Friends fight, too.

Snow was in the training grounds earlier than usual, it was probably 5 am at this point based on the moon's location. He woke up around 2am with the feeling of his depression crushing his entire body. He got up and carved another X into his waist that morning, but unfortunately he was not able to go back to sleep. Deciding that training by moonlight was a better use of his time than lying in bed, thinking about what he had just done, he headed in earlier than usual. 

He had already finished his stretching routine and had set up a training dummy in the middle of the clearing by the river. He grabbed his shuriken from the pack. He put it in his sleeve, attempting to make his shuriken a little more accessible in the middle of a fight. With the Shuriken in place, he was ready to begin. He got into his fighting stance and was 30 meters away from the dummy. He had finished reading a rather large book at the library the other day that was specifically on a certain practice of "Shurikenjutsu". It was a book that specifically focused on the ability to make your thrown weapons curve and bend through the air, even ricochet off of solid objects in the angel that you want them to. 

Snow had thought about just what he could do with the knowledge that he learned in that book. He could expand his shuriken, then duplicate it, then have it bend at his will. The thoughts had rushed through his head as he was beginning his throwing warm ups. "Maybe today I will put what I learned to use."

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Sai woke up somewhere in the more isolated part of the training grounds, his head was throbbing. He had spent the night in the training grounds the night before, from spending to much chakra fro the new technique he was working on. He should of known better than to spend that much on a jutsu he wasent yet comfterbal with. He sat up and rubbed his head as he tried to figure out what time it was. Sai normally didnt do stuff like this but he knew if he wanted to get stronger he would have to push himself past his limit into something else, Someone else.

He stood up and started to stretch, Sai looked at the mood and tried to tell time that way. For Sai though it was alot easier said than done. Feeling refresh and full on chakra  he started to walk back in the directon of his home, when he had stumbled across Snow training. It made Sai proud to see his teammate out working hard at this early or late. Sai sat not to far back from Snow and waited to see what he would do next, Sai was curious to see what he could do.

Snow was focused, maybe to focused on his target. He grabbed his shuriken and as he threw the shuriken, barely moments afterwards he performed the shuriken giant body and the shuriken grew to one hundred times its size mid-flight. Without a second going by he performed the Shuriken shadow clone jutsu. As the giant shuriken was flying through the air, it disappeared in a giant cloud of smoke, only to appear on the other side of the cloud of smoke to have nine hundred and ninety nine more shuriken just like it, making an almost unbelievably massive wall of giant shurikens that Snow used his Shurikenjutsu to have the outer shuriken curve inwards and completely obliterate the training dummy that was in the middle of the training grounds. 

The clearing they were in was the same as the first time they had sparred, for it was the same place that they had sparred the first time. Diameter of 50 meters and had a river that was 10 meters wide and 10 meters deep. The training dummy that was just obliterated by the shuriken was set on top of the river and was floating on a log that Snow had put in the river earlier that morning. 

When he was done with the technique, he would sit down for a moment, being slightly tired, he wanted to sit for a moment and catch his breath.

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"Well done, i wouldnt expect less from my rivial", Sai said as he came out from watching Snow, he was truely impressed with what he was able to do. He could see the his pal was learning at a fast rate, it only motivated him to work harder.  Sai himself had been working on a new jutsu." Watch this my friend", He did a few handsigns and pointer the tip of his finger at the dummy in the river. He fired one Cero blast at it and watched as it turned into nothing but wood chips on small peices of wood.

"One of these days my friend we should finish our sparring session, i can tell we both have gotten stronger", Sai would say as he dsat down about a meter away from Snow. Snow one was of the people that Sai held in high regard, so wanting to spar with him was something Sai took seriously.

Snow was sitting on the ground, catching his breath when he heard his teammate's voice coming up from behind him. "Hello, friend. How are you today?" Saizou then performed a few hand seals and launched a small ball of what looked like a dense ball of fire chakra for another dummy that sat towards the end of the training grounds. "Impressive, friend. Very much so. That is the technique called "Cero" is it not? I understand that technique holds different forms based on the chakra of the holder. Very peculiar technique that is.

Saizou then continue to speak on the spar that they had when they first met, the one that was cut short due to Saizou needing to eat something. "We should Saizou. We really should. You know what? Why don't we right now. Let's go hand to hand. No jutsu of any sort. A good ole' fashioned brawl. What do you say?" Snow would speak in his signature sweet tone. He would wait for Saizou's response before getting into his fighting stance.

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Sai was impress at his friend extensive jutsu knowledge, Sai himself wasent to good on remembering big names . Thats why he tries to find a nickname for the long ones atleast. Sai would listen as Snow would agree to spar with him , but the only down side would be that they would be using the hands only. Sai wasent much of a taijutsu peron, but he couldnt just say no when his rivial challenges into some. He looked at Snow and took a deep breaht. "Fine i dont mind", Sai would say. Sai honestly wandered how long he would last against someone who could fight better than him. He would know that if he got lucky enough to Snow him than he would have bragging in the group for a while.

Sai would accept the offer that Snow would put out to him. A friendly bout between two members of their team. Snow would then bow to his opponent, his smile would vanish, his friendly demeanor would be gone. Much like with Akira and his battle with her, he took combat very serious. The risk of major injury or death was always present when two ninjas met on any type of battlefield, training grounds, or even in the classroom. Something could always go wrong, one just never knew. 

He would get into his fighting stance, ready to fight. When his opponent would get into his fighting stance, he would allow the same opportunity to Saizou as he did Akira. He would wait for Saizou to make the first move in their hand to hand bout of combat.

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“Sorry buddy , I refuse to be the attacker in something that I’m weakest in”, Sai Sid before taking s slight pause. “I would prefer to watch and learn from you”, Sai said with a smile. He knew Snow was very exceptional in hand to hand combat, something Sai surely need to improve in. Sai had hope if Snow wasent going to show any mercy , cause Sai couldn’t learn if Snow went easy. Sai needed to be pushed hard and  continuously. He knew that Snow had that ability after watching him fight Akira he had a slight idea of what Snow could do. Sai got into a defense stance waiting for giant rivial to make a move,Sai wasent going to use his sharingan until Snow could show Sai that he was serious.

When Snow offered the same opportunity as he offered Akira during their hand to hand bout, he denied. He wanted to learn from Snow, something that Snow was not entirely sure why he would want to learn from him. Most of the things that he knew were self-taught, he had very little training in the academy passed very basic hand to hand. So Snow would spend hours in the training grounds honing his skills, but he knew more than anyone that his skills were still lacking and left much to be desired. Snow nodded to his friend, agreeing to Sai's request for Snow to begin their bout by making the first move. When Sai got into his defensive stance, the two were a mere two meters away.

This was just enough space for Snow to close the gap and begin their "lesson" in hand to hand combat. He was extremely interested to see what Saizou was capable of when it came to fighting. He was most pleased to see what Akira was capable of, providing Snow a fight that he would remember for a long time. While he did end up winning that bout, he still was given a lot of good areas that he needed to work on, lessons that he was going to carry over to this bout with his other teammate.

Snow analyzed his stance, and he decided the route that he was going to go for first. He wanted to see what Saizou was capable of first, his goal was not to make this a short fight, but a long and thorough analysis of what his other teammate could do when it came to defending himself in many different positions. Snow saw that Sai's left leg was out front, seeing that he must be right handed, keeping his strong hand back, ready for a powerful counter attack. Snow would be ready for such a maneuver.

Snow began his attack with going for a sweep of the lead leg with his own, should this sweep prove to be successful, he would capitalize by getting within a meter from the body of Sai, who would be off balance at this point. With one fluid motion he would sweep Sai's lead leg with his own and recoil his lead foot back to make a strong step in Sai's direction, getting within a half a meter from him. In the same motion, he would send an elbow directly for Sai's torso, just below the rib cage and into the kidney on his right side.

Should the sweep prove to be unsuccessful, he would recoil his foot and be ready for any counterattack that Saizou would have coming for him.

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