First Training

[Gara]

Yukio knew he had been slacking off when it came to training with his Hyouton, actually with all training really, and had decided that it was time he start training again. He stood on the frozen lake that he had saved Naoko from a few weeks ago, though he was playing more than training at the moment, because he was running around and sliding across the lake on his feet. Yukio was not going to work on any new jutsu, at least not at first, but instead wanted to make one of his current jutsu stronger. To use this jutsu Yukio would need to find an open field, and he had one in mind. Yukio walked across the lake, through the trees, and into a nice sized field that would be perfect jutsu he wanted to practice with. He wanted to practice with his Tundra and Frozen Forest jutsu in hopes to make them stronger. Yukio quickly formed the seals for his Tundra jutsu, and stomped on the ground, sending his Hyouton chakra into the ground. Yukio could see the effects of his jutsu taking place, the grass began freezing over slightly, and as it did he formed the seals for Frozen Forest, stomping on the ground once more to activate it. Yukio was irritated that even though he had added more chakra into each jutsu they remained the same, and so he decided he was going to do it over and over again until he got the results he wanted or could no longer stand.

With birds singing in the trees and rodents running through the grass Yukio trained his heart out. Over and over he performed the seals for each jutsu, and he stomped on the ground so much his leg was beginning to hurt. Failure after failure, and Yukio could not figure out what was causing them. Finally it got to the point where he was to tired to stand so he slumped against one of his icy spires, his eyes drooping without his consent. He slipped into a sleep so deep that not even the ice behind him bothered him, yet that was not what he saw. Standing in front of him was a girl no older than fourteen, obviously an Aisu, yet she had ice growing from her body, which was definitely not something the Aisu did. Come on, you're not that old. Get up! I know you can do it! Just one more try and you can sit back down! Yukio was not sure who this girl was, but he trusted her, and some how knew exactly what she was talking about. He stood up, forming hand seals and released more chakra from his body than he ever had before, and the result was something he never expected. Hyouton chakra poured from every vein in his body, and once it hit the air it turned into ice, though it did not stop there. Once all of the chakra escaped his body Yukio was in the center of a massive golem formed from his ice. He knew that he had to be at least sixty feet in the air, and still the golem was even bigger. The girl on the ground was jumping for joy as Yukio ended the jutsu, falling back to the ground with a soft thud. he had landed on his feet, but he was so tired that he collapsed as soon as they touched. You did it! I knew you could! Naoko is going to be so proud that you finally did it! Hey? Da... Just as soon as his eyes closed Yukio woke up. Looking around he saw all of his icy spires, but no girl. Weird dream, but I think I know what I have to do now. During his dream, when he had used the massive golem jutsu, Yukio had released more chakra from his body than he had ever before, and he thought he knew how he did it.

Yukio had always been to afraid to use to much chakra, not only because he ran the risk of dying, but because if he did his opponent would have the upper hand. He knew now that he had to get over this fear in order to progress any farther, because the stronger techniques needed more chakra. It wasn't easy though, letting go of such a strong fear. He sat in the same spot, as still as he could, focusing on the way his chakra moved through his body. Every ninja had eight gates, this was common knowledge, but Yukio had set up his own "gates," by constantly restricting the amount of chakra flow in parts of his body. He felt his chakra race through his body, and every time it "slowed down" he would surge even more chakra through the "gate" pushing it open. He sat in the same spot doing this for about two hours, which not only gave him more time to recover from using so many high ranked jutsu, but also gave him time to prepare for what he was about to try. One of his strongest "gates" was located in his spine, where the ice splinters Ryota put into his spine were, and once he opened the "gates" he would surely be in much more pain. Yukio took a deep breath, and blasted them open, as soon as he did his body crumpled over in pain. Yukio was motionless for a good amount of time as his body grew used to the new amount of pain, and once he stood up it was obvious just how much of a toll the pain was taking on his body. Yukio formed the seals for Tundra once more, and stomped on the ground, sending such a large wave of chakra into the ground that his jutsu almost doubled in size. After performing the seals for Frozen Forest he stomped on the ground again, and once more the jutsu was much bigger.

Once he had accomplished this Yukio moved on to a new task. Just adding chakra to a jutsu to make it bigger did not increase his skill in Ninjutsu, it helped knowing he could use more chakra when he needed to, but he still needed to increase his actual skill in using it. Mass production was good, but there was no skill in it. Yukio had heard stories of Aisu from the days before Kirigakure was formed that could manipulate the ice without using a jutsu, they could literally bend the ice to their will, and this was what Yukio hoped to achieve. Yukio placed his hands on one of his spires, and began to push his chakra into the ice, staying completely focused on what he wanted. When he tried to make the spire grow simply by willing it to grow nothing happened. Yukio knew it would not be easy, and knew that he may never be able to do it, but still he practiced. Instead of trying to make the entire spire grow Yukio decided he would try and create a tiny spike of ice on the side of it. Yukio took a deep breath, and as he released it he released his chakra into the spire, and emptied his mind. All that was in his mind was the spire in front of him, and a tiny spire growing off of it. When Yukio opened his eyes and looked at the spire he about screamed out in joy, for there in front of him was a tiny spike of ice half an inch tall growing off the original one.

[Gara]

As Yukio was celebrating his success he fell over, flat on his face in the snow. There had been such a sharp pain that shot through his back that he had passed out.The splinters of ice in his spine were growing, as they now had a stronger source of chakra thanks to his Ninjutsu training. The splinters threatened to break his spine as they grew, it was a jutsu of Ryota's that Yukio had to live with, but then something happened, something not even Ryota would have expected. Because the splinters were feeding off of Hyouton chakra instead of normal chakra like the jutsu was designed they began to grow much more rapidly than normal, spreading through out his entire body. As the splinters grew larger and larger Yukio's body began to react, to change and mutate in order to protect itself. To stop the ice from causing hypothermia, or frostbite his body dropped its temperature to such a degree that his skin was tinted blue, and his lips became a deep blue-ish purple, and to keep the splinters to keep from doing damage to his bones, all of them were covered in a thin layer of protective ice, including his spine. His body changed so much that there was ice growing on the outside of his body. In fact, his body had gotten so cold that the splinters could no longer do any damage to him, other than cause minor pain. Yukio was out cold for hours as his body changed, and mutated, and when the sun fell and Yukio had not returned home his daughter started to worry. Yukio had never been this late when he had promised her something, and he was supposed to be home over eight hours ago. After Kaori screamed and begged nonstop for an hour her grand mother sent out two of Yukio's cousins to look for him.

They knew he often visited the frozen lake just outside of the village, so that was where they looked first. When they did not see him at the frozen lake the began to search the woods around it for any signs that he had been there, and when one of them found the field filled with his icy spires she screamed for the other one. The ran through the spires every direction the could, until they found Yukio out cold on the ground, ice growing out of his body. They immediately took him back to the clan compound, carrying him on their shoulders, as they did not want the village to see what had happened to him just yet. When the some of the best medics from the clan looked over him they determined that his body was changing, mutating to protect itself. They could not find anything wrong with him, other than the fact that he was out cold; All his vitals were normal, he was breathing just fine. Yukio's cousins laid him in his bed, and one of the clan's best medics would come and check on him every couple days, but it was a week before Yukio woke up. They found that if you touched his skin for to long that you could get frostbite, and after running some tests while he was awake, they found that despite the change in temperature his body worked completely normal. It took a while for Yukio to get used tot he changes, and even longer for him to go out in public with out covering all of his skin out, though he still did it from time to time since he felt like everyone was staring.