Sparring in a familiar place (Training))

[Sunaku Shikai]

Shikai had his first mission scheduled to start today at midday so he had some morning time to get some training in before it started. He put on his Precision gloves an went into the backyard to practice some Taijutsu. There he found his mouther already hard at work on her six fist fighting style. The backyard had high walls around it so that people who would feel uncomfortable with those who have six arms was not startled.

"Hey mom. Busy? Or do you have time to help me pratice?"

His mother looked at him and replied that a there was always room for a little sparring but he'd better prepare himself for a bruise or two. Shikai tried to explain that he had a mission today, so he'd best not sustain any long term injuries.

The proceeded to practice with Shikai using Janken to try and land a hit while his mother held two arms behind her back to make it more fair. Shikai started with low strikes seeing as the pair of arms not used the the bottom one but it proved unfruitful as every kick added to the Janken could only be used in the three hit combo and not the rock, paper, or scissor part. He kicked up some sand to try and get some cover for the two other strikes coming by hand. The only problem with that tactic was that kicking up a dust cloud impairs the vision of both not just his opponent and therefore he had to act on what he saw before toe cloud appeared. His mother knew that and hand one arm in each advantageous attacking spot so that she could easily make slight movement adjustments to block the incoming attacks. Nevertheless it was not a totally bad idea since the gap in power meant that should be hit more by it than him. She did have a better sense of awareness than him even blind but her skill level was still so much far ahead that she had longer to fall.

Shikai kicked up another cloud, this time using all the force he could to make it linger, and then he went to the side and used a tree to gain height before jumping on top of the cloud, striking downwards from above. His mother still dodged it with ease and send him to the ground with a few strikes, teaching him that fighting dirty is all good and well in a real fight but disrespectful when sparring like this. Shikai used about an hour of regular sparring without any more trick moves and then decided that he would cool down before lunch to that he would be ready for the mission. His mother went inside to take a bath while he chose to sit outside in the sun and meditate on his inner flow. He felt the chakra running through his body allowing him to have the energy he needed to fight and now after some physical exertion he could really feel the streams of charka running though his arms. He focused on the flow and tried to increase his capacity through it.

Afterwards he went to take a bath himself. He could not show up at the Tenshi Garden all dirty. He washed off and ate his lunch before preparing his stuff and leaving for todays mission.

[MFT]
[WC: 560]

 

[Sunaku Shikai]

Now was the time to get serious. Shikai had desided on becoming an adept in Taijutsu but knew that he needed to add some power to it in order to get to the top. The Chakra paper had already yielded results. It crinched like it was crumble together so todays training was to incorporate lightning into Taijutsu.

First he needed to get in touch with his elemenet so his mother told gave him a piece of bark and told him to make a hole in it using just his chakra. He held one hand on either side of the bark and concentrated. He released his chakra and looked at the bark. It was torn in two. His mother told him that he might have stumbled upon something that could help him with wind jutsu and that he should remember it or later if we wished to go that route but for now he should focus on only making a hole on the bark. She then handed him a new piece and he started over.

Try after try he either cut the pieces in half or only made sligh dents in them. Whenever he only made a dent he would release more chakra and when he seperated the pieces he would use less. After some time he begang to used the same high amount of chakra as when he split the pieces and instead focused more on location. This yielded results quickly. The answer was not to use less force but to direct it with more precition. Now he could somehow feel the electricity running from his center to his fingers.

He made a fist and imagined it being sparkling like a christmas tree. Then he send his chakra through and felt a buzzing in his fingers. It did not light up but he could feel the energy. He decided to pratice taijutsu while keepingthis buzzing in his fingers. He found his strikes to have more impact. Jan! Ken! Pon! All three seemed to get amplified by the energy. He poured as much energy onto his hand as he could and then struck the dummy he had been punching. The point of impact was slightly scorched and he had made quite the hole. It was not all the way through but you could see that parts of the wood was missing. He was out of chakra after that and had to stop for the day. He now knew that the energy could be expended in a few big blows or devided into many smaller portions depending on whether he used a normal strike or his Janken.

[MFT]
[WC: 435]

 

[Sunaku Shikai]

Finally starting to unlock the potential within his bloodline limit Shikai went to his mother to show the newly acquired arms and to get some advice on how best to adjust. His mother was overjoyed by the fact that they now had this in common and started off with a lecture on what roadblocks she had run into when learning to use all 6 arms and which advantages it had. For her the only right way to go had been puppet master having the extra arms to better control the puppets in battle and defend against incoming attacks at the same time. Shikai had something different in mind however, as he had seen what great arts were out there. Namely the art of ink jutsu. Being able to draw faster and like his mother defend at the same time seemed intriguing to him.

For now he would focus on the physical aspect and then brush up on the ninjutsu later so he got his mother to agree to some sparring. As usual they went into the garden. Shikai mostly used the limbs he had before while gradually adding another one by one. At first he would focus on setting up for single punches with the right hand of the second set and when his mother caught on to it he would swap to the left hand. At some point he got used to changing what had was striking rather than planning it before engaging in combat.

A few hours later they took a break from the training and got something to drink. By now shikai had gotten used to attacking with four arms but he was still only guarding with two. Afterwards he started focusing on applying the last set to defence. He figured that would do against whatever he would face at school and when he got used to it he would be able to swap so that the other set was defending and the new on was a attacking but for now he needed to adjust to defence.

At the end of the day he was pretty happy with the result. It was still not a fluent chance between which hand were defending and which were on the offence but at least he could switch. In time he would get used to it and make it second nature.

[MFT]
[Ooc: WC: 390]

 

[Sunaku Shikai]

Yet another day in the clan housing of Pearl Tenements. The Hachiashi area didn't hold many people, but some of them were as lively as ever. Shikai lived there with his mother. No matter the last name anyone bore the trademarks of the clan were known to all. Shikai had learned to live with his deformities and had mastered their useful features. He had been to the academy to get tested. A trial to become Genin. Now he just waited for the official statement. He had been to the academy to look it over one last time before he went out into the world and now he was back home getting ready for a trip to the sands. He had planned to seek it out as a mission and then take a detour to his fathers grave on the way. Two birds with one stone so to speak. He already knew who he wanted to ask to come with him. Hashigaki Kurokawa and Hyuuga Rina. If they were available. All three of them had been close from the start but Rina had sort of gone her own way. She had secluded herself for her training and even though Shikai knew that she wanted to become a medical nin, rumour had it that she was going to join a team. Since Shikai hadn't heard anything about him being invited he figured that he was not part of it. Choosing to go the ANBU path also best suited a lone wolf anyway. Maybe team missions were not for him.

Regardless of paths he still wanted to a mission to sand with more than just him so he decided to head out and find Kurokawa to see if she was up for a trip.

[MFT]
[WC: 291]