplifying his chakra this way, like a muscle having finally loosened and the maneuver becoming natural to him.
After a few tries like this, Inotsu formed three quick seals and threw his kunai, which manifested a poof of smoke before revealing a slightly larger kunai. It clinked off the tree’s bark, barely having done anything. Undeterred by this failure, however, Inotsu continued with repeating this attempt until finally the kunai increased its size to that of a full blade, about 10 times its original.
There was a bit of an uncomfortability in the air, however. Riku was late… well, he was normally late, but still this was later than usual. The paranoia existed, of course, that the police or some teacher caught up to him or there was some protection on the forest set by those troublesome Senju to keep people from simply wandering in. It wouldn’t be unreasonable, this being a ninja village and all. With this thought in mind, Inotsu did as his father had trained him for these times, the Yamanaka being as wary of mind-affecting jutsu as they were effective at deploying them. Forming a seal, the blonde boy began to disrupt and stop his own chakra flow in order to reset it to normal, a hard reboot, just in case there was some strange illusion happening here. As it turns out, there absolutely… was not. Riku was probably just late. Again. Inotsu sighed.
To be safe, Inotsu concentrated on his own chakra system first, gaining a feel for it. He hadn’t used this a lot, but some animals from the forest were quite sensitive to life force, requiring him to suppress his chakra presence in this way. With a deep breath, his chakra flow seemed to slow, but in truth it simply became thicker as he entrapped and concentrated the chakra which irradiated off his body to stay within his internal systems, preventing external detections.
As the rest of the crew were lagging behind, Inotsu would begin his own “training” early, taking out a kunai and beginning to channel his chakra through himself, bolstering his power by clashing against itself. He hadn’t needed to use such a technique before when he lived with his dad, most animals going down with a single arrow or two, but for this plant it would require more of an edge. At first his internal energy found a difficult time pushing itself like this, barely making any difference as he whacked it against the tree. Over the next hour or so, however, Inotsu became more comfortable amplifying his chakra this way, like a muscle having finally loosened and the maneuver becoming natural to him.
After a few tries like this, Inotsu formed three quick seals and threw his kunai, which manifested a poof of smoke before revealing a slightly larger kunai. It clinked off the tree’s bark, barely having done anything. Undeterred by this failure, however, Inotsu continued with repeating this attempt until finally the kunai increased its size to that of a full blade, about 10 times its original.
There was a bit of an uncomfortability in the air, however. Riku was late… well, he was normally late, but still this was later than usual. The paranoia existed, of course, that the police or some teacher caught up to him or there was some protection on the forest set by those troublesome Senju to keep people from simply wandering in. It wouldn’t be unreasonable, this being a ninja village and all. With this thought in mind, Inotsu did as his father had trained him for these times, the Yamanaka being as wary of mind-affecting jutsu as they were effective at deploying them. Forming a seal, the blonde boy began to disrupt and stop his own chakra flow in order to reset it to normal, a hard reboot, just in case there was some strange illusion happening here. As it turns out, there absolutely… was not. Riku was probably just late. Again. Inotsu sighed.