Board Thread:Konoha Logs/@comment-24937485-20160326114137/@comment-24937485-20160326114243





It was still dark outside; early in the morning, as Kei left the shabby 2 by 2 space that they had the guts to call a studio apartment; A small place with just enough room for a secondhand mattress. The fourteen year old who lived there, however payed no mind to his less-than-fortunate homecomings whatsoever, and closed a rusty door behind him before gazing off in the distance with an cold pair of black eyes. “An empty body requires no luxury. Only the bare essentials.” -But even that I don’t deserve-, spoke a voice in the back of his head that fell mute to the indifference of the young Uchiha Kei. Due to certain events and reasons he, however, went by the name of Kei Shirida, a Genin who had only arrived in the leaf a few months ago as an orphan. Nobody knew who he truly was, nobody except one girl, but with how he had beaten her while she still seemed to admire him; there was little to worry about. That beating. He thought back to yesterday when he kicked her over the floor and flashed back to when his father did the same to him. Though he understood the reasons were very different, his reasons being for training and to even protect her by keeping her away, while his father did so for nothing but the pleasure savage brutality. He shrugged off the thoughts. Years ago he might have felt sad, but now he felt nothing, he had become immune to the gnawing displeasures of emotions toiling at the heart. He’d simply do what he had to do, until he did what he had to do. It was as simple as that. And with that conviction behind his lifeless eyes he now arrived at the training grounds before the sun had began to crawl up over the horizon. They told him he had to interact, which he did, though the beat up Genin he left never enjoyed it, nor did he. He wasn’t a violent person in nature but he was not the type to hold back because he wouldn’t improve if he’d hold back. So he sought to train by himself during these early hours, perhaps even to save other Genin of having to confront him. Who knows? With the cold look in the boy’s black eyes, and the way his lips were almost permanently closed, it was near impossible to read him. And the long black robe he wore, with a high collar that barely hid his lips if he stood upright, didn’t help clear up the mystery around him. He then turned his back to the entrance of the training grounds and walked over to the stream that ran through the grass-covered area home to several trees and bushes. He then looked down at his own reflection, seeing his long obsidian bangs flow with the wind as he closed his eyes. He then heard a screech, like that of a violin, cry throughout his mind, and upon parting his long-lashed eyelids, slowly as if the passage of time itself was an illusion, two crimson hues reflected back at him upon the surface of water; The Sharingan.  







-A cold gust of wind flew through Ryu's bedroom window, it was enough to make him open his eyes and show his blue hues to the world, yet there was no one to see, the little genin jumped of bed excited and ran towards his brothers rooms wearing nothing but his White pe jays, he kicked the door open and shouted-"WAKEY WAKEY BIG BRO"- In the room laying on a bed completly covered with his blankets and only a few of his blonde hair popping from under the blanket, as Ryu saw there was no respones, he jumped on his older brother and started shaking the bed-"CMON YOU PROMISED TO TEACH ME SOMETHING AWESOME TODAY!"-Being a little over excited Ryu tended to be an annoying little brat at times, but even through he litterly dry humped his brother to wake up it made no diffrence, Ryu jumped off the bed and sighed, he was a little dissapointed, but he knew his brother wouldnt sleep in, if he wasnt absolutley exhausted, Ryu walked away from Zeshin's room and closed the door behind him saying-"Sweet dreams big bro"- He than rushed into his own room throwing his p-jays all over and wearing his regular black netted shirt and black pants, he strabbed his kunai case to his right thigh and pulled his hair into a pony-tail, something he always did when he was serious about "getting dirty" with training or even a mission. He than walked out of his house and made his way to a sweet shop, as he was walking he was humming-"Breakfast breakfast most important meal"-





The sound of crashing trees could be heard from the vast forest behind the Konoha training ground, the sound coming from a quickly balding patch of trees in the distance, one young Genin would be there responsable for the commotion at such an early time. Dante Hyuga would be said Genin, getting an early start on his training as all ways, but this day was a little different he was attempting to new type of training one that didn’t involve Jutsu or his normal Gentle Fist fighting style but instead a new fighting style which involved a weapon, said weapon was a scythe, made from an old Bo staff, with an attached chakra blade shaped like a huge sickle head creating a scythe from the two pieces. In the forest Dante was stood, surrounded by felled trees in his hands the weapon, left hand a couple inches under the head, the right hand near the bottom of the weapon leaving a few inches either way. His shoulders high and back slightly arched, his feet about shoulder width apart, he stood in front of his next victim a line of three trees equally spaced apart, twisting his torso to the left, keeping his arms still the scythe turning with his back he took a full charge at the first tree, lifting his right hand upwards about face level while his left hand came down below his hip, pushing upwards with his left hand as the blade edge came in contact with the tree's bark, cutting upwards through the thin tree like butter letting it all to the ground behind. His pace not slowing as he came to the second tree, by this time his left hand had fully let go of the weapon, his right hand holding near the bottom, twisting his body from left to right in one fluid motion he allowed his arm to slash the scythe in a horizontal strike at the second tree, which being slightly thicker than the last but still the weapon went through it quickly. Again his pace never stopping as he reached the last tree which was in his line of sight, using the momentum of the last strike to perform a full 360 degree spin on the balls of his feet, letting his body weight carry him around twice, pulling his arms up slightly after the first spin allowing him to cut through the sizely tree easily cutting a half a foot log from the tree as it fell down in two pieces. Carrying on another spin for 90 degrees allowing himself to slow, he fell to a knee being covered in sweat from his training, falling to a knee quickly using the scythe to steady himself as he panted before taking to his feet again, moving to house the scythe over his right shoulder in a leather holder attached to the middle of the back of the tunic he wore the bottom of the handle being slightly over his right shoulder, the scythe head sticking out by his left hip as it rested diagonally across his back. Catching his breath quickly, he took off through the butchered forest, finding his way to the training ground of the Konoha, attempting to practising his Jutsu this day as well, but upon leaving the shrubbery he saw the cloaked male from yesterday, saying nothing but walking within the area he was making sure the male would see him.







Vibrations carried ripples through the surface of water as Kei heard a muffled trembling from the distance. Something heavy had fallen, and again, in the forest behind him but he didn’t care enough to even blink, let alone turn around. He simply continued to gaze in his own eyes upon the reflection of water before coating the soles of his feet in a layer of chakra. Then, while stepping onto the water, his hands moved together in a smooth cadence of handseals that bought forth a clone, a shadow clone, containing about thirty percent of the Genin’s chakra. He had improved quickly over the last few days but the technique still required more training before it could be successfully executed; allowing Kei to make a perfect shadow clone, or even several. For now this had to do. Both he and his clone slid their right foot behind the left in perfect synchronization. They then each moved their left hand over the hilt of their katana while the right hand grabbed the sheathe; each leaving their secondary Katana untouched. Both then crouched a little through their knees while facing their opponent with their left side. Eyelids narrowed. A brief gust of wind blew through the air. Tensions grew as the Sharingan of both Kei and his Clone a vibrant red in the dim-lit atmosphere. And then, just when they were about to engage one another, just when even the surface of water trembled due to the accumulation of chakra… someone had arrived. Kei’s shadow clone dispersed and his eyes flashed back to black before he turned around to see the figure of a Hyuga boy he faced several days ago. “The one who ran.” Kei’s emotionless voice floated over the 8 yard distance between the boys before he raised his chin, slightly, and sounded a ‘tch’ from the back of his teeth before he said; “Leave. Come back when the children are up to play.” ,a nd stared through the other as if the Hyuga was nothing but empty space.

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<p class="MsoNormal">-As ryu made his way through the streets of konoha just to reach his favorite sweets shop, he kept humming and greeting people who he passed, everybody knew the cheerfull little fella named Ryu, as Ryu made his way to the sweet shop and stopped greeting the old lady selling the sweets-"Good morning miss"-he said and smiled his widest, the lady said-"Well good morning to you two"-with a small chuckle she added-"The regular than"-Ryu nodded and giggled, the lady than took a little paper bag with freshly made rice buns, Ryu grabbed the bag in excitment and allmost drooled all over the floor, Ryu reached into his pocket and placed 250 Ryo into the ladies hand-"Thank you very much ma'm"-he said and bowed his head heading out, while he was walking he ate two Rice buns as if they were nothing and decided to keep the other 3 for after his training or even to treat some of his fellow genin who also like to hone thier skills early in the morning like himself, Ryu made his way to the training grounds, seeing two Genin,-"Wooow..."-he said and his eyes started to shine in excitement-"Those guys are sooo cool"-he mumbled and raised the paper bag saying-"Would you guys want a hot rice bun?, I just bought those from the lady down the street, they are still fresh, I bet you been here for a while and are hungry and exhausted, so how about you two take a break and have a nice meal?"-he said and smiled brightly-

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<p class="MsoNormal">“I thought my little sister would be enough for you, but please if you feel like you could do better against me?” As he spoke his left hand slowly made itself over to his right shoulder taking the hilt of his scythe once more, slowly pulling it from it’s holder before holding it fully above his head and loosening his grip and slowly moved his hand down a little as the handle would slide down between his fingers until the bottom of the wooden handle hit the floor, the scythe head a few inches from his fingers as he held it tightly once more. Slowly leaning his weight on it as to taunt the male before him he notice the presence of yet another Genin, not that Dante cared enough to greet or even give this other person his time of day, his eyes never leaving the man before him almost making the other people disappear from him all together.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Rice… buns….” Kei’s eyes shrunk into two tiny dots on his face as a comical sweat drop ran down the side of his head. The entire air around him turning pitch black as if he was stuck in a void of depression. Slowly shrinking until he was but 1ft tall with two little wiggly sticks for arms that flailed fanatically towards Ryu. Then, with a small poof of smoke, things turned back to normal, as Kei was his usual self again and de-chibified, his dismantling gaze now dawning upon the new Genin who had arrived in a blaze of friendliness. “Disgusting.” In a rush of motion, during which Kei channeled augmented to his legs, augmenting his speed, the black-robed Genin ran over the ground following the trajectory of a crescent moon as he rushed towards the blonde boy. Halfway through his advance he readied his left hand above the hilt of his Katana and then he approached from Dante’s left side. It had taken but mere moment as Kei’s quick feet barely touched the ground between each step, and before the dust had settled where he last stood still, he already arrived beside Dante. His sword came like a flash of silver lightning, at least, it looked as such due to how it reflected the first rays of sunlight creeping over the horizon while it was drawn out of its sheathe in one fluid motion and brought back to Kei’s left side before being stabbed out just as he stepped out with his left foot and turned his waist into the powerful thrust; aiming to stab his sword in Dante’s side, after aiming to stab right through the wooden shaft of the Hyuga’s scythe. He pressed his sandals down into the dirt for a steadier footing as his sword cut through wind, and quite possibly wood and flesh. The suddenness of his strike, executed in the Laido style of Kenjutsu, paired with his sudden advance, would make a clean dodge very unlikely. But Kei had already thought several steps ahead of even that possibility as his right hand took the hilt of his second Katana. The moment Dante would move away, if he did, Kei would follow him and keep the space small between them while drawing his right-hand-held sword about halfway from its sheathe; aiming to smash the butt of his hilt into Dante’s stomach. This thrust was merely aimed to take away the opponent concentration, however, as Kei swung his right foot behind the left while slashing his left-hand katana in the same clockwise-motion; the steel of his blade leaving a trail in the air as it sped towards Dante’s midsection with a clean horizontal strike that aimed to cut deep before Kei stopped the blade whether it had sunk into the Hyuga’s flesh or not.

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<p class="MsoNormal">Dante’s scythe being at the left side of him, held by his left hand just under the head of the weapon, the moment he seen the cloaked-genin take of a thought would flash through his mind -So fast..- With all the training lately his body seemed to react on it’s own as he notice the male change his direction, noticing him coming towards him. Dante wouldn’t be able to outrun the slash of a sword if that was what was going to happen so instead took his ground, moving his left foot to kick his scythe into a spin clockwise, his right hand moving to meet his left now holding the scythe in the middle of the handle, spinning it rapidly by the time the Genin appeared on his left side, the scythe looking to be a blurred see-through circle at this point. Twisting his body slightly to the left to let the the head of the curved scythe blade grip to the bladeless side of the man's katana in an attempt to take control of the blades thrust for but a moment, twisting his body right as he carried the scythe to complete its current spin cycul. With the twist of his body turning right, carrying the blade of the man in a small circle while also moving the scythe right which would attempt to let Dante parry the attack away from him, letting the man’s own strike be used against him which would leave him in his still striking stance but in front of Dante, thrusting from left to right in front of him, giving Dante enough time to bring a heavy knee up towards the gut of the cloaked-genin attempting to knock the air outta him upon impact, lifting him off the ground a little. At which time Dante should have moved the weapon in which away that he’d be holding the scythe above the man with a two handed grip upon the bottom of it’s handle preparing for a full forced hammer like action with the bladeless end of the scythe, intending to hit the middle of his back with the part of the scythe head which connected to the wood, upon hitting the slightly lifted man the strike would force him into the ground below Dante, lightly to have a few cracked ribs. If the boy somehow managed to avoid being redirected by Dante, he’d attempt to follow his body motion, spinning on the balls of his free avoiding another strike.

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<p class="MsoNormal">His blade was caught inside the scythe and brought to move in a circle, causing Kei to withhold from his follow-up as he twisted the sword in his hand so that the sharp side faced up and the flat side rested against the scythe’s shaft. And then, in one clean sweep, just when the opponent’s arms were crossed from spinning the scythe, when the butt of the scythe-staff was aiming up in the sky. Kei slashed his blade up at high speeds while aiming to cut through the opponents hands; starting with the lower hand which would the sharp blade aiming to cut off all four fingers starting with the pinky before it aimed to cleave all the way through the upper hand; just behind the knuckles. Due to the swift slash, and the position that the opponent was in with both arms halfway through spinning the scythe, there was no real way out of the situation that most likely left a bloody mess. Following this, Kei immediately dropped to the ground and spun while sweeping his right heel around to aim and slam into Dante’s legs to aim and topple the Genin, which would be extra effective due to the knee being raised, and then arose to a crouch upon finishing the clockwise spin all the while moving his right hand to the other in order to hold his katana in both hands before he aimed a vigorous horizontal cleave through the possibly falling Dante before he would even be halfway into hitting the ground. If Dante had avoided the sweeping kick then the slash would aim to tear through whatever in its path on waist level while wind chakra coated the sword with cutting winds that further increased its slashing prowess. After the strike Kei dashed to his own left, sheathed the most likely bloodied sword, and came to a stop two yards away from the opponent, facing the other, and moved his hands together as if ready to weave hand-seals.

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<p class="MsoNormal">The pictures of all of his fingers being cut off flashed through Dante’s mind, adrenalin coursing through his veins by this point, his body moving abnormally faster than it normally would for but a second. Dante putting the full force of his body into stopping the spinning blade pushing it to spin counterclockwise as the man’s blade moved to cut through Dante’s hands, almost throwing the blade into a counterclockwise spin, letting both of his hands retract from the weapon leaving it spinning through the slash of the katana would most likely hit the head of the scythe causing it to be throw upwards into the air, only to be falling quickly to the floor behind Dante. Meanwhile the image of his fingers being removed made his body slightly numb after the quick actions he just took, not noticing the cloaked-genin’s leg sweep, although Dante’s knee would be lifted seeming as he didn’t pulling the genin in front of him he’d still be caught off guard and be dropped to the floor, landing just shy of the bladed side of his scythe. Landing on his rump he quickly rolled to his side and scurried to his feet as the man started to weave hand-seals, reaching into the pouch on his lower back to take a kunai from it and still in a defensive way preparing for any attack that might come from the han seals, he’d be standing about 3 feet away, knees crouched and arms bend with the blade of the kunai in front of his face

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<p class="MsoNormal">With a clink of metal against metal the scythe was thrown up into the air and fell down close to the Hyuga who was kicked down onto the floor and would find Kei’s horizontal strike an inch from bisecting him. But the Uchiha pulled his sword back just before making the lethal strike that his opponent had completely overseen, not wanting to draw attention upon himself by murder, and continued his actions as he would’ve normally. –How did he not see that slash? He would’ve fallen right onto my blade.-  So now they were but ''a yard from one another as Kei’s hands made no particular seal in particular. And then, in a sudden motion, he’d dash back while throwing his left arm out towards Dante. Yet when the space between them had only grown by a little, writhing snakes hissed furiously and rushed out from Kei’s long sleeve; their elongated bodies rushing through the air on a fast path towards Dante. Two snakes moved past Dante’s side and turned towards one another before returning the opposite way; repeating the process to aim and tie him up. While additional snakes moved out to try and constrict the Hyuga’s arms and legs and a final one aimed to wrap around his neck. None of the snakes, however, moved to bite or anything unless Dante moved back, in which case they chased after him while attempting to deliver poisonous bites, as for now they only aimed to constrict the adversary. “Hidden Shadow Snake hands.”  Kei spoke the words in a whisper that was so calm it was sinister. The way he handled himself in battle wasn’t human at all; bearing the traits of an ANBU rather than those of a Genin. His empty stare remained upon the other as the serpentine creatures made their attempts and he came to a grinding halt about 4 yards from Dante.''

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<p class="MsoNormal">Noticing the Genin pull the strike how could Dante be so stupid as to oversee this strike, it wasn’t like him at all, clenching his jaw, letting his teeth grind together, becoming angry with himself enough his facial expressions would never show it. Quickly veins around Dante’s eyes started swelling as the man was jumping back his byakugan becoming active instantly, He’d see a number of snakes started to make their way through the air towards him, thinking quickly on his feet, Dante dashed to the left side quickly avoiding the snakes, if they’d have followed him, reaching into the pouch on his lower back, taking a paper bomb and wrapping it around the handle of the kunai he already held quickly throwing it towards the middle of them, weaving the hand seal of a snake to quickly activate it intending for them to be blown to pieces. At the same time he’d approach the cloaked Genin in a sorts of a half circle run towards his right side (Dante running to his own left side.) in an attempt to clash with him in close quarters combat, his eyes being able to see the chakra flow of the boy’s body seeing every moment he’d try to do and prepare for it accordingly. Upon reaching striking distance, keeping a watch for the sword which might strike, Dante would quickly dodge if he could and attempt to land a fully loaded Chakra palm to the right shoulder of the cloaked male (KEi’s right.)

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<p class="MsoNormal">Just as the serpentines turned to follow their target they found a kunai being thrown in their midst which was bought to detonate and caused the snakes to vanish in expanding smoke while Dante moved to Kei’s other side. But the Uchiha stood prepared as he had already prepared the tattoo on his right arm mentally, similarly to how the previous jutsu was performed, however this one was different as seen when a large white snake sped out of Kei’s right sleeve that hung low to the ground. It was fast enough to then aim and crawl around the Hyuga’s closest leg, then wrap around his torso before moving around the extended arm just inches before the palm strike was to hit Kei; displaying incredible speed as the creature moved around the boy in but a very brief moment of time. This large white snake was on a completely different scale from the earlier ones as it possessed far more strength, easily enough to hold Dante in place, and would constrict the more Dante tried to move; up to a point of beginning to break bones. The way this snake had moved out of the sleeve and rushed forth to its prey, just as Dante had leaned into the motion of his attack and couldn’t instantly reset, showed that it was far more intelligent than most other serpentines. Kei then turned himself to fully face the opponent while the white snake also turned back to Dante; moving its slithering tongue close to the Hyuga’s ear, not making touch, as Kei moved to stand two feet in front of the other while gazing into the white hues of the Byakugan. And then, without so much as a warning, aimed to ‘chop the side of his hand against the artery running down the side of Dante’s exposed neck in order to temporarily cut off the Hyuga’s bloodflow; making him pass out.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="border-style:none;border-width:initial;padding:0in;">Dante would see the sneak before it left the sleeve of the Genin which gave him time to press back fully before stepping forward to follow through with his palms strike, he’d find himself about five feet away from the Genin, quickly weaving signs completing the signs for Fire Release: Phoenix Sage Fire Technique. Though Dante was a little more accustomed to using it the Jutsu still wasn’t perfect and after seeing what the Genin did last time he attempting this jutsu only caused him to attempt a harder attempt. Breathing in deeply while weaving the signs, landing on the floor after his leap, bring the last sign of Tiger to his lips, exhaling quickly in short bursts sending a quick wave of 5 fireballs flying through the air towards the cloaked Genin. His head turning if the Genin attempt to to dodge trying to atleast land one on target, most likely if the Genin was hit the cloak he wore would set ablaze, spreading quickly up the man's coat. Letting his hands fall apart from the seal after the jutsu, or if the child got to close, reaching his hand behind into the pouch on his lower back once more, taking a kunai and holding it tightly in his grip preparing for anything. His eyes saw ALL(You know apart from that little spot behind his head, huehue.)

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="border-style:none;border-width:initial;padding:0in;">The snake never stopped its earlier mentioned attempts as the Hyuga moved back and before the last seal to the Phoenix sage jutsu was even made Dante would find himself surrounded in mid-air by the powerful gasp of the white snake that had moved to take every limb in a ruthless hold, first sliding around both legs, then the torso, and then both arms individually to keep Dante’s hands separated; by the serpentine constricting its muscular body around the Hyuga’s arms and legs tightly to aim and restrict any further movement with immense strength that only increased the more that the Genin struggled. In the case that Dante had somehow managed to still use the Phoenix sage technique Kei would hiss at which the great white snake would aim to bite into the side of Dante’s face and inject its muscle numbing poison. The few fireballs that then still managed to hit their target were then caught upon Kei’s left forearm as he raised it to block two heated orbs that spread around his left sleeve and turned it into ashes that fell on the ground and stopped the fire from spreading over the rest of the robe. This revealed Kei’s left arm which featured the tattoo of a cobra swirling around it under loose bandages. The snake then brought Dante down towards Kei who had drawn his sword and stabbed out in one quick motion to pierce through the white snake and aim to stab through Dante’s shoulder. If it had sank into the opponents skin, Kei would look up at the other and run chakra flow throughout the weapon to coat it in fire; searing the wound shut before he withdrew his blade and his snakes let the other fall to the ground.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="border-style:none;border-width:initial;padding:0in;">Dante quickly found himself entangled up in the white snake which he attempted to dodge the first time, he was suspended in air as the white naked tightly wrapped around him allowed for little to no movement, he struggled a little until the snake grew tighter, restricting his breathing slightly as it did so. Gritting his teeth tightly as he felt the blade stab into his shoulder followed by a burning pain, the smell of burnt flesh was sent into the air as Dante looked Kei in the eyes, the Veins which would show his Byakugan active pulsed slightly, as he struggled a little more he found himself not being able to breath at all, his eyes slowly relaxing as he found himself passing out then and there in the coil of the snake.