Fairy Tail: The Guild Hidden in The Leaf: Book One

Rasengon

"Here" said Jiriaya, setting down two large sacks full of water balloons in front of Laxus.

"What are these for?" asked Laxus, taking a water balloon and examining it.

"Training" replied Jiraiya. Laxus had no idea what the he was taking about. "Okay, watch." Jiraiya took one of the balloons and Laxus watched as he swirled the water in the balloon with his chakra until the balloon burst.

"Whoa!" exclaimed the hyperactive blonde ninja. Jiraiya explained to Laxus to burst the balloon by swirling the water using only his chakra. "Now, you already know the 'water walking' exercise and the 'tree climbing' exercise. The tree climbing exercise teaches you to maintain a certain amount of chakra by focusing your mind and keeping that concentration. The water walking exercise releases a fixed amount of chakra continuously. For this, use the water walking technique to spin the water with a continuous flow."

"Spin the water with a continuous flow?" asked Laxus asked.

"Hmm, let's see" thought Jiraiya for a second. "Alright, first use the tree climbing exercise to maintain a moderate amount of chakra in your hands and then use the water walking exercise to release and spin it continuously."

Laxus had the idea now. Basically, he had to continuously spin it until it boiled and the balloon burst. Jiraiya explained that there were about 150 water balloons in the bag and he would only teach Laxus the second step in learning the Rasengan once all of the balloons were popped with Laxus's chakra. Before returning to his research, Jiraiya explained that Laxus would probably need both hands to control the chakra at first, but should then work on controlling it with a single hand after the first few balloons.

The rest of the day consisted of Laxus trying to burst the balloon. However, all he managed to do was get the water to swirl in a single direction. While the balloon was deforming, it was nowhere near what Jiraiya's balloon had looked like. Jiraiya's balloon had multiple points, chaotically erupting out of it until the balloon finally burst. Laxus's balloon only deformed until it was in an elongated disk.

It wasn't until late the next day that Laxus finally got an idea on how to do the first step. Tora, the Demon Cat of the Hidden Leaf, came upon Laxus training and found a stray water balloon. "Hey! Give that back you damn cat!" screamed Laxus as Tora began playing with the balloon, knocking it back and forth until the balloon burst, soaking the cat. The burst scared Tora off, but Laxus had an idea. He took a balloon in one hand and began focusing his chakra.

"I wonder if the kid learned anything?" thought Jiraiya, whose attention had been momentarily averted from the bikini-clad girls in the river next to their training area. Laxus did, as he clasped the balloon in both hands and began swirling the chakra, creating different directions of the swirl. A few moments later, the balloon burst.

"Yeah! I did it!" shouted the excited ninja.

"Keep it down out there. I'm trying to take a nap" said Kurama, while he was trying to take a nap; he had been keeping an eye on his jinchuriki's progress.

"Shut up. I'm now one step closer to getting this Jutsu down, so stop complaining!" replied Laxus .

Suddenly, Laxus hear a rustling in the bushes as Elfman came running out. "Oh, Laxus?" said Elfman, wondering why Laxus was there. However, his head refocused on the task at hand. "Hey, have you seen that damn cat anywhere? I could have sworn I smelled it, but it faded off."

"Cat? Oh, you mean Tora?" asked Laxus as Elfman nodded.

"The Hokage gave me and Mira that mission. Thanks to you, I'm stuck doing missions without my team for the next month!" said Elfman, referring to the fact that both of his teammates were in the finals and that they had the entire month off from mission work to train, while he had been eliminated by Laxus .