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My eyes roved at the world under me, the air filling my wings as I sailed above on waves of wind. My vision was so acute, and no details passed unnoticed under my amber gaze.

I felt a strange detachment from the world. I was an observer, nothing more. Nothing could harm me, and I could harm no one.

I was so free.

It was so liberating, to be free of everything. To be free from the monochromatic life that I lived, to be free from the steadily building pressure, to be free from all the bloodshed and violence, to be free from Konoha.

It was exhilarating.

And then my mind was ripped away. My yin side, my spirit, it was ripped away from the excitingly free mind that I had found, and my soul rolled back into my own head.

I clumsily got to my feet and stared up at the vulture whose mind that I had just vacated.

I will name you Shisen, for you will become my perspective, my line of sight. The sense of calm and freedom that you carry with you will become mine, and your visual acuity will be mine to utilise.

Become mine, Shisen.

"Gai-sensei…"

Gai proudly held up the green jumpsuit, one exactly identical to the one he was wearing, just sized down. He grinned as he presented it to me.

"Well, go on. Try it on!

"Gai-sensei…"

"What is it, my most youthful student?"

"... no."

Gai looked confused, as if wondering why someone wouldn't want to put on that monstrosity.

"Gai-sensei, please explain to me… why, exactly, the jumpsuit is required?"

"The suit is a most youthful garment! My, most youthful student, there are many things you have yet to learn! Allow me to educate you... "

I pinched the bridge of my nose and sighed.

In the end, I did try on the suit.

Though I would never admit it to anyone, the suit actually was very comfortable. The colour of the suit also made it not bad for camouflage, so it was actually pretty practical.

Still not wearing it.

Life fell into a steady rhythm with Gai.

Wake up. Tolerate Gai's screaming about youth. Train furiously. Collapse into bed. Cram eating, showering, and other essential facets of life between all of that and then collapse into bed at the end of the day, exhausted. Repeat.

I was too exhausted at the end of my training with Gai to do any extra training during the night, so I just blearily brushed my teeth and then went straight to bed when I got home from the fields.

Which might have actually been Gai's plan from the beginning. For all the man's eccentricities, I had learned that he generally had a reason for the things he did.

For example, as I had learned just a week or two ago, the jumpsuit was both comfortable and made for passable camouflage in the forests of Konoha.

So him training me to exhaustion, thus depriving me of the time I usually used to train late into the night, was probably a purposeful decision. I had noticed that, with actual nights of sleep, my productivity was improving actually.

The only problem was that with Gai's near-exclusive focus on taijutsu and sometimes bukijutsu, and the now lack of time to work late in the night, I've been pretty much deprived of time to work on my ninjutsu, particularly the elemental transformation that I was working on.

Except that I wasn't. I was given a single day off a week, and thanks to Gai's insane training regime, my physical strength, my speed, and my skill with weapons was all taken care of. That meant that instead of dedicating most of that time to physical training like I would have before, I could have the time all on figuring out my water elemental nature. Gai still gave me pointers when he could, but he wasn't exactly the most well-versed shinobi when it came to ninjutsu.

But with all of these things working together, the rate of my progress had shot through the roof.

Gai had likely organised all of this beforehand. Knowing that his skill with ninjutsu was rather subpar, he had organised my training schedule in such a way that maximised my efficiency, both giving me the physical training that I desperately needed and giving me time to work out my elemental stuff on my own.

Within only a few weeks of having Gai as a sensei, I could already comfortably do three laps around the village. My current record for climbing up and down the Hokage Rock, with no Tree-Walking, was six times.

And because I was actually sleeping now, I actually had energy during the day, which meant that it was actually surprisingly difficult to nap whenever I wanted anymore.

I actually had energy now.

A/N: Just a short thing. I'll be on vacation for the next few weeks and I'll have no time to write, so I just felt like getting something out there before I left.

MrTicklesMMM: If my understanding is correct, the regular mind transfer only allows the user to take over the target's body, not look through their minds. They'll experience everything as though they were actually that person, but they can't look through their memories. The Psycho Mind Transmission is the one that lets the Yamanaka rifle through memories and, at least in this story, those sorts of jutsu are held under strict security, i.e. being mindwalked.