A month has passed since I rejoined the pack and they have been drilling me to the bone. I'm under body refinement and jutsu perfection before they let me train senjutsu as they want guiness to teach me once we retrieve him from the horse tribe. I've been trying to perfect scorch style jet mode but all I've managed to do since is over heat, pass out and puke some blood. Under debate from the rest of the wolves it's been decided I need a lung related technique.
Fortunately we are heading to a place where one exists, the horse tribe location is on the edge of the land of wind which means I can visits shira and learn his heavily breath technique. I explained that it was similar to the 8 gates but relies on the lungs so if I acquire the basis of the technique I can reformat it to suit the jet style.
Other than the jet style I've been working on my combat skills and my cooking. Terry invited two of his friends to train with me, a snake called Quinn and a crow called kiss. They are hard opponents due to their speed and strengths as well as their species jutsu. Kiss is hard to deal with in the air so I just ended up firing my knives and forks at him. My aim has improved dramatically thanks to it while kiss improved his aerial manoeuvring.
Quinn is incredibly durable and long even compared to the other snake summons. His flexible scales are another pain I learned to deal with by refining my cutting power through precise wind nature control on my cutlery. My speed in dodging his attacks also improved which leaves my main issue.
Genjutsu! I focused all my attention on body refinement, learning jutsu and perfecting old ones my genjutsu lacked improvement. Yūhi are meant to be good at genjutsu according to my sister as our father and grand parents were. So I'll be training my mind as we travel.
We left and have been running for days which had been horrifying stamina training for me but with my lungs and heart that have transformed via the three tails I could keep up. We entered the land of wind within 5 days and were heading towards sunagakure but decided to change direction. If I remember shira lives along the northern border so I asked to head in that direction which the pack agreed. Mama cloth chose to carry me on my back after I cooked up some massive scorpions for the pack.
Scorpions don't do anything for me or Kurenai even though they are good for poison resistance. The wolves loves it however they said the dishes made their tongues tingle which must've been the high amounts of poison. I'm immune to so many now I can confirm that only Orochimaru or shizune could poison me.
Mama cloth escorted me to the village where I snuck into. In the back of the village I saw a young boy in spandex throwing punches and kicks while training. That must be shira I thought to myself so I walked towards him "excuse me are you shira?"
"Yes who may you be?" "My name is Toriko yūhi and I'm a friend of Gaara". "Kazekage-sama?!? He was just here. He inspired me to train harder than ever. He said he faced someone with a similar taijutsu to the one I practice".
"That's correct, his name is rock lee and he practices a technique called the 8 inner gates. I heard about your technique being reliant on lungs and would have liked to learn it if I could? I'm willing to pay for it so you could use the money for better equipment".
His stoic face betrayed him as I could see the sparkles in his eyes. "I would be delighted to yūhi-san". After that was an explanation towards what the breathing method is. The method allows one to collect massive amounts of oxygen and expand the lung capacity to exert greater strength on the body. The seven breaths as he called them were a measurement into how much he could intake personally and what their effects were when he inhaled a certain amount.
He taught me the basis of the technique that allowed me to collect the oxygen to strengthen my body. So when I performed it I felt much outer oxygen pump through my body. I needed to heat the air to cause the steam to perform the jet series so I used scorch chakra to heat it and wind chakra to guide it through my pathways. When it entered my bloodstream the veins were burdened even though they were refined by the three tails so I decided to use one of tsunade sensei's techniques.
Tsunade taught me to self heal myself at a molecular level like her however the control and chakra requirements are massive so she uses the hundred strength seal. I don't need to heal the cells so I begin using healing chakra alongside the wind and scorch chakra to heal the veins which strengthens them after they regenerate.
After a few cycles I was able to train my body to handle the new scorch style; jet mode. The process is using the heavenly breaths to gather and compress the air making it purer then using scorch chakra to heat it and wind chakra to guide it into the blood stream. After it enters leave it on a cycle so it runs itself so I can focus on healing the veins and strengthening the organs. This technique increase my speed and power drastically while also acting as a body tempering technique. It raises my heat tolerance and strengthens my viscera and veins while purging impurities from my blood.
After spending several hours perfecting the technique while shira watched baffled by me instantly creating my own version. After finishing I thanked him and paid him handsomely. I spoke off how he is an amazing shinobi to develop such a technique and how he could push himself so far. I then explained the stages of the inner gates and what they look like on a body to inspire him to develop further.
He thanked me as I left while using jet mode which let me easily catch up to the pack. They were excited to see me in jet mode. My skin is flushed pink with some steam being released from my body. My blue hair darkens a little to black and my muscles seem to become more prominent while I perform it. I have a resemblance to Luffy in his gear 2 state as I based mine off his and toriko's.
After a short party to celebrate where I cooked a feast for everyone using the camel meat I purchased in the village to strengthen myself. Camels are able to store water in their bodies while I store and digest poison meaning they should be able to do something for me. I barbecued the hump directly over some coals I sourced from the land of stone which made the hump steak juicer and more flavoursome which is due to its high fat content.
I also ground up the meat and used it to make gourmet burgers with some papaya chutney for extra zest. The wolves loved it but they got a little out of hand after desiring to raid and destroy a camel farm for more meat. Mama cloth was the worst so old jiro got involved to stop her. She's excited to take guiness back and even told some of the other females she wants more pups. Terry was not pleased to hear the ins and outs of his parents relationship so naturally I encouraged her. It was a fun night before more days of running.
Soon we came upon a massive valley that seemed to team with life on the other side. I prepared myself for a fight and march in with the rest of the pack.