Hard training

Dastri headed to the training grounds once again. It was time to get started on some more training. She was a lot weaker than James and Amaya and she needed to get stronger if she wanted to be any use to them. She needed to raise some more money too, She needed to get a sword to edfend herself from things she couldn't block with a kick. But she needed to do missions to raise money and she needed to be stronger to do missions to raise money. It was a frustratingly long sounding process in her head, but she didn't really have a choice in the matter unless she wanted to get herself killed, which she didn't. She had to defend herself, but without a sword for now. Thankfully, she had looked up a defensive taijutsu technique that would certainly come in help. The Intersection Method. She carefully balanced herself on one leg and brought her right knee up towards her chest while bringing her right elbow down towards it. She did this a few times going faster and faster until she felt comfortable with her balance during this. She then picked up a small branch about the size of an arm and tossed it upwards. She watched it carefull as it came back down then caught it between her knee and elbow with enough force to crack it in half. "Whew... Yeah, this is going to be really helpful. 
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James was running around the track, clearing his mind. When he notices the girl from his training session the other day.Her back was to him, but James could see she was doing something. She seemed to be practicing some tai moves. James wracks his brain, thinking of any tai moves he knew.
"Dynamic entry, that should work as the opening move." James thinks, already started running towards the girl, jumping whenever he becomes ten meters away. His full momentum achieved as he does a kick in the air at the girl, but in order not to harm her, he tries not to put as much of his strength in the kick (50 speed, 15 strength).
His kick is aimed to hit the girl in the back, and if it lands, he will recover and say, "Dynamic entry. Pretty good tai move, and the only tai move I know."
If it doesn't, he'll recover and say, "Ah, you don't like tai moves, and here I thought you were a close combat expert. Dynamic entry is what i was trying to do to you."

Dastri was begining to decide what to do next when she heard fotsteps behind her. Turning around as James jumped, her eyes would widen in surprise as her brain processed the sight of james flying towards her with his foot outstretched. She would then instinctively move to protect herself with the new jutsu she had been practicing, moving at 65 speed as she brought her elbow and knee together to catch his foot. She did hold back just before she connected however, recalling what happened to the stick and not wanting to do the same things to James, even if he was acting her out of the blue. Her Intersection jutsu would catch James's leg slightly below the knee and cause his forward movement to come to a complete stopwith his foot barely an inch from her body. His momentum coming to a sudden stop would probably cause him some discomfort in the groin area and he would fall to the ground as Dastri wasn't capable of continuing to hold him there. "James!? What the hell!? You can't just go around trying to kick people in the back! Especially not when we're supposed to be helping each other out!" Dastri wouldhold her arms out towards him and shake a bit as she frustratedly tried to find the words to say to properly yell at him, but she finally just throws her arms up in exhasperatrion before dropping them to her sides. "so... yeah! I thought I told you to not scare me already! I'm really jumpy!"
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James was impressed, well, almost a little annoyed as well. Dastri had heard him coming and had turn and used what ever she was working on to stop him. He stands up, brushing off dust, and says, "Welp, aren't we jumpy. And here I thought I be nice and teach you a new tai move, welp, guess I won't ever be that helpful again, Miss. Jumpy."
He pops his neck then says, "So, wanna do some training? It looks like you're doing some jutsu. I have a few jutsu that I want to practice as well. So want to do so? Practice on each other? Makes it easier in my opinion then practicing alone. I think working with someone else gives you a chance to get a better feel on the jutsu then working alone."
He grins, waiting on the reply from the girl.

Dastri sighed and took a moment to consider James's offer. "I don't know. I'm really busy working on myself, I don't know if I really HAVE time to help you out. I'm already way behind you and Amaya. If I'm helping you train stuff then I'll never catch up, if it's even possible for me to catch up now. I'm just too far behind to be worrying about making you stronger.I HAVE to do some training just focusing on myself. I'm kind of useless right now. I'm sure you kind find somebody more qualified to help you out." Dastri would then turn away from James and pick up the two halves of the stick she broke, tossing them both into the air one after the other and kicking them back up as they fell to the ground, playing 'keep it up' with the two pieces of wood, carefully bouncing them a few times before hitting one extra hard to send it up far higher while she used the Intersection technique again on the second one, now juggling three pieces of wood using only her legs.
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James laughs at the girl's response, a joyful and hearty laugh, then says, "Don't forget, you're opening move in our first spar was more of a threat then Amaya. In fact, I'll forego my training for right now, and let you use me as my practice target. I'll match you for speed, and strength, just so it will be an even match, and you can use what you're practicing on me to help you along. I mean, the goal is to get all three of us ready to do the chuunin rank up mission."
James stretches and waits on a reply while watching the girl juggle the sticks.

Dastri kicked each stick at a tree and took a deep breath before sighing and consider what James had to say. She didn't really like the guy, he enjoyed spooking her and attempting to attack her without warning. On the other hand, having someone to practice on could help out a lot. she rubbed her temple with one hand as she continued thinking about the decision. " I just... I still don't really trust you. I don't feel comfortable around you. I don't feel comfortable around most guys, and you're definitely not an exception. When Amaya's there with us it's a little different but just us... I don't really like to entertain that thought." Dastri then picks up a dummy and sets it up for practice, keeping her back to James. "You can practice here too and stuff but... I'm just gonna be minding my own business." Dastri would then take a deep breath and lift her right leg, proceeding to straight kick the dummy in the chest. She would then spin around and kick the dummy in the side of the head, jumping as she brought the leg down and bringing her other leg up, axe kicking the dummy as she landed on her hands. 
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James sighs, thinking, "Stubborn girl. I guess if I can't help you when you're calm, I'll just have to help you when you're mad."
He walks, pretending to be leaving, before reaching five meters away, he turns and doing the hand seals of rat and boar, he hurls a blue frisbee of energy at Dastri, yanking her back ten meters. If it's successful, he walks over to where the girl lays, and says, "Understand this, you consider yourself weak, I'm here to show you that within you lies the strength to rise up and fight. Now, will you rise and fight? Or be a meek rabbit once again?"
He casts aside his weapons, and stands over her, and offers a hand to help her up with.

Dastri would give a sharp cry of surprise as she was suddenly yanked back and winces slightly as she lands on her back. God damn James. Doing jerk stuff all the time to her. She watches him get closer and then lifts her knees up to her chest and tucks her head, pushing her palms on the ground to force her body to start to roll back towards him. After rolling to the point where the top of her head finished going over the ground and her feet pointed towards James, she would fully extend her arms and legs, kicking at James with the full force of her body. If the blow landed she would use the reactionary force to roll forward onto her feet. If the kick missed she would use her momentum to do a full flip onto her feet. Either way, she would then dash forward away from James, stopping after a few meters if he didn't follow her.
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James walks towards the girl, who gets to her feet, sending a kick at him. He recoils from it, allowing it to land. She runs away from him, and he stands still, watching her, until she stopped from him a few meters away. Well, three meters away, thirteen meters from where he yanked her from.
He shrugs, and looks at her, and says, "So, angry yet? Merely frustrated? I mean, you said you felt uncomfortable around most guys, well, if we are going to be teammates, we will be working together.. Your enemies won't just be female shinobi, you will have to face male shinobi. You'll run into males in every aspect of life. As for trust, I only need you to trust that I will watch your back, and you will watch mine. Else we can forget about working together, for I won't work with someone who can't trust me without Amaya around. You have to believe that you can fight by yourself, stop being a scared rabbit."
With that James stops talking, and starts walking towards her, slowly, cautiously, watching her movements, waiting for the opening he needed to strike.

[twc 783, 1324 (+541 earlier wc)/2k mass pull]