Training out the bordom[nk][open]

Gogeta listened Nero as he talked when Nero finished Gogeta said that he specialized mostly in Ninjutsu and that he thinks as he spars or fights to break down the other person's movements. Gogeta noticed Crono bit his thumb. He watched as he slammed his hand down and a puff of smoke appeared and disappeared leaving a humanoid with frog formalities in its place. Gogeta listened as the humanoid talk to Crono and as Crono said its name.

He soon listened to Nero as he asked Crono about Habee seeing Nero walk away from Crono Gogeta followed him. Stopping with Nero five meters away he heard that the training would start and if they were ready nodding Gogeta watched Crono and Glenn.

[595]

"You hadn't heard?" Crono stated plainly, "I was called to the hokage's office a few days ago, unfortunatly it seems habee was killed in some sort of training accident" Crono's eyes looked down out of respect for his former team member.  "He was a leaf nin, and died with honor" he looked back up towards his opponents. his left hand moving to grasp upon the tsuka[hilt] of his blade, his touch refreshing the seal undernethe his hand, his right thumb pressed against the Tsuba[handguard] ready to spring it out at a moment's notice. Glenn's blade already drawn as he stood to Crono's right.

suddenly in an instant Crono and Glenn seperated each encircling around to the flanks leaving 10 meters between them and the other two nin. Glenn would be on Gogeta's side, Crono on Nero's. This would end up putting Gogeta and Nero back to back as they would be caught between Crono and Glenn with exactly 20 yards of distance between the samurai and frog.

Quickly Crono unsheathed his blade and drew it to the sky, "Guardia Style Battōjutsu: Do Ryu SEN!" as he yelled the final word with emphasis his blade slammed down into the ground generating a spray of rocks, dust and debris from the point of impact in an 80 degree cone heading towards Nero and Gogeta at 51 speed with a strength of 10. After the attack the remaining dust would cloud the area, acting like a smoke screen.  Crono would quickly resheathe his blade and supress his chakra to await any movement from inside the cloud.

[263| 1,424, 1,424/1,500 ]

"Habee... Is dead ?" Nero thought to himself, repeating what Crono has told him wthin his mind, "He was too young... What a world... And what the hell is honorable in dying by a training accident ? But he is right at some point. It's not his fault or stupidity that killed him, so at least that should be honorable.". As Crono, Nero was looking down to the ground while thinking of his comrade; perhaps also because he had respect for a ninja's life, or perhaps it was just eaiser to picture the boy's face and memories Nero had that included him, while looking at something as blank as the ground.

He watched Crono move. The boy seemed faster than Nero, but not too much. He had also realised that the toad has moved too. He looked back and realised they were trapped. The two inexperienced ninja (or so has Nero thought, judging the other one's abilities) were now right between the experienced Kenjutsu specialist and his toad... Friend ? Nero was not sure. Perhaps it was a summon and perhaps a familiar, a ninja friend. He hoped it was a summon so it could disperse, returning to its own lands once it took enough damage.

Nero turned forwards, he was now once again observing the boy. Then Crono drew his sword and raised it to the sky. "Guardia Style Battōjutsu: Do Ryu SEN!". "Well that can't be good." Nero has thought. No matter what kind of damage it would have been doing, it was basic, the boy has raised the sword and then striked down. Perhaps it was going to be an arc of wind or fire, and perhaps something else; but Nero knew that he needed to get out of the way. Of course he was not going to let his company fall down to the jutsu either, if Gogeta in fact didn't realise Crono's move, even though he shouted the name.

He would have turned around himself, at the same time making some steps to his right. While he was turning he would have grabbed Gogeta and taken him out of the way too, if the boy allowed Nero to do so and didn't fight back. Either way, he would have at least taken himself out of the direction of whatever the Jutsu could have been. Nero could have hardly dodged the move, thanks to him starting acting before the jutsu was released from the blade, and when Crono has first raised the blade, and also thanks to the distance. Nero would then realise a dust cloud covering the area.

Taking advantage of this dust cloud, he would have left the boy wherever he was, and moved towards the toad, hoping of at least rendering Crono's companion out of the battle. He would moved to the behind of the toad from a long distance, so he wouldn't have been seen by either him or Crono, whose vision towards Nero would have then been covered by the dust cloud. Nero woul have now been behind the toad. He would have been moving cautiously in order to not cause a sound. He would then jump towards the toad's back, remaining silent, and stabe the toad in the back with a kunai drawn from the ninja pouch; since he thought drawing the katana would have been riskier because it might have caused a sound when being unsheated.

With Nero's speed, it would have been too late for the toad to realise him and act, if he didn't somehow sense him within the dust cloud, or sensed him when he was behind him. Just in case that the dust would have been cleared out, Nero would have been right behind the toad, leaving it right between the Koutaishi and the Guardia, so Crono did not see him and warn his toad, but would have been alerted at the very least. Nero thought that the stab with the kunai would have been enough to make the toad disperse, giving not only his strength, but the speed he has moved at to do the stabbing.

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If the toad indeed did disperse, Nero would have put the kunai back to his ninja pouch, and would have drawn his katana out. He would now have been facing Crono, if he hadn't moved while Nero had been playing hide and seek and adding a backstab to the finale of the game. By the time, Nero wouldn't have had any idea what Gogeta was up to, what he has done or was doing. The dust could would have probably cleared out already, so Nero would now be observing the area. "Now what ?" the Koutaishi clan member would have thought to himself. "I hope he won't get super mad because I dispersed his summoning...". 

[TWC for Nero: 1502]

Gogeta stood with Nero still watching the two across from them. He listened and watched as Crono told Nero that Habee had died during training. Gogeta now noticed the two start to encircle him and Nero. Thinking fast Gogeta made a plan of their formation. Suddenly he heard Crono's sword being unsheathed and some kind of jutsu being yelled out. Gogeta watched as Crono slammed his blade into the ground and rocks sprayed out toward him and Nero.

Gogeta saw the dust the rocks produced and reacted as the rocks got closer drawing the dust with it. He ran into the dust going toward Crono then he cut to the right using his tail to sense his partner. Gogeta ran next to Nero noticing that he was trying to grab him and Gogeta ran past him toward Crono's direction. As he ran toward Crono Gogeta saw his figure from the dust and cut to the right hiding from his next attack.

Gogeta then noticed that Nero had put his plan in action appearing near the frog. While watching Nero with the frog and Crono near him Gogeta started to focus his chakra into his palm and gripped the boken that he had in his other hand. Gogeta waited for the next attack of his target to get a hit in.

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Glenn knew what was coming the moment crono shouted "Do". he only had one attack that began in such a way, the ground dragon flash. Seeing Gogeta turn his back on him, Glenn attacked, Raising his shield he leaped forward, his powerful legs propelling him at full speed in an attempt to smash himself, shield first into gogeta before Crono's attack went off, while crono's loud voice distracted them.


Should he miss, his shield would deflect the spray of shrapnel and leave glenn in the center of the smokescreen left behind by the dust cloud. Crono would see gogeta charging at him as the barrage of rocks exploded from the ground . the blueish tint of the chakra glowing in his hand would give crono an indication of his position. Crono would immediately resheathe his blade, and would wait for any movement in the cloud in front of him, attempting to use his quickdraw technique to counter the first thing to appear from the cloud. Crono's chakra still supressed.

should glenn's attack strike gogeta, the blunt force of the blow striking him in the back would most likely cause him to fall forward, towards crono, with glenn landing on his back. glenn would then leap up and out of the dust cloud attempting to land at crono's side. Crono would be able to see the hit before his attack clouded his view and would instead see nero moving out of the way of the attack, before encircling behind the cloud. resheathing his blade, crono would use this momentary blind spot created by the smokescreen to take a step to the left and make 2 clones to the right of him, the closest clone situatated in the spot he previously stood. he would then grip his blade and wait to attempt to counter what came next with a quickdraw.

[308| 1732; 1,500/1,500, mastered seal of return home; 232/1000 mastery of battoujutsu: Iaido quickdraw]

Nero would hear the sound of a metal clashing with another instead of the first piercing through the second. It seemed his backstab failed. "I should have realised that his armor was not weak enough to be penetrated by my kunai.". He would then observe the area. Through the openings in the dust, he saw a figure. It was... Crono ? Perhaps. But perhaps it was Gogeta. Nero was not sure enough to attack, so he instead moved back.

Glenn knew what was coming the moment crono shouted "Do". he only had one attack that began in such a way, the ground dragon flash. Seeing Gogeta turn his back on him, Glenn attacked, Raising his shield he leaped forward, his powerful legs propelling him at full speed in an attempt to smash himself, shield first into gogeta before Crono's attack went off, while crono's loud voice distracted them.


Should he miss, his shield would deflect the spray of shrapnel and leave glenn in the center of the smokescreen left behind by the dust cloud.

[You can't just put what Glenn did before you used the Jutsu. It's like me adding something to my arrival at the place right now (i.e. Nero would have burried the hilt of his katana on the ground, so when glenn ran forwards, his legs would be penetrated by the katana, if it was sharp enough, and would at least tackle him if it was not.) I hope you understand my point. 

So, think of these like turns; 1st turn: Crono uses jutsu. Nero runs out of the way and fails at an attack. Gogeta runs into dust. // When it's your post again, it becomes the 2nd turn, and glenn's movement will be late.

Anyway, going on with the post, not minding this. It was just a heads up so you don't do this in a real battle topic in the future.]

This time, Nero would have seen a figure he was sure who it belonged to. It was Crono. Or at least Nero would have thought so... Until he saw a second Crono next to him. Nero would think one of them was the real Crono, but not sure which it was. (Though in fact, they were both clones, and Nero didn't realise it.). Nero would decide not to get close, and wait on an open spot for the dust to clear out completely. He would be away from the could so he could sense a suprise attack, if one came out.

[if glenn is responding to your actions prior to me using the jutsu I can. such as both of you turning your back to him at the distraction of crono announcing his attack. that leaves an opening that i can then choose to exploit. As your posts began "before" the events in my post ended. I can use that new information to change anything thereafter past that point based on the new information. anyway, gogeta's post]

Gogeta waited for Crono's next move watching as he suddenly made clones of his self. As he watched Gogeta's tail sensed that someone was behind him. Gogeta jumped as he noticed Glenn was there trying to get his hit on him.Gogeta's foot was hit as he jumped knocking him off balance in the air. He quickly regained balance but noticed that he felt pain in his left foot.

Gogeta still in the air saw the opening that Glenn gave him and took it. Gogeta quickly gripped the boken with both hands and slammed it down on Glenn. If this attack lands it would knock Glenn into the ground. If it fails in would stun Gogeta's hands for one post. 

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Glenn descended down landing just behind crono. he would blink his eyes a few times to clear his vision from the dust. the shine of his armor was dulled and lightly scratched from the sudden bombardment from crono's attack but nothing a spit shine wouldn't be able to buff out later. The cloud of smoke had settled somewhat, however it was still too dense to see through. this would give both teams a momentary reprieve, even if the other team was seperated, with gogeta laying face down in the smoke cloud, and nero in the location glenn had previously been after a false assumption that he would still be in that location. for the smoke cloud would have blocked line of sight after nero had dodged the attack, unaware that glenn would have already jumped inside to attack gogeta before leaping out and landing once again near crono.

Glenn would whisper to crono, "thy smited thy red one, the other is neigh to be found." , remaining almost motionless while he waited for movement from the cloud. "he moved to my right, avoiding the attack, I lost sight of him after he dashed around the smoke." he spoke in a low whisper, his lips moving but the smallest amount. he focused in, conserving every inch of energy he could, preparing himself for the unexpected. his Iaido training allowing him to tap into inhuman levels of perception and awareness. Glenn took a leap backwards still facing crono's back. his wide eyes allowing him to view at almost 360 degrees. keeping a ready stance and watching out for nero.


[okay, seeing as you didn't move out of the way of my Do Ryu Sen. you got sprayed by rocks, debris, etc coming from the force of the impact. which means that now you are inside of a smokescreen of a dust cloud that blocks your vision. nothing in your profile [minus the pic] eludes to you having a tail (including backstory and appearance)... but i'll go along with it, what i wont go along with is that you can "see" with your tail. especially while getting pelted by rocks whose force is 2/3rds of your strength, with a speed that is over 3x your own, you would at least stagger and flinch as you didn't defend yourself and yet at the same time you just happen to "sense" that someone is approaching from behind? that I will have to say no to, not without some sort of jutsu or skill that defines what kind of sensing you have with your tail. also because of the dust, you would not be able to see crono making the clones. If your "sensing" is me touching your tail, then i would be too close for you to adaqutely dodge out of the way from a motionless state, glenn's speed is 20.] [smoke screen clears at start of my next post.]

OOC:

damage instant resulting dust cloud remains for an additional posting cycle. 

So the cloud should have in fact faded away. (It has passed a circle since you using the technique, no matter of your last post not indicating what you did next but changed the past.)

But yeah Gogeta, what the hell is that tail-sensing thing, gogeta ? :D Anyways. Let's move on. (Crono sorry for possibly causing arguments, just trying get to know your style of rping so I can rp accordingly, and we can actually enjoy our time here. Thanks for bearing with me :D ) Now I understand that you count the last 2 circles as one due to the last one being just a change in the previous one, so I will not say anything. Moving on.]

IC:

Nero was not in a position as bad as Gogeta, who was now inside the debris as far as Nero knew. But the Koutaishi's position was not quite well either. He was outside the cmoke cloud at least, but he could not get clear view of anything or anyone inside. "What to do..." a voice within Nero's head, a sinister one spoke, "What to do... Attack blindly ? What kind of profit could your dying-out mind think of getting from a blind attack ?". Sometimes Nero just wanted to shut some of these voices up, but then he remembered that they were all a part of his imagination, as well as only thoughts. 

"Now..." he thought to himself, this time with his own voice, "Exactly, what to do ?". He could only hope that he could not be seen from the inside of the dust cloud, being somewhere obvious if the smoke in fact did not cover the direction of the eyes of the toad and Crono to Nero. The situation being this. Nero first created a Clone using the Clone Technique, as he then used the Transformation Technique to transform himself, taking the form of a white kitten with gold patterns on some points of its bo0dy, one being around its right eye, not large enough, or shaped well enough to cover the nose or the other eye, OR its mouth.  Anyway, this kitten would have been jumping around and playing, which was in fact what Nero would have been doing. Nero would have been careful enough to not be too close to the clone all the time, but also keep his distance under a yard so that the clone did not disperse due to going out of range.

So, Nero would be on stealth, or perhaps on defense. He believed that if they did not in fact see Nero using the Transformaton Technique, they wouldn't have suspected the kitten to be Nero; or at least would not strike a cat just because they give some chance that the cat may have been Nero. He at least counted on that, because his strategy was based solely on that part of his move.