Training on the borders of Konoha

Youka had been restless for a while now and the only thing he knew to do when he got this way was to train. He figured today would be the perfect time to focus on increasing his strength and stamina by not using jutsu but just hand to hand combat. He waited on his partners to join.

Hikarishi walked behind Youka to the place where he was going to, unknown to him yet, He seemed to want to have a spar using only Taijutsu which would be no problem as he needed to toughen his skin up some so he could take more hits in the future.

In his mind he would let Youka know he was there. "Yo im here man." he would think to the man.

"Who we waiting on though?" He asked out loud.

It seemed that Maku would be the last to arrive.  He knew that Youka wanted to do some sparing in taijutsu, which was well and good since that had always been a weak point of Maku's. Arriving he tested the mark that Hika had given him. Focusing on both the men there he told them both without opening his mouth "well I'm ready whenever you two are". With that Maku positioned himself a couple meters apart from both men, and waited to see how they planned to train.

Everyone had followed him to a nice 15 meter by 15 meter clearing of what looked to be a dense forest, This area should do well he thought for what the plans were. Hika had talked to him through the mental communication again, which he still wasn't used to so he responded verbally. "Well guys I figured we could each strengthen our physical bodies in a little 3 way using only taijutsu". He enjoyed these moments when he could interact and read people through full contact. "No jutsu please and may the best man win" he would say taking up a defensive stance waiting to see who would be first to break and attack.

Hiakrishi watched as the two others took up a stance and talked. "Alright then this should be fun." He said to the both of them out loud. Hikarishi stood in the middle of the 15 meter clearing while Youka was in front just five meters away which put the other man at 3 meters away from youka and 3 meters away from Hikarishi on a diagonal line to his right, if he was indeed correct on the positioning. They had both taken a stance at this point, something Hikarishi didn't worry about, for the sake of the no jutsu rule Hiakrishi turned off his Eternally red eyes and slid off his sunglasses which would be put inside of his ninja pouch before begging his next move, It would be in a blur of speed he would dash towards the man on the left, youka, and proceed to give a simple instruction to him alone. "To the other guy?" and with that he would re-route the dash, this would be done by simply jumping back a few meters his face still towards Youka and his eyes open and ready to make a move if need be, to the other 'Priest' aiming a kick at the knee cap of the man while stretching an arm out to clothesline Youka if he did make a move towards the man he had just met.

Maku, wondered what Hika was up to first dashing to Youka, and then changing routes so quickly. His movements where blurry, Hika was quite a bit faster than he was, and so was Youka making this into a very difficult situation. Maku could see the kick incoming, but it was so quick he knew he would never be able to doge it completely.

Twisting as best he could he made it so the kick instead of hurting his knees would simply sweep him off his feet. Maku also extended his arm so to take advantage of his falling momentum to attempt to hit Hika in the face on his way down with his right arm, and extended his left arm so he would be able to roll away. If left uninterrupted he would roll, and hopefully end up a meter behind Hika. There he would regroup, and see what Youka was doing.

Having his hands full, Maku did not have time to prepare for anything that Youka was up to

Youka would have been following close behind Hika as he made his movement towards maku at this point. The only thing he had to avoid was a well placed clothesline that Hika had thrown out to detour him. It wouldn't be pretty what was about to happen, but he didn't need pretty it just needed to work. As Youka would reach the clothes line he would duck under it hopefully un hindered by anything else. As he was coming back up he would grab the same arm, kicking back with his right leg aimed for the back of Hika's leg which would hopefully cause him to drop to one knee. This would take place after Maku would have extended his arm to hit Hika, Youka would use his other free hand to grab Maku's wrist while he was still in the air bending it in on it's self.

If this went according to plan he would have both of them in each hand Hika on one leg with his arm in his left hand and maku on the ground with his wrist in a gooseneck hold.

Youka had dodged the clothesline and kicked him in the knee causing him to drop down. Hikarishi was not ready to call it quits though and began to spin on said downed knee using his other, straightened out leg, in a sweep like fashion and if youka was still holding on to his arm the spin would likely make him fly around with him. The spin would happen just as Youka grabbed a hold of Makus wrist and if Maku was not able to resist the spinning action as well he would most likely colloid with Youka as the spin was done.

If all went to plan then Youka and Maku would smack each other and Hikarishi would be facining away from both of them beginning to stand up.

At moments like this life seemed to happen in slow motion. He had become a ninja and developed genjutsu, for the exact purpose of not being in these situations. If he had time, he would have sighed at this frustration, he wasn't a great hand to hand fighter, the best he usually did was go with the flow until he had an opening so that was what he would do.

Feeling himself being spun, Maku would reach out and grab a handful of Hika's clothing, in an attempt not to collide with Youka. If this went correctly then it would cause all three of them to tumble together. He would then attempt to twist out of Youka's hold and roll away from the pile. If he was able to get away he would stand, and see how the other two handled the tumble.

If Hika dodged being grabbed then Maku's gamble would fail and he would helplessly collide with Youka, his only hope would be if Youka had let go and moved away, which would allow Maku to ungracefully escape by being thrown and rolling on the dirt, for 2 meters before pushing himself up and getting to his feet.

Well this had sort of worked, but at the same time not at all. Hika had used Youka's attack as his own to gain the upper hand, and it wasn't going well for Youka right now. He was being forced into a spin with Maku still tight in his grip. With how things were going Maku would collide with him causing a very embarrassing moment for them all. Deciding it would be for the best he let Maku's wrist go as the spin was being completed tossing him away.

He now had time to focus his momentum and energies on just Hika. He would attempt to mount him in a rather ungraceful way using the speed from the momentum to catch him off guard. If this worked he would start to launch body shots on Hika still keeping an eye on Kani.