[Open]A Training Session in Bright Sunlight[Open]

So the secret it out, Izuna smiled internally when the girl gave her name. She had been weirdly hesitant to give it. He liked knowing the people he interacted with, especially those that may soon become his comrades. He took the older girls hand when she offered it. Gave a quick thanks a bounced up and down a couple times trying to get his enthusiasm for the technique he was practicing back. Nakama would do it for him.

When she performed her show off move Izuna was impressed, very impressed. The way she combined body flicker with surface walking was something he hadn't even considered. Mostly due to his inability to get his own body flicker to work. Kouga standing next to him would hear the boy curse under his breathe, seemingly upset about something after watching Nakama's display. He scoffed at her "warning". As well as the idea that he should be practicing in a padded room. He was about to retort when Kouga began his own explanation and a light bulb went off in his head. He was about to ask Kouga to demonstrate when the boy decided to do it himself.

The truth was he felt he missed a golden chance when Nakama had done the technique. If he activated his clan's bloodline he could examine exactly how she did it. Izuna didn't like using the Sharingan to simply train, but he was beyond frustrated with this technique. As Kouga apologized for what he probably thought was a useless display of ego, Izuna had his best Uchiha smirk plastered on his face. He was going to see exactly what this kid did. But when Kouga pulled out his sword he couldn't help but stare at the size of it, it seemed really well made as well. Izuna was definitely asking about it after training. Izuna back away from Kouga to give the boy room to operate, angling himself to he faced away from Nakama still on the lamppost. Kouga threw his massive blade.

As soon as he noticed the RAM sign Izuna filled his eyes with the familiar burning chakra. Ever since he killed that oversized pig he constantly longed to have his Sharingan active, but self discipline was important and Izuna didn't want to advertise his doujutsu to the world. He watched every movement Kouga made as he performed the body flicker, he payed extra attention to the boys feet and the chakra he had pooled there. As the boy reappeared in front of his sword Izuna kept his focus on the boys feet and exactly how fast he kept chakra in them. After Kouga had caught his blade Izuna looked up at the sky, closed his eyes for a moment, and when he reopened them with no Sharingan active.

The trick was in how long one kept the chakra pooled in their feet, Izuna had simply cut it off after the initial flicker and thus had nothing cushioning his legs as he slowed back down. As the two other Nin returned to where Izuna was standing he was formulating a plan for his next attempt. When Kouga seemed to want to switch to Genjutsu practice Izuna gave him a confident look and a smile.

"You're showoffing and self inflicted injury didn't go to waste friends." He made the RAM seal and appeared totally fine 20 meters from where he had been standing, in the exact same spot he had faceplanted earlier. Another seal and he was back where he had been speaking with Kouga 5 seconds ago.

"Genjutsu practice you were saying? Yeah I'd like to get that in before school."
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Although what she had just said was completely ignored by the looks of it she hadn't stopped the boy from doing his little trick, if words didn't teach the pain of actions will, that's something her mother taught her, and it seemed to mostly prove true in these situations, though for now she just watched as the sword flew through the air, it did feel like it had been flying for a long time, perhaps it was the weight of the sword that caused such a visible error in time, perhaps it was acting as a propeller because it was such a comically oversized sword in her opinion, though she didn't comment as the boy finally came too realize his mistake, it looked like he even missed the catch, though he did manage to recover, her eyes did sharpen slightly to see how he'd react, though besides a visible wince she couldn't discern anything, she wouldn't point it out even if she could, though it was somewhat surprising someone could throw something that big that far. Maybe it was lightened with some smithing technique, maybe it was hollow and instead made of plastic, though that last thought was more of a joke in her head then anything else, watching closer now as the boy returned she shrugged a bit stating with a tone with some care. "You really could of just gotten yourself even more hurt showing off like that..." She didn't seem to mean it in a derogatory way, more so a genuine worry way, she honestly didn't want something like that too happen on the field and possibly cost him his life, that would just be... awful. Though now he was down with his sword and not hurt in any meaningful way besides maybe his pride, so she figured it'd be fine to just leave it at that unless he pressed the issue, she really hoped her words hadn't upset or offended him, but she had a gut feeling that they probably had.

Though now it was the other boys time to shine, she hadn't noticed anything, likely cause she was far too busy watching Kouga almost spear himself with his own sword, at least she only threw a shuriken, both a giant sword like that, that just was beyond not safe, but who was she to judge, he effectively just did what she did on a much grander scale, and he managed to pull it off so. As she looked back to the other boy it seemed he had watched carefully, perhaps even with a special way to watch, she herself was surprised to hear him say something like that before going straight to the action, he proceeded to perfectly do the Body Flicker technique, which was impressive, Nakama could only smile at it and give a small clap, the boy did manage it just by watching them, or perhaps he could do it all along and was merely feigning it to be able to see how others did it. Either way it was a impressive display of not being stupid while using the technique, something both herself and Kouga failed to do. "Well then, it seems all you did need was a display." She'd say in a clearly happy tone.

Though now came the next topic, Genjutsu, something she truly hated simply due to not being the most mentally strong, she does her best to come off as having a clear head but the second she first encountered Genjutsu was a eye opening experience of just how fragile her psyche was, but she tried to forget about, when the truth is distorted, you just need to pay attention, less miss the chance to realize it, plus simple Genjutsu that involves just changing minor things, turning tree's into lamp post's or something simple like that should be easy, it's not exactly going to scare you stiff or cause you any pain. She didn't exactly know much genjutsu though, nor how to deactivate it unless she just walks a mile away which obviously would be annoying, hell she didn't know how to even get herself out of genjutsu, she really should take some time into learning genjutsu release, it seemed like a basic technique, certainly she could do something like that, though for now she needed to make sure that they were actually going to do Genjutsu, though looking at the two it seemed all but confirmed that they'd be doing Genjutsu practice for the foreseeable future, she felt now was her best chance to chip in before they started to avoid anything that could possibly end with something bad. "I feel, we should probably not go into possibly frightening or painful Genjutsu, instead maybe just simple ones? If that's alright with both of you." She did her best to speak up here but she didn't want to talk over the two, she did wonder what kinds of Genjutsu the two knew, she heard Izuna knew hell viewing technique, something she absolutely didn't want used on her, maybe Kouga could take it though, he clearly has taken far worse with the state of him, she's yet to gain the courage to ask if she could try some medical jutsu on him though, maybe she'll gain it some time soon but if not it would be a perfect opportunity wasted. But she just couldn't get the words out of her mouth for now, so she just would wait for the two too decide what to do, perhaps they'd have a Genjutsu battle, she's heard of people using Genjutsu to fight, rather then their real selves to make it less dangerous, though she's also heard people use those battles to feel out their opponent before the true battle would begin, in which it would give a upper hand, though she was no expert, it was all very interesting to think about though, perhaps she could use genjutsu to practice medical jutsu, though she would had no idea how to even begin doing that. Perhaps when she got put into a genin team she could ask her sensei about it, though she didn't know at all when they planned to put everyone into genin teams, maybe in a month, maybe a year.
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As he arrived back to his peers, he tried putting his sword back in its scabbard, felt a sting in his right hand midway through the movement, so decided to switch hands, which probably looked fairly awkward and finished the motion with his left. While he was screwing up the easiest thing in the world, he heard the girl’s worried and somewhat weak voice:

"You really could of just gotten yourself even more hurt showing off like that..."

He immediately felt a sting of guilt and awkwardly scratched the back of his head. He always tried not to make people worry, but he had a real knack for it. Ever since he was small he found himself in the middle of things way too often, and got hurt almost as frequently. His overly strong sense of justice was more of a flaw than an advantage he felt. He also knew he was stubborn, but when he had a goal it was really hard to think about anything else. Like consequences. But his previous run-ins looked insignificant and laughable after what happened in the forest. His parents were so afraid. He could understand it as well. He was slipping in and out of consciousness for more than a week under the care of the foxes. When he finished his train of thoughts he apologized with an embarrassed smile:

“Sorry, I got a bit too excited.”

Now he heard Izuna’s confident voice behind his back and by the time he turned around the boy was standing pretty far from them, the air around him still fuzzy and in the next moment he was back with them. Holy shit he’s a really fast learner. The girl now sounded happy and he found himself relieved that the worry was gone from her voice. When she started clapping lightly he joined in as well.

“Well done!”

But the air froze a bit again, when the boy mentioned practicing genjutsu. He knew he offered it up himself, but his fears weren’t completely gone. Nevertheless learning to release the illusions was a high priority after last time, so he had to get over it sooner or later, and as his father always says: there’s no time like the present. The girl must have had similar thoughts, since her face got pretty dark too, and after a while she spoke up about not doing anything dangerous, and Kouga couldn’t have agreed more.

“Yeah that sounds like a good idea. None of us are experts so let’s just keep it simple. And while we’re at it, we could try releasing the genjutsus as well. Could anyone explain how any of that works? I uh, kind of slacked on this part of my studies back in the academy.”

He looked at Nakama first, but she seemed to be just as puzzled as he was, then he spotted Izuna’s face almost radiating, so he breathed a sigh of relief and focused on the youngest of them, so he could comprehend his explanation if he decides to give one.

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Izuna felt a bit light headed at the attention he received from his peers upon finally figuring out the body flicker technique. He had never actually gotten much praise so he had a small weakness for it. He couldn't control his grin as he listened to the two congratulate him and then begin discussing Genjutsu. Their discussion revealed that Izuna would be teaching more than he would be learning today, he was actually fine with that. Sure he would prefer to learn some cool new techniques any day. But passing on knowledge was almost as fun. He assured the redheaded girl after she voiced her concerns about frightening techniques.

"Ey Don't worry I'll keep things simple, as it seems I know the most about this subject." The feeling was odd, this was the first time Izuna really was the most informed about something. The realization almost cut into his explanation of the exercise. But he guided his train of thought back to the issues at hand.

"So first I'll show you both how you would dispell a Genjutsu." He looked at Kouga before his hands flew through several hand seals. RAM MONKEY HARE. He wasn't going through them slowly, but he did say the signs out loud so they knew them. He used his "False Surroundings Technique" to manipulate two trees that were standing nearby, causing their leaves to turn bright pink.

"I put a Genjutsu on something in the area, let me know when you find it." he chuckled knowing how obvious his Illusion was to catch, the other two would realize it really quickly. Once they did he began on the next part of his explanation.

"When you realized you are under a Genjutsu all you need to do is make the TIGER seal." he demonstrated. "Once that is done a quick flush of your chakra network and the Genjutsu should dispel. Obviously more complex Genjutsu will be harder to dispel but most illusions can be broken with this technique." He stopped talking and stood back to observe their reactions. Assuming they both broke through his weak Genjutsu he would move on with the "lesson".

"Now that you know how to dispel I suggest an exercise where I practice subtly and you two practice dispelling. I'll cast a Genjutsu on one of you at a time, but I won't say which one of you and ill try and be sneaky about my Illusion, though ill still keep it relevant, no pink blades of grass or something. You guy's need to realize you are under my Illusion and dispel it. Sound good?" Izuna finished his long explanation and gauged the two Genin's reaction. "I do have to get to the Academy in a half hour so we should hurry this along."

Assuming that the his two peers didn't protest the exercise Izuna would go through the same set of handseals again and cast his False Surroundings Technique. RAM MONKEY HARE. He didn't look up at either of them, but only Kouga was affected, his sword had turned into a large log that was now strapped to his back. An easy start to ease them into it.
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Looking around Nakama was quick to notice, in fact she ended up laughing a bit at it. She didn't exactly know what she was to expect but if that's all that was gonna happen this would be fine, it seemed to boy had turned a few tree's bright pink, how no one wouldn't notice was beyond her, surely it was far to easy to tell, or perhaps she was vastly underestimating how smart people were, though she didn't point out the change Kouga would need to realize it himself, otherwise it would of been cheating the test, though for now she decided to attempt a Genjutsu break, using a simple tiger seal she had casted it, returning herself to reality now reviewing Kouga, his sword was back to normal as to be expected, this was a low rank Genjutsu so it wasn't difficult to break and used very little Chakra to do so, so she could see why it was very uncommon to be seen, it was more for genjutsu demonstration then anything.

Looking towards Izuna now the girl spoke. "How does that count as a test?" Before laughing a bit more unable to hold it in, now she simply looked at Kouga waiting for him to break himself from the Genjutsu, if he couldn't she would lend a hand, she was aware of Genjutsu break via third party which was far easier to do then a genjutsu break on your self, but it didn't mean it was always going to help, sometimes your alone when a Genjutsu is casted on you, and there's very little you yourself can do about it, that's what brought her to fear Genjutsu. It was always effectively a trap in your mind, that at any point could cast onto you and you wouldn't be able to do anything without someone there to help.
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This wasn’t the first time someone explained him how to break out of a genjutsu, but this was the first time he actually paid attention. The tiger seal, of course, this did ring a bell. Flush of the chakra network, may prove a bit more problematic. Okay here it comes. Kouga tried memorizing his environment, so he could spot the genjutsu and not make a fool of himself, but it seemed his precautions were in vein. He quickly noticed the bright pink leaves on the trees, but that was the point he guessed. He formed the tiger seal, but then stopped for a moment. The leaves somewhat reminded him of the cherry blossoms in their garden, and made him really calm for some reason. They looked really beautiful. He was shaken out of his delight by Nakama’s laughter. It certainly brought out different feelings in her. Now that the moment was over, he flushed his chakra network, just as Izuna instructed, and to his surprise it actually worked. The leaves were back to their good old green colour, a lot more common, but also a lot more natural.

“I quiet liked this one.”

As the lecture continued, it seemed the next exercise would be harder. So now only one of them will see something, and have to realize it’s not really what it looks like. Izuna went through what looked like the same hand signs, and nothing happened. First he looked to his left, but saw nothing. It even occurred to him that maybe he started with Nakama, but then he looked to the right, and he noticed something weird from the corner of his eye. Where his sword should have been, there was just a sizeable log. He chuckled a bit. It was really well crafted genjutsu though, since he would have guessed a piece of wood this big would have a similar weight to his sword. He remembered his lesson he learned when putting away his sword, so now he reached for it with his left hand to begin with. It was a bit awkward to stretch it all the way to the other side, but at least he could avoid the pain this way. He pulled his log from its scabbard, no noise as usual. He took a closer look at it, it really did look like a huge log. The colours, the lumpiness, everything. He put his right hand closer to it and slowly touched it, but the sensation was the same: cold and hard as he was used to. There still was something he wanted to test. He pulled out one of his axes from his pouch, and hit the log with it, but it was the old steel scraping on steel sound. So it was only his eyes that were deceived, still impressive stuff. Now his curiosity satisfied, he thrust his sword into the ground in front of him, formed the tiger seal and closed his eyes. By the time he opened them, the log was gone and his sword was back.

“These were the first few times I actually managed to release a genjutsu. I guess I did get better since the academy. Or it was all thanks to my favourite teacher.” – he stepped closer to Izuna and put his fist forward, waiting for a bump. Whether it happened or not, he stepped back and continued jokingly:

“Sorry to break the flow of the lesson, teach.”

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Izuna gauged the reactions of his peers to the original genjutsu. Kouga seemed to be enjoying himself, maybe he liked Sakura trees? Izuna had taken inspiration from the sakura trees nearby the house he had grown up in, so maybe Kouga had something similar to relate to. Nakama was laughing though, Izuna couldn't figure out what was so funny, had he cast the wrong illusion on her? She had already dispelled the genjutsu, so Izuna decided to ask her about it. After she asked him how it was a test.

"You finding it funny? Is there an inside joke I'm missing?" he asked slightly perplexed. "It wasn't really a test for you, more one for me to see if I can put you under mild illusions." He assumed a playful expression, smirking at the young girl. "But if you want to be properly tested I we can move on it that." Kouga seemed to have gotten over his sentimentality with the pink trees and dispelled the technique at this point so Izuna turned to him.

"Thank you, I tired making it relaxing since you two were apprehensive about the training." he admitted after Kouga told him he liked the illusion, he smiled before looking at Nakama, "Nakama was seeing my advanced idea of what lord Uchiha trying to sing a drinking song while tap dancing would look like." He smirked at the younger girl. "We should move to the next step of the exercise."

It was quite amusing to watch his new friend carefully examine the sword he was likely intimately familiar with, like he had never seen it before. When Kouga pulled out his axes Izuna's hand jolted outward.

"Wait its not actually..." he trailed off when Kouga just hit his sword with one of his axes. "I hope you meant to do that, very sorry if you damaged it." He felt somewhat responsible if Kouga had damaged his blade. But it seemed the teen was very aware of what he was doing as he dispelled the illusion shortly after sticking the sword into the ground. Izuna idly wondered what the log Kouga was seeing would look like being stuck into the ground, probably comical.

Izuna's pride swelled at Kouga's suggestion he was a good teacher, he hadn't much to teach yet but he considered the insinuation a good thing. He bumped Kouga's fist and waved off his apology. "Feedback is greatly appreciated. But now I got to get going, I just remembered I have some errands to run before i get to the Academy." It was a lie of course, but the idea was to get Nakama off guard. Izuna pivoted so he was facing away from the two of them and went through the familiar hand signs. Twice.

His sudden end to the lesson was bluffed, he would catch them both off guard ideally, but if they saw through it, that worked good, he was pretty sure neither had seen him weave the sign nor did they have the chakra vision or sense to detect him perform  the jutsu. Anyway he hoped they didn't or his bluff was wasted. He began walking away from them, his illusions had already taken hold. These would be a little more interesting than the other ones.

For Kouga he decided on some comedic fun, using the nearby trees again. They were in a really lame training field right now, give him a break. He now caused the leaves to shift again, but now they were tiny squirrels. Thousands of them chittering away, although they made no sound. It would look quite incredibly really.

For Nakama a pair of shuriken that had been discarded nearby had become a pair of tiny birds, quite cute. If she approached them they would instantly combust, ideally with a comedic startle from the girl. The shuriken would be fine and unchanged upon dispelling the genjutsu, otherwise the bird would continue to burn while tweeting happily.

Izuna stopped and turned to see their reactions after his illusions manifested.
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Nakama shrugged at Izuna when he asked her why she found it funny, in truth she didn't really know why she found it so comical, perhaps she simply never really saw leaves change their colors, perhaps not nearly as drastically as a green or brown to solid pink, such a illusion caught her off guard is all she could really say. Looking at Kouga it seems he was messing around in his own genjutsu only to hit his sword with his axe, well shoot she half expected either the axe or sword to break and fly at her or Izuna which made her recoil slightly, who wouldn't when someone did that. It was something incredibly stupid in all honesty, no wonder this man was so injured, he seemed like the kind of person to swing first and ask question's later, she was honestly completely reevaluating him now that she's known him for a far longer portion of time, why did he even carry weapons like that as a Genin, true maybe he simply specialized in something totally different then other Genin, likely Tai or something to do with weapons, but still to act so foolishly, he had a long way to go. She could tell, and wasn't sure what to think about that.

Then the boy said something, something about leaving, Nakama was half spaced out thinking about why Kouga was so strange, at least to her, maybe in his community this is perfectly normal and not at all strange, maybe SHE was the one who had things to learn. She could see it like that, though she honestly didn't want too, back too the little uchiha though as she shook her head a bit she watched him begin to walk off, well shoot, she didn't think he had to leave so early. "Oh, alright I guess, good luck on your test I guess!" She said giving a thumbs up and somewhat of a smile, she enjoyed hanging out so seeing him off wasn't exactly something she could do happily, though what else was she to do, she just let him off looking towards Kouga, then off towards the rest of the field, she wasn't exactly sure what to do at this point, maybe she should pack up herself, looking off towards the target practice boards, she ended up doing a double take.

She swore there had been a few shuriken in the training field but apparently birds were there instead, well that wasn't right, had he casted a Genjutsu as a parting joke she wondered. She did step over, slowly, she didn't want another gash or other wise large injury on her hand, she was barely managing to handle the first one, you think she didn't actually get hurt catching a shuriken improperly, hell no it hurt like hell she had just been doing her best to ignore it, half to not worry the others half on instinct, she was used to ignoring her own pain, just something that happened so she could focus on everything else around her first, though for now she focused on the birds, poking one only too see she had in fact drew blood, seems she poked the tip of one of the shuriken's blades, well darn, she was half hoping they'd at least be soft like a actual bird.

Then they combusted, to say she was shocked wasn't exactly correct, she was expecting some kind of trick here, but she wasn't expecting the murder of birds to be that trick, she couldn't help but tear up a bit, she was of course a animal lover, who didn't enjoy the beauty of animals unless they were some hardened criminal, quickly she backed up a few feet, she did want to scream but all that came out was a somewhat quiet meep, before she casted the Genjutsu Dispel again. She wasn't exactly happy to see the birds burn alive, but they weren't really alive anyway she supposed, though she then turned to see the boy hadn't left, was this all just a elaborate prank she wondered as she wiped her finger on her side to get rid of the blood on it, it would likely close the wound faster from a small poke so she wouldn't need to put a band aid on it.
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When Izuna apologized he was somewhat baffled. He knew not everyone was knowledgeable about metals and weapons, but this caught him off guard. He took a moment before answering, so he wouldn’t sound too condescending.

“Weapons are mostly designed to survive clashing with each other. And to cause pain, I guess.”

That last addition might have sounded a bit too dark, but what’s said is said. And it was true anyway. They were all soldiers or preparing to be one. The lowest ranked in the army but still in it. They probably had to get used to the idea of causing pain on order. And even killing. Especially if he wanted to live up to his dream of having his own ANBU mask.

Kouga had a bit too wide of a smile when Izuna returned his fist bump. He felt like the Uchiha might even become his friend down the line. So naturally when the boy announced his leave he was a bit disappointed, though he did say he’d need to leave soon already, so he should have been ready for it. On the other hand the boy said half an hour and that was only a bit ago, something inside him said this was a bit fishy. It wasn’t really his business though, so he didn’t really say anything. But it really was a shame that Nakama’s turn never came.

“Good luck Izuna, hope to see you around.”

With that he closed his eyes and slightly shook his head. Once he opened them, he saw something he wasn’t ready for. The leaves of a nearby tree has disappeared and in their places a bunch of tiny squirrels were rattling around. He couldn’t help but smile. So he wouldn’t leave yet. As always, he had to take a closer look, so he formed the ram seal, and now pretty confidently flickered up to a branch. Meanwhile on the ground, he saw Nakama walking towards a few shurikens on the ground, looking at them weird. So she got her own little illusion. The girl reached out to the shuriken and soon jerked her hand back, and blood started to spill from a small cut. Kouga had the feeling she cut herself every time she got near a blade. But on second thought he probably shouldn’t be the one to judge others for that. He then changed his focus to the squirrels. They looked very lifelike, though he never saw one this small, not even babies. He always liked squirrels, they were cute little devils, and knew how to work together. Something in which they were better than people most of the time. Once he was satisfied with his examination, he formed the tiger seal, and released the genjutsu. At this point he heard a meep behind him. He turned around in the blink of an eye, his nerves on edge, his body ready to face this new threat. But he saw nothing, only a somewhat upset Nakama. He quickly jumped down the tree and started walking towards her.

“Is everything all right?” – he asked with a worried expression.

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He responded to Kouga's explanation with a shrug.

"Some weapons are more technique based than other, while yours is definitely durable enough to take such impacts now that i think about it... I just didn't know if you were aware that the sword didn't actually change shape in reality." He explained himself, trying to make himself sound less ignorant then his previous question would have implied he was. He then proceeded to do the illusions as mentioned.

The ensuring chaos was something Izuna should probably have suspected when he cast the double illusions. Now Kouga's illusion was meant to be comedic and easy to spot, Nakama's was a bit more cruel he could admit. But he figured she would instantly dispel it then give him a snarky remark about it. When Nakama walked up to the shuriken the first flags went off in Izuna's head. She's not going to touch them is she. His pondering was cut off when she did in fact poke one of the disguised shuriken hard enough to draw blood. He began approaching her after than, hoping she hadn't cut herself too bad, he idly wondered if they were ablaze yet... He didn't think she would have moved to touch them if they were, but he didn't know the Uzumaki girl that well either. One never knew with people you just met.

His question was answered shortly after when the girl made a pitiful noise and began backing away from the shuriken, moving to make the tiger sign, he increased his pace at that. Seemed she wasn't a fan of burning birds... He guessed she hadn't grown up on Uchiha legends, the flaming songbirds were a classic, and often used for Genjtusu practice, likely due to their inherent shock value. Izuna found it comical that most people didn't stick around in the genjutsu world to notice the birds continue to happily tweet away despite the flames, just like the legends. He cut off his reminision when Kouga asked the girl if she was ok, Izuna supposed he should see what the two thought of his more underhanded illusions.

"Genjutsu isn't something you should be expecting." he explained as he approached. "I don't really have to go I was hoping to catch you off guard with that combo illusion." He gauged their reactions before deciding that he wanted to move on to some other topic, turning to Kouga he asked.

"Nakama keeps cutting herself every time she touches a blade, and i have been neglecting weapons practice for months now, so maybe its time you taught us something eh?" He gave a trademark Uchiha smirk, he should be practicing his clan's facial expressions since he would be a Ninja soon and expected to act like a proper Uchiha, stick up the ass and all.
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