Talking With Vergil and other Genin

The sun was hanging high over the sky on this particular day, baking everything nested beneath it with Fahrenheit temps ranging in the 90's, as the only relief anyone was able to receive was from the shade of the many trees surrounding the Leaf Village. Walking along a shaded path that lead towards the training field, coattails flapping to the small cooling breeze flowing through the air, Vergil was making his way towards the field as he usually did these days. There was a lot riding on the next couple of weeks for him as he needed to get as strong as possible for the Chuunin exams and if he had to come to the field even in the blistering heat it's what he was going to have to do.

Crossing the threshold Vergil was surprised to see he wasn't the only one there. Usually he always was lucky enough to be the only one on the field as he trained which usually gave him the entirety of the field to work with. He saw this other individual practicing their taijutsu, rather angrily it seemed, on a dummy a bit of a ways away. Taking notice of such nature he decided it was probably best he kept his distance as he made for the opposite direction to a more open area of the field.

He had decided preemptively before coming here that giving his chakra a little bit of a work out was the best way to proceed with today's training and usually the best way of doing so, as he had been taught in class, was either by meditation or using jutsu. He didn't know many jutsus to work with nor did he feel like sitting on the ground for a few minutes to hours so he thought that maybe trying out some low level stuff would exert his chakra enough for a warm up. He had been hoping to learn a few high level stuff today anyway so getting his chakra burning and ready to go was going to be vital.
He would thus stab the sheathed katana into the ground beside him before bringing his hands up and concentrating. He could feel the chakra rising up his esophagus to meet his lips as he took in a deep breath and aimed his face towards the sky before exhaling outward. The result would be a large stream of flames shooting out of his mouth to form something that looked a bit like a geyser before Vergil would concentrate to make the geyser transform into a large ball of fire that shot towards the sky.

Directly afterwards Vergil would then form a few more seals before taking in another breath and blowing outwards multiple times to cause several smaller fireballs to erupt from his mouth that soared upwards beside the much larger central one. Relaxing himself upon doing such a feat Vergil would then watch as the fireballs soared higher upwards before suddenly exploding into sparks in the sky and harmless embers floated along the wind.

He could feel his chakra burning up as he allowed it to rest before summoning it again. Closing his eyes he focused on the flow of energy within him to see if he could do the same technique combo again as he would stand and meditate for a spell before doing anything else.

(WC 560)

The time for the chuunin exams slowly came into fruition as the male counted down the days and nights until the anticipated event was finally upon him. For this he prepared day and night, constantly training his mind and body for the eventual taste of victory. He had lost in his last attempt for Chuunin just before the attack on the Leaf. That was most of the reason he had wanted to become stronger in all honesty, but the drive to become stronger now rested with the fact that he simply wanted to be stronger than those that fell. His friends and family that perished in the attack, he would soon become enough of a force to stand above them. For now however he settled with the satisfaction of getting strong enough for this exams. Byakura would currently be jogging through the village at a decent pace, keeping his breathing regulated and his pulse at a base level just to keep himself from overexerting. His jogging took him to the outermost part of the village toward the training grounds, a place he honestly rarely went to unless it was early in the morning or late in the night. During the day it was usually filled with a lot of other ninja and shinobi training, but for some reason today he felt compelled to go in.

At the apex of his jogging he stopped for a moment looking around at the few going about training, one of which he had recognized and another he did not. From his perspective one was practicing some sort of fire based ninjutssu, his assumption coming from the fact that most ninjutsu from what he knew that dealt with fire were of a ninjutsu prospective. That and one of his closest friends were quite the arsonist with Fire ninjutsu. It was always weird watching others wield it in a manner that didn't directly get someone caught on fire. Wiping himself free of sweat and water with the small towel he had with him, Byakura looked at the others for a moment and sort of waited before speaking to them.

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This was proving to be a very beneficial way of training for Vergil. The hot day was a bit of a detriment but it also helped his chakra to acclimate and become more proficient in his fire style. Upon seeing the explosion of a third fireball he had shot out, however, his training would be interrupted as he could hear the sound of feet clearly stomping along the ground for whatever reason towards him from the side. He would look over upon hearing such angry sounding walking as he saw the ninja he had seen previously smacking the training logs so furiously making his way towards him.

Vergil's katana was still stuck in the ground beside him as he watched this stranger walking to him cautiously. It wasn't as though the guy was about to attack him out of the blue but, based off of all the signs the guy was giving, he felt he might not have been having the best day and thus was about to try and take his anger out on Vergil. However Vergil would show no emotion as he watched him make his way closer to stand a bit of a ways away from Vergil and ask him something Vergil wasn't expecting.

Vergil always was a believer in not wasting any time and getting to the point and this one wasted no time in asking for knowledge on fire style. This was new to him. The only time he had ever been asked by someone to give them a better understanding of a jutsu or a technique of some kind it was back in the academy. Having to teach a person already a ninja might've been a bit more than he could chew but, since the guy asked nicely, he wasn't really the type of person to turn away and say no. Heck he had to train in order to acclimate the fire element into his chakra nature so this should've been a cinch. He would thus turn to face the ninja, trying to come up with a good way of how to explain it, before he spoke.

"Very well then... The process of learning how to take in a second element is rather quite simple: meditate on the chakra within you and picture it taking on that of the properties of another element. In this case fire... Simply picture your chakra nature within you and try and set it ablaze into something that boils and bubbles with heat. You can even use the heat around you to help you. Once you feel as though your chakra within you is literally on fire form the tiger seal, take a deep breath, and exhale with force. If you manage to blow out something even as tiny as embers you're on the right track."

He didn't know if he had explained as best as he probably could have but he basically had given the gist of how he first came to learn the element. Upon finishing speaking he would wait to see what the ninja did while looking over to see that they were not alone. Another he didn't recognize was standing a ways away watching them as Vergil turned back to watch Tanjiro to see what he'd do.

(WC 544; TWC 1,104)

From the looks of it the two of them would be training among themselves dealing with the fire element, the male on the other hand had something else to do in the meantime while they messed with such a volatile element. A few meters from him laid a set of training dummies usually used for taijutsu practitioners to train, but Byakura was going to use it for a little more than that. Setting his towel to the side he would size up the dummy for a moment taking in where each of the limbs were, their lengths and widths before pushing one. Taking small moves toward it he would begin slowly, taking each step as it were his first. After a few moment or two his movements would become a little jarred and erratic allowing the dummy to come close to hitting him before moving at the last second. His movements seemed to be a little unorthodoxed for someone that wasn't used to fighting close ranged, but that was what this practice was for.

As he moved he would slam his palm into the center of the dummy, his arms swinging to meet and stop the arms of the dummy as it swiveled about. The lower pegs would be stepped over or blocked with a knee or foot as the male danced with it, letting a barrage of water loose from his palm which only moved the dummy a few centimeters. The force of it however slowly began to crack and whittle down the dummy before he had stopped, catching himself in the act and gently smiling. His intention was to simply warm up, but in the process he might have just came up with something that he would definitely experiment with later. If he could devise a technique that worked similar to his Water Gun technique then maybe there wouldn't be a need to fear close ranged combat. On the other hand he could also devise a technique that would also take away the need to fight closer...but that would be something he would need to experiment with.

Feeling the impact area of the dummy he would discern that the pressure of the water that he had pushed into it caused the structure itself to dent, but was it the water pressure or his strength that caused it to do so? He curiously hummed to himself as he continued to look at it while also paying attention to the two that were behind him. It would seem that they were still deep in their fire training so he opted not to bother them just yet. He knew water like the back of his hand so he went with the assumption that it was water pressure that caused the area to warp and bend, though it could have easily been both. The male would shrug for a moment as he pulled his hand away and into one of his pockets as he thought to himself," A little more testing wouldn't hurt though if it comes out to be case number one then maybe I can make similar jutsu to it," the inward thought caused his brows to furrow, but the amber eyes remained on the dummy for a few more moments.

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After a few moments he had decided that nothing had been going on with the current situation, the other two genin simply sitting in what seemed like to him as slow motion. They had not made any moves since they had started their fire release training which sort of disappointed the young Hozuki because wanted to see how it would go. None the less he picked up his towel and began to head out of the training grounds and back into the village. Byakura would leave those two to whatever they had been doing at the time, not bothering them or alerting them that he had been leaving. There was no real reason to even bother them given that only one of them were aware of his presence. It seemed like a good chance as any to start up a conversation, but he didn't mind just leaving as well. As he left the training grounds, Byakura would take the same route he took to get there, this time making a few stops to get some food for his family for dinner and fruit for himself. Seeing as his training had been cut short he thought it owuld be good to do his errands before going home.

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Exit

Total word count: 1,100

Claims:

5 stats
148 words to complete http://naruto-role-play-rpg.forumotion.com/t22702-rain-tiger-at-will-technique making final total l(2500/2500)
500 words toward B Rank Soul expulsion
putting 452 toward Genjutsu release (250) and 202 towards the mastery

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