Board Thread:Konoha Logs/@comment-24937485-20160402192129/@comment-24937485-20160402192409

It was the middle of summer in the land of Fire, and boy fire was the word to describe the heat today, as the sun hit its noon point being directly over the village casting little shadows, some would think it’s torture but other like Dante would make it optimal training weather. The heat made everything exhausting so training like this would push the body to its limits faster than usual which was the type of training Dante preferred, already being dressed in his usual attire he quickly left the Hyuga compound as to not bother anybody, or have anybody follow him like someone seemed to always do… But alas he found himself at the training ground which he normally visited, though instead of standing by the stream or by the trees which might offer release from the sun he kept himself out in the open, soaking in all the warm, feeling it quickly made him sweat while he went about his normal training routine which consists of Taijutsu and Ninjutsu training. Punching the air with a controlled left hook before moving his entire body into a right palm thrust in a down diagonal trajectory, using the momentum to spin 360 degrees bringing his left leg up spin out mid rotation, letting him followed through with a back heel roundhouse before landing on both feet crouched, jumping back and weaving seals to attempt one of the newest jutsu he was learning, Snake → Ram → Monkey → Boar → Horse → Tiger upon ending with Tiger, he brought the tips of his hands which held the seal to his mouth, inhaling deep to let out a mighty breath of fire, which formed into a ball, and grew the further it traveled, but about 4 feet in front of him it withered into nothing and left him sweating, lighting panting from the heat, reaching for his bottom bottle on the floor before taking a quick sip and returning to his training.



Seated in the shade was Kei Uchiha who didn’t wear his long black robe as per usual. Instead, he was dressed in a skin-tight black tank-top that showed some of his snake tattoo’s through the bandages that covered his arms. He wasn’t one who favored the excess amount of warmth that graced Konoha today, not at all, he much preferred the cold and somber rain that resonated with his very being. But being a Shinobi meant preferences did not matter and that one had to be able to produce results no matter what the weather may be like. Up till now he had been seated in a meditative position, a few beads of sweat running down from his forehead, as he regulated the chakra flow within his system which in turn cooled his actual body temperature down enough for him to bear the heat. But he still had a ways to go before being capable of actually ignoring that dreadful sun completely. A sigh passed his lips as he then got up to his feet and moved out of the shade cast by the trunk of a large tree only to be immediately alerted by a source of heat coming from his left. –A fireball?- His eyelids peeled back a bit as he made ready for unexpected contact but then the fire dissipated as quickly as it had come. But where one would expect to see an Uchiha genin who failed the Technique, there was a Hyuga whom Kei had met before. Now, to Dante, it’d be quite easy to see that Kei’s eyes weren’t as lifeless as before and he no longer looked like he was ready to kill at a moment’s notice; like an inanimate object having been brought back to life. But upon Kei narrowing his eyelids it’d be more than visible how the darkness was still very much a part of him al be it in a different way. Snake → Ram → Monkey → Boar → Horse → Tiger. Kei repeated the hand-seals and brought his digits up to his lips as he kept the Tiger-seal in play while then exhaling a large orb of fire, about 8ft in diameter, that rushed through the air, and ripped through the ground, on a fast path towards Dante. The flames created a mirage of sorts in the air around them due to it already being so hot outside which would make them seem even more threatening than they already were as Kei’s cold voice followed the heated assault. “This is how it’s done. Great Fireball Technique.”



Looking on through the fizzled out fireball only to notice a familiar face -Kei..- Dante through to himself, the little scar on his shoulder started to throb as he looked onwards to him. Quickly he noticed the same seals which he had just woven, he’d seen Kei’s fireball Jutsu before when he was here with Hitomi, and it wouldn’t have gotten any weaker, quickly just as the fireball left the Genin’s lips Dante made a quick dash to the left moving in a crescent shape around it, feeling the immense heat coming from the jutsu but avoiding it at the same time. While moving around the the fireball slightly, weaving a new seal Tiger, upon doing so his legs and feet became augmented with Chakra, granting Dante an immense burst of speed, this being the Body Flicker Technique. Using the gained speed, he’d seemingly appear instantly behind Kei, pinning in such away on his left foot that his right knee was being through towards the back of Kei’s head, intending to connect Dante’s knee with the back of Kei skull, with enough force to instantly knock him unconscious, leaving him vulnerable to the forward force of the knee, letting him fly forward a little, landing on the floor face down. If Kei somehow managed to avoid the knee, Dante would use the spinning momentum to turn whichever way Kei was in an attempt to prepare for what Kei might do next.



He could see Dante moving around the circumference of the fireball before making the tiger seal and ‘vanishing’ from sight in a display of speed that Kei’s normal eyes couldn’t keep up to. However he, by now, was used to opponents using the body flicker to try and make an unseen approach. It simply wasn’t useful against him any more as he’d be ready each time an opponent made the tiger seal and seemingly disappeared. When Dante came out of the body flicker and made his attempts he’d find himself to be kneeing nothing but empty air as Kei was already up in the air, ascending, from having jumped straight up the moment Dante had used the Body Flicker technique. He then adjusted his mid-air positioning so that he laid-out flat in the air, horizontally, with his torso facing the ground and Dante as he reached out with both hands and sent five snakes out of the tattoo’s covering each of his arms. The hissing serpentines extended much faster than Kei went up and aimed to get to Dante when Kei was about 7 yards up in the air. Two of the snakes aimed to bite the Hyuga’s left and right shoulder, three more moved to encircle his lower legs to aim and ensnare him before trying to bite the boy’s thighs. The other five snakes, which originated from Kei’s  left hand, would wait for Dante to move or react before rushing after him; one aiming to wrap around his neck, one around his left wrist, one around the right, and the same for both ankles.





Noticing his knee hit nothing but the air, he’d quickly use the momentum of the knee to spin into a standing position, quickly activating his byakugan in an instant. Just in time enough for him to see the snakes heading towards him from the sky, pushing back with both feet to put a little bit of space between himself and the snake, knowing from their last battle that they could follow him to unknown lengths, while jumping back, skipping on each foot putting more and more room each time between him and the chasing snakes. While putting room between them, attempting to weave a set of seals which followed Tiger → Boar → Ox → Dog → Snake timing it just right so that when the first five snakes hit Dante his body would poof into white smoke a piece of wood being left in his place, splintering at the attacks of the snakes. Dante would appear a foot or two behind the piece of shattered wood, his hands already in his pouch, taking all six of his shuriken from it, three in each hand between his index middle and ring finger, throwing two shuriken in which a way that one would curve in the air to go slicing through the two which aimed for his shoulders, the other one moving to slice through all three which aimed for his legs, cutting them all in half. Another three being thrown at the same time, two of them being thrown to curve in a diagonal line through the middle of each snake in an X formation, leaving only the snake coming for his neck which the last shuiken should take care of, his last one being augmented with fire nature chakra, igniting it as he throw the shuriken towards Kai’s torso, attempting to leave him nowhere to go while he was falling to the ground, the shuriken if they hit him would simply just cut into the flesh burning the surrounding area. Upon doing so Dante would reach into his pouch once more, taking a Scroll which contained a Fuma Shuriken, opening the scroll quickly to summon it, throwing it fully forced at the place where Kei should land having dodged the other attacks.



Fangs dug deep into wood as Dante made a successful escape and before they could ‘poof’ back to their realm they were chopped into two by the Hyuga’s skillful display of shurikenjutsu. The following assault of hissing snakes that came at the retreating Genin was then halted by another three Shuriken, one of which came for Kei who was on his way back to the ground; headfirst as if looking to head butt the grass in a few seconds. The Uchiha’s eyes then closed for a moment and re-opened to display the Dojutsu known as Sharingan; his eyes now red and each home to three tomoe. Kei now clearly saw where the Shuriken was coming to several yards before it had and as such he spun his body around while turning 180 degrees around his horizontal axel in order to let the shuriken pass by the front of his chest while barely cutting through his tank-top and skin; not enough to draw blood. The fire surrounding the shuriken, however, had left a burnt mark that was visible underneath where his tank top was cut open; leaving the skin a bit blackened. But Kei didn’t even flinch and kept his focus on the opponent to see the Fuma shuriken being summoned and thrown. In order to counter he drew one of the Chokuto from behind his back, in his left hand, and with his Sharingan watched the giant projectile approach as if in slow-motion. Due to his sight, and quick reflexes, he was then able to stab his sword through the opening in the center of the Fuma Shuriken just before it got to him, as he was about to touch ground, and kept it at bay by raising his arm and pressing the blunt side of the blade against the inside of the opening. In doing so he kept the Fuma Shuriken spinning around the top-half of his blade while both his feet touched the ground. He then simply made a downward slashing motion with his left arm to send the Fuma Shuriken flying back at Dante before running after it and re-sheathing his sword. Then, as the giant  Shuriken aimed to cut into Dante’s chest, Kei came to a grinding halt, three yards away from the other, and abused the fact that Dante would most likely be focused on his own Shuriken to then  perform Wind Gale Palm by clapping his hands together and sending out several powerful gusts of wind that did not only speed up the large shuriken but also aimed to slam against Dante’s form by their own right, aiming to knock him back while Kei focused his left eye on the Hyuga and transmitted a wave of invisible chakra that’d near-instantly infiltrate Dante’s cerebral nervous system. Even with he Byakugan’s ability to see chakra it’d be next to impossible to avoid the Genjutsu; especially with the wind release chakra masking it. And upon hit it’d aim to instantly lock Dante in a Genjutsu where his body would be painfully pierced by several stakes that took away his body’s freedom while trapping him in a world of black clouds and blood-red grass. “Magen: Kasegui no Jutsu ” Inside the Genjutsu, Kei would approach Dante with an indifferent stare and sigh before pointing at one of the stakes. “Even with your eyes… you might see the falseness to this illusion but that won’t remove the illusion as it is. You’ll still feel the same pain….” He then aimed to stab a Chokuto through Dante’s chest, further adding onto the pain of the earlier stakes. “You’ll still see what I want you to see.” He then stabbed again, aiming for Dante’s gut, while the real-life Kei would have aimed to deliver the exact same stab at the exact same time so that it’d be hard for even the Byakugan to immediately distinguish what had happened as Dante would feel pain both in and outside the illusion; however the real pain of Kei’s sword would have broken the Genjutsu. This would strip away the black from the skies and the crimson from the grass, while they stood eye to eye with Kei’s sword penetrating the other; purposefully missing any vital spots.



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<p class="MsoNormal">Dante could hardly believe the reaction time of Kei, looking at him in some amaze as he quickly seen his Shuriken dealing minor damage and his giant projectile fully stopped. Quickly weapon spinning on the upper half of Kei’s weapon, noticing his own weapon being thrown towards him, that comboed with the wind jutsu that Kei used, sent the shuriken being sent at him at unbelievable speeds. Quickly leaping into the air as the shuriken first started to fly towards him, being a few feet above it as the wind jutsu hit, Dante having avoid the projectile but being hit by the full force of the Wind jutsu, throwing him back down towards the grass with an abrupt landing on his right shoulder, easily dislocating it. Quickly he’d be lay on the floor looking towards Kei, noticing their eyes meet, and suddenly the skies and grass seemed to be coated with another layer of reality, he knew this was Genjutsu, but how?! He’d never seen a sharingan before so he didn’t know of their visual powers, but he knew genjutsu from his time in the forest, he’d seen this same layer, over take the trees to make them appear to be buildings. Suddenly he’d quickly feel sharp pains all over his body, as he looked down over himself, he’d see a bunch of stakes, looking to be the same visual effect as the sky and grass, he knew himself that they wasn’t there, but the pain would be hard to argue with, as he felt stabbing pains from the places they were. He lay immobile on the floor, unable to move and in excruciating pain, giving grunts every time he attempted to move feeling the pain grow each time. He notice the real Kei starting to move towards, there wasn’t much he could do but take what was to come.

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<p class="MsoNormal">His blade found blood as it penetrated Dante’s stomach and completely went through the Genin’s body before stabbing through and into the ground. Kei’s eyelids then peeled back, slightly, as he just left the weapon there so that the Hyuga would remain pinned, and took a few steps back to gaze upon the impaled victim while a flicker of murderous intent showed in his Sharingan. –A life for the claiming….- He then drew the second Chokuto and moved to stand behind the back of Dante’s head while taking the hilt in two hands and raising his sword high above Dante’s forehead. And then, in a merciless strike… he stabbed the sword down hard enough to pierce through one’s skull and leave the brain a severed mess. However, instead of hitting his peer Kei stabbed his sword down deep into the soil directly beside Dante’s head and closed his eyes while sighing as he killed his primal instincts and re-sheathed the sword before moving over to the one still inside Dante. He then channeled fire, although a very small amount, through said sword in order to cauterize the wound before pulling it out and sheathing the blood-soaked weapon as he turned his back to the other. The ominous Sharingan de-activated just as he had turned around and Kei would speak but three words before walking away to find some place to cool down outside of the tormenting sun. “Body Blow Technique.” Which referred to a technique he had witnessed before, a technique which expelled chakra through all tenketsu, a technique which could break Genjutsu due to its disruptive nature even if the user wasn’t proficient in genjutsu disruption. However, it would be up to Dante to see if he could pick up on Kei’s unexpected advise or not as the Uchiha had abandoned the scene.

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<p class="MsoNormal">The feel of Kei’s blade going through his stomach and into the ground below hip quickly differed from the pain the genjutsu caused and the pain he was in from being actually stabbed, crying out in pain as he felt the blade cutting through flesh. Suddenly the Genin appearing over him, those crimson eyes would surely be imprinted into Dante mind, seeing the blade coming does, Dante’s eyes closed only to open to see the blade beside his head in the dirt, panting and groaning in pain, feeling the Genin quickly remove the blade from his stomach, the wound not bleeding out due to the fire nature chakra he was using, but the pain would be unbearable, he’d quickly start to lose consciousness as the Uchiha child turned away from Dante, and his words echoing throughout Dante mind. -One Blow Technique..- He haunted him, his eyes now fully closed// Two days had passed and Dante awaken covered in his own sweat and bandages, the voice of the Genin was still echoing throughout his mind looking around his surroundings only to find himself in the hospital, calling for the nurse who quickly came in “Yes are you okay?” Checking his bandages quickly, shed explained he’d been brought in by a chuunin who found him wounded on the training grounds and they brought him here as she checked his bandages, for the stitched together wound, Dante’s body was quickly becoming a meat sack held together by these scars.