Episode Three: "Solo Training to the Max!"

Jiang sat there absolutely clueless on what to do now. He had trained yesterday with his Sensei and they still had not gone on their mission. It had been two days of hard work. Jiang felt that he was ready to at least begin some type of mission. He decided to go do some solo training without the rest of the team. He quickly got to the forest of death and decided to climb a tree. What was good about the forest of death was that everything was extremely large (the trees being no exception). He go to a tree he liked that was fairly tall and closed his eyes. He created the rat hand seal with his hands and began charging chakra to the soles of his feet. He then opened his eyes and got a charging start at the tree. He began running up the tree upright. About a few meters deep he began to lose focus. He grabbed a Kunai knife from his pouch and made a slashing mark at the tree. He then launched himself off the tree and dropped down easily. He panted heavily as he looked up at the tree. “This is no joke” he said. He placed his hands in the hand seal again and began charging chakra to the soles of his feet. He then got a charging head start and began running upright against the tree. As soon as he felt he was about to sleep he took that kunai and marked the spot. “Damnit I was lower”

Jiang panted as he lay on one knee and the other almost up. His eyes were focused on the tree. He would have continued his training but his chakra and body were exhausted. Jiang thought it best that he should continue on his training with the physical aspect. He began to stretch his body to prepare him for the brutal training he was about to take part in. After he finished his stretching he thought about what he was going to train first. He decided he would train his strength since that would be the most important thing in battle. He got on his hands and lifted his body upright. His legs dangled in the air and blood rushed down to his head. Jiang stuck out his head so he wouldn’t faint. He began walking around the tree several times on his hands building up his physical endurance. As he walked his hands began to get wobbly and he fell over. He got back up and dusted himself off. He needed something to do to keep him alive and ready for a mission. He decided he would train his speed. That would also be the most important. Jiang leaped on top of a branch and placed his hand on the trunk to keep himself steady. He then began leaping from branch to branch as fast he could. He would continue north till he got about twenty miles in which was barely halfway to the center building of the training area. After he got about twenty miles in he stopped and set up camp. He decided he would stay the night in the forest of death so that he would benefit from his training a lot more. He set up a fire and caught a few fish and waited till dusk.

At dusk Jiang placed the fish over the fire and began to think about his goal’s in life. “I want to be a master of Taijutsu and Ninjutsu. I also want to be a splendid ninja” He told himself as he began to cook the fish by turning it. He knew animals would come because they would be drawn to the food so he hurried up and eat and then put out the fire. He had to move from his location quickly or he would die. He leaped up to a branch and then noticed something heading in his direction. It was a giant centipede. Jiang rose and eyebrow and responded to this occurrence. “Are you serious? Does the Centipede have to be that Big?” He jumped back and grabbed three kunai knives and threw them at the head of the giant Centipede. As the blades hit Green ooze spewed from the head of the Centipede. “That’s freaking disgusting” He commented as he watch the events unfold. He can then feel something behind him. He was breathing heavily. Jiang was afraid to turn around and be slapped by his mother who he thought it was. But this was not his mother. He could feel the warm breath sit on his neck. Jiang jumped foreward and then turned around grabbing a Kunai just in case. He looked at the Giant bear who had followed him. Jiang quickly threw the Kunai at his leg to slow him down a bit. He sighed as he sat there having a giant stare down with the bear. “So how is this going to work?” He asked the bear. The bear looked at him and grunted loudly. Jiang who had no Idea what he was trying to get at took that as an interpretation of “Get off my Turf.” Jiang cracked a smile and said “Dumb bear, You smelled the fish didn’t you. You greedy piece of” It was right then his sensei appeared. Tokuzen sighed and said “Don’t use that fowl language please. You are on team 8 conduct yourself with the proper respect.” He then sent the bear flying with a great punch and looked at Jiang. “We have a mission tomorrow so I’m going to need you to get some rest” Jiang smiled and said “Is It an S-ranked Mission?” Tokuzen shook his head and said “No it’s a d-ranked mission. Now Sleep!”