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Senjutsu Island.
For as long as youkai had known about the wonders of Senjutsu and Chakra itself, they had learned of the existance of an island hidden from the rest of the world that could teach the wonders of it. The island having a teacher on it with so much power, locating the power of this teacher was the only way to locate the island itself. Even then, it was hard to get to the island itself seeing as the island was located in a place that would make it harder for most youkai species (even the rare humans who went to the island) to actually physically get to.
"Wooooooooah, this place is so big... and that is the Mt. Oinari in the middle of it... where the Great Sage lives correct?" A small girl asked as she looked at a massive scale island. The island containing an extremely dense jungle, actually it contained multiple layers of different areas. The outside of the island, it's outermost ring, was that of a beach that surrounded the entire island. Then was a dense jungle, and from where the girl was sitting, she could see a ring of desert just after the the jungle.
Mt. Oinari in the middle of it was so tall, it reached up into the clouds, going so high that the top of the mountain wasn't even visible anymore.
"Flying is not allowed on the island, so this is as far as I can take you Fujimai, you've got to travel to the top of Mt. Oinari yourself from here on out." A large dog with a body made out of lightning itself spoke to her, dropping her off next to the island's beach. The girl, Fujimai, was no older than 9 years old where a body matching her age. She had a backpack on, filled with only enough supplies to last her a few days.
The lightning beast flew off.
"Thank you Kumowatari! Don't worry, I'll come back a master at Senjutsu! I wouldn't be surprised if I mastered Senjutsu AND chakra before you could even miss me!" Fujimai shouted out with a great smile. She huffed to herself, before turning around and seeing the jungle in the distance. She huffed and puffed her chest out, starting out on her trek towards the island with confidence.
-1 Week Later-
Fujimai was panting as she hid behind a fallen tree, frozen in place as she held her bleeding arm, trying hard not to cry from the pain. She quickly covered her mouth when the beast chasing her stomped it's massive feet and stopped next to her. A large, scaled mouth sniffed the air next to her, teeth thicker than her arm peeking out from behind it's maw. It sniffed at her, before it started to move on when she stayed perfectly still.
She stayed silence, and unmoving for 20 minutes at least, before she breathed a sigh of relief.
There were creatures in the jungle that shouldn't be alive, Fujimai learned that quickly when she came face to face with monsters from the far past the first day. Turns out, the trek to Mt. Oinari was a dangerous one to start out with, considering even a week in, she hadn't been able to get passed the jungle portion of the island.
A nut hit her head, and Fujimai saw a small monkey sitting in a tree, on a branch 100 feet up in the air, and she glared at it.
Damn monkeys, being safe in the trees.
"I hate monkeys now... the trees are so thick and smooth it's hard to climb them." Fujimai would love to take her anger out on one of the few animals smaller than she was. Most animals on the island were around her size, but many island creatures were a lot bigger and stronger than she was. She had been surviving on eating the lizards that she could catch running around, or leaving the jungle and going back to the beach to fish in the ocean.
The monkey laughed at her, before jumping away from tree branch to tree branch.
A large tiger appeared, and Fujimai froze when it looked at her.
The tiger appeared to be close to 15 feet tall, thick and burly, with fangs that could rip even a youkai like her to pieces. Fujimai allowed her white cat ears to appear on her head, and a tail to appear behind her. The tiger seemedto analyze her intelligently for a few moments, before it looked up into the tree and saw a monkey that had decided to come back and see what was happening. It moved towards the tree, and Fujimai remained frozen to try and not provoke the tiger.
'Nekoshou blood, thank you...' Fujimai had never been more thankful that she had the blood of cat demons in her body, since it was saving her life right now. She blinked when she saw the tiger walking up the side of the tree. She blinked again and looked closely, feeling something off about what the tiger was doing as it broke out into a run up the tree.
The tiger started to run at the monkey in the tree, that wisely decided it was time to really make an escape.
A death screech was heard moments later, and blood rained down from the tree, before the tiger landed in front of her with a death monkey in it's teeth. It tossed the monkey onto the ground in front of her, before it started to walk off, leaving to find larger prey that it could eat no doubt.
-3 Months Later-
'I see... so that is how it does it... the animals that can use chakra, focus their chakra to the bottom of their feet or paws. The trees can't be climbed through normal means...' Fujimai thought to herself as she watched some boars using chakra in their hooves to climb up the side of a tree. A boar 5 times her height at that, and it was climbing a tree just so that it could partake of an apple in it.
She was still stuck in the jungle.
The only small creatures like herself that could go any deeper were those who were able to travel in the trees, because going any deeper in the jungle meant that you would be entering the land of the giant creatures. The ancient ones that preyed on everything that entered their land, the only safety was in the trees, something she couldn't do. For nearly 4 months now, she had been stuck at the beach and in the start of the jungle, because she wasn't able to climb these trees.
Fujimai looked at a nearby tree, and then down at her own feet.
She took her inner energy, her chakra, and put it into her feet before she pushed it up against the tree itself. She did the same with her other foot, before she tried to stand on the tree, and right away she slipped off and landed on her butt. She growled at her own failure, before she tried to figure out what she had done wrong.
"Duh, my feet aren't clean... gotta do this with clean feet." Fujimai stated as she grabbed a torn piece of her clothes, and started to wipe away all the dirt on the soles of her feet. She took a running start once she was done cleaning her feet, before she failed insantly again, only this time her face hit the tree before she hit the ground.
This was going to be harder than she thought.
She was slipping, maybe she wasn't using enough chakra?
-2 Months Later-
Too much chakra broke the tree bark and caused you to explode off the tree, too little chakra would cause you to slip. It was about finding the perfect balance of chakra that allowed a person to stick to the tree. She had learned the right amount of chakra within only 3 weeks of casual training, when she wasn't escaping from predators or living her life and finding food. It had taken 3 weeks, but she had mastered using that right amount of chakra at least.
The perfect amount of chakra allowed you to stick, and didn't hurt the tree either.
Fujimai smiled as she looked down at a T-Rex that was wondering around it's territory, looking for the new scent that had gotten mixed into it's territory. She was higher up than the T-Rex could reach though, and it wasn't thinking to look up. Fujimai picked an apple from the tree, the first apple she had gotten to eat in so long since she had started her journey, and her first bite of it was so very sweet.
A well earned reward.
'Even learning the right amount of chakra wasn't enough though. Maintaining it and never letting your mind slip, that is even harder than finding the right amount... I'm glad I learned that before getting to this point.' Fujimai chewed her apple, thinking where she could be right now if she didn't learn that fact. She might had slipped off the tree and landed right on the ground, right where the big killers would have wanted her.
Well, too bad for them, but she wasn't going to be losing her control anymore. She had spent more than a month mastering how to maintain her control over the right amount of chakra. It was only a couple hours of travel by tree until she could get to the desert at this point, so she took her small break, before she started to rush off towards the desert section of the island with a smile on her face.
The closer she got to the desert, the hotter the island seemed to get as well, and the jungle started to get thinner and thinner.
-2 Years Later-
"Hah... hah... hah... this is still hell..." Fujimai took shelter next to a cactus as she looked at the desert surrounding her. It was a nightmare in the desert, because she quickly learned that the desert is filled with more danger than the jungle. The fact remains that there were little predators in the desert was one thing, but the fact that the desert was filled to the brim with large sections with something more dangerous than predators were another.
Dry Quicksand.
The desert had large amounts of dry quicksand in it, any step in this desert could get you sucked to your death. She had seen large predators, young ones, come into the desert only to meet their ends when they fell to one of the quicksand points. She had spent over two years travelling all over the desert, travelling between the desert and the jungle in order to feed herself while in the desert.
In 2 years, she had made no progress.
She was creating a mental map of where all the different quicksand spots were, but the harsh winds changed the layout of the desert everyday. Everytime she mapped the desert, the few predators in the desert were also a bitch to deal with. In nearly 3 years of being on the island, she was still making very little progress. She had come to this island a 9 year old, and now she was 12 years old (her birthday had been within those first 5 months of her being on the island). She had expected the trip to be quick and easy, but she wasn't even at the halfway point to reaching the great sage of Mt. Oinari.
She wanted to give up, but if she gave up at this point, she would have wasted years.
'Not to mention, I don't have a way off the island... I need to get to him.' Fujimai thought as she crawled out from under her shelter.
Chakra.
In nearly 3 years, Fujimai had learned to sense when chakra was being used nearby her, she couldn't sense things in fine detail, but she could tell by how the chakra felt when it was being used. Sensing chakra, Fujimai looked around and saw a well sized rhino walking across the desert from the jungle. She saw it, and she blinked in surprise when it walked right over a part of the desert that she knew for a fact was made out of dry quicksand.
Instead of sinking, it went right over it.
"How are you doing that? I already tried to use what I learned in the jungle, and my feet still sank..." Fujimai saw the creature doing something impossible to her. She looked at it's feet, and she tried to hone her senses to see what was going on with her mind. She couldn't get a proper read on the chakra, because the rhino was constantly changing how much chakra it was using, and it wasn't keeping a singular fixed amount like it would if it were climbing the tree.
That was impossible.
To use chakra, you needed to maintain a fixed amount of chakra in order to properly make use of it's altering properties.
"... but... maybe I'm wrong?" Fujimai spoke as she looked at the rhino defying her logic.
She was in a dry quicksand desert, after crossing a giant animal and dinosaur filled jungle while on a giant island that was hidden from the rest of the world. Whatever logic there was in the world, it wasn't on this island, logic was unlogical and reason was unreasonable on this island. Like that rhino's chakra, she needed to be flexible and changing to match the island. Fujimai nodded to herself, and started to walk out into the desert.
She sank into the sand.
...
"WAH!" Fujimai fought her way out of the sand by using the vines that she had tied to her waist, and tied onto the cactus she was using as shade.
Okay, she needed to learn how to walk on quicksand it would seem, because just having a changing amount of chakra in her feet seemed to be the wrong answer as well. Like with climbing the tree, she needed a fixed amount of changing chakra, so there was a little logic to what she was suppose to do. She needed a balance that she wasn't getting right now, so it would seem that she was going to be experiencing even more difficulty in her life now.
-2 Years, 7 Months Later-
"I DID IT!" Fujimai screamed at the top of her lungs as she crossed the desert, finally on the other side of it. It took her nearly a 3 months to get down the trick to walking on the sand, but after that she still had a lot of trouble. For starters, she needed to be constantly using her chakra, which was a massive drain on her chakra reserves. She couldn't survive in the desert at night very well, so every day she ended up running as far as she could into the desert for much of the day.
Then was the issue of her reserves.
She could only run while she had chakra, or she would die, so when she got to the halfway point of her reserves she was required to turn back and exit the desert. It took 2 years of her life in order to train her chakra reserves to become large enough so that she could cross most of the desert with only half of her reserves. It took nearly 3 years, but after so much time and effort she had finally managed to use only half of her chakra reserves when crossing the entire desert. Miles and miles of land, crossed in a single day, now that she was strong enough to make the trip.
She had a twinkle in her eye.
It took 5 years, but she was finally at the forest surrounding the base of Mt. Oinari, she had surpassed the halfway point.
"I've outgrown my clothes... if you could even call them that at this point." Fujimai looked down at her practically naked body. The shreds of her clothes were gone at this point, and her body had changed over the years.
Her once 9 year old body had matured.
Her baby fat was gone, replaced by a trained body that had little body fat at all. She had a petite figure still, but she had developed a lot considering the fact that she was 15 years old now. She was a budding woman near the end of puberty at this point, her life on the island having given her the body that athletes would be jealous of.
-Later That Day-
"This is fucking impossible, and I hate everything."
Her day went from great to absolutely shitty in a few hours.
The mountain was impossible to climb for her, the side of the mountain was hard to stick to with her chakra. She tried to walk up the side of it, but the mountain was just too smoothed and moist for her feet to stick to it. She tried for hours and hours, but she made zero progress at all in that time that she spent. She was tired and hungry, and to make it worse, growing out of the side of the mountain on the about 20 tantalizing feet off the ground were some delicious looking berries that had her mouth watering. Her diet of apples, small animals, fish, and other vegetables that she had found growing in the jungle left her with a strong desire to eat a sweet berry.
"AND ANOTHER FUCKING MONKEY!"
She also hated monkeys, because she watched as a fucking monkey climbed up the side of the mountain and went straight for the berries. She could feel it using chakra, and it was using it exactly like somebody would use it to stick to the tree. The moist rock didn't seem to trouble the monkey in the slightest as it went straight for her, in her mind, berries that she deserved after her long trip through the desert.
"Fine... I learned to walk on surfaces from a tiger, and learned how to walk across quicksand/water from a rhino... come on monkey bastard, show me your secrets." Fujimai slammed her ass to the ground as she watched the monkey with an analytical look. She would figure out how the monkey was doing this, then she was going to steal it's technique for herself. She honed her senses and paid extra close attention to detail on what the monkey was doing.
... Nothing.
It wasn't doing anything special at all, it was using the exact same skill as the monkeys and animals in the jungle. At least, it wasn't doing any different from what she was sensing at the very least.
"Looks like I need to refine my chakra control even more, make it even better than it is right now." Fujimai muttered to herself as she prepared herself for a long journey. This was going to be a bitch to deal with, but she was going to master this just like she had overcome every trial that was before her. This was a challenge no different than the jungle or the desert, actually, her goal was right before her.
Her future master was at the top of the mountain, her goal was right here.
-4 Years Later-
She couldn't see anything.
She was in the clouds now, literally, as she climbed the mountain using nothing but the tips of her fingers and toes. She couldn't walk up the side of the mountain with her feet, that wasted far too much chakra. She learned something hard, no matter how much she trained, there was a limit to how much her chakra could grow from simple training. She had grown so quickly at first, but now her chakra was growing only very slowly from training. Using her feet alone to climb was too chakra taxing for her, even when she refined her chakra control to the point that she could climb the mountain.
She couldn't see, and she was freezing.
She was so high, that it was harder to breath and she was freezing cold. She could no longer go up and down the mountain, she had been forced to dig holes in the side of the mountain when she wanted to sleep for the night. She wasn't just climbing up the mountain, she was also forced to climb down the mountain just so that her body could adjust to the light air. Even now, had just started climbing back up again after climbing up and down 12 times today alone.
At this point, she would kill herself than give up.
She had spend nearly 10 years now on this island, she was no longer than 9 year old little girl that had come to this island thinking this would be easy, find the master and learn. Now she was a fully grown adult, 19 years old and no longer maturing anymore. Her body had completely filled out, from her athletic waist to her still petite body looking rather young still. She was barely over 5 feet tall still, shortness was in her genetics, but she had filled out with a modest chest now.
She had refined her chakra control to a point that she couldn't be compared to her old self anymore, she was a master of her body.
"I'm not going to give up... this mountain isn't anything but another challenge... can't breath? Pussy, you don't need something like air... cold? Don't be a pussy, you can handle a little cold... you're not some helpless pussy cat." Fujimai chanted to herself as she pumped herself up. She took a deep breath, and when she breathed out, she let out a breath of heated up chakra to warm herself. She had learned that she could change the very properties of her chakra, not just turn her chakra into elements for youjutsu spells like using it to create fire.
When she changed the very base nature of her chakra, instead of just making fire, she could use a lot less chakra by converting her very chakra itself into the element of fire. She could use even less chakra by only heating up her chakra.
She's spent most of her life on this island.
She was getting to the top!
Her middle finger, when she reached up, didn't touch mountain. Instead, she was surprised when her finger curved and touched different ground. She blinked and inched her hand up, wrapping the rest of her fingers around the top. Pulling herself up, Fujimai found her head above the clouds and saw that the entire top of the mountain was smooth, as if it had been sliced off at some point.
She saw a waterwall.
She saw training grounds.
She saw gardens.
She even saw a house that was in the middle of it all, she saw signs that somebody was living up at the top of the mountain.
After nearly 10 years, she made it to the top.
Chapter End!
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