>>5790323>>5790329>>5790332>>5790359>>5790373>>5790380>>5790411>>5790529>>5790549>>5790563>>5790597>>5790725>>5790763You decide to take what Juro-Sensei said to heart and begin investigating some kind of way about getting better at taijutsu. You were getting to the point where you were just about to give up on it because it clearly wasn’t your forte, but there are a myriad of reasons to at least have it up to a basic core level appropriate for a ninja.
What if you ran out of energy for your jutsu and the fight wasn’t over? Someone could just run up to you and do whatever they wanted.
Maybe you could get precise enough with your Water Bullet to knock a thrown kunai out of the air before it lodges into your lower intestine, but it was also a real waste of your resources. Not an even trade. It took next to no real strength to throw a kunai at someone, but how many times could you use Water Bullet in a day? Probably around 10-15 as of right now but that was with decent breaks in-between. In one fight you’d probably tap out after around 5, and what were going to do if someone kept up the pressure and threw like 6 with the explicit goal of wearing down your reserves?
And probably most importantly: You wanted to feel like you were actually a part of the class. Spending the first two hours of every like a punk was getting embarrassing. Not only that, but getting beaten up by your classmates at least once a week was starting to feel like a humiliation ritual. Everyone knew you were great at ninjutsu, but in Training Room #3 people were beginning to look at you like some kind of termite. Even Junpei could just stay out of your reach while you wasted blows swinging at air.
Nope. Not anymore. Not next year.
Over summer break you finally take Yuna up on her offer to train there consistently. The others, Masami, Junpei, and Katsuro, weren’t here right now for various reasons.Junpei is doing stuff in the forest with his family, and Katsuro just thought summer training was ‘gay and stupid as fuck.’. You don’t know what Masami is up to with her summer.
“I’ve been waiting for this, Otomo!” Yuna says, tightening the belt of her gi. “I think we’re really going to make some progress! Right dad?”
Her dad, Yudai, just looks at you like you’re made of puke.
“Okay… Right Yuzuki?”
“He’s gonna have strong balls like big-bro Katsuro!” She announces.
“Say that again and ‘big bro Katsuro’ dies.” Yudai says, pissed off that his cute daughter is learning to say such things.
“Katsuro of the Iron Balls! I’ll kill him myself, dad!”
“Good girl. We’ll do it together, come on, let’s go find and kill Katsuro.”
