I'm training. Need to be alone.

From the last time Yuri could remember, agility used to skip most of her troubles. With too much changes and being too weak, she embarks on a little training session for herself. She headed for an area where trivial fights occurred.

While she is on her way, a pair of troublemakers were heading to the town as well. She could sense the incoming danger, but deterrence is not recommended since she needs to train. Something came up to her mind quickly as she proceeded faster to ensure that catch some form attention. She knows how much is available for sprints as warm-ups. As soon as their attention was fixed on her, she stopped for a moment to turn around and ensure. She needs to ensure that they can catch up.

She ran to an empty alley and dashes up to the roof of a shop. The plan started with her taking a rest while looking out for the pair. She knows they are the type who will fix their eyes on a prey and she already made herself looked like one. All it takes now is for them to close up at a suitable area.

As time passes by, her enthusiasm picks up as there were more desired targets since the time for workers to knock off starts sending groups and groups of workers for her to prey on. Being tired themselves is considered a bonus to her. In the big crowd, the pair finally appeared with their flashy leather armor as Yuri begins.

Yuri keep her footsteps in line with targets as she tries to move to a position nearer to the front view of the pair. To make sure that she looks suspicious, she keeps turning her head around in an attempt to get more attention. As she was finally in a clear view for the Samurais, she went behind a man and thrust her hand right into where his wallet is. Yuri shoved the man immediately to avoid more attention as the pair acted accordingly and shouted for her to stop. They were not the saving type but were forced to and Yuri did not gain anything from her target. Lots of head turned around as Yuri grabs the edge of a roof with a jump and climbs up to run, getting the pair to follow er.

1 of the pair took a long time getting to the roof while the other could follow her pace. With that confirmed, Yuri made sure that she was fast enough to isolate him away from the crowds. She tried to remain on sight at first, but realizing that she could expect more from the pursuer. She ran to the factories which were all closed by this time.

As her time on the roof came to an end, her contact with the ground saw the first strike from the troublemaker's boots. She got caught off guard and could only manage to block his kick and flew to pile of burnt wood. With his prey on all fours, the Ronin rushes forward in order to stop her from getting up by doing a stab. This is only met by a kick on onto his blade as Yuri threw a piece of burnt wood to his face. Knowing that this would act as an diversion. The Ronin went ahead with a stomp as Yuri pushes herself to do a leg sweep before the stomp could land on her. The Ronin was nearly on the verge of victory but fell down, seeing Yuri trying to escape, he stabs his sword to the ground and gains balance immediately to give continue the chase.

Yuri is fully aware of his strength by this point of time as she creates a few clones to fool him. The blade flew straight to the correct target as Yuri had to do a forward roll to dodge it. ugh! Yuri regrets her action as she found out that the same trick used on him worked on her. He was already right in front of her as his fist brushes past her face losing her balance as a result making her crash at the a wooden wall. She knows the next hit will end her consciousness.

The wall went down with the next strike as the Ronin simply displayed a fine degree of strength. Sadly, he kicked onto a pointed piece of wood made of wood grains that distracted his vision. Although he simply needed to turned back to avoid his vision blocked. But this is enough for the moment as Yuri pushes herself with all her might with a kick aiming at his knee, immobilizing him. The Ronin stopped in his tracks and blocked the incoming upward kick. Yuri did a somersault backward immediately grabbed pebbles from the ground to block his vision once more. The same trick won't work! a slash threatened Yuri's position immediately, forcing her to step back even further. It seems like i underestimated you the Ronin showed remarkable recovery as his right knee was used for his stance immediately. This is enough to trick Yuri into running again as she could see the attack radius of the blade expanded by meters, making her jump to dodge and falling into his trap. Another slash came from the air. Yuri's eyes widened as her brain was peaked at thinking at the moment.

A deep line appeared at the teak factory grounds the next day.

The star jump posture did well in inflicting wounds onto Yuri as she escaped the chase successfully. She hopes that by then he is informed that he and his partner were the heroes on that night. Her fringe wasn't as fortunate as it was sliced away by the chakra flow of the extended blade. She realized that the stance was a bluff by this time when she wondered for a few hours figuring why the next attack did not come for her which might have ended her life. It might have been only a night but it reminded her of the fact that she is lacks in constant training to maintain her former self.

WC:1021
Claiming 5 stats

The last incident did far from having her to limp, Yuri found herself sitting from a hill looking at a band of caravans pass through while enjoying the wind. Her abilities are nowhere to find several unwanted presence for now. The attention attracted from the town didn't just end back then. Due to their slow traveling speed, Yuri sight was able to get some movements within the woods behind her that's directing on her. Tracking her was a piece of cake for them since the surrounding areas were their turf. An hour of efforts had brought them within 100 meters from her. Yuri knew that she couldn't face all of them at once. She takes a clearer look at the escorts, they looked capable of handling hostiles. She figures that she could turn the tide.

They were not as disorganized as Yuri thought. Running on the slope of the hill parallel to the straight path that the caravan travels, they merely gave chase. As Yuri was not fully visible to them since the trees could block their vision on her. She uses a few clones to mislead some of them since direct she was layered at the bottom of their visuals where objects will not help. At the same time she can also assess their ability. Those who knew know that shouting will give themselves out continued chasing. While those who confused went the wrong direction.

A few of them caught up to Yuri as time goes by. Anymore running would not help by now. On the bright side, only half of remains in her vision. While chasing, the thugs prepared their weapons and were ready to use them as projectile for distraction. A dozen of kitchen knife starts coming at her that forced her to change direction. When she did, she was surprised that a few of them came from above the trees, she jumped out of the ambush but this allowed the other thugs to catch up to her as well. Not good . She was still on her feet when a thug came at her with a dagger. She quickly grab him by the wrist that holds it and forces him on the roll downwards the hill. Another came at her and was in the midst of getting the first tab at her when she shifted her left foot 90 degrees backwards and pushes him down and as well, sending him rolling. Another 2 weapons came at her from both left and right. She dodges them by lowering her body and performed a leg sweep simultaneously to get the attackers unbalanced. With the next few thugs giving her room to breathe, she continued running again to close her distance with the caravan.

By this point of time the bandits were getting further and further away from her. Realizing that she had outran most of them, she stopped for a moment. This was when the real deal is arriving, a blade came up from the ground. She was not given enough time for action as she fell backwards on her fours. The attacker was revealed herself and continued her attack by performing a running trust on her. Not back up on her feet, she used the hands to move about, avoiding each thrusting attack. Thankfully the attacker was using both hands as Yuri manages to grab her by her left wrist and yanked her to the right. However, this resulted in her getting a cut on her chin and she barely ducked the slash that the attacker did by using the sword through her right hand. She landed a few meters downwards of Yuri as Yuri make a run for it again. The chase was back on track again.

She knew that she is facing a ninja-level enemy now given her landing on the slope. This is confirmed when she threw a few kunai at her to slow her down by making Yuri not running in a straight direction for er destination. The hill is reaching to an end as well but she ended up getting ahead of the caravan. Not far from her there was a cover parallel to her direction as she leaps to get to cover, the kunai broke the cover and sent Yuri running again. Yuri stopped when she nearly fell down to the cliff. She shifts her focus of her chakra to her feet the ran down the cliff to avoid whatever projectile that is coming to her. Her enemy also ended up running down the cliff as well. To the left of Yuri there was a bridge that allowed passage to the other side of the land. The attacker knew Yuri's intention and takes a shorter path to Yuri.

Yuri was so close to getting to the bridge when the attacker pulled a fast one on her to get to the front and tried a slash. Yuri had to take a few steps back. It is between her and Yuri now. The bleeding on her chin hasn't stopped but is getting better now. Both of them stared at each for a moment catching their breathe at the same time as well. The enemy started forming handseals as Yuri ran for it again by moving to the side, hoping to get a hold on the bridge.

Her ground softened suddenly, she figured that this must be the work of her enemy. She had to stop or else she will fall down as she tries to balance herself, this was when her enemy threw another few kunai at her. Yuri was forced to make a jump upwards regardless of her balance. Her enemy moved quickly to end up behind her. Yuri felt her life coming to a close. She jumped up regardless of risk. The enemy stopped her attacks and watched Yuri fall down, hoping to her death for messing with her underlings.

Knowing that this must not be the end for Yuri herself. Yuri looked around her to check of the possibility to get her off the fall. Fortunately for her, the enemy technique made a rock sliding down the cliff even quicker than her as it catches up beside Yuri. Yuri quickly formed the five handseals to take herself back onto the cliff again as the rock made its way down in full force and lands breaking up itself. Her enemy assumed her death long ago and was nowhere to be seen anymore. Having exhausted much of her chakra. Yuri make for the bottom of her cliff as fast as possible to take a rest.

No easy path exists to make it back to the surface given her current position, any form of help is just too far for Yuri to ask upon. Her brain once peaked again at finding a solution to make it out of the cliff alive. The solution was simple; Climb back up when she is well rested enough and have enough chakra again. Knowing that no one would be at the bottom of the cliff, she continued taking a rest for a few more hours.

It was nightfall by the time Yuri was back on the surface using academy basics. She was wrong about using the caravan escorts as they were so slow in making their way. On the contrary, Yuri thought that she might be too confident on her own abilities. She took it upon herself as a lesson learned.

WC: 1234
Claiming 6 stats

As though fighting with a gang is not in enough, Yuri soon found herself helping on an armed conflict in a small village after accepting a small notice out of goodwill with the main goal of training herself. She was deployed as a patrol in with the actual goal of being a bait for the local guards. The action only started during nightfall during her patrol as her route was designed to gain vision on her from the thugs and get them ambushed.

She picked but pace a little each time she could sense presence. It was until she found herself heavily outnumbered that she had decided to run. Being a ninja gave her training to keep her distance from there. She purposely slowed down her pace to let the thugs catch up from the residence. While running away, Yuri had a quick count of the number of tugs coming at her. There were 12 of them. There are 6 guards 200 meters behind her to let her lure the thugs into an ambush. One of the thugs caught up and did a cleaving attack as soon as he was meters away from Yuri. To her, it was a useless attack as she took a step to the side and see his big axe get stuck to the ground. She simply kicked him in the gut in close contact and continued running as more his buddies are getting near. Yuri had only ran 50 meters by then.

She thought for a while during her run that finding a straight route will have less cutback needed for her speed since she will be easily visible. She looked at the place for ambush as she decides to head there through overcoming any obstacles on the straight way. Yuri took a second worth of break as she took a sharp turn towards the straight with only her upper part of one foot, something achievable only by constant training. As a result of chasing for her live, the first few thugs fell and piled themselves in a mess, it took them a while to get up while the others continued to give chase.

Yuri was waiting for a signal of the guards as she jumps over a tree that died recently, she continued running as there was no trace. It took a her a few minutes to see a thumbs up not far off from her front at the back of a tree. She slowed down at this instant as she goes at jogging speed to the trap pretending to look injured at her legs. The thugs took 5 minutes to arrive before all of them surrounded Yuri. The net underneath went up the thug were unbalanced. To prevent from being trapped in the net as well, Yuri steps onto the thug beside her and jumped as high as possible. The four ends of the net overlapped each other by the guards who ran in circles to secure the net from any openings. Yuri landed onto the top of a tree as she gives an alright signal to the guards and goes back to help at the residence.

On her way back, a figure awaits her in the dark. She stops as she goes close. Yes? Yuri tries to figure his attention by talking. Stay away from this area. This place is out of bounds for now. The guy looks straight at Yuri without hesitation. There was no room for discussion as the 2 ninjas made their move. The guy drew out his blade as a fake diverting Yuri's attention gets to the blade. With this confirmed, he stopped the raising of the blade as he goes low and tries to kick Yuri at her chin. Catching Yuri off guard, Yuri did not have the time to dodge the kick fully as she went upwards forcefully. He draws his blade fully as a sharp burst of wind comes at Yuri. At her full stretch grasping the power of the jutsu, she timed her reverse somersault carefully. A small cut appeared at her thigh after landing safely as she ran to his left the moment she lands. Yuri tries to best him as his sight keeps up with her stare while dashing. Knowing otherwise might happen, he charges at Yuri as he swings his blade to catch up with Yuri's pace. Yuri knew that if the time on mid-air was longer she wouldn't have the time to pull this off as Yuri did a slide below the swinging and grabs hold of his armed hand and recovers. He had no choice but to release himself from the grip as he did the jutsu he is most familiar with. Yuri was waiting for this moment as she sweeps his leg with the help of the other free hand to balance and releases his hand, causing his attention to his own technique as Yuri made a run for it. He was barely able to avoid a lethal blow to himself as he lost track of her.

Yuri figured that it was a mess when she arrives outside the 3 levels high residence. The main entrance already seen blood as guards were fighting the thugs who seemed to be better prepared than the ones guarding outside. Everyone had faith in whoever is fighting whoever right now as Yuri entrusts their roles to them and continues running deeper inside residence. More fighting and damages are occurring as Yuri heads in deeper finding the chief fighting another strong warrior. Yuri had concluded that the wanted had escaped long ago given the way things are now. The Chief's life is on danger, that is Yuri's priority at that moment. She head into the fray.

With a clear view of the fighting, it was obvious that his opponent is good is blade breaking. The Chief had wasted a whole lot of weapons without a single plan as Yuri tries to lure his attention with a punch on from his left. It was enough to tell the chief to consolidate his forces with an eye contact from Yuri in her dash as Yuri rotates her head to the right to avoid the grab by his enemy. A Grappler huh... Yuri back a few steps from him as she threw the broken blades at him. Knowing that direct assault with any weapon pointless and knowing that his enemy knows what is on her mind. Yuri stopped on her ground as she produced a few clones of herself and surrounded him. Yuri was hoping that he doesn't see through her intention to buy time as They were forced into a silent taunt for a minute before the man saw through her trick and comes straight at her. Slow...This is good Yuri evaded him time and again due to his speed and his close range attacks. Eventually, there was no need to go on an offense as the Chief rallied enough man to pin him by raw strength, ending the night with a failure for the thugs.

While the process of cleaning up started, Yuri was wondering who can the enemy who fought her alone can be. It feels as though to her that maybe there would be this minority that took what was taught to them for their own good over their village's. She would not confirm until more of them are seen.

WC:1229
claiming 6 stats

Yuri was idling on one of the ten islands thinking about her next training program. She knows her location well given the forced training that prepared her for the worst. But annoying sunlight and repetitive view of natural distracts Yuri before flocks of birds flew out suddenly from a nearby tree. Yuri turned around and stopped Maybe i'm just too paranoid. She continued her idle.

500 meters worth of walk after rest made her see a travelling caravan from a few kilometers away. From her past experience, they have to walk into a narrow path to get to the town of her guess. Something came into her mind regarding the recent incident; that very path were camouflaged with thugs recently and seems to be the reason for a few vanished parties which is on the town notices and posters. She barely escaped the thugs due to her current prowess a few days ago while finding out this reason by following the town guards. The guards were all killed. She knew that such matters will be eventually handled by professionals given this level of danger but right now them walking to a trap is a 100% percent. The caravan seems to be heading into the trap in a few minutes. Yuri is 4 kilometers away from them. There was no time to think as she rushes for the group, she could only feel fortunate for the reason why she was able to see them from such distances.

The start of her run meets a snake-like path as she didn't have the time to bother abut details. When giving chase at a scenario like this, she was taught to make shortcuts with the help of tree branches directly above and on the front of her. This proves useful as she jumps onto the nearest tree branch in front, ignoring the first curve. She promptly repeats it for the second one as well. as the first turn of the route is getting nearer, Yuri had no choice but to stray form the original route. The forest just received its supply of water from the skies as the crossing of a muddy area begins. She jumps down from the tree.

She now feels fortunate during the times when she did not ignored the lessons of crossing areas that challenges stability. The critical thing is to apply the chakra control at the right time in order to optimize chakra used for such cases. Yuri charges without fear as mud finds its way on air, slapping itself at anything it lands on. It didn't take long enough to let her sandals lose its friction as she could feel the lack of balance in er running by now. The first skid finds its way towards her as she focuses for an instant to keep herself balanced on one leg and slides for a few meters before making her sprint again. The trees were few and far between during the crossing.

Upon finding the end towards the mud, Yuri saw rocks piling up on each other. Given her normal times, she would take her time to climb them one step at a time. Due to the urgency now, she had no choice but to race up the rocks which turns out to be a hill when she started her first step on the rocks. Its seems to be a few hundred meters towards the summit from Yuri's perspective due to her judgement on amount of time taken for her to decease the steepness of the hill. Her thoughts were all focused on getting up to the summit in order to pass the hill.

Getting up to the summit had taken considerate efforts from her as she pauses and looks down for a moment. The caravan is still in sight and were twice as big as before. There was no time to waste, Yuri looks down and went at her fastest again. She knows that from this point until she makes contact with them, only trees would be left to obstruct her. It turns out to be otherwise.

While running on flat land again, Yuri steps onto a soft ground and only knows of a pit right below when her head was at the same level with the grass. Fortunately, her reflexes catches onto the side of the pit as she takes a moment to climb back up. Within the next 200 meters, she saw a big log swinging its way right into her direction. She guesses that the enemies probably knows of her presence by now. She jumps onto the log effortlessly and removes a predicted explosive tag on the moment of landing, aiding her pace as she could feel the explosive force pushing her. Given her current pace, she avoided another swinging log with a single step on the log and breaking the rope that waited for her to be tripped on. The thug on watch puts his hand on his head upon the failure to slow her down.

It should be less than a kilometer now Yuri mumbled to herself as she knows that she could interrupt them by now. She was slightly earlier towards her destination when she saw that the caravan had at least 300 meters before heading into the trap. The light in front of her was unblocked, Yuri thinks that a flat grassland is on ahead as she keeps her focus. She noticed a kunai was heading from her right as she did a forward roll when it was close enough to hit her. The kunai hit the tree to her left as the explosive tag triggered itself, catching Yuri off guard. The thug was on mid-air with his blade coming down on her well she was on her threes. Her free leg gave a push to avoid the slash, there was no better chance to alert them from needing help which appears on her mind in a second of thoughts. Sadly, her opponent guessed her plan and stops the chase.

As Yuri heads out onto the grassland, she shouted at the caravan with her remaining strength to stop them from advancing. It was a success as she had enough time to get close to them and warn them of the incoming dangers although the choice of routes is still up to them. The end of the dash and warning leaves Yuri panting as she finds a safe spot to rest.

WC: 1071
Claiming 5 stats

Yuri started her day by jogging on the road outside of the town area. Echoes of how training used to be were sounding out to her like as though its presence traveled through time. Upon hearing the shout to start, everyone would try to perform their best, as though their life depends on it. She never did well glances saw more eyes than her than to everyone else. The thought prompted her to turn her head left, just like how it used to be. Other than the glares, the weather conditions were harsh to her as well.

After doing the routine jog, it is time to move vertically to the earth's gravity. This used to be a splitting axe to her concentrating mind when techniques were used to keep her in shape if she was not. Yuri tried running up and down any tree she could find. She could do it without trouble unlike the past where this was added with the challenges of facing an avalanche and she was not alone. Thus, failing to handle the problem can do collateral damage that pulls down the others as well. Those days kept her feet were maintained, maybe even better than now.

Branches of the trees are easier to avoid even though the irregular and circular shape of the trunk did not help to maintain her balance. It was past experiences that did. Where avalanche failed to bring them, small rocks would try to hinder their progress by dropping themselves onto them. This is done without consideration to their condition after moving kilometers upwards and any form of hindrance takes way more than just a step to avoid. This is also when such hindrance wouldn't matter to their injuries, since techniques will keep them in shape anyways. Yuri would allow rocks to get her if they were not life threatening. Now she just needs to revolve her movement around the trunk.

Traps during training were history as Yuri now finds an obstacle course to overcome. Its usually paths where the nature's call were answered, definitely never as tough as living obstacles. Explosives were what she used to deal with when she had most of her chakra exhausted. Those moments of fear and survival instinct were brought up much frequently to hone her to where she is now, where predators were kept in line if they went for her instead of her running from them.

Her mind did a lot of work at this point of time. She figured that she needs to take a break physically, this is the luxury in her current training when her mind took over reality. After reaching the top, it was where real fights started. Even though Yuri's side greatly outnumbered the other, they were fighting ninjas that worked to keep the entire organization alive. She was always close to getting defeated. But time and time again the environment was always a great help. This is also achieved by her supporting survival instinct that kept her on the ball. It works her up even now as she grabs hold of a vine that was hanging just behind her sitting spot. Her mind now works harder.

Her safety tree snapped into half to hint her an attack when a spike pierced through a log and cut the tree into 2 from the ground. She got kneed to the face as she landed in her new position. She rolled a few meters out and found herself in air. Everyone was fighting their target, she had to deal with this herself. Everyone had their tools with them, it is impossible to fail. Yuri threw a controlled kunai as the wire helped her to regain her feet on the mountain slope, the clone was just a moment too late to uproot the kunai.

As her battle continued vertically, Yuri was forced into defending due to the versatile nature attacks on her. She failed all her lessons on elemental ninjutsu taught right from the start and was never able to perform one. Not even all the researchers figured her problem. Moving fast vertically is not a proper solution, she had to find a way to get up onto the horizontal ground somehow. She parried an attack out of the sudden as she falls down trying to convince the clone of his victory, her plan was to get out of his sight. She transformed into one of the falling boulders.

The clones and the original were defeated eventually. All other kids had no problem with their clones as they search for Yuri after securing their target. The search was not a success as None of them could find a clue to Yuri. Her chakra was drained and she had to lie on a protruding surface only half of her size and prays for help to come by or her chakra to recover.

She passed out for 3 days since the completion of that mission. Having being recovered by the trainer or face death from heights, she had fell behind from the others and was forced by seal markings in her body to resume training immediately. She went to where all the other kids were and started dodging objects thrown at them. 2 of them used a dome and no problem dealing with such an exercise. Others had their own means as a few of them had their own clones to help them and some had a hole done up fast for them to drop in, saving them lots of trouble as well. The only hardworking one was Yuri who dodged all the objects in all previous exercise due to the disadvantage from her birth. She struggled with her breathe after the kicking the last object on its side.

A fine day for the winds to interact as she woke up. Yuri enjoyed the soft touch of each droplets being blown and coming down from the sky. No more forceful controls were planted on her anymore. Being freed definitely had her paid some price which in turn make a mark on her memories that kept her going.

WC: 1014
claiming 5 stats