Momo was dreading her first Shunpo lesson from the beginning, her balance had always failed her at every opportunity it was needed. She feared that this encounter wouldn't be any different. A few members of her class already seemed to be pretty good at shunpo, so expecting to be the worst in her class, Momo decided she better get some extra practice in before the lesson.
There was a long road near to her house and she knew that if she were to get up early enough, she could garuantee that there would be no-one around. She was not completely certain at what she was going to atempt to do, but she knew that what ever she did, it would probably be possible if she were to focus on it properly. She always preferred the more practical lesson to the written ones and did not want her lack of balance to make her not enjoy her shunpo lessons
Arriving at the road she could see that there was no-one around, so focussing her Reiatsu towards her feet she lent forward and atempted shunpo... Travelling was not the most difficult thing for her, it was trying to remain on her feet once she stopped. Well that could have gone better she muttered as she picked herself up off the floor and brushed the dirt off her clothing. There were small posts all along the road, probably only 1 metre high, evenly spaced out, Perfect she grinned. Climbing onto one of the posts, she squatted, holding onto it with one hand before slowly standing up. She could see the next post, and judging the distance she stood up, focussed her Reiatsu and atempted shunpo again. S**t she shouted as her front foot went over the post, missing it completely, and her back foot scraped against the top. In a bundled heap on the floor she examined the scrape on her foot and after concluding that it was still useable; she stood up and brushed her clothing down.
Clambering back onto the post, Momo stood up and bending one leg into the stork pose, decided to just balance on the post for a while and regain her composure. After contemplating the action in her much needed mental rehearsal, Momo lowered her other leg back down onto the post. Leaning, she focussed and, FLASH she was standing on the second post. With the posts being evenly spaced she knew the action to the next post would be the same, focussing, FLASH, and she was standing firmly on the third post.
Using her logic she knew that the space between her and the fifth post would just be twice the distance she had just gone and starting to feel almost too pleased with herself she thought this is going to be easy, as long as i know the distance i'm travelling. She thought too soon and her atempt to get from the third post to the fifth ended with her planting only one foot on the post and repeating position 2- the heap on the floor. Maybe i should call it a day she concluded to herself.
She arrived at her Shunpo lesson looking surprisingly more awake than some of her classmates as the teacher announced that they would be atempting basic shunpo that day You WILL get hurt, that is inevitable but no pain- no gain Momo grinned as she saw the fear in the eyes of her classmates. Momo, seeing as you look so pleased, why don't you be the first to try...

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Momo looked horrified at this suggestion, she raised her hand to her head and pretended to be playing with her hair as she stared at the floor, acting like the teacher hadn't asked her to demonstrate. Momo, did you hear me? Either you demonsrate your Shunpo or you write me an essay on the importance of demonstrating Shunpo! As much as Momo knew she would find the essay easier to write, she didn't think the teacher would appreciate her opting for the essay.
She stepped forward from where the group was standing and stood next to the teacher, Right i want you to Shunpo to that tree, and for God sake don't hit it Looking up and trying to figure out the distance from the tree she was, Momo focussed her Reiatsu towards her feet and atempted to Shunpo towards the tree FLASH As she atempted to stop on nearing the tree, her legs skidded and her balance failed.
SMACK
When she opened her eyes she could see the sky, Sh*t she whispered in a long drawn out sigh. This is why balance when you stop is so important, Momo come back and join the group She did as she was told, but the knowledge that it was just her balance on her landing which let her down, in no way disheartened her. Already tired from a morning of practising Shunpo, she thought her atempt was fair.
For the rest of the lesson, Momo observed the Shunpo of her other classmates; she was be no means the worst in her class, some of the people in her class could barely travel a metre or two. Wheres Momo was travelling a good fifteen to twenty metres on her atempts, If only i could get the landings she thought to herself as she nearly ended up on the floor for the fifth time that day. She knew that mastering Shunpo would be a long process, but with enough training she knew it would be possible eventually.
It took a few days of rest before Momo felt in little enough pain to atempt shunpo at the posts in the street again, she knew that she would have to atempt shunpo while mid-air at some point and as she didn't have any practical lessons for a few days she decided that then would probably be a good time to try. The same as she had previously done, she left the house early and went to the street before anyone would have been there. As her landings were the most important things, Momo stood on the post and just tried jumping up and down a few times, although she didn't fall, her landings were very uneven and required a large amount of stabilising. She was apprehensive about trying the mid-air Shunpo, Well i dont know until i try she told herself, I might as well be positive So she readied herself to focus her Reiatsu, jumped forwards FLASH Momo found herself standing next to the post I didn't fall! she shouted, even though she wasn't on the post, she landed safely next to it. Remembering what time of the morning it was, she made a hurried escape as she could see that some of the people living nearby had woken up to her shouting.

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'Its Bambi on ice!' one of the academy teacher jeered at Momo; the girl stared blankly up at the evil man, she didn't even understand the joke. After yet another failed attempt to shunpo round the academy agility course. The rest of her class had managed it at least once, albeit very slowly but Momo was still staring down at the ground in disappointment.

The lesson ended slowly as the class poured back inside Momo sat on the grass and sighed. She waited until everyone had gone before she tried again; determined or just stubborn, it was irrelevant; Momo was going to complete the course.

Standing up and frowning Momo stood at the start of the course. Her feet began to glow a steady blue as the girl prepared herself to move; eyes open and in the correct stance Momo vanished from sight. Appearing at the first obstacles Momo leapt over the first barrier; slid under the second and stumbled through the next. Her arms flailing out as she recieved a smack in the face from one of the training dummies. Certain she would finish the course Momo spun in the air and flash stepped around another training dummy. Really starting to get annoyed at being hit by an automated course Momo clenched her fist and smacked the dummy in the face- it spun right round and knocked the girl backwards.

Clambering back to her feet Momo felt her face and she slumped down when she felt the beginning of a bruise around her eye. 'Thats it' she called angrily. Focusing as much as she could Momo forced her remaining reiatsu towards her feet. Flash stepping over the next dummy, under the next two and spinning around the final dummy Momo moved to the next obstacle. Leaving a trail of her spiritual energy as she blurred through the poles set up at different heights to cause more difficulty Momo tucked her knees mid air as flash stepped over one of the barriers, diving and rolling over and under between flash stepping.

Momo appeared in a blurr past the finish line, her legs weak from moving so quickly she stumbled back to ther school. Her black eye was simply a trophy of her achievement, or at least that how Momo decided to view it; but if anyone asked she killed a hollow.

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