Big Bad Bug Bodybuilding

The next technique can be done at a slightly greater range, but Anzo can feel his body desperately begging for more food, and he quickly rushes over to the box of donuts, gobbling down the last six before taking the Curry Pill, causing even more of his fat cells to be converted directly into chakra. Anzo hadn't started off with many fat cells to begin with, and now he has no more donuts to gobble down when his body demands more for the third pill. But it's too late to stop now, as taking the pills out of order is highly toxic. He's going to have to remember to take much more food next time to ensure that he'll be able to feed himself to counteract the effects of the pills without completely decimating his own body. In any case, he turns back towards the training dummy in order to start training his next technique, still in the Insect Strong-Arm stance as he focuses his chakra once more, swarming his Kikaichu over his fists and feet.

Instead of attacking the training dummy directly, he instead draws Kikaichu close to his fingers as he puts his middle finger against his thumb, allowing his strength to build in his finger as Kikaichu attach themselves loosely to the digit. He waits until several dozen are attached to the finger, letting more and more power build against his thumb before he releases the built up potential energy into a finger-flicking motion, with far more strength than what he would normally be capable of producing. It causes his Kikaichu to launch onto the training dummy, smacking against it lightly; but Anzo can still see them connect to the body, infesting it as they swarm around its body, crawling all around. If it had been a person, they would have immediately started draining the dummy of chakra.

OOC: 300/300 Insect Strength Cricket Kick

Anzo's hand shakes as he pulls out the final pill, knowing that the use of such a pill will cause him to lose every last ounce of fat in his body, and he has no more food to take in order to offset its eventual effects of using up all of the adipose fat in his entire body. He was already starting to use the Yin Healing technique in order to immediately heal his body, but there was little he could do other than to heal himself after he takes the final pill. He shakes out the red Chili pill, feels it in his hand, then takes it quickly before he can have any second thoughts. He feels his entire body become devoid of fat cells suddenly, but he feels an immense level of power flood his body, and his chakra is so great that it extends from his back in the form of a pair of dark green butterfly wings, matching the natural color of his own chakra.

He turns back to the training dummy; he may as well train the final technique he'd been brainstorming for this Insect Strong-Arm fighting style. He can always start the healing process immediately afterwards to keep himself alive until his body can consume the donuts, although he may need a lot of sleeping before he feels well enough to try training again. In any case, he once more brings his right arm up to focus his strength behind his middle finger, latched in place by his thumb in order to keep building up the strength in his digit. This time, however, he keeps the strength building up in the muscles of his forearm, as the Kikaichu are once again order to swarm onto his middle finger, causing his finger to take on a black appearance from the sheer number of chakra bugs now attached loosely to his finger. He once again releases the potential energy contained in his one finger, launching those black bugs onto the training dummy and swarming over it as this time, the training dummy swings back from the force of the bugs landing harshly onto the training dummy's body.

Anzo collapses onto his hands and knees afterwards, no longer able to maintain the fighting style form. He crawls to the donut box and helplessly licks the inside of the box clean to get as much fat and sugar into his body as he can, giving him just enough with the food in his stomach to get him through the drawbacks of the pills and letting him hobble out of the grand training facility.

OOC: 350/350 Perfected Cricket Kick

THREAD EXIT

Anzo returns to the grand training facility, but this time, he's brought along two full boxes of a dozen donuts. Although the worker gave him a funny look, Anzo didn't seem to mind too much; he was too busy carefully considering how the Three-Colored Pills had affected him last time. He'd needed most of the rest of the day to build up enough fat cells to go back to being fit for training again, so it was clear he needed more food for his recovery period immediately after utilizing the pills. Luckily these next few techniques would not require nearly so much chakra focus, and so he'd have a much easier time learning to control the way his body reacted to the pills. He once more starts off with eating several of the donuts in the first box before he starts off, once more, with the Spinach pill, feeling a bit of a rush again as the pill begins the conversion process of changing his fat cells directly to chakra for him to use.

He begins his training by setting up for a technique he'd been planning to train for a while now, having developed it after seeing how well the Earth Flow River technique could be used as a set-up for other mud-related jutsu. He pulls out a single vial of his new Hebetudo poison, pouring it over the earth before putting away the vial again and then performing handseals rapidly. Once he hits the final snake handseal, he uses his Doton chakra to change the earth into mud, sending it flowing for a short distance as the mud mixes with the poison, turning the earth into a somewhat purple color, perhaps showing that the mud was toxic.

OOC: 250/250 Earth Release: Death Flow River

The Spinach pill was starting to get to him, and so he turns and quickly finishes off the first box of a dozen donuts, giving him enough of a buffer that he could take the Curry pill, further enhancing his abilities and flooding his chakra pathways with even more chakra, and he can feel his body convert more of his fat, leaving him with only a little remaining. This next technique was another combination technique, one that would combine his experience with medical ninja training with his Earth chakra affinity for what would likely be a helpful cast that could be used in a pinch if he needed to do other things without staying completely stuck to a patient. Just to make sure it would work effectively, he chose to test the technique on himself, so he uses a senbon to pierce his own skin on his left arm.

He performs the handseals quickly as he drops to one knee, though the pain of the wound in his forearm is making it a bit painful to move his fingers into the correct positions. He still powers through the handseals before he focuses Earth release chakra to coalesce around his left forearm, wrapping tightly around it all the way to the hand and drawing in earth from the ground to completely cover his lower arm. The entire time, Anzo kneads medical chakra into the dirt as it becomes firm and hardens into a cast-like shape, filled with medical chakra that immediately begins to heal his wound.

OOC: 250/250 Earth Release: Dirt Cast

Anzo rapidly rushes over to the final box of donuts, and although he feels that his stomach is a bit uneasy, he forces himself to consume every last one of the dozen donuts before popping the final Chili pill, and he feels his body flood with intense power as all of his fat cells become converted to chakra instantly, though he doesn't feel the harsh effects of this final pill for a minute. He knows that his body will have finished digesting those two dozen donuts by the time the effects of the Chili pill wears off, so he's certain he'll be able to recover much more quickly than last time. That said, this final technique he's training really isn't all that incredible, although it was apparently invented by the famous Carmine Hyuuga.

He moves quickly over to the training dummy even as the dark green wings of chakra extend from his back, and he swings his right leg back before slamming it upwards against the training dummy, right where the groin of a human being would be, and causing the training dummy to jump upwards, by a couple of feet. Anzo winces a bit as he imagines the pain such an attack would cause any male aggressor, but it's a good thing he's not training this against any friendly person.

Once he's completed he's training, he quickly picks up both empty boxes and quickly heads home, hoping to quickly get home and eat to try and help his body recover his fat cells more quickly.

OOC: 150/150 The End of a Lineage

THREAD EXIT

Anzo returns once more to the Grand Konoha Training Facility, though he has very little in the way of techniques he'd actually like to train, but he has enough techniques he's thought up that he feels he should actually train; besides, it gives him something to focus chakra into while he's learning how to better control the increasing power he receives from those Three-Color Pills he'd spent so much money on. Speaking of which, he places the two boxes of a dozen donuts he'd brought with him to the ground and fishes out the three pills he's going to be using to train with. He takes the first green one, the Spinach pill, and immediately follows it up with several donuts while he lets the pill take effect almost immediately.

Once he feels the Spinach pill beginning to work away at his body fat and converting it to chakra, he starts on the first technique to train, ordering his insects into his own body to remove any potential toxins. Almost right away, he can feel them starting to crowd around the Spinach Pill while it's still dissolving in his stomach, and he quickly orders them away from it, not wanting them to interfere with the progress he's making in that regard. It takes some careful but still simplistic orders to get them to understand his meaning when he's telling them to go after toxins in his body, but they seem to understand, flowing all around within his body, but finding no poisons or illnesses, they leave the inside of his body once more, prepared again for any other tasks.

OOC: 250/250 Secret Technique: Parasitic Parasite Destruction

Anzo returns to the boxes of donuts and eats up the second half of the once-full box before he follows it up with the Curry Pill, and he can feel even more power flood through his body, though he can also feel even less of his fat remaining in his body. The insects within his body begin to move about much more rapidly, apparently thinking once more than the pills are some form of toxin because of the sudden changes in his body, but he assures them that he's fine and that the pills are an improvement. Instead, he sends a group of his own insects underground, forming them into a small, round ball in order to prepare for his next technique to train.

With only a few rapid handseals and then slamming his palms to the earth, he uses Doton chakra to push the earth upwards, until the ball formed from his own Kikaichu is launched skywards, like a volcano erupting to draw out whatever was underneath. With the Kikaichu launched upwards, he moves quickly to catch them with his hands, allowing them to fall much more steadily in the last couple of meters towards the ground and then allowing the beetles to crawl back into his jacket.

OOC: 200/200 Earth Release: Opening Earth Rising Excavation

The final technique was the most simple one he'd be learning that day, but he still needed to take all three pills in order to learn how to better control the changes the pills are causing in his body, and perhaps even to learn to replicate the effect so that he can even more easily make use of it without causing harm to himself. The last one is always the most shocking for his body, but he takes it anyway, holding off on the donuts for now so he can focus on the effects of his body converting all available fats into chakra instantly. He feels that excess chakra flood his body, with so much of it pushing out of his spine and then made visible after it slips past his scapulae to form dark green wing-like constructs made entirely of chakra from his back. He seems to notice them for the first time when he looks over his shoulder, finding them somewhat odd, but he focuses on the technique he'd already been planning on training.

With only a few handseals, he brings up a wall in front of him made of earth. It was at least somewhat stronger than the weaker Wall of Earth technique he'd learned a long while ago, but it was certainly weaker than his other wall techniques. He almost felt like the training was a bit of a waste, but it could be useful for specific uses. But now he runs to the donuts and begins devouring them on his way out of the training facility, devouring them like a starving man because, after all, he somewhat was.

OOC: 150/150 Earth Release: Earth Shore Return

THREAD EXIT

Anzo knows he'll have to work quickly, but he returns to the grand training facility one more time; he's going to have to train quickly though, if he wants to be able to make use of the Three-Colored Pills to their fullest. He had barely been able to sleep without his dreams being filled with his own memory flashes of those wings extending from his back, wings made entirely of chakra, and he's been wondering since yesterday if those chakra wings could be used for something more. But he had to check on when those wings actually appear, and so he decides to wait a short while after eating each of the enhancement pills, just to see when exactly the Butterfly Mode, as he was now calling it, would activate.

He sets the two boxes of donuts on the ground, and then takes the first Spinach Pill, and although he can immediately feel the chakra coursing through his body, a quick look over his shoulder reveals no changes. After a few moments with still no difference, he takes the second of the pills, the Curry Pill. While he waits and watches over his shoulder, he starts chowing down on the donuts, knowing if he starts eating now, his body will start breaking down the donuts into fat to help him with recovering if he has to go all the way to the third pill. With no wings appearing yet, he takes the Chili Pill finally, and with that final, intense rush of power, he looks over his shoulder to see those dark green wings created by his excess chakra. Success!

OOC: 250/250 Butterfly Mode

With this surprising development, Anzo has to quickly consume the rest of his donuts, and only once both boxes are empty does he decide that he's likely enough to recover from taking that third pill to be able to continue his training without having to cancel and go out for food instead. He gets up onto his feet, and then approaches the training dummy. He wonders if, like the Cherry Blossom Profusion Palm, he'd be able to concentrate all of that excess chakra into his fist instead of letting it flow from his back in this way. He pulls back his right arm, preparing for a punch as he draws in chakra to his fist, building more and more of this excess energy in by imagining a central point just in front of his fist for the chakra to coalesce into.

He notices from the corner of his eye that all of that dark green energy is slowly disappearing from his back, only for it to show up again at that point directly in front of his fist, growing until the chakra was now completely engulfing his fist, making his hand feel warm where it meets his skin. Anzo then turns his body and throws his chakra-covered fist forwards, and the massive amount of dark green chakra smashes into the training dummy first, followed quickly by his own fist as the power of the technique combined with the force of his punch enhanced by the Chili pill causes the sandbag dummy to crumple to the floor, smashed right off of its post to the floor.

OOC: 250/250 Butterfly Bullet Bombing

Now that he'd been able to smash the training dummy and was no longer concentrating that chakra to his fist, there's a subtle glow behind him again, and Anzo turns his head to see that even after such a heavily concentrated chakra punch, he still had plenty of excess chakra to expel from his back, creating those wondrous dark green wings again. They might have looked a bit smaller, but with the huge amount of chakra the pills helped his body to produce, it wasn't enough to be too noticeable after a single giant punch. The fact that it was visible at all was fascinating, since chakra normally couldn't be seen by the naked eye except in huge amounts, and in extremely dense pockets, but to have such large wings of chakra visible meant there must be a massive amount of chakra produced from fat cells.

Chakra was also normally not entirely physical, but with enough chakra in a dense enough configuration, chakra could physically effect the world around it, and that gave Anzo an idea, although he wasn't sure that it would work; while it seemed that the chakra wings were highly dense and a great amount of chakra, that might not mean it was capable of doing what he thought might be possible. After all, compacted chakra in a single place was also usually quite heavy, which might have made his idea completely impossible, but he didn't feel any heavier with the wings out. Perhaps this meant that he could actually use such large sized wings for flight.

There's only one way to find out if his hypothesis is true, so he begins flexing his shoulder muscles, causing the scapulae to shift, and he watches behind him over his shoulder until he can see the wings starting to shift back and forth. Once he finds the right movement pattern, he starts moving the wings faster and faster, and Anzo watches in amazement as his feet leave the ground, allowing him to fly, though he knew after using the Chili Pills so much that the flight wouldn't last much longer. He lands again and quickly leaves the grand training facility, his mind already spinning with the possibilities of what he might be able to do with this.

OOC: 300/300 Butterfly Mode: Flight

THREAD EXIT

Anzo comes back to the training facility once again, carrying the two boxes of a dozen donuts each. Although he didn't have many jutsu to train available at the moment, he was working out how exactly the Three-Colored Pills worked, and he was certain he'd be able to figure them out if he just used them one more time, and even maybe be able to replicate it once he's done so. To that end, he pulls the final bunch of pills from his jacket pocket. He honestly didn't look forward to taking the pills these days, but he felt he was so close to a breakthrough on learning how to use the effects of the Three-Colored Pills without having to shell out fifty thousand ryo just to have access to that power. Granted, having all of his fat transformed into chakra would likely be lethal if he didn't also develop a method of regaining his fat without immediately eating or having to be rushed to hospital in the event that he wouldn't be able to find food. He could always develop a technique to deal with the aftereffects later; for now, he only wanted to focus entirely on the effects of each pill individually so he could start with learning how to recreate the process.

With that, he takes the Spinach Pill, and focuses entirely on how his fat is being converted into chakra. In the meantime, his body is already pulling donuts from the first box, eating them rapidly so he'll be able to recover without a hospital visit again.

The next pill is the Curry Pill, and he shakes that one out of its own box. He's certain he's learning how the pills work, but he needs to feel how they work each time in order to determine the individual effects. For this reason, he waits until he can no longer feel the Spinach Pill providing his body with its heady empowering effects, and he feels like his body has grown sluggish, right up until he takes the Curry Pill into his mouth and eats it down, causing it to turn more of his fat cells into chakra at an increased rate, and he follows the pill down with even more donuts. With nothing more to focus on, not even training a technique, he's able to focus much more closely on how the Curry Pill burns away the white fat all over his body, evenly, but the pill actually stops eating away at the fat layer at some point which would allow him to recover if he stopped there. But there's still one more pill to take.

Anzo once again waits out the effects of the Curry Pill, but now the drawbacks hit quite hard, and he's almost a bit woozy from the effects. He ignores them for now, and returns his focus to pulling out the Chili Pill, his hand shaking a bit as he takes it out, not just from the effects of the Curry Pill now causing a drop in his chakra level due to the loss of half of his fat cells making him feel weak; he's also already anticipating the drawbacks when he inevitably takes the dark red Chili Pill. But he has to do this for his breakthrough. He eats down the Chili Pill as well, and rapidly follows up with the entire final dozen donuts, eating them rapidly as he can feel the last of his fat cells being broken down directly into chakra, flooding through his body like a wildfire and causing such an excess of chakra that it expels from his spine to create that signature winged form.

This time, however, Anzo's eyes are closed, focused entirely on the effects of the Chili Pill, and he feels that with a bit more studying, he can probably break down the effects to the point of being capable of replicating it. He's also certain he could perfect a technique to much more accurately counteract the sudden crash caused by the pills, rather than simply eating until he can't stuff any more food into his mouth. The sugar intake certainly wasn't helping with his diet.

But now that he's been able to focus on how the Chili Pill effects his body, he has nothing more to do at the training facility, and he picks up the two empty boxes once more, leaving the training facility for a while.

OOC: THREAD EXIT

Anzo returns again to the grand training facility, having developed some more useful techniques for himself since using the last of the Three-Colored Pills. This time, however, he was focused on improving his newly developed fighting style that mixed both the Chakra Enhanced Strength fighting style with the use of his Kikaichu, which provided him with a surprisingly strong and variable method of attack. He takes on the Insect Strong-Arm stance, causing his Kikaichu to swarm around both of his hands and his feet as well. The Aburame approaches the training dummy and firmly plants his feet before ordering the swarm around his right fist to take on a spiral pattern, and he moves the new bug-made structure in a spiral with his chakra, allowing it to build in speed before he brings his arm forwards at the dummy in a harsh strike aimed directly at its center. While the force of the strike allows Anzo to go straight through the training dummy's sandbag body, the spiraling strike acts as a drill once it reaches the wooden post holding the sandbag training dummy upright.

Once Anzo removes his fist from the hole he's punched into the dummy, he can see that the wooden post underneath has actually received the worst of the damage, despite the attack hitting the post second. Anzo pauses for a moment to consider that perhaps the drilling motion caused more damage to hard structures than soft ones, and he remembers Airi's spar with Yua and Yui and how her Raiton technique had pierced straight through the sand shield. He decides such a piercing punch could prove quite useful in a variety of situations.

OOC: 250/250 Insect Strength Spindle Strike

Anzo steps back from the training dummy now, remembering his training with the Cherry Blossom Tearing Impact, and he considers the fact that the attack creates a fissure in the earth as well; surely he could make use of that with his Kikaichu, right? The Aburame returns to the Insect Strong-Arm stance, building chakra in his hands and feet and letting the Kikaichu swarm over his hands and feet once more. He lets the chakra build more before he begins training this improvement on the Cherry Blossom Tearing Impact, though he'd be using a foot stomp instead of simply punching the ground; after all, there was no reason not to use the feet with such a technique instead of one's fists. He raises his right foot, the stomps directly onto the ground, letting the chakra slam into the earth of the training facility underneath him and causing the ground to break apart with the force of his stomp. The crack in the hard earth travels a good distance ahead of him, turning from a simple crack into a large fissure.

Anzo rapidly orders his Kikaichu into the crack before it can break apart on its own, and so when it erupts into the fissure, he can see his Kikaichu slam upwards into the training dummy, swarming over it and likely making an escape much more difficult for one's opponents. He feels rather proud of his new technique, congratulating himself silently as the Kikaichu return to their host. There's just one more idea he's had recently, and he's going to need all of his Kikaichu for training such an odd fighting style.

OOC: 250/250 Insect Strength Bunker Buster

This final technique is actually an improvement on his original Insect Strong-Arm fighting style, and he orders many of his Kikaichu into large forms on either side of his body, just underneath his own actual arms, and it takes a lot of focus to get them into the appropriate form before he can flow chakra through their bodies like he does with his own actual arms. Anzo is legitimately surprised that he can do such a thing when the arms are actually just swarms of Kikaichu, but he doesn't think too much on that right away for fear that he might lose concentration on flowing his chakra through these new arms. He approaches one of the other training dummies, pulling back the Kikaichu arm on his right before suddenly thrusting the arm analogue forwards like a real punch, erupting the chakra as soon as the Kikaichu make contact with the training dummy's body the exact same way he would have if it had been his real arm performing the strike with the Chakra Enhanced Strength technique.

The strike obliterates the training dummy, although his own Kikaichu are destroyed in the process, and he can't really concentrate enough on reforming the Kikaichu-made arm now that he also has the Chakra Enhanced Strength chakra flow going. Regardless, he moves on to the next training dummy right away, and the next punch with his other arm analogue smashes straight through that training dummy as well, raining sand and pieces of destroyed canvas as the top of the sandbag dummy bursts upwards from the force of the strike. Once more the Kikaichu are destroyed. This time, however, he's able to make two more Kikaichu arms once more, but as soon as he starts focusing on flowing chakra through them once more to continue the Chakra Enhanced Strength style that's used to empower the Hexapodal Fists form, he finds he can't make any further Kikaichu arms. This appears to be the limit of such a fighting style, so he ends the technique there.

Finally, he leaves the grand training facility, letting his Kikaichu build up their populations once again.

OOC: 350/350 Insect Strength Hexapodal Fists

THREAD EXIT

It's time again for Anzo to return to the grand training facility, with still a few more techniques to master in order to give himself even more options in a variety of situations. One of the more important, if quite a simplistic and non-combative, techniques he'd chosen to learn for himself was a simple flare gun technique, a common but certainly useful jutsu for all kinds of signalling purposes.

He walks right into the training facility and into his own floor before raising his hands and performing the single handseal meant to help him focus his chakra. Anzo gathers chakra until he creates a small, glowing ball in the center of his palm, and he looks away as he raises his hand higher up, pointing it at a 45 degree angle from the ground as he floods the fusee orb with chakra, until it overloads and shoots off into the distance, shining brightly before exploding in midair to provide a clear and obvious marker of the location. Of course, the windows of the training facility are able to darken their tint significantly, ensuring that he's not blinding or calling any attention to his own floor with the bright ball of light.

OOC: 100/100 Flare gun technique

The next couple of techniques he's planned to train today are his own creation, with the next one being a technique he'd developed in order to assist him with training for the Calorie Control skill; he's already compiled his notes for how to get the skill to work without the pills, but he wants to make sure he'll be able to train it without causing irreparable harm to himself with the intensity of the training. Anzo performs the handseals in rapid succession, with only three handseals he's already focusing medical chakra straight to his liver, overcharging the organ with the imperative order to begin producing additional fat. His chakra stimulates the organ, assisting it in adding more fat to his body and allowing it to take its place just beneath his skin as a layer of triglycerides. However, after only a few mere moments of stimulating his liver, Anzo abruptly stops, frowning as he feels as though his body has become slightly... softer and more round. He's still not fat or even overweight by any stretch of the imagination, but he'd need to actually work the fat off of his body, and he'd already used up all of the chakra pills he'd bought.

Anzo sighs softly. He'd be able to get rid of the fat quickly, thanks to his metabolism and his active work schedule, but it still felt odd to have more than the usual amount of fat. In any case, it seems that the technique was a success.

OOC: 200/200 Fat Cell Recovery Technique

There's only one more technique he's decided to train, although this one will be a little more involved than normal. On the bright side, unlike the other two techniques he's already trained, it didn't require any handseals at all, much like both the Chakra Drain technique it was based on as well as the major Aburame techniques that required the use of insects. In any case, he moves to the side panel of the training field, and sets up one particular target training dummy to produce a form of false chakra, something that couldn't actually be used to form jutsu, but which was capable of being drained in the same manner as normal chakra. The energy didn't really have much use outside of training, but it would be perfect to help Anzo learn to use this new idea for a more ranged option in draining chakra from opponents.

He approaches the training dummy, and although he can't really tell that there's anything different about it, he can feel the insects in his body pushing towards the dummy just a little bit, apparently sensing the encroaching mealtime. Anzo decides not to force his insects to wait much longer, and he sends a long string of the Kikaichu to the training dummy, ensuring there's a single unbroken line of the chakra bugs from himself to the dummy infused with pseudo-chakra. Rapidly, he begins draining more and more of the fake chakra from the dummy, and although he can feel that he's pulling in a little less chakra than he would be if he was making direct contact, it's a small price to pay in order to drain chakra from a distance.

He recalls his Kikaichu and shuts down the floor of the training facility, allowing it to be prepared fro the next ninja as he returns home, probably for a while until he's finished developing the Calorie Control idea for training.

OOC: 250/250 Secret Technique: Bug Chakra Transfer

THREAD EXIT

It had been a long time, but Anzo was finally back in his usual training grounds. This time, his teacher was one of the other Konoha ninja, a Jounin that had taken her own interest in his growth and development as a genin. She'd ended up finding him quite skilled, and as one of only a very few number of Nara clan members, had chosen to teach him some of her own clan's techniques, with the understanding that she would be shown the capabilities of the Aburame insects. Normally, Anzo would be opposed to any clans sharing secrets with one another, but Shikada had been insistent. While Aisuka was also present, she seemed more interested in practicing using her nails as throwing weapons and her hammer to physically attack. Unfortunately for Aisuka, she ended up missing about as many nails as she hit with her hammer, but it was still interesting how effective such an attack was on the tree.

He stops paying attention to her when Shikada reminds him that she's here to teach him her own clan's techniques, and he watches while she's explaining how she sends out her shadow using her chakra to guide it, and then she puts her hands into the Snake handseal while sending out a long, thin tendril, and when it catches Anzo's own shadow, the Aburame feels his entire body lock in place, trapping him where he is. It's quite surprising for Anzo, but he recovers quickly. After a few more hours of her telling him that he's doing it wrong, Anzo eventually manages to move his shadow a little; once he finds out what works Anzo builds further and further on the Kagemane technique until he's capable of moving his shadow all around the area, finding it's far easier and simpler than he'd expected.

OOC: 150/150 Kagemane no Jutsu

Anzo already feels quite accomplished, but Shikada chastises him for getting complacent when there's still more to learn. He watches as she extends her shadow again, this time all the way out to catch Aisuka's own shadow. The Aburame is a bit confused, because Aisuka continues her training as if nothing has happened, and then she suddenly locks into place, and Anzo does as well, feeling his body suddenly stop its movement as his eyes turn downwards to see the shadow extending from Aisuka's, back around to his own shadow. It was certainly an odd method to use to catch someone else with the shadow, but he could see how it would be useful to do so. Suddenly, the shadow is pulled back to Shikada, allowing both to move freely again.

Aisuka turns to give Shikada a glare, but before the two women can get too violent with one another, Anzo rapidly does the Snake handseal and attaches his shadow to Shikada's. The Jounin approaches the younger woman, who also happened to be Anzo's friend, and when Anzo extends his shadow to Aisuka through Shikada's shadow, he suddenly locks them both in place with his chakra, stopping them from attacking one another, at least for now. Then Anzo pulls back his shadow and sighs a bit, feeling quite accomplished with his successful training.

OOC: 150/150 Kage Shibari no Jutsu (Shadow Bind Technique)

Shikada spits near Aisuka's feet once Anzo releases them both, and Aisuka returns a middle finger at Shikada's back once she turns once more towards Anzo, and he has to keep himself from smiling even a little at the interaction. They were certainly an odd bunch, but it was fun to watch. In any case, he's all business again once Shikada approaches him and tells him that the next technique will be one of the more advanced jutsu from her clan, and that he'd better pay attention, because it's one of the strongest shadow techniques they have. He watches carefully when Shikada once more extends her shadow across the ground, and then, with a visible application of effort, causes her shadow to actually lift off the ground, a seemingly infinitely thin tendril of pure blackness that rises up off the dirt. Shikada then uses her shadow to wrap around a rock and then lift it up, before she smashes it against the ground. Once she's proven the ability to physically effect objects, she returns her shadow once more to herself, then crosses her arms to signal that it was his turn to try.

Anzo once more has to spend several hours to try and learn this technique, extending his shadow, then trying to figure out how to make it lift. Eventually, he manages to imagine pulling back and up, and it causes his tendril to rise up off the ground, making it only an inch or so before Anzo has to pull the shadow tendril back. Once he figures out how to guide the shadow into three dimensional space, he begins practicing that, furthering his ability to do so until he can manipulate it through the air by a couple of feet, though pushing it that far was certainly a chore. Once those techniques are done, he's actually too tired to train any further, and so Shikada calls their training done, with the understanding that he'll be teaching her more about the Kikaichu tomorrow. They pack up their things and finally leave.

OOC: 200/200 Kageyose no Jutsu (Shadow Gathering Technique)

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