Flames of Passion[Training, Open]

1 Hour before

It had certainly been a unique first week as Raikage, for the individual now making his way toward Cloud Mountain. He had been surprisingly given the job, met two old friends from the academy, had his ass kicked by one, while trying to help her detox, then promptly offered a second date. Shaking his head at how the strangest things happen when you actually associate yourself with people, he missed the days when it was just him and his training. Thing is though, he wouldn't go back for anything, yeah the craziness was just that crazy, he'd met some interesting people though, and he had to admit they were growing on him. Plus he still wanted to personally meet this years batch of graduating Genin, he was going to take just one and train them as his protege.

Those thoughts of the future however were interrupted as he came up upon the mountain he intended on climbing. Sighing, he always did hate this part grabbing the rope from his pack he wrapped it around his left arm, and began to work it around his back so that it was kept stiff and unable to move. Using the dexterity he had trained into his hand with years of Ninjutsu training, he was able to tie a sufficient knot with his right hand. Achilles couldn't help but sigh again, as he stared up to the peak, "Well Day one of returning to intensive training."

Of course Achilles had abandoned his Raikage coat as well as his hat, for this journey as, this was training not work. He would have been much more restricted in movement if he always wore that stuff every time he trained, for the most part the hat and coat were for show. Though he had to admit they were rather comfortable. Today he simply wore the silver chest piece armor, leaving the black long sleeve shirt at home as well, knowing he wouldn't need it. He also adorned the same black fatigues he wore every day, however unlike what he usually wore, the large scroll that was often strapped to his back was gone. Today Achilles had opted for simply a small scroll in which he had his lunch and some drink.

"Ugh, why did I use to train this hard every day again?" Achilles was now somewhere around halfway up the peak as he complained out to no one in particular. He stretched for the next piece of outlaying rock and it began to fall away leaving, him with no grip and falling backwards. Acting quickly, Achilles with his arm already falling away tightened his grip and slammed his fist into the mountain creating his own new spot to hold onto. The tremor sent into the mountain caused a few pieces of small rock to drop onto Achilles as he let out a relieved breath. "Whew"

Shaking off the pain of his now bloodied hand he continued climbing, nearly reaching the peak, sweat now easily drenching his head and face. He had managed to avoid another scenario of his hand holds falling by tapping onto rocks before he would grab them. If they fell away he'd simply look for another way up, and repeat, however a smile had now began to find its way on to Achilles face as he could see what looked like a curving of the rock about ten or so meters above his current position.

Finally he had reached the top, some new energy found for the final stretch of his climbing he began to move quicker using his feet to push off their holds to add another foot or two each climb. As he reached the fair sized plateau he pushed his forearm over it's horizon and then began putting his weight onto his arm as he began to maneuver the rest of his body up as well. Having now swung the rest of his body onto the peak, a smile and laugh escaped the Raikage's mouth as he finished part one of his training for the day, "Ha ha, finally."  

During his brief respite of happiness he hadn't noticed the other presence on the plateau with him, until he had turned on his side to push himself up. He saw the form of a boy, a tall boy at that, laying down near the bonsai tree, he looked as if he was breathing, but he was definitely exhausted. Forgetting to undo the tied arm, Achilles simply walked over, "You alright, Kid?" Achilles hadn't recognized him, immediately, he recalled seeing the face on a file but hadn't been able to place a name with the face yet, so kid would work for now.

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Looking down to his hand, he noticed while most of it had clotted up and quit bleeding he probably did need to clean it and bandage it properly. "Yeah, I would like to use that first aid kit if you don't mind." He gave the boy a smile in appreciation as he began to stretch glad to finally be done with his long climb. It was almost instantly that once the boy sat up, his fatigued had gone a bit and he finally recognized him more clearly.

The young Raikage could only smile at the excited demeanor the boy showed, towards meeting him, honestly it was the first time, Achilles had come across something like this. Achilles was more surprised at how the boy had been so tired looking a moment ago and suddenly hopped to his feet as if he was full of boundless energy, "Yes, yes I am the Raikage." He couldn't help but feel a bit proud of himself at the prospect of making someone excited to meet him.

Listening to the offer, Achilles only nodded side to side, "Nah, it's okay, I got some. I would like to use that first aid kit however." He reminded of the previous offer, as he used his still bloodied hand to quickly undo the knot behind him, freeing his left arm, causing a sigh of relief. 'Man that feels good.' After releasing his arm he reached into a pocket in his fatigues and pulled out a small scroll which he laid out on the ground before him as, he soundly plopped himself down.

He of course made sure to move a good bit closer to the tree and further away from the edge of course, he did not want to fall down this giant peak. After rolling out the scroll he gave it a tiny bit of blood releasing the seal, and four large bowls of Ramen appeared along with a couple canteens of water. "See, I'm good." He smiled again as he looked down pleasantly at his food, feeling his stomach rumble.

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Achilles watched the boy move around quickly as if he were jacked up on energy getting into his bad and almost immediately retrieving the objects needed. As the first aid pack items were brought to him, he noticed the way, Kobachi eyed the food, and smiled to himself. As he grabbed the ointment and bandages given to him, by Kobachi, he decided to return the favor. "Ya know, this is a lot of food, you're more than welcome to grab a bowl, if you're hungry." The Raikage then made the gesture to, move a bowl towards him using his non bleeding hand.

Afterwards, he opened the lid to the ointment and an overwhelming minty smell had been released, widely opening the eyes of Achilles and sending his senses into overdrive. After overcoming the smell, he then began to apply it gently to the cuts and bruises that had then adorned, his hand twitched slightly at the cool gel. After a moment of letting it sink in, he began to wrap the bandage around it lightly at first however making it tighter as he went.

Achilles was brought out of his concentration by the sound of the eager boy, asking him why he had been up there to begin with. Now looking up from his hand he'd noticed the boy hadn't taken his eyes off of him, even to take the food, he offered him, "Well, after becoming Raikage, I'd really not truly started my training back yet, so I decided I waited long enough, and well." Taking a moment to ponder tapping a finger on his chin, "It'd been a while so I wanted to start from the bottom, and in the case it happened to be the bottom of a mountain." He shrugged as it had just always been a way to build up body strength and endurance.

He'd never been one for any kind of complicated Taijutsu, but he always felt that training his body to be tough, strong, and quick, would help him fair better against, Taijutsu masters or those more experienced in it then he. "Well if you want we could also make a thing out of this, whenever I am free for weekends I can come up here and we can train together, how does that sound?" He always liked the opportunity to work with the younger generation of Shinobi as he felt a personal touch, would show them just how important an individual is to a village.

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Shrugging at the polite refusal of the Ramen, Achilles simply moved it back over and quickly began to munch into his own bowl, slurping up the noodles quickly devouring the bowl. As he finished however, he heard the boy's words, and simply put his bowl down and smiled while taking another drink from his water canteen, "Right you are, my boy." Thinking for a moment, he'd realized he couldn't quite place his name, though he certainly looked familiar, and of course the way he spoke was very familiar as well, the odd manner in which he spoke.

Digging into his second bowl, he began to rapidly devour it as well, quickly slurping through and finishing his noodles as he placed it down, he could hear the boy's voice echo through his ears yet again. His response simply made him smile again, "Well I'm glad to hear that, who knows maybe I'll even learn a thing or two as well." Finishing his third bowl, as well as his first canteen full of water, he made a single hand sign resealing the scroll along with all of his food. By this point it must have been somewhere in the afternoon, it had taken him around an hour and a half maybe a bit longer to fully climb the mountain, certainly working his endurance. Now that he was at the top maybe some jutsu training was in order to continue the theme of endurance this time focusing on his chakra.

Thinking back to the familiarity of the boy's style of each 'It's as if, he is still learning as he goes, which does sound like the file of a Genin I read that was connected to Katsuro's team'. Pushing himself up to his feet he shook his arms and head waking his muscles back up as he gave the boy a curious look,"What's your name again? I'm afraid I didn't catch it before." Stretching himself back and then to each side he began to hop up and down a bit, feeling his muscles return to life.

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Smiling as the boy's file began to come to life in his head, he nodded curtly, "Ah yes, they are a fine people I remember staying among them for a time, when I....stepped away from Kumo for a while." Few truly knew of the sabbatical that Achilles took as a Chuunin, and he preferred it that way, as he didn't want the people of his village to think he was a quitter, he had just become overwhelmed by the life of a Shinobi and needed the time to decompress. However now his mind was switching gears as he felt his heart pump slightly faster as if his body knew what was coming and wanted to be ready.

"Well first I thought I'd do a little bit of basic warming up and stretching." Thinking back to how dangerous his style of basic warming up was, he only shook his head as he neared himself to the edge, "And of course some endurance training, as you can never have too much endurance." Smiling secretly to himself on that final bit, he charged a bit of chakra into his hands as he performed a handstand on the edge of the plateau of the peak. His body was now completely vertical with his only safety from death being his chakra charged hands now giving him grip as well as balance.

Once attaining his perfect ratio of chakra as well as weight distribution he began to do his personal style of push ups. He liked to call them full body push ups, as he was literally pushing his entire body back into the air after lowering his head down to just tip the ground before he went back up again. He begun slow, simply working on ten sets of twenty. Nothing too intensive, just something to work his arms and core into a bit of tight soreness, he always felt his back works out came when he was at his limits.

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The Raikage had continued to lift himself up into the air repeatedly, performing his full body push ups, tearing through his sets relatively easily. Nearing completion he looked over to see, what the boy was doing after feeling an impressive amount of chakra to which his eyes opened widely in surprise. Keeping his balance he leaned his body in the direction of his stomach, causing his feet to hit the ground he released his chakra that had been used to keep his hands firmly gripped into the rock. After doing so, he allowed his body to raise back up, bringing him back to his full height while he watched the boy finish what he could remember to be opening the gates. Simply in a state of both shock and pride in how well his villages' Genin were progressing he thought he'd take the moment to watch as the Genin trained.

A toothy grin found it's way onto Achilles face as he watched the boy though strained in his face, effortlessly use the First Gate. He was carrying what looked to be a fairly heavy boulder around which he would have to admit would be a bit difficult for him, though nothing he couldn't handle. However, for a mere Genin to be able to do such a feat even with the help of the Gates, was very interesting to see. As to, Achilles knowledge it required an impressive amount of base strength and body endurance to be able to even train the powers of the Gates. Smiling he had devised a way that he could combine the training of the two, of course if the boy was interested. Plus he could show him, a jutsu usually reserved for those whose lives were a short few seconds from ending.

"Hey, Kobachi, think you could toss that boulder over the cliff?" Achilles had tried to make it sound like there was going to be something in it for the boy. As from what he'd seen so far the boy, enjoyed any kind of attention from the Kage, and he though what better way to show his appreciation then to give him a little bit of a show. Thinking back on it, the Raikage from his time as a Genin was a hard man. He was unbelievably powerful, but he always kept to himself, other than his time as a Jounin he didn't think he'd ever really seen the man much. That memory affected the way, Achilles wanted to teach, and lead by, and it was showing now as he waited for the boy to respond to his request.

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Once the boy heard him, he stopped in his tracks and began to carefully hold the boulder he was carrying, at his stomach to better balance himself with the added weight. "Oh just get it at least a few meters from the edge." His soft voice spoke behind a smile as he began to perform a few hand signs, before charging up his chakra, which began to swirl and engulf his right arm. After a few seconds of charging, his entire right arm began to spark and shine as the blue lightning began to coil around his entire arm ready to fire.

"Raiton Strike!" Throwing his right arm forward in the style of a punching strike, the coiled chakra wrapped around his arm began to spring forward. Launching off of his fist in the direction of the now falling boulder, the chakra that sprang from his arm began to turn into a more potent attack as it flashed forward into the large boulder. Due to it's immense condensed power the moment it made contact it tore through the boulder causing it to explode due to the amount of chakra used in the technique, as well as a trail of lightning left over as the move dissipated.

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(Did you not read my post? lol Or did Kobachi just miss what Achilles did?)