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[indent][indent][Center][COLOR=goldenrod][sup][b]Konohagakure | Chunin | NinTai-nin[/b][/sup][/COLOR][/center][hr][INDENT][sup][COLOR=goldenrod][b]TIME:[/b] [i]Present Day - Morning[/i] | [b]LOCATION:[/b] [i]Kohonagakure - Training Field[/i] | [b]INTERACTION:[/b] Hokage Clone, [color=a187be]Cloudy Eyes: The Sequel [/color] [@Ladyinink], [color=a3f4e4]Light the Way[/color] [@Grey Sama] [color=red]Gonna Build that Wall[/color] [@BladeX]
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[indent]It had been a few weeks since the disaster that was the Jounin Exams had occurred. It didn’t start as such, of course, but as things had progressed further, unbeknownst the Jaakuna at the time, there had been an attack on the village by some group of maniacs. Truth be told, it wasn’t until after it was all said and done did Jaakuna become informed about what had actually happened. Of course, it wasn’t until he was told about that he found out that the former Hokage had fallen in the field of battle. To what Jaakuna had been told by those who had a first-hand account of it, he had fought bravely against those that wished to harm the village. The details had missed Jaakuna by a mile, but there was one thing that had been clear and that had stuck with Jaakuna: this new enemy — whoever they were — were strong enough to take out the Hokage, so as a member of the village that he had literally protected with his life, Jaakuna made a vow to get stronger no matter what it took.

And for the past few weeks, Jaakuna had spent his time training nonstop. After the events of the Jounin Exams, he had been training out in his usual spot in the Third Training Ground, though he wasn’t out in the open. During that time, Jaakuna was doing his best to hone his skills and he had been secretly working on ways to incorporate his other chakra natures into his hiden, Honō no gutai-ka. After a several days of failing to do so, one day last week, when he had punched forward, fire came out as it usually did, however, at the end of the stream, he felt a jolt of lightning appear for one, short second at the end of the stream of fire. It was brief, sure, but there was something there. And so, for the remainder of each and every session he went for, Jaakuna would focus all of his efforts of replicating that.

It was a tough road for him with all things considering, but Jaakuna eventually found out the quickest way to get the lightning to appear. By exerting that to the point where it wouldn’t be available, he would be able to force out his lightning nature. Jaakuna would continue this process for as long as he could each and every day until the day before last, he nailed it. He was able to not only exert a continuous stream of lightning, but he was able to get a firm grasp on how to manipulate it. It wasn’t as free-flowing as his fire nature was. Lightning striked with such a precise accuracy that, unlike using fire nature, he couldn’t just eyeball it. He had to time his motions perfectly. There wouldn’t be no such thing as a “well it was close enough”. Unlike fire nature, lightning nature, despite its pseudo-chaotic nature, was a kind of chakra nature that demanded absolute accuracy. It was like wind nature in that sense. As such, when Jaakuna had failed to do what he set out to do, he would repeat, repeat, repeat until he succeeded. 

For days leading up until the present day, whenever Jaakuna wasn’t doing his daily missions around the village. Or when he wasn’t on a mission, he was out in the training field doing what every good ninja did when they had a strong motivation to get stronger did: he trained until he couldn’t trian any longer. Through blood, sweat, and tears, Jaakuna’s chakra would be exerted each and every day(with one in between every three being used for rest). 

This continued to the present day, which at this very moment, he was out in the training field preparing his body to try and perfect this new jutsu. He had realized since he got a handle on it that this newfound lightning emerging through his fire was tied to his hiden and at this point in time, he had an 85% accuracy of drawing out the lightning right away. Only after one or two bursts of fire did lightning overtake it. And, as Jaakuna ran forward towards a series of white targets marked with a single, circular point in the center, his body began to feel his lightning chakra gather up inside it. He jumped up and just one foot off the ground, Jaakuna flipped forward. In a simultaneous motion, lightning crackled around all four limbs and shot out a small burst of lightning chakra at four individual targets. Though, as Jaakuna would land on both of his feet, seeing smoke come from four different corners, he noticed that only three were struck. The other pillar of smoke came from a tree that was now fashioned with a thin hole thru it.

[color=goldenrod]“Still no good.”[/color] Jaakuna cursed himself. 

Now he had to do the work of making more of those targets. Once he did, he set them up, and prepared himself to go at it once more. However, just before he would, someone appeared before him. It was the new Hokage. He didn’t seem to be one to beat around the bush, so he just stated what he need to say and left Jaakuna to his devices. Apparently, Jaakuna was going to be apart of a four-man squad en-route to Kumo. This meant two things: number one, Jaakuna was hand-picked for a special ops mission that was certainly going to be good for his mission completion list. However, the second thing meant, obviously, he couldn’t train until he got back from said mission. REgardless, Jaakuna would made haste.

Well, as soon as he was able to, at least. He had to run by his house real quick to gather a few things and then he was heading towards the west gate to meet up with the rest of his team. Upon arrival, he was thrilled to see Kiku on his team once more. [color=goldenrod]“On the same team once again, it seems.”[/color] Jaakuna let out a snicker, hearing Kiku’s words about them making haste. [color=goldenrod]“Yeah, I’m good over here, so whenever y’all are ready, let’s hit the old dirt road!”[/color]

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