Birth of Greatness [P]

The woman with hair of silver rose early once more today, like she did almost every single other day of her entire and yet rather young life. Today she was going to go off to do some training at the local dojo, a place that taught a great deal about the art commonly known as the art of swordplay and fighting with a bladed weapons of all sorts, though of course they most often fought using wooden weapons and the like because they did not want to have undue injury in the place of the fighting. And yet she would go, onward and upward to increase her skills in fighting, something that she was not personally a fan of but that she understood the need for. She realized that fighting was something that could not simply be avoided, at least not the way the world was now, and so she trained herself to fight that one day she may end all the fighting of the world and bring a reign of peace to the land.

She went about her daily routine as always, a certain discipline shining through her otherwise effervescent personality. She rose early of course and then went to draw a quick bath, cleaning herself and preparing for the day. As breakfast was prepared for her she did some stretching and warmed up as she always did, loosening her body in preparation for the day that was to come. She practiced both regular stretches and some calisthenics as well as some yoga and meditation, awakening her mind to the world around her as well as her inner world. Once she was prepared for the day and totally calm in her mind and body and spirit, she would go downstairs to the breakfast that had been made of her after getting herself dressed of course. There she would partake in the breakfast that had been made and presented, eating and drinking and the like so as to be ready and strong for the day of training.

Once more she would find herself training her skills by heading on down to the dojo once more as she usually did. Training occupied the majority of her day and night as she needed as much time as she could possibly have to hone her skills. By day she practiced kenjutsu and fencing at the local dojo at the behest of her father, a proud samurai by lineage, and while the art did not interest her greatly, she found out that she was in fact actually quite good at it and that she was able to excel in the arts of fencing in particular quiet effortlessly. However, the hoped to finish quickly that she might get back to her her true passion which was placed in her puppets, the things that she made and practiced with by night, deep into the dark when there was no one around to watch her play with those toys. But they were not toys to her, no, they were works of art, beautiful machines that she had built and spent such painstaking time with and she loved them as any architect loves his or her creations. She preferred no harm to come to them as she preferred no harm to really come to anyone if she could help it.

And so she entered the dojo with her usual quietness and poise. She was generally a talkative person or at least someone who enjoyed a good story or something of the like but in the dojo it was different. She was intense and that was only partially because she wanted very little to do with the people who were there. She also felt the intensity of the whole situation known as training and combat. She was more than capable of keeping her wits about her even in intense situations and she was easily more than capable of remaining calm in those kinds of situations. She went about her routine as usual of entering the dojo and preparing herself, first beginning by donning some of the armor and the padding and the like so that she could be protected from the dangers of the upcoming combat and the like. After having fully put on the armor and padding that she wore she also put on the metal wire mask that accompanied the garb thus completing the ensemble and allowing her to begin her preparations.

She went about her routine once again as usual, going through a collection of slow warm up exercises designed to get her ready and warmed up for the upcoming match and the fight. She ran around for a while in circles around the place and around the dojo and so she got her heartrate up and then she did some jumping jacks and things of that nature to increase her blood flow and all that. She continued her cardio based work out for some time today, perhaps more time even that she usually did because she was simply and for no other reason in that kind of mood and so she in fact did exactly just that, running about a few more laps after she had finished the jumping jacks and then the skipping of some rope that was located within the dojo and hung up in such a way as to be fully accessible because that was what the point of the dojo was.

Upon completing this she withdrew the wooden sword that was used for the sole purposes of training so that she may train with it and begin her work for the day in proper by moving through the stances and what not thing of that sort. She went through the stances slowly like she always did because she was very concerned with the precision of her motions and stances and the like. And so she went slowly, taking her dear sweet time and breathing in deeply as she moved so as to ensure that all the motions were fully within her range of power and authority and in such a way that she ensured that she had absolute control over her own person and of course her own body which was currently becoming her weapon. She finished her warm up with some of the regular things by speeding up continually so that she could fully execute all of the moves that she desired in a timely manner and with absolute precision. When finally she felt fully competent and capable in her motions and stances she continued onward, having finished with her lengthy warm up routine and now prepared to actually begin the fight and the sparring that was to be before her.

The woman with hair of silver then retired into a deep and powerful and quite wonderful and interesting reverie that was to about to take up the majority of her time for the coming day because she would be spending so much time in the doing of this things which would be the reverie. She would thusly because of this very reason which she had been doing just now have no actual time in which to spar today or partake in the fighting that she was so accustomed to oftentimes doing and as such would be rendered because of this totally and unable to be capable in any particular way to engage in a fight of any sort today which was probably ok because of course she did not need to fight for any particular reason because of course there was nothing and really no one even for her to fight at this precise and current and exact moment in time known as the current present time period. And so she began to take her meditation very serious in this present moment and to begin to concentrating upon that which she was currently visualizing in side of her her own mind at the current time which was of course referred to as the now.

The woman with hair of the most splendid silver began to sit and as she was in the current process of doing such a simple thing she would visualize herself and of course her blade as she would be in the eye of her most inner locations of her mind visualizing herself holding her sword the sword which her parents had meticulously had crafted at her behest so that she could be one of the greatest blade masters that had ever lived in time gone by. And so she was there upon the very ground sitting down on that ground and visualizing herself so that she could learn a new ability and practice it even before she began to practice it. This allowed her to have full mental control of her self and of her body and so the woman with hair of silver would consider this the first step to her training and would allow this to be the first thing that she did before learning anything else.

Then when she had finished visualizing in its entirety this new ability that she would suddenly create and subsequently and by definition learn she would then and only after she had done these things rise from her position which had been previously seated there upon the floor and take up her sword which was hers and hers alone and which she would use with out hesitation if she had to so that she could put an end to the senseless fighting that plagued the whole of this ninja and samurai earth. She lifted the blade to her and assumed the standard pose that was to be assumed by anyone who was about to enter the art of fencing and in doing so looked fully the part of a fencer.

She gazed upon the dummy in front of herself and looked sharply upon it before thrusting her blade at in and then repeating the motion. She repeated it again and again going even faster every time until her weapon was little more than a blur of motion which allowed her to strike so fast that the attack was essentially two attacks which had been perpetrated at the exact same time which allowed her to strike the dummy twice at once.

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The woman with hair of silver rose early once more today, like she did almost every single other day of her entire and yet rather young life. Today she was going to go off to do some training at the local dojo, a place that taught a great deal about the art commonly known as the art of swordplay and fighting with a bladed weapons of all sorts, though of course they most often fought using wooden weapons and the like because they did not want to have undue injury in the place of the fighting. And yet she would go, onward and upward to increase her skills in fighting, something that she was not personally a fan of but that she understood the need for. She realized that fighting was something that could not simply be avoided, at least not the way the world was now, and so she trained herself to fight that one day she may end all the fighting of the world and bring a reign of peace to the land.

She went about her daily routine as always, a certain discipline shining through her otherwise effervescent personality. She rose early of course and then went to draw a quick bath, cleaning herself and preparing for the day. As breakfast was prepared for her she did some stretching and warmed up as she always did, loosening her body in preparation for the day that was to come. She practiced both regular stretches and some calisthenics as well as some yoga and meditation, awakening her mind to the world around her as well as her inner world. Once she was prepared for the day and totally calm in her mind and body and spirit, she would go downstairs to the breakfast that had been made of her after getting herself dressed of course. There she would partake in the breakfast that had been made and presented, eating and drinking and the like so as to be ready and strong for the day of training.

Once more she would find herself training her skills by heading on down to the dojo once more as she usually did. Training occupied the majority of her day and night as she needed as much time as she could possibly have to hone her skills. By day she practiced kenjutsu and fencing at the local dojo at the behest of her father, a proud samurai by lineage, and while the art did not interest her greatly, she found out that she was in fact actually quite good at it and that she was able to excel in the arts of fencing in particular quiet effortlessly. However, the hoped to finish quickly that she might get back to her her true passion which was placed in her puppets, the things that she made and practiced with by night, deep into the dark when there was no one around to watch her play with those toys. But they were not toys to her, no, they were works of art, beautiful machines that she had built and spent such painstaking time with and she loved them as any architect loves his or her creations. She preferred no harm to come to them as she preferred no harm to really come to anyone if she could help it.

Today would be a day that was unlike a day which would be considered more or less average for the woman with hair of most silver color in that she would not be attending the dojo on this day of today which she most often attended. No today she would not find herself in attendance because she had had some other things that she would need to attend to and so she would be doing those things instead of anything else such as dojo training. Now all of that having already been said this was not of course to say that she would allow herself to fall from grace in her training and her upkeep or in anything of that nature whatsoever because she could not simply allow for such a thing to occur to her or she would quite simply and stated in a small and concise way have lost a good part of what made her such a great and powerful swordsman or more rather as she preferred a swords woman. And so she would still need to do some of her exercises for the day.

The woman with her hair of the most silver of colors would simply therefore and because of this need to work out her body go through a rather short and simple exercise routine for herself today so that she would not lose definition or anything of that like. So she went about a simple regiment of work outs and the like by beginning of course with a brisk job which sped up as she went. Because she was still in her own home she did not of course need to go anywhere to do this work out but rather could simply do it in any way that she felt necessary or in any way that she preferred and in fact if she so chose she could simply run around inside of her own home though of course she did not do that nor did she have any real desire of any sort to do that either so instead she simply ran around in the very very spacious and large and even perhaps huge back yard that was there within the confines of her home of course in the back yard.

She went through the motions of her exercise quickly and efficiently as was her most usual and general way that she had decided in which to of course go about these motions of hers that were hers to enact and of course perform. She moved through the motions quickly once she had finished jogging and then went about skipping some rope and some other light exercises as she normally did though this time of course she was within the confines of her very own home. When she had finished all of those things and such she took up her blade and went about with her normal motions of the blade by going through her stances and steadily increasing her speed over and over over time so that she ws eventually moving with an extreme rapidity that would shock the mind of many people who could take their eyes upon her and then after that she was moving even beyond her normal motions and normal speed even to the point that she was going much faster that even the speed at which she was able to move the day before.

When she had finally gone through the proper motions of her whole and total warm up and then finished with all of that and even after she had gone over and through that which was her whole end of the training which ended in her use of the of the sword which she had in a training and practice of the whole thing and only then when she was done with this did she move on for the rest of her day and go on to do some of the other things that she was going to do on this day of today. Today would be a bit of a more relaxing day than some of the others that she had had on previous days of the days because she would not be going to the dojo and would instead fin her way back up to one of the floors of her house that she alone could properly and rightly call her domain. This was where she would go about doing new and different and interesting things with her puppet techniques and her puppets themselves of course and today of all days would be that day in which she actually did something of that nature.

She extended the strands of the chakra which was hers alone and formed that very chakra that was of her own self into longer and interesting threads which were both invisible and extremely thin in their very nature. She would extend them all about and around and push them out through the window of her house and down onto a street below in which she would attach them to a person who was currently in the process of passing buy the house on a street that she found who was about to trip and she used the threads to prop them up and to disallow them from tripping or falling over or anything of that nature and so thus they would not fall. The next person she selected was a bit more malicious and she made the man do a few odd things that he may not otherwise do and she caused him to march about randomly like a little wind up man with the strings that had attached to him. She smiled just a very small bit at the playful fun that she had perpetrated.

Finally she attached the strings elsewhere and put them far away on something else across from the room of her and focused strong chakra upon them. She forced a great deal of chakra through the strands and caused them to glow faintly and become suddenly visible. She swiped her hand across a small part of the room and saw as the threads whipped back across a small and potted plant that she had stationed there as the threads struck upon he very leaves of the plant. The leaves fell, severed.

1600

Once again in the most classic of ways that was the way of how she most often behaved in any given morning that was the beginning of her each and every day for as long as she could possibly remember back into her most distant and recent past, the woman with the hair that was of the most silver and natural of colors though not due to age or anything of that nature woke early in the morning, even long before the sun rose in the sky about the village that she currently called home. Her morning ritual was almost entirely mapped out at this point and yet she of course went through it in the same way that she did with almost every other day for today she was going to do a few more things that she was doing. She had no intention of going about any sort of missions or anything of that nature because today she would be doing training and the like for that was what she had of course put her mind most powerfully to today. However, before she did any of that or any of those things she would have to go through her daily waking ritual which she went through so that she could begin her day properly.

So she rose early and before the sun was to rise though the sun was not set to rise in a very distant time or anything like that but the day would not yet start for probably another half an hour or so for one could never be super exact about these kinds of things as it tended to change from every day to every day. She rose and went to her own bathroom so that she could go about her daily morning shower which would be brief and quick for she had no interest in a long soak or anything of that nature for today and so so the shower would go quickly and would not take a very long time at all. Once she had finished bathing and toweling herself off she went out and returned to her room so that she could require some clothing for her body and then upon such a selection she placed it upon her body and was at that point fully dressed for the day to officially begin without her going about in some kind of indecent or otherwise offensive manner since she now had clothes upon her very own body.

Once she had completed this need to go about and shower her self and then go about and dress her very body only then did she go down the staircase to the main floor where the kitchen was located. There she began to fully partake in the meal that had been previously prepared for her and took of the food. The food was quite delicious but perhaps even more importantly it was very extremely healthy for her and she enjoyed eating it immensely and she allowed it to invigorate and rejuvenate her body so that she would be prepared for any upcoming trials of the day and the training that was to come. She also drank a good deal of water as she was always someone who was big on hydration and things of that nature and preferred to be healthy and such so she allowed herself to drink the water that she required to be strong and to do well in the upcoming training that she was about to perform as so she did not want to have to stop because her body was was far too fatigued to have been able to continue the intense training that she was about to begin doing only right after she finished up with her meal and the end of her daily routines.

When she had finally finished her breakfast and all of the rest of what she normally did in the morning for the beginning of the day so that she could go about her training she would remain in the house for just a bit longer than she may have otherwise originally planned. She went through a rather short and somewhat intense method of yoga for a kind of pre workout wake out routine after eating. The woman with her hair of the most natural silver coloration which was not due to age but rather birth went about her yoga routine slowly at first and focusing greatly on stretching out her body and warming her muscles. She entered a form of deep meditation as she did this and reflected upon all of the things that she would need to learn today and all of the things that she was about to do and to figure out and to learn. Today she would once more go through the process of pushing herself as strong and as far as she possibly could and so by doing this most wondrous thing she would go about to learn new and increasingly more powerful abilities so that she could protect those who were weak and who could not fight for themselves and so she could end the senseless combat of the nonsense that so many became so fully and completely obsessed with.

She then made her way to the dojo that she most often attended and which had a huge amount of of people who went there for the training much like the training which she chose to go there in order to acquire. However she of course realized that the dojo had more than simply a great deal and variety of students but which also had some of the finest and most accomplished of all the trainers in the whole of the land. Thus she chose to attend there and was even made to attend there by her father and mother though she had no qualms about this because it would ensure her the best possible education in the ways of the samurai that she could possibly acquire and that was exactly what it was that she and her father and that her mother wanted for her. She of course wanted it for some different reasons but either way she still wanted to have it and to become learned in the way of the sword and in particular of her chosen art of fencing and so she went and attended this and dedicated a large portion of her time to such arts as the combat of this sort and of the highest caliber for she was one of the top students in this dojo.

At the dojo she went through her normal routines of what she did on an average day of normalcy and so she went about with a quick warm up exercise. She was already a bit warmed up and loosened up and so she simply decided to go about the regular exercises but in a slightly shorter manner and so she just went through the normalcy of her routine by jogging about and then once she had made a couple of laps around the dojo where there was a dedicated area of running and moving and such she then grabbed a length of rope and then began skipping rope and such so that she could get her get her heart rate up and keep her foot work light and on point so that she could become totally and fully in control of her of her feet and the position of her body and the foot work and all of those things which were so crucial to the motions of her movement and the like and so she would be fully capable of the swiftest of motions whenever she so needed. Once she had finished with these warmups and the like she decided to begin to go do other things in regards to her practice with the actual blade that she had and kept with her at all times to the point that some thought she had it with her while she was in the position of sleeping even people thought she did that with the sword and her puppets too of course.

She began to move through her normal routines and such by moving through the various stances of her blade and the like. The body of the woman with the hair of the most silver color went slowly and methodically through the correct stances of the blade that she was so good at wielding and and moved through them with extreme and the even utmost poise and precision so that she would be fully capable of knowing where truly and virtually and literally ever single motion of her body was location and so that she could realize where her every body part was located at literally ever moment of her motions and at every possible transition of her stances and such. She also kept close track of physically how the motions of her body felt and which individual the feeling of every motion and every pull of every muscle in her body as she moved from one stance to the next. She then proceeded to speed up though she did this with incredible slowness such that each singular time that she went about the next round of stances she was going faster only in a tiny amount and in such a way that truly no one watching would be able to hardly notice because the increase in speed was so slow and methodic and in such tiny and small increments. Eventually she was going increasingly faster and faster until she was moving at a blur that few could keep track of and so that she was moving even perhaps much faster than she was used to. While she moved faster and faster with each passing day that she did this exercise she could always move faster and could always find new ways to move her body in minute ways that would increase the efficiency of her motions and so that she could figure out the points of her body and of her motions which were weak and that were too slow or sloppy and which she could powerfully improve upon so that she could continue excelling even farther and farther and become the greatest blade master that the world had ever known.

Her blade entered the sheath of her sheath that was at her side and took up refuge there. She slowly moved it out and swung it forward in a full swing of her arm and moved the blade in a wide arch so as to slash an imaginary enemy that was of course not in front of her in the current reality of the real world. She returned the blade slowly once more and sheathed it in a controlled fashion. She went easily through the motion once more and then once she had done something else she went through it again and again and again. She continued through this motion repeatedly again and again as she did with her previous exercise. She would doubtlessly incorporate this into the daily routine of training that she kept up even to this day and for most other days all through the whole of her training and so they went through the whole of the training exercise this time for the first time and continued to go through the whole of the motions. She continued putting the sword into the sheath and then back and then again so that she could get the quick draw off instantaneously and with such a speed that truly no one would be able to resist the technique or even to block it or avoid it in any way. It was amazingly fast. She continued this until she went about through the end of the training of this sort for just a bit.

She then did a quick cool down routine for she had finished to the end of her regiment for the current day and so she was going to do a cool down exercise to ensure that she did not sustain any sort of injury or anything of that nature for she wanted to take care fully of her body and such so that she would not be injured in any way. The cool down was a short one as she was not fully done with moving or anything like that and so she simply did a jog and a few light things before she was done. When she had finished this she simply walked back and a slow and perhaps leisurely pace so that she could return back to her own home and look upon her puppets once more for she had a few more things to attend to with those constructions that she was working on.

When she finally arrived home and got inside she went up to the floor which served as a huge and glorified version of her of her work shop so that she could use her puppets even more and do things with them. When she go there she extended some of her chakra fibers and allowed the strings to go about the whole of the connection to the puppets that she had here. She had a few extremely powerful models she had been working on but for not she simply attached it to some little skeletal creations that she had and so it would be highly simple to control them though of course controlling them was not much of a problem in all reality since she was already so masterful of the puppets which she was a prodigy of of course since she was highly intelligent in these arts. She began to allow her senses to bleed over to the puppet which was something that she had had a new idea for recently which was something that she had only thought of a moment ago and she wanted to make sure that she could get it to work.

The practice was a success and she could soon see through the smooth and wooden eyes of one of the small puppets that she had attached her chakra thread to. She moved the thread over to the area where the mouth and voice box would be located and allowed a burst of chakra to move from her own throat down to her hands and across the string to the puppet. Suddenly, as though of its own accord, it spoke.

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