Rubber Ball payback (p,NK, Risako)

Mako sat atop a tree in the training grounds, legs crossed and hands in front of him forming the seal of the tiger.  It was the tallest tree he could find and concentrating his chakra he was able to balance entirely on its weak peak.  His eyes were closed but he could tell his cigarette was getting low as he could feel the hot smoke wafting against the back of his eyelids.  At that point a large gust of wind came in sweeping from the eastern side and made the bough of the tree rock forcing him to open his eyes and more firmly hold his concentration.  He saw the ash of the smoke fall off down slowly descending and it disappeared well before it had hit the ground.  It was early in the morning and Mako, though usually late, woke up unusually pissed off. He rubbed the spot where his pride was stolen by a girl chuunin much younger than himself, tossing a rubber ball.  He had left Risako a note to meet him in the densely forested area surrounding the training grounds.  He included that it was the part where the Senju clan trains where large wooden roots erupted from the ground.  She knew the area he was sure.  He climbed down the tree like a monkey and waited.   He had also sent one to his fellow Genin, though theirs seemed much less urgent, more like a you may if you want. 


Mako decided that he would earn back the pride on this day.  He had watched her train somewhat, and had talked to some of the more easily smitten girls around town who told him all he needed to know of her abilities.  He sat on a root that conjoined a tree and lit another cigarette smoking it hastily.  While he sat he formed the transporting Jutsu to summon Uncle.  Uncle Jenumba was a great Orangutan with fire like orange fur and black skin.  His hair spiked up and he had an angled bandanna with the sign of the monkeys on it.   Mako filled him in quickly on why he was summoned.  Uncle climbed the tree above him and started throwing out his sensory veil waiting for Risako to come in.  Mako laid back smoking waiting for Jenumba to tip him off.  Mako was quite sure she would not be happy because of what he wrote.


" Roses are red, violets are blue, onions stink and so do you." 
"To the weakest and chumpiest chunin in Konoha"
"Risako Akara"

Mako <3

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The sky was just beginning to flicker with life as the sun came up over the the trees of Konoha, making them appear as silhouettes against it's light so early in the morning. A few scattered, feathery clouds decorated it, complimented by the pinkish orange colors of the sun's rising. The moon's silvery gray shape still hung in the sky, making it's way west. The village was quiet, aside from the stall vendors and shop keepers that were opening up before the village became bustling and busy, as per usual. A raven sat on the narrow window sill of a second story apartment, its only company was a small flower that was beginning to wilt, not because of neglect, nor weather, but because it had already completed its natural duty and bore the pollen of another flower, leaving its seeds lay on the dirt in the pot. The raven then flew off having heard the ping of an alarm, as the creature inside this apartment began to spur to life, causing quite the ruckus. 

With a groan, the girl with raven black hair threw off her covers, which crumpled to the ground next to her bed. Then, slammed her fist onto the thing, which, due to being made of metal this time, actually wound up hurting her hand more than damage was done to the alarm clock. Feeling the need for revenge on this inanimate and mostly innocent object, she put one foot on the ground and threw herself out of bed in a spin. With a fiery look of determination in her steely-grey eyes, the girl snatched the clock off of its oak nightstand, and tossed it out of the window. Then, Risako did nothing but stand where she was. Finally breaking through into the world of the living, the blood beneath her skin began to boil, turning her cheeks a shade of crimson that could have been mistaken for blood. With her brow furrowed, and her voice shaky with anger, she shouted "Fuck!" It took three simple motions. First, she placed a foot on the bed, and lurched her shoulders forward. Then, kicking with her foot, she leaped for the window. Third, and finally, she stuck her arms forward, and dove out of the window in an attempt to retrieve her clock, which to its credit, managed to completely shatter her window, and stayed fully intact, and ringing. In her shorts, she picked up the clock, popped the button, and made her way back into the building via the back entrance. 

To her luck, no one was in the back alley that the window faced, so nobody saw any more skin than they needed too. Quickly darting up the stairs, she made it back to her room unseen, and mostly unheard. Swiftly, Risako yanked the door open, and spun around inside, slamming the door shut behind her as she did so. Sighing she threw the clock on her bed, and yanked her black mesh shirt from its hook, along with her dark blue long sleeve chuunin top, and walked to her bed. The girl spun and sat, her short unkempt hair bouncing in the direction she spun. Quickly, she slipped into the mesh shirt, and then the long sleeve shirt, rolling up the sleeves to her elbow. 

The girl inhaled until her lungs were full, and then slowly let the breath escape into her apartment. Standing up from her bed, she made her way to the door, forgetting one crucial part of going out in public. Pants. Grabbing her door handle, she froze, and took a few steps back. Atop her dresser sat the other part to the standard Konoha shinobi attire. The matching pants. Swiftly, she slipped into them. They were neither form fitting, (not they she had much of one,) nor were they baggy, but they were comfortably loose. Then, sitting back down on the edge of her bed, she grabbed on of her boots that sat next to it. Slipping the form fitting toe less shoes on, Risako was now ready to leave her apartment. Aside from opening any necessary doors, her hands stayed in her pockets as she made her way to the training grounds. 

Still early in the morning, Risako's steely-grey eyes (which, at first glance, could be mistaken for the Hyuuga's famous Byaakugan,) scanned the training ground at which she arrived at, and found none but the trees off in the distance. Leaning over, the girl put a hand on the ground to help keep her balance. If no one else was here to train with, then she would just work out. With her hand planted firmly on the grass covered field, she gently tossed her legs into the air, and tucked her other arm behind her back, as her bangs fell towards the ground, revealing her forehead. Allowing her arm to relax and bend, the forces of gravity began to pull her down. Flexing her bicep, Risako effortlessly pushed her body back up to the sky, until her arm was fully extended again.

Then, shifting her weight slightly, Risako allowed her other arm to join its twin on the ground, planting it firmly shoulders width apart from her other one. Then, Risako bent both of her elbows, until her nose was inches from the ground. This time, she pushed with both arms until they were straight, and her feet were extended back into the sky. Afterward, she alternated her arms until she completed twenty or so reps. Bending her waist, she used the momentum of the short fall to catch herself back on her feet. That exercise was nothing but a warm up to her. A simple stretch, yet to anyone who wasn't a kick ass ninja, doing something like that was just plain hard. Still, no one had arrived. Exhaling, she thought to herself, one hand on her hips and the other on her chin as her eyes scanned the ground at her feet, "Well in that case, what next?" 

It was then, that a little white paper airplane looped through the air a few times before crashing into the side of her head. Only slightly disturbed by the small impact, her arm shot out and snatched the plane up before it passed her waist. Unwrapping the piece of paper, her looking-balls scanned over its contents. "Boss, it's time to face your consequences for hitting me with the ball, so come on down to the Senju training grounds." At first, she almost just crumpled it and went back to her warm-ups, but then, her grey eyes caught the last little line, which was most definitely and an insult. So, tough guy decided he had trained enough to face her in combat? Well, it was time to see if his claims were true.  


It took her a moment to remember where the training grounds were, but when it finally clicked, she formed the necessary hand sign, and zoomed off in that direction. She didn't care if he had known she was coming. So when she finally arrived, she stood at the edge of the area, and waited for him to begin. 


[1190 WC]

"Hey Boyo!! YA got incoming!!" Uncle yelled from his perch a few branches above him,  the moment that the monkey sensed the presence he dropped and erupted into a puff of smoke.  Hitting the large wooden root Mako was sitting on landing on the right side of him, was the axe Jenumba transformed into.  The axe had a large head on it the head was black and flaming, it stuck in the root from the top point of the axe with its handle protruding upward at an angle toward Mako with a perfect grabbing angle. 

Mako did not wait though, as soon as Uncle spoke Mako was up on his feet and activating Kenshoboku Haki so that when Risako came into eyesight only 10 meters away due to the shrubbery he would know she was there well before he saw her. He put his hand out and grabbed the axe with his right hand.  In his left was a small rubber ball.  He threw the ball as Risako made her way through the woods and it was perfectly timed to bounce off of her forehead as soon as she came into eyesight.  After the ball would bounce off her head he would laugh.

He currently stood on a bent root, the front side of the root coming out of the ground directly in front of her and the back side connecting with a 10 story tree.  Senju training grounds these trees were not normal and not easy to destroy.  They were massive and strong.  He was only about 5 meters away from her but about 5 meters up in the air.  He watched her with his Haki never losing sight of her and gauging her strength. She was fast somewhat faster than him but otherwise they had similar capabilities with him being stronger.  This could just be due to the fact that she was a young girl and he was a grown man as well.  This was his battlefield he had prepared and was ready to show Risako not to humiliate him again.

The area surrounding has protrusions from the ground made of chakra enhanced wood, and several massive trees made of the same.The cleared out fighting area was about 40 feet diameter circle with brush circling the area making it hard to see past or into the fighting area.  But the area itself was cleared of the brush.  Risako unfortunately knew nothing of Mako, and Mako knew her very well and having had days to prepare the area he knew that the captain was in for a tough fight.
 
"You ready Captain?" his lasts words he said before pulling the axe freely from the root and holding it two handed in front of him.
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Jenumba  -20 ap 130/150

Mako -50 for summon last post, 155/205

More than ready, this fiery little whip was. Risako crossed her arms, and met Mako's eyes with a steely-grey stare that spoke volume's of words of the little fire in her heart that she couldn't. In the time it took to get there, she already had a battle strategy thought up. While, her plan wasn't necessarily fool proof, because she wasn't quite sure of Mako's abilities, she did know that was held captive in her brain was solid, and if it didn't work she had a backup plan. Mako likely wouldn't even notice, due to the roots that twisted and snaked along the ground, he wouldn't notice both of the seals that spread from under her feet. To him, they'd likely look like shadows, unless he had fought a fuin specialist before, he would likely not know what they were, even IF he did notice them. Both seals expanded to reach a two meter surface, completely overlapping each other. 

A smirk spread across her mouth, causing a dimple to form within the crevice of her left cheek, "I'm ready. Step forth and prove yourself." She was negligent of the ax in his hands, for it was unlikely that it would even touch her by the time she downed him. As a matter of fact, she was so confident that the girl wouldn't move a muscle until her opponent took a step forward. In her mind, this was Mako's way of saying that he was ready to move through the ranks and become something great. In her mind, Risako was a barrier for her team that prevented them from moving up, and getting better, this painted her as an obstacle for their success, which she was okay with. This made her a rival to the whole team, a goal to overcome, and so long as she didn't actually hinder their growth then she was doing her job.

[Techs used:
Barrier Confining Seal - 30 AP
Chakra Draining Seal - 30 AP
Links are on mah stat page, will correct AP values if they're wrong.]

Mako was ready, he scanned the area for anything resembling a seal just in case Risako had slipped a fast one on him.  He couldn't see anything he planned his first manuever. Mako saw Risako standing staring at him her met her glare with his own fire.  The staredown would reach an intense point because Mako channeled his own Will of Fire into it.  The village meant more to him than anything and if Risako couldn't beat him on this day  how could he ever see her as his Captain.  At least that thought crossed his mind but he paid it no heed, respect is earned and not on the back of humiliation.  They would fight and Mako would prove his readiness to advance.  He had not seen his team members for a while especially Zennal but he knew he could be ready for advancement without them.

Mako still glared down luckily he had prepped a fresh smoke for this fight the axe and its flames crackled in his hands he could feel Jenumba's readiness as well, the two of them shared a love for battle, and such worked perfectly as a team.  Mako had a detailed plan how he would get Risako on her toes. He knew that noone had the confidence she had without a plan and he had to see what it was. He had to force her to show her hand.  Quickly he spun and launched the axe directly at her it spinning at a whopping speed of 95 for a great axe that sharp it was frightening for anyone. which he then quickly followed by hand signs launching his Vast Ash cloud surrounding the area with ash.  He leaped back to stay out of his own cloud. Concentrating on her with his Haki.  Risako could not know that the ace would follow her if she dodged.  It was a double tag team from them and Mako had the next 4 steps of battle prepared.  As he kept watching with his haki ever ready to track her movements.  He could follow her easily with the Haki which meant that whatever her response was Mako could be prepared.

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-34 for ash cloud 121/205

The silvery looking balls in her head traced his arm as he readied himself to throw the ax. Immediately her hands shot up and formed the ram hand seal, though nothing happened quite yet. She watched his arm go back, and then thrust forward, and as soon as the ax left his fingertips, she pumped the slightest bit of chakra into the hand seal, and kicked off of the ground, moving backwards two meters at her maximum speed. Once she landed, she would bounce slightly off of a large root into a backwards roll, landing on her feet a full three meters away. It didn't matter, what she did really, because the ax would be caught in the barrier confinement seal due to it being a summon, on top of it following her at speeds that it would be unable to turn at easily. Furthermore, it would begin to drain its chakra as well, due to the second seal she placed on top of the other one. 

After that, she would allow her knees to bow, and she would rest in a crouching position, her smirk from before still resting across her face. Since she would be getting some chakra from the summon, she might as well start using hers. By now, the distance between Mako and Risako was about eight meters, meaning he was just within range of some sweet little air jutsu. Forming the bird hand seal, she used her chakra to form the air around her into baseball sized little shapes that were all but invisible. Almost instantly, ten of the little buggers would shotgun out at Mako. Since there were about ten, all aimed at Mako's general area, at least one was bound to hit unless he did some fancy foot work. 

[Stuff used:
Chakra Draining Seal - Carry over from last post, drains 60 AP from your summon, giving me 30
Barrier confinement Seal - Carry over from last post, 60 Power, meaning that your summon is caught.
Body Flicker - 10 AP
Air Bullets - 23 AP 50 Power 50 speed
429 - 93 (from last post too) = 336 + 30 from ya summon, so 366]

Mako did not stop his jutsu in the least, he had already planned for all of these events to unfold. "Hubris, Captain, Hubris," Mako thought to himself as he continued the hand signs from where he was which was about 10 meters in the brush to Risako's left side.  He finished the jutsu and sprayed a large thick cloud of Ash covering the forward 15 meters centering on Risako 15 m high and 15 all around her.  He laughed as he heard the Air bullets barrage the wooden log he had cut out earlier.  In fact since he had hours to prep there were actually 15 logs, 14 remaining littered all around the arena that he had prepped for substitution.

 As the completely opaque cloud of thick ash surrounded Risako she was left feeling a little under the weather.  In fact being that her health was so low she couldn't breathe at all as she suffocated on his delicious smoky Jutsu.  Mako didn't wait as he moved to his right heading towards Risako's front side, staying just at the back side of the cloud.  He kept close concentration on her sensing her movements.  Although she couldnt move at this point and could not form seals or concentrate on any jutsu requiring it due to the fact that she had to focus he concentration on breathing. 

Mako knew she would take the bait at the summon, most people like to target the summons first, to even the playing field but while she focused on Jenumba she was caught in the trap. He watched her intently with his Haki

Having a working set of eyes and ears, a nose, throw in a touch of chakra sensory, and the ability to multi-task while appearing as a fool to your opponent were all things that tipped Mako's slow surprise attack in Risako's favor. His summon was now stuck, and being stripped of it's chakra as she sensed poor little Mako to her left. The ash that he spewed forth, while it might have been a good trick, was awfully slow, so slow, that in fact, Risako had more than enough time to pop off a few hand seals in a flash and summon forth a gust that pushed the ash cloud back onto it's owner. No really, the ash that Mako had just blown, would clash with a gust of wind that stopped its expanse just slightly before the half way mark, before being pushed backwards. It may have been a good trap if it were sprung correctly, but a slow surprise wouldn't be able to catch Risako off her guard. Now that he was stuck in his own trap, she would take advantage of his inability.

Through the wall of ash didn't even touch Risako, she would again form the hand signs for the Air Bullets technique, and launch another barrage at Mako. Although, due to him being surrounded by the ash cloud, she couldn't tell exactly where she was. Unless of course, the wind blew away the ash instead, in which case she would aim the baseball sized balls of air with pinpoint precision for his chest. 

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Though she could not have known where he was and from where the jutsu originated, Mako knew she was fast and would have no difficulty dodging the Ash cloud however he didn't anticipate her wind type which easily blew the ash cloud away.  However, when she had launched the air bullets the jutsu was still actively blocking Risako's line of sight due to his being hidden In soot covered brush meaning all she had was her chakra perception to rely on to see him. Mako knew the key to a sneak attack was not veing seen. The moment he saw her dodge the ash cloud he placed his hands in front of him releasing Jenumba from the summon.   The cloud of smoke released from his desummoning hidden in the ash.

Mako knew Risako was shooting relatively blindly but it did clear out the cloud fairly well. The wall of wind had cleared the area but had spread the soot everywhere. Although there would still be a thick layer of soot covering that area the ash cloud would be fairly well cancelled.  A few of the scattered air bullets actually came close to hitting them with them crashing harmlessly into the trees surrounding him, as he dodged as many as he could and the bullets cleared out the brush in the area surrounding him as he darted behind a tree nearby.  Mako's attack had failed, yet succeeded he was running out of tricks and with the chakra Risako had stolen from Jenumba he would lose this war of attrition he had to put pressure on her close, but after her first attack he had noticed the seals.  

He was outgunned, he clung close to the tree and waited to see what Risako's next move would be.  For the moment he could see her with haki and she could see him with chakra perception. Though he was confident that the tree would survive.most any attack she threw with its Senju enhanced trunk.

The tree was about 20 m away from Risako since she jumped back to dodge the cloud, and he would wait here trying to foul ate another strategy attempting to predict her moves.

(Just basically dodged air bullets with my action)

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The only issue that Risako had with the whole "Wall of Wind" plan was that she wouldn't be able to see Mako for a moment. Really, when you're fighting, you should never take your eyes off of your opponent, for that gives them the element of surprise. Good thing her opponent wasn't a Senju, or she might have actually had a situation at hand. I mean, with all these tree roots around, Risako would have to devote all of her attention to avoid being grabbed up by one, let alone trying to avoid the other attacks from the Senju him/herself. OH ALSO! It's a good thing that she can sense chakra huh? That doesn't matter tho, back to the fight. 

Immediately after launching the wind bullets, Risako's hand shot down into the weapon pouch strapped to her thigh, withdrawing in a flash a kunai, which already had an explosive tag wrapped around the handle from her previous fight with CoCo Wei, mad woman of Kumogakure. For a second, her eyelids would shut as she focused in an attempt to try and feel out her opponent's chakra, thus giving her his location. Through her ability, she felt the roots around her, which had a very low trace of chakra within them due to them being created through the Senju. Then, she felt a presence that wasn't very much higher than the roots. Definitely lower than hers though. 

With the location found, her eyelids flicked open. Although the smoke was still clearing out, she knew about where to toss the explosive seal wrapped kunai. Arching her arm back, she gave it a squeeze with her hand and began to flow her chakra into it, before she threw it forward with a quick fluid movement, causing it to arc up and over the smoke, and if she calculated correctly, it would land about a meter in front of Mako, producing a very audible "thunk" as it landed in a root. Hopefully his attention would be drawn to the kunai, otherwise, he had about ten seconds before it exploded. Further, Risako bent her knees to crouch, as her hand dove back into the abyss that was the weapon pouch, yanking out another kunai, and another explosive tag. Her last one, to be exact. 

Wrapping it around the handle, she flowed her chakra into it, lighting the fuse. Of course, she didn't do anything with this one quite yet. She still had about ten seconds before it went off. All she was waiting on was for Mako to run out from behind the tree. 

[356 AP left, no further actions, aside from the explosive tags. Pretty sure those don't cost AP, will edit if they do.]