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She would form the string of handseals to the bunshin jutsu for the forth time tonight. She recalled how much chakra and time she spent on learning this jutsu the first time. Could it possibly be that it would all go to waist now as she tried again tonight? She wasn't so sure as to what she was going to do if that was the case. There was only one thing to do though. She called the name of the jutsu and then released her chakra. This time her chakra was not released to the air, but to the water. 

Under the impression that the water from the air particles was the reason why it was so difficult to learn the jutsu, she was going to use the water instead. It was ironic how she didn't want to do this kind of training, or use this kind of method agen she started but was now forced to do so. It was only because she failed to call forth her clone the first time using the natural method that she was now forced to stand facing the pond water and use the solo training method she despised. But it was all worthwhile to her, as long as her bunshin could be formed. If this trial proved to be a success, she would then see how much of her chakra was left. 

As her chakra fused with the pond water, she watched it turn from it's dark black color, which was due to the night sky, to a bright whitish blue color, the color of her chakra. Particles of water began to rise while she was still releasing her chakra. This time she was much smarter in chakra control. She knew how much was too much and how much was too little. After a few seconds, she retracted her chakra and let the jutsu do it's trick. And trick it did do, to her relief. The chakra infused with the water, the liquid churning quickly as the energy was being added.

Once she retracted her chakra, she would wait. Only when she retracted did the actual jutsu begin to take shape. In a moment's time she would be facing her own clone again. She was really happy that she had managed to form her clone without too much trouble. The chakra flow in her body was more than there was when she was forming the clone with the water in the night air. Now she was more than convinced that it was really the water source that was the problem with her last trials. She would learn later that it wasn't. 

She wasn't done yet. Her primary focus was to learn Yuki no Kami and it was just a setback that she had to spend so much time with her bunshin jutsu. She flared her chakra, noting that there was still enough before she hit her reserve. But that wasn't the issue either. She needed to do have an object in mind to form the jutsu or else the chakra that goes into the water would just turn the water into ice. She looked around where she was standing and recalled that Yuki no Kami didn't always need water because she had Hyouton chakra; or at least every Yukina Clan member did.

       

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But now she wondered whether it was smart to form Yuki no Kami right away after just forming her clone.  The whole point of forming the clone was so that she had a fighting partner to make learning Yuki no Kami easier. She needed the help of this clone so that she could learn the next level; the A rank of the jutsu. If she formed the handseals now, it would be defeating the purpose of the whole bunshin jutsu. She was not about to waste all that effort. A spar it was then!

She diminished the her chakra flare, noticing that her clone was probably thinking the same things she was. There wasn't that much time left in the night for her to stand there and think about what to do. So she would start fighting her clone almost immediately. The whole battle she estimated would take two hours. Two hours was the maximum amount of time she would allocate for defeating her clone and learning the A rank jutsu. As with her other fights, she was going to set herself a time target. Once she hit that target time she was not going to spar anymore. 

That was definitely easier for a fight with her clone. If she managed to defeat her clone, it would disappear. But the worst part of this clone, as opposed to the regular ice clone was that her clone had all the jutsus that she learned over the months. It was like facing herself in this match. She needed a strategy. She reviewed all the jutsus that she learned. She was thankful that she didn't have that many offensive jutsus to choose from. If not, she would be in big trouble. And so she started the spar, failing to acknowledge that while her bunshin didn't have many jutsus to use, there was one deathly flaw.

The way a bunshin worked was that it could form jutsus without the use of chakra, meaning that it could just decide it wanted to attack using a certain jutsu, it was allowed to do so infinitely. The other part of this deathly flaw was that she didn't have enough chakra. She had already used a part of her chakra just to form the clone. If she were to fight it with full chakra it was still dangerous let alone when she only had partial. But she totally forgot about that and charged forward, ready for a fight she would never forget. She didn't underestimate her clone at all.

And that was the best thing about her. She hardly ever underestimated people unless that person was really someone that irked her. She hadn't gone full insane mode yet on her clone which meant that she wasn't going to start playing her messed up games just yet. When faced with a normal opponent she would do so though but faced with herself made of ice--it was a whole different matter. She found it hard to maintain stamina once her opponent changed from being an actual person.

       

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The spar started out being relatively slow. Neither of them seemed to be too quick to use jutsus. The momentum was slowly gaining on both of them and she was sure that within minutes she was going to be faced with the real challenge. The only good thing was that she knew she couldn't possibly be killed by her own clone. Or could she? Once she lost all her body's chakra, she would be forced to give up, passing out. Once that point hits she was playing on the fact that the clone would disappear.

But while she was still well and standing, her challenge was about to begin. Her clone had realized that she wasn't paying undivided attention and set out to make her more attentive by using the first of her jutsus right back at her. This jutsu was one that she naturally had little to no defense for. The flying water needles of death jutsu came down hard. In seconds she was faced with a hundred long sharp needles from up above. She tried to jump out of the way but the needles came showering down that mere jumping wasn't going to help much. 

She had to use shunshin jutsu, powering her legs with chakra to enforce a high speed chakra run. It was a D rank jutsu but it took a portion of her body's remaining chakra. Going for the five meter distance, she was able to do so quite effectively. The shunshin carried her away from the flying needles escaping it. But there was the catch. Because her clone didn't need to use chakra to power it's jutsus, it could hurl them out much faster. As soon as she had escaped the needles she hurled out ten ice swallows at her. Now that wasn't good. She knew that at that kind of speed she would be able to block it with just shunshin at D rank. So she tried using the more advanced form of shunshin at B rank to narrowly avoid the swallows.

Even though she managed to escape, she knew that there was much more coming. Flaring her chakra she realized that she didn't have much left. The only thing she could possibly do was attack once and that would be the end. She formed the string of handseals quickly to her own tsubame fubuki attack so that at least her clone had something to be preoccupied with. As soon as the handseals were formed she released the rest of her chakra.

Running out of energy in a clone fight wasn't that big a deal. But if it were an actual fight she could've died easily. As she expelled her chakra for her first and last jutsu attack she fell forward. Her chakra was drained completely and her mission to defeat her own clone had failed as she slipped into unconsciousness. She had learned a valuable lesson that night.

       

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The clone had disappeared once she was drained of all energy and passed out. She had not managed to complete the objective and killing off her clone. In fact she hadn't even managed to do what she originally planned to do. She had wanted to attack her clone using Yuki no Kami but didn't get a chance to because it came at her with hardcore offense attacks to make it impossible to use that jutsu. She remembered how she had trained that jutsu in B rank and it had become so boring that she looked for something new. 

But with the idea of innovation came problems. She was certain that she needed a new way to train her jutsus since solo training in and of itself was doomed to be boring. The only way it could be half exciting was if she trained while sparring or trained while on a mission. But both proved to be very hard to accomplish. For the first, it was the fact that she couldn't find a sparring partner  here in these parts and for the second, her village was destroyed making it impossible to learn through missions. She was not the friendly type either so friendly sparring wasn't the best.

She would arouse from her slumber two hours later, at the break of dawn. In her two hour of sleep, she managed to have a dream. This kind of dream wasn't the ones she was used to having. Her old ones were all about her life in Yukigakure, trying to piece together parts of her memory puzzle. But this dream was entirely different, which surprised her. She was surprised at this dream because of this difference. In it, she was still in Yuki but she was actually doing something.

In a snow covered street, she was walking towards the Yukina mansion, her hand carrying a scroll. Looking more closely, she'd find that the scroll was the same one she now had: the Yukina Clan scroll. It seemed to be an early morning in the dream where she entered the mansion and then went directly to the backyard, which like the estate, was huge. She was looking at this scene like a third person, which was also different from the other dreams she had. Walking towards the snowy backyard, she would look about the place, as though looking for something. 

"Sayuri!" exclaimed a voice from behind her. It was that girl again that she met in her last dream. They seemed to be good friends. "Tomomi!" she replied. She looked at the figure of herself that moved to the other girl named Tomomi. She was surprised to see that she could be such good friends with someone since now she wanted to slit everyone's throat whenever she met a new person. It was definitely peculiar to her.

       

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It was also surprising to see her figure be so warm to this friend named Tomomi. She watched from a distance as her figure laughed and giggled just like a normal teenager. It was strange seeing her so lively and--normal. It was actually a little frightening too. She watched as Tomomi asked her if she wanted a friendly spar. She agreed and put down the scroll since she was planning to train anyhow. There was nothing more fun than sparring and training together. They stood on opposite ends of the yard, with about a twenty meter distance. From where she was looking, she guessed that neither of them were very strong. 

The momentum was really slow at the beginning of the match. There was little real movement. Tomomi was using her secondary weapons from her weapon pouch more than jutsus. She wanted so much to use jutsus but because they were both fresh Genin out of the academy, it was more difficult to get it right the first time. From the angle she was looking at, peering down on the two, she could see that Tomomi wanted to start with a Katon jutsu. She wasn't as familiar with Katon but had seen someone use a jutsu that had the same handseals. She guessed it was a Katon. 

So this established that Tomomi wasn't a Yukina Clan member and was only allowed into the Yukina mansion because she was good friends with Sayuri. So this also established that Tomomi didn't know any of the Yukina Clan jutsus which was the reason why she could form Katon jutsus. All Yukina Clan members specialized in Suiton, Fuuton and Hyouton jutsus where Katon went against two of the three elements. This was the reason why as a clan member they couldn't learn any Katon jutsus. That made sense. 

She saw that Tomomi had failed to form her own jutsu and then watched as Sayuri was forming a jutsu too. They were really amateurs at this point because neither of them could get it right the first time. Chakra flared but diminished. It was more like watching a show than a spar because not much sparring was going on. The speed wasn't fast at all and there lacked any excitement involved in the spar. But she saw that that was soon about to change. Maybe they both realized that and decided to pick up the speed. 

She saw Tomomi taking out a coil of something which she uncoiled to reveal a whip. Her primary weapon, she guessed. Her figure also decided to bring out her katana to meet with her opponent's whip. Whips were only good for long range attacks and unless flicked at a good speed would take a while to land an attack. Apparently her figure had thought the same as she ran ahead, with Tomomi running to her, both their weapons drawn.

       

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It was very different fighting a person with a whip instead of a sword or saber. Tomomi had uncoiled her whip within three feet distance of Sayuri and tried to land an attack to her shoulder. The thing about whips was that they were harder to control because of the distance that was needed. Only the tip of the whip would land on her opponents whereas the sword was allowed to be maneuvered so that the blade could get very close to the person. It was the reason she chose a katana as her primary weapon.

She jumped to avoid the whip as it came crashing down on the snow creating a relatively deep mark of seperation. In the seconds that followed, she would return an attack at Tomomi in close range. That was the beauty of swords. She slashed at Tomomi's left shoulder. Since she was just recouping her whip, she hadn't quite noticed the attack until it landed. But she had gone soft and only cut her lightly with her sword. It was a friendly spar not one to the death. And she was her friend. They were both smiling and apparently having a pretty good time even if it was sparring match. 

Tomomi finally got her jutsu working and sent a firebal in her direction. She saw the fireball and tried to jump out of the way. But because she wasn't fast enough, her arm was burned a little by the fireball. They were both at similar levels of strength making a sparring match such a good thing. All the other members of the clan were too strong for her and would probably kill her. Only with her friends could she spar and still manage to learn something at the same time.

The spar continued. Though her arm hurt from the burn, it wasn't as bad as if she took a direct attack. They both continued, with Sayuri countering with a jutsu of her own. She chose to use swallows jutsu since the Yuki no Kami wouldn't really affect either of the girls having lived in Yuki all their lives. It seemed that though sustaining injuries, they enjoyed sparring with each other. From her standpoint she guessed that this wasn't the first time they sparred with each other. 

She thought that her dream was going to be just about the spar. But she was wrong. As she was just comfortable as a spectator, the whole place turned black. Not knowing what was going on, she would wait for it clear again. And that was when she heard a scream in the middle of nowhere. Looking left and right all she saw was darkness. Who was screaming and where?

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The darkness would clear in seconds and the first stream of sunlight came into view. She was still looking for the scream but couldn't find anyone. It took her a moment to figure out where she was. Or at least she had a pretty good guess as to where she was in the dream. The grounds were covered with thick snow, almost the same as the backyard. She was situated in the country of Yuki no Kuni. She saw the village gates behind so and the two guards. She was definitely in the country. But what was she doing there.

There was smoke filling the air from not too far away. The big black clouds of snow contrasted the pure whiteness of the snow. She ran forward to where it was. She noticed that she was carrying her scroll and wondered what she was doing. But she would have to wait for the dream to play out. Her figure ran across the bridge that connected to the other side of the country--the residential area. Why was there smoke in the middle of nowhere? 

As she reached there, she ran past the spectators that were crowding around the area. She saw that there were bits of flame still on the ground, bits that came from a house that was burning down into flames! Many were carrying buckets of water to help extinguish the fire but that merely made the flames bigger. There wasn't enough water and the people weren't going fast enough. What could be done? She didn't have any water jutsus that could help. When she was about to help the water crew with the buckets of water, she stopped.

Wait that house--now she knew why she was there in the first place. The house belonged to her best friend Tomomi. Her parents were out on a mission for the Kage and she was home alone. Scanning the spectators she found that ahe wasn't among them. Tomomi was still trapped inside! Frantic, she dropped the bucket and hurried inside the burning house. The men helping to extinguish the fire tried to stop her but she pulled out her katsna and threatened to slit their throats if they even tried. Admitting defeat, they allowed her inside the house, telling her to be very careful. The house could fall down any second.

She had to cover her face with her arm as she rushed into the burning place. The smoke was making her eyes water but she needed to find her friend. There was no choice in the matter. She called her friend's name but found no answer. It seemed that she had been to her house many times before so she knew the place well enough. She was careful not to let the flames crash down on her. The flames were really getting more intense, making it harder to maneuver around the house. She wished that she had suiton jutsus to help her.

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"Tomomi!" she called to the half burning building. She saw that the flames were about to catch on the wooden panels of the roof meaning that in seconds or even less than seconds the panels of the roof and the ceiling could fall on top of her. Since she had no Suiton jutsus, she could extinguish any of the flames here now. What was left for her to do was to try her best to find her friend before they both became prisoners of this burning house. She would start at the most dangerous ends of the house which was the second floor and then make her way down to the first. She first went to Tomomi's bedroom, opening the door and peering inside. Another waft of smoke filled her eyes and nostrils making it infinitely hard to breathe. She walked over to the bed and noticed that her friend was lying there unconscious.

That made her job a little easier because she had found her friend. But now the bigger part of the problem came. How was she going to get her friend downstairs. She only had so much strength and could hardly think that with breathing a difficulty, she knew she could barely make it out alive. The flames were engulfing every part of the room as she stood there to think. She walked over to the bed and tried to make her friend wake up. But it seemed as though she was already unconscious. There wasn't enough time for her to get water from outside and then come back in again. Every second mattered. She began to cough violently as the smoke became thicker. What was she going to do? The Yukina Clan specialized in only ice techniques and she had only learned ice techniques. Could she possibly freeze flame? The flame would just melt it.

She thought that both of them were just going to die there. But she knew that if she didn't try at least something, they'd definitely die without even a chance of survival. She ran towards the window and opened it, peering down below. She could use Yukigakure no Jutsu to her advantage. At least the temperature in the room would drop and she would have more time to think about what to do. She hollered for the men down below to hurry up and come up here while she formed the necessary handseals for the jutsu. Yukigakure no jutsu was only a deference and wouldn't be able to last too long. She called for them to bring a stretcher too as there was still someone trapped inside the room. They went ahead to do just that as she poured her chakra from her hands and to the air that was now drifting in from the open window. She wasn't sure how good it would work though

She called the name of the jutsu and immediately the temperature felt much much cooler. She had trained herself to a rank of that jutsu so that there was no chance she would and could fail on the first try. This was one of the first jutsus, other than Yuki no Kami that she had learned. With the temperature drop she was allowed to buy time. Incidentally she knew that the men outside who would be coming in shortly was not as prone to coldness but she knew that since she still had chakra she could form the jutsu more than once. Leaving Tomomi's bedroom for a few seconds, she would run along the hallway and initially form two Yukigakure no Jutsu so that the men were not too bogged down by heat. They would still need to be fairly careful with the burning flames though.

And because of that, when they got to where Tomomi was lying and took her out on the stretcher, she stayed behind them, just in case the burning flames would cause the roof to crash down. One of the pieces of wood came falling when they reached the stairs and she had had to use Yuki no Kami in desperate measure. This stopped the flame from further burning but it only lasted for a second. She was sure that if the man hadn't gotten Tomomi out of there fast enough, they would all be trapped there and would die.

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It was such a close call. She began to wonder why her dream incorporated something like that. Did it want to prove that maybe Tomomi meant more to her than just a friend? She wasn't really sure what it was that made her have this sort of dream. But her dream would end with Tomomi safe in the hospital. It stopped rather abruptly that she could make neither heads nor tails to what she saw. It could be that the dream was trying to tell her some kind of living philosophy that she might have forgotten along with her memory but that possibility seemed slim. So why did she have that dream in the first place? What was the reasoning behind it? If it had been trying to tell her something, she obviously didn't get it.

Disturbed, she woke up and found that the sun was already starting to rise. She knew that it was still too early in the morning for her to do much other than try her hand at the jutsu again. Indeed, there was so much more to the training that she wanted to do but felt that she couldn't because of chakra control issues. She got up from where she had last fallen and wondered if it was best to not use Yuki Bunishin no Oni anymore. It was good to have a training partner but it took a lot of her chakra also. If she wanted to put up even a fraction of a good fight, she would have to increase her chakra pool first. And that was happening any time soon.

She decided it was the most logical thing to just go ahead and train Yuki no Kami using the normal boring method. She knew that it was boring to do especially repeatedly but she also knew that it guaranteed that she at least was able to do something right. If she wanted to be creative, she would have to wait until she got the kind of strength to allow for creativity. Right now she was just going to stick with the solo training. Unless someone was going to be here in the forest that day where she would have a physical opponent.

But the idea of a physical opponent made it exceptionally hard and unwise to train while fighting. Unlike fighting a clone, she didn't have the control of at least trying to learn a jutsu or perfect one while fighting a real person. And the real person might try to kill her. She guessed that it was a good thing that she had woken up so early from her nap so that she could then train early and then resort to reading her mission logs after a fair bit of it. Hopefully she wouldn't meet anyone that would prove to be a threat.

She wasn't much of a fighter, never was. She liked fighting only because her insane side would show and then people would be so scared of her that they'd forfeit. It also gave her a chance to play mind games with her opponents; especially the not so powerful ones. But other than that, fighting wasn't her cup of tea. She preferred training. She was not a social kind of person either so that was out of the question. She did everything alone and will always do so.

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She went down to the pond again. After washing her face with the cold and refreshing pond water, she was ready to train again. She noticed how much focus she had placed on working on Yuki Bunshin no Oni that she had completely diverted from the actual training. At the beginning of yesterday night she had planned on training for Yuki no Kami. Instead, she had spent countless hours trying to get the clone right, a jutsu she had already learned and was merely supposed to be perfecting. The whole point was to carry on after the clone was made so that she could train-spar with it and hopefully get to the next level with Yuki no Kami too.

But of course she hadn't gotten to that point at all. Her clone was more insane than she was as a fighter. The jutsus that it had used against her and the speed of those jutsus had caught her completely off-guard to the point where all the remaining chakra in her body was poured to dodging them. It was definitely not a smart idea to spar with her own clone unless she had way more chakra to spare to put up the fight. But she had learned and this time it would be a completely different way of approach. She stood staring at the clear pond waters and thought long and hard.

For her training to actually start, she would have to define the object or objects she wanted to turn to ice. At the moment she had no real object around her that she wanted to turn to ice unless she wanted to freeze a tree. With her current strength in learning, freezing a tree seemed highly unlikely. But she also didn't want to have to resort to freezing a body of water either because that's just dull. So what are her choices? She thought it'd actually be good to start with trying to freeze a tree since there were so many around her being in the forests of Hi no Kuni. If there was anything that this forest didn't lack, it was trees.

She walked over to the tree that was behind her. This tree was slightly bigger especially the trunk. The trunk sprouted about a dozen long winded branches which then sprouted another dozen smaller trees. It was a big tree. She surveyed her surroundings, trying to find a tree that was smaller. Thankfully she did. There was a tree that was closer to the pond which was evidently smaller, with a medium sized trunk and only half a dozen branches. It must be a new tree. She knew that she was going to damage the tree while trying to freeze it so she wasn't too concerned with that as opposed to trying to learn Katon jutsus and risking causing a forest fire.

She formed the necessary handseals for Yuki no Kami. It felt good to form the handseals because she was actually doing the training that she had wanted to do. She was going to train on an increment level where if she could freeze the tree in front of her, the smaller version, she would then move on to the bigger ones. She knew that this training would take a long time and was rather glad it did since she was certain she still had awhile to stay here in Hi no Kuni.

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She called the name of the jutsu almost immediately after forming the handseals. She had forgotten that her chakra wasn't that active yet and not much was concentrated for this part of the training either. This meant that she had to start over again, which she didn't mind. She had not yet released chakra and so it wasn't really a waste. She just needed to be more careful when it came to chakra release. She was going to have to start back with the activation of the chakra. After the rather disturbing dream, it took her a bit of time to focus her head back into what she was doing. Training required the most concentration and she couldn't possibly afford to let her mind travel even for a second.

Every step of training a new jutsu was important and had to be done perfectly for the perfect execution of it. She felt her chakra become drawn out and it complied without much complaint. She felt the warmth of her own chakra surge through her body which meant that it was activated. The next part of the cycle was to make sure that it streamed to the chakra points in her two hands. The chakra was often scattered all around her body and that part of the training took the longest time to complete. But once this stage was complete the rest would become infinitely easier. She stood still, as still as her body allowed her and waited. This tested her patience every time because she wanted to get onto the actual jutsu.

But her chakra was having a good day today it seemed. The process was cut short from the regular time and soon she felt her hands burning a little with the amount of chakra she now had in them. They were pushing against her chakra points, waiting to be let out. She took this as the time that she would form the stream of handseals for the jutsu again. And now she was back at the point that she failed most often and wasn't really sure if she failed the most in. If this part of the training she makes a mistake in, all the work that she did before it and after it would go to waste. Chakra release took the most concentration.

She closed her eyes so as to focus entirely on what she was about to do. She had failed at this point of almost every new jutsu she learned that it was really pathetic but she forced herself to keep going, telling herself that she would do better eventually. All she needed was more practice. But the thing about practice was that sometimes practice doesn't equal perfect. For her, that was the case. She had practiced so many times with so many different jutsus but she was always at a standstill. She needed a teacher to help her if this keeps on but because a shinobi from a minor village, there was not much she could do.

"Yuki no Kami!" she called the jutsu's name and pushed her chakra from her chakra points in her hands to the pond water. She was going to try the pond waters first before she tried the one with the air particles. She trusted her skill more when there was a natural water source more so than when there wasn't. One day she would have complete trust in all of her abilities.

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She was starting to have doubts when the chakra was starting to engulf into the pond water. She never liked it when she had doubts because it usually meant that she was going to have to try again. Her intuition was almost always right on the spot and that was why she hated when she could expect failure even before she could see it with her own eyes. If she could tell that she was to fail, then the chances of failing in actuality was between ninety to one hundred percent. Her doubts rose when the chakra enfused with the water and the clear liquid turned a light blue color because of the chakra. She was sure she would have to try again.

She kept on releasing her chakra and waited for the outcome. Not as worried about wasting as much as proving her intuition and doubt right, she was secretly praying that it wouldn't. The pond water started to turn into ice, which wasn't what she was looking for. Though she had trained the previous ranks of the jutsu, she had wasn't sure what to expect. That was when it clicked into her head that she hadn't used a water source back then. Simply because there wasn't one when she trained the jutsu. Now that she was using one, her Hyouton chakra mixed with the natural coldness of the water made the water freeze to ice.

She couldn't possibly use ice from a pond as a weapon when she fights with Yuki no Kami. Then she was certain that she was going to have to use the water particles in the environment instead since water particles weren't physical water that people could see and wouldn't freeze the air. Jotting that down in her head, she hurried to try again. She must learn jutsu at A rank because there were many other jutsus that needed A rank of Yuki no Kami to learn. She needed to raise the bar even higher.

At her level and at her Genin rank she could easily be satisfied with just learning solid B rank jutsus because they were already supposedly very difficult to learn. But after training a few of them she realized that she always need to challenge herself. The more of a challenge she out on herself the better she could be. She always reminded herself that she wasn't like everyone else. She was not going to be satisfied with the bare minimum. If she picked to be a shinobi she wasn't going to stop until she reached the highest rank possible. And it wasn't just for her own glory either. It was for the whole of Yukina Clan.

After the downfall of their village she had used such a long time to rebuild her memory. Now it was slowly starting to come back, where she at least knew her ancestry. She was actually very mad that her village had been destroyed during the war. If it hadn't, then she wouldn't lose her memory and end up being an outsider. She didn't have a home anymore and it was all because people were greedy and wanted power. They destroyed what was originally hers and she was out to take it back, each person, each village and each country at a time.

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She was just about to start another session when she heard footsteps. She had a good ear and noticed that they were getting louder. Someone decided to join in on her solo party. She was very agitated at the unexpected guess. When she wanted a spar with someone no one would come and now that she was doing just fine there was a person who would come to interrupt her. She frowned and clenched her fist into knuckles. Whoever was going to bother her would feel her icy wrath. Especially since she wasn't making much progress on her own training. It was definitely not a good time to cross lines with her. 

She braced herself with what was going to happen now. She could feel her arms shaking with an unknown anger as her right hand clenched tightly on the hilt of her katana. Her insanity was getting the best of her and it was acting so quickly that she wasn't able to control that side of her for anymore than a few seconds. She was waiting for the stranger to show his face and knew that she was definitely not going to let him leave alive. But she couldn't possibly scare him without at least putting up a good act. Telling herself to relax, she would wait until she saw who this person was.

Apparently the person was a diligent shinobi who decided that today was a good day to go out into the Hi no Kuni forest to train. She wasn't planning on meeting anyone here as the last times she had been here there was no one. So she was taken aback when she saw the silver blue haired girl standing there facing the pond. She could tell from the girl's way of standing that she was either annoyed or agitated. She had never seen the girl before and was rather intrigued by her. She loved to meet new people and socialize with them. "Morning! My name's Hitomi. Nice to meet you!" Hitomi would walk up closer to the strange girl.

So the stranger that was interrupting her training was a girl. She turned to face Hitomi and noticed a striking resemblance between her and someone else. But she couldn't bring forth the name in her head at that point. Hitomi was wearing a Konoha shinobi headband. Another one of those people that would treat her like she was some kind of intruder. She turned her whole body around to greet Hitomi as she walked up to her and forced a smile. She hated acting a lot but sometimes it couldn't be helped. She looked at the Konoha shinobi and nodded her head. "The name's Sayaka" Even though she already knew her real name, she'd been so used to the name Sayaka that she kept on using it. The other girl asked her if she just woke up and decided to come out of the village to train. So she thought she was from Konoha too.

That made things a lot easier. She nodded her head again and slowly began to relax her clenched fist. The girl didn't seem to be an enemy just yet so she was allowed to let her guard down a little. Just a little. She wasn't going to trust this girl completely. She never trusted anyone completely.

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