Shinobi Salon [Open]

[OOC -- Down to group learn any Doton or Raiton techs, as well as teach anyone any jutsu or specs on my stat sheet that they desire. Just ask me IC.]

Man. It was another one of those days. There wasn't much going on, as he still hadn't gotten a chance to pay Saya a visit after their long string of missions. He wasn't exactly sure how she was handling it, though he somewhat was avoiding the situation altogether. To be completely honest, he had been training some jumpy shinobi by the name of Niko for the past few days. He was... An interesting one, to say the least. Though Daiko did have quite a bit of fun messing with some of the genin of this village, he was curious if there was anything in this country other than teenage girls and the occasional scary Mizukage. Not one to beat a dead horse for too long, Daiko decided that he would head to the training grounds, actually looking for something worth seeing. There hadn't been much going on that morning... Daiko simply put on a classic black long-sleeved shirt and a pair of purple pants. Other than that, there wouldn't be much notable about his appearance. All his scars and the like were covered up, and it was unlikely that someone would get to see how fucked up his internals were unless they had some sort of eyes that could see through things. Good thing nothing like that existed.

Pushing one of his hands on the door, he walks through the entrance to the military training grounds, the weighted door swinging slowly back into place and stopping with a short thud. Something seemed a bit off. Though things around here were usually filled with grizzled faces that didn't look like they wanted to talk, it had seemed like someone set up a Pokemon Go festival in the training areas. Daiko wasn't entirely sure what Pokemon Go was, so he assumed it would be best not to mention it.

Daiko had walked in just in time to see Saya doing one of her staple performances, and he was glad. For a while, Daiko was worried that Saya would be deterred from her singing antics considering the last time she had put on a show for strangers, a Missing Ninja tried to send a chakra fist through her heart. All was well for the moment, though Daiko figured that he'd rather sit back and watch what goes on, and see if he could learn a thing or two about combat. To both his surprise and excitement, it had seemed that one of the non-teenage girls was accepting some sort of challenge from the others, in some sort of brawl. He noticed that all four of them were headed over to the training grounds, and he decided to follow. Not wanting to seem like he was snooping in on some sort of private event, he made sure to pass by the person who seemed to be the coordinator of all of this. Waving at this shinobi he's never met before, Daiko gives a quick "Yo, what's up. How's life? I like what you did with the place." And continues walking towards the training grounds that they were at.

Once that it had seemed that they were all in a position doing whatever it was they planned on doing, Daiko was a mere 30 meters away, sitting on one of the benches that had been set up for some of the other shinobi and kunoichi of the village. He was interested to see what this combat ended up looking like, though he was hoping that Saya didn't notice him, and yell at him for not greeting her sooner.  

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Keita listened as Saya was fumbling over her words, saying that she was just trying to make a good impression, but also wondering where Keita was from. Keita simply smiled, as the puppet walked over and introduced herself as Saya’s sister. Keita had a detailed record of everyone in the village, within reason of course, so he knew that this was definitely not Saya’s sister, and it was a puppet. They were pretty close to each other, so it was pretty simple to confirm this by simply checking the chakra of them and noticing that the sister had absolutely no chakra signature, but there were tiny strands of chakra attached to the woman, indicating that there were puppet strings. The woman had made them invisible, a great feat normally, but they were simply too close to each other to successfully hide them. Now, if this woman was using chakra suppression and simply had Saya put the threads on her to imitate that, Keita would be extremely impressed, making the skilled members of the village clueless about something like that would be an amazing performance feat. 

The puppet walked over and the woman used some sort of skill or maybe a mechanism to allow it to speak, asking if there were lightning or fuuinjutsu users here, and that it would be nearly impossible or extremely lucky to find both here, to which Keita simply chuckled. “Allow me to formally introduce myself. I am Keita Uzumaki. Fuuinjutsu user, and the only current user of our soon to be famous ability to control the Tempest element. It’s wonderful to make your acquaintance in the flesh, Miss Saya.” Keita introduced himself, and if people actually heard his name, they would know that he was a jounin that went around and helped a lot of common people around the village constantly, and was known for being calm, polite, and kind. Keita would give a light and cordial bow to her, before taking a couple of steps backwards towards the blackboard, and effortlessly writing down some basic fuuinjutsu formula. The chalk board was soon filled up with the basics of fuuinjutsu, taking Keita less than ten seconds to write everything down with extreme ease and fluidity in his motions, showing his fifteen plus years of mastering the art of Calligraphy. 

“Anyone that wishes to learn and can put in some effort may learn the basics of fuuinjutsu from this. As for the Lightning element, that is a bit trickier, but easy since I am here. Much like other elements, the easiest way to learn is by feeling it. This does, however, make Lightning the hardest element to learn in this way. If I have your permission, I can allow you to feel the electricity. Also do not worry about pain, this particular technique is mostly harmless on its own.” Keita would continue after, writing down his knowledge on the basics of fuuinjutsu in case anyone wanted to learn, as well as explaining how to easily find out if Lightning release was your thing. Keita would wait until Saya spoke up again, and if she said yes, he would form a couple of hand seals before a large cloud expanded out from him. Most of the people would be unaffected by this, and they were far enough away from the spar that it would not affect them either, so Keita had no qualms. This jutsu did no damage anyway, so it wasn’t bad.

A cloud would rapidly form and travel outwards in a ring, with him as the center. As it washed over Saya and anyone else that decided they wanted to feel it, the cloud would leave them with a massive amount of static electricity, their hair standing on end as their whole body was drowned in it. They would feel a sense of foreboding, the same feeling one might get when the lightning formed around them just before they were hit by a lightning strike. This would not come, however, the static electricity would just hang on their bodies for a while and then dissipate. The technique would also attempt to slightly scramble their chakra network, causing it to struggle to form techniques for a bit. The ability of most Tempest techniques to cause the ones affected to repeat hand seals and spend a lot more energy on techniques being in effect. Saya’s chakra network was a bit too robust for this, however, so this portion would not affect her at all. 

After this Keita would watch the spar as he waited for any questions, comments, or concerns with regards to what he had just done, but according to the reports, Saya was intelligent and resourceful, if a bit of an eccentric. Keita also would not call attention to the fact that she controlled a human-like puppet, and would go along with it. He did not want to make the girl upset, frustrated, or embarrassed as long as she was not using it to disrupt anyone else. Keita was glad that people were sparring, even the little one that did not have any techniques currently. This gave him hope for the future, considering that their village and the sand village were in a cold war, not entirely sure when the two villages would actually start killing each other. Just after he had explained this to Saya, another person that he did not recognize entered the venue, and he wondered what he was doing. If he had gotten in, that meant that he was authorized to be in the village, but Keita would have definitely known him if he was actually a member of the village.

The man came up and said hello to him, and tried to make a bit of small talk before heading towards a seating area to watch the sparring. Keita would make sure to greet the man and ask a few questions. "Hello, and thank you. I am Keita Uzumaki, may I know your name? Also, may I ask which village you're from?" Keita wanted to be cautious, as those from Suna would not be allowed in here, but he did not mind other as long as they were unaffiliated. This would indeed mess with the young man, as Saya was fairly close to them, and Keita calling attention to him like this would obviously have Saya notice him, and hopefully this would cause another interesting development.
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With Kikuko's warning and his byakugan active Mitsu springs to the side before the snakes can close the distance. Dodging at 150 speed to the side left of the snakes to avoid them and outrunning them far easier if they tried to chase. He would circle around to the opposite side of Travin from Hiroyuki, keeping a brisk three meter distance from the enemy and trying to split his attention between the three opponents. He had confidence that for the time at least he could move faster than his enemy if push came to shove.

With Travin standing still as he sent out the snakes Mitsu palms another kunai, one with an explosive tag on it as he circled around, not throwing it towards the senior this time but instead towards the ground on the opposite side to Mitsu, half a meter away from his enemy's feet and blooming into a 1 meter wide explosion once it hit the ground. Forcing Travin to move towards him if he wanted to avoid the explosion. Moving right towards Mitsu, ready to strike at Travin should he get within his weapon's reach.

His vision expanded past Travins sleeves, keeping an eye on Travin's entirety in case he had any more tricks on him Mitsu needed to watch out for and respond to. The snakes were interesting and he made a mental note to ask travin about them later. He'd heard a bit about summons but seeing them like this it might be worth looking more into.

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Hiroyuki was circling around the man, and noticed that the man started to do something with his hand in his sleeve, and suddenly a large amount of snakes came out, and Kiroyuki wondered if it was a variation on the summoning jutsu. He had heard of people using the summoning jutsu before to have their animal friends help them out in fights, so he was excited to see something like that in action, but quickly refocused to take charge of the fight at hand. Things were moving very fast, a lot faster than Hiroyuki anticipated, and it seemd like these genin were much more experienced and could potentially be ready for a rank up, which did not quite discourage him, but made him think he was not quite ready for this sort of spar, where everyone had a bunch of tricks and such up their sleeves, literally with Mr. Rentei, as he was brand new out of the academy. 

Still, he would continue circling around the right side of the man like his previous plan had stated, until suddenly he heard Kikuko start talking, and it seemed that she had summoned some strange pixie looking creature, but to Hiroyuki it just looked pretty. Suddenly, the thing started talking to him and saying that he was light, and that she would be carrying him, latching onto his back and lifting him up. This was pretty strange, and threw off Hiroyuki’s sense of balance for a moment, before he started to orient himself to being able to fly around with the help of the butterfly woman. “Well thank you, nice to meet you. We should continue circling around to his back side to see if we can exploit a weakness or two, maybe.” Hiroyuki would whisper to the butterfly woman that was attached to his back, before she started to continue his strategy of circling around. When they had actually gotten behind him, staying the couple of meters away, they would slowly creep towards him, watching his movements from the back, making sure they could react at a moment’s notice. 

 Suddenly, Hiroyuki would whisper the word “Now.” to the butterfly creature, and they would fly towards the man’s back, where Hiroyuki would continue watching, just in case he started moving unexpectedly. Hiroyuki would get within striking distance of the man, less than a meter, before watching him and figuring out how he was going to strike him. Hiroyuki thought that he would not be able to do much damage to the man, but disrupting his balance and how he could move was something that could be done fairly easily from this position. The butterfly made sure to fly him to the midpoint of Mr. Rentei’s back, but this would be after Mitsu set off the explosive tag, should that happen.
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Daiko stops in his tracks, not expecting to get an actual answer out of the man. Oh. Well. He should've expected this at the very least. It was likely that he wasn't on some registry here, and if he was, it was probably listed under 'potential genin or potential corpse'. It was no matter, the very least Daiko could do was be respectful to this person. They seemed to be quite official in their stature and such and were definitely one of the Jounin of this village. Daiko was somewhat relieved that not everyone in this village was/looked like a teenage girl. "Ayy. Nice to meet you, Keita. My name is Daiko. Yeah. Just Daiko..." He scratches his chin for a second. Daiko wasn't entirely sure where he came from, though one of the earliest places he remembers growing up was quite a ways away. He's not even sure if where he comes from shows up on relevant maps, even though the small island body isn't too far away from where Kirigakure stands now. He decided he would go with his birthplace for now, and for the foreseeable future. "I'm from the Land of Shade." Daiko gives a thumbs up, and then continues on his way, to sit down at the battlefield. By the time he had gotten here, it seemed things were getting interested.

Daiko only really had a vague idea of what was going on, and his spectating of the events probably had no bearing on what was actually going on, just his internal thoughts and feelings about the matter. Oh hey. Daiko noticed that Kiku was part of the people battling that one strong dude, as well as two others. One of the others, who looked also to be a teenage girl, had strange-looking eyes. Their temples bulged with veins, and it was quite a sight to behold. Daiko had never seen someone with eyes that looked so different from everyone else's, and he wondered if it was some kind of jutsu. He would probably ask about it later. Looking around at some of the others, he sees butterflies carrying people and other things like that. Stretching his arms out on the bench, Daiko gives a slight yawn as the fight begins, wondering if anyone is going to be using any kind of crazy abilities to shake the entire stadium. Blinking once, Daiko keeps a close eye on the events, seeing if there's anything that he could learn.

Daiko wasn't entirely sure what Saya was up to, and considering at this very moment he didn't have her next to him, she was probably also doing some training. Sometimes Daiko was a bit absent-minded, and he may have walked right past her without realizing it. Pushing the thought out of his mind, he figured that she would never let something like that happen. And.. Well... It's kind of hard to miss the Queen of Cosplay around the village, much less in an enclosed space. Events would continue to unfold.

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Kieta Uzumaki huh. Something about this man made him feel important. Maybe it was the "only current user of our soon to be famous ability" line. The more she thought about it, the more she had to assume that he was the one in charge of constantly sending guards after her to break up her fun because it wouldn't be fair for him to go himself. For that she was thankful. 

"Cool! I'm Sayatria T--" There was a chorus of "no" from both the puppet directly beside Saya and the small pinochio puppet watching the battle unfold. From his seated position trying not to cause trouble or get in the way the coach puppet pulled out a sign, holding it Saya's way that read 'no'. Freyja just shook her head. 

"Uh. Sayatria. But as you know you can call me Saya. This is my sister Ai, and pinochio and Freyja are over there watching the spar. That's my teacher and a goddess of the old ways. Coach is sitting down somewhere i'm sure. He's a puppet. " It was amazing just how often she made all of these introductions. It was also interesting how often new people found themselves perplexed by Saya's personification of her puppets. It made sense, given her situation. A girl left alone in the bedroom of a mansion needed some way to make friends. 

"OH Don't worry. I've learned the element already! I just need to learn some jutsu. There's like this one super cool jutsu I heard about where your hand is all sparky and stuff and I think like. You can make it do a bunch of different stuff? I thought that would be a great substitute for my Suiton and Doton natures, but i've been struggling a bit with it. Figured out Gigavolt but that took some time. HEY DAIKO!!! But yea. Like my main goals are to figure out how the heck this fuin stuff works cuz it looks really neat and I really hope it--wait. What is Tempest. Can I learn it? It sounds really cool!!!"  It was so like Saya to lose focus several times in the middle of a rambling string of sentences. To be fair she was talking to this powerful ninja, keeping a glance at the fight across the way so that pinochio could study what was going on, glancing about to see what exactly her friend daiko was up to, and trying to read and memorize all of the information her new teacher had just put up on the board all at the same time. Still, that was only like five tasks. Should have been a piece of cake! She noticed the odd look kieta gave Daiko, and considered speaking up. Technically since she'd allowed him entrance into the village he was kind of her responsibility, but she was also a HUGE fan of not having repercussions for her actions, especially when they hadn't actually caused any harm, so she would wait and see how daiko ended up handling the situation. 

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Keita listened to the girl Saya in front of him rambling on about things, and he noticed that the puppets had stopped her from saying her surname, for some reason. He knew that it was most likely her subconscious mind that did that, but he did not mind, and felt that he did not need to pry any further. After smiling and nodding to her rambling on, she stopped, seemingly after she had no more breath left in her lungs from the amount of information she was spewing, and so Keita had a chance to talk to her about things. “Ahh I see about the lightning release, good job on learning it along with two other natures. As for the fuuinjutsu, feel free to review the information I have put on the blackboard behind me, as it is a pretty simple introduction to it.” Keita would say, before glancing back at the fight. 

He was being very attentive to the fight, as it was interesting to see how the genin of the village handled certain things. The man seemed to be a bit… hasty in his execution of the illusion. Keita noticed that it was an illusion almost straight away, although he could not say for certain whether he would have figured it out immediately upon facing it if he was not in a crowded area. He noticed that the people all responded differently and at different intervals, as if an aura field was sweeping out from the man, and suddenly people were looking around as if they were blind, and their movements were sluggish. This happened in a sweeping motion, and then suddenly it happened to Keita. 

“Hmm.” Keita would say, looking around and feeling the illusion that seemed to mimic the appearance of the Hidden Mist jutsu, but this one seemed to sap your body’s speed. Keita then used Genjutsu release on himself instantly, dispelling the mist and letting him see the surrounding fights once again. Since he did not want everyone to be blind so that they could still benefit from watching the spar, Keita then immediately popped seven small chains from his back, which snaked their way around and started to use Genjutsu Release on everyone not involved in the fight that might have been hit by the genjutsu. The ones in the spar would have to figure out their own way to get out of the situation, but considering how the energy contained within the jutsu sapped the speed and scrambled the chakra network a bit, he was unsure if the genin could do much about this. 

He could see the Hyuuga seeing the genjutsu aura coming towards him and either backing off or using some sort of skill to break it, but other than that, it would be really hard for the others to do something similar. Keita did not mind being slowed by the chakra, as he was not in the spar, he simply wanted to see the spar and maybe learn some things.
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