- 2 years later -
~ unknown training ground ~
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{Houzu pov}
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*BOOOOM!*
Amidst the forest along the village walls an explosion could be seen as Houzu summoned and sent more demonic looking insects towards his opponent.
'Ember insects!'
The opposing figure leaped and dodged from tree to tree as they evaded every creature with ease as they detonated. The resulting explosions were large enough to the point they could destroy city streets.
For the last 2 year Houzu spent a considerable amount of his time developing jogo's techniques to the level they were now. He was confident if he was outside the village his efforts would have been greater.
'Flame gatling!'
His fingers grew bright from sheer heat as torrents of flaming projectiles sped off towards his target ripping apart and scorching anything in his firing range. Soon all that remained was a 100 meter area devoid of wildlife and ash littering the ground like snow.
'Nowhere to hide you o-'
*Smash!*
Without warning a fist burst from the ground and struck him in under the chin causing the young lad to soar into the air and fall to the ground a couple meters away. Only through his three years of training was he able to orient himself in order to land on his feet. Only to fall to one knee from the pain in his jaw.
[Trauma to the lower face detected. Adaption activated..]
"Aah..!" With a grunt of pain Houzu quickly regained his bearings as his injured jaw quickly healed. rising back onto his feet he looked towards his opponent only to see the 3rd hokage chuckling while standing by a hole in the ground he made from his recent jutsu.
"Mind your surroundings better Houzu." Hiruzen chuckled while smiling at the young boy.
'Hiding like a mole technique huh..?' Houzu rocketed towards to the old man by erupting flames from the bottoms of his feet in order to increase his speed. As both fighters exchanged blows as anbu monitored the two as the session continue to unfold.
*Fwip*
Extending his pointer and middle finger gas formed around him as it slowly began to gather at the tip of his fingers and started to form a ball of glowing light.
As he was forming the technique the ground near his feet began to melt into hot magma causing Hiruzen to retreat a few meter away.
'Superheat the gas... contain it in a single point... and...
'Release!'
As the energy finished stabilizing he unleashed the attack resulting in a beam of plasma speeding towards the old hokage at nearly the speed of light. Although it appeared to slow down a bit as it neared its target.
'Such speed!' Hiruzen thought as he dodged at the last moment.
*CLAP*
Houzu clapped his hands together as more gas manifested around him. The heated gas once more gathered however this time in various singular points resulting in twelve shots of superheated plasma forming an arch over himself.
*Pew!* x12
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{Hiruzen pov}
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Upon seeing the volley of plasma begining to form around Houzu the old man's eyes widened.
'None of the earth jutsu I possess can stop those.. seems I have no choice this time.' Biting his finger with enough force to draw some blood.
*Pew!* x12
'Summoning jutsu!' Hiruzen thought while slamming his hand onto the ground. In a cloud of smoke a staff twice his size appeared and swiftly blocked the scorching projectiles as best it could.
"Owowow! Dammit Hiruzen, what kind of fight did you drag me into!" The staff yelled as an apes arm formed from its side and clobbered the old man's head.
"Ah! Calm down enma! This was merely a training exercise. However my student may have gotten carried away." His eyes wandered to houzu who scratched the back of his head while looking anywhere else but in his direction.
On the staff an eye appeared and gazed upon the child.
"I see..."
*Poof*
In a puff of smoke the staff disappeared. As the cloud of smoke dispersed, a tall muscular monkey in battle worthy clothing made themselves known.
"Hm! Well met child! It takes a lot for this old fool to summon the likes of me. For that you've earned the honor of sharing a bottle of sake with me!" He laughed while Hiruzen looked embarrassed by the monkeys words.
"For I am Enma, the king of monkeys!" The monkey bellowed as he flexed its biceps.
"Um... I'm underaged. Besides.. im not a big fan of drinking." Houzu spoke dully as he sat upon an ash covered boulder.
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{Houzu pov}
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'Seems the fights over..' he thought while watching both the monkey King and Hiruzen bickering with one another after the kings attempts to offer him alcohol.
Looking down at his hands he smiled at the result of his labors. The plasma technique was extremely difficult to produce. The last 2 years of the sheer amount study, practice and effort was almost maddening. As well as an extra few months to perfect the process.
[Name: Houzu Uzumaki]
Age - 8
Gender - male
Race - Human/Curse
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[Template: Jogo]: 25.62%
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[Tier]: 7-B
Strength: Class 100
Speed: hypersonic+
CE: S
Chakra: C+
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[Fire manipulation] - (adept)
Maximum temperature: 10,000 degrees C.
[Cursed energy control] - (expert)
[Chakra control] - (expert)
[Lava manipulation] - (intermediate)
[Plasma manipulation] - (adept)
[Curse technique: plasma shot]
[Curse technique: Plasma volley]
[Curse technique: Ember insects]
[Curse technique: Scorching terrain]
[Curse technique: Volcanic eruption]
[Curse technique: magma tsunami]
[Black flash] - (locked)
Squares the users physical attacks
by 2.5x. Potential to further the users abilities.
[Regeneration] - (High-Mid)
- The ability to regenerate from being blown/cut to pieces, brain included. Able to regrow from small pieces of the users body. Such as a finger or the heart.
[Domain expansion](locked)
[Cursed energy absorbsion] - (passive)
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*sigh*~ 'still unsuccessful at achieving a black flash..' he sighed as Hiruzen and enma finished their verbal tussle.
Hiruzen had forced him to dedicate an extraordinary amount of his time in cultivating his use of chakra.
The moment the old man heard of his lack of interest in his pursuit in chakra management he scolded him for hours.
"A shinobi should never let his skills dull, even in times of peace." Was his exact words.
Control exercises, tree walking, water walking and jutsu practice.
All taught by the old hokage at the most extreme level and method. Those grueling days truly changed houzu's opinion of the old bastard.
To the point of he all out respect the man... and feared him.
During the first year of his training he noticed what was once his abismal amount of chakra reserves was now growing at an astounding rate. The most evident sign was the difficulty in performing the academy clone jutsu.
Was it his Uzumaki genes kicking in or something else..?
The most often causes was frequently control and larger than average reserves of chakra. To solve this matter Hiruzen taught him the shadow clone jutsu. Sadly he lacked the reserves to summon large quantities of clones.
However, it was still effective enough to aid in his training none the less.
"Allright houzu. That concludes today's session. Please report to my office for your first mission tomorrow morning, understood?" Hiruzen spoke out with an air of professionalism.
Nodding his head to the old hokage he walked off towards the woods to train further.
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{Hiruzen pov}
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Once the child was far enough away from the scene the anbu body flickered onto the scene.
"That boy.. his abilities are so chaotic. Destructive even." Ox spoke as he grabbed a handful of ash from the ground.
"His growth is what scares me more." Otter replied as she bent down and delicately felt the still scorching hot ground that was turned into glass.
"Calm yourselves. Although he holds no love for the citizens of this village he is still loyal." Hiruzen spoke to them all while off to the side as he lit his pipe.
"We understand that lord 3rd. We're just honestly surprised you took him on as your student. Considering..." Crow explained while thinking about a specific pale sannin.
"Yes... I felt it was a way to look after the boy. To guide him down a less destructive path." He breathed out a puff of smoke as the tobacco did its job.
Otter rose to her feet once more and looked towards her kage.
"In a way you succeeded. Although, I'm worried he'll become a problem once he goes beyond the village walls," Otter spoke.
Taking another shot from his pipe he stared out towards the direction of where houzu went off to. Breathing out the smoke in his lungs he then turned back to his anbu.
"I am confident he'll behave himself. He might appear cruel and unapproachable. But that is a defense mechanism. You all know what the villagers have done to make his journey as difficult as possible." He spoke sagely as his anbu realized what he was hinting towards.
"Houzu will have no reason to lash out at the people of the outside," Otter replied.
Hiruzen gave a nod as he dismissed them to which they body flickered away.
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{Houzu pov}
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*Bash!*....*Bash!*....*Bash!*
Houzu could be seen in front of a log post repeatedly slamming his fist against it over and over again. Every attempt was an effort to achieve black flash.
He did every pre-requisite needed to be done in order to attempt the technique including refining his control over the Cursed energy within and outside his body.
[Cursed energy control] - (Expert)
2 years of constant repetitive control exercises. Sometimes he was thankful for having the ability to use reverse curse technique. A normal human would more than likely have died from such a relentless repetition...
So many countless monthly limit breaking missions for those tickets...
So many nights of meditation.
He literally had to create the exercises from scratch such as using Cursed energy to walk on water, walls and was even able to create a barrier similair to a domain.
And yet... he was still unable to manifest a black flash...
'Focus... concentrate... concentrate...'
*Bam!*
"Dammit!"
"What are you doing houzu?" Looking behind himself he saw Hana Inuzuka walking towards him from the edge of the forest with a confused expression on her face.
*Sigh*~ "I'm trying to activate a technique I've been working on. Its... difficult to achieve." He responded as Hana's eyes brightened in curiosity.
"Oooh! Can I watch? I promise I'll be quiet!" She asked as stars gleamed in her eyes.
"I'd also like to see." Both looked over to see itachi approaching them with a curious look himself.
'These two...' Houzu thought with tired annoyance but smiled none the less.
Ever since his first day at the academy both had stuck by his side in order to, in Hana's own words, put a smile on his face due to noticing his loneliness.
Itachi's reasons at first were to use him as a way to grow in power through occasional spars and mock fights in the nearby training grounds. Houzu was indeed powerful enough to help him grow at a faster rate.
However he eventually saw houzu as a friend after a few months of interaction. No longer interested in his own need to gain strength.
"As I told Hana..." as he explained the method of his technique itachi grew fascinated by the black flash.
"Perhaps this technique can't be trained in a controlled environment. I think you must be in a more stressful situation." Itachi theorized as he sat down next to Hana.
"Thats.. actually very plausible.." he sighed as he sat along side them.
"By the way Houzu, are you prepared for the mission in a few weeks? We're going to be escorting the daimyo to and from the leaf village. The daimyo of all people!" Itachi asked with excitement as they ate the food houzu had kept in his inventory.
"Yeah..so excited..." he responded a pit forming in his gut knowing what would come.
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