Social Training (Open to anyone)

The cool morning air was a gentle breeze as it entered through the open window. It gently caressed all the surfaces in thr room, and included the skin of one Aya Hiyashi. What most would consider an enjoyable whisp of fresh air, Aya considered it to be a blizzard from Snow country.

"Dammit" she muttered unhappily as a shiver ran up her body from her toes to her head. Goosebumps covered her arms, and Aya swore the morning was out to get her. Quickly rising, she showered and dressed. Cursing the cold morning the whole way. Going downstairs, the teen considered staying behind and repairing weapons while staying in the constant warmth of the forge. Shaking her head, she kenw she had to train, and waved a goodbye to her family. Though they didn't respond, or notice, but it was an old habit.

Going to the tea shop, the teen had her usual. She stayed there, slowly going through her morning meal, in a vain attempt to keep herself from going outside into the cold. While she knew it was only a cool morning, she felt like the wind was freezing and pierce through her layers and turn her insides to ice. Sighing at her thoguhts, the redhead finished her meal and downed the rest of her tea. Leaving the usual amount of money behind, she pumped chakra into her legs and ran all the way to the training grounds.

Once there, she immediately began to go through her stretches and her Kata's and the slow moevement she does as her warm up. Rolling her shoulders when she was done, she jogged over to one of the straining posts and began to hit it rhythmically. Knuckles, palm, back palm, forearm, elbow, rinse and repeat. She was completely focused on keeping count, and staying in time. Much like her family when they're working at the forge.

After getting out of the hospital and following up on his duties as Interim Kage, today was one of those days where Yaju or Operative Mutsu as his ANBU members knew him as would walk through the village to look at the growth of it and overall because he kind of had to keep an eye on it in case of an attack or something like that. Currently he had been wearing a Black buttoned up shirt which would be half buttoned, a yellow scarf, a grey Haori, black pants and of course his nice sandles as he traveled through the village with his son Kodomorashi. Sitting on his side was his family heirloom and prized sword the Totsuga no Tsurugi and sat snuggly on his hip as he turned the corner silently and moved towards the training grounds.

Although his form would disappear into the trees where he could watch a little experiment, Yaju would be just above the two academy students or more specifically in a tree above them where the leaves would obscure their vision of him if they had looked up. Meanwhile Kodomorashi would walk into view and look at the boy who had just said some that a boy of his age should not say.


Moving up near the two of them Kodomorashi would clear his throat and sit on the branch," You know you should not say that to a girl you know nothing about...especially being as young as you are. Apologize to the nice girl or...well you don't want to know what would happen," although Kodo wasn't one to openly threaten anyone, but that sort of behavior was not going to be tolerated. Turning his eyes to the young girl he would smile," Hello there," the only words he needed to say as he moved his hands into his pockets. The purple haired, Red eyed boy would cut his eyes to Hanten as he waited for him to say something, all the while Yaju merely watched to see what would happen.

Aya jumped when she heard a male voice call out to her, spinnign around she saw a boy with blue eyes and dark hair. She blinked once, twice, thrice. When had he gotten there!? Shaking her head to rid herself of her blush, from his comment about his body, she opened her mouth to speak when an older man came around and scolded the boy. When the older male smiled at her, she returned his smile.

"Hello to you" she said, then turned her eyes to the boy before her. "I wasn't doing it for fighting, I was doing it to toughing my skin and strengthen my bones, silly" she grinned and leaned back on the balls of her feet. Idly, she looked between the two. She doesn't know any of them, but the sword on the older mans side caught her eye. Even though it was sheathed, she could tell it was beautifully crafted. The blacksmith side of her wanted to take the sword and marvel at it, to observe every detail. But the rest of her simply admired the blade, knowing that in the hands of its owner it could easily end her career as a ninja. Turning back to the boy, she was pretty sure he was younger than her, before at him again.

"You don't have to apologize to me, but you can make it up to me by sparring with me. I haven't sparred with anyone for a long while, and I'm worried it's affecting my fighting abilities" she offered, already sending out a steady flow of chakra around her limbs in preparation for the potential fight. If the boy said no, then she would simply ask the swordsman. While chances are, she would lose easily, it would at least give her some real perspective on how far she had to go until she became a formidable fighter.

The girl turned around. Man, she was pretty. He also saw some other boy... he wasn't sure what to make of this one. Was he dangerous? Was he a wimp? Only a direct approach would tell. Still, no need to act irrationally this time. Still, he knew what he had said wasn't all that appropriate, but it hadn't produced the desired effect on her. That was good! He liked this girl. She was energetic too! Just the perfect counter to his own consistency.

But the boy was an anomaly. What exactly was he? Hmm... "Well, well, I have no problems apologizing, it can't hurt. But know that this wasn't my fault! She was stretching very nicely." Hanten would point this out with his ever present smile. "Very well. I apologize, ma'am, for complimenting you on your attractiveness. I also apologize for pointing out a flaw in your training that turned out not to be a flaw after all! Good job with durability training, by the way." After doing this, Hanten turned back to the swordsman/boy whatever. "See? Happy? It turns out, it wasn't so hard after all. Then again, the fact that I had to apologize in the first place.... wasn't my fault!" 

Hanten turned back to the girl. "Anyways, I guess we can spar. This guy here can join in too! I'd love to get clobbered by such fine specimens as you two! You look like you're just meant for each other!" Hanten would say this, hoping it would have some kind of effect. He knew from the boy's previous statement that he was probably one of those types who couldn't stand insults to a lady. Hanten intended to test this hypothesis, in hopes that he would be able to get to know his fellow ninja colleagues more. Well, he would have to see.

[OOC: currently you are talking to the little kid with a red jacket and grey pants, the man with the sword is currently "hiding" from view.]

A spar? Kodomorashi tilted his head for a moment as the young girl proposed that they spar, but even the young boy was a bit....weary of this. Kodo's eyes had cut to the base of the tree for a moment as his hands went into his pocket, a small shrug coming from him as he smiled," Okay but don't be surprised if i hurt you or anything, my dad says i am really strong so i would have to hold back a bit so i would not hurt any of you," he was speaking more to the boy because well... Kodomorashi couldn't exactly hurt a lady let alone a cute girl like her.

Kodomorashi left his hands inside of his pockets as he jumped up and down getting ready for the spar. That boy had an overly large mouth and his words had been upsetting the boy for a while, leave it to him to take after his father for something like that. Once he had called Kodo a specimen, Kodo's body would disappear in an instant as his form was front of Hanten, the only thing he could see was a foot to his face at the speed of 82, with the speed he was going the boy would have no room to react as his foot would connect and send him flying back with half of his strength (11).

Kodo would land onto the ground with a smile as he turned to the girl and pulled out his left hand, motioning for her to attack him and have some fun with it. Knowing that boy he would definitely be feeling that kick.

(Whoops! My bad, misread a few things there, I guess... sorry)

Aya blinked when the young boy appeared in front of... she didn't know his name, and kicked him in the face. The girl winced at that, but otherwise ignored the probably injured boy in favor of the one who kicked him. She grinned and took a battle-ready stance. "Oh yeah, I'm Aya Hiyashi. Nice to meet you both" she said before running at him and executing a pretty basic punch-block-jab combo, before aiming to drive her knee into the boys side.

Using the gained momentum to jump back and put some distance between herself and her fast opponent, she risked a glance at the location of the other boy. Seriosuly, she needed to learn the names otherwise it's just going to get confusing. Returning her gaze to the more immediate threat, she drew a kunai and steadied herself into a defensive position. She didn't know what skills her current opponent has, but guessing by how fast he could move, she sure as hell isn't taking any chances against him. Though she doubted that would help, but it might save her from another visit to the hospital. She continued to fuel her body a steady amount of chakra, while she did this to help with speed and strength, it was mostly to keep out the damn cold!

Hanten was just about to say something, when he was hit in the head with a most powerful force. Ah, ah, what was this? He was flung to the ground. Hanten was somewhat dazed. Ah, so here it was. He now had a good idea that this boy was pretty far beyond his league. Splendid! He now had a good opponent to lose shamefully again. How wonderful. Hanten also wondered about the girl's power level as well. If she was as strong as he was, then that would be ever the more painful for him. Hanten loved to lose, but he hated pain, as any normal person would. Abnormal as he was, even he was no masochist. A love of losing is not a love of pain.

He felt the pain course through his head, and knew that he would have a rather large bump there later. Ah, how unfortunate. A mar to his marvelous features. Hanten sat up blurrily, and noticed the girl moving towards the boy. However, she was well within his reaction time, so he would stretch forth his leg, and expertly leg-sweep her as she would run towards the other boy. He would do this in such a way that she would fall right onto his own body. If she somehow managed to avoid this, he would continue the motion, spinning all the way around and hop back up in a squatting position. 

If the move did indeed succeed, he would pretend like the whole incident was an accident. Then again... he would have to see. That boy seemed to get pissed off at everything he did, so he would have to exersize extreme caution. He liked the girl more than the boy, of course. Hanten's hands would be on the ground, supporting him while he leg swept the girl.

Arashi nearly broke the alarm that was blaring when he slammed his fist on the snooze button. He rubbed his eyes. He wasn't much of a morning person, but if he wanted to become a strong Shinobi, he knew some training was in order. Currently, he was in his boxers with a plain t-shirt, so he went over to his closet and picked out his usual clothes: A black trenchcoat with the Kumogakure symbol on it, a pink undershirt, some black shorts, and a pair of black sandals. On a brown desk next to his bed, he picked up his headband and tightened it around his forehead, then proceeding to pick up a toothpick he chewed on often and placed it in his mouth. It was a rather annoying habit.

Arashi then dashed down the stairs, quickly checking if his parents were home. When he found no traces of them, he suspected that they were at work. It would've been nice to have a small breakfast before he went out training, but Arashi didn't really mind. Once Arashi exited the house, he pulled out a small brown book, a little bigger tthen his hand.

"Hn..I'm not any hurry. I suppose I could read while I go to the training fields..." Occasionally, Arashi would look up too make sure he was going the right way, but that didn't stop him from bumping into the other villagers, who often gave him glares. However, Arashi was too busy reading to notice them.

"Reading about Ninjutsu..it interests me greatly. Perhaps I should go focus on my chakra control while I'm in the fields...even meditation will make me stronger."

Eventually, he reached the training fields, and it seemed pretty busy. He frowned. To be honest, he didn't like being around other people, especially in a training environment. If he discovered a new technique, they would be on him like white on rice.

Three people were battling currently: A boy with purple hair, a girl, and another boy. Arashi watched the trio with interest, leaning back against a tree trunk, chewing on his toothpick.

"Hn..."

Arashi was wondering if they'd let him join this battle. He closed his book and placed it back in his pocket. Arashi was itching to test his skills.

Kodo slid into the girls attack as he blocked the first one but allowed the second one to hit as he grabbed her hand and smiled," I am Kodomorashi Hayate, but just call me Kodo because my name is a little to long to pronounce," smiling he would begin to pick up the girl and slide her back a bit, not trying to hurt her but giving them an equal distance. Kodo was already aware of the new kids arrival and did not pay him that much attention, although he would charge in on the girl as he threw her the opposite way of the way in which Hanten had been. Seeing that the girl was the only one that was going to fight him, he was going to go a bit easy and move on more of her level, his right hand going towards her lower side in an attempt to punch her ribs. This was going to be a fun little spar for him especially if someone else were to join in and fight.