An Old Man Learning New Tricks (Flashback/Training Topic)

The other S-Ranked Shinobi of Yukigakure walked out into a lightly dusted field just outside the village walls and gates, Ezekiel came to this field often when he was going to train. he had honestly missed this very field while he was wandering around the world looking for various unique and mysterious weapons and objects. “I am finally taking the time to learn more Ninjutsu and techniques. I might as well make it easier on myself.” Ezekiel chuckled while he performed the hand signs for Shadow Clone, and he looked to his left as a puff of smoke appeared and an identical version of himself stood next to him in the spot the smoke appeared at. This would allow him to learn and train these techniques from four different categories within Ninjutsu at a much faster rate than normal.

Ezekiel had slacked inches training of Ninjutsu and other chakra based techniques, because he wished to push his weaponry skills, which is how he had gotten better with his swords like Nuibari. “Alright, Alpha. I need you to take the the lower ranking Water techniques. I will stick to wind techniques.” Ezekiel smiled as he took off his weaponry and laid them on the ground near him. The first technique he was going to try would be a Wind Release technique known as The Wind Stream. This technique allowed the user to channel wind release chakra around his body to increase the speeds he could move at while causing a tunnel-vision effect to their vision while buffed.

The technique was rather simple in execution. He would need to perform the Ram and Tiger Handsign, gather wind around his body, and move forward or use a Shadow Clone to push off of. Ezekiel looked a the thin layer of Wind Release chakra around him before bursting forward at his max speed, which did cause his vision to tunnel making the edge of his vision his enemy in that sense. He came to a stop just twenty meters away from his initial point. The technique was rather useful if he needed to dash in at a higher speed to close the distance between targets. The technique was easily learn and he proceeded onto the next one, which was called Wind Release: Great Breakthrough.

Ezekiel would start by performing the techniques a couple of times without channeling the necessary chakra to get the feel and memory of them down. The order went Tiger, Ox, Dog, Rabbit, and ending on Snake. After he performing the needed handsigns, Ezekiel would need to take a deep breath and exhale out his mouth a large gust of wind to see everything in front of him flying back. He performed the technique fully and blew out a huge gust of wind that sent he light amount of snow not he ground up in a swirling burst of wind.

Sitting down on the ground after performing Great Breakthrough, He would glance over at his clone Alpha to see he was performing and doing some technique from the lower class of water release techniques. Alpha would handle the C-rank and D-Rank Water Release while Ezekiel dealt with the C-Rank Wind Release. Ezekiel would actually like the next technique a little bit more than the others, because the technique dealt solely with using wind release chakra on weaponry. The Handsigns were simply Tiger and bird before focusing or channeling the Wind Chakra around Shuriken. Ezekiel pulled two Shuriken from his item pouch, toss them into the air, perform the hand signs, and extends hand out right where the Shuriken would fall. Once they got close to his hand, the wind chakra from the technique would flow out to encase the shuriken causing them to spin slowly while floating in the air just above his palm. [color=crimson]“I absolutely love this technique. It could be very useful in controlling the trajectory of my thrown weapons.” [/crimson]

After thinking to himself about the useful of the previous technique, he was about to try another Wind Release technique that could be useful. These techniques were on the easier part to learn. They were of lower rank and easier difficulty. They would get harder to perform and learn once he got to the higher ranks, like A and S Ranks. He performed the Tiger, Monkey, and Ram handsigns before taking in a large breathe and blowing it out to cause the snow on the ground next to him to fly up to prevent or even hinder the target’s eyes with the snow. Effectively learning all the techniques, He would perform each of them again one by one to make sure he has a handle on them.

By performing ram and tiger handsigns again, he would gather the wind chakra around this body before taking off again back towards his weapons on the ground. He would, again, get the tunnel vision before coming to a full stop right in front of his weapons. He knew that this technique would be useful in dodging techniques and making counter moves. The upkeep of the technique wasn’t taxing on the body, and he was able to quickly perform the two handsigns quicker than most techniques. Repeating the same process for the remainder of the Wind Release Techniques, he would easily master and learn the four techniques he had started with. This would mean that he has two more techniques to learn before we took a look at what his shadow clone, Alpha, was doing to learn the techniques of the elemental type that Ezekiel had given him, which was water.

Standing just in front of his Katanas and Legendary Sword, Ezekiel picked up one of his katana, unsheathed it, and held it in his right hand. The next technique he would learn evolved using only his Wind Chakra and a bladed weapon to perform. Twirling the blade in his right hand, Ezekiel walked forward just enough to provide some space from his shadow clone, which was currently thirty-five meters away from him on another side of the snowy field. Focusing his Wind Chakra into his hand and down the blade of his katana, Ezekiel could see a slight greenish glow begin to form on it. Once the glowing stopped at a bearably seeable level, Ezekiel would swing his sword in front of him to launch a blade of wind from it. He watched the blade fly through the air with some speed before dispelling about fifteen meters away from his position. Smiling at his accomplishment, he would easily observe that the technique would be solid enough to block other bladed weapons, like Kunai and Shuriken.

Breaking away from his train of thought, Ezekiel began to notice that he was exhausting his Chakra pool by performing the techniques numerous times in a row. The chakra drain wasn’t too much for him to handle, but he could definitely see that he was using a lot of his chakra while training these techniques. He had to do this though, because he wanted to stock up on techniques to use in different situations. Waiting back over to his weapons, Ezekiel would sheathe his katana again before turning back to look at his open side of the dusty field. He had hoped that his Shadow Clone was doing the task that the Main Body gave him, because he would easily dispel the Shadow Clone after the training to acquire the information that the Shadow Clone had gained from his training.

The last wind release technique that Ezekiel would be learning was one that could be used with a huge fan or he could use it from his arms. The technique was another easy to learn C-ranked technique, but Ezekiel didn’t have a huge fan to use with it. The technique could easily manipulate the intensity and power of the wind tornado, but he would have to use it as a solo blade of wind that he could launch from his arms. Remembering the needed hand signs were Snake, Dog, and bird; Ezekiel would perform them in his head a couple of times before finally performing them while channeling chakra through his arms towards his hands.

The wind nature chakra would encase his arms and hands after the handsigns were completed, Ezekiel moved his hands in a horizontal line directly in front of him, which caused a large blade of wind to burst forward from his moving arms. The blade would extend out to a length of five meters and it would fly forward a total of thirty meters until it dispelled harmlessly after that. The technique would be rather useful to perform before another attack, because the number of hand signs and preparation for use was all low. The technique could even be used to slice through physical defenses that block the user from getting close to their target. Finishing his section of the techniques, Ezekiel would plop down next to his weaponry to drink a bit of water and eat a little bit of food. This, of course, wouldn’t refresh his chakra fully but it would allow him to continuing training without much hinderance from his chakra usage.

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