Routine Training Pt 2

Once he departed from the wooded area of the Training Grounds. On his way home, he overheard people mention a building called the Grand Training Facility. He had never heard of such a place, but then again, he mostly kept to himself and didn't really socialize with anyone in Kirigakure. Even at the Academy, he was hyper-focused on his studies and making sure he had good marks, he never bothered making friends. Or going out much

He decided to go exploring. A good hike may renew his motivation to train some more. Mamoru maneuvered around rocks and scaled cliffs, through the mountainous area. He made it to a high ledge, where he could comfortably stand and look over the landscape. Further off he could see a large lake, but beyond that, he could see a huge, extravagant building, with people, many of whom were definitely shinobi, moving to and from the facility, passing through the same training grounds he was in. How in the several levels of hell did he miss that? Instead of finding a secluded area, he really should have explored more, long ago

Mamoru leapt off the edge and slid down the rocky surface, sprang mid-slide, and with a few strides, made it through an offset line of boulders. His feet slammed into the hard surface of the ground. Thankfully his bones were unnaturally dense or that fall would have crippled any normal man, but he bound forward, his sights set on the facility, motivation burning like a fierce flame in his core. In his excitement, Mamoru startled several groups of people as he sprinted passed them. "Sorry! Excuse me!" He would call out, but not bothering to slow down.

Standing with eyes wide for a very long moment, he stared up at the building. It was certainly marvelous. The very same people he passed were now caught up to him and laughing at his astonishment.

"You've never been?" A tall brunette stopped to ask, the group she was with pausing when they noticed she wasn't with them. Shyness hit Mamoru, followed by embarrassment as he realized he was blankly staring at her. She was kind and beautiful "Oh...Uh..." He paused, rubbing the back of his neck, in sheer nervousness, to make sure it wasn't actually as hot as it  felt. "No, this is my first time here. I always just went to the training grounds back that way." He said jabbing his thumb in the direction they came from. By this time, the rest of the group had made their way over. Mamoru briefly studied each person as they approached. They all seemed pretty friendly. "Oh! You'll love it!" The first girl exclaimed."My friends and I were going to train as well" She turned to look at her friends. "You guys mind if..." She had her right arm loosely across her abdomen, while her left hand was gesturing towards Mamoru when she turned back towards him with an inquisitive look. "I didn't catch your name" Mamoru bowed "Oh right. Forgive me for not introducing myself. My name is Kaguya Mamoru He said straightening his posture. "Pleased to meet you, Mamoru. My name is Kame. Akagi Kame" She gave a slight bow, in return. "My name is Kusumoto Asami" The shorter blonde with glasses introduced herself "Name's Inouye Katsumi" The large burly man followed. Both rising from a bow

"Well, now that we finally introduced ourselves" They all laughed "Would you care to join us? We can show you the ropes" Kame turned and walked away with Asami. Katsumi waited for Mamoru to catch up. He laughed as he jabbed Mamoru in the bicep. "Lighten up, man. We won't bite much. Let's see if you're as strong as you look" He grinned and pushed Mamoru to catch up to the girls, as they all stepped through the doors

The other genin showed him the roped of the training facility. Mamoru thanked them with a deep respectable bow, but declined their offer to train together. For now. There was some things he really needed to work on, by himself. But would catch up with them at later time. Maybe they could help him with some other techniques he had in mind. The door shut as Mamoru entered the room, leaving the other three genin outside.

Mamoru pulled out a scroll from the inside of his kimono and unraveled it across the floor, kneeling in front of it, to read the contents of the Kaguya Clan Dance of the Blossom Style. He placed a bone sword, that he produced for the training, across his lap. Unfortunately, he was only allowed access to the beginner stance. He would eventually need someone to teach him more advanced techniques later on down the road. "Guess you were right Otousan, we have to learn to walk, before we start running" Mamoru said to himself, quoting his father, even impersonating his voice.

Pushing off of the ground and standing, Mamoru stared at the scroll. He gripped the bone sword in his left hand and mimicked the beginner stance of the style, according to the instructions of the scroll and memory from when his father would explain it to him. As he stood there, with his body straight, Mamoru would move his body in the appropriate position for the stance. Repeating this motion for quite some time, until it became muscle memory and his body felt comfortable in the stance.

Afterwards, he moved to the stationary training puppets. He continued the same repetitions of entering the stance, but he would through in a few jabs or strikes at the torso of the Puppet. Aiming to improve the accuracy and impact of each strike.
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Technique learned: Dance of the Blossom (C Rank)
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Learning the Taijutsu style, Arhat Fist, was fairly simple. It consisted of single strong physical attacks, rather than extended combination of attacks. The first technique he learned, after familiarizing himself with the baseline stance, was Shoulder Charge. Which was very simple in nature. Strong hit when landed, but rather difficult to actually pull off on suspecting opponents. So he decided to expand on more of the techniques, since he was really enjoying this path of martial arts.

The technique he decided to work on next was the Rising Knee. Just like the Shoulder Charge, it was fairly simple and straight forward. He just needed to work on maximizing the power with the attack. Mamoru stood in front of the training puppet, in the Arhat Fist stance. The first thirty minutes, he repeated the motion of the strike. Just getting a feel for the movements. Afterwards, he would begin increasing the the force at which he would throw his knee. At a little over an hour, there was a loud cracking noise as Mamoru had the puppet flying backwards in a high arch
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Technique learned: Rising Knee (D Rank)
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Mamoru retrieved the puppet from across the room and placed it standing in the center. The next two techniques of the Arhat Fist were a little more advanced the previous. Shatter Palm was very straightforward. Just a straight palm strike, but he need to learn throw his arm in the appropriate motion, in order to maximize the damage once his palm connected. Not only that, but he needed to the strike to be forceful and precise for it to really hurt.
Once again, standing in front of the puppet, in the Arhat Fist Style Stance, Mamoru gave a few mediocre thrusts, his hand extended upward, exposing his palm. His biggest thing about training was repetition. Feeling for the motions first, before exerting power with each strike. For thirty minutes, Mamoru continued thrusting his palm forward, inches away from connecting with the puppet. Each time he would exhale a breath. Or figure out that turning his torso before extending his arm was beneficial to adding more power.
Putting everything he gathered, Mamoru inhaled deeply, pulled the rightside of torso back, and then snapped forward, thrusting his palm directly in the puppet's torso. There was solid crunch and then crash as Mamoru's palm connected and the puppet was sprawled on its back. "Oh, I can do much better than that" He said to himself with a smile as he got a better feel for the technique
Mamoru picked up the puppet and tried a few more times. The last time, sending the puppet clean across the room, gaining much more distance than his first attempt. Now he was pleased with himself
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Technique Learned: Shatter Palm (C Rank)
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As Mamoru made one more attempt at the Shattering Palm Technique, Kame, Asumi, and Katsumi walked through the door, entering the room and greeting Mamoru. He turned and bowed to the group. "Whoa man. Look at the distance. You sent that puppet flying!" Katsumi genuinely seemed impressed as he mentally measured the distance between where Mamoru stood to where the Puppet laid, sprawled out. Mamoru smiled and thanked him. "I was actually just finishing up with my taijutsu and had something I may need assistance with, if any of you know any genjutsu" Mamoru said, wiping the sweat from his face with a towel Katsumi tossed to him

"I know a few. Are you working on learning Kai?" Asumi asked, catching on to Mamoru's idea, which he nodded in response. "Okay. I don't mind helping you." She said standing across from him. "Do you know exactly how it's done? Asumi asked holding her hands and fingers together in the Ram handseal. "Completely clueless" Mamoru responded with a nervous laugh. He knew he shouldn't be, but it always felt embarrassing admitting when he didn't know something, as if expected himself to know it all.

Asumi changed her hands to the Tiger Handseal and gestured Mamoru to the same. "The trick is to know when you're in a Genjutsu. To feel your opponents foreign chakra infecting you. And then channeling your own chakra in one single burst, to expel the opponent's chakra" She explained. "Here, I'll put you in a simple genjutsu. Just try and focus within yourself. If you're familiar with feeling you're own chakra flow. Feeling someone else's will be easy. It'll just feel...I don't know. Wrong. That's the best way I can explain it." She said. "Yeah. I think I get it. I just need to get the feel for it first" Mamoru said just before he closed his eyes and focused on his chakra, flowing like a river from his core, through each channel of his body. He opened his eyes and nodded to Asumi, indicating that he was ready. She held up the Ram Handseal again, this time actually channeling chakra, and releasing the genjutsu onto Mamoru

The world didn't disappear that he always assumed it would, for a genjutsu. In fact, as he stared at the group of genin in front of him, they seemed to double, then triple. The group became a larger group of Asumi, Kame, and Katsumi. Like all three of them suddenly casted multiple clones of themselves. Mamoru suddenly remembered that he needed to focus on himself and stop admiring the Genjutsu. He cast his attention inward. Once again feeling his chakra flow. His mind's eyes flowed with the river, searching for the foreign chakra. It took him what felt like several minutes of just standing there to actually feel Asumi's chakra flowing through the points in his mind. Which made sense now that he thought about it and felt it for himself. It was a very strange sensation. When he opened his eyes and was no longer focusing on his chakra flow, the strange was gone, but the clones remained. "I think I felt it!" Mamoru said with some excitement. Kame was the one to speak up this time, since Asumi was focusing on the Genjutsu. "Now, here's the tricky part because you have to disrupt her chakra with your own. Too little and you won't expel her influence on you. Just hold up the Tiger Handseal and focus your chakra in a burst" She explained.

Mamoru held up the Tiger Handseal and felt for her chakra once more. Once it was located again, Mamoru came to the understanding that since it was so subtle, she must not be using much chakra for this technique. So he pushed, increasing the flow if his chakra by a fraction than what it normally moved. Sure enough, he no longer felt her chakra. Mamoru opened his eyes and there was only three genin standing there. But then the world suddenly shifted, like he was suddenly staring at a whirlpool of multi colored paint. He looked around and he looked like he was floating because there was no surface. Just swirling colors, but his feet were definitely touching ground.
His mind didn't register that it was a genjutsu until he remembered that he was training for this purpose. Not transported to some massive art room.

Just like before, Mamoru located her chakra, but it was not so subtle this time. Her chakra raged inside of his mind. Overpowering his with little ease. He held up the Tiger Handseal and once again, he pushed his chakra HARD. Flowing harder and faster than ever before, until it was pushing against chakra ravaging his mind. Mamoru opened his eyes, realizing that they were slightly sore from how hard he had them shut. Even his head hurt a little. But he did it. The world was back to normal and he was staring at three smiling genin. "We thought we lost you there. Took you a few minutes to work it out, but Asumi let us know that you did it" Katsumi said slapping on his back.

All four Genin signed out and left the Training Facility. Mamoru really felt so accomplished. Not only did he train physically, but he was able to do some mental training, as well. He was definitely going to need to do that more often

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Technique Learned: Genjutsu Kai
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