A seed grows [Flashback/Training]

The moon was at its peek on this dark night in Konohagakure. Wind blew slightly from the east as Akimoto stood on his spot where he was going to be starting his training as the moonlight reflected off of the river flowing mere feet away from him. The young male of only 7 years old was going to train his chakra control for the first time. Seiaryu, his mother's dark spirit, stood in front of him about four feet. "You must learn to have fine chakra control first, son. I'm going to make you into a fine shinobi, those children at the orphanage will beg for our mercy as you tear them apart once I teach you our clan's techniques." His mother said, the hatred within her voice was clear. "Yes mother." Akimoto replied to the darkness, his facial expression gaining a smirk as he heard her declare the deaths of those kids in the orphanage. For a while his mother's dark spirit explained the works of chakra, the ins and outs, how to control it basically, but most importantly, how to use it to become stronger. His ears wide opening listening to the teachings of his mother as she continued to speak about chakra. Soon enough, he would understand the basics for molding chakra and turning chakra into what seemed to be an endless list of possibilities. "Now, focus some chakra at the soles of your feet, not a lot, just enough so you don't fall into the water." She said to him as he was about to practice the arts of water walking through the use of chakra. He took a few steps closer to the river flowing next to him, standing in front of it now he would maneuver his right foot forward and place it on the water as he focused his chakra. He would press slightly on the foot, changing his chakra to match the amount needed to keep him from pushing his foot into the water. With the first try he would get it right, he took a step forward with both feet on the water now. It was as if he was a prodigy, not smiling at his feat at all yet he would simply move on to the next. "What's next mother." He said as he placed his second foot on the water. Seiaryu smirked as she saw the potential within her child, not many shinobi could have such fine chakra control at that age and especially not many could get the works of chakra right on the first try.

"Move over to the tree over there. Next you'll learn how to walk on trees, it's almost the same concept. Instead of staying on top of the object, you'll draw yourself towards it by channeling chakra to the soles of your feet." Seiaryu would explain to Akimoto. He nodded and moved over towards the tree as he stepped back onto the grass, it was only 9 meters away from the river which he previously stood on. He channeled his chakra towards his feet after which he would then move his right foot onto the trunk of this tall lively tree. He measured the amount of chakra needed to keep himself on as he softly shifted his foot to see if it would stick. Once it did, he would hold the amount of chakra needed in his feet to support his body and climb fully on the tree as he placed his other foot onto the trunk of the tree. He had this whole chakra thing under control clearly as he mastered the art of tree walking on his first try as well. The senju boy was clearly going to become a great ninjutsu master one day if he kept the pace he was going right now, he would come to realize it along with his mother when she saw him perform so well. The smirk returned to his face which he had a few moments ago when he performed the water walking technique. Poncho's face would then reveal itself from the tree he stood on. Akimoto's expression changed from the smirk to a clear, emotionless expression as he looked at Poncho. "What do you want?" He asked the clown figure. "You did well so far, I'm impressed." he would say as he started giggling which soon turned into a maniacal laughter as he would enter the boy's body. Seiaryu stood still though she wasn't happy, she would remove the smirk on her face and turn it to a more of a disgusted and angry expression as she looked at the clown inside Akimoto's body. "Let's test your capabilities shall we? If you're so talented then performing this basic technique would be easy." The clown said as he possessed the boy's body speaking from the boy's mouth as he performed the ram hand seal. A puff of smoke would appear where Akimoto stood on the tree as he disappeared through the use of Body Flicker. His body was able to handle the technique without trouble. The clown would release another maniacal laugh as he appeared thirty meters from where the technique was activated on the tree. "You shouldn't play with the boy like that, Ponchy. His mother won't be happy." Ryan would say as the dark figure would reveal itself from the ground rising upward. The clown would escape Akimoto's body as Seiaryu would appear next to Akimoto, though he had nowhere to go as she quickly gripped him by the throat. "Good job." She would whisper in his ear before throwing him to the side like a puppet. "Akimoto, you'll truly become a great and strong senju one day." The boy looked at her, still shaken from the possession but would quickly recover and look at her proud of himself and reply "Thank you, mother."
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Another day of training was about to commence as the young Senju boy Akimoto had stepped back onto the very training field where he first started to learn about ninjutsu and the basics of chakra control. Unlike the setting he had before, it was midday with dark grey clouds in the skies and it was clear a storm was coming. Earlier this morning Akimoto had woken up in the house he had built for himself using his mokuton technique known as Four Pillar House technique. It was a nice wooden building on the outside of the village located about a mile from the leaf village itself. He had some breakfast while talking with his mother during the little feast of his. The little Senju boy was going to train his mokuton today to increase his abilities as a shinobi of the leaf. With the troubling times that started mere days ago when the mysterious stranger calling himself a shinobi god with all bijuu sealed inside him, he needed the power now more than ever. This would break out into war, the 200 years of peace the shinobi knew for so long was going to turn into lots and lots of death eventually with the villages seeking power before others can get it to avoid their own people from being killed. That's how the world works, take care of your own before taking care of others, but now it would only be yourself and no one else or in Akimoto's case, only HIMSELF. Not the village, no one else, he has no family or any friends to actually care for so why would he help this village? They did nothing for him except take him in as a baby, but even then he wasn't loved.

With his first step being placed outside of his house as he leaped from the highly grown house in the massive 30 meter high tree, his foot would crush the grass underneath him as he landed followed by his second foot only a split second later being placed on the ground as well to keep him balanced as he landed. "Be sure to work hard today, my young Senju prince." His mother would say to him as the training was about to commence. He nodded to his mother as he would begin the training with his eyes being closed so he could focus his chakra. He could start to feel the life around him, not sense it but actually feel it as if he was one with nature. The trees, grass, plants, the relaxing feeling of all the life which surrounds him started to take effect. The white haired young male would open his eyes, the light reflecting off of his blood red eyes as he opened them and formed the ram hand seal. He would activate the Wood Release: Cutting Technique as he shifted his chakra with the ram hand seal to mix the two basic natures Suiton and Doton to combine it into Mokuton. The technique allowed him to produce sharp wooden spikes from his body to either fashion short-range weapons akin to a makeshift sword, or else use them as long-range projectiles, where the branches' growth can be triggered remotely, skewering the enemy as a result. Now that's exactly what he was going to be doing at this very moment. Wooden spikes grew from his back, shoulders and neck each about 3-4 feet long and rather thick. As these spikes stopped growing, which was only a mere second after they were created, Akimoto grasped one of the spikes which was located just above his back close enough for him to then rip it off. With that done, he immediately proceeded to throw the spike at a nearby tree located about thirteen feet to his north. The spike connected with the tree, ramming itself into it from the force used by Akimoto's throw as well as its nice sharp end helping it to sink into the tree as it connected. As he removed the spike like wooden object from his back and started to throw it he would use his second hand to reach back and grab another wooden spike about the same size as the first and throw it a mere second after the first was thrown. The spike sliced throught the air as it was thrown, flying into the very same tree which the first spike was thrown into. It was clear this technique was mastered as he could grow the spikes so quickly and use them as great weapons if he needed to in a combat situation, so the Senju boy would move on to another technique to train for the day so he could improve his ninjutsu skills to their fullest, or at least as much as a genin could.

Akimoto has not yet learned the Shadow Clone Technique or more commonly known as Kage Bunshin. Today he was going to be making the "complete bunshin" as he likes to call them. Though others might know it as the Wood Clone technique. First the Tiger handseal would be made as Akimoto maneuvered his fingers and shaped them as he needed to. Next would be the dog handseal, mere moments after the first handseal was made. Finally the third seal would be a seal most common in mokuton techniques, the snake handseal. This was one highly ranked and complex jutsu to use, not to even mention master. Classified as an A rank technique means that mastering this technique would place Akimoto of the Senju clan at a very high skill in ninjutsu. He'll one day become a great warrior shinobi, but first he needs to at least master his very first A ranked -or well high ranked- technique. He focused on his mokuton chakra given to him as his birthright. This special chakra is so rare that only three shinobi in the senju clan or anywhere else is born with this type of advanced chakra nature. A sacred and unique type of chakra that's capable of giving life, most likely the reason why these clones are considered the perfect clones by many shinobi. Once the third handseal was made Akimoto had molded his chakra for the technique fully and the effects of the technique would be revealed as a puff of white smoked created from chakra to place as a distraction in the body flicker technique would appear next to the white haired senju boy. Once the swift breeze of wind would clear the smoke one would be able to see an exact replica of the young Senju composed from the chakra of what used to be an extremely rare thing, Mokuton. Till this day it's still very rare, however more Senju are being born with it and it seems that the rate at which this is going there are three Senju shinobi who are born with Mokuton for the past two generations. The young boy's skill was clearly being shown as he used the Wood Clone Technique at such a young age with such perfection that even the smalled strand of hair was in place, replicating the appearance and chakra of Akimoto himself. He was well on his way to becoming what he dreams of, a Shinobi god. As the clouds slowly moved in the air as the wind gave them a slight push, the surrounding area around Akimoto was quiet. He knew he could do it and wasn't surprised with himself at all though his mother didn't seem to be as confident in Akimoto as she stared in amazement at the clone. It was as if this little Senju pod was starting to bloom into what will one day be one mighty oak tree unmoved by any storm which dares to strike it. When she was his age it was near impossible for her or his father to perform this technique, though maybe that's why he's capable of such a feat so early on in life, because both his parents possessed the clan's rare ability Mokuton.

The clone possessed little chakra however that was only temporary as Akimoto was becoming stronger and stronger by the day which meant that his chakra pool was slowly increasing, when the time comes for him to claim his thrown as the Shinobi God he'll have enough chakra to make his clones so strong that they would be considered A rank shinobi on their own. That was the power which laid within this young boy, the little pod would bloom into an amazing force some day, however today was just a stepping stone to achieve that dream of his which was why he was going to be training even harder. "Now." Akimoto would say to his clone, giving the signal to initiate the plan he had come up with in his head whilst performing the handseals to conjure this clone. The plan was indeed a simple one, yet it would prove to be affective. This would be the base for one of his next jutsu, almost like a great clone explosion jutsu but a bit more.. Gruesome. The idea was for the clone to explode into countless sharp wooden stakes, an area of effect technique in which most surrounding the clone would be either very seriously injured or just plain out murdered on the spot. Though as mentioned before this was just the drawing board for the technique, in this case the clone would simply be using the wood release: cutting technique to kill a boar which was seen on his way to this training spot. The clone started to run, using his right leg first to push against the ground sending him forward into said run. Akimoto would follow in the footsteps of the clone to witness the power of this beta-form of the technique in action. The two of them were moving through the trees in front of them on their way to the boar, passing each tree swiftly and avoiding running into one of these trees located in this somewhat thick forest they were in now. It was as if they were the hunters seeking out their prey; the boar. The two bloodthirsty boys didn't waste any time as they soon reached the boar, still in his place as he was before; thrusting his claws into the body of a dead deer, almost finished with his tasteful freshly caught meal. It was a shame really, though not to Akimoto. The poor beast of a bear would soon meet the end, luckily for him he had his last meal and would die a swift and quick death as the clone made his way behind the bear. Akimoto jumped onto one of the branches located three meters from the bear and two meters from the ground. The clone would use all it's chakra sacrificing itself in order to perform the wood release: cutting technique causing spikes and stakes of wood to grow from all over it's body like a porcupine showing it's beautiful needles at it's enemy. The branches of stakes and spikes of wood release chakra would quickly drive into the flesh of the bear, blood spilling on the ground as it struck through the boar's heart killing it almost instantly. The clone was of no use anymore as it was apart of nature now, the branches having grown one meter in every direction meant that it grew into the ground as well. The scene looked like a bloody bush of leaf-less branches stood sturdy on the ground, unmoved. It was a strange sight to those who didn't know what happened here if anyone would even discover this scene in this huge and thick forest of the land of fire. Akimoto stood on the branch still, bending down with his knees by his sides and his butt almost touching the branch on which he stood however if he went any lower he would loose his balance and fall backwards. His hands kept him balanced and ready if he was indeed about to fall from the branch for some reason as they touched the branch, located between his left and right feet.