Are you always so clumsy?(IO, NK)

Jason was excited to meet up with his new friend Risako today. He knew she had her Genin exam recently and was eager to find out how she had done. Jason had sent her a message saying to meet him in the forest they had first met. Now Jason sat in the shade under a tree with his fox friend Nami quietly curled up in his lap. The note he left Risako said to meet him at noon but Nami and him had gotten there early to do some training on their own before she showed up. They didn't want to push themselves too hard before Risako arrived so Jason and Nami decided to just sit and enjoy each other's company for now. Jason pulled out his copy of Human Body, The Ultimate Machine and began studying the different vital spots and pressure points on the human body. However it wasn't long before he fell asleep, completely forgetting about meeting his friend.....

This was the first morning Risako was able to sleep in on in weeks, and lemme assure you, she enjoyed it. It was probably eleven thirty when she rose from her bed, fully dressed for some reason. She wiped a bit of drool off her mouth as she reached for her head band, which she tied somewhat loosely around her neck. She stumbled to the living room of the empty house where she saw a letter sitting at the bottom of the door. Upon further examination, it was from her new friend Jason. She unfolded it to reveal the uncrackable code written inside. "Ayo Risako, come tooo da forrest wair wee had orginally metten." What in the hell's kitchen could that mean? Probably go to the forest. She was good with secret codes. 

She slammed her door open with the grace of an old drunk. Or... she tried to, in reality she just hurt her ankle. She opened the door right this time, and started off toward the memorable spot with the cursed thorn bush she had dubbed "Gertrude". It took her some time but she arrived, and Jason, was fast asleep. She took extra special care to avoid Gertrude. At least the sun was blotted out by the massive amount of leaves, because only weirdos sleep in the open sun. If Nami hasn't woken him by now, then it was up to Risako. She would start by giving his shin a good kick, and then playfully shouting "Wake up you dolt!" She wasn't even sure what dolt meant, but it sounded good.

Jason was having a great dream about bacon and eggs and pancakes and all these wondrous foods. He was just about to dig in to the amazing feast laid out before him when suddenly he felt a pressure on his shin and someone shouting. Jason jumped awake screaming "Gahhhhhh! My pancakes!!". He had been so startled he literally jumped, flailing his arms wildly and then fell right into that cursed thorn bush from last time. Great, it was his turn to be stuck.

Looking around Jason saw his friend Risako and was confused at first until he remembered he had asked her to meet him out there. She must've been the one who had woken him up. Before freeing himself from the demonic thorn bush, he noticed she did indeed have her ninja headband. It was tied loosely around her neck so she was obviously a Genin now. "Oh hey Risako. I must have fallen asleep. Now I'm in this dreadful thorn bush. Gimme a sec so I can get myself out of here." he would say to her, trying to hide his discomfort and embarrassment. He would then swiftly pull out a kunai and cut his way out of the thorn bush.

'Why did I ask Risako to come out here again? I'm so hungry now. Did she have to wake me up before I could eat the delicious bacon? And why did I get stuck in this damn thorn bush? It must be demonic or something. I wonder where Nami went. Oh there she is. Stop laughing at me Nami!' Jason would think all of these things to himself as he brushed off the dirt from himself and pulled out some left over thorns. Finally turning his attention to Risako he said "Hey Risako. You're right, that thorn bush must be demonic or something. That really hurt. Anyway, d'ya got any pancakes? I'm starving!"

"Gahhhhhh! My pancakes!!"

She wasn't expecting Jason to come back alive kicking and screaming, and she fell backwards on her ass. Jason managed to fling himself into Gertrude, which was a bit comical, but that meant she had stuck two people. Seven billion more to go. "Gertrude strikes again!" She would half yell, half murmur as she stood.

"Oh hey Risako, I must've fallen asleep. Now I'm in this dreadful thornbush, gimme a sec so I can gey myself out of here." 

She would watch as he cut himself free from the thornbush, laughing internally. She wondered why the thorn bush seemed to have some magnetism, and if she had the ability, she would find a way to make some jutsu out of it. Cause that would be severely inconvenient for anyone who stood against her. 

 "Hey Risako. You're right, that thorn bush must be demonic or something. That really hurt. Anyway, d'ya got any pancakes? I'm starving!"

"Yea, Gertrude is ninety percent hate, ten percent bush. And pancakes? No I don't." While Jason was busy pulling out the remnants of the bush, she walked over by a nearby tree, yanking an apple out of it, and tossing it towards the boy. "That's all I got." She shuffled her feet, curious about why she was summoned to the woods. "Any reason for wanting me out here?"

"Any reason for wanting me out here?"

Confused, Jason wondered why she would come out here for a few seconds, still being dazed from his nap. Then a light bulb went on in Jason's head. "Oh yea I forgot that I asked you to come out here. I was too focused on food. Thanks for the apple though." he would say to Risako, taking a bite of the apple she had just tossed to him.

"Right, I heard you passed your Genin exam and judging from the headband hanging from your neck I'd say I heard correctly! That's great Risako congrats! Well me and Nami wanted to personally congratulate you on graduating from the academy and Nami thought I should offer to train you. I have been a Genin for a while now and I'm sure I could really help you grow stronger. What do you say?" Jason said with a big goofy smile on his face, finally answering the girls question. It had been a while since he had trained anyone. If he was being honest with himself he had only trained his friend Lukas once on how to use the Clone and Transformation techniques. He hoped Risako would accept his offer. He felt a strange connection with the girl ever since freeing her from the demonic thorn bush she had dubbed "Gertrude". Jason would patiently await Risako's answer, happily eating his apple while he waited.

"Oh yea I forgot that I asked you to come out here. I was too focused on food. Thanks for the apple though." 

It seemed that this poor child was starving, in a forest full teeming with food. She shook her head, and crossed her arms, "Oh you poor, poor thing." Risako seemed glued to where she was standing for the moment, and it seemed like Jason had more to say. 

"Right, I heard you passed your Genin exam and judging from the headband hanging from your neck I'd say I heard correctly! That's great Risako congrats! Well me and Nami wanted to personally congratulate you on graduating from the academy and Nami thought I should offer to train you. I have been a Genin for a while now and I'm sure I could really help you grow stronger. What do you say?"


She stuck one fist on her hip, and brandished her headband with the other, wiggling it so the light reflected off of it. "Damn right I passed! And I'll take you up on your offer." She was rather proud of that accomplishment. Matching Jason's big goofy grin, she would say "I've already begun the mastery of the inferno, watch!" By mastery, she meant something more along the lines of "I'm a fledgling noob." She was somewhat excited, as this was the first time she was able to show off her newly learned technique. She began to concentrate and knead her chakra in her chest, before performing a half tiger handseal. She would inhale deeply, and spew forth a small concentrated stream of fire, hitting nothing but the air above the two. She did get rather close to the leaves hanging above them though.

"Wow Risako, you really have gotten stronger. I can't teach you any fire style jutsu unfortunately but I can help you learn more control and some basic techniques every Genin should know. Just try not to burn me too badly if we spar." he said teasingly to her. Now that she was a Genin, he wanted to help her get stronger. Maybe she would be willing to form a team with him and Tatsuya to take the Chunin exams together. Whatever the case may be, Risako had accepted his offer to train with him and she definitely showed a lot of promise. That fire style jutsu she just shoed off with looked exceptionally powerful for a newly appointed Genin.

"Let's get stronger together Risako!" he would say to her with a grin and giving her a thumbs up. Then an apple fell right on to Jason's head with an audible "thump". "Owww! What the hell was that? Oh look another apple! Must be my lucky day." he said, rubbing his head and then picking up the apple and taking a bite. "Uhh, what were we talking about again? This apple is really good."

"Wow Risako, you really have gotten stronger. I can't teach you any fire style jutsu unfortunately but I can help you learn more control and some basic techniques every Genin should know. Just try not to burn me too badly if we spar." 

She crossed her arms, content with her firework display. "I'll be at the training ground later on, probably when it's dark. That's where I've been practicing, so I don't burn anything down." It appeared another apple had fallen upon her friends head. Like that one dude who discovered physics or something. He said the apple was good, but she could have guessed. His offer did sound intriguing though. And she would agree, for now at least. "It would appear that mother nature has it out for us. Between Gertrude and that apple." She would awkwardly chuckle at her own joke, which wasn't really that funny. "So, what should we start with?" 

[This takes place the day of Fire in The Night, just saying.]

[ok that makes sense. I hope you didn't mind me and Tatsuya crashed your Fire in the Night thread]


"So, what should we start with?"

"That's true. I don't know what we did to anger mother nature but we better be careful it doesn't start pouring on us or something, y'know? Anyway lets start with the Body Flicker technique. It's a D rank jutsu that allows you to move at extreme speeds. The drawback is since your body isn't used to moving at such high speeds you can't do much with this technique besides move from point 'A' to point 'B'. It is good for traveling, catching an enemy off guard or dodging etc. How does that sound to you?" he would say to Risako.

Jason normally acted like a clumsy air head but whenever he was training or in a serious situation he would change his demeanor and become calculating and calm, just as he did now. He already had an interesting idea for teaching his friend Body Flicker. He would create two shadow clones and play a game of tag with her, having her use the Body Flicker technique to catch them. It was definitely a good way to keep training fun. If Risako agreed to learning Body Flicker first he would tell her about his plans. While he was waiting for Risako's response to his proposal to practice Body Flicker first, he let his mind wander, thinking of other out of the box ideas for the rest of the training he wanted to do with his friend.

"That's true. I don't know what we did to anger mother nature but we better be careful it doesn't start pouring on us or something, y'know? Anyway lets start with the Body Flicker technique. It's a D rank jutsu that allows you to move at extreme speeds. The drawback is since your body isn't used to moving at such high speeds you can't do much with this technique besides move from point 'A' to point 'B'. It is good for traveling, catching an enemy off guard or dodging etc. How does that sound to you?"

Body flicker was a pretty common technique among shinobi. One that she did yet know. This would hopefully be an interesting training session, albeit a short one. Well... maybe it would be short. The surroundings would make it interesting too. She would have to avoid the trees, which would be difficult at a speed she wasn't used to, not to mention Gertrude. Gertrude was bound to get involved again, but it would push her to train harder. "I like to throw people off guard. Sounds good to me." She went to perform the handseals, realizing she didn't know how, or if the jutsu even had handseals. "Uhh... how?... I goofed. Teach me."

She would blush at her embarrassment a bit. Her skin would find its way back to being normal as she paid attention while Jason broke down the basics of how to perform it.

[I don't mind you two crashing it, that just means it's easier to get the word count.]