Such a Coincidence (P, NK)

Now having sped up, Kemuri had rather obviously begun to outrun Tank as he followed. However, Kemuri somehow didn't expect for Tank to use one of his recently trained techniques against him so early in the battle, glancing over his shoulder as Tank seemed to launch towards him, slightly faster than Kemuri himself. -Uh oh- He thought to himself as he rather quickly jumped about eight feet into the air and ten feet to the side, Tank's first kick grazing the bottom of his leg since he was moving even faster than Kemuri was for the time being, though they were a decent distance apart; which was the entire reason Kemuri could jump at all. The kick had enough force behind it to cause minor pain in his leg and start him on a slow spin while in the air, essentially putting him to where he would land on his face once he hit the ground. Luckily, Kemuri had much better agility in comparison to Tank, and thus twisted himself in the air to land upon his arms and legs seemingly in the position of what an Inuzuka would be in in combat, changing it near instantly afterwards, pushing himself forwards toward Tank if he hadn't made another move after the kicks yet, rushing towards him before jumping over his head with a flip, Kemuri's head near tank's while the rest of his body were sticking straight into the air. At this point in the jump over Tank, kemuri rose an elbow and attempted to slam it into his face, his momentum carrying him over Tank afterward and several feet behind him before landing on his feet and hopping backwards away from him. Still feeling the strike on his leg, Kemuri glanced down at it to make sure nothing had been broken without his awareness. Surely enough, it wasn't, and Kemuri had just wasted valuable time in the middle of a spar.

Tank's taijustu shunshin had worked and gotten him closeer to Kemuri, but he wasn't going to get in a full on strike as Kemuri quickly jumped away as Tank was performing his high kick. Luckily enough for Tank Kemuri didn't jump too far away and Tank caught a little bit of Kemuri's leg as he was jumping away. The contact Tank had made threw Kemuri into a slow helicopter spin, but for almost any ninja this wasn 't something that he couldn't recover from. While Tank was also slightyl air born thanks to his double kick he had just thrown he wasn't in any sort of postion to attack again and Keep Kemuri on the run. Keeping his eyes on Kemuri as he twisted in mid air and landed on all fours Tank also landed on the ground except on his two feet. Kemuri now bursting toward Tank was something that seemed odd considering he knew he was much weaker than Tank. Knowing that Tank was expecting some sort of strategy from Kemuri as he had already shown he is very intelligent just be being able to hit Kenshin in a spar and how quickly he had learned the powerful wall jutsu he was practicing just a few moments ago. Tank decide to playing it safe wasn't going to win him this spar and ran right toward Kemuri. Meeting him rather quickly because they weren't too far apart to begin with Tank would throw a right hook at Kemuri. This however was completely dodged as Kemuri jumped up and over his punch. To Tank everything slowed down as he watched Kemuri seeminly float over top of his stretched out arm bring an elbow down right into his face. Pushing Tank's head backward a little bit and stunning him, mostly in shock of what Kemui had just done Tank would recieve basically no dmage at all. Turning  around as quickly as possible he would see Kemuri landing and then looking down toward the leg that Tank had hit. Tank decide to take advantage of this and sprint toward Kemuri. If he reached Kemuri he would drop his body low and rotate all the way around extending his left leg in a low sweeping kick to try and get Kemuri off balance so that he could go on the offensive.

Glancing up from his leg, he noticed that Tank had instantly begun charging him once more, his attack clearly having had no affect what so ever on him. It was quite apparent that Tank was trying to be as offensive during this battle as possible, possibly attempting simply to end the spar as fast as he could, though that seemed unlikely since they were using this spar as a way of training. Realizing he was once more in a horrible position, Kemuri jumped backwards as quickly as he could, getting him a good deal of distance (roughly 20 ft.) away from Tank, avoiding the attempt at knocking him off of his balance, before turning and running to the side of him, twice the speed Tank were currently travelling at. Upon getting near Tank, Kemuri would quickly extend his arm forward in the motion of an average punch, Kemuri clearly having no real form for striking opponents. However, upon striking Tank, if he even did, he would quickly raise the other arm and strike with that one as well whilst pulling back the other and launching it once more. He repeated the strikes over and over surprisingly quickly, hopping around Tank whilst he did so so as to at least try keeping out of his path at all times. Knowing full well he was doing practically nothing, Kemuri by now was simply trying to use Tank as a training dummy to practice making his strikes faster and possibly stronger. After all, a live training partner was much better than a shaped piece of wood, allowing Kemuri to know how he would need to react to others' attacks, movements, abilities, so on and so forth. Unknowingly for the most part, Kemuri had turned this spar which was meant as a test of their newly trained abilities into another training session for himself.

Tank was busy charging Kemuri when Kemuri finally looked back up from his leg. For some reason it seemed that Kemuri was making mistakes in this spar that he hadn't made in the previous one with Kenshin. Was Kemuri really that bad at fighting without jutsu or was he simply distracted by smoething else? There was no way that Tank could know, but he didn't really care too much at the moment because this was all a learning experience anyway. Getting to Kemuri and begining his attack he spun around exteneded his leg to sweep kick Kemuri. However as Tank made his full rotation he realised that Kemuri had begun jumping backward and away from him. At this moment Tank instantly reacted and launched himself forward and up from underneath Kemuri. As Tank launched himself forward he quickly realised he was too slow to catch Kemuri. Instead of doing the attack he had planned on doing Tank would simply let himself fall to the ground and land on his feet about a half second after Kemuri had landed and begun moving toward him. Kemuri struck Tank quickly several times and did no damage at all. Tank would still keep moving and trying to block and dodge as many of the attacks as he could becasue he needed the practice. After several seconds however Tank decided he needed to get out of the attacks that were being thrown at him. Waiting for an opening to take advantage of he find it rather quickly because Kemuri didn't really have much fighting form at all. Once the opening happened Tank would reach out as quickly as he could with his right arm and try to grab ahold of Kemuri anywhere he could. If Tank was successful he would grip down tight enough so that Kemuri cuoldn't pull away, but not hard enough to hurt him and say "I've got you now." with a small smirk on his face.

Successfully getting off a surprising amount of strikes, Kemuri began to think that he was actually good at taijutsu, though this was really just him being faster than Tank was. He then rather quickly noticed that he in fact was awful at the moment when out of nowhere Tank reached out and grabbed at him, himself trying to move out of the way, but having already begun to unleash another wave of attacks, was unable to move himself out of the way completely, his arm being grabbed with a great deal of force. He then looked back to Tank as he was promptly stopped, nearly going airborn from the sudden stop in movement. Now essentially in Tank's face, he listed to Tank say that he got him, nearly activating his smoke transformation on pure instinct. Luckily for Tank's ego, he managed to stop himself from doing so, as he did in fact say he would not use anything aside from taijutsu. Looking Tank in the eyes now, he would try to pull away, not even remotely breaking his grip before stopping the escape attempt. "I suppose you have. I imagine this would count as a victory for you." He said in his standard monotone voice. "Not to say it wasn't expected though, though I had thought I was better in the use of taijutsu than that. I suppose I'll just stick with what I'm good at for now." He said, clearly implying that it was the use of jutsu that he was specialized in. Waiting for Tank to release him now, he thought of how he would have been able to use the jutsu he had just used against him if they were in a real spar, quickly realizing he had hardly anything that could be used in an offensive manor -Huh, I imagine I should have trained something that could deal some damage- He thought, trying to come up with something on the spot unsuccessfully.

Tank stared into Kemuri's eyes as he spoke to Tank in a rather monotone voice giving off the expression that he didn't care much that he had lost. Of course Tank knew from seeing Kemuri's abilities before that he could have escaped, but that would go against what the training was all about. This did however show Tank that Kemuri seemed very respectful and willing to keep his word even if it meant he would lose. Listening as Kemuri spoke again, this time about how he would stick to what he is good at, Tank decided he would do the same. Letting go of Kemuri's arm and stepping back a few feet so they weren't uncomfortably close to each other Tank would then say "I enjoyed that little spar, but we should probably get back to our training." Looking over toward Kenshin yet again to see if he was watching or moving at all. Tank wondered to himself if Kenshin was ever going to get out of that tree and continue teaching them. Maybe he didn't want to teach them everything he knew though? At least thats what Tank thought. Maybe Kenshin didn't want Tank and Kemuri to catch up to him as quickly as they could be if he was teaching them. All that was left for Tank to do though was grind his way through more training and continue to get stronger until he could beat Kenshin on his own. He didn't know when that day would come, but he was sure it would happen eventually.

Kemuri pulled his arm away as Tank let go, rubbing it a little from the force of Tank's grasp. "Yeah, you're probably correct." He said as he looked around the training grounds, unsure of what he was wanting to do right now. Kemuri figured he may as well work on some sort of offensive jutsu, but wasn't really sure what to do. Looking about the largely horribly disfigured portion of the training grounds they were in, he figured he may as well make it even more so just so people knew that some intense training went on today, and for quite some time as well. -I may as well work on some more earth jutsu.- He thought to himself whilst walking back over towards the area of the training grounds in which he created the earth walls, planning on using them essentially as training dummies, as Tank probably wasn't the best target for an offensive jutsu since it was an offensive jutsu. Looking at the tall wall of stone that he created earlier, really only a few minutes ago. Looking over towards the more flooded area of the training grounds, he came up with an idea. Why only use stone when you can use mud, after all, mud did seem to be more versatile for assaults with it's more liquid-like properties, making it more easily shaped and moved. Walking towards the flooded area and once again stepping in the large puddle, Kemuri looked at the ground noticing that there was plenty of mud to use for whatever he needed to use it for. Not wanting to waste any time, Kemuri near instantly began to flow chakra into the ground and into the mud, fairly easily manipulating it to a light degree, raising it in place and swirling it around a bit just to get used to how it would be to manipulate mud rather than stone. For the most part, it was easier than stone, though Kemuri didn't exactly have any experience in mud so it was slightly more exhausting, himself having to use more chakra than was necessary at the time to control it freely.

Continuing this for a short time, Kemuri began to somewhat grasp the idea of how to use mud for a jutsu rather than pure stone, essentially just having the idea of flinging it at people really damn fast. Now beginning to try and force small balls of mud out of the ground with force with his chakra alone, he wasn't really getting very far. Small balls of mud were in fact flinging from the ground, but not even close to enough to harm someone. As of now, he was essentially just making a mess of his surroundings, still having moderate amounts of fun from flinging the mud everywhere. Since he was still a child, albeit a rather serious one, he found joy in things that reminded him of simpler times in the compound. However, his seriousness quickly took back over, almost too quickly for a regular person, beginning to pour larger amounts of chakra into the mud surrounding him and trying to make small balls float from the ground and around himself. He had sudden changes in mood fairly often these days, his current mood being that of determination from one of happiness. Several balls of mud, four to be exact, began to raise from the ground slowly, surrounding him in complete symmetry roughly floating around his hips. His eyes closed as he held them there, he was imagining the chakra flowing out of his body and essentially making a cloud around him which the balls floated inside of. Quickly dropping the balls, he realized that he wasn't really working on anything with this training so much as practicing chakra control, which was really unnecessary for the time being.

His mood now changing to one of slight anger and annoyance, he began to once more fling the balls around the field, though this time with more force, still incapable of harming a person though. Stopping, he clenched his fist in anger at the fact he wasn't really accomplishing anything right now, which is why he began to direct his anger in the form of launching more and more balls of mud, the balls getting larger and larger as he continued to do so, eventually being rougly the size of a person's torso. Feeling as though he needed to do something with the jutsu to give it a better angle to strike people, he began to flow his chakra into the ground, raising a heap of mud and trying to mold it into something he knew of well and had always admired; the dragon. Knowing of the earth dragon jutsu and the other elemental variations of it, he was essentially trying to give people a false impression of the jutsu he were trying to accomplish, molding the heap of mud into a rough impression of a dragon's head, the mouth wide open for the launching of projectiles of mud towards an opponent. The heap of mud now in a very rough visage of a dragon's head, he began to fling the mud through it's mouth as he were without the dragon head there, yet it seemed to be launching out of the dragon's mouth faster than it had been from just the ground. It was strange to Kemuri how exactly this was working, but in short the dragon's head was essentially working as a gun's barrel, the balls of mud picking up speed as they went through it and then leaving it with a higher force than before. Somehow already forgetting that hand signs were a large part of what made a jutsu, he really didn't make it progress any further than he had already made it go from this point no matter how many times he tried. This filling him with anger which made the idea of hand signs even further away from his consciousness at the time, he rather quickly stopped doing it, sitting in the puddle in a rather deep-seated anger, him shaking mildly as he held in the anger to prevent himself from exploding into a rage.

Tank would be begining his taijutsu training again as Kenshin finally showed signs of life. Hearing what Kenshin had to say he smile a bit and continue on with his training to make sure he was catching up as fast as possible. Focusing chakra into his hand Tank would clap and place them on the ground performing the moving earth core jutsu to raise an earthen dummy about three meters in front of himself. Going over what he had been doing previously in his head Tank would focus on a few points of interest that he had with his previous combinations. Standing up slowly and taking his fighting stance Tank breathed in deeply and then burst forward toward the dummy. This time however instead of going straight for his low sweeping kick he would attack the dummy with his high low kick combo that he had used on Kemuri earlier. Making contact and cracking the dummy a bit Tank manuevered around to the left side of the dummy. Doing this by spining to his left he would use the momentum from spinning and let his body lower while extending his right leg and cracking the dummy open on the bottom begining to toss the the dummy upward and away. Now launching himself upward and thrusting his right leg into the dummy it would launch up into the air and begin to break apart. As the dummy soared into the air it blocked out the sun and when it broke apart it looked like rays of sunlight were erupting from inside the dummy. It was a beautiful sight to see from Tank's point of view as he had basically mastered several very useful taijutsu techniques in the matter of several hours.

Standing in the middle of the training grounds with the dirt from the dummy showering down around him he would look around to see what Kemur and Kenshin were up to. First looking over toward Kemuri Tank noticed that he was practicing a new earth jutsu already. The jutsu at first looked rather odd as he was simply throwing around balls of mud from the ground. However over several minutes and attempts it turned into something that looked rather promising. Something that looked like a dragons head spitting out balls of mud at a rather fast pace. That would definitely hurt if he got hit by it whenever they sparred each other again. Then turning toward Kenshin Tank saw what looked like Kenshin dancing on his hands, but a closer look showed he was trying to fight with his feet. He witnessed Kenshin throw his kunai with almost perfect acurracy hitting a tree trunk. He then saw Kenshin burst forward and reclaim his kunai from the trunk of the tree and head off into the nearby woods. Not being able to see Kenshin at all while he was in the woods he had to follow his movements by sound. Luckily that wasn't too hard as Kenshin seemed to be making a large amount of noise. Agan noticing Kenshin as he flew out of the woods and back into the training area he would see a large flame shaped like a dragons head being spewed into the sky. It seemed like dragons were the prefered jutsu of the day now. Maybe Tank would need a jutsu that looked like a dragon to go along with Kemuri and Kenshin's.

Sitting in the puddle for the time being, Kemuri's anger continued to fester. It was essentially just a spur of the moment thing, hardly having ever felt this in the past. Strangely enough, Kemuri began to lose that anger, and rather randomly at that, calming himself until he stopped shaking in rage. Having done this just in time for him to notice that a large spout of flame were coming from the now active Kenshin. He hadn't noticed that Kenshin had even started to do things again in his fit of rage and glanced over to him, noticing that the flames he were spewing from his mouth were taking on the shape of a dragon similarly to the jutsu he had just done. He thought before beginning to slowly stand from the puddle he were sitting in. Beginning to walk over towards the heap of mud which had resembled a dragon's head not very long ago, he inspected it's craftsmanship, not exactly impressed with how resembling of a dragon it truly were. "Unacceptable," He said to himself "A powerful jutsu has to look just as good as it functions.". Backing up a few feet from the pile of mud, he placed his hands together in the ram seal, holding them there as he flowed chakra into the ground with greater efficiency than he was last time he were attempting the jutsu since he was using even one seal, though not even close to what was really required to do the jutsu to it's full potential.

The heap of mud once more starting to take the shape of a dragon's head, he would continue flowing chakra into the ground yet at an increased rate to try and make the appearance of the head more defined. Though this was successful, it was completely unneccesary in every way, quickly boring Kemuri as he practiced it. Less than a minute into the practicing of making the dragon's head more dragony, he stopped working on that factor of the jutsu, quickly realizing that it really didn't matter at all. Figuring he may as well begin to work on the jutsu to make it better, he started to launch mud balls from the mouth of the dragon again at increasingly high speeds as he went. He continued merely shooting balls of mud from the mouth of the dragon for a good five minutes at least, aiming them at the trunks of trees for the most part, causing the trees he struck to shake somewhat strongly. It wasn't just the speed of the balls that had begun to increase over the course of the training, it was essentially everything that had to do with the jutsu. Less chakra being needed to manipulate the mud, faster movements of the dragon's head, and greater control of the mud in general. The jutsu was coming along at a good pace, not quite as fast as the water wall had, but still rather quickly. It was only several minutes after beginning to practice the jutsu again that he realized he weren't doing many signs, in fact, only performing one throughout the entirety of training it. Remembering how well the water wall worked once he finally used the correct number and type of seals, he would quickly get to work thinking of which seals would be best for this jutsu, once more recalling the teachings of the academy to guide him.

Though the academy were a place for training the most basic of principles for becoming a ninja, the basics were sometimes all that were needed to do what you want to correctly. Overcomplicating a task can be a fatal mistake if done in the wrong circumstances. Remembering this, having very nearly forgotten it, Kemuri began to work on trying out seals for the jutsu that he figured had the best chances of succeeding. Unfortunately, he failed in his educated guesses several times in a row, the dragon hardly even being formed in some cases. It seemed like the ram seal were the best to start it with, but after several tries, he found the best seal for the second one, the dragon head raising from the ground rather quickly and slightly larger than it was when he were just using the ram seal. Only mildly surprised that the horse seal were the best for the second one, he continued on with his practicing, performing the jutsu several times over. He were pretty much trying every single seal he knew of before it suddenly hit him, why hadn't he tried the dragon seal yet? Trying the next seal he thought of, dragon, he flowed his chakra into the ground where he had been raising the dragon's head and letting it fall this entire time, the dragon's head shooting out of the ground rather than forming a pile of mud and forming itself off of that, a rather large leap for the speed at which the jutsu actually worked. Afterwards shooting the balls of mud out of the dragon's mouth, they were starting to become deadly projectiles, the first ball cracking the trunk of a rather large tree before the second ball, directly behind the first, struck it and practically snapped it in half. "Oh my. I think it's ready." He said to himself, impressed at learning another jutsu in just one day, though it weren't perfected just yet. He thought as he looked towards Tank who was practicing his taijutsu once more on another earthen dummy he had created with seemingly the only ninjutsu he knew how to perform. Walking toward Tank and Kenshin both, assuming they were somewhat close to each other, he would simply stand still and watch them. He was fairly tired after all that training after all and needed some rest, figuring that watching everyone do their training would be a better use of time than just lying in a puddle again, especially since he were practically soaking wet through most of the day by now.