Time to Train

Learning: Kaze no Yaiba
Progress: 3/13

"Well, guess now's as good a time as any to see if what I'm starting out with will work."

Hiroshi walked over to the nearest tree and took a deep breath. Focusing his chakra as best he could to his fingertips, he used his palm like he would a blade and horizontally slashed at the trunk of the tree.

He then looked upon his work, and saw a very slight scratch in the trunk of the tree, only barely visible.

"Aw man, this is gonna take forever if that's all I can do! Guess it's about time I step up my training."

Learning: Kaze no Yaiba
Progress: 5/13

"Heh. That's a bit better."

Hiroshi watched as the thickest branch of the tree broke clean off from the trunk. His blade was getting sharper with every attempt he made. Now he had to make his chakra more like a sword, and make it big enough to cut the actual tree. Then he'd be very close to having mastered this jutsu.

"Well, now's as good a time as any to take a quick break. That many attempts in a row and maintaining my chakra for that long really wore me out."

Hiroshi walked to the edge of the clearing and laid down. After a short period of time, he fell into a light slumber.

Learning: Kaze no Yaiba
Progress: 7/13

Cheerfully ready to get his training under way once again, Hiroshi decided that the first thing he had to do was to mold his chakra into the shape of an actual blade. Once that was finished, he could work on sharpening the blade to his liking.

Hiroshi pushed all the chakra he could to his hand, and shot it out of his fingers.

"No, this isn't going to work!"

Hiroshi couldn't get his chakra into the shape he wanted. It was far too wide, and not nearly long enough to be considered a blade.

"What am I going to do now?"

Learning: Kaze no Yaiba
Progress: 9/13

Hiroshi pushed his chakra into his hands, mentally stabilizing it into the shape of a blade. He was right! The added control from using 2 hands enabled him to lengthen his chakra blade. It was still a little too wide, but what he really needed to do was make sure it was sharp enough to cut anything he would want it too.

"Here we go, this is more like it! Now, I just gotta sharpen it...."

Hiroshi continued to focus his chakra into his hands, and began to mentally sharpen his chakra like he had before. It wasn't long before he noticed a very large problem in his training.

"Whenever I sharpen the blade, it gets shorter! Gahhh, what am I going to do?!?"

Learning: Kaze no Yaiba
Progress: 11/13

It took a few minutes of critical thinking, but Hiroshi finally realized a way he could make this easier on himself.

"That's it! I'm making my chakra too wide when I try to push it through all of my fingers.... but what if instead I just concentrate it through my first two fingers of both hands?"

Hiroshi decided this was the path he should follow, and he immediately got to work. He concentrated his chakra, but this time he only concentrated it through his 2 fingers.

It worked! The chakra took the shape of the blade... next was to check to see if it was as sharp as he desired.

Learning: Kaze no Yaiba
Progress: 13/13

"Alright, I need to get serious now and finish this jutsu quickly."

Hiroshi got to work, ready to move this jutsu to a single hand. He already knew one of the tricks to it, to only use 2 fingers instead of all 5, now he just needed to practice the jutsu until he could get the blade he formed to the sharpness he desired.

For 2 hours he concentrated his chakra into his 2 fingers, went up to a tree, and slashed at it.

By the third hour, he had done it. He could now regularly create a sharp blade of wind in a single hand and cut clean through any of the trees around the area.




One hour later, Hiroshi walked into the village, ready to sleep and prepare for whatever he would have to do the next day, with his new jutsu to help him.