George of The... Forest

The man's name was Axel, huh? He told Daiko that he was a fire lover, and Daiko wasn't quite sure where he stood on the subject. He did enjoy to see things burn, although knowing Suiton himself he wasn't sure that taking the exact opposite would end up being a good plan or not. He did enjoy the events that were beginning to transpire in this area, and had a somewhat slight newfound respect for Axel and Kyo alike. Looking down at the boy who had stopped convulsing, Daiko noticed that he seemed to allow the lava inside of him to simply  flow out of his body and out through a chunk of earth in his palm. Smiling, Daiko was sure to help him up and focused over to Axel. While doing so, he heard a confident yell of Kyo being back in action. That was quite the relief to hear, as it seemed like the burning tree was going to be closing in on George sooner than later. The stump continued to smolder and the lava was eating through about as quick as the fat man under the stump finished his 'cigarette'. Setting to work to see what sort of method he would have to use to get this man quickly out of the stump before it continued to burn and would end up catching either the grass on fire, or burn the man to death. It seemed that both options were likely to transpire, though the latter more likely. He planned on different ways to handle this problem, from finding a way to spray water over the burning area or to somehow kick away the ashes before they would fall down. It wouldn't be the hardest thing done in the ninja world, but it didn't seem too easy with the molten stump continuing to burn as the seconds went on. It was one of those things in life that seemed to be a problem that you would never encounter in the real world, yet here the three were, dealing with this exact problem.

Daiko realized quite quickly that he wouldn't have to do much about the burning tree, as the man Axel began to do strange maneuvers, pounding at the stump to break it loose and continuing to open it up to somehow pull the man out. Daiko just stood back and watched, impressed with the show of skill that the man displayed whilst hammering away at the tree. Somewhat impressed, Daiko cheered the man on whilst destroying the ashes of the tree to split open the center. As this had happened, Daiko smiled and stood back. Kyo was looking to be okay, and the work of breaking down the tree was taken care of. It seemed to be pretty successful thus far, and not too much of a strain on Daiko's eyes like when the man broke apart his limbs to become a screeching creature in some sort of daze of sorts. As the man was pulled out of the burning stump, Daiko heard Axel announce that he had actually deceased. It wasn't the sort of thing that surprised the ninja very much, as Daiko assumed that the rest of the party had assumed the same fate of the man. These were the types of things that happened. If you start throwing slander at the kid who can shoot lava, you're probably going to end up getting burnt. And not the way Daiko weaves words to aggrivate, but to litterally get a hole burnt in your skull. None of the events going down surprised Daiko in the slightest and he was content watching everything unfold. The homeless man, who turned out, to Daiko's surprise, to be alive and well began screaming that he was back, and that the three ninja who helped him were fuck lizards. Though the ninja didn't neccesarily disagree, he noticed that the man had no thanks to give the three, much less any reward. In the back of Daiko's mind he was hoping that perhaps the man would secretly be a rich man living in a mansion that would compensate them for their efforts and thank them with generous donations of ryo. It didn't seem to be the case, as the man started whistling. This caused a loud, almost deafening YEEEEEHAAAAAWWWW to come booming from an undescribably place in the forest, and Daiko felt like this man was far from being grateful. Before Daiko could mention to the man that he had only spit a loogie on his forehead by pure accident, he heard a cowbell ringing. Daiko hated cowbells. Turning his head to the direction of the sound, he noticed that there was almost nothing to be seen, only a rustling of branches and thundering footsteps. 

Out of the clearing in the woods, it seemed to men came out and began cackling, speaking in what seemed like the tongues of an old age society of people who spent their time getting the backs of their necks burnt in the sun as an ancient ritual to worship cousins. Or, something of that sort. Daiko wasn't exactly familiar with people of this type, as he had spent most of his time around people and animals. The descriptions of the men weren't exactly hard to come up with in Daiko's head, as he noticed two looked surprisingly similar though their weight definetly set them apart a few hundred pounds. George joined in their ranks, and was eyeing up Daiko menacingly. He had a crooked grin and seemed like he was wanting to return a few kicks that Daiko had previously gifted him on his face. The other man, the one with the cowbell, was ringing it with his knife and staring over at Axel, ready to attack. Noticing that the third man was breaking ranks and going after the recently recovered Kyo, Daiko stood his ground and backed up slightly as to not be in the way of whatever deadly technique he would soon witness Kyo use on the man who thought he was ever so much the shit. Taking a few steps back, Daiko overlooks the situation in his mind and tries to form out a decent battle plan. George didn't seem to have anything of use on him other than some soiled trousers, and Daiko wasn't really fearful of the man in any sense whatsoever. Though Daiko was fully aware that he would be able to handle some slacker in a fight, a moment of doubt made him question his own abilities. He had no puppets with him, and that left him to fight with bare hands or some weapons. Not that Daiko wasn't skilled with weapons, he just wasn't very strong and could be overtaken by this big man quite easily. As the man approached, Daiko pulled one kunai out of each side of his weapon pouches, leaving him with two. One in each hand, he quickly began to close in on the man, giving a quick jab to the man's ribs, and another targeting his chest. The first kunai was caught with a bare hand, and George laughed a sinister cackle before hocking up a loogie directed precisely at Daiko's forehead. Dodging out of the way in just the nick of time, the loogie flew over his head and the second blade was planted firmly into the man's chest. He began to scream, telling him that weapons weren't fair and that a real man settled things hand to hand. Daiko wasn't too concerned, pulling both kunai away quickly, leaving a gash on George's calloused palms. "Now you're really going to get it, pipsqueak!" The man screamed, charging toward Daiko at full speed. Jumping just barely out of the way of the man's bear hug that seemed to spell out pain, he quickly jabbed each kunai into his side, earning a squirt of blood from each side. 

As the battle continued, Daiko quickly checked his surroundings to see how each of his teammates were doing. He noticed that Axel was having what seemed like a good time fighting off his opponent, while Ashur's seemed to have disappear. Being caught off guard for a moment, all Daiko could see of the other man was a smoldering pile of ashes and more lava. This damned kid was pretty tough. If Daiko wasn't careful, he might be the next one to end up toasted. The thought quickly left Daiko's mind as he realized that this boy also had good intentions for the village, and the feeling of a solid fist being jammed into Daiko's gut. Knocking the wind out of him, Daiko crumples on the ground, gasping for air. George took this opportunity to give a chuckle, obviously not paying attention to the battle going on around him. He walked slowly up to Daiko, who had just begun to catch his breath and leaned down low to look at him. "Enjoy this mug while you can, pipe shitter... It'll be the last one you ever see..." Giving out another cackle, Daiko watched as a figure jumped from the side of the man, gripping his throat in it's jaws and carrying on with it in his mouth, ripping it clean off the man. Staring in disbelief, Daiko watches as the man's hollow throat makes a loud sound of suction being released and crumples to the ground. Looking to his left, Daiko notices the wolf from earlier with the man's bloody throat in his mouth who then dropped it on the ground and nudged it with his nose toward Daiko, as if to give it to him as food as Daiko had done for the creature earlier. Petting the wolf on its head, Daiko continued to stare in disbelief at the now fallen man, and took note of the dimensions of the dog and what it looked like. He would definitely recreate this creature as one of his puppets. The wolf looked at Daiko expectantly, eyeing the man's throat on the ground. Not wanting to dissapoint his new friend, Daiko picked up the throat, staring at the wolf in disbelief. Did it want him.. To eat it? The wolf started to growl, and Daiko turned away from the creature as to not look into it's eyes as if to challenge it. Slowly moving the hard piece of flesh to his mouth, Daiko looked over at the wolf expectantly. The wolf got on it's back and kicked it's legs up in the air, wagging it's tail and Daiko ever so slowly moved the torn off neck piece to his mouth before feeling a gagging sensation in his stomach from the carnage. Looking down he noticed that his hands were covered in blood, and he felt a warm splash on his face. Putting the piece of throat down, he scratched the wolf's tummy who then proceeded to get up and gently nibble on Daiko's arm. That was... Unexpected, to say the least, and Daiko looked over to see how his newfound ninja bretheren were handling themselves. Kyo obviously had the whole thing under control, and it seemed like Axel had things wrapping up as he continued to beat the last remaining man to the ground. Daiko had a newfound appreciation for wolves, and doubted that he would ever have a run in as lucky as that one in a long time. 

Stretching out and laying back on the ground, Daiko sighs and closes his eyes. He had been very lucky today to meet such capable ninja that he now knew he would be able to train with, as well as having a lucky encounter with a wolf that saved his life. He definitly appricated all that the creature had done for him, and didn't know that if he had any way, or even needed a way, to help this creature out in the future. He decided he would may as well quit when he was ahead. With all that had happened, Daiko began to gently drift off into a daydream of sorts, where he felt a strange sensation traveling through him.

He was alone, in a dark colored room. There were pictures hanging on the walls, all of different scenes of random ninja he did not recognize either killing, or dying. One thing all seemed in common however, as there was a dark blue aura around them that Daiko couldn't exactly place. He felt the same as he did before, as if he was the only person alive in this realm. The same dark blue, sentient chakra like creature came to him, once again attatching itself to his chakra networks and body, taking control. The creature spoke of how lucky Daiko was to be alive, and that his powers would allow for him to do much greater than what he was currently confounding himself with. This made Daiko realize exactly how weak he was in this large world of ninja, and how he had to work hard if he desired to get farther than where he now stood. The first thing he needed was a way to channel his abilities to do better in life. He needed to come up with something special to his own bloodline, though he wasn't quite sure what it was. He felt so many different options flooding to his brain, something having to do with that same sensation of chakra inside of his body mingling with what felt like pure darkness. The darkness repulsed the chakra inside of him, making him feel both weak and strong simultaneously. He felt a strange sensation of want to share this feeling with others, to see how he could disrupt chakra in his own ways and forms. It wouldn't be easy, this much he knew. But he felt that the dark creature living inside of his body would somehow help him achieve future goals.  Somehow his body shifted from the darkened room, onto what seemed like a battlefield. There were all different sorts of walks of life coming through where he was, running and screaming, wielding all types of different weapons that were used in the very center to clash between two opposing forces. Neither side seemed to be winning, but as the battle continued he noticed that it wasn't a distinct team that was fighting against another. Inside the ranks of one place there would be men stabbing one another in the backs, people who were dying for their beliefs and others who were killing for their own. There was a sense of chaos all around Daiko that he couldn't exactly put his finger on, and a strange sense of befuddlement overcame him. He realized that on top of a conflict in the outer world, each of these men had a conflict inside of themselves. They were fighting for something that some believed in, some didn't Daiko searched to think of where this sense of belief came from. He waded through the mass of bodies and the dead soldiers trying to find something they all had in common. Different sigils on themselves, different colors of armor. They all seemed to be armed by someone who was not doing the fighting, rather causing them to believe in something and fighting for it. Was that what he was doing with this very village? He grew up in this place he called home his whole life, and he never thought it strange to want to fight for the country. This was the place that nourished him. Raised him. This was the place that nourished his parents, to his belief, and he couldn't find anything wrong with that... Was it just the same of those for the Mist village? Did they believe that they were defending their own values when they invaded? Or did someone create values for them to believe in? Daiko determined on his own that when it came to what to believe in, he would always find his own way and not let anyone tell him differently. Yeah, he could agree with someone to keep the peace, but he knew at the end of the day what his gut feeling told him would always be the best. He further concreted the idea in his mind that he couldn't trust anyone but himself. He could place faith in others to follow a similar ideology or to have ideas of his own, but he was sure that no one could move him from his own position, no matter the cost it would be to him. He may fake it. He may create personalities of himself that would seem to go along with anything he was told to do. But at the end of the day, at his core, he would always follow what he believed was right. Whether evil or good, kind or rude, his mind would be cemented in his own beliefs. For now, he believed that good was the right way to go. He felt that someday the line between the two may become construed, but he didn't believe it would be until something tramatic happened. He felt himself phase away from the battlefield and into his own home. It looked a bit different than he had remembered, being there a day before. The front door opened to find a happy, younger version of his parents coming in with a baby. They were talking to each other and giggling, bringing the small child up to a nursery they had put together. Hugging and kissing each other, they look over the small child and warmth is brought to Daiko's heart. He notices, however, that his father had the same dark colored chakra moving around inside of him and as he gently tickled the babies stomach, Daiko noticed the baby had the same chakra as himself. Before the moment could get boring, Daiko noticed that the walls faded away onto an empty training field with nobody around. He could see the same man with a bit older of a child doing different training excersises. Daiko remembered these well.. It usually had to do with some sort of stationary object, and Daiko being tasked with either running up it as fast as he could or trying to stick sharp pointed sticks into the ground straight up. This was when he was first learning how to throw weapons, though it was nearly impossible to hurt himself with these sorts of tools. The father kept congratulating his son and making a big deal out of the smallest acheivement, though telling his son that it took more than this to be a true ninja. Daiko remembered the words as if they were spoken to him just yesterday. "The ninja way isn't something that you write down in a book, not something that all ninja can live by. It's something that you, yourself know about yourself, and it's the will to mold the world not into what you want, but into what you need. For example, this tree here. It provides us with the very air we breathe. But in a battle, It could provide cover. It could provide a place to hide. Never take for granted a simple tree, it could be the difference between life or death. Sinking in a chasm, or prevailing through the leaves." Daiko remembered that conversation very well, as it was the first time that Daiko really looked at himself in perspective of the world around him. As a child, it's hard to imagine that things would change more than they are in that given moment, though Daiko had learned early that there was more than just him in this big world. Sensing the same dark chakra in his father from before, he feels the world fade away softly and move on to another scene from his life. It was at the academy. This time he felt as if he was in his own body, from before. He looked around to see different kids talking about what there clan was, and how their abilities were so great. A girl to his left asked him what his clan was, and what it did. Realizing then that he didn't actually know, he stuttered out an awnser of unknowing. He was teased about this when he was young, as the Uchiha would brag about fire and the Aburame would play with bugs... The senju talking about how someday they would be the ones making the trees of the village. It was all strange for him, and before that moment he had never felt out of place with his abilities. He liked to play with action figures, but other than that he would spend most of his time training and working hard to learn his own way of the ninja. His father had never made it easy on him, and his present mind was very thankful for that. If that hadn't been the case, he may have ended up one of the Academy Students making a fool of themselves, bragging to the girls about how they would be the next village leader, or how they would become the strongest in the village. Sitting silently, in the sidelines, was Daiko. He didn't have a feeling he would be the strongest, or felt any need to vocalize what his plans for the future were. Deep down, he knew that if he worked hard, he WOULD be the best. He didn't need to tell anyone, or draw any attention to himself. A true ninja is silent, and a true ninja follows what plans they make for themselves in the world. He knew even as a small child that he wouldn't stray too far from this ideology, and his present mind agreed with his past thoughts. He hadn't changed too much, other than the fact that he was a bit better at crafting words to his advantage. The classroom faded away softly, leaving him standing in front of the same mirror that he had experienced seeing earlier that day. His eyes... They had a red color to them, a soft glow that illuminated in the mirror. He could see a course, dark blue chakra inside him like had seen before. But it seemed different. The more he focused on it, the more powerful it seemed to get. It moved throughout his body, coursing through his blood and traveling through each chakra network, twisting and spiraling it's way up his spinal cord and into his brain. He felt a strange, fuzzy sensation, and kept staring at his eyes in the mirror. The chakra seemed to be speaking to him. It spoke softly and roughly at the same time, though only a sensation that he could hear in his own mind. "You have wondered your entire life what your clan held... You have wondered what made you special in this world of ninja... Today is the first day where you will find out... Not with the help of others, but on your very own... Don't take what you can do for granted, it can only make you better if you choose to advance it's nature... Neglect will do nothing but sorrow... For you and your friends..." Though Daiko realized that he didn't truly have any friends, the words left by the dark energy caused a shiver to go down his spine. He stared into his own eyes in the mirror, and his face was expressionless. His eyes glowed a light red, and were slowly shifting. He could see the dark energy flowing from his brain into his eyes, intertwining with his chakra and infusing itself into his very core. Slowly, but surely, his eyes shifted colors from a light red to a much darker blue color. After the slow transformation, his eyes seemed to stay in that very fashion, and he could see different globs of chakra inside of him, at varying densities. Closing his eyes, he felt as if he was being pulled very far away from where he stood, and thrown down on his back. Coming to halt at a loud thud, he snapped his eyes open from where he was on the ground. 

Though it felt as though he had been gone for hours, he noticed that it had been mere minutes of time for his friends. He stood up, and started rubbing his eyes. He didn't feel too much different, but when he opened them, he noticed that both Kyo and Axel had the same blobs of energy... Yes... Chakra, inside of their bodies at different densities. Not realizing that there was anything currently different with his appearance, he looked into the eyes of both of his two acquaintances. To them, it would appear that Daiko's eyes were a dark blue color with no pupils in them, and not to his own knowledge, Daiko had activated the second stage of his Meigan. 

"Damn, we really took care of those asshats! Well.. That wolf over there did." Daiko noticed the wolf was sitting there, eating the corpse of George. "What say we get out of here, so we don't look like the criminals in this place!" Daiko laughed, scratching the back of his head.

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[1500/1500] Meigan - Stage One
[2500/2500] Meigan - Stage Two: Noukon - Dark Blue
[1000/1000] Temporary Paralysis Technique
[500/500] Basic Medical Ninjutsu ( Stage One )

{5500/8212} Words for Training

Chakra Stat [15 +35] = 50
Health Stat [5 +5] = 10
Speed Stat [20 +1] = 21

{8200/8212} Words for Stats

*Note* Will be restated at end of thread, just putting it here for training purposes

Axel dodged another one of the heavy man's slow and obviously wound up punches, gritting his teeth and furrowing his eyebrows. Shoemac was not an experienced fighter, he merely had a lot of weight at his disposal, and didn't seem to be reacting to much of Axel's assault. He balled his hands into a fist, and smiled. This slow ass-clown was going nowhere. Using a ram hand seal, Axel once again returned to the spaghetti state he had learned, twisting past Shoemac with flailing arms to intimidate him. Shoemac watches in horror, but only has enough time to see a fist moving towards his face. Axel had twisted behind him, using his legs to disjointedly spin by his side and his arms and torso to lay a relentless flurry of attacks. Bending his wrist to reach under the man's numerous chins, he throat punches him, bringing him down to one knee and holding his throat. Turning around, Axel twists his own head backwards and does a backflip, using both of his feet to press down on Shoemac's shoulder joints. Jumping again, he pounds his feet together onto the disgusting man's head, pressing his weight on his shoulders again he further crushes his feet into them, a disgusting pop coming from Shoemac's left shoulder. 
     Roaring, he grabs Axel's leg and spins him around like a fully bendable action figure being flung haphazardly through the air like a child with soda access. Slamming him down onto the ground, Axel gasped in pain and crawled back from the large foe, for fear of being crushed. 
     Shakily getting to his feet, Axel takes a deep breath, preparing himself for something he could do. Narrowing his eyebrows, he remembers a technique, and slowly creeps around Shoemac, looking for an opening. Shoemac glares at him, holding his dislocated shoulder. Taking a step back, he takes a defensive stance, before howling and charging at Axel with all 300 pounds of him. Axel reacted quickly to the meatball of a man, gripping him tightly by the shoulder and jumping over, flopping seamlessly and quickly over the mans shoulder before throwing him over himself, aimed at a tree. The man screams while flailing in the air, before a disgusting crack echoed into the woods, the mans massive head being crushed down on itself, smashing his spinal vertebrae in his neck. He screams in pain on the ground, and Axel smirks. Even though that nasty son of a bitch could take a beating, he had nothing on these techniques. Stretching his aching shoulders, Axel sighs as he watches Shoemac get to his feet, holding his fucked neck with both hands and howling "This isn't over shitstain! I'll make sure that we have every man we got coming to kill you! You've fucked with the wrong people." 

     Axel shakes his head, sighing. "You know..." He blinks, "I'm the only one that hasn't killed you yet. I could be spending my time beating in your skull until I see brains, but instead I just snapped that pudgy fuck neck of yours to teach you a lesson. Don't interfere with rescue missions, or one of your friends gets literally incinerated and another gets whatever the fuck happened to that poor guy over there. I don't want to be enemies, but I need you to understand you can't target us, or you die." Axel nods, but quickly realizes that Shoemac had been ignoring him, trying to run on his fat and injured legs. Luckily, he couldn't get far. Sprinting over to Shoemac, the red haired ninja made his legs run a full 360 degree angles like roadrunner, quickly closing in on Shoemac. Tripping him over one of his octo-dad legs, Shoemac falls and howls again, twitching and holding his neck. He quickly starts screaming as Axel puts a log in the crook of his broken neck, lining his feet up on both sides and jumping, concentrating all of his weight and force into a swift downward blast of force, being knocked back from the vibrations. It seemed as if he had crushed his neck, and windpipe, the force being enough to smash his jaw into his face, leaving him suffocated and disfigured. The broken man let out wheezing moans as he lost access to air, before he started twitching on the ground. Looking around, he picks up the remnants of his broken knife, straigtening two hanging broken rusty metals, and lines it up with the mans nose, pushing it up through his brain. As blood began to seep out, Axel nodded, and dragged the body into the center of the original battleground. Slowly walking around and piling all the bodies that weren't melted away, he looks towards Kyo with a grim expression. "We're lucky we didn't start a forest fire... That cone was enormous. I might need you to use it again on these bodies, because we can't be leaving a couple of bandit corpses in the forest." Axel nods, "And a fire would be easy to make but the smoke could draw attention as if it were a forest fire." 

     Axel sits down, and takes a deep breath, laying back into the leaves. It would take a little more than 2000 words for his shoulders to recover from that intense throw. As soon as he exited combat, he began to ache greatly, holding his shoulders as they seared from within. It seemed as if his cells had been pulled apart from each other, and the muscles creating un-torn tissue could be felt for every second of chakra examination. It got to a point where Axel was gritting his teeth, and he quickly stood. Rolling his shoulders back, he heard a sweet pop come from the arm he threw him with, and he began to stretch. Looking around, he notices that it is only the afternoon, and sighed. He had nearly thrown his arm out not more than halfway through the day. Scratching his head, He looked up at the large bar above him. It seemed as if it was about halfway full, but a bit under that. Scratching his chin and staring at it, Axel jumps up and tries to grab it. Missing the first time, it seems as if it merely floated above his head at a fixed height, and would not move otherwise. Sighing, he looks around. __
     Getting up again, he jumps over different branches laying around the site, throwing them. He didn't use the extreme force that was used in the technique on Shoemac, but it was still good to learn each individual motion to perfect it, so that he would easily be able to toss anyone he needed dealt with. Tossing two more rocks over his chest, he began to build a humanoid model out of branches twigs and vines. Tying it all together, he wedged it between some branches and practiced jumping over it's shoulder. Each time he could feel his movement increasing, and he enjoyed how it felt to fly over the fake opponent, before landing and tossing them with incredible force. Jumping back and forth, he thinks about his home, and begins to sigh. It would be nice to be able to relax at home and put some ice on his wounds, maybe get something spicy to eat and take a nap. Axel smiles at the thought of a good nap as his burning shoulders protested with each jump, as he switched hands each time to make sure each were good enough to both throw adequately. Screeching into the air Axel dances aruond the forest as if taken over by a mad daze. Nothing he wsa doing made sense as he began to wriggle on the round like a stnake as well as scream 'cmon pig' in a higher and lower pitched voice, screaming  'soowee' and ' 'ere pig pig pig', shaking uncontrollably. It seemed as if one of the men's ghosts had come back as a pig, and was doing pig calls to summon more onto the battlefield. Suddenly there was a loud squeal and a fat boar started sprinting through some trees, squealing again and giving death eyes to Kyo and Daiko. It snuffled some dirt and started charging at them, howling its disgusting cry. 
"Soo... Wee... Sooo wee... C'mon pig... Pig pig pig piggy... SOOO WEE" Axel breaks out of the trance and lets out a battle howl, tearing his cheap tshirt off and roaring into the forest. "Let's kick this little fucker's ass!!"

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JUTSU TRAINING

2000/2000 to train Toy Soldier Technique
2773/4000 to train Early Sacrifice

STAT TRAINING

STR: 14 > 30 [3200/3200]
SPD: 20 > 25 [1000/1000]
630 words remain for Stats

Kyo was bored to say the absolute least. Daiko and Axel were taking way too long on these goons, but he didn't even bother looking at the fights too much. Instead, he was focused onto a day dream of how this group of all three of them could become great. It appeared Axel liked fire, so he could tech him fire style ninjutsu techs to get him caught up to speed and it appeared Daiko was still a mystery to him. He really had no idea if the ninja had a kekkei genkai, was clanless, or even just flat out a poser. There wasn't a whole lot of information he had on either one of these ninja. In truth, they could both be many worlds stronger than him, but abilities he hadn't seen for their destructive or gruesome abilities. In wonder, he began to think of the road ahead of him and the potential to grow great as a ninja. Even with the amount of training he has preformed, he felt as though he was scratching the surface. Learning just one high ranking jutsu a day wasn't going to cut it to him anymore. He wanted to learn everything there was to learn. Kyo wanted to find the strength to become the best and the strength to rank up to become a great Chuunin. He wanted to make Reo proud as he watched from the stars and the strength to teach Axel and Daiko to progress their powers as ninja. To be a light is the dream for Kyo. To guide and shine upon the village for all to see and smile at. He was going to be a pillar and support the world around him the best he could. Kyo focused on what was left for him and found no end. There was always going to be another mission and another chance to die or grow stronger. This life he lived was dangerous and short for some, but it was the life he wanted most of all. He was following in Reo's footsteps and wanted to live the life Reo had lived. All he had was for his mentor and for others and that was what mattered most to him.

Day dreaming for a minute, he imagined Axel and Daiko besides him as he challenged the world's evil with a cheesy grin. It was a dream. Imagining finding ways to use each of the parties strengths and weakness in combination for the best possible outcome was a very happy thought indeed to Kyo. He imagined the other two becoming as strong as he was and the amount of destructive power three of him would have. They could go on A-rank missions and wreck the place up with their power. With their power they could challenge the world to a duel and maybe win a little. With the three of them fully trained as Genin, Kyo pondered if they could take down someone like the Mizukage who invaded Konoha a while ago. Could three Genin with destructive jutsu like he had take on a kage, he dreamt. He thought of how he wanted so badly not to see these two go and how they could all teach one another to become great. Axel could teach him taijutsu and Daiko could show Kyo what strange abilities he had lying around. Together, he felt this group was going to be the true pillar to the world as he dreamt of becoming. In his day dream, hardly lasting long at all, he began to see glimpses of the past and of a great technique his uncle once showed him that surprised him to this very day. His uncle simply would weave a few hand signs before stomping the ground beneath him and causing the earth to move like water. Every single time he used this powerful technique, Kyo remembered how he couldn't help but to lose his footing no matter what. It was a high level technique that did not a whole lot of damage, but Reo taught him that the second their backs on the ground, they would have been dead from the few seconds they were unable to do a thing. Of course you could jump over such a technique and hope you could jump high enough to land after it ends, but being in the air would render a lot of ninja dead as he knew. Jumping in fights can give your opponent a good idea where you will be next which could easily spell out your death. For a technique that creates an opening, this had to be one of the best he could think of and also he couldn't get over how flashy it would be. When he got an opportunity, he would try to learn this great technique. Slowly, he drifted from the realm of thought to the real world.

He snapped back to reality when he saw a beast show up to the fight between Daiko and Georgie. It appeared as though Daiko might be in serious danger from the wolf and Kyo planned out how he was going to quickly react before the wolf opened and closed its big jaws around Georgie's throw and caught a thick piece of throat in its mouth. It appeared Daiko's specialty was luck in fights. Kyo could think of a million less flashy ways to kill someone with only the ninja starting bundle, but having a wolf do the job saves you from all the cleaning and sharpening it takes to use ninja tools. Kyo would smile at Daiko before checking to see if there was any blood on him. The wolf continued to hand the piece of guy's throat to Daiko and caused Kyo to become quite surprised. This might have been animal manipulation jutsu instead of just luck, but he couldn't tell at all. All the while, Axel was actually doing what appeared to be advanced and odd taijutsu aiming for the throat of the fat guy. The whole scene let him a bit weirded out to say the least. From what he saw in their fights, Daiko was a medical ninja or something else that was extremely weak, and Axel was a taijutsu specialist that could very easily prolong fights out longer than they had to be. From the looks of it, Kyo assumed they were both newbies who hadn't seen a real fight like he had on a mission awhile back. Some enemies don't deserve the time of day, but, instead, they should be killed where they stand. It was maddening to watch because Kyo could only see the end of the fight in every single possibility Axel wasn't doing. The lack of killing intent and experience was obvious as the taijutsu user played around with his far weaker enemy. If the fat guy had any tricks up his sleeve, Kyo fully believed Axel would be dead where he stood and wished he could step into the fight without stepping onto Axel's pride as a ninja. It seemed as though Axel had this under control, but Kyo watched every moment ready to kill the guy if he made one false move. He wasn't going to let anyone around him die today and he intended to keep this promise to himself.

Axel seemed to be taunting his enemy still as Daiko and him were already finished. Daiko seemed to just be relaxing on the ground snoozing off as Kyo stood just staying alert in case he needed to help Axel with his job. The smoke his lava made was immense and clouded up in a big, black cloud that probably caused cancer and it was almost beautiful to watch for him. Such a big cloud of ash could easily give them away, but Kyo hardly cared however as, even if they were found, there was plenty to show these guys had tried to kill them. Maybe some would look at it as a bonfire or even a erupted volcano in the distance, Kyo really didn't mind either one. His enemy's body was vaporized, so, at worst, the newbies would get into trouble. From the looks of how sluggish both were in their fights, it appeared they had a long way to go, but so did he. They had a firey passion inside of them and Kyo could tell. Axel put up a very good fight, but didn't use even a little bit of fire within it. Daiko just didn't seem to care enough, but Kyo felt he would grow to become strong too. Together, this group of ninja, he felt, could become great. Though he felt Axel was far from ready for advanced level fire techniques, he also noted that Axel could be very useful on the battlefield.

Kyo snapped back to reality after getting lost into a daze of how the three of them could make it big time only to find Axel piling up the two remaining bodies and asking him a strange question dealing with his cone of lava, forest fires, and getting rid of the bodies.
"Jesus christ. We didn't commit a big crime or anything. I will dispose of the bodies, but I don't think we have anything we need to hide from everyone. Besides, my black smoke cloud from that technique would probably draw out a lot of attention anyway."
Kyo moved over to the bodies and tried his best to drag them across the ground to where the lava was. They were extremely heavy and hard to carry for him even after his training. He thought for a second that maybe he had focused too hard on training his chakra and jutsu over his physical body, but Kyo recognized he was far from being a taijutsu specialist. The bodies were bloody, ugly, and smelled like body odor and, of course, blood. They were so limp but somewhat cold as he dragged them over to the lava pit and would make a disgusted frown before throwing them with a lot of force into his lava pit. It appeared as though, as he cleaned himself off with a wet rag he brought along, that Daiko was done dazing off. He wondered if the adult ninja was on any drugs to just pass out like that, but Kyo wasn't going to stick his nose in things that weren't any of his business. He just met the two of them anyway, maybe he was being too quick to judge the lot of them.

Looking over at Daiko, he kept a flat, slightly tired face on that showed how rough this experience had been thus far. Suddenly, as he looked over Daiko, his eyes opened up with shock as Daiko's eyes were now some kind of dark blue. Kyo did a double take before realizing the pupil was absent as well. The day just kept getting weirder and weirder for Kyo as Daiko remarked on how they should get out of here. Throughout every part of Kyo's body, he felt an agreement to just walking away. It seemed to be the best option at the moment as paper work and court for killing someone was hell also. Looking over at Daiko, still a bit weirded out, Kyo asked a question.
"Hey Daiko, is that some kind of dojutsu?"
He felt a bit irritated by the situation presented and wished the two others would just relax and stop trying to be so odd for a second. He had a seizure from that technique and spit out a clone of lava Axel felt was too large, but that wasn't much compared to dozing off to waking up with dark blue eyes. This wasn't even the weirdest part of all. When he looked over to Axel after turning the two bodies to ash, he felt quite concerned.
Axel appeared to be climbing a tree and assembling a doll out of twigs, vines, and branches. Not a word came from Kyo as he started trying to comprehend what was going on. Was this some kind of attack, he questioned to himself. It appeared quite odd that he would be worried about the corpses and then start climbing a tree and making this, but the shred of reason Kyo had left was ripped from him as Axel began to jump over the dummy's shoulder. Kyo's eyes widened as he felt he now understood what was going on here. He remembered what it was like to be under a genjutsu in the academy and related the foolish and bizzare behavior to Axel's current state of mind. It appeared as though someone had placed a sort of genjutsu onto Axel and Kyo had nothing to help him out with that. He knew he should have stepped in when he got the chance to. Quickly, he warned Daiko of Axel's current state of mind.
"Daiko, get ready for attack. Somebody put Axel in a genjutsu."
Kyo pulled out a kunai and tried to think of how to save his friend lost in a genjutsu. This was his worst nightmare as this genjutsu could cause Axel to die depending on what he thinks he's seeing. All his fears came without answers as he hoped Daiko would have some kind of weird trick up his sleeve for this. When he looked at Axel, it seemed the worst had happened. Axel was screeching around the forest lost in what Kyo thought had to have been a genjutsu. The genjutsu must have been triggered by the dead bodies Axel had touched by some kind of seal. That would explain why Axel never saw the smoke and why he was acting the way he was now.
"Axel, you're in a genjutsu. Use kai release now! Daiko, do you have anything to cure his genjutsu?"
As Axel fell to the ground screeching, he knew this situation required more than just talking. Kyo knew it was time to head back to the village to find help and looked at Daiko with a frown before speaking.
"Daiko, I'm going to the village. Keep him safe until then!"
He ran, without knowing it, in the opposite direction of the pig at a speed of 31. By the time the pig would reach the two of them, Kyo would hear trees falling over and begin to panic more as he assumed Axel had grown violent.
"Do I go back or do I return and possibly kill Axel to save Daiko? The academy threw these kinds of questions at us all the time, but I guess this situation is different. I have no idea if Daiko can even cast a jutsu or fend for himself and I know Axel can use taijutsu while manipulating his body in freakish ways. Guess the only option here is to head back."
Kyo turned the other direction while being at least 20 meters away from Daiko and Axel. As he heard loud noises coming from within the forest, he began to feel uneasy as to what really happened. He had killed once today, but would he have to kill once more. Axel was completely new to him, but he still felt some kind of bond to the ninja. It appeared as though imagining how strong they could become and his mother's words softened him a little, but still, he wasn't going to hesitate to kill when needed to. If this day ended with gallons of blood on his hands to save the innocent, Kyo knew he would do it for his duty. It was time to fight with everything he had it sounded like. The genjutsu could have been combined with some kind of fuinjutsu to enhance the adult's body into a power great enough to break down trees. Axel was a loose cannon and Kyo knew that this might just be a bloody wreck when he came back. Still, as he closed back into the area, he knew this was a duty he had to do. Taking out Axel might very well be the reality.

Before returning, he took a second to think about all the possible outcomes of the situation before him and realized he would have to find a way to subdue Axel without killing him. Reo's earth wave technique came back to mind and Kyo's heart flared up as he started retracing the memory of Reo's teachings. He stopped for a second and weaved the snake hand seal with the intent to kill in his heart. Channeling chakra into his foot, he focused hard on the destruction Axel was causing. He felt his chakra roar at his foot and could feel the earth molding to his whim. Doing this technique was easier for him than the other two, because he was getting used to higher level techniques chakra control requirements. Using high level jutsu just got easier for him and, due to his only other two being earth and lava style, using another high level earth style jutsu was going to be sufficiently easier for Kyo to preform. He stomped the ground with his right foot with a ridiculous amount of power far from where he believed Axel was rampaging. The earth flew outwards in small ripples from him as he guessed correctly on how to preform this technique. Weaving the snake hand seal again, he focused his chakra to his foot and imagined sucess as he did so. He kicked the ground with full force only to find it had turned to some kind of liquid that now rippled out like a large tide outwards at incredible speeds. He was sure to stop it before it got close to the trees falling over and found that studying this technique and being taught it from his uncle alongside learning advanced earth techniques made it sufficiently easier to learn. Kyo smiled as he got to his feet and ran towards where he believed Axel to be rampaging. He was ready to kill, but more ready to subdue with his new earth style technique.

As Kyo returned into the clearing, he would search out for Axel and begin to plan out the rescue of Axel from himself even if it meant killing him.

[WC:3,028/TWC: 7,076]

Attempted:
Earth Wave

Daiko was standing up and noticed that there wasn't currently much going on around him. The trees looked calm, and other than the giant plume of black smoke nothing of note was really going on. The three men were dead, and they got tossed into the burning pile and were made quick work of. This wasn't exactly what Daiko expected to see on his trip into the forest, but he wasn't really complaining. He learnt a good bit about himself and was pleased with his new acquaintanceship that he has made. Axel didn't seem like too bad of a guy, if not a little bit on the far side, while that kid Kyo was definitly more than what meets the eye. To be honest, Daiko at first expected him to be nothing but a kid high on his dreams talking of killing, but it seemed the boy was actually capable of doing so. In the reguard of sheer power, Daiko noted that Kyo seemed to be much farther ahead of both him and Axel. This was something that Daiko intended on fixing very quickly, as a training partner such as him would be incredibly useful, unless Daiko wasn't able to keep up. Glancing at his chakra, he noticed that he had a very powerful chakra. At least compared to Axel. He was looking forward to the types of training that he would be able to go through with this boy. It would be fun to fight with him, even if it involved a couple of his puppets being immolated in the process.

Daiko, getting lost in thought once more, saw scenes of lava shooting through the air, destroying some low ranking puppets of his and nearly burning his face off, following with combat scenes with Kyo left to fend off against puppets, while rains of different weaponry came at him. Daiko grinned thinking about this, as in his mind Kyo always seemed to have a tricky way of getting around the fights. Daiko felt that perhaps he would be able to go all out in a spar with this boy, and same with him, without either of them really getting hurt. Daiko grinned imagining what a Chuunin exam with the two pitted against each other would be like, considering that with enough training with this peer would perhaps lead them both to know the ins and outs of eachothers techniques. This could be both a strength and a weakness. In his mind, Daiko considered what it would be like to hold back against this man, but at the very same time he felt that it would take out all of the fun, as well as be disrespectful to a ninja of his kind. Daiko considered future training with this boy, and in no way was afraid of what he was capable of. At the same time as his fearlessness there was a sense of caution not to get on this kid's bad side. Not because of fear, but out of pure respect for the ninja as a fellow Genin. Daiko assumed this based on the age, though the boy could likely already be a chuunin. Daiko would feel shamed if that were the case.

Glancing over at the man, Axel, he also saw potential in training with him. He could invision scenes of the man going one on one with one of his puppets, breaking arms and limbs off with ease when Daiko wasn't paying attention. He could also imagine stabbing the man in the side with kunai, as it seemed like he liked to get distracted playing with his odd compositoned body. His chakra didn't seem too powerful, though Daiko knew that power was not always judged by chakra. He looked like a pretty sturdy man, perhaps not too crazy powerful for his age, but tough nonetheless. He looked like a good asset when it came to training against people who utilized hand to hand techniques, but not as much of a challenge when it came to unleashing his full power on someone. Daiko still believed it would be a good idea to get pointers in hand to hand combat from this man, so long as it didn't involve the twisting and manipulating of limbs that he seemed to be capable of. Daiko himself was content manipulating puppets to do freakish things with their bodies, but in no way wanted to try and do something of that nature to himself. Perhaps this body manipulation was more powerful than it seemed, but under Daiko's gaze it seemed like the only thing the man had under his belt was some brute force and a bit of determination. Daiko wasn't exactly sure what he was determined to do, but that didn't matter at this juncture.

Breaking from his trance, Daiko noticed that Axel began climbing a tree for some reason. He brought down various sticks and branches and started to construct some kind of huminoid figure. Daiko was curious, and out of the kindness of his heart attached chakra threads to the sticks, making sure they stayed in place in a humanoid figure. Daiko was aware that it would be almost unnoticeable, but he felt it was the kind thing to do none the less. Daiko proceeded to watch the man jump over the pile of sticks and proceed to throw it, then picking it up and putting it back into position. Daiko was somewhat impressed, and figured that perhaps in a fight against one of Daiko's puppets Axel may be able to catch him off guard with a well timed throw like that. Daiko noted the action he was doing and made a mental note of how it looked before he did it, and what the follow through was like. Perhaps neither of the ninja knew it, but Daiko was slowly filing away ways in his mind to defeat and incapacitate both of the ninja if the time ever did come, invisioning the movements of his precious puppets to orchestrate an epic battle that would show the two of them that he wasn't one to be messed with. Daiko did not ever plan on attacking his new found acquaintances even if it would personally benifit him, he only kept this in his mind in case they turned on him or turned out to be kiri ninja in disguise. Damn, Daiko hated those Kiri ninja. He felt that if he ever met one he would be civil, but would revel in any chance to get a glimpse into all of their weaknesses and strengths to have the upper hand on every one of them. This would also be a wonderful way of making 'friends', and would be a great learning experience. Daiko had seen Axel throw the dummy made of sticks for what seemed like the last time, and he simply detached the chakra threads, which would likely cause it to be destroyed on contact with the ground or some other hard surface.  

Daiko then noticed that Ashur asked him about some sort of dojutsu. Not realizing at the moment that his eyes were indeed that of a Shinkou with a dojutsu active, he just blinks at the man. Yes, Daiko realized that he could see the chakra of both of the boys, but he didn't inherintly notice that there was something odd about it. He did feel his chakra pulsing towards his eyes, and when he looked down at his own body he noticed that on top of the chakra that looked almost exactly like the other guys, albeit quite a bit stronger than Axels, except for the fact he had a dark blue sort of energy that resonated itself inside of his body as well. He knew what this was, his memories flashing back to the dark energy that had been speaking to him when he dozed off before. Not exactly saying in his head as such, though Daiko realized what this was. 'This.. Is my bloodline.' He considered speaking with his father about this at some time in the near future.

Realizing whilst glancing at Axel's chakra, that nothing was really wrong with him. It seemed that he had been enveloped in delusions more than anything. He began convulsing on the ground, and began screaming about some sort of pig. In what seemed like the nick of time, a boar ran out from the woods, bearing its horns and charging at Axel. Daiko, staring blankly at this whole ordeal, decided that this was outside of what he planned on doing for the day. There was no way he was dealing with this damn pig, when Axel seemed perfectly capable of doing so. Scratching his chin, Daiko walked over to where the boar was charging and made a tiger hand seal, hog tying the creature with steel ropes and incapacitating with movement. Walking over to the creature, he slits it's throat to end it's struggle and looks over at Axel. "You should go into a nearby stream and wash yourself off. Maybe that dirty hobo rubbed off on you, huh?" Laughing, Daiko sped off into the forest leaving the man behind. Daiko hadn't paticularly noticed, lost in his daydreams, but it seemed Ashur had run off to go home. Passing him on his way out of the forest, he calls to him quickly. "Hey, yo. Axel got some old man grease in his mouth, he was just trippin' balls more than anything. See you later. If you're looking for someone to train or spar, meet me by the training fields some time." Waving to the boy, he runs off, essentially doing his best to leave the boy behind and not let him follow.

Damn, from just going to see animals kill each other to saving a man's life to watching him and his croneys die, today was a pretty eventful day.

Walking back into the village, Daiko sighs and goes a slow pace until he makes it to his home. He stops pulsing chakra to his eyes and feels a slight decrease to his power, but didn't think much of it. He stretched his arms back behind his head, and kicked a few pebbles on the way back to his front door. On arrival, he walks inside to be greeted by his mother. "Hey.. Is dad home? I have something I want to talk to him about..." His mother then explained that his dad was busy on a mission, and may not be back for a few days. Daiko sighed, and decided to himself that he would become as much stronger as he possibly could in the time that his father was gone, so that he could perhaps show his father some of his new abilities. Daiko didn't quite know what to say, and decided to wait until the time came. Walking into his bedroom, he hops on his bed and covers himself in blankets, happy with the day's training. Time for a nap.

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{130/150 AP}
-10 Temp. Parlysis technique
-10 Meigan Stage Two Active

Jutsu Attempted:

[1500/1500] Meigan - Stage One
[2500/2500] Meigan - Stage Two: Noukon - Dark Blue
[1000/1000] Temporary Paralysis Technique
[500/500] Basic Medical Ninjutsu ( Stage One )
[4000/4000] Skillful Achievement with a Human Body
[500/500] Chakra Clense

{10000/10036} Words for Training
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Chakra Stat [15 +35] = 50
Health Stat [5 +5] = 10
Speed Stat [20 +10] = 30
[(35 + 5 + 10)*200 = 10000]
{10000/10036} Words for Stats
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Approved unless interrupted

Axel looks at the stat bar above his head. It seemed to be nearly at completion, though it would take a bit of grinding in order to be fully complete. He picks himself off the ground, and looks at the pig he had called with his learned pig calling, reminiscing of the contest as if it were yesterday. 
There was, of course, a whacky crew of contestants but none drew Axel's attention more than a short, chubby boy with sunglasses and a man who claimed to be trained. The chubby boy got into it, calling his heart out, but it was still no comparison to the city boy with the pig calls from piggy heaven. As Axel was beginning to remember the woman who looked like a messily created character on Ark, the pig rammed him in the gut, pulling him back to reality.
Gripping the pig by the neck, the slippery fucker slid right out of his grip, causing Axel to furrow his brows and grumble deeply. Readying into an attack position, Axel dodged the pigs next wild charge and grabbed it from behind, hopping on top of the boar. "Cmon, PIG!" He screams, twisting his legs around the porker's neck and spinning, throwing his weight to the side to send the pig moving as well. The pig landed on its side and squealed, and Axel quickly jumped up and started stomping on its fat neck. It did damage, but the pig still wriggled back to its feet with a second wind of rage. Squealing, the pig charges directly at Axel's leg. 
The piggy would have broken it, if not for the Toy Soldier Technique. Instead, Axel flipped over the pig, the force being unmet causing the pig to flip on its back, its legs flailing. Before it could pull itself to its feet, Axel wraps around each one of its limbs with each of his limbs and pulls, until he hears the popping of joints. Pulling again, he hears the pig squeal loudly and desperatly before he tore off each of its limbs, sending a bloody mess all ove his clothes as the pig let out dying cries of pain, before Axel broke its neck to put it out of his suffering. 

Getting off, he inspects the damage. The blood got all over his normal workout clothes, and he sighed, picking up the pig's limbs. Putting them on the pigs massive gut, he begins to search through the forest for some wood, twigs, and dry leaves. He is searching for a little while, though he accepts any help he is offered to speed up the process. He tries to wipe off blood where he can, but he is still a bloody mess. Finding enough twigs and branches for his current needs, he goes to the clearing in the forest in which they had originally started. Encircling a dry space in the middle with heavy and large stones, Axel dug away all the under growth around and beneath, putting it into a pile with dry leaves and small twigs. He piled them in the center, putting a thick branch in the center and hammering it in with his fist.
He began to stack wood around it, making a small camfire. Now all he needed was something to get it lit. Hopefully, Kyo had some lesser fire technique that he would be able to use in order to light it. If this was not the case however, Axel would have dug through his pocket and found a lighter. Looking around for something very dry that could be put into the tinder, Axel would take a bit finding something perfect for his needs. Upon finding it, he would light it and get the fire started, smiling and clapping his hands at the growing flames. He would then begin to roam around the nearby area, breaking his shitty mannequin into pieces and stacking them, then ripping out pieces of the destroyed tree burnt and dried by the lava globs and stack them there as well. As the fire began to burn, he started moving the dry logs onto the flames two at a time, letting them start cooking and then adding additional logs. 
Before long, he had gathered more logs and the flames were raging happily, much to Axel's contentment. Sticking two long sticks through the pig's body, he begins to make a spit, having any company cook the legs in the meanwhile. If they would have started cooking the legs, he would continue to set up the spit well, waiting for the legs to be finished and starting it cooking. If the legs are cooked, he'd grab one and start happily chowing down, enjoying the days training as much as he was enjoying the good meal that he was partaking in. Continuing to twist the spit, he sighs and reminisces of days past. Even though all he really remembers doing is working out, he's sure that there's more to life. He takes a deep breath, feeling the heat from the fire. Taking a good, fat chew of a pig leg he smiles and looks up at the night sky. Its covered by the canopy for the most part, though it does not take away from the beauty of a cloudless and starry night. 

He rubs his hands together as he watches the pig slowly cook, and decides to continue to practice jutsu as he's waiting or it to cook. "Yeah, learned this shit in some scroll I found in the library. It's pretty cool; it smashed that fat fucks neck, anyway." He nods, looking around. Looking up at the stat bar, he grits his teeth and clenches his fists in excitement. He was finally so, so close. He knows both he and his two friends he trained with today had been waiting for this moment for a while. The day that Axel finally finished training his A rank, and made it so that they were no longer stuck in this eternal limbo. Though their training had already shown its reward, the inabiltiy to leave this state of purgatory was sure to be weighing on his friends. And as such, Axel knew that cooking this pig and tearing its limbs off, though it may have been a bit cruel, served a greater purpose in their existances, finally leading to the completion of this training. As the pig finally finishes up, Axel smiles, pulling it off and begining to tear off pieces for his friends, if they were still around. Digging in, he looks at the stat bar. It was at the point of ninety percent in which most loading took the longest, and he could feel anticipation as he bit into his deliciously cooked pig meat. Though it had no seasoning, the pain and suffering that this pig had went through added a spice of life, though it was most likely more mental than actually having a spicy taste. Having blood run down his chin, Axel roars and holds his pig meat and pig leg to the sky. He had finally completed his training, and it was time for his friends to enjoy some freshly cooked piggy. 

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SPEED: 25 > 34 (1800 words)
4000/4000 for Early Sacrafice training

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Kyo was at a loss. How could Axel let this happen to himself? The academy taught enough about jutsu to make anyone nervous of genjutsu in a fight constantly. It didn't make a whole lot of sense to Kyo as to why he would allow himself to be put under one by the considerably weak foes. He couldn't imagine they would have a technique he couldn't break, but, then again, it appeared Axel was relatively new to being a ninja by his fight. It was an odd thought that he might have to kill his friend. He could hardly remember the last time he had to really kill anyone.

The other thing on his mind on the way to the clearing were Daiko's eyes. He was told they were apart of his bloodline, but he knew little of them. The only dojutsu he had learned about was the Uchiha's sharingan that allowed them to cast powerful genjutsu and become incredibly good at prediction and movement. If Daiko's eyes were as powerful as this, Kyo felt it could end up making this friend a strong ally in the future. Still, he didn't have much to go off of for either one of them. These were just assumptions based on what he had seen. It could be the case they were many worlds stronger than he had seen thus far, especially for Daiko and his powerful eyes, but part of him feared it would be the case of the two of them being exceptionally new to the rank of Genin.

Looking around and keeping his ears wide open, he could see trees falling over with a booming sound and the new sound and smell of what he recognized as a pig nearby. Axel had been able to manipulate his body for weird taijutsu, so Kyo began to wonder if he could turn his body into that of a pig as well. A pig couldn't knock over trees, he thought.

Upon rushing out of the clearing, he held two kunai in his left hand and was ready to weave with his right in case the situation turned sour. His eyes surveyed quickly as he had a solemn look of determination flowing all over his face. What caught his eye first was Daiko looking right at a giant pig charging forwards. He believed the pig was Axel until he turned to see Axel was doing just fine. For a second, he considered Daiko was going to die as the beast was massive and rather quick for its size as well. It was seconds before the pig would reach Daiko, but then, before Kyo stepped in, Daiko weaved a simple tiger hand seal and the pig was immobilized within just 5 meters of the man. The technique was nearly completely shocking to Kyo. How could somebody stop such a beast with just one hand seal? It appeared as though Daiko's true strength was now present. He must have had impressive chakra to subdue it with ease. He just gawked at it before Daiko slit its throat easily.
"Whoa."
For a second, he had lost focus on what was going on before he saw Axel collecting wood around the long dead pig. From the looks of it, it appeared he had recovered from his genjutsu and even appeared to be trying to cook the pig. Kyo took just a moment to process everything before he just sat down with a big realization. He was about to see the taijutsu user use a fire style technique to light the fire. It appeared as though Axel wasn't out of chakra, so he was bound to use something to set it alight. He sat ready for Axel's power to show. Kyo imagined fire fists, breathing out fire, or some kind of firey kick. Axel had said he was of the fire nature, so it would be pleasant to see the combination of fire and taijutsu. The amount of skill it would take to keep the fire alight while moving your limbs at high speeds would be quite a neat trick for Kyo, but instead he saw Axel walk away and return with tinder. He frowned a little before lying down on the grass and just staring at the clouds aimlessly.
'I have never made progress like I had today. Two A-rank ninjutsu technique that are vastly different from one another and all the exercise tripled my strength practically. Still, I know there is room to grow and improve. My chakra system doesn't run as clearly as I could imagine and I still need to hone it throughout my jutsu.'
He thought all of this to himself before looking down at his right hand and getting lost in thoughts once more at the untouched potential within him.
'There is still more steps left for me before I can impress Reo, but I oddly feel my jutsu becoming stronger than it was before. Fire stream burns nearly twice as hot and comes out twice as fast as it did when I first learnt it. My Terumi chakra opened the doors to much more in my future. When this is all over, I feel like training myself harder than ever before.'
After a moment, he came back to reality only to see a pig roasting before him and Axel training off by some trees. Looking around, he saw Daiko had already left after saying something to him. It appeared the ninja didn't care for the cooked pork any longer and Kyo, seeing the sun sink down, wasn't very interested either. It would be awhile before the pig would be cooked and he hardly wanted to wait for it. He wanted to learn more about Axel, but yet he felt out of place as Axel trained. Still, he was certain the two would meet once more after the day they had had. He walked over to Axel before he touched the pig and stood around 3 meters from the ninja.
"Hey Axel, I am going to head out. It has been a long day and I am sure this pig will take awhile to cook. We will have to see each other around. You, Daiko, and I kinda make a good team. Hell maybe we could even form a Genin squad if you guys would be up for it. Anyway, it was cool running into you and all. Be wary of genjutsu in the future!"
He gave a friendly smile before he would begin his trek home with a sense of happiness all over him he couldn't ignore. This could very well mean he could preform higher level missions in Konoha. He was certain the three of them could wreck havoc. He smiled to himself before his mind went back to that strange technique Daiko had used. It looked too simple and effortless to be a hard jutsu to learn. It appeared as though it was just binding someone with chakra alone and judging by how long it took for Daiko to use it, it must have been a short range. From just Daiko's demonstration, he felt this little party trick could be mildly easy. He looked around for something to try it on only to see a deer frolicking through the trees as his eyes widened at the sight. Weaving the tiger hand seal, he portioned out the right amount of chakra for a low level technique and made sure to get close to the deer before preforming it. Instantly, the deer was paralyzed as he constricted it with his chakra and was amazed at how easy such a jutsu was. Surely it wouldn't work against higher level opponents, but against animals it seemed hard to break. The deer flew forwards with its momentum into a tree with panic in its eyes as Kyo looked at it aimlessly.
"That's cool."
He let out a yawn and walked home feeling his chakra network all out of wack. It appeared it was straining it to learn so many techniques in one day, so he felt now was a good time to stop and just go home to rest.

[1,354]
[TWC: 8,430]
[Training Complete!]
42 Stat Points Gained
Learned:
Lava Release: Melting Apparition Technique (4,450/4,450)
Earth Release: Earth Wave 3,283 + 967 (Other Thread) = (4,250/4,250)
Temporary Paralysis Technique (Taught by Daiko) (500/500)
197 words towards Great Fire Annihilation
[Exit unless interrupted]

Approved