Komon and Komori meet Sakana and Hitori [IO]

Komon looked at the scene in front of him, he was standing in his usual clearing with a grove of trees surrounding him in a circle in all directions about 15 meters out, on one of these trees his brother Komori was resting on a branch. The two had been training with lightning ninjutsu earlier today and he had exhausted himself, Komon had a bit more endurance than his brother however and had decided that he was going to get some shuriken training in before he woke his brother up and headed home. Now his eyes shifted scanning the entirety of the clearing.

Ten targets, five shuriken, five kunai.

A simple goal really, any shinobi of worth would find the challenge well… Less than challenging, which is why Komon had taken it upon himself to make it a bit more difficult than it had to be, the targets were attached to the side of several trees surrounding him, again this sounds simple, the catch however was that the targets were all on the opposite side of the tree facing him, in order to hit the targets his kunai and shuriken would have to split through the tree and glide all the way to the other side to make contact, Komon’s byakugan would be responsible for locating the targets, and his chakra infusion would be responsible for piercing the tree.

Komon cracked a smile as he thought about his rigorous training exercise, if he continued to think of clever training methods like this he just might become an exceptional shinobi one day, seconds later he would inhale, it was time to stop thinking and start acting. Komon instinctively extended his right arm forward and formed the shape of an L at the closest tree while activating his byakugan, when the target came into sight he would line up the L so that the bottom and left corners of the target lined up with the edge of his fingers, his right arm would be focused on pinpointing the location of the targets.

His left hand would serve a more active role in the process, and would reach low behind his back where his weapons pouch rested, here he would place his hand’s on the five shuriken encased in the pouch. Lifting them all out at once between his fingers and gripping the cold metal surface of the weapons. As he pulled them out he flooded electricity into his veins and down towards the shuriken. When the crackle of electricity made itself known Komon flung his forearm and wrist forward sending a shuriken through the L he had formed down towards its target, as he did so he would pivot his ankle causing the rest of his body to spin towards the remaining targets before releasing four more shuriken at their designated targets.

He watched in satisfaction as all five shuriken landed where he had aimed them at, some even knocking the wooden objects off of their resting place, and was about to unleash the five kunai when his byakugan spotted a chakra signature in the woods, when this occurred he would lift a single kunai with his left hand and draw his katana with his right hand, before addressing the unknown figure.

“Whoever you are, come on out! I see you!”

WC: 550

Sakana woke up and got ready for his day. He took a shower, threw on his hoodie and went to breakfast. He completed his morning routine, then Sakana went on his job of delivering food. Sakana was upset that today was going to be a rather boring day as he didn't have any training planned. But he promised Kaigo so he went on the boring stops anyway. Sakana made the day a little more fun for himself by using his ventriloquism to trick his customers. After he had completed all his stops Sakana was a long way from his house. He concluded it would take him all day to walk home. He started on this long awful walk. As Sakana was walking he spotted some woods off to the side. He figured if he cut straight through the woods he could get home faster. As long as he didn't get lost of course. Sakana made a judgement call to go through the woods, he entered and went on his way home. As he was strolling though the woods, he heard a voice shouting in the distance. He could make out that he was trying to get someone to show themselves. Sakana decided he couldn't be talking about him as he was very far away. As Sakana was thinking about it, he realized the voice sounded a lot like Komori's. Sakana went on his way to greet his friend when he heard a panicked voice of someone hiding behind a tree. Sakana didn't know what to expect so his walk turned into a sprint and eventually got to the man. Sakana looked at the man from a distance. He looked like Komori but it wasn't Komori. This person was either impersonating Komori or more likely was his brother Yūgure mentioned at the lake. His name was Koland maybe? No it was Komon he remembered. 

WC:313

Komon quickly sheathed his sword laughing awkwardly as he did so, as the gennin had popped his head out in a rather panicked motion he had identified him as a Kumogakure gennin, in other words he was an ally. The panicked response the boy let out was a bit sad, he obviously had no combat experience and his weak chakra signature showed it.

Komon decided he’d play along with the boy and said in confusion. “Oh, Okay” before pausing and saying “My bad” then he’d quickly body flicker into a tree branch moving faster than the boy could perceive which left him hovering directly above the boy, with his position unknown. Komon would then gently take his mask off and clip it to his belt, leaving it hanging at his side before landing softly behind the gennin and tapping on his shoulder.

“Are you sure about that?” He’d say cheerfully.

WC: 700

While Sakana was hiding behind the tree he watched his friend Komori fall out of a tree and turn into a puddle, A person who Sakana is assuming to be Komon move so fast it looked like he teleported and a scared gennin slowly come out of the bushes. Sakana had no clue what he had just walked himself into. Sakana was about to walk out and see what was going on but instead he decided to be smart about it. He summoned two water clones that looked exactly like him. The first clone walked over to Komori's puddle and didn't know if Komori was alive or what happened so he just nudged the puddle with his foot saying, "Komori are you in there?". The other clone walked over to Komon and introduced himself. "Hello I'm Sakana Meijin, I'm assuming you are Komon and who are you?" Sakana said referring to the scared gennin in the corner. Sakana wondered if this strategy would work but he felt as if his clones did a really good job of being him.

WC:492

Stupid, blasted, god forsaken boring ass missions that were eating up all of his training time. Not to mention the amount of people he seemed to have been training lately. It was like he was some kind of people magnet. All he wanted, all he had ever wanted, was to be left alone so that he could train himself and become the best shinobi possible for Kumogakure. But no. That wasn’t how the world worked. It didn’t care what you wanted, and god forbid you railed at it for not listening to you. That only seemed to make it all worse. So Senshi just buckled down and did as he was told, completed his duty and assisted anyone who asked.
 
As he had completed yet another mission today, boring per usual, he decided to head to the training grounds hoping against hope that he wouldn’t be running into yet more people who needed his assistance. He did after all need to maintain his own training and become better. Plus why weren’t these other Genin hunting down real Chuunin or even Jounin for training. Sure he was on his last Chuunin exam mission, but this was ridiculous. Doing the job of a Chuunin when he hadn’t even been permitted the rank yet was starting to wear on the overly loyal dark haired Genin. Not that he would ever complain out loud about something like that.
 
That would be completely unbecoming of a shinobi, let alone a shinobi of Kumogakure no sato. No he just needed to stop complaining and whining in his own head about how unfair life was that he was saddled with all this extra work because he was somehow deemed ‘approachable’ by his peers. With that in mind he launched himself through the trees at an even faster rate intent on going to his favorite, usually secluded training grounds to get some maintenance training in. He had his sword strapped to his back, his tantos on his hips, and also the huge two meter long by ten meter wide steel pillar strapped to his body so that he could increase his weight training.
 
Despite the lightness of his footsteps, and the chakra he was using to cushion his steps he was still creating huge indents and cracks in the trees. Dropping from the tree branches to ensure one did not break underneath the weight he was carrying he continued to run. The pillar he was carrying would require someone with a strength of ninety five to transport and as such he was quickly sweating profusely despite the bitter cold. Due to the intensity of the work out he was getting he was not actively using his chakra sensory skill as much as he usually did. Though it was becoming almost second nature to use it, thus he had closed the distance to his training ground fast enough that he didn’t have time to bemoan his fate.
 
The training grounds that were normally empty, were apparently full today. He recognized two of the signatures, but the other two were surprisingly new to the rather experienced Genin. Pushing that thought out of his mind he sprinted into the clearing, his hands forming the hand sign for the Body flicker technique and suddenly he disappeared in a blur of speed and found himself skidding to a stop next to Komon. A boy who held the title of a Hyuuga and was one of the few people that was an honest challenge to the rather tall Genin. Casting his eyes about he looked first to the red haired Uzumaki before his hazel eyes transitioned to staring at the Meijan for a second.
 

He had not arrived in time to hear either of their introductions and as such did not know their names. Instead he turned his head towards Komon and Komori making sure to be careful not to hit the other boy with either his sword or the steel pillar. Giving a polite nod to the bloodline wielding twins he finally spoke. His voice cracking slight, hinting that he was going through puberty already. “Good afternoon Komon-sempai, Komori-sempai. I assume you are here for training again as well, is there anything I can do to assist you?” A single eye brow raised in questioning as his eyes darted towards the two new Genin and then back to the twins as though to ask who the new youngsters were.

WC: 736

Komon’s byakugan was still active, and if he had been unaware of it the redheaded genin's response would have made it all too clear to him. “What's wrong with my eye’s?” he thought somewhat offended. Adding a bit of sass to his voice he would respond, “What's wrong with YOUR eyes” while pointing his finger in the kid's face, before explaining the appearance of his eyes. “It’s called a byakugan, a kekkei genkai from the hyuuga clan” He was in the middle of saying as his byakugan caught not one but two chakra signatures apart from him, the new found gennin and his brother.

The first one was powerful and glowed with a power similar to senshi’s knowing that this clearing was near senshi’s training ground he deduced that it was probably him, and seconds later his suspicions were confirmed. That is when the rather powerful gennin used the body flicker technique and skidded to a near holt almost directly in front of Komon. Senshi said hello of course as he did so, and asked if he could help.

But as he was doing this Komon was concentrated on the other signature near his brother, his protective instincts were kicking in and the boy was standing right on top of Komori, Quickly Komon said hello back to senshi before taking a closer look at the unknown chakra signature with his byakugan, with his new more detailed perspective Komon could see that his brothers chakra burned much more brightly than the newfound genin's and deemed him a non factor, Komori could easily fend for himself against this man.

Now reassured that his brother was safe he turned back to the redhead and senshi and said, “Well I was just figuring out who this guy was when you showed up, I was training but I pretty much finished… That is unless one of you two want to train together, I had just been refining my chakra infusion technique.”

WC: 1026