The last Element

The weeks after the incident were the worst in Sota's and Mei's short life. From after breakfast till dinner they would train. The normal lessons would be done in between the physical training sessions outside on the field.

Until then Sota never really realized that this facility was probably somewhere out in nowhere. The weather is nearly always the same, sunny or raining with mild to hot temperatures.The facility faces one side to the ocean and the other side to a big jungle forest. Around the facility are huge cliffs. Only at one point in between the cliffs is a ramp, where you can walk by foot from the bay area to the forest. Over his one year stay here, he counted 18 different ships, who have been anchored on the port.

Three cylindrical big buildings, with a blue dome-shaped roof, made out the entire facility. They were placed in a triangle shape with one right at the ocean and two towards the back. The one to the ocean was obviously a storage and general administrative building. It was also the tallest. The one Sota and Mei stayed in was on the opposite side of the ramp. One half of the building was used for the children and the other half was used as living quarters for the stagend workers. The building with the ramp behind it was used by the ninja. Also the older groups were moved there to start their Chakra training fully.

During one of the cleaning sessions he was on a higher floor than normal and so Sota was able to see the big metal door again that he originally came out of. The cave entrance is in the utmost back of the facility and slightly raised from the ground. Sota honestly has no idea what was going on behind that door. He always questioned why they were caped in there until they became three. The other groups also stayed inside the cave until they became three. The tiny bit of information he was able to hear from guards, didn't get him anywhere. Just some experiments were done there but that he was already expecting.

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After these grueling weeks Mei and Sota were sitting once again in their storage room. They weren't able to train with their Chakra during the day and at night they were just too tired to do anything. Both of them were currently going through the four already mastered elements. They had each four leaves in front of them and their goal was to use the four elements in quick succession.

(Sota): "I came up with this exercise to shorten our time to draw on the different elements. It should help a lot. Are you ready?"

(Mei): "Of course, do you wanna bet something?"

(Sota): "Mei can we even bet anything in here?"

(Mei): "No… the last one is a loser!"

As soon as she finished she grabbed the first leaf and started.

(Sota): "Cheater!"

Sota followed her and started with his first leaf. He chooses Water and places the leaf between his hands. Water was his best element this far, but it took him nearly 5 seconds to damp the leaf. He switched out the leaf and got to work on the next one. Now he imagined Wind and tried to cut it. This time it took him 10 seconds. After quickly switching the leaf, he decides it was time for Fire and 7 seconds later the leaf was burning. While switching out the leaf he catches a glimpse of Mei's progression. She was also on her last leaf which made Sota hurry. The leaf was resting between two fingers. 6 seconds later it wrinkled together.

(Sota, yelling): "I am first!"

He looked over to Mei and she was right in the middle of wrinkling the leaf. It took her 15 seconds.

(Sota): "Lightning is just not your element."

(Mei): "Yeah, the Fire one was near instantly and the other two just took 5 seconds each. I hope Earth is not also going to be hard for me."

(Sota): "I honestly don't know what my main element is. All of them feel the same. Maybe Earth is going to be my main one but I doubt it."

(Mei): "So you either have an affinity with nothing or all of them. How rare was it again to have a penta affinity?"

(Sota): "Less than one in a million, but that is what they tried to breed with my batch."

Months ago they already exchanged all their information that they have about this place with each other.

(Sota): "Yeah but you with a triple or maybe even quatro affinity is also extremely rare. And we don't even talk about you having a Kekkei Genkai or two."

(Mei): "How am I actually going to figure out which Kekkei Genkai I have?"

(Sota): "They will probably tell you later one?"

If they are not going to tell her which Kekkei Genkai she is supposed to have, he thought about straight up telling her which one she has. But that would only be his last resort. He speculates that during actual Jutsu training her two Kekkei Genkais should just show up on accident.

(Mei): "I hope they are going to tell me, maybe they are even going to tell me about that family I am supposed to come from. Not that I actually care about them but it would be nice to know who to thank for growing up alone."

Sota was a bit shocked by her thinking. He didn't even try to manipulate her into thinking like that.

(Sota's thoughts): "Maybe from me explaining to her, how everything we learn here is propaganda, was she able to understand that her family threw her and her mother in here to never hear from them again. They actually got lucky in the original timeline that they were able to convince her to come back and actually take their name on.

Oh my god their faces when they realised they threw a dual Kekkei Genkai away… "

(Sota): "Let's get Earth figured out!"

(Mei, thinking): "Mmmmm… "

(Sota): "Solid, unmovable so the opposite to Air. The Chakrapaper grumples so we have to make it solid…. "

It took both of them 1 week to figure out Earth and so with all Elements mastered they begin to plan for all kinds of scenarios. They started to map out everything that they had access to and tried to figure out guard routes with their specific times. They added the fifth element to their five-leaf-elemental-Chakra-game and would do it until they were close to Chakra exhaustion. They messed around with infusing Chakra into their muscles and were surprised how easy it was. Also the amount of Chakra that it consumed was laughable compared to the elemental training they already did. Later in their lives, they found out that how they were doing it was the opposite way normal ninja training goes, first basic muscle infusing and then elemental training.

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And so the months went by. It was now the day they would start their official Chakra training.