Monks, Pet Owners, and other Crazy People (P)

While not completely gone, when Shouhei called to out to Kyousuke in the fog, it was starting to dissipate and he could swear he saw a form disappear into the ground. Not that he had other clues to confirm this like a bulge moving around, or a mass of the packed dirt and grass they were standing on having been dug up and lying all over the place.

However, he couldn’t be too careless, so from one of his weapon pouches, he took a kunai for his left hand to wield. Not that he was left handed but he needed his right hand for gripping strength. Taking a few steps about and occasionally turning around, Shouhei did this to cover all his bases in case Kyousuke wanted to surprise him from behind or tab his shoulder again.

Suddenly however, his feet gave up under him, and Shouhei started to decent down towards the ground. In the small seconds he had to react, he stabbed something green his arm reaching around to what was Kyousuke’s back. While the kunai would do nothing, he thought he heard a sound of metal meeting something solid, and possibly being stuck there. His other hand grabbed onto something else he thought was a limb.

Shouhei still wasn’t sure what had happened just now, if it was a technique of illusion, or something in physical space. All he knew was that he had to hold the line and keep his grip tight. To struggle onto what the steel at least made him think could be real. As all this passed, all that came out of his mouth was the words: “I’m not going five feet and four inches under,” as if he had remembered his height and it had become an automated response rather than an attempt at humor.

Notes wrote:Word Count: 303.
TWC: 3032.

With his jacket taking all of the force of the attack, Kyousuke pulled Shouhei under the ground leaving only his head visible. Leaving the earth, the jounin would surface and pull the kunai out of his jacket. Holding it, he would look down at Shouhei. “Good job, hitting me with this. Now let’s get you out of there.” Punching the ground, the a few feet from the boy’s head the earth would start to crack loosening all of the dirt keeping him trapped.


If he hadn’t gotten out of the ground already the jounin would walk over and offer a hand. “Well, I’ll let you start this time I won’t do anything sneaky. I’ll also show you some techniques.” The jounin would stand ready waiting for the first attack.

WC: 129

”When you try so hard but you don’t succeed,” Shouhei sang instead of letting out a sigh about how he had failed in his struggle and he was dragged underground by the jounin. However, looking up at the sound of Kyousuke’s voice he noticed his kunai in the man’s hand. Kyousuke noted how he had hit him and congratulated him about it. It did not really fill his heart with joy, but he did meet the man with a smile instead of responding with words even if it would look a bit awkward with how only his head was above ground. A respond like that seemed enough for Shouhei, which was further reinforced when Kyousuke kicked the dirt loose so Shouhei could get out.

Took him a bit of work but he didn’t need a hand. “Thank you for the offer, Kyousuke sensei.” He uttered nonetheless as the hand appeared in front of him.

As he stood up and brushed off his clothes, the man said it was Shouhei’s turn to attack. In addition, he said something about wanting him to show Shouhei more techniques, which he thought was a mixed bag. “You won’t be sneaky, Kyousuke Sensei? You are very gentle for a ninja I will have to say. I won’t call you a gentle giant though, cause you probably haven’t heard that one before,” he winked as he emptied his pouches from the loose dirt that had fallen into them as he climbed out before.

“Not that I’ll lower my guard with that assurance.” He smirked, and afterwards he came running towards the large man his arms raised as if he was about to go into a hand-to-hand confrontation starting at 6 speed, and accelerating towards his top speed 12. However, a few meters away (just enough to do a flying kick or jump), he twisted his direction and instead cut a hard turn to the left at 6 speed, and at the same time, he threw shuriken at Kyousuke and kept two others in his hand as fast as he could. The two latter ones, he threw not soon after trying to time them so it would be hard to block both at the same time. A basic move, but Shouhei didn't have that many offensive techniques to use right now.

Notes wrote:Word Count: 384.

Well if he didn’t need the help it was no use in forcing it, he would watch as Shouhei removed himself from the dirt. “There are certain things as a ninja even I cannot do. I am not one for poker faces and tricks, but others are much better at it.” It seemed some dirt had shifted into the genin’s pocket during his brief encounter with the dirt. I don’t recall being called that, but there is always a first.


Kyousuke would let Shouhei move in close before moving to block the strike with his leg and then catch the two-incoming shuriken, by gripping the flat sides between his fingers. “A barrage of attacks is good to confuse an enemy, but you have to keep it up.” Holding the shuriken, he would put both into one hand, before opening one of his jacket pockets and throwing one inside. “Don’t worry I’ll give them back.”



After that the skin on his hand would change color and form into a mace with a few spikes on it. “This is part of my kekkei genkai.” He would then push the limb forward slowly (speed 5), so that he could avoid. If he chose not to he would have a bruise later. The mace not be fast, but there was plenty of power behind it. I hope he doesn’t try to block and instead just moves.


WC: 232

”Tch” Shouhei expected Kyousuke to catch the two shurikens he threw at him, but the fact that he put them back in his west took him by surprise. If Shouhei were in a serious mood, how polite Kyousuke were being about ‘borrowing’ his shurikens would have made Shouhei laugh aloud from how comedic it seemed to him. However, he was still open enough to return some banter. “You’re such a gentleman, Kyousuke sensei. Are you going to going to take me for tea as well?” If his memory served him correctly, he had two shurikens, and four kunais left so he wasn’t completely without sharp implements.

Just before he could do a new move, Kyousuke counteracted Shouhei attacking him with a mace like arm. Shouhei had it on his mind that this was related to a bloodline limit; however, Kyousuke was nice enough to confirm that it was. Was a nice trick, but with how slow it moved it was probably more a showcase and a test to see how he would react to new things like such things.

In his next step, he twisted his body at the speed of 12 away from the spiky mace. In a fluid motion, he would follow up his twist with a kick to the mace at a strength of 10 and a speed of 12. He of course aimed for a place where he wouldn’t spike himself. He took out a kunai, with his idea was to smash the mace down into the ground. If that succeeded, he would use one of the spikes as a jump off point to propel himself towards Kyousuke at a speed of 6, his hand movement being at 12, to stab him in the face. He figured Kyousuke wasn’t in any danger from such a trick, so Shouhei wouldn’t hold back nor cry any childish tears if Kyousuke decided to follow suit. “Haaaaa!” He cried out.

Notes wrote:Word Count: 320.

“Take you out for tea?” He asked. Did that mean he wanted to take this up a notch. “All right, I guess I’ll go a little harder.” Kyousuke kept his mace at the same speed and was happy that Shouhei dodged, he then kicked the mace, but it wouldn’t budge as Kyousuke fought against the pressure using his own arm to keep the weapon up. “Nice kick.” With that the mace would begin to turn back into a hand. I guess it is time to teach him some taijutsu attacks. With the kunai in his hand it would be too dangerous to just grab him, so he needed a weapon of his own.

Making a blade on his arm (speed 20) one meter long the jounin prepped to intercept the blade. (speed 60, sharpness 102 [70 base +32 sharpness booster]) Chipping the blade was all the ninja was after, so that Shouhei would realize how sharp his protrusions were. (Basically just damaging it to the point that a quick sharpening will be able to fix it, not trying to break your stuff.) After he stopped the blade and only if he stopped it would he would then reach out his other hand speed 15 and attempt to grab the boy’s face power 10. “Iron Claw!” He would shout if successful. If the attack reached its mark, there would be some discomfort. It was awkward to have your face grasped and with such power. If the blade was still going he would avoid and try to grab the boys arm, before trying the iron claw technique.

After a few seconds, he would let go, maybe he wanted to try the technique out. Kyousuke would of course let him use it on him, there was no point without a test subject. Being a crash test dummy was one of the things his resilient body was good for. With nature energy infused into his cells it was difficult to hurt him.


WC: 329

His plan seemed to have worked, or halfway so. He still wasn’t able to keep the mace in place, he simply did not have enough strength, but he did have enough effort to evade and dodge it allowing him to follow up with his attack. However, Kyousuke had a trick in his own sleeve. Shouhei’s pupil expanded in surprise as Kyousuke cut into his Kunai. Literally, which where the surprise came from. His kunai was made of steel, and here Kyousuke just cut into it with what looked like – if he had to guess – a crystalized cancer tumor or like a formation of living rock.

His attack stopped he pulled his kunai out of the way so it wouldn’t need to be repaired, and to evade being cut he attempted to do a sidestep so he could come at Kyousuke from another angle. Kyousuke also seemed to be on with keeping on the fight as his hand moved towards Shouhei’s face in an attempt to grab it. Shouhei was glad as he heard the sound of the hand flying past his ear with a whoosh as the few thoughts that went through his head was that such a grip would hurt a lot. If not from the pressure on his temples from such a large hand, then from the pressure applied to his nose.

The inspiration for Shouhei’s next attack came when he saw a leaf fall just in front of his face. Well, they were training taijutsu – or at least as far as he knew – so he might as well try a certain renowned technique. Taking a step back to allow himself some space, he then went forward again and performed two high kicks at Kyousuke at a speed of 27 and strength of 25. However, they seemed weak and were only meant to be the faint for a lower kick directed at Kyousuke’s solar plexus. “Take that!” Shouhei yelled along with the last attack at the same speed and strength as before.

Notes wrote:Word Count: 338.
TWC: 4074
Notes: He is learning to use Leaf Whirlwind so feel free to write in any errors he does with the technique, Kyousuke.
Adding the skills and jutsus learned so far so I don't have to read through three pages to remember
Action Points: 161; AP spent: 12; AP Left: 149.

Skills so far:
Chakra Sensory (2000 WC / 2 = 1000)
Jutsus so far:
Basic Medical Jutsu (500 WC / 2 = 250 WC)
Hidden Mist (1000 WC / 2 = 500 WC)
Leaf Whirlwind (1250 WC / 2 = 625 WC)

With Shouhei dodging the incoming attack to his face, Kyousuke smiled briefly. This isn’t going to be as easy I thought is it. The boy was slightly better than he had assumed, he could avoid the iron claw. Kyousuke didn’t know if it was a narrow miss or a great one, the best fighters knew that a narrow miss was better it gave less opportunity to change the direction of their punches. Seeing that Shouhei was preparing to kick he would wait to move at the moment the foot was about to land on his face, but it would be difficult as Kyousuke was almost a whole foot taller.

As the attack struggled to find its mark another foot came from another direction. Kyousuke knew this attack well he wasn’t truly aiming for his face Kyousuke knew these were feints. “Leaf Whirlwind!” Kyousuke called out while bringing his leg up to block the actual attack. (speed 60, health 40) “The attempt was good, but the feint was not. On a taller opponent, it is difficult to reach the head, aim a bit lower around the sides or the chest.” The attack at his chest was executed well Shouhei aimed at a place he could easily reach without putting himself at risk. When it came to taijutsu you had to be able to strike quickly and return the limb you strike with just as quickly, otherwise it leaves you vulnerable. Example, if Kyousuke wished to grab the leg using the overextension to throw the limb over his shoulder and push the genin to the ground he could.

“Your attack was good. Just remember in taijutsu overextending your body is bad. Keep your form tight.” As he was finished speaking Kyousuke would do a flip backwards and land on his hands (speed 70) If Shouhei moved in closer he would lower his body and move his hands, so that he could use the leaf gale to knock Shouhei over. The leg would attack at speed 30 and power 5. After the kick was thrown out he would bring the limb back to himself to serve as defense against incoming attacks. To be fair Kyousuke didn’t truly need the limb to defend he could make extra limbs if need be to do that. The sage transformation made one good at attack and defense, sharp blades could be made to counter incoming strikes. Of course, the jounin would never do that in a spar, training wasn’t about showing off what you can do its about learning. In truth Kyousuke was learning just as much as Shouhei the subjects they were learning may have been different, but the boy was teaching him something. Who not to underestimate.

WC: 452

Shouhei winced slightly as his faint was meet with the leg Kyousuke used to block his faint. Of course, the pain wasn’t enough to stop his follow up attack, nor enough to deaf him from the lessons that came from Kyousuke’s mouth. ‘Remember your reach and the one of your enemies’ was what he got from that which made sense to him. Kyousuke could have picked him up by his leg and body slamming him into the ground, but he did not. Then again, one also had to be careful about wearing down students completely or that would be a short ninja career when ones joints and back were broken. That was at least the thought that went into Shouhei’s head about the topic.

In any event, Kyousuke seemed to have jumped backwards and landed on his hands. Shouhei were suspicious what would come next, but he had no idea. However, before he charged at Kyousuke to do your fisticuff attacks, he threw the kunai in his hand at him first. He wasn’t sure how Kyousuke handled the kunai, but when Shouhei came in to throw a straight punch at Kyousuke, he was knocked over and back.

“Woah.” A sound escaped Shouhei’s mouth as he started to roll backwards at a speed of 12 to dodge any follow up attacks. Back on his feet, he started to circle Kyousuke at a speed of 6 wanting to try something else. Now was about the time he could feel his chakra recharge again without the hours of weight his fellow genins usually had to wait.

Remembering what he had read in a scroll on another day, he thought he would try a water ninjutsu. Rat - Dog – Ox was the hand seals he did at a speed of 12. It was supposed to come some of his chakra into a large rope or whip of water, but it quickly feel apart. He tried again, and it came out as intended, coming at Kyousuke in the form of a whip at a speed of 20, and a power of 20 as well.

Notes wrote:Word Count: 350
AP Total: 161 AP; Last Round: 149 AP; Recovered: 10 AP; Used: 20 * 2; Current: 119 AP.
Jutsu Learned: Water Release: Water Whip (2,000 WC)

With the kunai coming towards him, the ninja could catch the thing, move out of the way, or block. Kyousuke moved his hands around on the ground to have the object miss him by a narrow margin. I hope he keeps track of these and can find them once we are done. This was the reason Kyousuke had caught the first one and stored it away for later. He knew the price of ninja tools were expensive especially for genin, where it was harder to come across well-paying missions. With the kunai thrown it seemed Shouhei was ready to close in the gap.

This is what Kyousuke had planned and he performed the kick which Shouhei managed to defend, against by rolling back and knocking him off of his feet. Kyousuke wouldn’t follow instead he would get back onto his feet and get ready to receive an attack from the boy. He sure does like to be on the offensive side, but that’s okay when engaging an opponent, a good offense can prove a great defense. Seeing the genin begin to make hand seals it was clear something non-taijutsu based was coming. The jounin watched as Shouhei performed the hand seals. Maybe he’ll be teaching me something I can use.



As the faulty whip of water was produced Kyousuke did the same seals as Shouhei and produced a water whip. “Oh, that’s cool. Thanks for showing me.” With the same speed and power Kyousuke would extend his whip to meet his students. “Just rat, dog, and ox, then you’ve got a weapon.” I wonder if I can conduct electricity through this or even tie people up for extended periods of time? Dropping the whip the jounin would see that it remained as he maintained his chakra connection. “Oh, it does work to tie people u, huh. You see that?” He would say pointing.

WC: 306