Board Thread:Kirigakure Logs/@comment-27964908-20160401231533/@comment-27964908-20160401231955

Shu: Oddly enough it was a typical day in the Hidden Mist Village. The clouds were plentiful and gray in colour completely shrouding the sun in its wake of its ever so thickened form. Not one blast or ray of sunshine shined upon the village, and it always appeared as if it was about to rain. Sometimes it did, sometimes it didn’t. This weather also emitted a light breeze making the day chillier than necessary, you’d need to go out in a longsleeve if you wanted to be kept moderately warm. With the event that is the Chuunin Selection Examination looming over the shadow of Kirigakure prized Gennin, every Gennin within the Village Hidden in the Mist was scrambling to get some last minute training done as the exams start in a matter of days. All Jounin were instructed by the new Mizukage, Izuo to train their student ninja as hard as they possibly can before they head off to Konoha to participate in the exam. This year, it was hosted by Konoha as it is the biggest Village and has a proper arena to hold certain events pertaining to the exam. Kirigakure’s most famous Jounin, Shusuke Kiyoshi was going to be hard at work for the next few days, as he is going to be training his students personally to get in some skill brushing up right under the wire before the Chuunin exams begin. He woke up within his tree hut home on the eastern outskirts of the village in the thickest part of the woods. Shusuke climbed out of bed and dropped to the side in a push up position and performed 30 push ups, and then moved into 30 sit ups as well as dynamic stretching for an additional ten minutes. He then cracked his neck and then began to get dressed. He wore his black long sleeve with a tall shroud that can be used as a mask to cover the lower portion of the face when in battle. He rolled it up and covered his mouth and beard. He then put on his black shinobi pants and had his shuriken holster on his right leg. He then wore tall black shinobi sandals and tied a black cloth around his waist and ties it with large black rope. He then puts on his Kirigakure flak jacket, and then his Kirigkaure forehead protector on his forehead. He then placed his two shinobi pouches behind him on his waist and then proceeded on taking his best weapon, the legendary Seven Ninja Swordsman blade that they say is the fiercest of the seven, Samehada the Sharkskin. He had set up a rendezvous point a few days prior and they were to meet him at his private training grounds south of the village into the mountains. It was here where he learned the Chidori from his father, it was here where he continued his learning of the jutsu and create a stronger variant of it. This place had many memories for Shusuke and hopefully, he would pass this pace onto his students and their students in the future. Shusuke then headed off to the mountains to await the arrival of his Team. He bounced through the forest with a smile on his face, he was excited to see them in action again since the last time they had faced off, he wondered if they closed the gap between them some, it would be interesting to compare the amount of growth from then to now especially in such a short time span. However, Shusuke wasn’t just sitting around and teaching others, he was also honing his skills and training with his new deadly weapon, the Samehada. He was itching to get into battle and to see how much his students have improved over the last couple months. He soon as at his training sight and the place was just the way he left it. You could see craters from his Lightning Blade training over in the distance along the rock wall. Massive craters and very, very deep. He sat down and took off his large sword off of his back and set it down on his lap and closed his eyes and breathed in and out. He would remain like this until his students arrived to fight.

Dag: Thickened clouds created an overcast that administered a deadly chill when leaving one's home. It was an ordinary day, regardless of the fact that everyone was scrambling around for last minute prepartions for something that was soon to come. It was interesting; Mizumi had thought they would be more selective with who they allowed to go to the chunin exams; he thought, that it would be exclusive to those of the elite amongst his class like him and his friends. As arrogant as that may hae came accross, in his ehad he was just being honest. he had no interest in watching others waste their time, others who didn't put nearly as much work as he did into progressing in such a short time after graduation. His 13th Birthday was actually coming up; and he couldn't even be excited for it. Because in all honesty, he refused to celebrate it unless he was chunin by then. It was quite a cruel setting to place himself in but it needed to be done. If no one was going to pressure him then he was going to pressure himself. What he did know, was that no matter how many genin Kiri had decied to sent to the exams, the same rules still applied. Kill, or be killed; win, or come home with your head on a platter. It was simple logic. Losing was the largest sign of weakness and embarrasment; and whoever didn't return victorious would surely be frowned upon. It interested him in all honesty, he liked the thought of constant bantering looming over his head with open eyes of oppression. He didn't fear failure anymore. The only thing he feared was failing without trying. If he knew he absolutely gave his base then he'd show no disappointment or regret in himself. Glassy green hues were revealed from pale eyelids opening wide in the midst of the morning. The shaded daylight was similar to that of night; and gave somewhat of a lifeless feeling to the entire village. Usually the mist hung low, but today, it was quite high. The base of it was hovering over the countless small mountains surrouding the entire village, many of the actual villagers living outside the walls of the city plastered in stone and moss. His eyes turned towards his window, in which he looked outside only to see a flock of birds flying endlessly throughout the clouds above, their presence fading to him as he lost immediate vision due to the thickened fog. His face grew weary, as if he had woken up out of his sleep already in a tired state. Today was important, at least. He saw no means t it or showed no interest towards it because in all honesty he was doing well in preparations by himself, with his father, and his friends alike. He hadn't spent much time with his sensei sense their first initial meeting, and not for any discontent among them as a team, but instead he realized a simple factor. Besides simple skills, there wasn't much that Shusuke sensei could have taught Mizumi. But Mizumi, hungry for power, found no interest in "simple skills". He needed things ot make him powerful; things to strengthen him as a person and make him unique as a shinobi alike. He possiby could teach kaiori some things like that with lightning release, or maybe Karihime when it came to water release; but in terms of training with shu, he felt somewhat distanced and like a loner. Even so, through the passing weeks, he had grown to feel like he hadn't much need for a sensei at all, and was interested in continuing on his own rather than wasting time with silly exercise. But maybe today would be different. Maybe today would be more of a challenge, more of a test. Maybe today would actually prepare him for what had came near, the exams. The exams were said to be the most ruthless display of shinobi skill besides a war. That's a pretty far stretch. To be honest, despite the fearful presence it brought, it actually interested Mizumi. He wanted to watch kids he went to the academy with fight genin from another village entrirely. He was interested to see their strength, and to test it in any way he could. How fun it would be. A sadistic grin grew on his theoretical face, as he pressed himself upwards to get out of bed. Today, he'd do something different. The weather was changing quickly, and left no time to properly adjust. After getting up, and bathing, Mizumi decided to try something new. His hair that usually hung over his face in bangs, had been swooped back into a ponytail, sapphire strands hanging from the tie he used and flowing gently down his back. Instead of his normal fishnet top and simple kimono, he would instead put on a long sleeve flak shirt, black in color, that hung down in length slightly over his crotch. He put on now, a standard pair of shinobi flak pants, that had a grey stripe on the left leg. Unlike his other ones, they covered his entire legs, even his ankles, and led down to his normal sandals. He wrapped his forehead protector around his arm to create a band, knotting it around his bicep. He buckled his pouches onto his belts; these pouches which contained all his tool neccesary for normal shinobi success. he swung his wheat-colored fan over his back, and walked from his home with his hands in his pockets. Hardly knowing where to go, he somewhat began his voyage down an off-road, before trekking into some more mountainous terrain. Shusuke-Sensei had given them brief directions but only that, brief. Mizumi, alone, before his partners could arrive, worked his way up the somewhat small mountain compared to others, to somwhat of a canyon-like area with a large open space and rocky walls. This had to be the trainning grounds. Evidence of previous training was all around, craters and marks, black marks from lightning strikes against the solid surface. Shusuke Sensei was seen in the training ground as well. Without speaking a word, Mizumi simply walked towards him with a nonchalant attitude, his hands remaining in his pockets.

Kai: For Kaiori Shizo it had been a long day for he was forced to run some of his father’s weekly errands with him early in the morning because supposedly today it would be a larger load that usual. It was the afternoon now and the morning sun had settled into a dim daylight which corresponded to the average weather they had in the village of Kirigakure. As Kaiori and his father passed through the village roads carrying a large amount of what seemed to be grocery bags Kaiori was looking around and smelling the aroma of the foods that were being sole around him. He hadn’t eaten all morning this had went for hi father as well for they halfway during the trip realized when it was too late that this phenomenon had come to be therefore the two were walking without a bit of energy left in their bodies. Suddenly Kaiori couldn’t resist his hunger pains as they were growing and he yelled to his father who right next to saying “Dad!” and pointed to the direction of a steamed pork restaurant. For some reason Tenzin as soon as his son pointed to the restaurant the glorious aromas of seasoned and marinated pork rose through his nostrils in a strong attempt to pull him towards the source. After a quick few seconds of him smelling the food he almost in an instant submitted to his will and told his son “Let’s go” in a hasty manner. After about an hour of tossing and munching on roasted pork bites like savages the two males walked out the restaurant area with their groceries intact in their hands and stomach and desires filled. They wouldn’t have to do any more prolonged walking as their house was right around the corner from the pork shop which was about 5 minutes away. As they reached the door Kaiori used his feet to open the doorknob for the two men and they entered the house. As Kaiori put down the large amount of groceries in his hand he let out a large sigh which could be heard resonating throughout the whole house in pure exhaustion from the 11 year old boy. As his mother heard both of the two men enter downstairs she walked down to greet them for herself. As the family put away and appropriated things to their exact spot Kaiori’s mother Himika brought up something extremely vital to her son. “Kaiori, weren’t you supposed to be going on a training session today with your sensei?” to which Kaiori immediately responded with a pale look that erupted upon his natural look. This then caused Kaiori to forget the exhaustion and dash upstairs screaming his lungs out for he had totally forgotten about the appointment for training Shusuke sensei posted just a few days ago. As he dashed upstairs he immediately began to jump into a shower where he washed up in about 5 minutes which was 10 minutes less than what time he’d usually spend in the shower, then he would dry up and go to his room and quickly put on his on duty gear equipping his ninja pouch full of the tools he carried, his bow and arrow, and his forehead protector all in a seemingly short interval of time. Before he left he excavated his room for anything else he needed and was soon ready for departure. He then leaped out of his room with a sense of urgency and moved downstairs quickly saying on the way out of the door “See ya mom, see ya dad” before heading off outside. As he reached the other side of the door Kaiori emerged with a burst of speed as he made his way to the rendezvous spot arranged by Shusuke sensei himself a couple days earlier. As he dashed through the walls of the gloomy skies and building rooftops of Kirigakure he began to think about the adventures the trio and their sensei had been to prior from the recent occurrings of the chunin exams. Out of all the events he could think of the most prominent to them will forever be the time where they all first met in the spot that the three Kaiori, Karihime, and Mizumi knew so well. That battle was a remarkable feat at least for them as they knew that the likes of 3 genin could never face such a person labeled as a Jounin as they obtained that rank for a reason, but that didn’t stop them that day from completely standing their ground and fighting to the last breath. For that reason that will be their greatest moment for now but he knew with his allies a similar or even greater battle could arise for all of them knowing their full capable strength. Kaiori still dashing with a high speed made his way to the training grounds where upon dashing in there saw his friend Mizumi there and his sensei Shusuke as well. He then greeted them saying “Wassup guys” not waiting for a response but just using it as a greeting.

Waki: Karihime’s maturity over the past couple of weeks had grown on unbelievable levels. He had been through quite some things, meet some interesting people, and learned a variety of jutsu. His childish attitude was fading away. The joyful Karihime that loved being around people was slowly fading away. His demeanor was more and more becoming that of a true Kirigakure ninja. This village had no room for those who intended to have fun. The strongest survive and the weakest get kicked out. Karihime decided to hold off on his medical Ninjutsu until after the Chunin Exams. He believed that his role was no longer to heal those around him and strive for a greater good. His medical Ninjutsu would be completely personal; only using it on himself and those who he truly cared for. Acquaintances and temporary friends were not on this list. There was no more fight for a village as a whole, but fight for himself and his handful of friends. The village to him was merely a Birthplace and the forehead protector he wore was just a symbol of origin. The Chunin Exams was coming onto Karihime fast and his Sensei called them out to begin some training. Karihime respected his Sensei. He wasn’t sure how he felt towards him but when the time comes his life would surely be spared. Karihime got ready with a traditional look. He headed out to the training field that Shusuke told them about and Karihime took his time on arrival. He came up on the field and noticed that he was last to arrive. He didn’t care and he was sure that they didn’t mind. He noticed that Mizumi went for a different look today, but he didn’t address the new clothing. He simply glared for a quick second and continued walking. “Yo”, Karihime said in a quick manner. He had nothing against his friends and he still had deep love in their friendship. He was simply going through a change as he was growing up and got to see more of the world. “Kai”, He said without looking in his direction, “The exams are no more than 3 days away, and your still weak.” Karihime walked towards him and looked him in his eyes, only being a little taller than him. “You need to improve your skills if you wish to survive.” Karihime might have seemed brutal in his words, but he was worried about his friend. He cared deeply for him and wanted to make sure that he was keeping up with Mizumi and himself.

Shu: Shusuke awaited his beloved students at his private training ground with his eyes closed and Samehada upon his lap awaiting silently for his master to spring it into action. He may not have looked like it but Shusuke was raring to go for a battle, he was on one of his very rare bloodlust streak having a new form of intensity and tenacity. As he waited he charged his chakra into a deep concentration but without it giving off a signature or allow it to have a physical presence, it was complicated stuff that required a serious mastery in Chakra control and chakra flow. As he waited, more chakra built up within himself seemingly harmless and docile on the outside, little would anyone know, Shusuke had a big surprise planned. Soon he was then joined by the first of his three boys, Mizumi Omo had arrived first. He usually was the always the first one on time. Shusuke hadn’t seen very much of Mizumi as of late, he had trained the others but he hadn’t seen him all that often. Shusuke figured that he would e the one to come to Shusuke for training, but little did he know that Shusuke knew of Mizumi’s progress as a Shinobi since becoming a team member. He had simply walked up to Shusuke without even saying a word, having his hands in his pockets and generally, in Shusuke’s eyes being rather disrespectful. Shusuke didn’t say a word however, he just let it be and continued to wait for the other two to arrive which didn’t take much longer. Next up was Kaiori. He was another Lightning Release user, Shusuke had originally thought that this young man would be that of a special kind of student of his due to Shusuke’s vast skill in the Lightning Release as well as its many techniques. Kaiori hadn’t been training much since he had met him. Slacked off and now the other two left him in the dust, Shusuke worried for his safety alone and he knew that they all were a solid team and would look out for one another, but Kaiori going into the Chuunin Exams would be dead weight if he’s not careful. He was one who greeted Shusuke and Mizumi, he was rather cheerful this fine morning as he usually was. Shusuke still however didn’t react to his greeting, he still sat there holding his blade. Then finally the final member of the trip would complete the waiting, it was Kairhime, the up and coming Medical ninja. He had been training very hard and learning all types of new jutsu to add to his repertoire and arsenal, honing and fine tuning his chakra control as well as his skill with technique. Shusuke was proud to call him his student, but it had seem that he allowed his new found strength to get to his head. Upon greeting the rest, he too had his hands in his pockets and greeted them with a simple “Yo” then proceeded to scold Kaiori for his lack of purpose and urgency in his training. Shusuke was proud of each of his young boys, but they each had a long way to go and have all seemed to have chosen a path to walk. It was time to test their skills as Shinobi. Without opening his eyes Shusuke spoke. “I have called you all here because the Chuunin exams are in a matter of days. I have been keeping track of your training individually and I’m impressed with what I saw, however I want to see firsthand at the damage you all can do. Your teamwork as always will be your greatest weapon in the battles to come. So I would like you three, to fight me with everything you’ve got!” Shusuke bellowed out and at a moments notice, the chakra that the had been accumulating over time he allowed to full release with his silver-teal chakra surrounding his body and explain with sheer power and might, shouting down all that opposes it. He hopped to his feet and grabbed Samehada’s handle and as he looked up at them then flung his blade into the air, he had a sadistic grin on his face as his chakra burst so suddenly. He looked like a demon. He then ran at his Students and rapidly weaved signs at an alarming rate, it appeared as if lightning possessed his hands as he weaved the signs: Tiger → Snake → Rat → Snake → Tiger. As he did this he accumulated chakra within his stomach and the soon dispersed out a massive amount of water from his mouth towards his students this technique was called Water Release: Water Formation Wall. It created a shockwave of water that repelled and pushed back all that came in contact with it. Shusuke then leaped onto the large wave of water and grabbed his Samehada in his hand and looked down upon his students as they were faced with a tsunami.

Dag: The Dynamic Trio had arrived, less innocent than they were before. Mizumi was showing somewhat of a lack of respect towards his sensei but for what reasons. He knew of his skill but what of his usefullness? Shusuke Kiyoshi was beyond all means, and through all eyes, a great shinobi. But for Mizumi, he wished he had a teacher that knew things in more of his area. It was a simple request, a simple wish; though it would'nt be granted, so as of late, he had been training himself. And realistically, there was nothing wrong with that. Mizumi saw his two team mates as his brothers, and upon their arrival. His expression had grown from quite dire, and bored, to more excited and loving. His darkened eyes returned to eyes of love and interest, showing great emotion towards his allies' arrival. Things were going to commence very fast, and Mizumi could sense it. Even though he hadn't spoken to Shusuke Sensei directly; Mizumi sensed something different in his demeanor. it was noted upon entry, and stored in his endless database of a mind that he used to act tactically in the battlefield. His intelligence was of average level in means of a scale, but the way he used it was what mad him unique, and what made him successful. He had somewhat of a humble demeanor to himself; not really cocky in a way to display his skill, but somewhat of a "I did it myself" attitude. He had the sense of hardwork and dedication. if anything knew what that meant, it was him and his team mates. Mizumi's new look showed more mature features in his face. Revealing young, chiseled natures over his face after removing his hair from the majority of it. His black attire was somewhat more combat-ready, and showed more of a stealth approach and village affiliation than his natural approach to a more customized and unique appearance. He arrived ready, and had no quarrels with his sensei but would most definetely give him the very last bit of his power; to the last breath; just as he had did before. He looked over as both Kari and Kaiori had arrived. Kai, the younger one, Mizumi noticed was getting slightly taller. This brought some joy to his face, and as he released his devilish smirk, his lips parted to adequate portion in order for him to release words shortly after. | "Yo, Kari, Kai." | He said softly, the small smirk growing in his face more and more as he reached his arm over to glide his hand against the surface of Kai's here, rummaging it slightly still carrying a bit of height over him. Mizumi's voice was getting slightly deeper as he was somewhat in the middle of that puberty stage. He took great pride in his team mates. As they gathered around each other, and Mizumi chuckled at Kari's remark towards Kai, they ended up standing somewhat together in a cluster of 3, all seemingly prepared and looking towards shusuke sensei for further instruction. Mizumi watched his eyes, something about them showing discontent in what stood before him, but at the same time, pride. He listened to shusuke sensei for the brief moment that he spoke, spewing words in which Mizumi had expected the entire time. | "Hmph." | Mizumi said whilst smirking again, his eyes closing to hide vibrant green iris' from the daylight before he opened his mouth to release his own words. | "Shusuke Sensei. Regardless of the paths we have all taken to get stronger. Our ability as a team hasn't wavered the slightest bit. Figured that was something you should know before you slipped up.. and underestimated your students." | mizumi said with a sinister tone, whilst seemingly trying to coax Shusuke-Sensei into giving it 105%. Mizumi wanted to challenge, and he genuinely wanted to test their skill together, in order to properly show that their progression wasn't a complete failure, despite their individual strength. Within seconds, their sensei was charging forward, with great speed, weaving signs fast, as a jounin would have been expected to be. Mizumi, eyes as acute as ever, instantly began to backpedal, creating a wing-like shape and extending his arms to signify his teammates to do so also, somewhat falling back onto them. He then gathered his footing and created a firm grip of traction with his sandals in the stone surface beneath. Mizumi reached to his back and grabbed his fan, creating an extremely firm grip on the handle of his fan. The cloth wrapping dangling off the surface of the pommel. Mizumi took the forefront, as Shusuke Sensei continued to charge towards them. After weaving the hand signs, he began to spew a large amount of water from his mouth, flowing outwards towards them at an alarming rate, the crashing waves coming at great force and momentum in order to cover the team in a massive amount of water. Mizumi reacted fast, seeing his sensei draw the shark skin and hold it firmly whilst riding the waves down towards them. It may have been a lot but it wasn't THAT much, seeing as though it was water created from him, and not a pre-existing source, Mizumi was aware of how much chakra it took to make such a large quantity. noting this, he was keeping a keen eye on the Jounin's chakra reserves, in order to know when to properly act later on in the battle. Seeing the oncoming wave, the only thing he could thing of was to use its momentum against itself. He grasped his fan, and as the frontal part of the wave was close to meeting them, he used the momentum of the water, combined with a counter clockwise horizontal sweep of his fan to create a massive gust a wind in conjuction with flowing chakra through his weapon. The gust of wind and reversion of momentum allowed the wind to split the wave of water into two smaller bodies with a small middle section being their immediate location. It took a quick burst of strength so Mizumi stopped to quickly recover, Shusuke-Sensei still approaching the split in water, riding the wave with ease. | "Kai!" | Mizumi screamed, awaiting Kaiori to properly react to the situation, whilst looking back to Karihime. | "Kari. We all been through a lot. I was there? Remember. Get it together and help out, if it comes to it and the split doesn't hold be prepared use your water prison technique to reserve us, but keep a good eye and control over the ability to disperse it at any time in case He decides to use a lightning technique against us." |

Kai: As the trio finally made it to the assigned location by Shusuke sensei Kaiori became excited for it would be a long time since they actually fought again as a group since basically the first time they met Shusuke sensei. What upset Kaiori was on Kairhime’s arrival though he gained a darker look and tone claiming that Kaiori was weak and that he needed to train more which in turn made the thoughts go into his head. “What the…. Why is he talking like that, and how does know what I’ve been doing these past few weeks, I want to be a chunin just as much as everyone else in here and you know what let me prove to them that I’ve been training.” Though on the outside all Kaiori said to Karihime was “Ha, we’ll see who’s really gotten better.” Then at that moment Shusuke sensei interrupted the brief reunion of all them with his deeper more adult like voice saying “I have called you all here because the Chuunin exams are in a matter of days. I have been keeping track of your training individually and I’m impressed with what I saw, however I want to see firsthand at the damage you all can do. Your teamwork as always will be your greatest weapon in the battles to come. So I would like you three, to fight me with everything you’ve got!” Kaiori responded in conjunction to this “Great, don’t underestimate any of us, go all out!” Kaiori then felt the massive chakra welling up inside of Shusuke sensei as he took a step back and began forming hand signs at an unbelievable speed and then from his mouth formed a fairly large water wall made straight from the water chakra directly from his body. With no other source of water other than him it was an impressive feat and Kaiori responded with a “Wow!” as his sensei now standing on top of the water began to come near the three. Mizumi then pushed Kaiori and Karihime back in order to get them some space away from the water. Mizumi then showing his age and proficiency started off the response by grabbing his fan and releasing it in an extravagant manner. He would then use his fan to create a medium sized split in Shusuke sensei’s wave that was approaching them causing for the wave to split into two small bodies of water at the base of miniature tsunami which would allow the three to have some space and work with and not worry about getting hit by the technique. Mizumi after doing this yelled to Kaiori saying “Kai!” signaling him to respond to the matter at hand which Kaiori was already one step ahead. Kaiori was focusing on his usage of lightning ninjutsu and desired to be proficient in it making his usage different from the average users and he put that skill to the test. As the wave as a whole was still approaching them Kaiori began to form the Boar → Ram → Snake → Horse → Dragon hand seals and suddenly as he let the last hand sign go his right hand began surging with a large dose of lightning chakra which emanated all around his body in large streams of lightning. He then slammed his palm towards the ground while crouching saying “Lightning Release: Electromagnetic Murder” and as he placed his hand on the ground lightning began surging through the ground in ripples and streams cracking the ground as they traveled towards the wave. Kaiori in turn didn’t want the lightning to go straight forward so he generated the lightning chakra in a widespread area where it would reach to both ends of the water wave and even more. If Shuuke sensei were still to be riding the water as the vicious lightning jutsu began to surge through the water he would be instantly shocked repeatedly which would in turn damage his body greatly and leave him vulnerable. As Kaiori was still crouched he would signal turn around while firing the jutsu to tell Karihime “Jump off of my back and leap towards Sensei so while he’s shocked you can get a good hit on him.” Kaiori was just talking in the moment and was down for all suggestions into their tactics but would want his teammates to act accordingly

Waki: Karihime could’ve been seen as a jerk in the way he talked to Kaiori. He wanted Kaiori to understand that if he seen and been through some of the things Karihime had went through in their amount of time away, he would be just as salty as him. Karihime still didn’t loosen up to Kaiori as he responded to him with a simple “Hmm”. The attitude of Karihime was slightly becoming nasty, but he meant good intentions in all honesty. He didn’t want Kaiori to be put in the same position he was in when he got injured during a previous mission. He listened as Mizumi told his sensei that he shouldn’t underestimate the power of the three. Karihime smirked in agreement to Mizumi’s words. He saw Mizumi progressing just as fast as he was and that interested him. He enjoyed the success of his friends, but he wanted the most acknowledgement for his feats than them. He felt as if Mizumi was ahead of him a little and that made him jealous. They were friends indeed, but three adolescent boys will always fight to be the head of the pack. Their sensei began to speak and encouraged the boys to give it their all. Recently hearing that his sensei had officially been granted to wield Samehada, Karihime was interested in fighting one of the legendary swordsmen. He wanted to find out what made him so legendary and test if he was even worthy enough to carry that title. Karihime respected his sensei’s power, but even his sensei was on Karihime’s list of who to surpass. He had recently scratched off Kaiori’s name and planned on keeping it that way. HE knew that Karihime was indeed going to get stronger, but he was in the lead and he wasn’t giving that up. He could feel that his sensei was building up chakra inside of his body. Karihime wasn’t sure if he was trying to hide the fact that he was doing so, but he read through it with ease. Staying alert he noticed his sensei begin to form several hand seals. Karihime wasn’t familiar with the sequence so he didn’t know what to expect, but he noted it just in case he came across it again. His sensei began to form a large mass of water that could be resembled as a tsunami. Karihime didn’t flinch from the sighting of the wave, but he did believe that it was strong. He listened as Mizumi began to attempt to take charge. “Ahh mizu mizu, always one to move first aren’t you”, Karihime had to respect the fact that Mizumi was usually the field general in their group battles and let him do his thing. He stared at the tsunami as he begins to hear the crackling of wind surge past his body. He had a feeling that was his plan and was impressed at his fast reaction. He heard the expression from Kaiori as he said “Wow!” Karihime shock his head in that Kaiori was still surprised of our strength. He decided not to express that out loud though. Mizumi insisted that we use a water prison jutsu combined with a lightning technique to corner their sensei, but Karihime knew that it wouldn’t work. Not only did he know the speed of his sensei would be fast enough to escape the forming jutsu, but Karihime would get shocked by the lightning strike as well. Kaiori still went with the idea that Mizumi brought up and he didn’t blame him for it sounded like a good plan. Karihime brought his hands together and formed the tiger seal and focused his chakra. As Kaiori commenced his lightning strike Karihime formed two water clones by his side. The three charged as Kaiori continued his attack. He knew that their sensei would have no choice but to jump off of the wave in order to get away from the lightning strike, so he acted upon that matter. One of the clones knelled down and was used as a base. The real Karihime and the second clone both jumped off the back of the knelled clone. The real Karihime gave a midair push to the second clone so it could reach more distance. That clone that was pushed headed directly for their sensei with his fist balled. He intended to strike their sensei if he intended on moving from the wave. The real Karihime slowly feel to the ground, but dug his hand on his pocket and let it rest on a kunai. He threw the kunai towards the sensei as well as a backup plan for his initial attack. Falling towards the earth he quickly spins his body and lands on his left knee and his right hand. He brought his head up to watch as the events would take place.

Shu: Always bold in battle, and also boastful in their talk. That was the best way Shusuke summed up his three elite Gennin students, he had no doubt that they would bring nothing but honor and good fortune to Kirigakure in the upcoming Chuunin Selection Exam, and also make Kiri a proud and powerful country when Shusuke is gone or retired. As he watched his students spring into actions without making any hesitation, as usual they combined their chakra natures and allowed it to have extra effects while supporting each other, defending each other as well as attacking their enemy, in this case their sensei Shusuke. He was proud to see this was how far they had come, but it wouldn’t be enough to put Shusuke away so easily. Still having that lust of bloodshed in his eyes, Shusuke analysed the moves used by his students. First, As usual, Mizumi played the role of the maestro calling out patterns he saw and support his team from behind the scenes. He utilised a very powerful wind nature’s chakra move that seemingly has the cutting power of splitting Shusuke’s Water Formation Wall technique in two. Just as this was about to happen, Shusuke tossed up Samehada slightly in the air to his left and then made the Tiger seal. Soon, three water clones were emitted from his body and the water clone that appeared on Shusuke’s left grabbed the tossed Samehada and held on tight to it. When the Water Wall was split, Shusuke leaped into the air and the clone with Samehada did the same. The last Shusuke, currently airborne in between the opening of the split waves and started weaving seals of his own. He weaved many seals at the fastest pace he could go, As this was happening, Kaiori’s lightning release jutsu had just hit the two split waves of Shusuke’s water wall technique and just amplified them giving them a massive shocking property, Had Shusuke been on that a second longer, he would have been burnt barbeque. The clones weaved many hand signs and would have taken forever if Shusuke hadn’t been an expert sign weaver, soon the split twin waters starting to shape and manipulate into a different form. The water then started to sprout something like a head from the frontal are of the both of them and soon it became clearer. At the same time the water formed into two twin dragons imbued with lightning style chakra from Kaiori’s Lightning Release technique the dragons looked fearsome and roared a nasty roar, loudly into the battlefield to be hear by all its participants. Soon the clone would fire these pair of water dragons at the students, coming at them with speed and ferocity. The lightning really made it look more fearsome and it allowed it to move a lot quicker than normal. The two air borne Shusuke had a job of their own to do. Meanwhile Karihime was also air borne and had created water clones of his own, Shusuke wasn’t shocked to see that the boy had mastered the technique and was now employing its use In the heat of battle. He used these clones to propel himself forward toward Shusuke to land a blow to his face but with Shusuke and his clone dodging and jumping into the air to avoid the lighting technique, Karihime had sailed by where they were, as he landed safely, he reached into his shinobi pouch and launched a few kunai blades at Shusuke while air borne. He called out child’s play and whipped three shuriken at the kunai to deflect them. As that happened the clone with Samehada had landed near Karihime and had begun to engage in battle with him at clone combat. The clone came at Karihime from his blindspot, swinging the Samehada aiming for his left shoulder. The swing was coming in fast and if it were to connect then Karihime would have been blown back due to the sheer power of the blunt force of his blade as it was still wrapped in its bandages. The real Shusuke that was still airborne watches as all these events played out. He then landed outside of the range of Kaiori’s Electromagnetic Murder technique. Landing on the left and outside of its range, Shusuke then looked upon the field and was already impressed of how large a scale he had to crank it up so early. This was going to be a good fight, as he stood alone he kept on his guard for any sudden attacks or movements whatever came his way. He’d be ready.

Dag: The battle had been raging on in a fashion they were quite used to. They were combining their strengths to try and push Shusuke-Sensei to his absolute limits. He was no pushover, and was worthy of being called sensei in every form of the word. Everything was going somewhat smoothly, Mizumi, who had been attempting to create an opportunity and space for his friends to make attempts at their sensei, was now just standing quite still. He was watching as thing's transpired, hoping that he had did enough to put them in a very reasonable position in order to propely do something of worth. The water rushed past them on each sides of his body; the left, and the right. Bits of it splashed onto him with little-to-no intentions of actually causing damage to him; he was just getting a residual after affect of the changing of the current's direction applied by his force of wind. He was growing quite proficient in Wind Ninjutsu, and couldn't be denied that. He was learning to also utilize it to contribute to his speed and overall evasiveness in order to properly make use of his affinity. As he watched, Kaiori had launched himself high in the sky in order to deal a damaging blow of lightning, after crashing down and allowing it to flow beneath their feet and through the earth then into the current itself. Karihime, acting as quickly as he possibly could, was acute in his actions enough to know that Shusuke-Sensei was far too agile and smart to fall for such a simple attempt. In response, he then created a flurry of clones in order to administer slight Confusion. Kari was launched into the air and a clone had flown towards Shusuke-Sensei who was still facing the electric wave that was coming in his direction. He had no fear in the matter, and was moving fluently in the air with the positioning and agility of a ballerina. it was amazing to see. He moved like a dancer, gracefully combining his agile skillset with that of his clones, traveling towards him with his fist balled and ready for a punch. Karihime himself, as in the original, landed slightly a bit away, and launched kunai towards Shusuke-Sensei to create a fast-paced collection of attacks to throw their sensei off guard. With great focus, Mizumi watched everything before deciding what to do next, and whilst watching, had placed his fan back into its holster on his back. As he expected, Shusuke-Sensei was mid-leap, clones also mid-air and they were moving somewhat faster than Mizumi's eyes to originally gather upon a first gander. The clone had a firm grip on samehada, and later landed with it, to combat Kari who was a bit of distance away from them now. The clone had interests in rending Karihime with the wrapped blade, aiming for a strike at his shoulder, whilst Kaiori and Mizumi were in their own heap of trouble. The lightning that Kaiori had used in an attempt to fry Shusuke-Sensei, had transpired the crashing waves into a tsunami of water and lightning alike. This struck fear into Mizumi upon first glance, even if they weren't in direct contact with the waters. His panic then grew into concentration, as he continued to notice his surroundings; Shusuke-Sensei was now forming a mass amount of hand signs, or was it one of his clones? Regardless it was taking quite a bit of time to perform even for the level of skill in which Shusuke-Sensei had displayed in weaving signs. As it was finished, the waves that were separated in two, were now converging and transforming into dragon figure-head like shapes, swirling and roaring violently as if animated. Mizumi was familiar with the technique, but not familiar enough to notice it directly from the hand seals. Regardless, Mizumi saw great threat in the attack, but only had interest in escaping by simple means. He wasn't sure the extent of Kaiori's ability to escape, but Mizumi had to trust him to get out of this particular situation with out his direct assistance. The lightning that had equipped onto the dragons had caused them to be somewhat greater in speed, and velocity. Mizumi, noticing this, realized he didn't have enough time to form the 7 hand seals required for the body replacement technique, as he wasn't known for the speed of his hand signs, that was Karihime's forte. Noticing this, he decided to take it into a manner in which he could get a large distance away from the oncoming attack, but in a short amount of time. Focusing his chakra briefly, and forming the tiger hand seal tightly with his hands. In that instant, he'd seemingly dissapear, teleporting to the naked eye, and appearing quite a distance away from the initial trajectory of the blast and across the field of battle; somewhat closer to Karihime than the Shusuke-Sensei and Kaiori. From the angle in whih Shusuke-Sensei had been at, it might even seem like Mizumi got hit; and what was notable from his body flicker technique, was its silent nature. He disappeared into a gust of wind, instead of a puff of smoke. appearing on his two feet quite a bit away. The clone was somewhat mid-swing, still attempting to cleave at Karihime, all of it happening in a quick succession. Reacting fast, Mizumi reached into his pouch and grabbed 2 kunani, launching them rabidly at the clone with great enough accuracy to guarantee that Karihime wouldn't get caught in the cross-fire. He felt as though it'd be hard to dodge an unexpected barrage of Kunai whilst mid-swing, his momentum surely holding him back from dodging it easily. Hopefully upon impact, the clone would disperse, As Mizumi was very familiar with the fragile and shallow nature of the water clones. Dealing with this clone however, was not to show that Karihime couldn't do it himself, which he was more than capable of doing; but instead, to free up karihime who may have had more to contribute to this particular situation than Mizumi.

Kai: Kaiori was now locked in the heat of the battle with his comrades Karihime and Mizumi a feat that would be employed in almost all of their battles in the future and they know it for their bond was deep. Kaiori had just finished his lightning release technique Electromagnetic Murder who’s widespread range and amplified effect damage made the jutsu a force to be reckoned with especially since It was about to hit the water jutsu Shusuke sensei was riding on. It was all for a failed effort as for when Kaiori looked upwards Shusuke sensei was already in the air with his signature 3 clones at his sides already dodging the technique combination. The clones presence in mid-air was also frightening to see for Karihime he had launched himself up to Shusuke’s elevated height to try and catch him off guard but now that he had dodged and was in air with water clones the outcome wouldn’t be good and Kaiori knew that as soon as Karihime launched the three shuriken to his location and counter the three shuriken with three kunai of his own in a quick and fashionable manner. Kaiori now focusing on his and Mizumi position as they were still near the electrifying water torrent that had been caused due to a result of Kaiori’s jutsu, there two the Shusuke’s had been forming a multitude of complex hand signs on their descent downwards and Kaiori knew this was trouble as he when he looked towards Mizumi they took a few steps back in caution of the outcomes. Even though Kaiori didn’t see the two land with the water wave in the way he did see the electrified current now forming into something different all of its momentum stopped to rise in the air forming two head of water which then in an instant formed into something even bigger, sleeker, and more defined as it was no doubt a water dragon. Not just any water dragon but one that was shaking with vicious electricity as it still usede the water previously created by Shusuke sensei as a base for it therefore it gained it’s lightning properties. “Aww shit biscuits” Kaiori groaned to himself as he saw the now two huge lightning water dragons approaching towards him and his friend Mizumi at ferocious speed. Kaiori thinking of a multitude of options in his head such as Substitution, forfeiting, Body flicker (even though he hadn’t obtained that technique yet), anything was viable for the young man as he knew he couldn’t withstand the amazing force of the technique head on. He then resorted to simply running away as he turned the other and began running with all the amount of speed he could muster. As he looked back on the dragons that were gaining he saw Mizumi seemingly teleport away from the situation and now it was just him the dragons were gaining on. Kaiori then turned his head around and began running in the opposite direction once more but with the concentrated speed of a true runner and shinobi and sadly it wasn’t enough for the water dragon’s speed was still a force to be reckoned with. Kaiori would then run in the forest surrounding the training grounds and immediately jump onto a branch of one the trees and continue to move left and right through different branches and trees to try and lose the water dragon’s seemingly homing type capabilities. As he jump upwards they rose upwards, he went they went left it was trivial but the game was about to end for Kaiori could only survive for so long and it’s only been at least 1 minute. The water dragons that were on the same level in terms of height as the tree jumping Kaiori were crashing through each tree one by one eating through them like grass facing a lawnmower and Kaiori knew the running had to stop soon and so while he was jumping he took one large leap and using chakra control landed vertically on the tallest tree he could find and he ran upwards at great speeds and of course the tree infested lightning water dragons followed upwards. As Kaiori reached the top he then did a backwards leap which caused him to scratch right past the water dragons with his back before descending downwards with his back facing towards the ground to which he then witnessing the dragons make their obvious turn formed the Ox, Ram, Monkey, Dragon hands signs and he held out the dragon hand sign and yelled “Lightning Shift: Barrier!” And at that time a continuously lightning chakra induced sphere formed around Kaiori from his falling. The dragons making their complete u-turn crashed down towards the ground with an outstanding amount of velocity and finally catching up the Kaiori that was in a sphere falling downwards and the first dragon opened his mouth viciously and splashed its outstanding force against Kaiori’s barrier exposing the front part where it hit along with it shocking Kaiori and with no time to spare the dragon came in and deal as it splashed down with the same amount of force blasting Kaiori down to ground heavily damaged but actually better than he would’ve been if he hadn’t erected the barrier as the first hit was softened and the second hit launched him towards the ground but the back of the shield was still erected from the first attack and it softened his landing. Kaiori lays in the water wasted area struggling to move but he knows his friends are in danger so he makes slight efforts to get up.

Waki: Karihime and his teammates did indeed put in their best efforts to hold down their sensei, but he was extremely skilled. Using the splitting of his water to his advantage he formed two twin dragons that were enhanced with Kaiori’s lightning technique. Karihime luckily wasn’t in the area at the time, but he had problems of his own to deal with. Sensei like student, Shusuke can form water clones as well. Forming a couple of clones, each one completed a tactic of their own. Karihime was lucky enough to end up with the clone that wielded Samehada, one of, if not the most dangerous swords of the mist. Only being a water clone Karihime knew that he was more than capable of defending from the technique The clone swung the massive sword towards the shoulder of Karihime and Karihime was prepared to counter strike the attack. Before Karihime moved he noticed some shuriken that came towards Karihime’s direction. He didn’t know if it was from Kaiori or Mizumi, but he didn’t know why they did it. Karihime used the shuriken to his advantage as it came flying towards his area. The clone was in mid motion of swinging his sword and Karihime knew that if he focused an unnecessarily large amount of chakra to his feet it was cause a small enough explosion to give him an extra boost. He was quick with his chakra flow as he directed a large quantity to the body of his feet to propel him upwards with great speeds. He eyed the shuriken that was coming at an angle slightly behind where the clone was standing. As he used the burst of energy to move upwards he dodged the swinging motion of the sword and was now airborne slightly above the clone. Using the force of his legs he pushed off the shoulders of the clone to put it in the direction of the kunai as he went backwards. The kunai hit the clone directly in the head causing it to disperse and Karihime landed some feet away. He noticed that the events that were happening to his friends were coming to an end as he saw Kaiori struggle to stand to his feet. He wasn’t sure what had happened exactly, but he assumed Kaiori wasn’t able to dodge the attack. He brought his hand to tiger as focused his chakra and glanced over to the position of Kaiori. Using his body flicker technique, he quickly rushed to his aid attempting to help him stand up. “Come on kai, you’re the fastest out of all of us.” Karihime looked up to the air as he looked at his sensei float in the sky. “Mizumi, get him on the ground”. Karihime had an idea in mind and he focused his chakra to make it one with the water that was under his feet. The field was submerged in water due the techniques of his sensei and Karihime used that to his advantage. He dug into his pocket and grabbed a smoke bomb and slowly tossed it on the ground, obscuring his sensei’s vision. He sunk into the water and became one with the water. His chakra was hidden from the others, but he trusted that Mizumi could find a way to get his sensei on the ground for him to attack. As the smoke dispersed it would have appeared that Karihime had vanished from sight.

Shu: Everything was playing out very quickly and the battle was immediately formed as an elite battle among skilled ninja. Shusuke was proud to see that his boys have improved so much, it almost makes him want to tear up but he knew better than to do so, these young mean each dodged and weaved their ways skillfully as the fight progressed, they handled each scenario and obstacle Shusuke put in front of the three of them. First, his Water dragon counter attack was a minor success. Although Mizumi had initially been shaken with confusion as to how to avoid the bullet of the electric water dragon technique, he used his body flicker technique to cover a mass amount of ground to avoid the technique as skillfully as he could. He then appeared over by the side of his kneeled partner, Karihime who he had saved from the water clone by throwing the kunai past Karihime and right at the clone. Karihime also took note of the movements Mizumi had taken and taken some measures himself to ensure that the kunai would meet their mark. He had charged his chakra to the soles of his feet to enhance his moment as the battle dragged on. He leapt into the air and used the clone’s shoulders to parry and allow the incoming projectile weapons to hit their mark. As he leapt over the shoulders of the clone, the clone was unprepared for the counter attack and Karihime stopped down on its shoulders making it bow is head losing eye contact with the weaponry. Surely enough, they hit its target right on the very top of its head, the clone then soon dispersed itself into water and splashed the area it took up, taking it right out of battle. It dropped the Samehada blade mid swing and it fell to the ground with a large thud. Meanwhile, Kaiori decided to take on the electrified water dragons on his own, he turned tail and ran in the opposite direction and sprinted towards the forestry area outline. He ran up a tree to avoid the first water dragon that was targeted for him and it impacted on a tree trunk exploding in a massive burst of water and electricity. Kaiori had done a backflip off of the tree he was in and used one of his clan’s special techniques, the Lightning Shift: Barrier. This technique allowed Kaiori to block all incoming attacks, he took the second water dragon head on and shaved off some damage that he could have potentially sustained from the assault. He was overcome with water and electricity and was left lying on the ground just outside of the forest struggling to get to his feet. Soon Karihime would be at his side tending to him and urging him to get to his feet after he avoided his Samehada strike done by the now useless clone. Shusuke watched all of this happen and smiled with joy, he had some bright ideas popping into his head now, It seemed that the boys had forgotten about the third clone Shusuke created. While Shusuke was mounting a counter attack, he conjured up three clones and purposely gave two of them short term functions to act out in battle, one with Samehada, and the other creating the water dragons. As Shusuke landed off to the side out of the range of Kaiori’s lightning technique, the clone landed off on the opposite end closer to where Karihime and Mizumi had taken out Shusuke’s Samehada clone. That clone had run up behind Mizumi at a fast pace and then whilst moving, he was forming hand signs as he ran up behind Mizumi. He weaved the signs: Snake → Ox → and then proceeded to clap his hands as he ran up to the boy. As he got closer, the Shusuke clone held his hand out and tried to clasp onto Mizumi’s shoulder and proceed with using the Water Prison Technique. If he was successful, Mizumi would be trapped in a spherical bubble of water. The clone that performed the electric water dragon technique, he ran right at Mizumi and then flung several kunai and shuriken towards him where he could see to distract him from the second clones movements. The real Shusuke now ran at Karihime and Kaiori as Karihime tended to his partner. As he ran he whipped multiple kunai and shuriken towards the two boys and then weaved more of the similar signs: Tiger → Snake → Rat → Snake → Tiger. He then kneaded chakra in his mouth once more and spewed out more water from his mouth creating another enormous tidal wave meant to blow the two of them well into the forest.

Dag: Mizumi had already been watching the vents transpire with great focse and determination in his gaze. They had fought Shusuke Sensei times before but this was different. The way he battle was filled with so much ferocity that it made it seem like he was really ytriny to cause harm to them> Mizumi somewhat liked it. In fact, he simply liked the challenge. After throwing the kunai towards the clone, mizumi's gaze shifted elsewhere to see to how Kaiori was handling the situation> Mizumi hadn't known what ricks Kaiori had up his sleeve but he was dissapointed, and somewhat worried to see that he had NONE. Not in a bad way, but he didn't have somthing particularly useful for getting out of the situation. He had'nt evem ;earned body flicker. He then took to his only real option, runnning. He began to turn in the opposite direction and run backwards away from the momentum of the dragons roaring towards his location. Their speed was immense and out of everyone, it seemed Kai had the worse of time at the monent. He ran waway from the water dragons in genuine fear; and Mizumi didn't blame him. Watching somewhat closely, he looked to see as Kaiori used his chakra control and acrobatic skills to go somewhat off of the oinitial location of the valley, and to tuch the surface of a powerful branch, strong enough to hold him before being destroyed by the massive dragons behind him. It was quite terrifying. Mizumi coulnd't see anymore so he shifted his gaze back to shusuk-sensei, just before hearing a loud raring noise and a resounding thud; followed by Kai's body hitting the ground. Mizumi's fist had balled up, because from the way things had seemed, Kai was actually pretty hurt. He struggled to stay up, and though Mizumi admired his spirit and dermination, he refused to let his friend get hurt anymore. He screamed: | "Kai just stay down! I won't watch you get hurt again. me and Kari can attempt to do our best from here!" | just as he had said that, he looked back over towards Karihime, who had first, so easily evaded and countered the clone's futile attempt at an attack. Mizumi's eyes widened, focus closely, and soon, a small smirk grew over his face. He knew what Karihime was planning and was interested to see it play out. As soon as Mizumi dropped the smoke pellet, to create a sort of cover, mizumi knew what Karihime was trying to do. | "From our training..."| He thought to himself while smirking devilishly, the smoke quickly overwhelming the area. And as it was to be dispersed, no doubt Karihime would be hidden with his new technique; but what else would come of it? As Karihime' plotted, Mizumi had to defend himself. THe sound of a third clone's feet splashing against the water beneath them gave him warning that he was there, charging towards Mizumi from a back angle. Mizumi focused his chakra and then held one singular hand seal in front of him, crossing both sets of index and middle fingers across each other, before in a puff of smoke, 2 clones of him appeared. These were shadow clones, and they were extremely firm, both carrying 1/3 of Mizumi's total reserves and power, which was already above normal genin level. The one clone turned to face Shusuke-Sensei's clone that approached from behind. Instead of Mizumi, it was him that had been grabbed, The jutsu taking immediate effect, and as the water clone's hand was lodged into the prison, the second clone went to draw a kunai, finishing the clone off with a horizontal slit to the neck, returning him to a puddle. In the meantime, Mizumi was dealing with the other. And as the clone approached, Mizumi had drawn a kunai from his pouch, and held it close to his face. He spewed Wind chakra from his mouth, and coated the blade with it, flowing his chakra through the weapon. The eerie green glow then took shape of a medium-sized scythe, that he weilded in one hand by the still visible Kunai handle. WIth the weapon of wind he charged forward, deflecting the projectiles coming towards him with it, whilst pulling back to render a horizontal slash across the center area of the clone, cutting him in twain. his own clones had dispersed, and then ran towards shusuke sensei who was spewing more water from his mouth; With a flick of the wrist, he threw the kunai into a spinning like motion, though the shape of the scythe still taking shape to keep the appearance of a scythe-like cyclone, launched and then he ran towards him at great speeds.*

Kai: After the transpired events Kaiori was left on the ground struggling in the depths of the forest near a massive amount of water under him as he was laying waste in the water dragons Shusuke sensei had conjured. As he was struggling to get up from this he was unaware what had happened to his friends as they still combated the elite jounin. Suddenly he heard Karihime coming towards him seemingly trying to help as he saw his actions in the forest and of course his current status condition. Mizumi then stated to Kaiori he was the fastest of the trio how could he have fallen so easily. Kaiori couldn’t respond at all and was on the verge of blacking out to the point where every blink he took was almost equivalent to 5 hours in real time in his mind. Kaiori blinked once and Karihime was gone, the 2nd blink Shusuke sensei was running towards him and activated the same water jutsu he initially started off with at the beginning. Kaiori could only look at such a technique and not respond for he could not recover properly from the previous attack. Still he forced his body to turn around to where he could be on his stomach in the puddle of water and he formed the Ox and Ram seals in a diluted manner before being completely washed up by the tsunami once again. With his body moving weightlessly in the water he kept his hands stuck on the Ram seal and began to form slowly the Monkey and Dragon seals. He was incapable of moving but being taken out early he still had chakra to spar and there drowned in the tsunami he activate his technique Lightning Shift: Staff which formed in his right hand. As he was still being blown back by the water he mustered all of his strength to put the staff end under his stomach and extend that end of pole up a few meters so he could be well above the stream of water to the point where he could grab a branch of one the trees in the forest. Being a small lightning technique it only generated lightning in an immediate area of the staff but didn’t shock Kaiori due to it being his lightning chakra emanating from the source as he was holding it.

Waki: Karihime, standing with his two friends, prepared himself as he watched his sensei charge towards them with clones. “Sensei, you failed once you made this field into conditions it is now. You know this is home strong suit.” Karihime had a plan up his sleeve and was going to catch his sensei with something off guard as he charged towards them. Mizumi had a mental connection with Karihime and knew what he meant by those words as he dropped a smoke bomb down on the floor. The area around them was now concealed by smoke and Karihime knew he had to act quick. He focused his charka and made it one with the water under his feet. He started to slowly slide into the water and it was amazing for that the water was in fact shallow. Once the smoke had appeared he was vanished from the area and left Mizumi to handle things on land. Karihime had his chakra hidden so his sensei wouldn’t be able to detect him so easily. The chakra presences were there, but it was faint. Karihime quickly noticed that his sensei targeted the down Kaiori and he knew he couldn’t leave him there. Mizumi was more than capable of handling clones, but Kaiori was about to take on 100% jonin damage. Karihime had to make sure that Kaiori was ok and formed a water clone while he was hidden under water. The use of chakra certainly would reveal his position, but it was better than nothing. Karihime’s clone quickly emerged from the water and took Kaiori out of the path of the shuriken and water jutsu that he could be protected. Unfortunately, Kaiori was caught in the path of the water and took some damage, but at least he was somewhat protection. Karihime used the opportunity to emerge from the water near his sensei and noticed that Mizumi had also thrown a kunai. Karihime in a somewhat close range attempted to kick his sensei as in the back area. This gave a multiple chance of an attack hitting. If he were to react to Karihime; he would be at risk of taking a kunai to the body, but if he reacted to the kunai Karihime would have a higher chance to and his attack. The kick was powerful, but nothing the sensei could get severely injured from. He would simply get knocked back some distance and feel a quick burst of average pain.

<p class="MsoNormal">Shu: It wasn’t many times where Shusuke had to rethink his strategies, but today was definitely one of those days. After he had sent the remaining two clones to go after and capture Mizumi from behind, Shusuke had then taken off to handle the two boys alone, While Shusuke weaved and spewed water from his mouth to form the Water Formation Wall and push back Karihime and Kaiori deep into the forest and take the battle there, However Karihime fling down and smoke pellet to conceal himself from Shusuke’s vision. As good as it was he will probably be able to never see within a cloud of smoke unless he somehow magically obtained the Byakugan right there and then. He then stopped spraying a wave out at them watching it dissipate from not being completely formed, had he kept going he would have been wasting a considerable amount of chakra. He stopped running and then took stance as he awaited for a signal to continue on his end again. He opened all of the senses that were available to him and surveyed the area in front of him, while keeping his ears open to listen to the back of him. Soon the smoke enveloped Shusuke himself and then his sense of sight was immediately taken from him for the time being. He closed his eyes and focused his energy on using his other senses that were available. He stood with his legs apart and his arms cocked and ready to move if they needed to be moved rapidly. He heard sloshing in the distance away from his body but it was inconsistent, and the air currents were moving in such a way that it would be a difficult to feel rapid movement. But Shusuke heard something else, something that sounded…Sharp. He immediately ducked and bowed his head off to the side and rolled to his left. Now crouched down but his eyes still closed, he had just dodged a kunai imbued with wind chakra. The sound of the wind chakra made this piercing sound as it travelled through the air, it would’ve been difficult to evade had he not have the reflexes he has develop over the years as a ninja. He figured that it was Mizumi, which means he was within the mist as well. “Great…” Shusuke thought to himself. He avoided a crisis but now he knows to expect to be stealth-fully attacked in this fog he slowly stood up to his feet and soon heard more sloshing around in this wet marsh like area thanks to Shusuke’s water techniques. He heard some water start to shape and form behind him and he soon opened his eyes and turned around to find that it was Karihime rising from the ground! He hopped up and then attempted to kick Shusuke in the chest and he managed to get both of his hands up to absorb the impact but he was blown back a few meters from where he was standing originally and then made an executive decision. He ran. He ran and jumped out of the smoke cloud and as soon as he made it out he turned around and smiled. He was proud to see the growth of these young men coming into their own as Mist Ninja. He then called out the to the three of them and spoke. “Alright you three, enough now. Let me give you my analysis!” he called out with his hands cupping his mouth. He awaited a response from his students.

<p class="MsoNormal">Dag: Mizumi was interested in only one thing, and that was detaining his Sensei at all costs. His aspiring will and duty to attempt to win this fight; really made him a shinobi. He would not faulter, even if one of his team mates was badly injured. It took a great sense of duty to continue on after seeing his comrade take such a nasty hit; but Mizumi proceeded. He looekd outwards towards the training area, which was soon enveloped in the smoke of Karihime's bomb. The lot of them were now somewhat within the fog, and from what he could see, Shusuke-sensei was trapped dead in the middle. He was surely missing his vision, lucky for Mizumi, he was very very skilled in fighting without it. His ability to note his surroundings and heighten his other senses was astounding. The shape transformation of his wind-chakra had formed a scythe-like weapon, that was swung towards Shusuke-Sensei with great strength. The cutting power of it was immense, but Mizumi hadn't yet mastered the Vacuum blade technique and was still in need of some sound suppressing training. He took notice to how things were playing out, and knew Karihime's plan from his initiation. It took great focus for Mizumi to take heed of the actions, but he did no less. The smoke somewhat clearing, simply revealed Karihime, rising frmo the depths of the shallow field of water to do what he had much skill in: utilizing his strength. He cocked his foot back with great force, only to strike it towards the chest area of Shusuke-Sensei. Mizumi cheered him on from his head, smirking at the partial sight of it, and from the looks of it he had made direct contact. It wasn't until a bit later that he saw that Shusuke-Sensei had blocked the impact with his forearms. Mizumi was heated and influenced to retaliate; now that him and Kari had seemed to have him on the ropes with an endless barrage of attacks, it was hard for him to respond; they had to keep pressing! Mizumi pulled out two shuriken, one in each hand. Holding his hand out with his palm facing upwards, he held the two shuriken flat. He took a deep breath, and focused wind chakra in the base of his mouth as his cheeks expanded, beforehe smoothly released small amounts of wind chakra to envelop the shurikens. Each shuriken began to rotate accordingly, until massive, circular fan-blades of wind formed around the shuriken. Mizumi went to launch them before he heard Shusuke-Sensei's notion to stop. With that, he released the potency of his chakra and watched it dwindle, the shuriken falling into his hand momentumless once more. He grabbed them with a firm hand, and slowly walked over to Shusuke-Sensei with cautious footing, fearing a trap.

<p class="MsoNormal">Kai: Kaiori was now regaining his breath and was slightly revitalized more than he was before after hanging to a tree branch for a few minutes after Shusuke sensei’s second water wave attack. With the water literally still beneath him from the attack in a river he pulls himself up from a hanging position by pulling upwards with his right hand all the way up until he was now sitting on the branch breathing heavily. As he sat on the branch he looked towards where the water was running and he saw Shusuke sensei engaging in battle with Karihime as it seemed as if Karihime had got in a landed blow Shusuke sensei which forced him to actually block the hit being slightly pushed back a distance. Kaiori thought in his head while still laying down on the branch in a monotone manner “Nice Kari actually got a touch on him.” This actually put some pep into Kaiori’s step as he felt as if he was recovering slowly from the water dragon bullet attack. He then sat parallel on the branch facing towards the area Shusuke sensei was in and he pulled out his silver constructed bow along with the same material arrows. He then grasped an arrow and put it straight on the bow as he aimed towards Shusuke sensei’s silhouette. As he was aiming lightning began to charge from the arrow making a lightning covered cloak around dazzling with electricity, the main reason the bow’s lightning was large because of silver’s handling of conduction with electricity being one of the most abundant metals to conduct it therefore amplifying the numbing power and charge of the lightning. He pulled back on the lightning arrow as he was ready to fire and then he heard Shusuke sensei offer to give off an analysis of the fight so far which caused Kaiori to stop aiming but instead listen out while still flowing his lightning chakra through the arrow as he listened.

<p class="MsoNormal">Waki: Karihime watched as the kick landed successfully on his sensei. His sensei was pushed back from the force of the kick and Karihime jumped back to where Mizumi was. Their sensei jumped back as well and stated that they should wrap up the training for today. Karihime agreed for that he needed to get as much rest as possible for the upcoming Chunin exams. HE nodded to his sensei showing that agreed with his plea. Karihime calm his nerves down and started to head home so that he could rest his body. His day of showing his true skill was upon him. He wanted to make sure it was perfect.

<p class="MsoNormal">Shu: He awaited for his students to exit battle mode but surely enough, they wouldn’t end it so lightly. It seemed that they still were on battle mode as Mizumi imbued wind chakra within his shuriken’s as they whizzed through the air and pierced the sounds of the wind as it passed by, Shusuke heard it long before it entered his field of vision, it burst out of the now fading smoke cloud and Shusuke then immediately flipped into a corkscrew like motion to dodge it at a rapid speed. He then fell onto his knees and then stood back up to his feet. He grinned with joyful emotion, they were still taking this seriously, probably assuming that he would use this underhanded tactic to get them to drop their guard. They were smart, and a little bit paranoid. It was a good combination though. He then sensed lightning energy being emitted from the farther end of the woods and assumed it was Kaiori, the only other lighting user present. Before whatever he was up to get off he then started to speak. “Alright, you three, since you don’t believe me being done, I’ll give you the results from here. You have done well and executed your attacks as a team and as individual’s night flawlessly. If you have time, go over your techniques one more time so that you have a true understanding of them.” He said. He paused and jogged over to collect his Samehada and holstered it on his back and spoke once more. “We leave for Konoha in a few days, be ready with a message from me in the next few hours.” He said and then just like that, he was off and disappeared nowhere to be found.