Re: Frost [p,nk,Kira]

Thu Mar 20, 2014 3:10 pm

Ow! Punching Kiranomo with her physical constitution really hurt! Kanae stepped back in shock, wincing slightly while rubbing her knuckles. Was her body actually this hard, or was it more chakra enhancements? Well, again, Kanae struggled to overcome her reluctance to talk to others. Breathing in sharply from the pain, she spoke up. "H-how are you so tough.... what kind of training did you have to do to get to that level??" At this point, there was only one thing she could do to test out her theory.... but that would involve attacking Kiranomo's face, which was something she didn't exactly feel like doing.

[TWC 916]

Thu Mar 20, 2014 5:21 pm

“Oh my gosh did I hurt you?” She rushed forward the moment she saw kanae recoil. She felt aweful that she might have harmed the girl and prepared to use her medical ninjutsu in the event she had actually broken something. “A...Are you ok?”

“Tough?” She had never really thought of herself as tough so the question was a strange thing for her to answer or even contemplate. The strike she had barelly felt through the chakra enhanced material flowing her power through the sakura brand savar suit, but she seemed to be visibly shaken by the recoil. “I’m no….OH! Well….My suit has a special thread in it that strengthens the defensive capabilities of the savar suit by the total power and quantity of my chakra. It’s a pretty nifty thing. It’s like my cloth suit is as tough as Youka or Leader Maku’s metal armor, and plus the extra protection and tight fit protects me from the negitive body effects caused by the speed at which I can travel.

    As she spoke she activated her Mastery of shadows ability and two thin, sharp pointed tendrils of deep black shadow rose from beside her, one on each side, to stand prepared for what would come next. Beneath her a circle of shadow seemed to grow from her own shadow to stretch out three meters on every side and as the tendrils rose the shadow circle made up for the loss by creating three tears, two small and one large, in the large shadow beneath her. The two smaller ones quickly shifted from a rip like shape, reminiscent to a hole cut in a ninja’s clothing by a near miss sword strike to a large diamond or hrombus shaped opening with sharp looking corners where the shadow around each of them quickly formed back. A splash of black filled the shape like a small marble amongs a sea of white and when they were finished two wicked demonic looking eyes squinted and shifted to look at the younger konoichi. The final moved itself across the sea of nothingness to set below the eyes. It’s shape shifted into an almost half moon at her whim and no sooner had it formed then a row, and then a second, of large sharp jagged teeth filled the space in making a mouth that looked incredibly similar to the eyes in regaurds to the horrible dark evilness that seemed to radiate from their two dimensional shape. After they formed she formed a tiger seal and the facial features imprinted in her shadow softened to look less demonic, more human, and took on a kind and understanding smile.

    “On the bright side…..That one attack gave me enough information. We can now begin sparring and training whenever you’re ready, and i’ll even let you go first!” She shifted her weight to widen her stance, standing at in a well grounded fighting stance, with her lead hand out.

     “Please free to begin whenever you’re ready, and dont hold back. Whatever you can do win this match do so. You wont. She remembered the order not to hold back against Youka and maku, and also remembered having not listened. The ending result was almost dying…..She would not fight this girl that hard, but it was important that she give it her all to be able to test her ninja way.

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Thu Mar 20, 2014 8:25 pm

"Oh, I'm fine." It hurt slightly, but it wasn't too bad.

So, a special armor, possibly one that used chakra to harden. Whether or not it actually did was completely beyond Kanae's bound of knowledge, as she didn't actually know a lot. She probably didn't have the money to fund the creation of such armor anyways. Would she always be this weak? No.... this training here, was making her stronger, she could feel it in her bones. Now, all she had to do was use the pain in her flesh to advance.

Now, back to the suit. It was called the "savar suit", apparently. Hmm... so it had a name. Kanae wondered where that came from. If she could research it, perhaps she could reverse engineer one to her own- wait, what was she thinking?? She wasn't smart enough to do that.... was she? Well.... she could always try. Now according to Kiranomo (assuming she was telling the truth, but why would she lie), that Youka person she had met at the academy some time earlier and the great Leader had metal armor. But all she had seen on his person was a helmet. Could that have been part of it? Well then, she would have to see. She was far too timid to straight-up ask Kiranomo, but she would most certainly ask her new mentor about this man "Youka". But now was not the time, for Kiranomo was asking her to begin.

"Ok. Let's start." Kanae moved as quickly as possible, towards Kiranomo's right. Moving to an opponent's side restricted the effectiveness of one of their arms, unless they were forced to turn their entire body, wasting valuable time. However, Kanae wasn't sure if that was supposed to help her in this case, considering that Kira was far faster than she herself was. Nevertheless, it was worth the effort, seeing as no other approach was no more advantageous than that one.

Now, knowing that Kiranomo would probably not want one of her arms limited in use by being distant from its target, Kanae designed two different strategies. But it all depended on what would happen next....

[TWC 1273]

Thu Mar 20, 2014 9:23 pm

"Alright." The battle had started. She called out to the cursed mark and at her command the voice in her head began to speak.

    "hey kira wha..." She was cut off by kira's voice. Thought speech was one thing but this voice that spoke to her, sounding more then a little too much like youka and at times even picking up his personality quarks, just really really freaked her out. It was one thing having the voice of a strange mystical scythe giving her direction, taking over for her in times of stress and generally commenting on every aspect of her life was one thing but this….actually, the more she thought about it the more she realized that it was not actually one thing. Both situations, with the actualization and acceptance that this was a real thing, definitely made her crazy, and we arent talking a little nutty. This is the worst kind of crazy, like bat shit jumping off the walls white coat with long arms that let you hug yourself in a padded room crazy.

    “Kira….You know th..” Selene began to speak, in hopes that she could console the young konoichi about the situation involving Youka’s seal and the voice it used as an activation. It was a simple and surprisingly helpful trick that this new Fuuinjutsu seal did, offering a voice the users were used to that asked about what she wanted to buff up with the beta version of Youka’s ghost mark, but she was cut off as the youka mimic voice was by kira.

   “Nope.” She would have a talk with Selene about the situation later, but until then she would handle the situation in a way that allowed her to take care of the problem without this happening again. “You take care of it. dont talk. wierd. Creepy.”

    “Understood.” Selene spoke to kira through telepathy before adressing the youka voice in their head. “Alright. for the remainder of our time together I will ask you, strange youka voice kira finds creepy, to adress me with the question. For now we would like strength, stamina, and chakra. I thank you for your time and concern, welcome to the mind of Kira. “ The statement sounded a little too formal, which both Kira and Selene noticed right away. Of course it was done as a joke. She make the jab in order to remind the girl that even if she tried to rationalize their existence the formalities of a voice inside of her head would still make her bat shit insane.

    She watched the girl move, her eyes easilly following Kanae’s movements as she circled around her to prepare an attack from one side. She figured that the idea behind it was to limit Kira’s ability to defend and counter attack, or force her to move, but it wouln’t work. A shadow tendril popped up at it’s full speed, a staggering two hundred and thirty to point at kanae. As she moved in it shifted to form a huge shadow hand that prepared to defend it’s master from whatever the girl had planned. As the shadows fought she would stand, notturning her head or body and following the girl’s movements only with her peripheral vision after she got out of her sight, and her arms rose up to cross her chest. She was interesting in the girl’s strategy. It was smart of her, though innefective for a number of rreasons, to decide to make such a move. Perhaps after she got her strength up closer to kira’s level she would prove to be an exciting and fun fight. That was the greatest goal.

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Thu Mar 20, 2014 10:09 pm

Kanae would try this series of attacks, with certain follow-ups. She would aim a left jab at Kiranomo's upper mid-section, while keeping her right arm ready to respond. Now, as for a follow-up, she would do the same, but reverse the arms. Failing this, Kanae would try and use the same maneuver she had used on Youka some time ago, moving slightly forward behind Kiranomo and using her forearem to try and strike at the back of Kira's head.

Kanae marked a note in her head. She would think on this later. If her attacks failed, in order to not waste unecessary stamina, she would jump backwards and to the side, away from Kiranomo, and catch her breath. "W-wow.... you're really good! I guess power comes with experience..."

[TWC 1406, I just can't seem to type a lot today :( too tired, I guess. Sorry :( .]

Thu Mar 20, 2014 11:10 pm

the girl's movements carefully. She definitely had her taijutsu up for someone of her level, she thought to herself. The shadow arm reacted faster then Kanae could see at first but slowing down after the first block. The large shadow hand reacted to the first attack by lightly slapping the punch down and away from it's center mass, protecting it's master without chancing hurting the young Ninja she was training. The next two attacks would meet the same fate. The arm flexed as it moved to block the second strike, slowing way down to meet the girl's speed plus a measly two to make sure that Kanae could see and react to what was going on.

As the young girl moved around her body another tendril simply rose up to defend her. Kira's head was turned slightly as kanae moved, just enough to see her in her peripheral vision and keep track of exactly what was going on. her arms stayed cross, with her legs spread as she stood thinking through exactly how to react to what was going on in front of her. After kanae's last attack was stopped it would reach out to try and punch her, once more matching the girl's speed almost completely, before considering her next action.

"I could go on the attack, but I dont want to hurt her." She said in her mind, expecting Selene the spirit of sorrow to respond to her mental Instant message and assist in the planning of the entire training procedure.

"You also need to remember it's not wise to hold back completely. The chances that this girl would or could kill you arent terribly great however if the fight seemed completely like a joke it could be taken as a blatant insult. " As she blocked the first three attacks the two would have begun their convorsations. She hated when sorrow was right, though to be completely fair it wasn't actually terribly often that it happened. She honestly wasn't sure if it was the fact that She was generally correct more then sorrow or more so that she refused to acknowledge her correctness A thousand reason. First of all voices in ur head shouldn't exist. Second she still had a twinge of distrust for the actions selene had made her do in the past. Justification would be a simple thing to do, and cause her to easilly forgive the voice in her head, however it was a slippery slope towards becoming what she hated, an evil individual or worse....A bully. the final, and perhaps most important reason of the list was the fact that in all reality Selene was a voice in her head. Voices werent meant for ur head they were meant for your lips, and those select few blessed with the gift....Well it was'nt a gift for them in the slightest. For those with this curse it was a life of fear, confusion and pain, and a life she didn not wish on anyone or anything. Once Kanae's attacks were finished one of the shadow would move towards her at a speed equal to Kanae's own, solely due to her ability to study the girl from her first punch as well as the people in the area.

Another shadow rose up, turning it's tip in order to actually begin her counter attack. She sent the tendril to counter attack kanae, sending a strike aimed just off center of her new trainee, and as it flew at the girl's speed plus five once more she realized she could easilly end this fight.. Of courfse she wouldn't even think about it considering it would not actually aid her at all.

Fri Mar 21, 2014 3:35 pm

Ugh, no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't reach Kiranomo. Her attacks always failed... It was like climbing up to a mountain, only to never reach the top. Nevertheless, Kanae didn't despair or give up. As the shadow tendril struck out at her, she nimbly shifted herself to the side and jumped back, just as another one of the shadows came at her. Wow, Kiranomo was sure good at using these as weapons. This she would dodge by jumping back and to the side again. All this dodging and jumping around was making her tired. Aw, and yet another shadow tendril was heading for her, going faster than any of the others.

Now... she couldn't deal with these as if they were normal projectiles. Chances were, the tendrils could wrap around her, so she could not afford to touch them. It looks like she would have to find their range...

Kanae would jump back the moment the tendril started heading for her. She would stop only when she reached the wall, or when the tendril met its maximum range, whichever came first.

[TWC 1589]

Fri Mar 21, 2014 5:59 pm

"Running away usually causes problems kanae. Don't forget." She wasn't sure if the girl was just trying to get away from her shadows or simply employing some sort of strategy. Either way she knew the ten meter range of her attacks and needed to take care of things. Slowly she loved forward, walking at a calm pace. As she moved the shadow circle at her feet seemed to follow, jerking into motion less them a second after her first step. If she needed she could handle the issue of course since she and her attacks moved so much more quickly the her opponent, but she feared hurting the child whether physically or through bruising of her ego. Either way she needed to make sure that she didn't lose range on the girl with her shadows so something had to be done.

The tendril split, one of the smaller pieces continuing her attacks to stab towards kanae at a speed could react to as the other three looped around her at their max speed, dipping low to the ground on her left and right to arc wide and cut her off at about eight meters. If she decided to continue backwards they would strike and the one in front of her would hold back , ensuring she was pushed back towards Kira. She knew that she needed to control Kanae’s movements. If she acted too quickly it would do no good. The very last thing she wanted to do or even consider was training her the same way that Youka had trained her. Past all of the terror of death, as well as the two legitimate times that he had determined he was going to kill her and the one that he had almost suceeded despite not wanting to do so, He had a belief that the best way to teach a protejee was to throw them in a pit and fight them until they stopped breathing. he threw everything he had at kira every time they sparred and she never got better. The only change between sessions was the slowly darkening of her warm loving heart.

Her mind ran a little too fast as she thought about Youka. The man who had saved her life had almost claimed it back on four separate occasions. He seemed like such a kind individual, she had always thought, someone she could help to change from his dark ways. It had never happened and the side effect of trusting him had been her lying bleeding on the ground barely breathing. She had felt and noticed the recoil time and again. Her talks with Selene had been more frequent as were the dreams. Every night she watched in horror as a seven year old Kira was beaten by the boy with red eyes. She had hated that boy with a passion she was sure, but she never took action against him. It reminded her of darker times when she was too weak to walk through the rain lands. The day she had met him was the nightmare of her existence, a horrible memory for her to live in full duration every night she dared to lay her head against the pillow and close her soft blue eyes.

A tear ran down her cheek as she controled the shadows striking at her new trainee. She would not be like youka...She would not. The shadow behind her would drop to the ground, returning to it’s two dimensional world and simply ceasing to exist in the event that she would turn to head back kira’s direction. She would call for sorrow, but not yet. She would see the scythe with it’s master was more in control of the tears slowly rolling down her cheek.

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Fri Mar 21, 2014 7:59 pm

Oh no! Just as she thought she was going to get away too... she had forgotten that her opponent could move as well. As the tendril split, she realized that she had no option but to give up. She couldn't cut through the shadow, wasn't nearly fast enough to move out of it, and definitely couldn't cast a jutsu to disrupt it. Ugh... how useless. Kanae could only crouch down and cover her head as the shadow surrounded her. She felt so useless... because maybe she really had no purpose in the world. Maybe the world of shinobi, the place of the strong had no room for her....

[TWC 1697]

Fri Mar 21, 2014 11:20 pm

She had done it. The one thing she swore to prevent was slowly unfolding before her eyes. She saw the realization in her new trainee's eyes. The lost sense of fear that had been her existence for so long it felt natural. She felt for the girl and as she crouched down the shadows slowed quickly. One of the tendrils formed a hand which slowly set down on Kanae's shoulder. The shadow would stroke her shoulder softly, offering support. She cursed herself, and then cursed the damned demon who did this to her. She loved and hated youka in such a strange way that it frusterated her. Everything about the man was exactly what she hated and too often she found herself cringing at her actions or trying to hid the disapproving look that always seemed to be across her face.

"Kanae....What's wrong. " She moved forward to meet the girl, keeping her eyes on the poor child. She hated feeling weak and fearful and this training was meant to test her skill while putting her in a peaceful situation where she wouldn't have to worry about anything but the thrill of the fight. Obviously that was not how this came across.

~Kira...What are you doing. I can see where you are about to take this and you cannot honestly think that it's a good idea. You're still suffering from the backlash of that idiot....Do not allow emotion to overtake you. Child you need to hide the pain and keep going. ~ She would have been right usually, and kira knew it. Selene had protected her over anything and she responded in kind to the unspoken agreement they had taken. Maybe it wasn't an agreement. Agreements required something on both parts and to be fair Selene was not actually gaining anthing from this unless you took into account her continued existence.

~I have to do this selene. This girl....This girl is too much like me. She has that fear behind her eyes no matter how her outter mask looks. It crushes my heart selene. I cannot allow this situation to hurt her chances to become what I couldnt." Had she really failed? Selene really didn't believe so but something about the situations in her past mixed with the strange history they had as they experienced a soft and safe existence within iwa, had brought the thought to her mind. She hoped the answer was no, and honestly she both needed and wanted to believe that her wants and the truth would coincide.

"Come on Kid. Stand up and brush yourself off. I would never hurt you....... Let me tell you a story. " If she was allowed to do so she would crouch down beside kanae up until the point when the girl stood, staying down if she decided not to. "See. Once upon a time there was this tiny little girl. she had raven black hair and a bright smile until the day she entered the academy. The kids at the academy were really mean and rude and when they found out she was less adept at protecting herself than any one else in the academy the began to bully her. Every day ended the same. THe children would beat her to the ground and kick her until all she could see were tears and blood. That girl decided to get stronger. She worked with an amazing friend and together they grew stronger. Now that scared little girl holds her head high and faces challenges head on, and even has a cute little academy student to teach and protect with her life. "

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