He was extremely relaxed albeit tired within the small confines of a small container within the outskirts of the Yukata clan compound. The purpose of the container was simple as it disallowed any form of light to invade the space within, which also meant that Oyochi was plunged into absolute darkness. This was exactly the form of training that was required for the boy to understand that latent potential he had innately awakened. Pitted in the absolute darkness, even with his eyes opened, his natural night vision remained inert and incapable of seeing various details such as his own fingers. He simply exhaled and laid back, his eyes staring into the remote darkness while his chakra forcibly was being manipulated.
There were questions he needed to ask himself such as the nature of darkness and the just what the shadow's meant to him. The reason these questions needed to be asked is because without them, his ability to manipulate his own darkness was nothing more than an ability not a lifestyle. That was when either physically or simply a mental mirage, Oyochi noticed a small light floating over his face. His eyes tracked it's movements slowly and quickly honed in on the fact that others slowly produced itself.That was when he began to truly think about the nature of the dark. What was darkness without light, was it not the light that fed the shadows or was it the darkness which gave birth to the light. His deity was one of the serpent and therefore it was relative simple knowledge among the Yukata that relying on your visual sense, the only sense affected by light, was hampering your abilities. The more Oyochi contemplated the origins of the dark, the more his vision actually began to see through the light or at least that was what ran through his mind. In actuality the longer Oyochi kept his eyes honed in into the darkness the more his secondary senses took over for the one which was aptly inert. He was melding with the darkness willingly while unwilling, That's right, he had known darkness since conception as even within the womb there was no light yet it was all apart of nature's design. His shadow would string outwards suddenly and began to slowly coil around his midsection while he thought. The shadow of his body was his to control and his to manipulate simply because if it was not to be so then he would have never had a shadow to begin with. Oyochi's right palm would slowly begin to weave handseals, not ones he was trained in doing but ones he had seen members of his clan performing when either manipulating their shadows or utilizing their shade to move from place to place. The coiling shadow around his midsection would slowly uplift itself and have an actual physical shape of a snake. His eyes would close finally and before he would drift to sleep a few words would be muttered from his lips...
"I understand..."
[Mission Complete]
[WC: 502]