The sound of a stereo blared through his ears while he trained to his favorite tune on his mp3 player. The surrounding was a peaceful forest with a light spread of trees throughout the area. He stood below a thick branch in one of the trees with his eyes closed. He planned his thorough regimen in his mind that would take up at least a few hours.

Just then, a loud noise blared through the forest and interrupted his music and training rhythm, and without a beat, a huge gust of nonstop wind knocked the earbuds from his ear. He peered into the sky at the source of the wind, and a feel of disgust and irritation came over him.

A booming voice came over a loudspeaker from the ship. The voice was his sensei's, Shadow Otenaki. His sensei always entered him in tournaments or sent him off on adventurous missions that always interrupted his training.

“Kana Mitsu, please respond with either an “Okay” or “Yes”,” he stated and gave off a sadistic grin. The place where he would be going would be a new area that Kana had yet to battle inside of. Especially being guarded by that particular dragon.

“Damn you old man! Let me get back to my training!”

A net swooped down and surrounded Kana and carried him off to an unknown destination, which he would soon find out would be something entirely new for him.

A half hour later, he found himself heading toward a dark atmosphere full of dense sulfur and smoke. As he was outside and hung up inside of a net, he had coughed seldom until he reached his destination. The glow of red lava entered his irises and he knew that he was about to fight in a volcano. The atmosphere wasn't to his advantage at all, but neither do his disadvantage. He would just have to work with what was given to him.

The net was released and he fell from high in the sky into the mouth of the volcano. He looked down below him and sighed that there was a platform waiting for him. Although on his way down, he passed by an elder dragon that appeared to be the guardian of this area.

“Damn you old man, stop entering me into tournaments without my consent!” he shouted on his way down into the pit. A moment later, he landed on his feet as gracefully as his skills allowed, but a tingling vibration flew from his feet all the way up his body.

He took a few deep breaths and glanced across the horizon and noticed a woman who seems to have an enormous amount of experience and wisdom. She would be the greatest obstacle he would ever have to face in his life time. A part of him sees his sensei in her. Perhaps they knew each other somehow.

Kana drew a prayer talisman and hovered it over the molting lava. It instantly caught fire from the heat and he let it drop as his lips read off a silent prayer toward the volcano, as this would be his first battle in such a place.

He stood in his battle stance and tightened his batatsu onto his wrist. He wiped the sweat from his brow. Instead of the tactic of wait and see, he began performing chakra signs and fired a bolt of lightning toward the sage-like woman, and dashed toward her right behind his attack. If he used the waiting tactic against someone on her or his sensei's level, he would lose in an instant. This wasn't the time to wait.