Ability Training Posts
Called Shot –
Learning the physical anatomy of a target is a key part of properly assessing the damages one can create. With this knowledge, at a very early age, Hira practiced with his sharpened vision for multiple hours on different forms of simulated targets, learning to produce the exact destructive forces he desired to rend individual parts of a being asunder.
At certain times, he would make examinations about the individual strikes and their possible effects on realistic targets, and took them to the battle fields to practice on tactical injuries and their effectiveness when incorporated in battle, and as a result, left many voluntary challengers with more of a wound than they bargained for. But for each injury produced, he documented mentally each individual effect for the purposes of his strategies, and incorporated the knowledge into his understanding of called shots against combatants.
Bloody Mess –
Amidst his use of the Jyuuken style, Hira noted altered levels in the blood flow of his past enemies, seeing a clear difference in the effectiveness of combat with influence from internal bleeding effects. With the knowledge that Chakra systems run in direct cohesion with the respiratory system, he knew that he would be able to enhance the effects of chakra dispersal and internal bleeding to create an even more crippling combination.
Upon discovering this truth, he saturated sandbags with water and watched carefully as he struck them, noting the changes in the levels of water in different parts of the bags. These changes in water levels would offset the balance and the weight of each individual test, and he surmised that in human targets the effect would be even more devastating.
Incorporating this tactic in combat proved to be even more destructive on human targets than simple sandbags, just as he hoped. On several occasions he found himself pushing his adversaries over a dangerous edge of injury, and he remained wary of the effects of this, knowing that they would need to be conserved for only the most aggressive enemies he would encounter.
Quick Reaction –
As a Shinobi, it is always imperative to know that time is of the essence, but Hira always knew that the importance of conserving time in the face of a fatal threat was beyond vital. For these reasons, Hira began to seek to enhance his reaction time to stimuli in the outer sphere by spending evenings in the volcanic chambers of Kirigakure.
Choosing to wait in the silence of these areas, Hira would hunt vermin at the most accelerated rate he was capable of producing in the quickest fashion, knowing that enhancing his response time to external stimuli would give him a greater vantage to respond to threats in combat.
Learning to react more quickly through time and effort, he transmogrified simple quickness and haste in reaction from a choice to a habit, making himself as prone as possible to the quickest reactions he could fathom.
Acrobatics –
As a Taijutsu user, being limber and agile is a key factor in the production of the most devastating blows a fighter holds dear. While some combatants chose bulky, destructive and haphazard techniques to pride themselves upon, Hira knew that acrobatic prowess would only further his ambition to will his powers indomitable.
For years, he followed and continues to follow a regimen of very strict aerobic exercise combined with flexibility training, finishing of his warm-ups with extensive acrobatic motion to promote flexibility, and versatility in his combat skills. Hand in hand with this practice, he naturally formed a rather unique talent for tricks and unusual physical motions incorporated in his Taijutsu. Considering his alterations to his techniques a ‘signature’ of sorts, he would flourish is movement in almost any technique performed as a means to confuse and dazzle his opponents.
With his acrobatics, he continually desires to leave his enemies thwarted with a difficult obstacle of confronting his tactics.
Clarity –
Resting quietly beneath a waterfall at his favorite stream in complete serenity, Hira identified the positive effects of a peaceful gap in his conscious presence. Days after he would meditate in the peace of nature, he could see the positive effects of doing so on his mood and temperance, and how it would also affect his training and combat quite comprehensively.
Having to rely upon the routine of this peaceful intake of scenery would not be prime for the life of a Shinobi, however, and Hira was well aware that the changing life he would always follow might not always allow for such an indulgence. So, in the times that he was allowed to roam freely to such places, he attempted with great effort to re-create the scenery in his mind.
The longer he spent creating this ‘visage’ in his memories, the more he found himself free from the chaos of the mind’s eye. Eventually, he was able to imagine himself in this place whilst performing a variety of other daily routines, allowing the peaceful clarity of his special stream to flow through into his daily life for the benefit of his mental stability.
Defensive Technique –
For a long time, Hira had leaned towards the idea that a strong defense produced a better offense, and that a better offence would lead to a firm defense. Emulating this in his physical stance work, he would often battle adversaries using defensive techniques because his offensive capabilities geared him towards accuracy. But with the Defensive Technique he desired to develop, he would be able to alter his combat to produce differentiated levels of accuracy and evasion.
Hanging several blades from spinning engines in a training facility, he would evade the weapons for his own livelihood while attempting to dismantle and disarm them to eliminate each threat, sometimes surrounding himself with twenty different spinning blades to practice the exact motions needed to evade.
With the enhanced evasion he produced by amplifying his defensive stance, he also found himself taking less physical injury from the weapons, keeping himself from harm’s way while increasing his physical output. This technique, without a doubt, was going to increase his ability to survive in the face of accurate aggressors while still being able to strike them down just as efficiently.
Combo Master –
With the consistent use and practice of taijutsu techniques, any taijutsu fighter with a formidable knowledge of physical combat would be able to understand that the techniques were invented to be seamlessly intertwined into one another, and likewise, Hira did so.
Mentally assessing each technique in his repertoire, Hira would theorize which techniques would flow into which others, and at which points, to optimize the destructive force he was able to muster. As a direct consequence, his skill in creating Combo techniques became second nature, learning all of the ins and outs of his jutsu to become a better fighter, all around.
[Should all be over 100 WC if there's a discrepency let me know. I was writing these in a car on a highway, so I apologize if there's a quality issue.]<i></i>
