Three Years Into Three Months [Dante & Shira]

Shira stood in the forest waiting at the designated area for Dante. He had become her sensei for now to help her train seeing as how she was probably the weakest member in Shichi Fuzen. She went out and made weights that weighed about four-hundred pounds on each foot for a total of Eight pounds total. She sighed as they had weighed her down extremely and she was not able to move as fast with them on. She decided that in the meantime while waiting for Dante she would do some training. She crossed her legs and began circulaiting her chakra throughout her body. When she sensed Dante near she got and smiled. “Alright Sensei Dante You’re here. How about we turn three years, Into three months?”

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Dante pushed his way through the terrain followed by Nina as he made his way towards the agreed upon meeting point that his student would be waiting for him at, "Sorry, I had to find Nina." he said as he stopped and looked at Shira, "Nina this is Shira my new student, Shira this is Nina." he said introducing the two women together, "okay so.... three years training into three months, "it'll get hectic but sure we can do it." Dante said as he looked at her and nodded.

Shira smiled and said “I’ll warm up myself and we’ll get started.” She tightened her weights and got down to the ground. Her gourd filled with iron sand still on her back adding more weight on her as she began doing push-ups. After she finished twenty five she stood up and began doing a series of kicks in the air. The whole point of her exercise was to loosen the muscles in her body. As she finished her kicks she began to punch the air alternating between her left and right hands. She smiled as she looked Dante and said “Okay, Now that I’m all warmed up. What shall we do?” She questioned. Since he was the teacher he would have final say over everything.

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Dante looked over at Saki and smiled, "well first things first, I need to train you to control your chakra into your body so you can stand atop of water or run along the sides of tree's, its pretty handy to have, I want to channel your chakra into your feet and try walking up a tree, and then on top of water, it should be difficult at first as well as getting the hang of it." he said as he looked over to Nina and nodded "sorry to ask this of ya but can you run and get this list of items for me from the shop?" he asked before handing her some money to cover the charge, "get something for yourself as well." he added as she smiled and nodded before she flickered away leaving behind a puff of smoke.

She smiled as she looked at her sense. The first part was very easy due to the fact she had done it so many times on her own before. She placed her hands in the rat hand seal and began to focus a balanced amount of chakra to her feet. Instead of getting a head start like she usually did she decided she would just walk. She paced herself as she began walking upright against the tree. When she felt she was going to fall she pulled out a Kunai knife and made a slash mark against the tree and did a backflip off of it. She smiled as she had already gotten a decent way up the tree. She looked over at Dante and said “This is easy man.” She placed her hands back in the rat hand sign and closed her eyes. She cleared away all of the distractions from her mind and began to focus. “Create an equal distribution of chakra throughout your body” She told herself as she began manipulating her chakra. Again she began walking towards the tree and then began walking upright against the tree. Her mind was clear and focused as she walked up the tree. She finally made it to the top and smiled. “No sweat” She took the sand from her gourd and stood on it and then went down to the river. She smiled and said “This is going to be a piece of cake as well.” She placed her foot on the river and immediately fell through. She looked at Dante and said “Something is different”
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Dante smiled and nodded "your weights are throwing your body off weight as well as the sand in your gourd I'm guessing." he said as he looked at her, "try focusing a bit more but not enough to disrupt the water otherwise you'll know what will happen." he said as he smiled as he watched her, "she is pretty experienced at this already." he thought to himself as he continued to watch her.

Shira took of the gourd but left the weights on. No matter what she did she would leave them on so that should would always gain some extra type of bonus during her training. She looked down at the river and watched as it flowed. She closed her eyes and began to listen to the river. “Focus but not enough to disrupt the water system” She repeatedly told herself. She formed the rat hand seal with her hands and began to manipulate chakra down to the soles of her feet. She then stepped on the water and with one foot and stepped with the other. “Part one success” She said to herself. “No I have to keep this chakra flow till I run out of chakra or fall through. Then I will have to try again” she continued. She again cleared her mind of all distractions that came through her mind. As she stood on the water she could feel it rushing beneath her but she was as still as a rock. She focused herself on controlling her chakra. Suddenly a huge smoke appeared in front of her. “Nina” she said upset because she had now lost her concentration. She fell through the water almost instantly. She looked at Nina and said “You’re annoying” She placed her hands on top of the water and pulled herself up to the top of the water. She placed both feet on the water and placed her hands back in the rat seal and continued concentrating her chakra.
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Dante raised an eyebrow as Nina appeared before Shira, he sighed as Shira fell in from the distraction, "you gotta learn to be able to focus while upon the water because your opponents wont be as merciful, if you think that way then you'll be defeated easily as you'll be on easy win for your opponent, this training is to help you make the walking on water a second nature that you can focus chakra into your feet without having to concentrate your chakra or make a hand seal." Dante said as he held his hands out for her to see as he casually strolled onto the water, weights and all his gear he had on. "I can do it because its basic second nature to me because I've been doing it for so long, but the longer you do it the easier it becomes." he said as he looked at Nina and pointed to where he set his gear and her's down, "put the items there." he said as he turned back to Shira.

“I Don’t have a long time” Shira muttered under her breath as she stood up on the water. She placed her hands down and began to concentrate. After thirty minutes of falling in and climbing back up through the water Shira was finally getting the full gest of things. She sighed as she looked at her Sensei. “Now the Ultimate Test. To see if I can actually begin Moving.” He said. She had realized it herself when she was training. She had stayed still most of the time focusing on one spot. She kept her cool and began casually walking on the water. Water walking was now becoming second nature for her just like Dante said. She sighed as she wonder what else type of training that Dante was going to make her do.

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Dante continued to watch Shira as he sat there constantly focusing on the nature surrounding him and controlling it around him for the entire week that Shira did that, he smiled as he opened his eye to see she was done and he let the Nature return to its normal self and flickered out before her, "now, I have you fight against Nina with your weights on, both of you, and no chakra involved what so ever." he said as he smiled as he looked over at Nina who gave him a look before she said "the hell you thinking Dante, she's your student!" Nina complained, Dante just laughed "yet I'm the master of you as well." he said as she sighed and nodded "fine, lets get this over with." she said removing her cloak to reveal she had her weights on as well, "oh I guess I should make this more so noted, "you'll both be facing me instead actually." Dante said with a smirk as he forgot to make that clear as he removed his cloak and all his gear except his weights, "it'll all be hand to hand so no one gets a deep wound that could compromise ones life." he added as he looked at the two women standing before him.

Shira looked at Nina and shrugged then turn to Dante. She bent down and tightened her weights and stood back up. She decided she would take off her Shichi Fuzen cloak as well to not get it so dirty. She stood on the water folding her cloths. The Sand then came from where her gourd was and carried it out to lay on the dry ground. Shira smiled and began running at Dante. Ignoring Nina completely as well. She took her left fist and begin to bring it to his face. If her were to duck Shira would be ready by spinning around and bringing her left leg to his face and sending him flying. Having her whole plane laid out together she began to charge.
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Dante watched as both Nina and Shira charged at him, he had quite a bit of speed on his side that was more then both of theirs still but regardless he was downed in his speed a bit, oh well he could hear their movements, he could sense their chakra's Nina was coming low while Shira was going high, Dante put his forearm down as well as his leg to support his arm from stopping Nina, as well as his fist to catch Shira's hand although the followed kick he wasn't expecting, he stumbled back a few feet as he nodded, "good, it was a good hit." he said as he retaliated with by getting with a foot from both Nina and Shira before he would aim with his leg hitting Shira's opposite leg after he grabbed her leg closest to him, hopefully tripping Shira into the air, he would then push her atop of Nina after he did so for his retaliation, although he would most likely trip her regardless.

Shira instantly saw the foot and launched her body off the chest of Dante she grabbed Nina so she would be safe from danger. She would then land standing on the water. She looked down at her feet. It was becoming imprinted into her mind now. But she didn't have time to rejoice in her small victory. She began to spin Nina around and throw her towards Dante. Shira followed preparing to back her up. She decided that she would do the opposite of everything Nina did so Dante would have to worry about two things. Nina began get her right fist ready to punch him. Shira began to get her left foot together ready to punch him. “Okay Nina” She yelled, Let’s do it together”

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Dante watched their movements before he smirked as he noticed them working together, the weights we're a major hindrance on his speed, but he had no time to pay attention to small details such as those as he had two women charging in at him closing in quickly, he closed his eyes as he awaited their approach to near before he focused his chakra into his body that would allow him to move quicker, freely, and hit stronger. He would duck underneath their punches and raise up quick and fast, if his fists connected with their chests it would most likely leave them breathless that he would follow up with a fast body movement that would place him behind Shira that he would follow through with a quick paced round house to send her flying into Nina, Dante had a few secrets of his own that we're possibly his success in combat.

Shira stood up and looked at her Sensei and sighed. She breathed heavily as she looked at him. "Let's continue." A week later she had just finished her Taijutsu training. Shira was beginning to get very impatient because she had been promised that He would help her learn to control her demon. She sighed and said “Dante, All this Taijutsu training is great but I’m barely going to use Taijutsu where I am. It’s going to be all about fighting from the Skies.” She understood everything had a meaning but she just didn’t care at this point. Training with Shukaku was the most important thing on her mind. She sat down and began to close her eyes and began to focus on a room. “Shukaku, Darling where are you?” She asked as she peaked around in her mind. She had placed her hand own in the meditative state so that Dante would be able to join her by adding some of his own chakra into here. “Where are you my love?” She called out to the demon. Then she found a Giant gate with a paper seal holding it. She could feel the water on her legs holding her. She looked at the demon and said “So there you are. You have been giving me the slip for the longest time now.” The Demon began to laugh and finally spoke directly to Shira. “You have gotten stronger host. What is it you want?” Shira smiled and said “I want your power!” The demon laughed and said “For you to gain my power you’re going to have to desire it. Lust for it.”

Dante nodded and smiled "yes, that I did, but first I'm teaching you to keep on your own when sometimes the skies isn't an option to fight in." he said as he walked over to the young girl and sighed, "you have much more to learn still, not everything relies upon power and skill but why kind of opponent you take upon yourself to track and fight." he muttered softly before he sat down and wrote down on a loose piece of paper with some ink for after her self meditational time to wake up Dante. He closed his eyes and found his center and focused all his chakra within himself to flow faster and stronger until he was disturbed from his meditation.