Northern Fields Of Mabushii Village

The Sand kunoichi giggled.
"Of course not, sensei...That's why I've been nicknamed 'Lazy-chan' by my sensei. He was pretty desperate with me. Poor man. Especially when I told him I wanted to become this generation's Tsunade."

"Well, I can help you reach that goal. But I have a feeling it's gonna be a major pain to do so." He laughs after sipping the last bit of sake in his cup.

Asako nodded and proposed some more sake.
"I don't doubt a second about that. And I'm ready to keep training. Especially if you stay interesting to talk and train with...Ah, I wanted to ask, after training, would you like to play some shogi?"
The young girl looked up.
"It should be a challenge for you...No one ever won against me."

Taking the offer, he offers her his cup. "In all my experieces, I've actually never once played shogi. I guess there's a lot I've missed out on huh?" And when he talks, he reaches over with his free hand and takes another piece of meat. "It sound fun though."

"You never played shogi? Myeh...I'll buy you some rules book one day than. Explaining is too troublesome."
The young girl smiled almost teasingly and ate some meat too.
"So, we're gonna train after dinner? Or something else?"

"If you wish, I will start you on your training at least." He sipped some sake and ate some bread with meat.

She nodded.
"I'd really love that, Surp. I'm ready to begin right now in fact."
The young kunoichi stood up and stretched.

Looking at her from his sitting position. "We will start with a jutsu that'll give you a certain control of the field in which you battle in. You basically excrete your chakra out of your body through the skin. But as you do, you materialize it into a vapor like form. This vapor form is made before it exits your body. The reason you do this will be taught later. First, I need you to learn how to turn your chakra into vapor under your skin then excrete it." He carefully stands and moves a couple feet away. "Obviously, this can be dangerous. It'll hurt at first as most people aren't used to excreting chakra out of their entire body. Also, the chakra being caught under the skin can inflict pain as well since it can caught if you make it to thick a vapor. This is where your control will play a key part." He takes in a deep breath and then lets it out. As he does, seeable chakra which has a blueish tint seeps from his body. It seeps as a very thin mist, its droplets almost unseeable. They soon vanish though as it is just chakra, leaving nothing behind. "Take it slow and concentrate. It'll hurt, but it'll hurt worse if you go too fast. Again, I apologize for the pain in advance."

Asako blinked.
"Chakra control training?...okay."
She sat on her knees, made a handsign she used to train her chakra control with and stared for a moment in her sensei's golden eyes.
"And about the pain...Don't worry for me. I trust you for being a good and caring sensei. So, if I'm going to far, just stop me. I trust you for that."
And on those words, she closed her eyes and began to concentrate.

She felt her chakra coming from the center of her belly, flowing slowly into the rest of her body. The chakra made her feel a little warm and she began to let it flow slowly under her skin...
Frowning a little, she understood now why he apologized...Keeping your chakra under your skin was not a pleasant thing...

Suddenly, she heard the sound of wings and a bird landed in front of her. She opened her eyes, letting her chakra flow back.
"...A Messenger hawk? From Sand?"
Quickly, the girl took the scroll out of the bird's backbag and began to read it.

After she was done reading, she sighed and grabbed a pencil she had in her hip pouch.
"Troublesome nii-sama, Xzeno, Uchiha's..." she mumbled under her breath while she wrote on the back of the message:

Nii-baka,
Send Laria over here, in Mashubii village. I'll take care of her. And no, I'm not gonna listen to the Xzeno's, except if it's an order. If you want to kill Laria-san because of the potential infections of her burn wounds, go ahead. But her death won't be my fault.
If you decide to be smart, send her here with an escort. I'll take care of her here.
Have fun in Sand, send me some shogi rule book and hope to see you soon. But not too soon, cuz you might send me back to work.
Asa

And without even rereading her letter, the black haired girl put it back in the bag of the messenger bird and send it back to her village.

Then, she rubbed her left shoulder, got back in her training position and let the chakra flow under her skin again...

Blinking as the bird landed infront of Asa, he watches it carefully. Who would message Asa when she's all the way out here is all he thought. Aftre it left and Asa got back to training, Surp watched his student carefully. He didn't wish her to get hurt if he could help it.

The chakra began to burn her skin from the inside out. Asako slowed her chakra gathering down, sweating and biting her lip. This wasn't easy to master at all and was even harder than just chakra training. This wasn't first about pouring the chakra out, but keeping it in and let it go out in such small and infine quantities that it was far from being a medical jutsu.
But, it wasn't useless. In fact, it gave her an idea for a medical jutsu, to heal severly damaged nerves...
The black haired girl breathed in.
"Focus..."
Breathed out.
"Concentration..."
Breathed in.
"Relax..."
Breathed out.
"Just let it flow, make one with it..."
Breathed in.
"Than, let it become one with the rest..."
Slowly, as slow as she could, The young medic let her chakra flow out of her body. The first second, it went right. Suddenly, a burning pain invaded her whole body, burning like thousand fires.

Taken aback, the young girl lost her concentration and stopped her chakra flow and fell on her hands, her eyes closed.
She felt her blood rush through her veins and eyes, the fire burn her arms, legs and thorax. it was painful, breath-taking, killing, more than just painfull...

She was crying, she noticed. Crying blood and tears. With one hand, she wiped the tears away, ignoring the throbbing pain and she got up again, ready to try the new technique again...

"Hold on." Surp stepped forward and placed a hand on her shoulder. She suddenly felt a surge of chakra flow into her body. A soothing, cool chakra that gelt like tendrils flowing through her body under her skin. It soothed her pains and the burning sensation became less as the strange jutsu healed the after effects of trying the technique. After a minute or so, Surp stepped back and nodded his approval to continue. "Alright. Continue if you must."

THe girl breathed with caution. The healing jutsu that used her sensei worked wonders. She didn't feel anything left over from the burning pain.
"...I knew chakra could hurt. But that much..."
The young girl shivered against her will and took her position again.
Slowly, she let her chakra flow again, but trying to keep it under a better control than she just tried. But the fear of the pain was already there and it made her slow down.
"Maybe that's for the better...Or I would indeed injure me more than needed...Which would be stupid if Nii-baka sends me indeed the patient." she thought, concentrating harder. "But hell, this hurt a lot for sure."

She didn't see the point of trying to learn this technique yet, but she kept doing it. After all, the idea for the healing jutsu she imagined would need this precice chakra control...

While she was concentrating, the young girl spoke up suddenly to the young Sannin.
"Surp-sensei...what for jutsu did you use? I'd love to learn that healing technique too...If it isn't too much asked that is."

"That's for later. I can teach it to you, but for now, you need to focus.. This training will help you when we get to the healing jutsu." He couldn't help but smile at her enthusiastic attitude. "Trust me."

Asako nodded again and concentrated on her training again in silence.
SHe already hated this exercice. It needed a lot of work and precision. And the fear of pain was already there. She just hoped it would go right this time...

Slowly, she gathered the chakra again under her skin, building it up slowly. Than, she took a deep breath, prayed Kami it would go fine this time and let her chakra go out, while breathing out.
Immediatly the burning pain came back, but not as strong as the first time. The young kunoichi breathed in again and kept trying to pour her chakra out. But after a few seconds, she collapsed again on her hands, breathing heavily and cringing in pain...

Surp was instantly there with his hand on her shoulder, the soothing tendrils moving through her body once again. "I know it hurts, and right about now, you probably see no point in it. But this complex control will assist you in performing several jutsus I can teach you. Also, it also makes it harder for your jutsus to be stolen as they would have to attempt the same training in order to copy the jutsus. Jutsus of good caliber that even the sharingan can't truly and completely copy without risk."

The black haired young girl nodded, understanding and sat up again, still gasping for air. The pain was making her sweat and shiver. But she was one step closer for sure.
She kept it for longer and poured some chakra out. It wasn't perfect, but better.
"I-I'll keep trying than, even if it's troublesome..." she answered.
And once again, she took her postion and kept trying it over again...

Watches as she slowly makes progress, healing and soothing her as she works on. With this effort, it wouldn't be too long till she got it right. He had to hand it to her. She had a good drive for effort when she wanted to.

The chakra was building up under her skin again. Biting on her lip, Asako kept trying. The pain was each time less present, but still enough to make her lose all her cocentration in the end.
This was pissing her off. This whole exercice was pissing her off. Ususally, she was number one in chakra control training, did it right after trying it out two times. And this...stupid...little thing was holding her back? Seriously! She was number one medic of Sand. Who was aiming for higher. It was not that little chakra control that would stop her. Not now. Not when Sand would need her later...

She closed her eyes again, breathed in and gathered her chakra under her skin, full of new energy.
"Last of my chakra for today...Please, make it go right this time..."
And, while breathing out, she let her chakra escape from all over her body...

Surp smiled as she got the basics of the new control technique. He reached out and moved his hand through the fine chakra she released. "Very good. That'll do for today." He said as he closed the gap between them and braced her as he new she would soon fall uncontious to rest and regain her strength. "Rest now. Rest and dream good dreams."

The young girl blinked, feeling suddenly empty and nodded to her sensei, before falling unconcious in his arms...

He takes her up onto the porch and folds out his coat. He then carefully places her atop it and goes to sit on the old steps. He then pulls out a harmonica and plays a slow and quiet tune as the sun began to sink beneath the mountains, the sky filling with marvelous colors and hews.

As the day turns to night with the resounding bellows of Surps harmonica. the colors dance in the sky as if stepping in beat with the magical tune. It was a beautiful song for all to hear. It's notes held such warmth and joy that everything seemed to come alive while listening to the music.

Crickets joined in by the dozen, and lightning bugs swarmed above flashing their lights in delight. All in all, the day had turned to a beautiful, colorful night. And as the colors slowly vanished, Surps playing gradually progressed to nothing but a hum that sounded from his lips. And as the music died, Surp gradually fell asleep watching the water reflect the stars above.

He didn't lay down, he didn't even try. He stayed sitting as his eyes slowly drooped to a close. His harmonica in his hand, and his body sloped against the old railing. He would stay in this position all night. He knew that rouges were always lurking around, and he refused to let anything happen to Asa in her weakened state. Determined he was, and determined he would stay.

Asako woke up in the early hours of the morning, right before the first birds of the day would sing.
It was a habit. She never knew where it came from, it just was. Maybe it was related to her name? She didn't know.
Althought she couldn't see the light, she could feel it tingle on her skin, warming her slowly up. she sat up, stretched and yawned.
Slowly looking around, she "saw" her sensei. His chakra system was active, meaning that he was in a light sleep. The black haired girl sighed and shook her head. He didn't lay down to take some good sleep. AND he had given her his coat to sleep on.
"Surp-sensei is crazy...but I don't think I would have wanted another person as sensei either. At least I feel like working for once."
And grinning, she stood up, put the coat over the young man and began to run a little, hoping to find some breakfast on the way...

Not too long after she left, Surp awoke as the morning light carressed his face. The first thing he did was look behind him and found Asa to be gone from where he left her. But as he turned to look, his coat fell off him and he had a feeling she was safe. So, he stood up and stretched his arms wide and breathed in a deep breath of the morning air still fresh with the hint of dew.

He put his coat and walked out into the pond using chakra to stay atop it. he began to move into a low standing stance and after concentrating in that form for a minute, he began to move. He went through a series of smooth martial arts motions, some seemed similar to what's known as Kung-fu while others seemed of different origion. As his feet moved, water sprayed into the air only soon to be flung away by his fists.