Chapter 11: Body Flicker Technique

The next day, Rasa went to the meeting point Skull had said to train together with her new Anbu team.

"Okay, starting today, each of you will be trained individually, and then you will train as a team to see your performance and adaptation. From now on, you will have to train for 14 hours a day. After training, you must also make sure to sleep and rest, is that understood? "said Skull.

"Yes!" replied Rasa's team.

Three Anbu suddenly appeared behind Skull.

"Then... You will begin training!"

Rasa and the other three looked at each other and came to a mutual understanding, each separated, preparing for their individual training.

At that point, Skull didn't stop them and said:

"Okay, for the three rookies there will be three places, follow each one to one of the Anbu behind me and head off to do your training. Canteen, with me. Remember, from now on, during your individual training you are no longer teammates, but competitors who must accomplish at all costs what was asked of you!"

The 4 nodded and then the three Anbu behind Skull rushed off into the great wilderness they were in.

Rasa, Custus, and Nomad each quickly followed one of the Anbu.

Only Canteen remained for his personal training with Skull.

'A competitor and we were also given a mission, yes, they are testing how far we are willing to go to complete the training we were asked to do' Rasa thought, smiling out of the corners of her mouth, as he followed his new Anbu trainer who immersed himself in the great desert.

'That's just what I want!!!, but it shouldn't be that simple, in my scroll I was only asked to do a few things but nothing that would affect the rest of the team in their training, there must be one or maybe two in the team that in their scroll are asked to interfere in our training or something like that' Rasa analyzed.

'Yeah maybe in team training I'll find out. Well, it doesn't matter. For now, I'll just do my part' Rasa decided not knowing what they might have planned.

Rasa followed the Suna Anbu to an open area where nothing but sand could be seen in the surrounding area.

After landing, Rasa quickly looked around to familiarize herself with the place in case he needed it, but there wasn't much to see as it was all sand.

"Gold, your Chakra attributes should be wind, water, and earth attributes," the Anbu suddenly said.

Rasa just nodded calmly, he already knew they had that basic information.

In the scroll he was given he was informed of everything he needed to know, among one of these things was that the other Anbu would only know his basic attributes but would have no knowledge of his Kekkei Genkai and one of the things Rasa was required to do to successfully complete this training was that he was not to use under any circumstances his Kekkei Genkai, he was to keep it secret at all times, if discovered his personal training would have failed.

Because of this Rasa could only use the ninjutsu he knew with his other elements, it was fortunate that he had not practiced only his magnet element and had also focused on improving with his wind and earth element.

Rasa had already achieved both in the wind and earth element Nature Transformation but still lacked mastery in Form Manipulation, while in the water element he had not yet been able to make much progress due to the lack of ninjutsu in the village with this element.

"Three attributes and an acceptable repertoire of ninjutsu for two of them, quite acceptable," praised the Anbu without hesitation.

Hearing the Anbu's praise, Rasa did not speak but looked at him calmly.

"It just happened that I also have wind and earth attributes. Starting today, I will train your ninjutsu, and we will do physical training, from what I see your taijutsu skills are average, well, it was to be expected, in Anbu, you will not be asked for a much higher level of Taijutsu than what you already have, but you will have to greatly improve your Body Flicker Technique", said the Anbu seriously.

Rasa nodded, the Anbu was right. His Taijutsu skills were horrible but compared to the rest of Suna's ninjas, they were average.

This was because, among the five big villages, Sunagakure was the worst in Taijutsu due to all the ninjas in the village focusing on research, ninjutsu, and puppets.

The only way the Suna ninja had to physically match the rest of the villages was with the Body Flicker Technique which allowed them to get away from their enemy to hold a distant confrontation with ninjutsu or in the case of the puppeteers, only escape if they lost their puppets.

From Rasa's point of view, Taijutsu was not only his greatest weakness but the greatest weakness of all Suna ninjas, and the puppeteers of Sunagakure are known to be extremely weak without their puppets.

There are only a few ninjas who focus on ninjutsu that have an acceptable taijutsu in Sunagakure but compared to other villages, they all leave much to be desired.

From a young age all ninjas in Suna are taught the basics of taijutsu, Rasa learned it from his own parents at the age of only 5 years old, and then in the academy, they only reinforce what they already learned, that's how low the level of taijutsu was already taught.

Rasa was ashamed of his level of Taijutsu and although he tried to improve, the truth is that he sucked in this branch, he had no talent, and also not having in Sunagakure an acceptable Taijutsu master only complicated things more.

For this reason, Rasa decided not to waste so much time on Taijutsu knowing that his improvements were minimal and decided to leave it for later when he gets a more acceptable method of training.

"I know," Rasa said seriously.

The Anbu nodded and said:

"Then, I will tell you the content of the training you will have with me. In the morning, I will train your wind escape technique, and then you will use it against my ground escape. In the afternoon, you will use the ground escape technique to block my wind escape. I can only help you with your attribute training in this way, I am not your teacher, I am your trainer, if you wish to learn ninjutsu you will have to learn them on your own."

As the Anbu spoke, Rasa only sighed slightly amused with the situation as he wondered to himself what kind of Ninjutsu this Anbu could get to teach him that the Kazekage didn't already have, if he wanted ninjutsus he would just have to ask his new Master, who no doubt had the largest collection of ninjutsu in Sunagakure.

Being able to practice changing the chakra nature of his earth and wind attribute with someone with experience was all he needed, in case he needed new ninjutsus he would go to his Master.

An Anbu's escape technique is no doubt very powerful, and to train his own escape from the ground and wind, having the Anbu use these was going to be very good training for Rasa to learn the Form Manipulation of his ground and wind attribute.

"So, let's start with your training then."

"Yes."

No unnecessary nonsense, the Anbu began training him first in the use and implementation of his wind and earth techniques in combat, then they moved on to learning how to manipulate the chakra form of these elements, and lastly, they moved on to training his physique.