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Chapter 6: New General and Teacher
It had been a year and three months since Dr. Rogers completed his own Roxy Classifier, and the US had been recruiting young adults, around eighteen years old and older, to enter their Special Forces branch of the military. About ninety-five percent of the potential recruits were excited about learning their new-found powers, but the other five percent wanted nothing to do with the military. The ones that refused their offer were sent a letter every three months that told them that are still welcome if they regret their decision.
"On the three-month anniversary of the United States testing their first Iridium Hydrogen Bomb on an asteroid in space, we celebrate the departure of ISIS from this great planet. Iridium, if you don't know, is a rare element that is only found on the planet, Sola Prima in the Newk Belt. Within three weeks of the test, the ISIS Empire left the Middle East and Earth to go inhabit one of the other planets in our solar system. Eight commercial cruisers left their home base in Baghdad, Iraq this morning and headed straight towards deep space, according to NASA. After three short months, Earth is safe for the time being, but can the continents unify to defeat or even defend against ISIS?"
After the final sentence of the newscaster, President Reed turned off the television. With their alliance with Dxun, President Reed was able to acquire some of their Iridium for a considerable amount of money. With ISIS off Earth, the US was able to focus their efforts on training their new generation of soldiers.
"Okay, Zakee good work! Now, do it again but make it 5 clones!" General Hall's voice ran loud and clear throughout the entire training grounds. Zakee's face tightened as he focused harder. Veins popped out of his neck and forehead making his face turn a reddish purple.
"Shadow Clone Jutsu!"
Suddenly, four clouds *poofed* into existence as four exact copies of Zakee appeared. All of them were tall, dark, and chiseled just like their original.
"I see you can only produce four right now, Zakee. That's fine. Go ahead and keep practicing your shuriken throws." The general was watching over a group of about fifteen seventeen year olds that Dr. Rogers had discovered using his machine that he saw in his dream.
It had been a year since the day Dr. Rogers had built their own Roxy Classifier and about four hundred other people had their powers drawn out because of it. Ever since that day, everything changed. Life was now exciting because of the opportunity to learn about special powers that were hidden deep within you.
Word had gotten out that the ISIS Empire had left the Middle East on a large, commercial cruisers the length of three football fields. They hadn't attacked the US since they left, and they do not know that they have made their own Roxy Classifier. The United States has made progress to create a world-wide council of leaders that incorporate the head of each continent. So far, only North America and Europe want to create this council.
Only the United States has the blueprints for a Roxy, and if all the continents decide to join this allegiance, the US would send blueprints to every continent leader. The only problem the other countries have with this idea is the fact that it will become easier for one person, who had acquired an incredible power, to assume control of the planet. A reasonable concern, but with the ISIS Empire as big as it is, is there really another way?
General Hall was put in charge of the training academy that is in Area 51, Nevada where the recruits trained their powers. Since the program is in its beginning stages, they only had a hotel for residence, and the training area was just anywhere outside. The hotel had ten floors with thirty rooms on each floor. Each room also had two beds. So, the hotel has 600 beds in all, ten classrooms that were originally conference halls, a large cafeteria, and a gym that could fit at least five basketball courts (the government added this on).
The government supplied the training equipment and dummies for targets, but a lot of the training was on your own since there was not much experience for teaching.
"General Hall oversees our new program here, and he's very good at it too."
General Hall could hear Dr. Rogers' voice about thirty yards away. 'Who was that he was talking to,' he thought? The man had a brown robe wrapped around himself and a trimmed white beard.
"Ah, General Hall, I've been looking everywhere for you," said Dr. Rogers. "This is Nasha Rodan. He claims to be a Jounin ninja from a foreign planet that has come to escape some council. He said he has news." Rodan nodded his head as to agree with Dr. Rogers.
"Alrighty then, follow me." General Hall led them out of the training grounds and into the hotel.
Zakee never liked practicing his shuriken throws that much; it got too boring. He could hit the target that was on the dummies chest eight times out of ten. However, knowing that it wasn't perfect is what motivated him to do better. A whole year had gone by since he had seen his best friend, Ryder. A note had been left by him saying that he joined the military but there was no records of him even enlisting. However, there was one thing he knew that Ryder was doing: working his ass off and that was truly why Zakee worked so hard during training hours. He did not want to be left in the dust by his spontaneous friend.
This made Zakee think outside of the box with a lot of his ninja techniques. Zakee's wrists were wrapped up and a cloth with a weird symbol was drawn onto it. This was a summoning symbol that summoned five shurikens per summoning. Having that on his wrists allowed quick attacks that surprised his opponents and could give him an edge in combat. He also had a katana that he could infuse with chakra, so the blade would be stronger.
One thing that Zakee had started reaching a lot more of was fuinjutsu; the type of jutsu that sealed objects, living things, chakra, and many other things. Zakee had studied and researched for countless hours when he found a very special technique not used by many. It was the teleportation seal. All he had to do was write down the seal on an object, and then activate the seal using his chakra to teleport to it. The symbol for this jutsu was the hardest thing about the jutsu. It had specific turns, ins and outs, and protrusions that were hard to learn and draw.
"Hey Zakee! Do you mind helping me out really quick?" Clayton Rudd is Zakee's roommate here and is also a ninja. He specializes in strategy and the shadow jutsus along with water jutsus. Zakee gave a quick nod of reassurance that he'd help.
"Awesome! I need help with my Shadow Possession Jutsu. I'm trying to make my hold stronger, so can I possess you while you try to break free?" This was a common request from Clayton since Zakee happened to be the strongest ninja at the academy.
"Sure," he chuckled, "give it your best shot!"
Clayton jumped back with a smirk and yelled, "Shadow Possession Jutsu!"
A long shadow bolted out from Clayton's own and connected to Zakee's shadow. "Okay, go ahead and try to escape it!"
Zakee used all his strength to try and escape the grasp of Clayton's shadow. After about two minutes of struggling, Zakee broke free from Clayton's hold on him. "That was a lot better than last time, Clayton. It actually took me some time to get out of it. The longer you can hold a shadow, the more powerful your jutsu will become. Remember that too!" Clayton was sweating and panting but gave him a thumb up as he turned and walked back to his area.
Zakee began walking towards the academy to go grab a textbook on wind style jutsu. He knew little to none on this topic, so in order to learn more jutsus he wanted to read a lot of those books.
He went up to the librarian and asked if any wind jutsu books were available. She pointed him to a white book on a nearby shelf. He walked over to it and pulled it out. The cover was fairly peaceful. It was solid white with gold lines that ended up picturing a bird in mid-flight. with a giant bird on the cover.
Flipping the pages, Zakee saw a cool jutsu that allowed the user to push air out of their palms. "Hmmmm… Gale Palm seems like an effective jutsu," said Zakee in a whisper. So, he read the topic and tried to learn everything it said from the hand seals to the weaknesses of it. He wanted to learn a jutsu that let him control air currents, but that challenge would have to wait until he was a little bit more experienced.
"Zakee! General Hall is looking for you!" said Tommy as he ran into the library.
"Shhhhhhhhhhh! This is a library!" scolded the librarian as Tommy sprinted towards the hallway out of fear.
"Sorry," said Zakee as he apologized to her for his long-time friend, Tommy. "What does he want from me?" asked Zakee.
"I'm not sure, but he's waiting at the training grounds with that visitor." He was wondering what that robed man was doing here ever since he stepped foot on the grounds.
"Okay, thanks Tommy," said Zakee.
They began walking back to the training grounds together, and Zakee said, "How's your sword practice coming along?"
"It's going fine. I'm only use the dagger as it is right now. For some reason, I can't Djinn equip just yet." Tommy looked a looked a little disappointed in himself. He was tall, about 6 feet 3 inches and a little skinny, but boy could he fight. This guy would never give up and always put his body on the line.
"Ah don't beat yourself up over it. You'll get there. I mean we've only been training for four months. I'll see you later though!" They had just pulled up on the General and the visitor when the two boys split up.
"Yes, General?" Zakee stood at attention with both hands by his side thinking what he was about to ask him.
"Zakee, this is Nasha Rodan. He's a Jounin ninja that came from Corrupan, in the Ragnos sector. He said that he could feel a massive amount of energy swelling over here and had to check it out. We've talked to him and don't believe that he's a threat, so we've agreed to let him help us," explained General Hall. Rodan smiled and nodded.
"Since he's a ninja like you, he will train you, and you will learn all that you can. This is a great opportunity for you to become stronger and learn a lot more." Nasha Rodan just stood there nodding as the general spoke.
"Everything he says is correct. I came from a planet that is just on the other side of that sun." Rodan pointed to one of the two suns.
"Like he said, I'm a Jounin ninja, and I'm just going to go ahead and jump into things. My nature affinities are wind, water, and earth style. Along with jutsu from those categories I will teach you high class techniques in other forms of jutsu, such as: genjutsu, fuinjutsu, taijutsu, and kenjutsu. The training will not be easy at all, and since you have the most experience, you will be my main student. So, how about it? Do you want me to teach you?"
Zakee didn't even have to think twice about this decision. "Of course! Yes sir!"
General Hall was pleased with how excited Zakee seemed and said, "Well good because there wasn't much of a choice for you," while he gave a quick laugh. "Go ahead and get back to training, Zakee. Now, Nasha please follow me to your room." The two started to walk back to the hotel as Nasha Rodan looked back over his shoulder as if he was analyzing Zakee. He did not care in the slightest as he nodded towards Rodan and walked to where the other ninja were training.
"Guys! We finally have a teacher!" Zakee yelled out so everyone could hear over the noise of their metal weapons hitting each other. All the other ninjas knew he wasn't lying so a smile appeared on all their faces. A few of them high-fived each other.
"This being said, we are going to train a lot harder so no complaining! This is all to become stronger and protect this country. He said he specializes in wind, earth, and water jutsu, so if you do too, you're in luck. Now, let's get to work!" He grinned when he finished this and went back to his training.
He raised his right index finger and middle finger in front of his chest followed by his left hand holding up the same two fingers horizontally behind his right hand and said, "Shadow Clone Jutsu!"
Four copies of Zakee appeared right next to him, and they started throwing their shuriken at logs standing upright, but they weren't on target. Suddenly, Zakee, whose arms were out and above his head, pulled his arms across his body, and the shuriken changed directions and hit the logs. Since shadow clones transfer their knowledge to their original, Zakee mastered this technique quickly after practicing it for the past few weeks.
After two and a half hours of settling in and talking training programs with General Hall, Nasha Rodan walked over to where Zakee was training.
"So, you're working on your shuriken throws. I like how you use your chakra to change the directions of them," Rodan said.
"Yeah, I was training with Clayton when he dodged my shuriken. That made me think of a way to improve my shuriken, so I either infuse chakra into them or attached wires to them," explained Zakee.
Nasha examined Zakee and asked, "Would you like to learn some other jutsu instead?"
Zakee's face lit up and responded, "Yes!" at once.
"If I teach you jutsu, you have to start calling me Sensei Rodan." Zakee did not mind this and wanted to learn jutsu right away.
"Of course, Sensei," said Zakee walking over to his sensei.
"Good, now let's go over to the water and begin."
The two walked over to a nearby lake.
"The first jutsu that I will teach you will come in handy often. It's called the Hidden Mist Technique. It will create a thick fog that shields you from the sight of everything except the Byakugan. I'll show you." Sensei Rodan did a set of hand seals and then said, "Hidden Mist Jutsu!"
A thick fog rolled in from the lake front and suddenly, and he could see nothing. Zakee could feel the fog go into his lungs with every breathe he took. Next thing he knew, Sensei Rodan was at his side with a kunai at his neck.
"This is the power of the hidden mist technique; it's very useful for an assassination attempt or against many opponents." The sensei dispelled the mist and jolted towards Zakee quickly making hand seals.
"Water Prison Jutsu!" yelled Sensei Rodan. A thick, breathable water surrounded Zakee. He looked at Sensei and tried to move towards him, but could only manage to lift his arm in the direction of Sensei Rodan.
"Is this all that you've got Zakee? You've got to have something more than this…Or, should I just bring Clayton over here. I'm sure he would be able to escape this jutsu in a matter of seconds knowing how smart he is." Sensei Rodan was trying to push Zakee, but he knew that he was ignoring him because his eyes were shut.
"Wind Style: Gale Palm!" Zakee's arm was aimed in the perfect direction and made a direct hit on his sensei that sent him flying back ten yards. Zakee was in awe that his attacked worked; his grin was as big as the moon.
Looking on from behind a nearby boulder, Sensei Rodan was very intrigued. 'Making it seem like he was trying to escape, he directed his jutsu towards my water clone. Clever kid,' he thought.
Zakee began to walk up to Sensei Rodan, but stopped a few steps away.
Sensei Rodan and his clothes had turned blue with ripples going across his clothes and skin. Suddenly, Sensei Rodan's body had burst into water.
'No! It's a Water Clone,' thought Zakee.
"Well done Zakee," Rodan applauded as he walked out from behind a nearby boulder. "I didn't know that you can use Wind Release?"
Zakee stood up straight and said, "I saw a book on Wind Release and saw that jutsu in it. My affinities are in water and wind release."
"Well you're in luck because I have a lot of ninjutsu scrolls. Come over here and sit down." Sensei Rodan pointed towards a wooden picnic table and walked towards it. Zakee walked over and sat on one the other side of the table.
Sensei Rodan pulled out a big scroll and rolled it out on the table. Both ends rolled off the table were barely off the ground. Sensei Rodan made a hand sign with on hand and said, "Release!"
A white cloud of smoke appeared and when it dispersed, a mound of scrolls and books appeared on top of the long scroll. Zakee looked up with a grill of thrill and excitement.
"Can I go to the library and read these?" Zakee really wanted to read these scrolls. He knew that those would have the jutsus he wanted to try.
"Sure, go ahead. Don't try any in there!" Zakee sealed the books and scrolls back into the larger scroll and headed to the library with an extra pep in his step.
Sensei Rodan walked over to the other shinobis (ninjas) and gathered them together. "My name is Nasha Rodan. I am your new sensei I have a few things I have to tell you."
He pulled out a scroll and rolled it on the ground. All the ninjas gathered around just when Sensei Rodan yelled "Release!" Stacks of five books appeared, and all of them had a label of their respected element on them.
"I want you to take a book from the stack of what your affinity element is, and if you have two take the other book as well. Now, go ahead and grab a book." Sensei Rodan looked on with a smile as everyone began rushing to the books.
Everyone grabbed a book or two according to their own affinities. Clayton grabbed a Fire Release book and an Earth Release book. Luca grabbed a Lightning Release book and walked up to Sensei Rodan along with Clayton.
They tapped him on the shoulder and said that they has an element not out there. Clayton told him, "Shadow Release," and Luca told him, "Ice Release." The Sensei had a surprised and happy face as he pulled out two scrolls and handed it to them.
"Study these! These are hard kekkei genkai learn and even harder to master. They have some tricky ones in there, so go ahead and start studying them."
"Yes, Sensei." Luca smiled as he and Clayton walked out and headed to the either the library or their dorms to read their books. The two walked into the library to study their books.
"Do you see Zakee?" Clayton asked Luca.
"No, I don't think he's in here. He might be in his room." Luca shrugged and walked over to a table with Clayton following.
Three days pasted, and all that the students were doing was reading the book(s) they got from Sensei Rodan.
Luca and Clayton were still in the library reading their books with Monster cans on the table. Tommy walked in with a small dagger on his belt. It has a gold hilt with a strange symbol on the blade.
He walked over towards Clayton and Luca and says, "Hey guys, what's up?"
"We've been here for basically three days reading and studying these books," said Luca. "They have new jutsu and techniques that we can learn," continued Clayton.
"Awesome, have either of y'all seen Zakee lately?" asked Tommy.
"No, we went back and knocked on his door. He didn't answer, so we walked in. He wasn't in there," explained Luca. "I bet he's out practicing his jutsus somewhere around here."
Tommy nodded in agreement and turned as he walked back towards the door. "Okay, I'll see you guys later!" yelled Tommy just as he remembered he was in the library. The librarian gave him a death glare, so Tommy ran out and towards the training grounds.
It was a room full of a thick fog. It was still… Calm.
*Drip… Drip*
The sound of water dropping from the ceiling echoed throughout the entire room. Towards the middle of the room was a giant pool with a figure wearing dark clothing hunched over. He stood up and performed a long series of hand seals and yelled, "Water Style: Water Shark Bullet!"
Five average-sized sharks made of water formed above the pool and launched themselves towards a wall made of steel. The same figure jumped backwards doing back handsprings ending with a slide on the water and a single hand sign.
Spinning spears made of water came out of the water, and shot off in the same direction the shark went once they were three feet out. The spears hit the same area of the wall and another explosion of water and force collided. The figured stood up and looked at the wall. There wasn't a single scratch on it.
"Zakee! Do it again! If you can't even scratch a wall, how the hell are you going to protect this planet?!" Sensei Rodan's voice echoed in the water training facility. Zakee took a deep breath and began his hand seals again.
