Anna's Training

Water Decomposition Technique

The red-haired, blood-red eyed Kazekage had been traveling for days, heading towards wherever she thought the right way was. Hikari Anna was originally planning to head towards the Land of Wind’s open field, but ended up arriving in who-knows-where places. Finally, she fell back to sit on the ground and leaned her back on the tree. She sighed. She still didn’t know where she was, but she was definitely in a forest, seeing the fact that there were only trees in view. She sighed the second time. She was not really tired, but she wondered how she should start her training.

Water Decomposition Technique. A jutsu she, herself, wanted to create. A jutsu of her own. With the use of a single handseal, she can turn chakra-infused objects into water the moment she touched it. Though it wouldn’t obviously affect humans themselves, it could definitely help her a lot in battles.

“Alright. I think I should start now.” She stood and laid her body bag beside the tree.

She wandered her gaze around the forest. This should be a perfect place to train. With all the things she could touch, she would not have any problems with objects to train with. She bent down to pick a stone; a size of a human fist would do, and straightened, her left hand gripping a shiny, smooth-textured rock. She closed her eyes and calmed herself. The place was silent, except for the rustling of the leaves, and chirping of the birds. It was rather a peaceful place to stay, though she wasn’t sure if she liked it or not. Being here, alone, was quite uncomfortable.

“Kage… Bunshin no Jutsu!” a perfect copy of herself appeared beside her and placed her hand over the stone. To start with, she needed an object which possesses chakra, a steady flow of chakra first. The shadow clone proceeded by channeling chakra on the stone. The stone changed its colour into light blue due to the presence of chakra. As Anna felt there’s already enough chakra, the bunshin stopped channeling and immediately dispersed in a soft poof.

She slowly concentrated chakra on her right hand, mixing it with her own water element. No use. Water Decomposition isn’t a water release technique, which means it doesn’t need water element. She stopped releasing water current on the stone, but continued with her chakra.

The stone was solid. One characteristic of a liquid is that the molecules are loosely bound together. So in this case, she used her chakra to loosen the space of the particles. It would technically be impossible in a normal stone, but with chakra-infused one, there’s a chance it would work. A grin curved on her face as she felt the stone turning slowly, very slowly into a liquid. But it’s still not enough. She can’t somehow manipulate it, or use it for a jutsu. In split seconds, she had already figured out the problem. The particles components were still that of granite, or iron or whatever element the stone was composed of. It took quite more time before she came out of a solution.

She raised her other hand, her left, in front of her chest and closed her fist except for the index and middle finger which stood adjacent with each other. It was a half-tiger seal. With the help of the tiger seal which is commonly used for fire techniques, the chakra being transferred to the stone will now possess the ability to reform the particles, changing its components, and turning it to pure water.

She made the flow of chakra faster, with the half-tiger seal as support, and finally, she could no longer grip anything and the ground inches from where she stood was wet. The stone had been successfully turned into water. It was not as hard as she thought. But of course, she was just starting. She was still in the basics.

Next up is the Water Decomposition of chakra-infused intangible things: things that could not be touched such as smoke, fire, lightning or etc. But she figured out it would be just like the process with the stone, though instead of loosening, it would be tightening of the particles. She decided she should take the training one step forward: Water Decomposition of genjutsus

“Bunshin no Jutsu!”

Again, an exact copy of herself appeared in front of her. But unlike the previous one, it was not real. So to say, it’s a genjutsu with no chakra pool of its own. The real Anna touched the bunshin’s shoulder with her right hand and made a half-tiger seal with the other. Concentrating on manipulating the chakra to scatter all over the bunshin and change its property, she’s making fast progress with it. Since she had already figured out the main process involved when she tried it with the stone, she only needed to alter a few minor changes, and, done. The bunshin slowly melted and finally, completely, turned into water. She sighed with her success. She’s progressing faster than she thought.

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It had been 2 days since she started her training. She had had been practicing a lot of different chakra-infused objects non-stop. She had no sleep yet, but she didn’t feel tired. She was too occupied to even notice. And now, she thought she’ll it’s time to upgrade again, starting with revolving chakras.

“Kage…Bushin no Jutsu!”

She made a shadow clone which stood face to face with her. The bunshin picked out a ston, the same size as the previous one, and transferred chakra. But instead of a normal channeling, the bunshin made the chakra continuously move throughout the stone. The real Anna then put her hand over the stone while the other in a half-tiger seal. It was harder than she thought, and needed really deep concentration. But after a few minutes, it eventually turned into a puddle of water. She smiled. She already figured out some shortcuts for this one. She looked at the shadow clone in front of her, and touched it on the shoulder. Unlike the stone, the bunshin turned to water in just a matter of seconds. But she still wasn’t satisfied. In a real battle, the opponent wouldn’t give her seconds to finish her jutsu. She needed to turn something into water the moment she touched it. She relaxed for a bit, sitting under a tree in seiza position, letting her mind drift peacefully, to give her space to relax. Tomorrow, it’ll all be solved. She’ll practice twice as hard as today. She already knew everything she needed to know about it, and all she needed to do was practice. She wanted to do it now, but somehow, the forest’s calm nature was enticing her. Somehow, she’s feeling it. She’s tired, her chakra was drained and she didn’t even realize it before. She’s still excited to try out her new plan, but she could no longer move.

Hah, what’s the rush anyway? I have all the time in the world. she thought.

And as the breeze blew softly, she fell asleep.



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Fire Release: Ablaze

The sound of fast strides echoed inside the forest. And excited yet heavy panting could be heard. She narrowed her eyes as she saw a small streak of light ahead amidst the dark surrounding. She increased her pace, getting close and closer as the streak of light became larger and larger with every step. And finally, light surrounded her as she stepped foot in an open field. No trees, no leaves, just grass; an open space.

Hikari Anna had arrived in her training field.

She was up again for some training – a new jutsu. She named the jutsu Fire Release: Ablaze. The ability to use the fire attribute with the aid of a sword. It was perfect for her weapon, Alastor, since it is a legendary weapon known to be most powerful with fire elemental.

"Reveal yourself and come to me…" her left hand began to glow, and a bright light covered it entirely. "…Alastor, the Flame of Heaven!" a blade emerged from the light, and a 3 feet long sword was gripped by her hand. She raised it in front of her and admired the magnificent shiny blade, the sharper than razor edge, and of course, the very small imprinted kanji letters which stood for “Niotono no Shana”, the greatest blacksmith who made Alastor.

Anyway, she already started with her training. She held the sword with her left hand and carefully focused chakra on it first, then transferred it on the sword carefully. As the chakra entered the sword, she used her fire element and infused it with the chakra. She needed to be careful and make sure the chakra spreads evenly, or who know what might happen. She can feel the sword reacting as though it’s filled with fuel. As the chakra completely engulfed the sword, a spark ignited on the hilt, and immediately, the whole sword was covered in flames, even the handle. But the fire that ran didn’t burn or even hurt her. She grinned. Her sword looked more powerful than before, though it felt quite heavier now. She wanted to try something. Surely it wouldn’t just be covered in flames.

In one quick fluid motion, she swung her sword and slashed through the air. A burst of flames came out of the sword and headed towards where she swung. Good thing it was an open field and not trees were burned as the burst of flames hit the ground with a small explosion. But Anna was still wondering. A burst of fire was release, but she didn’t use even a drop of her chakra. She slashed again several times. Her chakra remained the same. Then, she finally understood the trick.

Alastor, being a legendary weapon of the fire element, is gathering energy from the surroundings and converting that energy into flames. It was the same aspect as in Senjutsu or Sage Art. Anna was astonished at first, but then enjoyed herself as she had once again learned, not just any ordinary jutsu, but a fire release with only a small amount of chakra used.

But there was one problem. She didn’t know how to bring it back to the normal metal sword. She released her hand from the sword, but somehow, it didn’t bulge. It was like it’s stuck on the hilt. She shook it off, but it ended off shooting burst of flames. Then, she figured it out at last. Obviously, the jutsu doesn’t take so small amount of chakra. So that means, in able to release, she needed to apply chakra again, which she did. The chakra engulfed the sword once again, and in an instant, the flames covering the sword went off and dispersed. Her hand was free again, and she can grip and release the sword like before. She smiled again. This technique will definitely be one of her favorite.

She looked around, still smiling as she saw the ground, burned and charred, like there was a huge meteorite which fell from the sky. She turned around and sighed. Then sped inside the forest again to find another place to train.

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Ultimate Water Burst

Her blood-red eyes glowed amidst the darkness, her fire-red hair swayed smoothly behind her as she sped gracefully, almost gliding in the air, faster than the quickest gale/ A smile spread across her face as her heart beat faster of excitement. She definitely had to learn this jutsu. She definitely wanted to. As she hovered inside the forest, she saw a glinting light: her training area maybe. She turned towards the light, and finally arrived in front of a large, fresh blue lake.

Hikari Anna glistened as she fascinated the large body of water in front of her. It was the best place to train, or to create, her new jutsu. Ultimate Water Burst, the ability to make the water – which she had contact through chakra – explode. She had always loud explosions. She reckons they’re exciting.

She dropped the body bag on the ground and made a few stretching. She was still sleepy, but thrilled by the though of learning a new jutsu. She channeled her chakra on her feet, walked back for a bit to gather momentum, then ran and leapt towards the lake. As she landed, there was no splash at all. Instead, it was as if she landed on a flat ground, as she stood on the water, not even an inch of her body wet. She sped towards the center of the lake. She needed ample space.

“Right. Training time.” She grinned.

She crouched down, and placed her right hand in the water. She first needed water which is connected to her through chakra. She closed her eyes and concentrated, letting the chakra flow in the water. She focused her chakra two feet from where she stood. She could feel the stillness of water under the surface. It was calming. Little but little, she contorted the water particles to make them denser and denser. Small bubble began to form exactly two feet away from her. She smiled as she heard the melodious singing of the small bubbles as they continuously popped, and then replaced by another sets of bubbles. Slowly, as she made the particle contents more tightly bound, the bubbles were getting bigger and bigger, and their popping was now louder and faster. The water was also starting to rise on that very same spot. She was getting closer to making an explosion. Few more chakra – she opened her eyes, and the flow of chakra burst out – and two feet from her, a very small explosion occurred. So small that it wouldn’t even paralyze someone’s feet if that someone had been standing there.

She sighed as she sat on the water, and pouted. She expected a really big bang, but ended up with only a loud pop. She closed her eyes and relaxed. She needed to come up with a better solution. And the one she had just tried took too much time to execute. She needed to have the effect of the jutsu the moment her chakra made contact with water. She thought of other ways. What if she uses chakra to put the water particles in a rapid motion to trigger an explosion? But again, that would cost a lot of chakra and it is very time consuming. Deep concentration is also needed. What if she uses chakra to change the water molecules into explosive molecules, altering their thermal energy into nuclear energy like those of grenades and bombs? That would work. But then again, needs deep concentration, and holds no control of how strong or weak the explosion should be. And then, she opened her eyes and grinned. She already figured out the solution. Not time consuming, doesn’t need deep concentration, less use of chakra, and holds control of the explosion. Yes, it was definitely it. She slapped her forehead. It was so easy. Why didn’t she think of that before? The answer was so simple.

She stood, took a deep breath, and exhaled. She grinned. She crouched down again, and placed her hand on the water. She let chakra flow through, but was heading in only one area: water two feet away from where she stood. As the chakra reached its destination, it was time to bring up her solution. Using chakra to alter water particles would really have a lot of drawbacks. But what if instead of altering water particles, change the composition of chakra itself? It was perfect. A ninja can do anything with his chakra, and that includes making it explode. Though only very strong types can do something like that, Anna, herself, can be classified as one. Even an ounce of chakra is concentrated enough to create an explosion that could paralyze one’s hand. And now, as the chakra compiled two feet away from her, she instantly altered her chakra, and a huge explosion occurred. So big that she was thrown far back and her body dived under water.

She swam up and took a deep breath as she reached the surface. She smiled. The plan worked. She rose up and immediately ran towards the shore. Now, she wanted to try something.

As she reached the shore, she picked one stone, and used Water Decomposition Technique. The stone melted into water, and the water flowed out and made a puddle on the ground. Anna then sped far from the water puddle. As she was now 60 feet away from it, she can still sense the chakra that was on the puddle. She made the chakra on the water puddle explode, and a loud explosion was heard. Anna smiled. She had figured out that if was her “own” water, she can make it explode anywhere and anytime she wanted to.

She then practiced Ultimate Water Burst Technique the whole day.

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Lightning Release: Lightning Paralysis

The flame-haired, blazing-eyed girl rested for a moment under a large oak tree. Hikari Anna had been training for quite a while now, and she was a bit exhausted. She wanted to rest, yes, but she wanted to improve her lightning element more. She stood up again, flowing with determination and excitement as she remembered how her custom jutsu would work. This time, she would train a lightning elemental jutsu.

Lightning release: Lightning Paralysis, the ability to utilize the lightning element to shock a person, bringing hi nervous system into a major disturbance, and eventually causing him to be paralyzed.

“Kage…Bunshin no Jutsu!” she performed one hand seal, and an exact copy of herself appeared in front of her. Since no one else was there, and she had no intention of practicing it with other people, she figured out a shadow clone would do.

Ushi, Inu, Uma, Ne. Four hand seals for a lightning element was all she needed as she laid down her left hand in front of her. She felt a slight tingling sensation across her whole arm and the feeling slowly went down, concentrating on the hand itself. Tiny sparks appeared in front of her fingertips, growing larger and larger, and eventually, her whole hand was glowing with visible blue chakra, taking the form of electric currents. The soft sound of electricity could be heard resonating across the dead-silent forest.

She stared at the shadow clone in front of her. It was weird for her to electrocute herself. Thought it was a bunshin, it still looked exactly like her. She raised her left hand, which was engulfed by the chidori-like electricity. The bunshin nodded, and she slowly placed the lightning technique on the bunshin’s chest, and upon contact, the bunshin shuddered for a second. The lightning traveled throughout it’s body.

“Hai (Yes.). For a normal person, he would be paralyzed by now.” The bunshin spoke before vanishing into a soft poof of smoke.

Anna’s face glinted, and she was overjoyed. After a while, she tried channeling the lightning paralysis into different means such as wires, and kunais. Since kunais are metal, when used by lightning paralysis, they are packed with electricity and once hit, they could paralyze the opponent. And lastly, she tried it with water, and to her surprise, it could travel. Obviously, electricity can travel through water, and so, this technique is also applicable to water resources.

A wide grin curved down her face as she sat under the same oak tree again, pretty exhausted and tired, but satisfied with her new jutsu.

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The weather was not that day, and the painful raise of the sun made it even worse. Anna’s blood-red eyes were half closed of boredom and laziness. She sighed as she sat on the ground. She released some water from her hands and filled the puddle of water with that same water. She sighed again, watching the puddle of water emptily. She played with the puddle, stirring the water with her finger, but then it got stuck since the water was combined with some unusual soil and made it sticky/ She pulled her finger, and fortunately it was released. Then, she had an idea.

Water Bind, a spontaneous technique occurring to all her water releases that enables her water to be sticky depending on the concentration of chakra. That meant she can control when to make it sticky and not. She got up, a wide grin on her face.

After walking for a few minutes, she found the place where she decided to train. It was the same forest, but the trees were wide apart from each other, making the area more spacious.

Water Bind is more like a seal than a jutsu since it’s automatically activated the first time she uses a water release in a battle. She wondered how she would train this jutsu. Then, she remembered that she had brought some scrolls containing information about certain jutsus. As she scanned it, she saw a very long series of hand seals for a seal, which makes a certain skill to be pass on to all the rest of the jutsus of the user. Though it was relatively not applicable to her own custom jutsu, with the help of her advanced intellectual capacity, she was able to rearrange the hand seals to match the Water Bind. She did it like she was only solving a complicated anagram.

After she finished analyzing, she stood up, closed her eyes, and relaxed. Then, her hands shot instinctively, forming the seals accurately and rapidly, each seal one-fifth of a second.

Tatsu, Mi, Hisuji, Tori, Inu, Ne, hitsuji, Uma, Saru, Inu, I, Ushi, U, Saru, U, Tori, Ne, Tatsu, I, Ushi, Uma

She performed the seals three times over again, non-stop, the speed of seal per seal was constant, and she performed it gracefully and beautifully perfect, not even a single mental block or hesitation. Finally, she finished the seals with a Tora – a tiger seal. Immediately, she felt different, like her chakra was modified.

The rest of that day, she enjoyed herself playing with her water releases, making them sticky, then non-sticky - adjusting how sticky the water would be.

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Two silhouettes raced thought the woods and creaks of branches could be heard as they moved from tree to tree in breakneck speed. Their excited pants resonated, together with their soft chuckles and giggles.

“Heh, hurry up or I’ll leave you behind, slowpoke.” A soft, yet boisterous voice of a girl spoke first.
“Meanie! You’re just the talk anyway. I’m still faster than you, you know.” The reply came from a girl as well, but this time, the voice was rather tiny and cute.
“Haha! Yeah right. In your dreams, red-eyed wimp.” The first girl spoke once again, followed by a proud chuckle.

Finally, their feet were no longer touching the trees, but were now stepping on fresh green grasses. Hikari Anna’s blood-red eyes glowed in fascination as she looked around the huge open field they were in. No trees, no woods, no ponds – just grass and the cool, gentle breeze of wind which washed over her slim-stature and flame-red hair which now billowed down her back. Beside her was her 19 yr. old jounin friend, Hikari Hanako, who had always treated her as a rival - though Anna never noticed - and was known as one of the best Medical Ninjas of Suna. In turn for making Hanako the participating opponent in the upcoming Hikari Clan’s Rite of Perfection, Anna had requested her to teach her a brand new justsu, which usually, only the highest of medic-nin could accomplish.

Chakra Absorption Technique, the ability to simply absorb the physical and spiritual energy of someone or something with the use of hands for physical contact.

Hanako decided to start with the basic and easiest, yet, probably the most reliable source of chakra: the human chakra itself. She walked towards her, and stopped just right in front of her. Anna looked up at her innocently, wondering what Hanako had in mind. Hanako raised her right hand and placed her index finger on Anna’s forehead. Immediately, Anna felt nauseous. She staggered back and rubbed her forehead.

“Chakra Absorption Technique from people themselves.” Hanako commented as she chuckled. But since Anna has low-chakra control, she didn’t really realize before that her chakra was absorb. Only after Hanako told her. She smiled at the thought that she was going to learn an awesome technique, but frowned at Hanako as she rubbed continued to rub her forehead.

“Let me guess, you’re enjoying this aren’t you?” she pouted. “Pretty much.” Hanako replied.

They proceeded. This time, it was Anna’s turn to try the jutsu. She placed her hand on Hanako’s bare shoulder, and concentrated.

“Now remember: slowly but surely. Once you develop and train the jutsu, you’re be able to absorb faster and – ” Hnarko winced, then crossed her eyebrows as she felt her chakra rapidly being draned. She didn’t expect Anna to learn it this fast. Her chakra continued to be drained, getting faster and faster, until she pushed her back. “Woah woah. What are you trying to do, drain my chakra all the way till I’m dead?” she smiled, feeling exhausted as her chakra was almost depleted. Anna gave a wide smile and apologized, she let Hanako absorb back her chakra. Meanwhile, Hanako concluded that it was time for the next step.

After a few moments, Hanako’s hands moved against each other forming the necessary seals, and the moment she finished, she stretched out her hand in front, and a gush of water rushed out of her hands forming a thick, light blue water wall in front of her. She explained to her the next step: Chakra Absorption of basic jutsus. She placed her hand on the water wall, and after three seconds, the water wall collapsed. Anna, as usual, was thrilled. Basically, Hanako absorbed the chakra in that water, and since there’s no chakra on the jutsu, it naturally collapsed.

Anna applauded, and quickly made the hand seals for Water Release: Water Wall Technique. After a few moments, a wall made of water stood in front of her. Hanako sat on the ground to watch. Now that she saw how fast Anna could learn, she was pretty confident that this training would be over soon. However, as she saw Anna place her hand on the wall, she instinctively rushed to get up and ran towards her. But too late. A big explosion occurred.

“What the hell was that?!” Hanako exclaimed, a few minutes after the explosion happened. Good thing both of them were still in one piece.
“How many times do I have to say it? I’m sorrrry!” Anna pouted. Somehow, Hanako figured out that Anna’s bad chakra control was the cause of the explosion. Anna was only able to absorb her chakra easily because her own chakra was stable. She sighed. This was going to be a long day.

“Here.” Hanako laid a stone on the ground. “It’s chakra filled.”. Anna nodded and quickly picked up the stone. Slowly, but surely, she inserted her own chakra on the stone and used that chakra to pull out and absorb the chakra on the stone itself. Finally, she did it easily. “Just keep doing that”. Hanako yawned while Anna murmured and murmured.

After two hundred stones, Hanako now ordered Anna to make a water wall and use the Chakra Absorption Technique. Anna immediately stood, excited at how she would perform. She hoped no explosion would occur once again. And if that happens, Hanako might just lose her patience and walk out. But she had total confidence on herself anyway. She made the procedures and at last, she stood in front of a water wall. Slowly, she placed her hand on the wall, and did the same process. Hanako was now prepared, on the watch to prevent something from exploding. However, this time, no explosion occurred as the water wall immediately collapsed and turned into a puddle of water on the ground. Hanako let out an exasperated sigh. “At last.”. As long as the first step was done, then it should continue with the rest of the jutsus.
They rested for a moment, after Anna had absorbed approeximately 20 water wall in a row, without a single fail. Once she had done something, she had already mastered it, no matter how hard it was. They took some chakra pills to replenish their system, and then began with the next step: Chakra Absorption Technique of higher level jutsus. But it didn’t take too long for her to use the jutsu on rank B and A techniques. Since she already know the process and the shortcut for executing it easier and faster, she was able to finish the third step quickly.

Two days was spent in training the jutsu, and finally, Anna was able to use it properly, even with the higher level jutsus.

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