Board Thread:Kirigakure Logs/@comment-27960448-20160401013752/@comment-27960448-20160401013802

Wakitoras: The chunin exams was coming up fast. There was only about three days left until the start of the first exam and Karihime still felt weak. He was rapidly increasing in strength but it just wasn’t enough for him. His only option was to increase his workload, increase his abilities so that he couldn’t fail in the exams at all. He requested the aid of his friend Mizumi for another spar. This wasn’t going to be any walk in the park; he intended on pushing himself to limits that he couldn’t reach. He planned on fighting him until the other admitted defeat. He headed out to the field they always practiced on, he didn’t even give Mizumi a location for that he should already know where they were going. All he told him was that he needed to be prepared for a serious battle. Karihime was starting to gain that Kirigakure ninja cliché attitude. The bloodthirst demeanor that wants to train to kill. Karihime arrived at the location before Miuzmi, which was rare in that Mizumi was usually always first. He waited for his friend, no his enemy for today, to come to their location so they may train in a serious manner.

Dageki: The day was early in time, and in appearance to. Light gleamed through a rather shallow spring mist, as opposed to the thickened one of a moistured atmosphere. His face showed pure determination as he stood in front of a mirror in his room. His eyes were peered towards themselves; glassy green hues pierced through his soul upon entry. He was prepared today; more than prepared. The chunin exams were looming around the corner and this was all anyone could talk about. Surprisingly, those in the village even showed some sort of cooperation in terms when it came to the exams. They all looked towards the genin with pride and hope that they'd all return as chunin. They had quarrels with themselves, but when it came to other villages they knew when to band together. It was simple logic. Mizumi had called upon karihime just days before this, asking him if they could train some more like they usually had. Both of them were getting better in terms of general skill; and the both of them were learning knew techniques that made them unique and powerful as shinobi. Mizumi, previously, with the help of their other team mate Kaiori, had learned to properly control and flow his chakra. Upon learning this, Mizumi had brought out something he was saving for a long time now. It was a scroll, a rather smaller one. Inside it contained the instructions of performing a technique. This was a technique that was revered upon wind users in the Omo clan specifically, along with his father; seeing as though that was where he obtained the scroll from. Though, before learning the technique, he had to first master chakra flow, because the technique was one of the highest forms of it. Walking from his house now, in his usual attire and the scroll in-hand; and he was pressed to grasp it as quick as possible. He already knew where to meet Karihime, but was he on time? He constantly thought about it as he walked, before reaching the narrow pathway that lead to the field near the estuary. This was their normal meeting place, and Mizumi was lucky enough to see Kari already standing there waiting, with fierce eyes of a competitor. | "Oh you're already here. Great then. We can get down to business." | He said, as he pulled the scroll out, knelt down, and rolled it out in the grass, studying the instructions completely before turning back to face Karihime. They were past the point of simple, innocent greetings; they had to prepare for what was coming.

Wakitoras: Karihime watched as Mizumi brought out a scroll that seemed as if it was a scroll to teach a Technique. Karihime was respectful enough to allow Mizumi to completely bring out his scroll before he engaged in battle. Although he wanted to get stronger Mizumi was still his friend and he wanted to make sure he got stronger too. That’s why Karihime allowed him to bring out such a technique instead of rushing into battle as soon as he saw the wielding of a scroll. He waited until he was completely positioned before he grabbed four shuriken from his ninja tool pouch. He quickly threw all of the shuriken in the direction of Mizumi and then using his Maximum speed dashed to the left side of him about 3 yards out and brought his hands to the Tiger seal and formed three well-conditioned water clones by his side and the all charged towards Mizumi. The clones went ahead of the real Karihime, who waited back to see how the events would turn out. He dug in his pocket and grabbed a kunai to prepare himself just in case he needed to react quickly to Mizumi’s actions.

Dageki:Now arriving at the battlefield, all was going as planned. Everything seemed to run smoothly and thankfully, karihime had the same interests as Mizumi today. They realized friendly greetings and wasting time wouldn't help their success as shinobi in this cruel world. That did not mean that they were any less of friends, they just respected each other as opponents and shinobi first and foremost. Karihime had a new look to him today; his eyes were somewhat lowered and his demeanor was somewhat sadistic. He had truly been working hard and was coming a sharp ninja in the process. Mizumi was proud. Even if him and Kari were the same age and he looked at him as a brother, the respect and pride he felt for him was somewhat of a father to a son or vice-versa. Things would get heated quite soon, as Mizumi caught on to techniques exceptionally quick. He had grown pass the stage of failing time after time just to get a technique right. His close to mastery over ninjutsu at a young age, allowed him to learn something very quickly; and just spend the rest of his training sessions perfecting it. He watched Karihime closely, his actions seeming similar to ones he had utilized before. He formed the tiger seal; which could have meant anything. Upon seeing the sael, Mizumi reached his hand into a pouch on his lower hip and held it there firmly before watching Karihime some more. Mizumi was still learning his technique soon to be used, but was also gauging his team mates power for the upcoming exams. So even though Mizumi was learning, he wouldn't make the mistake of going easy on kari. It was simple, and within the instant, Mizumi was actually expecting a body flicker from seeing the seal. But upon further inspection, he had actually seen that Kari had simply created 3 Water clones; whilst the original kari kept his distance from Mizumi. The clones charged forward; And Mizumi, who was smart enough to notice their uselessness, smirked devilishly and spoke out at kari: | "Come on friend. You of all people should know that fighting me long range is the last thing you should do!" | Mizumi screamed, the clones still some distance away from him. In an instant, from his hand that was tucked in a pouch, he pulled out 3 shuriken. He first, held the three of them stacked on top of each other in his left hand. He then brought his right hand to cover the top of the three shuriken forming somewhat of a sandwich-like shape. In an instant, he began to breathe with his lips puckered down onto the shuriken, wind seen catching the natural rotation of the shuriken and causing all 3 of them to spin wildly in his hand. He moved the "shuriken sandwich" a bit more away from his body to limit harm to himself, and soon crescent shape blades enveloped the shuriken, though seeming incomplete, they were still lethal. Releasing the wind-propeled shuriken from his hands, the three of them flew out with little help of momentum from Mizumi himself, somewhat rotating and propelling themselves. The three of them carried enough power to go directly through all the clones and then converge at Kari's location directly after.

Wakitoras: Karihime watched as his clones were charging towards his opponent. He had a plan for everything and was ready to make Mizumi work in this training. Karihime was confident in his jutsu and knew that he now had many ways to use it. He had learned a lot since him and Mizumi last fought and this would show here. He watched as Mizumi brought out three shuriken. These shuriken alone had the ability to disperse Karihime’s jutsu but he wasn’t done. The shuriken started to form a wind chakra around them and began to increase in speed. Karihime grinned at the fact that Mizumi had learned a new trick and he was impressed. The shuriken headed for the clones and Karihime. The shuriken did in fact disperse the clone, causing them to disperse in a puddle of water. Karihime grinned and once the shuriken started to come closer towards him he once again formed the tiger seal and the two puddles of once again formed into two clones. They continued their pursuit onto Mizumi and after getting a little closer both leaped and attempted to punch Mizumi in any area they could connect with. As for Karihime focused chakra into his feet and started to do a backflip. As the shuriken passed over his feet he concentrated the chakra under his feet outwards and they began to hover over his feet. He didn’t complete the backflip, but instead stayed in a handspring with the shuriken hovering over his feet. He then twisted his legs in the sort of a windmill motion in order to direct the shuriken back to the direction of Mizumi, unfocusing the chakra in his feet. He brought his body to a complete stand as he watched to see how the events turned out.

Dageki: Mizumi stood confidently as he was playing a ranged game with karihime. It took little effort to launch the shuriken towards Kari, but using the technique itself was a difficult enough task for him. He was focused on simply trying his best to execute the technique; and cared not for its success in meeting with Kari; after all that would be quite fatal. The blades had the capacity to cut cleanly through a large tree trunk without really losing momentum. it was quite simple, but the technique was immensely powerful. When he learned to properly master it, he would truly revere himself for his usage in water ninjutsu. It was quite interesting, seeing Kari in battle. Kari was the medical ninja but was no slack when it came to combat, noting this, Mizumi would try his hardest not to have a complete effortless nature to his mannerisms and actions. He looked to see if his aattack was progressing normally, and he saw the shurikens rip through their targets and return them to puddle form. Noticing that he was successful, he focused the chakra of the wind surrounding the blades, a vacuum like suction creating fan blades around the weapons themselves, as he focused their momentum into converging onto karihime's person. Upon further inspection, Before so, Karihime had again weaved the tiger seal in order to administer more clones to do his bidding. Two to be specific. As the Two clone reformed in shape, and began to run towards Mizumi once more, he slightly smirked. Between the clones, he realized that Karihime had halted the momentum of the shuriken with masterful control over his chakra, allowing them to hover over his feet before being somewhat launched back towards him. All of it was happening in a quick succession but Mizumi was ready to respond. Though still not a master over his own technique, he knew that the wind coming from their surface was their source of momentum and was controlled by his chakra. Letting it play out, and letting Karihime think he was still in control, Mizumi crossed his fingers over each other as two clones appeared, one on each side of him. These were the strongest of clones. 1/3 of his full power and chakra; shadow clones. The two clones, with real physical attributes, intercepted the water clones coming for Mizumi's face, and turning them to puddles once again instantly, before dissapearing into a puff of smoke. Mizumi hopping a couple feet back to prevent the puddles from being too close to him to Kari's advantage. As the wind shuriken Came towards him, hurling just as fast as they were initially launched, the wind around them slowly began to disperse, at Mizumi's will. In turn, so did their momentum. They slowed down enough to read-and-react to their movements, bobbing and weaving slightly to dodge the shurikem, as they fell behind him, the sound of metal meeting the dirt beneath. | "Try Harder.” |

WakitorasWakitoras : Karihime remained in the offensive as he used Mizumi’s attack against him. He was the least surprised when Mizumi was able to dispel his own attack. It was what he expected out of him with their growing skill. Karihime knew that it was time to take the step of getting the advantage of the playing field. Mizumi was going to try his best to stay away from him as much as possible, so he had to do something to be able to keep the advantage on his side of the table. The field that they always trained in was near an estuary and Karihime knew if he wanted to get an advantage he would need a lot of water. He didn’t have the ability to bring up that much water on his own yet so he knew he needed a source. Mizumi tried to get an intimidation factor on Karihime, teasing him by saying “try harder”. Karihime smirked as he took an almighty jump back and landed on the split the land into two. He used chakra control under his feet to keep him from sinking and began to focus his chakra. He formed the hand seals of Tiger, Ox, Tiger, and finished off with rat. Normally Karihime would have to use his own flow of chakra to cause this stream of water, but he instead used the preexisting water to spew a stream of water onto the surface in which they were battling. The continuous stream of water would bring the level water to the point in which one’s feet would be completely submerged. Though he had an estuary to help in in the jutsu, he didn’t have a jutsu that could fill the entire area and bring the water levels any higher. The water would not stay long for that it would sink into the earth below and on top of that it would start to spread, reducing its height. Karihime knew he had no more than five minutes to use the advantage that he had formed. Upon making the field wet hand planned on using a jutsu that he had been working on mastering for some time. He knew that it was going to be slightly faulty and he could hide his chakra that well with it yet, but it was worth a shoot. He focused his chakra to become one with the water beneath him and sunk into the depths of the water. At first glance this would seem impossible for that the water was completely shallow, but he used the jutsu known as hidden in water to become one with the water. He stayed under the water for and moved around to try to plan attack on Mizumi. His chakra wasn’t completely hidden as he was just begging the technique, but it was faint. Mizumi would be able to locate him if he focused hard enough, but Karihime planned on striking fast.

Dageki: The battle was raging on between the two with little or no room for messing up. It all seemed quite interesting, the both of them using techniques in which they were just only training with. Though Mizumi had large reserves of chakra for his age and rank, he had used a large amount of it when trying out the technique. This was mostly because of his failure to properly know how to distribute the wind chakra so it wasn't massively taxing on his entire pool. He had lost control of the battle by attempting to use a jutsu so freely that he had just learned. He figured that this would end bad for him, but continued on. The shadoow clones he created shortly after didn't help his miniscule levels of chakra, or anything that came afterward. He looked at Karihime with eyes of truth and competition, wanting only to have a fun and intense battle with his friend, though he had feared his failed usage of his jutsu had ruined it. It had looked completely under control to the outside, as he was mastering the shape transformation bit of it early on, though the actual control and chakra distribution was as big of a failure as any. He grew slightly angry with himself, but realized his was only a test run; he would prove more useful with it in the future. He looked towards karihime after teasing him with such words; because regardless of what Mizumi was going through internally, he'd still show the fierce competitive attitude on the outside. Kari had jumped backwards and onto the water behind him, landing with proper control of his chakra to prevent sinking into it. He then, used the pre existing water to create an entire field of water to work to his advantage. And suddenly, he had sunken into the shallow depths. mizumi was quite confused, and simply smirked, holding his left hand up in the air, with his right hand behind his back. | " I surrender. “ |

Wakitoras: Karihime was getting ready to commence his attack, surfing under the water that he had created with his jutsu and before he could even resurface Mizumi had forfeited that battle. Karihime was truly shocked in the fact that Mizumi had given up. He resurfaced rather slowly with a confused look on his face. “Surrender? If you choose to quit we can end our training here, but may I ask why your choosing to drop your guard.” Karihime had no problem with prematurely ending their battle; he was more interested in why Mizumi decided to quit in the first place. He wasn’t in the worst situation and he could’ve easily fought back even though Karihime had the upper hand. He waited for the response of his friend.