Board Thread:Konoha Logs/@comment-24937485-20160320043017/@comment-24937485-20160320043050

“Rain?” Now he hadn’t seen this for quite a while in Konoha. Akira actually had a light smile gracing hi serious complexion as he walked down the streets of Konoha. Clothes were being blown off drying lines, cats scurrying into alleyways, while all around him doors and windows were shut tight. Today wasn’t the nicest weather; fierce cold winds and a heavy downpour making life outside quite the nuisance. But for those dedicated enough to fulfill their Nindo, it was just another step to surpass, just another challenge to overcome. “A Shinobi must be ready at all times”. Now Akira himself wasn’t too bothered with the heavy raindrops as his water style training had left him drenched on numerous occasions. Something like a simple cold just wasn’t in the books anymore for this Genin who was well on his way to becoming a talented example to his peers. Before long he arrived at the training area where the small stream had overflown and turned the grass around its banks into a mud pool, and the rest of the grass field wasn’t looking all that good either. Only the scares amount of trees looked alive within this 15 yard diameter space that was surrounded by fences; the trees and Akira. He rolled up his sleeves, showing his forearms had grown quite a bit since he became a genin. It made him glad to see he was growing well because he knew that he’d need a strong, large, body after growing older. “Only then can I be a true bastion of the leaf.“  - Tiger → Ox → Dragon → Hare → Dog → Bird → Rat → Clone seal → Dragon → Ram- His hands moved fast, very fast for one his age, and were close to being a blur as they weaved the handseals effortlessly; a threatening shape starting to rise as he moved them, out of the stream. The shark was close to 70% of its full size as it then rushed up high in the sky. “10 yards… 15…. 20….23.” And then it fall apart in a mass of water that plunged down and splashed hard onto the stream. The jutsu had to remain within a certain range of him still to stay effective, plus he had yet to fully master how to manipulate the full amount of chakra needed to create a shark at 100%. But practice would make perfect soon enough. “If only there was someone I could train it against… I’m should the adrenaline would help speed things up.” He said, eating a riceball to regain some energy, frowning under the wet locks that fell down his face as he got lost in complexations and speculations.





: Being out in the woods like she normally was day after day, the young Hyuuga daughter had been the lucky recipient of the downpour as well. Her top had grown wet and stuck her to as she walked step after step towards the training grounds. “There shouldn’t be anyone there…” She’d been wanting to train on her own with no one’s eyes on her. Perhaps it was for her to keep from the eyes of those that would judge her, but it was difficult to keep from eyes that could see what she was doing no matter where she was. Her black hair fell along the sides of her face in long strands as the rain soaked it and water droplets began to fall from her nose and chin. Was it the brightest idea that she was there in the water, no. However, it would be quiet. Her eyes looked to the training field and she gasped a bit seeing someone there in the middle as they caused a shark to form. She watched with awe for a moment before the shark turned into water and splashed down. Her gaze then fell upon the one that created it. Her head tilting a bit as she walked over. “Umm.. Hi…” Her voice was soft and her smile just as soft. “Looking over the boy, she brought her hands to sit in front of her clasped.





He turned with a stern gaze, setting it down upon the recently approached female. –I don’t think I’ve seen you before.- He said as he walked over towards her, frowning lightly, but smirking  little as he addressed her. “Let me guess, you’re one of Dante’s people? I remember those eyes. Perhaps you could help me figure out how he managed to mess with my chakra flow.” Standing 5 yards away from her, his hands formed the tiger seal as he created an identical clone of himself that stood up from a puddle in the ground like it was helped form by the rain. “Of course. I’d have to figure the answers out for myself, through you, So.” The clone rushed forth, weaving three handseals in rapid succession. “Get ready.”  The real Akira’s smirk began to face as he took senbon from his ninja pouch; one between each finger of his right hand. He remembered, from his last encounter versus Dante, that something had happened upon the Hyuga hitting him. –That means I got to make sure not to let myself get hit carelessly.- He thought, narrowing his eyelids, as the left hand of his clone was surrounded by an orb of water as it approached the female’s front side without any restraints; aiming to smash its left fist down onto the opponents chest while releasing a thrust of concussive water that shot out and was sent to blast into her if she took the blow or tried moving back. “Pulse.” Said the clone. “I am Akira.” Said the original.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:15.6pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#141823;background:#F6F7F8">With a forceful impact on its chest, the clone fell apart in water around her. The water, however, still bore Akira’s charka so it would further aid in Akira’s next move as he had thrown all three of his Senbon just before she had blocked his clones strike, having noticed her advance. This meant that as soon as the clone reduced to water, three thin senbon needles pierced the liquid veil relentlessly; one aiming to his the center of her extended hand while the other two sought to embed themselves in her rear leg. “Just the beginning.” Akira’s hands were already underway as he circled around to her left side, molding chakra in his stomach while keeping the now 4 yard distance between them. He then came to a sliding halt on the mud; his wet clothes clinging tight to his body as he exhaled and blew out a torrent of gushing water shaped like a stream that grew wider as it extended, up to 6 ft in width. The sudden force of the water made for an intense concussive impact upon contact, delivering external and internal damage to the target. And Akira aimed for it to blast straight into her left side, aiming to blow her back towards the stream. “Water Bullet Technique!”

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:15.6pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#141823;background:#F6F7F8">Seeing the senbon come her way, it was already too late. A hiss left her lips when her palm was struck and she had moved her leg just in time to miss the full hit of the other two but still felt the pain as they cut the side of her leg. What had Dante done to this boy to get him so upset with her? Her eyes followed his movements and she saw the build up of chakra as she hissed once more and pulled the senbon from the palm of her hand. The water on her skin only making the blood from her hand and leg look to be more than it was. She was constantly on the defensive with him and knew that this was going to be a fight that she was not ready for in the least. Seeing him about to exhale, she could only expect that this was going to be one more thing that was going to hurt. With no time and pain radiating from her palm, she took a deep breath and at the very last few moments formed the seals that were needed to use the body replacement technique. There was a poof of smoke before the water hitting it and causing the wood that she had replaced herself with to be thrown from where it had been. She showed up once more behind and to the right of him. Her eyes looking to him with determination. ‘My name’s Hitomi. Dante’s my brother…” Her voice was low and she hoped to get his attention. Her palms still open, she raised her wounded left hand up and once more she would thrust it toward him with all intentions for it to hit his side.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:15.6pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#141823;background:#F6F7F8">Her voice betrayed her, Akira turned his head just in time to see her approach but unfortunately she was too fast for him to fully evade as he turned himself around to face her while trying to sidestep around her palm which hit his right side just before he could fully move away so he took a heft blow before leaning all the way back onto his hands, then throwing his legs up above and behind him, to stand up on his hands. Continuing the acrobatic maneuver he flipped back onto his feet and then increased the distance with another backflip. He could still feel the bruise from where she had struck him as he now stood 5 yards away to her right. A frown on his visage showing the suppressed hurt and his heavier breathing also showed that her hit had temporarily left him short at breath. Still he formed the tiger handseal without a flinch and summoned two more water clones. Akira then moved both hands into individual pouches took two tags in each hand; attaching a paper bomb to each fist of the left clone and a smoke bomb to each fist of the right clone. The real Akira then moved behind the clones and cupped his hands to fill them with glowing water. “It seems you have a knack for close combat. So come. Or are you nothing like your brother?” He taunted with a bitter tone, narrowing his eyelids slightly while gazing between the clones to see if his taunt had worked. –Come… bite.- He said to her in thought waiting for her to come. If she didn’t approach, the right clone began running at her with a grin on its lips.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:15.6pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#141823;background:#F6F7F8">Hitomi didn’t take pleasure in knowing that she had hurt someone else. Her eyes looking to him as she held no emotion in them. She was not proud of this nor did she wish to boast about it. The Hyuuga child stood there with blood dripping from her middle finger onto the ground below it. “I don’t like to fight…” She said. Seeing the right clone begin to run at her, she’d slide her foot back once more and place her hands in a seal for One body blast. Her eyes focused on the one running at her with the smoke bombs, she silently built up her chakra and waited for him to be within two feet from her before she completed the seal expelled the chakra from her body with such force that would throw the first of the clones from her.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:15.6pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#141823;background:#F6F7F8">“Don’t like to fight yet you’re out here to train with this weather?” Akira smirked, he didn’t believe her, but the smirk was shortlasted as his serious demeanor returned. Something had blown through the clone, a wave of force, before Akira could even detonate the tags which were torn to shreds while the clone was reduced to water. –What was that technique? She released a wave of force? It looks like she can’t do it instantly though, and only within a certain range,  which means….- The puddle of water between his cupped hands changed shape into a shortbow made of water while an arrow formed in his right hand. Placing it on the translucent string, Akira pulled back while the second clone began moving toward and around Hitomi. –I think I’ve got you figured out.- The clone would keep outside a 2 yard perimeter to her left side while Akira let loose the arrow of water which looked to be liquid while acting like a solid, easily capable of penetrating skin and underlying tissue; aiming to strike her weakened right leg which would be harder to move. But as it flew through the sky he had already drawn back on the second arrow which was set to release after she evaded or blocked the first; again targeting her rear right leg. He was obviously targeting her weak spot but did so for a reason, to focus her attention to her left side while in the meantime his clone had finished forming the series of handseals required to make a small, 5ft long, shark which shot out of the water as the clone slammed its palm forth; directing the weakened, due to a water clone using it, version of the Water Shark bullet at Hitomi’s left side but only after the second arrow had aimed to her; hopefully having created an opening. The opened mouth of the water shark would then aim to lock onto her left side while also knocking against her with concussive force.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:15.6pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#141823;background:#F6F7F8">“I can be alone in weather like this… with no one watching me..” Her eyes watched as everything once more was coming at her. “What did I do to you!?” She screamed out. Her frustration showing. The 12 year old girl looked to the clone, the shark and the two arrows. One moving at her while the other was still there and waiting.. She would only be able to defend against a few of them and knew the two that would be still waiting. But two was a better odd then four. She closed her eyes focused on all the openings in her body for chakra to flow from. She began spinning like a top while she focused a steady stream of chakra from her body, creating a shield between her, the shark and the first arrow. WIth her eyes closed as she spun, she simply would accept the fact that whatever happened to her when she finished, would happen. The weakest child of the Main House, or so she was lead to believe, she’d try her best not to disgrace her house but how could she possibly continue to defend against such odds when she was not a fighter?

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:15.6pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#141823;background:#F6F7F8">“Something is off. Maybe she wasn’t lying after all.”  Thought the frowning youth as rain continued to pour down and he stood ready with his bow drawn. But all of his worried had gone away as he saw her amazing technique which deflected both of his attacks without difficulty. “Now how long can you keep this up….” Said Akira as he waited for her rotation to end, and when it did, he’d fire his arrow straight towards her shoulder. But that wasn’t everything, the clone on her left side also dashed towards her and aimed to grab her face with both its hands; each hand having an explosive tag attached to it. “Surrender.” Said the clone, as Akira dropped the water bow from his hands, watching mold with the puddle around his feet as the downpour continued and he moved his hands together, a single inch between them, ready to make the snake seal at any moment to detonate the tags and knock her out. Luckily, these academy issued tags he used for sparring weren’t capable of blowing her head off, or permanently injuring her, but they still packed enough of a blow to easily nock someone out from such range. He did not for one minute underestimate her as she had forced him to go further than her bother had even if he sustained less damage this time around. “Hitomi… what are these eyes of yours?” Asked the boy as if bargaining her safety for the answer. His expression surprisingly calm although willful and stern. He had to know, but he wouldn’t lose his mind over her. To him it was just a part of eliminating possible risks in the future and securing the path he had set for himself. But the he sighed, calling the clone back if it had managed to get to her. He shook his head as if angry at himself. “Forgive me. Using such tactics was weak of me. A great Shinobi must find out on his own.” Wand on that note Akira dashed off, running over the stream of water, and jumped over the fence to run back to konoha; frowning as he ran. “Perhaps the line between successful and evil is thinner than I thought. I can’t lose my identity.”

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:15.6pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#141823;background:#F6F7F8">Coming out of her rotation, she had mentally decided that she was finished with this. She had come to train on her own and out of the eyes of those that would ridicule her only to be assulted by another because of her brother. Her eyes saw the arrow coming and only could think to crouch down and allow the arrow to skim past her. Her eyes continued to focus on the boy and his clone. He was so dead set on taking his anger out on her over her brother. What had Dante done to him that was so horrible? With the clone dashing at her, she turned her back to it. With her right leg ready, she would take hold of the clone's right wrist with both hands as it came over her shoulder. In one fluid motion, she'd pull the clone over her shoulder while dropping down on to her right knee. Using the fact that her center of gravity was lower now and using the clone's own momentum, she'd attempt to flip him over her back and land hard onto the ground in front of her. Once more, she'd rear her left hand back and this time formed a fist. She was so very angry and would let this clone know it as she'd strike it in the face with a low punch aimed to the middle of the forehead. If sucessful, she'd stand and back away from it. Her eyes then looking to the boy. Deactivating the Byakugan, she stood there. "You put me through all of this just to ask me what my eyes are? Is this what all this was about? Because my brother did something to you and because I'm a Hyuga too, you'd take it out on me?" At this point the child had started to cry though it was not able to be seen in the rain however it could be heard in her voice. She sighed a moment and gained her composure. "It's called Byakugan. All Hyuga have it from birth. It allows us to see the chakra pathways in people and grants us other things." With that, she turned and looked behind her. "remember this rainy day the next time your pride is wounded, Akira." She did not run off, instead, she walked back the way she came as she began to take her first aid kit from her pocket and bandage her hand.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:15.6pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#141823;background:#F6F7F8">Things hadn’t gone as planned as the girl grabbed the clone’s wrist. She had completely misjudged Akira and his reasons for fighting her ever since the start of this fight but Akira didn’t care, progression was progression, and he had no reason to repeat or elaborate why he sought out to fight her. Yet before he could even give her the option to let this fight end without severe damage she’d grabbed the clone’s wrist, and in that moment it was done. Akira made the snake handseal as the clone was being flipped over her back; its already hands close to her face due to how she pulled on its wrist, but the clone added on by opening its palms towards her. And then ‘Boom!” Her lights would be blown out by the sudden explosion that slammed into her face while it also caused the clone itself to blow up at well. The explosive tags had successfully bypassed her many defensive attempts, filling the boy with a sense of pride as he laughed half a laugh and shook his head. “Your brother didn’t do anything but make me interested in something I have never heard about, an unusual and powerful technique. But don’t get ahead of yourself; it was I who came out on top in that fight. You completely misjudged me due to letting your emotions overrule your mind. That is the only reason why you are weak.” And with that he turned around, hands pocketed, and calmly walked off the training grounds while the heavy drops of rain never ceased to pour down around him; his white hair the last thing seen before he faded out into the distance. A focused gaze in his eyes as he wondered if things would’ve gone differently had things played out as he originally intended.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:15.6pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#141823;background:#F6F7F8">Having forgotten the tags that were on the hands, she was not in anyway able to stop the explosion that happened. Her ears rang as the world around her became dark. Then nothing. When she came to once more, the rain was still falling and she was drenched from head to toe along with being covered in mud now. Slowly she stood and tried to get her balance for her to walk over to the river and rinse off. She'd have to sit in front of the fire when she got home. With everything that had happened, she was chilled to the bone and just wanted this day to be over. Slowly, she took her time walking home trying to make sure that her equilibrium was fine after the blast.