Her Training Begins (Ayama and Navi ONLY)[PRIVATE]

“Not a jutsu,” she said thoughtfully, “but maybe you could help me with learning about my bloodline?”

Navi walked closer to her with his Navagan eyes glowing intensely. "Alright, I might need to run a few experiments and observe a few things though." Navi got what might be seen as uncomfortably close to Ayama, but Navi was far too interested in her bloodline to even notice. He scanned over her with his cold eyes, studying her chakra network carefully. He walked in a circle around her a few times, his heading moving up and down as he slowly and rhythmically observed every muscle. Eventually he stopped, and poked Ayama gently in the back of the head.

"Right here... you have a powerful chakra connection inside of your brain. I'm guessing you can both converse mentally huh?" Navi wondered what they might be saying about him for a few moments, but then brushed the thought away and continued looking.

After a few more moments he poked her in the forehead, and then slowly ran his finger down, as if seeing right through her and tracing a thread. He stopped at her neck and tapped her skin a few times with the point of his finger. "You also seem to have a sort of chakra connection on your spine, which connects directly to the chakra bond in your mind. This bond is weaker, but my theory is that once it becomes stronger you might be able to physically combine together."

Navi held his finger there and then bit his bottom lip as if deep in thought. "As much as you love your necklace it seems like all that it's doing is holding Hisoka's energy. If you were to lose or break this he could just as easily live inside of your body."

Navi took a step back but continued scanning her up and down, watching her chakra flow and taking note of each detail. "Did you have any particular questions about it that you want me to look at or test? Right now all I am really doing is speculating things that I notice."

"Alright, I might need to run a few experiments and observe a few things though."

Ayama nodded her permission. She wanted to understand this strange bloodline her father had given her. It was hers, and she refused to be afraid of it. That night had damaged her psyche enough as it was. She didn’t need more crippling fears that could potentially destroy her ninja carrier.

Navi’s eyes glowed fiercely and despite herself she tensed. The memory of the genjutsu he had used on her flooded her mind, the emotions as potent as they had been yesterday. She twitched slightly as he stepped closer, her instincts screaming at her to get away. He had forced her to relive that memory with a single look and then watched as she watched her father die. Why, did these memories have to rear their heads now? He was so close and her heart rate had risen as she fought back bitter fear.

“You forgot how dangerous he was,” at Hisoka’s thought she realized she could feel his influence in the memories. He was digging them up in their entirety. “Don’t forget Ayama, we’ve known him for barely a day. He proved how dangerous he was yesterday, he is quite capable of playing games. Don’t become lax, he is still a very real threat.”

She shivered at the cold tone of his voice and the hard truth behind it. She had been so excited for today, to finally have a teacher who would teach her actual jutsu. She had been so excited she had chosen to overlook the fact that she was trusting him not to sell her out to his village. So excited that she had overlooked the fact that she barely knew him and had no real reason to trust him fully yet. She was snapped from her morbid thoughts by his touch on the back of her head.

"Right here... you have a powerful chakra connection inside of your brain. I'm guessing you can both converse mentally huh?"

She smirked a little at the astute observation, “Yeah, since yesterday.” she said softly as he continued to search. That doujutsu of his was pretty serious business, he could tell she had a mental connection with Hisoka just by looking at her head. She twitched slightly as his finger pocked her forehead before tracing a line down to her throat. Convulsively she swallowed and shivered a little.

“Combine?” Hisoka’s verbal question sounded close and her eyes snapped to him. He had moved form his shady spot and now stood about three feet from her and Navi, watching with a mix of anger and curiosity. Calming herself she thought of all the trustworthy things Navi had done, trying to extract herself from Hisoka’s dark view of the leaf ninja.

At Navi mention of the necklace she touched the stone where it lay beneath her shirt. “Maybe,” her eyes flicked to Hisoka who offered no explanation for it, “It’s pretty hard to break though, I tried, back when.. Back in the early days” she started shutting down her thoughts about her father. She had tried to smash the necklace but no matter the weight or the hardness of the rock the oval stone refused to break.

"Did you have any particular questions about it that you want me to look at or test? Right now all I am really doing is speculating things that I notice."

“What about range? How far can we be apart, or our abilities, how many of them do we share? Can he channel lightening like I can? Can he walk on water or stick to the trees? There is so much I don’t know about this bloodline, so much I need to know. I’ve been pushing it away for four years, denying it’s existence. I know some of it will take time, but what can we do now?”

She was eager to know, to learn. She had to know and despite everything Navi was currently her best source of info.

“What about range? How far can we be apart, or our abilities, how many of them do we share? Can he channel lightening like I can? Can he walk on water or stick to the trees? There is so much I don’t know about this bloodline, so much I need to know. I’ve been pushing it away for four years, denying it’s existence. I know some of it will take time, but what can we do now?”

Navi was almost overwhelmed by the rushing tide of questions Ayama was bombarding him with. Navi had to take a few more moments examining her, he then took his finger off of her neck and pressed it against his forehead to think. "You would be able to go further apart depending on the strength of the bond you shared, although at this stage I would say at max the range is between 75 to 100 meters away from you."

Navi took awhile to think about her abilities question before he sighed and gave a shallow shrug. "I know that Hisoka doesn't share every jutsu that you have, but I honestly don't know if he has his own set of unique abilities, or if he can use some of yours. I have no idea how many of them there are either. I honestly am not sure if he can do anything that you can, he might even have his own unique set of abilities entirely different from yours."

Navi felt a little disappointed that he wasn't able to give Ayama all of the answers she wanted. She looked desperate to learn more, but Navi simply wasn't well versed in a bloodline like this.

"Well, I guess we could answer at least on of those questions right now: Hisoka, try walking up that tree."

Navi would watch as Hisoka heard him and attempted to walk up the tree using chakra in his paws. If successful, then Hisoka would at least know some of the same techniques Ayama did, although he highly doubted Hisoka would be doing a Crescent Moon Dance any time soon.

Navi doubted that Hisoka would know any other special techniques, although he could see him developing the ability to focus elemental chakra on his claws. Still, many of these simple questions remained a mystery to him and would require further time and experimentation to answer.

Ayama listened carefully to his explanations. It made sense that the bond would eventually die out if they got to far apart, especially with how weak it was currently. She would need to build her bond with Hisoka to build up his range. Maybe in the future when it got longer she could sue it to spy! An exciting prospect.

She was a bit disappointed at his lack of answers. Not terribly so, but she had expected more. Then again, her bloodline was unique in both creation and function, it was highly unlikely Navi had come across anything like it before. She would just have to find out for myself. When she had time and no one was around she would practice with Hisoka. She could manage that.

"Well, I guess we could answer at least on of those questions right now: Hisoka, try walking up that tree."

She froze at his command a long pause of awkward silence filled the air. Then Hisoka bristled, his dark cloud fur swirling quickly and lightning arching frequently across his undercoat. He snarled taking a menacing step towards Navi baring a set of gleaming white fangs.

She slid smoothly between her irate partner and Navi, “Please Hisoka, we want to see if you can walk up the tree, its important.” her pleas gave the cat pause. For a moment he stood frozen his gaze flicking between hers and Navi’s then he huffed and turned away.

“Fine, but he cant order me around,” she sighed in exasperation but let it slide. He stalked over to the nearest tree standing at its base, staring up at the leaves for a long while. Then..

“I can’t do it,”

“hmm?” she said curiously lifting her head to stare at him.

“I don’t know how,” his thought was filled with embarrassment.

“Oh , well then here, I’ll share memories with you” she replied mentally. Smiling slightly at his embarrassment. She went over and crouched by his side, taking his head in her hands and closing her eyes. The touch made their bond stronger and made it easier for her to send him memories and messages. Currently she was focusing on her tree walking and chakra control lessons, information flowing from her mind, across the link, to his. This lasted for about a minute before she relinquished her hold, sitting back heavily and placing a palm to her aching skull. Her mind was unused to the double ability it now had, the memory share had cost her some energy.

Standing up she stepped back, keeping her hand at her temple and rubbing the sore spot, trying to alleviate the headache. She gestured with her free hand for him to continue and smiled reassuringly as his nervousness crossed their bond. Hisoka took a deep breath before he approached the tree. Rearing back he placed his forepaws on the trunk and focused his chakra in them. The instant he began to climb she felt the drain, a small trickle of chakra running through her bond and into her partner. He only made it about halfway up the trunk before he nervously took to much and launched himself backwards off the tree. Flipping midair he landed lightly, tail fluffed as much as a tail made of cloud could and looking startled.

She couldn’t help but laugh at his shocked expression, and the chanting of “nonononnononnonononono not doing that again nope” in his head. As she doubled over to clutch her stomach she felt another reason for her elation, he could mold chakra.

Navi felt a little left out of the long mental conversation they seemed to be having, but got the jist of what was happening between them. It took some time, but under those special conditions Hisoka seemed to be able to mold chakra. This was a breakthrough revelation for the two of them, as this meant the ability to mold chakra for other techniques down the line would be a reality.

Navi had been waiting to tell Ayama this, and decided to reveal his plan to her now after learning a bit about her bloodline and capability.

"Come here Ayama, I have something to tell you."

Navi took a deep breath, deciding how he should word what he was about to tell her.

"I'm creating a joint team of Fire Nation ninja, including two sand genin, one leaf genin and myself as the leader. I'd like to register you as a part of it."

Navi was still interested in Ayama and wanted to keep a close eye on her, especially with the level of potential she possessed in her bloodline.

"Hisoka would remain a secret between the two of us, and would only come out when I alone was training with you."

If Ayama reacted negatively, Navi would understand and could be convinced to perform missions with her alone. However, Navi felt that exposure to other ninja would be good experience for her, especially since Navi would be able to watch over her condition and keep her secret safe. The first step would be calling a meeting of all possible team members, then training them accordingly to observer there strengths and weaknesses. From there the team would be able to perform missions directly under Navi's orders and supervision.

"I will continue to have personal training sessions with you, but I believe that being a part of a Genin team would be valuable for your development as a ninja." Navi tried to say this with as much sincerity as possible, as to minimize the level of distrust that would surely be radiating off of Hisoka.

"Come here Ayama, I have something to tell you."

Her laughter faded into giggles, her attempts to control her mirth not helped by the indignant feelings pulsing off Hisoka. But at the seriousness of Navi’s tone she sobered quickly. Still smiling she walked over to him, tilting her head curiously she wondered what he wanted. He seemed stressed, or was that worry? She couldn’t quite tell.

"I'm creating a joint team of Fire Nation ninja, including two sand genin, one leaf genin and myself as the leader. I'd like to register you as a part of it."

"Hisoka would remain a secret between the two of us, and would only come out when I alone was training with you."

For a long moment she was in shock, the smile slowly melting off her face until a small o of surprise was left. Paranoia and vindication surged through her as Hisoka lunged to her side, settling into a crouch long tail lashing.

“I told you he was just manipulating us!” he snarled inside her head, blurring her thoughts with his white-hot rage and fear. He tensed on the verge of attacking Navi when she laid her hand on his shoulder. Her hand sunk through the cloudy cool substance that seemed to make up his fur and touched the solid form beneath it. Hisoka’s entire form went still at the touch. It was the first casual touch she had made, despite her efforts she still subconsciously avoided coming in contact Hisoka unless necessary.

For a long time she was silent, her ice blue eyes, which, up until now been glittering with energy and excitement had turned cold and calculating. What did he want? Was he truly simply trying to train her? Was he so afraid of her bloodline and what it could become that he felt the need to watch her? To mold her? Suspicions and paranoia bounced around inside her skull as her gaze grew frigid. She wanted a team, and Navi was already proving to be an excellent sensei. So there was really only one question being asked.

Did she trust him?

“Hisoka?” her mental probe was questioning.

“You know what I think, it’s a trap! Can’t you see that!” he snapped back. She stayed quiet for a moment thinking then.

“ You think it’s a trap, you distrust him because you think you must. But do you think its worth it?” there was a long long pause, her partner battled with his emotions fighting with his distrust, and trying to look into her query. For a long moment he retreated from her, thinking deeply.

“I-I think its worth the risk considering what he could teach us IF he was trustworthy, which I’m not saying he is,” inwardly she smiled. And outwardly she patted his shoulder gently, rubbing the muscle soothingly.

“Yes,” she said bluntly, not looking up from Hisoka for a long moment. Then her gaze flicked to Navi. “I’ll join your little genin group, though for the love of my life I cant understand why I think I wont die horribly in doing, this, I accept your offer.

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“Yes,” she said bluntly, not looking up from Hisoka for a long moment. Then her gaze flicked to Navi. “I’ll join your little genin group, though for the love of my life I cant understand why I think I wont die horribly in doing, this, I accept your offer.

Navi sighed and felt his heart sink a little. Hisoka had become far more distrustful and his request had put Ayama on edge. The only possible optimism that could be injected into the situation was that she did actually say "yes" and it would be a chance for Navi to prove that his offer was in her best interest and that he was indeed trustworthy.

It was getting late in the day, and Navi had other duties to attend to back at the village. "We can meet again, alone as always, same time tomorrow." Still deep in thought, Navi made a handsign and vanished in a small cloud of smoke, somberly bounding back the the Leaf Village and replaying all the events of today back in his head.

Why did he care? Navi had turned cold on just about everyone in his life anyways, a girl he only partially knew should hold no consequence to him. Something ate away at him though, and it irritated Navi that he was feeling anything at all about it. Maybe it was because her experience and hardships seemed so similar to his, and he expected a stronger bond of trust to have been formed. After a deep breath, Navi calmed his nerves and pushed it all out of his mind.

Relax, you'll see her again tomorrow.

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Ayama watched and judged his reaction closely and was slightly surprised to find him crestfallen. She was also surprised to find that she felt… bad about that. Why would she feel bad? She’d stolen tricked travelers into her fathers traps stabbed and even killed once. Remorse was not a big part of her life style, considering what she did it couldn’t be. So what was this icky feeling in her heart?

"We can meet again, alone as always, same time tomorrow."

Nodding she watched him vanish in a puff of smoke. A head nudged her hand, Hisoka asking for more pets. She was tempted to chuckle, it looked like she’d found a weakness in the cats armor. He loved pets. Smiling her rubbed his head gently before extracting her pendant from her shirt and holding it out to him. His yellow gaze flicked to hers briefly searching.

"Are you alright?" He though was filled with concern. Ayama merely nodded, she supposed she was fine, her strange feelings were only mildly troubling.He sighed before he closed his eyes and disintegrated, swirling back into the pendant. Sighing she glanced at the spot where Navi had been. Sighing she made a quick series of handsigns and teleported away, a poof of smoke all that remained of her and Navi’s meeting.

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+29 JP + 14 Stats for Navi

And since Ayama was kind enough too do the math for me Approved.