Academy Help [P]

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Ryūka woke up in a dark room. It was one of those starts, wasn't it? To a day, of course, not to a mission thread posted on a roleplay site, as, unfortunately, Ryūka had no meta-knowledge of his existence being a joke, originating from a random guy's wish to troll the village of Kumogakure in general, but ending up with a character he started to like playing, mainly because weaponry seemed to be more fun to him than Ninjutsu. No, Ryūka simply was aware that this was a bad way to start a day. He struggled with it at first, but then managed to get up. The first thing he did was walk over to the window, and open it up, letting some light and wind come into the small room. He looked around, and sighed. Getting up and ready had always been a struggle for him. He took all of his stuff, and left by jumping out of the window.

He made his way to the mission boards, where Natsume and Hoshi had agreed to meet him.

-The day Before-

Hoshi was relaxing in his bed. Today and the next day would just be days where he could chill out and have some peace and quite for once ,Although normally he wouldn't dare stop training, the days seemed to of been rougher than usual so he just wanted a nice long "KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK." Whoever was knocking the door was about to be in a world of pure unadulterated pain. With a start Hoshi unzipped his sleeping bag and rapidly dashed at max speeds towards the door, Opening it with full strength and furious eye's to see a mailman quivering in fear... "Hey look sorry I just want some sleep for once Ok there?" Yet the mailman still handed him a letter. From Ryuka? Damn that guy interrupting his sleep. Time to see what it is...

-Current day-

Hoshi up bright and early in this great.... Meh weather. Decided instead of a casual way t enter the village he might as well go maximum speeds. Managing to reach it ,with the help of the seven heavens breathing technique, in a simple 5 minutes. With the village in sights Hoshi simply used his memory to meet up with Ryuka for a mission. Though Hoshi accidentally cracked the paving right next to the mission boards trying to stop his momentum.

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- The day before -

"Call me cynical, Hashiramashima, but I think the whole 'the day before' trope is kind of old... And you know, if you were writing that for a personal book or something I guess that would be fine, but you are thinking of using this in a roleplaying game. What did you call it, Fields & Giant Reptiles? The name isn't that catchy by the way, maybe you should work on that. Either way, the point is, if it's meant to be for social roleplay, you should be putting out stuff that the person you're playing with can reply and react to, right? I think you make that partly a solo thing at that point...". Hashiramashima sighed. "Shut up Ryuka what do you know about writing?". Ryūka sighed, "I guess that's a good point... It's pronounced Ryūka by the way, not Ryuka, thanks.".

- That Day -

"Fucking Hashiramashima man..." he thought, and right as he recalled the day before, he saw his friend Hoshi appear. "Oh hey Hoshi, what's up?". And, just a few minutes later, Natsume followed. Ryūka sighed. "Hey. Um. It's just Ryūka. Not a senpai. Please don't make it weird. Yeah, also, to brief both of you on the mission, there's not really much to it. It's not a mission of fighting giant boars, or helping zombies, or anything. We'll just go to the academy, and teach the kids some things. Follow me, let's head there.".

Ryūka led them towards the Academy, a place all 3 knew quite well. He kept talking on the way. "So I planned it this way; I'll handle teaching them the Transformation Technique, then one of you can teach them the Substitution Technique, and the other one the Clone Technique. Sounds good right? We'll also have to show them the basics of our rank... And, don't get me wrong here, Natsume, but you might want to stay out of that a bit, being a newer Genin. I'll leave that up to you though.". They reached the academy. Ryūka led them to the classroom they were scheduled to educate.

Ryūka entered the room with a strict look on his face. He was trying to live up to the expectations he assumed academy students had in their minds for what ninja were like. He looked at the class, noticing the kids were scattered around, chilling. He shouted. "To your seats, kids.". He walked over to the table. "I am Ryūka, this is Hoshi, and this is Natsume. We'll be your instructors today. We'll just talk about the basics of being a ninja, and we'll demonstrate the basic techniques, the ones you will learn throughout your stay here in the academy.".

He crossed his arms. "I'll start. The first thing about being a ninja is... Following orders. Sounds simple enough, and it is. Just make sure you never underestimate the importance of some things, despite how simple they might seem. The basic academy techniques are a primary example of that.". Ryūka used the Transformation Technique, doing the handseals slowly so the classroom could examine the details. He transformed himself into a slightly taller, but much buffer guy with long spiky blond hair, wearing a superhero costume. "The techniques you will learn here will be easy to learn, easy to use, but highly useful. So make sure you pay attention to every bit of it.". He let go of the transformation, going back to his regular self. "The transformation is one of the first techniques I ever learned, and one I use more regularly than most of my high rank techniques. It's great for hiding, infiltration, escapes, and so much more. To get back onto the topic of what ninja life is like; it usually consist of doing the things I mentioned, and a lot of fights. For me at least. I try to pick up as many missions as possible, to be as useful to my village as I can. I advise you all to do the same once you are all ninjas like us. I'll let Hoshi and Natsume take over the subject now. Pay attention.".

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Hoshi didn't know why exactly. But he felt a sort of aggression towards Ryuka? Was it something he said that set him off? Something he thought? Perhaps his writing style was good enough and he didn't need anyone telling him off for it... Yet Hoshi never knew any of this. Only an entity of far greater yet much less power.

"Ah hey Ryuka. And Natsume *huff huff*." "What's the mission I barely got any information at all." Hoshi soon regretted the knowledge of what this mission truly entails as Ryuka initially speaks of what it's not... Exciting. But who knows. Their could be interesting kids in this school and hey they could be like Natsume, people ready to bloom into great ninja's that could be potential allies in the future. Yet this was pretty unlikely seeing as though his old classmates were... Less than stellar to say the least. With people actively slacking with of course talented people there not using any of that talent for jutsu at all, a pretty all around annoying experience which taught him nothing.

"Really? We have to teach people like this? Why can't we just teach/show to people like Nastume was to where it's actually fun to teach instead of aggravating. Their's a reason I barely went to my classes Ryuka come one!" And yet here Hoshi was within a classroom of half interested students with barely any talent. Well some look like they could be good if they actually tried but most were just chatting away, being way too social for people about to step into a world of becoming a ninja. Where one must follow orders and such to complete missions ,To which Hoshi barely did,.

Though after Ryuka's greeting the kids straightened up abit and started to look intrigued and excited at the prospect of real ninja's ,Though only genin, being presented to them at this current moment and good thing Ryuka told Hoshi what technique to teach them because if not he would've went straight into the deep end of taijutsu but instead the substitution technique... -remembers when Ryuka cucked him out of it's use before hand- Not very useful but it's something.

Ryuka did a pretty good explanation of what a ninja was yet he makes it seem all fine and dandy. Which for now it was but in the future for them? Definitely not going to be as simple as what he just explained to the students, But the transformation he used was pretty spot on with him even giving examples to the students. Hell if Ryuka was his tutor instead of Hoshi's old man Tenga things would've been so much more easier than the rough teaching style he received. Regrets filled Hoshi's head, though not for long as it was his time to teach.

"Sup. Names Hoshi. Today Imma teach you how to substitute using..." Grabs a chair on the side "This technique is pretty useful and i'll show ya why." With that said Hoshi did the hand signs for substitution with replacing himself with a chair in an instant. "This technique is pretty good for evasion and the like. You could prepare the hand signs before hand whilst in cover whilst throwing the object into the fray to set up a surprise attack." Hoshi realised this kind of approach as using it the normal way lead into his demise in a spar. "But you will find out when you become true ninja that these techniques are not even fundamental but downright childs play compared to the future technique's such as this." Hoshi decided to demonstrate the Arhat Gangeki fist against the chair. Breaking it into several pieces... Looks like this may come out of his pay. 

"One must not only be strong when becoming a genin. But also have an arsenal of fundamental skills prepared, So that ya ready for any scenario as you start learning real jutsu and hey. Ya never know when you may need these skills to save ya skin in a life or death scenario." With the ominous ending Hoshi decided to leave the students ready for Natsume "It's your turn now. You're the one who's been genin the least time so perhaps you would be a better teacher." 

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Ryūka smiled. He overestimated the students, it seemed. Natsume's Clone Technique wasn't weaker than a regular one, that wasn't the problem, but the lack of shadows was an obvious tell, as well as the more obvious tell; that Natsume didn't move, she stood in her place, and that should have made it clear which one the real one was. He thought back to his academy days and tried to recall if he was as bad as he thought these kids were. He couldn't tell. "We'll be waiting for them to join the ranks?" Ryūka repeated in his mind. It was a funny concept. He realized he had seen both Natsume and Zyxis become Genin from students. He was not the most inexperienced anymore. It was a weird feeling. It had only been some time since he had taught Zyxis the basic elementary techniques, and Natsume the Chakra Infusion. Now they were both his equals, fellow Genin. 

"Okay kids." Ryūka said, once again taking over the speech, "That's it from us today. Don't go anywhere, your class teacher will arrive shortly and start your lessons. Don't forget to pay utmost attention.". Ryūka lead his friends out of the academy. "So..." he said to the two other Genin, "You guys done for the day, or are you down for another mission, a real one?". 

It had been some time. Lately, Ryūka had been taking easy jobs, cleaning, fishing, finding cats, finding stuff, delivering mail. Jobs. Not missions. He did make money, but his muscles were growing weaker. He had not used his body to its full potential for some time. He was longing for a real mission, possibly one that would put him into a real fight. Even if his friends disagreed, he would have probably chosen to go on a mission by himself. He couldn't let his body stay on vacation for any longer. He needed a fight, so he wasn't growing weaker instead of stronger. He did have his doubts though. No matter how much he wanted to go on a battle with Hoshi, and no matter how much he wanted to go on a real mission with Natsume, he wasn't sure if the newly-Genin rookie would be able to keep up, if there was a real fight. Ryūka's mind went back and forth. On one hand, he would never forgive himself if Natsume was hurt badly because he brought her to a mission beyond her capabilities. On the other hand though, he believed in his ability to protect either of his friends if they needed it. In the end, he decided to leave it up to them.

[If you two want to do another mission, i'll post the mission in my next post and we'll start it, if not, you can just exit in your next posts]

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Natsume's clones were shifty since she was obvious in how she moved and talked to the students, to the point where it should be obvious who the clone is but the students ate it up anyway. That student who called her out for being in the middle, Will definitely not become a good ninja at all if he can't tell that difference. Though the knack in telling small details has only come to Hoshi's attention simply from the bout with Ryuka as he had to harness his sight better. Though even with that harsh inner criticism Natsume did well with the clone technique and as she came back and Ryuka closed off the lesson Hoshi wanted to tell Natsume something "That was a good clone ya did. But your actual movements and the clones were different from one another. With the shadows plain in view instead of hidden through improvised usage. Other than that ya did good."  Harsh words are always the best to improvement... At least for him anyway.

With the lesson concluded Ryuka mentioned something interesting. The possibility of doing another real mission excited Hoshi greatly. Though Natsume could be in danger? No she was strong enough to take care of herself ,yet if Hoshi was wrong in that assumption, anyone who dared to harm Natsume would suffer greatly as he himself would help her in dire need. Yet even if he was miraculously stopped Ryuka would surely step in by then and defeat them "Are you kidding me? Of course i'll take on a real mission. What are we waiting for? Oh right. Natsume you ready to deal with your first REAL mission as a genin?" Her thoughts mattered more than his since if she wasn't prepared mentally it would just become a chore rather than fun.

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Mission:

Ryūka smiled. "I mean, yeah you could call this a mission. Technically it is, you get paid for it, you were asked to do it by the village... But... I can't really explain it, but once you're in a mission by my definition, I'm definitely sure you will understand why I think there's a difference between the two.". He was glad that both of his friends had accepted his offer to go on another mission. He nodded. "And it won't be that long until you learn then, I guess. Follow me." he said, leading the team to the mission boards. On the way, he kept speaking, "It's still pretty early... The sun didn't even come up yet. I don't know how many missions we can find for the three of us to do at this hour, to be honest. Hopefully, there will be something that fits us.". When Natsume called almost called him Ryūka-senpai again, but stopped and corrected herself, Ryūka couldn't help but chuckle. "Right, Natsume.".

In just a few minutes, the trio reached the mission boards. Ryūka started going through the missions. "Wolves at night... No. Bandits that come out at night... No. Crows attack some farms! Oh! Oh... In the middle of the night... Guess a lot of the things that require ninja attention happen at night? Never thought about it like that before.". He chuckled. One of them finally caught his eye that didn't require them to wait until the sun was down. In fact, it asked for the exact opposite. "Quick!" Ryūka said, "Follow me, fast, we don't have time, I'll explain on the way.". He started running, at a pace both of his friends could keep up with. He explained as he promised, while they ran towards the edge of the village, to the gates meeting the Black Forest. "We're going on guard duty! Better clear your schedules for the day! If you're going to be busy with something, you can bail, of course, but obviously, you won't get paid if you do so. I advise both of you to stay though, this could be a great experience for all of us.".

In a few minutes, they reached the guardpost. Ryūka chose to do the talking "Hi! We're here to take over for today!". The man standing there, a tall man with spiky gray hair that covered most of his face, nodded, and left without saying anything. "Get ready, team." Ryūka said, taking a seat at the table that had 4 chairs near it. "So, Natsume. How's ninja life going for you? By the way, how did you two meet?". He looked first at Hoshi, then back at Natsume. After a few minutes, presumably after Hoshi and Natsume both answered Ryūka, a tall man in a black kimono carrying a katana approached the gates from the forest. "Hoshi..." Ryūka said, "I'll let you deal with this. We'll step in if needed, of course.".

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