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373.333333	2022-02-19	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "ferhargo", "message": "An eyebrow raised at the growl. It seemed Kit still had to re-evaluate exactly how... Feral Kazuko was? Well, perhaps that wasn't the right term. But the growl gave rise to primal instinct, one of prey meeting predator... One that Kit stuffed back down. Fear was the mind killer, one of a host of crippling emotions she was accustomed to locking up behind her grinning fox mask. The pain train had rolled into town at her invite, and it was time to face the reaper.\n\nAt the bite, Kit rapidly retracted her offending finger, bringing the full hand back to curl around her yari's shaft. She needed that index finger for pointing at other people! And she wasn't sure if Kazuko would bite down hard enough to actually remove it, with the excuse that it could be reattached later. Best to not take that particular risk.\n\n\"Well, 'need' is a Strong Word when it comes to my bones, and breaking... But sure, catch me and you can have my lunchbox!\"\nIf meat was what it took to calm down the Kaguya, Kit was perfectly willing to sacrifice her own sustenance. She could always cook more later, or beg some off of shop owners using the excuse of having two broken arms. Which... Seemed a likely outcome, as Kazuko adopted a hunting posture. \n\nNo amount of smothering bravado and emotional barriers could prevent Kit's hackles from rising. The mischievous thought of testing just how long Kazuko would wait was immediately dismissed, as was fighting. The only option was Flight. Kit needed to gain distance, fast, before the boney beast in front of her decided to make good on all of her threats.\n\nKit's hands flickered through the seals for Gale Palm, directing a burst of wind at the ground between her and Kazuko to send the young Genin flying backwards as she plucked her Yari from the ground. After touching down she ran a few more steps then pole vaulted over the crowd to a stall roof on the outside edge of the square, pausing to evaluate her escape options. Three seconds were up." }, { "author": "tboy2210", "message": "It was DEFINITELY the right term to describe Kazuko. Feral! A feral, mean, grumpy and angry Kaguya that seemed to hate the people around her for merely existing and daring to breathe near her. The same seemed to go for Kit, but she also had noticed last time that Kazuko was more than capable of showing at least the smallest amount of care a human could bring for another person. The medical aid she provided earned her nothing - Kit's trust counts as nothing to her.\n\nBut now, she was actually going to earn something: Food. Food... Meat in particular. That stuff was her weakness, and letting a chance at earning said reward slide was not going to happen. Kit was wise to retract her finger immediately, as Kazuko would've actually hurt it. Probably not... Bitten it off, but still. She actually was that cruel, but Kit didn't deserve said cruelty yet.\n\nThe Kaguya stood there and stared at the Genin flee, using a Wind Release technique to propel herself away. Smart, but not good enough to escape this one. Luckily enough, she did provide a total of three seconds! Three... Two... One... The spectators around them already prepared for the worst, and the ones on the side Kazuko was facing stepped aside just in case. Shinobi with their crazy abilities were unpredictable.\n\n\"Leaving the square? Didn't you wanna give these people a show?\" She snorted, before lifting a foot. \"I SAID RUN!\" Then, the Kaguya approached. The speed at which she accelerated was scary, leaving nothing more than dust at the spot she was first at. Civilians would have a real hard time keeping track of her movements, and Kazuko... Well, this beast was already jumping up, mid-air and __rapidly__ approaching Kit within not even three seconds. For some reason, it didn't look like she was going to stop with just a jump..." }, { "author": "ferhargo", "message": "\"I AM RUNNING! I'M AT THE FURTHEST POINT POSSIBLE WHAT DO YOU- ah.\"\nThe sheer gap in speed made itself immediately obvious. Kit had, indeed, been toying with the idea of leaving the square- breaking Line of Sight and pulling out every trick in the shinobi playbook. But that would defeat the purpose of being here to begin with, and there was no telling what the Kaguya would do when away from prying eyes.\n\nBut all her careful calculations seemed... Irrelevant, in the face of Kazuko's physical capabilities. Restrict her Ninjutsu? How silly. She didn't need any Jutsu to break every bone Kit had. But that wouldn't stop Kit from trying to preserve her structural integrity. Even if she couldn't effectively track the chunin's speed, she could at least be annoying to catch. Dropping down off of the stall roof, she darted directly in towards Kazuko's path, aiming to pass under the Kaguya's leaping arc. For good measure Kit triggered the Clone Technique, generating a cluster of afterimages around her in an attempt to blur her presence.\n\nHer goal was getting back in through the gap that fear of the Kaguya had created in the observing line, to make it to the center of the square again where she'd have more options to flee to." } ]	399	1,120
296.25	2022-02-20	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "tboy2210", "message": "There was nothing else to expect from a Chunin this angry. Of course she was going to be hella fast to catch these annoying Genin being all annoying around her! It was one of the reasons why she became this fast-... Okay, no, she wasn't even thinking about Genin when training her speed to this point. But now she could see how useful it was to be a swift Shinobi: Punishing Genin that get on her nerves was even easier now.\n\nIt wasn't a bad idea to not leave the crowd, as Kazuko really was an unpredictable one. But it was also hard to tell if she would actually break Kit's bones like she always threatened. These threats were not empty, but they had conditions. If Kit didn't purposefully provoke her, she was going to survive this day without any serious injuries. But once she'd begin messing with Kazuko on purpose... That's when she'd fuck up. So, the rule was to just never annoy this Chunin, simple as that. Even if she looked like a monster on the hunt right now.\n\nAs Kit then began running towards her, she was... Surprised, to be honest. It was a bold move, and as Kazuko landed, it was a close call as the Kaguya almost smashed into her body due to the momentum. Then came the clones, and she just decided to turn around and open her mouth. A strong wind came out, altered to have a wider spread and weaker power... If it weren't for the extra Chakra she put into it. The civilians in the further back would feel the pressure, some maybe even having to be careful to not stumble, but the clones and the original Kit would totally feel it if it was to hit. That's when she also jumped down again and ran closer. \"Which bone do you want me to break first?!\" She yelled, already putting even more pressure onto the poor Genin." }, { "author": "ferhargo", "message": "Kit had the reflexes now to respond to Great Breakthrough, having been trained on just such an assault in their earlier encounter... But she still lacked the maneuverability to get fully out of the way. Kicking off to dart to the side, the buffeting winds still caught her side and sent the genin tumbling across the ground in the Center of the square. Applying AT and tucking and rolling appropriately she came out the other side without more than some scrapes and bruises, but that left her out of position with an angy Kazuko charging her down.\n\nPropping up into a low stance, one leg curled up to her chest as her other arrested her tumbling momentum stuck out a long distance behind, Kit tucked one hand into the folds of her robe over her chest and yanked out a small card, flipping it around between two fingers to direct a heavily inked side towards the oncoming Kazuko. With a quick unsealing, a spear thrust emerged from the seal in defiance of normal laws of force generation or positioning, the weapon launching forward to buy Kit time as she tried to kick off to the side.\n\"Dealer's Choice! Break what you want once you can catch me!\"\n[Instant Spear, C-rank. Not like a C rank spear even matters to Kazuko's AT.]" }, { "author": "tboy2210", "message": "Reacting to this was good. But __how__ one reacted was a different story. Kazuko could see that there was improvement compared to last time, and knew that this time, Kit would not easily be caught up in these nasty jutsu, like them wind blades. Either way, Kazuko watched the clones vanish again, the real one rolling around and trying to avoid any minor injuries. Minor for NOW.\n\nA... Very sinister laugh escaped the Kaguya's lips as she was presented with such an amazing reward. Good, good! \"Breaking your legs would be funny. See how fast you can run in that state.\" She yelled and began rushing again. As the piece of paper or whatever came flying though, the Kaguya was readying herself to dodge... What came out though was just a simple spear. She was expecting far worse, and thus only continued to advance like an unmovable boulder, taking the hit as it did literally nothing to her. \"COME HERE!\" Kazuko screamed in the end, going for a tackle. On purpose did she retract some bones to not completely impale the girl, as that would be very nasty.\n\n```Bar for logging```" }, { "author": "ferhargo", "message": "Appreciation for not being completely impaled was not at the forefront of Kit's mind as she braced herself to take the tackle as gracefully as possible, layering up on AT and moving with the impact. She could partially evade B rank wind, she could not evade a full speed rush down Kaguya. Even at her full preparation, the impact was an extremely uncomfortable experience, complete with the dangerous creaking of a comparatively delicate ribcage and only partial bloody impalement of her extremities. She forced out a cocky laugh to mask her unbecoming mewls of pain.\n\n\"Heh.. Eh... As you commanded, here I am!\"\n\nTo be tackled is not say that Kit was out of the fight. Well, it was very close to it, all things considered, but one of her priorities had been to keep her arms free even as she got brought to the ground. Free enough to work hand seals. Free enough clap her hands towards Kazuko's head, crackling with sith lightning powers.\n\n\"Now let's see if you can just ignore this as easily as a spear!\"\n\nShe had no expectations of doing any form of damage, she just wanted to use the cracking wave of electricity to force Kazuko to retreat or loosen her grip so that Kit could once more escape.\n[Lightning Release: Electromagnetic Murder C+]" } ]	272.5	1,185
286.333333	2022-04-17	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "ferhargo", "message": "Getting a positive reaction to her theatrics only made Kit gesticulate more, putting yet more energy and exuberance into her narration. Sumiye being so happy was making Kit happy, which fed back into her shenanigans.\n\n\"Eh... So long as you aren't a serial killer, I suppose it works! In retrospect maybe I don't want too much competition... Imagine if the MP actually made pranks properly illegal because we spread too much chaos! So do as your heart desires, spread as many random fireworks as you like, hanabi girl! But if your fireworks are done for the day...\"\n\nKit stepped back, flicking her fingers through quick seals as she worked on manifesting a crackling sea of Lightning Balls. For every additional ball the chakra invested in each decreased proportionately, and at the volume she was creating, they probably wouldn't burst through AT... Too much. It was still destructive lightning after all, but at a suitable level for training instead of killing.\n\n\"And you want some training... Then allow me to give you a show of my own! I promise, if you die, I will blame it on a Senju!~\"\nHopping up and down on her toes, Kit first performed her own comically deep bow. Then after she straightened up she flicked her hands forward, sending a volley of lightning beanballs soaring towards her fellow gremlin." }, { "author": "tboy2210", "message": "It really did look like these two goofs were going to be getting along QUITE well. Sumiye watched and truly enjoyed the little show she was given by Kit, up until they began talking about training. A more serious and comparatively more important topic.\n\nShe nodded in agreement, looking at the lightning balls with her eyes. \"Lightning Release? Please go easy on me, then.\" It was clear that she wasn't the strongest when it came to the armor technique, and tanking an element that was able to bite through said armor wasn't really... Fun.\n\nWhen said lightning balls came flying her way, Sumiye immediately activated her little defensive jutsu. Not only that, but she also shut her eyes. Because the moment they made contact... Well, some lightning balls seemed to dissipate and didn't even do much damage, besides to her clothing. But some others indeed managed to get through almost fully, which made her let out a small yelp. Yup, she was hurt. Not badly, but it certainly wasn't a comfortable moment for her. \"T-This hurt... Uhm...\" Sumiye had put her hands on the wound that hurt the most, one eye open while the other was still shut - her facial expression almost screamed 'pain'. \"...M-Maybe again? If possible... With something weaker?\" A small smile was still given, forced through the wall of pain... And it still looked genuine." }, { "author": "ferhargo", "message": "Kit was in the process of forming even more lightning orbs, really getting into the flow of altering the technique to make even more and more smaller weaker balls... But when she saw Sumiye close her eyes, she slowed down the formation of new zappy balls. And when she yelped, and gave a look of pain, Kit dissipated what remained of her thunderous flood, scratching the back of her head awkwardly. It... Hadn't hurt that much, right? Maybe... Just maybe... Her sense of acceptable damage during training had been severely skewed by interactions with Kazuko.\n\n\"Eh... Hey, instead of Armor Technique, seems like you might need more Endurance, or grit or something... Can't go closing your eyes just because you see an attack coming in! But sorry to say, I don't... Have much weaker, not that'd be useful. Armor needs to be tested to get stronger! Probably. Maybe. That's how it worked for me anyways. Lots of blood and hospital visits. So this is already better than most of my training sessions!\"\n\nMoving forward, Kit would flick out a seal and retrieve her first aid kit, offering Sumiye some painkillers and ointment.\n\"Here. I think we should call it for now, we can work on maintaining eye contact with your torturer later~\"" } ]	286	859
177.666667	2022-04-30	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "saimonthemonk", "message": "\"Is it now? How peculiar.\"\n\nThough he supposed for them he had merely shown off his abilities and then avoided her own. She had yet to truly be initiated into the Senju's style of combat, but that was perfectly fine at the moment. There was nothing she had trained that really required him to utilize his usual intensity, especially now than she was basically practicing chakra based calligraphy. \n\n\"You truly are not deep enough into this craft to where you should be thinking about things such as theory, are you creating your own never before seen seal? If not, you are merely learning to copy the language of seals. Memorize the proper pattern and move on.\"\n\nUnless one was starting to become Minori, Ryoshi, or Toro, there was no need to overcomplicate things to such an extent. Copy what is required and move on, that was what he did currently anyways. Though that was because he did not need such an extent style of seals with his ninjutsu." }, { "author": "superstes", "message": "\"Oh don't worry, I'm not trying to do anything as advanced as create new seals.\" Using her free hand she removed a Kunai from her pouch, holding it up towards the Senju. \"I'm trying to seal this, that's all. I admit I may have read some more advance material than was necessary for what I want to do but to be honest I'm trying to impress someone.\"\n\nShe looked at the scroll, placing the brush to its surface. It took an immense amount of focus for her to not shake her hands. Making one mark she removed the brush again. \"No, that's not it. No look to be honest I'm just worried that I will mess this up. Compared to ninjutsu this is so complicated.\" Trying to ignore any doubt she had, the brush once again began to move on the surface of the scroll. After a few moments, she had finished her attempt at a seal. \n\n\"Well then, is there any obvious issues with this?\"" }, { "author": "saimonthemonk", "message": "\"Not really, you are practicing calligraphy and then flowing chakra through it. That is the basics of what you are doing, after that your goal is to make your seals as small as possible.\"\n\nAn example would be the kunai he now withdrew, the kunai which would have the exact seal she was trying to create inscribed on the four faces of it. Yet, this was only the most basic of seals one worked with. Well, it was also a velocity seal that could be triggered by coming out of another seal, but the original part was still fairly similar.\n\n\"It's nothing too complicated, copy, like letters.\"" } ]	201	533
122	2022-05-01	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "superstes", "message": "She examined the Kunai , looking carefully to at the seals on the weapon. She noted down the design and compared it to what she had done. It looked as though she doubted herself too much as all the markings looked very similar. The only difference being Tatsurama's clear supiror skill when it came to seals. By comparison hers looked very rough.\n\n\"Well here goes nothing, lets see if it works.\" With that she placed the Kunai on the seal and began to channel chakra though the fuuinjutsu markings on the scroll. To her surprise just moments later the kunai was successfully sealed within the scroll. \"Well, I have to be honest I wasn't expecting that to work. The next question I have is how do you unseal these things?\"" }, { "author": "saimonthemonk", "message": "\"The language should have a trigger built in, if you did not impart a trigger in your design then you must destroy the seal and it's contents shall empty \"\n\nAs his kunai had not yet been sealed, he could not unseal the other kunai from within unless he destroyed the sealing language upon it. It was unfortunate that he could not show that part off, but he had no interest in creating a seal from scratch before her just for a demonstration." }, { "author": "superstes", "message": "She had to admit she felt a bit stupid. When studying the sealing formula it had very clearly shown what each marking actually done. She recalled it did mention a trigger. She placed her palm above the seal and channelled some chakra into it. For just a moment it glowed before the kunai reappeared in her hand. With a grind she moved the weapon around in her hand, almost in disbelief that it was real. \"Well I think this has gone really well for my first attempt. What do you think? This seems like such a useful skill to have, I'm surprised I didn't learn it earlier to be honest.\"" }, { "author": "saimonthemonk", "message": "\"It isn't bad, if you are truly wish to dedicate yourself to Fuuinjutsu it will take almost all of your time. Make certain you wish for it to be so intrinsic to your abilities before you dedicate so much of yourself to it.\"\n\nIt seemed to him that this was a fair stopping point, and with that being the case he would turn. Just as suddenly as he arrived did he suddenly seem to vanish into the air. Speed moving faster than both eyes and sound,\n\n```Løg```" } ]	116.5	488
290.666667	2022-05-25	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "wanderermog", "message": "```This is now the Training Ground```\n\nIt was that time of the year again, Chiho thought, a wave of fresh Genin had just graduated the academy, Chiho could tell because the hospital had a sudden influx of headbanded midgets with ouchies and booboos from working with wind, fire, or other dangerous elements. It was a bit nostalgic honestly, he recalled his times as a Genin where he himself would be caught in a series of injuries from his jutsu training mishaps... Heh, good times. His vision scanned the training grounds, watching gaggles of the new graduates training in groups, pairing up, punching trees or throwing kunai into them... Poor trees, it was a wonder that this area still had them.\n\nIt was amazing how much he could enjoy a simple walk now, considering he wasn't buzzed or drunk out of his mind nowadays... But, he was, as always, a bored creature... Maybe it was time to single out a Genin and give them special attention, he'd done so for V and she grew to be a power- stro- proficient Shinobi. \"Eenie... Meenie... Minie... Moe...\" His finger landed on a Genin with an unusually large sword... Huh, interesting, she at least seemed to stand out more than the rest... Time to be a pest!\n\nHis footsteps became silent, Chiho sneaking up towards the genin, before tapping her lightly on the shoulder, silently whispering. \"Hey, how's it goin'?\"" }, { "author": "myrfloof", "message": "It was ironic, perhaps, given his intention of sneaking up on her, that the girl he chose ironically seemed to react very little. She had sequestered herself off to one side rather than directly training with the others just yet, watching for now, a curious look on her smiling face. The only outward display of a reaction was that she straightened up at the tap, clearly tensing to the trained eyes of an older shinobi... But definitely less profound than would normally be anticipated for the situation.\n\nTurning, and moving her long orange hair slightly out of the way, the girl's green eyes locked onto Chiho with a blink, before she smiles gently. A somewhat curious look to her eyes all the same, however. \"Ah... Hello. It is... Going well, I suppose?\" She says, a thoughtful look going to her face, before the smile returned as she looked up toward Chiho. \"What can I do for you, Mr...?\"\n\nAs she spoke, she bodily began to turn toward the newcomer, shifting the greatsword as she did- clearly knowledgeable enough about it's heft to avoid it getting in the way of subtle movements, but not quite enough to fully ensure it doesn't get in the way at all times. Granted, the sword also looked like it was made for someone larger than her, and was definitely a bit on the older side." }, { "author": "wanderermog", "message": "For a moment, Chiho blanked. Where was the high pitched shriek? Where was the jump in shock and hasty attempt to make themselves seem presentable and not at all look like a fool for getting scared?! What Ayane would see, as she turned to face the older Chunin, was a pouting expression that seemed to scream disappointment, as he let out a huff. \"Awww, c'moon', you totally didn't even jump, this is like, so uber lame...\" He crossed his arms with another huff, straightening up.\n\n\"Mr. Shochune Chiho, Hunter of the PU.\" He flicked his hair up, showing the same veil that was iconic with Predator Unit members. \"And You, have totes ruined the vibe I was looking for... Ughhh, what are they like, teaching you Genin, where was the shriek of fear! This is like, what I live for...\"\n\nHe looked towards the sword for a moment, she seemed to be somewhat used to the weight, and judging from the age, it was likely a hand me down... Her parents were Shinobi maybe? Cursory glance aside, he turned his attention back to Ayane. \"So, what's your name then hmm? I gave you mine, now you give me yours, ya know? You didn't seem to be trainin' with anyone is all.\"" }, { "author": "myrfloof", "message": "\"Utsukushioto Ayane.\" The girl responds simply, blinking slightly and somewhat taken aback by the reaction... Was this what the PU was like? Well, regardless, it was an interesting spectacle, although she didn't really know how to respond to it... So she settled for giving what the strange man wanted... Still with a gentle smile on her face, she raises her hands up in the air, giving a half-hearted 'aaaa' as she shook them, before giggling.\n\n\"Sorry, but it didn't seem particularly threatening. I didn't hear you come up, and logically, if you actually did mean me harm, then as a result I would already be dead. The fact that I am still alive means there isn't really anything to be worried about, right? Well... On a surface level, in any case...\" She gives a slight nod as she slowly gets up to give him a slight bow... He was of higher rank, after all, so that respect was at the very least due him.\n\n\"You are right. I'm not training with anyone in particular. But that doesn't mean I'm not necessarily training in my own right. I want to have as many skills as I can, and one of the things I have been training to do is medical ninjutsu- if for no other reason than knowing how to keep myself alive if something goes wrong. I suppose to a certain degree part of that training is that if someone got hurt, I would at least have a chance to help... I suppose...\"" }, { "author": "wanderermog", "message": "\"Now you're totally just patronizing me. Bleh, I managed to find the one Genin with her head screwed on straight enough that she seems weird when compared to the other budding crazies. Ah, don't mind me, so, you're training medicine huh? Ya know, I totally don't look it, but you're lookin' at one of the best medics Noragakure has to offer right?\" He grinned, before straightening himself out, having leaned down to meet the Genin's eyes with the one he had showing.\n\n\"Well then, if you're in the market for medicine, I'm totally your guy... I guess we can start with that, Ayane... Cute name, a bit long though, I'll have to think of some kinda nickname. What do you know about medicine to start with, if ya don't mind me asking? Probably best for me to get a handle on where you're at before I get into the thick of it.\"\n\nAs he spoke, he pulled a scroll from a pouch hanging from his belt, unfurling it and laying it down flat against the ground. A puff of chakra later, there was a small, simple table with cushions surrounding it. \"Don't tell anyone, but I stole this idea from a friend of mine, it's great, but anyways, let's talk medicine then.\"" }, { "author": "myrfloof", "message": "Ayane frowns slightly, watching him as he speaks, before smiling slightly... So he was a medic? Well, that was something for sure. \"Honestly, I'm somewhat of a beginner at medicine myself. I... Know some of the basics of first aid, at the very least, and can heal some of the injuries some of the others get during training... But other than that, I'm mostly just at that level.\" She shrugs very slightly, looking over the table as she frowns. \"You don't mind if I shamelessly steal this idea when I get good enough to be able to do it, do you?\"\n\nShe shifts, examining the supplies summoned thoughtfully. It looked like he kept basically everything needed for most procedures at the ready like this. It was definitely something she could see as being useful in the field. Like walking around with a personal medical facility in your back pocket, almost... But not quite as intensive. She would have to remember this one.\n\n\"As for my name... Thank you... It was my mother's, as well...\" She says, her tone seeming to somber very slightly, but she keeps the happy look to her face to the best of her ability as she speaks, looking the table over thoughtfully." } ]	286.5	1,744
314.25	2022-05-26	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "wanderermog", "message": "\"Heh, don't worry, we've all totally been there, just fumbling around until we like, figure out how to grasp the basics of things and whatnot... Like, when I was a genin, I totes just waited in the training grounds for someone to get hurt so I could patch em up, that was my training most of the time, now, let's see...\" He hummed for a moment, before pulling a smaller tag, placing it on the table, and in another light puff of smoke, Ayane was greeted with a series of scrolls, the titles alluding to them being medical in nature. It seemed Chiho was more prepared than his appearance and demeanor would like to imply. \"Also, feel free! This is an idea I stole from a good friend of mine, I think everyone should carry furniture with them, it's totally funny.\"\n\nHe opened the book furthest to the right, it being plainly titled 'An Introduction to Medicine'. \"Now, the first thing I'll say, because I was totes like this, is medical ninjutsu is Soooooo Hard to master... And most of the stuff us Shinobi consider to be high tier techniques is... Technically illegal to learn by Nora law, this isn't for any light reason either. So, before any of that, we learn about the starting points of medicine... Do you have a medkit by the way?\"\n\nSurprisingly, he took tutoring medicine seriously... Maybe it was due to his passion always having been for the craft, but regardless, he wasn't about to lead a genin astray just for fun." }, { "author": "myrfloof", "message": "Seeing that Chiho got so focused at this point and was a lot more serious, Ayane did her best to return that energy, watching as they went through their equipment and book. It looked like she was in luck as far as new trainers go... This one was not only good at what she wanted to learn, but seemed rather agreeable.\n\n\"Yes, sensei... I have a medkit.\" She says. Reaching into one on the bags at her waist, she shows that it was pulled apart and individual implements within were sorted into varying pouches for ease of transport. She at least had that part nailed down.\n\n\"Manners of practicing medicine are illegal?\" She asks curiously, frowning at this thoughtfully. \"It feels odd that a city prioritizing survival and the ability to assassinate one's enemies would do put a lot of bans on much of anything, so if it is banned, I'm assuming it does something particularly volatile or unhealthy in the long run...\"" }, { "author": "wanderermog", "message": "\"Good! Field medicine is infinitely harder to tend to when you don't have the basics on hand, keep that by you at All Times, it's totally gonna pay off when you need it most. I've saved quite a few friends from bad situations because I could patch them up, hehe.\" He gave her a grin, tilting his head as he thought of how to explain the ban.\n\n\"Welll... It's not for any small reason... See, when you're a genin, the missions you're allowed on, 90% of the time... They're scouted and scoped out as we like, assess for threats... You'll never be sent on anything we don't believe someone of that skillset couldn't handle... But... Think of it like this. At a certain point, the level of skill... Control... Finesse needed to perform these abilities... Becomes Dangerous, if you mess up an A-Rank lightning jutsu... It's not just a singe and hair standing up... You're liable to be outta commission in the hospital for a few days.\"\n\nHe hummed, before snapping his fingers, showing Ayane a pale green glow originating from his hand. \"Mystical Palm for example. It's the staple of Medic Nin everywhere... When done right, you can seal large scale wounds and save your allies... But done wrong... You could burst blood vessels and slough off their flesh from an influx of improperly balanced Yang Chakra... Before you go thinking, weaponizing that is like, basically impossible, I tried, trust me.\"" }, { "author": "myrfloof", "message": "She frowns, thinking as she watches the glow of his hand. Mentally, she stored this within her memory. Conceptually, what he said made sense... So it wasn't a matter of 'these skills are dangerous and as such should be banned entirely' and more of 'the ban is based on current skill and individuals.' This, in and of itself, made sense. She could comprehend the basis of it, and agreed... If she right now tried doing things like that, she could see it going really poorly.\n\n\"So what that effectively comes down to is 'don't get ahead of yourself and you should be fine.' At least, that's what it sounds like...\" She nods slightly, smiling at him. \"Recently I got into some training with another genin, and tried using my chakra to block the attacks... It didn't go so well, and I couldn't pull enough energy out, leading to me getting pretty badly injured in the process. In some ways, I guess this was a bit of hubris on my part... So it's somewhat like that, only on a bit more of a destructive level considering it's not just 'not being able to use it and getting hurt' but 'using it and doing something accidentally that can actually critically harm yourself or others.'\"\n\nShe shifts, looking back at the glowing energy with a frown... So it could harm others, but it sounded like the practical application took too much concentration to use offensively, then? That kinda made sense, conceptually. You can't really attack with something that requires you to really concentrate on what you're doing unless you were doing it to someone already immobilized... And at that point, there were significantly easier to apply methods of taking out an enemy. Unless you were trying to make it look like it was just a botched heal, not an intentional killing... But even then, that's not a 'combat trick' so to speak..." } ]	329.5	1,257
483.222222	2022-05-29	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "wanderermog", "message": "\"It's bound to happen, a Shinobi usually like, bites off more than they can chew at one point or another, just be glad it happened while you were training and not on the field.\" His tone was still light, but it carried a manner of weight at this statement, as if telling the girl not to take it lightly. \"It's best for certain techniques, especially the Armor Technique, to work up small... Build up and up until you're totally sure you can handle the hardest hits you know you can take... But totally don't forget to dodge either way, take what you can, avoid what you can't.\"\n\n\"Now, while you Can Just like, patch up the little brats here, I think I can totes help push your education along a bit. I know this might Look Boring, but trust me, I'm like, not about to give you an academy lecture on anatomy.\" He opened the basic medical scroll, putting it between the two as he cleared his throat. \"Now, the thing you should know, is medicine is Totally Multifaceted, a lotta people just see it as a way to patch up a wound, and I mean, they're not wrong, but... Knowing how to put someone together?...\" He opened an eye with a grin. \"Is a Great Way to learn how to break em down, which in our work? Is just as important.\"\n\nAnd so, Chiho would begin his conversation into medicine, helping Ayane along the way with terminology and the like, using common comparisons and real world applications to the jargon and knowledge, making sure the education wasn't just a two dimensional reading of a book without much substance, but rather that she'd walk away with both understanding... And hopefully appreciation." }, { "author": "0m39a", "message": "Within the training grounds the sounds of metal clashing against each other could be heard as there was a storm of chains and steel wire clashing alongside each other as two kunais fought with each other attempting to overpower one another so it can form a path to land an attack of its master. Atosh and Sento could be found in a deadlock as they both used their rope darts to fight against each other as a little sparing experience.\n\nSento would be fighting Atosh and what he believed to be only slightly above his skill level with the two specialized weapons but to his surprise, Atosh would be holding his own as Atosh's control over his chain was terrific for his age leading Sento to be proud in his student's rapid growth with slowly but surely turning the Rope dart into feeling like it is just apart of him.\n\nHowever memories would begin to flow through his head as Atosh's movements began to seem, familiar. Flashes of Atosh's father, Zil would start to fill Sento's mind as he was reminded of his original student seeing how Atosh was wearing His clothes from when Zil was Atosh's age.\n\nSento could see it clearly, motions and stops perfectly in sync almost as if Zil himself as a spirit was guiding his son's movements. Atosh may not share a lot of cosmetic qualities with Zil but Sento could sense that willpower that originally led Sento to mentor Zil.\n\nBut to a pleasant surprise, the synchronization with Sento's memories would break after Atosh's and Sento's rope darts would tangle together, unlike Zil who would have done more to quickly put their rope dart's into a knot ending the fight in a draw Atosh took a different approach of the situation. Popping the end of his rope dart off his arm and catching it in his other hand, Atosh would start to close the gap between the two. Attempting to stop Atosh's advancements Sento would try to recall his rope dart from the tangle while Atosh charged in he would use his free hand and a series of kicks into the rope dart causing the Dart to become unwieldy making it hard for Sento to regain control of his rope dart.\n\nSoon after reaching over the halfway point in between the two Sento would finally get the rope dart out of the tangle, but acting quickly Atosh would wrap the middle of his chain to his right arm alongside Sento's Steel wire, locking his rope dart in place stopping Sento from resetting his stance.\n\nNow within a closer range Atosh would begin to perform a chain dance... One that he hadn't prepared to do beforehand but one that Sento would recognize as he began to widely send both head and tail of the rope dart toward Sento causing Sento to block the attacks with only whatever length of his metal wire. Intentionally or not Atosh would be performing the Chain Dance of the new moon, A Chain Dance that has no set forms but varies from user to user. But for Sento, he could easily tell that this was Atosh's version.\n\nSoon pulling Atosh in quickly and forcing him to let loose his steel wire, Sento would simply say. \"Stop... You've done well.\" He would as he opened his eyes to look at Atosh, to where he could see Atosh was exhausted. His New moon was aggressive and possibly one of the strongest to date so far but with such power came a more taxing effect on the body. The sparing match had already gone on for a long time, and seeing how this was his first time performing his New moon of course Atosh would be tired.\n\n\"That chain dance -\"\n\"Yeah I know, New moon... The start of your family style of chain dance.\"\n\nSento was surprised to hear that from Atosh, but he would quickly put two and two together that Milin told him about the Luner series of Chain dances.\n\n``Jutsu Learning: Chain Dance: New Moon ^^``\n\nSento would be impressed with Atosh, he seemingly developed his version of New moon quickly and without too much guidance from him.. Impressive.\n\n\"Hmm Kiddo you seem really good at making your own fighting style now. Now that I think about it you made your own series already right?\" Sento would ask in his casual tone as he began to wrap his rope dart around his arm.\n\nDoing the same Atosh would nod. \"Yeah... But it's not really anything special.\" He would say as after his Chain was fashioned onto his arm he would perform some quick hand seals and soon. He would have a set of Rock kunai in his hands. \"Rock kunai, I can also make a Fuuma Shuriken version to.\"\n\nSento would cross his arms as he thought about it, it was impressive that Atosh was already making Jutsus that fitted his fighting style, knowing that Atosh specialized in Shurikenjutsu too. Having an almost unlimited supply of Throwing weapons is a vital quality he would need. \"Rock Smithing right? Have you been making any more to add to the list?\" \n\nOnce again Atosh would nod as he performed some hand seals... But unlike his Rock kunai this would come out more.. Messy. \"I Call it Clay Tower shield but... I've yet to perfect it.\" He would explain as Sento walked up and looked at the shield.\n\n\"Hmmm, it's still a bit too thin to be a good shield... But a good start.\" Sento would say looking towards the shield, He knew that eventually, Atosh would need to learn a lot more offensive jutsus if he was going to join the PU... But a defensive jutsu like these shows more of Atosh's nature. To be a bulwark for his friends and family. Nodding Sento would soon sit on the floor and call over Atosh to sit alongside him and to place the shield in front of the two.\n\n\"Hmm I see that you are trying your best to reserve your Chakra but you can not let your shield falter when it is needed the most.\"\n\n\"Yeah... But it's getting to the point where if I pour in any more Chakra into the shield I might as well try to tank the hit head-on with Armor Technique.\"\n\nThe two would begin to talk and discuss how to improve the Clay Tower shield Jutsu and to ensure that the Jutsu actually becomes of good use.\n\nThe two would talk for a while as soon it would lead to testing. Now currently holding one of Atosh's rock kunai, Sento would be lining up a shot towards Atosh who was holding his tower shield. \"Ready?\" Sento would yell towards Atosh who was standing strong as he held the clay tower shield. \"READY!\" He yelled back.\n\nSoon a flurry of Kunai would start to fly towards Atosh who was doing his best to fend off and soon after, Atosh was un touched, without needing to use his Armor Technique as the tower shield stood strong, showing that the Clay Tower shield Technique was ready for use.\n\n``Jutsu Learning: Earth Release: Tower Shield ^^``" }, { "author": "myrfloof", "message": "```This is now training ground```\nAyane had made her way to the training ground as she looks around thoughtfully. She intended on taking a bit of time to practice her ninja arts, but tended to find herself doing much better with partners in training. For now, she stepped out toward the area, and began practicing by breathing, setting a book in her lap in order to try to better study as she clasps her hands together. Right now, she wanted to better gain a stance on her control of her chakra, so this is the best way of handling it.\n\nShe continued to gently breathe, in and out for now. Focusing on each of her zones of chakra, and seeing if she can better 'tap' them so-to-speak, and see if she can course it over her in the process. If possible, she was seeking a better way to at least control this flow and use it better... But honestly she wasn't exactly sure if she was going about this right.\n\nThat's where the book(s) came in! The one she had in her lap was a simple guide to ninjutsu, however she had a few other stacked on the rock next to her about more specific forms therein. At least for now, it was something she could work off of. And in any case, this was a beginning stage, right? It was better to do it like this than nothing..." }, { "author": "glowy", "message": "Those moths Hon had left with Ayane? Turns out they were for more than just a friendly sentiment or purely accidental, as one of the ones that had been hiding with Ayane crawled out from her bag(or anything she has that could hide them really) and up onto her hand, starting to flaps its wings rapidly but not yet take off. While most people would consider bugging your friends so you can track them and spend time with them creepy, and rightfully so, Hon was rather used to it as a fact of life, not like it was considered weird or anything as she was growing up among the Aburame. \n\nWith the moth going nuts it was pretty easy for Hon to track down the swordswomen and soon the lonely little guy was joined by a buddy, which quickly grew to around five all flying around Ayane before the feral moth queen arrived and crouched down right in front of her. \"Whatcha reading~?\" She asked in a singsong voice, sounding much healthier than when they last saw each other, if nothing else she was in a better mood.\n\nHon already knew what she was reading, her little spy had already gotten the name from the spine for her, scouting bugs were so useful weren't they? Convinently enough Hon was trying to pick up the same curriculum, if in a slightly different direction. While both girls wanted to pick up Nintaijutsu, The Aburame was focused on more breezy study material, a breath of fresh air compared to the terrible writing common among Aburame texts." }, { "author": "myrfloof", "message": "Ayane blinks, noticing the moths and breaking her out of her focus as she watches them. While normally she would try to swat them away, this many moths in the middle of the day was an oddity. And she only knew one person that would consistently make such an oddity actually appear... So when Hon showed up, she didn't seem surprised at all, smiling gently at the other girl.\n\n\"Hey Hon... It's good to see you again!\" She says, before looking at the moths. She hadn't known she'd been tagged, however was definitely aware these had to be Hon's swarm. \"Looks like your moths arrived before you. Fancy that...\" She grins at him, before resettling, holding the book up. \"Chakra control to better my ninjutsu. I'm trying to better control how I use my chakra to do some more interesting things.\"\n\nShe sets the book down, thinking as she does, before looking back toward Hon, tapping the pile. \"To be specific, I was actually focusing more on enveloping myself and my weapon in wind to help shrug off attacks and increase my weapon's abilities... But before I can do that, it seems I'm still quite far from mastering control of my chakra. Hence the current route of study.\"" }, { "author": "glowy", "message": "\"Good to see you too Ayane! With my own eyes at least.\" She chuckled slightly and held out her hand, palm side up. The moths bothering the girl quickly flew back to their master, creeping back under her skin and into hiding. One, the original one who had been hiding out on her, turns back to Ayane for a moment before taking flight and rejoining the colony, apparently it had taken a liking to her. \n\n\"Huh. I was planning to look into Nintaijutsu myself actually. I figure you learn the technique and then work on the skills necessary to pull it off right? You can just practice them by using that advanced technique instead.\" She sat down cross-legged beside the girl, pulling out her own book and cracking it open. \"I know it's not super easy to study together since we're doing different material, but I hope you don't mind the company.\"\n\n\"Yeah I'm looking into wind coated shuriken myself, It feels like they are just a bit too easy for people to shrug off, so might as well make them extra painful right? Besides what type of shurikenjutsu expert can't use Verdant mountain gale? Practically required if you really want to ruin people's days with shuriken.. Though I do have a truly mean idea once I get skilled enough to produce my own.\" She spoke while her eyes scanned the page, seeming to have no issue with multitasking her reading and small talk." }, { "author": "myrfloof", "message": "Ayane, for that matter, listens intently, but does slow her reading down as she does. It seemed she was not quite as adept at reading and speaking at the same time, but not 'incapable' of doing so by any means. She smiles, waving to the moths, but did quirk an eye at the 'with my own eyes.' Perhaps she could see through her moths? It was definitely useful, if so, and would explain why her clan used this technique, even if she still didn't quite agree with how they went about it... But again, not her place.\n\n\"It's not all that much different if you think about it. In both cases, we are considering using the wind to make a metal implement sharper... So at a baseline, we have something similar to focus on before it diverges between 'one is a thrown weapon, one is a melee.' Although I will admit I still intend on learning more about shuriken, so...\"\n\nShe thinks as she rubs her chin, looking at the book, before humming as she flips a page. \"In any case, if you want to join in my study session, I won't complain for sure. I actually rather enjoy joint studies.\" She shifts, resettling as she does. \"Before you had arrived, I was in the middle of practicing aligning my chakras to better control their flow. Before any of the rest of it, that seems to be the most important part. IT's a pretty rudimentary aspect of jutsu, but it seems rather important to master to use more difficult jutsu...\"" }, { "author": "glowy", "message": "Seeing the eyebrow raised Hon quickly got to explaining, remembering that it was normal not to assume every bug is a friend of some shinobi. \"Right, I can sorta like... I can.\" She frowned and shook her head. \"Words hard. My colony can feed me information, I get basic info from them, its why I left that little guy on you. Tiny guardian angel.\" As she said that one moth scurried out onto her hand before she commanded it to go back in, which it seemed to do so reluctantly.\n\n\"Same Idea different execution, I imagine your more focused on making your blade feel lighter while I'm more worried about propulsion speed and sharpness... And control for that matter.\" She pulled a shuriken from her pocket and spun it on her finger, seeming to have a bit of an issue with sitting still and Not Fidgeting with something. ADHD or something like that, she remembers someone saying something about her possibly having something like that.\n\nAligning chakra, Hon had remembered hearing about it and how it was an important part of mastering ninjutsu and all that stuff, but I mean, did she really have that much chakra to align? Her bugs had most of her chakra in theory, could she align her bugs? Was that a thing? She was going to have to go back to dealing with boring, terrible Aburame books wasn't she? Just the thought of that made her want her to attempt to brute force it without getting her chakra in perfect order just so she could read something slightly more interesting. \"Thats.. I ... Bugs..\" She mumbled as she spoke, suddenly looking up from her book. \"Hopefully I dont have to do anything special for it..\"" }, { "author": "myrfloof", "message": "\"Left him with me?\" She says, blinking, before thinking for a moment... She couldn't have 'left him with her' recently... So it had to be... \"The bench, you mean? Useful, for sure, but I wish you had told me...\" She frowns, before shaking her head as she looks toward Hon... Hon... Hmm... Maybe something slightly different... \"At the very least then if I had found him before I would have known not to do anything about him, you know Mushi?\" She says, trying the nickname on for size. It was clear she wasn't really angry about it.\n\n\"In any case, not as different as you think. I don't want to lighten the weapon- in fact, I'd rather it keep it's weight. It's the heft of the blade that helps travel the kinetic force, and the reason why... Ah, you wouldn't have seen yet...\" She shifts, getting up, and drawing the blade as she steps back, positioning into a kata with the blade over her shoulder instead of held in both hands. \"I start with it back here. Instead of using my force to direct it, I use my shoulder as a leverage...\" She rolls the back of the blade along her shoulder, as she said, bringing her other hand up and catching the handle lower, and continues to leverage it along her other hand now. \"And allow the force and momentum to carry it through to a strike. At that rate, lowering the weight isn't going to actually help any. If anything, it'll make it slower and less useful. I might as well switch to a katana at that point.\"\n\nShe then shifts, doing a couple of the following strokes, showing at least a couple of the kata behind using a massive weapon like this, showing she's actually ironically able to leverage the weapon with surprising swiftness as a result, in spite of the incredible heft. \"You still need some strength behind you to even do this, but it makes it possible with less strength than you would think... Ah! Right... Uh... Chakra... Heh...\"\n\nShe shifts, walking back over and settling down across from Mushi as she does, smiling. \"I want to break the wind around the edge to make it cut sharper, deeper, and hopefully accelerate it just before the strike using wind to cause it to strike with more force. So really, the principle in some ways is similar to what you are describing. If anything, I'd actually probably have to find ways of adding things to the blade to add more heft to it as I go to account for the shift in method.\"\n\nOnce properly settled in, she sets the sword down next to her as she does, and keeps a hand on it, frowning as she considers seeing if she can use it as a part of the practice and channel the chakra through it as well... Like a medium of sorts... Since that was what she was going for anyway. \"Well, in either case, that is where things are right now for that...\"" } ]	332	4,349
353.3	2022-05-30	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "glowy", "message": "Hon suddenly stiffened up as she realized she had fucked up, not even thinking of the slight as something wrong or weird, I mean most Aburame did it right? It wasn't that creepy to know your friend or family member could snoop on you at any point? I mean especially if you were close with them if anything it was a sense of security to Hon whenever she had a few of her sisters adorable cherry moths around. She lowered her head slightly, looking like a dejected dog who got scolded for taking treats. She kept this dejected look even though Ayane didn't seem all too angry.\n\n\"I won't leave them around you anymore.. Sorry.\" She said quietly, slinking out of the way to give the girl room to demonstrate her kata with its wide, powerful swings that could tear the girl in half. Part of it scared her in a way, the fact that one mistake and her friend could bisect her with ease, but at the same time it gave her plenty of ideas. \"...Hey Ayane? Just how strong do you think you are? Think you would be able to lift, or gods forbid swing that thing while im on it? Cause uh.. Okay here me out.\" She smiled deviously and stood up, walking over to take a look of the sword. \"Wouldn't it be quite a... Interesting technique if you were to use your sword to launch me in the air or throw me at enemies, and I follow up with a beautiful barrage of of assorted blades.\" She smiled and pulled out a set of shuriken for a brief moment before slipping them back into wherever she hid her tools.\n\n\"Different time, for now, lets focus on sharper blades for cleaner deaths yeah?\" She sat back down and cracked open the book, muttering to herself as she carefully read it over.\"" }, { "author": "myrfloof", "message": "\"I actually don't mind you leaving them with me. However had I found that moth before I found out why it was there, I could have harmed it.\" She shakes her head as she does, before smiling at Hon. \"I'm not saying to stop- it's a very useful thing to keep around and have help... Just that it might be a good idea when doing it with your allies who aren't used to it to let them know, you know?\" She shrugs, before resettling.\n\n\"As for that idea... I don't... Know?\" She thinks, looking down, before frowning. \"Maybe if you set up some wires? Did a few things to make it easier... Then I could use it to launch you. Heh, if you get some razor wires you could even turn it even more lethal by using them to lacerate people as you go. Sounds pretty horrific... But I'm definitely going to need a bit more time training some core muscles before I even try it...\"\n\nAt that, she nods, before flipping the page of her book, humming as she does, clearly in a bit more happy of a mood... It was nice having a friend compliment her... But after a moment's thought she glances up... \"... So... Mushi's not a good one, huh?\"" }, { "author": "glowy", "message": "Hon nodded, still seeming a bit out of it with the whole, \"Being the weird one for leaving bugs with people\" Thing. When she actually thought about it it made a lot of sense, but it caused her to start double guessing a lot of her other actions and habits on if they were just Aburame things or actual normal behavior. \"Thanks for telling me I guess.. If there is anything else like that tell me so I can stop okay?\"\n\nWith the idea anything but rejected Hon grinned wickedly and chuckled, already poking around her head for ideas on how to make this terrible ideas of hers an actually functioning technique. Maybe she could use wind chakra and give her a small boost when she shot off the blade? Ahh later issues, for no she had Nintaijutsu to learn. She pulled out her book in one hand and got to reading while spinning a shuriken on the other, partially to satisfy her need to do something tactile, and also because she could practice as she read like this.\n\nIt wasn't too foreign of an idea to her, it was kinda similar to manipulating attack blades where you chare the thing up with chakra before you throw it, except this time she needed to get it down with wind chakra and not the plain jane stuff. She kept spinning the star and tried to add bits of wind chakra to it, though found it difficult to send wind, and not just generic chakra, probably because she hasn't unlocked the bug gates or whatever. \"Hm...\" She growled out, looking at the shuriken with a scowl." }, { "author": "myrfloof", "message": "Ayane, meanwhile, was continuing to focus her attention on her blade, watching Hon's manner of handling her energy, and trying to apply it to her blade. Energy flowing along the edge as she frowns, focusing... It seemed like it flickered, however, and wasn't quite managing... Applying energy to the edge of a massive blade wasn't quite the same as applying the same energy to a small shuriken... So she was going to have to change the method.\n\nSlowly, she repositions the blade, before looking at a book as she does. \"Hmmm... It seems you are right... Applying it isn't quite so easily placed between shuriken and this... At least, I'm having trouble following your lead on that... Hey, Hon, that thing you're doing where you spin it? Any particular reason?\" She asks, before pulling out a shuriken of her own and trying to do the same thing.\n\nIt seems to work... Kinda...? Although the same flickering was happening, causing her to frown in annoyance. It was clear to her she wasn't quite 'settling' the energy right, but what was that supposed to look like? How did you do that?" }, { "author": "glowy", "message": "Hon didn't respond at first, she was dialed in on figuring out her chakra and getting this shuriken to work with her. It shouldn't be this annoying right? I mean Nintai was the basis of all the good high ranking shurikenjutsus, she shouldn't be struggling this much. She frowned and stopped the spinning shuriken, still ignoring Ayane, One more attempt..\n\nShe got the shuriken spinning once more, making sure it had some speed behind it before she took a deep breath and started to feed her chakra into it. As she did so she focused on the sensation she got when using wind release, the sort of light, floaty feeling that came whenever she channeled the winds and tried to blend it with the chakra itself. She had.. No idea what that really meant or did, she was just trying to make her chakra as light as possible really, thinking windy thoughts, just kinda following her gut with what she should be doing to get it to work.\n\nTo her surprise her strategy of thinking about doing windy things seemed to work, causing the shuriken to spin on her finger impossibly fast, enough to hover on its own like a helicopter for a few seconds before it burned through the chakra and dropped to her hand. \"Spinning it cause that kinda forces the chakra to spread out, like spinning a jar throws the waters to the side of it. The likelyhood that that wasn't absolute bullshit was low, but it did seem to work for her, if only by having good instincts." }, { "author": "myrfloof", "message": "She frowns at this... That seemed to make sense... And trying to do it seemed to work a bit better with the shuriken... But how would that work with her sword? Maybe she was thinking about this wrong... Well, in that case, she spun the shuriken a bit more, thinking about how that worked as she watches it, before focusing, conjuring up winds as well and enveloping the blade as it spun. True to word, it did seem to... Work? It was working... That helped, at least...\n\nIf that was the case, it was time to try to figure out how to apply it to her sword... Setting the shuriken down, she picks her blade up, looking it over, before focusing on it similarly to how she focused on the shuriken. She couldn't easily 'spin' the sword... So... How did she manipulate that? \"Maybe... If I spin the chakra instead?\" She says with a frown, before closing her eyes. Instead of simply 'shunting' energy along the blade, she began to focus it into swirls, seeing if she could 'spin' her chakra along the length of the blade.\n\nIt... Seemed to work? The energy was a lot more stable than earlier, at least... But it was imperfect... She would clearly need a bit more training than this, but it was a breakthrough! Instead of the strange, flickering, insubstantial energy that wasn't doing much before, little lacerations of wind seemed to course along the edge of the weapon. It would clearly do a wicked amount of damage on a hit. Sighing with relief, she smiles slightly at Hon.\n\n\"This... This is progress, if nothing else... Although I still feel like I could be doing a lot more with it...\" She frowns as she looks toward the sword... Feel like it? Was it even possible for her to control the wind to that extent... She didn't know... Maybe she had to try to build up more potency? That... Didn't feel right... But how else could she approach it?" }, { "author": "glowy", "message": "Honmushi knew better than to push herself and try to get her throwing up to snuff, she had gotten her nintai down, and for now, that was enough. If she were to push herself she would just burn out and likely hurt herself in the end. She instead opted to watch Ayane try and get it to work with her massive blade, curious how she was going to manipulate chakra over such a large area, especially since the two Were struggling just to coat some shurikens. \n\nShe watched with her wild eyes, studying the girl just as much as the blade she was using, and while sure enough she did get her chakra to flow through the blade, it wasn't enough for either of them. \"Your holding back.\" Mushi said in a monotone voice, as though it was an obvious fact. \"Oh yeah, Mushi is fine. Sorry I forgot you talked about that and-\" She cut herself off and shook her head. She walked up to the girl and gave her a small push, leaving a few moths on her as she did so. \"Come on Ayane! Put some feeling into it! Get it right now! Don't wait till you have to save your life with it or prove you can do it to the branches prove it to me!\" She shouted, trying to get the clanless girl to quit limiting herself and go for it. \"I can do it and I suck with my chakra come on!\" She gave her another light push, while Hon wasn't the easiest person to read with her dissonant voice and feral attitude, but it didn't seem liek she was trying to demoralize her with ths light bullying." }, { "author": "myrfloof", "message": "Ayane yelps slightly at the shove, before frowning up at Mushi, using a hand to brace herself, keeping the other hand on her sword as she does. \"What do you mean, holding back? It's not like I'm some prodigy who has all this spare talent... I'm just the daughter of some frontier workers, nothing more...\" She says, a sad look to her eyes, before quickly shaking her head, replacing it with a smile... Perhaps for the first time letting that smile truly slip beyond a pensive look... \"I... I appreciate you expecting more of me, but I don't want to disappoint you...\"\n\nShe shifts, resettling as she does with a shrug. \"Everyone else out here seem to have gotten training in all of this stuff since you started, it only makes sense that I'm a bit behind. It just means I have to go back an double down on the basics, doesn't it?\" She shifts, looking back to her sword, and back at Mushi. \"If I can't do it yet that... Just means I can't do it yet, and there's just something else I have to do? That's how I lost to...\" She shifts, looking away, trying to recalibrate... She had to recenter. She hadn't expected Honmushi to start talking to her like that and it shook her up some. She had gotten to comfortable, it seemed... After a moment, she takes a deep breath, and looks back at the girl.\n\n\"I'll give it a go, I guess...\" She says, standing and trying to focus on her sword again, interlacing the chakra and trying to build it up through her blade. Slowly, she poured energy across the edge, but this time tried to focus inwardly instead of on the blade itself... That was the issue, right? That was always the issue, after all... It was clear Mushi seemed to think something else was up, but Ayane knew she had to get past her own hurdles first...\n\n\"I... Don't... Know...\" She says after a moment, trying to keep the tone of defeat out of her voice as even less happens than earlier. \"... A shinobi is supposed to be strong... Right?\"" }, { "author": "glowy", "message": "Hon, despite still being focused on motivating Ayane, was starting to get rather worked up about her being so quick to give up and say that she can't do it, the sentiment was clearly getting under her skin almost as much as her bugs did. \"Yeah they were frontier workers and you are Ayane god damn Utsukushīoto! You're a full-on shinobi who has the fucking gall to take a greatsword into a stealth job and make it work!\" She sounded frustrated, though it didn't seem to be at Ayane. \n\nShe didn't want to get physical again after that yelp, especially while she was channeling her chakra, sounds like a great way for one of them to get injured really. \"You can do it and we both know it your just not trying as hard as you should be.\" Her moths were growing restless, a large number of them fluttering free from her body and getting some distance on her, a decent number of them landing on Ayane as though she would protect them. \"Complacency breeds death dear so quit this bullshit and show me what we know you got.\"\n\nShe crossed her arms and glared a the girl as she started and didn't put her all into it. \"I don't know how you keep sabotaging yourself. You are strong come on! It's time to hit the pavement Ayane show me what your made of.\"" }, { "author": "myrfloof", "message": "\"I've got it! I've got it alright!\" She says hastily, the happy veneer seeming to vanish entirely with an almost pained look as she grips the sword, shutting her eyes tightly as she does. \"Fine! If you really think I've got something special like that, fine!\"\n\nShe takes a half step back, gripping her sword angrily now as she grits her teeth... If thinking through it wasn't helping... If Mushi seemed so intent that Ayane was holding back... Then fine... She would just stop thinking! She wasn't going to just rely on her emotions, but what she would do is simply stop. Taking a deep breath, she forced it all out... The thoughts... The emotions... The memories... Pushed it aside, and forced it all off. She pictured it, this time... Not as the wind running through her... She didn't feel like the wind, running free, and simply existing. That... That wasn't what it felt like... What it was like, was...\n\nStrange... Was she crying? No... That wasn't it... Slowly, the humidity around her seemed to be altering... But she could feel it... Something growing within her... That energy was slowly forming, coalescing... It didn't form around her sword, but it seemed like her chakra- which she had tried so hard to focus on swirling and flowing around her- swirled in a different way... She wasn't causing water to actually form around her, but her chakra flowed across her body in waves... Strange... Was... That why it always seemed so... Flickery?\n\nShe aligned herself to the concept of water, then... Smooth, ebbing and flowing... The expression on her face slowly softened, breathing in tune with what she felt within herself... This push and pull of chakra, running through her system... It felt... Simple? Controlling it suddenly was so much easier than she thought... Like running her hand through the pond, on a summer day... Was that the answer, all along? As the energy finally seemed to pull easily, aligning cleanly at last..." } ]	338	3,533
313.25	2022-05-31	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "glowy", "message": "Hon shut the hell up as Ayane actually doubled down and pushed through what was bothering her and sent it with her chakra. Mushi didn't really know what she was doing differently, or what caused the girl to truly take the step and break past whatever was limiting her, but that doesn't mean hon wasn't damn proud of her for doing so. Hon could practically feel the girl's chakra ash she finally got things to work for her, leading to her taking a step back and recalling her moths, for their safety. \n\n\"There you go now your getting it..\" She said softly, not wanting to disrupt the girl, but still wanting to congratulate her on getting it down after struggling with it so much. \"Told you that you were holding back.\" She teased, watching the girl closely to see if she would be able to pull it off and coat her blade in chakra this time, shouldn't be too hard for her at this point right?\n\nShe didn't want to step to close to the girl and accidentally get in her way or end up on the wrong end of that sword, but she really wasn't sure what selse she could or should do here and ended up just quietly twiddling her thumbs while waiting on Ayane." }, { "author": "myrfloof", "message": "Ayane focused for a bit more... Before slowly letting the chakra dissipate, frowning thoughtfully at her blade... That... Wouldn't do... She focused again, pushing the energy into her blade... It worked better this time, but she could feel that it was... Tenuous... At best. That was still a struggle... But she thought she knew the problem now.\n\n\"... Bladework...\" She says after a moment, looking at it as the process of lifting her sword caused the energy to ripple and lose form. \"... I need to work on my bladework... I can't do both at the same time... But...\" There's a while, before she smiles gently at Honmushi, a soft, warm look in her eyes. \"... You weren't necessarily wrong, I suppose. I... Didn't know it, but I was letting stupid things hold me back. You're right, Mushi... Thank you.\"\n\nShe takes a deep breath, before letting it out as she straightens up. \"I guess you were right about another thing too... Just because we are practicing the same thing doesn't mean it is the same for both of us. Trying to follow your lead wasn't doing me any good at all.\" She giggles a bit, grinning at Mushi. \"Hmmm... You're quite clever, Mushi! I'm glad to have you around... But I think... I think I understand now... My chakra wasn't responding right because I wasn't tapping into it right...\" She smiles, before bringing her hands up and flicking the sides of her head with a giggle.* \"I think I've gotta get back in the game. I'm letting stupid things get to me when I should have my eyes on the horizon!\" She giggles, grinning, before stepping forward to try to give Honmushi a gentle hug." }, { "author": "glowy", "message": "Hon nodded at Ayane's stance on her bladework, it was the exact same issue she was having with her shurikens. \"Yeah, I can do it, just struggling to keep it consistent when I throw out the shuriken.. So guess were going to need some practice to actually do it... And why are you thanking me? Your the one who got passed your bullshit.\"\n\nShe gave a small shrug as she went and grabbed the kunai she had launched early, not seeing what she did as anything special, all she did was point it out, nothing more, nothing less. \"I suppose that makes sense, I can't imagine either of us being alike, plus with my chakra being regularly consumed by bugs its not like I have a normal system or anything, My advice on things is probably bad in general. Unless its throwing things. Then its good.\" She picked up the shuriken and looked it over before pocketing it and returning to the girl, just in tome for the hug.\n\nHon Returned the hug, though gave her a much tighter squeeze, no need to hug her lightly, she wasn't fragile like Hon, hell even then the Aburame would not mind being crushed to death by this women, certainly worse ways to go out then a bear hug. \"Don't worry, Ill be around to make sure you don't slack off or get inside your own head anymore, just try to avoid it so I don't have to yell at you okay?\"" }, { "author": "myrfloof", "message": "She giggles a little bit, smiling at Hon with a nod. \"Of course... And you did a lot more than you think...\" She shifts, humming as she does, before frowning as she looks down, a thoughtfully look on her face. \"Actually... While we're at it... It would be a shame to do all this and not try to adapt some of our skills while we're at it... What do you say? We have some books, and I don't have anything to do... Wanna get to work on some jutsu? I have something I was planning on, but it's out of my normal purview.\"\n\nShe shifts, walking over to peek through some of the books, before pulling out a couple of scrolls as she does. \"While I was going through the library I had decided to poke at some different things that might be of use. Typical techniques for starters... Feel free to peek over some of them to see if there's anything your interested in. Might as well keep this study session going while we still have some steam!\"\n\nShe shifts, unfurling the scroll and showing the one she plucked up to Honmushi- water clones, it seemed. \"After that observation on how my chakra works just now, I think... This might be a good way of using the momentum of that realization. If you don't have anything else to do, and have something on your mind, I wouldn't mind if we worked together and gave some pointers?\"" } ]	306	1,253
307.444444	2022-06-01	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "glowy", "message": "Hon thought on it for a moment before accepting Ayane's offer with a simple nod, setting her self down and paging through the books to look for a technique that might be useful to her. She didn't use Ninjutsu too much, I mean sure the main draw of being a ninja was Ninjutsu and being able to do things like shoot lightning out of your hands, she was more interested in being able to get away with more things and not being considered a rogue and killed on the spot.\n\nShe eventually found one that could prove useful to her, a technique called wind release: Gale palm. It seemed to be simple enough, plus it seemed like she could use it to speed up her kunai to give them some extra force, She could totally work with something like that. She picked up the book she had found it in and showed it to Ayane, pointing at the page and tapping it a few times to get her attention. She didn't say anything as she started reading up on the technique, wincing and shifting uncomfortably as she did.\n\nAfter about a minute of not saying a word she suddenly had a brief, violent coughing fit, turning away from Ayane as she did. As soon as she could she spoke up in a raspy voice. \"Im fine. Im fine.\" She debated explain what had happened to the girl for a moment, though figured that if she didnt tell her, she was just going to bug her about it. \"Wrong pipe..\" She said simply, lifting up her hair to reveal a truly concerningly large Aburame tunnel on the back of her neck, no wonder she had issues talking when they were breeding." }, { "author": "myrfloof", "message": "Ayane frowns as she looks at the large tunnel disconcertedly... There was probably not much she could do... Or even should try to do... To ease the girl's struggles with this currently... But perhaps she could look into some medical procedures that might help her in the future? Well, in any case, for now she gives a very slight nod, smiling gently. \"I think I can see some of why your voice sometimes changes...\"\n\nShe shifts, not saying much more on it as she lays her own scroll down, before looking at Mushi's scroll... Gale palm? It was one of the ones she had been eyeing for her own study, for sure. She nods slightly, looking it over a bit. \"Hmmm... Well, I don't know the technique myself, but I have been working on some of the wind release in general... So I wouldn't mind working on it with you a bit to see what I can help with if you need it? For now though... Maybe we should try with me trying to summon a water clone and you trying to use that jutsu on it?\"\n\nShe shifts, looking at her own scroll, before starting to go through the hand signs slowly. After a bit, she brings her hands out as she focuses... Water from one of the nearby ponds begins twisting into a form, and comes out... Distorted... Humanoid, but not quite managing to hold form at first... Before falling apart as she watches, a slight smirk on her face.\n\n\"I suppose I should work on actually getting that down first before I say anything of the sort, shouldn't I?\" She says, before letting out a playful giggle as she grins at Honmushi." }, { "author": "glowy", "message": "Hon just nodded in response with a from, letting her hair back down to help cover the tunnel before pulling her hood up as well, seems to be the only tunnel she was self conscious about. Hon just gave a thumbs up to Ayane's plan, while it was likely that she was fine to speak now, she still wanted to avoid it, as though she was afraid more moths would crawl into her throat and try to choke her. Either way, enough about her stupid, evil swarm, they both had a new technique to learn. \n\nShe picked up the scroll and looked over it once again, as though re reading the same passage over and over would actually make a difference in pulling of the technique. Eventually she just nodded to herself and set it to the side before getting back up and first watching The water bender take her shot at a clone technique. Hon considered offering her some of the things she had picked up when her and her sister had learned the insect clone technique, but that was also much different then an elemental clone so she opted to stay quiet.\n\nWith Ayane finished hon took a shot at her own technique, blazing through the hands speeds ande carefully managing the powerful winds gathering at her palms for all of two seconds before it blew up on her, creating a powerful gust that left her visibly startled and blew her hood back down. \"Want advice on clones? I know Insect clone but im not sure how similar of an idea it is.\" Her voice was still rough, though it was getting better from when she last spoke." }, { "author": "myrfloof", "message": "\"If you can. I've never done clones before... But I also don't want to stress your throat.\" She says with a shrug. She could tell the girl was favoring her voice right now, and having seen that hole and gotten a better feel for what it seemed to do to her, she could tell why... But at the same time... She frowns at the explosion slightly, a thoughtful look to her face.\n\n\"Hmmm... Too much backdraft, perhaps?\" She asks contemplatively, before cocking her head to the side. \"How are you moving the chakra? This is just a guess... But you want it to go in one particular direction right? So perhaps consider controlling for the directions you don't want it to travel? Conceptually, after all, wind would move in whatever direction it could... So for similar ways that your cheeks and mouth direct Breakthrough, perhaps you could use chakra to block off all but the direction you want the wind to travel? This is purely speculation, though...\"\n\nShe thinks as she says this, mentally considering if perhaps a similar concept could be put on the water clones. She was, after all, contemplating giving form to something that took the form of the vessel it is in... So without a vessel, wouldn't that mean the water would do just what it did? Lose form and go all over the place?" }, { "author": "glowy", "message": "Hon nodded at Ayane's request for details and shut her eyes for a moment, shaking the jitters out of her body before expelling her swarm. If Ayane were to watch it would be clear just how much her bugs favored crawling out of her neck as opposed to her arms and leg, about 70% percent of them exiting from the one tunnel. They gathered in front of her, forming a rough, amorphous blob of buzzing wings. \"I don't know how well the idea applies to Water, but I just sorta slowly push on the chakra, forcing them closer and closer.. Kinda like chiseling I guess? Slowly getting rid of the parts that don't work and keeping the ones that do..\" \n\nAs she spoke in her raspy voice the bugs slowly condensed, Going from a blob, to humanoid, to kinda looking like Honmushi, to the exact outline of Hon. \"After you get the shape the color can be hard.. But just take your time and know that more chakra means higher light frequency..\" She said weakily as she forced the bugs to take on the proper colors to form a pretty solid clone of Hon. She kept the clone up for a few moment before dismissing it, Placing a hand over her neck before recalling the bugs. This limited their tunnels and caused them to take longer to recall, but it did seem to offer her a bit of comfort.\n\nShe nodded at Ayane's advice, it made sense, just controlling and limiting the direction of the flow would in theory increase the power and reduce the amount of chakra needed. \"You try first, Gonna let the bugs recharge a little.\" She said, sounding only a bit worse then her normal voice." }, { "author": "myrfloof", "message": "Ayane frowns, watching this, before nodding as she closes her eyes. Focusing on 'chiseling' the mana like Mushi said. Water emerges from the pond once more, taking on a humanoid form quite easily. This is where some of her personal ability began to shine, though.\n\nWater was very good at refracting light. And with this concept of how to form the clone down, the rest seemed to come naturally to her. Color appearing in an almost shimmering alteration, before a nearly perfect copy of Ayane stood before then. She blinks, and smiles as the clone flexes it's fingers, rotating it's joints in a very human-like manner, before smiling at the two of them.\n\n\"Well, the chisel thing seems to... Not quite work fully, but it got the idea through... It seems to feel more like clay than chiseling stone. But the concept of shaping things steadily seems to have paid off!\" She explains happily, looking toward Mushi." }, { "author": "glowy", "message": "Honmushi watched the clone form with a gentle smile, staying quiet as Ayane properly manipulated the water into shape before getting the coloration down as though it was nothing. Hon found it a bit interesting that the part she always struggled with came so easy to Ayane, but while she had issues with shaping it that was one of the easier parts for the Aburame. Just down to the different material she supposes.\n\n\"Ahh, I was never great with analogies, glad you made it work for you though!\" She flashed a bright smile to the girl before it clicked in her head that it was her turn to take a shot at her technique. Right okay, Gale palm, Ayane was kind enough to give you a target you might as well use it. She flashed through the hand signs and took a deep breath as she held her hands in front of her, a powerful gust of wind forming in her hands. She shut her eyes and kept all her focus on the gale, increasing its power bit by bit.\n\nIt was clear she was starting to lose control over it, the winds causing her cloak to flutter wildly as it looked like the jutsu was about to falter. 'Control Hon, just corner it, block off the exits so it can only go one way'She took a deep breath and forced the chakra to obey her, Limiting the directions it could go until she had it under hre control, releasing it as a sudden, powerful blast at Ayane's clone." }, { "author": "myrfloof", "message": "Said clone raised her blade to defend against it, but being slower and less powerful than Ayane herself, the shot sent the water clone flying back, popping into water and turning into a sort of mist that scattered out over the pond it was made out of. Where once it came it returned, so it would seem. But in either case, the successful techniques both proved effective in their own rights, even if a bit more practice was likely going to be necessary for perfection.\n\nAyane giggles happily, turning to Mushi with a grin. \"I knew you could do it!\" She says, stepping up and giving her another hug... It seemed Ayane really was rather used to physical affection and using it. In either case, she only hugged the girl for a brief second before gently placing her hands on honmushi's shoulders, smiling happily at her as she does. \"We keep this up, and we'll be big shots in no time, right?\"\n\nShe hums happily, before thinking as she looks toward the books. \"In any case, this was definitely fun. I hope we can do more of these interactions in the future! At the very least more study sessions would be a lot of fun, right?\" She lets out a slight hum, before thinking a bit. \"It's certainly proving to provide a lot of practice, and your advice is very insightful. It's not that you aren't good with analogies, however your analogies are often just enough to help my jump to what conclusion I need to progress myself.\" She smiles happily, seemingly satisfied with this conclusion." }, { "author": "glowy", "message": "Hon visibly relaxed when she watched the clone go flying, dropping her hands to her side and letting her muscles go loose. She hugged Ayane back, having no issues with being touched thanks to her sister. Hon flushed slightly at the praise coming from Ayane, unable to stop herself from wearing a dorky smile. \"Damn right we will! The branch that we join will be lucky to have us!\" She let out a small giggle after, just glad to have her as a friend. \n\nShe nods and starts packing up the books and scrolls, getting them into a neat little pile and organizing them so it would be easier to get them back to the library. \"Yeah of course! You are like, the main person I practice things with I won't lie.\" She held out her hand and had three of her moths crawl out, gently fluttering her wings before offering her hand to Ayane. \"Want a little guardian angel? Just get their attention and Ill know to hunt you down if something's going wrong. Plus they let me find you if we ever want to spend time together!\" \n\nIf Ayane were to accept the moths she would let them flutter over and make themselves at home on the girl, if not they would simply crawl back into her wrist before the Aburame picked up as many of the books as she could handle before walking off to return them.\n`FIN`" } ]	312	2,767
175	2022-06-05	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "ferhargo", "message": "\"Eh... Sorry, figured you'd catch it before it hit you. Usually people do! Like... 8... No, maybe 7 out of 10 times? No worse than 6, certainly. Or they have reflexive Armor Technique... Ah well, consider it a gift! Free food to make up for getting hit!\"\n\nKit shrugged. Was it a bit awkward to have just clonked the boy in the head? Sure. Was she going to let that slow her down even a half beat? Of course not.\n\n\"And yeah, I'm here training in the noble art of punching things until my knuckles bleed. Occasionally kicking things too. If your goal is keeping up with your friends... I can kinda get that. External motivation only gets ya so far, but it'll still push you quite a ways! Ya want some help with Taijutsu, or do you just wanna keep hitting some sand sacks until your arms get tired?\"" }, { "author": "Deleted User", "message": "\"U-uhm, Taijutsu . .\"\n\nHe muttered, and then stood up, he was a bit uncomfortable, but after looking at the food, he then decided to try it, and it was pretty good. She could see that he demolished the food easily, tearing and rending through the meat easily as his many rows of sharp teeth dug in, and once he was done obliterating it, he gulped and then looked at her., blinking. He had to train now, else it would just be awkward that he just ate all of her food, and then didn't train with her.\n\n\"Okay, do you want to spar then?\"\n\nHe said as he backed up, wondering if she wanted to spar." }, { "author": "ferhargo", "message": "\"En! If that's the sort of thing you're after, I'm happy to assist! Fastest way to learn is in active competition, en? Taijutsu isn't really my specialty, but I can at least provide more help than a punching bag!\"\n\nCocking her head to one side as Masaru backed up, Kit waited half a beat for him to ready himself. He had phrased it as a question, so she wasn't entirely clear if -he- wanted to spar, even if she did... But well, he had offered, hadn't he? So he should probably be ready. Right?\n\nThat half beat of consideration was the most Kit was willing to bother waiting. Action would demonstrate the truth of the matter quickly enough. So she stepped forward to follow him, raising her leg to snap a straight kick towards the boy's stomach.\n\"Right! Let's go!\"" } ]	183	525
321.375	2022-06-23	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "megachiroptera", "message": "From her position — kind of distressed, head against the upright log, frown etched upon her lips as though carved from ice — it wasn't difficult to spot the figure approaching her. Taller than she was (because, honestly, who Wasn't Taller than Hikari?) with a sort of animalistic mask worn on their face, their eyes hard to divine from behind it. A large, bully sheathe was visible on their back; some strange weapon of sorts, perhaps? It was possible. The redhead raised her head from where it was resting against the pole — her forehead protector now visible, Hikari had forgotten it was there after so much time spent wearing it — and looked at the person who approached her directly, with blatant curiosity.\n\nHyūga Masumi, huh? That was a surname Hikari Had Heard of by now, though that was pretty much all she knew. Something about their eyes...? Them and another clan. Uchari, maybe. She couldn't remember.\n\nHis hand gesture to her trench knives was met with a light blush and a gauche laugh. \"Uhm, yeah, if you have the time...? I, er, don't really know how to use these yet. Just bought 'em the other day. I've got a really basic idea of just, uhm, punching with 'em? And then stopping a bit short, like, distance-wise, to hit with the blades only? But I've got so much muscle memory from actually Hittin' That it's hard to, y'know, purposefully miss so much.\"\n\nAnother laugh escaped her mouth at the end, more embarrassment than awkwardness, and the girl's blush intensified. Really, she'd been trying her best to learn how to do this for a few days now, but it just... Didn't click. Not like just punching did. Not yet, she hoped." }, { "author": "Deleted User", "message": "Many recognized the Hyuga clan name, as it was an Accord clan of Noragakure, but he wouldn't be surprised if there were some that simply didn't recognize it. It was a big village, there were bound to be some, and that was okay. He rathered be known for the person he was than the clan he was born and raised in. They weren't the best supporters of his methods, but he supported himself and that's what mattered.\n\n\"Always have the time. I've never had the pleasure of using a melee weapon before, but I can try to relate. What I can gather from how it looks, it looks like you need to aim for the person, but just barely missing to the left or right depending on the knife.\"\n\nHe mimicked the use of a trench knife, slowly punching the air, his fist visibly diverting to the left. Then his other fist did the same, but diverting to the right. Although, he had no clue what he was talking about, he could only.\n\n\"I know, muscle memory can sometimes be a big issue, but it's all about just drilling that method into your brain.\"" }, { "author": "megachiroptera", "message": "Hikari wondered how her clan was perceived. She didn't know much about politics or anything — like she knew that some clans were looked at as \"More important\" Than other clans, and that some were there during the founding and others weren't, and that some had more missing-nin than others, or something like that. She'd heard Tou-chan complain a lot about this cousin or that nephew \"Going AWOL\" (whatever AWOL meant), and that it would just make people think worse of their clan. Hikari had never understood why. Did the actions of one person make an entire group of people suddenly less liked? It didn't make any sense.\n\nWere the Uzumaki seen in a bad light, then, if they had \"So many rogue shinobi\" (also as Tou-chan had said in the past)? Hikari frowned internally. She hoped not. If someone thought bad of her before even knowing her, would they think less than nothing of her after they adopted the attitude of her former classmates...?\n\nShe shook her head visibly and focused on Masumi's words. Just barely missing, yeah? That's what she was trying to do, but maybe another set of eyes would help... And speaking of eyes, her own gray ones trailed the older boy's fists as they moved back and forth. He looked very practiced. Was he a taijutsu expert? There was no wasted movement; pure efficiency and knowledge of where his hands were and what they were doing, to a level past basic muscle memory. Hikari remembered that tall scarred man from watching Masumi move. They were the same, then. Pure physical might. Though, Masumi's body wasn't as overly-bulked-up as the man with a thousand scars had been. Maybe he was more focused on speed...? It didn't matter.\n\n\"Barely miss...\" Hikari echoed, turning a quarter-circle and facing the log again. She made a jabbing motion with her left hand, skewing it to the right so that the main thing hitting was her blade — but she missed entirely. The girl grit her teeth and tried again, only to not skew far enough and connect with her knuckles. Pain flowered through her hand.\n\nFed up, Hikari actively tried punching the wood with her right hand this time, only to accidentally miss the punch — and get the trench knife's blade lodged in the wood in a direct hit. Dumbfounded, the redhead pulled her arm back with some effort and tried analyzing what she did to no avail.\n\n\"Er, Masumi...\" Hikari began, sheepish. \"Didja happen to see what I did just there a second ago? I, uhm, wasn't fully paying attention... Also, uhm, I didn't give ya my name yet! It's Hikari! Uzumaki Hikari!\"" }, { "author": "Deleted User", "message": "Masumi knew a fair amount about the Uzumaki clan. Although, he knew that they weren't the biggest clan, though they still had some size to them in terms of numbers. He also knew that they lived pretty long, in terms of age. In terms of battle, he didn't know. He had not fought alongside an Uzumaki, maybe that would change in the future. He would just have to see.\n\nHe watched their movements as they attempted to follow his advice. It was kind of working, although with the length of the blade they needed to be a bit closer. They were getting a bit closer each time. He nodded each time they attempted a strike, only for his hopes to be slightly dashed when they missed. There was always the time after. He watched as their frustration piqued and the blade struck the wood. He smirked slightly as they pulled the blade out, and then they looked at him to ask what happened. He blinked several times at them as they then introduced themselves.\n\n\"I think you were actively trying to hit it, missed and then the blade got lodged into the log. I think just need to wait until the last possible moment to miss. Ah, nice to meet ya.\"\n\nHe nodded, getting his guess of their clan correct." }, { "author": "megachiroptera", "message": "Masumi's description of the events that had occurred made sense, Hikari acknowledged. She'd gotten upset and missed her punch — Tou-chan always said that anger was best left outside of a fight — but it had the good fortune of being just barely a miss, to the point that the blade of her trench knife had gotten stuck in the wood. At least now she had a good basis on where her hand should end up, right? \n\n\"Thanksya, Masumi!\" Hikari chirped, bad mood forgotten at her new acquaintance's considering words — she had turned her head to face the taller Hyūga boy, and now returned to facing the wooden post. \"Rrrrargh! Rock You!\"\n\nIt was one of her taijutsu techniques, really, though it did have the added benefit of Almost Sounding like a very particular cuss word. In any case, the movement was a hook feint by nature; it was Supposed To be used as such, and then become an elbow strike or a back-handed punch as a subsequent action, but it really did work well as something to practice her trench knives with.\n\nHer left hand moved forwards in a hook motion and Hikari Felt The blade drag against the outermost layer of the wooden post, but it was just that — the outermost layer. She stopped the taijutsu technique before the mix-up portion happened and tried to find even the lightest mark, but frowned at not seeing any. Maybe this idea was a bad one?\n\nNo, she couldn't let just one mistake force her to give up! She was Uzumaki Hikari, dammit!\n\n\"Rock You!\" She shouted again, leaning into the punch and sharply hooking it left right before it impacted — barely miss, Masumi had said sagely — and Hikari found resistance as she tried swiping further left. Eyes widening, she kept dragging the blade with all of her might, and the noisome noise of metal trying to rip through wood sounded through the area — the blade slipped free and Hikari, now with approximately Way too much Kinetic energy in one direction with no stopping force, stumbled backwards and landed on her rear end.\n\nEven so, she grinned up at Masumi triumphantly. \"Lookit! I did it! No, no, we did it! Thanks Masumi, so so much!\"" }, { "author": "Deleted User", "message": "Masumi nodded in acceptance of their appreciation. He watched as they turned back to the woon post and attempted to strike the post with the use of a technique. Being slightly taken aback by the words said, he watchd as it did not work. His expression turned to being puzzled, unsure of what Hikari was doing. He scratched his chin as he watched them try it again.\n\nHe nodded as they hooked it left sharply before the impact. He watched as the blade found its target, and it ripped through the wood at the front of the log. He then watched as they fell over. He found their attempt amusing, and finally understanding the name of their technique, still confused on the origins of that.\n\n\"Good job. That was all you, you put the advice into motion.\"\n\nHe gave them a thumbs up." }, { "author": "megachiroptera", "message": "Hikari giggled, making no move to pick herself up from where she sat on the grassy ground. \"Nope! If it was just me, then I would've been able t'do it all by myself! You helped, Masumi!\" She gave him a thumbs-up in reply to his own.\n\nShe stood, then, and made a show of dusting off her posterior. How long had Hikari been here, again? When she'd arrived, the sun hadn't reached its peak point in the sky, and it looked like it'd start setting soon... Uh oh. Kaa-chan was probably making dinner, now. How to avoid any backlash for it...? Oh! Kaa-chan always didn't mind if she was with a friend!\n\n\"Masumi, Masumi!\" Hikari stage-whispered, sidling up next to the taller boy and giving him a Look. \"Listen, I'm really hungry. Wanna grab a bite to eat? My treat!\"" }, { "author": "muitorealmothman", "message": "\"Y'know, I'm always surprised this place don't stink too much, considering' everyone comes here after trainin' and sweatin' their asses off,\" Nagiha would muse aloud as she entered the famed establishment with her student. It was a time-honoured Shinobi tradition to come here after training, making it - in Nagiha's opinion - the most culturally important location in all of Noragakure.\n\nIt did help that she didn't really give a shit about the self-aggrandising clan monuments, though.\n\nStretching tired bones, Nagiha would approach the counter to take a seat, beckoning one Uzumaki Hikari along to join her. \"I'll spot ya some ramen. Frontier Patrol payout's got me feelin' generous, after all,\" The Sabaku girl would say eagerly, looking to her student with all the pride of someone who'd just been paid.\n\n\"Unless you've gotten on some missions yourself already, and gotten somethin' outta that.\"" } ]	250.5	2,571
292	2022-06-29	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "muitorealmothman", "message": "Nagiha let out a relaxed chuckle at Hikari's lamenting over a lack of funds, while waving a hand to dismiss her worries. \"Don't worry 'bout it. I remember what it was like to be a broke Genin myself. 'Specially when I was too proud to ask my Gramps for money,\" The Sabaku girl would insist, stepping up to the countertop and taking a seat. When their orders were taken, Nagiha would pay for it all, insisting that the Frontier Patrol paid well enough.\n\n\"So, money aside, how've things been goin'? Hope ya been makin' the most of it, bein' a Genin ain't gonna last forever.\"" }, { "author": "megachiroptera", "message": "Still blushing a light red at her own embarrassment, Hikari placed her order alongside Nagiha — and then she relaxed, now that the money talk was over, slumping slightly in her seat. If there was a back to the chair, Hikari would be fully leaning against it.\n\n\"Things've been goin' great!\" Hikari chirped, her blush gradually fading at the topic change. \"I've met so many other genin — lots more friends now than when I was in the 'cademy, though any number of friends is more than zero — and they're all super friendly! Well, mostly. Some of 'em are a bit stuffier than others! Like Hisayo! She's nice, but she's pretty winded-up. Wound-up? I dunno which one it is. But, uhm, it's mostly good!\"\n\nThe Uzumaki nodded at her own words, as though manually affirming what she'd said, before a question occurred to her.\n\n\"Uhm, this might sound really, really dumb,\" Hikari started, her blush beginning to return, \"But, er... How do you get promoted? It was probably taught in the academy but payin' attention there was super difficult and, er... Yeah. Eheh...\"" }, { "author": "muitorealmothman", "message": "\"Hisayo? The Senju, big ol' burn scar on her face?\" Nagiha would perk up at the mention of a somewhat familiar name. It was good to hear she was still alive and kicking, but the mention of her did have Nagiha reminiscing about the time they'd first met... \"Y'know, I was part o' the mission where she got that scar. Even got some o' my own for my troubles...\" The Sabaku girl would say, kneeling down towards the shinguards that were part of her usual shinobi attire. She loosened one, moving it just enough to make the scarred flesh on her leg visible before she tightened it again.\n\n\"What a shitshow that was... But good to hear she's still doin' well. And that ya got some friends. Dunno what I'd do without my own team,\" Nagiha would say with a warm and confident grin. Between her old mentors, her usual team for missions, and her patrol partner, she was glad herself to have so many allies right now. \n\nAs for Hikari's other question, Nagiha would chuckle lightly at her mention of not paying attention. \"Hah, don't worry 'bout that. If it weren't Ninjutsu or History, I didn't pay a whole lotta attention in the Academy neither. As for becomin' a Chunin, you'll get the chance when the next Founders Tournament rolls around,\" This too was bringing back memories and smiles, as Nagiha went on to explain further.\n\n\"It'll have two parts, one where ya gotta do some kinda task against a Chunin alongside another Genin teammate, and another classic tourney. Dependin' on how well ya show off, you'll get offers from the 3 Branches...\" Her grin only widened. \"Don't worry about failin' the tests themselves. It's more about if ya make an impression...\" With a look of pure pride, Nagiha gestured to herself with her thumb.\n\n\"I failed the first part o' my test, and lost my only two fights in the tourney... And I Still Got two offers. Worry more about showin' off than winnin'.\"" } ]	268	876
282.333333	2022-08-03	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "megachiroptera", "message": "Shyly, Hikari looked toward Nagiha — no, Nagiha-sensei — and smiled back, a blush rapidly intensifying on her face. She was such a dummy! Of course Nagiha-sensei wouldn't mind bein' called a sensei, she'd taught Hikari lots of stuff! That's what a teacher was supposed to do, so it was just common sense! \n\n... But inwardly, the validation Nagiha-sensei gave her just now was more precious than anything in the world. The redhead wasn't the smartest girl around, but Nagiha-sensei saying that Hikari understood what she was being taught by the sand-using kunoichi was clear enough to her — Nagiha-sensei did think of her as a student, and specifically her, so long as \"One little brat\" Was more exclusive than inclusive. And, even then, Hikari didn't think she minded too much. Nagiha-sensei had probably helped genin before Hikari, and surely did so after her, too. Where was she going with this? Ugh, thoughts were so hard.\n\nInstead of trying to say anything profound, Hikari just ducked her head and ate some more ramen. It always made her thoughts a bit more controlled.\n\n\"Uhm...\" She said at last. \"Thank you, Nagiha-sensei.\"\n\nHikari didn't really know how to describe her emotional state. It was a different sort of pride-happiness-satisfaction than learning a technique or getting praise from Tou-chan and Kaa-chan. The former was triumph and the latter was something more akin to familial affection. Hikari knew she felt close to her mentor, but gratification she felt was something similar to that brand of affection." }, { "author": "parkbenchbear", "message": "```\nSmall Office Building in the Shinobi Ward\n```\nWith the Kage's Office gone, the AMC had been forced to make a few temporary relocations. A small office building, just a few blocks down from their old HQ, had quickly been refurnished to serve as a replacement. Down the road, she could hear every hammer blow as the construction workers spent the day out in the sun, giving the village back what it'd once lost. With limited space, her office doubled as their official meeting room, with chairs and tables enough for everyone, alongside a few scribes to note down what had been said. The small oak desk was not nearly equivalent to what she'd left, but they would all have to make sacrifices. \n\nThe newly appointed Grand Major had put in a request for a certain Keizo Murano to be advanced to Jonin. The boy had some remarkable accomplishments under his belt, most of which involving his instrumental role in the liberation of Kamakura City. But at the end of the day, it didn't matter. The Akimichi boy was the new Grand Major and if she'd learned anything during her years in the village, it was that one would always benefit from being on good terms with the Military Police. She'd sent him a short summons, earlier during the day, telling him to arrive by her new office a few minutes before noon. Hopefully, he wouldn't be late." }, { "author": "malvarik", "message": "Murano wouldn't dare to be late to such an important meeting. The AMC, despite their new smaller HQ, was still an extremely important and vital part of their government. He arrived just a few minutes before his appointment, wearing a clean and freshly pressed outfit so as to make himself more presentable. The promotion to Jonin was one thing, but this was also his chance to learn more of the inner workings of the AMC and make a good first impression. His eventual goal was to join their ranks and move his way up the ladder, a sentiment he'd say that was rare amongst his peers. \n\nAssuming there was some sort of secretary he had to speak with first, Murano would give them a polite bow of his head and maintain a small and cordial smile. \"Greetings. I am Captain Keizo Murano. My appointment should be just a few minutes before noon, I believe?\"" } ]	288	847
224.2	2022-08-14	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "wanderermog", "message": "Junichiro didn't have any specific ties, his own housing had unfortunately been destroyed, but Fortunately He hadn't had anything of real notable value that could be destroyed, all his belongings were as always on his person. In his time, he had focused on repairing what he could while sleeping where he could, being used to less than comfortable amenities due to his tenure underground. His time on the surface had done him good in several ways that he couldn't easily explain... Part of it was being capable of socializing.\n\n\"I would not attempt to offer such a thing if I was not readily prepared for it, show me your abilities Honorable Shinobi Rieki!\" He would take a defensive stance the moment Rieki agreed, taking a leap to the side to avoid the technique. \"You are skilled, and you as well show proficiency in craftmanship, apologies if it is something you wish to keep secret, but I would very much enjoy comparing notes should the opportunity arise.\" The gunshot, being something he anticipated, was capable of being evaded.\n\n\"Come now, do not be afraid to harm me, I am a resilient sort.\"" }, { "author": "justden_", "message": "Rieki shrugged, while his skill with crafting wasn't exactly something spectacular, it was also not something he was looking to refine any time soon - his medical practices came first as well as honing his unique elemental nature. \"If the time comes.\" Junichiro's earnest and straightforward nature made it hard for him to find appropriate sarcastic responses.\n\nAt the prompt, he began to weave a series of hand seals, it took him a bit longer than before, his chakra flow still not refined enough to execute techniques of this rank quickly. \"You are until you aren't.\" Was the somewhat dry response as his hands moved. Eventually however he spewed out a large amount of water from his mouth, which took the form of a large, rotating dragon made of clear, blue liquid that shot towards Junichiro at a much faster speed than before." }, { "author": "wanderermog", "message": "It was unfortunate that Junichiro's... Lack of social tact made it hard for the catty to remain so, it created a difficulty in creating a fun back and forth, but in a way, it was probably for the best he didn't fully understand that Rieki didn't necessarily want to spend anytime with him. Seeing the approaching jutsu however, Junichiro would take a full on proper defensive stance with his shield, attempting to mitigate what he wouldn't be capable of dodging.\n\nThe answer to how much he could mitigate however, seemed to not be much, he was capable of avoiding the initial attack, but got caught from the side by the dragon's maw, which, combined with his shields defense and his natural hardiness, meant Junichiro was still standing, though his chakra and clothing were a mess now. He would huff, before standing tall, turning his attention back towards Rieki.\n\n\"You are correct, but that only means it is a reminder to push and become even more. Simply put, if you get knocked down, get back up... And if you cannot, you should do so anyways, according to what I've seen, that is the mentality for growth.\"" }, { "author": "justden_", "message": "Junichiro had said some pretty wise words - if not a little too deep for the current context. \"A shinobi must always be able to face adversity and stand strong against all odds.\" Rieki responded with his own philosophical words before continuing. \"As true as that is - you can't get up if you're dead.\" Rieki always tried to look at all sides of a situation after all, an over-thinker to a degree. Still, he understood how being knocked down was in itself a great learning experience. In the months coming to his academy exam he'd requested Sayaka to teach him, and the girl had been absolutely ruthless with him, teaching him the value of not giving up.\n\nHis hands resumed the weaving of seals, not having been told to stop. Once again it took him a moment longer than it would for a professional shinobi. But once the whole set was done, the same technique he'd used before quickly spat out of his mouth - Rieki wondered what the mythology behind dragons was. Everyone knew what they were, but he had yet to study on it. Maybe he'd pass by the library on his way home to find a book." }, { "author": "wanderermog", "message": "As Rieki had said earlier, you're as strong and resilient as you are up until the point you aren't, and while Junichiro would normally make more of a point to evade abilities such as this, he was currently trying to build up his own physical hardiness, so he stilled himself, activating his armor technique, and took this last dragon head on. Impressively, he managed to maintain his footing and remain still for the first half of the attack, though his legs finally buckled and gave way as he crashed backwards, the water engulfing him fully as he landed heavily upon his back.\n\n\"Ha, ha... That was more than I intended to take, it only proves I'm nowhere near the resilient shield I wish to be...\" He would cough up another glob of water after that, slowly pulling himself free from the now muddied earth. \"Though, Honorable Rieki, if you wish to continue, feel free... I am far from finished!\" \n\nHe would continue as long as Rieki wished of course, or as long as his body could hold, whichever came first, really." } ]	232	1,121
179.6	2020-12-14	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "yoyooo7089", "message": "The bazaar always was a busy place with crazy people that wanted a lot of items. Business was booming as always. Well... Not today. Today there was a crowd that formed in a circle and 4 giants were holding a man hostage and yelling about ransom and some other things.\n\nAs they were screaming, 2 shinobis walked towards the crowd and pushed through. Both were boys and both were Genins going to the upcoming Founding Tournament and so were not small fries. They pushed through and the guy screamed.\n\n\"Hey! Knock it off big ugly or we'll kick your ass... Or I mean we could take you all back to the Military Police Headquarters.\"\n\nBandit 1 grabbed the merchant and put his katana close to his neck and smiled.\n\nB1: \"What are you going to do now kid. Guys take care of these people. More hostages means more cash.\"\n\nBandit 2 and 3 went for Yokuro and bandit 4 went for Yuki. This was probably because Yokuro had talked big and they didn't think he had the strength to back it up." }, { "author": "kano8961", "message": "So. Pesky thugs again. Meh.\n\nAs the thug approached Yuki, he pointed his fingers at the thug like a gun posture. Water formed at a distance from his fingers in the shape of a small water ball. Behind the small ball, was a decent amount of power, packed. With a \"Pew\", he let the ball fly and carry the along with it, the helpless thug. Not to exaggerate, but Yuki proudly entitled his water release, as Epic.\n\nA thug was holding a katana at the throat of a merchant, and doing anything insensible wasn't... Sensible. He needed to formulate a small plan first." }, { "author": "yoyooo7089", "message": "Yokuro didn't leave his eyes off Bandit 2 and 3, shifting his glance to not lose both. He then dashed at an insane speed towards the bandit 2 who looked at him shocked.\n\n\"This will be your last warning. After that, don't blame me for what will happen to you. Forget the mission, I'll kill you myself.\"\n\nThe last part was bluff. He couldn't actually kill them but he wanted the bandit to believe that he could.\n\nThe bandit smirked and did not believe him. He dashed towards Yokuro with an uppercut aimed at his jaw. He thought that this would be enough to knock the arrogant kid out cold.\n\nOnly... This isn't what happened at all. Yokuro jumped and moved his head backwards a little and then used his Gentle Fist to essentially block two Tenketsus by pressing two nodes on the thugs arm.\n\nAs the thug would move back, hurt by what he did, Yokuro would say in a serious tone.\n\n\"You have been warned and continued. Nothing can save you now.\"" }, { "author": "kano8961", "message": "After dealing with Yuki' thug, his eyes would fall on what Yokuro was doing. The Hyuga seemed to be quite aggressive. Well, Yuki could surely leave the two thugs to him. Yuki had to deal with the thug with the katana on the hostages neck. After weaving some hand seals, he would slam his hand onto the ground. Ice spikes would protrude from the other side and knock the katana off from the wielder's hand.\n\nNow, he and Yokuro just needed to take care of the thugs. Now that the merchant was somewhat safe, he could be threatening." }, { "author": "yoyooo7089", "message": "Yokuro would dash towards the bandit that looked at him in disbelief. He was going to put his hands together but then realized that Yuki doesn't know about what jutsu he has. All he knows is that he has one jutsu. Lightning beast tracking fang. He'd put his hands together and do the technique and extend his arms with his hands contracted. Lightning concentrated on his hands and a cord attached to a giant beast. It would roar.\n\n\"Lightning release: Lightning Beast Tracking Fang!\"\n\nThe animal would dash towards the bandit and would bite him and in the process would explode in lightning causing the bandit to be shocked and dropped to the ground. He was suffering from spasms but he wouldn't die from them.\n\nHe turned around to the other bandit and looked at him intently. He was going for him next." } ]	178	898
156.666667	2020-12-15	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "kano8961", "message": "The bandit who was holding the merchant now was shocked. Yuki had knocked his weapon off, and therefore he was defenceless now. Yuki dashed towards him and from a distance, he would weave some more handseals. Gathering wind chakra within him, he would unleash it at the thug, sending him flying backwards. It was it Wind Release:Great Breakthrough jutsu.\n\nThe mission was getting over pretty quickly. It was as easy as the other D ranks, not much of a challenge. Though normally Yukinwould prefer a cjallenge, this time something easy was more preferable. He needednto get back to preparing for the Founder's Tournament." }, { "author": "yoyooo7089", "message": "There was one bandit left in front of Yokuro. This one was taunting him for some odd reason and would go in for the attack. Guess he wanted to get his butt kicked for some reason.\n\nIn an instant, Yokuro demonstrated how much he trained by going a full 90 mph towards him and coming in with a strong enough kick to send him flying. Of course he didn't aim to kill but definitely to hurt. Oh that it was definitely true.\n\nAs all of the bandits got hit at least once, not all of them were knocked out. Bandit 2 was done for sure but bandit 3 wasn't done yet and this time he went for Yuki, thinking that if he couldn't beat Yokuro then he could try with Yuki.\n\nYokuro sat down and waited for Yuki because he knew that his teammate was getting bored as well and was competent enough to take him out easily." }, { "author": "kano8961", "message": "Yuki's mastery over water release was.. Epic and fun. He could now spam a few water release techniques and still run a mile or so. Yep.\n\nHe would weave about twenty handsigns in three seconds, and spit a good amount of water from his mouth. The water would curl and twirl and take the shape of a dragon. The helpless thug would lift his head to get a view about what was happening, and was immediately swallowed by the dragon. The immense water would surely weigh him down, and also knock the poor guy out.\n\nYuki would clap his hands, in order to dust it off.\n\n/one more post for each of us/" } ]	139	470
153.888889	2020-12-20	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "Deleted User", "message": "This be a training grounds.\n\nSousaku was at the training grounds, yet again. He was here to do one thing, and that one thing was the Chakra Suppression technique . . Or skill. He didn't know if it was something that would be considered a skill, or a technique. Perhaps they were both? Who knew. He began to practice, trying to suppress his chakra even further beyond what he could currently already do. Perhaps he could learn how to run at full speed whilst suppressing his chakra." }, { "author": "tboy2210", "message": "Naoyuki once again had made his way to the training grounds to watch some other Genin do their things, their training. It was always nice to watch, and also very nice to be able to help if possible. Since this year's tournament, the amount of Genin needing help raised so much, and it made Nao realize how much more he actually liked helping out.\n\nToday's Genin was someone he knew. Sousaku, yes. He could see him standing there and... Was he once again practising his Chakra suppression? It looked like it at least. As the Chunin approached him, he could sense that his Chakra was not the usual one, but rather suppressed. Yes, it was the same training once again. \"Need some help again?\" He said, grinning at him." }, { "author": "Deleted User", "message": "\"Oh, Shimura Naoyuki. Yes, I would benefit from some assistance with Chakra Suppression.\"\n\nHe nodded towards the Chunin, his chakra slowly starting to show yet again. He began to suppress his chakra yet again, hopefully this time it would suppress his chakra a lot. Well, that and he hoped he could also run at full speed whilst suppressing his chakra. Looking back over towards the Chunin, he thought about how he could ask for what he needed help with specifically. Clearing his throat, the steel-clad samurai began to speak up towards Naoyuki again.\n\n\"I'm looking to run at my full speed whilst simultaneously suppressing my chakra to the best of my abilities.\"" }, { "author": "tboy2210", "message": "\"Chakra suppression? Knew it.\" A small chuckle as he watched him and sensed his Chakra show itself again. \"I think I can try again, like last time.\"\n\nNaoyuki said and nodded back, trying to think of a way he could help him. When Sousaku said that he wants to keep his Chakra suppressed while running around at his full speed, the Chunin would nod again and give off a 'Mhm.' off himself, thinking of ways again. Now he had a place to start and it was easier to come up with something. \"How about you start slowly, then increase your speed every few seconds. If you reach a barrier, slow down again.\" That was one method of learning it, though Nao had another on his mind when he said that. The one Hitomi used on him, and it worked, so it would also work here." }, { "author": "Deleted User", "message": "\"Start slowly, got it.\"\n\nHe did exactly as he was told, and began to move slowly whilst also suppressing his chakra. He could easily walk with it active, and he could move with it active whilst running at half of his max speed, but now he had to get better as to run full speed with it. He formed the 'Tiger' seal, and with that, he closed his eyes and began to run. Instantly, his chakra got shot out again, getting revealed to every sensor around. That wasn't good. He attempted it again, but this time he began to increase his speed slowly.\n\nSteadily." }, { "author": "tboy2210", "message": "A nod that confirmed what Sousaku had repeated. The Chunin was sure that this method should work. Approaching such matter slowly was much better than rushing it and failing miserably. One could learn that way as well, but it was harder. It was... The way he had learned it basically. He was commanded to run back and forth, trying to keep his Chakra suppressed at all times. It sure was hard, but he maybe had a tiny bit more training than Sousaku at that very moment, since it worked better than what had happened here: His Chakra became completely visible all of a sudden, a sign that this won't work. Slowly it is, then!\n\n\"Yes, take your time. We are training, so it is fine. I feel like you will get the hang out of it soon enough anyway.\" A bit of motivation here and there should be neat as well, right?" }, { "author": "Deleted User", "message": "\"Understood.\"\n\nWith that, he began to move slowly, but increasing his speed with time nonetheless. He was at around . . 55% of his max speed, moving hastily but steadily. His chakra was getting suppressed yet again, and with that, he began to get faster and faster. He managed to get to 80% of his max speed before he felt as if the suppression would break and his chakra would burst out yet again. He didn't want to rush it, and he was at a good spot currently, so that was pretty nice." }, { "author": "tboy2210", "message": "Seeing him run faster and faster made him grin. He followed him with his eyes, also tried to follow him with his sensory ability if possible. If he did not leave his range. From what he could sense right there, he was doing pretty well. That Chakra of his was suppressed, and it seemed like with each passing second, it became even more invisible to his sensory, meaning he was improving quite well. At a speed that was close to Sousaku's limit, the Chakra suppression broke for some weird reason though. Nao raised an eyebrow and tilted his head. \"Hm... Well, you are pretty close to it already I guess, right?\" He asked to confirm. \"Why don't you immediately go for your full speed and try to suppress it while running? That may be hard, but you should be able to do this on missions too.\" The Chunin suggested. It was true. Being able to suppress your Chakra whenever was important." }, { "author": "Deleted User", "message": "He breathed in, then breathed out. Looking over to the Chunin.\n\n\"Alright, let us try this.\"\n\nHe then prepared to run, pressing his feet against the ground. With that, he dashed forwards and formed the 'Tiger' seal as he ran. His chakra instantly began to get suppressed, and he attempted to continue running whilst also suppressing it at the exact same time. What he did was actually . . Successful, he managed to run at his max speed whilst also simultaneously suppressing his chakra to the best of his abilities. That was great, now he just hoped that he didn't encounter any really good sensors in the tournament, and he'd be set.\n\n\"Hm, I think I've done it.\"" } ]	147	1,385
238	2021-01-05	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "ashesofafallen", "message": "Kogetsu half-smiled, half-winced at the memory of the \"Nasty right hook\". It was a strong fist indeed, and perhaps too strong. Definitely too strong, since Kogetsu barely held back against Inari, and because of that, they quickly had to get the Genin to the hospital before the cracked ribs became something lethal. Though, like Atsumichi, said, he can use his strength for his missions, which he's done already. So maybe things weren't too bad?\n\n\"Thanks, Yamanami.\" And then Kaigaku went and blurted, \"Well i don't want to interfere with your relationship!\" Their relationship? What, as fellow Frontier Patrol operatives? Comrades fighting together to rid the Frontier of its threats? \n\nBefore he could ask, a question about the skating rink was faster, and the conversation moved on. Moving the whole relationships things to the back of his mind, Kogetsu rubbed his chin. \"I've seen it, but I haven't tried it yet. Sort of afraid I'll slip and hurt myself.\" A thought came to him. \"It sounds horrible, but a part of me now wants to become a pool of water and see if I can trip people up. I'd blend right in.\"" }, { "author": "milnak", "message": "Atsu would give a small smirk. It was pretty clear he brought up something Kogetsu would rather forget, which, perhaps wasn't something Nice To do, but it gave Atsu a chuckle. The conversation was moving by pretty quickly, so he wouldn't have to linger on the topic. However, something that would be brought up is their \"Relationship.\" Atsu wouldn't humor the genin with anything more than a sideways glance and a perked eyebrow. It was an... Interesting Comment. \n\nHe'd continue on, giving idle nods to the two as he listened along. He'd give a quick \"Oooh,\" As he saw Kaigaku's bruise, trying to be empathetic, \"Yeah— Seems like you could get hurt. Kinda funny, huh? I'm always willing to take on a mission but I hesitate on ice skating...\"\n\nAs Kogetsu gave his second comment, Atsu would suddenly freeze, all before he broke out into a fit of laughter. His reaction was quite delayed, but it was bombastic, with the Frontier Patrolman giving a near twelve-second long cackle, ending off with a deep, but quick breath to get the air back into his lungs, \"Hooh— S-Sorry, wasn't quite expecting that. That's— Srnk— A little malicious, don't you think?—\"" }, { "author": ".harlequin.2598", "message": "Kaigaku yawned, as he dropped the cloth back down to cover his legs, watching as the two chunin gave him weird looks on his earlier comments. Perhaps they were... Supposed to be companions in secret? Well, he didn't care too much, but he was definitely out of place in this situation, so he figured he oughta take his leave. \"Alright, i'm going to go and check out the Mochi stalls, i'll see you guys again in the seats when i win the founders tournament!\" He said jokingly as he began to walk away from the two.\n\nHe certainly was out of place most places in general, so this was a bit weird for him, and because of that he stuck some more dango into his mouth, chomping off yet another stick." } ]	263	714
377.333333	2021-02-08	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "ashesofafallen", "message": "The clan noble listened as Atsumichi continued his attempt at explaining his Elemental Kekkei Genkai to him. At the end, Kogetsu nodded, sort of half-understanding Atsu's words and half-giving up. \n\n\"I guess we sort of live in different worlds,\" Joked Kogetsu with a warm smile on his face. \"I get what you're saying, but at the same time, I don't. I imagine it's the same when I'm trying to explain my clan's Hiden. Both of us use Water Release to get our jobs done, but we go about it seriously different ways. I guess it shows how diverse ninjutsu can be. One can turn someone's body into literal water, and another can breathe out actual steam.\"\n\nIt goes to show how captivating a shinobi must be to a young civilian. Imagine seeing people running on walls, throwing sharp weapons and controlling nature itself. It was no wonder why so many always attempted to join the shinobi academy, in hopes they could achieve even a fraction of that in the future. \n\nKogetsu swallowed his last ball of dango and sent one last shark-toothed grin at his fellow operative. \"This was a good talk. It's always good to expand one's horizon and stuff.\" He saluted with the wooden stick as he began to backpedal away. \"I'll be seeing you on my patrols?\"" }, { "author": "milnak", "message": "He'd shrug, giving a small smile to Kogetsu's comment, \"Yeah. I don't really think I could ever properly explain Boil Release to someone who hasn't experienced it first hand, but, also, I don't think I could ever understand your Hiden. Like, I'm sure it makes perfect sense for you, turning into water as such, but? Well, iunno, to me it just sounds painful. Sure it's a-ok for you, right?\" Atsumichi would pause, thinking about it, but opting to continue on. \n\n\"Yep, hopefully. You won't be seeing me anytime soon though.\" He'd pause, giving a silly smirk, \"I'm planning on strong-arming Tatsurama to go out to the frontier with me. I found a beautiful little spot in the meadow, perfect for a picnic... But uh, I also need to attend to the teahouse, so that'll be what takes up my time first.\" He'd shrug, continuing on, \"In fact, I don't know how long I'm able to stick around the festival. I know I need to go to close up shop, but I'm not quite sure when.\"\n\nAtsu would scratch at his chin, the scruff of his 'beard' shifting as he combed over it, \"I'm not sure if this Quite True, but I heard there was going to be a smaller celebration at HQ? Like a gift giving thing or something?.. Don't think I'll be able to make it, but I don't want to be slacking on celebration either. So... Huhm.\"\n\nReaching into his satchel, Atsu would pull out a small linen bag, fastened close with a twine knot, \"Here, catch.\" He'd toss it over to the Hozuki clan member, giving him a warm smile, \"It's a blend of my own creation. Not sure how much you like tea, but it's a family business, I can promise you this is good.\" He'd give a sly thumbs up, continuing, \"Feel free to share it around or keep it for yourself. Just make sure you enjoy it.\" He'd chuckle.\n\n\"I'll be seeing you, Kogetsu!\" \n\nHe wouldn't." }, { "author": "ashesofafallen", "message": "Kogetsu was never a big fan of tea. It wasn't that he didn't dislike it, but that he was forced to join tea ceremonies back at the clan quarters and thus never got a chance to actually like it. However, if he was given a chance to simply to enjoy the beverage without all the theatrics, he's sure it'll grow on him. Just like ramen did, all those years ago.\n\n\"Oh? A gift-giving thing? Then take this.\" Kogetsu quickly closed the distance between them and reached into a pouch of his. Out came... Six free ramen coupons? Jeez, that's a lot. \"I always have a lot on me, especially after that one time I almost bribed my proctor Chunin in my preliminary exams with them.\" He grinned sheepishly. \"Eat some ramen before you go off on your wild Frontier adventure, and I'll go visit your family's tea house. Maybe I'll ask them if they know their kid's trying to grow a beard.\"\n\n\"See you around, Atsumichi!\" For a last hurrah and a show of respect, Kogetsu used Atsumichi's first name as he said goodbye once more. It was a good thing he did, because as the days passed, Kogetsu began to feel more worried about the younger shinobi. A picnic should not have taken this long.\n\nIt wasn't until a week after Atsumichi's last mission that Kogetsu got the news from a solemn Captain. Suddenly, he began drinking tea a lot more. His clan members didn't exactly know why this and visiting a random tea house has somehow replaced his obsession with ramen, but that's alright. Kogetsu drank in memory of Yamanami Atsumichi." } ]	364	1,132
142	2021-02-18	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "parkbenchbear", "message": "Seeing the pebble approach him, Isaya raised an eyebrow before clapping his hands together as it expanded. From the air in front of him came a dense, vertical wave of wind, completely splitting the rock in two before continuing onward towards Sousaku. Both halves were thrown off their trajectory, passing right around him. \n\"Assuming your enemy doesn't know your tricks is a dangerous gambit, but can help. However, direct attacks like that one will not help you out against a competent opponent. Make sure to surprise me.\"" }, { "author": "Deleted User", "message": "So he was able to just blast the rock into nothing? No matter, he'd keep going. As the wave of wind suddenly split the rocks, he used his reflexes and urge to not use defensive techniques to evade the technique by hopping backwards again. He was keeping him at a distance, but he wanted to have some momentum if he had to dodge once again.\n\nBeginning to run around Isaya, he prepared for his next plan of attack. He didn't turn his head, aim down to touch the ground, he didn't even move his own body aside from weaving the seals. However, as he began to run around him, his right-arms sleeve began to shred apart, now there were many nails flying towards the Chairman of the AMC, all made from his steel bracers that he wore under his casual clothing." }, { "author": "parkbenchbear", "message": "As the sleeves of the genin transformed into projectiles, the chairman remained motionless. The steel shards slammed into his body, before rattling back onto the ground as if they had struck a brick wall. \n\"It would've been a smart assasult, if you had given me something to worry about before flinging your steel shards at me. Grab the enemy's attention with something they need to respond to, before weaving in sneak attacks.\"\n\nWhile he spoke, Sousaku could hear a faint whirring sound coming from above and was barely able to look up before the spinning sawblades of wind came crashing down at him, threatening to sever his body in two. The chairman had given no indication of attacking, with both arms crossed over his chest." } ]	152	426
224	2021-03-06	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "notmizuka", "message": "Nasaki had somehow managed to land a tutor with a medical shinobi that worked at the Military Police. Known as Officer Keizo Murano, he was a chunin who seemed to be willing enough to help the constantly sleep deprived Kyokan Nasaki. Yet today, he seemed to have some more energy in him than he did in the past days that followed up to the tutor. It was mainly due to how much he was studying and trying to progress, and he seemed to have reached a point where he was happy enough to sleep early and allow his tutor to somewhat lead his path. That's what they were for, where they not?\n\nAs he arrived at the training grounds, he would've given a bow to Murano with a tired smile plastered on his face. It wasn't a forced smile, yet even Murano could tell the teenager lacked sleep.\n\n\"Hey. Murano-San, right?\"\n\nHe spoke with a soft and up bright tone, yet there was a hint of fatigue somewhere in there, barely making itself present, but it was audible enough to tell Keizo that Nasaki was either someone who didn't sleep for the wrong or right reasons." }, { "author": "malvarik", "message": "Murano could tell moments after he met his student that he was sleep-deprived. The signs were easy to see, for those that were inclined to the medical arts. However, that wasn't what they were there for today so he didn't bother to mention it to the genin. Giving a small wave and smile to Nasaki, Murano would reply, \n\n\"Yo must be Nasaki, nice to meet you. So, heard you needed some medical tutoring? Here, take a seat.\" He tapped on the piece of the bench next to him. Once Nasaki sat down, Murano would begin to ask him about what sort of medical knowledge he already had on hand. He wanted to get a feel for what sort of thing he should be teaching him moving forward.\n\n\"So what kind of medical training have you had so far? Be as specific as you can.\"" }, { "author": "notmizuka", "message": "As he sat down, he would've taken out two books of shinobi medical knowledge he had gotten from the academy's library in order to further study Medical science whilst at home or, like here, at the training field. He really just wanted to know how it worked when it came to the hands of a chunin, as they were most likely going to be much more better at medical studies, though not all bothered with it, he obviously knew Murano did, it's why he did this tutoring after all. As he would've then handed him both books, he began to speak, once again in a fatigue-like tone that had some bright and cheery feel towards it.\n\n\"I've covered all the chapters in the first book introducing me to medical studies. And almost most the second book. I know how to make a chakra pill, the only issue I face is live surgery and most the human bodies organs and how to treat an open wound. Though I would need chakra scalpel, yet that would be illegal. So for now, you could teach me surgery without it, albeit, minor surgery.\"\n\nHe said with some excitement pushing through to the surface, showing he was dedicated enough to learn despite his current state and energy saying otherwise." } ]	241	672
209.666667	2021-03-07	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "malvarik", "message": "Murano gently flipped through the second book, having already recognized the contents of the first one from previous study. The second textbook was good, but much of the information within had become outdated as medical technology had progressed fairly quickly over the last few years. He was glad that Nasaki seemed excited to learn, it'd reminded him much of how he was when he first began studying medical ninjutsu. \n\n\"You've done pretty well for yourself so far. If you're looking to study live surgery, I actually have a friend that might be able to help with that. C'mon, follow me.\" Murano rose to his feet and began walking towards the exit of the training grounds. If Nasaki followed, it wouldn't take long for them both to reach the front doors of Nora's hospital. \n\n\"One of my old teachers, Dr. Nakada, is actually conducting some minor surgeries today. If i'm with you, she'll probably let us stay and watch from behind the glass.\" He opened the door, offering for Nasaki to proceed into the lobby." }, { "author": "notmizuka", "message": "Laughing softly to himself about having done good for himself, Nasaki knew that he wasn't doing as good as he could've been doing. He knew that he could've been working harder, sleeping better and eating better and drinking more often, he wasn't doing good at all, not for his own health, which was ironic due to always studying to help betters whilst he was looking after himself.\n\n\"Oh. Dr.Nakada. She sounds like a cool person, was he a shinobi?\"\n\nHe asked, wondering if the Doctor was a retired shinobi or whether she was just someone who studied very hard. Then again, if she was a retired shinobi, she may have been in the police force, and it would've explained as to why she knew Murano pretty well, and how they worked with one another maybe. He had a lot of questions.\n\n\"And that's okay. I wonder if she'll let me take notes.\"" }, { "author": "malvarik", "message": "\"Nah, she's only ever just been a medical nin. She hasn't told me why, though.\" He walked ahead of Nasaki, occasionally giving nods of acknowledgement to some of the hospital workers passing by. From the looks of it, he was fairly well-known in the hospital. \n\n\"No reason why she wouldn't. Here, her office is just up ahead.\" At the end of the corridor was a single door, the name \"Dr. Eme Nakada\" Was etched into the glass with the words \"Section Head\" Just underneath it. He knocked softly on the door twice and the pair only had to wait a few moments for the door to open. \n\nDr. Nakada looked to be somewhere in her late twenties and had short fiery red hair reminiscent of an Uzumaki's, with a set of deep blue eyes that provided an interesting contrast. A small grin spread across her face as her eyes drifted over towards Murano. \"Here to suck up some more of my knowledge? I should have charged you, y'know.\" \n\nMurano chuckled lightly, shaking his head. \"No, I'm fine, sensei. I'm actually here to see if you'd let me and my pupil to sit in for one of your surgeries.\" \n\n\"That all? We'll put you behind the glass in room 201. You good with blood, kid, or are ya gonna faint?\" She asked, giving him a slight wink. She was mostly just poking fun at Nasaki, from the looks of it. She didn't exactly have the calm and mature demeanor of most doctors." }, { "author": "notmizuka", "message": "Noting down her appearance mentally, he would've also taken into consideration that she also was a medical ninja, and that her appearance was that of an Uzumaki, red hair, blue eyes. It was a nice look on anyone, and suited her. She had no veil, so she was either a police member of a frontier patrol member, yet judging by their friendship, he would've said she was some sort of retired military police member who was now treating others that were humans, ordinary people.\n\n\"Yeah... I'm okay with blood.\"\n\nHe gave a nervous chuckle in response to the wink. He wasn't shy of interacting with others, it was more the first time someone had talked to him in such a nice yet playful way. As he laughed it off, he would've formulated a joke back, yet realised she had to probably get into the mindset of a surgeon to save a life, so he remained silent.\n\n\"Hey. Murano-San. Do you think she wanted to be a shinobi?\"" }, { "author": "malvarik", "message": "\"Great! Like I said, Room 201. The surgery will start in about 15 minutes, should give you plenty of time to get settled in.\" With that, she'd close the door behind her and make her way past them with long strides down a separate corridor from the one they'd came from. \n\n\"Well, should probably get going then.\" Murano said, heading down the same way Dr. Nakada had gone. When the question of whether she wanted to be a shinobi came up or not, he sort of just shrugged. \n\n\"No clue. I mean, not everyone wants to be a shinobi. I didn't even want to be one until a friend of mine roped me into it.\" They reached Room 201 fairly quickly, as it was only the next floor up and to the right of the staircase. Upon entering, he'd notice a window into the next room, which appeared to be full of medical equipment and some medical-nin preparing. Murano took a seat in one of the chairs facing the window and motioned for Nasaki to do the same." }, { "author": "notmizuka", "message": "Once the surgery was over and the note taking was done, Nasaki would've wondered about the Medical Nin and her past. He was most likely going to ask Keizo one day, but that wasn't today. As the surgery was a success, Nasaki was better knowing a life was saved rather than taken. Getting up and off the seat, he would've given the two doctors a bow and left.\n\n\"Bye Nakada-san, Murano-San!\"" } ]	212	1,258
219.8	2021-03-09	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "thesilverinfinity", "message": "```\nY o i n k\nThis is now derelict cabin\n```\n\nThe derelict cabin rested silent and alone. . .Saying that, is it really derelict considering how often people come around to use it as a training ground? Or. ..A hangout. . .Or whatever shinobi do here these days.\n\nLike Ryusa here, for example. The shinobi was . . .Trying to do something with his sand. Utelizing the Desert Shield technique he made a dome of sand, only to let it collapse moments after. He had been edging his chakra pool all day, working on various ideas that came to mind. Each time he made sure to clean up after himself, though saying that each time also produced a helluva lot of chakra to handle later on. \n\nIt was a mess.\n\nAt the moment he sighed, sitting cross legged on a pile of sand. He was. . .Missing something, he felt - just had to improve on a technique he already had, but that was difficult. Ah well, maybe he should give it a rest and focus on expanding his pool instead. He wondered if anyone would mind if he cut a tree down nearby. . . .And so the chunin vibed. Wearing a forest camo hoodie, hood raised, the Chunin's attire was the same old same old. The only new addition that someone he hadnt seen in a while would probably notice was the mask, proof of his participation in the FP and of course his own personal merit of his achievement. It stared blankly into the distance, a . . .Somewhat disturbing thing with a wide-eyed stare (cough, Majora's mask, cough). He listened to his surroundings quietly as he stilled his thoughts and readied himself for another bout" }, { "author": "tacklejackie", "message": "While Ryusa was enjoying his time in the peace and quiet of the old rundown cabin, his nearest neighbor was trudging down the road to the place to try and blow off some steam. \n\nPhysical training had been an exhausting path for the puppeteer so far, and so Maku wasn't really hoping to exhaust herself any more than necessary this day. She was wearing some hand me downs from her sister today- a grey hakama and a sandogasa, probably the third person to have this passed down to in the family. Slung over her shoulder was her Cherry red carpenter's kit, since some fiddling around always seemed to help.\n\nAs she walked past the window to the cabin, she could see... Someone, in there, with a... Freaky mask. Totally not unusual." }, { "author": "thesilverinfinity", "message": "While chilling - of course - Ryusa picked up a familiar chakra signature. Not one he's seen in a while, but. He turned around suddenly, his eyes locking onto the face of the genin who was looking into the window at him. His eyes narrowed for just a moment before he realized who it was. It's. . .Been a while.\n\nJumping to his feet, he waved at her, halting mid shout of hello as he remembered her mannerisms. She was kind but not the most outspoken of people, if he remembered clearly.\n\"Hey Maku!\"\nHe called friendlily, if abit too loudly anyways as he made his way out of the shack in her direction. She was still a genin, he noticed - perhaps someone else who decided to wait before advancing,. . .Or maybe she just didnt want too? He didnt know her enough to really tell.\n\nExiting the building he shared a friendly smirk\n\"It's been a while\"\nHe said, folding his arms casually" }, { "author": "tacklejackie", "message": "Oh hey, it was... This guy!\n\nMaku gave a friendly wave as the Patroller clearly recognized her, even if she couldn't remember who in the world he was. She had definitely aged up since they had last met, and since Ryusa had made it to Chunin. Regardless of all that, it wasn't as if he had left her Completely* In the dust. Sometimes she just prefered to stay back and watch the others work.\n\n\"Yo.\"\n\nFiguring he wouldn't mind too much if she made some noise, Maku entered the cabin and started to dig through her tools, humming a bit as she pulled out a roll of measuring tape. Casually, she'd roll it from corner to corner, trying to figure out the dimensions of this place.\n\n\"What's new?\"" }, { "author": "thesilverinfinity", "message": "He has a long memory for people he's interacted with. Hue hue. He stopped as he noticed her coming inside to meet him, so decided perhaps vibing indoors was the name of todays hang out session. Head swiveling ot follow her as she joined him, he watched as she started to walk around while taping thing around with a measuring tape. He raised a brow at that, wondering what she was up too\n\"Hrm. . .Alot, really - it's been abit. I'm a chunin now, learned new skills, new techniques. . .\"\nHe said, trailing off\n\n\"How about you? You seem busy\"\nHe said, wondering what she was up too in the room. Maybe she wanted to try and . . .Well, he wasn't sure - could she build a house? 🤔" } ]	183	1,099
141.6	2021-03-11	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "tacklejackie", "message": "\"Explain.\"\n\nFar from and expert on how things like technique structure were used in actual Jutsu and the like, Maku was feeling confident enough in herself to help troubleshoot it. She knew... Maybe five actual jutsu, so she wasn't exactly a pillar wisdom compared to Anyone* Else.\n\nTucking her legs underneath herself, Maku tossed the wooden block she was using as a temporary notepad back into the toolbox. Comfortable, she just sighed and smiled.\n\n\"Are we talking literal structure? Like something you're making, like a clone or some kind of earth release?\"" }, { "author": "thesilverinfinity", "message": "\"It's a form of Earth release - a literal structure\"\nHe explained to her as he also tucked his legs below himself. He looked at the sand, poking his finger into the sand in order to draw something that she herself could envision as he worked it out\n\n\"It's a dome - simple as that. . .Well, not as simple as that. It's made of sand, held together in layers by chakra.\"\nHe explained\n\"The issue I'm having is it keeps on imploding on itself - when I make it it forms, then a portion of it pulls inwards, collapses onto me, which isnt very comfortable\"\nHe said to her - and of course, it explained the sand that was scattered over all of his body. He had managed to get to. . .Most of it" }, { "author": "tacklejackie", "message": "Maku looked at the little diagram he was drawing, nodding along as she tried to understand how it worked. Creating a structure around himself, as he tried to keep it from collapsing in on itself- and onto him.\n\n\"Move it in layers. Like shingles on a roof. Try to use layers to try and keep it stable, instead of a single... Mound?\"\n\nShe shrugged, drawing some lines between across his sand dome drawing, shrugging a bit.\n\n\"Each disc supports the one on top, so the dome might be easier to control?\"" }, { "author": "thesilverinfinity", "message": "He eyed the diagram she made. . .It was the spitting image of what the technique looked like - though her description fit something with abit more thickness to it. Like. . .Sandstone or something. He said as much\n\"Looks like sandstone when you put it like that\"\nHe he said, eyeing the diagram a bit. Each layer supporting the other eh? But-\n\"But - I already do layers\"\nHe said, drawing a replica of his diagram near hers, only with the exact amount of layers in his technique. He had chosen layers for the exact reason that it was abit easier and of course supported more. Yes it was pretty complicated - wasn't at its rank for anything, but if it worked out it would be hella defensive\n\"Maybe its the way I build the layers - any ideas as to how to make them support more and not collapse?\"\nHe asked" }, { "author": "tacklejackie", "message": "Biting her lip, Maku just looked at the diagrams they were working at, shaking her head a bit. It was dificult trying to lay out plans that... Didn't quite make sense to her, considering how little she knew about Jutsu. Maybe...*\n\n\"Why not do something where you have the Layers taper off. Each row of sand stacks on top of the other, and have it so the weight is distributed outside. That way if a layer collapses, it'll fall outside.\"" } ]	123	708
415.333333	2021-03-20	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "chaos_ryder", "message": "`` Dis be Highlands ``\n\nSana was breathing in and out slowly as he closed his eyes in the middle of the rolling plains outside of Noragakure. He was focusing on the feeling of the wind whistling through the grass and the smell of everything around him. He could smell a rodent or maybe some kind of small mammal nearby, the fact that the smell was familiar to him probably indicating it was something closer to a field mouse or a squirrel perhaps.\n\nHe thought he might have focused a bit too much on his sense of hearing when he was training, in terms of orientation in a three dimensional space it was certainly more useful than smell, but once nose could tell much more detailed information than hearing could. With his ears he could only tell that someone was behind him, his nose could theoretically tell him who the person behind him was, assuming he knew who they were already. He had read in books that exceptionally talented ninja and Inuzuka could get even more information from someone's scent. Things like body type and sex and even handedness, which sounded a bit far fetched to Sana but he supposed he wasn't an authority on the subject in any way.\n\nHe had invited Jin over to help him with learning some techniques, mostly his clan's ultimate barrier ninjutsu as well as a specialized seal designed to activate the very item that Jin had constructed for him. Hopefully this would dramatically cut down on the time it took for Sana to be fully primed for combat. Not that it was strictly necessary for him to be effective in combat, but if he wanted to go all out it would take a few crucial seconds that would absolutely slow him down in a pinch." }, { "author": "amozaven", "message": "\"Hey, uh, Sana. I guess you already noticed me then.\"\n\nJin moved a hand behind his head, rubbing over it some. His stealth was not exactly trained, but it was something he'd been slowly trying to get the hang of. That being said, comedically tiptoeing through the grass didn't do a whole lot when the crunch of fresh, herbacious plants still sounded out across the field. Still though, it was a worthy endeavor in his mind, one he'd already started formulating a plan for. Not necessarily the most important measure in his plan, but a good one to address nonetheless. He cleared his throat, trying to address a friend and not another blank face rolling across the countryside. Sana was not a blip in his existence - not to the extent that 99% of people he met were. Sana held deeper meaning to Jin, perhaps in ways the Uzumaki could never fully reciprocate, and even somehow in a form that was difficult to understand. It made him uneasy sometimes to think about it, but it truly was the case. Sana was the one and only.\n\nThe fucker.\n\nIt was only the fucker that Jin would park his train and take time out of his busy train schedule to dedicate a day to. He cracked his knuckles and approached him, taking a seat and casting an arm around the Uzumaki in brotherly camaraderie. Nothing more than that - Jin may have the white hair and the violet eyes of a Kaguya, but he wasn't so gay that his entire skillset was bones.\n\nActually, well, he was kinda gay-ish. Kana was cute.\n\n\"So. You need things, I have stupid things to try. Maybe some diving underground. I'm pumped.\"" }, { "author": "chaos_ryder", "message": "Sana's ears perked up when he heard the distinct crunch of grass under someone's foot, the scent of oil and coal dust combined with a fainter scent of various things Sana couldn't be sure how to put a name to other than 'Jin'. Opening his eyes to see his friend clasp him across the shoulder, Sana smiled back. He was not all too dissimilar in Jin's evaluation of people and his perceived worth of others, although Sana's attitude was more nature than nurture.\n\nIt was interesting to note that Jin's clasp felt a lot like Hozen's, he supposed that showed how hard the both of them had been working on their physiques. That ungodly strength was not altogether unpleasant to Sana, but he usually preferred guys to be on the smaller side, at least aesthetically. Plus he had known Jin as a genin, that made it weird. Regardless of the fact that Jin was only about a year younger than he was.\n\nWomen were more than free to tear him in half however. He wondered were he picked up that particular inclination.\n\n\"Diving Underground huh? Well I'm here to try to make a barrier and a specialty seal, which one were you thinking of trying first? Arts and crafts first and then trying to smash things into a barrier or the reverse? I was thinking of some chakra flow principles and how they could be applied to fuuinjutsu. What kind of stupid were you thinking of?\"\n\nSana would then shuffle away for a second before pulling out a small scroll and unrolling it. Revealing a long string of half-finished fuuinutsu formulae. They seemed to all revolve around storing a small amount of chakra and flowing it into something once a trigger was activated." }, { "author": "amozaven", "message": "\"Oh, I'm fine with anything. This will be sort of me trying to figure out how to like, actually dive underground in the first place, right? It's a very new concept to me, but I mean, if it's available - why not use it, you know?\"\n\nWhac-a-Mole was the first thing on the list, really. Figuring out how to slip into the Earth was a strange prospect in of itself, but one he could certainly figure out given a little bit of trial and error. The air floating between Sana and Jin was palpable with some sort of tension anyhow, perhaps it would become a good motivator for escaping a potentially socially tenuous conversation. After all, Sana had mentioned fuuinjutsu.\n\nHe couldn't stand the Uzumaki and their stupid fuuinjutsu, despite being an incredibly prolific user on his own.\n\n\"Uh, yeah, sure, we can talk shop on arts and crafts. This is...\" An expletive was desired there, but instead, Jin's thoughts just sort of trailed off as he stared at the sealing formula. It took him a few seconds to really begin to understand why in the hell this was written this way, until he stared at that juicy neck that the meteorite choker so often slid its tendrils into. Indeed, there was something needfully complex about its internal operations, and yet needing something external to feed it chakra... Was Sana really running dry? Certainly, the Uzumaki legend couldn't run out of chakra. That'd be equivalent to the Predator Unit not having a Monopoly board on them at all times to settle arguments.\n\nA certain seal in Jin's left pocket weighed very heavily upon his soul. An arbiter of his life, truly.\n\n\"You'll have to explain a bit more I guess. I can see what's going on with what you have so far, but unfortunately I'm not a mind reader. I'd be way better at the Auction round if I was.\"" }, { "author": "chaos_ryder", "message": "\"Ah, I see what you mean. So the Regalia needs to be fed chakra in order to activate right. So I was thinking that instead of taking the time to do that myself, I could get a seal to do that type of simple interaction for me and free me up to do other things with my time. Especially if I set it to an electrical trigger and can activate overdrive and then activate the item as a result of me activating overdrive. I could drastically reduce the time to get into full danger mode.\"\n\nHe then folded back the parts of the scroll already filled with scrawling formula and showed a newly blank page. Absently doodling on it as he spoke. The seal itself wasn't terribly complicated but it would involve the storage and the injection of chakra which was a higher level concept generally. He didn't need that much chakra in the seal, just enough to activate the regalia. Turning his thoughts to earth release and falling into the ground, He spoke up again.\n\n\"From what I have heard it usually involves one of two principles. Either turning the ground beneath you into a softer more malleable material and sliding through it, or making a hole to drop yourself in, before then doing what I just said again. They're essentially the same but I think one is more advanced than the other. Heard Kugo talk about it while we were training one time. Not that I am an authority on earth release or anything like it. I'm not particularly good at either of your elements of choice, sorry.\"\n\nLightning was very simple in his perspective, it wasn't the jutsu that needed the biggest thing done to manipulate it or what have you. Mainly because manipulating it to anything extreme was exceptionally difficult. Lightning didn't enjoy being used for anything other than obliterating a target usually. With chakra flow you could get a bit more out of it however." }, { "author": "amozaven", "message": "\"Fed chakra to activate... Yeah, I get that, but why would this... Oh. Oh, okay, so... Oh, okay.\"\n\nThat did indeed speed up the process quite a bit - a nice streamline that perhaps could've been nice to have built in. There had been little room for negotiation with that metal though - the meteorite he'd sourced for Sana's Regalia had been from a particularly persnickety region of the Frontier, and it'd taken on many of those personality traits in of itself. To convince the meteorite to allow such grand manipulations as he'd performed already was a challenge. Nonetheless, it'd been a shouting match between semi-malleable metal and a man wielding a hammer with enough strength to topple towers. Needless to say, Jin had beaten the creation into submission. It hadn't gone without its challenges though. Getting the tendrils had been weird.\n\n\"Oh, I'm going for the former. I'm fairly experienced with Earth Release - thank the spirits for Heavyweight and Lightweight Technique - but this is just a newish concept to me. I'd rather be able to just fall into the ground at will, which is why I've been trying to practice with a particular variant of the whole underground schtick. See, if I can get underground, I'll be in a pretty tight pocket, right? Then I can just use my armor's natural ability to spew water by taking chakra to 'pressurize' the pocket. Because I'll be able to make the earth malleable, I'll be able to choose which way the built up-pressure launches me. Like those squirt guns the kids down near the river play with sometimes. Little pumps. I'm making a hydraulic pressure chamber underground and now I'm the thing being pumped. Fuck.\"\n\nThe handseals were weird, but not entirely foreign to him. He'd tried a few times already to drop underground, but not entirely to the best success. Though they had elemental mismatch, at least the two of them typically operated together in a pretty clear fashion.\n\nHe briefly wondered why they hadn't gone on a mission in a while. Probably because most of Jin's involved brutalizing top secret sadistic hunting beasts. The sort of thing that brought excitement to a man.\n\nEither way.\n\nJin cleared his throat, forming the handseals once more and then... Well, nothing in particular. \"I can get earth chakra to leave my feet. I do it all the time. The hard part is... Concentrating it enough to like, drop through the ground. It's hard, you know? Even with pretty decent chakra control.\" He rubbed at the back of his head, pulling a coffeemilk out of seemingly nowhere as the hand returned to his side. The pop flew off as he flicked it with his thumb, taking a sip.\n\n\"Just gotta keep the injection ratio small. You ain't need much. Smaller it is, better control you'll have.\"" } ]	378	2,492
570.857143	2021-03-21	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "chaos_ryder", "message": "Sana nodded, he supposed that the actual part of the seal storing chakra didn't have to have almost anything dedicated to it in terms of seal real-estate. The main object of the seal would be to actually get the chakra to flow along a specific direction that he wanted it to and into the actual necklace.\n\nReaching back and unclasping the thing, he looked at it in his hands. The Uzumaki clan symbol in the middle and acting like an anchor point to the entire thing. He had asked if Jin could include his old necklace into this one and he had been beyond pleased at the results. His grandfather had given that necklace to him before he passed and it still gave off the sensation of pipesmoke and old lumber that he associated with the man. He supposed that he could actually test on the necklace if he wanted to, it's not like he could damage the thing really. Both aspects of the things he was messing with here were inert by default and any reaction would only indicate that he had succeeded.\n\nSticking out his tongue a bit in thought, he would start marking down the seal on the necklace as he spoke, carefully constructing the innermost section that would contain a small fragment of chakra waiting for release.\n\n\"Oh... Huh. That's actually pretty interesting. You basically turn yourself into a pneumatic piston... Sort of. You're being propelled by pressurized water anyhow. Maybe you should focus on splitting the earth around your feet with some force, so that uh... The chakra will continue to move apart and let you fall even when the dirt around your feet is not longer in contact. Maybe its more like a...BAH, than like Pff. If you know what I mean.\" Sana clenched his fist hard and then spread it out like an explosion for his first sound effect, and did the same thing before slowly making his fist go limp for the second. He didn't really have a lot of insightful or intellectual commentary to give on earth release so that was just about the best thing he could give instead. Kana had managed to interpret his onomatopoeias once before, was Jin also the type to understand what he meant?\n\nAfter constructing the inner part of the seal, the next part would be a lot harder, focused mainly on the construction of the outer part that would actually flow chakra into the necklace itself once activated. Looking down at the necklace he would finished the seal and leave the necklace in one hand. Making a hand seal with the free hand the seal on the necklace would make a small sound like a very very small amount of air let out of a balloon and the would sigh. Perhaps he needed to have a few more parts of the seal to get the chakra actually into the necklace itself. Perhaps he could work with an even smaller amount of chakra to squeeze just a but more control out of it than he already had. Perhaps that was what he had to do. Starting again on the clean necklace, Sana spoke aloud again.\n\n\"What does manipulating earth and water chakra feel like? Always was curious.\"" }, { "author": "amozaven", "message": "Onomatopoeia was an interesting topic for Jin. Although he'd always been something of a visual learner, or rather, a hands-on one, speaking directly into his ears was quite difficult to relay information when it was only offered once. That was often how conversations seemed to completely skip his brain while working, walking, or doing near anything else. There were seldom talks with others that he could actually bring to memory a rough topic for unless it was of a dire sort, and even then some of those had been lost to time. It was interesting to note, however, that the engineer had something of a wild imagination. After all, it took that sort to work with meteorite at this level in the first place - achieving such strange things was one hell of an abstract concept, and somewhere deep down, he was aware that his mental interpretation of it was just a coping mechanism for his body and mind doing something that perhaps, a human body could not process and understand fully. As long as he made the motions, it was alright. Either way, an overactive imagination often less to pictures - and, onomatopoeia made it far easier to depict it in his mind's eyes. As Sana described the scene, Jin flipped through the handseals rather thoughtfully and slowly as the Uzumaki also began to work on the seal.\n\nIt was small, surely, but it could be. It wasn't necessarily horribly complex in logical construction, just... Extremely precise, and that was a difficult undertaking in of itself. As Jin stopped on the last handseal, his lips had parted - there were words that he wanted to get out, thoughts to convey to the other about the small possible upcoming mistakes he could make. Before any of that could occur however, the last handseal and a rather subconsious effort to make a jutsu happen put Jin through the ground. Quite literally - in the fashion of Whac-a-Mole, instead of tunneling down, the hammer lad simply vanished into the dirt as if it had no longer been there. There was no sign\n\nThat he'd disappeared under the surface at all, which was sort of the point in the first place. Several seconds of total silence would pass at this point, perhaps enough to bring some level of worry to Sana's mind. What if he had no idea how to actually get back up in the first place? What if his strength wasn't enough to get out of highly compacted ground? What if there was no way he would get out in time - would this be considered a homicide by the AMC? Could it be? There was no evidence that it wasn't, was there? What if he was choking on dirt?\n\nWorse yet, what if he was into it?\n\nNo matter what was rushing through Sana's skull, or knowing the Uzuamki, lack thereof - a hand popped out of the ground, slipping out only a few short moments later. It wasn't digging free, it was coming up through the softened earth from the technique - almost liquid in nature as he pulled himself back out. Somewhere along the line, he'd clearly forgotten about the surfacing part, and as Jin pulled himself free and copped a squat, having stopped feeding the technique some chakra, the white-haired subterranean explorer simply stared down at his hands.\n\n\"Okay. Probably should like, actually put on my boots or gauntlets or something to... You know, build water pressure. If I want to surface. You know, like I intended...\"\n\nA sigh. Well, he surely hadn't thought about that, but he unsealed his armor rack and began to don his boots anyways. \"At least they're comfy.\"" }, { "author": "chaos_ryder", "message": "The area around him suddenly became more quiet than before more serene, that was good in terms of his 'penmanship' with the seal, but he always enjoyed a sounding board for which to test his ideas and get feedback from. Feedback? Maybe if he marked the seal a little bit... There to anticipate the feedback and send it back along the line into the necklace. Drawing the seal on one of the large metal plates he would nod as he heard the disturbance of dirt nearby and looked up to see Jin as he activated the seal.\n\n\"Hey Jin, hardly noticed you left, I was a bit busy with the seal. And yeah the boots might help a- AAAAAA!\"\n\nThe necklace activated itself while in his hands and unfurled into a mass of metallic tendrils that wrapped around his hand and started to crawl over the rest of his body in a crude attempt to reorient itself to its proper position. It was frankly like he was being attacked by some kind of tendril-ed beast of some kind. On of them might of went up his nose in an attempt to go over what it probably assumed was his knee. After a seconf or so of shock, he fed it more chakra to undo the process and it folded back neatly into the prestine necklace it had been before.\n\n\"FUCK. GOD THAT WAS SO WEIRD. Well I supposed that it worked after all. I just need to wear it correctly so it doesn't try to latch on to my wrist like that's my neck.\"\n\nShivering at the strange sensation, Sana didn't hesitate to pick up the necklace and clasp it around his neck. Absently drawing the seal on of the plates hidden by his hair, Sana stood up and stretched a bit as he Then started to shift into what they would be doing next. Making barriers with Adamantine chains would be... Interesting without a doubt. How exactly he would manage it would be another issue entirely. Because the chains had heavy elements of fuuinjutsu and sealing baked into them already he felt like he should just be able to send chakra down the chain and use the chains themselves as vertex points for any barrier he would make. The simplest one would of course be the classic adamantine chain dome, which was almost comically durable and large, but that would require some assistance to test that it really was the barrier that he wished for and that he was putting it together correctly. He had to make sure it was actually as durable as it was supposed to be and didn't just look a bit similar if he was going to use it in battle.\n\n\"So, I might have learned something really cool and discovered how to make chains out of pure concentrated fuck-you chakra. So I was told I could make a barrier with said chains as well. So lets get down and try that out and see how it does.\"\n\nActivating the seal with a firm press, The Regalia unfurled around him as he smiled. Golden chains launched out of Sana's chest before holding themselves in the air, waiting on his instruction to move.\n\n\"Pretty cool huh?\"" }, { "author": "amozaven", "message": "Fucking clan members.\n\nAfter having recovered himself from a brief dirt nap, Jin could not help but to stare at the golden chains sticking out from his chest tenketsu. There was something absolutely bizarre about them - from the appearance, and his experience in Fuuinjutsu, they seemed somewhat related to barrier-type fuuinjutsu, yet also... Not? The white-haired gremlin pursed his lips and put a hand to his chin in thought, head tilting a little as he tried to formulate the exact thoughts that were running through his head without hinting at genetic jealousy. Anything about the actual Regalia had left his mind entirely, leaving him with a slightly perplexed expression. Fuck-you chakra. He would perhaps have to study Fuck Release, then.\n\n\"I... I don't get it. I mean I do, but like, also fuck you. When can I discover that the Kyou clan is actually some hidden genetic menace that has its own kekkei genkai? Fuck, man. You accordies get all the cool stuff. Accordies? Accordions. I'm going to call the clan members Accordions from now on. I'm sure the Hyuuga will take that well, the fuckers.\"\n\nExpletives were a good indicator that Jin was moderately excited about something; in this case, it was something new, a rarity nowadays. He did tilt his head, though.\n\n\"Okay, so like, whip out the fuck release barrier. I want to tell you you're bad but I know inevitably this is just going to be some amazing technique because you're an Uzumaki.\"" }, { "author": "chaos_ryder", "message": "\"Listen this is an ancient and secret art of fuck you that I barely understand as it is. As much as I love and adore my family they would literally assassinate me if I told you how it works exactly. Or... How it functions I suppose. How it works is obvious, chain come out of chakra core and hit people or wrap them up and seal their chakra. They are also- PFFT\"\n\nSana had to choke back the sound he made when he was referred to as a 'Accordie'. It was such an unbelievable thing to say it made him laugh involuntarily. It was an absolutely hilarious and silly thing to call someone at all and besides that the further variations of the word made him exert even more effort to keep the laughter inside. Breathing in and out steadily after a few seconds, Sana breathed in and out a few more times before collecting himself and continuing to speak. \"Technically the Uzumaki are not an Accord clan, that is flattering in a certain respect, but were weren't important enough to be a part of the wall accords. We would be considered a founding clan however. Sorry just a bit of my uncle leaking out there, anyway lets get started. And you know for a fact I was terrible at fuuinjutsu until just a short while ago so don't say that to me.\"\n\nPointing a sarcastically accusatory finger at Jin, Sana launched the chains underground at terrific speeds and looped them over each other before having them make a very loose dome above them. The dome was about 30 feet in radius and Sana inspected it by looking at it up and down. The chains coming from his chest and appearing from the ground at key points. Now ideally this would be a simple matter to simply create a barrier, but he needed to figure out how to create that truly titanic barrier from all of these base points. They were chains so if he pushed a lot of chakra into them and made them emit chakra to other chains, they would be much more stable than a regular barrier.\n\n\"Alright so I think I'll just flow chakra into them and... Make this thing... Happen.\"\n\nAs Sana looked at the chains, the air started to distort between chains like a barrier was starting to form, but it only appeared in sections and the haze didn't look nearly strong enough to be a real barrier. After a few seconds he managed to get the whole dome filled up, but it was already much too slow and the barrier was clearly wobbling in a frankly concerning way. Not to mention the look of concentration on Sana's face." }, { "author": "amozaven", "message": "\"Listen, I live on a train. They'll literally never see me do it. If they do, they can catch this hammer.\"\n\nThe barrier itself wasn't exactly of the best quantity. Given that it was probably Sana's first time achieving a barrier of this size, it was at least impressive enough to not scoff at, though at least it wasn't a perfect first attempt this time. Wiping some sweat off his brow in relief, he simply took his bow up from seemingly nowhere and knocked an arrow. Firing it was just as fast - the meteorite arrow whizzing through at S-rank power, somewhere off into the distance that he'd have to retrieve later. It wasn't the ultimate defense, not yet, not if someone clearly as weak and shitty as Jin could pass an arrow through it.\n\n\"For a Foundy, you really are holding back on this. You're thinking too much about making the support structures first. The chains are a stand-in for actual anchoring seals for the barrier I assume - or at least, I mean, that makes sense. When I use Pressure of Deadlines, I just create the seal on the ground by planting my hands and let that be the blueprint for the dome. You though... Well, in a normal barrier technique, the 'anchor' and the walls go up at the same time. You need to already be extending chakra across the chains ready to make that barrier as they extend up from the ground the Moment* They can. Lagging the extra chakra for the actual barrier portion is making it impossible to fully connect, because you're completing the anchor and the barrier separately, which is just... Not going to work.\"\n\nHe lowered his bow, shooting a look over his shoulder at Sana. \"Maybe you are just still bad at this though, who knows. Maybe Minori prepped those other fuuinjutsu seals and stuff for you. What's it gonna be, yuzu? Hammer to the face, or better barrier?\"\n\nDamn, Jin thought. Yuzu coffeemilk almost sounds nice." }, { "author": "chaos_ryder", "message": "Sana squinted his eyes at Jin, it was a blatant attempt to provoke him. But he decided that he need a bit more motivation to get the hang of his technique and create a barrier worth actually being respectable. The chains Immediately retracted into his chakra core and disappeared. Taking a deep breath in and out, he concentrated on feeling his chakra core and the gate right behind it. His gate of view and his chakra core working together to project these immensely dense constructs of chakra out of his body at extreme speeds.\n\nFocusing on that area as he thought, he built up chakra inside of his body, molding and shaping the chakra that would then turn into the large barrier he had before. He would need a truly titanic amount of chakra to both produce the chains and have them be imbued with enough chakra already for the barrier to slam into place as soon as he got the chains into position. This type of barrier should be able to take just about any jutsu thrown at it and keep standing as it was. Maybe the barrier could have even helped Juro in his valiant attempt to smother the most destructive jutsu known to mankind. Or well, that was the dream anyway.\n\n\"Alright bud then how about this? This is a whole host of fuck you chakra headed straight for you. Shoot and arrow through This* Asshole.\"\n\nSana then expelled a truly staggering amount of chakra out of his gate of view and shaped it like a loom gone made in his chakra core. Chains exploded into the ground and traveled along the lines the previous ones had already gone, the chains met and formed a dome over the two of them as Sana released all of the chakra he had put into the chains, the barrier slamming into place around them. The gaps in between the chains looking firmly like individual barriers except for the bizarre shape that the chains gave them of course. Smiling as sweat was beading on his face from concentration, Sana loudly exclaimed. \"HAH! Take a crack at That Mister! I defy you to try to break that with anything sort of one of Kugo's town-sized explosions. MAYBE. 'Maybe Minori did it for you' get out of here. I am the barrier LORD.\"\n\nSana then exhaled and inhaled again, calming down after his adulation and accomplishment of getting the barrier to set properly. It looked good anyway, so it was good that he had someone else here able to actually test it to see if it was actually working. \"Uh... That isn't a joke by the way. Could you actually try that again? It looks good but I want to make sure it isn't just a very impressive looking curtain that will fold at the slightest touch. I'm busy uh... Keeping the barrier up.\"\n\nHe had a lot of uses for a barrier like this, this could block all sorts of ninjutsu, not just earth and water release like his armor technique. Plus he could both protect allies as well as potentially trap opponents in here to meet their doom and or risk blasting themselves with their own techniques. Keeping up a barrier was hard work, especially one this large and complex. This could take a lot out of you.\n\nYou know, hypothetically." } ]	629	3,996
429.666667	2021-03-23	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "tboy2210", "message": "Kazuko usually was not one to lie like that. Alright, they're friends, meaning that she can and will joke around here and there. If she says that she wants to rip off your limbs, she may do it if you make her angry enough, but other than that, it is a joke with friends. Though if she doesn't know you... Be careful. That 'visiting Take at home' thing was not a joke though. Yep! Kazuko was not kidding at all there, and the way she speaks makes it hard to understand if it was really a joke or not. Even though she knew that it may or may not be bad for Take to visit him, since his mother forbids him to meet - or even become friends with - another Kaguya, this girl did not care~\n\nThe nightmare was approaching. One step after another, Take's worst fear was coming to his home, closing in to end his life within seconds. If this was a movie or the sorts, the dramatic and scary music would start playing just about now. And when Kazuko finally arrived... Knock knock! That's what Take and his mother could hear at first. A guest? \"HEY, ZUCCHINI~!\" She yelled, clearly being a... Well, alright, not that clearly being a friendly voice, though she was being kind! Kind-ish. \"Can I come in?\" With that being asked, she quietly and carefully tried to open the door. In case it was locked, they should not hear her attempt on opening the door. Would be a tad weird. Though... It was not locked?! A fatal mistake.\n\nKazuko opened the door and went in a step or two, standing inside and taking a look around. \"Take? Come on, I can't wait all day!\" Huh... Though training could seriously wait since she was here now. He could show her his home now, including the apple juice closet and his plushie. That's be funny, heh. Was what she did a bit too much? It was obvious that she was a Kaguya, and Take's mother was, well... Not going to be happy about that." }, { "author": "Deleted User", "message": "As soon as he heard her voice, he kind of just froze uP. Why the hell was she here? He immediately tried to hide her from his mother, immediately running at the door and dragging her away from the door and away out of sight. No way he'd let his mother spot Kazuko, that'd be bad. He raised a finger to his mouth, ushering her urgently to be as quiet as she could. He was not about to get caught because she couldn't stay quiet. He then turned around when his mother spoke.\n\n\"Who's that?\"\n\nWas all that she asked, and what could he react with? He simply turned around a bit sheepishly, and planted a hand on Kazuko's head to hide the zig-zag line, he didn't want her to notice that, no sir. He began to point towards her and introduce them. His eyes were flashing back and forth, mostly because he had to keep his eyes on both of them. He then began to speak, saying Kazuko's name to her and saying her name to Kazuko, well, her position. \n\n\"Uhm, this is Kazuko. Kazuko meet mother, mother meet Kazuko. That's all, now let's go.\"\n\nHe said as he grabbed her by the hand and began to drag her away from the house, like hell were they gonna stick around there. He had began to walk towards the training grounds, where he was going to be testing some of the poisons he planned on making. Perhaps Kazuko would let herself get hit with the poisons, well, it's not as if she would actually be affected by them. His mother had told him about all their little . . Kekkei Genkai tricks, such as heat vision, etc.\n\n\"Okay. Training, I'm gonna be making poisons.\"" }, { "author": "tboy2210", "message": "It was on purpose to scare the heck out of Take with that, but she did not expect him to do what he was doing right now. Pulling her away from the door, the girl blinked in confusion and was about to shout at Take for doing that - whether she was going to be angry or not was another question - but he stopped her from that. His raised finger was definitely a sign she could not oversee, eh? No words have been spoken that very moment. Kazuko just let him lead the conversation with his mother, grinning like the little devil she was. Of course she knew what she did there!\n\nAs Take introduced the two very, very briefly, Kazuko just gave his mother a quick, short wave. \"Hey.\" Okay, she was not that evil, as the problems she was going to create with more information out of her mouth might completely escalate the situation. Buuut when he planted his hand on her hand, it made her kinda uncomfortable for a second. Instinctively Kazuko growled, not that loudly, but loud enough for the other two to hear. And that was all there was to it, because now Take grabbed her hand and pulled her away from the house.\n\n\"Ey! What's up, got scared?\" Her voice teased him as she let him pull her for a short moment, before trying to free herself from his grip. It was not an emergency situation, so the maximum of physical contact she wanted to endure was pretty low. Walking, walking, walking... Soon enough, they arrived at the training grounds, so Kazuko looked around for a moment. Her eyes were redirected at Take on the spot though. \"Poisons?\" Damn, she wanted to learn that as well one day. Not now, but... One day, definitely. \"Have fun without a proper dummy.\" Hah! The girl gave him a small laugh as she sat down just like that. Tired? Nah, but lazy. \"Genjutsu for me. You're my dummy, Zucchini.\" The way she said that meant that she won't accept a 'No', fully knowing how much he hated Genjutsu. But it had to be done, sadly. Even she was kind feeling meh about doing that to poor Take." } ]	445	1,289
341	2021-03-28	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "Deleted User", "message": "\"Oof . .\"\n\nHe let out a grunt as she had landed on his legs. He looked up to her, and sat down. He so wanted to just . . Rip open her First Gate. To see how she would cope with it, though he supposed it couldn't be helped. He held his back, and rubbed it. It was quite sore, and with Kazuko wriggling around on his leg, it just added to the pain. Though he did not do anything, as one wrong move and she could gnaw his leg off. He did not want that happening to him, no sir.\n\n\"Did you want to learn a technique?\"\n\nHe asked her, wondering if she had wanted to learn a technique. Though now he was sitting up, so it kind of just looked like an awkward position that they were both in. He had waited for her answer, as he had learnt his technique and everything he wanted to do with it. Next week is gonna be the time that he was going to learn his first ever Kanabo technique. He had the Kanabo, but now he had a specific technique to utilise it with. Very, very nice.\n\nIn his mind anyway, he had wanted the Kanabo to inflict heavy trauma damage to people, and he was using the Zanbato to slice apart. He might even be able to combine Wind Release, his natural born element and utilise Nintaijutsu, though very briefly. He would not be able to withhold it for very long, and he would most likely just pass out if he tried to use it more than twice. That's why he was just going to learn it as a one-trick thing, if he so needed to do it.\n\n\"Well?\"" }, { "author": "tboy2210", "message": "You get what you fucking deserve! Well, did he deserve something like that? Her intentions were to inflict pain, since he also was so exhausted that he may not be able to do much right now without his stupid Gates. She was way too much into Ninjutsu to even consider using the Eight Inner Gates. It would be the most stupid move one can do. In fact, she wasn't even sure if she could learn that at all in the first place... Nah, no need to think about it too much.\n\nKazuko watched him sit up just like that, which made the girl growl and poke his leg with a nail - and it wasn't that soft, oh hell nah. It was like a little knife stabbing him, but she did not make him bleed. \"Dumbass. Fucking weirdo.\" She just looked away from him. What was that now? Well, Take did not have to understand that, since he was dealing with Kazuko here right now. All her behaviour may be interpreted in a 'weird' way. She didn't really act that normal. Though his question made her thing. After training her Genjutsu her like that, she had the idea to take it one step further and learn something new: A technique created by her. Or was going to be created, because she already had the idea in her head.\n\n\"Yes. A Genjutsu. My own, I thought about it for a while.\" She said, still not looking at him though and just sitting there on his lap. But then, it kind of struck her out of nowhere. That position was a weird one indeed, and Kazuko only now realized that. Widening her eyes, the girl just quickly stood up and gave his leg - for no apparent reason - a little kick as well. \"I...\" That was embarrassing. What to say?! Weaving a few hand seals just like that, she growled. That growl was to typical for her that one might think she is just angry. But no, it is the trigger for her Genjutsu. What happened after a short moment was pretty cool, or so she thought.\n\nShe turned around to face him again, angry face and all. No blushing, though definitely not the 'angriest' face of them all, as it had something else mixed into it. What Take was able to see now was... Wolves. Out of nowhere some wolves appeared behind her, like a pack that she was the leader of. They growled like real ones, and suddenly jumped on Take to bite his legs and arms. She could make it worse and let them bite more painful parts, but that was all she wanted him to experience for now." }, { "author": "Deleted User", "message": "He sort of just stared at her for a moment, and when the wolves pounced on him he kind of just sat there, he didn't know what to do and was in shock. Though soon enough he had broken out of it. Holding his head he wondered what to do, that was a Genjutsu, right? Blegh . . Looks like their training had been concluded.\n\n\"Man . . I'm starvin' I'm gonna go to the Bistro.\"\n\nWith that, he got up, sheathed his weapons and stretched." } ]	352	1,023
334.4	2021-03-29	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "amari2", "message": "``` Training Glade now ```\n\nJomei was looking to train a technique her father handed her the instructional scroll for. She decided to challenge herself and see how she did when learning a much more difficult technique that normal. She was told this technique had potential to be the building block for a plethora of other intense techniques. So she was more than excited to learn this technique. \n\nShe had come here for that specific reasons, the sole purpose of learning a technique in an area that was best suited for it. Although it was full of trees she found herself an area of the glade that was relatively lacking in trees. A bald spot basically. \n\nAs she read the scroll she was confused. It was said that this technique was a lot of fire that \"Expanded\" In a way. She assumed that it was like the typical fire release technique that starts off small and expands with greater range, but that wasn't the case. Not entirely." }, { "author": "notmizuka", "message": "Nasaki sat somewhere at the top of the glade, his legs dangling as he wanted some peace and quiet after the most recent events in his life. He just wanted to relax. His shift at the hospital had ended and he came to the glade to witness the academy students alike train and progress forward, breaking their limits and going beyond. Or so, that's what he wanted the most. Nasaki didn't want to think about their troubles, or what caused them to become a shinobi, or what caused them to kill. To harm others that couldn't protect themselves. As he looked over, down into the glade, he saw a certain genin stand out to him. It was mainly due to what the scroll contained. Even from a few meters up, he could tell that the technique, though not being clear to Nasaki, was a powerful one from the drawings alone. Slowly getting up, he looked down to the ground and to the glade, before he leaned forward and fell straight down.\n\nThe images of death flashed his mind, but for the most part, Nasaki was un-phased by the haunting images. He only hoped they'd leave his mind soon. He wanted his mind to be free of the chains that kept them in place. Remembering what he said to Yuki a while back, and how he was putting on this façade for the betterment of others, he wondered how many people would be better off if they didn't have to deal with his fake persona.\n\nLanding skilfully on his feet, Nasaki looked over to other genin, raising his eyebrows up, as if he was saying \"Hey\", but didn't have the social tact to actually speak to them at all. As he then walked over, Nasaki was able to get a good look at the technique they were studying. Intelligent Hard Work. He had seen it before, when he was learning Pressure Damage. It made him chuckle before he looked to the genin that was trying to learn it.\n\n\"Well. You're not going to learn it like that, now are you?\"\n\nHis voice had tints of joy layered throughout it, but for the most part, it was distraught." }, { "author": "amari2", "message": "\"Yo.\" Jomei took notice of Nasaki when he landed on the ground, but she decided against continuing anymore conversation with this new fellow. It was only when he approached her that she figured they were going to be engaging. Hearing the man speak with that voice and with those words sort of confused Jomei. She listened, his words and his tone almost seemed like he was eager to help Jomei, but at the same time something plagued him. It was a strange anomaly that she hadn't really noticed before, who was this guy?\n\n\"I suppose not, but it doesn't make sense really. How does a fire release technique expand violently, but not from the expansion of it as it leaves your mouth?\" It was clear to see that Jomei didn't quite understand what the contents described. But she doubted reading it over and over again would help her discover the missing piece of information that would push her from not understanding the technique to mastering it in no time. She stood up from her crouched position and looked to Nasaki, stepping a bit away to make sure she didn't catch the man in the crossfire.\n\n\"Excuse me.\" Jomei immediately weaved the handseals described in the scroll and churned her chakra to create the signature fire release aspected chakra. In the next instant she had expelled a small fireball towards the ground a ways away, and tried feeding it more chakra in the hopes it would suddenly expand. That wasn't very well the case, as it didn't do anything upon hitting the ground. She scowled at this result, looking at Nasaki as if expecting him to do something." }, { "author": "notmizuka", "message": "Nasaki simply ran a hand through his hair before realising that there wasn't much for him to do. But then they tried to do the technique and failed miserably. It made him take a deep sigh and reassess the situation at hand. It only took, what, a few seconds at best till he figured out what to do and how to achieve it. Clapping his hands together, Nasaki figured he should show them what a powerful wind technique looked like, the brother to Intelligent Hardwork. Pressure Damage. As he walked a few steps forward, taking a deep inhale of the charred ground, before he weaved the handseals needed with one hand and at high speeds for a genin, before he shot out an almost A-Rank level equivalent pressure damage. With the damage being caused, Nasaki looked backwards, a smile flickering on his face before it died away. The joy that once encased his body was a embed of the burning fire it was once.\n\n\"It's called creativity. It can let you end a person's life if you wish to take it. Now try again. If I can do it, you can too, trust me, I was a moron like you, even not more a moron. I've gotten better, you can do the same.\"\n\nDespite his cold attitude, he was being encouraging and supportive. He wasn't a total asshole as there wasn't a need to bully and belittle the genin that has probably recently graduated from the academy. And then, his smile, his dying smile came back before it withered away into the distance.\n\n\"Fire is unique. Now use it to your advantage.\"" }, { "author": "amari2", "message": "Jomei took another look at the scroll after seeing the Pressure Damage that Nasaki performed. She listened to them speak, and tried to see what she was doing wrong. She didn't quite understand what she was missing, but she looked back as to why Nasaki used Pressure Damage. It felt much more, dense, than the typical wind release technique. She knew that wind release was closer to slashing and slicing things apart then what Pressure Damage did, it wasn't slicing. After some thinking she think she had an idea, it was a compacting the technique. She looked to the drawing and the graphs on the scroll, seeing that it made sense. If you compact the fire and let it be disturbed, it would erupt and explode to be more destructive.\n\n\"I see.\" Jomei said as she placed the scroll back down on the floor to free up her hands. Weaving the handseals and beginning to inhale sharply to prepare for using the technique. She begun to churn her chakra and turned up the heat, making it fire-aspected and turning up the intensity of the flames. She then took that chakra and compacted it, making it denser and denser until she felt it was a danger to hold it. Now it was time to release it, exhaling out of her mouth and causing the small fireball to propel itself towards the ground once more.\n\nThe issue this time was that before it hit the ground it expanded into a bigger fireball. Losing its velocity and much of its power as it wasn't properly maintained. It was an improvement from the last time but it still wasn't as described in the technique scroll. She needed to figure out the last missing piece." } ]	343	1,672
191	2021-04-02	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "notmizuka", "message": "As he watched her learn the technique, almost having it down to the nail, Nasaki knew he had done his job properly here and that he could relax, not needing to be all too tense. Though there was some issues still, but he wouldn't point them out, not yet, why would he tell her everything, as he wouldn't be there for every mission she went on and messed up using Intelligent Hard Work. Finding a seat somewhere, Nasaki took it and waited for her to release the true potential of a base Intelligent Hard work, and to show her what it could be on her own, he walked over and beside her, quickly weaving hand seals with only his right hand, as he spewed out a B++ Pressure damage, wanting to show her the destruction. Once it was shown, he went back to laying down somewhat, trying to relax himself whilst helping her.\n\n\"Well. You're getting there, so try one more and then you can go home, and come again tomorrow if you need to.\"\n\nHe said as his eyes looked to the sky, the birds soaring above them. One day, he'd be in the predator unit and he could go free. He could save humanity a different way." }, { "author": "amari2", "message": "\"Hm..\" Jomei didn't bother saying any words to Nasaki. He seemed to be relaxing now, he had come to do what he came to do she assumed. But although she thought the guy was weird, she didn't let herself think about it too long before she had to get back to work. Cracking her neck and doing the same with her fingers, she closed her eyes and let herself ponder for one last time what she had to do.\n\nShe inhaled and exhaled regularly, regulating her body as she emptied her mind and focused on what she had to do. Increase the power of the technique, shape into a fireball and let the shape destroy itself as it made contact with something. It was easier said than done, but at the current moment Jomei would make it look like she could do the technique this whole time. She did the handseals and manipulated her chakra the same way as she did the last time. Focusing the fireball into a small point before expelling it.\n\nNoticeably it didn't leave her mouth as a point, but rather a small fireball. She then saw as the fireball landed a long way away from her, erupting into the classical fire storm the technique was known for. She did it! It brought a smile to her face, but quickly that smile faded away back to her aloof exterior.\n\n\"Alright, thanks.\"" }, { "author": "notmizuka", "message": "As he looked over to it, he realised he was done here, just giving her a simple nod before he left within a vanishing speed for a genin. He was going home to sleep for the rest of the day, not caring about what the rest of the week entailed." }, { "author": "Deleted User", "message": "This be the training grounds.\n\nHachirou was at the training grounds, scratching his head. He was trying to figure something out, that something being how he was going to be able to actually increase his strength. He had remembered all the training he had done with his cousins, father, sister, brother, but he was trying those. He wasn't getting any stronger it seemed. Did he had to go against something that was a lot tougher? He had no idea, he was a bit angry if anything. Though he did not express that frustration.\n\n\"Hrm . . \"\n\nThe chubby boy began to look at a tree, and decided to begin punching it. It hurt, and he held his knuckles after punching the bark. \"Ow . . Ow . .\" He didn't curse, he had been taught better than to curse. He was also young, so he felt as if that wouldn't sound right." }, { "author": ".taylorc", "message": "Kana had planned on a nice, relaxing evening of electrocuting herself on accident until she came up with some sort of new technique. It was a very fun game to play and she usually didn't even end up needing immediate medical attention anymore! She was quite proud of her progress. She currently had her nose buried in a tiny notebook, scribbling so furiously that she almost didn't pick up on the sounds of pain coming from the other side of the training grounds. She cocked her head to the side as she took in the boy cradling his injured hand, a confused look on her face. \n\n\"You, uh... You good there?\"\n\nHe didn't Look Injured and he was literally the only other person standing there besides her... But of course, she knew from experience that it was surprisingly easy to injure oneself." } ]	188	955
186.2	2021-04-03	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "Deleted User", "message": "\"Oh . . Uh, yeah, yeah I am.\"\n\nHe said as he moved his hand, trying to hide the slightly marked knuckle. He was a Shinobi after-all! Something like that could never have hurt him! Okay . . Maybe he was lying just a tiny bit, his endurance was never as good as his chakra reserves and such, so he was trying his best to hide the pain. Though his eyes were slightly teary from it, which he noticed himself quickly, and thus he rubbed them, drying them up really quickly. He looked up the person up and down, was she younger than him?\n\nShe didn't look younger, she was just roughly around the same height. He was just a bit . . Larger.\n\n\"I was- uhm, y'know, training my strength. It's not the best.\"" }, { "author": ".taylorc", "message": "Kana merely blinked, face completely blank as she watched him get all teary eyed. She wasn't exactly interested in or equipped to deal with some random genin balling his eyes out or something... With a sigh, she tucked her little notebook away in the folds of her top, eyeing the genin. He didn't really look particularly impressive if she was honest. Looks could be deceiving of course. But then again... She didn't know many Genin Even that got all teary eyed while training so she couldn't help but think he must be kind of... Soft...\n\n\"Obviously... I'd suggest maybe starting with some normal workouts. You know, pushups or something before you move to fighting trees. They're kinda tough, ya know?\"" }, { "author": "Deleted User", "message": "\"Oh! Right! Normal workouts . . \"\n\nHe said as he shook his head, he had to think straight. Thinking badly would not help him improve, and he had to get into the quick-witted mindset. He began to get on the tips of his toes, and placed his palms against the ground. He began to push himself up and down, using his upper-body strength to leverage himself. He wasn't that strong, and he wasn't the best with stamina, though he could still go for a while to say the least. He had a strained look on his face, though he had to keep going.\n\nTo take a break from all of the intense training that he was doing at the moment, he decided to speak.\n\n\"So . . What's . . \" He huffed out, trying to catch his breath. \". . Your name?\"" }, { "author": ".taylorc", "message": "She was still quite confused by the boy's mannerisms. Kana wasn't entirely sure how one forgot about doing normal people workouts and skipped straight to tree punching... But it was obvious he wasn't anywhere near \"Tree punching\" Strength. In fact, she was pretty sure he was struggling with basic push ups, which didn't really help increase her opinion of his abilities... She was a bit suspicious that maybe he hadn't even graduated from the academy yet. Shaking her head at him, she seemingly ignored his question at first and instead walked over and planted a foot firmly on his back. She wasn't overly aggressive or anything with him, just a nice little push as a reminder to keep going. \n\n\"Kana, nice to meet you I guess. You're not very used to this physical work out stuff, are you...\"\n\nShe figured it might come off as a bit harsh. But she was genuinely just unimpressed with his display of endurance and strength so far." }, { "author": "Deleted User", "message": "He let out a little groan when she had pressed the foot against his back, what was that for? Was he doing a bad job? Oh no. He had gotten a bit sad again, though he wasn't going to let this Chunin put his morale down, he began to push even harder, and managed to even push against her foot a tiny bit, if she wasn't resisting that is. There was no way he was going to beat her strength at the moment, so what he was going to do was try his hardest to keep getting stronger and stronger.\n\nOnce she had stated her name, and began to comment, he spoke again, his voice was strained, as if he was focusing really hard.\n\n\"N-no . . I mostly do things with chakra . . But . . \" He let out another groan, gritting his teeth as he held in his staggered breaths. \"I'm . . Looking to get . . Better for my . . Taijutsu!\" He exclaimed a bit, trying to use the loud words to make him push farther and farther. He did not state his name at the moment, he was a bit too concentrated." } ]	171	931
208	2021-04-04	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": ".taylorc", "message": "Kana was really starting to wonder why she had bothered to stop and talk to the little wimp. She of course knew she'd been a beginner at some point. But come on... She didnt think she'd struggled with a little warmup like this since before she'd even joined the academy. He had to have some other sort of impressive skill, otherwise she wasn't entirely sure how he'd even passed the exam. She scoffed lightly at his mention of getting better at taijutsu.\n\n\"Well as a bit of an expert on taijutsu things, I can tell you you're gonna need to work a lot more on your conditioning before you worry about that stuff...\"\n\nBeing the lovely person that she was, Kana would let him quite literally sweat it out for a bit longer before removing the pressure of her foot against his back. She stepped away from the genin, giving him a moment to relax and breathe a bit. \n\n\"So, you gonna introduce yourself? You kind of asked first ya know...\"" }, { "author": "Deleted User", "message": "He just fell to the ground when he was given a break, man, this was tough! Though he could make it. When she had spoke again, he wondered how he could respond to her. Thinking for a minute, he figured that he could just say his own name. He let out a sigh, and began to speak.\n\n\"I'm Akimichi Hachirou. Nice to meet you too.\"\n\nHe groaned as he got back to it, though this time he was getting faster and faster. He seemed to be getting stronger, though of course he was just trying to boost himself up by thinking about things that he would hate to happen. That's what he did to boost himself up from where he was currently. It was an effective tactic, so far. He was pushing himself more and more, putting more work on his muscles and exerting them more. Though as he did do that, he felt as if he was able to go on for longer as well.\n\n\"Right . . I'll just have to work harder . . Then . .\" He spoke as he did the push-ups, for now, that would be the only thing he'd do. Next time they met however, he was going to punch every single tree here and leave a dent in the bark. Just to show her." }, { "author": ".taylorc", "message": "The girl smirked as she looked down at him. He certainly wasn't the best, but she had to admit that part of her admired his determination. Kana had almost expected him the be the type to give up easily considering the state she'd found him in. But she was pleasantly surprised that be genuinely seemed interested in getting stronger. \n\n\"Alright, I think you've done enough for now, Hachirou... Lemme take a look at that hand and make sure you didn't break anything earlier. Trees can be quite tough from what I've learned.\"\n\nShe held a hand out expectantly, obviously not about to give him a choice in the matter. She didn't need people thinking she'd gone and broken a genin's hand or anything." } ]	206	624
239.625	2021-04-09	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "justden_", "message": "It was early, barely past nine in the morning, but the market already had quite a few people. Kagayaki stood at the edge, waiting for her assigned partner for this mission. She'd recently gone on a similar one, though it seemed this time the perps were stealing more than food: bags, and other possessions of the like, things she'd have to get back as part of her assignment.\n\nShe stretched out, and groaned slightly. She had her forehead protector around her neck, an easy way for her partner to identify her, and her short blonde hair and braid matched the light orange band quite well. Her blue eyes scanned the crowd, just in case something happened while she waited, though she had to admit she was pretty bored as she waited.\n\nShe took the time to let her mind wander a bit. At first glance the market seemed lively, like nothing bad was going on, but in reality she could tell people were scared as she looked at their faces when they walked past her. The war worried her too, but all she could do to help right now was stop these thieves who were taking advantage of a difficult situation." }, { "author": "blackiavelli0869", "message": "The robe covers just one of his shoulders; it leaves the other uncovered and flows down into a tasteful semi-sweetheart neckline. It's a tight fit which accentuates his muscles, but it does so in an elegant manner and isn't skin tight.\nHis arms have been covered till about the elbows, the sleeves are simply, yet elegant. A perfect combination of grace and style.\n\nThe robe's waist is narrow, and it's a slim fit. A obi bow has been wrapped around his waist and positioned slightly to one side.\nBelow the waist the robe fits snug around him and has a dress style. The robe reaches to just above his ankles and is longer at the sides and back of the robe.\n\nAikura scanned the market looking for his partner; he'd been paired with another shinobi to complete a mission - even though it was early the market was full of activity, merchants shouting the prices of their wares and the ear numbing hum of many people talking.\n\nWith a yawn Aikura decided to walk deeper into the market, even though it was a nice day a little sweat ran down Aikura's face - a strand of hair kept sticking to his face, pausing for a second he tied his hair into a ponytail. As he stopped he could see another shinobi standing around; he had a feeling that was his partner.\n\nTightening his obi he walked up with a smile, \"Hello my name is Hannetsu Aikura. I think you're my partner for today's mission,\" Aikura pulled a scroll from a satchel he had tied around his body, \"Hunt down thieves right?\"\n\nAikura placed his hands on his tanto's and chuckled, \"I'm ready when you are! Sorry that I kept you waiting, I got lost in the crowd and couldn't find you.\"\n\nAikura paused and frowned, \"Need to do anything before we go? I know the mission is an easy one but this war has me nervous - even on an easy mission like this one never knows if we'll run into a rouge. Don't worry though, if we're on a mission together I'll put my life in the line for you...\"" }, { "author": "justden_", "message": "Kagayaki spotted the other shinobi headed her way as she looked over the market. \"Geh!\" She blurted out as she noticed his fashionable outfit, pausing to look down at her own... An oil-stained beige long-sleeved shirt and some cargo pants with plenty of pockets, she felt like she'd lost a battle she hadn't even signed up for. \n\nShe felt some relief when he got close and smiled to her, thinking he didn't seem to be that bad. She noticed he wasn't much taller than she was, she was used to people towering over her short stature, so it was a nice change of pace. \"Aye! Aye! That's me! Ressha Kagayaki, feel free to call me Kagayaki, Hannetsu-san. \" She answered with a large grin on her face, making a small, two-finger salute.\n\nShe blushed a little and covered a chuckle with a hand as he said he'd put his life on the line for her, she knew it was just his job and she'd do the same, but saying it out-loud without feeling any embarrassment was something she might struggle slightly. \"Thanks, I'll watch your back too.\" She answered with a smile as she returned to normal. \n\n\"I'm good on supplies, though we should probably take off our Noragakure headbands now that we've grouped up, least the thieves notice us and bail.\" She said, undoing the knot on the one around her neck before neatly folding it and placing it inside one of her many pockets. \"We'll have to follow the thieves back to their home base, so if one steals something we should probably just follow him and retrieve the stolen things afterwards. How does that sound?\"" }, { "author": "blackiavelli0869", "message": "Aikura nodded as he untied his headband, \"Sounds like a good plan Kagayaki-dono,\" Aikura smiled as he slipped his headband into his robe - starting to walk he turned back around and scratched his chin, \"Silly me, we should probably inform eachother about our abilities; i use Kenjutsu and earth release, i like to attack by surprise and immobilize my enemies. I have a basic understanding of medical Ninjutsu and genjutsu and I am pretty nimble - will I can fight head on I usually try not too. As you can see I have a pretty small stature and frame so I'm not the strongest guy around.\"\n\nAikura folded his arms and continued to walk forward, \"Most of the jutsu i know are catered to my fighting style, the best technique in my arsenal is earth release: hiding like a mole technique so I can catch people by surprise. How about you? What is your strengths and weaknesses and what techniques do you have in your arsenal?\"" }, { "author": "justden_", "message": "Kagayaki listened as she walked beside him, not having to strain her neck looking up was a big plus. She chuckled as he finished, keeping an eye out as they wandered around. \"We seem to be polar opposites. Unlike you, I specialize in long-range fighting. Throwing shuriken and long range ninjutsu, though I can kind of-\" She waved her hand side to side, \"-hold my own in close combat and I may be small but I can pack quite a punch.\" She made some shadow punches for dramatic effect, \"Though when it comes to running, I ain't the fastest, nor can I do it for very long.\"\n\nShe quickly signaled a couple of hand seals, the speed somewhat impressive. She opened her hand in front of her, lightning coming out of her hand, between her fingers for a bit before dissipating. She wanted to show off a bit, but not enough to draw attention from the people around her. \"As you can see I use lightning element jutsus, and I have a few in the pocket, mostly for medium-ranged attacks. And though it won't be useful here I always like to mention it, you need anything built, I'm your girl!\" She proudly proclaimed, a big smile on her face. \n\nOnly a few moments after she was done talking a clearly female voice shouted out, \"Thief! He grabbed my bag!\" Several people turned towards the sound, as did the genin. A lanky male was running into an alley, stolen bag in hand. Kagayaki jogged after him, assuming Aikura would run behind her as well.\n\nChasing him wasn't particularly difficult, he seemed so busy running at his full speed that he wasn't really paying too much attention to those following him from afar. Eventually he led the genin to an abandoned two-story house, he entered through the front, closing the door behind him." }, { "author": "blackiavelli0869", "message": "Aikura gestured to his left side, and held up his fist signifying to stay close to him, he took a step back and weaved a couple of quick and seals, \"I'm going under, in two seconds kick the door down,\" Finishing his jutsu he slowly sunk into the ground." }, { "author": "justden_", "message": "\"I like the attitude!\" Kagayaki commented and shot towards the door. 1, 2! She thought as she gave the door a mighty kick. It was old it seems cuz it didn't burst open, but it's hinges broke and the door was flung into the building. There were two people inside, males. \n\nOne of them was holding open the bag while the other searched and they stopped to look dumbfounded at Kagayaki as she tore the door off it's hinges.\n\n\"You're under arrest!\" She shouted out, trying to look cool." }, { "author": "blackiavelli0869", "message": "Aikura clapped his hands together, \"Genjutsu: Bell ring,\" As he finished weaving his hand seals he could see the one holding the bag stumbling and grabbing his ears, sprinting over he quickly pulled his tanto and hit him in the temple with the hilt - the thief collapsed to the floor and Aikura looked to his partner, \"I'll leave the other to you!\"" } ]	223.5	1,917
112.5	2021-04-10	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "justden_", "message": "Safe to say the two thieves were confused as to why they suddenly couldn't move and their ears were buzzing, and before they even noticed one of them was falling to the ground, unconscious. The other grimaced but his muscles wouldn't move no matter what, like the sound of the bell was echoing through every single one of his cells.\n\nKagayaki took the chance to immobilize him, shouting out an answer to his partner, \"You got it!\". Ideally she would have used her shuriken, but she didnt want to kill them or injure them permanently, so she quickly weaved a couple of seals, lightning surging from her hand, \"Lightning Release: Electromagnetic Murder!\" She declared, extending out her hand and launching the lightning towards her target.\n\nObviously he had no way to dodge, paralyzed as he was, so he had no choice but to be electrocuted until he passed out." }, { "author": "blackiavelli0869", "message": "\"Kagayaki-dono, good job - magnificent control of chakra. Remind me never to go head up with you,\" Aikura chuckled as grabbed a rope from out of his satchel and began to tie both of the thieves up.\n\n\"We should go on another mission together Kagayaki-dono, I like how you operate!\"" }, { "author": "justden_", "message": "Kagayaki laughed, \"Thanks, you're not too bad yourself. I'd like to work with you again too. Though I'd appreciate a bit of a warning before you dash into danger!\" She made her voice sound a bit more stern, though one could easily tell she was mostly joking.\n\n\"Let's check if the stolen posessions are upstairs.\" She motioned towards the stairs that led to the second floor. As predicted, a few bags, backpacks and wallets were piled up in the corner of the room.\n\nKagayaki clicked her tongue and grimaced, \"They didn't even bother hiding them uh? Let's take them back to the military police along with the thieves.\" She said as she began grabbing the items. She was pretty strong, and she had plenty of pockets so she could carry quite a few things, though she left a backpack for Aikura to carry." }, { "author": "blackiavelli0869", "message": "\"Lets go, to the MP!\"" } ]	127.5	450
144.458333	2021-04-19	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "blackiavelli0869", "message": "The robe covers just one of his shoulders; it leaves the other uncovered and flows down into a tasteful semi-sweetheart neckline. It's a tight fit which accentuates his muscles, but it does so in an elegant manner and isn't skin tight.\nHis arms have been covered till about the elbows, the sleeves are simply, yet elegant. A perfect combination of grace and style.\n\nThe robe's waist is narrow, and it's a slim fit. A obi bow has been wrapped around his waist and positioned slightly to one side.\nBelow the waist the robe fits snug around him and has a dress style. The robe reaches to just above his ankles and is longer at the sides and back of the robe.\n\nHe stood around the academy field - he chuckled to himself; felt so long since he had been here, the days and weeks blended together. It had been a while since he'd turned into a Genin, he'd learned a lot too.\n\nThe war was going on so his sensei had been occupied - he was military police after all; protecting inside the walls was what he'd signed up for but these were troubling times. \n\nAikura walked to a small wooden pillar and decided to sit on top of it, \"So this is what the calm before the storm feels like...,\" Trailing off as he said it he closed his eyes and began to meditate. Elder Fukimoto had always told him a calm mind would allow his blade to strike true; he needed that now, his edge couldn't dull or that would be his death." }, { "author": "thelastaristocrat", "message": "\"ALL RIGHT!\" Ishin's voice echoed through the street. \"You know your orders, patrol the village for any sign of infiltration, and if you find it end it! If you cant end it you will fight for your lives to report back to me. Do not fail me. Now GO!\" Ishin barked orders at a small group of officers and swung his arm out as a sign for them to depart. Once they departed on their respective routs Ishin let out a sigh, taking off his half mask and hanging it on his obi. The mask swung with movement as he began to walk, his eyes scanning nearby buildings for any sign of wartime distress but still people went on their lives like normal.\n\nApproaching the academy grounds another sigh left his throat as he looked onto the building. It felt like decades since he was in those classrooms to be a unknown name looking through those windows aimlessly. His eyes settled on a genin and let a soft smile play on his face before it quickly vanished. Jumping over the fence he approached Aikura.\n\n\"What are you doing all the way out here? Dont you know their is a war going on.\" He said raising a eyebrow." }, { "author": "blackiavelli0869", "message": "Smiling at the shinobi he walked over and bowed his head, \"I was just around. And of course I know Ishin-sama, I've been to the front lines doing my part... I need to grow a history of completed missions and get stronger so I can finally join you in the military police.\"\n\nLifting his head he gestured to his waist, \"I have a few tanto's now, I'm going to get a fourth to have you beat. Tell me Ishin, how have things been really? I know the populace is quite worried about recent happenings...\"" }, { "author": "thelastaristocrat", "message": "\"Well we'll be happy to have you among our ranks, they're looking kind of thin with the war effort and all.\" With his raised brow still raised he crossed his arms and adjusted his posture, leaning on his left leg he said. \"One up me huh? Well I'll have you know I've just been saving up my Nichi so Jin can build me my magnum opus. A katana to end all katanas.\" He then leaned down placing his hand in a position to shield his mouth from prying eyes. \"But that's hush hush.\" He shot the genin a devilish wink. \n\n\"And all in all its been as good as it can be, you know just surviving a war. Trying to keep the grand major happy with my performance. On top of dealing with marshal law.\" He let out a aggravated huff. \"Its what the Kage wants after all.\"" }, { "author": "blackiavelli0869", "message": "\"I've been thinking of getting a katana but honestly the tanto's are more my style - the weapon is like me if you think about it; small, fast, and precise. Ishin-sama, when you get that blade crafted I'll love to cross swords with you... Hopefully at that time I'm no longer a genin, so we can stand on even footing!\"\n\nPatting Ishin on the shoulder he shot him a warm smile, \"Wish I could understand all the stress you've been under so I can offer kind words; all I know is this Ishin-sama, you must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.\"" }, { "author": "thelastaristocrat", "message": "\"I mean if you think you could keep up with me I will be more than happy to cross swords with you. But I will most likely not hold back at that point. At that point you will already be a chunin and you might even be a part of the MP so dont expect me to hold back any longer.\"\n\nAt the mention of letting go and Ishin not being in control his demeanor immediately changed to a more stand offish manner. \"But I want to be. . .That's the problem, I want to be the one in the Ivory tower. I want to be the one everyone looks upto. Juro. . .Juro had a lot on his shoulders and he carried with so much grace, that's who I want to be not. . .\" He cut himself off." }, { "author": "blackiavelli0869", "message": "Aikura looked at him and unsheathed his tanto, holding his arm out straight he slashed his palm, \"Uchiha Ishin, I Hannetsu Aikura will stand with you! Your desires are mine. Your wishes are mine. Should even the world stand against you, my blade will be at your side. And should it fail to protect you and your dream, let my own existence be forfeit!\"\n\nTaking a knee he placed his hand over his heart and looked up, \"You have my word!\"" }, { "author": "thelastaristocrat", "message": "Ishin's eyebrows more or less shot through his hairline as the young genin cut his palm looking down to the boy as he took a knee on the ground and after hearing his words Ishin spoke. \"You. . .Uh. . .Look kid, theirs really no need for all that, you're way to young and fresh to know where your loyalties lie. For now they should stand with the village and its leader. You'll find once you're a chunin and once you've grown a little that not everything may be as it seems but for now as young and green as you are let that tapestry stay over the secret room. Understand?\" \n\nHe reached down and yanked the boy up from under his armpit. \"And stop kneeling before me like some feudal lord. I despise formality except by those in my clan. As the heir I deserve that from them but from someone outside of the clan it's just weird and grating to me. So while appreciate the gesture just calm it down a little bit. Okay?\"" }, { "author": "blackiavelli0869", "message": "\"No. I gave you my vow Ishin-sama, I'm a man of my word - I will stand by it even if you don't want it; I know after I first met you and crossed blades with you that this is what I wanted.\"\n\nTaking a step back he wiped the blood in his obi, \"The cutting might have been a bit much now that I look back on it. But look Ishin-sama, I am the heir to my clan, I understand what comes with it - if you don't take my vow as a shinobi then take it as the head of my clan...\"" }, { "author": "thelastaristocrat", "message": "Ishin pinched the bridge of his nose furrowing his brow in frustration. \"I guess theirs no stopping you huh? Also not to talk down to you or anything but you're clan was not here when the village started. It was not one of the ones that took the reigns when it was needed. While I appreciate your word it has little merit when it comes to any kind of sway or promise.\" He said in a very matter of fact the way he spoke." }, { "author": "blackiavelli0869", "message": "Grabbing his chest he groaned, \"That hurt,\" Folding his hands he sighed and looked at the Uchiha, \"Do you even know about my clan? Should probably know what you're talking about!\"\n\n\"In any event Ishin you should take a break for a bit, a good exercise will clear your mind and relieve some stress; i want to see if your blades have become blunt!\"" }, { "author": "thelastaristocrat", "message": "\"I know that you're clan hasn't found a claim to nobility yet other than maybe having more than the average number of family members.\" He also said very nonchalantly before his eyes snapped to boy and a sly smile came across his lips. He turned his back on Aikura and began to walk away. \"If you want to test your metal against me so badly come. Know that I will hold back.\" His head turned to look over his left shoulder the tomoe of the sharingan now spun in his eyes. \"But only a little.\"" }, { "author": "blackiavelli0869", "message": "\"The Hannetsu were born after the time of expansion - without having the hide at night the founders came out; they used the night as their weapon. They took what they wanted, be it an item or life, they worshipped a different pantheon than most. Other gods spoke of peace and unity while theirs spoke of violence and greed.\"\n\n\"Until they flocked in droves to Nora after it's founding. From that day the small group of criminals viewed Asurama as a living God; their village was birthed by him - he united all of these people, as they saw him as a God they worshipped him as such. With religious fervor the Hannetsu swore to die and kill for Asurama.\"\n\n\"They mostly created shrines to his name - for a long time the \"Clan\" Had no combatants and only worshipped Asurama behind closed doors.\"\n\n\"In the early days of Nora was when they would gain any relevancy and started creating shrines people could pay to go too.\"\n\n\"This cult remained small - they refused to allow marriages from outside the clan and decided to keep their practices hidden from the outside world.\"\n\n\"Most called them religious fanatics - some even calling them a cult; of course they viewed themselves in a different light and believed themselves to be the protectors of Asurama's legacy.\"\n\n\"It was during this time that the Hannetsu began to develop techniques and a more sophisticated social structure in the clan - during this time is also the first reported time the clan began to practice the tradition of training the first born child in the arts of Tsukikokyū.\"\n\n\"They believe that it is their responsibility to protect the creation of Asurama - the village. They will die and kill for his legacy to go untainted.\"\n\nAikura sighed as he finished his quick run-down on the history if his clan and shot Ishin a dirty look, unsheathing both his tanto he entered a low stance, \"I've heard stories of the Sharingan, let's see if it's really worth all that hype!\"" }, { "author": "thelastaristocrat", "message": "After hearing the spiel and watching Aikura draw his blade Ishin turned around and once again adjusted his weight to his left foot. \"Right right that's all fine and dandy, but are those blades just for show or are you actually going to give it all you got this time? I'm curious to see how you've improved since our last bout, most people who train with me really grow from the experince so lets push you to your limits yea, who knows you might even make me break a sweat.\"" }, { "author": "blackiavelli0869", "message": "Entering his low stance he closed his eyes and opened back up, while he didn't have a Sharingan his sight had always been one of his greatest weapons, grabbing his third tanto he put it into his left hand, holding two in one hand was something he'd been practicing lately it hopefully it would catch Ishin by surprise.\n\nDashing forward he sent a series of slashes and thrust toward Ishin, he knew the man would no doubt dodge them so he had another idea. Throwing the tanto in his right hand up he tossed the other tanto into his now bare hand and sent a precise thrust to Ishin's chest." }, { "author": "thelastaristocrat", "message": "The speed, the three blades, and the fancy blade work reminded Ishin of someone. He shifted his legs in a show that he was about to dodge before Aikura found his tanto planted right on Ishin's chest. Though no blood pooled or spilled and Ishin stood back up right. His armor technique not allowing the blade to penetrate. \"You're going to have to be a lot more fancy and creative than that if you want to draw blood on me.\" He smacked Aikura's hand away before throwing kick towards his chest in a effort to knock him away." }, { "author": "blackiavelli0869", "message": "Trying to regain his stance after being kicked away he took a deep breath in, damn that Ishin had the foot of an ox on him! Quickly weaving a few hand signs he began to slip into the earth, \"Subterranean voyage!\"\n\nHe could feel Ishin on the ground, he'd done this technique to him before, he needed to be careful, last time he almost crushed his hand. He was speedy too, he had to be quick when he emerged." }, { "author": "thelastaristocrat", "message": "Ishin let out a loud belly laugh as Aikura went underneath the ground. \"Aikura. . .Let me show you a technique I stole from a friend of mine.\" He placed a hand on the ground. \"Earth Release: Tearing earth turning palm.\" He then quickly rotated his hand that was on the ground causing the earth to shatter and quack rupturing up from the ground and destroying Aikura's hiding spot." }, { "author": "blackiavelli0869", "message": "\"Fuck!!!\"\n\nTrying to catch himself in the fall he quickly swung his right arm and stuck it into the earth while doing a flip up out of the newly created crater.\n\n\"Hiding in the mist technique,\" Aikura mumbled as he finished his hand signs, using his stealth(b) he jumped back and began weaving new hand seals, he'll use a auditory genjutsu on him, and use the opening to attack. He just needed to finish the signs." }, { "author": "thelastaristocrat", "message": "\"Ah finally a good idea, I cant see through the chakra generated mist.\" Ishin closed his eyes and opened up his ears.* \"But I can still hear you. Pitter patter pitter patter.\" Ishin chuckled under his breath as his fingers snapped into a blur. \"Fire release!\" He then remember he was in the village and with a sigh. \"Right. . .Village safety war were in one of those. . .\" Looking towards Aikura he waited to see what he would do. Hopefully the genin would give him a good run around." }, { "author": "blackiavelli0869", "message": "\"Matteiru: Konchū no yume,\" Aikura paused as he finished his genjutsu, this was an illusion of his own creation - let's see if Ishin could deflect this so easily.\n\n\"Fuck it,\" Aikura pulled his tanto, he knew the truth, ishin would easily block this weak genjutsu, he knew what he had to do, he'd devised this technique for when he went into the frontier to fight any rouges he'd come across.\n\n\"Sugata o kesu: Yūgure no rakka!\"" }, { "author": "thelastaristocrat", "message": "He heard him before he saw them and he saw the blade last as the blade crossed his throat Ishin gasped and grabbed at his throat, turning away and falling to his knees he fell silent, gripping his throat he only let out shallow breaths as he back was turned to Aikura." }, { "author": "blackiavelli0869", "message": "Getting into the low stance again he chuckled, \"Ishin-sama, aren't giving up on me are you? Ready yourself!\"\n\nHolding both of his arms outstretched he jumped back into the mist, he could try to hit him again with it, he needed to aim for another spot knowing Ishin he wouldn't fall for the same trick again. He'd aim for a weak spot in the armor.\n\n\"Sugata o kesu: Yūgure no rakka!\"" }, { "author": "thelastaristocrat", "message": "Ishin stood up right. \"Damn my trick didn't work. That's sad.\" He removed the hand from his throat \"Armor technique remember?\" He withdrew his wakizashi keeping it in the reverse grip holding it horizontally to his body. \"Prowling art: Prowling blade.\" As Aikura's blade came in Ishin's blade came down and knocked Aikura's arm in the dirt." } ]	119	3,467
141.666667	2021-04-20	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "blackiavelli0869", "message": "In all honesty as Aikura fell to the ground he was truly pushed back - he was pushed back in a way he never had been before; sure, he'd trained a lot as a child and since he'd become a genin but this was the only time he's ever felt like this.\n\nHe felt helpless and weak seeing how fast Ishin easily deflected his attack, Sugata o kesu: Yūgure no rakka had been designed to be one of the strongest moves he had in his arsenal. \n\nDoing a flip to regain his balance he entered another stance with his three tanto's, holding them in the same way he'd done before, \"Sugata o kesu: Yūgure no rakka...,\" He mumbled as he stepped back into the mist.\n\n\"I will hit you with this next one!\"" }, { "author": "thelastaristocrat", "message": "Sheathing his wakizashi Ishin places a hand on his katana. \"I hope so. . .I mean technically you hit with me with both, its just you have to hit me enough to bust through my armor technique. Frankly even getting hit once or twice really takes a lot of me.\" He shifted his feet. \"So you need to come at me enough that you drain my body of the technique, make since?\"" }, { "author": "blackiavelli0869", "message": "He could see Ishin-sama through the mist, he'd hit him in the same spot twice now; like he said, that armor technique was a drain to keep up - all he had to do was push through and make sure to break the armor technique.\n\nIt bothered him a bit that Ishin had decided to pull out the katana, was he finally going to take his onslaught seriously? He'd known Ishin for just a short time but he could already tell what kind of person he was, he loved competition and would never let himself lose... Especially not in something like this.\n\n\"Sugata o kesu: Yūgure no rakka...,\" Dashing out of the mist he moved faster now, he needed to push through whatever counter Ishin-sama was about to use." } ]	160	425
99	2021-05-01	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "saimonthemonk", "message": "\"One that drains chakra, water as a whole doesn't require as much concentration. Just start shooting water.\"\n\nOnce more as a bit of a demonstration he stepped away, he looked over towards the Suimen Pond and began to move in a blur through just a few hand seals. At which point as was the usual the metal maw of his mask would snap open to release an unforgiving vortex of water. A vortex that towered over trees and consumed all before it, though only once it had dissipated did he turn back towards the rather . The rather annoying genin,\n\n\"Spew your guts out, that's how it works.\"" }, { "author": "wanderermog", "message": "\". . . I have the vague feeling that you might have reservations about me. Totally just a theory but. . . Ya know.\" Chiho slowly turned away from the Chunin, inwardly wondering what crawled up his- no no, no need to think rude or mean thoughts, zen, remain composed and zen at all times. Forming some hand seals for focus, Chiho began to do just as he said, spewing water at high force out through his mouth. Surprisingly, his chakra pool paired with his somewhat rudimentary understanding meant he had enough expertise in order to maintain a constant stream, his eyes turning to the Chunin, stopping for a moment to speak.\n\n\"Also. . . Shochune Chiho, is my name I mean. . . Thank you for taking the time out of your training to instill some wisdom on me.\"" }, { "author": "saimonthemonk", "message": "\"I'm a Senju of the Frontier Patrol.\"\n\nThis was not really someone he particularly desired to become allies with. This was not a Sana or a Sadazane, a Masumi or a Sousaku. This was someone he almost anticipated the death of, so now it was time to depart. Time to hopefully find people more serious about their life and training.\n```I demand compensation.```" }, { "author": "wanderermog", "message": "```Your Compensation is the friendship of a Genin```" } ]	105	396
242.8	2021-05-08	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "Deleted User", "message": "Masanori sat a table of books, books scattered across the table. All of the books having something to do with medical ninjutsu. He held the left side of the book in his hand, which made the cover really easy to see. If a person was to see it, it would read 'Medical for Dummies'. He had experience with the medical side of being a shinobi, but needed to become an expert in it, in order to be able to help his comrades in missions.\n\n\"This is more confusing than what I learned at home.\"\n\nThe boy would mutter, he'd quickly shut the book, pushing it off to the side. To his mistake, it just barely fell off the side of the table. He'd quickly get up, and walk over to the book, bending over to grab it, sighing." }, { "author": "bluelock1320", "message": "\"Because writers of these types of books forget that children can heal people of their injuries with negligible consequences in combat.\" Just behind the boy, was Uzumaki Hozen, a pretty good medical-shinobi, even though his usage of it was not common.\n\n\"So. Hoshigaki, i can help you with your medical studies, but you'll be reading my own medical journal. It's more, teenager friendly than these.\" This was of course true, as most authors who publish well-scripted medical textbooks don't think children below the age of sixteen will be taking it on, but they were sorely mistaken. \n\nTo be honest though, Hozen had read the book for dummies, and it was easy to understand, so maybe this genin was stupid..\n\nThe reason Hozen was doing this might be a very poor one, or maybe even stupid, but it was in fact some sort of favor he had tasked himself with from Suwa, a Hoshigaki women and clan-head he had gone on a dangerous mission with, and she didn't come back.." }, { "author": "Deleted User", "message": "Masanori picked up the book and stood straight up, and was caught off guard by the Chunin behind him. He'd turn to face them, ready to throw the book at them. Instead, he'd set down the Dummy book on the table behind himself, before focusing on the person in front of himself.\n\n\"That's fine. An experienced person's notes are probably a lot easier to understand.\"\n\nHe'd reply back to them. He liked the idea of using someone else's notes in learning how to become a better medical ninjutsu user. He'd put his hands in his pockets as he looked behind him at the scattered books. He'd sigh. He'd turn and begin to pick them up, stacking each book on top of each other, ready to put them back where he found them, or at least try to.\n\n\"How experienced would you say you are when it comes to medical ninjutsu, Chunin?\"\n\nHe'd turn his head to look over at them, after asking the question." }, { "author": "bluelock1320", "message": "So this Hoshigaki did have a head, albeit not as smart as he would like, at least Hozen wasn't talking to a pile of water.. Moving on, the Uzumaki would walk towards the table and take a seat, wanting the genin to sit down so they could talk properly. \"Not meaning to intrude of course, but my name is Uzumaki Hozen, not chunin. And i would say if someone were to slide a sword along your torso, i could heal that injury within a few minutes.\" Giving some intent expression, Hozen would clear his throat.\n\nWithin the next few seconds, he would look up to the ceiling before looking down to his purple tabard, before reaching down into the neck area and grabbing a thick leather journal of his own. \"These are the notes i have collected.\" He would say, loudly.\n\nHozen would toss the journal across the table, as it slid until it was close to sliding off that very table. \"I have different chapters on stuff, the green tab dividers are for the muscle groups, the pink ones are for chakra related things about the body, and the purple one is about the skeletal aspects of the human body. If it has a black tab divider, it has a collaboration of organs and other similar things about the body.\" He'd say, as he tipped his head back. \"So, what are tenketsu.\"" }, { "author": "Deleted User", "message": "Masanori walked over to the table and sat across from the Chunin. He'd put his hands on either side of them as he looked at the Chunin in front of him. He recognized the purple tabard as uniform for the Military Police. He kind of admired what they did, but the Hoshigaki wasn't meant to be a part of that branch. It was a choice between the other two, in his mind. He'd make an unimpressed expression as they made a statement about their current skill in the area of medical ninjutsu. It didn't seem very impressive, especially with the wording given.\n\n\"Hoshigaki Masanori. What you said about your prowess in the area isn't quite appealing. I imagine you've still got ways to go in the area.\"\n\nHe'd say, as he caught the journal as it slid. He'd quickly flip open the first page, scanning through it, before looking back up at the Chunin seating across from him. He'd close the book, before nodding with what they said, attempting to remember what they would say about the dividers. He'd look down at the book before looking back up at Hozen as they asked him about tenketsu.\n\n\"If I can remember, they're the points along your body. With the tenketsus you can use ninjutsu. In a Hyuga's case, they can push pure chakra out, right?\"\n\nHe'd tilt his head slightly as he asked that question, looking at his tutor inquisitively." } ]	220	1,214
324	2021-05-15	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "bluelock1320", "message": "\"A tad bit disappointing. \" Not knowing the eight chakra points, or the more exclusive ones were definitely a little saddening. The academy made a point to teach the chakra system to the students, not really a lot of information, but enough to make them realize that the eight chakra points were incredibly valuable. \n\nClearing his throat, he would answer his own question. \"There are two important chakra points within your brain, one on the left side and the other on the right. The next two reside on the spinal cord, the next one is located in the abdomen, then in the stomach, another right below the stomach, and then the last most important chakra point is the one at the heart. These points follow a straight vertical line down ones body, except the heart chakra point.\" Hozen got out of his seat and walked over to the boys side of the table, opening the journal he had given to him and turning it to a page that had a drawing of the chakra points.\n\n\"Read that over, a bunch. Next time we meet, i hope that you have read the entirety of the book.\" He gave a firm slap to the shoulder of the genin, before taking his leave towards the door." }, { "author": "Deleted User", "message": "Masanori looked at the book as he was slapped. He didn't realize that, despite how much shorter the Chunin, was, he still hurt a lot more. That's just the power a Chunin, he guessed. He'd exhale as sat down at the table as Hozen left, and flipped through the book's pages until he was back at the beginning. There, he began to read the book." }, { "author": "banchan2512", "message": "``` This is now the Uzumaki-clan-area ```\n\nWith the sudden news of the Founders Tournament commencing in the following week, Kogane knew he had to shape up his Kenjutsu, or his Taijutsu. He felt that his taijutsu skills would help with his nimbleness so, he chose to ask a adept-taijutsu-specialist who decimated the founders tournament a few of them ago. \n\n Sana was a well-revered Uzumaki who climbed up the ranks of the Frontier Patrol, and Kogane felt like he should see the growth of the person he himself wants to replicate, in terms of progress at least. Elementally, the two were on different sides. Hopefully, Sana would oblige to his request of tutoring him in the art of hand-to-hand combat. Waiting outside of the gate that led into the entrance of the compound, Kogane would stand a few meters from the guards as he bowed and gave them the name of the person he wished to speak to, but they seemed a little holdback on calling the Commander to the front gate, so Kogane gave a weak yell to get him over. \"Sana!\" \n\nHe didn't expect to be greeted by the Uzumaki, but he sure as hell hoped at least someone could help him before he would be putting his name into the founder tournaments' participation offices. \n\nThe Kaguya had something on his mind though, about an Uzumaki's skill set. Weren't they known for having exceptional fuinjutsu prowess, and just as incredible stamina? Wasn't it weird to have a taijutsu-master within the clan? Most would use a weapon if they used fuinjutsu, for a sturdy and flat surface... Maybe this Uzumaki had found a way to use fuinjutsu without any secondary item. Kogane was interested in seeing where all this would go, and he also wanted to see the skill of a taijutsu master.\n\nWell, he would get to if Sana showed up.." }, { "author": "chaos_ryder", "message": "War, war never-\n\nActually Sana didn't have any experience with war to compare this one to, his elders in the Uzumaki clan assured him however that this war was fundamentally different in scale from the frontier war. The frontier war had never gotten nearly as bad at its height that this war had gotten almost from the very beginning. Perhaps this was the height it would reach, or maybe the war was just heating up, it was hard to say. Either way it was difficult to see whether the precautions the clan took as a whole were normal for such an environment or not. The front gates to the compound were closed and remained closed at all times, Uzumaki leaving the compound used reality skipping for travel as frequently as possible, especially those that had learned the Reality Skipping Matrix from Goichi.\n\nThe Uzumaki bought as much supplies as they could before prices got too high and stored them in immense quantities that defied reason. Sure the clan as a whole might be strapped for cash for a brief period, but they would make more in the war and would have a much easier time with rationing than many others. The barrier would also prevent passage into their compound unexpectedly, although something that Sana had never seen before was instated as well. A watch. There were four Uzumaki on different rooftops scanning the environment for anyone or anything that would seek to go through or pass their barrier.\n\nSo a young woman, perhaps Kogone's age or perhaps younger, possibly in the academy, would land on the inside of the gate and look out through a window in the wall. Opening her mouth she would hear his yelling before she would run away again and talk to the figure standing on top of the main building. A few moments later, Sana would appear and open the gate before ushering the young Kaguya inside.\n\n\"How's it going? You were here to polish up your taijutsu right? Sorry I got held up and missed you arriving, Come with me.\"\n\nSana would then begin to walk to his old favorite taijutsu training ground." }, { "author": "banchan2512", "message": "The guards posted at the different position in the buildings certainly made him intimidated, and the sudden glance of a girl made him wary of being impaled by a spear made out of suspicion.. BUT THANKFULLY, the sudden appearance of his soon-to-be tutor made all of his worries disappear, before remembering that the village was at war..\n\nHe hadn't forgot about it of course, but the fact that he was but a mere genin in the many segment of shinobi made him fairly worried about self-preservation. Something that sort of took away from that, was that Kogane had actually been drafted into one of the missions which were being handed out for the war effort. Well, drafted wouldn't be the right word, exactly. The Kaguya had fully volunteered with the mission participation, but was second guessing his decision to participate in the war. He himself was quite scared, but knew through actual combat experience, he would gain advantages from his fellow genin in the up-coming founders tournament. Kogane had heard that it was the annual seventy-fifth founders tournament in recorded history. \n\nTournament by tournament, the village was getting larger and larger, with the exam amount growing too. This made it considerably apparent that the village was a large nation, and Kogane was but a small and expendable weed in the grassy floor. He was going to show that he was not just a simple, dandy little shred of grass that would be used as fodder for another, and that he was strong, so that he could find out what had happened to his father. The first step, was him graduation, and he was currently in the second step. \n\nBecoming a Chunin.\n\nNow, as Sana spoke up, the Kaguya replied. \"I'm going good, and yes my taijutsu is a bit lackluster at the moment. What about yourself..\" He said, as he followed the older shinobi to the training grounds he so loved." }, { "author": "chaos_ryder", "message": "Walking up to the training ground, Sana nodded and answered in a monotone voice, he had been asked to train the children of frontier directors and various other people in taijutsu, it wasn't terribly unusual to him at this point. Nodding again as if to confirm to himself that he was in fact in the Uzumaki's rather lackluster taijutsu training ground. It had been cleaned up and made a bit more official ever since Hozen and Sana had started using it more earnestly, but it was still probably the smallest training space in the entire compound.\n\n\"My Taijutsu is doing good as well, I found a good way to train taijutsu by the way, it should make things a bit more interesting on my side as well as opposed to any kind of normal taijutsu spar we could do. I mean we could, but by the way you carry yourself I doubt you could learn more from a spar against someone holding back than an interesting game like this.\"\n\nSana would then begin weaving handseals absently with his right hand as locks of hair would rise from his long mane of red hair and bob and sway side to side like a fighter in a fighting stance. It seemed to take him a bit longer than normal to preform the jutsu, but the parts of his hair were certainly moving in a way that implied the possibility of sudden motion.\n\n\"Hair Manipulation Technique. How about this, you try to duck and weave and not get caught, it will be good practice against multiple opponents or opponents with multi-directional attacks. How does that sound?\"" } ]	369.5	1,944
276.230769	2021-05-16	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "banchan2512", "message": "Kogane noticed how small it was compared to the other open areas within the compound, and it made his theory of an Uzumaki being proficient in taijutsu being weird seem to be truer than he at first believed. No matter, any amount of space would do since taijutsu only really needed to be right in each others faces, but the talk of a certain training method other than holding back against Kogane came about, the Kaguya's ears flared up as he looked towards Sana. \"Another training method? Interesting, do tell.\" He said, coming to a stop where his Uzumaki tutor did.\n\n\"Hair... Hair Manipulation Technique? I've never heard of that, but i do find your training proposition rather intriguing if i do say so. Either way, i plan on training my taijutsu in a certain clan way, as it gives extra ways of attacking with my Shikotsumyaku abilities.\" After saying that, Kogane would leap away many meters inside of the training grounds, as he spread his legs out and propped his hands and arms forward, as he slid his robe off of his body and onto the floor. With his bone abilities, he didn't want his precious robe to be torn like so many times before, so he made sure to take it off this time.\n\nStraining his hands for a second, eight protrusions of bone spikes happened simultaneously, with a clear viscous liquid exploding from the exit holes of these bones. On each of his shoulders, elbows, palms, and upper knees, these bones extended outwards a foot and half-a-dozen inches, making them sort of long. This was a technique that greatly enhanced his taijutsu abilities, and he hoped to- \"I hope to impress you, even if just a little. Let me show you what a Kaguya can do..\" He said, as he tensed his muscles and started getting ready to try his heart out.\n\nHe wasn't the strongest genin of course, but with his skill in taijutsu he hoped to leave an impact on his fellow genin in the founders tournament! \"Dance of the Willow..\"" }, { "author": "chaos_ryder", "message": "The bone protrusions were not unexpected from the Kaguya of course, that was their signature Kekkai Genkai after all and he wasn't surprised that he was capable, but the sudden expulsion of bones from one's body wasn't something he was completely unaffected by. Blinking in shock as he saw the bones, Sana would nod before his locks of hair would reach out in a frantic grab to restrain and tag the Kaguya before the kaguya could get too up in arms about having a bunch of fancy new weapons to use in their taijutsu.\n\nTwo locks of hair would reach for his head, while one lock of hair would grasp at each of the Kaguya's limbs, like some kind of demonic possession reaching out of Sana's hair and trying to attack the young shinobi from the Kaguya clan. This would begin an unusual spar that would hopefully teach the younger shinobi a lot before it was done. He would have loved to had this exercise as a genin, maybe that was why he came up with half of the crazy stuff that he did." }, { "author": "banchan2512", "message": "Of course, Kogane made sure to keep his focus in front of himself to where his tutor was, as his locks of crimson hair shot forth towards the completely surprised Kaguya. So many individual locks of hair that the Uzumaki could control, made it quite obvious he had good control over his chakra and used this technique often enough to know how to use it proficiently. It would be an understatement to say that the genin was not suspecting the hair locks to have such speed when travelling towards himself, as it took a lot of fast and simple movements combined with his reflexes to do what he did to dodge.\n\nSeeing the hair come towards his head and limbs, Kogane leapt towards the side as fast as he possibly could, throwing away any control as he used all his focus on speed. Because of this, his body flailed around multiple times as he landed upside down, plunging the bones that grew out of his palms as a way to stop from getting slammed into the ground with unreasonable force, but only served to slow down his upper body as he legs slammed into the ground. Thankfully with his armor technique, there was little actual injury. He soon sprung his body back into a standing position before rushing back towards the strands of hair in an instance, leaping in the air a few feet as he railed his left arm back, before thrusting his bone-protruding palm outwards towards the hair.\n\n\"I'll try my best, but they're so damn fast!\" He said, as he was about to either break the hair, or his bones." }, { "author": "chaos_ryder", "message": "\"That is the point, it's to press you to get better. We'll need to attack you at a speed you are just a bit slower than so that you can adapt to these kinds of attacks.\"\n\nWhipping around, the locks of hair shifted directions to follow the young Kaguya as he flung himself out of the way, three locks of hair went towards Kogane's legs to try and stop him from moving like that again before the bones coming from his palms battered two locks of hair aside, not cutting through them, but changing their direction enough so that they missed him, with a single lock of hair still zeroing in on his position.\n\n\"Feel free to get creative however, you'll only be able to fight at a level above yourself when you start exiting the realm of the orthodox and start getting strange and unpredictable, at least in my experience.\"" }, { "author": "banchan2512", "message": "\"I see, well let's try-\" As he said this, Kogane would try to reach out towards the locks of hair he had pushed off course, letting the bones of his palm grate against them as he tried keeping his position in the air for just a few more seconds until the hair that came towards his feet got there. \n\nHopefully he was in range and time passed, as he would attempt to swing his lower body higher in the air before planting his feet against the locks of hair attempting to wrap around his feet, before jumping off of them towards the one higher in the air which had aimed for his arms. He was unsure if Sana was able to part of pieces of his air from already moving locks, so he was taking a big risk now. As he did this, he tried running towards Sana on his hair. \"How about this, is this unpredictable?\" He said, as jumped off the hair and towards the ground, remembering he was fighting the hair not Sana.\n\nHe was unsure how to fight hair, but it seemed to working so far..\n\nThe Kaguya wondered if any genin with long hair were able to use this technique, and if they were than Kogane would have some sort of information on them and could possibly win against someone with this type of technique." }, { "author": "chaos_ryder", "message": "Sana raised an eyebrow as he put a bit of strength into the hair binding technique, preventing Kogane from falling when he put his entire body weight on one of his locks of hair. If he was going to do him the favor of getting so close and unguarded, he might as well oblige the young man, and take some payment of his own while he was at it. After Kogane had put his foot on Sana's hair, the hair would reach up and follow the Kaguya, attempting to grab and wrap around the kaguya's foot before he landed and managed to get himself too far away for now.\n\n\"Alright let's not get too crazy, I said creative, not reckless. I wouldn't let myself get touched by an enemy's attack unless it was the last option available to me. I have scars that taught me that lesson, I've almost lost my life to that kind of decision making. Never take the chance is what I've learned.\"\n\nSana may have sounded paranoid, but he had three separate scars on his body that came from underestimating his opponent's techniques or believing himself to be capable of withstanding them with the toughness of his body. He had been correct in that he had survived, but he was far from able to shrug off the majority of attacks with his pure physicality. And even if he could it would expend much more effort than necessary." }, { "author": "banchan2512", "message": "\"I knew there was risk, but n-\" He was unable to finish as the hair that had followed him to his position quickly wrapped around his leg, which made him stumble onto his back, obviously set back by the speed. It was also clear that he was a little devoid of focus on what he needed to do, and was the reason he had gotten caught along with his lack of lack of physical speed. \"Damn, i thought i would of seen that coming.\" He said loudly.\n\nUnfortunately for Kogane, this was the first time he had attempted to do something unreasonably reckless in front of another person's attack. At least he now knew that Sana had very precise and firm control over his long crimson hair, which allowed him to make his hair go faster, and be stronger. Having not known what would happen after he had gotten captured, Kogane tried standing up and wiggling out of the grip of the hair.\n\nIf he had assumed correct, he was far too weak to be able to loosen the grip of such an attack, and seeing how firm the hair was when he had walked along the top of it, the Kaguya could surmise that his strength was not enough. This was saddening, but not entirely for naught, as Kogane tensed up his hands and began stabbing at the hair with his bone spikes at his palms, knowing that he could possibly cut the grip off his leg. \n\nThis was also another gamble, but it was one he needed to take if they were going to continue this session." }, { "author": "chaos_ryder", "message": "Once he had his mobility compromised, there was little hope in evading any other locks of hair as they spread out like arms of a strange creature hurtling towards Kogane. After his legs, the hair would snap at his arms and seek to restrain them as well, trying to throughly and completely restrain the genin and prevent him from lashing out against him any further.\n\nHe figured the sparring session would begin winding down a bit from here, unless the genin had any sort of surprises in store for him that would allow him to escape from the confinement of his hair, something that would normally be extremely hard for a Genin to brute force his way through." }, { "author": "banchan2512", "message": "Gritting his teeth in annoyance, he would slam the two of his palm bones against each other and use his knee to force both of them away as he tried scurrying away from the other locks of hair. As soon as he was able to, Kogane would begin weaving hand seals as fast as he possibly could, having the hair slide up his arms was weird, as he narrowly got the necessary hand signs finished, but not before the hair wrapped his limbs up firmly, on the ground. \n\nSlowly sliding his hands towards the ground, he would begin pouring calcium into the ground before he was finally able to unleash something amazing. \"Dance of the Hellflower.\" (B) After saying this, a dozen or so bone spikes would shoot out of the ground around the hair that was in front of himself, Kogane making it more narrow to hold the hair in a position that made it difficult to move from the tightness. \n\nWith the bones attempting to hold the hair in place, the Kaguya would begin to twist his body in an attempt to loosen the grip of the hair." }, { "author": "chaos_ryder", "message": "As soon as Kogane began weaving hand seals, Sana nodded to himself and lifted both his student and his hair up into the air. The bones that erupted from the ground thinned the hair by impacting it, but the hair was durable and strong enough to keep intact as it was hit by the technique. Moving both of Kogane's hands apart to prevent him from making hand seals effectively, Sana nodded before speaking.\n\n\"Alright, I think we should end it there for now. We could pick this back up later but for now I think the experiment is essentially done for now. So, how was your experience? What did you learn?\"\n\nThat was really the important part, whatever the younger shinobi took from the encounter was the most important part of what they did there. If he found a part that was useful of informative in the brief skirmish they had then it would definitely be worth it." }, { "author": "banchan2512", "message": "After he stopped wiggling noticing that the Uzumaki had already looked past his attempt at freeing himself, Kogane sighed and went limp as the Uzumaki started speaking. It was easy to take things that are useful away from this, but the biggest thing that was on his mind was that.. \"I learned that your hair is unfortunately able to beat me in a spar..\" He said under his breath, before looking up and back towards Sana.\n\n\"I also learned that i don't have a lot of options when it comes to dealing with multiple, and unrelenting foes. I'll need to work on that i guess.\" After saying this, he would rest his neck down and take a deep breath.\n\n\"Now uh, could you put me down?\" He asked. \n\nHe didn't like being suspended in the air, by crimson red hair that had beat his ass." }, { "author": "chaos_ryder", "message": "\"Oh yes, forgot about that part.\"\n\nThe drain on his chakra to keep them up in the air was next to negligible for him at this point so he barely noticed it, but he did let the genin down for him to stretch himself back out again and probably put all of the bones away. Did it hurt when a Kaguya made them at all or was it painless due to it being a natural process for them? He would wager on the second but it was really impossible to be sure. It was largely besides the point anyway.\n\n\"Well that's good, as long as you managed to learn something that you can apply to your own fighting style then that's all you can ask for in any kind of training, taijutsu or not. Think about how to incorporate that lesson or fix that problem and you should be well on your way to becoming a more well-rounded and competent shinobi.\"\n\nThat was what he strived to do whenever he trained, find weakness in himself and learn new things about interactions that he had." }, { "author": "banchan2512", "message": "\"Ha.\" He whispered unamused as he was set down, before he rubbed the places where the hair was gripping him. It had a strong grip, almost animal like. How weird. Moving on, Kogane looked over towards the Uzumaki as he stretched his stiff shoulders, kind of wanting to go and try his luck in a sneak attack, but knew he would get folded symmetrically. \"Yeah, hopefully i can put my work into the founders tournament.\" He said, as he began to walk away, knowing their training was finished with unfortunately. \n\n\"Alright well i'll see ya around, hopefully in the stands cheering for me haha..\"\n\n``` training grounds ```\n\nWalking into the training grounds, Kogane would slowly make his way towards the large collection of moving training dummies which would help him in his endeavor of getting better. What was cool about this new equipment, is that the three training dummies which were stationed on the damn thing moved around in some sort of weird jigsaw fashion, almost like it was a puzzle game of sorts. It was a cool contraption, and would serve to put up a good fight against the Kaguya, who wished to punch and kick things, rather swiftly. Yes, the Kaguya was out here training taijutsu by himself..\n\nThis wasn't a rare occurrence though, as Kogane could be seen training by his lonesome many days a week, and maybe weeks a month, and so on. He was often by himself, and honestly preferred to be by himself more than with any teammate or whatever. This might have been weird to say, but by nature he had always been by himself, from his mother and father not being there for him, and no actual siblings, he was always up to something with only himself. Although it might seem rather said, Kogane was not pained with such emotions, especially sadness.\n~\n\nThe only emotions that currently dwelled within his body, was a sense of duty, a tad bit of agitation, and the urge to grow stronger than everyone else around him. He was now put here to make friends, he was made to be an asset to his clan, and a weapon for his village to use however they personally saw fit. That was the sort of mentality the young Kaguya had taken upon himself as of late, as he now sees the world in a way that makes everything else he had believed in rather weak minded. \n\nEither way, this was getting off topic and Kogane needed to train, so he immediately turned the weird machine on, as one of the spinning wooden dummies slammed into his side, sending him to the left side of the platform, subsequently making him run into the next spinning dummy. He finally settled in the middle of the space, before throwing a punch towards one of the training dummies, as it moved back and more over before spinning into his hand, which made him pull it back in sharp pain. \"Damn wood!\" After this happened, Kogane was obviously very fucking mad!\n~" } ]	224	3,591
156.25	2021-05-23	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "3van1500", "message": "Akio kept walking around until he found a place where there were artisans working. Akio always had respect for those who worked in making things, after all that's how he got the shuriken he used in combat. Looking at the people there he spotted Youjo and immediately walked over. Akio examined the materials, thinking of all the possible things that could be crafted before deciding to make his presence known and ask\n\n\"Hello there, Youjo. I see your learning yet another skill, what might you be making here?\"" }, { "author": "yoyooo7089", "message": "He would continue messing around with the chest plate and try to change the overall aesthetic of it. This was easier said than done but it would do the job. He didn't know whether to make the armour blue or red. He already had a blue bladed sword so he went with red.\n\nLooking up to Akio, he would smile and stop what he was going for a moment.\n\n\"Oh hi Akio. I'm currently making armour look more like samurai ones. I already knew something about artisanship. Watcha doing? Looking for something else to train?\"\n\nHe would then go back and work on each arm. This was going to be hard since it would need to look the same on each arm." }, { "author": "3van1500", "message": "\"Armor, you say? To go with the Armor Technique you already know. Well, quite bold aren't we. I suppose if you develop wind and fire release enough then you'd have a versatile defense\" Akio looked closer at the material, Red, an interesting decision to go with. It was very bright for armor which seemed like a liability if one wanted to go for stealth in some cases. Akio watched as he hammered the armor\n\n\"I'd say it'd be best if you watch yourself with that hammer, that'd cause a fracture in your thumb. Oh yeah, not training anything today just reviewing medicinal things. Oh, and watch the heat, you could get relatively severe burns in a place so hot\"" }, { "author": "yoyooo7089", "message": "He would nod and place his thumb away from the hammer to not risk getting hit by it by accident. He would not make it a bright red but a darker red so that it can go with his stealth. He didn't want to be easily noticeable now did he?\n\nFinishing the left side he would work on the right arm. He would make sure that it would look exactly the same by constantly stopping and looking back. Taking the measurements and continuing. This was a very slow process but it would have to be made.\n\n\"Yea I won't hurt myself don't worry.\"\n\nNext up was the legs but he would look up to see what Akio was doing. Medicine would probably be the next thing he'll do." }, { "author": "3van1500", "message": "Akio kept a close eye on the measurements himself, partly because he didn't want Youjo to mess up his armor, but a little bit of him wanting to test his eyes to make sure his vision was still working fine. His main skill in terms of actual combat was shurikenjutsu and maintaining a good pair of eyes was always a necessity. With that in mind, Akio moved back a little to protect his vision as well as the book he was reading through.\n\n\"Youjo, if I might ask a little hypothetical, what branch Do You want to go into, with Founder's going on and such, and why? Oh and move your arm inward a little, you'll expend less energy that way making the legs.\"" }, { "author": "yoyooo7089", "message": "He would then stop what he was doing to really think about it. He didn't really know where he wanted to go anymore. He had killed an entire human being. He wanted to join the MP at first but now... He wasn't sure at all.\n\n\"Uh I don't know really maybe I'll go in the Military Police or maybe the Frontier Patrol I don't want to go in the PU, they creep me out a little\"\n\nHe would then look at his work again and would work on the legs and feet while following what his friend told him.\n\nWith that done he just needed to work on the hands and the head. He would work on the hand to make sure that it's going to be exactly like each side. Soon enough he would finish.\n\n\"Now all that's left is the head\"" }, { "author": "3van1500", "message": "Akio closed the book he had, he had checked it out only a few days ago and he had gathered all the knowledge he wanted from the book. Next chance he had he'd be out saving lives on the battlefield. Looking over at Youjo he shrugged at the mention of the PU. They were an interesting lot, always so moody and secretive but from what he knew of their requirements, they'd never take Akio of all people. \n\n\"I'm probably going into the Military Police if they give me the letter. This village needs some people to make sure things stay together, with all due respect I don't think they're doing too hot right now.\" Akio looked over at the armor, almost done, and it looked nice, \"Well, Youjo, would you by any chance have a name for that piece of armor?\"" }, { "author": "yoyooo7089", "message": "''uuuuh I don't know what I should name my armor''\n\nHe would finish the hands and do the end with the mask that went on top of his head. He would start hammering down and work on it. It was weird at first but then the face of the helmet looked like a smiling mask which he thought was pretty cool. He would slowly but surely put it on and well it would look nice. It took a good amount of time to put on but it did the job. It was a little heavy which made his walk speed somewhat slower than what it normally was. He felt safe in that armor. The dark red armour with a gold coloured smiling mask would look great on him. He was pretty happy of the result.\n\n\"Well I'm off. There was nothing else to be done here. See ya later Akio.''\n\nWith that he would walk away. The big armor looked weird as it shifted strangely from step to step because Youjo had a hard time walking with it. He would have to get used to it." } ]	150.5	1,250
250.2	2021-05-27	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "justden_", "message": "`training grounds`\n\nKagayaki stood in the middle of the training grounds, her short blond hair glistened lightly with the sun, revealing some of it's orange tones. On her forehead was her characteristic large glasses, attached to her head through an elastic headband and currently tilted up.\n\nHer light armor had a small sun etched on its shoulder, matching the symbol of Noragakure on the headband that was loosely wrapped around her neck. She was currently looking over a mess of wires around a couple of trees.\n\n\"Hmm... Now if I cut this one..\" She reached out with a kunai, slashing a nearby one. The rest of the wires fell limp on the ground and she grunted, \"Of course, this never goes well the first try.\" She complained, gathering up her shuriken that had the wires attached." }, { "author": "mugengunner", "message": "Beneath the bright spring sun, a giant marched.\n\nThe boy was 17 years of age, but nonetheless towered a foot over the average person. His eyes were like a sunlit boulder sitting somewhere in the frontier. His arms were as thick as small trees, and on his back, a blade taller than him rested in its scabbard. There he was, the walking embodiment of a scary guy - someone people tend to ignore when they walk, someone they tend to avoid by crossing the street. But he didn't mind. He was used to it.\n\nHis hands loosely hung on the sides of his body as he walked, occasionally bouncing against his armor, as if completely apathetic to his surroundings. His hazel-colored eyes were focused on the road ahead, guiding him through the trailing path of pebbles people left on the street on their way to the training grounds. In his mind, nothing lingered but memories of him beating up thugs from the past.\n\nStrange times.\n\n[...]\n\nHis feet carried him into the training ground, right... Well not Right Per se, but about on time. His eyes scouted a lone figure standing in the center of the grounds, and he concluded that it was the Kunoichi he scheduled the training session with. He didn't get a chance to meet her, so he wasn't sure what she was like as a person, but he hoped she'd be a serious training partner. The samurai value stoicism, after all.\n\n\"Hello\" His booming voice echoed. \"I am Yamazaki Konjo-Okami. It is nice to make your acquaintance, Ressha Kagayaki\" He continued, bowing his head at her." }, { "author": "justden_", "message": "Hearing a voice she didn't recognize from behind her she turned around, expecting her scheduled partner. She rarely made scheduled practices, but it was a good way to meet new genin from time to time.\n\n\"Oh hey, nice to meet y-\" She began speaking with her back turned, jumping back as her colleague came into view, interrupting herself. \"What in the-\" Was her first reaction to the behemoth who stood a feet and a half taller than her. She was used to having to look up when she spoke to people, but this was a little ridiculous even for her. Is this guy really a teenager?! Was running through her head.\n\nShe stared up at him for a good few seconds, processing his arrival, before shaking her head. \"Sorry about that.. Aha... You're.. Uh.. Bigger than I thought...\" She chuckled, a little embarrassed and unsure of what to think due to his stoic expression.\n\n\"So, what you want to practice?\" She asked as she rolled up the rest of her wires, preparing her shuriken for another attempt at the technique she wanted to master." }, { "author": "mugengunner", "message": "The Yamazaki giant couldn't say he wasn't used to this type of reaction. He was practically raised to expect it. His father is a behemoth, his brother is - hell, even his mother is. He was never really sure (nor did he care much) where this gene came from, but he was thankful for it nonetheless. As a friend of him once noted; that makes it hard for him to sneak. And in Konjo-Okami's own way, he thought of it as more of a gift than a burden. \n\nYou know, Samurai code and all...\n\nHis face remained as cold and still as a rock as he started at her blankly. \"It is alright. There is nothing to apologize for, I grew accustomed to such reactions. Cast this aside and let us focus on our training. I wish to train a technique called Disturbance Taijutsu. What about yourself?\" He inquired. As embarrassing as it was for her, Konjo-Okami didn't feel a hint of awkwardness. In fact, he didn't even consider it. His socially-inept nature often came as a blessing; especially in situations like this." }, { "author": "justden_", "message": "Kagayaki felt relieved he didn't take offense, sighing loudly in relief. She nodded excitedly as he told her the technique he wanted to learn and she tilted her head, \"You'll have to explain it to me, I ain't great at Taijutsu...\" She admitted, scratching the back of her neck.\n\n\"Mine is called Manipulated Shuriken Wire Binding. It's a long name I know, I didn't come up with it...\" She explained, pulling out a stringed shuriken and extending it up and down like a yo-yo. \n\n\"Basically I quickly set up several strings, and then by cutting one, the rest rearrange and trap my target - if that makes sense.\" She tried explaining, before shaking her head. \"Let me try and show you.\" She walked towards the trees, throwing several shuriken in different directions and creating a net of strings.\n\nShe cut one of them, and the rest shifted positions, where there had been quite a bit of space, the wires stretched and gathered together. Had there been someone there, they might have gotten trapped. That is before the strings all fell down a few moments later. \"Gah! Ignore that last part, but something like that.\"" } ]	243	1,251
243.090909	2021-05-28	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "mugengunner", "message": "The Goliath merely nodded at Kagayaki at first, pausing for a moment before giving room for his speech. \"Disturbance Taijutsu, for me, is the very essence of pure violence. Unpredictability, ferocity, uncompromising velocity; all of it combined\" He explained, cracking his neck. \n\nHowever, next, she explained. He remained silent for the duration of her explanation, simply nodding at her after she spoke. His eyes scanned the wiring around the trees and nodded once more; mostly to himself, but nodded nonetheless. \n\n\"Another example of the Shinobi art. May you all be free from this deceiving norm that plagues us and return to embrance the valiant way of us, Samurai\" He spoke, furrowing his eyebrows at the net of strings. In all truth, he felt not a hint of anger towards Kagayaki. Nor against other Shinobi, for that matter. He just believed it was unfortunate that people had to be led astray from the path he was born into, is all.\n\n\"Could you do me a favor, Ressha Kagayaki?\" He inquired, cracking his fists. In a moment, his body erupted a slight wave of wind that knocked some pebbles out of his way and gave way for a more vascular body. His spiky hair shot up, and his skin turned somewhat redder. \"If you could summon a clone, I'd sincerely appreciate it. My Chakra Control and Pool are severely lacking due to the fact I've opened the Eight Inner Gates, and I need a target practice\"" }, { "author": "justden_", "message": "Kagayaki frowned at his statement, \"Hey what's that supposed to mean.\" She didn't appreciate his insult to her preferred fighting style, even if he didn't mean anything by it. \"Wires and shuriken are elegant and intricate. Ninjutsu is beautiful and powerful.\" She responded with her own honest opinion. Throwing weapons, traps and lightning were her strongest tools, and she wouldn't let someone stomp on them so easily.\n\n\"I don't know much about your Samurai way, but please don't call the fruits of our effort 'deceiving'.\" She shook her head, trying to regain some of her composure. \"My clones aren't very good for practice, but here you go.\"\n\nShe made several hand seals with her right hand, \"Haze Clone Technique.\" She called out and ten copies of herself appeared around her. \"They're not hard copies sadly, but they might be enough.\" She took a few steps back, \"Just tell me what you want me to do with them.\"" }, { "author": "mugengunner", "message": "Konjo-Okami frowned at her as well, crossing his arms in a sharp, hurried gesture. He was the type of fellow that'd speak his mind, even if it makes the entire village ridicule and banish him from its rank. \"You take offense to it, as if you are to blame. Being over-protective of your ways, is it? A pity. You claim disrespect, however your over-sensitivity urged you not to even hear me out, nevertheless hear of my people's way\" He snapped back at her. \n\n\"You Shinobi will stick to your ways, and we will stick to ours. This is the way it's always been, and it seems it'll remain that way a little while longer\" He quipped. His cousin, Hideyoshi, would've likely scolded him for that, were he right then and there. However, Konjo-Okami was an impulsive man. There was nothing that could be done about it.\n\nInstead of speaking, he launched himself forward. His speed was great; greater than that of a Genin. His leg shot up, breaking thorugh the fragile form of the haze clone.\n\n\"I am going to destroy them one by one until I learn my technique\" He simply spoke." }, { "author": "justden_", "message": "Kagayaki refrained from rolling her eyes. She could tell Konjo-Okami was a rather serious person and clearly in love with ways that'd been passed down to him. She had no quarrels with people who followed their own path, as long as it didn't hurt others. What annoyed her was that it seemed he believed his was superior, a mind-set she found dangerous and annoying. She sighed, arguing would get her nowhere, even if she wanted to answer back to him, she didn't feel like interrupting his practice.\n\nShe watched as he tore through her clones, she shook her head, trying to push away the bad mood she'd gotten in. This was typical of her,normally cheerful and friendly, but when something ticked her off it took her a while to get back into her usual mood.\n\nThe haze clones regenerated as he took them down, though mere illusions, it seemed they would serve their purpose. She took the time to think about how he could help her practice her own once he was done. There wasn't much he could do it seemed, other than potentially serve as a target like she was doing." }, { "author": "mugengunner", "message": "Kicking and punching the illusions served its purpose, it seemed. Konjo-Okami's great Taijutsu skill was enough to adhere to this fighting style with adequate success. He found it hillariously fun to utilize, too. It's as if he was a wild animal relying on its primal instincts. It was a far cry from his own fighting style, the Yamazaki-school. Nevertheless, it was fun to utilize.\n\nAfter punching a few more clones, Konjo-Okami stopped. He cracked his neck and fists once more, feeling the tension built in them after the little exercise he just completed.\n\n\"Alright, now it is my turn to assist you. What would you have me do?\" He asked. Much like Kagayaki, Konjo-Okami didn't have much to add to this makeshift feud, or momentary argument. Whichever you prefer. The two disagreed and likely didn't quite like each other, that's how he saw it.\n\nHe was bound by his honor to help her, though, so he wanted to at least fill out his part after she helped him." }, { "author": "justden_", "message": "Kagayaki watched him fight her clones and took the opportunity to take deep breaths. This whole ordeal had vividly reminded her of her first meeting with Kazuko - where the two had almost seriously injured each other. Yet now they were on rather amicable terms. If she could learn to like Kazuko, then this giant, who seemed kinder than the Kaguya, shouldn't be much harder. \n\nShe was much calmer once he approached her, but if she had to be honest she'd completely missed on his training. She'd been focused on flowing chakra onto her jutsu and calming herself down, so she hadn't payed much attention. She felt she needed to apologize for the rough start, she'd gotten a bit too angry as well.\n\nShe hesitated whether now would be the best chance to, but as always she wanted to get it out of the way before they started practicing. If she had to be honest, she wasn't even sure this would help them get on friendlier terms, but it would ease her mind. Scratching her head, she began. No one like apologizing and she was no different, \"So.. I'm sorry about before.\" She came out and said it, bowing her head a bit. \"I did not mean to disrespect you or your ways in any form.\"\n\nStill embarrassed from the sudden apology, she continued. \"As for my technique, I'd say you can help me by serving as my target this time. I need to know if my wires are tight enough and in good places. How does that sound?\"" }, { "author": "mugengunner", "message": "Konjo-Okami simply stared at her with a confused, furrowed eyebrow'd gaze, as if trying to understand her. \n\n\"You know, there's a reason I'm against this tradition of you, Shinobi. And it's not that I disrespect it. Instead of promoting honesty, it promotes deceit and treachery, even if indirectly. Naturally, it has intrinsic influences on the way of life we know today. People hide behind masks.\" He said, pausing for a moment. His speech, in his view, had a point to come. \"I will not lie to you, for instance. Even if the truth lingering in my mind is painful. And you don't need to apologize to me either, because you didn't hurt me and you didn't offend my way of life. You don't have to feign niceness or to actively exercise it, even. Pain is a part of life. And I, for one, stand by my truth. So I will not apologize to you. And I will not accept your apology, because it's obsolete\" He spoke. A rather philosophical man, Konjo-Okami was. He built the speeches in his mind to (probably) be bigger and more impactful than they are in reality, but it doesn't mean he wouldn't say them.\n\n\"I will gladly serve as your target, now. Do your worst. I'll survive\"" }, { "author": "justden_", "message": "Kagayaki heard his speech, eyes focused. She absorbed his words, thinking about what he was saying. Her training seemingly forgotten for a moment. She sighed, scratching her head. \"Every shinobi is different, even if we all abide by the same principles. I don't lie if I can avoid it, I suck at it to begin with. But not everything is so black and white as you put it. There are times and places for each thing. Lies and deceit are necessary some times, even if honesty is considered the more moral of the two.\"\n\nShe took a few steps back, pulling out her shuriken to resume training. She kept walking back until she was in middle of a few trees and began throwing shuriken to strategic positions. She did her best to position the wires so they wouldn't be very visible. While she set up her technique, she kept talking. \"I'm not feigning niceness, apologizing for something I think I did wrong is who I am. Even if you think I didn't do anything wrong, choose not to accept it or say it's obsolete.\" She paused for a moment, \"If you could come running at me like you intend to attack me I'd appreciate it - just don't hit me please.\" She joked at the end, with a smile." }, { "author": "mugengunner", "message": "Konjo-Okami disagreed with her, but he saw no point in advancing this argument any further, much like Kagayaki before. He simply remained quiet and nodded at her, preparing himself for her request.\n\nWhen she told him to bolt forward, he nodded once more. He envisioned the process in his mind, measuring just how much velocity to employ for this purpose. He finally gave off a mental nod, mostly for himself, before he charged.\n\nDoing so with his impressive speed (B ), it'd likely be faster than she expected. However she wouldn't really have anything to worry about, since he sped into the wires themselves; he wasn't interested in tackling her or something like that." }, { "author": "justden_", "message": "Even Kagayaki's fast reflexes could barely keep up with his speed. She had not expected him to take this so seriously, but her mistake, she should have guessed. As such, she took a moment too long to cut the appropriate string beside her, which caused the wires to rearrange.\n\nShe'd intended to restrain several of his limbs with the wire, but her delay had made it so only his left leg was caught by two strings. \n\nOnce he'd stopped, she approached, collecting her shuriken, \"Which limbs do you think I should try to restrain? Also, thanks for going all out, but go one step slower next time please.\" She asked his opinion, as a close-quarters fighter he'd have much better knowledge as to what he needed to properly fight a close distance." }, { "author": "mugengunner", "message": "Once more, the Yamazaki Genin offered one of his firm nods of the head to Kagayaki, right before he elaborated with his words. The answer he had his mind required no pondering upon. \"The legs. It'll cripple them just enough for you to kill them\" He simply spoke. While he wasn't particularly glad to go along with such \"Unworthy\" Tactics, he and Kagayaki, in essence, had the same goal; the good of Noragakure. \n\n\"And alright. I shall do it again, slower\" He added. Right after he spoke, he essentially deactivated the first gate \"Mode\". He wouldn't need it for the fight anymore. And in retrospect, he didn't need it up until that point, either. But no matter.\n\nHe untangled his left foot from the wire encroaching it, made some distance, and charged once more, at a slower pace. Hopefully this time, she'd be able to catch him on time." } ]	233	2,674
187	2021-06-03	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "malvarik", "message": "[This is now \n\nMurano's focus as of late had not been on his combat skills or medical skills, but in his own Endurance. Ever since he became a shinobi he'd always been somewhat underdeveloped in terms of physical endurance and could never match up with others like Kana and Hozen, whom quite literally ran laps around him. However, with the war currently raging on and possible threats lurking around every corner he couldn't let such a trend of ineptitude continue. He arrived to the training grounds around mid-day, dressed in some light-wear for training and with his usual purple tabard denoting his position as a Captain of the MP. The first part of his training involved some rather basic bouts with wooden target dummies to increase his stamina. He hoped that others would be willing to train with him, but thus far he hadn't seen anyone else that didn't already have a partner." }, { "author": "justden_", "message": "Kagayaki looked around for someone free in the training grounds. She had a technique she'd invented she wanted to practice, but sadly she needed someone to help her, since it involved shocking someone with lightning. Sadly, it was best if she didn't do it to herself.\n\nShe recognized Murano, who she'd had a training session with, but couldn't quite place his name. Seeing he was alone and seemingly just shadow fighting with a helpless dummy, she wondered if he could be of help to her. Approaching, she made her presence known by waving at him, finally remembering his name. \"Hey Murano-san.\" \n\nShe approached once he reciprocated her welcome, \"Need a partner? I'm looking to train a technique I came up with...\" She dove right onto business, never one to beat around the bush much, \"How would you like to be electrocuted?\" She grinned at him, half joking, half serious." }, { "author": "malvarik", "message": "Seeing Kagayaki approach, he'd let the dummy have a breather as he stopped his barrage of punches. \"Yo! What's up, Ressha-san?\" He vaguely remembered training with her a few times in the past but he'd conversed and taught so many genin it was somewhat difficult to remember. \n\n\"Actually, not as bothered by it as you'd probably think.\" He said with a small chuckle as he used his foot to move the training dummy out of their way. \n\n\"Childhood friend of mine is a lightning ninjutsu prodigy... Which usually meant I was her target practice. Plus, I'm interested in what technique you're trying to learn, I might be able to help with it.\" With the space in-between them now free of clutter he'd motion towards Ressha. \n\n\"Ready when you are. What's the first step?\"" } ]	186	561
175.166667	2021-06-04	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "justden_", "message": "Kagayaki grinned, somewhat happy he remembered her. She chuckled at his statement. She became curious about his friend, lightning users were always interesting people in her eyes. \"I'd love to meet her.\" She commented, nodding as he prepared.\n\nShe pulled out some metal wire from her ninja pouch, unwrapping it and stepping closer to Murano, she gave him the tip of the wire, \"Hold this for me.\" She would tell him, before stepping back until the string was stretched.\n\n\"I'm gonna flow lightning through the string, and zap you.\" She commented. The string was tied around one of her fingers and so it didn't get in the way of her hand seals. She signaled them promptly, calling out the technique. \"Lightning Release: Heart Strings.\" \n\nLightning surged on her fingers and flowed into the wire and towards Murano. They quickly reached him, shocking him. It wasn't too big a jolt, but he could certainly feel it. She stopped and looking him over, \"How was that?\" She would ask. This was the main reason she needed someone to practice this technique with, so she could know how powerful the jolts were, given her weak endurance, she wouldn't be able to resist many." }, { "author": "malvarik", "message": "\"I think I see where this is going...\" He said as he took hold of his end of the metal wire and watched her step back. Sure enough, her explanation was pretty much 1:1 what he thought the technique entailed. He gave her a nod and watched as she'd quickly throw out a few hand seals before sending a surge of lightning through the metal wire. Instinctively, his body told him to toss the wire away but he'd keep it firmly grasped in his hand for the sake of their training. \n\nAs soon as the lightning reached his hand, he felt a sharp jolt of pain shoot up his wrist, causing him to instinctively toss the wire down. \"Damn!\" It didn't hurt all too much, but it stung like hell for a few moments after the initial impact and left a throbbing pain. \n\n\"Well, it hurt. You could probably up the ante a bit though, it spooked me more than it hurt. It' just a sort of throbbing pain now.\" He reached down and took hold of the metal wire once again." }, { "author": "justden_", "message": "Kagayaki nodded, holding back a chuckle. She understood what he meant, now it would just be a matter of practicing. She felt a little bad about Murano having to be her practice dummy, but knowing he himself was training his resistance and endurance meant she was helping him somewhat, which eased her mind a bit.\n\n\"Alright let's give it another shot.\" She said as he grabbed the wire once more. Signalling the correct hand seals, she called out the techniques name. \"Lightning Release: Heart Strings.\" Like before lightning flowed into the wire, and towards the Chunin, electrocuting him at it reached him. The jolt was more powerful than last time." }, { "author": "malvarik", "message": "\"Ready when you are.\" He replied shortly before she called the technique's name out. This time, he wouldn't be caught so off-guard by the jolt since he somewhat knew what to expect. He held tightly onto the wire and felt as the electric charge surged through his hand and up his wrist. It was definitely an improvement on her last try, he could feel that throbbing pain flare up again from before. After a few moments the pain would subside and he kept the wire tightly held. Some small part of him was proud he'd managed to hold on for so long, unlike their first attempt. \n\n\"Yea, that was way better. You definitely upped the ante there.\"" }, { "author": "justden_", "message": "Kagayaki clapped with a smile, somewhat impressed he'd managed to keep hold on it. She grinned at his comment, and approached, taking out another wire. \"How bout I double it uh?\" Her grin turned mischievous as she handed him another string to hold, before stepping back.\n\nMuch like before, she tied the string around one of her fingers, this time on her other hand. She quickly went through the seals before calling out the technique, \"Lightning Release: Heart Strings.\" She extended out her hands, lightning appeared on them before flowing towards Murano. The delivered shock wasn't much larger than last time, but noticeably so." }, { "author": "malvarik", "message": "\"U-uh, yea, sure. Just don't put too much lightning into it, alright?\" He said hesitantly as he took the other wire. With both wires now in hand, he'd wait ill-hidden nervousness for the next shock of electricity to come coursing through his hands. Mere moments after she finished her hand seals he'd feel the electricity surge once again into his body. This time, he instinctively tossed the wires aside and cradled his aching hands. The shock may not have been much more, but the fact that it was both his hands made the pain nigh unbearable. \n\n\"Damn! That Really Fuckin hurts...\" He remarked, waving his hands in an futile attempt to wave the pain away." } ]	148.5	1,051
151.75	2021-06-05	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "justden_", "message": "\"Ah...! Sorry, sorry, sorry- was that too much? I'm sorry.\" She apologized as she approached, dropping her own set of wires. Sometimes she would forget chunin were people with limitations as well - even though her own exam was coming up, she still saw them as these superior, untouchable sorts of people. Because of this she couldn't quite believe she'd be able to hurt one, so she might have gone a bit over board.\n\n\"You okay?\" She asked as she reached him, unfortunately she had no knowledge of medicine so she couldn't quite help him out other offer emotional support, which was something he probably didn't need from her." }, { "author": "malvarik", "message": "\"Yea... Yea i'm good. Just gonna sting for awhile.\" He said, waving both hands for just a moment longer. There was no visible damage, but he could still feel a dull throbbing pain in his hands where the electricity had entered his body. He was a bit disappointed in himself, he thought he was better with lightning ninjutsu considering all his training with Kana. \n\n\"No need to be sorry! I knew what I was getting into and all that. What about your technique? Did it work like you wanted it to?\" He didn't want her to feel any worse than she already did about the electricity and quickly tried changing the subject towards her technique. He hoped those two tries would be enough for now, a third would likely put-off his own training for the rest of the day." }, { "author": "justden_", "message": "Kagayaki sighed in relief seeing as he wasn't too hurt. \"It works great!\" She grinned, \"It'll work even better when I unleash it all out on someone who deserves it.\" She chuckled and scratched her head, hoping she didn't sound too much like a sadist. \n\nShe grabbed the wires once again, rolling them up before putting back into her pouch. \"What about you Murano-san? Need a hand with anything?\" She asked, looking up at him from her very short position. He'd helped her train, so it was only fair if she offered up herself as target practice now." }, { "author": "malvarik", "message": "\"Yea, I bet. Wouldn't want to be the guy that you use that on for real.\" Even though he thought he had somewhat good endurance, he wasn't sure he could hold up under a direct and serious attack from such a technique. It wasn't like he was resistant to electricity or anything, after all. \n\n\"Nah, I think I'm good. Today was just some basic endurance training for me, so you've already helped me quite a bit there. Think I'll just run some laps before heading home and that'll be it for me.\" He didn't really have any techniques he needed to learn at the moment or anything and even if he did, they'd most likely be at the level he probably shouldn't use them on a genin. Unlike some of his peers, he had some qualms about using the younger shinobi as target practice." } ]	152	607
305	2021-06-06	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "justden_", "message": "Kagayaki wandered around the bazaar, looking for cheap materials for her next invention. She was wearing her standard light armor, home made by her, with the symbol of Noragakure sewed into her shoulder pad. On her forehead as usual were the shaded glasses, tilted upwards over her head. The characteristic shinobi headband was loosely tied around the base of her neck.\n\nHer blue eyes scanned the area, her short blonde hair fluttering slightly in the wind as her small braid rested against the back of her neck. \"Come on, is there no cheap stuff...\" She muttered outloud, she was looking to buy things to break down for their components, but couldn't seem to find anything within her small budget.\n\nShe wanted to go practice more of her earth release on that day too, but at this rate she wasn't gonna get out of there any time soon. She scratched her head, and plucked her lips out slightly as she examined a large, rusty wrench. \"I could smelt it down for the metal...\"" }, { "author": "tboy2210", "message": "The bazaar... Why would a girl like Kazuko go to such place? They sold various things here, so she might be finding something interesting, though it would be such a pain to do the actual searching. But this was a sacrifice she was willing to make. Now, one would ask 'Why would she do this?', and there was a very simple and logical answer to that: Various things included various food!! And food was something where you would get her everytime.\n\nSo, with a couple of dango in one hand, held like a Shinobi would hold his kunai before throwing them, and a box of something with meat in it, she was walking around the place, nomming on the dango first while her eyes looked around the place with not much curiosity. She had her food now, so what else should she do? Also, she needed a place to sit at. Actually, she didn't even notice that she might look pretty funny there. Hands full with food, mouth as well. Welp, what else could Kazuko buy from a place like this?\n\nJust then though her eyes caught a glimpse of something bright. She noticed the blond hair of someone she knew relatively well, and immediately walked up to said person. No stomping, so she wasn't as loud as usual. Combine it with the noise of the crowd and she might be able to sneak up on Kagayaki. But that wasn't her goal anyway. She wanted to just greet her...\n\nWith a poke! She used one of the sticks - which was empty now, with its dango gone - and just gave the other girl a neat poke into her back. Nothing that would create a wound, of course not. Just a small stab. \"Stop talking to yourself.\" She said, but her mouth was so full of dango, her sentence might be incomprehensible. But Kazuko seemed to have heard that the other was mumbling random stuff to herself. Not sure what, and she didn't really care. After she said that, she would poke her again, this time in her stomach when she turned around." }, { "author": "justden_", "message": "\"Kya!\" The blonde girl exclaimed loudly, startling the owner of the stall who looked on in confusion at the scene in front of him. \"Kazuko!\" She grinned brightly at her peer as she turned around and noticed her, a Very Large contrast to how they used to behave around each other. \"Wha-\" She began talking but Kazuko interrupted her with a poke to her stomach. \"Stop poking me!\" She said loudly once more, a giggle in her voice.\n\nShe grabbed the other's hand before she could continue her assault, \"What are you doin-\" This time she interrupted herself as she noticed the amount of food Kazuko was carrying. She laughed, bringing her free hand to her mouth with a closed fist. \"Here for the food uh?\" She had a smile on her face as she spoke, but moved slightly to side to unclutter the front of the stall, not letting go of the Kaguya's hand." }, { "author": "tboy2210", "message": "The scream she gave her there was just as delicious as the food she was eating. Scaring the hell out of someone? Check! The day was going great already. Only the fact that she actually had to meet someone she wasn't as comfortable with made it meh. Ryusa, for example, was someone she could hang out with every day. And that alone was a really rare thing. But, well... For his sake, she tried to be more 'gentle' with Kagayaki, who he seemed to trust and like.\n\nThe startled owner of the stall didn't bother her the slightest, but Kazuko seemed to not really like the grab there. Calm down... Don't let it all out on this little... Sunshine. Honestly now, the whole smiling thing reminded her too much of her sister. Welp, whatever. As she chomped down another two- No, three dango in one go, she talked again. \"What else? Everything else is useless to me.\" Again, full mouth. The box full of meat and stuff couldn't be eaten without two hands, so she kinda had to eat her dessert first. Should have thought about it in advance. Or wait!! \"Here, hold.\" The hand Kagayaki was holding had three sticks, with only having dango left. Turning them around in her hand and trying to poke her again, she nodded her head in that hand's direction. \"Take the dango. Don't eat them though!\" A clear sign. If she went for even one without asking, it might escalate completely. No jokes with food, alright? Then, when she swallowed down the food like a snake would, she looked into the other's eyes, not giving a smile back. A smile coming from Kazuko was not the most common of sights. \"Whatcha doing here anyway?\"" } ]	297	1,220
271.2	2021-06-07	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "justden_", "message": "She took the dango from her hands, realizing in the mean time this was Kazuko, a cute angry ball of bones. So she might have gotten too excited and overly familiar. She chuckled at her threat with a bit of a nervous expression, having no doubts that she should not even think about eating them.\n\nShe took the three sticks, holding the one with dango with her left hand as she played with the two empty ones with her right hand, making them spin and move around her fingers rapidly, her skill with senbons was pretty good, and the sticks were similar to them so it was fun for her.\n\n\"I was looking to buy materials for some of my inventions...\" She explained, taking a look around, \"But there don't seem to be any cheap ones I want. So I was considering going to the training grounds to practice my Earth Release. Wanna come with?\" She asked, once again grinning. She was somewhat used to Kazuko at this point, the other's irritable behavior had less of an effect on her, specially when she could tell the Kaguya was making somewhat of an effort for her as well." }, { "author": "tboy2210", "message": "When the other took the stciks from her, she opened the box with all the tasty meat in it and just took the two empty sticks back, letting the other hold the one with the dango. Just like how Kagayaki would feel familiar with them and see them as improvised senbon, Kazuko saw them as improvised chopsticks and started to eat her food as she listened to the blonde girl. The way she ate definitely was... Quick. One would wonder why she even used chopsticks if she could stuff her face with it anyway.\n\nAs she nommed and chomped the food, she listened to what the other had to say to her. Materials? Of course. But when she asked her to come with her to train, Kazuko just squinted at her and talked with a full mouth once more. \"What makes you think I want to train with you, huh?\" A few more pieces were thrown into her mouth. Though, upon thinking about it more... She did want to train her own Earth Release, so there was one good reason to agree to this training session. Without really awaiting an answer from the other, she already groaned and gave Kagayaki a soft kick right on her ankle. \"Little shit... Let's go then.\" And with that, the grumpy cat made her way right towards the training grounds, walking through the relatively dense crowd in the bazaar, with Kagayaki being her personal dango-holder.\n\nThe occasional 'walking into each other' while in such crowds was pretty annoying, of course, but if it was with Kazuko... Oh well. Once, she only growled. Twice, she yelled at the person. A third time, and she almost went off on them, ready to poke their eyes out with her chopsticks. That was what you were dealing with when hanging around with the angry bone lady." }, { "author": "justden_", "message": "Kagayaki rolled her eyes with a chuckle at the insult and the kick, following after Kazuko through the crowd. It was easy to stick together despite Kagayaki's height, Kazuko was.. Easy to distinguish so to say. Kagayaki turned to Kazuko as they walked, the shouts and general rowdiness of the place making it a little loud but they could still hear each other.\n\n \"What do you want to practice?\" She asked the other, holding the dango stick with her left hand as they moved towards the training grounds. She was curious as to what kind of shinobi Kazuko was, Kagayaki knew the Kaguya used a spear rather proficiently, but other than that she had no idea about her skills.\n\nThey didn't take long to arrive at the training grounds, and Kagayaki looked around as they did. It was mostly empty, so she walked towards an open clearing, a good place to practice making rocks and other earth formations without destroying too much of the place." }, { "author": "tboy2210", "message": "It was the usual thing, with Kazuko of course just 'slightly' exaggerating as always. But no fights escalated, so there was that. While she chucked down the whole food down her throat, she raised an eyebrow at the other's question, before just shrugging. \"I could do with some Earth Release too. Would be my first time though.\" She warned the other, so she didn't expect too much from her.\n\nWhile the meat was finished, she casually grabbed the dango stick from Kagayaki's hand and started eating that. Seems like her hunger was still not yet beaten. A fierce fight it was. Each day, every day. Almost all day long. Okay, not really but... Yeah, she just loves food. And when they finally arrived, the girl took a look around. \"Alright then. You go first.\" She just sat down on the ground and continued eating there, naginata removed from her back and laid down next to her. The girl was definitely skilled with that weapon, but Kagayaki was right: She had no idea what else the bone lady was capable of. And she did not plan showing her skills to the other yet. Why should she? There was no reason to do so yet." }, { "author": "justden_", "message": "\"I'm relatively new to it too, so don't expect anything extraordinary.\" Kagayaki admitted, rolling her shoulders. She looked at the other as they munched down food curiously. Having come from a poor family, and still being a part of one, Kagayaki had always been one to not eat too much, other than the occasional treat she wouldn't really eat outside of normal meals.\n\nAs Kazuko sat down and prompted her to start she chuckled, \"So you're just gonna watch uh?\" She joked, taking a few steps to the side. She pulled out a book from her ninja pouch, scrunching up her face at the thought of having to read before actually getting to work. \n\nHer eyes scanned the book for the technique she wanted and she skimmed over its description and hand seals as she found it. Nodding to herself, she weaved the correct seals with both her hands. She was at a point where she only needed one hand for lower ranked jutsus, but in learning it was usually a good idea to use both hands.\n\nShe focused her chakra on her feet, her hands locking on the last seal as the ground beneath her turned to sand and her feet started to sink, until they stopped about halfway through her chin and the ground returned to normal. \"Ah crap.\" She said unceremoniously." } ]	259	1,356
271.363636	2021-06-09	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "tboy2210", "message": "After she managed to empty and clean her mouth from all this disgusting earth and dust in her mouth, Kazuko just coughed a bit more before sitting down properly again, just to be greeted by Kagayaki sitting directly in front of her. She didn't yet know how to feel about her, but she let her be and didn't move away. Molding earth instead of making it? And Ryusa said so? Upon mentioning his name, the Kaguya's face changed. She squinted slightly at the other, letting out a 'Hmm' that was pretty close to her angry growl. \"So Ryusa said so, huh?\" She asked. That dumbass could have taught her too! Now she was kinda grumpy about it. He teaches her that kinda stuff, meanwhile she didn't really get to see him for some time now... \"Asshole... Should kill him for that...\" The girl mumbled, in a way that was near impossible to comprehend. If Kagayaki listened closely, she would make out the pissed mood immediately. Could it be that..? Nevermind.\n\nKazuko watched the other shape a rock in her hand just like that, and when it was finished, the rock was basically a ball now. Basically, not fully. But it didn't matter. Her eyes moved up to the Ressha's face, now seeing the huge smile there. It still kinda startled her mind that this girl was someone she actually hurt during training, intentionally... And yet, she smiled as wide as her sister always did. Weirdo... \"Whatever you say.\" Almost as if she was not caring about her advice there, that's how she acted. Though she took a rock and tried to do the exact same thing as Kagayaki. Closed eyes, hand holding the rock in a way that she could crush it if she just had more strength. Once again it looked like Kazuko was angry, but at what or who? Either way, once her hand revealed the rock again, it was also formed into something else. A smoother pebble. It worked! \"Huh...\" So the other girl was right. Damn it." }, { "author": "justden_", "message": "Kagayaki quirked an eyebrow at Kazuko as she swore under her breath. She had to admit she was curious about the relationship between Kazuko and Ryusa, they seemed to be on very good terms despite the Kaguya's agressiveness and overall anger. Not to mention she seemed to not only look up at the Chunin but have some.. Stronger feelings maybe? Kagayaki giggled a bit and stopped herself, not wanting to make assumptions just yet.\n\nSeeing the other successfully carve out the rock, she gave her a big smile, \"See?\" And with that stood up, and took a few steps to the side, signalling a sequence of seals before calling out the name of the technique. \"Earth Release: Hiding Like a Mole Technique.\" \n\nShe focused her chakra on her feet like before and the ground once again turned to fine sand. She dug into the sand and the ground, disappearing for a moment... Only to surface back up with a deep breath. \"Damn, digging through this is harder than I thought.\" The scene would be quite comical, as Kagayaki only had her head out of the ground at the time. She quickly made her way out though, brushing the dirt out of her pants." }, { "author": "tboy2210", "message": "Her giggling made the Kaguya raise her own eyebrow and stare at her with that angry look on her face. \"What're you giggling at, huh?\" Seems like she didn't really like that, but she resisted the urge to go for a punch there. Kagayaki may or may not have made some right assumptions there. Despite her anger, she saw the Chunin as more than just a tutor. Actually, just calling him a 'friend' was also an insult to him. But would she ever admit such things to anybody?\n\nWell, Earth Release for now. The big smile went without a comment from Kazuko, and she just let her do her thing. For now, she was happy enough with what she achieved there. Learning a jutsu would be too much effort. Man, she should grab some more food honestly...\n\nThen, all of a sudden, the other girl vanished into the ground and just left Kazuko alone for a moment. Only to come out of the sand as if she almost drowned to death there. Could totally relate to that feeling honestly, oh yeah. Her hand rose up, palm open almost as if she was about to slap Kagayaki. But she then came out fully. Meeh... \"Would have been funny if you suffocated down there.\" Aaand there. The occasional death wish for the other. The Kaguya still was sitting cross legged and arms folded, staring at the other who cleaned herself from all the dirt and sand." }, { "author": "justden_", "message": "\"Aye, aye I bet it would.\" Kagayaki dismissed Kazuko's death wish while waving her lazily in her direction. She was starting to get used to them, and whether or not Kazuko meant what she said or not didn't really seem to matter anymore to her. The blonde brought her hand to her chin in thought, nodding lightly to herself.\n\nHow to make this easier... She figured practice was the best way to get used to it, perhaps let some sort of breathing room... She ended up shrugging before quickly signaling the seals of the technique. \"Earth Release: Hiding Like a Mole Technique!\" She called out, once again diving into the ground as it turned to sand around her body.\n\nShe plopped out a rather ways away from Kazuko, once again just plopping out her head and looking around. \"Hm, I need to get better at sensing stuff while underground...\" She commented." }, { "author": "tboy2210", "message": "\"Of course it would. I can help with that, if you wanna.\" Her very serious tone made it sound like both, a joke and a real offer. Combined with that face that didn't show a single smile or any glimpse of other signs for this being a joke, she may be giving off confusing signals to Kagayaki. Kazuko didn't care though. Her threats were usually genuine, as she really would like to see said person suffer. Maybe die, too. But in this case, killing Kagayaki would be a really dumb move. Not mentioning that she was... Kinda okay to be around with.\n\nKazuko watched the other vanish again, which made her groan, and when she plopped out, the Kaguya threw a smaller pebble right at her head. \"Sense this, idiot.\" A small bonk, nothing else. Coming to think of it... While Kagayaki wondered how her relationship was with Ryusa, Kazuko was thinking the same thing about Ryusa and her. Hm... She sighed loudly.\n\nTaking another pebble, she threw that one at the other girl again. \"Come on, do something.\" Laying down all of a sudden, she started to complain. \"I'm hungry... I need food!\" The last word she said in a louder, more pissed tone. \"I could eat anything.\" And then, her head tilted to the side, staring right into Kagayaki's eyes. \"Anything.\" Kazuko repeated... What was with this sudden menacing aura??" }, { "author": "justden_", "message": "\"Ow.\" She blurted out when the first rock collided, shaking her head slightly, which was still the only part of her body above ground. \"Don- Ow.\" She was interrupted as the second rock made impact, furrowing her brow towards the Kaguya. Before the black haired girl admitted she could eat her. Her eyes widened and darted from side to side, mostly joking.\n\nShe dove back into the ground, and a few moments later popped back up beside Kazuko, some dirt blasting towards her. Kagayaki seemed rather satisfied, ruffling her hair slightly, without undoing her braid, to let loose some of the dust in it. \"Practice really does make perfect uh.\" She commented, rather proud of herself.\n\n\"Have you done any more?\" She asked, taking one of the rocks from her emergence to signify she meant smoothing them out. She sat in front of the other girl again, cross legged like last time." }, { "author": "tboy2210", "message": "Kagayaki's little yelps of pain made the Kaguya grin. Finally, something else than her grumpy look on her face! A grin. The mean kind, but a grin nonetheless. Then, the worried expression. Oh, Kazuko enjoyed that. \"What? I beat human flesh tasted decent at the very least.\" The angry Kaguya seemed to be more relaxed now and less angry about... The world.\n\nBut as she had to be dirtied with dirt when Kagayaki popped out next to her, Kazuko growled in anger out of nowhere and grabbed the other girl by her collar. \"The hell are you doing there, huh?!\" The other hand formed into a fist, but she then froze. No, not her. She can't do this to someone like that. Letting go, Kazuko turned in her laying position, back facing Kagayaki now. \"Meh...\" This could be interpreted as her own way of apologizing.\n\nWhen asked about if she did more, she just grabbed a nearby rock and held it up, trying to reshape it once again. It seemed to work, with the edges being even smoother than before now. \"There.\" Rock yeeted away, her head and eyes moved slightly towards the other's side, as if she was checking what was going on over there." }, { "author": "justden_", "message": "Kagayaki had somehow kept a serious face through the whole threat. Not that she wasn't a bit scared, but when she spent \n time with Kazuko she was always prepared for some kind of out-burst. Not that she would sit back and let herself be beaten to a pulp if Kazuko tried, but she believed the other wouldn't go past threats unless Kagayaki really pushed her buttons.\n\n She tilted her head with a small smile at the others antics, they reminded her somewhat of a stubborn child who knew they'd done something wrong but refused to admit it. She took the rock in her hand and looked at it with a light chuckle. \n\n\"So you wanna do anything else now?\" She asked. Having gotten the hang of her technique, she was was basically done with her training, but she wouldn't mind spending more time with Kazuko, kind of." }, { "author": "tboy2210", "message": "She didn't want to hurt someone who apparently wanted to spend time with her. Someone who was not forced to hang out with her, and smiled despite her actions. There were too few people like that, and Kagayaki was one of the few. So beating her up like that was just out of question, since that was just not right in her head. Unless she managed to piss her off, obviously. That would be her fault and Kazuko might not hold back there.\n\nWhen she chuckled and talked again, the Kaguya shrugged and rubbed her arm. Then, she turned around and properly looked at the blonde girl. Still laying, which made her look like the cat she was. The grumpy type. Only now, she looked weirdly comfy on the ground. \"I don't know.\" Then, after a small moment of silent thinking, she pushed herself up. Quickly so. Sitting now, her eyes were wider than before. \"Food. Akimichi Bistro. Wanna have an eating competition?\" The sinister smile she had there now was totally not noice. It was almost as if it sounded like trouble. The smile vanished though, because she had something to add to that idea. \"I won't pay for your food though.\" Out of question!" }, { "author": "justden_", "message": "Kagayaki laughed at her enthusiasm, a bright smile coming across her face at the other's suggestion. Once she calmed down her face turned slightly solemn, her big smile dwindling. \"As much as I'd actually love that, I think I'll have to pass, I don't have the funds for it.\" She admitted. She wasn't looking for pity or handouts, but it was the truth.\n\nShe stood up and rummaged through her ninja pouch, quickly pulling out a small brown wallet. It was simple cloth sewed with a small button to close the flap. She looked inside, frowning her eyebrows as she quickly counted before closing it. She shot Kazuko another smile. \"I can order something small and eat with you though.\"" }, { "author": "tboy2210", "message": "Out of question... But... She wanted to beat her at the competition! Kazuko just watched the other decline and stand up, counting her money. Something small? Something small wouldn't cut it. The angry bone lady stood up and came uncomfortably close to Kagayaki's face. Her expression? Grumpy and angi. \"You'll pay me back one day.\" With that, she just grabbed the other by her arm and dragged the poor Ressha along, onwards to the Akimichi Bistro.\n\n\"I'll pay today, just so I can beat you.\" Her grip was strong, though not really painful. Maybe a tad. \"You're already annoying as hell... As a Shinobi, you at least should be able to afford food.\" Outrageous. Her voice was mixed with confusion and anger, but since food was the topic, she was much more \"Happier\" And didn't want to beat up the other girl. \"And don't you dare seeing this as a nice gesture.\" Kazuko's eyes stared at hers, tone as serious as it could get. But the thing is: That's what it was! A nice gesture regardless of the fact that she wanted the money back later on.\n\nUpon arrival at the Bistro, she opened the door and led the other in, only then letting go. She chose the table, and the Akimichi that greeted them seemed to know her, being all friendly and kind to her. \"Kazuko-chan! How are you? Brought a friend? How lovely! So, what can I get you two today?\" The big, round man asked, and Kazuko just grinned in her cheeky way a - revealing it fully to Kagayaki. \"We're gonna fight. But I think she'll fail, so make it the 'Beginner's race' for us.\" After all, it was not size here, but difficulty!" } ]	261	2,985
242.75	2021-06-10	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "justden_", "message": "Kagayaki felt herself be dragged, \"But I though-\" She was interrupted by Kazuko's declaration that she was gonna beat Kagayaki and the blonde laughed, \"Of course you're gonna beat me I'm all skin and bones.\" She joked before coming to a stop with Kazuko staring straight into her eyes.\n\nShe smiled gently, even if Kazuko told her not to see it as a nice gesture she was going to. Even if she was still forcing her to spend money on something she found rather unnecessary, she couldn't bring herself to refuse the other's offer, so she went along, \"Aye, aye, whatever you say.\" \n\nShe gave the Akimichi a small nod with a smile as he greeted them, her eyes wandering around to try and spot Hachirou, her Akimichi friend - sadly it didn't seem he was around. She chuckled at Kazuko saying they were gonna fight, frowning her eyes, \"I can handle more than the Beginner's race, bring us the step above from that one!\" She declared, as competitive as ever. She'd pay Kazuko back, eventually." }, { "author": "tboy2210", "message": "Kazuko snorted. \"I know. I'll maybe go easy on you.\" On second thought, she shrugged. \"Maybe not.\" A cheeky grin. A total opposite to what Kagayaki gave her, which was that gentle smile once more. \"Meh, stop that.\" The free hand came closer to her face and she gave the other a few gentle-ish slaps.\n\nAfter they had sat down and ordered, the words of the other girl made Kazuko stare at her. Wait, what? This little shit is challenging her now? The Kaguya leaned in closer, keeping up the stare. It was intense... Would she start eating her alive now?! \"So that's how it is, huh?\" She got a punch on her arm, and a smirk on top of that from the bone lady. \"Brave, but stupid.\" At least she admitted that Kagayaki had guts for that!\n\nAs the Akimichi nodded and went to the kitchen, the two had to wait a bit until they'd get their food. So Kazuko just let her head rest on the table, letting out a long and annoyed sigh. \"That's the worst part.\" She complained with that grumpy tone of hers." }, { "author": "justden_", "message": "\"Eh, at least I'm brave.\" She commented, shrugging and rubbing her arm from the punch as the other slouched on the table. She smiled and reached out, giving the other a joking pat on the head. \"There, there...\" She said, knowing an out-burst was coming her way.\n\nKagayaki had a short fuse for certain behaviors she had to admit, but interacting with Kazuko was surprisingly freeing. She expected the other person to be rude and aggressive, but to later be kind in her own way - so when the insults and aggressiveness came, Kagayaki would be less angry and more curious and expectant to see how Kazuko would act next. It was fun." }, { "author": "tboy2210", "message": "She wasn't whining more, but her facial expression did show how annoyed and 'sad' she was about that waiting part. Only when she suddenly received some pats did her eyes look up at the hand that touched her. And the weird thing was: She didn't react at all for the first few seconds. No movement, no resisting. Just kinda... Accepting it? Could it be that she like-\n\nAaand there she went growling, raising her head to genuinely try and bite Kagayaki's hand. For real! \"Asshole, what were you-\" Nevermind that, food is ready! Just like that it seemed to stop her anger, since the Akimichi came with all sorts of meat on two separate plates. One for the angry Kaguya, the other for the smiley Ressha. It honestly looked like they were served two little mountains of food. Kazuko's face? No anger whatsoever, but rather excitement. Big eyes. Almost shining, it looks like. \"Here you two go! Are you ready?\" His hand went up. \"Set...\" Kazuko looked over to her opponent with a wide smirk, poking her cheek with her finger - specifically its nail. \"Don't throw up, idiot!\" And then... \"Go!\" And what they could see was Kazuko starting to eating for her life. But it really looked unhealthy, or just strange; did she even chew the food?! One piece after another, it was as if she didn't eat for a looong time. As if her jaw was unhinged and all the food fell down that tunnel." } ]	245	971
249.75	2021-06-11	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "justden_", "message": "```Casual From Here on```\n\n Kagayaki took a moment to appreciate the sheer amount of food that lay in front of her. She'd never seen so much piled all at once and, if she had to be honest, to her, it seemed almost like a waste to spend all this food in a single meal, but nevertheless she started eating it at her own rate.\n\nHer eyes widened at the creature downing food in front of her. She'd expected something like that, but actually seeing it with your own two eyes for the first time would surprise anyone. She was clearly slower, though she was eating at a decent pace too.\n\nBy the time Kazuko was half done with her food, Kagayaki was barely over a third. She didn't slow down though, her pride wouldn't let her, even though she was starting to feel a little sick. I'm so gonna regret this.." }, { "author": "tboy2210", "message": "It might seem unreasonable to eat so much in one go, but that was the fun laying in this competition! Fun doesn't have to be reasonable. Breaking other people's bones for no reason other than her own satisfaction seems like a very dumb and unreasonable thing to do, but she still did so! But not with Kagayaki. Almost... But she decided to not do so, for some weird reason.\n\nAnyway, the way she swallowed everything down made it seem like the other was going to lose whatever she tries, unless she managed to expand her stomach like an Akimichi within the next minute, and even then... This was an unfair match, but Kazuko knew this. She just wanted food and have fun while eating it, maybe flex on her opponent there with her eating capabilities.\n\nAfter not-so-long, the Kaguya was done. Yes, she was. All the food was gone, vanished inside her belly. She managed to swallow down ALL of it, and the way she just looked over to Kagayaki was just spooky; she seriously looked like she could eat whatever the other had left there. Meanwhile, the Akimichi waiter just laughed with his loud and deep voice, clapping his hands a few times. \"Kazuko-chan is the winner! But her friend is doing quite well too.\" Commentary stuff, but only a few watched them. It wasn't a big competition here, just a friendly one. As a reward, she received nothing. Food was enough. But Kagayaki received a nice, a tad ungentle and big pat on her back. \"And you thought you could beat me!\" If there were two things Kazuko was good at, it was staring, and eating. She could suck at everything else, but these two were her specialities." }, { "author": "justden_", "message": "Kagayaki finished her foot a while after Kazuko, rubbing her slightly swollen belly, \"I don't think I've ever eaten so much in my life... I'm not having dinner tonight...\" She brought her hand up to her mouth covering a soft burp. \n\n\"I clearly remember saying I was gonna lose.\" Kagayaki pointed out as Kazuko spoke, lifting up a finger with a playful expression, \"I just thought it'd be more fun this way.\" She once again brought her hand to her mouth, a pained expression on her face. It was obvious she wasn't used to eating so much.\n\n\"I'm gonna be sick.\" She commented again, taking a deep breath, \"I'm good. I'm good.\" She told herself as she breathed slowly. \"Thanks for the match, it was fun.\" She grinned once she calmed down, reaching out a hand towards Kazuko to shake." }, { "author": "tboy2210", "message": "\"Never? No wonder you're a walking stick.\" It probably was supposed to insult the other, but other than that, she didn't say anything else, even though she could have. Her burping was overshadowed a second later by a loud, near inhuman one from Kazuko. She either never learned about manners, or chose to just simply ignore them.\n\n\"And yet, you chose the bigger plates. Now you suffer.\" Her grin changed into that more devilish one later on, accompanied by a very similar giggle as the other struggled to keep the food in her stomach. But then, she was supposed to shake her hand. And honestly, Kazuko never really did that stuff, but here...\n\nInitially, it was a backhand slap on Kagayaki's hand, but before she could flinch away from the hit, the grumpy cat decided to take her hand anyway and shake it just for a short moment. \"It sure was fun.\" Holding on to the hand, she pulled Kagayaki in a bit closer while at the same time leaning in. \"Don't you dare vomiting all over the place now. I'm sure it's all heavy in there, right? Wanna eat more?\" Oh- Seems like it was time for some bullying!" } ]	223.5	999
241.333333	2021-06-12	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "justden_", "message": "Kagayaki chuckled, \"No thanks, I'm pretty good.\" She answered as she drew away from Kazuko, she really wasn't used to eating so much in one go. She sighed and sat back on her seat, she figured it was okay to rest for a bit now and then possibly head home.\n\nShe stretched and yawned, resting her head back and closing her eyes for a bit. She was a little in pain, so relaxing was helpful. As she rested she realized she knew near nothing about Kazuko, so, keeping her eyes closed and head back, she asked, \"Do you have any hobbies? Outside of eating.\" A slight smile drew on her face as she spoke." }, { "author": "tboy2210", "message": "When Kagayaki backed off a bit, Kazuko followed, though she let her be after a short while and leaned back as well. Even though she could stuff herself with even more food, this was still a decent amount, which was satisfying enough. Not as much as she would have liked, but... Yeah.\n\nThough it was a small surprise that Kagayaki asked her a question like that. Then again... People do want to know each other more, it seems. But what was there to know about Kazuko? She just stared at the other, deep into her eyes, almost as if she was offended by the question. Was she? No, not really. \"More eating. Hurting others...\" After that, she already seemed to be out of things to say. Or well, she may have one or two things more to say, but did she want to tell them Kagayaki?\n\nA bit after her head turned towards the table, the Kaguya added something to the short list. \"Not be annoyed by my little sister.\" Heh, she thought of this as a funny one. It was a lie, partially. Misaki - her sister - very rarely pissed her off, if at all. The little bean was a lovely girl, and a total opposite of what Kazuko was. She was more like... Kagayaki, with all that smiling and stuff. Hence why she thought of the Ressha as a tad annoying but in a different sense. It was weird... But what the other could see there for a split-second was the twitch of Kazuko's lips, seemingly ready to show her smiling." }, { "author": "justden_", "message": "Kagayki frowned towards the ceiling as Kazuko said hurting others. Kagayaki knew Kazuko had some sadistic tendencies, but she also believed the Kaguya was a kind person who wouldn't hurt someone who hadn't done anything... At least she hoped. She let out a little chuckled though, it was a very Kazuko Answer.\n\nShe turned her head to look at the other as she spoke of her little sister, slightly surprised. She was even more surprised to see Kazuko's face mellow and she thought about her sibling and grinned. \"So you have a sister?\" She asked, almost instinctively. \n\nHer own face broke into a smile as Pan's face flashed in her head, and she couldn't help but talk about her. \"I'm a single child myself, but I have a best friend I'm really close to, so she's basically like my sister.\" Pan was technically older than herself by a couple months, but that didn't matter to the blonde girl. A small, barely audible giggle escaped her mouth as she pictured Kazuko and Pan meeting. That would not go well, Kagayaki thought. Pan was shy and gentle, Kazuko was anything but." } ]	247	724
198.25	2021-06-16	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "tboy2210", "message": "\"She loves everyone. That's not something special.\" Kazuko continued to behave pretty grumpily while Kagayaki insisted. Why should she let her in? Misaki did indeed like everyone the moment they showed any sort of kindness. It also was only fair, since she did not let want to allow Kazuko near Pan.\n\nThe moment she smiled more after being smacked, Kazuko's face changed into one of slight confusion and disgust. \"Stop that. Why the fuck are you smiling?\" A stronger punch came right at the spot Kagayaki had received one multiple times. If that part wasn't bruised now... \"You're supposed to dislike it. Why the hell are you doing... That?!\" Her finger pointed at the whole face there. Did she really dislike smiling of others that much? Well, not necessarily. But this one was just irritating." }, { "author": "justden_", "message": "Kagayaki chuckled, \"She sounds like a great girl, how old is she?\" She inquired about the other's sister. It was true Kagayaki did not want Pan to meet Kazuko just yet, she knew Kazuko deep down wouldn't hurt her, but Pan's shier behavior would probably annoy Kazuko and she didn't want the Kaguya shouting or insulting her best friend. \n\nShe took the punches like a champ, they did hurt a bit, but she knew revealing that it hurt was exactly what Kazuko wanted, and even if it made her stop, a stubborn part of Kagayaki wanted to prove to Kazuko the blonde wasn't as weak as she thought. \"I do dislike it, but that doesn't mean I can't smile.\" She kept her trade mark grin on." }, { "author": "tboy2210", "message": "\"She's ten. And of course she's great!\" Whoop- Sounds like an overprotective older sister! Even things like that triggered her instincts. The girl was great, obviously! The best person ever. No one could top that, not even in the slightest. Her little sister was someone Kazuko would die for. The only person that has that privilege.\n\nThe punches themselves were not meant to actually harm Kagayaki, but if Kazuko was genuinely angry and would go for a strong punch... Tanking it just like that would end painfully. Luckily, Kazuko was not nearly as pissed as she could be. Happier times for everyone! The grumpy cat just stared at the other, then raised her chin a bit. \"Good, dislike it. I'd have no problems hurting you if I had to.\" This sounded almost like a child pouting and complaining about something. She even folded her arms like one. \"Stop smiling then! It's weird.\" For what reason was it weird? This is Kazuko. It doesn't have to make sense. \"You're really desperate. Wanting to meet my sister and wanting to get punched more, eh?\" Grumpy grumpy cat." }, { "author": "justden_", "message": "Kagayaki smiled at overprotective Kazuko, it was nice to see her earnestly wanting something other than food and hurting people. She could feel the love she had for her sister, and it made her like the Kaguya a bit more than she did. So she Was Capable of positive emotions.\n\n\"Oh, I'm sure you wouldn't.\" She chuckled at her, \"Just don't expect not to come out hurt too.\" Kagayaki had a feeling she shouldn't have said that, she was for sure poking the hornet's nest. But she wasn't the type to take things lying down, though her tone implied she didn't intend it as an insult or a challenge. \n\n\"I do want to meet her, I'm curious. Though I could do without the punches. What's her name?\" She was interested in the little girl, and Kazuko was clearly fond of her, so she decided to keep her as the topic of the conversation." } ]	189.5	793
252.333333	2021-06-17	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "tboy2210", "message": "It all began with Kazuko deciding to interact with Kagayaki instead of ignoring her, starting the whole thing with a poke with her dango stick. Now they had an eating contest and started to talk about family and friends. Though when Kagayaki said that the Kaguya won't come out of a fight without a scratch, that's when it seemed like the grumpy bone girl got heated up a bit. Her angry look on her face turned into a smile, though it was not the friendly type. Rather, it was pretty dark. On top of that, she came even closer to the other, leaning in uncomfortably close to the Ressha with their noses almost touching. \"That only makes it better.\" Did that make her a masochist..? No, not really. She just liked a good fight it seems.\n\nThe grumpy girl's grin vanished again and she leaned back just a bit. \"Fuck off. You'd have to pay me with more food for that.\" Kazuko said and just kept staring at the other. \"Misaki. Small, smiling, warm, happy...\" A short description of the little girl. \"You two are too similar. Only she has black hair.\"" }, { "author": "justden_", "message": "Kagayaki closed the distance of their noses with a very light boop, proceeding to chuckled as she leaned back and swore at her, rolling her eyes. She really was getting used to this, guess all those loud aggressive (though somewhat playful) arguments she had with her dad were paying off, though she responded very differently towards Kazuko, maybe because she wasn't as familiar, and responding back with shouting wasn't exactly seen as playful for her.\n\n\"Aw, that's a cute name, does she want to become a shinobi like us?\" Kagayaki's questions were non-stop. This was a chance to maybe get a closer look at Kazuko's home life, and the reasons why she was always so angry. Not that it was any of her business, but Kagayaki was curious." }, { "author": "tboy2210", "message": "The boop made her blink in confusion for a moment. That... Was unexpected honestly. One might think she'd blush now, but instead, she started to growl with a deeper voice and grabbed the other by the collar, just like last time at the training grounds. \"And I'll make you regret this whenever I get the chance to.\" In fact, she could do so now. She might take some hits, but that was something she was willing to take if she could hurt the other. But then again... Something inside her held her back. She wasn't sure what and why, but her closest guess was the fact that Kagayaki kinda made her think of Misaki. And she never would hurt her little sister. So this was some kind of confusing situation right here.\n\nEven though Kazuko was angry and grumpy that she asked so many questions, since they were talking about Misaki, she couldn't really not 'brag' about that cute little bean. \"She's not sure. She thinks we're really cool, but is scared to become one. Right now though, she's thinking it over...\" The more she thought about a Shinobi Misaki, the more Kazuko got confused. On one hand, she'd LOVE to see her little sister become someone like her. On the other hand, it was very worrying. The job is dangerous, and Misaki was too soft to harm anyone... Not to mention killing. It was really hard to see, but people who knew her better would be able to be guess that Kazuko was feeling a tad different right now. Typically like a worried, older sister or mother. Same thing in this case." } ]	251	757
244.5	2021-06-18	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "justden_", "message": "Kagayaki had tensed up slightly when Kazuko grabbed her, ready to unleash something if the other actually tried to attack her. Though it was purely cautionary, she was mostly sure the Kaguya wouldn't start something in the middle of her favorite food shop. She looked forward to the day where she might be able to hold a conversation with Kazuko where fighting wasn't a constant possibility.\n\n\"Hmmm.\" She hummed as the other continued to talk about her sister, leaning back once again. \"I get the struggle. I had to think a lot myself before making the decision. For those of us who feel empathy-\" She shot Kazuko a mocking glance.\"- Becoming a shinobi is not an easy decision.\" She'd pondered the decision for a few weeks, eventually deciding she could do more good in general in this job than as a train engineer, her other dream job." }, { "author": "tboy2210", "message": "Kazuko indeed did not want to hurt her right now, as the place was not the right one. Despite knowing little restraint when it came to brutalities and combat in general, she at least had some of it inside her to stop herself from attacking the girl. On top of that, it was still the fact that Kagayaki reminded her of Misaki too much. How annoying... So she had just let her go.\n\nListening to the other did not make her angry, just that glance made the Kaguya squint her eyes in a dangerous way as a reaction, though she didn't interrupt Kagayaki and let her explain her point of view on this. Yeah, it was pretty much the same with little Misaki... \"I don't want her to become one.\" A sudden decision she spoke out loudly, which may be a surprise. Kazuko shook her head, staring at the table in front of her, sinking into her thoughts for a few seconds. \"It's too dangerous. I don't care what she does as long as she likes it, but no...\" A grumpy ball of pure anger and hatred, but when it came to her family - or specifically her sister - she changed into something more caring. \"At least she can watch me train. That's allowed.\" A snort, before she looked at Kagayaki again." }, { "author": "justden_", "message": "Kagayaki waited for Kazuko's answer after she'd shared her experience, smiling at Kazuko as she spoke in a protective matter, and she could understand her point of view. \"I know this isn't what you wanna hear.\" She said seriously, \"But it's not your decision to make.\" She wasn't sure how Kazuko would react, but she turned her eyes towards a wall, a distant gaze.\n\n\"My parents didn't want me to become one, so I know where you're coming from. They wanted to protect me, make sure I wasn't put in harms way. But ultimately, it was my decision. The best you can do is explain to her exactly what it is we do and make sure she makes her decision with as much information as possible.\" She turned back to Kazuko, a serious expression on her face, \"You need to make sure she becomes a shinobi for the right reasons and not on a whim.\"\n\nIt was nice to discuss a serious topic with which she herself had struggled, maybe help Kazuko help Misaki make the decision which will shape her entire life. That is if Kazuko chose to accept her advice. There was fifty-fifty chance Kazuko would growl angrily and say it was none of her business." }, { "author": "tboy2210", "message": "Kagayaki was not really wrong about that fifty-fifty chance honestly, since Kazuko's first reaction was to glance over to her and growl ever so slightly. Out of anger? Kinda. But also out of frustration. She knew that deciding for the little one was not right, but she also did not want to endanger her. So there she sat, staring at the other while thinking about it.\n\n\"Of course I know that.\" A pissed tone, but also a serious one. She knew about all that, and did try to explain the life of a Shinobi to Misaki in an informative way every now and then without sneaking in her opinion into it. Kazuko mentioned enough how dangerous and terrible it can be, but also how nice it could be, using her few friends as examples. \"I just can't let her out though.\" She sighed in annoyance and leaned back in her chair, now more or less laying instead of sitting there lazily.\n\n\"If she dies, it'll be my end.\" Words she said after a little break, though they had that weird tone to them. It really did seem like that the bond between the two was great enough for Kazuko to do unspeakable things. To others, or to herself..." } ]	258.5	978
179.8	2021-06-19	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "justden_", "message": "Kagayaki smiled slightly, seeing Kazuko struggle out of her concern for her sister was rather endearing, and she couldn't help but reach out and rub her hair gently. She stopped her hand half-way though pulling it back and leaning into the chair as well.\n\n\"If she makes the decision, the best you can do is make sure she's prepared. And that she won't die out there.\" It was a sad thought that the decision truly was out of her own hands. If Misaki really decided she truly wanted to become shinobi for the sake of Noragakure, than going against her would only strain their relationship, as Kazuko was probably well aware." }, { "author": "tboy2210", "message": "Her eyes moved to the side to look at the approaching hand. This time, she did not growl. It didn't touch her yet, probably that's why. When it went away, her eyes stared at the table again, showing no sign of hostility there for now. It was just her and her thoughts right now.\n\n\"You can bet your ass I will.\" Kazuko said and cracked her neck. \"She'll be stronger than you in no time.\" A little joke on the side. Not that she doubted her sister's strength, but she knew her better than others, and her feelings say that she might be struggling big time at some point in her career. IF she chose to become a Shinobi like them. \"Meh, nevermind that now. I don't wanna talk about it anymore.\" At least Kazuko was pretty direct with that stuff and didn't try talking around and trying to be as polite as possible. If she doesn't want to talk about that topic, she says so. \"Your Pan... Did she think of becoming a Shinobi?\" Maybe they were in the same situation?" }, { "author": "justden_", "message": "Kagayaki chuckled at Kazuko's straightforwardness, shaking her head at her question. \"She was never interested.\" The blonde admitted, a fond smile once again coming across her face, the kind that usually only showed up when she spoke about Pan. \"She's a really gentle soul, and the job never interested. Much less after her cousin died when we were ten. He was in the Frontier Patrol.\" \n\nThat event may seem simple for families with long shinobi history, but her cousin had been the first and only member of their family to become one, and his death had deeply wounded all of them. Even if they had already been prepared for such a possibility, it happening was still horrible for each and every one of them." }, { "author": "tboy2210", "message": "Her facial expression loosened when Kagayaki said that this cousin died, and was part of the Frontier Patrol. It became more... Not sad, or kinda. \"I guess she's also too soft.\" A snort, then she kinda sat down more properly, though still in this lazy manner. \"My dad's a Frontier Patrol member.\" The way she said that did not allow the other to read her at all. Was she happy? Was she sad about it? Her mother was also a Shinobi. \"Parents who are Shinobi are annoying.\"\n\nAfter all, for years they were on missions and whatever, only being home for a short time. She never told Kagayaki what the truth there, but it did seem like Kazuko was feeling off there when talking about this. \"Maybe they knew each other? My dad and Pan's cousin I mean. Would be funny.\" Yes, she was acting more strange now. There even was an attempt to smile, but it was unsuccessful and she quickly let it be." }, { "author": "justden_", "message": "Kagayaki quirked an eyebrow at Kazuko, noticing something was kind of amiss, she shrugged, unable to agree or disagree with her statement that shinobi parents were annoying. \"He was the first member of her family to ever become one of us, and I'm the first of mine.\" \n\nHer curiosity was peaked about her parents though, Kazuko seemed somewhat different talking about them, \"What are your parents like? Are you on good terms with them?\" She asked, leaning forward on the table with her arms folded and placed her head on them. She had a great relationship with her parents, but she knew very well that wasn't the same for everyone, her Akimichi friend Hachirou was a perfectly good example of someone she knew didn't have the greatest of relationships with his dad." } ]	167	899
299.666667	2021-06-20	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "tboy2210", "message": "The Kaguya clan always had and still has Shinobi, so she doesn't know it any different. There for sure were families with no Shinobi members at all, or very few. The big clans are different, as they are basically known for that. She wasn't the first, nor was she going to be the last Kaguya who'll be a Shinobi.\n\nGood terms... Hm. That was something that made the bone-y girl think, and as she looked over to the almost laying Kagayaki, Kazuko just decided to say it. \"My father is dead.\" Something that torturing in her mind spoken out so easily... Her face didn't change. It still had this anger to it. \"My mother is busy very often since she is in the Predator Unit. Missions and all that... It's very annoying. She's barely home.\" She continued, though the previous sentence about her father was still hovering over her head. The fact that he was dead was still bothering her. Greatly. Being the angry girl she always was, this moment was triggering her even more; now her facial expression changed to something more angry, her body was tenser and her legs seemed to move more on their spot. It was like she was building up more of her hatred and fury, slowly but surely boiling over. \"He's an asshole for that...\" She mumbled, or rather pressed through her teeth as her eyes seemingly looked for... Something on the ground, though there was nothing." }, { "author": "justden_", "message": "Now her reaction to Pan's cousin, from the Frontier Patrol, dying made a lot of sense. \"I'm sorry to hear that.\" She said with a gentle tone, trying to understand how Kazuko felt about it, she didn't seem sad, but it it affected her for sure. Kagayaki thought having a shinobi mother who wasn't around must have been a bit lonely.\n\nShe was used to coming home to her mother's warm welcome, honestly, she couldn't imagine what it was like coming home to an empty house. Kazuko seemed to blame her father for getting killed. Kagayaki wondered if she really did, or if it was defense mechanism to protect her mind from feeling sad and depressed about it. Such a complicated person Kazuko was.\n\nKagayaki hesitated, should she ask about her dad's death? About how her mother was? This were questions that she was curious about. Kazuko's angry expression told her it was best not to, even if normally she would ask. \"Well, if you and Misaki are ever feeling lonely I'm sure I can make space for the two of you at my house. It's not very big, but it's always lively.\" Kagayaki offered with a big grin." }, { "author": "tboy2210", "message": "Her words seemed almost like they went right over Kazuko's head, as she didn't react to them at all. For the Akimichi Bistro's sake, and for Kagayaki's, she refused to talk right now, as if she did, there might be words coming out she would regret saying later on. Especially the tone. The other already knew how angry she could get, but talking about her father brought her to a different level of anger. Maybe worse, maybe not. But it was different. Or so Kazuko at least felt.\n\nKazuko just stared at one spot and that was about it. After that little moment of silence, Kagayaki talked again and... Honestly made a very kind offer there, to which the angry girl finally raised her head. She stared at her, almost as if she was going to go off just because she talked. Though no. \"As if we'd need that.\" Slightly louder, followed by a growl. Kazuko then looked to the side, but even then Kagayaki could see that she was definitely still thinking about the offer. Or at least about something. Did she really consider it? Whatever she was doing, in the end she just kinda slammed her head on the table, with her arms underneath them. Just like Kagayaki before, but unlike her, she buried her face and didn't show it to anyone for now. There were many things she could say, or would want to say, but she just couldn't bring them over. It was like her mouth was kept shut. Or her mind was overflowing with the amount, making it too hard to choose." } ]	308	899
211	2021-06-23	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "justden_", "message": "Kagayaki quirked an eyebrow at Kazuko, watching her slam her face down, \"Well suit yourself. But the offer still stands.\" She couldn't quite predict what would happen if she did accept, she knew her parents well, and they were very kind people so they would wholeheartedly accept Kazuko, even if she was rude to them. Though maybe not so easily...\n\nShe sat back quietly, she wanted to talk more, but she let Kazuko sort out her thoughts. It seemed she was struggling a bit right now and she figured she'd give the other girl some space. She leaned back on the table now, looking up at the ceiling." }, { "author": "tboy2210", "message": "She gave Kagayaki some sort of growl, but it was short and not aggressive. It was more of a hum, but still too 'Kazuko'. Though the meaning was the same; she just meant to say 'Whatever', not completely declining her offer there. And as long as her parents made her good food - and enough - there should be absolutely no problems when she visits her home. IF she does.\n\nHer forehead was basically rolling left to right, just slightly on her arms. As if she was trying to distract herself or just couldn't sit still. When she looked up though, her kinda feral eyes stared at the other girl as she was looking up at the ceiling. She seemed to just... Stare at her. Was she even staring at her actually, or was she sunken in thoughts, being in another world in her mind for the moment being? No, her eyes were watching Kagayaki. Eyes, nose, mouth. Analyzing, more or less. For what reason? Nobody knows, not even Kazuko. She just stared and did nothing, being silent all the while. \"You're weird.\" The Kaguya mumbled loud enough for the other to hear. It was not quite an insult. Just something she noticed." }, { "author": "justden_", "message": "\"Hm?\" Kagayaki mumbled as she looked back at Kazuko still sprawled on the table. She blinked, the words sinking in before scoffing lightly, \"So you've told me.\" Kazuko was probably not used to people being nice to her, and even Kagayaki some times have a hard time doing so, but she still tried. She figured it was worth treating everyone kindly, even if they didn't really want. For all she knew, Kazuko hadn't done anything truly bad yet, so she had no reason not to deserve the small blonde's kindness. \n\n\"Why though?\" She asked, for the first time. She was curious as to what explanation Kazuko would offer, she suspected she'd say something like: Growl, you just are. And the thought just made her chuckle ever so slightly as she waited for the response." }, { "author": "tboy2210", "message": "Kazuko just continued to look at her, the question dangling over her head as she tried to gather some words to explain. There was no real explanation, she just felt like she was weird. Partially Kagayaki was right about that: People rarely treated her nicely. The exceptions were Ryusa, Take, the Akimichi here and... Well, Kagayaki. She was on that list now, though was she part of the friends list?\n\nThe Kaguya just gave a short growl. \"You just are.\" And with that, she continued to stare, mouth hidden behind her arms with just nose and eyes peeking out to stare at her eating contest rival. \"Why are you giggling?\" She asked a bit more pissed, though definitely not enough to scream. Right now, she was a bit more tame. \"Just look at you. You smile even after I threaten you. You offer me a place to stay even though I have one myself.\" Her head went up a bit. \"And you tried to outeat me here with a bigger plate!\" The most ridiculous thing indeed! Totally the main reason for why Kagayaki was weird. Kauzko lowered her head again and looked. She really looked like a cat now. Just add the cat ears now and there would be no difference." } ]	218	844
186.8	2021-09-26	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "wanderermog", "message": "\"Ehh? Stones are absolutely fine! They go yeowch and ouch when they knock ya on the head! They're imPawSibly tough as well!\" SHe knocked the stone, but dropped it soon enough as the Frontier Patrol men started rolling through hand seals, was he going to- \n\n\"Wha wha what! That's not-\" Azuku, not exactly prepared for the impromptu training session, would look left and right, not really sure of where to dodge, before crumpling towards the ground the moment the beast was about to hit her, the crackling electricity singing the top of her hood.\n\n\"You're crazy! That could've seriously hurt me! Fur Real!\" She blinked, there were two of them now... \"At least give me some warning!\"" }, { "author": "saimonthemonk", "message": "She appeared to have virtually no reflexes whatsoever, rather than dodge she had just huddled down and hugged her knees. It was pathetic to say the least, but perhaps with some nudging she would find her more cat like reflexes. Or, perhaps she would just end up injured and scolded. It was time to find out,\n\n\"I'm sorry, I wasn't aware that enemies gave a warning before they attacked. I know they have never given me such a polite reception. Perhaps it is just my outfit they dislike.\"\n\n\n\n\"Cats hate dogs don't they?\"" }, { "author": "wanderermog", "message": "She had... Some Reflexes, she dodged the damn animal afterall! But... It Was Rather pathetic that a graduated Genin of Nora had considered the crouch, tuck, and pray maneuver would be one worth employing in any capacity. Noticing the clone joining in, she gulped... Oh no, this was bad, this was gonna sting.\n\n\"T-they sometimes shout out their jutsu, o-or they attack from the front... And you're not an enemy! You're acting like a total dog right about now!\" \n\nShe didn't have much time to continue her rant, noticing the two wolves of lightning approaching from either side. Unlike last time, Azuku was at least expecting hostility... Hopping back, she'd manage to Barely Avoid the assault of the first, rolling on the ground, but she wouldn't stand up in time to dash totally away from the second, her leg being clipped by the beast as she was jolted by a surge of electric energy\n\n\"Guhguhguhguhguh!.... Y-you... I h-hate dogs... B-but not for cat reasons!\"" }, { "author": "saimonthemonk", "message": "She did quite a lot better that time, but still had managed to get herself burned on his lightning. Surely she could do something a bit better than that, no? He could push her to a height a tad greater than that.\n\n\"They only attack from the front when they're confident they'll win. Name shouting is unnecessary.\"\n\nThis time the clone would look towards the Genin, taking his hands off of the ground he would form a short variety of seals before a viscous mass of water erupted from his mouth. It would flow between and over the uneven ground, creating even more treacherous terrain. \n\n\"Try to dodge it all this time.\"\n\nOnce more his palms crackled with electricity, and once more he thrust his hands forward to unleash a pair of beasts that snarled and surged forward like a bolt of lightning. Surely a cat wouldn't allow themselves to be bitten, would they?" }, { "author": "wanderermog", "message": "Azuku jolted once more as the sensation of electricity passed through her... Shitty wolves made of lightning, shitty person with a shitty wolf mask! Why were all her tutors so Mean! First there was that crazy eyed girl with the blade on a stick and an eyepatch, now there was this imposing figure was currently assaulting her with dogs made of Lightning.\n\n\"Ehh? Doesn't shouting your technique name make it stronger? I thought it made it stronger!\"\n\nShe didn't have time to further muse on that line of thought, having to now avoid a sticky treacherous trap while simultaneously having to avoid these pack hunters. Keeping to the ground wouldn't work... In a panic, Azuku Leapt Over the first hound, panicking as she realized her trajectory was leading her towards a patch of water, Leaning and fiddling in the air, Azuku managed to push herself Just Off to the side, rolling as she managed to evade the second lunge by the skin of her teeth, leaving her panting and flat on her back. \n\n\"You're... A... P-psycho...\"" } ]	182	934
186.666667	2021-09-27	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "sunderearth", "message": "`This is now some sort of training area`\n\nV sits with a book open beside her detailing the very fundamentals of medical ninjutsu and first aid, flipping through with a frustrated look on her face. There are a few sticky notes pinned on pages with handwriting too small to make out from a distance, but from the layout it's obvious that they're likely definitions she has copied down. She's wearing combat ninja gear, nora's distinct sun engraved on her fingerless gloves, but none of it seems to be dirty. She hasn't done any physical activity yet today, other than her daily run.\n\n\"I feel like I should already know this shit...\" She murmurs, looking at the pages, \"Apply pressure... Chakra control... Blah blah. Ugh.\"" }, { "author": "shuba28737", "message": "The Tsuki walked towards his usual training area, the beaming sun reflecting the headband wrapped around his bicep. The rusty chain slapped against his chest as he walked. \n~~\nT'would be the first training session since becoming a genin! Kagami, Katsuo's brother, was busy with Shinobi duties and whatnot so he wasn't available to train. . .But who cares! \n\"I'm a genin now! I should be able to do these things myself!\"\nWith a loud. 'huff', he continued walking soon coming across Suzume as she was venting out her frustrations. Then, with relative nonchalance, Katsuo would approach her from behind. \n\"Oooh, medical stuff! You need any help? It was super hard for me to get it the first time around, so I understand the struggle haha!\"\nHe was loud. Not loud enough to burst her eardrums, but loud. He also didn't look like he knew anything about medicine, if you were to judge from his appearance alone." }, { "author": "sunderearth", "message": "V's uneventful studying is interrupted by footsteps from behind her, a relatively tall, weird haired boy yell-saying things in her ear. It seems like everyone she encounters is loud. Sayuri, Mikio... Well, they're her only friends, so they count as Everyone. V herself is a relatively quiet person, more likely to stay inside reading than she is do any sort of social activity, but she's used to enthusiastic people now.\n\nHe has a forehead protector, and he looks relatively rough - but shinobi are interesting, and he could be a jounin. She points at a passage in the book detailing how to properly create a stint for a broken bone and wrap it.\n\n\"Why does it need to be wrapped so many times?\" She asks, \"Wouldn't it be more effective to tie it with metal wire and then put bandages over it? For pressure and stuff.\"" } ]	183	560
148.714286	2021-09-29	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "sunderearth", "message": "Cutting off their blood flow? Amputation? Kami, it's a good thing she's learning about this, lest she fuck up awfully in battle and end up without an arm. \"Oh,\" She responds, writing in her notes, \"Right...\"\n\nShe looks up at him slightly, wondering why someone would choose to dye a section of their hair such a bright shade of orange. Or, if it's natural, what sort of hair his parents must have. She shakes his hand, firmly and with authority, despite being a child. She doesn't want to seem weak. \"Kats,\" She nods, \"Cool. I'm V.\"\n\nDespite growing up here, the friendly nature of shinobi never stops surprising her. How many has she met since her promotion? More than she can recall, and she's generally good at names. Ayu would be proud of her if she knew.\n\n\"You're a medic?\"" }, { "author": "shuba28737", "message": "\"A medic? Hm. . .Well, kinda I guess? I dabble in medicine, but I wouldn't say it's my speciality.\"\nHe'd lean over, propping himself with his elbow.\n\"If you couldn't tell, I'm a member of the Tsuki clan. We're not one of the accords so I understand if you haven't heard of us haha!\"\nHe'd let out a boisterous laugh before continuing.\n\"So my speciality would probably be. . .Ninjutsu?\"" }, { "author": "sunderearth", "message": "Tsuki... Doesn't ring a bell. But judging from his specialty being ninjutsu, more than likely they have a kekkai genkai, one of the lesser known ones maybe. \"Tsuki,\" She responds, \"Ninjutsu? A combination element?\"\n\nIt would've been more helpful if he was a medic, but this is interesting too. She can't help but be a little jealous of people in clans. Big families, unique ninjutsu, everyone is willing to teach. She kind of got that same treatment when she was in the orphanage, so she can't really complain.\n\n\"Did you...\" She asks, \"Come here to train, or something? Maybe I can help?\" Unlikely, seeing as she thinks he's a jounin, but you never know. Maybe she can hold a target for him or something. A favor for a favor." }, { "author": "shubazegeek", "message": "\"Explosion Release to be specific, haha! It's one of the strongest!!!\" \nHe smiled and tilted his head as she asked the question.\n\"O'yea sure, definitely! Fresh out the academy, so I could probably use some training. Oh, I know!\"\nHe stood up as he finished talking, offering a hand to help his peer up.\n\"You up for some strength training V?\"\nIf his grin got any larger He'd Probably need a medic." }, { "author": "sunderearth", "message": "Explosion release seems like one of the most destructive kekkei genkai, right up there with lava in her eyes. V's techniques tend to veer towards those that are relatively safe around partners, but Kats's element seems better for solo missions. Or, at least, a lot of space between him and any allies to prevent friendly fire.\n\nHe's a genin? That doesn't make a lot of sense, considering he looks a lot older than her and clans tend to put their children in the academy at 9. Maybe he was held back due to problems? Or his parents decided to enroll him later. Either way, he helped her, and strength is kinda her thing. \n\nV closes the book and grabs his hand to stand up, slightly under 5', \"Sure.\" She says, flashing through hand signs and bringing up an earth barrier beside her, \"I used less chakra than normal, so this should be like... D-rank? Maybe?\"\n\nShe touches it a little, trying to estimate the strength, though it's a loose estimate at best. \"Yeah, something like that.\" She continues, \"Try to break it.\"" }, { "author": "shubazegeek", "message": "\"O-OH. I-\"\nKatsuo promptly slapped himself for being deterred, quickly taking a deep breath.\n\"T-This is a little wild... But I'll give it my best shot! OSU!!!\"\nWith a crooked grin, despite knowing his physical abilities were. . .Incredibly subpar, he'd plant his feet into the ground and slam it into the wall. \nIt didn't break. Cracked maybe, but definitely didn't break." }, { "author": "sunderearth", "message": "\"You're right, you do suck.\" She replies, though her tone is full of humor rather than malice, \"Keep going. You'll get there eventually. A bunch of weak punches equals one strong one, right?\"\n\nShe looks at his hands, thinking. \"It helps if you do strength training.\" She says, gesturing, \"Pushups and stuff. And, I mean, rely on jutsu that don't use strength as a main aspect, but you probably know that. Unless you plan on training for hours a day.\"\n\nShe reaches forward, correcting his fist, \"There. Now you won't break your thumb or whatever.\"" } ]	131	1,041
120.8	2021-09-30	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "shuba28737", "message": "\"Ah, well. . .It's not like I haven't tried it before. . .\"\nHe'd pout. For some reason, it was a was common trait amongst the clan; being lackluster in the strength department I mean. Whether it was a genetic issue is undetermined. . .But it seemed likely.\n~\nThe young blue eyed boy would chuckle as his peer corrected his form.\n\"Thanks, V.\"\nHe'd take a breath. Repetition, eh? \"Ughh... This is sooooo gonna hurt in the morning!\" He muttered, before pulling back his fist. \n\"Let's go wall! ROUND TWO!\"\nHe threw his punch, slamming it into the earth wall, this time causing it to chip. He wasted no time delivering his third and fourth blow, causing a visible dent. It was going to break soon." }, { "author": "sunderearth", "message": "She watches him continue to punch, noting that his form is good, even if his punches seem weak. It really is up to physical strength, then, not a lack of Taijutsu knowledge. She doesn't even consider the possibility that other people are born with genes that make it more difficult to gain muscle mass. To her, everything is about hard work, and the fact that Kats doesn't seem very strong just means he hasn't practiced strength training enough.\n\nShe continues to watch him and gives him a nod, \"Keep going.\" She says, \"You'll get there.\"" }, { "author": "shuba28737", "message": "Easier said than done y'know. . .Katsuo brought his arm back, his knuckles reddened. \"Haha, that just means I'm getting closer to victory!\" He'd exclaim as he looked at his red knuckles. \"Here comes the final round, you stupid wall!\" Activating his armor technique for safe measure, he'd once again reel back his arm before slamming his fist into the wall, and whaddya know? \"I-I did it! Haha, hell yeah!\" The words escaped his mouth after a brief moment of silence. He offered a fist bump but quickly retracted it, fraid his knuckles didn't need anymore stimulation for the day. He instead brought up his forearm.\n\"Thanks chief!\"\nChief? Hey, that might stick." }, { "author": "sunderearth", "message": "V brings up her forearm as a weird version of a high five, clinks it, and puts it back down, \"Hell yeah Kats!\" She doesn't mind the nickname chief at all. If anything, it's welcome, it feels powerful.\n\n\"Now you gotta help me with some more questions in this medical book,\" She says, \"An eye for an eye, right?\"" }, { "author": "shuba28737", "message": "\"Sure thing friend!\"\nHis grin arrived once more as he gave V a pat on the back, which in turn caused him to swing his arm back, and blow on his knuckles. Shit still hurt.\n\"Hahaha... You ready?\"\nHe sat down, ready to bestow his lackluster medical knowledge onto his newfound friend." } ]	119	604
242.428571	2021-10-03	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "wanderermog", "message": "\"Mmm... Taijutsu, Bukijutsu... I need to push myself, further and further... I've already fallen a bit behind.\" She had a somewhat distant gaze, as she began to swing her weapons in a light metronome type of pattern. \"You don't know me enough... So I'm fine with messing up if I'm training with you...\"\n\nShe began to swipe, her cuts whistling through the air as she focused... Legs coiling before she sprung towards the dummy, her claws getting stuck about half an inch in, before she sighed, an almost disappointed sound escaping her lips. \"Nope... That's still not good enough... I need to cut Through It...\"\n\n\"You just throw em? Or do you fight up close... Someone told me I'd need to feel pressured if I wanted to grow...\"" }, { "author": "malvarik", "message": "Aomi understood the feeling of falling behind. It felt like many of the genin in their year were already doing missions and achieving great things, whereas she was stuck training day in and day out. Azuku's comment about being fine with messing up in front of her brought a small smirk to her face. \"Yea, pretty much feel the same way.\" \n\nShe watched as he training partner lunged forward and stabbed into the dummy, only to get her claws stuck. \"You're probably not putting enough force into it. It also helps to swipe at certain angles. See?\" Chakram in hand, the Hoshigaki would slice straight across a training dummy's neck and lop its head clean off. The wooden block came tumbling to the ground, rolling across the training ground floor before coming to rest at Aomi's feet. \n\n\"Probably answers your question on if I fight up close with them, huh?\" She said with a toothy grin." }, { "author": "wanderermog", "message": "\"Tch...\" She wanted to say it was a lucky shot, but she knew it wasn't... Even now, she could see it, that was hard work, skill... She felt a knot well up in her stomach, before shaking her head free of the thoughts. No point in being so curmudgeon, she'd made her mistakes, now was the time to fix everything for the future dammit! \n\n\"I-I knew that! I just... Aaagh!\" She swipes again... More savage than graceful, the dummy to the left splintering as the head came off... Far from a clean swipe, more like a savage slap. \"How can I not get this right! It's imPawSible to be this bad but-\" Even the long range fighter did just as well up close... Baaah, stop the damn pity party, Azuku had no time to beat herself up! She Needed To get stronger, faster, and quickly!\n\n\"At an angle...\" She got into a... Stance. At first, it could've been mistaken for something similar to the Inuzuka's own Four-Legged stance, but it was too sharp, her body tense... Before she Pushed Away from the ground, arms outstretched before slashing down again in an X motion. The blades caught in the middle, stopping each other, as she let out a grunt. \"Huh... Better... Oi, you... Dumb question but... Do you ever feel weak? Like... Totally weak, and falling behind?\"" }, { "author": "malvarik", "message": "\"You were closer that time.\" She remarked as the wooden target's head came tumbling down the trodden earth underfoot. She was impressed with how much force Azuku could exert, having expected the other genin to be more reliant on dexterity. She supposed that she shouldn't judge a book by its cover. \n\nShe watched as Azuku swiped at an angle, only for her claws to get caught in the middle. She might be upset with the result, but striking so precisely with both weapons was impressive enough. Her question, however, would bring a small frown to Aomi's face. She scratched her head in frustration as she thought about how to respond before finally saying, \"Yea, guess I do. Too much for my own liking, I think. That's why I'm here so often.\" \n\nAs they spoke, she'd throw a few more practice swings at a nearby target dummy, her Chakram quickly lopping off sections of wood before being recalled to her side via wires." }, { "author": "wanderermog", "message": "\"Closer isn't good enough.\" She grumbled, wrenching the claws free. Grace was only a part of it, she had to be fast And Strong, she couldn't allow herself to be... To be held back by laziness, by settling, that's what led to her current issue, an issue she couldn't very well solve unless she pushed herself more and more.\n\n\"Hmm... At least I'm not the only one... Everyone's pushing past me... They all got promoted, fancy with their new duds... And I'm here, too scared to do more than a damn D-Rank!\" As she kicked off the ground, the disturbed earth would leave a cloud of dirt, Azuku this time only bringing one claw down, as it almost perfectly cut through. Splintering could still be heard, showing that it was both in due part to the sharpness of the claws And The force of her downward strike, cleaving through the dummy.\n\n\"So... What pushes you? I... Mmm, I dunno. I feel like... I had a reason for doing this... But it's got me all confused now, like a cat's cradle, all tied up...\"" }, { "author": "malvarik", "message": "She could sympathize witth her frustration. She too wanted to grow, to get stronger and reach greater heights like the Hoshigaki before her. Her father, perhaps unknowingly, compared her too often to her late cousin for her taste and instilled a desire in her to stand out. \n\n\"I get what you mean. People that I was training with just a few weeks ago are now full-fledged chunin. While I'm...\" She gestured towards the training grounds, seeing no need to continue her sentence. She threw a few more Chakram at a poor target dummy, cutting clean through it's forearms before retracting the blades. \n\n\"You... Promise not to laugh?\" She asked with a bit of uncertainty. This wasn't something she told everyone, it was a dream she only shared with a few close friends and her parents. \n\nOnce she confirmed that Azuku wouldn't laugh, she'd continue. \"There's more to the world than this village. I want to see it, the world beyond the walls. The clan elders share stories of something called an Ocean, a body of water that stretches as far as the eye can see and tastes like salt. I want to go there and see it with my own eyes.\"\n\n[you're good to end]" }, { "author": "wanderermog", "message": "At the sheepish question, Azuku raised her eyebrows, before gesturing not only to her cat hoodie, and her cat claws... And the sash around her waist that dangled near the back like a cat tail... \"You're asking Me Not to laugh... Puuuuuhleeeeease... I'm self aware enough to realize that I'm in no place to make judgements.\"\n\nShe hummed, listening... Before tilting her head... An entire... Body of water, far as the eye can see... The only thing that didn't make sense... \"Ehhhh? It's Salty? But you couldn't even Drink It! But...\" She didn't laugh, and instead, offered a small smile, shaking her head. \"How's that stupid? No one really knows what's beyond the walls, not completely, right?\"\n\n\"It's not a stupid goal... It's cute, it's a clan thing, even if I don't absolutely get it... I want to be a cat, what does that tell you about my goals?\" She snickered, before laughing fully. \"Nyahaha... Ahh, saying it aloud it really is dumb huh?\" She stretches, humming. \"But still... That sounds like it'd be great for a swim... Eh... I Do Like swimming, I'm not just a caricature...\"\n\n``` Co-Op Donezo ```" } ]	246	1,697
225.333333	2021-10-05	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "justden_", "message": "Kagayaki would continue to \"Fly\" Around the area for a moment and spotting nothing bad happening, she decided training was in fact something she should go do. With a final swing she'd launch herself only a few meters high, coming to an smooth landing in an opening in the crowd, one people had made to avoid Kazuko.\n\nThe girl grinned excitedly, and stretched, noticing Kazuko right a few beside her. Her grin remained and she waved at the hunter who currently had her arms packed with food. \"Kazuko!\" She'd declare, approaching her.\n\nShe wasn't surprised about all the food, quite the opposite, she'd be surprised if there wasn't food in the Kaguya's hands. \"You busy? Eating doesn't count.\" The knew her friend could down the food in her hands in mere instants, so it didn't count as an occupation." }, { "author": "tboy2210", "message": "Kazuko's ears suddenly heard something. Even if the landing was smooth, she could notice that a landing like this was not the same as the way civilians walked on these streets. So, her head immediately turned towards said noise, and at the same time she was already greeted by her name. Oh, Kagayaki? What was she doing here?\n\nWait, let's ask her directly. \"The fuck you doing over here?\" The Kaguya said with a totally full mouth, though her facial expression did not light up or anything. At least it also didn't darken and made her look grumpier. \"I'm busy. And eating does count, you little shit!\" She said in a louder tone, though she already stepped closer to her good friend there to keep walking like this. \"I was going to train after I grabbed a snack. Why're you asking?\" A snack... Yeah, sure. \"Learn a new jutsu I'm developing. Genjutsu.\" Oh, right, she needed a partner for that! \"You'll be my partner for that. It'll only hurt for a bit.\" Kazuko declared, seemingly not giving the other any chance to decline this. At the same time, the two already came pretty close to the training site she was targeting." }, { "author": "justden_", "message": "\"Not with how fast you eat.\" Kagayaki would respond with a chuckle, Kagayaki wasn't sure if Kazuko actually stopped to taste the food or just swallowed it too fast for her taste buds to keep up. Several people kind of stared at the two, but seeing their tabard and veil, decided to stay away.\n\nShe laughed as she walked beside her friend, \"Sure, I can do that.\" Kagayaki would agree to Kazuko's statement that she would be her partner. She'd trained genjutsu several times with Kai, so she was no stranger to the skill, even if she really had no clue how to use it, \"I was actually gonna ask if you wanted to train, but guess you'll be my target for giant shuriken then.\" She'd declare similarly to how she had.\n\nThe two would soon reach the training grounds, and Kagayaki would stop in a clearing, placing her hands on her hip and smiling. \"So what now?\" Kazuko was one of her most frequent training partners and the two had grown rather close - something she was happy about." } ]	227	676
265	2021-10-09	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "tboy2210", "message": "As she listened to what the technique was supposed to do, Kazuko raised an eyebrow for a second before just looking rather unimpressed. \"So it's the Rock Gun technique but with a different shape?\" Were her only words. Words coming definitely from her mouth: Direct, with no filter. If they hurt the other person or not didn't matter to her it seems.\n\n\"If you wanna. Stay inside of it long enough to at least tell me what you saw.\" She explained before the Genjutsu was cast. And when it happened, the Kaguya watched with curious eyes as the other started to groan and fall on her knee. Huh, so it was working after all. She even squatted down and stood in front of her friend, staring into her eyes while waiting for the Genjutsu to be broken.\n\nWhen that happened, she stood there in that pose, put her elbow on her knee and rested her head on her hand. \"So? How much did it hurt? You couldn't move, right? What did you see, hear and feel?\" All this stuff was important to her so she could make sure that the illusion itself was perfect, else it'd be too easy to notice and break out of." }, { "author": "justden_", "message": "\"Well, it's like a more terrifying rock gun where I can combine my shurikenjutsu abilities with it.\" Kagayaki explained, Kazuko's question was somewhat valid, as the technique was a combination of Rock Gun and Earth Arsenal, it was however much more powerful than rock gun, as she could easily make shuriken curve in ways rock gun never could.\n\nKagayaki would stay in the genjutsu for a bit, her endurance to pain nothing to scoff at. When she did broke out she kinda sat down. It was a nasty experience. \"Well I didn't really see anything, just heard and felt all my bones crack and break. It was pretty painful.\" She explained, rolling her shoulder slightly." }, { "author": "tboy2210", "message": "Kazuko nodded in the end, seemingly just a tiny bit more impressed than before. Eh, she was just busy with eating and training, so she probably didn't care about anything else during that moment, meaning no offence to her friend.\n\nRegardless of how enduring a person was, getting almost all of their bones broken was not going to be a sensation one could easily shrug off. And usually, it wouldn't matter to a Genjutsu user that much, as long as the target is paralyzed when the jutsu is supposed to do that. But Kazuko was totally living to see her target suffer in their little illusion. \"Hmm... Good. As long as you couldn't move and it hurt you like hell...\" One glance to her friends limbs, then back to her eyes. The Kaguya gave off a long, rather quiet growl. Well, it wasn't a growl really. She just was thinking loudly. \"Seems like it didn't hurt you enough though. Might have to change things.\"\n\nKazuko in the end just shrugged and stood up, taking a few steps back with her arms extended, as if she was demanding to be attacked. \"Come on then. I should be done with my jutsu, unless you wanna get fucked a second time.\" A small smirk and after gaining a few meters distance, she stopped and let her arms drop. And for the purpose of giving the other a chance to use her Shurikenjutsu abilities, she summoned two Rock Clones next to her, who then also walked away to spread around. The original Kazuko activated her armour technique. \"Try me.\"" }, { "author": "justden_", "message": "\"It- it hurt quite a bit really.\" Kagayaki said, struggling a bit to stand up, the sensation still lingering slightly, though it was purely psychological. She would shake her whole body, trying to get rid of it. Genjutsu never failed to impress her, the things one could do with it. Kazuko had made a rather interesting one, given her heritage.\n\n\"No, no, no. I'm good.\" Kagayaki would say with a chuckle and a wave of her hands. At her friends offer she'd grin, \"You're on.\" She'd move her hands quickly, almost a blur. It took her a moment to conclude all of them however, the molding of her chakra still somewhat slow, despite her increased control.\n\nOnce she was done, she slammed one of her hands down into the ground. Four kunai hilts shaped up from the earth bellow the two, peeking over the grass. Kazuko might be familiar with the foundation of the technique- Earth Arsenal. \"Ryusa taught me half of this.\" She'd say, knowing their common mentor was a soft topic for the Kaguya but mentioning him anyway.\n\nShe grab the four kunais from the ground and she could feel her chakra inside them, wanting to expand. It seemed to be kind of working for now. She threw one of them towards one of the Rock Clones, the projectile curving before suddenly growing. It only grew a few times its size, becoming roughly the same size as a sword before colliding with the clone." } ]	286	1,060
265.2	2021-10-10	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "tboy2210", "message": "So it did hurt! Now that makes things better. It wouldn't have been as fun knowing that her target didn't suffer from all this pain, given that she put so much effort into making it all as painful as possible. Would've been a real pity if Kagayaki didn't even flinch from it, right?\n\nThe sudden decline of her offer to hit her with that Genjutsu a second time made the Kaguya grin. \"A shame... But eh.\" She said in the end and prepared to be hit by a strong jutsu now. This was going to be interesting, as she assumed that this jutsu surely must be stronger than the original one. The Rock Gun.\n\nHer eyes watched the kunai pop out of the ground. That's when she assumed a more balanced stance, moving her feet slightly further away from the middle to not fall over that easily from the soon incoming force. Though... Upon hearing his name, Kazuko's face showed perfectly how pissed the girl was now. Whether it was at Kagayaki or Ryusa was unclear, but the mood changed. \"Ryusa, hm?\" She mumbled. Loud enough for the other to hear. And loud enough for her to also hear how much anger and hatred she gave off by just saying his name.\n\nMeanwhile, the clone just stared at the attack, as if the kunai was just a little pebble thrown by a child. Though the moment it got hit, the clone was launched backwards and crumbled into mud and rocks upon impact on the ground." }, { "author": "justden_", "message": "Kazuko's reaction to Ryusa's name made the blonde hold back a smirk, \"Still angry uh.\" She'd mutter instinctively, never one to be able to keep her mouth shut when she really needed. Her friend had valid reasons for her feelings of course, so Kagayaki understood.\n\n\"It needs to get even bigger.\" She'd say, throwing another one at the second Rock Clone. She was using the more fragile Kazuko's to get the technique to a point where it would actually be useful and only then test it on the real one, who she knew was about as tough as they get.\n\nThe kunai grew considerably, bigger than last time and about eight times as big, almost its max size and reaching almost a total length of two meters before colliding with the clone once again. \n\n\"I'm saving the big ones for you! Think you can take them?\" Kagayaki would shout at her friend with a large, playful grin." }, { "author": "tboy2210", "message": "\"That fucker didn't show himself even once, so obviously I am angry, yeah!\" Kazuko yelled at Kagayaki for that one. This was one of the first outbursts in a relatively long time. Of course she was getting angry from time to time, this was normal behaviour for her. Kagayaki was definitely used to it and didn't seem to be bothered by it all, since in the end, the two still got a long. But this one was different. Well...\n\nWhen the second clone popped, she did see how much larger the weapon was. Now this was a tiny bit worrying. Or would have been for other people. This girl here was not scared in the slightest, nah. Instead, she was just a bundle of anger and grumpiness, standing her ground as Kagayaki declared that the next ones were the big ones she reserved for the original Kazuko. \"How charming.\" A snort. \"Of course I can take that shit!\" Though she didn't grin back, being still somewhere else with her thoughts. With somebody else, to be precise. Whether that was good or not... Anyway, her armour technique was up and ready. She was just waiting for the large weapon to come and get her, eager to see whether she would leave this training session with any injuries or not." }, { "author": "justden_", "message": "Kagayaki herself did miss their mentor a bit, he'd taught her a lot and she'd like to see what he thought about her joining the miliary police, as well as simply talk to him again. Her feelings were obviously more platonic than Kazuko's, and the blonde still had a bit of a hard time understanding Exactly How her friend felt about the Saganohoshi. She'd found out it was best not to ask though, as she'd suffered slightly the last Few Times.\n\n\"We'll see!\" She responded, before throwing the two kunais at the same time. The two expanded into their maximum size, ten times bigger than their normal one, as they rapidly flew towards Kazuko.\n\nDespite Kagayaki's unimpressive upper body strength, the sudden increase in size would help her increase the shuriken's damage by a fair bit, though hopefully not tearing apart her dear friend. She knew the girl was incredibly resistant, much more than what her armors could ever be." }, { "author": "tboy2210", "message": "Kazuko did indeed see Ryusa as more than just a mentor. He's basically her first friend, or one of the two first friends. Having had no friends before that, she grew much more attached to him than others probably would. Thus, having lost contact to him for such a long time all of a sudden, without any kind of warning or whatever, this whole situation was hard to handle for Kazuko. Given that she already lost her father forever, losing another close person was not going to happen. Not yet at least, and not this way.\n\nThe shuriken came closer and Kazuko, being the way she was, didn't just forget about it all and ignored her emotions for now. Nah, she instead took these feelings boiling up inside of her to then 'power up' her armour technique (if it was just that easy). The fact that this was an Earth Release technique made it easier for the Kaguya to tank it, but it did take a good chunk of her Chakra reserves to come out this thing unharmed.\n\nIn the end, she kicked the kunai away with a strong kick of her leg as it fell on the ground, having failed to penetrate her arms and chest. It didn't mean that the jutsu was weak, though Kazuko was just too moody right now. \"We done now?\" She asked, keeping her eyes on Kagayaki. She'd leave if the answer was yes, unless her friend wanted to hang out or whatever. To which she'd answer with a direct 'Yes' if food was included. If not, she might be hesitant." } ]	274	1,326
182.666667	2021-10-14	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "muitorealmothman", "message": "Nagiha spotted a potential training partner, he also looked like he was searching for someone. It was a telltale look, the listless gazing, searching for who you could pair up with, like being late to a party. Glad she wasn't the only one looking like that right now, Nagiha would walk over to the silver-haired boy, noting the quiver on his back and the arrows hanging from it. She didn't see that many ninja using the bow, which was weird, considering it seemed a pretty handy weapon.\n\n\"Yo! Doing the partner search as well?\" Nagiha would call out with a casual raise of her hand as she approached, smiling with a friendly look. \"I'm looking to train my reflexes, so, if you're down to shoot some arrows at me, we can make something work. Or do something safer.\"" }, { "author": "shuu.7", "message": "Kazuya finished his stretching as he glanced at the girl that spoke to him, he examined her appearance, based on her clothing, it was clear that she was another shinobi, and based on her appearance, someone of a similar age as him, which meant another genin. \"That's correct, I was having trouble finding one\" Kazuya said with a friendly smile. \n\nHe then quickly thought on what he should train, based on what she had said she wanted to train. Considering she wanted to train her reflexes, shooting arrows at her seems suitable, but he did train it not too long ago. After thinking for a while, he came up with a good idea on what to train, \"Alright then, I would train my speed by trying to move at high speed while shooting at you, and you try to dodge the arrows as best as possible.\" Kazuya's skill in Kyujutsu was decent enough to shoot quite accurately while moving, but what he wanted to train was his speed, his speed was very lacking, and he needed to improve on it." }, { "author": "muitorealmothman", "message": "The boy was surprisingly amenable to the idea of shooting arrows at her, Nagiha noted. Perhaps she should've realized that it wasn't such a strange request to make of shinobi, given they were... Generally a rather weird bunch, honestly. The boy had his own reasons for training though, wanting to practice moving with that bow of his. \"Sounds like a plan to me.\" Nagiha said with a small shrug, before stepping a few paces away from him.\n\n\"Just try not to hit me where it'll kill me. I'll be pissed off if you do.\" She teased with a grin, before taking a readied stance and waiting for the boy to begin their impromptu training session." } ]	178	548
193	2021-10-20	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "wanderermog", "message": "Taking a deep breath, Azuku sucked in the life saving air, her mouth having that unfortunate taste of pure ash and the like that was privy and common of fire release, before turning her attention to the one who'd called over to her... Ehhh, a shark person... Like Aomi, what was the clan called again? Hoshiwuzu? Hoshigoku? She wisely decided to leave that train of thought to herself, but noted the tabard... She hadn't been trained by an MP officer yet... Ehh, if anything she'd only be slightly scarred, she was growing an immunity to a-holes.\n\n\"Mmm? Oh, didn't see you there.\"\n\nShe had, she totally had, she'd been watching him for about a minute now. Stretching, Azuku would tilt her head, a small pop as she worked out the kinks in her body.\n\n\"You're a Chunin right? Great, I need some help... Tell me how to make my chakra last longer.\"" }, { "author": "Deleted User", "message": "Masanori looked at the genin as they popped their neck and other joints. He was never really one to pop anything ~~except children upside the head~~. The Hoshigaki nodded as they asked about his position. He had been a Chunin for quite a bit now. Their request for information was something that the Hoshigaki was currently working on. To increase one's chakra reserves.\n\n\"You just need to work yourself to the bone with jutsus.\"\n\nHe'd say, then began to weave through hand seals. The area around them began to become moist as water filled the air. Hiding in Drizzle Technique. One that allowed the user to skulk around invisibly, given that they had their chakra suppressed.\n\n\"It's all about working a muscle. Gets stronger every time you stress it. Like breaking a bone, without the breaking. When a bone heals, it gets stronger than it was before.\"\n\nHe'd say, walking around the genin, still in the drizzle." }, { "author": "wanderermog", "message": "Was it really no different than intense physical training? She just... Had to tire herself out? She was Already Doing that wasn't she? With a huff, Azuku placed her hands together, ready to form more seals... Before immediately getting pelted by a sudden rainstorm that was produced by the Chunin in question, causing Azuku to lower her arms and Stare Ahead... She didn't have another set of clothing...\n\n\"Are you serious? Did you just... Did you Just... No no...\" Azuku would form handsigns once more, releasing a gout of flame overhead, evaporating the droplets of water and preventing her clothing from getting too wet... She'd still need to borrow a place to stay for the night... Or better yet, probably focus on the process of acquiring a real house.\n\n\"So, it's all about overworking... At least I know it's straightforward... Is there... A good method? Does any jutsu work? Or...\"" }, { "author": "Deleted User", "message": "Masanori nodded. He looked up as the droplets evaporated. Clothes dried out, especially when exposed to heat. So by using the Fire techniques, she'd probably dry out. He'd reappear next to her, also looking ahead. Masanori look over at Azuku as they asked further questions.\n\n\"Usually powerful jutsus, as they drain the most chakra.\"\n\nHe'd say, looking forward once more. There was no real trick to Chakra Pool training. As hard as he tried, he couldn't find one or come up with one. Although maybe if he used the Chakra draining mechanics of his clan there could be a way to optimize it. Although he would have to find out another time." } ]	207	772
354.666667	2021-10-31	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "wanderermog", "message": "Azuku felt winded, having spent the majority of this conversation... Well, when she __wasn't__ talking, she was quite literally blowing fire into the air and countering the rain storm, it was exhausting, and she wasn't sure how well it was working... Working a muscle huh? No wonder she hated it, muscle training __sucked__.\n\n\"Uh-huh... Is that really it? I mean... Was it... Nevermind.\" She closes her eyes. Founders, Founders... So scary, so ominous, and ever approaching. A tournament, some... Other test... What would it be? She was afraid of what she'd find... But oddly, also determined to make the most of it." }, { "author": "Deleted User", "message": "Masanori put his hands into his pockets as he watched the fire shoot out until it finally dissipated. Repeated use of an action was pretty boring, but it usually got the job done. People did a lot of things to prepare for Founders. With a new year of Founder's on the horizon, it only meant more drama revolving around the young genin, and more trouble abound in this stupid war." }, { "author": "khepri", "message": "```Learning New Jutsu```\n\n\nIt was time. Anju had gone through the touble of being tutored, and was convinced that her level of control of her singular basic genjutsu had already reached it's peak. She had mastered it. It was finally time to move on.\n\nIt was a painstaking way to learn, but there was a certain satisfaction to \"Finishing\" A task completely and utterly before moving on. In this way at least, her abilities failing her wouldn't ever be her own fault.\n\nIn the mean time, it was time to go to one of her favorite places - the library. It wasn't as if the library was a particularly fun experience, but she loved going because of what it meant to her. Everytime she went was like treating herself to a nice meal, except instead of expensive meat she gorged herself on new jutsu.\n\nAnju was still very aware that her genjutsu abilities still weren't anything special, so she was still limited to just C rank jutsu. To her surprise there really wasn't that much to choose from - did the village simply not like genjutsu that much? Compared to the ninjutsu section, there really weren't that many choices.\n\nSince there was only a limited selection, she ended up making her decision surprisingly quickly - the Bell Ring Genjutsu. It was a simple illusion that made the target uncomfortable while also making them hallucinate more of her. It wasn't particularly flashy. The main reason she was interested however, was that it could be triggered by sound.\n\nShe could imagine it now - she could wear bells on herself, making it easy for the sound to go off as soon as she had used the jutsu. It was perfect for being able to reliably land something, as most people didn't have a way to prevent hearing something.\n\nThe downside when it came to genjutsu however, was finding a willing test subject. If she was being honest, she had completely forgotten that she would actually need to practice it on someone. Would an animal work? It was really her only option unless she wanted to break some laws. With a sigh she set out across the city to buy some bells, and in search of rats to experiment on.\n\nIt wasn't long until she found what she was looking for. It turned out that the very first restaurant she stumbled upon had rats going through the garbage. It was disgusting to train in a back alley with rats, but at least it saved her some time. She didn't particularly want to carry the pests away to some other place to train.\n\nShe started going through the hand signs, grinning as she attempted to use the jutsu. Her grin soon faded away as nothing seemed to happen to the rats. Did she... Forget one of the hand signs? With an exasperated groan she was once again off to the library, this time burning the signs into her mind as she read through the scroll over and over.\n\nAn hour later she found herself back in the alley. Thankfully the rats were still there, so she blurred through the hand signs confidently and using the jutsu before shaking the bell and waiting. She continued waiting and waiting, but it appeared that the rats didn't even notice her. They were far more concerned with picking through the trash still.\n\n\"Well... They ARE rats. Maybe I need to adjust the jutsu somehow...?\" Anju mused to herself.\n\nShe spent the next few hours adjusting the amount of chakra she used, and her visualization of the jutsu. In turned out that for the tiny rat brains, she didn't need to use nearly as much chakra. If she used too much it would practically wash itself out of the poor creature's brains.\n\nShe had no idea how strong the genjutsu was, but she was confident that it was at least causing some sort of discomfort if the squeeling rats suddenly running around were anything to go by. With a smirk she left the alleyway, happy to finally be able to leave.\n\n``` End ```" } ]	150	1,064
247.25	2021-11-01	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "wanderermog", "message": "```This now be the training ground```\n\n\"C'mon, c'mon...\" To say Azuku was struggling was... Quite honestly an understatement. Her cheeks were puffed out as her brow furrowed in concentration, her face semi concealed by the hoodie she loved to wear. Her fingers were crossed into a seal as Chakra was pouring out of her... C'mon, visualize, Visualize Dammit! It seemed to come to a head, smoke puffing around her as she felt her chakra suddenly shift!... And to her right, as the smoke cleared, a haggard, almost deathlike visage of Azuku was struggling to push herself off the ground.\n\nBlink... Blink blink. \"AAAAAAAGH! SUNNUVA- GAAAAAH!\" She let out a shout, dispelling the failed attempt at a clone and huffing, throwing herself to the ground in a rare display of losing her temper. \"Stupid jutsu, stupid chakra control, stupid stupid Stupid Concentration! Think it'd be a walk in the park huh? NO! It Never Is, I'm never gonna catch up!\"\n\nSighing, she laid flat on her back looking up at the sky... She was alone as far as she could tell, at least no one would be around to see her temper tantrum." }, { "author": "justden_", "message": "Kagayaki was swinging at high speed nearby, having chosen to cut through the training grounds on her way to work when she heard the very clear complaints. She'd frown and change directions with a flick of her hand, taking a sharp turn into the clearing and landing on a tree trunk.\n\n\"Not with that mentality you're not.\" Kagayaki would comment with a quirked eyebrow. She understood the pain of working with prodigies, her two closest friends, Kota and Kai, came from some of the village's most prestigious clans so she felt like she always had to do her best to keep up with them. She believed in natural talent but she knew with hard work a girl from the slums such as herself could reach just as farther and she wasn't going to let anything stop her. \n\nThe girl was draped in her military police tabard, her orange-blonde hair tied in a pony tail that formed from two braids that came from the side of her head. Her blue eyes were covered by her yellow transparent visor, with one of her eyebrows curled upwards. Her mouth was curled into a small grin." }, { "author": "wanderermog", "message": "Kagayaki could see the blood drain from Azuku's face. She hadn't really thought anyone was nearby, so... How embarrassing. She closed her eyes, slowly sitting up into a crosslegged position. Turning, she huffed out a sigh, a small, angry tone in her voice.\n\n\"Oh? Like you'd know? Almost a year, almost a Year, and I have a corpsely clone to show for it... This...\" She looked up. So many people seemed to do better, they... Just Were Better. Kota, Hachirou... Her entire class had progressed, outliers and exceptions and greatly talented people... And she was just sitting her mulling about. \"I'm PawSitive the world just wants me to fail, mess up...\"\n\nShe looked down, noticing the tabard... \"E-Eh? You're... A Chunin?\" This girl couldn't be any older than her! And she was already promoted... Azuku slumped, looking up. \"Tch... Don't let my tantrum interrupt you, I'm sure you got a lotta busy stuff going on, huh?\"" }, { "author": "justden_", "message": "Kagayaki quirked an eyebrow, three clones puffing into existence on other nearby branches. She didn't like to show off, but at the same time she did, especially to prove a point. \"Things take time, you think I learned how to this in a day?\" She'd ask and motion to her clones, \"Took me ages just to be able to make more than one, but I didn't give up at first sign of trouble and you shouldn't either.\"\n\n\"The world has better things to worry about than a single genin.\" She'd respond and jump onto the ground. The clones would follow and the original would approach Azuku, \"I'm Ressha Kagayaki.\" She'd say, extending out her hand towards the girl.\n\nShe was used to dealing with angry, pouty people, she was extremely close with Kazuko. Some times ignoring their comments was for the best and the girl did just so regarding the last one she'd made, \"I can teach you if you'd like.\" She say with a grin, hoping her small ramble earlier hadn't made her seem too uptight, she just disliked when people gave up so soon." } ]	238.5	989
280.5	2021-11-06	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "wanderermog", "message": "\"Okay, okay... Just the system...\" As she spoke, she pressed her hands together in a seal, just like she'd done before, carefully, slowly pushing chakra through it. It was, for Azuku, a delicate thing, worried that one wrong move would cause the entire process to simply fall apart and fail her. She spoke softly as she concentrated, worried of splitting her focus.\n\n\"Six months... I spent most of it... Just trying to prepare my body, every other time... I just about fainted... From the effort of splitting... And now... They come out, ghostly, dying...\" She felt her brow twitch, but instead simply sighed, not wanting to disrupt her concentration at hand, slowly forming the entire system in her mind.\n\n\"Everyone seems... To be doing so much better... Hachi'... Always a crybaby, and he's so damn strong now... And Kota...\" She felt her brow twitch again... \"I don't even think he notices I get pissed... When he shows off...\" She was sure he wasn't even aware of her feelings of inferiority that stemmed from him after all... Though as she spoke, she released the jutsu... And before her, slowly forming, was a... Rather gummy looking Azuku, barely focused, definitely not a perfect clone but... On the same hand... It was standing, it was existing... Azuku stared, almost disbelieving... \"Fucking... No way... Seriously?...\"" }, { "author": "justden_", "message": "Kagayaki would flick Azuku's forehead the clone appeared, not with all her strength of course otherwise the girl's head might fly off. A slight frown was plastered on her face, \"Everyone else is working hard to get where they are.\" She knew Kota of course, one of her closest friends and the hardships the boy had faced to get as strong as he was.\n\n\"Instead of moaning and complaining about how the world is unfair while they advance, you should use them as examples, goals, and work just as hard to catch up to them.\" She'd ramble on a bit, and then sigh as she rubbed her head, looking at the clone closer.\n\n\"Try it again, this time vizualise your muscles and skin as well, go for it by layers. Like an onion.\" The blonde chunin would giggle to herself, as always Kagayaki got happy with simple little things, \"Imagine the system, and then imagine skin and muscles over that.\"" }, { "author": "wanderermog", "message": "Azuku was, surprisingly, a little sturdier than she appeared despite her small stature, though she still huffed slightly as Kagayaki flicked her forehead, giving a pointed stare before the heat burned away to a small broiling ember. \"I... Dammit I Know. I get that, but... Wouldn't it be nice if I wasn't using Them As the benchmark all the time?! Why can't I have anyone look at Me And use me as the comparison... Tch...\"\n\nIt was petty, she knew it, which is what further added fuel to the fire. She cut her connection to the clone, causing it to weakly puff out of existence. Muscles... Skin... \"I... Dunno a lot about the body... Not a medical minded...\" She continued anyhow, focusing on the sinew and whatnot, the image of a body forming slowly in her mind, as the puff of smoke would once more present itself.\n\nThis clone was... More human like than the last, definitely not as doughy, and while still obviously not a perfect, 1:1 recreation, it was closer than anything Azuku had made... And it was Stable, well, stable enough to pace a few steps. \"It's just... Why can't I be satisfied? Every time I make something work... I just think of everything that hasn't... Like this, months... And then... You help me... I Should Be happy dammit...\"" }, { "author": "justden_", "message": "\"You gotta earn that spot.\" Kagayaki would say with a chuckle, \"And people might use you as comparison and you might never know, or they might never and you'll also never know. You can't read other people's minds or force them to think a certain way, so you just gotta do your best and try to leave a mark.\" Kagayaki felt like she was lecturing Azuku a lot that day but the girl kept setting herself up and Kagayaki always spoke her mind.\n\n\"That's fine, I didn't either when I learned how to make clones, just envision that there are other layers over the system, even if they're not well defined.\" At the time Kagayaki had no idea what muscles and nerves were on her body either.\n\n\"That's pretty decent.\" She'd compliment, and look at the newly generated clone. She'd turn to Azuko as she shared her thoughts and Kagayaki shrugged with a smile, \"I don't either, but it's fine not to feel satisfied- it means you want more, and that's good, it helps you grow. I think you shouldn't think of all it took to achieve it but more about how much stronger you can become, maybe that'll help you find motivation.\" \n\nKagayaki always wanted to become stronger, to protect her friends, to protect her family, to protect her village. She'd fight tooth and nail for these people and she'd been harnessing strength for the last two years in hopes of being a suitable guardian." } ]	304	1,122
210	2021-11-07	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "wanderermog", "message": "Instead of responding, Azuku would simply focus on the clone... She could see the obvious mistakes, but damnit... This was good progress... She was right of course, that Ressha girl... She was right and Azuku knew it, but she was anything but a logical person. \"I... I want to do that... Even if no one ever even blinks at me... I'd like people to know me...\" \n\nShe dropped her hands, the clone dissipating... Geez, even with her expanded reserves she was Still Exhausted as can be. \"Ha... I think, I'm gonna take a break, this stuff kills your chakra...\" She wiped her brow, before plopping onto her back... She was silent a few moments more, before she mumbled, incoherently... And realizing that, would speak up slightly... \"-ank you...\" \n\nPushing herself up off the ground, she'd give the Chunin a proper look. \"Thank you... I'm sorry for throwing a fit... Ah, you know what you're doing with clones at least... So you wouldn't mind if I came to you with questions, right?...\"" }, { "author": "justden_", "message": "It was understandable to want to be known, but it was something Kagayaki had never really wanted. She liked showing off her skills of course, because they showed how much effort she'd made into becoming who she was, but being known, or famous even, was something that she was rather neutral to- of course the power to inspire others was something she wanted, but she felt it was a bit different.\n\n\"That's quite alright.\" She'd grin, \"Sure, if you come by the military police headquarters just ask around for me, or if you see someone swinging over town, probably also me.\" She'd say with a chuckle and begin walking away with a wave, \"Good luck Azuko, don't give up and start believing in yourself alright?\" And with that she'd throw a wire onto a nearby tree and launch herself into the air at a blazing speed." }, { "author": "wanderermog", "message": "```This is a Training-Field```\n\nOne strike, two strike... A rough shoulder pushing into the training dummy set before her. Hozuki Zengetsu was a girl with a one track mind, that mind was, at this moment, focused entirely, solely, on pushing herself and her strengths to new heights. Sure, some would say that would leave her deficient in other fields, but Zengetsu didn't see it as such... This was just something that was meant to be fun, as well as fulfilling... So why not focus on the things you enjoy as well?\n\nThe doll cracked, as Zen took a small break, heaving out a sigh as she took a moment to breathe. Her stamina hadn't yet reached the heights of other, more experienced Shinobi, but she was still rather physically adept for a Genin. Indeed, she had a body that, even without further training, was already capable of doing some significant damage to others if she pushed herself." }, { "author": "Deleted User", "message": "Take had went to the training field to have a little bit of training to himself, he wanted to test out his newly acquired strength on a few of the dummies that were around. The tall, muscular male arrived and walked over to one of the dummies. It was a metal one, and he went to test the durability of it. He tapped his knuckle against it, listening to the clink and the clank of the metal that he tapped against. With that, he quickly sent a punch to it, watching the metal crumple inwards as the metal dummy was sent backwards, crushed inwards as the strength of the Gate user was too great for the material to handle. He hummed, and then tapped it with his foot.\n\n\"Good enough . . For now.\"\n\nHe spoke to himself, he wanted to get stronger, but this was good enough for now. It satisfied all of his needs." }, { "author": "wanderermog", "message": "While Zen Had Been focused on releasing another strike, she stopped, blinking, as she noticed the individual who'd entered the scene before her. While she'd considered herself somewhat impressive for her ability to destroy wooden dummies... He had just obliterated a metal test dummy with a single blow... What kinda upper body strength was that? Before she knew it, the Hozuki was fast approaching, Take being aware of someone Staring At him with intense focus as she looked at him with a sense of admiration, reaching a hand out to tap his shoulder.\n\n\"Hey hey hey. You, how did you do that?! Look at your arms, they're so thick, like they're made of metal! How long did it take to do this? Ahhh, you're a Chunin right? Wait no, you are, you have the veil, Predator junk, hell yeah! I'm Hozuki Zengetsu, can you show me how to get strong? Also, hi!\"\n\nShe said all of this within the span of a few seconds, words stumbling and falling over the other as she introduced herself to the Chunin... And was still feeling the rigid musculature of his arm all the while." }, { "author": "Deleted User", "message": "Take had heard someone approaching, but didn't do anything about it. He didn't feel the weight of intent. The intent to harm, he just felt like someone was approaching. With that, he felt someone tap his shoulder. So he decided that they tried to contact him, and he decided to turn over. With that, a Hozuki was right there. He narrowed his eyes on her, and then listened to what she had to say. She said everything a bit . . Fast, to say the least. Perhaps she was just energetic as hell.\n\n\"Err, hello.\" Was all that he said, not really knowing what else to say. So he just introduced himself like she had done, and then answered her questions. \"My name is Kadenokouji Takemikazuchi, but you can call me Take. I can assist you getting stronger, yes.\"\n\nHe said, and he looked at her still in contact with his arm, in which he just hoped that she got the message that'd he'd help and stopped being so weird about it." }, { "author": "wanderermog", "message": "Unfortunately, Zengetsu wasn't someone who understood the concept of personal space, or the rules around things like that, so touching she remained, at least for another moment. \"Woooow, it's like if Nora gave an actual rock a headband and told it to fight for them. Are you Sure You aren't like, from a clan of living rock people? Rock ninja people? Sure? Double, triple sure?\"\n\nShe hopped back however, taking her stance, feet low to the ground and body poised for strikes. The Arhat style, as it was called, was one for heavy set, powerful builds, so she decided, it was perfect for her. \"So, how do I do this? How'd You Do this, supposing you aren't just a rock man. Tell me your secrets!\"" }, { "author": "Deleted User", "message": "\"I don't think the Kadenokouji are actually rock people, maybe if you continued your touchy-habit, you would've realised not every muscle of mine is rock solid. My face and neck aren't as built as my arms. Either way, I can assist yes.\"\n\nHe stated as he looked at what stance she was taking, it was the Arhat Fist. He too knew the style of fighting, and even derived a few techniques off of it. He simply stood there, with his arms crossed. With that, he tapped his foot against the ground, and then suddenly dashed forward, pushing off of the ground. His eyes changed immediately, being focused on the task at hand. He was gonna force the strength out of her, adrenaline would be a great thing for her.\n\n\"Just fight me, the strength will come along naturally. Just imagine I'm your most hated thing . . Or person. I'll be fine.\"\n\nWhen he got near her, he placed his hand on her face and was beginning a technique he made off the Arhat Fist, assuming that he was able to get to her face without any interruptions that is." }, { "author": "wanderermog", "message": "Hated thing? Well... She didn't hate many things, but she could certainly try. She put on her game face... Which, despite her best attempts at a scowl, still sported an excited, eager, dare he say even bubbly smile. Something about being able to spar with someone... That she Knew Was stronger than her was all kinds of exciting, she couldn't help but see what kind of techniques he threw at her.\n\nGoing for the opening maneuver, she blinked... Ah, he was fast, really fast... Zengetsu flinched... As his hand went Through Her face, the Hozuki's ever reliable Hydration technique activating the moment she felt him close his hand around her, as likewise, Zengetsu charged forward, aiming for a heavy shoulder charge directly into the Gates users stomach.\n\n\"Hehe, not so easy to pin down, right?\" She'd push into the attack, attempting to try to push back the Chunin, though, she wasn't so sure how successful she'd be... She was more than willing to give it her all!" }, { "author": "Deleted User", "message": "Ah, drat. He had forgot that the Hozuki had that silly Hydration Technique. As his hand went through her face, he had an idea. He placed his foot firmly against the ground, and then used his foot to spin his whole body, dodging her shoulder-barge and also simultaneously getting to the back of her. He then used both of his hands to go on her shoulders, trying to push her down into the ground, though in reality, he was trying to drain her chakra by using as much as he could to deactivate that Hydration Technique if she had used it.\n\n\"Do not use the Hydration Technique, it won't help you get stronger. Face me, Taijutsu to Taijutsu. Don't let my shoulders push you down. Erm . . You a foodie or something? If you manage to get stronger, I'll buy you a treat later or something.\"\n\nHe said, tempting her, maybe she'd like food? He didn't know, all he knew was that she better be able to push back from his shoulder pushing, which was weaker than usual, only at C+-rank strength." }, { "author": "wanderermog", "message": "Don't use the hydration technique? But... Well, he Was The muscle bound superior here, if anyone knew how to push themselves the most, it was him. Nodding, Zengetsu would focus on Not Activating her Hiden, quickly righting herself as she rebalanced after the missed shoulder charge. \"Ehh? Not use it, but... It's kinda hard and- Oh boy.\" She struggled, her legs buckling against the pressure as she pushed against the Chunin, her arms reaching to grab onto his wrists.\n\n\"G-Guh... You're... So a rock... Heavy like one... HAaaaaa!\" She pushed against his strength, this probably wasn't his best, but it... It was pretty damn strong anyways, her legs rose, as she'd press against the weight, the mention of a reward...\n\n\"A-Akimichi Bistro! I want the K-Ribs and the steak skewers!\" She would actually be Incredibly Encouraged by the offer, as she would Push Against him, her body pressing heavily against his... Despite being a Genin, she was pretty impressively framed, being almost as tall as Take himself." }, { "author": "Deleted User", "message": "\"Whatever you want! Just get stronger!\"\n\nHe shouted out more to encourage her as he upped the intensity of the pushing down, seeing that she was beginning to push back up. He had went to a B-ranks worth of strength, this seemed to be a good and effective way to train Genin, he should tempt them more often. Of course, he'd continue with his offer, he wasn't going to just promise them something that he wouldn't actually get, he wasn't as evil as that. He then gave her some pointers to help her, since it was a big stretch.\n\n\"Focus on your shoulder muscles, and put the weight of my body and strength on both of them, equal it out. Don't have it be an unbalanced force.\"\n\nHe gave pointers, expecting her to get better." }, { "author": "wanderermog", "message": "```Tutoring End, Casul starto```\n\nZengetsu was a simple creature, kind, overly friendly individual, one would argue that didn't make for an effective Shinobi... Zengetsu would tell them to be quiet because those words were very hurtful. She pushed as long as she could, actually managing to stand her ground for an impressive few moments... Before she was inevitably pushed too far, her legs giving out as she fell to the ground, her body feeling like a jumble of nerves as she gasped out.\n\n\"Haaa... No-no more... You're way too strong, Mr. Take Rock.\" She was still firmly sure he was made of rocks, there was no doubt about that in her mind. \"D-Did I earn my meal?\" She, despite being unable to stand, asked that question...\n\n\"If not... I-I'll get up and do it again...\"" } ]	217	2,730
200	2021-11-25	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "wanderermog", "message": "\"Suit yourself.\" Chiho ate the chip with a crunch crunch crunch, before pushing himself up with a grunt of effort. Dusting himself off of crumbs and other such things, he stretched, Nagiha hearing some popping that was likely due to the poor posture he'd taken in his gazing. \"Speed huh? Hmm... Light and relaxed, light and relaxed...\"\n\nHe snapped his fingers, pulling a scroll from his side and unfurling it, a small handsign later and a gourd was visible. \"You like Sake? There's totally no better way than a drink to loosen up... Though, this Is Kinda strong, maybe not... Or just a sip?\" He offered it, his head tilted. \"A sip should do ya good... Then, you show me what ya got, got it?\"" }, { "author": "muitorealmothman", "message": "Nagiha wasn't sure what to expect from the seal, but a gourd of alcohol certainly hadn't been her first guess. When he asked her if she liked Sake, Nagiha scratched her head, looking a bit unsure. \"Well, can't say I've tried it that much. I'm not Not A fan, I guess,\" She felt a bit out of her element here, yet also like she should be In Her element. So it was easy enough to convince her to try a sip to 'relax' her a bit.\n\n\"I did suggest relaxing... Sure, let's give it a go,\" Nagiha would say confidently, an assuredness that was soon dashed when she did take a sip from the gourd. It was stronger than she'd expected, even with the warning, and her eyes widened as she tasted just how potent it was. What was this senpai's liver made of...?\n\nWanting to give this relaxation a go, she took a breath before moving, trying to run around the pond at a light pace... She did feel more relaxed, and her muscles felt loose and nimble... Maybe this would work after all?" }, { "author": "wanderermog", "message": "Ah, there it went. The surprising thing about Chiho's Sake wouldn't Just Be the strength and depth of flavor, but how smooth and easy the drink went down, almost like she was drinking a nice sip of water. Deceptively sweet, but powerful and wondrously flavorful... It made a great drink in ones off time, and a killer in the battlefield.\n\n\"Good good, you're totes loosening up...\" He gave her a small thumbs up, before his grin grew slightly more impish as a finger was raised. \"Now we add stakes to this, it's all about loosening up... While Acknowledging danger. Laser time!\"\n\nBefore Nagiha could ask what he meant, a bolt of storm would loose itself, digging right into the ground near the Sabaku's feet. \"Soooo... Keep runnin', and I Won't Hit ya with these!\"" } ]	189	600
108.5	2021-11-28	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "muitorealmothman", "message": "As she loosely jogged around, Nagiha would feel the strange effect of the sake relax her muscles, though she did tense up a bit at the sudden mention of... Laser time?\n\nIn the next moment, she found bolts of Storm being blasted near her feet, like a scene from some kind of fiction. \"Hey, hey, watch it! This your idea of relaxing?\" Nagiha said, though in a light tone. This was actually a bit fun, after all, as she ran along with the blasts following close behind, trusting her senpai wouldn't actually laser her... Hopefully..." }, { "author": "wanderermog", "message": "Of course he'd never ~~intentionally~~ strike a target with a jutsu like this!... Er, in fairness, on the off chance he Did Do something like that, Chiho was intentionally scaling back the damage... It'd be like getting bapped with a taser more than anything else, but Nagiha didn't need to know that did she? This was about inspiring the Genin to push herself even faster.\n\n\"Hehe, you should see how I put myself to sleep at night. Totally makes this look like a cakewalk, remember to duck and dip!\" He would warn her, sending two more warning shots soaring overhead, them fizzling out to prevent hitting an errant passerby. All things said... This was definitely a fun way to pass the time!" }, { "author": "muitorealmothman", "message": "Hearing his warning Nagiha, ducked her head, throwing herself a fair bit off balance in the process. She tucked into a tumble and rolled forward, ending up sitting with a surprised look on her face.\n\n\"Well, I think that did more than I expected it to. But, uh... Don't think I'll be doing this kind of training often...\" Nagiha said, glancing at the gourd Chiho held. While it seemed fun, perhaps it was a bit too... Unorthodox, even for her.\n\nOr maybe she just didn't want to become one of apparently several ninja alcoholics. All that aside, this has at least been a pretty fun and interesting way to train..." }, { "author": "wanderermog", "message": "``` Tutoring Complete ```" } ]	132.5	434
175.333333	2021-12-24	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "saimonthemonk", "message": "Holding the book open he glanced down and then back at her, the book was full almost exclusively with imagines of plants and herbs. To claim those strange was quite the conundrum, but he could at least show a speck of patience,\n\n\"Plants? Are weird when drawn? How curious, but I am Senju Tatsurama. Commander in the Frontier Patrol.\"\n\nHe clasped the book closed before he opened his mouth. From within it he reached in to produce what I'm modern times took the appearance of a retainer. What was different about this were the five gel capsules held at the corners of a pentagon like formation,\n\n\"This is a mild poison I have manufactured, I call it Warrior's Decline. It effects what I consider to be the most valuable aspects of a taijutsu specialist, that being their speed and reflexes. If they can't react and they can't run away, they are certain to get hit. Unfortunately at my level, their endurance is a bit too strong. So, I'll need to manufacture an even stronger one. I think I'll call it Warrior's Demise.\"" }, { "author": "desitomo", "message": "Ko wasn't the biggest fan of books, and hearing the Commander begin to nerd out about the poison slightly worried her. She barely knew anything about the topic, and him bringing up his targets being mainly Taijutsu Specialists interested her. Did he mean that they were the main victims of these poisons...? \n\n\"That's... Pretty cool. If you need help coming up with some poison, I guess I could help. I'm pretty good with Taijutsu myself!\" \n\nKo exclaimed proudly, putting her hands on her hips confidently. He was a member of the Frontier Patrol, he definitely would not severely harm a Genin. And, this would be amazing practice for her. Practicing with an Actual High rank Chunin, instead of being taught gently by one." }, { "author": "saimonthemonk", "message": "\"I am certain of what poisons I wish to create, the advanced poison will be called Warrior's Demise. After that is world of darkness, it will cause absolute blindness and near deafness. After that will be a progressive poison for complete organ failure to sabotage enemy camps. I can show you how the first one will work.\"\n\nHe passed the retainer back into his mouth, after which he ran through a quick series of hand seals before pointing his face away from them. Right after a massive purple cloud would spray out, blanketing much of the field. (Poison Mist B++).\n\n\"That would bring down your speed and reflexes to nearly nothing.\"" } ]	161	526
102.4	2021-12-26	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "desitomo", "message": "Ko was impressed by Tatsurama's use of poison, watching him perform the jutsu with a smile on her face. Although she knew nothing about it, it sparked a curiosity and made her want to look into poison. But, now was not the time for learning something other than how to dodge better, and she was hoping that the Commander would help her, \n\n\"That's pretty cool! But, could you help me practice? I'm wanting to work on my reflexes - but I would way rather have someone help me out\". \n\nWhile talking, Kanako backed up and slightly stretched her arms out, getting ready to start dodging whatever he would throw at her." }, { "author": "saimonthemonk", "message": "\"What are your reflexes like currently?\"\n\nEven before she answered he formed a single seal to create two shadow clones, one on either side of him. While he personally began to take a seat on a close stone. There was no reason that he personally needed to get involved, matter of fact he opened up his book once more and began to sift through the contents while the clones waited patiently." }, { "author": "desitomo", "message": "Ko's nervousness raised at how nonchalant he seemed to be. She had to keep reminding herself that he would never truly hurt her severely, and perhaps his shadow clones were there to make a more intense training session. Still, she was not experienced in this subject, and her heart still pounded in her chest, \n\n\"U-Uhm... Not Too Good\". \n\nShe responded with a shaky voice, backing up a little farther from the clones." }, { "author": "saimonthemonk", "message": "The clones looked at one another, they gave a quick nod to one another before outreaching their fists. Each one began to crackled with electricity, sparking the air before two large hawks made of lightning burst fourth (Lightning beast tracking fang C+). \n\nThey soared at her and her pet, all she had to do was not get caught between the two, right? Otherwise she would seemingly be testing her endurance as well." }, { "author": "desitomo", "message": "Ko's eyes darted between the two hawks, deciding on which way to roll. Hachi, who was just as skilled as her owner, barked at the Inuzuka before swerving to the side, out of the way of the jutsu. Both of them seemed to take initiative pretty quickly, and it didn't take long for Kanako to flip to the side opposite of her ninken, the lighting zipping past her. Luckily, her speed was on her side - but surely he would throw something tougher at her." } ]	94	512
348.833333	2021-12-29	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "Deleted User", "message": "Hachirou had wanted to go to the training grounds, as he had wanted to train a bit of his Lightning Release, to learn a new jutsu. Though a jutsu that was actually useful was hard to come by, but he thought he could manage. He had hummed as he had sat down peacefully, and began to scroll through the book. What to pick . . What to pick . . Not a lot of them popped out to him, but there was one singular one that had caught his eye. It was called Lightning Release: Lightning Rat Violent Quake.\n\nHe had stood up, and clenched his fist. He needed to prove himself to his dad, after taking the Chili Pill, his father was very angry with him. He had lost a very significant quirk of the Akimichi clan, his fat. He was now as skinny as any normal Shinobi. If Hachirou was going to be honest, he preferred being fatter over than being skinny. It felt too weird, like he was lighter. He shivered a bit, and then began to flow chakra through his body, before releasing the chakra into the air via his hands.\n\nWith that, a few discs of lightning began to form, and they shot out violently. He couldn't control where they went, and they went straight towards Hisayo. Barely missing her. He ran over immediately, thinking he had hit someone. \"Oh man, oh man, oh man . . I totally screwed up . .\" Though, once he had gotten there, he had noticed that they were perfectly fine. He sighed, and then began to speak yet again. Apologising as his face turned a bit red from embarrassment. \"O-oh, uh . . I'm very sorry miss.\"\n\nHe bowed his head, his large mane of blonde hair flowing over his face." }, { "author": "sampletext", "message": "Hisayo's a little lost in her own brainstorming when Hachirou's lightning discs come hurtling towards her. The only warning is an encroaching electrical crackling, which causes her to flinch backwards just as the projectiles whizz within a few inches of her body. For a moment, she thinks she's under attack, and sharply glances in the direction the lightning's come from, her hands coming up in front of her half-prepared to unleash some jutsu of her own. However, the other shinobi's approach is clearly not aggressive, and his immediate apology causes her to lower her hands to her sides without creating some unfortunate escalation. \n\n\"Careful with that, next time,\" She remarks, looking over the other shinobi. It's not someone she's met before. If Hachirou raises his head, he'd find himself confronted by a serious-faced woman, her mouth turned down in a half-frown and furrowed brows darkening pale green eyes. Her hair is brown and close-cut, its simple styling mirroring the simple functionality of the rest of her clothing. \"Were you... Trying to work on lightning jutsu...?\" The prodding question comes after a moment. She pauses midway through the sentence, and then follows up with another question. \"Apologies, what should I call you? I'm Senju Hisayo.\"" }, { "author": "Deleted User", "message": "\"Erm, yeah, my bad.\"\n\nHe repeated once again, raising his head and ruffling his hair. He had a soft expression on his face, though he didn't have the usual roundiness that he had all the time. His features were a bit strange, as if they had been muddled up together. He had strikingly similar eyes to an Akimichi's. Half-squinted, barely revealing anything. Though if Hisayo was observant enough, she'd be able to see his crimson eyes, with sharp slits as his pupils. A signature pupil of the Hozuki clan.\n\nAs he panted, she could see that he had sharp teeth. Another thing of the Hozuki clan. The next thing was his hair, not a lot of Shinobi had the length of hair that he had. The hair length that he had was the bare minimum of learning the hair jutsu. He had long, platinum blonde hair that went down to his waist. It had several braids intertwining through it, but the strangest feature would be the light blue streaks of colour through his hair, adding a slight colour difference to it.\n\n\"I was trying to work on it . . \" He sighed, the sheepish Akimichi speaking up more. \"Though it didn't work.\" He shook his head, scratching his chin as he thought about what he could actually do to improve his own control over the Lightning Release techniques. He thought it'd be really easily, but no it wouldn't be.\n\n\"Oh, my names Akimichi Hachirou.\" He waved, and then spoke. \"Nice to meet you Hisayo.\" He skipped formalities, but he spoke politely and in an innocent, non-rebellious way." }, { "author": "sampletext", "message": "There's a lot of things to take in at once about Hachirou's appearance, and it causes her to pause and blink a few times before she can respond to any of his comments. Hozuki eyes and teeth, but based on the name, he's not of that... Family? She puts that out of her mind for the moment - it's unimportant for the matters at hand. Still, the name that he gives pricks her memory a bit, and she glances to the left a moment as she tries to remember. \"Akimichi...\" Another pause. \"Any relation to the Majordomo?\" It's a shot in the dark, but the question would have bothered her for the rest of the day if she didn't ask it. \"Good to meet, you, anyway.\" She seems a bit put off by the lack of formality. \n\n\"I could try to assist you in some way, if you'd like? I'm afraid I have no affinity for lightning, but I've been trying to work on learning jutsu myself - genjutsu, that is. Perhaps, if you come to the point that you can control the jutsu, I could try my technique on you and you could attempt to maintain accuracy within it? Or if you'd prefer something simpler, I could provide some clones to use for target practice, though, ah, I'd prefer if you didn't fire those off at Me Specifically.\" She places one hand on her hip, cocking her head to the side and waiting for the other shinobi's response." }, { "author": "Deleted User", "message": "\"Yep. Akimichi. Well, not full Akimichi. My mother is a Hozuki. So I'm half Akimichi.\"\n\nHe explained, because she might've gotten confused by his general appearance. He lacked the usual, 'tub' of the Akimichi clan, which made it easy for him to be identified sometimes. She may have been a Senju, but he didn't know how to act with them, so he just talked to her as he usually would with everyone else. He looked towards her when she began to ask about a Majordomo. \"Majordomo?\" He thought for a minute, and then realised who she meant.\n\n\"Oh, you mean Daichi. Yeah! He's my blood-cousin. He's always been good with this Shinobi business, so it was a matter of time before he rose the ranks. One day I'll beat him in our annual food eating competition though!\"\n\nHe answered, a bit too excitedly. He was very excited about the food eating competition. He was going to win this year, or he was going to try to anyway. He listened to what Hisayo had to say about the assistance. Assistance would be greatly appreciated. \"Oh, sure. I don't mind help. I'll help you, you help me. That sorta' thing . . \" He mumbled, and then looked at her when she asked him not to fire those at her. He nodded, and then sheepishly-chuckled a bit whilst rubbing the back of his head. \"Yeah . . I'll try not to misfire it again.\"" }, { "author": "sampletext", "message": "\"Oh...\" She trails off, putting the facts together in her head. Of course, that makes sense. Though he's certainly not as large as many Akimichi are - but that's none of her business, of course. \n\nThe Senju raises her eyebrows in surprise when he mentions his relationship to the majordomo. \"Oh, I see! Well, that's... Good luck with the food competition.\" She doesn't know quite how to respond to that, and her cheeks actually turn a little pink. \"He's actually been instructing me - he's an excellent teacher, of course.\" She takes a moment to recover from her slightly flustered state before moving on. \n\nHisayo nods once when he accepts for assistance, and steps back a moment. \"In that case, I'll perform my technique, and you can do your best to fight through it.\" She looks around on the ground for a moment, and it's a little unclear what she's doing until she bends down and picks up a small stray rock. Then, without further ado, she starts weaving the appropriate seals for her genjutsu. \"Apologies if I'm a little slow here - I'm still working on my hand seals. Oh, and tell me if anything feels off once you're in it.\" Indeed, it takes a bit of time for her to get through them all, and after she does, she flicks the stone forwards, allowing it to clatter to the ground within Hachirou's field of vision. \n\nThe illusion would begin rather suddenly, once it took effect - two roaring walls of earth would appear to rise on either side Hachirou (from his perspective) and then would quickly appear to constrict inwards, causing severely narrowed tunnel-like vision, the sensation of earth crumbling and trickling down onto him, and of course pain appropriate to being crushed in such a way. However, he'd still be able to move and have limited vision, at the end of the day. It's not a paralytic technique." } ]	344	2,093
147.538462	2022-01-17	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "Deleted User", "message": "```css\n[D-Rank Mission Begin,\nEnter Near the Boaring Ranch]```\n\n`After acquiring the flyer from the mission board last night, Hanakö had carefully read over it. The mission was nothing out of the ordinary, and she understood what needs to be done. She decides to make her way to Farmer Grey's ranch right after the crack of dawn under a sky painted with shades of sherbet, grayish clouds strewn about it. She finds herself nearing a thicket of tall corncobs and manages to get lost within it.`\n\n\"I swear to— There's always some bullshit attached to these things. ALWAYS!\"\n\n`The annoyed Hyūga shouts as she places her palms flat and firm against one another, activating the prized dōjutsu her kinsmen are known for.`" }, { "author": "yoyooo7089", "message": "Her teammate would arrive a little later. He reached the Hyūga just as she activated her Byakugan. He would look at it intently with a serious expression. He had never seen this from up close.\n\n\"WOAH! You're eyes look super cool. Wish I could have eyes like that.\"\n\nThe only thing he found slightly strange was the veins popping super close to the eyes to the side of her face. He still found the byakugan insanely cool.\n\nWhat he was more interested in was the Hyūga fighting style. He heard that it was dangerous but how dangerous was it." }, { "author": "Deleted User", "message": "`Hanakö cannot help but jump as her comrade surprises her, for she had expected these cornfields to be quite desolate other than maybe a scarecrow or two. With an abrupt high-pitched shriek, she immediately pivots, turning toward the voice.`\n\n\"YA CAN'T JUST SNEAK UP ON ME LIKE THAT!\"\n\n`The annoyed young lady yells, and rustling feathers can be heard as a few of the cawing crows within the cornfields float off into the sky due to the sudden commotion.`\n\n\"I'm assuming you're the farmer's grandson or something? Listen, I'll get you out of this maze with my eyes, but you had better go home afterward. I don't have time for child's play.\"" }, { "author": "yoyooo7089", "message": "He would laugh. It wasn't in his intention to scare her but her reaction was pretty funny.\n\n\"I'm not the farmers grandson. I'm a shinobi just like you. Now we're supposed to get the hogs out of the ranch. I'll just follow you since you're eyes are way better than mine and I'll handle the hogs.\"\n\nHe had a smile on his face. This was going to be a piece of cake." }, { "author": "Deleted User", "message": "`Growling like an angry Rottweiler at his laughter, she sharply exhales before aggressively pushing past the cornrows. She does not follow the trails, she just creates her own for the quickest way out.`\n\n\"Yeah, yeah. Riiiiiiiight— Let's just get this shit over with.\"\n\n`Hanakö huffs and waves her hand at him as she enters the strawberry patch. That is when the group of three hogs begin to rush her, squealing like a train horn. The Hyūga furrows her brow before chaining together a series of hand seals.`\n\n\"Hope you're a fan of bacon, Grandson!\"" }, { "author": "yoyooo7089", "message": "As soon as he would see the hogs, he wouldn't wait for her to finish her hand seals. He was already rushing the poor things.\n\nHis foot would be aimed towards one of the hogs closest to him. The dynamic entry didn't stop for anyone and it sure as hell won't for an animal. Although Youki didn't put his all into it as to not completely murder the thing.\n\n\"Name's Youki, a pleasure to meet you Miss Angry.\"\n\nHe would tease." }, { "author": "Deleted User", "message": "`Unable to respond with her own verbal banter due to her technique requiring a large inhale, Hanakö's face turns red as she only becomes more hotheaded. With her cheeks puffed out, she exhales, expelling a forceful gust of wind that could have ruined the strawberries and other crops had she been closer. Despite this, she does not seem concerned with collateral damage whatsoever. A carousel of mad oinking is all that can be heard as the group of hogs are broken up once they are caught in the mighty windy current. The great breakthrough technique had always been a choice favorite of hers.`\n\n\"I'd shut your face unless you want to share the fate of those swine on a plate at the asscrack of dawn on Sunday morning next to some sunny side up eggs, a piece of toast, and a piping hot cup of coffee! Do I make myself clear!?\"\n\n`Saying Hanakö's rebellious, irritable, and sometimes careless and aggressive personality goes against the grain of the typical Hyūga clansmen would be a huge understatement, but she could understand when she was too harsh.`\n\n\"Look, I've been up all night and I'm sorry about—\"\n\nOOOOOOOOOYYYYYYYNK!\n\n`The persistent and angry hogs return and insist on being a nuisance which is equivalent to pouring gasoline on Hanakö's temper.`\n\n\"OH FOR THE LOVE OF ŌTSUTSUKI, YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!\"" }, { "author": "yoyooo7089", "message": "Why didn't she use the Hyūga fighting style. Strange. Well he went to continue beating them. They were sturdier than he initially thought so no holding back anymore. He would run up to one of the hogs and deliver a Violent punch to its face.\n\n\"Focus your anger on the pigs. Give them a good punch to the face until they leave the dang place.\"\n\nThe punch he delivered on them was enough to calm the thing down and also to make it forcefully go to sleep.\n\nHis attention would shift to the remaining pigs as he would run towards them next. No holding back." }, { "author": "Deleted User", "message": "`Instead of taking his advice, Hanakö follows her flight instinct. She performs some handstand backflips before dashing sideways up the trunk of an apple tree. Next, she imbues her arms with chakra and gets ready to unleash another barrage, but this time, from above. It seems the hogs interest in her faded as soon as they realize they are incapable of scaling a tree. Therefore, they all pursue her partner.`\n\n\"Look just uh— Stay still so I don't accidentally cut your arm off!\"\n\n`She shouts from above as she readies her next attack.`" }, { "author": "yoyooo7089", "message": "He was about to absolutely destroy the faces of the hogs but then he heard her yelling and telling him to stop moving and well he would do just that.\n\nHe would clench his muscles as much as to eat as many blows from the hogs as possible before his teammate used her attack. Hopefully that could end it.\n\n\"Alright. Fire it!\"" }, { "author": "Deleted User", "message": "`Thankfully, her eyes offer a significant advantage in aiming her attack. Raising her palm high, she swipes her hand through the air, sending a large, crescent-shaped, razor-sharp wind projectile through the air. Sharp high-pitched whistling winds slice cleanly through two of the hogs like a knife cutting hot melting butter.`\n\n—WOOOOOOOSH!—\n\n`The projectile had barely missed her teammate, but nevertheless, she swipes her hand again and sends another wind wave forth in hopes of finishing those that remain. Perhaps using a chaotic, ferocious, and deadly B-Rank technique that is not barred by hand seals against some hogs was overkill, but even so, it displays her commitment to the mission at hand.`\n\n—WHIIIIIIZZZZZZZZ—\n\n\"Well, that got a little out of ham.\"" }, { "author": "yoyooo7089", "message": "\"You are not doing this again. There's only one hog left I'll take care of it.\"\n\nThe last hog was coming his way. He had the time to windup and send an upward kick with all of his strength behind it to send the pig flying in the air.\n\n\"Well... That's it. That's all of them. Now all we need to do is to get... Uh the rests of them out of the ranch.\"\n\nHe'd look at the bloody mess that the Hyūga's attack caused and what seemed to be the rest of the hogs.\n\n\"You can handle all of this. I'll just carry the hogs that I just knocked out away from the ranch.\"\n\nHe would gesture at the dead hogs before grabbing the knocked out ALIVE hogs." }, { "author": "kyoukon", "message": "``` Meanwhile, at the Hall of Steel... ```\n\nIn isolation, a single shinobi sitting cross-legged in the hall was nothing to bat an eye at. Senju Hibiki, staring down a scroll nestled in her lap, was fairly mundane. Or at least, it would be, if she wasn't sitting on the ceiling. Two dozen pins stopped her hair from being subject to gravity, while the sash around her waist kept her scarf tucked in. Ample applications of the wall-walking practice kept her eternal enemy gravity at bay, as long as her mind was clear.\n\nWhile she waited for the inevitable shinobi to comment on the absurdity, she gently drew a brush along a scroll six feet long – most of it dangling out of reach." } ]	137	1,918
234	2022-02-13	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "Deleted User", "message": "\"Aim the projectile upward, and try to catch it the best I can as it falls, okay, okay.\" She said as she had began to weave seals, and then began to churn the chakra within her. With that, she shot out a more manageable ball of water, and it went directly upwards. Though, she wondered HOW exactly she was going to catch it, she didn't have any Elemental Seals ready for water! She quickly got out a bit of paper and scrambled the Fuuinjutsu formula onto it, with that, she held it up but the water hit against it and splashed all over the paper and a bit of her.\n\n\". . Let me just, practise this seal for a bit.\" She said as she began to make up a new formula for the Fuuinjutsu seal, it should be the exact same as the Wind Release one! And the Earth Release one, as well as all the other ones! Maybe she just didn't fine tune it to the density of chakra that Water Release had. Wind Release doesn't need as much chakra to use internally than Water Release, at least during it's early stages of development that is.\n\n\"Okay, one more time, I promise I'll get it this time!\"" }, { "author": "kyoukon", "message": "Where fuuinjutsu was involved, Hibiki was quick to assist. A quick drip into her sash retrieved her book of seals, and from it, she unsealed a separate tag. That revealed the formula for her to copy. As Iyana likely suspected, the core was the same at the elemental seals she'd already learned, but a glance would reveal differences in the outer lining. Compared to a force as rigid as earth, the water seal was made up of waves – flowing lines gently interlocking to bind a piece of nature.\n\nShe held it up for the girl to observe, and hopefully save herself the hours Hibiki had spent trying to stubbornly draft it herself. \"Take your time. Even by shinobi standards, seals are stubborn beasts. Fortunately, I have struggled so you won't have to. One of the benefits of not being the first to learn a skill.\"" }, { "author": "Deleted User", "message": "\"Thank you very much Senju-san.\"\n\nShe bowed her head down, a bit of water dripping down on the ground. With that, she began to copy down the formula, but as she did, she had done it again, and again, just to remember it in her mind. \"Okay, I remembered it. Now, let's do this.\" She said to herself as she weaved the seals, conjuring up a large amount of Water Release within her body, with that, she expelled it, spitting out a decent sized water-orb into the air. Then, she quickly moved.\n\nShe raised the seal up, and a bright blue glow revealed the water was in fact being sealed into the seal. She grinned, and then held up the seal in glory. She then held it with both hands and looked towards the Senju yet again. Bowing one last time. \"Thank you again Senju-san. Though, I have to ask, who taught you Fuuinjutsu? Surely they had to be great in it for you to be this good, or are you self-taught?\"" }, { "author": "kyoukon", "message": "The water was troublesome, and called for a few awkward sidesteps, but the jutsu was nothing that nature wouldn't dry within hours... Especially if their training went to plan. Hibiki observed the girl's final test – firing one jutsu, and then using the other to send it away. It went surprisingly well for something she'd made up on the fly, and had little hope of succeeding. All that was left for her was to show her satisfied smile, as if she'd known the success would come quickly. \"Good work, Iyana. We may make an expert out of you yet.\" She asked of her teacher – a surprisingly rare question, and one that earned an intrigued eyebrow from her.\n\n\"There are many areas I can say I'm self-taught in... But the seals aren't one of them. For those, I have Tokugawa Minori to thank. No doubt, he is still the better artist of us two, but... I'd like to think that I'm getting there.\" The confidence stayed on her face long after she tucked away her scroll. \"That's all for today. Keep practicing your sealwork, so you won't have to hesitate when it matters most. Until next time.\" It didn't take long for her to turn and reach the door disappearing around a corner shortly after." } ]	241	936
304	2022-02-14	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "wanderermog", "message": "```Co-Op Start, this is the Training-Grounds```\n\nThe last few months had been... Rather slow for Zengetsu, if she was being honest. Spending most of her free time not doing her Shinobi duties, but taking care of her Grandfather who had, unfortunately, taken rather unwell due to the Winter cold. So she spent most of her time shouldering the house hold burdens, not that she minded of course! Taking care of one's family was just as important as your Shinobi duty after all. Though, as she was a bit rusty, she'd have to admit, she decided that she'd start with something she hadn't had the chance to properly practice before... Ninjutsu!\n\nShe was a Hozuki after all, so what better way to break back into the Ninja lifestyle than a Water technique, after all, what kind of Hozuki Didn't Know how to use Water Ninjutsu?! So it was that she sat cross legged, a scroll unfurled in front of her, old and tarnished from time, a series of handseals being illustrated as the girl had her tongue stuck out from the side, her own brow knit into an expression of confusion as if what she was reading, or trying to read, wasn't necessarily being absorbed properly. Her hands carefully formed seals amidst her muttering, stopping every few moments as she tilted her head...\n\n\"No no no, that isn't right, it's horse, ram, dragon, rat... No no, that's not... Is that... Does a chicken seal? No, that's a bird... Ueeeehhhh... What does that even Mean... Why do water jutsu have to be so difficult...\" If one were to have been watching from the sidelines... They'd known she'd been doing this for well over an hour now." }, { "author": "droark", "message": "Hiroki had been there for the large part of the hour is the painful thing, not that he particularly minded. Patient and well meaning, the genin had paused to see just what his old training partner in Zengetsu had been doing - he'd never seen her using nin before so it was a rather sizeable curiosity for him! What he'd seen on the other hand was something a bit sad in some respects - she'd never taken the time to properly memorize her seals and it was showing in the way her chakra signature fuzzed and shifted as it failed to flow properly at her guidance.\n\nStepping forward, Hiroki steps onto the training ground and emerges from his hiding place. His boots hit the ground hard, allowing her to hear him a few moments before he speaks he speaks up. \n\n\"Hozuki-san, are you having trouble?\" His dull voice rises above his steps as he continues approaching. He didn't have to worry about interrupting her seals - she kept doing that herself really. He produces an empty scroll - there was a way he could help her get this down, perhaps. But he waits for her to respond before jumping into anything." }, { "author": "wanderermog", "message": "Hand seals had always been a problem for Zengetsu... Honestly, back at the Academy, it had been even worse. While she herself didn't see Inaro-Sensei's reprimanding as negative, her classmates on the other hand would likely remember the flabbergasted expression on their Sensei's face when it took Zengetsu an honest to Gods 15 seconds to perform a transformation jutsu. The strangest part being it was in no way related to her chakra control, it was fine, average even... But gods did she have the memory retention of a gold fish.\n\nHer awareness (or lack thereof) being what it is, and her concentration being so intense, she honestly doesn't notice Hiroki until he speaks, which causes the girl to let out a rather undignified scream, immediately melting down into a puddle... Before realizing it wasn't a rogue ninja attack and in fact one of her friends.\n\n\"AAAAAAH- oh! Boukyakyaku-san! It's been forever!\" Her disembodied voice suddenly becomes bodied, as Zengetsu rises from the puddle, giving him a cheery wave as she steps over, looking back to the scroll with no hiding her frown. \"Is it obvious? The seals are just... Fwoosh In my brain and my chakra goes Gyugyu Before it can even do the thingy... You know?\"" } ]	292	912
299.5	2022-02-20	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "droark", "message": "\"This is the simplified hand seal sequence for the Water Dragon Bullet Technique. I considered showing you a C-rank technique, but I wish to prove something to you with this.\" It's an odd thing to say, but Hiroki can see some of the cracks in Zengetsu's typically chipper demeanor when it comes to such a weakness. Still he continues to weave the seals slowly and with patience - even if it took him hours, he was going to see this through until she shoots that water dragon into the air. \n\nAfter some time - somewhere between an hour or two of slowly working through hand seals, messing up on either a physical or chakra level and requiring Hiroki to ask her what went wrong and guiding her on where to adjust, they finally manage to get through the sequence of seals. Thankfully, these seals also seem to cover the Hiden technique she was learning - just in a different order.\n\n\"-so when you put them together. . .\" Hiroki is explaining. \". . . You should feel the chakra coalesce and then change form. Focus on the first step for a few moments, rather than thinking too hard about the seals. You should be able to feel the flow of chakra within you and use the right seals to guide it where you want. Again, the seals themselves are less important than the flow of chakra.\" \n\nWeaving twelve seals in quick succession, Hiroki leans back and fires a greyish mass of viscous fluid into the air. As it hangs, due to the fact he shot it straight up, it solidifies before crashing back down to ground as a meteoric chunk of. . . Rock?" }, { "author": "wanderermog", "message": "\"Water... Dragon... Bullet...\" She spoke, slowly, in between handseals. This was probably the most focused Hiroki had ever had the chance of seeing Zengetsu, her tongue poking out slightly as she looked at her hands. The process was slow going, but unlike all the other times, even if it wasn't full proof, for once, she could feel like there was some progress being made. She let out a small sigh, closing her eyes in concentration after the time had passed her by.\n\n\"Ahhh... That's Earth stuff, right? What...\" She wanted to touch it... That was a bad first thought but being the tactile learner she was that usually ended up being her first thought with several things... If she couldn't physically interact with it it was much harder to wrap her mind around admittedly. \"I've never seen Earth like that, it's like mud, but then it... Got all hard and rocky, like rocks... Is that a weird Earth thingie? Ah! Darn it, I messed up the seals, hold on...\"\n\n\"When I put them together...\" Once more, Zengetsu began to work through the seals, moving slowly, methodically... Coalesce the chakra (funny word coalesce, sounded smart), feel the flow and the change... Make it... Well... It should be water, right? Water, water, become water! Become a dragon! At the last seal, Hiroki would notice something different, but in a good way!\n\nInstead of gurgling out of existence or simply failing to react, Zengetsu's chakra bubbled and swelled, and she felt the jutsu coming, so focused she was that she... Didn't seem at first to know how to release the jutsu. \"Okay, I can do this, I can... If I say the name it'll help... __Water Dragon Bu-__ Bluuuuurgh!\" Well... It had to come out of somewhere right? And if she wasn't using a water source... The water dragon flew free from her mouth, slamming into a tree, causing the Hozuki to blink for a bit... Did she... Did she do it?! She did it!!!" }, { "author": "droark", "message": "\"That is Quicklime - you can touch the hardened form, but. . .\" He blinks, realizing some Quicklime techniques could be potentially harmful for her if he used that. \"If you ever see someone use that type of material, you can never become water to avoid it. Some of the techniques utilized destroy water.\" He doesn't say it's absorbent, mostly because she might not know what that entails.\n\nBut - the tree. . . That poor tree. Hiroki internally winces as the tree is cracked down the middle, falling in a destructive orgy of wood and leaf as the upper half hits the ground while the lower half remains a jagged pillar to the might of the B-rank technique. \n\n\"That is very good, Zengetsu - except for the delay, the technique was perfectly executed.\" And her targeting, but she at least didn't fall off her feet from the sudden water pressure firing from her Face. That being said, Hiroki is a far less animated type than she is - so any reaction she might have to her success is sure to eclipse his praise, at least as he expects it." }, { "author": "wanderermog", "message": "\"Quicklime... It doesn't look that fast...\" She was about to add that it also didn't look sour, but didn't want to seem a bit too daft in that regard. She stopped her seals for a moment to give Hiroki a stare, her head tilting... It was... Bad against water... Really bad, for her she thought. \"Oh... So it's kinda like... The other elements I should avoid...\" She couldn't really remember them off the top of their head at the moment either...\n\nIn fairness, if she hadn't been so firmly set in her stance, she Would've Fallen over, but thankfully, it didn't seem that Zengetsu would be subject to slapstick this day. She was silent for a moment, uncharacteristically so, looking at her hands, blinking... \"This is... The first time... I've ever been able to do a jutsu... Like this... That wasn't an academy... Or my Hydration...\" It was almost instant, in one moment, Zengetsu was a puddle, falling flat... That immediately rushed to Hiroki, Zengetsu springing out and picking the boy up in a tight hug, once more shaking him around.\n\n\"Thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou! I... Didn't think I'd be able to do jutsu like this because I could never figure it out, and my handsigns are still Bleh But I can sorta remember them and... Thank you!\" She was hugging pretty tight... Might be a bit too tight... Good thing Hiroki knew armor technique... He might actually need it... Zengetsu wasn't trying to hurt him but..." }, { "author": "droark", "message": "\"Hrk!\" Hiroki had been ready this time, due to prior experience! His armor technique comes up on the points of contact, preventing the squeezing from doing much more than. . .Well, being a hug. When she does let him down - hopefully she lets him down, he produces a slip of parchment that he seems to have torn from a scroll. \n\nOn it are the names of the seals to be used in the hiden technique she'd been learning along with rough sketches of what they should look like beneath them. Furthermore, there were little notes in the margins that were. . . What she had felt when she used each hand seal. It wasn't tactile for sure, but it was something she could read to job her memory on how something felt with a visual of the seal as well. \n\n\"Like. . .\" He coughs a bit. \"- I said, I believe you have great talent for this, Hozuki-san. Next time we have a chance to meet, we will work on weaving hand seals more properly. Your physicality should lend itself to it, I believe, now that you have started your own path on learning them.\" With so much time to watch her signature, he could feel the strength of her pool and even guess she had above average control over it. Really what it came down to was getting the information to tick in a way that was natural to Zengetsu." }, { "author": "wanderermog", "message": "She does thankfully let him down... After a few more moments. She was, in her defense, being careful, or as careful as a Hozuki could be, but she eventually set Hiroki down, fixing his hair and shirt and making sure he wasn't injured. She seemed... Giddy? No, it was... There was obviously that measure of excitement she used to have... But there was far more emotion in her step, her tone... Almost gentle compared to how rough and tumble she usually was.\n\n\"I... Never... Pa was supposed to teach me... But he never came home... And Gramps could only help so much being old... I never thought... Thank you.\" Her hands were cupped together, the amount of abundant energy and genuine thanks was urging her to give another hug, but Zengetsu was aware that people had lives to live and couldn't just accept a solid hour of hugging. \"It's... I'm sure he'd be very happy right now if he saw me do this... So... Thank you...\"\n\nShe looked at the cheat sheet, humming... \"I have to get home, gramps is still waiting for me... But, I'll show you when I get this jutsu down! You'll be the first to see it, got it?\" She seemed intent on that, gathering up her things as she couldn't help but smile... It was only after a few hours later that her smile returned twice as much back at the Hozuki clan grounds, her arms formed into a large mass of water, as she managed to trap several target dummies within, her grandfather giving an approving nod from the side... \"Thank you... Hiroki.\"" }, { "author": "droark", "message": "Hiroki isn't good at physical comfort - and this certainly wasn't in his wheelhouse. Families, more memorable traumas, and loss just. . . He didn't really have the proper framework for that. Of course he can empathize, but all he can do really is dip his head respectfully.\n\n\"Hozuki-san I would agree with you. Please, I hope the rest of your day is well.\" Before he heads off to his own home - a small subsidized flat offered to many shinobi who were without family or a home. Resting in his own bed, he stares at the ceiling as feeling whirl in his chest. While he'd had his fellow orphans at Red Moon for so many years, most of them were off and living their own lives now. Since he had graduated from the Academy, he had found so many people that were. . . Nice. Overwhelming for him, but nice.\n\nIt isn't really the same, but he by the time sleep begins to addle his mind and force him to loosen the strict hold he keeps over himself. . . He wonders if this is what having a family might feel like. Even if just a little." }, { "author": ".lycoris_radiata.", "message": "Kazan never liked crowded or public spaces like this, but it was worth the discomfort for him. Yes for food, but also company. He looked at the vendor the girl mentioned. He had to be careful here. His father was a man of peace, but unintentionally ran some people out of business, and Kazan was seen as part of the problem. Hopefully the people here didn't struggle because of it and carry any distain for him, or his name. He decided to follow the girl to say hello, or maybe to see if he can sneak a bite from someone's meal.\n\n\"Y'know.. I always hated places like this. I'm more comfortable in the middle of nowhere, I guess. Around nature, the quiet, but still alive and almost alive environment.\"" } ]	311	2,396
208.833333	2022-02-21	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "misriz", "message": "It seems the girl didn't relate too well to that. Her usual times were alone inside, or around those she was close with. Regardless she didn't mind the scenes, and colorful and attractive ones like the bizarre were very intriguing to her. \"I understand. The art is what brings me here. Maybe you just need to find a part of it you can enjoy.\" There truly were. Those for weapons, clothing, and various accessories to accompany civilians and shinobi alike. Even some for nature guides and supplies. She approaches the stand she pointed out and an older gentleman gives her a wave. \"Nakidori-chan! It's been a while!\" Togarashi greets her while Chazutsu stirs various pots of soups and refills others with her back turned away from them. The scents are various with some more spicy than others and some more sweet. In the back one of the older grandkids is working a grill and cooking some vegetables while instructing his brother on cutting vegetables. The youngest granddaughter is peering just above the counter using a step stool and she is the youngest. It looks like they are being trained to help the business as the grandparents are getting older. Takara responds kindly to him, and says gently with a similarly mannered smile. \"Koshinryo-san, it's always good to see you.\"\n\nThe old man looks over to Kazan behind her with curiosity. He believes him to be a guest with her so he addresses him as such, and says to Takara. \"You don't usually spend much with others, is this a new friend? Well, come on then. Take a look at the menu!\" He pokes a little fun into the conversation mentioning the girls reservedness and invites the company over." }, { "author": ".lycoris_radiata.", "message": "He uncomfortably approached the people as they greeted one another. His eyes moved between the young girl and Nakidori, before finally turning his attention to the old man. Reminded him of his father.\n\n\"Friend? Hopefully not for long if you know what I mean..\"\n\nHe spoke without really cinside his words, and honestly the meaning wasn't even entirely there for him. Did he mean he wanted more? Or.. Less? He could see himself leaning either way honestly.\n\n\"So, let's see what you got. Probably better than anything my father ever made.\"\n\nHe took the menu and gave it a brief look, wondering if he should visit the ramen booth next door, but it was too late to do something as rude as that." }, { "author": "misriz", "message": "\"Oh young people and their desires.\" Koshinryo-san gave a hearty laugh to the comment, and Takara isn't thinking too much of it at the moment. It seems her focus is on training and eating than bonding time. Maybe something could change in the future if the circumstances were different. Chazutsu exchanges a nod and a motherly smile as she looks back at the group, but then resumes being rather busy corralling the children to keep things smooth. The menu features many different things from noodle and vegetable wok dishes, to sauce covered tofu over rice, to stews and soups with various lentils, beans, and house made broths. The special is a hearty root vegetable soup in a tomato base. Takara takes a moment before giving what seems to be her typical response,* \"I'll do the usual, but with a little extra pepper this time.\" She then looks over to Kazan to see what he wants, and since she offered she may as well cover the meal. As she pulls out some coins however Togarashi interjects. \"No need for this one. Consider this a treat for protecting the village!\" He gestures to the headbands the two were wearing knowing she hadn't had one last time." }, { "author": ".lycoris_radiata.", "message": "He looked over to the girl, and back at the old man. He set down his menu, giving a shrug.\n\n\"That's quite kind of you, but I'm afraid we won't be protecting you from much, unless we're attacked by people who's weakness are rocks.\"\n\nHe chuckled, then looked at the menu for a short moment, and gave a nod.\n\n\"Yeah just get me a bowl of udon, please. Like my father used to make, but probably better. Although.. That's not a hard thing to accomplish.\"" }, { "author": "misriz", "message": "\"Oh you'll see.\" Takara shrugs passively and takes her bowl of spicy red lentils to sit down. She will make those rocks a weapon one day. The service was fast and the portion large. He also brought out a fresh udon bowl for Kazan. While vegetarian, the taste was different but in an exciting way. These folk were certainly masters of using spices to their advantage. She takes a bite and savors it for a moment before swallowing. Then looking over to see how Kazan enjoys his dish as she picks through more of hers. Quietly enjoying the food, and letting the calories help recover her empty stomach from training. After being about halfway done she asks, \"Well, how is it? Better than your fathers?\"" }, { "author": ".lycoris_radiata.", "message": "Kazan took his chopsticks, rubbing them together in his hands. This was quite disrespectful, as it implied they were cheap and had splinters in them. He didn't really care, he always did this, even with his father's excellent ones. He then took a large bite of noodles, and slurped them loudly, using the chopsticks to lift more into his mouth as he slurped them, and he even lifted the bowl and tilted it to drink some broth. He was certainly a unique case.\n\nSetting the bowl and chopsticks down, he looked over to Nakidori, wiping his mouth and admittedly part of his face.\n\n\"I don't know.. Probably. I can't taste things very well. Burned my tongue on some noodles yesterday and it's still healing. Still, amazing broth from what I can tell.\"\n\nHe burped, before turning to the old man.\n\n\"Hey if you're still in a generous mood, maybe you'd like to give the nice girl another free bowl of noodles for me to eat.\"" } ]	183	1,253
290.25	2022-02-23	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "amari2", "message": "``` Stage Morph: Training Arena. ```\n\nJomei figured now was a good as time as any to brush up on her trench knife skills. She had made damn good progress with it, but that was only with her mentor. Past that she can't say she's done much. She did design a technique for herself however, figuring if she were ever to be forced to get into CQC she shouldn't have a lack of answers. She brushed up on her notebook, a simple diagram of a person slashing at the throat with the very edge of the blade to get that cutting force. It was a simple but effective technique.. Something shes good at making. \n\nShe closed her notebook with the trench knife she had in hand and sighed, without guidance she figured this would be somewhat difficult but nonetheless something she would have to master through careful introspection and self-study." }, { "author": "stigmatchi", "message": "While Niko was still technically withholding his presence around Jomei, he had seen her progress over time. He had the means to locate her within the village and whatnot but, he was getting tired of not interacting with her to help her progress. Selfishly, Niko had been holding himself from others these recent months. He had been training in his lonesome but he had some sort of mental block that wasn't allowing him to progress. He figured that maybe he had hit his training plateau but he was wrong. Sometimes, actual social development could help him. He had kept internally thinking that he was getting better, but he wasn't. He still wasn't committed to evolving. \n\nIt made him sick to his stomach how much of a coward he was. It wasn't that he couldn't rush into danger or anything, it's just that he was scared of himself. A small boy vaguely resembling himself kept pulling the back of his shirt while he comforted his inner child. He couldn't let himself go on such a fruitless journey. His feelings of self-resentment and the yearn to better himself was the embodiment of the vaguely familiar looking boy tugging him from behind.\n\nHis grip was loosening around the child he was holding as the child tried leaving. In that instance, his body appeared in a flash next to Jomei, handling one of his own knives. It was his newest one, a very gnarly looking blade. On his hip were his axes, and on his mask the emotion he had rarely ever had.\n\n \"So, I'd like your help. I will help you in return. With your technique.\"\n\nBlunt, and straightforward. That's the only way he could not embarrass himself." }, { "author": "amari2", "message": "Jomei was stunned. At a genuine loss for words, she has gone quite some time without seeing this person, the same person she considered her mentor and sensei, and the first thing he does when he sees her isn't even to say hi or anything, just to ask for help. She was upset to say the least, although she didn't know much of his personal life or what went on in his head.. She decided it was best to not lash out. \n\n\"That's it?! I go months without seeing you and then you just ask for help?!\" Jomei was clearly upset, but it was also clear in her voice that she was holding back a few drops of tears. Eventually she faltered and had to scrub her face with her forearm, wiping away any water that even slightly touched her face. She felt as if she wasn't a meaningful existence in his life, maybe she wasn't, she didn't know. He mattered to her so she figured that the feeling should at least be reciprocated. \n\n\"God dammit! Of course I'm down to help you.. But at least say 'Hey!' next time.\" Jomei admitted, gripping her trench knife so hard it brought red marks to her skin. \n\n\"What do you need help with?\"" }, { "author": "stigmatchi", "message": "Niko noticeably recoiled from the yelling, taking a few steps back as he bobbed his head. He was not aware of this behavior going around in Jomei's life, and therefore it was quite a shock. It was weird to see someone so emotionally upset because of his disappearance, although it made him feel. . . .Relieved. Someone, anyone, felt torn up over his presence not being in their life. He took a first step towards true development when he gulped and spoke to Jomei. \n\n \"Hey. . .Uh, My bad. I'm trying to. . . .Better my stealth so I've been on the down low for a little bit.\" He lied. Through his teeth, but any other excuse would sound, pathetic. \n\nThe Sarutobi exhaled sharply, before the surface of his entire body began to turn into a dull white, his features barely shaped out before lines and squiggles began to outline small butterflies all around his body. Niko himself began to swell, almost as if his was about to explode from the inside, before he stopped swelling entirely, and his chest blew outwards. A bunch of butterflies escaped the small puff of smoke as he fell onto his ass, while the butterflies simply crashed into the ground. \n\n \"So. Origami Spy is as it is titled. It's a technique where the users body splits into a boat load of paper butterflies, which the user can hear, and see from these small constructs,\" He would calmly say as he went back to his light peach skin-tone. \"It's a useful technique, which will complete my intel gathering abilities.\"\n\nIt was true of course. The technique could do wonders. It was similar to his paper separation technique, but more complexified and a lot more interactive." } ]	308	1,161
157.75	2022-05-01	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "saimonthemonk", "message": "So what if she heard it, what did that mean to him? He continued to run without break, without end. His endurance was such that he could keep this up all day, but endurance was not what he was training. With each step he sought to push off harder and with every step he sought for the next to come more quickly than the last. More speed, faster, faster, faster, until he reached a new frontier of speed that few in the shinobi world could ever claim to have reached. \n\nHe would not be the fastest, but when paired with his reflexes there would be almost nothing that he would be unable to get away from. By the time these thoughts had finished he was coming back up on the same girl, he would have passed her before several moments after his passing the sounds would finally reach her,\n\n\"On your left.\"\n\nGoing faster than sound things." }, { "author": "shubazegeek", "message": "'Was he gone?' The Uzumaki asked herself as her head veered from left to right, looking around for her assailant. Wouldn't be too long before she found him, hell, she could hear him coming up behind her. As she heard him though, he would've already had past her. She groaned, she ran even faster. Notably frustrated at the man's taunts, she shouted out. \"That's it! Commander Senju Tatsurama, I know that's you! Stop—\" A heavy breath. \"—running, and...\" Another heavy breath. \"One second I'm too tired to yell.\" She stopped, the girl had been running for hours on end, all around the village. \"I... Challenge you to a spar! I need to be compensated for the irritation you have caused me! Now let me burn you!\" She'd say." }, { "author": "saimonthemonk", "message": "Those words hit his ears and in that very moment his heel hit stone bringing him to an instantaneous halt, the air from his moment blowing past him causing both hair and flowing cloak to scramble. He turned slowly to glance over his shoulder, eyes almost glowing through the upper half of his metallic wolf mask,\n\n\"You challenge me to a spar? What's the deal these days with the young being so eager to upstage their elders. Fine, tomorrow you will meet me at the training grounds and I will induct you into reality. I would hate for you to die because you were ill-prepared for what the world outside the primary walls has in store.\"\n\nAll that he really cared to say before once more erupting into extreme speeds. Though this time one may note, he seemed even faster than when he had begun." }, { "author": "shubazegeek", "message": "She smiled, and huffed angrily in the same motion. \"Fine! I'll see you there!\" She'd shout as he made his way... Away. The chunin turned around and would begin making her way to the Yamazaki Clan compound, it was time to go... Home? At what point what Asuka's home become hers? How was her mom doing? How was her father doing? Instinctively, she reached to her pocket, but it was empty. \"Oh, yeah.\" She'd say." } ]	170.5	631
338	2022-05-08	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "muitorealmothman", "message": "\"Sounds like a curse to me. Sittin' around is one o' my favourite activities, least when I can't be arsed for anythin' else,\" Nagiha huffed to herself. The kid seemed nice enough, in that way that most genin were. Wide-eyed and ready to listen to whatever it was that their seniors had to say. Not usually a bad thing, though.\n\n\"That's true enough. Though, I'd say speed's pretty do-or-die among higher rankin' Shinobi... Lots o' people are quick as a bolt, plenty more peter out eventually. I'm in the latter, I reckon,\" Nagiha would explain. With her current progress, she was quicker when her feet weren't even on the ground, thanks to the potency of gravity ninjutsu. \"Nice to meetcha, Shinpi. I'm Nagiha.\" No family names, and Nagiha didn't mind that. Her lowly little clan didn't need any of that nonsense.\n\nHe gave another crack at it, and Nagiha watched again as he weaved and dodged. The problem was, once more, the quantity of the obstacles - dodging one often just left him in too difficult a position to dodge another. Leaning against a stalk of bamboo, Nagiha pondered for a moment, before speaking up.\n\n\"Ya don't wanna move too much when you're dodgin' things in your way. Just as much as you need to,\" Nagiha would call out, \"Move too much, and ya won't be ready for what's next. Ya practically wanna feel like you're weavin' Through An obstacle, not around it. Give it another crack.\"" }, { "author": "dijonmustard0452", "message": "Shinpi pushed himself back up, now sitting on the ground. Well, Nagiha was right about that at the very least- The boy thought to himself, ignoring the soreness as best as he could. His breathing was getting heavier at this point, though he still seemed ready to continue. \"I've never been much for sitting around, I get way too bored, gotta move y'know?\" He realized the irony of his statement and pulled himself up by grabbing the bamboo that had previously knocked him over.\n\n\"Nagiha's a nice name, I like it.\" He chuckled. It seemed to fit the Chuunin's personality well, Shinpi briefly wondered how it was spelled. The thought was cut short though, as Nagiha began explaining what exactly he was doing wrong. He nodded enthusiastically and tried to take the advice to heart. It sorta seemed like what he was doing while practicing his reflexes with Jaga.\n\nAfter Nagiha was finished, the boy steeled himself for another attempt. \"Alright, I'll try to keep that in mind, here we go!\" And with that Shinpi once more broke off into a sprint. Only use as much movement as you need to, only use as much movement as you need to- He repeated in his head like a mantra.\n\nTo his credit, it seemed like that advice was certainly helping him out. Bamboo shoot after bamboo shoot was maneuvered around, each of them missing the boy by a hair's breadth, so close that his clothing was brushed away by the bamboo more often than not even though it didn't touch his skin. His relatively small stature made it pretty easy to shift his weight on a dime, but previously he ended up moving too much for that same reason, as Nagiha told him. \n\nEventually, Shinpi managed to circle back around through the thicket and back to the Chuunin, skidding to a halt in the dirt. \"Alright! I think your advice worked! How did it look?\" The boy asked, giddily bouncing on his toes. He was still a kid, after all." }, { "author": "muitorealmothman", "message": "He took her advice well, advice Nagiha applied to her own movements often. It came easy enough to her, though - sand was known for flowing, after all, and had quite the strong connection to sand.\n\n\"Not bad at all. Ya ain't too big, so if ya keep that quality o' movement, you'll be able to slip through just about anythin'. Next, though...\" Nagiha grinned lightly at the excited young Genin, thinking how to cap off this little training session. \n\n\"Next ya just gotta work on pickin' up the speed. I'll give ya somethin' to chase, so keep up if ya can.\"\n\nTo finish things up, Nagiha would get herself moving too, giving him something to follow. Though, in a somewhat unorthodox manner. The Sabaku girl would suddenly kick off the ground and begin, well... Floating. Lighter than a feather, and much more swift, she'd kick off bamboo and dart ahead to be Shinpi's target for one last chase, flowing through the bamboo as her now unnaturally light body flowed ahead." } ]	356	1,014
292.6	2022-05-20	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "droark", "message": "\"Only one pun on the greeting? Something's wrong with you.\" Kichi says, his face shifting into a lazy smile in a Moment - given his skills with infiltration, Azuku might be able to tell that the only reason she'd caught that look was because he hadn't noticed she was approaching. Perhaps a sign of his own feelings on what's coming? Or perhaps not. \"I'm fine. Getting ready to spread my wings, working on an A-rank wind chakra enhancement technique.\" \n\nHe eyes the shuriken for a moment though - she wasn't someone he usually saw using them, so he takes notice almost immediately. \"Or are you looking to ask for help this time around?\" He doesn't squat down again, beckoning her to come on up to join him on the wooden pillars that they'd met on. When she does, though, his tone quiets and he just mutters as he throws several shuriken down range.\n\n\"About a month left.\" There's hardly any emotion in the tone, as if it had been sucked out through a straw. He doesn't elaborate, trusting that she knows what he's talking about. He's trusting her even with the rough time range - it'd make reporting him and getting evidence even easier if she ever wanted to do that." }, { "author": "wanderermog", "message": "\"Ahh shut up, constantly coming up with puns is hard, you try doing it every day.\" She shooed him off. Sure it was a big part of her personality... Or the persona that most people saw, but sometimes it was a little difficult to think of the right play on words. \"Oooh, fancy tough tech huh? You might need some help then... Or... You know...\" He got the nail right on the head, as she fiddled with the shuriken.\n\n\"Yeah... I uh... Might need help... __don't__ laugh! I'm not Kitten, this is already embarrassing enough but, I... I kinda suck with shuriken... But... It'd be stupid to Nyat Learn how to use them considering the abilities I have.\" She huffed, approaching as he beckons her, wondering what he has to say, before listening to the words coming out of his mouth.\n\nThere's a pause, small, as Azuku straightens, looking at him. There's a... Conflicted expression on her face. It had been so long since he'd proclaimed his intentions that she'd honestly thought he had tapered off. But, that just meant he'd been focused solely on... \"Ah, I see...\" Her tone was also neutral, even, betraying no strong emotion.\n\n\"So, what's this technique then, must be something big if you haven't gotten it right yet.\" It seemed she was very obviously avoiding speaking on the matter, though Kichi would note, her tone was... Somewhat clipped." }, { "author": "droark", "message": "\"Wind Release: Silent Swarm. It's an advancement on Silent Killing and Ranged Silent Killing, utilizing Wind Release to dampen the sound of flying kunai while providing all of the penetrating power wind chakra flow offers.\" It's deadly - incredibly so by the speeds that Kichi is throwing at these days. Honestly? Azuku would have a Really Tough time dodging what he's throwing there as he gives a demonstration. The kunai fly at the dummies ahead, piercing straight through and traveling onward to hit trees a few dozen feet beyond them. \n\n\"What problems do you have with throwing stuff then? You like to throw shade, so I figured you'd be good at throwing something more substantial.\" He's trying to keep things a bit more casual, but the tension only continues to ratchet upward despite how loose he seems. He has complete faith that she isn't going to report him - and he always has. If he didn't, he would have left by now.\n\n\"The first thing you have to learn about shurikenjutsu is direction and purpose. The way it differs from taijutsu is that once you let go of your weapon, it's Gone. Everything after that is reaction, figuring out how you're going to continue the flow of combat and capitalize on what you just set in motion. It's doesn't have the time lag that handseals bring, meaning you have a much better control of tempo than other styles of fighting do. That is unless you get jumped - but you have your claws for that.\"" }, { "author": "wanderermog", "message": "\"Ah... So that's why you were complaining about the dog whistle noise you were making with your kunai...\" He'd been incredibly particular about that hadn't he? Azuku let out a small laugh, he really was focusing on that perfect assassination style, she couldn't even hear them flying, there was barely even the sound of a puncture... She had to wonder how long it took him to get that level of fine precision.\n\n\"Oi... I'm Purrfectly Kind in conversation, any insults you feel like I'm making are just you Purrjecting Insecurities.\" She sassed him often, she knew that, but admitting that was boring, making obvious bold lies that no one believed was fun, it kept the conversation going. She looked to her own meager supply of throwing tools as Kichi spoke, trying to flip them, though the action was stiff when compared to how he naturally used his own weapons.\n\n\"I kinda figured that out... Did some practice throws earlier today... I figured bending em mid flight wouldn't be that hard... I'm pretty sure I was wrong there...\" She threw the shuriken at the dummy, and while there was a sizeable force behind it, the Shuriken wasn't flying anywhere near as fast as she'd like it to, causing it to just barely stick into the dummy, though she'd even saw it wobble mid flight, completely unlike how Kichi's flew straight and true. \"Hmm... But being able to fight at all corners... Wouldn't be awful either... Well then, for once, you're gonna teach Me Instead, make me not suck at this.\"" }, { "author": "droark", "message": "Kichi actually smiles a bit when she gets into the sassing groove. It doesn't really bother him - it never has, but now it's something familiar. He pretty firmly considers Azuku to be a friend - one of his closest, really, but that's because he didn't have the control issues that she seems to exhibit when it comes to interpersonal matters.\n\n\"Sure it is. And I'm sure you don't swallow it all up when you go into a Frontier Patrol meeting. I bet you accidentally let a few puns slip to your commanding officer and went as white as a sheet.\" He leaps away, bounding to the tree where his projectiles had impacted before returning in only a moment. Shinobi things.\n\n\"Bending projectiles mid-flight without redirecting with something else is damn near impossible. Think I heard a few stories about the former Prime Director of the Frontier Patrol doing something like that, but I'm not sure just how legitimate those claims are.\" He turns toward her again, producing a rather hefty loop of wire.\n\n\"You want to learn wires too, or just throwing stuff?\"" } ]	317	1,463
242	2022-05-24	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "superstes", "message": "It took a lot of effort for her to not jump out of her skin when she heard the familiar voice of Miya. She had grown so used to relying on her sensory techniques so when someone who could suppress their chakra turned up it was always a shock. \"That's true, to be honest I doubt I'll use fire release much but I want to make sure when I did use it I could rely on it.\" \n\nQuickly she formed a set of hand seals with one hand before a much smaller wave of flame was expelled from her mouth. Another good jutsu but she still didn't feel the same control over as she did with her other elements. Finally she turned to face the chunin. \"Anyway, its good to see you again Miya. I have to ask do you have any advice when it comes to fire release? It's almost completely different to every other nature transformation I've performed.\"" }, { "author": "mrbrown6022", "message": "Miya looked Chinami in the eyes as the genin explained her reasoning for wanting to learn the technique. It was always good to have options in one's arsenal, especially in times of war. Shinobi normally picked up the skillsets they realised they lacked and given that fire was almost exclusively an offensive element, did Chinami think she lacked fire power?\n\n\"Why Fire Release?\" The stoic Operative inquired before proceeding to answer the genin's question. \"Without including Wind Release, it's probably the most offensive basic elemental release that exists. Do you feel that you lack offensive power?\"\n\nMiya paused for a second to let her words sink in before she continued. \"Unlike water or earth, fire doesn't have mass, making it very difficult to use defensively. When used offensively, it requires very little shape manipulation unlike lightning.\"\n\nChannelling her chakra and stretching her hand out to the side, Miya performed a quick, one-handed seal sequence before said lightning emerged from her hands. The technique itself didn't look like anything in particular, a single powerful bolt emerging from her palm and moving forward towards a tree.\n\n\"Lightning naturally has shape to it, while fire doesn't. If you find yourself using it, you shouldn't try to shape it too much.\"" }, { "author": "superstes", "message": "\"Why fire release? It's nothing really about lacking power although I will admit I'm having issues with that but that's a separate issue. No the reason why I chose fire release is purely because the only choice I had was earth or fire. I thought about it and came to the conclusion a lot of what I could do with earth I can do with Ice. So to give me the most adaptability I chose to learn Fire.\"\n\n Chinami leant back slightly as she listened to Miya's explanation and demonstration of Lighting release. It reminded her that despite being skilled in the nature she did want to learn additional techniques that used it. Of course this was being used to explain fire release to her, perhaps she was restraining herself too much? \"Well I suppose it couldn't hurt to try a little less restraint. I just worry I might end completely loosing control of the jutsu if I do. Oh well I'm going to give it a shot.\"\n\nTurning to look back down the range, Chinami formed the seals again. A moment later she exhaled a plume of fire. The flames travelled down the range with a violent ferocity but still it wasn't quite right. They burned bright but almost instantly died down. She knew fire jutsu werent exactly the longest lasting but she doubted anything would be burned with such little exposure." } ]	260	726
311.142857	2022-05-28	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "superstes", "message": "\"Its not just the fact I failed the exam. Look let me give you some context, my farther had an injury when he was a child so couldn't become a shinobi. When I was born I became the vessel for his dream. He taught me everything he knew about being a shinobi. Like a good daughter I did it and I did it well. He brought some shinobi friends of his round to teach me more when his knowledge ran out. I did that well too.\"\n\nShe took a moment to breath before continuing. \"When he told me I need to improve my ninjutsu I did just that. Not only did I improve but I graduated the academy with skill in two elemental releases. I didn't fail, I didn't have the option to fail. My father wouldn't allow me to fail. He would tell me almost everyday that failure is not an option.\"\n\nHer eyes closed for a moment as she shook her head. Now she was wondering just how much she should tell her. She guessed she could say a little more. \"And now I'm hearing rumours that.. Im hearing rumours that the person who won the last tournament was strangled. What if I win? Am I going to get attacked too? Will I be killed if I do too well?\"" }, { "author": "mrbrown6022", "message": "\"Do you think you're the only shinobi who doesn't have the option?\" Miya asked back when she finished listening to what Chinami was saying. \"Do you really think failure it's just that, failure? We learn more in failure and defeat than we do in success and victory. You need to understand that you're going to fail, you will, as surely as we'll all die someday. How you grow from that failure it's what makes a difference.\"\n\nMiya's words were straight and to the point, probably even harsh-sounding because of her naturally emotionless voice, but they were true, every single one of them. At least, that's what Miya believed. \n\n\"It's better to fail here, when it's not mission-critical, than out there when it is.\" \n\nIt didn't surprise her that Chinami brought up the topic of last year's tournament, especially with these year's edition right around the corner. Many people, most of them shinobi, were upset with the current leadership of Nora. Was Chinami like that too? \n\n\"You're missing a lot of context in that statement.\" Miya stated plainly, her icy blue eyes staring straight into Chinami's. \"What happened last year happened not because the person won, but how they acted in front of our Kage.\"\n\nThe chunin paused for a moment just to let her words sink in for a bit. \"Winning the tournament doesn't give you the right to disrespect anyone, especially someone older and higher ranked than you. There's a lot of room to how the situation could have been handled, I'm not arguing that, but you shouldn't be afraid without knowing the full story.\"\n\nEven after two years, Miya wasn't sure how much was known about the second stage of her Chunin exams. She would never disclose that information, especially with someone as green and, obviously, insecure (in her eyes) as Chinami.\n\n\"Just be glad you don't go through what my generation went through.\"" }, { "author": "superstes", "message": "\"No you're missing the point. I don't care if I fail, I understand its a learning opportunity. My father however views it differently.\" She had to admit she was getting a little frustrated. She was trying to open up to Miya and now she was getting lectured? As for context, well she didn't doubt she was missing context considering where she was.\n\n\"Oh I'm missing context? You are right I am missing context because I was away fighting in the war, just like many others. All I know is what I was told by the people who were there.\" She stopped, her eyes narrowing as her face revealed a very serious look.\n\n\"A few days ago I encountered a village. Do you know what I found there?\" She waited a few moments to give Miya a chance to respond before continuing. \"Corpses, loads and loads of civilian corpses. Yes I know there are casualties but this was a slaughter. Am I missing context there too?\"\n\nShe sighed, calming down a bit. She knew Miya was only trying to help her even if it did come across as blunt. \"Sorry perhaps you are right, I don't know exactly what your generation went though but it probably is lucky that I didn't. That doesn't mean that what I'm going through doesn't affect me though.\"" }, { "author": "mrbrown6022", "message": "If Miya was anyone else, any shinobi that was different than how she truly was, she would have berated the genin in front of her and reminded her of the difference between their stations. Miya wasn't an easy person to offend and she respected anyone, regardless of who they were or what their rank was, but only if the proper respect was shown in return.\n\n\"So you think hiding away at that cabin instead of facing your father and telling him how you feel is the solution?\" Miya asked rhetorically, her unchanging voice and stoic expression making it impossible to know if she was upset, neutral, hungry, anything really.\n\nOnce more, Miya's reaction didn't change as she listened to the genin's story. Once more, had she been anyone else, Chinami would have been getting a while different lesson with how she was talking...\n\n\"Were you there when it happened? Do you know who did it? Why do you assume it was Nora and not some other faction.\" Miya asked as she ignored the rhetorical question Chinami had asked. \"It's easy to reach the wrong conclusions when one doesn't have the whole story.\"\n\nMiya could understand that Chinami was under a lot of stress, not just from the war and the chunin exams but something else too. Her instincts told her there was something else going on, what exactly she didn't know.\n\n\"You're entitled to feel how you feel, I've never said otherwise, but judging or trying to guess what will happen to you if you win or not without knowing everything is wrong.\"" }, { "author": "superstes", "message": "\"I'm not hiding from him... I.. No I wasn't.. I never said I assumed it was Nora.. I..\" Her mind was struggling to keep up she had answers to each question and if she was in a more stable state she could have answered them. Her already stressed and fractured mind unable to function with so many thoughts going on. A hand raised to her head in attempt to try a physically slow down her mind, of course it had no effect.\n\n\"It shouldn't happen at all we should try to stop it..\" No she wasn't in the wrong here, despite never saying she assumed it was Nora it was the only logical culprit. If it was the ERF or any number of Nora's other enemies they would have used it as propaganda. \"Why he lie? Lying makes everything more confusing.\" Her head throbbed, it felt like it was ready to burst. \"I.. I'm sorry. I've been so disrespectful. I..\"\n\nIt took all her effort to stay standing. Why had this happened? Why had her day of simple training turned into this? She knew she was over reacting but she could help it? All she could feel was her bodies flight or fight response going like mad. Was she in danger? Where was it coming from why did she feel threatened? Her eyes darted around looking for the best escape routes as well as the potential threats.\n\nThen it came to her she realised why she felt threatened. She had accidentally said he.. Without thinking she took a step back and looked up at Miya hoping that she wouldn't ask about it. Hope is all she could do. Where her hand was once casually resting on the hilt of her blade it now gripped it with such tightness it almost felt as if it was being crushed. As she looked at Miya the was one emotion clear in her eyes fear." }, { "author": "mrbrown6022", "message": "Any shinobi not as experienced as Miya might have missed. The single mention was barely there to begin with but with battle reflexes also often came a sharp mind and Miya had heard it as clearly as she'd heard everything else said so far.\n\n'He'\n\nIt also didn't take someone very perceptive to notice the change in Chinami's behaviour, especially the way the genin seemed to be gripping her blade. Chinami's fearful eyes met Miya's icy blue, emotionless ones. The Akagaki's stare would probably feel as if the chunin was staring into the genin's mind.\n\n\"He?\" Miya asked plainly, her eyes unloving from Chinami's. Something felt odd with everything that was happening right now, the way Chinami was reacting, the drastic shift in behaviour, it all felt odd. \"Who is he?\" Miya asked. The chunin's tone didn't change, yet this time it became obvious there was no dodging the question.\n\nMiya glanced at Chinami's hand on the blade, almost casually, before she focused back on the genin's eyes. \"I suggest you release that blade.\" The voice had an authoritive feel to it, threatening too maybe? \"Release it and explain, Tsumetai.\" Addressing Chinami by her family name... Now the situation was serious." }, { "author": "superstes", "message": "Chinami looked down at her hand releasing it. She hadn't even noticed how hard she was gripping it. Calm down Chinami, just what would Anju do? She took several deep breaths. \"Please you can't hurt him. He's just bitter against the village because of what happened to him in the past...\"\n\nShe couldn't believe what she was doing but in the end her father was not a good man and it had to be done to protect Nora. It was for the greater good. Her voice was shaky as she continued to explain, partially from the shame of what she was doing but mostly due to fear of Miya. \"When I was training as a child my father told me a lot of stories. He made me promise not to repeat them, but please he doesn't know what he was saying, I didn't know what he was saying! You are the first person to even question me about it..\"\n\nTears began to form in her eyes but it wasn't because she might be dooming her father, no she was crying because she hated lying. She really was an awful person after all. \"Please... My mother never said anything like this, it was just my father during our training sessions\"" } ]	280	2,178
284	2022-05-29	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "mrbrown6022", "message": "Miya's face remained that stoic, serious and emotionless wall, despite the tears forming in the genin's eyes. It seemed that, even in this situation, bringing any sort of emotional reaction out of Miya was very hard, nigh impossible. This came from the fact that something feel odd with the situation and story. That, and the fact Miya was naturally stoic, obviously.\n\n\"The same father who pushed you to be a strong shinobi resents the village?\" It was a rhetorical question. Miya didn't even give Chinami a second to reply to that one before she moved on to the next. \"The same father who's a civilian and didn't see the massacre of the village, told you it was Nora just because? The same father who isn't a shinobi to begin with told you stories as a child of Nora's wrongful behaviour?\"\n\nThe questions were merely the obvious things that stood out to Miya in the entire situation. She didn't doubt there were civilians out there who didn't like the village. Odds were Chinami's father didn't like it. But she didn't think she had meant her father when she said 'he', especially because of the way she spoke.\n\n'Why he lie? Lying makes everything more confusing.'\n\n\"I don't believe you, Tsumetai.\" Miya let out, icy blue eyes locked fiercely on Chinami's. \"The more you try to deceive me, the more suspicious it becomes. I suggest you tell me the truth... The whole truth.\"" }, { "author": "superstes", "message": "It was at this point tears were streaming down her eyes she couldn't even speak anymore. Then Miya called her by her family name. No, she wasn't going to allow this unfairness anymore why was she being attacked for going through trauma? This wasn't fair. She had come here to to take her mind off things only for it to turn into an interrogation. \"No.\" Tears continued to fall down her face \"I'm going though a lot right now, I barely know what I'm even saying I can't think and you are not helping! I come here trying to take my mind of things and you attack me! No I refuse to argue about my father and my issues with him with you.\"\n\nChinami turned, clearly not in a good mental place. This encounter clearly having made it worse. \"Goodbye, Miya. Let's not speak again.\" She began to walk away not even taking the time to pick up her bag. She had to leave whilst still had the ability to recover from this stress." }, { "author": "mrbrown6022", "message": "\"I have yet to show any hostility to you like you've shown to me.\" Miya replied, unbothered by Chinami's breakdown and words. She didn't have her Frontier Mask no right now but she might as well have since her face didn't betray any thoughts or emotions on the matter.\n\nThere was nothing Miya could really do to stop Chinami from leaving. She could pull rank and order her to stay, but that wouldn't really help her understand what the genin was going through. She could physically force her to stay, but Chinami had yet to do anything truly wrong or irreversible. A few moments ago, she had reached for her blade rather confrontationally, in Miya's eyes, but she'd since released it.\n\nWithout saying anything, she watched the genin walk away, her eyes staying on her back until the genin was fully out of sight. The entire exchange had been, in one word, suspicious. This wasn't the first encounter with Chinami so Miya already knew her a bit. She sensed there was something else the genin was not telling her but she wasn't sure what.\n\nNoticing the left behind bag, Miya walked over to it. Everything was odd, yet it didn't warrant enough reason, yet at least, for Miya to browse through the genin's belongings. Grabbing the bag, Miya decided to hold on to it until the situation progressed. \n\nWhether it would progress in a way where she'd have enough cause to check Chinami's belongings or the other way around, it remained to be seen..." } ]	315	852
571.666667	2022-06-05	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "rubbadubberino", "message": "Chinamis words got Jaga to pat the huge scar on his bicep. \"Damn right I do.\" Marks of huge stitches that had pressed his arm back together were still noticeable. It was back when he wasn't as sturdy as he was now. He had to wonder if he could just wrap that punctured arm back together and just let it sit for the night to be alright if it happened again. Certainly a pickle in its own right. \"But hey, as usual there is always 'the guy who got the worse of it', right?\" He had to wonder how Nasaki had handled those rabbit teeth sinking into his shoulder. To be honest, he hadn't seen the guy in a while.\n\nJaga just shrugged at all the praises. \"Aw, shucks. No need to rub it in, hehe.\" It felt weird to be praised for something even he himself had a lot of trouble doing. Certainly had the feeling of being praised after being tutored to do something difficult. \"In the end, it is just basic knowledge for a medic to know how to heal folks. Would be a proper hack if they didn't know that much, hehe.\" At some point, Food and chakra pills just weren't enough to keep folks alive.\n\nHowever, with how excited she was to learn it herself, there was a bit of pride in Jagas chest. If he knew how to do it well enough to leave this good of an impression, It had to have gone decently. As hard as keeping up with others in using chakra was... He would be lying if it wasn't progress in its own right. \"Yeah, that's one place to get proper hurt. Just make sure I won't be teaching you whilst you are in hospital bed! Hard to teach someone, when they aren't able to do the thing you are teaching, hehe!\" A bit of a tease, that perhaps hit a little bit too close to home for himself." }, { "author": "superstes", "message": "She shook her head as she let out a chuckle. \"I can't make any promises, I've heard some people get pretty vicious during it. However I will do my best.\" She stood up and flexed her hand. \"You really have done a pretty good job.\" She turned and bowed towards Jaga. \"I really hate to do this but I should probably head off. I was really hating the idea of spending too much time at the hospital but thanks to you I don't have to anymore. I have to get back to training!\"\n\nShe knew full well that she should probably rest but resting gave her time to think and thinking never really ended well for her. \"So I guess I'll see you round then?\" She smiled and turned to leave. Trying to decided exactly what she was doing next.\n\n```end```" }, { "author": "0m39a", "message": "``area changed too ``\n\nIn the training grounds, Atosh would find himself trying to learn a new Jutsu, forming the hand seals He would attempt to raise some of the ground upwards into a form of a head, he was attempting to learn the Earth Dragon bullet Jutsu. After hearing about this Jutsu from his mother he thought it would be a good Jutsu to add to his arsenal.\n\n\nHe would already be thinking of ways he can add his flavor of Earth release thinking about turning the simple mud balls into rock kunais turning from rapid blunt projectiles into a flurry of sharpening stones that can stay firing to allow Atosh to add on his own attacks ontop sounded nice to him. But getting ahead of himself Atosh would realize that... His first attempt was small and... Was barely a head of a dragon. Letting out a sigh He would start to train more in improving his use of this Jutsu.\n\nDurning the next few hours Atosh would think to himself and about founders. He lost in the first round, but when he went to his family while he was sad his family comforted him and simply told him that he wasn't exactly put into a good matchup, seeing how lighting could easily break through most of his defenses Atosh didn't really have any options to counter most of what his opponent could do. But that was beside the point.\n\nThe Earth chakra mode, but seeing how this was currently out of his reach He would focus on refining his current skills that he left to the sidelines such as his Earth release jutsus that wasn't apart of his special Rock smithin Series but that can also work alongside it.\n\nReturning his focus on his current Jutsu learning he would look towards the few failed test runs of the Jutsu and soon forced himself to do it more slowly. At first, he would focus on making the basic outline of the dragon's head. Soon after getting the outline of the head, Atosh would focus on the major details, the mouth, eyes, and ears. He would focus on forming it with these details before opening the mouth. Afterward, he would have to figure out how to make the Dragon spit out the mud balls this would lead him to experiment leading to various interesting failed attempts to where the mud was too soft doing nothing or the mud being too heavy and barely being sent anywhere.\n\nBeing lost about how to make the projectile parts of this Jutsu he would start to look in other places for answers... After doing so he would then look at some of his own jutsus for an answer, He would perform his Rock kunai technique which then hit him. The way he summoned the rock kunai up towards him launching it upwards towards himself, it was exactly what he needed the shots from the dragon's mouth.\n\nNow attempting to perform the Earth Dragon Bullet Jutsu he would start it off at a small scale seeing how he had already used up a large amount of his Chakra and to his surprise, it would work!\n\nNow all he needed to do was to increase the size of the Dragon head from the smaller version he had been doing up from this point. However, seeing how he needed to let himself rest he would find himself sitting on the ground resting.\n\nAtosh would take this time to think about other ways for him to improve his arsenal in total, he had blueprints, well sketches, and drawings of a wrist-mounted device that can hold seals for him so he could easily attach seals to them and he even thought about picking up a secondary weapon but he was still debating on what it should be. He would soon find himself thinking about other items he could make and the first to come to mind was explosive seals, he could combine them with his Rock kunais to make a very cheap explosive projectile but the only problem that would fill his head was that how would he prep each explosive seal and then set a trigger for them? He would take a few moments to think about this before returning to his Jutsu learning.\n\nSoon standing up once again Atosh would attempt to perform the Earth Dragon Bullet again this time on a slightly larger scale, only forming one that was about 3 feet tall, and after some trial and error, he would find himself with a decent size Dragon firing off bullets into dummies that he had made.\n\nTaking a deep breath Atosh would then start to perform the hand seals for the Earth Dragon Bullet Jutsu again and soon performed the Jutsu to its proper size forming one under his right foot and allowing it to lift up his foot before shooting out a flurry of stone bullets towards the targets Atosh made.\n\nWiping his head he would look around him, and notice that he left the area in a bit of a mess. Quickly using his Earth Release to fix the training grounds a bit he would start to think about the next Jutsu he should make.\n\nHe would think about a new Earth release Jutsu to make and to his mind he would think about maybe just sticking to the Jutsu's the library had for him, like the one about throwing a giant stone at people. He then thought about how he could maybe modify the jutsu, he then realized that maybe instead of just a simple rock he could form it into a giant Fuuma shuriken which brought to him so interest book marking this idea in his head for future experiments. Soon collecting his things Atosh would leave the training grounds and despite it being torn apart a few minutes ago he would leave it looking really clean for the next person to use.*" } ]	401	1,715
853	2022-06-12	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "muitorealmothman", "message": "It was simple advice, Nagiha knew, but it was the best she could offer with this element, honestly. It was already becoming apparent that Hikari could soon match or outpace Nagiha in Wind Release, given that it was only her secondary element. Now, Nagiha certainly wasn't about to outmatched in Earth Release anytime soon, but that was a different story entirely. Still, Nagiha watched as her student spat out two waves, more powerful than before. The sharp waves of wind were punctuated with fluid head-motion, something Nagiha hadn't even thought to advise on yet. The localized hurricane that resulted sliced through the chestpiece, the entire pile practically crashing down with little else left.\n\n\"'Atta girl, think ya shown off enough there,\" The Sabaku girl would say with a grin, noticing that the Genin was starting to look uneasy from the chakra usage. Better to stop it here; their goal was to focus on Wind Release, after all, and any mistakes brought about by exhaustion wouldn't be conducive to proper training.\n\n\"Looks like your Wind Release is improvin' quickly. You'll probably surpass mine soon enough, seein' as it looks like your main element. You keep up the trainin', and you'll be surprised the things ya can do by takin' an element to its limit,\" With those words, Nagiha would step forward and begin weaving handsigns. After finishing on a Snake seal, Nagiha would reach out a hand and idly gesture towards the junkpile. Instantly, the earth beneath the junk would crumble into sand, sinking the remainder of the junk in a display of elemental powess.\n\n\"It's a pretty uncommon thing, cause even once ya reach that point, it takes effort to make it work. But I'm sure if ya keep it up, you can join those ranks... With a lotta time and effort, o' course.\"" }, { "author": "megachiroptera", "message": "With her task finally done, Hikari finally allowed herself to accept the praise Nagiha was giving her — a wan, weary smile weakly stretched her lips in a replica of a grin, though with none of the bouncy, bubbly, bright energy Hikari so often presented as though she was energy incarnate. She sat down on the ground, nodding at Nagiha's advice and watching the older girl's utter mastery over Earth Release come alive by swallowing the decimated pile in a sudden transformation of solid dirt to loose sand. As she always was when Nagiha showed her skill with her primary element, Hikari was in awe.\n\n\"You're a flatterer,\" Hikari weakly protested. While she very much wanted to be one of the handful to ever claim to master an element, actually envisioning being able to do so was... Almost too much, really. To profess total control over the winds themselves? To control every aspect from the speed and pressure to the density and angle, all at but a single whimsy? It was an almost addicting thought — but really and truly, Hikari didn't think she'd ever be able to do it. She was just Hikari, after all. Another redheaded Uzumaki like the rest of her clan. What made her so special?\n\n\"I have some ideas,\" She admitted, shrugging noncommittally. \"Things that seem impossible unless I can control wind not coming from my hands or mouth. I hope someday I can make it work...\"\n\nHikari stood once more, giving a long, drawn-out yawn, her arms stretched behind her head. Had this technique really taken so much out of her?\n\n\"Thanks for helpin' me again, Nagiha,\" Hikari finished sleepily, her speech starting to slur. \"I'm gonna head home now. 'M sleepy. You're really great 'n stuff, y'know? Really 'ppreciate ya.\"" }, { "author": "0m39a", "message": "`` area changed to ``\n\nAtosh would be found once again within the training grounds, he would be sparing against himself fighting some rock clones. He would be focused on fighting with his rope dart as he would focus on using both his rope dart and his kunais at the same time. He would fight outnumbered against his 4 rock clones and focus on controlling the distance between himself and the clones by using his rope dart before throwing in a quick kunai on the retreating clone.\n\nAtosh did his best to keep up the pressure of his rope dart swinging around and kunais being sent out at high speed while ensuring that he didn't break form for his fighting style. The clones meanwhile focus on attacking from various angles and attempting to strike Atosh at the same time.\n\nThe sparring match would lead Atosh very tired seeing how he had to use a vast amount of both Stamina and chakra he would soon need to take a break as he laid down on the floor. Looking up at the sky he would look at his rope dart and pull it in, he would feel the chains and he would notice the seemingly endless scratches alongside some dents The dents were only minor but it would still throw Atosh off seeing how he thought he was maintaining his rope dart well.\n\nDespite the small flaws he saw within his chain. Atosh would soon get back to his training as he would begin to make rock clones of himself and get his rope dart ready alongside some rock kunai as he began to spar with his clones once again.\n\nThe sounds of metal clashing against rock could be heard as Atosh kept up his fight against the rock versions of himself. [\"Hmm... Would this even be a chain dance?\"] He would think to himself as he kept up the fight against his own clones, using times where the clones reposition to make another batch of Rock kunais.\n\nAfter a while, each clone would soon be broken as Atosh stood, not feeling exhausted seeing how this would be also great stamina training for him. However soon Atosh would be making pillars for himself to hit at the max range of his rope dart as he began to practice going from one of his chain dances into a quick but effective kunai throw alongside his rope dart towards a target at max range,\n\nAtosh was training so he can easily get his rope dart from him to his target even if the rope dart would miss, so he could quickly redirect the chain afterward to attack his opponent in attempt to keep up the unrelenting pressure of a flurry of metal and possibly stone projectiles to overwhelm his enemy with minimum chakra uses for either defensive means though a wall of stone or his armor technique. Soon Atosh would find himself landing both his kunai and rope dart landing on his opponent in almost the same spot being inches apart. He would nod thinking that this was good enough for now.\n\n`` Chain dance flying metal ^ ``\n\nSoon after finishing his training for syncing his kunai throws with his rope dart he would soon begin to practice a different technique. Throwing his rope dart away from him and at a pillar he made Atosh would use the rope dart as an anchor and pull himself towards the rope dart. He wanted to practice using his own rope dart as a movement tool than just a weapon. Seeing how he has problems keeping up with his peers using normal methods, Atosh would need to find alternate ways for him to move just as fast. He also thought of other ways that using his rope dart in such a manner would be useful.\n\nSoon setting up his own course using his Earth release, Atosh would soon start to swing from pillar to pillar using his rope dart. Just as soon he would find himself back on the ground face first, laying on the floor once again he would flip himself to be facing upwards towards the sky and rest a bit before getting back up. He would think about the methods his mentor and father apparently used. Using their elements Sento and Zil would use a Jutsu to launch themselves with great speed and then use their rope darts to steer and control speed while seemingly flying. Sento using Lighting to grant him a large amount of speed before sending him flying though the air like an arrow, while Zil despite just being capable of flight, was able to launch himself using wind before switching over to his rope dart to control his flight.\n\nSitruka and Milin however never really found a way to replicate this method of travel due to their elements not being capable of giving themselves such speed. Sharing the same Element with Milin, Atosh would attempt to think of ways that maybe he could makeshift his own way of rapid transportation.\n\nHe would lay on the ground for a while thinking that maybe he could use his own Jutsu of Rock pillar spear to send himself flying due to the instant nature of the Jutsu of the pillar coming out quickly. But soon Atosh would stand up again and head back to the start of his small course made of stone.\n\nGetting back to the starting area Atosh would quickly send his rope dart outwards attach itself to the pillar before pulling on it to send himself sailing through the air, he would chain together his rope dart latching onto the pillars. He would soon find himself easily trusting his rope dart to hold its place before being yanked out so it could be thrown into another area, allowing Atosh to swing from area to area with ease.\n\nSoon afterward Atosh would clean up the area by using his Earth Chakra nature, he would then look towards his rope dart and think about how else he could push his skill with his rope dart to more extremes to become a powerful weapon he would pratice some of his chain dances while thinking to see if anything would come to mind.\n\n`` Chain Dance: Chasing / Fading Crescent^^ ``\n\nSoon realizing that he needs to improve his Chakra enhancement over his fist and weapon he would make a pillar of stone once again in front of him before coating his fist with Chakra he would punch the pillar while using Armor Technique to ensure his hand didn't receive any damage. He would do his best to make large dents into the pillar for each punch he laid into the pillar using his full strength and the added striking power from the Chakra making his punch heavier. Soon he would find himself needing to quickly punch the falling half the pillar away from him. He would wave his hands a bit to relieve some of the pressure his hands were on before cleaning up the area once again. Afterward, Atosh would raise another pillar before taking a break.\n\nAfter burning through a lot of chakra he would sit down on the ground before looking at his rope dart... He would think about one of his long-term goals of learning the Earth Chakra mode and mastering it, which he learned from his mother and Sento that a step into learning the defensive transformation was a Technique called Earth Release: Earth Spear.\n\nFrom what he was told by Sento that Atosh was getting close to being capable of performing the Jutsu seeing how his heavy use and proficiency with Armor Technique was already immense, However, the only thing that was currently stopping him was the fact that he was not capable of using the element of Earth with his Chakra enhancement.\n\nSoon standing up Atosh's rope dart would start to glow as it began to get coated by Chakra, even the chain began to shine with a blueish silver glow as he began to attack the pillar with his Rope dart.\n\nAtosh would quickly notice the massive amount of damage he did on the pillar with each strike from his rope dart, even strike where it was just the chain itself being smashed against the pillar left a larger mark than his own fist. Once again the pillar would soon fall but while it was falling Atosh would use his rope dart to send the falling pillar up into the sky before smashing it to pieces using a precise throw shattering the pillar using only his chakra and his Rope dart.\n\nWanting to push himself more Atosh would make a handful of pillars, and soon surrounded himself with pillars Atosh would begin to perform the Chain dance of the new moon, The sound of rock being shattered could be heard as a shining shooting star could be soon flying around as the Rope dart flew though the air with a mystical glow coming off it. The Rope dart would clash long side the pillars and bounce of it just to allow Atosh to keep up with his fluid motions to keep to the momentum of his Rope dart high. In a matter of minutes, the pillars would soon break falling apart in to pieces before returning to the ground as dirt.*\n\n`` Solo training ^^``" } ]	407	2,559
243	2022-06-17	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "wanderermog", "message": "Chiho watched silently and intently as Ayane studied the dummy, arms crossed as he leaned back and allowed her to muse over the causes herself. Occasionally he would chime in with a confirmation or observation, but really, he wanted to see her own method and how she would observe the body. As she noticed the rather obvious wound, Chiho would nod in approval of her observation, turning back to a desk to pull something out, before showing the girl a particularly large and lethal looking arrow head.\n\n\"A rather... Unique arrowhead was found embedded in the body of an active shinobi, still alive at that portion in time as he returned, the head had four distinct points... But that wasn't the most lethal aspect of the arrow.\" Ayane's observations and deeper analysis would bear fruit after a few moments, as she would notice, separated from the arrow, were several, numerous razor sharp barbs dispersed into the body. While in the dummy the damage didn't seem that bad... She could only assume what these could do to organs and the like.\n\nAfter a few more moments, she would at least, be able to surmise that the cause of death wasn't the large injury in his back, but the internal lacerations which led to blood pooling internally and drowning the 'dummy' from the inside out... A rather, unpleasant prospect, certainly." }, { "author": "myrfloof", "message": "\"Internal lacerations... It broke off multiple barbs on the inside, leading to the individual drowning in their own blood. Had they still been alive, extracting them would have been a difficult situation at best... I... Am not sure I would be able to commit a surgery like that currently... Espescially not in the field...\"\n\nThis did give her a route of inquiry, at least. She encountered something she wouldn't know how to heal, so she now knew something to research to understand the method therein. Surely there was a method...\n\n\"Chiho senpai... How would one heal someone with broken off metal shards in their blood stream?\" She asks with a frown, looking to her mentor, and preparing for a more extensive lesson from there... They might be here for a while...\n```FIN```" }, { "author": "wanderermog", "message": "```This is... Wait, this is already The-Bazaar!```\n\n\"I see... And there's a reason these are... What was the term you said, slow roasted, for as many days as you specified?\" Junichiro was, currently, at the bazaar, as he often found himself nowadays. After that one mission where they'd apprehended the thief, he found that the bazaar was an excellent place to get a more proper understanding of the surroundings and the culture Nora offered. The man in question was a seller of roasted sweet potato, the scent of which had caught Juni's attention... And now, ten minutes later, he was still asking questions.\n\nTo the merchants credit, unlike others, he hadn't yet gotten tired of the Jihibiki's questions, being a kindlier old folk, a weathered sort who even Junichiro could see others treated with respect. According to his own words he'd been running this stall of his for well over thirty years, and no one would be able to match him in quality or recipe.\n\n\"Well, if you're so curious, why don't you try one then? Here, take one, if you're not a fan, it's on the house.\"\n\nJunichiro blinked, as he carefully held the Roasted sweet potato in his hand... It was funny, just how sheepish and out of his element he seemed by a vague, simple gesture." } ]	274	729
146.777778	2022-07-15	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "hakkku", "message": "```Yoink, this is a random ass training ground.```\n\nThe sun may be shining, the clouds may not be out to ruin anyone's day, but Reiko is still having an absolutely horrible time. He Knows That he was born with less than desirable strength levels. He Knows That his sister told him to train where his strengths lie, but did he listen to her? No, he's out under the hot Noragakure sun punching a stupid bag full of stupid sand and getting stupidly sweaty doing it. He knows that he must be doing Something Wrong, all Reiko feels like he's doing currently is hurting his hands and tiring himself out." }, { "author": "Deleted User", "message": "Take was at the training grounds. He was here because he wanted to get some fresh air after the whole situation with the ERF. He sighed, and then sat down near a rock that was at the training grounds. What could he do now? He felt horrible about what he had done and what he was going to do to overcome that guilt. He just gulped, and then he had spotted someone in the training grounds. He narrowed his eyes, and then approached them. He figured if he had done something wrong, he could help Nora in another way.\n\nTrain the next generation. \"Oi'. What 'ye doin' there kid?\" He had a Frontier accent, almost as if he had spoke like a bandit." }, { "author": "hakkku", "message": "Left. Right, Left, Right, OW! Reiko's left hand punch caught the bag of sand at an odd angle. The strike not only bent his hand backwards in a painful way, it also skinned the top of some of his knuckles. The short male hisses in pain as he brings his band close to his chest, tightly holding it with his other hand and jumping around. It was then he bumped into someone who appeared to be approaching him from behind. He jumped in the air out of surprise and confusion, turning around to face this Absolute monster Of a man. This in turn activated his fight or flight instinct, and he put his fists up right away.\n\n\"I've done nothing! I'm just training! What're you doing? Skulking about and sneaking up on young kids!\"" }, { "author": "Deleted User", "message": "\"Boy, yer' like . . 3 years younger than me? Or somethin'?\"\n\nWith that, he walked up to the Genin, and then stared directly at what he was doing. It sounded like he had hurt himself, but he could help with strength. He groaned, and then pushed his fists down. \"There's nae' need tae' fight me. Y'know, I know a few things or two about strength.\" He said as he referred to his muscles. He most definitely knew a thing or two about training ones own personal strength. He was, after all, one of the strongest people in the village. \"I can help ye', if you want.\" He nodded." }, { "author": "hakkku", "message": "\"My point still stands!\"\n\nReiko was slowly beginning to internally calm down from the start of this encounter. With his adrenaline levels lowering Reiko could actually listen to what this solid unit of a man was saying. His accent was very thick, and it takes Reiko a second to actually decipher what the veiled man was saying. Speaking of the veil Reiko takes a wild guess that the man is part of the Predator Unit just like his parents were, Reiko was about to bring that up until something that the man says catches his attention.\n\n\"Help me? Sure, it's not like i've got anything else to do so I suppose that would be a good use of time.\"" }, { "author": "Deleted User", "message": "\"Yeah, help ye'. Ya' thick headed or something?\" He said as he moved his hand, tapping on the boys head. It seemed to be that he did not care about how personal he got with his movements, he was just doing what he felt like doing. He tapped on the boy's head, and then afterwards, moved over to where the dummy was. He lightly flicked it, but with his level of strength, a light flick was more akin to a full blown punch from him. The dummy toppled over, and he got ready to speak.\n\n\"Alright bud, we're gonna get straight into it. Start throwing punches at me and I'll offer my assistance.\"" }, { "author": "hakkku", "message": "Reiko was somewhat annoyed at how friendly this guy was being, but if he Was Offering free training. So Reiko follows him over to the training dummy he had approached and watched with wide eyes as this man simply flicks the dummy and it topples completely over. Reiko's eyes widen and his jaw drops for a visible second or two before he regains his steadily breaking composure and faces the man. He isn't entirely sure what to say in regards to the man being used as a human punching bag. He throws a punch as hard as he can right towards the man's jaw, and would continue to try and punch all over this man's body.\n\n\"I'd apologize for hurting you so much, but you *Did* Ask for it.\"" }, { "author": "Deleted User", "message": "He took the punch square to the jaw, he could easily see it coming from more than twenty miles away, but he had simply pushed against his fist, pushing him back and then grinning, he then gave him some advice on how to make his punches stronger. As they stood right now - they were better than most people in the academy. He had noticed a trend recently with all the academy students, most of them were not very suited for physical labor with their personal strength.\n\n\"Tighten the muscles in yer' forearm, feel like it's squeezing and it's boutta pop open. Make sure to hit with yer' knuckles too.\"" }, { "author": "hakkku", "message": "Reiko recoils a little as his punches seem to do almost nothing to the behemoth in front of him. Alongside this the man has the gall to insult Reiko's pride by picking up on his less than stellar strength. But Reiko nonetheless takes on the man's suggestions and tightens up his arms, after which he changes his fist slightly as he is punching to use his knuckles more in the attack. These changes feel weird for a moment, however Reiko can also realize it feels more Right To attack like this. He smiles widely at Takemikazuchi as he fixes his mistakes.\n\n\"How about now? Are you going to quiver in fear of the mighty Reiko Kamiyama!?\"" } ]	147	1,321
495	2022-07-30	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "marmot.nord", "message": "The constant chatter was driving her up a wall, her focus fixed on the technique performed despite being perfectly capable of keeping up with the restless genin. She simply disliked talking for the sake of talking in the middle of training or work, mostly if who she was talking with seemed to care a bit too much about style in the middle of a war. Truth be told, she had never considered the branch attire as a criteria to pick, nor a reason to be concerned. The only note worth mentioning was the tabard that would need to be adapted to make sure it wouldn't get in the way, a matter that could be easily solved. \n\n\"Do not define silly my colleague's attire. Be respectful to your superiors, there's a reason why each branch wears differently and neither of those is inconvenient for the purpose of fighting.\" Her voice had grown colder; she understood the genin's attitude, so young, full of idealised pictures of his future in the military. It had to be hard to be thrown into a war, where there was no space for such dreams and only a harsh reality. She wondered how she would have behaved as a genin. \n\nAt her request to shoot the technique, Hitomi waited and forced her to keep it stable for a few instants before pointing towards a tree, where she could easily tell nobody was hiding and risking to be chopped by a wind blade. \"Keep it stable and follow through as you shoot, don't lose focus just because you've launched it.\" She said, finger still pointing in the direction, just to be sure Hikari would understand it would be better not to shoot wherever she wanted. \n\n\"The Prime Director is the only individual above Directors. Prime Director Amano oversees us Directors, while we take care of Commanders and Operatives. I'd suggest you start looking into it, this is your job after all.\"" }, { "author": "megachiroptera", "message": "Hikari flushed at the cold rebuke, quickly backpedaling and waving her hands as though to wipe away what she'd said — only to hear, and feel, the blade of wind accidentally fly from her hand and cut a deep gouge into the ground some fifteen meters away. Thanking every deity she knew (and every deity she didn't know of, for good measure) that she hadn't accidentally just bisected one of the Directors of the Frontier Patrol, the gremlin-esque redhead let out a resigned sigh and stood somewhat uncomfortably, readying another use of the technique to ensure it hadn't been a fluke.\n\n\"I, er, sorry...\" Hikari said simply, pointedly looking away from the older woman. \"Didn't mean t'let it go, just — yeah. Uhm. Also didn' mean t'call your colleagues' clothes silly, I jus' can't really 'magine 'em on myself yet. Really didn' mean t'offend, 'm sorry...\"\n\nShe took a deep breath, eyes suspiciously shiny, before visibly trying to calm herself. The last thing Hikari wanted was to upset someone who had so graciously agreed to help her learn ninjutsu principles at no benefit to themselves, but she felt like she'd done that anyway. The redhead was always very easy to read emotionally, so it would be almost pitifully easy to see her turmoil.\n\nAfter Hitomi's command to throw the technique towards a nearby tree, Hikari made sure the blade of wind she'd formed was as stable and refined as it had been before, er... Anyway! Taking careful aim, Hikari waved her hand in a similar way to how she'd moved accidentally before, though with more purpose and not nearly as chaotic. The slicing stream of air leapt from her fingertips at the Uzumaki's behest, flying fast and true towards the aforementioned target. It sliced cleanly through the wood, and the upper portion of the tree fell to the ground after just a moment, a perfectly-flat cut through the entire trunk.\n\nHikari blinked at just how effective the technique had been. As dangerous as her Vacuum Serial Waves, definitely, but nowhere near as uncontrollably slicing.\n\nHitomi's miniature lecture on the command chain in the Frontier Patrol was appreciated, though Hikari pouted at the passive scolding tacked-on to it. \"I, er... Had a hard time payin' attention in the 'cademy. It's, uhm... It's kinda my fault, come on. Sorry for bein' so dumb, eheh...\"\n\nThough Hikari verbally was readily taking the blame for her lack of knowledge, her body language told a different story — she'd shrunken into herself and brought her hands close to her chest, a clear sign of insecurity. It wasn't enough to know the full picture — that Hikari had been the subject of bullying in the academy, which took up a lot of her time better spent studying and learning — but it was certainly sufficient to realize Hikari wasn't telling the full truth.\n\n\"But, uhm, anyway!\" Hikari continued, emboldened perhaps by an urge to skip over more uncomfortable topics. \"Thanks a ton for helpin' me learn this thing! The whole clan seemed to really like you — when I asked for a tutor they were all smiley when they were talkin' about you, but not like 'laughing-joking' kinda smiley. More like jus' thinkin' about you made them happy. Dunno why they were like that, but it was kinda the same level as when they talk about cousins and stuff. Er... It's prob'ly private, why they're like that, so I shouldn' pry, right?\"\n\nEvidently, Hikari was still learning how to identify social cues." }, { "author": "marmot.nord", "message": "There was clearly a lot Hikari had to work on, first of all trust and reflexes: being a bit slow and unsure on what to do was normal, not being able to respond quickly to an order wasn't, as it could put the team in danger during an operation. \"How about less apologising and more focusing? This is not the academy anymore, you need to keep up with your team and respond as quickly as possible. Keep that in mind when you're not sure what to train next.\" She said. That was exactly why genin were tasked with civilian matters, bandits and other criminals unable to use chakra the way shinobi did, they needed the means to learn these things without being thrown into the shinobi world too fast. A privilege they didn't have anymore. \n\n\"Simple exercises will do: have someone give you directions and act quickly. It will speed up the performance, teach you how to do what we just did fast, and it will teach you to act without thinking. One day you'll trust your body enough to find this easy.\" A part of her knew she'd check on Hikari to see the progress and make sure things were going the right way. \n\nHer indirect words of praise softened her gaze, feeling warm at the thought some from the clan appreciated her that much. It was probably Yua telling everybody nice things about her, though the official partnership with one of the strongest members of the clan certainly did its part. \"My partner.\" She said. \"Director Uzumaki Sana, we've been working together since we joined the branch. His family likes me\" The tone was quite dismissive, to hide the affection she felt at saying those words. Her hand reached inside her pocket to give Hikari a chocolate bar. It was her old strategy to cover for her coldness and rough manners, some food. \"Eat, get some rest and go back to work.\"" }, { "author": "heytheresunshine", "message": "`disregard channel location for this rp <3`\n\n\nThe yang family blade was an old heirloom, but lotus knew well that the blade was no less powerful for it. The scabbard was decorated with a pheasant of some kind, its plumage cast across the length of the fine wood with colours still vibrant. The other side of the scabbard featured a design that seemed vaguely floral. How fitting, for someone named after a flower.\n\nThe phoenix flame Had not been entrusted to lotus for long; upon returning home from his final academy exam not even two weeks ago, it had been (rather ceremoniously) handed to him. Lotus' brand-new headband had been access to the ancestral blade, his father told him. Do it justice, and make us proud.\n\nWell, lotus had a very sharp sword now. He supposed, if he wanted to uphold his father's request, he ought to do something with it.\n\nLotus' first stop was the library. Despite being a quiet person with a studious air about him, lotus never had been much for books or conventional studying. He was fine with it, of course (he'd graduated the academy, hadn't he?), but practical education came a lot easier to him and suited his sensibilities much better. However, he could not dismiss the benefits of paper-written research. In any case, it seemed like the best place to start if he wanted to learn something new.\n\nKenjutsu, kenjutsu, kenjut- ah. Lotus' browsing through the shelves came to a halt as he reached a shelf full of titles like 'the art of the blade,' 'bukijutsu and you,' and so on and so forth. Lotus' hand came to a stop hovering in front of one Samurai styles. That sounded promising. He freed the book from its spot on the shelf and skimmed its contents until he found something that caught his eye. Samurai sabre technique. Flipping the book open in earnest, lotus soaked in the information laid out on the page.\n\nBut reading could get him only so far, and lotus was itching to actually experiment with the concept now that he understood it: extending the blade's length with a simple augment of chakra.\n\nTen minutes and a walk to the training grounds later, lotus ran through the basics of the technique in his mind. He pulled his blade from its sheath, its metal glinting wisely in the sun. Lotus stared intently at it, as if silently willing the sword to become enveloped in chakra.\n\nWhile he felt some stream of chakra begin to lap around the sword, it didn't feel... Comfortable. Not that lotus particularly Expected To immediately feel natural with a new technique, but he couldn't dismiss that this didn't feel right.\n\nWhat was he doing wrong? He was flowing chakra into the blade, focusing on it intently with his eyes...\n\nAh, maybe that was the issue. Lotus was too used to thinking with his head, conceptualising chakra from the viewpoint of a fire style user, where the main tenketsu he utilised was the one in the throat. Practically speaking, it made a lot more sense to flow the chakra around the blade from his hands- lotus almost felt stupid for not realising this sooner.\n\nWell. Better late than never.\n\nLotus unfurled his chakra around the blade, concentrating it until he could See Ripples of chakra forming around it. It was still unrefined, but lotus had the basic principle of the technique down, and he was confident enough he could replicate it as needed. Practise would make perfect.\n\n`jutsu learnt: samurai sabre technique`" }, { "author": "sunderearth", "message": "`meanwhile, at the missions office...`\n\nUme fiddles with the edge of a scroll, untying it to reveal content scrawled in a neat but busy handwriting. The mission seems simple enough — gather a few documents, return them to the owner, avoid obstacles... But it's the prospect of entering a ruined area that makes her hesitant. There are bound to be blood stains, reminders of what happened not that long ago. \n\nShe gives her head a little shake — it's not good to fall deep into her thoughts, not now — and waits for a second or third genin to take up the mission." } ]	394	2,475
150.666667	2022-07-31	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "Deleted User", "message": "Sajin had been trying to earn a few extra bucks while making a name for himself. He felt an obligation to Noragakure to help out and as a result he was taking the restorative missions. They paid quite a bit, but that was just a bonus. \n\nAs he came to accept this mission he grinned, strolling right up to a female he would affectionately call his cousin. \"Oh look. The Shochune family tackles restoration.\" He chuckled, his hand scratching at the back of his neck. He opted to leave his shuriken launcher at home again; because it didn't seem overly beneficial for this purpose. \"I think if no one else shows up within the next hour we should get to work. Wouldn't you agree, cousin?\" Sajin asked with a bright smile as he took a seat and waited patiently." }, { "author": "sunderearth", "message": "\"Good morning, Sajin-kun,\" Ume greets, dipping her head shallowly. \"... That sounds reasonable.\" The seat beside him is just as uncomfortable as she expects, but she sits regardless, letting her hands rest on her lap. There's not much to look at in the time they wait, other than to survey the genin that walk in and out covered in various debris. They're especially busy these days.\n\nAfter 15 minutes passes, Ume stands up and unrolls the scroll again, looking down at her slightly younger cousin. \"This should not take more than two people,\" She explains, handing him the scroll and subsequent map. \"I suggest we leave now, itoko. It's tiresome to wait.\"" }, { "author": "Deleted User", "message": "Sajin had no problem waiting, but he took the missive from his cousin. As he reads over it he lets out a soft sigh before standing. \"I suppose we could finish this before a third genin could even show up.\" Sajin rolled it up neatly and tied the string around it before offering it back to his cousin. \n\n\"Shall we?\" He said as he took a few steps away from their current location. \"Would you like to take the lead on this one, Ume?\" The Shochune made asked with a raised brow, hands tucked behind his back as he stood in wait." } ]	151	452
142.625	2022-08-03	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "sunderearth", "message": "\"I am sure.\" She responds, entirely deadpan. It takes a second for her to rise from the ground and brush dust from her clothes, making sure no rocks cling to it in the process. Before she has time to argue, Sajin makes his way into the building, leaving Ume standing outside. \n\nThe inside is lit with shattered windows and a visible sky, streaming through support beams that remain. A majority of the industrial shelves are knocked over or collapsed, with glass, liquid, and pills scattered haphazardly on the floor. The right corner looks to have been singed by fire — and if the smell is any indication, the fumes it gives off are probably caustic. There are a few doors on the other side of the building, and as long as the glass is avoided, it doesn't look like there's much roof to crush people inside." }, { "author": "Deleted User", "message": "As he looked around at the damage he noticed the burnt area. \"Will be avoiding that for now...\" Sajin mumbled as he began to move around, avoiding glass and nudging debris with his feet. He assumed that an inventory report wouldn't be just strewn about and would have been safely put away. Or rather safely put away for privacy and not protection from the elements.\n\n\"I'm going to check this area out!\" He called out, cupping his mouth with his hands as he moved forward. He came to the westernmost door and began to fidget with the doorknob. \"It doesn't seem overly unsafe in here. Except maybe that one burnt corner. Got a funky smell.\" He had picked up on it with his heightened sense of smell and definitely didn't want to mess with it" }, { "author": "sunderearth", "message": "Ume tip toes in, holding the door frame as support. \"Okay!\" She calls, \"I am entering, too...\" Eugh. The smell of burning chemicals is never pleasant, but this is weirdly sour — then again, what are burned chemicals supposed to sound like?\n\nThe bent metal of a shelf catches on her pants, but she notices it before it tears, gently prying it away. As she makes her way over to Sajin, she takes stock of any more doors in sight. However, from what they can see, there are only three. \n\nThe door opens easily, but the flood of light reveals that it's likely another chemical storeroom, with a horrid concoction of smells that had been built up in waiting. Ume makes her way to the other door and attempts to open it, but it doesn't jiggle free. \"I believe this one is locked.\"" }, { "author": "Deleted User", "message": "Sajin was hit with an assault of odor when he opened the door. The genin slammed the door and gagged a little before shaking his head. \"That one is no good without some sort of breathing apparatus.\" The Shochune boy made his way over to the door she was messing with and raised a brow. \n\n\"Do we want to accept that it is locked or try to break it down?\" He asked his cousin as he tried to think of a way they could do this. Maybe he could make it very light with a seal and kick it in? Either way he wondered if it was worth the effort. Instead he slipped around her to the other door and began jingling with the knob. This one felt stuck, but not locked. \n\n\"This might be a winner, Ume.\"" }, { "author": "sunderearth", "message": "Ume coughs slightly, overwhelmed by the smell despite her proximity. She gives him a nod in response. Definitely not without a mask, at least...\n\nShe roams over the door with her eyes, thinking. Maybe instead of jiggling it and wishing she had learned lockpicking, she could open it with a wind jutsu or two. Then again, what if she does that and cuts the reports in half? Brute force isn't always the best...\n\nShe turns her attention back to her cousin, following him to the third door. After a quick crouching investigation and a poke with a nearby stick, she speaks. \"Something sticky is sealing it.\"" }, { "author": "Deleted User", "message": "Sajin raised a brow at his cousin and gave a sigh. \"Sticky?\" He wasn't sure what that meant, but he had an idea. Unrolling the scroll on his waist he pulled out a flash tag and slammed it down on the door. It was inscribed with a weight seal, hopefully allowing them to easily knock down the door. \"Do you want to do the honors or should I?\" He asked, actually unsure of whether or not this idea would work. \n\nSajin took a few steps back and prepared himself to charge or w the door with shurikens - just in case." }, { "author": "sunderearth", "message": "Ume purses her lips and takes a decent few steps back, crunching on glass in the process. It's good that shinobi footwear is designed to handle sharp objects. \"Please, go ahead.\" \n\nWell... If he gets his foot caught, they can always go to the clinic nearby. She narrows her eyes at the seal, trying to make out the design. \"What is that, Sajin-kun?\"" }, { "author": "Deleted User", "message": "He paused for a moment and cleared his throat. \"It's a seal that is supposed to make things lighter. I'll admit I'm unsure of whether or not my plan will work.\" The young Shochune male toon a deep breath and hunkered down a little. With his shoulder low he took off art the door and would ram his shoulder into it. Whether or not this would work was beyond him. He was gonna be successful or hurt his shoulder. One was inevitable." } ]	150	1,141
147.571429	2022-08-04	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "sunderearth", "message": "A seal to make things lighter? She has never heard that before. Maybe she knew less about fuuinjutsu than she initially thought — it only becomes more interesting the more she knows. \"I see...\" She responds, \"Continue.\"\n\nSajin manages to hit the door, which makes a low ripping noise in response, courtesy of the sticky goo below. It only opens an inch, though, the substance seems like it'll take more than a civilian's strength to tear down." }, { "author": "Deleted User", "message": "He collided with the door and huffed heavily. His shoulder hurt a little, but it wasn't enough to deter him. \"I'm gonna try again.\" The Shochune took a lower stance again and let out a grunt. For whatever reason he felt like it would make him stronger. Silly boy. \n\nThe genin charged into it once again and felt it give more way this time. \"Quick! Come kick it or something.\" He called out to his cousin as he tried to push on the door at an angle to get any kind of leverage that he could." }, { "author": "sunderearth", "message": "With the combined power of Sajin's newly gained confidence and a small kick from Ume, the door slams open, revealing a very dusty office. Shards of glass litter the door, stickiness leaking out of them. At least this room doesn't stink of chemicals. \n\nShe sidesteps her cousin — making sure not to crunch any glass — and lifts a small chair to tuck it in for more space. The filing cabinet is dented in the side, which luckily makes the lock all but useless. She slides her hand in and pulls the file open, looking at the papers inside. \"I think it is a winner.\" She says, though without much hint of happiness. \"I will search through this section.\"" }, { "author": "Deleted User", "message": "Sajin felt the door give way and he almost fell into the room, but managed to gain some balance. Thankfully he did, because there was glass all over the ground. \"That was close...\" He mumbled before tiptoeing into the room. Sajin was excited to hear the winner comment until he listened to his cousin's tone. \"I'll check over here...\" He mumbled before going to a small section of cabinets. \n\nThe genin began to dig through them. He combed through dividers that had everything in alphabetical order, but he wasn't having any luck. \"Have you found anything?\" He called over his shoulder." }, { "author": "sunderearth", "message": "Ume turns her head back to check on Sajin, satisfied when he doesn't seem to be covered in glass. She scans each paper with efficiency, setting those to the side that seem to be tax records rather than inventory. It's a skill she might never be able to use again, but one that's helpful here nonetheless. Being her family's bookkeeper certainly has its benefits.\n\n\"Not yet.\" She continues to search. Five minutes later she speaks up, passively checking through a pile of papers. \"I found it.\" She hands the large pile to Sajin and continues searching through the papers near it, for any acquisitions that may have been missed. \n\nTwo more piles and she stands up, dusting the concrete from her kimono. A few whacks of her braids give off a puff of dust, too, settling on the ground. \"That is all for this fiscal year. If they did not keep all of their inventory in the same place, they cannot blame us.\" She says, \"Sajin-kun, shall we be on our way?\"" }, { "author": "Deleted User", "message": "Sajin came running to her as she declared she had found what they were after. He grinned as he took the stack from her and held onto it, making sure not to drop anything or bend the paper - too much. \"We were sent on a retrieval. We have nothing to do with the actual bookkeeping.\" And that was the truth. He just wanted to get paid so they could be on their way.\n\nThe genin moved outside of the building quickly, making sure that his cousin wasn't too far behind. Once they were outside he turned to her and smiled. \"Nice job. Now we should probably go hand these off and call it a day, no?\"" }, { "author": "sunderearth", "message": "Ume follows him, gingerly stepping through the rubble. She nods at him once they're outside, eyes shining. \"I agree.\" It's a weird look to see a kimono covered in ash and concrete, but she satisfies herself with the thought that it could be common in the shinobi sector.\n\nOnce they reach their destination and get everything settled, she pulls on her cousin's sleeve. \"May I ask you a question, Sajin-kun?\" She asks, waiting for a response. Assuming he responds, she continues. \"Now that we have time, would you like to train with me?\" As it turns out, it's much easier for her to drown her thoughts when she's with another person... And her teachers always promoted cooperation. Plus... Sajin-kun is nice. Surely there's no fault in stealing some of his friendly energy." } ]	137	1,033
131	2022-08-13	GuildTextChat	[ { "author": "Deleted User", "message": "Yuki would have her clones take as many as they could fit as well as she would before they would begin following Ume. \"So where do we take these?\" As she was confused at how they were going to dispose of them now as she didn't really know what hte process was. She was still rather young and niexperienced when it comes to things like this, and she just wasn't all that smart to begin with. So she would wait for a response as her and the 3 other clones would stand around her walking slowly behind just in case there was something else they were supposed to be doing with it." }, { "author": "sunderearth", "message": "\"The mound, here.\" Ume responds, dumping out a large pile of shards onto the collection site. \"Someone will most likely dispose of it later. They are too dangerous to be thrown in a land fill.\" \n\nShe walks back to the area and packs the bag again, filling it with broken bombshells and debris, and repeats the motion of dumping it in the pile. She's definitely going to be sore after this, but at least it's strength training, almost. The dust has gotten her poor kimono dirty, but what did she expect? She should invest in some more practical clothes with her mission pay." }, { "author": "Deleted User", "message": "Yuki would nod as she would and her clones would drop off the pieces as she would walk back over to Ume and give her bow. \"Thank you, for doing this with me today.\" As she would then stand back up straight with a big smile on her face as she was hungry and was going to offer her for some lunch. She could hear her own stomach growl at hte thought of lunch as she would wait for the other genin to respond. She could feel herself growing more hungry by the minute." }, { "author": "sunderearth", "message": "\"You were far more useful. Thank you, Uzumaki-san.\" Ume bows back, before noticing the other girl's uncomfort. She doesn't usually eat with other people, but that's what people do when they want to befriend coworkers, isn't it? \n\nShe dusts down her kimono awkwardly and looks over at Yuki, \"... Would you like to have lunch with me?\" She asks, \"I have yet to eat today.\"" }, { "author": "Deleted User", "message": "\"Id love to.\" Shed say excitedly glad to see that she wasnt going to be eating alone today she would grab Ume by the arm excitedly and begin taking her over to the ramen restraunt she alwaus goes to after a hard day of working." }, { "author": "0slimshady0", "message": "```Fresh out of the academy```\n\nOtuki Jubo would find himself surrounded by desolation. The academy in its ruins. It was in such disrepair, that he never even took his exam there; graduating from some unmarked house.\n\nIt wasn't all bad though, as it gave Jobu the chance to see it with a fresh pair of eyes. Without bias. That was not why he had arrived today though. He had come with the intention of training with another Genin out of the academy. He left a note taped against a tree detailing the specifics and location. Anyone interested enough would be able to find this place, easily. And find a training partner.\n\nJobu would put an arm under one shoulder, moving as far as possible to one side. He would also move out one leg as far it could go off onto one side, too. Doing some sets of stretching, the bulky Genin shinobi was prepared to face any challenger that stepped into the fray." }, { "author": "luthor2321", "message": "Hanzo had been there for awhile yet, at the ruins of the academy. He was sizing up the other genin, seeing what he was up to. It was just routine stretches.\n\nRemoving himself from hiding, he would approach Jobu with silence in his step, making his way wayward behind him. Hanzo would observe Jobu, waiting for him to finish the prep and turn around to face him. He did not feel the need to exchange words and speak of anything, like small talk. He was here for one reason and one reason only.\n\nAnd that was to do battle. Hanzo would fold his arms, stoic during awaiting his opponent's next move." }, { "author": "0slimshady0", "message": "While Jobu would not notice Hanzo while he was hiding, he would take notice of his casual approach. Had Jobu been concentrating, he also would have seen his hiding position too. Nevertheless, Jobu was slightly offended that whoever this challenger was, they must have assumed they wouldn't be noticed. Maybe it was Jobu's physical appearance that led onlookers to believe that he wasn't that type. He was and more; a sensory type.\n\n\"Mind telling me your name, stranger?\"* Jobu would ask, standing upright as he now turned to face Hanzo. \"A little weird to stand behind me and watch my exercises if you ask me, but my name is Jobu. Otoki Jobu.\"\n\nJobu wouldn't look too deeply at the other boy, keeping expectations surface level. He was more interested in getting the show on the road, and from he could ascertain, so was the new challenger. The perfect foe." } ]	127.5	1,048

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