That Time... To Get Stronger [Training, Private]

It felt like just the other day that Sasuke was in the training area, working his scarlet eyes and his movements until he got it just right. He had trained under the stars last time, but this time the atmosphere was different. It was about 2:30 pm after most people had had their lunches. Everybody was rushing about, training for whatever reason they might've had to do so. Sasuke was an Sarutobi, and as such, the clan had high expectations, even more so for himself. He had also set his own personal expectations, setting the bar even higher than his clan had. Sasuke had a training schedule that he gave himself for the day. 10 wind sprints, 5 hill sprints, and 2 laps jogging around the village was his speed goal for the day. It was a bit more than usual, but he felt he needed to add the hill sprints in order to increase his leg muscle strength, speed, and endurance. He was unusually content and excited towards the prospect of getting faster. It just felt right to him.

Starting with the first wind sprint cutting through the middle of the training grounds, past the training logs, and through the open sparring field. He would then jog back and perform the same thing 9 more times, each time no different than the ones prior. Next, Sasuke would find an area further out of the way from the training grounds where there was a fairly steep incline- about 55˚- and he would sprint the 60 ft to the top, and jog back down, doing so 4 more times before he would finally break a sweat. It was far more exhausting than he could've ever imagined, but he was glad he was able to put forth the efforts to increase his own speed. His final speed exercise was his 2 laps around the village, which he would finish after a water break. He simply felt he needed to relax his leg muscles just a bit in order to get the oxygen pumping before he could go out and train some more. Sasuke laid on his back on the hill simply watching the clouds slowly drift by... slowly drift.... and he was asleep. He couldn't tell how long, as the sun still shown above him when he awoke, but he assumed he was out for about an hour or so. Worse yet, his legs were extremely sore and he found it difficult to get up, yet he managed.

The next part of his training involved improving his other senses, not just sight as he was already an expert in that field with the scarlet eyes. No, he needed to hone his other senses to be just as acute to smells, sounds, and tastes as his scarlet eyes allowed his sight to be. This next phase would be difficult to train, as he would have to blindfold himself and block out parts of the world to train his hearing- to hear a child calling for their mother in the streets a good 100 meters away, to hear the soft murmur of the water as others were practicing their balance on water, to hear the gentle flapping of a bird's wings as it returned to its nest in a tree, not so far away. He had been able to train his hearing, but what of his sense of smell and taste? He could smell the sweet aroma of honey from a bee hive in the same tree as the bird's nest, he could smell the foul stench of the trash left in the streets... everything seemed crystal clear to him. He could even taste the freshness of the air in the training grounds. It was as if a new world was opened to him- a world of clarity.

It was late at night, the moon's silver sheen glazed the open landscape of the training grounds, a million stars in the night sky, and over a hundred glistened against the open water for balance training. A cool breeze rolled in from the North West, and the crickets chirped in the distance. All in all, it was a beautiful summer night to be training- and that was exactly what Sasuke was planning as he edged against the great trunk of a large oak. Knocking himself into the tree with his back and his weight, he would see leaves flutter down gently to the earth. It was nothing special, but it was to train his ability of prediction. He did it once more, this time he would reach for where the leaves would be, quickly snapping his wrist so as to catch multiple leaves as he was trained at first in boxing. Until he could collect 15 leaves he wouldn't be satisfied. First go was only 7, but he convinced himself it was only a warmup. The second time was 10 leaves, then 13. However, 13 appeared to be his limit however, as he couldn't get anymore, no matter how hard he tried, so he decided that it would have to do.

Keeping his scarlet eyes active, he would move to the next phase- dodging branches. Pushing a branch back was always dangerous and never fun to get hit by, so Sasuke found this a great way to progress his art of prediction. Swinging a branch taut, he would proceed to release it and duck and dodge the swinging of the branch several times before it stopped moving. He would do it once more with prior success and ease. It was strange- it seemed easier than normal, but the Sarutobi figured that it was simply the scarlet eye working its magic. He soon grew weary as it was about midnight and the training that one could do alone was limited and monotonous. Slowly willing himself to move, Sasuke began heading back to his apartment, his muscles was sore and he started to feel the chilly air now that his mind was not focused on training, Hardly anyone wernt on the streets, mostly just chuunin patrol units, he took no noticed of them as he turn onto his street to head home.

1010 Words for classified "Other" training Chakra increase: +50 to base count.

Correction: 1, 025 words.

Approved: +50 to Chakra bar

Sasuke would enter the training grounds once again, he had to keep training to become stronger. This was one of the terrains he enjoyed training on due to the various ways to exploit the are. Sasuke would first go in and search for some boulders to push along the ground with his legs, this was to build strength. He searched for a boulder about as tall as he was, and any heavy rocks or objects he could find. When he found the perfect boulder he started to practices his kicks against it as the boulder started to crumble from the force of the on coming attacks. With every kick, sasuke controlled his chakra to his feet to increase the damage. The boulder was left with a giant hole in the middle of it, slight sweat marks could be seen on his forehead, it was really a quick power burst warm up. He went on to do push ups, his arms were his weakness but he could balance that fault out with his leg speed. As time went along he switched from upper body training to lower body, with the painful squats. He wiped his face with his sleeve as the wind blew through the training ground, that relief in the wind calmed sasukes nerve. Siting down after the hours of the squats, he regained his energy back but also gained sore thighs and calf muscles, he managed to get stand up to continue his new training.

Sasuke would have rested for 10 minutes, and his next type of training was stealth. The object of the stealth training was to sneak up on a bird and capture it. Birds have better sight than most animals, but have poor hearing so sneaking up on them is a bit of a challenge since they move their head around a bit more than the average animal. So Sasuke would go off in search of any birds of prey that happened to be perched on rocks or in a nest. His first couple of minutes he couldn't find any bird that was not in the sky. The sun did shine hard but it gave a mellow warm heat in the training grounds, Still searching for bird it was couldn't of been to hard to find.

However after 30 minutes of trudging through the forest the training ground provided he climbed a small cliff to see a bird preening itself with its beak, facing the other way. Sasuke quickly ducked down so only his eyes could be seen, and spied on the Hawk. Sasuke would as quietly as he could put his hands on the flat ground of the cliff top, and while using his legs to climb up the cliff, he would keep an eye on the hawk. The movemeots of the hawk did not seem to warrant that he noticed sasuke was there. Sasuke successfully get onto the flat cliff top and slowly step toward the hawk, as he neared closer to the hawk he would keep a steady pace till he was about 5 feet from the hawk. He would then pounce and grab the hawk by the legs and turn him upside down successfully catching the hawk. He not being a cruel ninja would let the hawk go and watch as he sailed away out of fear.

Sasuke had finished both his stealth and Strength which would leave his accuracy training left to do. Thankfully Sasuke was in an ideal place being at the cliff top. He could see everything that was around him, and better than that able to find a target easily. He would scan the forest mountainside below with careful thought on finding animals that were on the rocks or on the horizon. It took only a few minutes for sasuke to find a Lizard perched on a rock sunbathing itself. sasuke would activate his scarlet eyes, shinning bright red sasuke brought out a Shuriken, and aim taking into account wind and distance. Sasuke would launch the shuriken at the unsuspecting lizard aiming for its tail so it could just grow it back. The Shuriken would indeed hit the lizards tail one of its blades piercing through and lodging into the rock keeping the lizard in place.

Sasuke would quickly jump down to where the lizard who was now very much awake was trying to escape, his tail ripping from where the shuriken was imbedded. Sasuke would quickly grab hold of the shuriken and dislodge it from the rock and the lizards tail, cutting it off in one swipe so as not to have the lizard live with a useless broken tail. The lizard would scamper off, as sasuke would head back up onto the cliff, which came with a suprise as another hawk was on the same rock the one he caught barehanded was. Sasuke would quietly take out a couple suriken, .Sasuke would aim keeping his legs steady, and then fire the shurikens at the hawk aiming for the hawks spine. The shurikesn would not hit the spine but hit next to it and hit the hawk's heart. The hawk fell over on the cliff top, gasping to stay alive, sasuke would rush over and break the hawk's neck ending its life. Sasuke not liking to do unnecessary killing would build a fire with some gathered branches on the cliff top. Making the fire smokeless to not attract any enemy ninja he would clean the hawk and cook it for consumption. This was a skill sasuke knew from young, survival skills. He sat down at the end of the cliff that was high enough just to see out of the training grounds. With his scarlet eyes growing stronger and stronger, he was getting closer to his goal. Opening his hand he then closed it again forming a tight fist, he had a small killing intent emitting from him. Rising up from the ground he picked up his katana and place it on his back as he jumped of the cliff and into the distance.

1004 Words for classified "Other" training Chakra increase: +50 to base count.

+50 Chakra.

Do know that I will be checking Grammer and Spelling from now on because you had many spelling errors all by themselves. I don't like to say my approval for something that doesn't at least flow, if you can understand me. However i'll let you on a pass this time.

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