Big Bad Bug Bodybuilding

With that technique learned, there's really only one more kicking technique to learn in order to have learned the full trio, although this one requires quite a lot of body control in order to avoid falling over. Luckily, that's at least something Anzo has in spades, even if his strength isn't particularly impressive. In a single motion, Anzo raises his right leg high into the air, nearly doing the splits in a standing position with his leg far above the dummy's head before he pulls down with his hip in order to rapidly slam his heel into the dummy's shoulder. If it had been a human, that might have almost hurt, but the dummy doesn't really have a reaction, obviously. Still, it was at least another tool for Anzo to be able to use, once he gets stronger perhaps.

But he feels like he's learned enough for the day. There's still one more technique he could learn, but he would need a clone to be able to assist him with learning that technique, and he was tired for now, so he leaves the training facility once more.

OOC: 100/100 Rising Scissor Kick

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Anzo feels quite sure, on his return to the training facility, that he's just about reached the limit of what he can learn just from watching the strange green duo that he'd been somewhat surreptitiously watching in order to learn Taijutsu without having to actually involve himself with them directly. It's somewhat sad, but Anzo isn't about to debase himself by "trying on" their strange green suit and orange sleeves just to learn some more Taijutsu techniques; he's not even sure his body would be able to keep up. The only technique he felt he'd be able to replicate was a more defensive one, and to that end, as soon as he enters the training floor, he creates a single shadow clone of himself before taking on the Body of the Bear stance. With his shadow clone facing him, it's easy enough to move his long shins and forearms into position to catch each kick or punch and deflect the damage away from the softer parts of his body. His shadow clone even shakes his own hand after one of those punches, having apparently hurt itself a bit from landing a strike on such a hard surface.

With that done, he dispels the shadow clone; he's not really going to need it for the next techniques he's looking to train, simple as they are.

OOC: 150/150 Counter of the Ram

The next pair of techniques are fairly simple, and although he feels that it would be almost silly to use the two jutsu in a fight over his dissection blades or his insects or even his Earth Release techniques, it didn't hurt to learn them and add them to his rapidly growing repertoire of techniques. So he takes a deep breath before removing any covering over his fingers and even his feet, exposing his fingertips and toes, and more importantly, the nails on each of his limbs. The jutsu didn't require handseals, which would also potentially make them quite useful as a surprise attack, although he felt that keeping his fingertips and toes exposed was an odd way to go about things in a fight.

Regardless, he focuses chakra along both his fingernails and his toenails, rapidly increasing their growth until they were more like sharp claws, and he uses one of his fingernails to drag along the chest of the training dummy, causing it to open up with a bit of pressure. Dangerous indeed.

OOC: 150/150 Claw Creation Technique

With that technique trained, he continues on to the jutsu that is meant to improve that technique further. He focuses chakra all along the now longer and harder nails, working the chakra along the hardened keratin, further enhancing its hardness and its sharpness until he can feel that they've all been sharpened to a razor's edge, providing them with even greater cutting potential while the chakra causes the keratin to grow more dense and compacted, until he's certain that his own nails are now harder than quite a few metallic substances. It's somewhat surprising to Anzo, although he's still not certain he'd ever use such a technique in actual combat. Perhaps in a surprise, but he could feel that the technique was actually somewhat taxing, even compared to the original claw creation technique that caused his fingernails and toenails to grow to such a length in the first place.

He's a bit worried for a moment that with his fingernails now transformed into claws that they might have become stuck in that form, but after ending the claw creation technique, his nails all seem to slowly shrink to a more normal size, and Anzo is instantly relieved. He would prefer to not have to get his nails cut professionally, and using much of anything with such long nails would have been nearly impossible.

With his training done, Anzo leaves the training facility again, though he knows he'll be back again soon enough.

OOC: 200/200 Neko Chakra Claw Technique

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Anzo is back to what is practically becoming his second home, although he's certain by now that he might have spent more time in the training facility than in his own home. In any case, he came the whole way to the facility not really feeling sure of how he's going to be able to train these genjutsu he'd picked up. He supposes he could do another shadow clone technique for practice, but with the shadow clone matching his intellect and his thought processes, it wouldn't be particularly smart or effective for practicing genjutsu.

Just as he's contemplating just making a shadow clone anyway for practice purposes, the elevator opens behind him, and a facility worker steps onto his floor with a clipboard. Anzo turns to him and with a couple of handseals, puts a quick genjutsu on the worker as his target; if an opportunity is going to present itself, he might as well make use of it. The worker explains that he's there to ensure that the system is working as it should, and Anzo simply waves him in, knowing that the genjutsu will take some time to work.

OOC: 150/150 Hazy Genjutsu

Another technique he'd wanted to try and learn to use was one that required a specific sound to activate the genjutsu and start effecting the target's inner ear; luckily, with some of his training in healing techniques and medical knowledge, Anzo is at least somewhat familiar with how sound waves are capable of having an effect on equilibrium, and the Kikaichu with their spiny legs should be capable of producing a sound wave that's similar enough to work with the genjutsu. To this end, he makes a large number of his own Kikaichu work at producing the noise, causing the man to look all around for the source of the noise, apparently thinking it might be some kind of malfunction with the facility's electronics.

Anzo, pretending not to hear the noise, tilts his head at the worker as though he might have gone crazy, but increases the tone and pitch until he feels out the correct frequency to hit the inner ear just so to put the worker under genjutsu.

OOC: 150/150 Bell Ring Genjutsu (Via Insect Decoy Technique)

The man seems a bit perturbed by the noise and his vision begins to turn hazy as he reacts to his environment more slowly, as though he's discovered that he's sinking into quicksand, and Anzo responds by lightly pressing his hand on the worker's shoulder, making the other man turn towards the Aburame. He takes this opportunity to perform a single handseal as he activates one last genjutsu, all while his insects are continuing their loud chirruping noise, causing greater damage to the target's eardrums and driving him into the full genjutsu of the bell ring technique even as Anzo creates the illusion of a ghostly white figure over his own shoulder, with a doll-like face matching the worker's own face, like looking into a mirror that is entirely without emotion before the haziness makes it quite hard for him to see specific details, though he can still see that Anzo seems to be in several places at once for him, as though he'd performed a clone technique and now it was hard for the worker to tell one from the others.

Anzo watches with some interest as the man passes out completely from the overstimulation of his fear response, and the Aburame then sits up and leaves rapidly, hoping the worker chalks it up to just stress from the job.

OOC: 100/100 Lost Soul

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Anzo returns back to the training facility to go back to training some techniques that he's much more readily familiar with. Since it's been so long since the last time he's trained a Doton technique here, he's decided to start off with a very simple technique, one that creates a particularly weak earthen wall, but it's a good warm-up for him. The Aburame quickly performs the single handseal, channeling his chakra into the earth in front of him and causing a small mound of earth to rise up in the shape of a wall, though he knew with such soft building material, it wasn't exactly structurally sound. In fact, as soon as he stops channeling chakra into the structure, it begins to break apart. But at least Anzo knows he's prepared for the next couple of techniques to train.

OOC: 100/100 Wall of Earth

The next technique he's planning on training is far more advanced than the technique he's trained as a warm-up, but at least it's still a Doton nature technique, so he feels he's prepared enough to train himself to use it. He focuses on sending his Doton chakra into the earth, willing his chakra in the process to make changes to the ground underneath several of the training dummies in a large circular area. Anzo performs the two handseals necessary for the technique he's training, and his chakra starts transforming the environment and the earth underneath the dummies into a large, muddy swamp, rapidly shifting the earth in such a large area and in such a massive way that it almost completely terraforms the ground in the training facility, shifting most of the dirt into mud. Anzo is careful to avoid putting himself within range of his own technique while the dummies themselves start to slip and lower into the mud themselves, with the Aburame watching to ensure that he's done the technique correctly.

Anzo had dumped quite a lot of chakra into the technique and focused that chakra that he'd used quite well; the dummies sank into the thick, heavy mud far enough down that they actually disappeared from view, completely erasing them as though they'd never been there in the first place, despite being only a couple of feet under the muddy ground now. While Anzo couldn't see them, he knew that the depth that they'd sunk was the maximum possible in the training facility; he'd practically made a huge lake of mud, which set him up nicely for the next technique he was looking to train.

OOC: 250/250 Earth Release: Swamp of the Underworld

Thankfully, with the next technique requiring mud, Anzo doesn't need to clean up his mess right away, so he gets straight to training for his final technique of the day, one that should prove extremely useful to him, since he's not really able to use weapons very effectively himself at the moment. He begins by applying the water walking skill so he can walk across the mud lake he's made himself without sinking in; thankfully, such a skill requires almost minimal chakra to use and he sets aside his subconscious to regulate the flow of his chakra over the bottom of his feet so he can walk across and still perform the technique without sinking into his own swampy mud hole. After performing three handseals, Anzo sends his chakra to the mud itself, focusing some of it into a new form and then creating a great dragon's head from the soupy, swampy mud that drags itself up out of the muck and opens its mouth. At a rapid speed, its open mouth ejects large and dense spheres of mud directly at a distant target, those globes of mud slamming into a long range dummy with intensely powerful noises as even indirect hits splash mud onto the target with a surprising amount of force. One final sphere of mud lands with a great deal of weight on top of the dummy, crushing it to pieces and leaving it destroyed in a messy pile on the ground.

The dragon's head sinks back into mud as Anzo finishes training the technique, and he stretches a bit as he leaves. After training two such powerful techniques, he feels like he's done enough training for the day, so he leaves once more, until another day.

OOC: 250/250 Earth Release: Earth Dragon Bullet

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Anzo reaches the grand training facility once again, and he's become more tough in order to learn some much more difficult healing ninjutsu techniques, particularly at least one jutsu that should make him far more physically powerful, though it apparently takes a while to actually work up to a significant level of strength. He focuses first on improving his strength with medical ninjutsu, then switches suddenly to using his medical chakra to destroy his muscles instead. Anzo actually has to grit his teeth to take the pain of breaking down his muscles nearly everywhere in his body before switching his medical chakra back to healing the damage even more, feeling the muscle fibers build all around his body. This cycle continues, with each destructive cycle feeling less and less painful while he's becoming accustomed to the damage he's inflicting on his own body, destroying his muscles simply so he can build his musculature back up even greater than before. While it takes several cycles of destroying and then rebuilding all of the musculature of his body to reach a high level of strength, he feels as though his chakra reserves are being eaten up nearly as much as his muscles are.

Although the stamina cost is somewhat steep, Anzo is capable of keeping it going for a surprising length of time, and he can actually feel his muscles straining against his clothing a little, at which point he stops. The Kikaichu are actually reacting just fine to what should probably seem like a huge change in his anatomy. In any case, Anzo decides to try out his newfound strength, so he moves right up to a training dummy, prepares a kick, then launches his foot up to smash the dummy, splintering the thing disastrously.

OOC: 250/250 Body Revival Technique

Unfortunately, Anzo has seemingly forgotten one of Newton's laws, that being that every action has an equal and opposite reaction; in addition to destroying the dummy, he's also broken his leg, and the pain is very nearly unbearable. Right away, the genin drops himself to the ground and works hard to focus all of his mental energy on what he's about to attempt; a medical technique that requires absolute focus. He performs the two handseals, gathering medical chakra in his palms until he's got enough to produce a bright green light over the entirety of his hands. With this medical chakra gathered and growing, he looks down at his leg, wincing at the sight of the break just below the knee, but maintaining his focus.

Anzo places both hands just an inch above the break so he can focus his medical chakra into the wound, gritting his teeth as he ignores the pain as much as he can while he's pressing the bone back where it belongs, straightening the bone until he can will the bone cells to replicate and fully connect the two ends together. The pain gradually subsides and Anzo focuses more on the ligaments and the muscle that had been damaged a bit from the strike, until the wound no longer exists, though the effort, stress, focus, and pain has caused him to sweat profusely. He's even able to wiggle his toes without so much as a tensing of pain, so he considers it a success.

OOC: 200/200 Mystical Palm Technique

It wasn't quite the method he'd planned on using for training the Mystical Palm Technique, one of the cornerstones of the medical ninjutsu repertoire, but it certainly proved to him that the technique worked and that it worked exceedingly well. Although he made a mental note that he'd probably want to at least provide any patient of his with something to bite on; that certainly would have helped when he had been trying to line up his own bones into the proper position. In any case, it was now time to try and learn a new Taijutsu style once more.

The duo he'd been eavesdropping on from afar had started some new style of techniques while he'd been spying on them, something that looked far more like a dance than a fighting style, but he trusted the bigger man when he'd said that it was really quite formidable, though it came from some far away ninja village. Anzo got back to his feet and begins swaying his body to and fro, switching his feet in a rhythm that he's surprised to take to quite quickly, even swinging his arms back and forth across his body as he can feel the way his body builds up the momentum that the style apparently relied upon to deal damage. Eventually, Anzo stops, having only learned enough of the style to know how it starts, but not having actually spied long enough to see any of the actual techniques involved. He'd certainly have to train more of the style, as it seemed more suited to him than the Strong Fist or Arhat styles he'd learned so far. In any case, he feels like he's more than done for the day, and desperately in need of some pain reliever and a nap, so he leaves the grand training facility rapidly, ignoring the secretary that notes how pale his face is and the way he's sweating.

OOC: 150/150 Capoeira

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Anzo returns to the grand training facility once more, ready to learn a few more techniques after having tried out and learned the Capoeira fighting style. With its flowy movements and its focus on turning momentum into power, he's certain he should be able to learn how to use the techniques effectively after watching the two oddballs go at it; even though they looked ridiculous, he had to admit that they knew a lot about Taijutsu. He returns to the starting fighting stance as he faces a dummy, swinging his body to and fro as he builds momentum, then spins on his left leg to the right as he lifts his right leg in a circular motion, smashing the dummy's face before he returns to the beginning stance once more. After building some more momentum, he performs the kick again, this time turning left and striking with his left foot, ensuring that he's perfected the technique.

OOC: 100/100 La Armada

With a quick return to the swaying side-to-side motion of the more animated fighting stance of Capoeira, Anzo starts to train the next technique he'd seen the two strangers spend hours practicing. He'd actually watched them train these techniques so often he might as well be able to train others in the use of these techniques for the fighting style, but at least it made it easy for him to train the techniques himself. After building up momentum in the back-and-forth movements, he uses his hand to smash against the dummy's face once more with his right hand, side-swiping the dummy's blank face. Anzo does the same with his left hand on the way back, switching up as he'd seen the two oddballs do in order to ensure he's got the technique down correctly for both sides of his body.

OOC: 100/100 Galopante

There's one more beginner technique that Anzo wants to try and learn, and this one technique is apparently one of the more defensive stances used in the fighting style, which is somewhat odd, but the Aburame assumes that the style is more reliant on dodging an attack and then giving a counterattack, judging by how much it moves about. Even just doing these techniques, Anzo has worked up a bit of a sweat. In any case, the stance appeared to be very precise, apparently because the technique was meant to set up for a strong counterattack in this style. Anzo drops down rapidly, shifting his weight back so that his front leg stays in place while his back leg drops to ground, causing his right leg to lift up so that his left leg can be the anchor, along with his right hand. His left hand rises up, protecting his face and upper body. He makes sure the stance is perfect; he'd seen the younger of the duo being punished severely for allowing his lifted leg to drop.

With these more simplistic techniques done, Anzo picks himself up off the ground and leaves once more; while he'd watched them start on training some of the other techniques, he wanted to rest up and train the rest of the beginner techniques later.

OOC: 100/100 Negativa

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Anzo returns to the grand training facility after a little while away from it; he hadn't been expecting to run into the Tsuchikage after all, and so he'd been a little bit out of sorts, but now he was back to train up some more of those strange dance-like Taijutsu techniques that he'd spent hours watching the two oddballs perform. It was helpful that they performed the same technique thousands of times; it helped Anzo to learn what the right way looked like.

Anzo moves to stand in front of the dummy as he begins the odd swaying motion of the Capoeira stance once more; this was actually becoming rather familiar to him, and he was certain if he kept at it, his coordination and his agility would improve and make him far better in acrobatic styles. He suddenly plants his forward foot and turns his hips, bringing his back foot directly forwards as his body switches to a side-long stance as his foot connects with the training dummy, rocking it backwards hard before he returns his leg back to return to the ginga.

OOC: 100/100 Chapa

The next technique he wasn't sure if he could fully practice without a partner, as the two oddballs had done, but he figured he could do well enough against a training dummy to make sure he was capable of performing the technique correctly enough that it would effectively work just fine when confronted with the correct situation. He builds up a bit of momentum on the ginga, until he's reached the right speed, then brings his foot in suddenly to catch around the pole of the training dummy into the ground, hooking it in and tugging, though neither he nor the dummy actually moves anywhere.

Just to make sure he's done it correct and his legs are strong enough to hook and pull an opponent's leg, he does it several more times with both legs, until he feels that he can do it effectively enough each time.

OOC: 100/100 Banda

Now it was time to train one more technique, although this one was apparently not to be used against training partners because it had the possibility of permanently causing damage to the eardrums if used against friends. This likely also meant it would be extremely useful against opponents, so of course Anzo was determined to learn the technique. The two oddballs had used it to actually crush melons and various other fruits that he was certain would actually cause him damage if he tried to practice with them, including the older of the two able to break apart a coconut with his bare hands. Anzo doubted he'd ever reach that level of capability, but the sand-filled head of the training dummy should prove close enough to a human, and if the attack was meant to just attack the eardums, it seemed silly to use it to break apart fruits.

He builds up the ginga and then slams both palms on either side of the dummy's head, causing the sand-filled sphere to deform a little. With the two seams on either side of the head being used for reference, Anzo practiced until he was able to strike with his palms landing directly on the seams with each dual blow.

With his training done for now, he leaves the training facility once more, likely until tomorrow.

OOC: 150/150 Telefono

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Anzo returns to the grand training facility for another day of hard training, though he's going to be training at least one technique that isn't part of the taijutsu line-up he's been working on for the past few days; some of the other techniques looked a little too advanced for him, and would probably end with him flat on the ground no matter how much he tried to train them. In any case, he could at least train a couple of them as far as he could tell. He moves in front of the training dummy and begins swinging his body back and forth in the ginga, building up momentum again. It doesn't take long before he builds the momentum required to get the technique started; he plants both feet on the ground and turns his upper body towards the dummy first, with both his arms rising up as well.

Anzo doesn't even need to squat and jump; both his legs rise up as well, and thanks to his height, he's able to smack both feet across the training dummy's face, the force of the attack causing the sandbag head to spin around.

OOC: 150/150 Armada Dupla

Anzo lands easily enough and then begins the back-and-forth motion of the ginga once again, as though he'd never attacked in the first place. This next attack would actually bring him right down into the Negativa stance he'd trained before, so it would be a fine technique to finish the taijutsu training with. After building up plenty of momentum, he steps forwards at a sudden diagonal with his right leg, then turns to put his right hand directly on the ground, turning the momentum of the ginga into a spinning kick that uses the rotation of his entire body into a kind of rotational axe kick right onto the dummy's shoulder, smashing the training dummy downwards.

Though the dummy springs back upwards after being hit, Anzo is certain that the technique connecting with another person would likely end with the other person flat on their face on the ground instead. But he's got no time to think about the effects of the attack, as he focuses on moving to the Negativa stance, putting his left leg flat on the ground and keeping his butt raised, pressing both hands into the ground, then raising his right hand up in a protective position in front of his face to block any potential counterattack. Of course, none was coming from the inanimate dummy, but it would be good to practice such a positional exchange if he ever came up against another person.

OOC: 150/150 Chibata

Finally he's gotten to the final technique he'd been planning to train that day, this one a much more advanced version of the Transformation technique that he'd learned in the Academy. The difference with this technique, however, was the fact that it was capable of fooling far more than just the unaware genin, academy students, or civilians that didn't know what to look for in a Transformation technique, but was much more exact in its ability to mimic another person. This particular version of the transformation was even able to keep its form up when struck by an attack, unlike the Academy style type of transformation.

Anzo gets an idea for who he should transform into, and so he claps his hands together in order to focus his chakra reserves into the technique while his mind is focused intently on the person he's chosen to transform into, and his body slowly changes while he's focusing with his eyes fully shut. It's almost surprising how long it takes for the transformation to complete, but once it's done, he releases his hands from their position, flexing his fingers before looking down at them. He's surprised at how accurate it is.

Now that he's successfully trained the technique, he feels that he's done enough training, so he turns and leaves the grand training facility, although he's a bit surprised when the woman calls out a goodbye to Hanabi Uchiha, and he looks around for a moment before realizing he hadn't actually cancelled the transformation technique, and he embarrassingly quickly rushes the rest of the way out of the training facility.

OOC: 200/200 Perfect Copy

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Anzo returns to the grand training facility once more to do some more training with Earth Release techniques, though the techniques he's chosen to train this time are ones he feels might be less useful than some of the previous ones. Still, he believes them to be somewhat useful in a general repertoire, so he chooses to train them anyway, and he reasons that it would be better to just have them and never need them than the opposite.

To that end, he starts off with one of the most basic Earth Release techniques, but one he'd heard had been used to reach even a special jounin rank recently, although he's certain the circumstances the jutsu was used was the real reason it had had such an effect. With no handseals, it's really a very quick technique, and so he simply slips underground rapidly. He knows where the training dummy is, so he immediately moves to it and raises his arm to latch onto the dummy's central pole before tugging it downwards under the ground, leaving it with only its sandbag head above the earth before Anzo himself resurfaces.

OOC: 100/100 Earth Release: Double Suicide Decapitation Technique

The next couple of techniques require a structure to be built beforehand, so he does a quick rearranging of the earth to create a large domed structure of stone, some of it appearing rather loose, but with the weight of the rocks pressing the stones together it actually creates an exceedingly sturdy natural cave, looking somewhat like a dome, since Anzo isn't making an entire mountain on top of the cave itself. No point in causing a massive amount of damage to the training facility on his own. Instead, Anzo moves to the top of the false cave and begins performing the handseals while he sends Doton chakra throughout the entire structure. Once he slams both of his palms on the top of the makeshift cave, he focuses on finding and then dislodging the keystone seated near the top of the structure, causing it to fall first. While other stones start to push and slide towards the opening created by the keystone being removed and falling into the cave, Anzo jumps off of the cave, watching as the structure falls in on itself, as though it never could have held up anything at all.

Anzo flexes his arm a bit, somewhat surprised that the cave had collapsed so quickly after removing a small piece, but he'd been able to feel the firmness of the structure both with and without the keystone.

OOC: 200/200 Earth Release: Rock Lodging Destruction

Anzo immediately begins training on his next technique by constructing a wall once more with his Earth Release techniques, bringing up a large stone structure that looks somewhat like cobble, though the stones are rather larger. As soon as the wall is made, he jumps to the top of it, peering down and around himself, just to make sure he's got somewhere safe to land if he ends up causing the structure of his wall to collapse under him. Finally, he performs the handseals for this technique as well, which while similar, is actually more focused on turning the structure of his own Doton technique into large rocks and boulders to collapse onto a hypothetical enemy, although it could also be used to deconstruct an opponent's Earth Release technique of a similar rank to the jutsu he's training now. He slams both hands into the top of his earthen wall, and right away, chunks of it begin to fall away, crashing down on the ground below him, and as more and more rocks are torn away, it becomes somewhat similar in effect to an avalanche or a rock slide. The Aburame rides along it, actually, letting his own chunk fall along the slope of stones that had once been his own wall.

Once he reaches the base of what is now a large mound of stones, he feels that he's completed another successful day of training, so he turns and walks back out of the training facility.

OOC: 200/200 Earth Release: Rock Collapse

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