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(I wanted to state the reason for not keeping track of how much chakra I have during training is for the simple reason of that every one of my posts is one day and I don't use all my chakra in the one day and it gets restored while you sleep.)

Zen Maru sat up from his bed in the middle of the night. He looked around and moved his legs off the side of the bed. He pulled off his blankets and took in a deep breath as he pulled his clothes on. "Might as well get in a bit more training." He spoke in a half awake sorta way. He turned towards Maku and smiled. "Are yea ready." He asked Maku (Note: inanimate object 1st true sign of craziness) He pulled it up onto his back were it was meant to be strapped on. He normally has trouble carrying it so he was going for a walk with it on his back to build up his leg and back muscles so later on he wouldn't have a problem carrying it. As it was the puppet was just barely shorter then him in its compact carrying mode. Zen shifted his weight as he walked so it would make it less likely that he would loose his balance and fall over. The light from the full moon glittered down through the trees lighting up the small path that leg away from the small hut, If you didn't live here you would have a hard time finding this path because of it being so obscure. Zen took in a deep breath as he continued on his hike. Zen looked to his sides, his eyes becoming ever vigilant watching everything. The air was becoming more humid as Zen came across a small stream. The water was so clean and clear you could see the bottom. Medium sized trout were swimming upstream. "Might as well catch some dinner." Zen laughed as he slipped Maku off of his back up against the a tree next to the stream. He then pulled of his clothes down to his boxers slipping into the stream gently as to not startle the fish. Slipping his hands into the water slowly and calmly he stood there waiting for the right time to strike. After a long moment all of a sudden two larger sized trout were flung from the water smashing into a tree and falling limply to the ground. Zen stood up smiling walking out of the stream, He began to shiver with the cold air blowing against his body. "Probably should get a fire going." He stated as he began to pick up dryer sticks and placed them together along with a couple larger logs. He began to make a chain of hand signs. "Katon Release: Kasumi Enbu no Jutsu." Zen pursed his lips as he sprayed the logs down with a combustible mist. After a little bit he walked over to his cloths and out of his tool case he pulled out a match and struck it against a tree. He smiled as he tossed it onto the fire igniting the mist and the timber into a medium sized fire. Zen sat down next to the fire and proceeded to scale the fish he had caught with an upward motion, he used that strange tool that he had used when repairing his puppet a knife extended out of it as he would go against the scales. After the fish were scaled he stuck a stick through and placed them in the ground protruding over the fire, every so often he would turn them. After about thirteen minutes Zet pulled a fish away from the fire pinching it to see if it was thoroughly cooked it was done so he began to eat it. After he finished that fish he proceeded to eat the second one. The bones of the fish lied in piles next to the now dieing flame, Zet was now dry enough to put his clothes back on. He pulled Maku back onto his back and doused the remaining flame with water. Zet jumped into the air using his chakra to stick to the tree jumping across the stream to another tree and climbed down. Before he walked away from the stream he kneeled down and filled up a water skin standing up he walked away heading further down the path. Zen jumped up into the branches of the trees landing on one firmly there was a loud crack as the branch broke he jumped and landed on another the same thing happened. "Must be quicker." He stated as he lost his balance as the next branch broke, he plunged back down to the ground the chakra strings attached to Maku as the mandibles burst from the wraps piercing into a tree as he swung and was pulled up to a much more stable branch. He stood the mandibles retracted back into the wraps he wiped the sweat off his brow. "Dang that was close could of got really hurt there." He jumped from the branch to another and so on for about an hour. He jumped back down onto the path he was getting extremely exhausted. "Well I guess I better go back before it gets to late." He turned around and began to head back, his stomach began to growl loudly at him, he looked down. "Guess I'm hungry probably should find something to eat." He pulled out three senbons from his pouch and looked down at the ground there were some tracks that lead off the path. "hmm it appears to be a deer or maybe a large boar." Zen followed the tracks off the trail for about half and hour when he heard a rustle in the leaves, He jumped off to the side in a defensive posture. What is it He whispered to himself deer or a boar, as he looked carefully a large boar came charging out of the bush. "Boar!" He jumped to the side the left tusk cutting through his shirt into him lightly a small trickle of blood ran down his body. Zen threw his senbons with deadly accuracy one burying into the boars left hind leg digging into a main artery the second missed its target and buried into the flesh just below the hip. The boar began to limp a little but it turned around and charged again its eyes were full of fury. Zen jumped off the ground and buried his foot into the boars face with the extra weight of the puppet it forced it down to the ground crushing its skull. It lay there motionless for a few moments then collapsed to the side. Zen pulled out his knife thing and began to cut the boar apart into hunks of meat wrapping the meat in leaves from the larger bushes. after it was completely cut apart zen collected the stronger bones and his senbons. He would head back to the path and continue to walk home. Zen wiped his forehead again and looked up. "You think it would get cooler the darker it gets danget." He took a long drink from the water skin emptying it. He grimaced as he looked at it. "Darn It out of water gotta get to that stream to refill it." He began to walk a bit faster but keeping a steady pace. He began to hear the sounds of the trickling stream and knew that he was getting closer began to move faster as it began to emerge from the forest he jumped over the stream putting chakra into his legs as he lept he cleared it and set his stuff down and slowly pulling Maku off he ran back over to the clear water and took in a long drink. "Ahhh that's just plain good." He laughed to himself. Zen dipped his water skin back in filling it up, after he finished he stood up and gathered some more fire wood and began to make hand signs, "Katon Release: Kasumi Enbu no Jutsu." Zen pursed his lips as he spraid the logs down with a combustible mist. He reached into his pouch and pulled out a match striking it against a tree. He smiled as he tossed it onto the logs which immediately caught fire. Zen pulled out some of the boar meat and stuck it onto a stick holding it over the fire to cook. After about seven minutes he pulled it from the fire to test if it was cooked it was so he pulled it too his mouth and bit into it. It was hot so it burned his tongue he fell back and held it away. "HOT HOT HOT." He stated as he waved his tongue and took a drink of water. Once it cooled he ate it. After he finished he refilled his water skin again and snuffed out the fire. He picked up his stuff and pulled Maku back upon his back heading back towards the workshop. After about an hour in he had reached the work shop upon entering he walked over to a large barrel, when he opened it, it was full of salt he placed the boar meat into it to salt it so it would keep longer. Zen placed Maku next to his bed and stripped crawling under the covers falling back soundly asleep in the comfort of his own bed.

Lines: 108

Zen sat up in the morning a tiny thud was heard as the book he was reading the night before hit the ground, he looked down and laughed realizing he had fallen asleep reading a book. Rubbing his eyes he leaned over the side of his bed to pick up the book he placed it on the shelve near his bed, yawning he fell back onto his bed sprawled out on the blankets. "Gah I want to sleep it just to early today." His muscle ached from not stretching after his exercises the other day. Zen sat up slapping his cheeks in an attempt to get himself motivated. "OK lets start of today with a bit of stretching to help ease my muscles." He spoke as he pulled himself out of bed with much effort. He hefted Maku upon his back as he headed for the exit deciding to do his stretches outside. All of a sudden something fell from one of the shelves hitting him in the head. "Oww what the heck was that." He stated rubbing the now forming bump on his head. Looking around for the projectile obviously meant to threaten his life he thought. As he looked down towards the floor a black scroll case was laying on the floor with an elegant design of red spirals. "Whats this doing here I've never seen this before." He announced forgetting about the bump on his head. Kneeling down he reached for it his hand twitching a little in anticipation not sure what he was about to grab ahold of it could be anything really how would he know if it was safe. His internal sense of danger was screaming at him to stop but his curiosity grew the closer he got. His hand laid upon it as he grasped it tightly lifting it up to a his eyes as he stood up staring at it. "What could it be?" He asked himself as he placed his hand on the side pulling the topper off of the scroll case. Reaching inside he pulled out a scroll that seemed for lack of a better word old. the edges were abit tattered and it was tied off with a black ribbon the ends of which were frilled from age. Pulling the ribbon off of the scroll was easy enough the scroll began to unroll looking at it he smiled as he calmed down. "Its nothing too dangerous its just a scroll explaining how to do a ninjutsu, Could be fun." He exclaimed winding it back up as he walked out of the entrance of the workshop. Zen sat down calmly under a large tree about thirty-seven feet from the entrance of his workshop. He unwound the scroll across his knees beginning to read through the scroll. He sat under that oak tree for hours upon hours memorizing every single detail about the jutsu. "It doesn't appear to be that hard but I'm gonna keep at it till I have got it down to the exact science of it and I understand everything about it." He read threw it again and again finally after another hour he stood up winding the scroll back up tightly. He wrapped the binding around it tightly so it wouldn't come off as he knotted it. tossing it into the air high he made a quick chain of hand signs. "Katon Release: Kasumi Enbu no Jutsu." pursing his lips so that instead of a cloud of flammable mist it became a thin stream spraying down the scroll. With his left hand he quickly pulled a match from his tool belt and struck it across his belt. Exposing the open flame to the stream of mist it ignited and burnt the scroll to ash as he dispelled the remnants of the mist from his mouth as to not set himself on fire. Slipping the scroll case into his tool belt his gaze was narrowed. "Now that it has been destroyed I won't have to worry about someone stealing it from me." He put his hands together as chakra billowed out from his body, He put his hands together in the hand sign for tiger. "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu" He spoke through clenched teeth concentrating on the jutsu he had excellent chakra control so in response 10 separate clones appeared. His chakra was divided among them evenly each of the appearing to be exactly the same as the original. Zen was quite surprised even though by his face you wouldn't be able to tell. "They just seem so similar..." He stated as he swung his arms to the sides back and forth loosing up his shoulders. "Well it doesn't matter lets start training." All of the Zens stated in sync after all they were all one. The Zens looked at each other and the original smiled, "It copied Maku too!" He stated as they all formed the chakra strings and all the Makus burst from the wrappings. They all began to fly at each other striking, this was a fight of puppets or a brawl to be more specific. Maku number one the original struck at Maku number eight. Eight countered and rebounded it. All of the Zens began to run to the left punching at each other as the Makus brawled behind them. "We will find out who is the number one ARTIST." They all yelled at each other as they continued to fight. The Zens continued to run at full speed when all of a sudden they all jumped up into the trees bounding from one branch to another. They were know in what seems like a race, they all were keeping the same pace as number nine lost his footing his branch broke falling to the ground he made a few quick movements of his fingers its Maku grabbed him with its legs and launched its mandibles into a tree pulling them up rapidly when they retracted back into it. As He rebounded his Maku went back into the Maku brawl as if nothing had happened. They all pulled back the puppets as the landed on the ground. "Lets take a break for now." They stated together, They sat down staring each other the Makus all laying on there stomachs the chakra threads not attached anymore. "Lets do something different then basic sparing how bout we do some road work." One of the Zen clones stated the rest looking over and nodding. All of the Zens used the chakra threads to make the Makus go into there storage mode as they all wrapped them up in the plain white cloths. Then simultaneously they all hefted there own Makus onto their backs and began a brisk jog in the direction of north east. They were heading around the clearing in a clockwise pattern dodging trees as they run. After about five minutes of running they began to do dashes increasing the speed of there running by alot, 5 minutes later they slowed down to a moderate run continuing this pattern for 5 hours. Exhausted they headed back to the workshop for some rest, walking into the clearing the Zens smiled at one enother the leading Zen was the original as they reached the entrance he looked back at them and smiled his hands on his waist on his tool belt. "It was a great session today, We did alot of work." They all nodded as all of a sudden all of the clones had a senbon sticking from their chests looking up with bewildered eyes at the original they poofed the senbons falling to the ground. "I guess I was the best after all." He laughed as he collected all of the senbons turning around he walked into the workshop heading over to the barrel pulling out some more pork and cooking it up. He made a thick soup using vegetables he had placed in a separate barrel. "I might have to go foraging tomorrow for more food or I could make a trip to the market, Ah! I'll think about that tomorrow." He ate the food and walked over to his bed placing Maku beside it. He undressed himself and slipped under the covers falling asleep, That night he had nightmares about killing himself.

Base lines: 110
Lines shadow clones participated in: 43 which equal an extra 140 lines for ten clones.
Total Lines: 250

Zen sat up on his bed stretching and yawning widely, swinging his legs over the side of his bed. The light from the windows brightening up the room Zen pulled himself from the bed beginning to do his morning exercises. He started off with some stretches then working in some push ups along with sit ups. He walked over to his wardrobe pulling out some of his training clothes. He pulled on a plain black tunic and a pear of black slacks along with long boots and socks. Zen then proceeded to make breakfast of venison and mushrooms. "Time for some elemental training." He headed out side grabbing Masu along the way, outside he put the hand sign for the tiger. "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu." ten separate clones formed about Zen, Zen's chakra was divided equally among them. "One, two, three, four, and five you will work with earth jutsus. Six, seven, eight, nine, and ten you will be working with fire type jutsus. I'll be working with combining the two. Ready GO!" One, two, three, four, and five lined up and made a rapid chain of hand signs. Clone number one ran into the forest as he commenced his jutsu. "Doton Release: Arijigoku no Jutsu." The clone held his hand in front of his face the ground in front of him became a large sinkhole everything near the sinkhole was pulled in the trees becoming dislodged and fell over on there sides. Two, three, four, and five finished there hand signs. "Doton Release: Doro Gaeshi." The clones dug there hands into the ground pulling up the earth forming up four separate walls made of earth they stood at eight feet high. After the wall was finished they jumped back several feet. The other five cloned stood on the other side of the wall they began to make there chain of hand signs the clones six, seven, eight, nine, and ten put there hands to there mouth there chests puffed up wide. "Katon Release: Goukakyuu no Jutsu." The clones expelled streams of condensed fire from there mouths at the walls of earth the fire became large fireballs completely engulfing the walls. As the clones breathed out the last of the fire the ball of flames dispersed leaving behind a pile of melted earth also know as magma. The clones converged together and poofed into a cloud of smoke the original collapsing on the ground from lack of chakra breathing heavily he headed back inside pulling himself into bed were he fell into an exhausted sleep.

base lines: 36
Lines shadow clones participated in: 23 which equal an extra 80 lines for ten clones.
Total Lines: 119

The light from the window streamed down shining right upon Zen Marus' face, rolling over trying to avoid the light with a groan. "Not yet, I don't want to get up yet just five more minutes please." He sneezed loudly shocking himself awake. Opening his eyes he rubbed under his nose sitting up, he began to rub his eyes. Putting his feet on the floor he pulled himself off the floor pulling on some clothes walking over to the barrels to get breakfast. After he finished eating he walked outside yawning loudly while stretching. "Lets do some early morning training." He put his hands together into the tiger hand sign. "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu." As he said it ten separate shadow clones formed next to him. "OK guys were gonna work on combining elemental chakra natures again today gotta be able to perfect it by the chuunin exams." He and his clones ran a whiles away from the work shop they stopped abruptly widening there stances. One of the eleven walked out to the front and began to make a chain of hand signs while the rest began to attempt combining their elemental chakra natures together. The one in front finished his hand signs and spoke. "Doton Release: Arijigoku no Jutsu." The ground in front of him caved into the ground creating a sinkhole. He jumped back and widened his stance mimicking the others he began attempting mixing his elemental chakra natures together. They all stood there together mixing the elemental nature chakras together they put their own hands together in front of their bodies closing their eyes so they could bring themselves into a more concentrated state. Their breathing became slow and steady they opened their eyes in sync their eye color began to shift from the normal purple into a mixture of brown and red creating a maroon like color. The group of Zen Marus began to circle around the large sinkhole once they were in position they stood still concentrating one of the shadow clones began to puff of his chest widely channeling the mixture of nature chakras into his stomach, chest area once he breathed out he launched out a large amount of red hot magma from his mouth into the sinkhole. The shadow clone next to him began to channel the chakra into the palms of his hands forming molten balls of magma in the palms of his hands, they were not actually in his hands but floating about an inch above them as he hurled them into the sinkhole causing the magma already inside the sinkhole. The clone next to him was channeling the mixture of nature chakras into his arms as he put his hands together and sent out a large blast of lava from his hands. The last clones repeated the others except the last one who was channeling the elemental nature chakra throughout his body, he began to clench himself into a ball the chakra began to pulse within him. He unclenched himself, "Raaaaaa." He roared out as he punched the ground sending the chakra into the ground. After a long moment of silence the other shadow clones stared at this one blankly as the sinkhole and the lava in it began to shake as the lava burst out of it, the clone who had released his chakra into the ground had jumped back a whiles away as the lava from the sinkhole plus the stuff he had created splattered about the area dispelling the clones and burning down several trees. The real Zen Maru who was the one who had summoned the eruption was completely and utterly wiped out with barely any chakra left the fires from the lava burned themselves out quickly as he just sat there barely conscious, a smirk crossed his face as he passed out falling to his side in the clearing.

Base Lines: 50
Lines shadow clones participated in: 37 which equals an extra 120 lines.
Total Lines: 170

Zen Maru rolled onto his side pulling the blankets with him, exposing his back sending shivers down his spine with a sudden chill. Zen Marus eyes opened suddenly as he covered himself up quickly. "Dang its cold." He frowned as he huddled under the blanket. He shifted a little bit wrapping the blanket around him as he walked over to his wardrobe pulling out some heavier clothing. He wore a pear of heavy denim pants that were tore a little at the bottom, his chest was covered with a black long sleeved turtle neck and over everything he wore a heavy black cloak. Zen Maru walked outside it was quite chilly the season seemed to be nearing fall the leaves on the trees were falling, all of them a different color it was quite a beautiful site to behold. Zen Maru frowned as he looked about the clearing, he put his hands together, "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu." He stated as ten separate shadow clones appeared. "OK now we gotta collect all the vegetables we can before they've all go into hibernation for the winter." He stated as they grabbed baskets from the side of the house mounting them onto there backs then they all ran of into the woods looking under every bush and on the side of every tree. One on the shadow clones pulled a couple potatoes from the ground putting it onto the large basket on his back. They continued to search as another one of them found a large cluster of mushrooms. After all was said and done they returned to the work shop with a large supply of vegetables that was now stored in the vegetable barrel. These barrels were made specifically to keep foods from spoiling they were coated with a special liquid so that they would be air tight and cool inside. Zen Maru walked back outside grabbing Maku on the way beginning to do some road work with the ten shadow clones. As they ran the real Zen Maru spoke loudly. "Okay were going to practice evasion and agility." The shadow clones nodded as Zen Maru attached his chakra strings to his puppet Maku, and pulling it from his back as it burst from its wrapping. "Now dodge this." He yelled as he launched Maku at one of the clones Maku's pincers outstretched, the shadow clone jumped into the air barely dodging as the pincer closed around a tree splitting it in to as it collapsed the tree falling down to the ground with a large thud. Zen Maru ran with his clones having Maku attack the other clones dodging just barely. Zen had Maku sweep the area leveling trees as it passed. The clones continued to dodge jumping to the trees that were still stable. Zen jumped into the trees landing on a thick stable branch Maku sat on Zen's back the legs wrapped around him kinda looking like a deadly backpack. Zen Maru smiled as he began a chain of hand signs. "Katon Release: Gougakyuu no Jutsu." Zen took in a deep breath his chest expanding as he concentrated the chakra into his chest. Putting his fingers to his mouth, He fired a condensed stream of fire towards the clones morphing into a giant fireball that devastated the area blowing the trees away leaving a clearing of scorched earth with remnants of burning stumps. The clones had slipped out of the danger zone coming out of the trees behind Zen, jumping at him holding three senbons in each hand to give the appearance of claws. Zen jumped backwards as the clone slashed at him with the claws he then sent maku towards the clone knocking the clone away with a swipe of the claw. "That was close." He mocked as another jumped at him from behind and Zen jumped down to the ground to dodge. "OK that's enough lets head back to the workshop." The shadow clones nodded as they headed back to the workshop at a brisk jog. Once they made it to the workshop they stopped and began to do stretches. Along with push ups and sit ups, once they finished they walked into the workshop beginning to work on there puppets once they finished tuning up the puppets the clones poofed and Zen walked over to the bed stretching. He crawled into the bed and fell asleep.

base lines: 56
lines shadow clones participated in: 43 witch equals 140 lines.
total lines: 196