Learning the Basics of [Training, P]

This shall be my thread for CS training, the current post is for Iryo ninjutsu
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Four Months Earlier
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Keita had just started learning medical techniques, as he had finally felt the need to actually go through and hone his medical knowledge, in preparation of becoming a genin. He had very basic knowledge, but he needed to seek out the medical clan that had performed the experiment on him and created his kekkei genkai for actual knowledge, they seemed extremely well versed in all thing related to medical ninjutsu. He was still learning how to control his chakra and other things of that nature, because he was still in the academy. He was going to graduate soon, even though he was really young, as he was studying or training constantly. Keita walked through town, looking for the building that he had seen many times before, although it was a bit off the beaten path, a small building with barely anything to distinguish it from all of the other buildings around. The mist clung to his clothing, as this morning it was a bit wet, like it usually was. The mist in the air hung a bit less thick than it did the previous day, so Keita was a bit optimistic about it clearing up a bit before a big rain storm, as he loved it when it rained, although it didn't happen as often as one would think in the mist village. Clearing multiple streets and alleyways, passing by people who kept to themselves most of the time, Keita finally reach a small door with a movable slot that most others wouldn't have even bothered with, and then knocked three times on the cold metal.

"What is it? what do you want?"

A set of eyes would be found, the whisper that it said had the tone of someone yelling, and had a small tint of anger within it, however the eyes stopped being slit and judgmental when they looked down and found the small smiling boy that was proof that their clan was on the right track research wise.

"Oh Keita, it's you, my apologies."

The slit would slam closed, and multiple tumblers could be heard unlocking and creaking before a few seconds of silence. The door would then open just enough for Keita to squeeze in when he turned sideways, and as soon as he cleared the space, the door slammed closed with all of the same tumbling noises happening again, the outside world seemed to be locked away. Keita dusted off the sides of his shirt and his shorts that got dusty from the doorway, and then offered a hand to the old man that was at the door.

"Good morning, Oshio!"

The old bitter man couldn't help but remove his frown at the young lad. There was no such thing as a smile for the old man's face, but not scowling was the best one could hope for, and meant that the man was happy. The old man's wrinkled hands met Keita's, and Keita tried hard to give the man a firm hand shake, much like uncle Krenos taught him how to. The old man then pat him on the head, and then shooed him off in the direction of a large corridor. Keita walked down the large corridor, until he got to a set of open areas that led into multiple rooms filled with different things. One room was nothing but animal body parts in jars, another was a bunch of tables, and yet another one where there was a small morgue. Keita took notes as he walked along, not about anything in particular, but the notes stated that he was about to learn some medical, and he noted the date and time.

The complex was much larger on the inside it seemed, and also went underground a couple of levels. There was essentially a fully equipped hospital and morgue in this building, and Keita was completely enthralled by it, and hoped that one day he could work within it's halls. His day started with a checkup of his own body and the parasite within him, as well as the doctor that he met with telling him exactly what he was looking for. Keita had heard this before, but it was getting drilled into his head. After the initial checkup and the man taking a bit of blood, he asked what Keita wanted to learn today. Anatomy was the broad, umbrella term that Keita used to describe what he wanted to learn, and that was exactly what they discussed for the rest of the day.

The man didn't really teach Keita in the conventional way, which was simple fact and demonstrations. To learn anatomy, Keita was taken into the small morgue that he had seen earlier, and was taken, step by step, in the procedures of an autopsy. Some would say that this would traumatize a ten year old, but Keita was strong mentally, and knew that the body was just that, a dead body, and it was essentially a library. As the human was taken apart piece by piece, the man labeled every single part of the human body, and how it functioned with other parts. Keita was furiously writing down notes while he looked on, and he even helped out in some of the simpler things.

The body had most of it's blood drained already, so there was nothing really to worry about. Keita was so fascinated by the man, and wondered how he died. He was then taught that the autopsy was a medical technique used to discern what had killed the person, and ran through the possible lists. The man was a smoker, so when they took out his lungs and heart, they seemed discolored and when the man stimulated them with medical chakra, they functioned poorly or irregularly, and Keita made a note of that as well.

The man was an excellent teacher, and Keita a sponge when it came to these things. Before he left the place, the man gave Keita a first aid book as well, to study the basics of how to use medical abilities in real world applications and the like. Keita studied the entire night, learning how to clean and dress minor wounds, apply stitched, and other things of that type. He even stopped by a butcher and grabbed a large section of pork so that he could practice his sutures and see if he could recognize the muscles and other parts of the pig. This training kept going for about a month, and he had learned essentially all there was to know about the human body through teachings, as well as hands on autopsies that the clan was responsible for. During this time, he was learning how to properly control his chakra, so once that was done, he requested that he learn how to properly use his chakra for medical purposes.
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2 months earlier
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Keita had been training for an entire two months, obsessed with the thought of being able to help people and study things relating to medicine as well as dead bodies, he had been to the place nearly every day for that two months, learning everything he could. He took a few days off to stay in shape and was also learning ninjutsu during this time, so that he could be well prepared and have good chakra control as well. At this point, Keita got to the building, and went deep down into the lower levels, and conducted his own autopsy, unassisted. The man that had taught him clapped when the entire procedure was done, as there were no mistakes. the man had all of his organs removed, and was embalmed perfectly without a hitch, and Keita had even been able to prove that the man was killed by a cyst in his intestines that had ruptured and leaked into his kidneys, causing them to fail.

The man was impressed, and decided that it was time to teach the young man on how to properly utilize the chakra for medicinal purposes. This wasn't going to be training based on any particular jutsu, and to learn actual medical jutsu, the young man would have to go elsewhere, but to learn the principles of medical jutsu, and the knowledge that one would need to actually be a great medical ninja, those were the things the old man could teach him, if he was determined, which he had proven to be. Keita agreed to the man's statement, and started conducting experiments on his own. No chakra usage as of yet, but good old fashioned hard work and analytic skills would move him forward with the experiments.

Keita was tasked to figure out a man's kekkei genkai, from a handful of what was essentially scraps of the man's body. A finger, a bit of his scalp with hair on it, a sample of his blood from a tissue, and a portion of the man's stomach. He was given no assistance, and was only taught how to figure things like this out from the autopsies and bits and pieces of information he could get out of the old man prior. Keita looked at the pieces, and decided that even though it would be extremely difficult to tell, he knew that his teacher might still make him somehow figure out a Doujutsu as the man's kekkei genkai, so he didn't rule it out. He sieved the blood out of the tissue by destroying the tissue around it, although his inexperience cost him about twenty five percent of the blood sample, as he destroyed it during the process.

He was taking quite a long time simply cleaning the samples and getting them ready, but he was extremely diligent. He was working through the long hours of the night, wondering if he could actually figure this out. His notebook was covered in different things he had tried, and each experiment he conducted on the samples destroyed a little bit of them, and so it was a race against his mind. If he couldn't figure out which experiment gave him the most information, then he would eventually be out of a particular sample, and he would most likely fail. On the other hand, even if he found a good method of sampling, he would then need to thoroughly test the sample using that method to get good results.

Lots of nail biting and nervous anxiety filled Keita, but he calmed down a bit. It made him more comfortable imagining his uncle watching over him as he did this, cheering him on silently, that gave him confidence, and the ability to calm down and weigh each option with the others. He decided to put the blood in the centrifuge to separate the blood and the plasma, sot hat he could study them separately. As that was going, he inspected the bit of scalp he was given. The hair was jet black, but that didn't really tell him much. The pores on the scalp were well taken care of, no dandruff or psoriasis to be seen, nor was the scalp even a bit dry, well for being a bit of scalp that is, he had to guess that it was usually not as dry. This meant that the man was well taken care of, and the product that he found in the man's hair was a fairly expensive hair product, as it had scent of mango in it, something not native to Kirigakure's cold and wet climate.

The next clue was the finger, as the knuckle was well worn, meaning that they trained with their hands extensively. However, the fingernail was covered in black pain and very well manicured. This could mean that the donor of the samples was a woman, but that was yet to be determined, and not something that was entirely needed to determine at the moment. Over the course of the next few days, Keita worked tirelessly, only eating a bit here and there, simply studying the materials he was given. It took a while, but there was dirt under the fingernails that wasn't from Kirigakure. The blood sample showed nothing out of the ordinary, meaning it was a non blood related kekkei genkai that wasn't from Kirigakure. The purity of the jet black hair meant that both parents most likely had the same feature.

After a bit, he concluded that it was indeed, an Uchiha, and told the old man. The old man congratulated him on being able to find that out, but also told him that he was doomed from the start. The blood was fabricated and not from the original body, and Keita forgot to check if the blood from the finger was the same as the napkin, and even though the entire thing was fabricated, the old man was astonished at the prowess of a ten year old who hadn't even passed the academy yet. Keita simply passed out from a combination of exhaustion and disbelief that the old man would trick him like that. A harsh but necessary lesson, Keita assumed, before falling asleep.
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Current day
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After passing the academy and learning how to control his chakra much better, Keita went back to the Kiseimu clan building, and told the old man he was ready to learn how to control his medical chakra. Keita was given strict courses on how to control it, and how to make his chakra flow, not only through his own body, but through others' as well, and although Keita couldn't really perform any jutsu, as the old man stated once again, that he wouldn't teach Keita any specific techniques, only the basics, Keita could still use the chakra to give a good massage and looses up muscles, help cure headaches, and other trivial things that could never actually be used on the battlefield or in a trauma surgeon setting.

This was when Keita started going through surgeon training, as he was already a completely genius doctor at this level. He knew essentially everything about the human body, and he knew how to find and diagnose problems if he had all the evidence, and not he was going to learn how to fix those problems on the fly. And thus, there were a set of challenges that Keita loved doing, that was essentially an eleven year old operating on volunteers from the clan. They got wounds, injuries, and other health problems put onto them from the higher ups in the clan, and then they let Keita operate on them to try and fix it.

It was fun, and it also made Keita glad that the clan put the parasite within him, as they were all fully willing to support him, and any others in the clan, on their pursuit of medical knowledge. As he went through, there was an increasing difficult level. The first was a person with a split lip, and so Keita got an injection to numb the pain, and then covered the man's eyes so that he was more comfortable. Telling the man that if he felt any pain at all, to tell him and that he would get more numbing medicine. He sutured up the man's lip once he was done cleaning it and checking for anything foreign, be it an object or something like rust. It seemed it was fabricated to look like someone cut him open with a kunai, which was a common injury in the world of ninjas.

Keita was ecstatic when he was working, and he truly enjoyed helping people and learning about them as he did. I seemed like he had a great knack for this sort of thing, and he was loving talking to each of the patients, making sure their day was doing alright, and taking their mind off of their injuries. He would eventually be able to work in a hospital with these skills, and meet an even more diverse set of people, as right now, these were all from the Kiseimu clan. Everyday, after Keita was done with his exercises, chores, and anything else he needed to do, he sprinted to the building where his clan was, and made sure he was ready. Washing his hands, disinfecting them, and then putting on his medical gloves had become a ritual for him, and was ingrained within his muscle memory after about a month.

Because of the Mushikoro inside of him amplifying his memory and his mind, he was able to sponge up all of this information, allowing him to make huge leaps in his understanding of medical knowledge in general, and once he was done with this, he started to figure out how to transplant organs. There were a few patients that needed kidney and other transplants, and even one that needed a heart transplant, which was Keita most dangerous, taxing, and difficult surgery. That was the only surgery where he wasn't having fun with it, because if he messed up, even a tiny bit, the man would most likely die from it, and it would be Keita's fault. The old man, however, planned this, and the man died during surgery.

Keita was absolutely devastated, and couldn't move away from a fetal position for a few days. He cried and confessed to his uncle, and just couldn't face anyone anymore. A nice lesson was given to him however, and after a few weeks with depression, he was snapped out of it by his uncle saying that if he really wanted to make up for killing someone on the operating table, that he needed to suck it up and save more people. He needed to save one hundred people for everyone that he killed while trying to save them. There was no way that he could save someone every single time, and that sometimes, people died, it's a natural way of life, and at least he was trying to save the man instead of killing them. Ninjas killed people, that was a natural in this world.

Keita showed up the next day, and it seemed the man was fine, and it was set up by the old man to make it look like the man died. A medical technique to stop the heart and keep the body alive for up to twenty four hours without it was used, and Keita was taught the lesson that not everyone can be saved. Real doctors and surgeons need to try their hardest to save their patients during surgeries, and that even one mistake can cost a life. But sometimes the life isn't in the surgeon's hands, and the patient is simply destined to die, and there's nothing the surgeon can do, but get up and keep going forward on their own path. Become better, and learn how to save the person next time in a similar situation.

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3130/2950 words

Iryo jutsu from B1 -> A3

This post shall be for Ninjutsu
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Two Months Earlier
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Keita was hard at work, studying in the academy, and immediately after the academy, he would skirt off to the underground clan building of the Kiseimu clan, who gave him the parasitic Mushikoro that resided inside of his heart. It was an amazing thing, and offered unparalleled learning ability. He was constantly studying the basics of everything, and so far he was simply cruising through the academy, as he was more than capable of acing all the tests and becoming a genin. He was always studying, however, because he really wanted to meet the deadline to graduate the academy a year earlier than most students, and so he had decided that he was going to do extra things whenever he had time. In the academy however, he got to learnt the basics of chakra control. To be perfectly honest, Keita was learning the basics of chakra control so that he could go to the medical facility in the Kiseimu clan building and learn how he could use the chakra for medicinal reasons, as the old man he was training with already stated that he wouldn't teach Keita specific techniques. Still, Keita was enthusiastic, as he had always enjoyed the concepts of ninjutsu, and learned that there were a lot of stories based around it, including the famous one about Naruto and Sasuke.

He didn't need to be as strong as either of those people, as long as his abilities could help people and keep his learning going. Currently he was in class, learning the rest of the academy jutsu that he had been learning up until this point, and there was going to be a test on all of them today. This was going to be fairly easy for Keita, if it wasn't for the fact that his mind was a bit scattered. He started to get a bit nervous, he wanted to make his uncle proud, especially because the man saved him and was a father to him, and he was going to make sure he aced it. He had to calm down though, this was just like the tests and challenges in his clan, and he would need to take deep breaths. Breathing exercises were something he could use in these situations, as well as in combat situations and training his body. His name was called, and the teacher would look at him, and so would everyone else in the room, and he began to get a little nervous again. The people who wanted to pick on him and were mad that he was living with the Mizukage were glaring at him  hoping that he would fail.

This made Keita in even more of a fervor, as he wanted to prove to them that his uncle and aunt had almost nothing to do with his abilities. He trained by himself, and he relied on himself to find opportunities. The only thing that gave him a leg up was the Mushikoro, but that was a fair trade, as the parasite was sapping his energy and blood to feed itself, so it was mostly Keita's determination and perseverance to do something great. Keita grabbed his notebook and flipped to the pages he had about the basic ninjutsu he was supposed to demonstrate in front of the class. Keita slowly made his way to the front of the class room, and then bowed to the class and then to the teacher. The chuunin teacher then addressed him directly.

"Furue Keita! You are to demonstrate each jutsu I say aloud as best as possible, and I will grade you on seal speed, jutsu quality, and chakra control. Are you ready?"

The chuunin boomed, as he was a larger gentleman that most people thought deserved special jounin or even jounin, but he was injured in a fight and wasn't able to fully fulfill his duties as a jounin, so he decided to teach others. He was intimidating, but the look on Keita's face showed true conviction and determination as he nodded to the man.

"First, the Clone Technique! Make as many as you can."

Keita quickly gathered a bit of chakra within his stomach, the chakra swirling and wanting to leave the body, but he contained as much as he could, and then directed it out to the sides of his body. Two identical copies of Keita appeared next to him, with the same motion holding the last hand sign as he was. The teacher nodded, and Keita made the clones poof out of existence while the teacher scribbled something on the clipboard. This continued on for the next few jutsu: the replacement technique, the rope escape technique, and the transformation technique. After Keita had finished, he had a little sweat on his forehead, not because he was exhausted or anything of the sort, but mostly because he was very nervous while actually doing them. Sometimes nerves were a good thing, however, and he hoped he performed admirably. The teacher said nothing about how he did, and simply told him to sit back down.

Keita then got to watch some of the other students go do their thing, and he saw their attempts, and a lot of their clones didn't quite look right, and he wondered if his looked that bad from here, and he got a weird sinking feeling. The worst feeling is not the act of failing itself, but the fact that he could potentially disappoint the ones he cared about and that cared about him. He knew it was a dumb fear, and that the people he cared about cared for him in the same way, and would probably never be disappointed in him, but it was still a creeping doubt that he would not be needed anymore or not loved anymore. He passed with the best score in the class however, and his fears were put to rest.
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Current Day
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In between tests and other simulations in the medical field, Keita enjoyed learning ninjutsu and making sure that his chakra control was increasing by the day. this often left him exhausted, and he knew the bad results for long-term exhaustion, so there was always one day of the week where he did absolutely nothing, and asked for this day instead of getting an allowance from his uncle. This seemed to work out just fine for him, as he simply stayed inside and read something enjoyable, went out and spent some time in the park with the other genin that weren't training, or simply walking around the village talking to people. It was nice, but only a momentary thing, as soon as the week started again, he was back into the full swing of trying to power through every detail and knowledge he could

He made sure to ask his old teacher more and more about ninjutsu in his free time, and the teacher was happy to teach him, and outside of the academy, the scarred man was sweet and kind, and still a very good teacher. He showed Keita the essence of good chakra control, how to apply to certain things, and even had Keita come to the administration building and check his chakra nature. It turned out that Keita's chakra nature was Earth, as the paper sat in his hand, a clear testament that he was like his uncle. He believed that he was related to his uncle all this time, and never really bothered to learn the truth about his old parents, because he already had a family. He then asked the man about his uncle's release, Quake. A powerful combination of elements, he learned of the nature of the elements, and how those that are born with it can mix the elements into special combinations that use the best of both elements for devastating results.

He learned that, just like kekkei genkai, one could learn of another person's element through their blood, as their blood had their chakra nature within it, but he didn't really know how the medical users did so. He then went on to learn about the more common instances of advanced elements like ice and wood, and the more rare cases like boil and lava. It was interesting to learn all of these things about ninjutsu, and this made Keita invigorated to learn about how he could use his element to the fullest, and wondered if he could manipulate multiple elements. this was when he learned that he could potentially give himself advanced elements if he was able to get a dna sample from those who have the special advanced element. He could be like his uncle, and Keita smiled at that thought. However, to even dream of eventually learning that elemental stuff, he needed to learn the basics of ninjutsu, and practiced his academy jutsu everyday until he was out of chakra. This was of course after he exhausted himself physically and mentally everyday.

He figured that he needed a good balance between mind, body, and spirit, so that he could be a well rounded and strong individual later. Keita decided to keep trudging forward, as he was never going to get where he wanted to be by just sitting around and thinking of the future. He was finally finished with his medical training with the Kiseimu clan, for now, as they had told him to go learn a bunch of techniques and save people before coming back to them, so he was free to focus on ninjutsu for now. Keita couldn't really learn anything else from his academy teacher, so he looked for different ways to learn the finer arts of ninjutsu. He eventually went around to some of the other genin, and decided to train with them. They trained plenty of ways, from simply sitting in a circle gathering their chakra, to actually having little mock fights with their clones and playing tag with the replacement technique. That was the funnest part.

While playing with the other genin in the mists, it was fun slipping and sliding around, getting dirty in the mud and everything. They decided to make the tag a little better, as if was going to be completely replacement based. They set up about twenty logs all over the field they were playing with, and the rules were that they could use the clone and replacement techniques to play tag. Only the person that was it could use the replacement technique, so that they could actually catch people. Keita made these rules, because they were playing earlier, and they would just swap away a bunch and it wasn't fun for the person that was it. The other new genin agreed, and then the game had begun. Keita was dodging, and although he was fairly fit, he wasn't used to actually dodging people, and he ended up being it a lot.

He simply laughed it off, as he wasn't really playing a lot when he was younger, as he was constantly working towards bettering himself, but a bit of fun along with ninjutsu training seemed like a good idea, so that he wouldn't get too stressed out and he would remain motivated, especially with the strange event that happened at the last Kage summit or meeting or whatever they wanted to call it. There was most likely going to be some sort of wars over the next few years over power, as he learned history was destined to repeat itself eventually, and that humans craved things they didn't have. Keita was no different, and for him, he craved for knowledge that he didn't have, and he wanted all of it, eventually. He was very mature for an eleven year old, but he was still immature about some things, such as cute things and generally living. Because the parasite seemed to open parts of his brain normal people don't really use at this stage of life, he thought about his place in life and about the future, something normal eleven year olds don't bother with.

After the games, the kids were lying on the floor, huffing and puffing, completely exhausted from all of the training and games, and it ended with Keita barely catching another kid, simply because he didn't have the worst stamina in the world. But, Keita made it a point that there were no losers in a game of tag, just silly fun that had no real end game, and the kids just laughed. Keita used what little bit of money he had to buy some sweets and share them with the other kids as it started to rain. He was going to get sick, he knew that for sure, but he simply didn't care, and instead jumped into the puddles that formed with the other kids, and got nice and muddy. He needed to get sick every once in a while too, just so that he could bolster his immune system safely, although the few days to a week that he would be sneezing, coughing, and the like was going to be filled with a bit of suffering. He would get to spend a lot of time with his uncle and aunt, so that would be awesome, considering how busy his aunt was, being the Mizukage and everything.

He of course got sick, and so did a lot of the other kids, and so he was bed ridden for a few  days as he recovered. During this time, he simply practiced his chakra control for his ninjutsu training, made a couple clones and the like, but whenever he used a jutsu, he got lightheaded and fell back onto his pillow, so he didn't get that much training done in the three days he was sick. It was still fun hanging with his uncle, eating soup and drinking hot chocolate, and overall he wouldn't have traded that time for anything. Once he was better, however, he was immediately outside again, visiting the houses of the other kids that were sick, seeing if they had gotten better and bringing them medicine from the Kiseimu clan storehouse, that was essentially open for him. Apparently Keita was going to eventually act as the figurehead of the Kiseimu clan, so he was welcome to use all of their supplies and the like, which was awesome. He was the only successful experiment so far, and it seemed like there wasn't going to be another testing period for a long while.

They were probably wondering if he could pass a parasite down to his children safely, and Keita wondered about that, considering some of the higher ups would most likely be dead before that happened, and then he got to wondering why he was thinking about this in the first place. He chalked it up to simply children's curiosity combined with advanced thinking given to him from the Mushikoro. Keita made sure the other kids were taken care of, and then went right back to reading about and practicing his ninjutsu. He wanted to make sure he was very good at the basic principals of Ninjutsu before he started learning a bunch of techniques of his Earth element, as he eventually wanted to be able to learn from his uncle. Keita continues in his journey through ninjutsu, and decided to talk to some of the special jounin of the village, as they were the next rank up. He had learned a lot about how to mold your chakra to get various effects, but there was only so much you could learn from the basic academy jutsu, so he went to talk to the ones who were great tutors in their fields.

The ninjutsu specialist special jounin was a fantastic help, and started teaching Keita about shape and nature transformation. The ability to turn a normal ninjutsu sharp, or change it's shape on a whim to create an entirely different jutsu was something else. Nature transformation was something else entirely, and is what Naruto used to turn his rasengan into the rasenshuriken. Adding a large amount of wind-natured chakra to the sphere gave it cutting and stabbing properties, and the special jounin showed Keita the technique that Asuma taught Naruto all those years ago, which was coating his special weapon in his elemental nature and then throwing it straight through a rock and a few trees with ease. Each element had different properties, and when Keita asked about his element of Earth, the person responded with telling him how versatile earth nature was.

Earth nature transformation was powerful because it can change the physical properties of matter. This allowed the use of jutsu such as Earth Spear, changing the properties of one's body to be harder than stone. This would not only increase the durability, but also the hardness so that the user could also enhance their attacks. The opposite was also true, in that Earth nature can change something softer or lighter, in the case of the Super Lightweight Rock technique, the Tsuchikage was able to make the Raikage even faster by making his body as light as a feather, and then extremely heavy and dense when he struck Madara. Keita stayed with the special jounin over the course of a few weeks, learning about the different natures and shape transformation that was usually taught to chuunin. Keita wondered if it was his connection to the Mizukage that gave him this special teaching course, but whatever it was, he felt very grateful towards the special jounin. When he finally asked the jounin why he was able to learn from him, it was because usually the special jounin are assigned chuunin to teach, and usually those chuunin don't want to learn from them and are conceited, so it was a nice change of pace for the man to learn that a genin was interested in higher learning already, even before his first mission. Keita blushed and was happy that he was being accepted, and hoped this peace wasn't shattered easily.


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2991/2950 words
Ninjutsu from B1 -> A3

This post will be for Taijutsu
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A while ago, when trying to learn all he could about medicine and medical ninjutsu, Keita made sure to set aside a bit of time every week just to keep up with his exercises and physical health. He made sure to eat right and at least do some stretches and other things of that nature, so that his body was always a bit fit. He was finally done with training medical ninjutsu and regular ninjutsu, so his chakra control was off the charts, and this made for an interesting decision by Keita. Keita decided that he wanted to try and strive for perfection in everything, even though he knows that perfect itself doesn't exist, it's still something amazing to strive for as a person, so that you're constantly challenging yourself and pushing your limits. he had decided that the three areas of a ninja that he wanted to focus on were mind, body, and spirit. This meant that he picked medical knowledge for the mind portion and he also picked ninjutsu for the spirit portion, so now that he had practiced in those, probably far too hard while neglecting other aspects, he was ready to start training in the art of Taijutsu, something that he didn't really know how to approach. It seemed the simplest in concept to get down, but the most difficult for him in practice. He loved the fact that the other ones had plenty of books, and most of the knowledge could be gained through the basics, but Taijutsu needed something else.

He would most likely need to head to the library again, and make sure to get some texts and tomes related to taijutsu, or just physical fitness in general. He didn't really want to build a massive amount of muscle mass, as simply being toned would be enough. He wanted to make sure that he had muscles that could not only last long enough for endurance battles, but that he could also hit hard enough to where he can still do damage to people. This was going to be a challenge, but he was pretty confident in himself to do so. The Mushikoro would definitely help with his fitness, as the little worm would definitely benefit from the added endurance and cardio since the parasite was so ingrained into his heart. Keita made his way to the library as quick as possible to look up books on taijutsu and other methods of improving one's body. As he started stacking up books and scrolls, some people in the library started to take notice of the little guy looking through books on how to increase your body mass and other taijutsu stuff.

Some of them liked to tease Keita when he was in there, and so when they passed by, their curiosity obviously peaked when they saw the taijutsu texts in front of the kid, and one of them even snickered.

"I don't think you can get taller by reading you know."

Keita pouted a bit at him before retorting.

"Hey, I'm just trying to work out a bit and learn some taijutsu, meanie."

Keita's pouting face disarmed the man and made him sort of sad that he messed with the guy, but he just awkwardly laughed it off and walked away. Keita didn't usually get sad at things like that, so this was simply him messing with the guy back, and he giggled a little bit. He was reading about different fighting styles, and one that really piqued Keit's interest, was one that involved pressure points, joint locks, and nerve clusters. This seemed like the best thing to learn for Keita, as he had intricate knowledge of the human body, so he was probably going to be able to fight people by using that method, so he checked that book out and a few others regarding basic physical fitness. Keita started at home to train, starting with simply sit ups and push ups, and then designed his own training regimen for the next few weeks. It started with running in the morning, and then a set amount of sit ups and push ups each day, that increased a little by little each week.

Keita was rapidly increasing the number of sit ups and push ups as he continued his training. He found someone else that was running in the early morning mist with him, and decided to run with them every day. They were quite a bit older, and it turned out they were a jounin in the village, and he offered a lot of motivation for the little guy Keita as he was huffing and puffing through the course he had set up for himself. It was fun having someone to run with everyday, and the runner's high that he felt was also strange, as it seemed that physically exhausting himself through cardio released endorphins and made him happy about running, which was amazing. the jounin wasn't a taijutsu specialist, and to be honest he was a bit over weight, but it seems like he was still perfectly physically capable in terms of being a jounin. The man was trying to get thinner so that he could ask some woman he liked out on a date, and even though he was talking about this to Keita, he assumed that the eleven year old wouldn't really understand things like relationships and women yet, and he was mostly correct.

All he knew was the female anatomy, which he probably shouldn't know at that age, even for a medical user, but still, he knew how children were made, and of course knew that it was a very intimate thing that two people did when they love each other. The man didn't mention any of these things to the kid, it was just somewhere Keita's mind went as he went through the progression of events in his head, or at least one of the possible outcomes. He asked the man if he knew how to fight, and the man said that he only knew how to fight with ninjutsu and sensory. He could sense the chakra of other people from a long ways away, without needing to actually see them, he just felt them with chakra. this fascinated Keita, but he was there to learn Taijutsu, and so in addition to running and physical training, he met with some other genin to spar. Sparring with them would be the best way to learn taijutsu, and even some of the chuunin of the village agreed to spar with him to show him how to defend himself. He was fighting people, and they were of course winning, but they weren't going serious at him at all. He didn't really understand why his body was weird, as he could visualize everything he wanted his body to do to counter attack in his mind, but he couldn't send the right signals it seemed.

Everyone told him that you just sort of learn while you're fighting, and it seemed that fighting and taijutsu in general tapped into instincts and muscle memory more than tactics and reasoning, although those two things were still great abilities to have when fighting someone. The ability to judge distances, your surroundings, and other things all factored into fighting in close combat and using taijutsu to defeat others that perhaps don't use taijutsu. So, with some new knowledge, Keita went back outside with the motivation and a new understanding about how his body wanted to move and wanted to fight, and he simply tried to stop his thinking for a bit, and never close his eyes when someone tried to strike his face. He got the not flinching and blinking part down when someone threw a punch at him, but he still couldn't really fight. A couple more weeks of meeting with various people allowed him to develop a much better understanding of taijutsu and the movements and instincts that go along with it, and he was very grateful to the people. The only thing to do next was to get more experience as a ninja, and perhaps learn some more about being a ninja.

He was tired and completely spent physically, and decided to just head home and crash on his couch to fall asleep. The next morning was sunday, so it was basically a lazy day for Keita, and his muscles were so sore, that he simply couldn't really do anything. Rest days were very important, and it just so happened that this one was needed a lot. He was going to continue to train his body to keep it as strong as possible, but now that he was a bit more toned, he could be happy knowing that he could actually defend himself. He attempted to do a single push up, and simply couldn't lift himself off of the ground, so he twisted around and sat up. He decided to just make himself a little breakfast. He was craving bakes eggs for some reason, but he wanted to try them.
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