The Oasis[P, Training]

Keita was off into the desert, the busy man was never one to ignore a good training opportunity, so instead of his usual training, he would make a trek out into the desert to find his favorite oasis, one that couldn't really be found unless you had seen it already, stumbled upon it in the first place, and then remembered it's location. That is, unless you gave someone a map afterwards, but there was no fun and adventure in that type of thing. So, Keita headed off into the desert, and he only had the clothing on his back, and of course his pants, as he wasn't one to take much with him. He liked the endurance test of walking out into the desert on his bare feet, getting to the oasis to drink the crystal clear sand filtered water, which was definitely delicious and worth the trip by itself. However, he was going to meditate and work his chakra around his body this time, as he was training to perfect his particular taijutsu technique, the chakra breaker. He wasn't too much into specific techniques, instead enjoying just to use his body and wits to smash someone's body into pieces, but this technique was nothing more than a way to get rid of too many pesky techniques that stood in the way and made a fight no fun.

He was of course talking about the time someone's body was made of water, and he simply turned into a puddle and mocked Keita while running away scared, Keita unable to strike him and do any real damage. This technique, or martial style of kneading chakra into one's body was a unique thing to him, as he had never seen it done before, and was even surprised by his ability to mix chakra into his being, but then again, being versed in taijutsu his entire life, and picking up some medical information around in his spare time, he was well versed in his own body, which was really the only reason why it was possible in the first place. As he made his way through the sand blasted desert, he made sure to protect his eyes with his headband, because while the sand in his eyes didn't cause much damage, it was still really irritating to him to have to deal with it constantly, so he simply used his head band to keep most of the sand out of his eyes. Soon, he would be able to perfect his technique, and he would be one step closer to becoming one of the strongest ninja in the world, which was his goal. He wasn't after simply becoming physically stronger either, because he was fairly certain he was already the most physically strong ninja in the world, or human, perhaps even stronger than most boss level summons in terms of brute strength. No, he was after the ability to defeat all opponents, no matter their technique, using nothing but his body and a few buffing techniques that allowed him to bypass defenses and other annoying things.

As he stood in front of the oasis after a few hours, he decided to take a little while, and sip the water there. Because of his natural gentle giant charisma, the small rodents that were also taking drinks from the water, some bathing in it, didn't seem to mind his presence at all. He was extremely tall for the ninja world for the most part, but his towering physique didn't intimidate the animals at all, and he enjoyed that, because he loved animals. After he had drank for a little while, little sips because he was slightly dehydrated, he decided to sit under the shade of a tree, and simply meditate, bringing forth his chakra to surround his body. Chakra control wasn't quite his strongest ability, but being a medical practitioner made it so that he was at least proficient enough with controlling his chakra that he wasn't wasting much chakra when performing his technique. However, he could do better, and he could be better when performing his ability. As he looked on deep within his thoughts, he felt the chakra coursing through his body, and it being brought up through his stomach and into his body, flooding it and making his hair stand on end. He then channeled it throughout his muscles and skin, effectively performing his style of fighting, coating his body once. He felt that he needed better chakra control, as some of the chakra was simply lost when he tried to saturate his skin with it. He simply absorbed the chakra back into his body, and he thought about how much chakra he had and how much he had lost. The small kangaroo rats that had been drinking had started to get a bit curious of the large man sitting there, almost like a statue, and started to investigate. However, Keita's mind, while vigilant, wasn't quite paying attention to the things, and instead calculated that he could perform the technique only four more times before he ran out of chakra.

He decided to try again, and with another deep breath, he set the technique in motion again, and decided to try and conserve chakra, so instead of molding everything he thought the technique would need, he made chakra little by little, molding it to where he was trying to get the minimum amount of chakra that could fuel the technique, while still being effective. He wouldn't really know if it was all that effective until he was in a spar or something, perhaps he could get his friend to test something on him. Still, this was going to be quite a difficult task, as he was slowly putting chakra into the jutsu, and it simply failed, and the chakra was re-absorbed into his body once again. This was starting to annoy Keita a little bit, as it wasn't in his nature to sit there patiently and do essentially nothing, and it was starting to make him all fidgety. After he failed one more time, and the chakra was simply re-absorbed, he suddenly got upset and stood up, and noticed the small rats scampering because of his sudden outburst. He looked at them, and their fear made him calm down a little bit, and a few minutes later, they all came back. He was tired, and instead chose to play with the little rats. He did have some food on him, just some crackers, because no one in their right mind would trek out on an adventure and not bring some snacks, even if they were supposed to have some sort of endurance trial with themselves. He liked the particular cooked snacks that they sold in the market in Suna, and these ones happened to be cheese flavored, and he knew that the small rats would love them. So, he would break one of the crackers up and then put a few piles down in front of the rats before backing up, showing them that it wasn't some sort of trap, not that he couldn't catch all of them before they could even react, it was just that he was showing them that he wasn't really a threat, and instead that they could trust him. They decided to nibble on a bit before the rest of them started to dig in. They were so cute, and it was horrible that Keita was a very masculine man that had such a love for small and cute animals. He saw how they were nice and calm, but their fierce looking back legs could be used to jump quicker than lightning.... well, in the animal kingdom at least. This made him think that there was a way that he could, instead of simply trying to trickle the chakra into his body like a leaky faucet, he could simply try to brute force, suddenly shock the jutsu active, so that it would start with less chakra, which is exactly what he did. It seemed to work fine, and he learned something new that day, and was on his way to finally mastering the technique, but he simply didn't have the prowess, so instead of trying half-heartedly and wasting the rest of his chakra away from the village, he decided to grab some more water, empty his bladder, grab some more water, and then head back to his village. He waved back to the rats before he left all the way, and they scurried off to their burrows, and he seemed content. He would make his way back to the village, and he wouldn't be dehydrated this time, simply because he made sure to fill up on water before he left the oasis, the natural spring there sure to replenish the water there, even though he was sure he didn't even dent the amount that was in there. As soon as he got back, almost eighteen hours had gone by, and he decided that he was hungry, so he went to a late night bare that also served food, and decided to grab some teriyaki beef, which was delicious. Some places had wonderful food, for not really marketing themselves as a nice food place, and he liked finding those rare gems within the village, and other places as well. Perhaps he would visit Konoha, the village's ally, one of these days. He had been there only once, as a child. He was done training for the day, and decided to call it a day when he got back to his house.
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