Swap shop (P, NK, IO, Kuro, James)

James shudders as Kuro covers him with his body, and he says, muffled a little by Kuro completely surrounded, "Get off of me mate, this is a lot weirder and a lot more personnel then you think. Come off of me, now I'm soaked. I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy, even though I haven't made many of those."
He shakes, trying to get Kuro off of him, and says, "Come on, off of me. Get off, go ahead."
Inside his mind, he hears from the other him, "He's an idiot, doesn't understand even how to teach a basic. He's made of water, so he should understand the basics of water, and all he thinks up is oooh getting you wet my help you out."
James thinks back to the other, "Shut it, he's trying his best, but he's only ever taught one other person. I doubt you could do any better."
Laughter rattles around his mind, and the other James says, Give me control of your body, and you shall see the power and strength I can give you. Give yourself over and I will help you accomplish your goals as I told you I would do."
James replies, "As I've said to you, no. Now go away."]
The other James sighs, receding within his mind. And James is left alone, well alone in his mind by the other him. He continues shaking, hoping that Kuro would get off of him. If he does, he would say, "Thanks for the attempted drown, but trust me, I don't need that sort of encouragement."
If Kuro doesn't, he would sigh, and say, "Man, as much as you think your helping this is just uncomfortable."
If Kuro finally leaves him, he would say the same thing as the first scenario.
If not, or if so, he would continue on, concentrating on changing his chakra, attempting to shift from earth to water. He thinks of the difference between earth and water, and how those differences could in fact help.
"Earth, unmoving, still, strong, stiff, unwilling to change. Water, moving, free flowing, able to cause great change easyly. The differences almost make it seems as if you could never bridge the distance between those two. But like earlier, if i make the earth move, it seems to flow and change into water. But it stop as quickly as changed."
James then concentrates, and a smell of earth begins coming off of him, the smell of nature almost. On different levels it spoke of his commitment to the foundation of earth, it spoke of how he knows he comes from earth, and it spoke that earth would always be apart of him, no matter what comes later. Beneath his feet, the earth rumbled as, unconsciously, James was using his chakra as if he was channeling for a jutsu, and the earth was replying, ready to help on of it's children.
In his mind, the image of the earth started shaking, breaking apart as if it wasn't stable or still anymore. James imagines water starting to gush out of the ground, and his chakra started to change into more of a water, the smell, radiating from James, changing to the smell of the fresh morning dew, the earth stops rumbling underneath his feet, and whatever water was on James from Kuro putting himself over James-unless Kuro was still on James then nothing would happen as the water was Kuro-would start to vibrate as James started to change the earth that was infused within his body, into the element water, he could feel the earth infused shift slowly but surely, and in his mind the image of earth broke more and more. Finally, he could feel it, the water overtaking, consuming the earth chakra infused within his body.
He stops, the water finished changing the earth. and James smiles, and says, "It's done. I've unlocked it."
If Kuro is still on him, he'll try and shake him off again, and say, "Come on, off me, we got other things to train."
If not, James will say, "Okay, ready for the next few things?"

[twc 2084, water element unlocked]

Kuro would hold onto James for a few moments before his chakra hold began to slip and caused him to fall back to the ground. He'd slide a few feet away and reform himself again, a bit... unsettled. As hard as he was trying, he couldn't help feel kind of useless. He didn't know anything. As much as he could use jutsu and could feel how to do things with his body, he didn't really understand HOW. He knew he had water chakra, but he didn't understand why. He couldn't explain it. Not really. And it was starting to make him feel kind of idiotic. But at least James seemed to be getting it on his own. Kuro took a deep breath and sighed. If there was one disadvantage to having flowing emotions, it was this. Sometimes things went the wrong way and the world go a little less pretty. But this too would pass soon enough, so Kuro took another breath and collected his focus.

"All right, good to hear. Sorry I couldn't explain that very well. Trying to explain water chakra is like trying to explain the meaning of life for me. It's... I can't really do it. But hey, actual jutsus are a LOT easier! I can explain those! Let's get you started. Like I said, Snake Mouth will be the first one for you to learn. Most, or least somewhere around half or more, water jutsus require you to have a source that you manipulate. Snake mouth can be used from a source, or if there's not enough around, come from you. Now, here's the hand seals for it, just do them a few times to get them in your memory but don't pour any chakra into until you're ready for it or you'll end up choking on it. Then I'd have to shove my arm down your throat and pull the water out of your lungs, and if you thought I was too close when I was clinging to you, you don't want me inside you." Kuro would then show James the seals required for Snake Mouth, Monkey → Rat → Tiger → Dragon → Horse → Dragon, and tun to the side. 


"Now, once you start putting chakra into it, you want to build it up in your chest, let the chakra start turning into water inside of you. You'll want it to build up enough to let your chest puff up some, and then release it through your mouth. Now, when you release it, you HAVE to stay focused on your target. Snake mouth isn't a straight shot jutsu, it can bend and turn, chasing after whatever you're focused on. if you don't focus, it can go after the wrong thing. I caused a looot of chaos the first couple times I used this in the middle of a village street. Heh, fun times. Poor cabbage guy. Anyways, demonstration time." Kuro threw the handseals once more and felt his chest expand with water. He then opened his mouth wide and let a torrent of water emerge, a snake's head forming at the tip and rushing towards James, turning just before it got too close and continuieng it's charge behind him until it went as far as it could, turning into a lifeless puddle of water. Kuro then wiped his mouth and smiled. "phew. All right, now you can give it a try. Go ahead and aim for me, see if you can get it to chase right." 
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James repeats the hand seals a couple of times, taking Kuro's warning seriously about not using chakra because he didn't want to drown, or have Kuro stick his arm down his body. James shudders at that thought. He shakes his head, then nods his head, watching as Kuro demonstrates the jutsu. 
"Hey, I go."
He starts building chakra into his chest as Kuro said, doing the seals of monkey > rat > tiger > dragon > horse > dragon then breathes out. And nothing happens, but the fact that water builds up in his stomach, causing a gag reflex, and he takes a knee, throwing up the excessive water that had built up in his body.
"Ugh, that was awful. Tasted a little of my breakfast, which was good only one way." James says, and he then hears laughter from the other James.
James enraged at him, proceeds to enter into his mind, allowing his actual body to relax a second.
[i]James looks, at the eerie landscape that the other James had crafted in his mind. A mixture of the basic elements, the ground air, the air that James was breathing is really fire, clouds above, and the droplets dropping to the ground was really earth  and streaks of lightning, some dancing around James, was really an water, and on the ground, burning bright, like small campfires everywhere was lightning.
"What is this?" James asked and the other shrugged, and said, "This is the madness that is starting to form within your mind. It's mixing up what is reality and what is corrupted. The more your madness progresses, the stronger I get, the stronger this mindset you have gets."
"Wait, you're saying this is my fault? I caused this?" James questions the other James.
The other one shrugs again and says, "It's a small, small mindset. It's a fraction of what your mind is right now, but it grows. It's like a plant seed, small, and seemingly insignificant, until it takes root and grows. Right now it hasn't taken root yet, not even remotely, but soon it shall." 
"How do I stop it? How do i prevent the madness from taking root?" James asks, curious.
The other one smiles, and says, "For you, as a Jugo, it's too late. Once you start using your power, it grows more and more. It's too late, for the curse of Jugo is already upon you."
James stops, and looks around. He pauses and looks at it, and he smiles, "It's an interesting world, or mind set at least."
He stoops down, and touches the air, as solid as earth, raises his hands, letting the earth splash into them as if water droplets. he goes to close to a lightning campfire thing, and feels the warmth as if actually fire.
"Anyways, why were you laughing this time?" James says, getting to the real topic at hand. The other one chuckles and says, "Oh, just your comment about your throw up, made me laugh, and i thought i let you hear it. You can't even take training serious, and you expect to be a great shinobi. I've seen into the depth of your heart, and you wish to rise. But if you don't let me help you, or you don't get serious, then nobody will take you serious, and you shall never rise up."
"You've seen my heart have you, then you know the two things that always makes me serious. is training and a fight. You have nothing to offer me, except disaster and ruin."
"Let me help you a little with your jutsu training at least then. Don't let the water just rest within your stomach, or your lungs, when you expel it, expel it, not as water, else it will certainly drown you, but build the chakra up, then expel the chakra, using the mostuire in your mouth as a way to change the chakra into water. That way, if you happen to fail at the jutsu the next time, at least the water is not in your lungs or stomach, it's in your mouth. Your friend made out of water can easily meld the chakra into water inside of his body, in his lungs, but for you, it's best that you instead change it inside of your mouth"
The other James moves towards James, and shoves him, out of the strange mindset, hard enough into his real body.
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James comes aware again, and no time passed, as the time spent in his mind went at a super speed of thought. He tenses a second, before rising up again. He flashes a grin at Kuro and says, "Okay, well, now that the bad taste is almost gone out of my mouth let's get this jutsu out of the way."
 He pops his knuckles, rotating his neck, getting a few crackles out of that too.
"Prepare yourself." James says, building up the chakra into his chest, his lungs, holding it there not changing it into the chakra yet, then he preforms the hand seals monkey > rat > tiger > dragon >horse >dragon. He breathes the chakra out, changing the chakra once it reaches his mouth. The water forms into a snake, and it swirls around James first, before rearing up, as James concentrates on Kuro, and James says, "So, you want me to send it out at you then? Is that what you want?"
James sends the water snake towards Kuro, averting it before it reaches Kuro to swirl around him. James then sends it back towards himself. He has it swirl out and around, then he has it crashing into the ground, forming a river that moves away from both James and Kuro.
He looks at Kuro and says, "So, we have the water for more jutsu, tell me, what's next? How about that one jutsu you used against Amaya, Ryugia, and me? The Hidden Mist I believe? At least the book, Jutsu Encyclopedia, was what i was basing that assessment off that. I'm ready to learn another jutsu, unless you want a chance to work on your medicial stuff? I can do with a break as well. with learning the water element and this jutsu, I need a little break from my training. Yeah, let's go, just no fox attacks please, as that's just a cruel thing to wish upon anybody."
James sits down on the ground, taking out a kuani, slashing open his palm, and says, "Is this good enough to start with?"

[twc 3161, 2k/2k water element, 1k/1k Snake mouth (halved due to training)]

Kuro chuckled when James first failed the technique. "It's all right, take your time! You can do this!" He would then continue waiting and watch as the jutsu swirled around him and applauded as it crashed to the ground. "Great job! All right, now that we got it set up, you can take a break, it won't go anywhere for awhile. You just catch your breath and let me take a look at that hand." Vixie lifted her head at the smell of blood and licked her chops hungrily, but stayed where she was. Kuro smiled and walked over to James, sitting next to him and taking hold of his wrist with one hand to move his palm where he could look at it better. "Hm, all the blood makes it hard to see exactly what's happened. But I guess I don't really need to see what I'm doing when I can feel it." Kuro took a deep breath and placed his other hand in James's palm, liquifing his hand and letting his breath out as the blood mixed with his watery hand. He shuddered slightly and closed his eyes as he carefully pushed against the pal, slipping inside of the cut, able to feel each severed cell of James's hand. "Okay... wow this is crazy. Okay, let's just... put all this back togeth-" Kuro's eyes snapped open and he turned his head to the side as he spit out the excess blood he was absorbing. "Huh. that's kinda neat. Moving on, I'm gonna try putting this back together." Kuro then used his chakra to hold onto the cells and begin pulling them together, activating James's body's natural healing capabilities as well to get the severed cells to fuse back together. The bleeding slowed down as the cut began growing shallower and shallower, closing up until the palm looked as good as new, minus one small white scar mark on the top layer of his skin that would naturally fade over time. Kuro would then solidify his body again and release James's hand. "Phew. All fixed up. But that was a pretty shallow flesh wound. Buuuut I also don't want to do anything too deep or anything... Hey, do you know where any dead bodies are? Or maybe a suicidal person?"
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James, baffled by Kuro's question, looks at him, and says, "Um, dude, that's just weird. No, I don't know where any dead bodies are just lying around at besides the cemetery, and I really don't think people will be too happy about you digging up dead people's bodies just to practice on them. As for suicidal people, don't know any either, and practicing on them seems like a bad idea as well."
He stands up, streching out his body, and says, "Okay, mate, do you have anything else you want topractice, that requires a sane living person to be practice on, or are you ready  to move on to to other jutsu. Maybe you can teach me Hidden Mist now? I seriously think that be helpful as a jutsu."
He walks away from Kuro, turning to face him once again, and says, "Okay, show me the next jutsu you're gonna teach me, I want to learn."


[twc 3317, 2k/2k water element, 1k/1k snake's mouth]

Kuro folded his arms and sighed when he was told that James didn't know of any no-risk test subjects he could work on. That was certainly pretty unfortunate. "Oh come on it's not weird. I bet nurses look at dead bodies when they first start training too so they don't mess up any surgeries! And if there was a suicidal person I was going to stalk them around until they hurt themselves and then save them! And then convince them to not want to die! It's all completely not weird stuff! It's smart and... what's the word... Convenient! Yeah!" Kuro sighed again and scratched his head. "But I guess I can feel around my own body. I do it all the time anyways. It's just nice to feel like I'm healing the pain of someone who isn't me. Anyways, Hidden Mist time. Now, this one is a lot simpler than Snake mouth, just not as like, attack oriented. It can also get in the way of allies if you're not careful. Gotta be considerate of your team." 

"Now the hand seal is really easy, it's just a tiger seal. What you have to really focus on is making the mist. You want to reach out to the mist with your chakra and just, pull it into the air in tiny floating pieces. Then sort of gather up those pieces and bring them around your body. Just keep building them up around you until there just gets to be so many of them that they make a thick mist people can't see through. If you really focus, you can make it really thin or you can make it so thick that anyone inside is basically blind... You'll probably want to learn something for seeing through chakra clouds so you don't make yourself as blind as your opponent if you wanna use it for fighting. It still makes a pretty good distraction for escape even if you can't see through it though, since you can make it then just dash off and run." Kuro explained the jutsu pretty thoroughly he thought then turned his focus onto himself as he let James give it a go. Closing his eyes and taking a deep breath, Kuro brought his focus onto the inside of his body. The biggest advantage of being a Hozuki medically speaking was being able to feel every part of your body down to the molecular structure. You had to in order to be able to control turning yourself into water and back again. So, Kuro took a deep breath and began liquefing his left hand very slowly. Working his way from top to bottom through layer and layer of skin, muscles, nerve and flesh. He winced slightly as some of his solid nerves screamed in agony at being exposed to the air, but quickly liquified them to turn them off and stop the pain. Once his hand was nothing but bone and everything required to keep it from falling apart he took a deep breath and sat down, slowly releasing it as he looked at his hand and studied the bone structure, marveling at how the human hand was made on the inside. He let out his deep breath and slowly began flexing his fingers, wincing slightly as he moved it without it's protective layer of skin. "..wow. This is really crazy."
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"First, it's dead bodies and suicidal people with you, now you have to do that creepy thing, man, you are one strange dude, I hope you know that." James says, after seeing Kuro almost like peel away his skin to reveal his bone. He shudders, glad that he doesn't have an ability to do that. He shakes his head again, and says, "What even possessed you to do that, while I'm here? Man, you're gonna make me hurl my stomach and all the food that's in it, with that bone sticking out. You know, normal people wouldn't be so calm about bones sticking out, though I guess you being made of water helps with that."
James laughs and then says, "Guess being unique like that gives you the ability to not be afraid of bones sticking out."
Within his mind, he hears the other James laugh, and then say, " That is interesting indeed, the ability to shift away the skin, to look at the bone, imagine the abilities you could have with that. You could be able to peel away your skin to find out what happened to you if you ever got injured. You need to figure out a way to do that to yourself."
James thinks back to him, "Figure that out later, for now jutsu practice time."
The other James sighs, and says, "[i]Hurry up will you. It's not like we're growing any younger and I prefer if we wreck this world before we turn a hundred."
James, sighs in his head, and thinks to the other, "Wait, what? Wreck the world? Why would we wreck the world, I happen to like it just fine."
The other James just shakes his head, then says, "Go learn this jutsu, it will probably help you out in the long run."
James relaxes himself, then says, "Okay, so tiger. Let's do this."
He walks over to where his Snake mouth river was flowing, standing next to it. He then holds up tiger, flowing his chakra out into the river, taking the water on the ground, and converting the water in the air into a mist, that rises up to the knees of James, spreading ten meters out.
"Hmm, think it's suppose to rise above the knees," the other James says in his mind. He laughs as James scrowls. The other James says, "You know where to find me if you neeed me."
The other James disappears back inside his head, and James shakes his head, "Okay, time to try again."
He lets the first one end, it completely disappearing, to reveal once again the river that James was next to, then kneels down, touching the river that was still flowing, a little lessen but still strong. He stands back up, rotates his arms around, and says, "Okay, time to try this again."
He does tiger seal again,  adding more chakra into the jutsu and converting more of the water that was flowing next to James into water. The water converts into a thicker mist then the first one, rising up to ten meters up in the air and spreading out twenty five meters. At first, James made it where it wasn't thick, but easy to see through. Then he makes it so thick where he couldn't see a foot in front of him. He silently starts circling, remembering where Kuro's last position was, he starts moving towards Kuro, circling around a little more, before he starts moving in. He sees Kuro's back towards, and James grins, and he moves closer to Kuro and touches him, saying, "Tag, you're it."


[twc 3919 water 2k/2k, snake mouth 1k/1k, hidden mist 500/500]

James reels back, instantly sending out a punch to Kuro's face. He was suprised at the face Kuro pulled, but shouldn't of been, with the way he had been peeling his hand, it was only a matter of time before he tried something like that. Kuro splashes and reforms, and gives James a congrats and a warning. James nods, knowing about that already, seeing how in his fight with Kuro, he had done the same thing in the fight, moving around to try and get a drop on Kuro.
"Okay, now then, what else do you want to train on? Have anything, ooh, I know, how about body replication stuff? That be fun, though I prefer you learning it before I start chopping body parts off."

"Body replication?" Kuro frowned and tilted his head slightly while scratching it. "Hm. That DOES sound neat but, I don't think I even know where to begin with that. I'm probably going to have to find someone else to teach me how the heck to get that to work. Thanks for the advice though, it sounds neato and I'm going to have to go for it as soon as I find someone to learn it from." Kuro smiled and took a moment to think, what other training did he need to do? "Well, there's two things I want to work on, but one of them might be easier to train if I'm working with one of my teacher... boss... leader people. What are they to me anymore even? Whatever, point is, I've got one last thing I want to work on with you then I think I'll be done with training stuff for myself for today. So I just need you to not freak out. Remember when I wrapped around you? Well I'm basically going to do that again, but just kinda stay on your back this time so you don't get all uncomfortable or whatever. What I want you to do is just start walking at first, then running and then just try doing whatever you can do to get me off of your back. the only way this is going to hurt you is if you trip of run into something. Got it? All right then, I'm gonna be your water backpack now." Kuro would give a thumbs up and then liquefy into a puddle, without the whole, leaving behind bones and stuff thing, just breaking his body down at top speed instead of being careful and deliberate. He would then move towards James as a puddle of water and pool around his feet before focusing his chakra. The water puddle would then glow as it became extremely dense with chakra. Kuro would then begin pulling himself up the back of James's foot and leg, the glowing puddle sliding up his clothes until it had all moved to his back and pooled together into a large blob of water, using chakra to hang onto the back of his clothes, settling into position and waiting for James to start moving and challenge it's grip.
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