Suiton: Essence of Life [Training]

Takeshi pushed open the gates of Valhalla once more, he had been here not but hours ago helping Rosuto to hone the power of his bijuu and they had managed to make amazing progress but as he had expected there was a block in place on how much power could be handled much less how much could be mastered. After that he returned to his home for a short rest, he would need his full power to try and fit many months worth of training into the span of a single night. It was going to be a long and sleepless night without break but he had to push through otherwise everything he had done up until this point would be rendered into nothing.

The elegant designs of the battle hall seemed to speak to him as he passed them by, the spears all had names, every sword a voice. To him this would be the perfect place to stay forever if he had not started a family but even now he was told that somewhere in one of the private chambers his own son was sparring with one of the foreigners brought by the Tsurukage to tour and get a grasp of the village. Eventually he found himself at the doors of a chamber not opened in years, it was a special chamber designed for the specific use of training suiton techniques and combat styles utilizing them, being surrounded by storms at all times many looked to the lightning for power but there were still those that remember that it is the rain water that amplifies it's strength.

Slowly he traced his finger over a pattern on the door, it was a marking of a section of the sky as well as one of the most secretive puzzle locks in the world. Only those who knew the answer would be able to even tell that the puzzle was there which made sense considering this was a private chamber for the ANBU special forces, Takeshi being the kage was aware of this though had never visited it himself, until today. He ran his finger from star to star in a connect the dots style until eventually he finished and for a moment a constellation depicting a great wave along with the rune for water in it's center glowed a dim cyan followed by a loud and rusted click. The door moved by as he opened it and walked inside towards the center, there were no lights so when the chamber door shut it and locked he was left in total darkness. Cut off from the world with nothing but an abyss and the sound of slowly dripping water all around him.

He was currently standing atop this water and while he couldn't be sure entirely it felt extremely deep, based on how long it took to the get to bijuu taming chamber though he couldn't fathom the possibility of how deep it could extend downwards. He slowly walked forwards toward the center of the room and finally came to rest on a circular stone pillar no more than a few feet across that sat only inches above the surface of the cold and unforgiving indoor lake. First letting out a deep breath Takeshi lowered himself to sit cross legged on this platform and think about how exactly he was supposed to use this chamber to his advantage. When he had asked former ANBU members about it they would all reply the same, 'be as water and all will be revealed'. The riddle was unclear to him and since he was locked in here there was plenty of time to figure it out.

In the darkness he was left alone with nothing but the sound of his own breathing and the gentle sound of a drop of water forming before it fell and disturbed the pool beneath it. After a while this sound and pattern was etched into his brain and he was anticipating it down the the last millisecond before it landed. As this was going on though he was starting to notice a deeper calmness within himself he had not experienced since years ago, back when things were more simple than they are now. The steady beat played in the back of his head and all of a sudden he discovered something within him, it's power wasn't very high quite yet but there was something for sure.

He continued to hold onto this new power, it felt loose and unstable as though it were unable to form into a true shape and it was at this point that he knew for sure that he had tapped deep into his water chakras. The build up of chakra started to cause a lump in his throat, some kind of attack perhaps? He allowed it to build up and it got larger and larger until eventually it burst and from the back of his throat launched a sphere of water that flew across the room and splashed hard against the wall on the other side of the room. He was pleased with the results and recognized this as the water bullet technique but also remembered that when he saw others using it the technique produced more than a single orb even when used by a genin like the girl that had fought his son not to long ago here in Valhalla. Takeshi stood up and like some sort of magic a giant count of candles lit up the room once more, making it very easy to see in the area and thus more easily able to focus on producing more of this power rather than simply discover it.