Mountain Fun [P,NK]

Souji, quite frankly, was not looking in the best shape. He had put on a nice facade for a while, but as the battle wore on, he was looking worse and worse. He had lost quite a bit of blood from the lacerations on his body, and the strain of keeping up this flight was taxing on his body. It seemed like another internal source was sapping his energy, his body struggling to keep itself together. His chainmail and shirt were covered in red splotches that was obviously his blood. His skin was becoming pale and his vision was blurring as he took some time to adjust to the lack of blood in veins. He grit his teeth, the bruises on his body getting worse from him exerting himself and the fact that he was doing complex movements in the air despite his injuries. This was a test of fortitude for him...one that might kill him, however. His body felt heavy, like stone blocks were attached to his limbs. His wings burned with the might of one thousand suns, and he felt like he was going to fall out of the air. Air burned as he breathed it in raggedly, the will to move leaving his arms and legs. He started to float down to the earth like a leaf, his stamina leaving him as his feet touched the ground. 

At once, the wings let out sickening crunches as the feathers disappeared from him, leaving nothing but fleshy, demonic-looking wings on his back. Soon, the flesh melted from the bone, turning into pure chakra and fluttering in the air. He harshly grit his teeth, roaring in pain once again as his skeletal looking wings broke themselves, crunching back into his back and the flesh covering what once was the base of his ebony wings. He fell to the ground, blood splattering on the ground as he bent over in pain. He grit his teeth, biting on his lip to wake him from what was soon to be a comatose slumber, the young genin starting to rise and stand steady. His horns receeded back into his skull, rather painfully, the flesh closing up behind it as if his head were a door. The markings on his face vanished as well, the third eye closing and the genin looking relatively normal (safe for all the wounds and bruises). He stayed out of Tee and Inijo's way, not having the energy to do anything anyways. 

He plopped down on his butt, slowly curling his legs together in a cross-legged sitting position, wanting to do some meditation to take his mind off of the pain and blood loss. He needed to calm down, calm his breathing and heart rate so that his blood flow would be better than it was, and he needed to try and control his body until he got to a medic. He took a deep breath, concentrating what chakra he had to his side in an attempt to staunch the bleeding, even if it was just a little bit. His muscles clenched where he sent his chakra, the blood flow slowing, yet not completely stopping. He started slowing his breathing, as painful as it was, his body swaying as he got light-headed, ,though he kept his concentration intact. He had no worries about Tee or Inijo, because he had hoped that they would leave him alone to his wounds whilst they fought among each other. His heart rate started to slow as the blood flow to his wounds stopped and the blood flow to his vital areas kept going. It was quite the feat, though he didn't know how much longer he could keep it up.

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Tee saw the Inijo or his clone rushing toward him above ground, Tee also knew that Inijo had sent either him or his clone underground as well. As Tee landed back on the ground he knew that he needed to get away quickly or he would have to do the same thing he did last time. Tee was also pretty tired as well and just wanted this all to end. But that's exactly what Tee planned to do, to end everything. Tee performed the body flicker technique and would appear directly to the right of the clone. Neither Inijo nor Souji would be able to track him because when using the body flicker all they would see is a blur. When Tee got next to the clone holding his shuriken he would punch it in it's right rib and kick the arm that held the shuriken. Once Tee did this he would grab his shuriken and jump back 5 meters near the mountain wall. Tee looked toward Souji to see exactly what was going on with him. But when Tee looked at Souji he was rather surprised as Souji was covered in blood all over. Souji's wings and horns had completely disappeared answering Tee's previous questions. Tee now knowing Souji's transformation wasn't permanent wondered if it had some other side effects other than the obvious physical ones that were displayed on Souji. Souji sat down cross legged on the floor basically ignoring Tee and Inijo and began to meditate which Tee found rather irritating. But Tee was breathing heavily and he was not really in the mood to fight anymore either so Tee said. "Hey guys this has been fun and all but i have some stuff to do so i have to cut this training off short, see ya Inijo and Souji." With that Tee transformed Yami back into rock form and stuck it back into his pocket.

Tee was sure that he had pretty much confused the two ninja who were probally still wanting to fight regardless their obvious tiredness and wounds. Tee figured he would meet them again one day so they would fight again. As Tee left he looked back at the faces of Souji and Inijo those were faces that Tee would remember as they were faces that Tee would most likely see again. Tee rubbed his head as he walked toward the main mountain path and away from their little sparring area. As Tee was walking away in his clumsiness he tripped over a rock and fell flat on his face injuring his leg. "Well aint that a..." Tee said in his head. Tee was so pissed because he had walked out of that spar almost completely unharmed but gets injured by falling on the damn floor. Tee looked back while on the ground hoping that Inijo nor Souji had seen this embarrassing display as it would most likely change how they saw him. But then Tee looked away, he didn't care what they think, if they had something to say to him they knew who was the strongest of the three and there would only be one way Tee would be willing to settle it. Tee pushed himself up off the ground and dusted the dirt off his pants and shirt. Adjusting his ninja headband Tee walked off toward the village in the sunset.

[Exit]

TWC: 4506


24 stats
45 JP

As Inijo was arising from the ground, he noticed Tee forming a hand seal. The same one he used multiple times to perform the strange 'technique' that speeds him up.. Inijo could now officially assume that the speed increasing method was indeed a technique, one that Inijo would have to research. Tee then disappeared into a blur, scanning for him, his clone was destroyed rather quickly. He looked over to where it stood. It was the clone that had taken the shuriken like weapon. The clone hadn't seen much other than a blur, too. Inijo quickly checked over at Souji, who didn't look too great... He was covered in wounds and blood... what had Inijo missed while he was underground? Perhaps it was his transformation.. though it was highly unlikely. The transformation was reverting, his wings losing all their feathers. He watched as they fell to the ground, and all that was left was fleshy, bone-like wings. An eye, Inijo had never noticed had shut. The boy was reverting back into his original form, meaning his transformation wasn't permanent.



He looked back at Tee, who had just said he was leaving. He mentioned having other things to do. Of course, Tee had beaten Inijo to ending the spar verbally.. however his intentions were quite different from Inijo's. Tee didn't seem to take any care for other's wellbeing, an example being the fact that Souji having been.. seemingly heavily wounded, but meh. He turned back to Souji, paying no more attention to the leaving Tee. "...Well peace" He said, leaving the meditating Souji to himself, to do whatever he wanted to do.



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Souji had put literally 0% of his attention to the other two while they left to do what they needed to do, the shinobi calming his body down before he lost any more blood from the heavy wounds on his body. He wouldn't be able to stand, much less walk back in his condition if he had not gone through this  meditation to calm his heart and slow his breathing. His eyes fluttered open slowly, noticing that the two other shinobi had basically left him for dead. He was quite miffed at the fact, growling a bit as he got up slowly, his legs a bit numb from sitting down on the mountain. His body still ached and hurt from the damage from his fight with his inner devil, and his mind was in shambles. His vision blurred, his body swaying side to side as he started to walk off the mountain. The voice of the demon echoed in his consciousness, the genin having to rest against some rocks as he started to leak blood from his side again.

"This body...will be mine!" He said, fending off a mental assault from his other half, his body being in quite the poor condition for his mind to be fighting off the demon, the genin having to wage war on two fronts. He shuffled towards the village, his body barely able to sustain itself. He grunted and groaned in pain, trying his best to fend off the demon.

In his mind's eye, he was fighting the demon with the same torn up body that he had been lugging around in the waking world, his wounds closed up with sheer force of will and muscular force, yet it slowed him down. His reaction time was becoming longer and longer, and his attacks were losing their strength. Though, his pure force of will did not falter in the slightest. He stared the demon down, engaging in unarmed combat once again, this time seemingly holding his own without too much more damage being put on his already messed up body. 

"You've grown a bit stronger, to fight me in that pitiful state you are in." The demonic entity said with a chuckle as it faded away, the full force of the genin's will coming back to his waking body. He looked around a bit, finding himself against a rock. It was night time. He must have passed out just a short way from Kumogakure's front entrance. He hurried to the front gates, where he was escorted to the medical corps for treatment and rest.

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(TWC: 6313. JP: 63 Stat Points: 32)

(Devil Gene Mastery Training: 1819/2000)

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