Symone: A Naruto Side Story - "The Heart Of Rain".
Chapter Five: To Get Along Well And To Embrace The Arts.
To open up the strangers eyes, Mikomi had helped open those beautifully woven blue eyes to escape the little girl; Symone's solidity and help allow her to see that loneliness can be defeated by sharing his own intimate and dark past. An odd introduction, but drastic one by Mikomi as he needed to help give the lost child some hope to live upon; a stronghold. Now, Symone had agreed to take her desperation and put it in to the very powerful ninja, Mikomi. Symone takes the opportunity to bury the scorned soul that is pressed in her unsavory conscience... and so it begins.
It's the morning after the man Mikomi had bared his own soul to gain the trust of the young Symone, as she awakens from yet another comfortable slumber. Symone sits up from the sleeping bag, rubbing her eyes as cutely as always as she opens them, looking around for Mikomi. "Mikomi-Sensei?" calls Symone, looking for the man she had actually called 'sensei'. "Well, well, well! You called me Sensei. I guess after a good sleep, you did learn to trust me after all, eh?" said Mikomi from behind Symone as she turns around, looking at him. Mikomi looks at her, smiling widely as always as Symone replies to Mikomi's curiosity. "I can trust you a little. You did save me after all silly!" she said, smiling back at him with a great big smile as wide and stupid as Mikomi's. "Ah, I see" said Mikomi as he continues speaking. "So the girl can smile after all! I'm in shock!" he yelled, walking to Symone as he places his hand on top of her head. "The way you smile... and the way you're putting your hand on my head. It reminds me of my Brother, Souitai, because he used to do that all the time to me..." stated Symone with a sudden and empty look as Mikomi responds with an anxious gleam in his light emerald eyes, "Oh.. I see. Well... I guess after time, it'll be possible that I can bury his soul in me as well!". Symone suddenly smiles. "Yeah.. I hope so!" she replied. Mikomi takes his hand off her head and walks towards the fire. "Come, Symone. I cooked us up a little food. Get it while it's hot!" said Mikomi as he sits on a log from a safe distance, away from the flames as Symone walks over, sitting next to him. "My! You really have changed, huh? Now you're even sitting next to me!" spoke Mikomi with a secure, yet joking tone in his natural light, but timid voice. Symone laughs a little as she blushes unnoticed, looking away. "She laughs, too! It's a miracle!" yells Mikomi as he raises the chicken he had cooked in the air with his right hand. "I am on some sort of a roll here today ain't I, kiddo?" said Mikomi, smiling about again. "She needs this a lot... for her to grow sane after all she's endured" thinks Mikomi, staring at her now with a serious look as he turns to his chicken, yelling, "Let's dig in! Idatakimasu!" as he takes a big bite of a leg. Symone grabs a piece, peeling off the skin and eating it as she also yells, "Idatakimasu!" with her face stuffed. The two of them smile, as they both seem so alike one another. As Mikomi chomps down another bite, he looks to Symone with a serious look on his face. "Symone. After we eat and relax a little... I'm gonna begin training you. Before I start this, you must always remember the words I will tell you" said Mikomi as Symone looks to him with curiosity glowing from her cute and once again gentle face, chewing down hard on another piece of chicken skin with her big bright eyes widened. "I will become quite unfriendly at times, and sometimes become very harsh and strict, but I will stand by it, knowing it's what you would need. All I feel is love for my position as sensei, and to find such an incredible student only means the harder I will push. I know and see your potential, Symone... and it can't be wasted. When I command... you will do. When I speak... you will listen. Just remember that if I ever get out of hand... I'll still always love my pupil. Understand?" said Mikomi with an agonizing truth. "I understand, Mikomi-Sensei. I already knew this anyway from watching my Father push Souitai so hard all the time. Daddy wanted Souitai to have the bloodline-limit so badly since he was the Hidden Rains strongest younger ninja, but instead... I was cursed with it, so I feel I should at least respect that I have it now and use it to benefit people, so I will become your training dog, Sensei!" had said Symone with a smile on her face. Mikomi looks to her with now a scrunched up first with a mysterious look on his handsome mug. "You're quite the obediently gentle type aren't you?" said Mikomi with a comical voice as Symone replies, "M'm-hmm!" as she closes her eyes, smiling brighter. "That's good!" Mikomi had said, still scrunched, speaking as comically as before. They both straighten out there faces as they finish up eating their food.
Symone and Mikomi are seen standing, facing one another in an open part of the woodlands. Mikomi stands with his hands behind his back, folded... just like his Sensei used to as he speaks. "So... what do you know how to do so far? I want to see where you stand" he said as Symone replies, "Well... I'm pretty decent with my kunai targeting, and I know how to control my chakra flow... but I only know one jutsu... and I can't control my bloodline either!", speaking anxiously, yet happier than she has mostly been recently. "Okay then! Let's see your jutsu!" yells Mikomi. Symone yells back with a smile, "Okay!" as she thinks for a moment, trying to remember the hand movements to perform the seal with. "Okay... I think I got it!" yells Symone as she then performs the hand seal. "Tate Iji No Jutsu!(Shield of Memories Technique!)" spoke Symone with enthusiasm as a whirling breeze of green chakra emits from her body as she closed her eyes. Using her chakra control skills, she holds the barrier of chakra that had formed around her in a stable way. Symone opens her eyes, laying her hands to the side as the barrier now freely swirls around her petite body. "Hoh?... that level of jutsu is pretty intense! It would take even my own Sensei to work at it a little before breaking through it. It's amazing how much chakra she can hold and control at such a young age... including with the inexperience!" had thought Mikomi as he looks to Symone. "How's that?" Symone asks Mikomi, tightening her lips cutely in curiosity as she looks to her Sensei. "That's very good! I'm proud you're already such a skilled student!" said Mikomi in a friendly, enthusiastic way. Symone smiles greatly, enjoying the praise from her newly found sensei. "Now... release your jutsu" Mikomi states as Symone listens, closing her eyes as she holds her hands out slightly to the side, readmitting the chakra back into her body as Mikomi stares her down wisely. Symone opens her eyes and then looks to her sensei, awaiting further instructions. "Catch!" yelled Mikomi as he gently throws a kunai over to Symone as she catches it. "Hmm..?" Symone curiously hums as Mikomi replies to her tone of voice. "See that row of tree's down the pathway?" asks Mikomi. Symone replies, "The one with the markings on them, you mean?". "Yes. I want you to look at the tree's. Each one that is marked is a further distance than the other. Each marking on each tree is a line, showing different heights to throw at as the lines are your targets. I like to think of them as different enemies from different distances with different sizes to help realize that every person won't be just the same" said Mikomi as he asks, "Do you understand, Symone?". Symone replies, "Yeah... I think I do Mikomi-Sensei". "Good" says Mikomi as he states, "Now, to test where you at with accuracy and throwing power... " as he cuts himself off by performing a Kage Bunshin No Jutsu(Shadow Clone Technique) of a few dozen kunai by embedding his chakra into twigs and sticks laying on the grassy land as he continues with his words, "...I'd like for you to throw all of these at any target you feel comfortable with so that I can build up a profile of you in my head when it comes to basic skill with common weapons". Symone replies, "Okay! When do I start?". "Now!" enthusiastically screams Mikomi with a timid expression in his voice. "Okay!" Symone yells back over to Mikomi as she takes the kunai she had caught as her first one to throw as Mikomi sets up all the other kunai on the ground by her side. Symone looks at the tree's, deciding on a target. She picks one as she holds herself in a typical throwing formation, hurling it the line of a tree that seemed to be in the center between all the rest. As the kunai soars, it sticks directly into the center of the slightly thick line. Symone then picks up another with quite a quick pace, flicking it forward as she sticks her tongue out from the side, this time sticking it directly into the very first tree that was closest to her, getting the kunai deep in the line. Symone then starts increasing in her speed, moaning with a lack of breath as she hurls each kunai towards the tree's at a very fast rate. Mikomi looks at her... his eyes opening very slowly as Symone finishes throwing the kunai. Mikomi walks up to Symone's position, looking at the locations of each kunai as he then stares suddenly down at Symone as she breathes heavily. "You did good, kid" Mikomi had said with a slight smirk in his now tightly opened eyes. Symone smiles. "You hit about 70 of your marks directly on the lines you aimed for, and when you missed... it was only by a very small margin. Where'd you learn to throw a kunai like that?" Mikomi had asked. Symone replied, "My Brother taught me!" as she looks to Mikomi, seeing as he's about to speak. "Your Brother... He must of been a very talented ninja. I'm sure he'd be proud watching you right now" said Mikomi. Symone opens her mouth with a slight reply of shock as she then smiles tightly, emitting a quick giggle. Quickly... and suddenly, Mikomi demands, "Now, I have something else I want you to do. I need you to try and break out your bloodline-limit". Symone's expression becomes glorified in depression, knowing of the hard thing her sensei ahd just asked of her. "I-I... I don't think I can, Mikomi-Sensei..." replies Symone. "Didn't I tell you a student will and should always listen to their sensei!" Mikomi had said with a slight amount of ferocity. "Symone... listen. Don't be afraid. It's just me here. I promise... I'm not so easy to kill when things go wrong!" said Mikomi with a quick change of attitude to a more calming and joyous tone of voice, giving Symone some insurance to attempt what her sensei had asked of her. "Okay... but I don't know where to start when I bring it out. All I know is when I get angry, it just happens and I explode" said Symone, wiping the depressing look off her face slowly as it becomes more like the face of curiousness. "Well... let's see. Anger builds up chakra... so we need to boost your chakra control and place it in the proper place. Now... if I recall, that was ice that was emitted from your body, correct?" asks Mikomi as Symone replies, "Yeah... it seems like it". "Well... now this is where we use our brains. Ice is a form of water, correct?" asks Mikomi as he looks for Symone to agree so that he is aware wether or not she is following him or not. "Yeah..." replies Symone. "So... I believe 80 of our bodies are water, correct?" asks Mikomi, looking to Symone again as she replies, "Really? That's a lot of water!" with a shocked expression. Mikomi laughs at Symone's response, holding his hand to his mouth as he then continues speaking. "Well... then that means you have to find a way to mold your chakra into your bodies water supply. We both know you're trained nicely in chakra control, so that part isn't too hard, but knowing how to let your chakra find itself to your water supply will seem a bit difficult. I see why this is only a bloodline-limit now" said Mikomi as he tries to help Symone understand. "Okay... I think I understand now" said Symone as she looks to Mikomi with her lips pushed to the side. "Now... I'd like for you to try and release it. We will get this out of the way before we do any other training. We need to help you control where your chakra flow is going... so terrible incidents will not occur again" said Mikomi, displaying a serious look on his face. Symone replies, "Okay then... I'm gonna give it a try..." as she holds her hands up towards her chest, sticking her two pointer fingers upwards from one hand, cupping the other one from underneath, concentrating her chakra flow in hopes she will find a way to control this brutal curse and change it in to a thing of strength. Mikomi is seen eyeballing Symone intensely as a clear colored chakra gently flows visibly like rising heat from around her tiny little body.
Symone is hoping that her sensei Mikomi has helped answer the reasoning to her bloodline-limit as she attempts to mold and control her chakra, trying to form her icey bloodline before her training will continue any further. Will Symone be able to complete this part of the training, or will her bloodline-limit remain a curse to her tortured soul? The next Chapter will have the answers and more as we wonder wether or not Symone is cut out to be... a true ninja.