Hey dude, wanna train? (open, nk)

Ryusei heard heavy footsteps approaching and figured that Tank Akamichi had escaped his trap. That was not hard, as he had forgotten to make the top of the pit stick inwards, past the base of the walls. He slapped himself, hard, as his own incompetence had allowed Tank Akamichi to escape rather easily, going up the ramp like it was not there. The darn ramp was supposed to be upside down, the pit was supposed to look like a pyramid had been taken out of the ground, but no, Ryusei had to mess that up. He slapped himself, cursing. He was lucky this was only a sparring session as mistakes like that would be fatal on the battlefield.

Now, Tank Akamichi was approaching, and would likely be difficult to capture in a second such trap. Ryusei would have to come up with something else. He listened carefully, the sound of the footsteps coming closer. Ryusei cursed his own incompetence again, his shuriken that he had thrown had given his position away, Tank had probably seen the area from which it was launched, and Ryusei had not even thought to move away after throwing it. He punched the ground in frustration, the approaching steps coming closer... and closer...

What were those sounds? Not Tank Akamichi definitely, there was no reason for the trees to be rustling so much. One was from the general direction behind him, the other two were fairly close together, on the opposite side. Hmmm...

Ryusei glanced around the training dummy and saw the human behemoth approaching about 15 meters away. He was strong though not as strong as that Uchiha guy. Ryusei decided to take no chances though, and dug into the ground right away. maybe he could catch Tank Akamichi in another pit. He would probably give up though if he could not catch the miniature hulk before his stamina ran out.

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Seeing as Tank made it out of the sink hole that was created by Ryusei without any sort of counter attack he would indeed plow through the earthen dummy that he was already heading for. His massive body plowing into the dummy giving a loud grunt as he muscled his way through the rather thick earth which would cause a loud cracking noise followed by the sound of multiple chunks of earth hitting the ground. The impact slowed Tank down considerably and tripped him up a bit as there was still a decent sized pile of dirt sitting on the ground about the size of a small tree stump. Falling forward a bit with his arms wide open hoping Ryusei would be there Tank quickly realised that Ryusei was not behind this dummy and caught himself before he fell flat on his face. Placing a single hand down on the ground and gathering himself a bit he stared at the two remaining dummies and brushed the dirt off of himself before saying "Nice move you had there. If I hadn't been ontop of that dummy it probably would have worked. Now come on out and lets have some fun." Tank would wait a few seconds and if he recieved no answer from Ryusei he would frown a bit and say "Okay, if thats the way you want to play this then I'm game." Tank began heading toward the dummy to his front left that was about five meters away from where he stood he walked at a normal pace reaching the dummy and leaning over a bit before knocking on the front of it like it was a door "Hello? Is anyone home?" he playfully said trying to draw Ryusei out. Tank was quickly growing tired of this battle as it was boring him and he was putting all of his patience into staying calm, but if something interesting didn't happen soon he would probably just call the spar off. They had actually agreed to a short spar earlier, but it seemed like Ryusei just wanted to play hide and seek now.

Kemuri, still perching upon the branch from earlier, continued to watch the fight with mild interest, so far only seeing a jutsu that he already knew how to perform and a show of brute strength. Needless to say, he didn't exactly find the battle to be riveting with excitement. Only a few moments after already essentially seeing everything that Tank and Ryusei had to offer at the moment, Kemuri would notice what appeared to be a beetle fly directly in front of his face, causing him to jump backwards a bit and swipe at it with a bit of disgust. Shortly afterwards he would notice three more do a similar action, only furthering his disgust and causing him to jump further back onto a wider section of the branch, watching the beetles as they flew away and towards another tree parallel to the one he was currently standing in, seeing Hero with a smile as the kikaichu went to him. "Disgusting." He would whisper to himself, having a rather obvious look of disdain upon his face from just having several insects fly nearly into his face.

Kemuri would make his way to the edge of the branch with a slow walk, staring directly towards Hero with a piercing gaze from his smokey eyes. He would then jump from the edge of the branch towards the tree Hero resided upon, landing on a branch near the one he were standing upon, causing the leaves to rustle quite a bit. He then simply stood for a few moments, looking at Hero. "Why did you send those things over to me?" He would ask in a voice that seemed to be far too deep for his age, but not even close to a ridiculously deep tone, along with sounding slightly annoyed.

Ryusei felt, and heard Tank Akamichi's heavy frame pouding overhead, crashing into the earthen dummy. The dummy did not sound like it stood a chance. Ryusei followed Tank as quietly as possible underground, pulling out a kunai. He was not intending to truly wound his opponent, just to make what would otherwise be a killing strike, that he would pull short. Against a much stronger opponent he would have to pull a sneak attack, hopefully Tank Akamichi would be distracted trying to find Ryusei among the dummies.

He sensed Tank Akamichi walk up to one of the remaining two dummies. Ryusei made a clone that would charge at Tank Akamichi from the other side of the dummy (about the time Tank Akamichi would be knocking on the dummy), as if it had been hidden. Meanwhile he himself would burst out of the ground, kunai in hand, while his clone made a diversion. He would swing his kunai at his opponent's neck, from behind. If his attack was successful, he would end up pushing his kunai against his opponent's neck, the blade turned sideways to push the flat of the blade against his opponent as opposed to the edge, to avoid any real injury.

Tank had walked up to the dummy slowly in a very relaxed manner. As he bent over slightly and knocked against the dummy like it was a door Tank was a bit surprised when Ryusei came around the dummy charging him head on. Mostly because of how Ryusei had been avoiding taijutsu the entire fight up to now. Tank reached out with his left hand attempting to catch the much smaller shinobi by the neck. While doing this he would hear the attack that was coming in from behind him he thought to himself. Reacting as fast as he could he would throw his right arm back where the sound was coming from. His right arm was bent at the elbow upward trying to block the incoming attack. The only problem was that Tank couldn't get his head around fast enough to see where exactly the attack was aimed at. Watching as the now apparent clone phased through his arm and out of existance he knew he needed to react fast. With his right arm up trying to block Tank began to turn to what he knew now was the real Ryusei. Twisting his large body around in a split second was no easy feat and at this point in time was nearly impossible. Tank was just too slow to get turned all the way around and attempt to block an attack from a smaller, faster ninja, especially when he didn't know where the attack was aimed. As Tank turned he felt the cold iron of a kunai pressed flat agains the side of his neck. The spar was over and Ryusei had won it without even landing a single blow. Tank then lowered his right arm down to his side and turned slowly to look at Ryusei. "Well it looks like you've won this spar. Good move there with the clone and sneak attack." Tank would then step backward a bit so that the kunai was no longer against his neck as it made him slightly uncomfortable to have something that sharp against such a weak spot on his body. Now a few feet away from Ryusei Tank would say "Well now that that is out of the way how about we get down to some training? I don't know about you but I still have plenty of energy and I don't want to waste any time I have to train."

Stood upon the branch with an unchanging look upon what little of his face was visible. "You talk of trivial matters too much." He would say, looking out to the battle that had just ended. "I'm here for exactly the same reason everyone else is. To learn from others' battles and train.". He would, after saying this, make his way to the end of the branch, somewhat annoyed with this entire confrontation by now, jumping down from the branch and landing with a light thud upon the ground below. After a few moments of looking around the training grounds, he would begin to walk towards Tank and Ryusei, reaching them rather quickly given they weren't all that far apart to start with.

Hero pressed his tongue against the top roof of his mouth making a "tch" sound as he listened to what the other ninja said and walked away. He questioned himself why he even bother to approach the man in the first place, guess making friend is just not his thing. Maybe it's for the best after all. Hero looks at the other two ninjas for a second then leaped away to the opposite direction of the training ground. And he walked away. "I hope it's empty tomorrow," he muttered to himself.

[EXIT]