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The Inuzuka kid was busy pushing himself off the ground as he continued to count the pushups, he had reached around 150 but was starting to slow down, he could feel how the years hadn't been kind to him, or rather how he had been slacking off for the longest bit. He continued through the pain and felt the heavy sweat build up on his back, his chest was starting to feel strained as the muscle fibers began to tear, and his arms were pumped and almost filled with blood to the point of automatic slowdown. Kitsui reached two hundred before he stopped and pushed himself up to a standing position.

He wiped the sweat off his forehead and watched how the sun was about to rise, Kitsui wasn't usually the one to get up before the sun but today was a special day, he wanted to be out of the farm and train before his mother yelled at him and claimed he was a loser. A sigh rolled off his breath as he began to perform squats, today he was going to train his speed but knew that he needed to work up his muscles first otherwise they would lack the strength to be able to push him off at speeds he wished for.

After he reached around a hundred he could feel his legs starting to ache a little but knew that he would be able to at least perform 300 before his body would force him to stop, which helped boost his confidence, once he reached two hundred he started to work up a sweat, at two fifty he almost wanted to give up and finally when he reached three hundred he fell on his rear. He saluted a jogging neighbor and got the idea to get off his lazy ass and began to jog.

The tour he was going to run would take him through the woods, down a hill, past a large lake, and up a massive peak, his legs ached and cried out to stop but he kept on pushing harder and faster, working up his lunges and almost making them feel like they were about to explode. This training had been very efficient as it had not only trained up his muscles, and speed but also his endurance, or at least activated the old machine to start working again. Man, I feel like I'm 90 years old, I used to be able to clear all this without breaking a sweat. That was an exaggeration but it had been so long since he had done these exercises that his mind had begun playing tricks on him and making him feel stronger than he was.

Aka his mouth ran farther than his money, a chuckle escaped his breath as he finally reached the Kage heads peaks, he collapsed on top of the building and peered over the village he had sworn to protect and uphold, he knew that one day he would make a name for himself, he knew that he would make the Inuzuka family proud. The dog boy sat and wondered what life would hold for him, daydreaming was his thing but today was different, he slapped his knees and pushed himself up to stand before he wiped his nose.

The scent of the village was powerful and proudful, he felt at home by the woods, where he had more control of the environment but the village was nice too, he cracked his neck and began to stretch, the sun had risen above his head and was beginning to cook him. The heat was getting to him, but it wouldn't stop him, he cracked his back then drank some water before getting down on all fours, he channeled chakra then began his four-leggedness transformation. He darted off at incredible speed, vanishing from the spot as a shadow, on the path he cooled off thanks to the kissing wind, dodging and weaving trees and pushing off branches. This is easier than I thought, though my legs are starting to ache a bit, I should be able to push myself a little further, a little faster! The dog boy howled as he darted past a couple walking in the woods.

"What the hell was that?" The man yelled out.

Kitsui was far gone when his sensitive ears picked up their sound, a chuckle escaped his breath as he pushed out of the tree line and skipped across the lake before continuing to dash on all fours up the grass. Shikon was still asleep around this time and missed all the action, normally it was the dog that woke him but from today on he would try something new, or at least try to keep up the program.

Kitsui continued to run until he spotted a nice gap between the tree canopy that was shaped as a massive gap, he figured that he could train his Tsuuga to be aimed in between and try to miss any tree branch, in fact, he could maybe use them to boost his speed and push him towards greater angles. A grunt escaped his breath as he stretched out his arms before he pushed off the ground. "Tsuuga!" He immediately began to spin around like a mad bandicoot, the small gap was seized and the branches were used as he pushed himself further in the forest at great speed.

He landed with a handspring and pushed off, rolled then continued to spin in his Tsuuga form, this time bouncing off the different tree branches, slicing and carving into them as he tried to pick up speed. Come on, you got this Kitsui, just a little bit more and you'll have broken your old record! Even though each bump slowed him down, he still remained firm that he was going to get through this, though at this point his muscles were crying out for him to stop, it's just that he didn't feel like he had pushed himself enough, until he finally crashed in the middle of the forest, exhausted.

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1009/1000 Speed

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Kitsui huffed and puffed, he leaned back against a tree and listned intently to the animal life around him, he soaked in the nature and basked in all its glory, he knew that his morning training worked wonders and would kick in his day, his mind was already processing what he could come up in store, his first thought was to finally finish the legendary Gatsuuga technique, but he knew that Shikon needed a bit more training before he could manage to hold the technique long enough for it to be considered a sucsess, besides, he wouldn't want to embarass himself infront of his mother.

"Sheesh, that would be bad, mother would probably bonk me in the head with breadroller, or just straight up drag me away from there, Father would probably just disavow me right there on the spot for embarassing him in public... heh... Shit."

A sigh escaped his breath, he leaned forwards and felt how the cold dripplets of sweat ran down his face, on the corner of his eye could he see a dropplet hanging of the thread of his hair, a chuckle escaped his breath as he peered towards the sun. I think I got it! Sankaton! His father had already thought him how to shape the sacred technique, his unique chakra blend and mastery of control allowed him to create a red hue that covered his nails. A devastating combination with his Four-Legged technique, as it can also lead to a future technique he hoped to reach one day, Sankatontsuuga!

Though Kitsui wondered how he would shape his, as it didn't necessarily have to be his claws, considering that he could still use them to scratch at his foes but also tie them with ropes and use them for various other techniques, perhaps he could use something else. Kitsui, deep in his thoughts turned to see a deer run through the forest, perhaps heading towards the sacred Nara forest. I love their beautiful antlers, I wonder how it must be to run around with them. Kitsui used his hands to imitate the antlers of the deer before he snapped his fingers.

"All animals have their way of attacking and defending themselves, though only humans seem to be able to combine different weapons and strategies."

I got it! Sankaton Antlers, that way when I attack with them my spin attack they'd have to deal with multiple angles. Kitsui grinned, then sighed once he realised how much work it would take to get to that point. I mean come on... Eh, I can barely control Sankaton as it is and I'm already thinking about controlling it well enough to mentain it through multiple techniques and at the same time be free enough to improvise... Right... Kitsui crouched down and picked up a rock then tossed it, he knew that if he let his thoughts defeat him then things would never be done. He had spent the last two years being free, meaning that he had already spent a bit of his retirement.

"Time to prove it! Are you the one!? Or are you just a lazy loser!"

Kitsui cursed under his breath, his hands were held up a good pair of inches from his face, in his right hand he held a Kunai, which he channeled a good portion of chakra into. He tried to mold the special Sankaton chakra into the blade in hopes of making the blade corrosive on touch, he had read the scroll that his father had allowed him to read from, which had led to him practicing the moves when he found the spot--Kitsui was still lazy afterall.

The red chakra danced around the kunai, creeping ever so slowly towards the center mass. His left eye was closed as he focused on the gap between his hands where the kunai was, he could see the training facility background of which he had relocated to, as he didn't deem it safe to practice Sankaton on his own by the woods, besides it hadn't rained in the last couple of days so he didn't want to risk it. The sun rays beat down on the boy, but he was still determined to get through this practice, he hadn't really rested up from the running, but he knew that once you were activated, you had to go.

The boy wonder took a deep breath and focused within his minds eye, he shaped the chakra after the blades design, he felt how the chakra gripped the blade and started to cater to it, he opened his eyes and witnessed that the blade was covered in Sankaton, which proved that his training had truly worked, he grinned at the thought and began to inspect the weapon, before the tossed it at the dummy.

The kunai the dummy in the chest, Kitsui watched how the knife slowly began to corrode the chest off the mannequin, the results got the Inuzuka hunter to smile, he leapt in the air then performed a backflip in his excitement, before he calmed down and realized that he had only learned the first step on his long journey of becoming a master ninja.

"Pfft, easy money. If I keep this up, I'll be able to most bad ass Inuzuka they ever seen, everybody will want to have Kitsui on their team! Just you wait!"

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*[Annihilation: Introduction]
D-Ranked Sankaton Ninjutsu
Rather than using hand seals, the ninja is required to put their hands in a specific formation, as if gripping a basketball with each hand. As they do this, a .5x.5x.5m diameter film of pure Sankaton chakra is created in the space between their hands. The film can then be moved around and controlled within a 10m area of the user, weakening the strength of anything that passes through it by [Control] strength, and causing anything smaller than the film to completely disappear.