Board Thread:Konoha Logs/@comment-30271674-20161031032217

Andikins: {SK} Shinra Kidame and Ieyasu Akimichi were spending the day training, and it was still early in the afternoon and they were showing progress already in two higher ranked jutsu for genin. It was a testament to their skill as shinobi, though Shinra was now just scooting around along the earth like he was on a hoverboard without the risk of the battery bursting into flames. It was nice, but he needed more, and to not waste his chakra on this. They had taken an hour long break before Shinra spoke up to Ieyasu. "Ready to go at it more? I feel like my chakra might be ready to try more than just scooting along." He commented and started to form the handseals for Earth Flow Wave. Without calling out the name of the jutsu, Shinra was elevated into the air with one leg much higher than the other, leaving his arms to flail and try to retain his balance. "Whaaaaa!" It would leave the earth standing up like a spire was grown out of nowhere, but SHinra's main concern was not falling off at this point! {SK}

Pavor: “Yeah man, I’ve got to check out if I’ve got this down.” Ieyasu stood up from the ground as the weakened Earth Spear fell away. He put his hands together for the final time necessary before he got the right ratio down and from there could begin experimenting with it all however he liked. His skin turned to a midnight shade of darkness. Even his bleeding stopped as the wound was covered in this jet black mixture. He began to test out his movement and took notice that nothing in particular seemed to wrong. He didn’t feel much different at all, but something told him that this was just what it was meant to be like. He began to smile a little more from the excitement of this, rolling down the sleeves of his jacket and then looking straight over to Shinra. “Yo, I think I’ve got something for you to do since you’re trying to step it up. Throw any tool you’ve got at me, I don’t care if it’s explosives or just regular things. I just want to see how effective this is.” To make sure his jacket wasn’t torn up he quickly took it off and tied it around his waist. Underneath he had been wearing a green shirt that didn’t complement well with his new, dark complexion. Ieyasu closed his eyes and held his hands out to his sides while waiting to be pelted by whatever came next. He understood that nothing should happen at this point, but his thoughts still ran rampant with some apprehension regarding this little trial.

Andikins: {SK} Shinra watched Ieyasu, crouching down on his earth flow wave to just stay stationary and balanced. The Akimichi's arm changed to a dark shade like stone, almost like obsidian. Then came a proposition. Shinra pondered why Ieyasu wanted Shinra to wing something at him. It was an offer that was not something everyone asks. How could throwing something at Ieyasu help out with this? Shinra shrugged and reached back for one of his chakra blades, channeling his chakra into it and making it more durable by accident with his earth nature. The blade became rigid and sturdy, ready to embed into flesh. He lifted his arm upwards, curling it back like he was going to throw a dart before leaping backwards and throwing the spinning knife so that it flew straight for Ieyasu's sternum. As he was in the air, the earth flow wave moved, the side of it curling out and moving to catch Shinra's feet and slide him around through the air as he was leaning, only to slow as he righted himself on the big stone wave. "head's up!" {SK}

Pavor: Ieyasu’s body tensed up as he heard Shinra give a warning, he didn’t even know what was being thrown at him. Then came the sound of a small, yet sharp “tink” as if whatever he felt just hit his chest was actually just some sort of pebble against his tough hide. There was a small hole on his green shirt from where the impact site of the chakra blade was. It simply collapsed to the ground and shortly Ieyasu picked it up afterward and examined it closely. “Damn, if blades don’t do shit to me then I wonder what explosives will be like.” An unknowing shrug came from Ieyasu as he walked over to Shinra and handed it back. He examined his complexion again, still adjusting to its now unnatural hue. Like turning a faucet off, the flow of chakra in Ieyasu’s body shut off and he looked normal again. He kept his jacket to his waist while trying to think something up. “I guess now I should see how powerful these punches since the scroll did mention something like that,” Ieyasu thought to himself before giving a bit of a hardy pat on Shinra’s back, “I’ve got an idea for the both of us: You go through the woods and try to weave in between the trees around. I’ll stay right behind you, and whatever tree you mark I’ll try to knock down with just this jutsu and my strength.” Ieyasu had an unnatural reservoir of strength, hard work and training led to this. Now with this jutsu, he figured his punches would be enough to destroy any regular tree in the forest. Not to mention this combined with something like his Super Open Hand Slap… this jutsu would allow him to become a monster on the battlefield. Not to mention the training from this would provide further to Ieyasu’s increasing strength so that he could easily destroy anything that threatened the innocent people of this land.

Andikins: {SK} Shinra, standing upright on his earth wave before he lost his focus at the thought of what might happen to Ieyasu, fell through the earth and thudded against the ground. Only to knock up dust while the knife harmlessly tinked against Ieyasu. "Well that's good at least. But wouldn't a lightning attack to your body in that state be devastating?" He prposed the valid point of what might happen to someone with the aspect of earth getting struck by lightning. Ieyasu offered an idea of what to do for a little exercise. "Alright. Ready set go!" He declared while forming the handseals for his jutsu. He broke into a run and leapt upwards, the earth lifting up to meet his feet and start carrying him. It was like surfing alright, and he was able to change the speed dpeneding on his feet lifting or the way he leaned. It was a nice feeling, but it was time to push it to the next level. Lifting up off the ground, Shinra started to lean left then right, moving on ahead of Ieyasu at a speed that was easy to follow. Shinra unraveled one of his scrolls, contained within some basic tools. He put his hand over the seal, having kept it wrapped up enough to remain on his hip and reveal one of the seals with the formula written around it. With a puff of smoke out came a series of five kunai. "Try and punch the kunai directly for more points!" He called back and threw the first one at the center of a tree between two branches, letting Ieyasu catch up to it as he went on ahead, leaping up over a branch and kicking the wave downward in the process, only for it to lift back up and catch him. {SK}

Pavor: “I think it said something about that in the booklet but I don’t think a lot of people actually use lightning jutsu. I kind of knew one person who had it… but she got killed during the Suna Massacre.” A touchy subject to some, including Ieyasu himself, he grew a little solemn and drew to a pause as if to remember the fallen. He never got to personally know any of the one’s that actually did die, but they gave their lives for their final mission. That in of itself was more than necessary to give respect to them. He shook his head as if to get the thoughts of that fateful night out of his head and changed it up by agreeing with Shinra, “I’ll be right behind you.” While Shinra began to take off into the woods, Ieyasu formed the Snake seal and he was back to being a shadow of sorts. With a smirk to his air and spring in his step, Ieyasu charged off behind Shinra and kept a moderate pace of some feet behind his friend so that there was space between the two whenever Ieyasu started exploding trees. Hearing the little bonus from Shinra gave a little incentive and extra challenge to this little thing they’d set up for themselves, Ieyasu was more than ready to take it up. AS the first tree came up, he bent in and threw himself straight at the tree while swinging his left hand into it and causing it to immediately explode and fragment a good portion of the impact site. It toppled over behind Ieyasu as he moved on to catch up to Shinra. He looked at his hand, and he had not even a single scratch mark on his knuckles. Unfortunately, because of the time he had to adjust to the idea of bonus points he forgot to aim his punch for the kunai. It didn’t matter too much though, just observing this raw power and being able to use it was enough to keep Ieyasu pumped and ready for whatever came next.

Andikins: {SK} SHinra was going through the air, while remaining on the ground. If that made sense to you, you are a nutter. But that's okay because a lot of ninja seem to be nut cases or damaged in some way. Shinra looked back to see a tree toppling with Ieyasu's aftermath falling and breaking the wave that SHinra was riding on. It made the wave that Shinra was on crumble and topple down, only for him to form the handseal and the earth to rise up beneath him to catch him like a gentle cushion, carrying him along. His wave was incomplete, so it was like riding bits and pieces that didn't pull the earth with it, rather he was extending and pulling from the original source at the moment so that it looked like a stream of earth was being directed. Listening to what he said about the Suna Massacre, Shinra couldn't feel much of anything other than the slight sorrow of the news of the event. He wasn't directly related to anyone on the mission, nor did he have any connection with SUnagakure. But as someone who had empathy, he felt for Ieyasu. So once he was back to moving through the trees, he circled another tree, trying to be sneaky and leaving a kunai in the back of the tree where Ieyasu could not readily see it. Then going up at a high angle to get some lag time before turning about and cascading downwards at a quick pace, Shinra threw two kunai, embedding them inside branches of one tree, trying to see if Ieyasu was paying attention. {SK}

Pavor: With each bob and weave that Shinra made, Ieyasu copied him keeping a similar pace behind him while also trying to stay aware of where the next kunai would be sent flying at. Things began to grow more challenging as Shinra started to circle around trees and give more distance between the two so that Ieyasu couldn’t outright see what was happening. The only logical thing for this change in pattern was to throw Ieyasu off for some reason, so in return he began to focus less on Shinra and more on the places he had already passed by. The second kunai was easy to find as he passed right by it, pushing his feet out to give himself a brief stop and crushing the ground underfoot from the momentum he had been gaining. He backtracked by pushing himself from where he currently stood, flying to the tree with the second kunai. He flipped around and planted both of his feet into the tree: Crushing and annihilating the sections he had landing on but in between remaining find as he flew out from the falling tree before picking out the kunai. After making landfall, Ieyasu came back with a new speed in order to compensate for the momentum lost in trying to retrieve the kunai. He leapt over the fell tree he had just brought down and watched as the 4th kunai was to land in the fork of a branch. Not having seen the 3rd, Ieyasu simply ripped the trunk down while giving a side kick to the tree and crushing it just like he had done the others before. Right now he had two of the 5 kunai, now was time for the last and thankfully enough it was like such. Ieyasu had decent chakra reserves but having to flow chakra to all of his body was more straining than having to use the Super Multi-Size technique for too long.

Andikins: {SK} Shinra blinked as he watched Ieyasu come barreling through and acting like a wild animal as best he could call it. The young man was destroying the tree easily, but what came next was a bit astonishing. He straight up pulled a tree out of the ground by the trunk. Shinra stopped and had the last kunai dangling from his finger, watching as Ieyasu discarded the tree like it was nothing. The young Kidame was left a little speechless, aside from what he thought on the whole issue. His mouth opened to say something, only to shut close in thought of what he could have possibly said. He just underhand tossed the last kunai to Ieyasu. "I give up. DOn't want my field for using earth to be messed up by broken trees either." He held up his hands, feigning surrender in a joke manner. Lowering himself to the ground, Shinra tugged on his detached sleeves, making sure they still snugly fit. "So want to take another break and maybe get some lunch? Then we can come back and focus on my jutsu a little more? I feel like I almost got it. But the pictures show the entire ground is supposed to follow you, not something that resembles a snake or worm made out of earth." He contemplated just what to do for the jutsu, was he not doing it right or was he not grasping something that was written plainly for him to read? {SK}

Pavor: Ieyasu stopped with Shinra with a bit of a big grin, it seemed like this was a good end. Surely people would question the random fell trees around this training ground if they stopped by. He nodded at the suggestion of them stopping for now, “Yeah, this jutsu is taking its toll on me,” a long sigh of exhaustion came from Ieyasu before he kept on, “I’m down for something to eat.” He began to move out of the forest and back to the village. “You down for Ichiraku’s? Saimen would be perfect for right now.” The thought of it was mesmerizing to Ieyasu, the pork and the noodles soaked in the powerful flavor of the soup itself.

Andikins: {SK} "The ramen place? Can I get dumplings there? I'm in the mood for dumplings myself. With chicken inside them." He commented as his stomach growled a little, signifying just how hungry he was. It had been a while since he ate earlier afterall. {SK}

Pavor: "I think so, I wonder what Rena and O are up to. I think after I finish up training here I'm probably going to chill out for the rest of the day. I don't know what I'm going to do though, I think I want to hang out with you and maybe some of the others." Ieyasu stopped for a brief moment, it was a struggle in of itself to really talk to Shinra too. He never was well with talking to people, but if he wanted to commit to being a hero he needed to give himself reason to find the love and determination necessary to become the hero this village desparately needed in the absence of Keldran. He had been entrusted by the same man, and he couldn't possibly let him or anyone else here down. 