Advance classes with Ren and Co.

The words of praise inflated Hinoki’s ego even more, a wide dumb grin adorning his face. “Played like a damn fiddle!” he exclaimed as he saw the speed which Ren dealt with Shi. This was a good day. “This class is going to be a breeze; Heh, I got all worried for nothing.” He muttered as he casually cracked his knuckles. Ren then started to talk about what techniques they need to perform to be eligible for the Genin test; “Now this is why I’m here” he bickered to himself as he took out a piece of crumpled paper out of his right pocket. Spreading it out on the table, he started to flatten it. Barely legible to anyone but Hinoki, it was obviously written by him. Having prepared heavily for this moment, he was finally going to drop the “useless” work and finally start the important things. Even though the paper and calligraphy was of horrendous quality, it detailed the precise details and hand signs on how to successfully use the techniques needed to graduate to Genin.

Even someone taking a seat close to him wasn’t enough to knock him off his cheery high horse. Confidently he rose up, his hands already doing the Ram hand sign, then switching to snake and tiger as if a reflex. It was obvious that Hinoki had put actual effort in learning this technique by sheer practice, the paper in front of him just there for show. A puff of smoke and another grinning façade popped alongside Hinoki’s. Both of them looking directly at Shi “We already outnumber you Shi. You are already facing a cliff. Now the question is, will you jump off by your own free will?” Hinoki drunk deep from the well of pride as it felt good to act along the Hyūga Arrogance. Still grinning, he pushed up his glasses with his index finger and flipped the paper in front of him, exposing another wall of illegible text and scribbles.

The Hinoki both grabbed a handful of wasabi seeds and lobbed them in their mouth, ready for the real challenging Jutsu. "You see, you may think you are special. But there is someone cooler than you” with both thumbs pointing towards themselves as they spoke in unison. His hands then rapidly went through the “Dog – Boar – Ram” hand signs. A puff of smoke and the grinning façade was replaced by the primed up and serious face of Tsubaki. “Someone smarter and more arrogant than you” it said, this time in a voice mimicking Tsubaki’s. His hands then rapidly went through the “Dog – Boar – Ram” hand signs once again, this time replaced with the feminine figure of Ren. “Someone faster and stronger.” it said, horribly imitating Ren’s voice. Another puff of smoke and the grinning Hinoki was back in his chair, his doppelganger gone. "I’m guessing that’s enough, Sensei?" He said as he leaned back on his chair, putting his legs up on the table.

[1624+486] = [2120]

Haru noticed the flash of anger in the instructors eyes but chose to remain silent. Despite being told to catch up it seemed that they were simply being asked to perform a passable clone technique as well as a transformation technique. Both techniques were not particularly difficult for Haru but he took the instructors advice about holding back your true abilities and decided to make it look like a great deal of effort was expended. He watched Tsubaki perform the clone technique then transition smoothly into the transformation technique and inwardly groaned. Haru had hoped that her dignified and polite demeanour might mean that she was not arrogant or enjoyed belittling others just as Hinoki often did, but it was clear that she simply did it in a different way.

Haru was about to begin when he heard the Genin who apparently was named Shi, presumably named after his abilities, begin to whine about how unfair it was. it also seemed he attempted to outsmart the instructor using some half-baked logic though the result actually made him sound more foolish.How did he even get too genin?. Haru decided to respond to the strange genin and spoke in calm neutral tones as though reciting his response form a book. "Until we are placed in teams we are all enemies with each other and with ourselves. You are in the Hidden Mist,not some soft village like the Hidden leaf. Perhaps you should give your headband to someone who actually understands what that means. It seems obvious you are with us students because your instructors have judged that you are missing some fundamental knowledge and your outburst has made that clear. I think you lean on your ability like a crutch. A true shinobi should never be satisfied with their current level of power." he watched as Azure passed out and wondered whether he had thought of the same tactic as Haru or whether he was simply that weak. best to be cautious and assume he is hiding his real strength. Hinoki stood up nearby and began his little show which Haru ignored and began focusing on his own plan.

He slowly made the Ram seal and made a show of tensing his body and increasing the pace of his breathing a little as he pretended to have trouble with gathering chakra. whilst transitioning into the Snake seal he increased his speed as he could not successfully pretend that he could not see his self image and finally he he activated the Tiger seal and forced the chakra out a little faster than usual to display a lack of control. after the puff of smoke he looked up and down the clone and released a quiet and barely perceivable sigh as he seemed to be half surprised that it had worked fine. The clone  stood up and took a few slightly shaky looking steps before Haru quickly dispelled it and let out a held breath. In truth it had been harder for Haru to force himself to sweat and make unnecessary noise than it was to complete the clone technique but it had its purpose. Haru did not enjoy pretending to be incompetent but he had measured his chances of success in the current class and decided the best way to survive was to be below the  consideration of the other students as a threat. He would stalk his prey whilst wearing the skin of a weaker ninja as he had been taught to half a lifetime ago. it was in fact his father who had taught him the basic ninjutsu techniques, though only those that were deemed useful for a hunt. He repeated the exercise several times, each time making a show of going a little faster and being a little more confident. Occasionally he purposefully made some failed clones or failed to produce any at all just to reinforce the act. On his last couple of tries he steadily made two clones before stopping to preserve chakra. Haru did not enjoy pretending to be incompetent but he had measured his chances of success in the current class and decided the best way to survive was to be below consideration of the other students.

He decided to show a little of his skill with transformation as he swiftly activated the seals of Dog, Boar and Ram in quick succession as he drew the image of a Hinoki to the surface but made some slight changes that may have passed for mistakes but were not immediately noticeable. as the smoke cleared a slightly incomplete Hinoki lounged in the chair with his feet up on the desk and his hands behind his head. The sunglasses were slightly lighter shade of red and his hair was a fraction lighter but overall he looked nearly identical. Haru mimicked the annoying voice perfectly and echoed the real Hinoki's question. "I'm guessing that's enough, Sensei? Without missing a beat Haru added another line. "Because i can't show off anymore unless you praise me like a puppy." Haru quickly ran through the seals again and transformed into a copy of Azure. the copy was admittedly a little sloppier than than the one of Hinoki but then Haru had much more practice transforming into animals than people, it made it much easier to stalk timid prey or act as bait for predators. It was also very handy for travelling around the village relatively unnoticed. Haru had turned into a hawk once but painfully discovered that it did not make able to fly and since then he had preferred to use simpler transformations of less conspicuous animals like cats or dogs. Haru perfectly mimicked Azures voice as well whilst wearing a big grin. "Looks like we might all pass today!". Haru released the transformation and forced his breathing to increase and through sheer force of will managed to make himself sweat and make unnecessary and to his ears, noisy movements.

Haru sat much as he was before and simply stared at the white fox, imagining making the pelt into a pretty decorative present for his mum.

[Words: 585 + 1024= 1609 does that mean i get stat points as well? not sure how it works lol]
[Training Clone Technique [E-Rank] 345 Words]
[Training Transformation Technique [E-Rank] 295 Words

Okay thanks I'll move the post

pShinzo sat there and listened to the teacher Talking about some tree walking thing. He sat there waiting for class to end.Then the bell rang and he walked down the stairs and asked him if he could teach him the fire steam technique that he saw some kids playing with. The teacher walked with him and they went to the training grounds. The teacher said first concentrate chackra into your hands. Shinzo did as he asked then the instructor said to weave a half tiger sign. Once you've done that image a fire building up within your lungs. Then feel it shoot out of you mouth like serpent. Shinzo imagined these things then gave it a try. The fire built in his lungs and he let the fire fly from his mouth hitting the target ten feet away. The target caught on fire and the sensi ran over to it trying the put the flames out. He finally got them out and Shinzo was ready for another try this time trying to make it more concentrated. He made the hand sign and started to build up the fire. He thought about the flames color and heat. He felt the build up till they were bright blue and extremely hot. He let them shoot out and made his lips into a pucker. The flame burst out like a torch. The beam of blue flame hit the target dead center and burned straight through. Leaving large black scorch marks on the concrete behind. The instructor said that he had done a good job they went back inside and started to clean up the classroom after a day of school. They arranged the papers and cleaned up all of the scrolls and books strewn all around the classroom. They both left feeling very hungry

wc 300

gained 3st and fire release fire stream

Ren stood up on the table, still in his foxlike form and yawned before jumping down and releasing the transformation technique, a puff of smoke covering where he was for a moment before fading to reveal Ren leaning against the desk, Shi's dagger spinning in his hand as he looked at the class, "Hinoki, Haru, Azure, congratulations you've all proven you deserve at least a chance at graduation." Ren would say before stabbing the dagger into the desk and walking around the table until he reached the drawer side, pulling open the top draw Ren would pull out a pair of kirigakure headbands and throwing them to the pair of them. "Go to classroom C8 and show the teacher those headbands, he'll pick a student for you to fight, the winner's get to keep those" Ren would say before striding back around the table, grasping the dagger firmly in his hand and wrenching it from its place as he went.

Ren strode up the stairs of the classroom and slowly came to stand in front of the masochistic boy. looking him in the eye Ren would smile. "Your right, I'm sorry perhaps I should teach you something more useful to you" Ren would say kindly before rapidly thrusting the dagger into the boy's open heart wound, Pinning him to his chair. Looking the boy in the eye again Ren would give him a look that clearly indicated he should stay quiet and stay there. If the boy moved again Ren would hold up his hand to him before turning to face the rest of the class either way. Picking up the chair with the boy still attached Ren would sling the burden over his shoulder before striding down to the front of the class once more. "Now I apologise to the rest of you but I am going to have to take this one" Ren said jostling the body of the boy in indication, "and give him a little bit of education, but..." Ren said as he placed the chair down and began to walk towards the chalkboard. "Before I go, this..." Ren said picking up a piece of chalk and beginning two quickly write the theory for both the medical ninjutsu technique, and the substitution jutsu on the board. "Is what I expect you to be able to do by the next class." Ren would say, just as he finished writing the explanation, then throwing the chalk towards the class he would disappear in a puff of smoke, using the substitution technique to swap places with the chalk just as it passed the boy in the chair. "and if anyone, can replicate the following then I'll give them some one on one training" Ren would continue before performing the medical technique and causing the boy's heart wound to heal itself around the dagger. Then turning and picking up the chair Ren would turn and exit the room, the boy in tow.

[TWC: 2603]
[Exiting]
[Forcing Shi to exit with me]
[Teaching everyone Transformation tech, Substitution tech, Clone tech, and Medical Nin]
[Claiming 13 stat points]
[Claiming 500 words towards Medical Spec. (If I can claim more I will but thats what I thought could count)

Shi was too busy glaring daggers at the students as they left to barely noticed as Ren stabbed him in the heart again. As his eyes meet Ren's it was clear that the spark of hate was starting to form and if left unchecked could cause massive problems in the future. Shi was abit confused as the teacher healed him but assumed it was so he could be punished more later instead of waiting for it to be be healed 'naturally'. As he was dragged out of the class it was still clear he was not too happy. Hopefully this next part will prove more usefully then this class.

{exit}


(WC 1206 for 6 stat points and learn Shadow Shuriken Jutsu)