Mellow Days [Solo/Training]

With the meager happenings in the village going on, Kanna felt as though she could do her own things. As her schedule was in her hands for once, she spent the afternoon sorting some things out, finding some old textbooks she had lying around by her desk. Donned with a simple black blouse and her hair up in a messy bun, she took a seat on the edge of her bed while within her bedroom, silently pushing through page after page until... huh. Her eyes lit up with surprise.

"Ah, so this is where it went." She remarks with a sense of familiarity. Well-annotated notes deducing the functions and innerworkings of vaguely-developed techniques in the textbook spanned from page to page, often written in light pink highlighter. Her index finger presses upon one page in particular, tracing just below the words and occasionally attracting her gaze to the red tint that her nail's been painted. Under normal circumstance with the directions and elaboration on the technique in the outdated textbook she would've had no idea what she was looking at, but alas, those notes came in handy.

It wasn't long until she was capable of coherrently summarizing the technique. She'd been trying to learn it for a long time, but up until now hadn't really possessed the mandatory talent needed. So it was safe to say she had this textbook around for a few years; possibly when she was still a Genin. Now that she was starting to delve into the sealing arts, it shouldn't hurt to give a go at trying out the technique, right? With that optimism put in place she lowers the textbook to her side, closing it and tucking away a little bookmark. She'd be reading this textbook for later.

Keeping what she reviewed in mind, Kanna starts up by gathering chakra to her fingertips. The essence bundles up and shifts, before making itself apparent. Blue flames light up upon each of her digits, with the white outline of various kanji donning a presence in each flame. Preferring to demonstrate whether she'd done it properly, she stands up and ambles forward, grasping on a scroll upon her dresser. She pries it open with a single hand, keeping the other at her side.

Once opening it up and exposing the seal to her visage, she inhales for a moment. And without a moment of hesitation, extends her arm out and plunges her fingertips into the sealing formula. The flames broaden and expand outward, suddenly encompassing the outline of the seal as they quickly spread along it's formula. A brief plume of smoke causes the five shuriken within the seal to be ejected from the domain they were once in, and slowly but surely the seal eroded away until it was no more, along with the flames.

"... I guess I can count that as properly done." Kanna utters faintly, grasping at some ink and a quill so she can begin drawing the seal again. When she does eventually complete that task, she seals the shuriken away again and rolls the scroll back up. "Might as well get a move on." She mutters to herself, deciding that she won't be completely unproductive today. With that in mind, she strips down, starting to don her usual attire; robes and a vest, to practice a few techniques--one of which she'd recently developed.

Soon she does manage to slip into her full attire, at which point she makes a swift exit from her home and begins to spring along the rooftops of establishments and residents alike, swiflty arriving at the training fields--where she'll carry out the rest of her training.

Learned Five Elements Unseal - A

At last, the sheen of sunlight beams out from beyond the depths of the timberland she's immersed herself in. With a final pressing off of her foot from a tree branch, she kicks off and emerges from the trees, landing in a crouch. She briefly shifts her gaze amongst her surroundings quietly, resting her right hand upon her hip and emitting a faint sigh. Upon identifying that she's alone, with the exception of a few shinobi here and there, she contemplates on what to do.

Slowly but surely, Kanna ambles along the field, passing by the center of it and heading over to the training logs. She removes a die from the innards of her backpouch, then tosses it forward nonchalantly. It lands on a six. Kanna had designated two and three as practicing taijutsu, then four and five as medical ninjutsu. But she hadn't expected a six.. so... she awkwardly prods her own cheek for a moment, then comes up with an idea as she leans over and goes to scoop up the die. "Two birds with one stone." Kanna mumbles.

So far she just sticks to more basic things--such as reacquainting her body with the movements required. She momentarily inhales, preparing herself mentally. And in a sudden dash she bounds off toward one of the training logs, closing the distance promptly. In a quick suspension of one of her feet she gyrates her frame. Kanna's leg vaults up into an arch, knee tucked inward. Her body swivels in one fell swoop and she lashes it out midway through her spin, letting loose a powerful back kick. As the back of her leg slams into the firm surface of the wooden log, she manages to rustle it.

Since she wasn't exactly that much of a hand-to-hand combatant specialist, she wasn't all that surprised that she didn't manage to straight up annihilate it or anything of the sort. But that still doesn't mean she can't slack off and avoid managing to learn techniques of it's specialty. With that in mind, she kicks off of the earth and slides across the pavement, stopping. Yet another inhale is offered before she moves onto the next technique she has in mind.

Her body progresses forward and she closes the distance between herself and the training log once more. Instead of spinning on the ball of her foot she lowers her center of balance on one leg, partially arching it as she lifts the other. As she closes what little distance was left between her and the log, she slides along the soil. Her right leg fires up in one fell swoop, using her body like a spring. Her foot rapidly thrashes into the training log, this time putting a decent-sized dent into it.

Learned Leaf Strong Whirlwind - B
Learned Leaf Rising Wind - C

Kanna retracts her leg and brings it to a slight arch once she's given a go at renewing her use of hand-to-hand combat. She calmly lowers her leg and un-arches it, backing up a little bit. The partial-redhead brings her arms forth before her, folding her digits between one another and folding them nonchalantly, stretching them momentarily in the opposing direction they're meant to bend. "Now that I've got that down, I guess I should give a go at that technique I was looking into." She remarks nonchalantly.

"This'll be a painful one, though." Kanna remarks with a low grunt. Slowly but surely she brings her eyes to a shut and starts to gather chakra, beginning to allocate it and compress it down. With a refined level of accuracy and control applied, the female started the process of eroding away at her very own muscles; a process that definitely caused her a fair bit of pain. She winced and struggled to remain standing, her body shuddering from the sheer intensity of the technique.

Despite the intensity, though, she pushes through. And as quick as she's practically eroded away at them, the kneaded properties of the chakra within her changes. It rapidly rejuvenates the torn ligaments and muscles alike, doing more than that, however. What were normal muscles are promptly reinforced by the sheer intensity of the chakra; its visible effect being that her form's acquired a little more muscle tone, but not that much more. In a brief demonstration of the technique's function, she heads forward, lifting her leg into an arch.

And in a whip of speed, she slams her foot square into the training log. It doesn't hit as hard as the previous technique she'd demonstrated, but it still rustles the log more than her normal attacks normally do. And so she retracts her leg, allowing the influence of muscle-enhancing chakra ot fade, along with the slight tone that her physique's acquired. "I could see myself doing this differently.. but this should work, for now."

Learned Body Revival Technique - A

Kanna certainly felt achey after literally tearing her own muscles apart and reinforcing them. With that in mind, she promptly pulls out a generic scroll, and with an unraveling, followed by the infusion of chakra into it, she summons forth a textbook. It hits the grasses below, and she rolls the scroll back up and pockets it, picking the textbook up. Nonchalantly, the female takes a seat up against a tree trunk, leaning against it backfirst and folding her legs criss-cross.

She slips through page after page of what was basically a number of bookmarks for techniques she'd yet to learn as of this date. After slipping through page after page, she finally feasts her eyes upon another technique that piqued her interest; Cell Activation. She always figured it would be a useful part of her kit, whether she wanted to preserve someone's life or their body's stability, or just wanted to head down the more... well, dubious route of medicinal arts; claiming bloodlines for her own.

Kanna was never the selfish-natured, though. And so, she was going to learn it entirely for the benefit of her village. Based off of the notes alone that she'd made previously, she could get a good take on how the technique worked. It was similar to the Body Revival technique,. except she wasn't going to be ripping her own body apart internally this time. With a brief flow of chakra to her hand, she forms a translucent cone of refined chakra around her hand as a faint aura, sharpened at the end.

With a brief inhale of mental preparation, she brings the Chakra Scalpel to her left forearm. 'Whew.. if a passerby saw this they'd get the wrong idea, huh?' She thinks to herself, laughing nervously as she proceeds to cut into her own wrist, severing a vein with a terrible wince. It wasn't the smartest part of her body to screw up, but she might as well try to use the intensity of the situation to use this technique properly; she'd bleed out if she didn't succeed.

With that in mind, she promptly reforms the chakra around her hand. Her hand is enveloped with a massive, shining aura of green effervescence. She immediately presses the palm upon the surface of her chest, letting the chakra seep into her body in its entirety as she inhales deep. In one fell swoop, she feels an overwhelmingly large amount of energy sweep over her. As her cellular capabilities are all briefly ascended for that moment that her body had chakra to use the technique for, the vein and the practically microscopic cut itself healed up in moments, leaving her to let out a sigh of relief.

"..... I'm never going to do that again."

Learned Cell Activation Technique - A

After a wealth of what she could consider was blatant lazing off, she stands up. The partial-redhead starts to walk along the terrace, though the moment she's at the edge of the meadow she kicks up off of the ground and springs off into the forest. She's fairly quick about it, too... but mainly because of something she forgot about. It wasn't all that responsible on her behalf, but she'd forgotten about her appointment, or well, mission that she had to attend. Luckily since she had already suited up for training she wouldn't have to delay herself further by going back home.

"They'll probably notice I was gone but... well, I'll make up an excuse on the way there." Kanna murmurs to herself. So for now Kanna bounds from branch to branch, moving at a decent pace as she heads out of the training fields and back into the streets of Konohagakure.

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