I sat in my favorite training space, just beyond the forest in a grassy meadow. I hugged my knees against my chest and breathed in and out slowly, as I felt my chakra flow through my body. I decided that the first thing I would do was test my senses before I start training. My eyes were closed. I waited as moments kept passing by. My eyes were eager to open and my ears began to ring. Then, I felt a small vibration in my ear. My chakra was completely focused on the source of that one vibration, and I followed it with 3, quick and powerful leaps. I landed on the branch of a tree about 1000 yards away. That was a very good sensing rate for me. I stood up, satisfied with myself and went back to my sitting space to train. First, I was going to learn a new technique. I stood in the center of the open field and closed my eyes.

Before I learned a new technique, I had to practice one of my latest techniques I had already learned. I gathered a fairly large amount of chakra in each of my ten fingers and stuck out my wrists with my fingers pointed in front of me. When I had gathered enough chakra, I blurted out, "Thunder storm technique!" and let bolts of lightening shoot out of my fingertips and crash into two trees at the other end of the meadow. Each tree had five holes that when straight through their trunks. (And that wasn't at my highest technique strength). I was satisfied. I looked at my watch, it was half past noon. Akane-Sensei should have already arrived. All I could do was wait. After 2 minutes of waiting, I sensed someone moving towards my location. Akane-Sensei? I waited another 2 minutes and I sensed them just behind a small shell of trees in the forest beyond the grassy circle I stood in. Then, someone jumped onto the ground from a branch at the other side of the field. A figure with bright red hair that was held up in two bun-pigtails stood across from me. Her skin was kind of pale and her eyes, a midnight blue. She wore a bright orange skirt and a white shirt with fire drawn on the sleeves. Her bright red boots looked like they would burn her feet. Akane-Sensei. She stood there looking at me with a smirk.

"I can tell you sensed me while I was still far from my destination." She sounded amused as she began to walk closer to me.

"I sensed a ladybug more than half a mile away." I reported proudly.

"Your getting sharp." She enthused.

"But I need to be better."

"Then how about that new technique I promised?" She requested cocking her head towards the two trees I had burned holes through. I nodded. By then, she was standing right next to me, looking out in the same direction I was facing. Her eyes shifted to me as mine shifted to her.

"First," She began, as a signal to listen carefully. "focus all of your chakra started from your core and slowly bring it up to your throat. Once the chakra is focused there, try to mold it into the shape of a ball and slowly roll it up your throat, and when its all the way up and in your mouth, cough it up into your hand, but keep it in the shape of a ball."

I did exactly as she said, and coughed up the ball of chakra into my hand, but nothing came out. Instead, I began to feel the need to gag, and I collapsed onto the ground, coughing. What did I do wrong?

"You didn't focus the chakra well enough. You have to keep as focused as possible on the shape of the chakra and make sure it's a perfectly round ball. Otherwise, you end up on the ground, gagging."

I coughed one last time and got up, ready to try again. This time, I was completely focused on my chakra, and when it got to my throat, I was even more concentrated, careful not to lose control of it's shape. I coughed it up into my hand, and out came a small blue ball, a little bigger than a soldier pill. I looked from the blue ball, to Akane-Sensei in confusion and curiosity.

"That, my friend, is a very powerful bomb. It may not look like much, but it's about as powerful as the Fourth's Rasengan." I looked at the ball in amazement. I looked back at Akane-Sensei, my gray eyes begging to try it out.

"Go ahead!" She enthused. My eyes lit up with excitement. I took the ball and threw it at the ground about 4 yards away from us. The ball hit the ground, creating an explosion that threw us up and sent us back a few feet. I felt so powerful.

"The better you are at concentrating your chakra, the more powerful those attacks get." Akane-Sensei mentioned, noticing my approval of her teachings. "Keep practicing, and eventually, it will be more powerful than Rasengan."

'Wow...' I thought. 'An attack more powerful than Rasengan? What an amazing technique! I wonder if anyone else I know has learned this attack yet...'

"For now, I want you to keep practicing your sensing technique. That should help practice controlling your chakra." Akane-Sensei said. I suddenly sensed two other beings coming towards the meadow. They were pretty close. In minutes, they jumped out from the branches of the trees. They were my teammates, Michiko and Teruo. Michiko had strawberry-blonde hair that was held up in a high braid-ponytail. Her forehead protector on her head, like Sensei wore hers. She wore a short green dress and white shorts that went down to her knees. Here eyes were velvet and flared with curiosity. Teruo had short light-blue hair. His bangs slanted down to one side. His forehead protector was around his forearm. He wore a white shirt with a giant raindrop painted on it, and dark blue shorts that went a little below his knees. His eyes were always a gentle gray-blue that comforted you whenever you looked directly into his eyes.

I looked at my teammates, eager to show them my new technique. They looked confused at the giant hole in the ground I had made when I threw the blue ball from my technique into the ground before they showed up. I smiled and my eyes sparkled. I was ready to show them my power.

"Did you learn a new technique or something?" Michiko asked in excitement.

"Yea! I-" I began.

"Nothing yet. But we're working on it!" Akane-Sensei interrupted me. 'Why won't she tell them about my new technique?' I wondered.

"Oh. Well when you do, you should show us! If you learn anymore powerful techniques, our team will be unbeatable!" Michiko stated proudly as Teruo smiled and nodded in agreement. (Teruo was really quiet then). I said nothing. I answered with only a crooked smile that didn't look very convincing. Michiko and Teruo jumped up and out to a tree branch to my right as I stood there speechless. I looked over at Akane-Sensei, who only looked at me with eyes that said "shhhh". I was puzzled by this situation, and I didn't know how to react, so as Akane-Sensei jumped off into the forest, on her way back to the main area of the village, I remained standing in the center of the meadow.