Board Thread:Konoha Logs/@comment-24479578-20170116064449/@comment-24479578-20170116064504

The thunder rumbled in the distance while the rain came down off the awning of the tea shop. Sipping from her cup, she stood across the way from the Medical Center with her silver hues looking to the front door. ‘Is this going to be like yesterday? Am I going to be attacked for something I didn’t even know about?’ Nali could feel the bitter taste fill her mouth from the punishment she had to endure for just going out and finding out more about the medical world. Granted it was a new technique to learn and master. One that would more than likely prove to be useful in the days to come, but to be truthful she really didn’t want to see her own sensei at the moment. She sipped her jasmine tea again and enjoyed the after taste of the clover honey that went along with the flowery fragrance and taste. With her other hand holding onto her umbrella, she lifted it and pressed the button for it to open up and walked slowly across the street to the second awning that belonged to the Medical Center. She reached up and pulled the umbrella down once more hearing the click and shook off the excess water, before opening the door and walking inside.

Inside, Nali had to paint the face that nothing was bothering her. Her normal crooked smile and a finger wave was given to Yui behind the receptionist’s desk before she turned down the left corridor and continued down the hallway to the room where she had been yesterday. To her surprise, the room was empty. She had been expecting to see Miyako in there waiting for her but couldn’t help but smirk to herself knowing that she had been there first. ‘Heh. So much for being trained under her for this one.’ Her thoughts had become a bit tainted when it came to the older Hyuga woman, especially after the way she had been treated just the day before. Hanging up her umbrella to dry, she walked into the room and placed her cup of tea on the table when her eyes had fallen up on a scroll and a letter that had been addressed to her. “Maybe not..” She sighed a bit as she picked up the letter and opened it.

‘Nalini, I have been pulled into a finance meeting this morning. However, that doesn’t mean that you get out of your training. On the table, I have left for you the scroll that holds the instructions on how to do this jutsu. Read it over. Study it. I expect you to be able to recall the information in it at a moment’s notice even if you can’t perform the jutsu just yet. I will be in after the meeting to check on your progress. - Miyako Hyuga, Head Medical Nin’

Nali sighed as she placed the paper on the table once more and looked to the scroll a moment with disdain. Why was it that she was being punished for trying to help people? Another sigh came from her lips before she picked up the scroll and opened it up. Pressing her lips together slightly, she began to read over it. “This is a loooot of information to take in…” She said to herself as she walked around to the other side of the table and sat down. Picking up her tea, she sipped it as she continued to read over the information. With a sigh she began to read outloud in a soft whisper to herself, not that there was anyone that she had to read it to. But it helped her to study things of this nature when she was by herself.

“Body Pathway Derangement. Ranked A Skill level by the Medical Board. Nature used: Lightning. How it’s implemented: Touch. Alright, so I have to touch the individual for it to work. That’s pretty straightforward.” She said to herself as she rubbed her stomach where she had taken the hit from Miyako the day before not sure if she would have rather gone through a standard Hyuga hit or have gone through this jutsu all over again. The situation as a whole sucked. Placing her hand back on the table, she once more began to read it over. “By converting standard chakra into lightning natured chakra, the user then gathers it up and forces it into the body of the target through a touch of their hand. The result of the extra electricity going through the body attacks the nerves and synapses of the brain, causing confusion in the signals from the brain to the body. Essentially, short circuiting the body and causing the signals to be cross wired. Thus creating difficulty in the targets body. Causing movement to become hindered as what the target thinks it’s body is going to do, something else does. Example: If the target wishes to move the left foot, the right pinky finger then moves instead. If its the mouth that wishes to open, the left knee bends instead. This effect can last a long time until the target either learns to control the body with these new orders or waits until the effects of the lightning wear off.”

Nali sat back and looked to the scroll from where she was sitting. Reaching forward, she took her tea and sipped it some more. “That wench knew what this jutsu would do and she used it on me anyway..” Nali continued to just stare at the parchment while she sipped from her tea. The more she thought about what had happened the day before, the more she really didn’t want to see Miyako at the moment. “Welp.. fuming over it isn’t going to help me learn it any quicker..” She said to herself as she took another sip from her tea and pushed up from the table as she placed her tea upon it. She walked to the center of the room and sat on the tile floor. She could feel the cold of the concrete coming from the masonry work that was below as it seeped through her pants. But this was not the time for her to start worrying about how cold it was in the cellar.

Sitting cross legged, she placed her hands in her lap and closed her eyes while she sat up straight with her chin up. With a deep inhale, she let it go slowly and began to search within herself for the place that her chakra would be stored and created. Her affinity was fire but this one needed lightning to be created. Slowly, Nali went into a deep state of meditation while concentrating on the chakra that her body was creating. Thinking about what Lightning truly was, she began to think about it down the molecular level. It was atoms bouncing off of one another simultaneously, creating an energy that sparked as it was cast out from the point of impact. Taking that idea, she continued to concentrate on the chakra that was within her. She envisioned it bouncing against itself over and over again. Faster and faster. Instead of creating that friction that would create fire, this was the collision of chakra against itself with no give to it. It was that arc of electricity that would shoot down a nerve and create the signal for it to move.

It was while Nali was in her state of meditation that Miyako had come in. She walked across the floor with the silent steps that she had been known for. It was one of the reasons that most of the Medical Center was always busy. They could never tell when the woman was around and when she was watching them. Most were afraid that she’d catch them goofing off and not doing their job. But, it had made the facility the best in all of the Land of Fire. Miyako liked to think that it was the best in all the Shinobi world but that was left to be seen. Leaning back against the counter, she crossed her arms over her chest as her pearlesque hues looked to the woman. Miyako knew a state of meditation when she had seen it. But this was one of the deepest states that she had ever seen. Was this something that Nali had learned while she had been away? The woman asked herself while she waited for Nali to come back out of it.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Nali continued to think about what would cause the lightning to continued as she thought of a storm. From the core of her chakra storage, she could see the flashing as if the center itself was the very storm that she was looking for. It flashed and she could see the streaks of the lightning that she had created. That was what she needed. She had known how to draw upon it now. It had just been a matter of creating it first. Slowly, she came out of her deep meditation with a few more deep breaths. Slowly she came from her deepened state to get the sensation that she was being watched. She was not a sensory nin by any means but anyone could tell when they had the eyes of a vulture looking at them. It was that whole predator/prey aspect. Even a rodent could tell when a snake was close by. It only meant one thing. Miyako was in the room with her. Slowly opening her eyes, she looked directly to the woman. Oh the words she had for this woman. But she would hold her tongue. For now.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">“So. You finally woke up.” Miyako said to Nali as she looked to the woman on the floor. Standing, Nali simply brushed her rear off and straightened her shirt before pushing her long hair back over her shoulder. “I hardly call learning how to create lightning chakra when you’re a fire affinity, sleeping or resting for that matter.” She said as she came to look the older woman in the eye. It took all she had not to do something rash or say something that would anger the woman. Miyako gave a nod and met the eyes of the younger woman. “Then it’s safe to assume that you have come to the understanding of what the jutsu is now?” Miyako said flatly. Nali was not oblivious to the manner of tone that she was being given. However, she’d take the heat from this woman. She knew that she wouldn’t have been placed as Head Medic if she didn’t know her shit. Not to mention that the woman had all the training from the Hyuga clan on top of it. Nali would just have to pick her battles wisely. To go head to head with the woman would have been truly suicide on her behalf and stupid to say the least.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">“Yes. I know what it is that has to be done and what it does. It took me a while yesterday to understand the mechanics of it while I was lying on the floor trying to move my own body.” She said with a mocking smile on her lips. Miyako only nodded before she walked over to the door. “Good. Then there is no further reason for me to be in here. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have a medical facility to run and I do believe that you have more training to do.” She said as if she had just thrown it over her shoulder to the young woman.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Nali watched as Miyako left the room and could feel her blood begin to boil. “Just wait… I’ll take the knowledge that I need and you’ll never see me again… How’s that for being your protege?” Nali said in a low tone that wouldn’t go past her own ears, let alone past the walls of the room. Gathering her stuff, she grabbed her cup and tilted it up as she drained the rest of the liquid from the cup before throwing it into the wastebasket with a loud ‘thud.’ She had taken her umbrella up from the wall and placed it over her shoulder as she walked out of the room. Once more she had placed her normal smirk on her lips as she passed those that had walked by her. There was no reason for them to be the brunt of her anger when it was so much better to simply be angry at one person. She continued to walk out of the medical facility and raised her umbrella as she came to the outer awning. Pressing the button once more, she watched as the umbrella ‘poof’ed out and covered her over from the rain. Though it wasn’t the rain that she was thinking about any more. It was the lightning that was causing the thunder to rumble in the distance that had her attention as she made her way home.