Kage in the Training Grounds (Open to 3)(NK)

Denkiteki styled his manipulated fabric to look like a common Jounin's uniform, he even included a skin tight mask that covered the bottom half of his face. He hoped the outfit would be enough of a disguise, The Hogokage rarely left his office so he doubted most people would recognize him anyway. He made no attempt to hide his chakra signature however, anyone who had it memorized would recognize who he was.

The Hogokage wanted to see his shinobi train however he didn't want to draw attention to himself. Not after the last time.

Denkiteki arrived in the training grounds early in the morning. The grounds were vacant save for himself so he decided that for now at least he'd just meditate. The Hogokage liked to have at least a decent amount of nature energy stored in his body at all times just to be safe.

Den found a spot at the edge of the training grounds and sat down, closing his eyes as he began to gather energy within his body. While he did so his senses remained alert, especially his chakra senses, searching for the signs of approaching shinobi. The Hogokage wasn't afraid of being caught meditating. Many people in Hoshigakure were religious so it wasn't an uncommon practice within the village and only another sage would be able to detect the energy Den was gathering.

3 Nature Energy Stacks gathered

Genevieve had woken up early and tied her galaxy-embodying hair up in a high, voluminous ponytail to keep it out of her face while she trained. She had watered the plants at home and drank up more than enough water but still- she brought her large cup with her and jogged ot the training grounds. It often grew quite full after a while, so if she didn’t get there early then it got over populated and the crow made her a bit nervous. When she went in, however, she completely didn’t see the man meditating and went up to one of the training blocks and sipped on her water before she set it down.

Spending the first couple minutes stretching, she got in position to do a Dynamic Entry and jumped up, crashing into one of the standing blocks and shattering it,somersaulting to safety. She stood up and smiled to herself, proud with her own progress. Before, she just collapsed into a puddle of water and now she was keeping a solid form. Good for her!

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Today had been a new day full of new opportunities as Dusk made his way to the training grounds. His once short blue hair had been growing back rather nicely as he ran his left hand through it to scratch his scalp. He had originally planned to stay at home to take care of his sapplings, but like the previous days he needed to train more in the aspects of Mokuton. The only things on him at the moment were his clothes which consisted of a white T-shirt that stopped in the middle of his chest, a red sash that had been wrapped around his chest and shoulders with his white training pants. His stride was pretty quick as he waddled towards the entrance of the training grounds and went to his usual spot.

While he had not been paying attention to who had been in the training grounds at the time, he began his stretching and after a moment moved into his beginning regime. Flowing his chakra through his body he began to grow small wooden shafts all four inches in length and thickness before cutting them with his chakra, piling them into a small pile. He had simply made a few senbon that he would begin to throw at a nearby tree to work out his arms as well as work on his aim. After he threw the first set, he moved onto training his water jutsu. As he finished making four handseals a large quantity of water spewed from his mouth which was angled down until the water formed into that of a snake which sat around him for a moment before disappearing.

(I'll have Den interact with someone next post if no one approaches him. Also 1 more person can join the topic if they want.)

The first two to arrive were Genin, Dusk and a girl Den had never met before. Neither of them seemed to notice the Hogokage as he sat off to the side meditating, instead both got straight to training.

The Hogokage opened his eyes, still meditating, and watched the two train while he gathered more energy within his body. It seemed the girl was practicing her Taijutsu while Dusk was working on his Ninjutsu.

After Dusk used the water technique Den stood up, he had plenty of Nature Energy stored now. He decided not to talk to either Genin just yet and instead began his own training. Doing a few stretches himself Den pondered what techniques he should work on. There were quite a few that he had begun training but hadn't quite perfected yet.

In the end though he decided on a jutsu he had only learned about during an incident involving Maku and the creation of his dimension. While the world had been torn apart around them Akihana had used a powerful water technique that Den had been fortunate enough to copy with his sharingan. He'd never bothered to practice the technique however, most of his training time was spent learning the Sage Arts.

Moving over to a small pond, one of the many sources of water in the Water Gardens, Den began his practice with the water element. Before trying the technique he'd seen Akihana use Den performed the Snake Mouth technique, a simple water release jutsu that he learned a long time ago. At a speed of 40 the water of the pond would form together, creating a loud and twisting torrent of water that extended straight upwards 5 meters. Den focused his chakra to keep the torrent moving, using the jutsu to practice his chakra control.

While there was a decent chance neither Genin noticed the figure walk towards the pond and perform 3 hand seals they would most likely hear the water crash into itself as Den created the spiraling column. The loud noise would persist for some time as Den continued to channel his chakra into the water in front of him.

6 stacks of Nature Energy stored

-20 from Snakes Mouth
+5 from juugo BL
Net 15 AP lost

Genevieve had paused her training when she noticed someone getting up- and she hadn’t even seen them. She felt a bit disappointed in herself for not noticing one person, but two, as another person worked beside her on their own training. As she tried to mentally decide on who she should greet first, the other man had already began his training with- or rather, noisily. She hadn’t seen the technique used or the hand seals, but before this other man was a huge pillar for rushing water, spiralling at a fast rate to get keep it’s form and the ninja seemed to be focusing on it.

In awe and out of curiosity, she trotted closer and stopped at a safe distance, watching the technique take place. Could he have used Monkey, Boar, Tiger for his seals? Or perhaps Snake, Tiger, Ram? Either way, it was an amazing display of just how advanced Ninja and their teachings were compared to her knowledge and the Church’s. Where they hopes for miracles and Ninja seemed to create their own. It was uplifting spiritually to watch and observe, however if he happened to show a chance of pausing in his training, she was more than happy to approach and wish him a good morning to get his attention.

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Dusk had continued to train for some time until he had noticed someone at first not too far from him. The sea blue eyes slowly trailed over to the woman giving a small wave instead of saying something before he had turned back to face the tree in silence. Since his water snake technique was still in its beginning stages he still could not muster its full potential, he did however feel the cool moister of the water filling the air which caused him to turn around and stare at it. Someone had made the technique he was just using but better...And thus he moved over to find out that it was his teacher, Den. Waving to the male he laughed," Hey! Are you...performing the Snake mouth technique by any chance? I just learned that one yesterday," nodding and being proud of himself he snapped his fingers looking back to the female to motion her closer.

At that moment the blue haired boy stepped closer to his sensei and looked at the water in mild curiousity as if he was entranced by it before smiling,"What are you trying to learn today Den? Oh! I learned something on my own that I want to show you...if i'm allowed to that is. I know big displays of Ninjutsu are pretty bad if people see it. Is it okay if I were to use it here?," unknown to Den, Dusk had already learned a second wood release technique that he had used prior to this day, but had only shown it to one other person.

With the two people sitting there in a daze and his words falling on deaf ears, Dusk waddled over to hug his teacher and waved to the woman before walking off and heading back into the village.

[Exit]

After Dusk left Den would turn towards the other Genin who was watching him, looking at her again Den was able to recognize her from one of the files in his office. She was a priestess that had joined the shinobi forces of the village. Deciding to be friendly he'd wave to her as he called out, "Hey there, are you interested in Water Release jutsu?" After he finished the question the hand he waved with would point towards the 5 meter tall column of water.

As he spoke the torrent of water had continued to spin however it was not so loud as to drown out of his voice. If the genin did want a training partner he'd probably end the technique soon but for now he'd continue to use it to practice his chakra control.

+5 AP from Jugo BL
10/20 towards Nexus of energy
6 Nature Energy stacks stored
Net 10 AP lost

Hikari was in two places at once, the first place she was at was alone in the scary dark room she was in before, she was going through the contents of her own mind, practicing reading it and distorting her own memories (She had to be careful with that though, if she left a memory unchanged for too long, she wouldn’t be able to change it back.) It was a very scary thing to play around with, but Hikari felt like this was a necessary technique she would need to learn.

The other room she was in was her bed room, still laying on her bed at noon, trying to just focus on the technique she was preforming. Hikari had been practicing on her own and learned that she didn’t need to fall asleep to practice the technique, but just needed a single eye to be closed. This way, she was able to do things while practicing her jutsu, but right now, she was just focused on the jutsu. Hikari knew that by the time she was done, she would need to learn how to use her jutsu during regular conversations, and possibly during combat. After shifting around in her memories long enough that she thought she understood how to preform it, she figured now was the time to start to try to do something while she was training, Hikari got up and did her morning routine and it went bad, she nicked herself while she was shaving her legs, in the shower, she accidently turned the heat all the way up, slightly burning herself and got shampoo in her eye she was seeing through (the eye she was using to into the real world, so not good). She tried to make breakfast, but burned her eggs and just decided to have Cereal. After that, she would go change into her usual combat outfit.

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Hikari would then go toward the training field, weaving in and out of traffic, trying to make sure she hit no one. As she got to the training field, she noticed something a little bit different than usual, she noticed two ninja’s that she didn’t recognize in the short time she had been coming here, she could feel a great chakra coming from one of them, one who preforming some water jutsu, Hikari would take a great interest in him because she wasn’t used to seeing such a shinobi around (Save Kyousuke Snow, and she only met him once.) She didn’t know who this was, but felt like he was special. At the same time though, It looked like he was teaching someone else and didn’t want to bother him, as such, she would continue with her jutsu training and would go over to the dummies that were designed to practice ones kunai throwing skills. With the jutsu still sort of activated on herself, Hikari would take a Kunai out of her bag and try to throw it at the target while about 10 meters away, but would only hit the target on the outer rim of the target. She had to get used throwing with one eye closed.

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Once again, Shouhei found himself in his favorite tree of this itty-bitty training ground of Hoshi. Although this time around he was sitting in it rather than hanging like a certain tarot card his eyes closed. He had mostly spent the ten minutes he had been sitting there looking through his tools and occasionally looking up to see who came and went. People might have noticed him as he wasn’t really trying to hide.

Of the three people he had seen, Shouhei only recognized Dusk who left soon afterwards. The other two he did not recognize were a girl – or should I say woman? – with what could be described as a large selection of colors in her hair, and a jounin he hadn’t seen before who wore a face mask. Which told Shouhei that the man probably didn’t care much for his surroundings. Then again, he could be wrong as he did make attempt to interact with the others, or that was Shouhei’s guess in spite of not being able to hear him.

Back to present time, the reason he had his eyes closed was because he was practicing sensing chakra signatures. A simple thing really, but as another presence entered the training grounds, he opened his eyes but sneezed when the light annoyed his eyes. “Well look which little bird we got there.” He noted to himself aloud giving off his position to anyone who had his or her ear out to his or her surroundings. Shouhei jumped off the tree and back onto the ground, running towards the other.

As he stopped up, it appeared he had built up too much speed and ended up sliding across the ground with the black and green colors of his clothes as well as his ginger hair being the most visible of him. Well probably not really as he had only worked up to half of his max seed which is about 12 speed. “Hi everyone, I hope I am not late for any extra ninjutsu lessons.” And funny enough, his sliding ended just in front of the masked man. Shouhei quickly looked between the woman with many hair colors and the masked man and quickly bowed towards the both of them. His flak jacket not providing any resistance to his movement. “I’m Shouhei Sato.” Then he turned towards the direction of Hikari and waved. "It's good to see you're still trying to improve!" His voice sounding encouraging.

Notes wrote:Word Count: 407.