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Summer Fitness [Period 2, Friday]

As the class assembled at the Danger Shop, they were greeted by an entirely too-chipper Bond, and some very pretty scenery that would in no way have looked familiar to any members of the class ~~if they were around~~.

"So," he began, once everyone had arrived. "I thought we'd have a relatively simple class today, and do a spot of cross-country running. Not a race though, it doesn't matter what order you finish the course in, so long as you finish." There, that wasn't in the least bit ominous.

"So, if you'll just slip the back-packs on, and follow me, that would be great."

...wait, back-packs?

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"It's like-- doing a new exercise. You get used to it enough to perform the action, but more practice to have it perfect."

"So, you're saying," Cal said, in a tone that showed that, yeah, this was never going to happen, "that if I practiced hard enough, I could walk on water, too."

"Maybe. If you can control your chakra." A beat. "If you have chakra."

"...I'm still not even sure what chakra is," Cal admitted. "I lived with someone in San Francisco who did tai chi and talked about it all the time..."

Zora had also told him that they were what everyone wanted, they were the next evolutionary step. Cal believed a lot of what Zora had told him back then, but, in retrospect, he was definitely second guessing her.

"Tai Chi?" Temari tilted her head at him curiously. "Chakra is the combination of physical and spiritual energy. Ninjas are just the ones who can control the combination."

Cal shrugged. "I don't know; I really couldn't explain it. It was a lot of stretching and breathing and stuff, and, yeah, combining the physical and the spiritual."

Looking him over, she looked thoughtful. "Then maybe. I could show you handseals some time."

"What are handseals?" Cal asked, returning the thoughtful look and figuring that they were not at all what immediately came to mind. It was an image that would probably inspire Temari to beat him up.

That was a distinct possibility.

"Handseals are how we mold chakra into useful techniques. Clones, illusions, attacks...:

Especially since it involved rough whiskers and barking.

"I...don't know, Fanbutt," Cal admitted, with a bit of a hopeless look. "Odds are, you'd try teaching me something like that and then you'd end up hating me because I just can't do it."

Temari made a face and thought about that freakish boy from Konoha that nearly beat Gaara without any seals.

"Not everyone can get them," She said with a shrug. "We're trained at a very early age to figure out who is worth the effort and who isn't. I--" Temari made a face. "--I'll be expected to teach soon. With you and Madrox, it might be good for me to learn how."

Well, that was something to consider. "I guess," he said, "it wouldn't hurt to already know how to handle a useless student, then."

"Just don't die and I'll count you as a good student."

That managed to get a bit of a grin on Cal's face. "Hey, I've already managed that for sixteen years now; pretty decent track record."

"Pretty decent," Temari agreed, refraining from mentioning the mortality rate for shinobi back home.

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