One Month

It's been a month since I've come to this world and I haven't seen my brothers or father since. The whole time they have been out on a mission in gods know where. Even my mother didn't know, now was she particularly worried. Apparently, it was pretty common for her husband and two oldest to be gone for long periods. Honestly, if anything I believe she's miffed that she can't go out for long missions anymore. I can understand her feelings, the mundane life of managing the clan had to get boring. Especially after living a life of action until recently.

Regardless, enough about my semi-depressed mother. Let's talk about me. My life so far has been nothing but training, eating, resting, training, and then passing out. I thought eventually my body would get used to the amount of work I did, but it never did. I have a sneaky suspicion that this has a lot to do with sensei. She's probably poisoning my drinking water to weaken my body, that's something the demon would do.

Anyways during this month, I have gotten a good grasp of the Six Hells technique. I had even learned the Fifth and Sixth hells from sensei. Though in truth sensei only showed me the attacks once and then attacked me over and over again until I did them correctly. That day was particularly bad, I don't even remember my mother coming to pick me up. And if I'm being truthful, the next two days after it was kind of a blur.

Nevertheless, I learned the basics of the Six Hells in just under a month. To my surprise, I was praised by my sensei for my learning speed. It was only briefly but it was good enough for me. It also was more of an insult than a compliment. Something along the lines of 'I guess its not just your body that fast', but I will take what I can get.

Besides training, I haven't had the time to do much. The Only part of the Compound I have seen, personally, is the path to Sensei's house from mine. And since I haven't had a day off yet I havn't physically been able to explore or even meet kids my age. I see other kids around but I have to hurry to train or I would get in trouble.

I come to Sensie's at dawn and train until just before sunset and by then I am dead tired. It would be a lie to say it wasn't taking a toll on me. But I live in a warring era and I didn't have much longer until I was sent out into the field myself. So I had to cherish every second I had to train.

Once my father got back and he found out about my abilities, I would probably be sent out on the next available mission to prove myself. It was something I was simultaneously dreading and looking forward to. It was the same feeling of having a big game coming up or an important performance. Only in my case, I had to kill.

Enough summary, let's get to the present. Right now, like every day I am standing in front of my sensei. Still in my regular heavy a$$ training gear and as tired as I can be. We had just finished my 'warm-up' -that I swear got harder as the days went on- and after a brief rest I was forced to stand up and face her.

" Alright Ity," she paused with a smirk.

Oh, I forgot to tell you that she came up with a new nickname for me. I hate it, hence the smirk.

"Today you will be learning how to effectively combo the Six Hells-" she continued after hearing my timely groan.

"Ok sensei, but can I show you something?" I interrupt her.

She looks annoyed for a second before sighing "What is it this time? I swear if you're trying to stall again I will-"

"No, no I promise this time I'm for real" I hurriedly say. I had tried to stall training a couple of times over this last month and none of them had ended up well for me. It was a plan I had long given up on.

She nods after hearing my reply and relaxes a little bit. With a relieved sigh I relax my tensing shoulders and speak.

"Umm, Sensei you remember on our first day of training you told me 'Show me what you got right?" I asked to which she nods.

"And I showed you my speed release (something you've never brought up again mind you" I added. She nods again not bothering with my side comment.

"Well, I didn't actually show you everything." I shyly say. "Not out of malice or anything. I just forgot." I hurriedly say before she could get mad.

"Okay, what did you forget to show me that was so important to interrupt our training?" she looks me up and down curiosity clear on her face.

"It's hard to explain, so I'll show you. Could you, um, throw a kunai at me? Not Too Fast though! And only when I say I'm ready!" I quickly add, remembering my mistake with my mother.

"Ookay, just let me know when you're ready." She says with a hint of confusion and uncertainty in her voice.

I nod and then make then for the second time in my life I make the monkey hand seal and shout "Kinetic Release: Absorb!". Feeling my chakra being pulled to my hands I release the monkey seal and pull my hands apart. As I pulled them apart a purple sphere formed that got larger as the larger the gap between my hands got. Once my hands were about four inches from each other and the sphere had gotten big enough without being too big a drain on my chakra reserves.

With the Sphere fully formed I had it float on top of my right hand, leaving my left hand free. This was one of the cool things about the technique, once it was fully formed I no longer had to keep the seal going. It was connected directly to my chakra and could be manipulated easily. It was similar to the truth-seeking balls, only nowhere near as malleable and I still had to use my hand to direct it. But still, it was pretty powerful.

"Sensei, throw it!" I shout once I was ready.

Not being even slightly fazed by the miraculous sight in front of her, she quickly throws the kunai at me. I could see it was headed directly towards my chest. Good. At least she isn't trying to kill me like my mother. With enough time to react, I hold out the kinetic sphere a good distance in front of my chest and for good measure enlarge it slightly to about twelve inches in length. The process was similar to zooming in on the picture, only with two hands.

The kunai quickly made its way towards the sphere and like last time, as soon as it entered the sphere all of its energy was drained. And entered the sphere. This time instead of releasing the Jutsu immediately like the last time I formed the monkey hand seal with the kinetic ball on top of my right hand.

"Kinetic Release: Store" and as I spoke I felt the absorbed energy within the sphered start to enter my body and congregate somewhere around where my intestines and stomach area, for later use. This was one of the three Jutsu's I innately knew with Kinetic Release. The last Jutsu is the opposite of Absorb, Discharge. Their names were pretty self-explanatory, Absorb allowed me to absorb energy, Discharge allowed me to release the energy, and Store allowed me to store the energy.

Besides those three, which were a part of my benefits. I would have to learn the other uses of my Kekkie Tota on my own.

Once the small amount of energy had fully settled within my body I looked up at my sensei who looked pretty surprised at what she had seen.

"What do you think?" I asked with a smile while scratching the back of my head.

She looked at me for a second and then laughed a little before smiling.

"I wish you would've told me beforehand. Now I have to change some of my plans up." She replied.

"Sorry, I got too caught up in learning taijutsu," I admitted. I could feel a blush forming on my cheeks as I looked at her.

She walked over to me and patted my head and smiled. "No worries, how about this. We'll call your training early today. I need some time to talk to your mother and figure out how I want to go about your training."

I looked up at her with shining eyes as a bright smile appeared on my face. I vigorously nodded my head in agreeance.

"Ok, be here on time tomorrow. Now go." She told me while she pushed my back.

Not giving her a chance to change her mind I quickly ran out of the house. It was still morning, meaning I had plenty of time to explore.

As I ran outside the house I looked around enjoying the sight of the compound during the day> Something I hadn't got to see in a long time.

I looked left and right not knowing where to go. In the end, I chose to go left since that's where the market is.

"Senju Compound, here I come!" I shouted as I ran.