Inspiring Ninja [NK, IO, Ganki, training]

Within the hard dirt setting, high In altitude, surrounded in this mountainous setting, was the all known training grounds. The area being molded to been seen as a cove, had a rocky setting surrounded by the towering mountains in this bright day, allowing one way into this hidden area. Many have come and gone, some leaving in success, while others left depressed. To hone ones skills, to master there ability in the ways of the ninja, that was the goal of most here. The key to this goal was hard work and determination, or just lucking out in developing a trick. However, that was not the goal of a certain someone who made their way to this hidden location. The cool breezes that ran through the brown dirt canyon like walk way, that led into this hidden sanction, brushed against a traveler.

This lone traveler took note of his surroundings, the wide passage, the tall rock walls that surrounded it, and the many birds that passed him above. Nothing was new to the lone traveler, as he was quite fond of this setting. Which was why he wore the appropriate clothing, his long red sleeved shirt that had a graphic design on it, his long black jeans, and his new black enclosed shoes. He also wore a black skully, with a similar logo, like his shirt, places off to the right side of the cap. The cloud headband was tied around his neck, loosely, allowing his to breath comfortably and act as a scarf. No jewelry today for this rich ninja, as he feared of losing it along his journey here. It was best to dress warm in this climate, and get used to the high altitude, as tiring out quickly was quite common to those not well conditioned.

As this traveler flicked his small zippo lighter that he held in his right hand, his grin made happily while feeling the small pouch within his left pocket, he stopped upon sight of another soul just as he reached the entrance to the area. Just who was this person? This small, red haired stranger that seemed to be practicing something, perhaps jutsu, due to the fact that this was one of the training grounds. The scent from the traveler's pocket, Ganki's pocket, climbed out from his pockets and brushed up hard against his face, along with the heavy breeze. the urge to indulge in his wants was strong within him. Why of all days would people be here? Ganki's goal that he had planned today wasn't quite, legal. So, he didn't needs any other bystanders.

As he stared towards the back of the baggy coat wearing person, suddenly, the figure dug deep within the ground in an unorthodox style, this person was definitely practicing ninjutsu. Interesting..., he said as he watched the individual resurface. Placing both his hands back in his out of slight paranoia, he gave away his location, standing 20 meters away, behind the other ninja, the now quite dirty ninja, he chucked a bit as he observed the dirt patches. "Yo, what's up? You like playing in the dirt?", he opened with playful talk, to see what kind of personality this ninja had.

She had noticed the approach of the Guy but chose to ignore it till he had spoken up.  She had come here to practice so unless she had to she wouldn't deal with distractions.  The question he asked was simple.  But Angel had a hard time understanding the meaning behind the question.  She wasn’t playing in the dirt she was practicing jutsu.  However he might be curious as to whether she liked to play in the dirt.  She didn’t play in the dirt, not since she was little…well littler. She seemed to have an affinity for the earth and earth style jutsu so she was practicing today.  Brushing her coat the fine dust easily brushed of leaving her mostly clean.  Having barefeet all the time tended to make one’s feet dirty.  Angel still hadn’t answered the man’s question.  She didn’t really want to but her had been nice about asking the question.  “No.”  she said simply.  It answered everything he wanted to know and she didn’t have to waste too much time.  She returned to her position and continued to channel her chakra.  She was developing more jutsu and devising ways to attack a foe without their expecting it. 

The breeze in the area cooled her and she enjoyed the feel of the ground.  Angel always had bare feet she was uncomfortable wearing shoes.  Her long coat normally hid the black tunic from view as well as most of her black ninja pants.  And kept even more secret was the trinket hidden under Angels shirt.  It was a small band of dark garnet.  It had been a gift to her from a stranger when she was little.  It had healed the illness that had haunted her and her mother instructed her to keep it as a keep sake.  The small stone was slightly chakra sensitive and over the years angel had felt a sense of calm from the ring.  Her focus sometimes coming from the energy that it emitted.  She used it as a religious symbol almost praying to the traveler that He might find her again. 



But that was neither here nor there.  Now she had to focus.  Pouring her chakra into her feet she practiced exploding the chakra out of her feet allowing a great leap without much muscle power.  The man seemed to watch her which didn’t make her uncomfortable just curious if her wanted something. “He’s sure to ask if he has more questions” she thought to herself.

This stranger, while still showing their back towards Ganki, answered quickly, with Ganki raising his left eye brow slightly, he sighed. Wasn't much for words, he thought, continuing to observe the little one as she brushed herself off, noticing that she had no shoes. No shoes? Ganki was surprised he didn't catch this feature from before, then again, he was a little over 6 feet, and compared to this hobbit, she sure was small. "Uh huh", the traveler staring still at her bare feet with a slight nod. Really? No shoes? Those poor feet must ach when walking on a rocky setting such as this, but it wasn't any concern to Ganki's.

For now, what concerned him was his need, breaking away from his stalking like gaze towards the stranger, he took a quick glance towards his pocket, he could have went anywhere else to do this, but here was quite secluded from everything else. Ganki had no plans for getting caught with this "stuff" in his possession. He was for sure that no one would come here, but nope, fate was unkind this day. Just what was the urging man supposed to do, ask this young one to leave? Yes, it would be rude. Besides, he couldn't get all mad at her, in fact, Ganki used to be in the same boat as her. Coming day after stressing day, training his ass off to become the man that he was today. What made it even more similar, was that she was out her alone, just like he used to be. And yes, it sure did get boring after a while. Then, it hit him, an idea?

"Wait, are you training out here? If so, I can help, this is what I do.", Ganki spoke with a smile as he plotted just when she returned to her stance, with the intent to get her attention to cease all future actions. He walked with fast pace with his hands out of his pockets, he circled around to her front, to get a good look at her face, should she not move. A girl, a child at most? He would see, the coat hiding most of her body, along with the pants. He stood 5 feet away, looking at her in question.

Ah yes, did the ninja plot, such a plan he had in store. If he could quicken the pace of what she wanted to learn, the young girl would have no choice to leave. Thus, allowing the needful Ganki, to indulge in his weekly ritual. He could almost taste the smell, which he himself imagined within his brain, such strong dank odor. He hoped he didn't seem like a stalker, or perv. Honestly, he needed to do what eh felt must be done. Can't have witnesses in the area, Ganki would know all too well about leaving no witnesses, the life in the ANBU ops.

His brown hair flutter slightly with the skully on his head, this cool breeze really was not his thing. Then again, he couldn't say so much about hot climates either. Ever since he went to The Land of Winds, Sungakure to be more precise, he was left with a bright gold tan, still tagging along with him to this day.

Angel needed to practice hard.  She wasn’t going to master an entire style of jutsu in a day.  But she didn’t have long.  Her mother was in the hospital and she had to become stronger so that she could save her.  This guy didn’t seem to be any help so she ignored him.  Her bare feet smashed into the ground as she stomped hard kicking her foot up in a martial style.  She had never really been great at Taijutsu either but she couldn’t be good at everything.  Ninjutsu was what she was going to focus on now to increase the effectiveness of her jutsu.  Ninjutsu would help her on missions and that in turn would earn her money to help pay for her mother’s treatment.  She wondered if anyone would understand her cause but it didn’t matter.  Her clan had been outsiders and strange and mysterious from the beginning.  Why waste time trying to show people otherwise when Angel could just focus on getting her own training done. 


Angel continued her strikes and kicks until she heard the man approaching her.  She tilted her head down slightly.  He offered to train her but she wasn’t sure his intentions were pure.  “I don’t know you” Angel replied.  She tilted her head in query.  It was enough to shift her hood but not enough to uncover her face.  Angel had gotten quite good at that over the years.  Aburame had a sort of tradition of hiding their eyes from their enemies.  Eyes were known as the windows to the soul,  but to an Aburame traditions help that the Eyes were the windows to secrets best felt hidden.  All Aburame big or small would be raised to never reveal their secrets and thus their eyes to anyone.  However the idea of receiving training would speed up the process and that she was all for.  “Fine.  But only till I get it down then I’m leaving”  Angel stood looking toward him waiting instruction.

The ninja scratched his skully cap upon hearing her, down to the last sentence. True, you shouldn't trust every stranger that you meet, but then again, there were those that stood above those policies. Ganki, being a ninja of the cloud village, should not be the one to be feared by. As a ninja, he would give his life for any and all who live inside the walls of the village, as per the mandate of the cloud ninja. Either that, or this girl was anti social at heart...

"You don't know me? Well, I bet you never met the academy instructor before, and you probably warmed up to him?" Ganki smiling for a bit as he took a few steps back, assuming that this one had gone to the academy, and is a registered ninja. Why else would one come to the training grounds? Speaking of registered ninja, he eyes the girls body up and down once more, before talking. "Oh yeah, Ms. Kunoichi, you might want to start wearing a headband. I mean, you are a kunoichi from this village, right?", his figure stopping dead in front of her while tapping the metal piece on his head band with his left hand, 10 feet away. This was the question that would decide what he should do next. Ganki himself couldn't stress any more to his fellow ninja about wearing their damn headbands, too many have he seen walking around the village without one. Suppose one stranger, who wasn't from the village made it inside, and acting as a ninja? The results to that could be taxing, quite costly. Ganki had led his questions all the way up to this moment.

Now, should this fine young red haired child, be from this village, the tall young man would continue with his planned actions. "So, you like earth techniques huh? Well, I got one that you might like. Well, its not the one your practicing, but its pretty handy when your getting your stuck ball from out of the tree. And get this, the best part about it, is that you actually stay clean...", Ganki smiling jokingly as he weaved the hand signs, slowly, so she could comprehend them. Maybe he might break this bubble she had, then again, she had traits about her that might do well for her in the future. Short, but direct answers, keeping to one's self, all these traits reminded him of that certain man he once trained in the ops.

"Earth Style: Earth Wall"

As he finished his hand signs, a wall forged from the earth arose from the ground, as too did Ganki. The thick wall of rock continued to rise till it was 10 feet off the ground, 10 feet wide aswell, the ninja standing on top of the tall structure that once moved, his sight remained constantly on the girl. "So, what do you think?", he said while dropping his bum on top of the wall itself, his feet dangling freely while waiting for a reply.

[The practice angel had up until this point has sufficiently increased her chakra so that Ninjutsu was now available to her]
 
Angel figured the man was at least friendly.  She had met another ninja from the village but that encounter had not gone quite how she wanted it to.  In fact it was that encounter that made her weary of the other ninja in the village.  But This guy seemed to be at least trying to be nice. Angel would give him the benefit of the doubt at least for now.
 
Upon hearing his comment about the academy instructor.  Angel thought back to her days in the Academy.  She didn’t have any friends she kept to herself, went home alone after school.  The instructor never really paid her any mind.  But that was just about how anyone acted around an aburame.  She thought that was normal.  So she never did warm up to the instructor.  She didn’t really know what that meant in her current situation.  It wasn’t like Angel didn’t like people it’s just not a lot of people ever reached out to her cause she seemed strange.  Her clan didn’t embrace her either being her talents with a puppet angered her clan.  But that was in the past she and her mother had separated from the clan and now her mother was in the hospital and Angel came out her to train alone. 
 
The guy tapping his headband making a tiny ping made her refocus on the situation at hand.  Start wearing a head band?  Oh he was looking for identification in the form of the headband they hand out to academy graduates.  Angel reached up with one hand and slowly unzipped her jacket.  Just under the collar tied around her neck was the village headband.  She supposed it might be something to display predominantly but there really was no way to do that with her coat.  It was another situation that the traditions of the clan that were so hardwired into her set her back.  This train of thought made her begin to consider the importance to what she had learned as a student in the clan.  Maybe it was time to make changes.
 
The Man speaking again pulled her from her daze.  He was going to show her a jutsu he knew.  She watched carefully the signs he made.  She had always been a quick learner of the signs for jutsu.  When he performed the jutsu she thought that it seemed off.  He sat there perched on the edge of the 3 meter wide wall.  She walked around it to get the idea of the dimensions.   “It seems small” she would pause for a moment continuing around the wall even running her hands over it.  She let him respond if he wanted to until she got around to the front.  “It is very similar to another jutsu,” Claping her hands she would press them against the wall “Earth style : Moving Earth Core”  she said quietly.  The wall would sink back to exactly ground level leaving the man sitting on the ground.  “How is the chakra formed for the jutsu?” she would ask him.
 
Angel was the student Teachers wanted.  She was smart and always asking the right questions.  She caught on quickly a sometimes even accelerated past the teachers expectations.  But she always did her best.  Thing was you never stop learning no matter what those sayings said.

Stats/kekaichu/Puppet stats:
Health: 6 / 1 / variable
Chakra: 37 / 0 / 0
Stamina :20 / 11 / 0
Speed: 30 / 21 /50
Strength: 12 / 11 / 41
Action points:214 + 100 (Chunin)
Throwing speed: 60 Throwing distance: 30


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So it seems that she did in fact have her headband, that was good. At least he knew for sure that she was from this village, you could never be too safe these days. He didn't know why many ninja stopped wearing these headbands, they were like keycards to gain entrance into the village.

Still perched on top of the rocky wall, the kunoichi walked towards him, seemingly examining the newly constructed construct. he then heard her comment about the wall, not being very big in size. True, it wasn't, but then again, this wasn't the jutsu's limit either. "Yeah, your right, maybe you could do better? Ms. Kunoichi?", he said with plot, while observing her touching the earth formed wall. The trick to his method, is that he always uses a dwarfed scaled version of his jutsu, so that when others attempt to try it, naturally they create a more powerful version of it, when it's actually the normal version. This was to instill a sense of confidence, an achievement within themselves. But, Ganki was not about to reveal this info, otherwise, it would lose its effect.

Listening to her again as she returned in front of him once more, his eyes caught sight of her movement, the child slapping the ground, causing his wall of earth to recede back into the earth which it came. However, Ganki, instead of landing on his bum, let his legs touch the ground right before the wall completely shifted back into the ground, allowing him to remain on his feet. The brown dust circulated a bit on the ground after the conclusion of the jutsu. This was sort of like his, only it was the reversed version, very nice. She sure likes to ask the right questions he thought, normally students would try and rush through the training, try to grasp the jutsu right off the bat. But this one, seemed to like to gain information before hand, before attempting the jutsu. She seemed to possess a very inquisitive trait, then again, she was very cautious of Ganki from the start. The he stood in company, the more he began to know about her. The seemingly shy and timid child, who liked to keep to herself, who might actually be a genius.

Focusing back on her, " Good question, but really, it would be meaningless for me to tell you how? Since you like playing in the dirt, you pretty much have all what you need. And if your first element is earth, then you should be able to pick this up pretty quickly, its what you do. But then again, most people born in this village have a high probability of having lightning as their first element, like myself. Really, I don't know why, maybe its the air, or the climate, who knows? If I could describe it, the trick that I used to use to summon up earth natured chakra, is that I picture myself within a barren desert, standing on hard clay with nothing but rocks in the horizon. Then, it just came to me, perhaps it was a psychological thing that allowed me to switch my chakra to such a nature, but all I know, was that it did the trick." Ganki paused for a moment, allowing her to take in all that he said. From first glance, Ganki suspected her to be a freshly graduated genin, so her using earth style jutsu prompted him to believe that this was her first element. then again, he could be wrong. Ganki remained 5 feet away, "Oh, if you have anything else to ask that I didn't clear up, ask away. Or, if your ready, do it! Oh yeah, one more thing. The higher ups research division of kumo, discovered that yelling out the name of the jutsu at the top of your lungs when forming the hand signs, increased the power behind it, 10 fold...", Ganki kept his straight face while wait for her to begin. Ganki had lied.

Earth Wall...,K’IHAP... Close enough. The main thing Ganki wanted out of this, was to break that bubble of hers, so that she wouldn't feel so uncomfortable around him. Soon enough, after her battle cry, which he too let out a little laugh as she somewhat fell for his trick, the child molded such a huge creation of earth. The structure well beyond his, as what he wanted it to be. It wasn't bad, at this rate, she would soon be able to create signature designs on the wall, which normally take after the user's summoning, or favorite animal. Ganki himself was not on that level as of yet, but soon he could see himself reaching that level. The large 20x20 meter wall stood between them, Ganki leaping upwards towards the very top of the wall, his great strength allowing it. The ninja observing the details of the wall as he soared high in height. "Yep, this was a pretty well constructed wall", the ninja thought as he reached the top of the wall. Barely any cracks that he could spot, the ninja casually walking flat on the vertical wall with the help of his surface walking technique, down towards the kunochi on the other side. His hand deep within his pockets once more, the urge had returned once again, but Ganki had to fight it off, soon, it would be time.

"Hey..., you did pretty good", Ganki stated once he returned to the hard groud floor, standing right side up once more, should nothing else take place. Just as he would land, the girl stated that he wanted to learn another one. "Another one?!?!", he said subconsciously in his mind. Ganki held the bag which was in his pocket tight with strength, before letting go, pulling both hands from out his pockets.

"Oh my, where are my manners? I'm Ganki, and sure, Ill teach you another one, Ms...", Ganki stopped, hoping that the girl would fill in the last part with her name. While  looking outwards away from her while waiting for her name, an open empty area ahead towards his right. Ganki weaved a set of hands, slowly, while at the same time turning away from the child, the hand seals still within her sight.

"Earth Style: Earth Dragon Bullets", he said with calmness and ease.

Five feet away, the ground away from them swirled with energy, allowing the brown 6 foot in size earth dragon of Asian decent, rise from the ground, its head was the only thing revealed. The beast opened its jaw letting out a loud roar, its mouth possessing a swirling white vortex which hummed with noise, shooting out several balls of mud, three feet in diameter away from the two, they cracked the ground as the landed off a few distance. The launching of the attack was loud just as it was powerful, the dragon receding into the earth once more. Now this attack was still a dwarfed version of the original, but still packed power behind it. "Think you can handle this one?"

((Stamina Count: 842
-30 Earth Dragon Bullets
-30 Earth Wall(From before)
-1 for surface walking))