The Wolf and The Angel(Nk)(ame only)

"I'm afraid what I know of space and time couldn't be of much help to anyone. However we do have a few ninjas in the village you should think abut training with. CoRin my chief of police is a jounin who specializes in space and time. I'm sure if you sent her a message she'd be happy to give you a few pointers. But beware she's a little... eccentric." The rain genlty kiseed the side as his face as he watched his two ninja testing out their skills. "I encourage everyone in the village to get to know one another, we need strong bonds even in times like these. So I don't want either of you to hesitate to ask for my help or anyone else. Or village is small in numbers and we have to look out for each other."

He turned his attention to Sync who was fiddling around with the puppet. At least he had basic arm movements down. He crossed his arms, and shouted tips as the boy explored what it was like to control a puppet. Chakra strings can't get tangled, they persevere motion and won't simply stop when you cease to pull them. He told him how to work the mechanisms, with a series of finger twitches. It was good practice running through the basics with a master.

When Li was sure that Sync had the basics of puppetry down, he'd call down another one of his angels. Abbadon, and A-Rank puppet. It required almost twice the amount of chakra, and threads to control this one. However if Sync was able to do it, while also controlling Raphael he was the perfect candidate for his Rain Secret Technique: A host of angels. (100 puppet performance).  "Once you feel comfortable handling both of these puppets I want you to make them spar aginst each other. It's going to test your mental focus. When you're controlling multiple puppets you have to be able to control them all down to the slightest detail. I want a five minute sparring session. No Mechanisms or tools just Puppet on puppet Taijutsu."

Li remembered his own puppet training being much different. He'd learned puppetry as a performing arts to entertain nobles. Who'd have thought that it'd make such a handy combat skill too?

"Kiwo." Li announced finally Turning to the young man. "That Jounin I mentioned earlier. CoRin. I'm sending her on a mission soon. She's going to be clearing out the nearby Jungle of bandits. Their is still a spot on her team for another Genin if you wish to join her. It'll be dangerous but, you could learn first hand some handy Space and Time techniques."

He nodded slightly at the kage, memorizing the name of the jounin he recommended. Once he had practiced enough to be sure he had the technique down, he turned his attention toward Sync and Li as the other genin practiced with a puppet. The prospect of seeing two puppets fight each other sounded interesting.

However, soon enough Li turned to him and spoke. "I see. I'll go look for her, then." If she was going soon, then he had to make sure he had plenty of time to find her and ask to join the mission. It might be dangerous, but he could learn plenty from it. If he wasn't interrupted, he went off to see this CoRin person.

(possibly exiting)

Sync allowed himself only to gaze at the puppet quickly as not to spend too much time on it's own looks as much as the moves he may use with said puppets as he grinned and sent 5 strings into the puppet rasping the smiling, he twitched his finger with Raphael on it just to show that he did indeed have control of that one, by the time he had the threads into Abbadon, he noticed that it was different in power however Sync felt that he had not truly understood Raphael's powers.

"Get this done, I want you to move this puppet as fast as possible." Pawa said inside his mind making him smirk

With a click Sync had finally reached access to both of the puppets wings with a grin Sync slowly moved the puppets making them fly up about 3 meters up, but Sync could feel a slight pulling feeling as the puppets floated "So this i guess is the start of a puppeteer huh" Sync said as his personas began to argue, he smiled as he made the puppets roughly punch and block each other.The arms of the puppets clashed and sounded like a tree falling with ever hit, however holding back much of the power as not to crack either of the puppet's frames.

Sync was having a blast as Kiwo began to leave.This left Sync wondering what the boy would do, but more important why he had left, however Sync didn't ponder as much due to the fact the puppets were straining Syncs body a but, making the youthful boy sigh "So you say that these puppets have been with you threw your trials as a kage?" Sync said keeping a smile on his face as the puppet continued to fight this time Sync made sure to make the puppets land and begin going punch for punch as Syncs fingers danced in way of the puppets, Sync wouldn't stop looking at Li a few time, however keeping almost all of his concentration on moving the puppets.

"Since the very start." He said fondly looking at the two angles going at it. "Sadly they're getting a little out dated and I'm designing new ones. It's kind of sad because they're damn good puppets!" He gave a loud laugh. "For now though they serve me just as faithfully as they always have." He watched with an impressed look on his face as the boy performed a rather entertaining battle with the angels. 

"You're doing well. I think you're a worthy enough heir for this. Imma borrow your body for a second." Before Sync would have time to question what that meant Li would already be holding up the Yamanaka clan sign, and sending his spirit inside of Syncs body, taking it over completely.

Though Li wouldn't completely push Sync's consciousness out of his head. He needed him to pay attention for this next part. "Sorry about this." Sync's body would say as Li's own fell on the ground, soaking up the rain water. "I just want you to know what this technique feel like before you do it on your own. I actually had to take psychedelic drugs before I could properly perform it. Focus on your hands. The finger tips, and the points from which I'm expelling chakra."

He held Sync's hands out, and expelled a hundred chakra threads out from his fingers. Each thread flew around the field and picked up random sticks and rocks. But each thread has some object it was manipulating. "A normal ninja." Syncs body would begin to lecture. "Can produce ten string max. However those of us skilled enough in puppets, and with VERY good chakra control can manage to squeeze out ten times that number. That's a lot of puppets for a person to control. Concentration is key." He performed his little act for about a minute making sure he gave sync plenty of time to understand what it should feel like.

After that Li's spirit would return to his body. He'd peel himself off of the ground, absolutely soaking wet. "So, what do you think? Something you could handle?"

Sync couldn't stop grinning as he guessed he was right about the puppets, both were magnificent in all ways, Sync had no idea why someone would get rid of such fine crafted puppets.He was so concentrated on the fact he called the puppets outdated that Sync didn't notice as he was knocked unconscious by Li.

Sync felt strange as he was still awake enough for his kage to speak to him, his voices seeing as Li was in his body would now be able to be heard by his kage, this was Syncs worst fear and as it stood he had no way to tell his other personas to shut up.Before Sync knew it the first persona came it was Surota "Yoooooo Sync what's up, you never come inside your mind anymore man, wait...then why are we moving..." Surota said with a scowl his voice was a little rough if Li were to hear it.

Sync couldn't believe that the Kage would enter his body without his own say so, however he watched as always in awe of his Kage, however Surota wasn't happy about this turn of events and swore to control Syncs body again, Sync himself didn't much care for Surotas act to be king not did he like the fact that all his Personas just wanted power or chaos, Sync sighed as another on of his Personas began to speak to him it was Warai, it was odd for Warai to speak he'd normally be stood in his corner of the mind playing games as him and his giggly voice began to speak

"Sync, you've been pretty sad...Start to actually try please?" Warai said concerned for his host, probably the only one that cared about Syncs well being.

Sync regained his body at the end of the kages lecture and after waiting three minutes or so Sync looked at Li, his kage, and smiled as he stuck out his arm "Activate" Sync said his heart aflame as his skin turned into flame like chakra tattoos, and Sync's shirt began to be pushed, by now Syncs shirt was drenched so he simply pulled it off to show his body marked with the same tattoo, as well as his cat ear and chakra wings syn let out one smile to his kage "Lets see if i can do this" Sync said with a happy tone.

Sync signed for ram and instantly his ability absorbed the chakra moving to his feet and added it to his own chakra pool, Sync would grin at his teacher as he let loose 100 threads as quick as whips ripping up rocks twigs the items he had purchased earlier, twirling the objects around seemed all too natural for the ninja as the kunais were going fast threw the air he could feel a sense of power(they are moving at speeds of 45) spinning the items in the air as he dropped ten twigs and picked up Li's puppets, a crooked smile on his face as he made the items fly at the puppets at speeds of 10 as the puppets grabbed the kunai mid air and began to battle, Sync was gonna stop there as he began to move 91 assorted items around the puppets as they ascended to the sky battling, neither of them gaining any more power than the other.

Sync dropped everything with a worn out face and a cough "So...this is puppetry huh..." Sync said as battle bruised puppets laid unmoving, kunai, shuriken, and smoke bombs laid on the field scattered everywhere, Sync didn't know what to think as he turned to his kage "...What are you going to do with your puppets?" Sync asked politely knowing they didn't deserve to be put into boxes until they decayed.


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Fantastic. Li was one hell of a teacher if he did say so himself. Okay maybe the kid was just a really good student. that was actually probably more likely. This was a fantastic display for a first time use of the technique, really impressive. All Li and done during his first time was go an a narcotic induced rampage through a field of flowers. Ah those were the days. When men were, men and Ame was in rubble, and everything seemed so simple. Now he had all these idiots he had to deal with on a daily basis. Present company excluded of course.

"You better get to work designing some more puppets, you're going to need them if you want to make use of all those threads. You've done well my boy I'm impressed. Truly. You Show Talent. You may not be Ame born, but I'm proud to call you one of us now."

He smiled when he heard the boy trying to weasel is way into some free puppets. "Oh I plan on holding on to them for a while. They might be outdated, and a bit weak for what a puppeteer of my level could handle that doesn't mean they can't be improved. A smart ninja knows how to turn a weakness into a strength. You never discard something that might be of use some day. Because.... well someday it might be of use!" He gave a sly smile. "Besides I believe a puppeteer should build their own puppets. Sand the wood, connect the joints. You should know every bolt and screw of your partner. Make it yours. My fighting style might not work for you, and my puppets wouldn't do you any good." He brought a hand up to his forehead protector and adjusted it a bit. "However if you really do fancy these puppets I have their blue prints back at my house. If you want to build one of them... we could probably get it done by the end of the day. If you're interested."

Sync getting told by Li that he'd better get to work on his blueprints, Sync had no idea what he'd do for a puppet however he felt that in the end he'd make puppets based on his past or future, at that point Sync got what seemed to be a migraine, he sighed letting everything fall sending his threads to his weapons pulling them back, it didn't take very many threads now that Sync had one hundred at his disposal, still he moved the threads around making small movements in every finger it was then that Sync decided "Li...I want to build my own puppets...Something that is meaningful to me, something that i will treasure, your puppets are your own, and my puppets shall be my own, but i hope to become a great and powerful ninja like you, however...I need some low class jutsu...until i am able to use my own, I'm a genin and i have no other person to ask, so Li, would you please teach me everything you know about puppetry?" Sync asked his heart fully pledged into the art as another migraine hit him causing him to rub his temple.

Sync wasn't sure how to feel, if Sync would have been accepted he would probably be glad happy that his teacher would be the kage of his village however he wouldn't like to share the kage as it popped into his head that Li had a important role as the kage.

Sync lifted his hand letting 50 chakra threads dangle out as he just starred aimlessly until he snapped back into reality, he felt the gravity around his switch up as Li's face began to melt, kinda like a bad trip as Sync would fall to his knees, his body would force it's way back up and Li was fine again "What the hell was that." Sync thought to himself as he had just seen his kage's face melt not exactly the best thing to see however Sync wasn't sure if he even cared, he knew that from this training he was going to get ten times more powerful than he once was, he grinned as he picked up his kunai and shuriken  letting them dance in the air in front of Li.

Whether or not Li took Sync under his wing...there was one more very important soul that he needed  to get in contact with, the person was madam Aios, the one with her puppet Ai, he figured if he learned from both of these ninja that he'd be able to truly inspire the ninja world with puppets, it was then that Surota and Pawa appeared Pawa spoke first however "Don't let your ideals get away Sync, chase them to the farthest reaches and make the reality" Pawa said, Sync was surprised due to the fact Pawa almost never spoke to him, then surota popped up "Yeah you idiot, your ideal seems great, we can kill people" Surota said man of very short words, he didn't have anything to prove.

Sync would grin as he played with his ninja tools using the chakra threads.

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"Yeah man no problem, I'm sure I have some more tricks up my sleeve that i could train you in. I'm not the best ninja around, but I'm a damn good puppeteer, and guys like us got to stick together when when it comes to stuff like that. Were' a pretty rare breed ya know." Off in the distance through the rain he could see that there was another squad of genin who were training a few earth jutsu and looked stuck. He smiled warmly, though it would seem to come out of nowhere. He shot a few chakra strings at his puppets and connected them to his chakra system. "Sorry bud, I'm needed elsewhere in the city. And I've got to go see a man about a earth wall." He'd wrap an angel up and around his body, and floated into the air. "I look fowarward to seeing your puppet. I hope you have more creativity than me, because I just keep making angels!"

He soared off to the group of genin, This job may have a lot of downsides, but helping out his villages definitely make it all worth while. 

(Exiting
2033 WC
+10 AP)

Sync waved to Li as he left picking up all his ninja tools and begin to walk away from this training feild for a bit.

{Exit

2305 words
1000 wc to 100 puppet performance (Li trained me)
+11 stats}