Learning to Take Flight [solo training]

The new Uchiha was starting to come together as a rather strong group though through reflection I realized that I shoud be trying to work on my personal power level. The best way I discovered was to try my hand at summoning, a scroll within the destroyed ANBU HQ that survived the fires detailed the process so I laid it out before me and decided to start the hand seals to get to work.

The first set of hand seals complete I bit my thumb and slapped it onto the ground, a cloud of smoke erupted from that point so I pulled out and stepped back to see what my first attempt would bring me. With little to no surprise I looked to see an egg, m expertise with avian creatures told me that it was a raptor as well though I couldn't quite tell which breed. I made my way over to the egg and sat next to it, after a few minutes of staring silently I picked it up and held it in my open palm next to my ear to see if it was at least close to hatching and to my surprise I heard a little chirp. I smiled and placed the egg back in front of me and continued to watch it. Another few minutes passed and I heard the faint chirp again followed by the egg starting to rock back and forth. How exciting, I had not been able to pay witness to a hatching in quite some time so I got down on my hands and knees so that I was right next to it just as the egg exploded to vanish in the same smoke cloud that had brought it here.

I coughed a bit to get the smoke out of my lungs, it seemed that summoning wasn't perfect so I would need to keep trying until I got the concept down. I once more started performing hand seals to get ready for round two.

Just as before I would but a bit on my thumb to draw some blood and slap it on the ground to produce a cloud of smoke, this time I took greater attention to detail and noticed the symbol that appeared beneath my hand as well and nodded to that. Back up like last time to sit crossed legged I waited to see what had come out this time. I smiled as I noticed the baby hawk standing a few feet away looking around confused. The little creature seemed to take notice of me and just as Saeko, who was chirping away on top of my head in excitement at this point, he seemed to identify me as a parent. The little guy hobbled over and rubbed his head against the back of my hand affectionately and I just smiled. How lucky was I that the animal I was most suited for also happened to be the breed that I knew the most about. The little guy stopped for a minute and looked up at me, or rather at Saeko and chirped happily right along with her. It seemed that this little hawk was also having his first interaction with his own kind, it was actually rad sad to think about why that was the case for Saeko but all things in due time. As I wasn't paying attention the little hawk would vanish in the same fashion as the egg and I would get back to work.

Once more with feeling, I performed the hand seals and such. Biting a diferent finger to draw blood this time as I'd rather avoid creating long term injuries from this training even if just little ones.

Just as before the smoke cloud exploded out from the black seal on the ground and I back away to see what I got. Out of the cloud came a young hawk, more developed that Saeko but still not quite an adult yet. I smiled and chuckled a bit which alerted the little guy to where I was, prompting him to quickly hop over to me to start pecking at my folded legs. I scooped the little guy on two of my fingers which made him switch to lightly pecking at my arm out of curiosity. The little bird stopped for a moment and looked up at my face, his head cocking to the side confused. I playfully followed him with my own head and he jumped back out of confused shock. My other hand reached out and caught the little creature before he hit the ground, he seemed confused at first but then happily made noise as he flapped his wings and was able to hover a moment before falling back. I knew what the little guy wanted, he wished to fly so I would oblige him. I stood up and held him in the palms of both my hands. He made a noise that he wanted to be released so I extended m arms and let him go. As he started flying Saeko made excited chirps and the hawk un-summoned.

I wondered if I was nearing the end of the line now and started up another series of hand signs, soon enough this training would be complete and I would have increased my potential strength more than I realized.

As before the smoke and seals, this time I remained on my feet since at this point based on the way the hawk was growing it should be an adult. Sure enough as the cloud cleared a male fully grown red-tailed hawk was standing there scouting the area, he took one look at me and blinked before taking off into flight and heading towards an abandoned building. I was slightly concerned, granted I knew that this was a very independent species of bird but the connection it had displayed up to this point was completely gone. Following after him I took notice of what was going on, he was hungry and had decided to catch himself some lunch. A family of mice was scurrying about and the adult hawk managed to catch up one in each of his talons. I decided I may as well join in on the hunt and threw a senbon to peg a rather juicy mouse in the head and nail it to the ground. I let Saeko down who hopped over to the dead animal, the adult hawk swooped down and gave her a look as she chirped at him. He then started ripping off pieces of the mouse and feeding it to her. By the time this lunch break was over the hawk un-summoned and I felt the journey was nearly over.

I took a half hour break and ate a bit myself, it was nearly noon now and I had been working hard all morning. After lunch I took a good swig of water and got back into it, starting my hand seals and prepping the blood needed for the summoning.

The smoke cloud was exponentially large than it had been before so I could only assume this was no natural hawk. As it cleared away it revealed a bird nearly identical to the last but over seven feet in height. I looked in awe and amazement as the creature took notice of me and like it had as an adolescent it cocked it's head to inspect me. I once more did the same and he jumped back a bit and let out a powerful adult scream. The bird then came in closer and nudged it's beak under my arm and lifted me onto his back. Saeko looked around confused and excited by what was going on, the bird got me into position and took a few steps back before running and taking flight with me on him. The sights were amazing as we climbed high into the sky and eventually broke through the clouds to soar. We stayed up there flying for nearly ten minutes before descending and landing atop one of the inactive volcanoes in the area and looking out into the distance. Me and Saeko were amazed by what had just happened, for the first time both of us had truly flown and were showing out gratitude to the hawk which waved it's wing before dispersing. As per the scrolls instructions now I was to perform the jutsu one last time and make the contact finalized so I started my seals to get to business.

I performed this final summon and waited to see what came out, the beast the emerged was an interesting one. She didn't have normal wings, her were instead leathery like those of a bat but she was otherwise a normal hawk which oddly enough was able to speak. "So then, guess this makes you my official summoner. Nice to meetcha I'm Vida." I smiled and responded, "Names Ventus and this is Saeko." The little chick popped out and chirped, this made the older hawk laugh as well as me. When that was done she flew up and tossed me the scroll she held in her talons, "Now then, just take a bit of blood and sign that and this will all be in place since you were able to manifest the giant." I nodded and got to it, biting my fingertip again and signing my name on the scroll before rolling it up and handing it back to the bird. She nodded, "Guess that's everything, don't be a stranger now." And with that she un-summoned and was gone, leaving me and my hawk chick on top of the volcano looking down at the ruins that were slowly being converted into the New Uchiha order. We would stay up here for the rest of the afternoon and enjoy the altitude before heading down and getting ready for dinner.

[end of training]