Knowledge [p,nk, Kira]

What an interesting little creature. "Shuurin", was it? Well, it appeared that the bond between the two went far beyond the mere master/pet relationship, as evidenced by the small cut caused by the senbon. Kanae took a few milliseconds to process this, and determined that using the single strong striking snake against Shuurin would not be good, as if a mere senbon could pierce it, then the fangs of the snake would most surely impale its body, unless it had some mechanism of defense, or was faster than the snake.... could it be faster? Time to practice gauging speed. She knew that her snake traveled at a speed roughly five times her own, so it should be fine to use, if Kira was as powerful as she thought. Now that her kneading of chakra was complete, she bowed to Shuurin, and looking up, took a couple of steps forward, then fired the snake from her right arm at the small creature. If it hit, then, well, she would have a good idea of the approximate endurance of these small pets. If not, then she would know a rough estimate of Shuurin's speed.... assuming she would be able to even see the small creature when it moved.

[TWC 875]

~the first petal.~ Kira never spoke or reacts as she watched the situation before her. The attack was fast enough that shuurin would have issues but very little got past Kira's eyes. Less then a foot away from the attack shuurin's body dropped, falling just under the strike thanks to its masters perception. To the untrained eye it would seem like the snake had struck the doll, and she dropped to the ground lifeless. The moment it hit the ground it's body seemed to disperse, disappearing to leave a small wet spot where the creature seemed to have died.

For dramatic effect shuurin took quite a bit longer then usual to reform, allowin Kira the ability to enjoy any surprise or freaking out the doll smy have caused. Likewise the moment the doll seemed to be hit Kira fell the to ground, eyes closed and unmoving. She drew barely noticeable shallow breath for several minutes, unless acted upon to keep up the facade.

Well, that was unexpected. It seemed to disperse, leaving a small wet patch. How interesting, that its biology should be so composed. Then, she remembered Kira, just as the snake coming from her arm disappeared. What..... oh, that's right. The same thing that happened to the fairy, happened to Kira.... but Kira's body hadn't dissolved, which was curious. Either way, it appeared that Kanae had landed a hit. But at what cost?

A guttural sound began in her throat, low and quiet at first, but growing loud and maniacal. It... was laughter. "Haha.... Hahahaha! HAHAHAHAHAHA!" She had actually hit something! 

[TWC 975]

The silence worried her, but the laughing quickly became a problem. She wasn't sure if she had missed something or if there was some thing she hadn't realized about the girl but she was determined to check it out. Using her transformation technique with the effect of her mastered personal taste jutsu she decided to find out what was actually happening.

~daruku. Keep an eye on this girl and let me know if I need to defend myself, something seems wrong.~ longer still the scene stayed the same. The blue doll was nowhere to be seen, Asside from the bit if moisture absorbed into the ground where she seemed to die and Kira laid unmoving as her jutsu effect activated. Her skin begane to pale out very slowly until it was stark white and if allowed to it would then begin to show a shade of blue thst matched the color her lips turned as her skin began it's change.

Suddenly, she stopped laughing. Kira wasn't dead. No one, absolutely no one, turned blue that quickly in this kind of temperature. This was deceit. 

"Kira..... your death... IT WAS A LIE! A LIE!" Kanae hated lies. It broke her mind all over again when someone deceived her, like when Youka had lied to her about "passing" his little "test". She stormed toward Kira at maximum speed, drawing a kunai. Even at that point, she wasn't sure what she would do when she got there, but her mind was filled with rage. Oh, Kanae was most definitely upset. Faking death may have seemed to be a good tactic, though...

[TWC 1083]

~Kunai.~ daruku would speak as un excitedly and matter of fairly as she seemed to do everything. Kira's eyes snapped open to see the girl racing towards her with a weapon and in a moment two tendrils of shadow rose up to strike at the girl, unless impeded they would move to wrap around kanae's arms lifting her up gently only about a foot in the air until Kira could get up to defend herself.

"Well, good show kanae." In trust she had try to really see death. Sure she had killed a few but the shadows pierced their bodies as she looked away to the next task for fear of the understanding of dl deaths face. She rose slowly, pushing off of the ground while she rolled to her side to get back to her feet and addressed the girl. "U know quite a bit for someone so young "

Agh, so it was the shadows again. How annoying; luckily, she had come prepared for this. Trapping her with shadows in this way would not keep her restrained for long. "Good show? Ummm....." She had returned to her nervous, submissive self. Nevertheless, she wanted to impress Kira-san, but was unsure whether or not this technique would impress her mentor, or just gross her out. Well, it was a good thing to experiment. She concentrated her chakra, and used Oral Rebirth. A pair of hands opened her jaw, and Kanae would appear out of the restrained body, landing smoothly on the floor, if Kira would allow her to do so. "Whew... I've never used that before..." But as it turned out, it was all imaginary.

[TWC 1206]
[The imaginary part is edits for confusion]

Kira watched the girl struggle, and then all of a sudden stop moving, as in her head, though kira had no clue about it, she was the victim of some strange dream like halucination where she was using a jutsu that clearly wasn't accepted when we started this topic and therefor she couldnt have and therefor for both parties she imagined it. Her body almost seemed to go limp for a moment, her eyes taking a strange look. "Are....Are you Ok? What was that....." The girl was acting wierd. She was sure something strange was going on in her head but Kanae was giving no indication of what it was. She used the shadow to let the girl down slowly, and when she did she snapped too, acting as if she had gotten out of it. 

    "Are..Are you ok? and are you ready to begin again?" She activated her Ghost mark, though no signs of the technique would be visible to the girl before her. she very much hated the next part but it was a necessity it seemed. As she did she she clapped her hands together to use the personal taste jutsu, and her hair, which had began to turn a stark white color, instead shifted to an electic blue that almost seemed to brighten up the room with it's radiant vibrance. 

    "Hello again ki" The voice paused for a moment. After a second it addressed the spirit of her scythe as if it seemed to remember their talks on previous ocasions, though it seemed to her that it was an impossibility considering symbols drawn on someones chest were inanimate and therefore had no ability to think or remember. This concept of course went out the window the moment Selene spoke, as similar to a mark drawn in blood on someone's chest a large piece of metal with a sharpened point and edge, long staff, and chain connected to a ball should not be able to think or react either. The whole situation was a big confusing situation that she would just rather not deal with, weakened mental state or not. 

    "Hello again Selene, the scythe of sorrow. How might I be helping you today?" His voice seemed almost as if it were filled with dark sarcasm due to the tone and timber being exactly that of her friend and team mate youka, but selene was fairly certain that that was a rediculous notion she needed to dismiss. 

     "I believe we will be going for....Speed, stamina, and...." She paused for a moment to consider if there was actually a stat that would help the girl in her care to train the young genin Kanae. Chakra was the obvious choice, but it's effect, while strengthening her jutsu and shadow, would do very little to help the situation. Health was useless unless she actually joined the fight, and even then only became useful if something broke through her savar suit or in the rare instance that she was fighting a thread wielding douche bag with the intent to slam a poor innocent girl down at it's full force in the middle of a friendly spar in front of what she was sure was the entire village. 

     "I suppose chakra will do. At least we will be able to sustain Jutsu longer, even if the additional power goes unused. " She heard the voice respond, only to accept her answer before slipping back to the recesses of wherever the hell it came to and from. Kira felt her body amplifying as the ghost mark beta did it's work, increasing her speed, chakra, and stamina by fourty points. She didn't really need it, of course, but it could be helpful in the event the girl had something too fast for her blue child to react to or if she over exerted herself in the training session. 

    As the convorsations were happening, both between Kanae and kira and the Ghost mark beta and Selene Shuurin finally decided to make her safety known once more. The water seemed to form itself back up, crawling from it's position spread out on the ground to reform into the small blue doll, only a little different. As she finally finished her transformation and rose back from the ground her body seemed drastically changed. She was slightly transluscent, and an almost light blue color all through, looking like lightly tinted glass that floated above, except that as she moved her body seemed to shift left and right in a way that closely resembled water. 

"If you are ready miss...I am also prepared to continue. " She had grabbed the senbon form the ground before she floated up to Kanae's eye level, and once more brandished it the girl's direction like a sword."

(TWC2142 Amethyst2174 ghost mark746)

Oh no, Kanae was getting tired from performing these jutsu in sequence. She would have to watch out, lest she run out of steam before the spar ended. She breathed in, and then out, calming herself. "Yes, Kiranomo-san, I feel alright now. I'm sorry about that." She bowed to the remaining doll and her mentor, but then noticed that the other doll was back, having re-materialized from the water. Hmmm.... was it a variation of the substitution technique, or was it? He wasn't sure exactly how the fairies worked, so she didn't bother to ask. Now, how to approach? She didn't want to use the striking snakes again, but how should she attack the fairy otherwise? This was going to become annoying very quickly. How does an extremely large and slow target attack a small, nimble one? Usually, the she was the small, nimble one, but today, the roles were reversed. Hmph, well it was time to start. This would be a true test of her skill. She wondered what Kira's true motive was, making her fight this fairy-like thing. Was Kira charging up for an attack? She would have to wait and see; as she didn't exactly have chakra senses. She lunged forward, using her left forearm to attempt an attack on Shuurin, but her true target, Kira, was obvious. Strike at the commander, and her forces will fall.

[1436]

~Move. ~ The command was short and sweet, and it was a good thing that it was. Shuurin, due to her drastically reduced speed shifted left the moment kanae sent out her attack and the girl's fist barely brushed her shoulder as she lunged past the tiny flower pixie like doll to attack the problem at it's source. Inventive, she thought to herself, allowing a small smile filled with intrigue to slide across her once passive face once more. This child had a way of making her smile, she noticed. She thought through things before making an action, which reminded her of herself from so long ago. The memory of a tiny nara girl fighting out in the blistering hot lands outside of iwa, struggling to keep up to the trap set by youka's threads slipped into her mind as she raised an arm to slap the attack downward, stepping forward at an angle when it got into range so that whether the block knocked the attack away or not she would be well out of the area where it would be dangerous. 

     The moment the attack brushed her side she spun on her heels to bring her right leg up to meet Kanae's chest at the speed she had last remembered the girl moving. To be honest if there was any change from the girl's abilities between today and the night before she had yet to notice them, not because they were minuscule as much as because she was not paying attention to anything but the dolls reaction to the simuli provided. She had a physical profile of the girl tucked away in her memory for a later date. She knew the girl's size and general arm length, allowing her to calculate about how far the strikes made against her or the doll shuuring could go, and a basis for about how fast she was. Thanks to the inital stark of their first spar she also had a feel for how powerful kanae was, and these together were all she needed to know for the time being. 

    The back kick, if it hit would be shot out at her max power of about fifteen, but at a drastically slower rate. Instead of the one hundred and twenty speed she naturally moved at it would come at the girl around twenty, making it seem like she had teleported only a step before throwing a quick but noticeable kick to her opponent, assuming her ability to precieve was the same as it had been before.  After her strike connected, if it did, she would rechamber the leg to finish her spin, drawing back her kicking leg only to shoot it out once more, this time at her full speed, a rediculous one hundred and sixty, only to stop in a few inches from where she expected the girl's face to be. She gave the girl a grin, making sure she acknowledged the winner of the exchange before pulling her leg back and resetting her balance from the ball of her left foot, her body leaned far forward to accomondate the hook kick, to back at her natual rest stance. If something were to go wrong and the girl either changed her strike or continued through the fist attack, not bother to stopping with the second she would act accordingly in reguards to the fist situation, and spin her heel another fourty five degrees in order to wrap the inward curve of her knee around the girl's kneck, allowing momentum to bring her to the ground fluidly and swiftly. If she was forced to bring the girl down she would pull back the speed and completely negate the power just a few moments before kanae would impact with the ground, cradling the fall a bit and allowing her to simply be laid down on the ground a short distance away from her. 

    "I like the idea, but it won't work against me. If you really want to fight me instead of shuurin I will gladly be your partner, but I fully believe that my Familiar will be a better fight for you, and a much more enjoyable and effective experience and plus....It allows me to completely monitor the situation and study what you're doing so that I can find ways to assist you later. " 

(TWC2864, Amethyst, 2896, Ghost mark, 1468)