Arashi finally made his way home and didn't stop at the door to slip off his shoes. He felt that he didn't have the time to do that and just ran right in. His parents weren't home. His dad was probably preparing for the war and his mother was probably out helping with village reconstruction. He rushed to his room and went through his closet to find what he was looking for. He found his wrist and ankle weights where he tossed them as well as the wristbands that he used to hide the former. He wore long pants and his weights weren't thick enough to cause people to notice so he felt like he didn't need to hide them with any leg warmers or anything like that.

He put everything on and started walking out of his room. He could hear the floorboards creak beneath him as he walked. Yeah, they were just about as heavy as the day before. He finally made it back to the door and was met by the sight of his mother. She didn't like the use of weights for training so he especially had to hide it from her. He looked up at her and just now realized how much she looked like the first Hokage's rival. He knew that she was from the same clan, but he was sure that she wasn't a direct descendant. It made him wonder how big of a threat this Hashirama guy was. He couldn't really be that big of a problem if he was as old as he should be, right? He didn't know of any jutsu that could keep people young. There was always a possibility though.

He waved to his mother and rushed off. His training began now. He started running away from his home and felt the weights adding more to the training. They made him feel heavier and slower and he always felt like he could be ready to quit at any moment, but that wasn't going to happen. Arashi Uchiha wasn't a quitter. He was starting off slow in his run and slowly picked up pace as he went along. His destination was the mountains of Konoha. He was told this was where some of the greatest shinobi trained. He wanted to be one of those greats.

Arashi arrived at the base and looked up to the challenge before him. He had climbed the mountains before, but not with weights on. He tried before, but was usually worn out by the time he got to this point. This time was different. He still had the energy left to do this or at least that's what he believed. He reached behind his back with his left hand to make this even more challenging than it already was. He didn't like taking shortcuts in his training so this was going to be the way he was going to do it.

He started climbing up only using his legs and right arm. He could feel the weights bearing down on the protruded rocks on the mountain. Time seemed to drag on as he slowly made his way higher and higher. When he got to the point where he had to transition into an upside down climb he could really feel himself wanting to quit, but he couldn't. He was halfway there. If he quit now then he might as well die. He really might as well have. Climbing back down wouldn't be as easy from this point if he was already struggling. He could slip and fall to his death if he wasn't careful.

He used the recent events to motivate him. Seth wasn't the only one who left someone during the Pain Invasion. He was confronted by one of them and Sasuke appeared out of nowhere and told him to run. He hesitated, but still ran regardless. He left him there and then found out that he had died then. That crushed him. He wanted to believe that if he would have stayed then they could have defeated him together. Just thinking about it brought tears to his eyes. The tears mixed with the sweat around his face causing the mixed liquids to fall to the ground below. He continued to climb and almost slipped, but regained his balance. He couldn't die here. He had to keep moving forward. He had people counting on him.

[color=ed1c24]"Big Brother Sasuke... I'm sorry. I shouldn't have left you there. Hayashi, Seth, Akio Sensei, Itachi, Rin, and even you Izu. I won't run away ever again. I won't leave any of you to die. I swear it..."[/color] Speaking seemed to make this even harder. He decided to shut up until he got to the top. It wasn't like these guys were there to hear him say any of it.

After a while Arashi finally made it to the top and climbed over. When he did he fell down and started to pant. He'd call this second part of training complete. It was time for part three. But a break sounded nice.