Board Thread:Konoha Logs/@comment-25866598-20160326204924

=There through the forest traveled a young man who had been plagued by things worse than nightmares...worse than ghosts and worse than these superficial worries that most were worried of in these times...though it was not counted out that what he was worried of could initially be a cause of these things. It was guilt...and what irony it would be that one of the things that plagued him with guilt - he was without izanagi, his adoptive father and with that he’d simply be sitting beneath a tree left to his own machinations. In the wake of this he’d been playing with a series of thread making a few designs here and there. This wasn’t unlike him however he spent the majority of his time honing his own trade craft to pass the time occasionally. Had one stumbled upon him in his solitude within konoha’s forest they would find he donned a pair of   blue pants with the hemline rolled a few inches above his ankles, a white belt that is not dissimilar to that of an obi. His feet are wrapped in bandages up to his ankles and his hands and arms were also wrapped in bandages up to the elbow. Ringo was even wearing that signature  sleeveless In this white, A-shirt he’d had customly made for himself. As time went on he was merely waiting for some form of company whether it be from his father or another seeking combat. The only noticeable weapon Ringo carried with him was that of Nomikomu, the blade forged for him by one of his father's compatriots=

VerinChan: “Like a fox!” Kaylee shouted loudly as she stumbled out of a tree, she hit a few branches on her way down which broke her fall as she landed on her ass right in front of the Fashionisto. She blinked and waved. “Oh hello?” She was careful with this stranger, ready to react if a threat presented itself… But Kaylee was just training in the woods a few minutes earlier trying to be quiet… trying to be stealthy, though screaming at the top of your lungs ‘like a fox’ is not always stealthy. The girl was intelligent truly a genius… but she was also rather airheaded; in shorter words the perfect contradiction.

Ringo had merely begun to chuckle someone so energetic but found themselves being called a shinobi. This was something truly bothersome in terms of what it meant to be a warrior of the village some sense of clarity was there he was sure. In passing he’d begun chuckling to himself only for the briefest of moments before coming to a stand his lanky physique standing upright only moments after placing his hand on the ground as a point of balance or perhaps something more. Had his new found herself interested Ringo would merely pose a question for her “Care for a dance?” He quirked a brow his hand now resting upon the blade he called his own, it was quite clear he was through playing for the time being although the young woman that stood before him was sure here for just that fun and games. All in time one could think to themselves but for now that was all they had time.

VerinChan: Kaylee looked up at the boy who stood like a tower compared to her physique. She blinked. “No thanks I am a terrible dancer I trip over my own feet or my ….”S he paused seeing his hand on his blade. “ OH! Yeah sure!” She giggled and grabbed her two kunai, she jumped about ten feet back from him after she threw the first one then landing and throwing the second one with a bomb, but the bomb would not go off. She did her hand signs extremely fast. “Earth style earth tremble…” She had been learning this technique she wasn’t good at it…She even named it wrong. In fact this was the first time she had used it in an actual scenario.” She slammed her hand into the ground the ground began to tremble and wave causing anyone standing on it to lose their footing…. As this was active she ran across the earth creating a close… One of the Kaylee’s swung a foot for his face while the other went to stab his lower calf with her kunai. She didn’t want to hurt him. In fact she just wanted to get him down to her level… hue hue hue.



Ringo flicked his own head back to remove his hair from his eyes in the moment that she’d begun speaking rather flustered or so it seemed she wasn’t the brightest when it came to metaphors. Ringo’s lips had gone into a soft smirk and in the moments she’d let “Oh sure escape her lips Ikki had already begun about his way. His speed nearly immeasurable for someone of his age and he’d sure used that to his advantage for someone so young. The young woman that found herself reaching for a pair of kunai would be caught amongst the act. Ringo had closed the gap before she could even prepare herself for what was to follow. In doing so Ringo aimed to ram the pommel of his still sheathed blade into her physique. Had she been incapable of stopping such a force she’d have been sent asunder. Into one of the many trees that surrounded their very locale. Had this been the case Ringo would’ve simply been standing in place awaiting for her to recover his hand still resting firmly upon his weapons scabbard.

 

VerinChan: Kaylee blinked as the butt of his sword jabbed in her and she groaned looking up at him and grinning a bit as she coughed up a minor amount of blood. She however never stopped her motion, regardless of the pain so the fact that he was so close, she had went to shove the kunai In his forearm/wrist area. Her golden brown eyes locking on him with a bloody grin.

Ringo smirked a bit as she was quite capable of standing her ground in those moment that he’d sent the pommel of his sword into her abdomen. In the moments that she found herself attempting to take a stab at his forearm she’d find herself falling short. Ringo was quite light on his feet and with that he’d removed the hand that rested upon his blade in order to stop this action entirely. Had she continued with her motion she’d find Ringo aimed to grab bother of her wrist aiming to leave behind a treat of his own a chakra thread and to the unaided eye would’ve been hard to grasp without knowledge of the skill itself. This would’ve left her subject to something far more and in this case his control.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">VerinChan: Kaylee blinked looking up at the boy she blew her bangs out of her golden eyes and glared at him. She spun her kunai in her hand even though the couldn’t reach she grinned and a small smirk rose on her lips as the ground under them immediately turned to quick sand. Dropping them both under it in a matter of seconds.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Ringo smiled a bit awkwardly was a better term to suggest the look upon his face but in those moments the earth beneath there feet had begun to change. It was reduced to that of a quick sand and in doing so Ringo had begun to send a flow of chakra into his own feet to give way to what lay underneath him. The quicksand that rested beneath their feet would find itself incapable of grasping Ringo as he’d caused a sense of buoyancy and used the shinobi concept of using chakra to walk on water to keep himself from being taken within. Had his opponent not done the same she’d have been drawn in with little hesitation. In passing Ringo had indeed let go upon his discovery of the quicksand  and with that he’d placed himself upon a tree the chakra threads still attached to the young womans wrist as well as his own finger tips. Had the young woman failed to remove them from her physique she’d find that Ringo would have strung her up. The threads themselves were wrapped around the branch he found himself upon and when he’d chosen to step down from his perch she’d have been brought up by her wrist almost as if she was to become a scarecrow.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">VerinChan: Kaylee saw his hands let go went to rub her wrists as she sunk under slowly she blinks and removed the strings. ‘Sneaky bastard’ She giggled a bit and looked up at him on the tree at this point the sand was up to her chin she winked at him and went underneath the earth.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Ringo smirked a bit his arms crossed as he’d begun to cross his arms about his chest simply awaiting what lay in store for him. The quick sand was something different although not unheard of amongst shinobi who specialized in such a chakra nature. Ringo in turn had taken a seat as he’d wait to see if she’d show herself once again or if she’d drowned herself amongst the sand she’d created for herself. Perhaps it would’ve been her grave either way Ringo was waiting for results and in doing so he was soon joined by some of the woodland animals a few squirrels and even that of a bird.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">VerinChan: Kaylee had traveled underground placing two explosive tags behind and just under the tree he was sitting on... she had moved away from the tree creating a cocoon or soft sand to help her and in an instance she set off the blast it was enough to knock the tree down and the surrounding trees. All while she lay safe in her sand box under ground.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">She’d have found herself within the earth only to allow the animals to give signal to what she had in store. The animals that found themselves spending time with Ringo would’ve scampered off. They were running from something didn’t really matter what but Ringo knew something was up in the wake of such actions. The moment his animal compatriots left his side Ringo would’ve used substitution Jutsu to escape the miniscule blast of the two explosions. Although it was enough to cause the tree to become uprooted His image would have emerged not to far off sitting atop a tree adjacent to the previous one. His physique still seated awaiting his opponents appearance once more. “Such a pain” He’d brushed his fingers through his hair causing his bangs to fall into place off to the side of his forehead. The blast that was created surely didn’t create the needed results as there were only two in place. What exactly was she hoping to accomplish in those moments he pondered within his thoughts.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">VerinChan: She jumped out of the ground and threw a kunai into the tree along with three shurkien to the surrounding trees. She didn't know where he was and was upset. "Damnit! Show yourself!" She seemed to wine like a little girl that didn't get her cookie. She was frustrated and not thinking... she was upset her plans didn't work.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">In the moment the young girl found herself escaping from the ground Ringo was already on the move. If we flash back to the very beginning of this encounter on lookers would find Ringo had indeed left something behind when he got up. Upon closer examination one would find that Ringo left behind an enclosing seal activated when a target such as his new found compatriot makes an abrupt movement such as this one. What did Ringo seal inside you may find yourself asking? A snare is the most simplistic answer to that question. He’d laid this trap for a situation such as this one. In the wake of her abrupt escape from the ground she’d find a series of wire around her foot. Ringo would’ve caught her if this seal was successful in its activation. Had she tried to go any farther she’d have dislocated her own ankle. A simple trap normally set for an animal may have possibly been her downfall in those moments. Ringo may not have been a straight a student but he was good at one thing, deception. Had this all panned out the way it was supposed to  and the young woman was indeed caught in his trap. Ringo would come down from his perch amidst the trees and put his blade at her neck with enough speed and precision to stop just shy of lopping it from her shoulders. The blade itself was poised at her neck with such intent to kill that it’d have drawn blood in those moments.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">VerinChan: Kaylee was trying to take a step away, she had to keep moving… that was one thing she knew… But when she went to move her feet she seemed to trip. Her golden eyes widened as her hands flailed above her head and a slightly yelp escaped from her lips as she face planted the ground before he had a chance to even put the blade to her neck. She remained on the ground her fingers outstretched in front of her fingers curled in a sense of cringe… She was disappointed in herself, how could she… not notice… she considered her self a genius smarter than every single shinobi she knew, of course she knew that wasn’t true but it was nice to pretend. But this guy had deceived her… She clawed her gloved fingers into the dirt and got up on her elbows and knees looking between her legs and see the strings. ‘That bastard, I should’ve known since the first time he used them that he was a trickster…’ She groaned and let her forehead hit the dirt. “If this was real battle Baka you’d be dead…” She condescended herself and sat up on her rump trying to break free of the wires. “JKHFKJWRTWR” She grumbled angrily.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#3a3a3a;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Ringo would’ve twirled his blade about his right hand and slid it into the black sheath that rested at his left him. He’d given her pardon in such an endeavor it was nothing more than that of a friendly battle no reason to behead a possible friend for the future. Ringo now poised on his toes crouched down to great her face that was buried within the earth. “You should watch your step next time” He tilted his head and smiled at her before simply leaving her to break free from the trap he’d laid for. “If you aren’t back in the village soon I will send someone for you” his back now to her physique as he began about his way slipping into tree line once again. Had she been looking closely enough she’d find Ringo left one of her own Kunai for her to cut herself free. <ac_metadata title="Ringo(LucianRedgrave vs Kaylee(Verinchan)"> </ac_metadata>