Hyuuga Tetsuya, the first step

The training ground was empty, at least for the most part. Small birds and animals were singing and scuttling about as a soft cool breeze picked up a small flurry of leaves and carried them across the opening. The lone figure moving about the training field was relatively oblivious to the bit of wildlife around him, his mind mostly focused on his movements instead of his surroundings. A rookie mistake from a rookie Shinobi, as anyone who would make the attempt could sneak up on him.

His name was Hyuuga Tetsuya, and he was a member of the main branch of the Hyuuga family. Currently, he was beginning a series of trainings for the day to strengthen and develop different skills and abilities important to all Shinobi, and was starting with some shadow fighting to work on his tiajutsu. He had not yet learned the finer points of the Jyuken style of fighting, but he was familiar with the basic movements if not the application of striking chakra points yet. Starting in a right lead stance, he invisioned an opponenet across from him and began the training. His right hand countered and brushed a quick jab, pushing the straight attack to his outside while taking an inward step with his left foot, moving in close to his imaginary opponent. With his quick counter pushing the enemy's momentum outwards and his left foot now between their legs, Tetsuya would bring his left hand up and smash the backside of it into the shadow's face. Following through with the motion, he drew back his left shoulder, squaring himself and launching a hard open right hand to the non-existant opponent's mid section, causing them to double over while his left hand reach around the back of the opponent's neck and pulled it down while his right knee would come up to make contact with their nose, likely breaking it and causing the enemy to stumble backwards in a daze. The final kill shot would come at this point as he would step forwards with his right foot, push up and off the ground to gain some air and deliver a powerful left round house kick to the side of the shadow's head, knocking them spinning through the air.

Tetsuya's breathing was elevated, and anyone looking on would have just seem him jumping and striking at the thin air, but the mental and physical combination of shadow fighting was an excellent way to both work the body and develop strategies that could be used in a real fight. With a slight grunt of confidence, he struck up a left lead stance and prepared to start again with his exercise.

Standing in his left lead stance, Tetsuya reimagined the opponent standing across from him, ready to continue the fight. Being a fighter who believes in a defend and counter then attack style of fighting he waited for his shadow opponent to make the first move. This time it was a hammer strike aimed at striking a powerful downward blow on Tetsuya's skull. Reacting quickly, he brought both arms up into a cross block with his right forarm closer to his opponent and his left closer to himself. In a single fluid motion, Tetsuya's right wrist twisted and his right hand curved around the outside of the opponent's forarm. He stepped in towards the right foot of the enemy, closing the gap quickly while he brought his right arm down, forcing the shadow's down as well, causing him to lose his balance and have to adjust to his left, thus turning slightly from Tetsuya. Now holding his opponent at an odd angle, his right hand grasping the right wrist of the slightly off kiltered enemy, Tetsuya brought his left hand down, targeting the opponent's elbow and smashed through it, bending the elbow at a clearly awkward and broken angle. The shadow would react to the pain, trying to move away from the source but the young Hyuuga maintained his firm grip as he brought his right foot up and down on the outside of the shadow's right knee, smashing it with a cracking noise that would have echoed through the empty field. Now with a broken right leg and arm, the enemy would be severly hampered in a hand to hand fight, but that would not stop a highly skilled shinobi, especially a ninjutsu or genjustu type ninja.

With a slight adjustment, Tetsuya slipped his right foot behind the broken right leg of the shadow and, letting go of the right arm, brought it up into a quick cloths line and would force the opponent onto their back, where he would not waist any time with bringing his foot down onto their chest, neck or face, which would surely either kill or knock out an opponent. With his shadow enemy defeated for a second time, Tetsuya sighed and took a slight moment to clear his mind before placing his palms on the ground and pulling himself up into the handstand position, preparing himself to begin the second part of his training plan.


ooc: Taijutsu Training/846 words

Tetsuya took a brief moment to check his balance as he stood on his hands, his legs and core tightened to create a strong slightly arched point above him. Everytime he did this, he felt the slight rush of blood rushing to his head, and so he waited until his mind cleared, keeping his body in the hand stand position until he was ready to begin the second part of his training. Bending his neck slightly so that his eyes were looking forwards, he began to move forward on the palms of his hands. Tetsuya moved slowly at first, focusing more on maintaining his form and balance than on how fast he was moving. However, once he had a solid hold on his muscle movement and was in total control of his form, he began to move more quickly. His arms began to pump faster and faster as Tetsuya started doing laps around the training area. Soon his face was dripping sweat onto the ground while his hands became steadily covered in a fine layer of dirt, and there were small finger sized holes all along the route that he was doing his laps on from his hands digging into the ground to generate more traction while he moved. He needed to build up the strength and agility in his arms, and running in the hand stand position also helped him develop strength and control of his core and leg muscles, having to keep them flexed to maintain the position. Every time he completed a lap, Tetsuya would stop for a moment and push himself up onto his finger tips, and from there he would start to do push-ups. The wonderful thing about push-ups is that they both increased your strength and your reaction speed, and by pushing himself up onto his finger tips he would be increasing his finger strength as well, which would be important for landing solid and precise strikes on his enemies chakra points while using the Jyuken style of fighting. After each set of twenty five finger tip push-ups, he would start another lap around the training field. Still being a young Shinobi, he only managed ten laps before he had to stop the hand stand running and finger tip push-ups, but his strength and speed training was not quite finished.

While he had done a good upper body workout, he still needed to work on his lower body before moving onto the final part of his training routine. Marking off a forty five stretch of the training field with small lines dug into the ground opposite of each other. Taking up a runner's stance behind one of them, he exhaled slowly and then took off from the starting position, accelerating as quickly as he could to reach his maximum sprint. When he reached the other mark in the ground, he slowed down just a fraction to reach down and touch the line before making a tight turn and sprinting back towards the other line. Once he crossed the line, Tetsuya put his hands behind his head, clasped his fingers together and started dowing squats. After twenty five squats, he got back onto the line and launched himself across the marked off section of the training field as fast as his body could go once again, and once again when he had raced back to the starting position, he took up his squat position and rattled off another twenty five before getting back to his sprinting. Small clouds of dust popped up into the air with every step that he took as his feet ground small craters into the ground as he pounded his way back and forth between the two lines. His heart was beating quickly, his breath was coming even faster, and a small river of sweat had begun to run down his body before he finally stopped the running. Allowing himself to fall to the ground, he smiled slightly as he had just finished fifty sets of sprints and squats, a new personal best.

After a few moments of relaxing, Tetsuya sat up straighter and folded his legs together into a lotus position and prepared for the final part of his training that day.

ooc: Stat Training/ 702 words

Once he was situated in the Lotus position, sitting quietly under the shade of a large tree by the egde of the training field, Tetsuya closed his eyes and began to take control of his breathing and focusing his mind. His breath began to steadily slow as he focused on developing control on another part of his body, his Chakra. The fusing of his spiritual and physical energies into his Chakra, which allowed him to use his jutsus, was just as important as training his physical body. Focusing on his internal energies, he began to feel the blue energy flowing through his chakra network. The longer he focused, the more he was able to feel the two energies swirling around his heart, fusing into the chakra that steady flowed out and through the rest of his body. With total concentration, he focused on tapping into that energy and channeling it through the use of various hand seals, creating the ninja magics that every shinobi relied upon. With time, he began to increase the flow to different parts of his body, controling the energy and working it slowly to try and increase its power. Being able to focus his chakra woulld be vital to learning the Jyuken style of fighting as well as all of the various special Hyuuga clan techniques. Gradually a very faint aura could be seen around the meditating Hyuuga as he slowly increased and decreased the flow of his chakra to different points, putting his energy and chakra network through a workout of its own. Right now he had little chakra compared to most established shinobi in the village, but with more time and training he would be able to greatly increase his own. Nearly and hour passed by before Tetsuya had finished his meditative work on his internal energies. Openeing his eyes, he tried to stand up but stumbled into the tree, using it to maintain his balance. The days work had certainly taken its toll on him, he would need some rest before continuing with any other activities that day. And so he went home to relax a bit before seeing about any missions that may be available to do.

ooc: Chakra Training/365 words