A hot day (p, invite only, nk, w/Jorus)

It was dark, until the warm sun came up and… “CRACK!” there was the crack of dawn. I woke up with a start at this loud noise, until I realized that it wasn’t day breaking (get it?), instead, it was the house on the other side of the street getting demolished. I watched the antics of the construction crew for about ten seconds before getting really bored. After heading down to the kitchen and pouring myself a small glass of white wine and cutting out a hunk of cheese, I stretched and headed out to train. After all, I had just learned a new jutsu and wanted to try it out on the extremely flammable dummies. I had a short break from missions and wanted to take full advantage of it. If I was going to succeed on higher ranked missions, I was going to have to do a lot better than I was doing right now. Already, ninja fresh out of the ninja academy were surpassing me. My ambition was now overcoming my desire for stimulation. I walked down the dusty streets of Suna, looking for a training ground. The roads and sidewalks had been repeatedly damaged by the sandstorms, which had eroded away at the concrete and even the walls of some of the poorly constructed buildings. At last, I reached a training ground and decided to begin. The training ground was empty; completely devoid of people. I sighed; it looked like today would be another solo day. I went ahead and warmed up, running around the grounds. I then started to do some push-ups in the middle of the grounds. I was facing the gate so that way I would know if anyone came in. I kept going until my arms got tired, then I sat on the bench with my water bottle and rested for a few minutes.

(WC 312, your turn Jorus)

Jorus had tried not to wake up that morning, but he couldn’t help it, the dreadful “crack of dawn” was loud and clear across the village. He got up slowly, frowned, and gazed about. The morning normally didn’t sound like that; the consequences of this could be drastic. What would happen to the people of Suna if every day began with a tremendous cacophony? Jorus then found out that a house was being demolished in the vicinity. That was normal, ever since the giant sandstorm, all of the useless, battered up houses had been torn down. He headed out to the training grounds to get some exercise. The doctor had told him to do so in order to keep his depression down. He noted that there was already someone there; a green-haired guy who looked a little worn out. He held a water bottle; apparently, he had been working out. Jorus walked in and sat down on another bench. He waved slightly in greeting to the other guy on the bench. Jorus waited for him to make a response as the “crack of dawn” continued a couple of blocks away.

(WC 190 try to do third person, Flinglass)

As Flinglass was waiting for myself to recover, he saw a depressed dude walk into the training ground. The kid looked to be about his age and was apparently also a ninja of Suna. He didn’t have his headband yet, so he was probably a student from the Ninja Academy. The other boy waved slightly, Flinglass waved back emphatically. “Hey there! My name is Flinglass Terumi! Did you come here to train?”

(WC 72 My posts are normally longer, but I have a meeting, like, in 2 minutes)

(OOC: twc is 574)

The moment Jorus finished waving, the other guy jumped up
and waved back quite enthusiastically. Such vehemence was…. Unexpected. “Hey
there! My name is Flinglass Terumi! Did you come here to train?” He yelled
quite loudly, attracting the attention of citizens. Jorus was a little taken
aback at this outburst; most ninja he had met so far were either bored or just
plain tired. However, seeing such energy in a shinobi was impressive indeed.
After about a second, he replied, “Ah, I’m Jorus of the Kinzokutei. It’s quite
a pleasure to meet you. Yes, I am here to train. If you want to do something
together, I’m sure we could head over to the indoor obstacle course on the
other side of town. Jogging there is training in itself.” So, he started off
toward the course, hoping the Terumi kid would follow him. He didn’t know much
about the Terumi clan, other than that it had quite a reputation for burning
things with lava. Jorus hoped that Flinglass would follow him; the obstacle
course was fun!


(TWC: 750)

The other boy seemed rather shocked that Flinglass had jumped at him so quickly. However, he soon recovered and introduced himself. “Ah, I’m Jorus of the Kinzokutei. It’s quite
a pleasure to meet you. Yes, I am here to train. If you want to do something
together, I’m sure we could head over to the indoor obstacle course on the
other side of town. Jogging there is training in itself.” He then walked out of the gate and began jogging down the street at a reasonable pace. Finglass yelled, “wait for me!” and ran after him. Flinglass was faster, but didn’t have as solid a constitution as the other ninja. However, after several minutes of brisk, refreshing exercise he made it to the large indoor obstacle course on the other side of town. It was a big, iron building, with glass doors and a sign that read “Membership: Free to ninja”. Flinglass went inside and immediately spotted the entrance to a course that read “course level 1”; he would hope to try that one with Jorus. He turned around and addressed his companion. “How about that one? It looks like a good warm-up.” Flinglass waited excitedly for his new friend’s response.

(TWC 951)

[OOC: Since Jorus didn't respond, here I go]
Whether Jorus meant to respond to Flinglass or
not was irrelevant, as Flinglass grabbed his companion by the hand and eagerly
rushed through the atrium of the obstacle course. This “first level” was pretty
easy. It was merely a couple of small humps and hurdles, so we made it through
with relative ease. Flinglass then pulled Jorus over to a slightly larger
doorway that said “Level Five”. He pushed the other boy through the door and
then ran after him. This consisted of several swinging chains (which Flinglass
avoided) and some tunnels and tall hurdles. They came through this one panting
slightly. After trying this course a couple of times, Flinglass got bored and
wanted to move on. “Hey, why don’t we try the next few levels? If they don’t
really help, maybe we should head on back to the other place and train on our
own.”

(TWC: 1098)

But Jorus didn’t respond at all. Apparently, he was just as insane as I was. Comforting as this was, it was annoying that a simple academy student could be so impossibly rude. “Eh, whatever. I’m going to go home and work out there. See you later Jorus!” Flinglass then went off to his house.

[EXIT, END]
[TWC: 1152]

Le approved.