Sparring room [NK/Open/Tadashi

Shinoskay felt like he had commit to enough solo training now that he was presently at the limits of what he could teach himself, he was fast, had developed good chakra control, was well equipped, and had learned to use all of these as well as techniques that complimented these aspects and his puppetry.

If he wanted to grow then he would need to start gaining combat experience, he would need more practical training to actually test his theoretical. A safe net sparring room, housed in the training grounds, would be Ideal for this. In the sparring room they had padded floors and an odd cut resistant foam like padding that covered the bladed edge of weapons so that when they hit they would be blunt rather then sharpened edges of death.

Shinoskay also wore a thin padded suit of the same foam, not thick or durable enough to protect from strikes or to way him down but just enough that an accidental cut wouldn't maim him.

the boy would draw his puppeteers tail out from its hidden arms place and carefully cover its blading, he would cover 5 kunai and 5 shuriken, and then he would cover his tanto's blade. With his puppeteers tail out, arched over him in a scorpions tail like manner, he would place his shuriken and kunai back into there pouches before then taking a rock and using Rock Section Cane to form that into a blunt weapon.

With all of this complete, the boy would then look around the room to see if there was anyone else ready or willing to spar.

Tadashi woke up around 12:00 PM, pretty late if you would ask him, due to the fact that he was practicing his Projections since the weapons were really clumsy and ridgely made. The crimson haired Genin would put on his Katana with his green strap on his back. Tadashi would close the door, hoping that he could practice at the Training Grounds if it wasn't too full. It probably was since it was a Saturday and the afternoon, but perhaps Tadashi could find a suitable partner to spar with if there was. Anyways, Tadashi would stroll through Downtown Konoha, pretty crowded as usual, as he would arrive at the Training Grounds with little to no time. The Training Grounds weren't too crowded, but there were some people there, mostly Genin with some Chunnin and even Jounin placed sparsely.

In the midst of the people, there was a safe net sparring room with a small entrance, beckoning people to come. It was about 70 Meters in Length and width, perfect for a spar. With further inspection, Tadashi saw his friend Shinoskay in the room. So, being the kind-hearted friend he was, Tadashi would go say hi to Shino as he entered the room. He would place himself about 10 meters away from Shino, as he would glance at the white-masked boy's weapons. "Why does he have those, and why does he have a foam suit?" Tadashi curiously pondered in his thoughts. Then he would wave at his friend, "Hey Shino! What's up?"


WC: 354

If one walked 15 meters in, and 5 meters to the right in relation to 0 degrees angle of walking from the entrance to the center of the room then you would have where shinoskay stood, mirroring that to be 5 meters to the left in relation to the same designated 0 degrees line would be Tadashi. Shinoskay would smile at the sight of his fellow genin entering into the room and taking position to face off against him. It seemed they were less inclined to safeguard their equipment but then how can one improve if they dont face a threat.

Concealed under his white mask, the boy would smirk at the situation, he would first face the Pendragon before then nodding and sliding into an offensive stance. No one else in the room would matter anymore, there was only him and Tadashi Namikaze (also known as Tadashi Pendragon). He had his left side facing what he would now designate as his sparring partner. Shinoskay presently only held his Rock Cane in hand, which happen to be in the near sided hand. His grip was firm on one end of the elongated and plain 2/3rd meter long staff, he held it like a baton at this present time and presented that he was prepared for the match. His left foot was pointed towards Tadashi while his far sided foot was turned so that its inner side faced the same direction as his left foot.

His right hand would move to before him, to his left in relation to Tadashi's perspective, and he would form the seal of confrontation. He would only hold it for a the time it would take him to circle his earthen weapon a full 180 degrees circumference around him and the moment that span of time passed then he would press forward with his sidewards, rear, foot to pivot around on his forward one while stooping low to cut his already short height in half so that he would enter into a crouched rotating approach. If nothing was done during him moving the 2 meters his legs could spread to cross without actually moving the pivot point foot, then when his rear foot finished its 180 rotation to switch into the forward point he would release a blunt kunai with his free hand, from his right weapon pouch. The tool was aimed for the just above his opponents weapon pouch, it would skid against their body just above it but the real aim for it was that if they reached into their own pouch for a kunai then they would likely find the dull kunai collide firmly with their hand in an effort to thwart their draw.

Tadashi would smile back at Shinoskay's smile, indicating that he was doing fine. The crimson haired Genin would look closely as the white masked boy would proceed to do his actions. It wouldn't take a scientist or doctor to realize what Shinoskay was hinting at, due to his options. A spar, and a well-prepared one to be fair. The last and only spar Tadashi had recently was, in fact, the spar he had with Nekrun, Fuyo, and Allegro which was very unprepared and thought of out of the blue. The crimson haired Genin had won that last battle, but most likely because he got lucky, which wouldn't be such an out of a blue criticism to make, or that Nekrun was carrying him through the whole battle which wouldn't be that wrong either. Honestly, the thought of a spar, with Shinoskay, especially if he was so confident about proposing it, made Tadashi panic a little bit. Though, it wasn't present for people to see. The Genin would watch as the white masked boy would pull out a Kunai out of his right weapon pouch, pointing it at him.

Tadashi wanted to show respect towards Shinoskay, so the crimson haired Genin would jump back, (15 meters), and if the process wasn't interrupted, he would form the seal of confrontation with his left hand, beginning the sparring match as he would pull out a Kunai from his right weapon pouch, on his right hand. Weaving the dog hand seal, lightning would crackle on the blade, and the lightning would shortly turn to purple, (Sharpness 60: Health 50). At that moment Tadashi would sprint towards Shinoskay, slashing at the white masked boy's right side of his shoulder (Sharpness + Sharpness Booster+ 75 Sharpness). Due to instinct, Tadashi would think, Shinoskay's instincts would make him instinctively block with his Rock Section Cane, which would most likely cause in the baton breaking, which would cut at the foam. The blow would just cut at Shinoskay's foam, not resulting in a cut, but electricity would surge through the boy's body (Power: 20), causing in some form of discomfort and pain.

But! If Shinoskay attempted to block with his other Kunai, the two blades would clash with each other, resulting in a Kunai clash.

WC: 482
TWC: 836

Jutsu/Skills Used:

AP Left- 323

It appeared that Shinoskay had come on too strongly, over-calculating and over-extending his opening attack because after he drew and threw his kunai he would see Tadashi make a rather impressive leap backwards some 15 or so meters. The dulled kunai would do as intended, it would glad against the part of the Pendragons body that was just above the weapon pouch and if the owner of said pouch had indeed gone for its contents as a reaction to the kunai throw then they would have had their hand cleanly knocked away from it but instead the choice made here was to further widen the gap between the two.

This perplexed Shinoskay, but he felt there was no point in remaining confused as it was entirely possible his foe would go for some kind of medium or long range combat style. This is what the puppeteer would do if he was using his puppet so it wasnt unreasonable. One thing was clear, however, the white masked boy was much faster and if he didnt want to keep over shooting his actions then he would need to slow himself down or stop trying to anticipate so much. It was entirely possible that the crimson haired genin was just putting on a ruse, granted, and they where only acting slow so it Shinoskay kept himself tense even as he shifted from his wide legged stance into a brisk 50 speed sprint to keep up with, and close, the gap between him and Tadashi while the latter conducted their rear leap. When the backwards jump finished, the two were now a mere 5 meters apart, and immediately proceeding it, just as Tadashi began to form what was his first seal and was intended to be his seal of confrontation... He would find the rock section cane been swept at him in a cross swing coming in from the lower left with the obvious intent of finishing in the upper right space between the two combatants.

At this time, shinoskay's Puppeteer tail trailed behind him, in a partially extended 5 meters of length with half a meter of empty space between it and the ground below it, like some metal streak marking the path the two boys had taken. Shinoskay was still low, moving and staying in a crouch that easily minimized his own height from a meter in a half to just under a meter. His step's weren't silent, but he had been practicing and conditioning himself to reduce the sounds he produced, while the matted and padded floor produced a light pit pat from each step it was definitely much quieter then the average sounding step. The Hood of the White masked boy's Armoured hoody would have slid back during his advance, something to note and look into mitigating the risk of later, revealing slightly matted silver strands streaked black hair it normally hid.

The swing would be aimed to actually connect but the boy did not really expect his earthen cane to connect with its target and so if the attack failed then he would use the upward momentum to enter into a small hop from the ground, lifting him 6 inches, with as quick a spin as he could to throw and add to the momentum in a 300 degree rotation where it would then come down at Tadashi's right should before leading in to ending in the space to the lower right between the two in a complete cross swing. This rotation, of course, would cause the Puppeteers tail to coil once around Shinoskay where it could at as a guard against retaliations to his own body if need be.

In Shinoskays mind he was charging after Tadashi, right on him as he retreating for space before acting on whatever he had intended to perform, quickly barraging him with a few quick and well aimed swings that would lead to a quick victory. In reality his first attack was too fast and the follow up now had him realizing he was 35 meters up in mid aid and without the range to connect the two swings he was trying. Two slow and now too fast? each mark missed by several meters? Was the boy trying to be too precise, was he been skillfully lured and led, why was he failing so hard at this?

Was this over confidence? what was this, Shinoskay was almost completely out of his element. Sure he had his puppeteers tail still and now the two of them were largely locked at 5 meters so the fight would clearly be to his advantage but this wasn't his way. Charging forward with reckless abandon was for the durable and the foolish, he wasn't particularly durable and he needed to not be foolish.

Even if the way to victory seemed clear, this fight needed to change directions entirely or else he was just as likely to fall into a trap as he was to win and that was no way to fight.

Shinoskay was still in his projected rotation, his brisk speed had his puppeteers tail smoothly rotating around him like a ribbon dancers majestic performance, it would orbit once around his mid section. At this range, and with the new intended strategy, the white masked genin would no longer need his earthen cane and so to cover his retreat his first move would be to make another throw of it, leading one of its two ends to hurtle towards the center of the boys chest while in tandem the remaining 8 meters of his puppeteers tail would extend out fully so that the now dulled tip would reach back to the ground to at as a counter pressure anchor, much like how someone would slam their right fist down to bounce there left down or how someone would slam both down to get there legs down fast but instead of his body as the center it was somewhere along his tail, to draw the boy back to the ground at an easy speed of 70.

both of his hands free, still in his descent since he was fast enough to, he would form the two hand seals of boar and rat. Coincidentally as he was finishing forming the rat seal Tadashi was beginning hand seals of his own, The very moment the rat seal was formed 3 shinoskays would seemingly teleport to in front of tadashi in a smooth arch that put each one at equal distance to the target. Another, 5 would form around the same target in an intermitten and sparse sphere while one would form in the same place as the real shinoskay, looking and doing the exact same thing as its creator, and one would mirror it 5 meters on the other side of the ground point under where tadashi presently is... 10 meters from Shinoskay himself.

The center Shinoskay, that was now half a meter in front of Tadashi, would bring his fist forward at 10 speed to drive it into the boys chest... it would connect at the same time as the rock cane would to make the punch feel real and painful. Whether this stopped Tadashi from forming his fireball was irrelevant because he would immediately flow from the Rat seal into the Ram seal to move at well beyond tadashi's reaction time from within the present projected image to cover him to the one that was mirroring him... there was nothing between the two images otherwise it would have been an obstruction for Tadashi's projected path and so there was nothing hazardous to the white masked boy. Of course, this now meant he had an image of him, that was in reverse to him, now awkwardly overlapping him so he would quickly tap a foot down, while activating surface walking jutsu to give traction to his step, he would use that foot to rotate to match the image he was in.

All of this would have happened by the time Tadashi could complete his second seal, if he was still intent on carrying through with the jutsu, and he was now starting to descend... towards the original shinoskay coincidentally. From here, Shinoskay would release a large, 10 meters in all directions, burst of spider webs outward into the area while, in tandum, he would also activate mastered genjutsu release, as he formed the hand seals for a rock clone, to insure there was absolutely no deception levied against him in counter to all of his present deception.


Shinoskay was intent to own this fight now, he was unwilling to allow the chance he was been lured any longer. This would be his domain, his Orchestra, his requiem.

(costs:
rock clone: 22 ap
mist servant: 10 ap
spider web: 10 ap
body flicker: 10 ap
Surface walking: 1ap
genjutsu release: 5ap
Recover 10 ap
282 ap remaining)

Tadashi would find the image he was kicking would yield no resistance to his kick, and each place kicked would cave in like a dry membrane being push into itself. No sooner then he kicked at the rock cane he was looking at would he feel the real rock collide with the bottom of his foot at an impact force of 78, though due to the unorthodox angle from Tadashi's kick it would be a glancing blow that would cause him to have a badly sprang ankle on his right foot. It wouldn't be severe, permanent, or even long term but it would severely impact this fight and his ability to land from 35 and a half feet up in the air.

Making matters worse, or perhaps to his good fortune due to the new injury, his trajectory brought him hurtling down towards the Rock clone at a rather uncoordinated angle, giving the clone ample ability to simply catch the boy, landing him right in its open and waiting arms where it would immediately wrap them around him... locking in his own arms against his body with its impressive 60 health and strength bear hug.

And that would be it, unless the boy decided to try something drastic... or if he had some impressive power, he would be dazed from the 35 foot fall landing him against a earth made person just before quickly having the wind squeezed out of him. This wouldn't incapacitate him, but it would render him in such a weakened state that he would lack the strength to do much else other then gasp and surrender. If he did not do just that, if he tried anything else, the bear hug would intensify to them completely the job of knocking him out.

If Tadashi surrendered, Shinoskay would slowly walk around from behind his rock clone to the front of it, where it would still hold the likely still panting sparring partner "you did pretty good up there, made me have to rethink my approach to the fight... thank you." Assuming Tadashi made some show or indication that the spar was over, the rock clone would release him.

Shinoskay would engage in some conversation, applying the little healing medical ninjutsu and using a bandage on Tadashi to avoid any risk of a concussion and to mitigate the injury heal time for the sprang and and any other parts. Then he would leave


[Exit, total wc 2557]
claiming 12 stats
claiming Human Puppetry 687+3313=4000/4000
claiming 1000/1000 towards D rank Self Puppetry, 870/3000 towards B rank.

Approved Shino <3