Training new power

As always Youka was constantly watching and anticipating what could happen in the event that everything he planned had come unraveled. Everything that was done had a counter action to it and you just had to be ready for when that moment arrived and Youka was always ready no matter what. He was watching both fronts of the battlefield waiting for one of his friends to make it back to him so he could engage in some up close and personal fighting. The priest was training his taijutsu to pick up stronger hand to hand combat skills and be able to handle things even more suited for all the battles to come. The it happened and his hearts leapt, Youka could feel Maku's chakra move and come closer to Youka. Well Maku would just have to understand that being close to his friend was not the best idea.

Youka's armor went away on the front side of his chest and miniature holes would appear and in a fraction of that time multiple threads shot from his body at a speed not even Youka could control. Their power and speed were ramped drastically and they would go for Maku in a attempt to puncture the man in front of him in various ways that he would have no control of. Since Youka had no idea which one was Maku the threads would go without regard to all of the signatures around him (Strength of threads 322)(Speed of threads 570)

While this was happening The Kira chapter was still going on and she was still fighting her hardest to get past his hand and into the main action that was happening between Maku and himself. Sadly Youka would not let her out till she could actually get past as it made it easier on him to manage all of the attacks happening. Kira was trying and she was doing a wonderful job of no longer staying defensive but he would show her that she still had a ways to go to catch up to his level. With his increased thread speed due to him activating his threaded distortion he would wait till the moment was right to destroy her in a very subtle way. She was learning though and she had finally found out what he meant by remember when she had first fought with him in the beginning.

He thought about it but then he realized that holding back was not the way fro her to actually grow into a wonderful fighter, he would have to push her to the most desperate terms over and over again. His threads were presumably as he would take from their previous spars more powerful than her shadows. The hand would shrink closer to the ground allowing for more thread length to be given to the entirety of the constructs that were fighting her now. With the increased power and speed he was sure his threads would either still puncture all of her shadows or be extremely too fast for her to react to. He would watch as his threads would puncture and tear at her shadows even going so far as to wrap around and choke the shadows that had mouths and were trying to eat his threads. He applauded her ability to think ahead and form different strategies and if it was anyone other than him she would indeed have come out on top of this, however it was Youka, and he did not show mercy or lenience to anyone that wanted to test their own powers.

The threads as stated from his hand would shoot directly forward as stated previously and more than likely puncture any of her shadows she brought up in defense and if any more of her shadows were brought up they indeed would be struck down faster than they could do anything to intercept his movements. If what he thought to be true was true Kira would end up with cuts not only in her clothing but also on her face and maybe punctures in her body as his threads zipped in and out. The point of this was still to wrap around her and constrict her movement by still cocooning her at their new speed and if this did happen he would slam her cocooned body to the ground at his full strength. If that was able to come into play the three zombies that were in play now would make their way to grab and hold her down as the threads would let her go. She would more than likely be trapped now with the threads ready to still react to her at a ungodly speed should she try anything else and the zombies would apply pressure to her body should she ty to free herself, these actions should take Kira out of the spar till he was ready to let her enter again.

Hard as she tried His threads were too fast for her to hope to follow. Betweent he two of them she had a contingency plan, of course, but it fell to the way side when she lost track of the speed you youka's threads. they would burst up around her both from the construct and the ground, and her shadow split open at their whim. The attack aimed at her made it perfectly to their target, though thankfully to her the momentum of her spin saved her money, and most likely her life. The threads bombarded her ripping through her clothes and tearing enormous holes in her shirt before the turn of her body made them lose a target to slice into. Before she was aware what happened she was wrapped up in a cocoon of threads and slammed against the ground with enough force that she ceased to struggle before she even had the chance. 

~ma...k...uuu~ She sent the message to her friend as her mind swam for a split second before she lost consciousness from the collision with the ground to lie limp on the ground still completely surrpounded by the thread cocoon. ~Was this the end? Could he really succeed finally? Is this....Is this how I die...~ The quickly waning thoughts of a mind struggling to hang on would be transfered once more to the leader of Yuki as her body struggled for several seconds to regain consciousness for several minutes before giving up and allowing her to be swept up in a strange dream like state of unconsciousness. Shew as alive, though it was incredibly possible she would earn a concussion from the impact and require some medical attention but the worst injury she would sustain, unless he continued to strike her unconscious and most likely bleeding body like a cold apathetic coward, would be the psychological after math of her mind fully believing this was the end of her life, whether true or just an over exageration caused by her history and a forced loss of consciousness in battle. 

(TWC 6054, 1500 Ryo, 60 JP exit upon being carried out or w.e ^^))

The threads were to fast and in a moment that Maku could not see, they were upon him.  He didn't have time to perform the necessary hand signs to unleash his blast which surely would have assisted him greatly.  Instead he was buffeted by thread after thread, pushing him back to their full length, sending him 30 meters from Youka, his armor had saved him, but he was worried it was a bit scratched and dinged in a couple places.  It was at this point that Maku instituted his next strategy to win the fight.  Standing 31 meters from Youka, he heard Kira's message.  Was she really dead, he doubted it.  He knew Youka well enough to know when the man was in a killing mood, and when he wasn't and the priest hardly appeared to be in a killing mood at the moment, he was having to much fun to be angry.  All the same he should probably check it out. 

Maku raised both hands in a time out signal.  At the same moment he would use the choker to talk to Youka "Did you kill Kira?  She seems to think you did."  And he would walk over to her to see her condition, which hopefully Youka would remove the threads from her.  

(WC=2887)

Youka was really tarting to get his blood pumping in this spar and every thread in his body was ready for action. His whole thoughts were going to how to make this match more fun than what it already was and how he could up the ante and push himself as well as his comrades to new heights in themselves. He was watching on both fronts as Maku and Kira fought for control and dominion of the battle field over him. He was always intrigued to find out who would iwn in a death match should it ever come to that. He always took Maku as his best friend but also as his worst nightmare should they ever come to odds with each other. There was hardly anything he could do should the man choose to employ a genjutsu over him, luckily they had yet to show that they would ever butt heads and come to a point of disagreement.

Kira while she was getting much stronger he felt that it would take a while but he would still come out on top of the battle. She was very resourceful but still lacked something that he couldn't put his fingers on. Her shadows were getting ever stronger and each time he ran against them he had to push out slightly more power to counter act them. it was still just something holding her back from being what he wanted her to be and it finally came to him, it was her unwillingness to take a life that to him held her back from her true potential. No matter how much he tried she would not break that one rule of hers and it pissed him off. However she was doing a nice number on his ethics he still enjoyed killing people no doubt but he would think what would Kira think if he took their life before well..taking their life. It wasn't that he was going soft but that she was showing him what he guessed she thought was a better way to handle the situation even if he himself didn't think so.

However sadly his time for fun was being cut short as he would notice that Kira had become completely over run by his threads and was now at their mercy as they wrapped around her whole body and swung it violently towards the ground in a huge thud. The snow more than likely had cushioned and absorbed most of the damage with the threads taking another portion of it. However apparently Maku had thought it serious eough to put a hold on their fun to check on the young woman. Then Youka heard a question over the choker, had he killed Kira was the question. Why would he kill her, they were having fun and building on their power together. Now was not the time to take a life when everything was providing such amusement to him, apparently if you attack someone with the intent to kill them you always and forever will be trying to kill said person and Youka didn't like that stereotype. "Why would I kill her right now" would be his only reply to Maku over the choker before he willed his zombies to stop their mindless charging and mumbling and hold off on attacking for awhile. His threaded hand would unravel the girls and place her in the snow before returning back into their holes before the hand would make its way back to Youka.

In a matter of seconds he was fully put back together and Kira was lying in the snow, he couldn't see the extent of her damage but she wasn't moving and that wasn't a good sign.

"I didn't say you did, she sent me a message saying she was dieing or something, so I thought I would check it out."  He would say over the choker as he walked over to look at Kira.  She was breathing so that was a good sign.  Though her clothes had been ripped apart, she was gonna be pissed about that later, though Maku wasn't complaining in the least.  Looking over at Youka he spoke out loud.

"I think I should take her somewhere, shes breathing, but she doesn't look to good.  We will have to continue another time I guess, but it was starting to get good."  Maku would say as he removed his helmet, and called Charlotte over.  He removed all of his armor and handed it to his assistant, to be carried away to his office and cleaned up.  Stretching he felt a lot better to be outside of it, it was getting hot despite all the cold around him.

"By the way Youka, I was hoping you wouldn't mind going to the academy for me.  Check on some of the up and coming ninja, push them see their abilities and let me know what you think.  Your the battle wizard after all, your opinion would mean a lot to me."  Maku would say causally.  It really would, he was doing his best to meet everyone, but he couldn't be everywhere, and a crash course in fighting from Youka was about as good as anyone could ask for.

"Well I guess I will take her to the hospital, but I promise we need to have a spar just you and me before you leave, maybe do it in the wilderness even."  He would say winking as he picked up Kira.  He obviously meant it, so it wouldn't matter how rough they got, out in those woods no one would be around to stop them.  And they'd be able to go toe to toe in peace with no interruption.  

{Exit with kira, unless stopped}
(WC=3218, 32jp and 800 ryo)
(also approving Kira's exit if im not stopped)

approving exits

Now that everything was over and his zombies had returned to the earth as ash and he was put back together it was the end of the spar and as always Kira was either knocked out or crying. It really wasn't Youka's fault that this was the way things always seemed to happen. When he enjoyed himself he wanted to pass on that enjoyment to whoever had given him the happiness. It was just that Kira some times couldn't handle the amount of happiness he was throwing back at her which was depressing at most time. He was always made out to be the bad guy in these situations and now the village people would think that he was trying to kill his teammates. Oh well maybe it was easier for everyone that way if no one really tried to approach him. He wasn't the best at speaking to people anyway unless it was people of equal power or greater than his, and usually it wasn't those people that wanted to talk to him.

"Better not be saying I killed her, cause I can if that's what you want" he would reply over the mark in a sarcastic tone. Then came the bad news about the girl not looking so well and that she probably needed medical attention, sigh why was everyone so frail and not made out of thread like he was. Well she was breathing and that was a plus, usually people breathing ended up being able to wake back up from being knocked unconscious if they tried hard enough. Youka would just nod his head after he took off his helmet when Maku said that he needed to move her, he was slightly irritated at her passing out and if he would have spoken it would just annoy him further. "Yes it was just getting good I don't like ending things half done" it was true Youka was a slight perfectionist when it came to fighting and sparring, always wanting to end them just as well as they had began.

What was he now a baby sitter, why did he have to go check on some little kids, he had just got done thinking that he wasn't good at socializing with the weak and now he was being sent to test their growth. Ah what the hell, Maku was his friend and he still had some energy left as well as some pent up anger that would be perfect to get him through what was about to be done. Youka just gave an armored thumbs up in the direction while he tilted his head up to look at te snowy sky and take in a cold breath of air before exhaling it back allowing him to see his breath in the cold village.

Youka had started to walk to where he knew the school to be located from when he took over Maku's poition as leader for like five minutes before he had been rudely dethroned. Then his ears perked at what his friend said, not about taking Kira to the hospital, he didn't care too much about that, he knew the girl would be ok and he also knew he would be the last person she would want to see after waking up so he would forgo going with them. What had stopped him in his tracks was the offer to have another spar just the two of them. Now that would be something that they could start and finish on a high note and Youka knew he could go all out and more than likely risk even entering into his uncontrolled state to help calm it while he waited and waited to find the boy by the name of Kenzo again. He didn't turn around to signify that Maku was heard he just kept walking after he had stopped for a moment, Maku would know that he had given Youka what he wanted and there was no need to reaffirm it with words.

Youka would again condense all the armor around him to the shield he was so used to carrying on his back now and dredge through the snow on his way to interview some of the young up and coming shinobi. Maybe he would even find some youngsters that peaked his interest enough to want to give them more power for when they became more developed in their techniques and training.He wouldn't be able to tell right out of the gate who would be able to hold his curiosity when he made it to the school so he didn't hold high hopes just in case they all disappointed him and he took it out on them by killing them and burying the school in the snow. Now that he was walking without his armor on he was actually wondering what made him do something so foolish, it was always freezing in this environment and his black pants and mesh shirt weren't enough to keep out the frigid temperatures. As he walked to the school he thought about all he had gained during their little match, he had activated the mark once again which was no small feat and had also managed to feel more power from it coursing through his body as he furthered the activation of the mark to the next unknown stage. Not even the maker of the mark knew what would happen should he reach this next plateau of power all he cared about was gaining it in order to combat his next challenge. There were two people in the world that he wanted to fight the most, there had been four. Maku was no longer on that list because he got to fight that man whenever he wanted and it helped him in his everyday measure of what he could do and it also helped him become better in attacks against genjutsu which he found out he was highly susceptible to in most aspects.

Hikarishi was also once on that list as well of people he wanted to continue to test himself against but he was no longer in the picture and Youka didn't know the next time he was going to ever see that man again. Hika had been the first test of strength and ability and Youka had been bested every time they had decided to have a match. However that had been some time ago and Youka wondered how he would fair now against the Uchiha but until he could see him again that question would remain un answered and he would focus on the two recent people in his life that he knew he could get a hold of when he needed so.

The first of the two on his list was Kenzo the Uchiha from Konoha, that boy had opened up the darker side of Youka that he had desperately tried to keep locked away so nothing bad would happen to the people around him. However the boy had shown Youka what he was continuously missing by holding back his powers and not trying to destroy them at a moments notice. Kenzo had shown that it was ok to be dark in this world where everything was never black and white. Youka liked to think that he had also opened up the boys need for power and a will to grow and search him out to find and destroy him with fire as he had said he wanted to when they first met and began to fight to what would have been the death if they were not interrupted by Maku. Youka could feel however that they would meet again very soon and he would be able to push all of his hatred out of his very being and flow it on Kenzo and in turn the boy would do the same. However he did have a fear when it came to this, and it was that the boy had not grown and indeed had stayed at the same level of power he had left him at, Youka would not be able to enjoy himself and let loose his wrath if that was the case and would be forced to forever live alone in solitude and be afraid of what he was becoming.

The last and final person he wanted to have a match with was none other than Echo the leader of Iwa and his master. He wanted to see how well he stacked against such a man and he had been forced to back down and cower in the sight of the power the man had, that had never happened in his entire time of traveling these lands. He respected Echo for it though as he proved that he was a leader worth following even to death if it came to such an end. He still had an urge to fight the man though that would never go away till it was satisfied.

It was enough dwelling on the battles he wanted to have and now was time to focus on the task his firend had given him. Making his way into the academy he would begin strolling the halls looking for those that looked like they doubted themselves or were overly confident in themselves and he would test them and grade them harshly to see if they were capable of protecting his friend and aiding him while he was away.

(EXIT)
(TWC 7004)
+1750 ryo +70jp
+Mark activation
+1st 3k topic for 2nd form of mark
+Taijutsu spec

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