Board Thread:Konoha Logs/@comment-24479578-20170119025023/@comment-26021384-20170128080744

Looking up at Nali, Shinra had heard what she said about replanting, then looked around at what he did. The whole field was upturned with uneven footing of earth from his wave, and trees were missing and splinters with chunks of wood scattered the ground. "Oh right. I'm sorry about that.  That doesn't come out of anybody's pay does it?" He asked with a little concern, never having paid much attention to the aftermath of his earth jutsu, as he didn't like to look at how great of a thing he had done.

Taking the water and snack, Shinra opened the bottle and downed a good portion of it before turning on the snack. When she squatted down, his eyes met hers and he swallowed the food that was in his mouth, listening to her speak to him again, being polite to not interupt if there were any pauses in her speech until there was a big enough one for it to feel like it would be the end of her words.

"Yeah--I know I can't rely on defense all the time. But earth's biggest practicality relies on countering with the unpredictable.  Do you think if I struck first with my body alone and relied on using my earth jutsu when I was ready to throw up defenses or make a counter attack would work better?  I really don't like telegraphing what I have with the first move." He assumed she meant going on the offensive meant being the first one to make the attack.

"So--what do we do now Nali?" He asked her, wondering what else they could do for their training session, though the look in his eyes indicated he was running battle scenarios in his mind on overdrive.