Sakurai Style : First Step

Young Sakurai would  be seen in an arena of pure concrete, 30 radius.  There was not much about the arena as it was not a fancy one.  There was an entrance through which people could go in and out of the arena.  The edge of the arena were surrounded in circular concrete walls about 30 meters high and the arena would be covered with wooden roof . The roof looks old, with cracks all over the place, showing that the arena had been built for a very long time. A considerable amount of force would easily damage the roof and even make it collapse. The door of the arena was constructed in such a way that, once someone opens the door and enter into the arena, it would automatically close. The arena was literally empty with no other structure in it. 

 The ushitora would be seen in his usual austere attire; a red cloak, red pant and a red shinobi sandals. He did not have his face mask on today, as he thought there was not need of it. The crimson head only wear a face mask to cover his horn when he is going to a crowded place. 

Sakurai had been in the arena since the dawn of the day. The ushitora came early to train, and  after training, he would wait to watch the young shinobis who came to spar. The area was safe to stay for Sakurai, since  they were mostly genins and academy students who did not have powerful and deadly  techniques in their arsenal.

It's been several hours, and all the young shinobi have left, except Sakurai, who remained at the the arena. The boy wanted some me-time, and since he was the only one left here, he thought this was the perfect time for some meditation, and this was something the ushitora loves to do.

At the center of the arena, the horned lad would sit on his legs, crossed, with his eyes closed, and although, his eyes were closed, he was still sensitive to his surroundings. The ushitora would keep his stance for as long as he wanted. 


WC: 354

Ulysies Uchiha:

Hmmph.

Ulysies Uchiha; starting assassin. She had just taken on a recent mark from her first employer. This wasn’t her first rodeo necessarily, but it was a far means from having done this for a while. There was still a confidence though, one in which she always possessed. Fearless, almost to the point of arrogance as some might call it. She just deigned it being relatively and generally unbothered by the consensus of other’s about her, and being able to do something without the anxiety of whether or not it’s going to work out.

This was quite some time ago though.

At least a few hours by this point.

The lone stranger had arrived at where her target currently was located, one of the training facilities, around 9 or 10 AM. Doing this was doing so tactically. Knowing this was around the time in which the shinobi and kunoichi of kumogakure typically gathered to train, she wouldn’t have to worry too much about her soft footfall moving across the roof of the building; taking extra care to avoid the bigger holes that could be fully seen through, or worse. Fallen through.

This next bit, exerted a lot of patience, as she then lay there, still atop the building, all while remaining completely quiet. Until, at long last, all of the other people except Sakurai Ushitora had left the area. Like a viper waiting in it’s den to strike, Ulysies knew that this would be the lone opportune time to do so. She’d wait a few minutes until the noise of those leaving had fully dissipated off in the distance, then silently turning her body so it was now facing the rooftop. Peering through the one crack that was just wide enough for someone to cast their gaze through, 30 meters below and slight to the right, sitting facing away from them, was the shinobi. He won’t even know what hits him.

Without using any handseals, she’d cast her eyes at the spot that was directly 5 meters above the man sitting peacefully in the room.  And then, in an instant, a dark sphere would spawn in that location, quickly expanding outwards in all directions until it reached 10 meters in radius. If this guy was lucky enough to make it out of that area in time, he would manage to avoid the damage as the space time chakra would attempt to rip him to shreds.

WC: 405

Techs Used:
Space-Time Art: Devouring Sphere
AP Cost- 40
Power- 100
Speed- 100

Current HP: 200
Starting AP: 900
Current AP: 860

The young crimson head remained seated on his legs, and boom! The dark sphere of chakra would hit the young shinobi, instantly killing him!

Sike! That was what the-whoever initiated the attack would wish for, but who said that would actually happen?

Peering through a cracked hole,30 meters below and slightly to the right; horizontally, she would be positioned such that, she would only need to move 2 meters to be directly above sakurai.  Unknown to the figure, the hole through which she gazed through allowed ray of light into the arena which was a source of inspiration to sakurai’s meditation. The ray of light peered through the roof and would sit on sakurai’s cheek. Her gaze would end up blocking the light. Disappointingly, the lady’s previous movement on the roof had caused some of the insects in hives underneath the roof to be disturbed. Although she moved with caution on the roof, she could not help the cracked wooden roof creaking, which ultimately had caused disturbance to the insects in the hives.  The arena building being old, with damaged roof, had housed these insects for years, and now, someone disturbs their peace for the sake of a trophy. These movements had caused some of the insect to leave their hives and wander about in the arena.

One of the flying insects would land on sakurai’s face with a buzzing sound, which would end up breaking Sakurai’s meditations. The crimson head would open his eyes and aim to clear the insect off his face. The horned master would come to notice the ray of light that peered through the roof and sat on his right cheek had vanished and that there were many more of these insects were flying and buzzing some inches directly above him. Something feels wrong. He would look up to observe the situation and at that instant, as he looked up, a dark sphere would form 5 meters above him. Not knowing what it was, or what it was meant to do, the crimson head would not take any chances.

Sakurai, eyes wide opened the moment he noticed the dark chakra, would  instantly and simultaneously activate his enhancer technique and punch the ground with such minimal force using his right fist. Yeah, that was all that was needed to activate the hydrogen bomb technique, a punch or a stomp, in this case, a punch would do the trick; and in that instant, a spherical wave and dust cloud would simultaneously spread out (expand) in all direction up to 35 meters’ radius. The unknown figure was 2 meters away from sakurai, horizontally, and 30.5 meters away from sakurai, vertically; the wooden roof being only some inches thick. The unknown figure must now deal with the incoming jutsu or else would face instant death if caught in the jutsu.  Any walking or running on the roof would surely cause the wooden roof to creak loudly, hence, should someone be on the roof, the creaking sound would give off their location. The jutsu would not only kill the figure if caught in the jutsu but would also completely destroy the arena building since it is in the technique’s range, blowing it away. None of the building structures would fall on sakurai or damage him though, as the wave would simply blow them all away. Outside of the arena building was a plain field of fine sand, 10 meters’ radius.

Being in another man’s village, the ushitora had been cautious about everything he did in kumogakure right from the time he got here.  He still remembers the rules he was given at the entrance gate and how the guard emphasized that he abides by them. What reason would he give to the village officials or the guards for doing this? Damaging building structures in another man’s village. But now Sakurai has very excuse, as there is nothing he would not do at the expense of his life. He would simply say he did the damage while trying to protect himself. And what more, he could even present the body of the deceased attacker as proof if he was able to find and kill them. 

As his technique spreads out, the crimson head would be ready to react to anything that comes up at any point in time. The ushitora still has not known exactly who initiated the attack, but would hope to find out very soon.
Sakurai had been in this kind of situation before. His journey down to kumogakure was quite an unpleasant one, as he was faced with quite a number of attacks. The last word of one of the assassins he killed was “we will come for you”. Was this what they meant by that? Being in kumogakure, the ushitora thought he was safe from attacks such as this, but it seems nowhere is safe for the young ushitora. Perhaps, the soul of those he killed had come to hunt him.

TWC: 1184

Hydrogen Bomb  - 50AP
Power = 240
Speed = 240

8 gates (Gate of wonder) - 50AP

1245- 100 = 1145AP

Sakurai's New Stat
Speed = 180
Strength = 240

All action done at possible max speed

Immediately after the casting of her devouring sphere, Ulysies would activate her Sharingan, as well as it’s perfected form. All 3 Tomoe would appear in both eyes, granting it’s natural effects from the doujutsu. Luckily for the Uchiha, one of these benefits was a fine attunement to their eyesight. Acting almost like a foresight, yet not in the way foresight actually is classified as. One would think this grants someone brief glimpses into the future, but for those with the doujutsu eye it instead translates to being able to see the most miniscule of movements; instead allowing for said person to react in the blink of an eye upon the smallest of things.

Within this moment, said thing was witnessing the bug flurry down towards the man sitting there. She’d take flight before it could reach his cheek, so the assassin wouldn’t be aware of what happened next. Not by sight at least. Looking down through the cracks along the roof while running, making it 10 meters to the left where she had originally came from. She’d be able to slightly see a wave start to expand, but would be more so complied to hear it instead. There would also be the knowledge that whatever happened down there had destroyed the sphere of space time chakra, but such was the way of things.

The next few seconds were practically a matter of life or death; she’d easily be able to get to the edge of the building where it had met with a tree. A few branches had extended upwards to the roof, and it was an easy step to get onto it. While now running down the tree, her hands would form the ram handseal, activating 4 clones which would all appear 1 meter around her, proceeding to split off to different branches of the tree at varying heights, with only 1 of the clones remaining still at the trees tallest point, 30 m in the air. All of the clones would just nearly miss the blast, getting an extra 6 meters away to the other side of the tree poised upon branches. They had all made it out of the blast radius in time.

Whether or not the target pursued was currently unknown. All 5 of them would peer towards the now demolished building, the cloud of smoke from the aftermath of it covering any line of sight normally, but with her doujutsu Ulysies would be able to see through it.  Positioned 24 meters high in the air now, 6 meters away from where the edge of the building is, she’d wait there. Knowing that the man wouldn’t be able to properly determine which was the real her. Although the building was destroyed, it hadn’t been fully done so until after the clones formation, and regardless, even with the cloud of smoke, the person who caused it most likely wouldn’t be able to see through it either.

WC: 471
TWC: 876

Techs Used:

Sharingan- 10 AP
Sharingan Perfected-
40 AP
+60 Cha/Spd
New Stats:
Cha: 210
Spd: 115
Clone Technique-
20 AP

CDs:
Devouring Sphere- 1/3 Posts

Current HP: 200
Starting AP: 860
Current AP: 790

As the ushitora would activate his technique, the unknown figure would attempt to escape the incoming jutsu. That would have been possible if she was a bit faster than the swift incoming technique, but despite activating her own enhancer, she still was not fast enough to escape the incoming danger. The hydrogen bomb’s technique was more than twice her speed in her enhancer form. The technique would have no issue catching up with her and hitting her. Even as the assassin pick to her heels, the creaking roof would give off her location. In her attempt to run horizontally the roof, she would be hit by sakurai’s technique just as she was some meters away from the edge of the roof. The hydrogen bomb technique would deal full power damage to the assassin, and she would fall dead to the ground. Confident in his technique to shield him from all harm, Sakurai would at this time rise to his feet. The heavy drop of the dead body had hinted him of where the figure could be. The crimson head would now be facing the direction where the body had dropped and would now start moving forward but with extreme caution, not being able to see clearly himself as a result of the dust cloud from his own technique. As he moved, he would stumble upon what seems to be like a huge pile of wood. Bending his body to feel the material with his hands, he would notice that what he touched was not really wood, but a human being. Still in his enhancer form, the ushitora would carry the body on his arms, and dash out of the dust cloud, into the plain field of fine sand that surrounded the arena building which had collapsed.

 Upon stepping into a clear area, the ocean blue eyed would see a young damsel on his arms. What a waste! Such beautiful do not deserve this. Perhaps, if the young ushitora had seen her beforehand, he would have spared her life. Realizing that this must have been the person who attacked him earlier. Shutting down his enhancer technique, the crimson head would anyways be glad that he now has proof of evidence, an excuse for the damaged building. Patrol officers and guards were already approaching sakurai’s location, as the loud noise from the hydrogen bomb technique and the collapsed building had alerted them. 

Once the officers got to him, sakurai would try and explain the situation to the guards; how he was attacked while meditating and how he tried to save himself. The guards would reason with the horned master, took the body from him and led him out of the place to give treatment, in case he had sustained any injury during the fight.  Sakurai saved himself yet again. Firstly, he was attacked while traveling to kumogakure, then, attacked again in Kumogakure village. Who knows when next he would be faced with an unexpected attack. He was only able to make out of here alive, thanks to his skills.

Exit (Hit on Assassin)

TWC : 1691


Already have A -rank version of day time tiger ( remaining wc to hit 5000wc from 2750 A rank = 2250)

25% of 2250 = 1688. using 1688 wc to learn S rank(Vagabond exclusive technique).   Granting Nj the remaining wc. 

claiming 4000ryo , 20 AP.

Approved Exit

Claims:

All 876 words going to awaken MS, was previously 3664/6000 from here, now 4,540/6000 (will be completing w/ 25% max stat discount)

Approved