Akira Training Ninjutsu

Today she had a slight change in environment compared to the setting she was normally practicing her ninja skills within, of course she was also intending to practice a different skill set today. Akira was normally hard at work secretly practicing how to better wield a sword, but recently clearly it had lead to some believing she was not practicing enough to advance herself because they didn’t know. For today? She would refine some other tricks she had begun to think up, once more involving making better use of her fire release nature, the girl was really beginning to like the idea of taking things that already existed in some capacity and making them better for herself by refining them via things she already could perform. Even the simplest of tricks like tree climbing or water walking could have some additional uses, better functions, if refined to fall within her specialities! At least that was her hope, because more and more these days that was how she intended to surpass the other ninja in her family, maybe even the head of her family or her mentor the hokage; Akira wanted to get somewhere in life and that meant exceeding the abilities of those she admired.

“Now then, let’s see what happens.” the female took a deep breath and channeled chakra to her feet as if she was going to water walk or climb a vertical surface, letting it balance there as normal. What the young girl did next? Was nothing like what would normally be done, instead of starting to walk or climb, she let her chakra change to her most basic nature, fire. Almost the second after Akira let the nature change wash over her, the new effect showed, she would smell ‘smoke’ and when she leaped back to avoid lighting the grass truly aflame, she had to catch herself against one of the tree’s, arms gripping the branch firmly, having jumped back much further then she intended to. Apparently, this one was a major success, bolstering her ‘tree climbing’ technique with her nature release did produce a new much more effective result. If she was ever in a situation she needed to get out of quickly? This new ‘jutsu’ would be very useful in that sort of case, not to mention its uses in keeping an enemy who would normally be above her on their toes. The small Uchiha doubted that many other ninja had tried something like this, so it would confuse someone no matter what village they came from! Pulling herself to sit on the branch, Akira took a breath, dispelling the chakra she had gathered around her feet, small smile on her unpainted lips, delighted with what she’d done herself.

Ebony optics looked to the side, noticing the deep stream several yards from where she currently sat on a tree branch swinging her legs in empty air, smelling the light singe on her shoes. If she could do it on land? The next step would be seeing what it did to water and she had some right here, so the girl stood up and quickly made her down to the side of the stream. “Maybe not a full test this time.” even if it seemed girly, she didn’t really like the idea of getting soaked today if she couldn’t keep the proper balance of chakra going with this new method. Akira sat on the edge of a stone, taking off her shoe’s and placing her feet on the surface of the water, focusing her chakra to perform the new ‘technique’ once more, fire chakra coating her soles the subtle sting from not quiet having it perfect being quelled by the water right there, steam instantly rising. “Wow.” after a matter of heart beats it seemed most of the area around her had filled with steamy mist rising from where her feet touched the water. “It’s a smokescreen.” Akira smiled slightly, realizing she had also just found a way to travel lighter, she wouldn’t have to carry smoke bombs on most missions if she knew there would be a body of water nearby! Heck maybe if she honed it enough she could learn to use it against water jutsu!