Training junkies

"Mom, I'm home!!..... mom!!... hmmm... Maybe she's in the kitchen, let's see."

Ichinaru head straight to the kitchen and found that her mother wasn't there. He instinctively moved towards the refrigerator as this is where her mother liked to leave notes when she was out. He found a note stuck on the refrigerator's door.

"Son, I'm out on a mission, don't know exactly when I will be back... So, take care of yourself don't get too absorb into you training.. Also remember a good training regime consist also of sleeping and eating eating well-balanced meal... Love you, mom!... So that's why she's not here, and the fact that she don't know when she will be back, means that it's a very delicate job that be rushed... Good, I will just cook something later, I get hungry... For now, let's go train."

Ichinaru crushed the piece of paper and threw it in the bin. He then moved out of the kitchen and entered the living room. He didn't waste any time in the room and immediately moved along the corridor leading to his room. When he opened the sliding door of his room, three clone of himself could be seen inside his room, instead of the two, he left in the morning.

One clone was sitting on the wooden floor in the lotus position with his right palm placed on top his left palm. The same clone had his eyes closed and a faint blue film of chakra covered both of his hands. The other two were standing face-to-face to each other and one had his left hand opened in front of him and his other hand held his left one by the wrist. Meanwhile the other clone moved both of his hands very fast in circular patterns over the left palm of the clone facing him.

Slowly, chakra started to appear on top of the palm and started to rotate between the three hands in the form of a chakra ball. Also some of the chakra could be seen rotating inside of the chakra ball. The two clones moved apart after a few seconds and the one holding the chakra ball had a huge smile on his face and shouted at Ichinaru.

"You see, we made it... We have finally made the A-rank ninjutsu with any chakra nature affinity; the rasengan... Now, we can finally moved on to mastering shape transformation of chakra..."

"Yeah! You're right after all we didn't spend the past two months on training this technique only because we need its power... We mainly learn it because it is a shortcut to mastering shape transformation and because it will be useful later on. Right now, we only need itvas training material... Also, I can feel that the me over there is also about to succeed... You can feel too right."

Ichinaru pointed out his left index finger at the clone sitting on the ground and the two clones that were standing nodded.

The clone sitting on the ground smiled and opened his eyes, and stared at Ichinaru with a look filled with pride. He then removed the right palm that was over his left palm and showed a leaf that was covered with fire on top of his left palm.

"Finally, we have mastered it, the fire nature transformation. Our past 11 months of harsh training have finally paid off, now we just have to apply it to our great Fireball technique to strengthen it and to any fire release ninjutsu that we will learn in the near future."

"Yeah! Well done everyone, you can return back inside of me, now. "

Ichinaru said as he stared proudly at his three clones and they all disappeared in a small cloud of white smoke leaving behind the original Ichinaru.

'Damn it! Every inches of my body is aching.... I feel like sleeping, but I can't allow myself to rest right now... My chakra greatly reduced but it should be enough to create three clones... One of them will be working on converting his chakra's nature into fire alongside me. While the other two will meditate to recover some chakra and then, will use it to each create one clone to practice the shape transformation.

With this training, I should be able to completely master the fire nature transformation by next month. Plus, mastering another nature transformation and shape transformation by january, next year.'

Ichinaru thought as he got into the lotus position from his kneeling position with great difficulty.

"Even performing the hand seal for shadow clone is painful, I don't have any choice... Shadow clone jutsu!!!!!.... You already know what to do guys, let get to work with any delay, after all we're training junkies."

Ichinaru said as he showcased a huge smile to motivate himself and the clones also followed suite.

"Yeah!!!!!"