Memories [Flashback, Private, No Kill/Kidnap]

Giotto got out of bed, not quite sure what to do with his day. He felt kind of down for some odd reason. After a while he decided to go for a walk so he could find something to do. He exited his house and went right, knowing that if he went this way he would be able to avoid most of the population of Kumogakure. After walking on the trail for a while he decided that he wanted to train for most of the day as it would allow him to remain isolated from the general populous of his beloved village. He continued on his path for a few minutes until he finally arrived at his destination.

Not feeling quite ready to train yet he sat beneath a tree that provided him with shade from the sun. Today was an abnormally bright day for the village hidden in the clouds, however he paid no mind to this as the day quickly darkened when he shut his eyelids. For a while he felt the breeze as it caressed his body until finally he felt nothing. After a while he began to see himself surrounded by darkness. One by one people appeared around him, calling him weak and useless. Giotto instantly realized he was dreaming, as this was a dream he had typically. He wanted to prove them wrong. All of them. He did not need to be subject to this kind of treatment.

"Hey there, you alright?" Said an unfamiliar voice. Giotto quickly looked around to see who had uttered these words. He had this dream many times, but never once had he heard someone ask him is he was alright. He continued to look for a few minutes, however he found nothing. Giotto quickly opened his eyes and he found a man standing there, shaking him awake. "Are you okay?" The man asked. Giotto replied by saying yes and then quickly rose to his feet. "Hey, do you want to spar?" Giotto asked. He awaited the man's response.

While waiting Giotto jogged in place, getting ready for whatever training or sparing he was about to take part in. The man looked strong and Giotto knew that he would most likely lose whatever spar he might take place in. He was still only an academy student, however he could tell that the man was at the very least a genin.

(400 Word Count +2 Stat Points + 4 JP)

Mack stood a bit less than a mile outside the training grounds, however he could see everything that was going on at the training grounds, due to the enhanced vision he was granted by his byakugan. Mack saw a weak-looking boy, presumably at the academy level, speaking to a man and jogging in place. A grin breaks across Mack’s face, he had recently kidnapped two young men as recruits for his little organization, he decided that he needed one more. As this boy was around the same age as the others, Mack decided that he would be a perfect addition. A two person death match would be boring, so Mack decided to raise the stakes and throw another Higure recruit into the mix. Besides, it would be much more fun to watch 3 people fight to the death than 1. Forming the ram hand seal, Mack body flickers, at well over the speed of teleportation, between the boy and the man, who are standing face to face about 5 meters away. Mack’s teleportation places him less than an arms length from the young boy known as Giotto. Once in front of the boy, Mack lashes out with 128 gentle fist strikes, aimed at different tenketsu on the boy. These speed also occur at over the speed of teleportation, they boy will not even be able to see the strikes, let alone react to them. With the boy’s pathetic speed, it will be next to impossible for him to dodge the strikes. Mack also takes the element of surprise, simply materializing in front of the boy as he jogs in place. The boy will most likely have no time to trace the superhuman speed of Mack, let alone react to it. It would be a miracle if he even had the time to form a simple hand seal. If all goes according to plan, Giotto will be struck with the 8 Trigrams 128 Palms technique before he even knows Mack is upon him. He will be propelled backwards at great force into the tree behind him. Not only will his chakra system be crippled by the 128 palm strike, to the point where he will not be able to perform a single technique or even move, but this concussive slam into the tree less than a meter behind him will certainly knock him unconscious, giving him a severe concussion; however, the force of the blow will certainly not be enough to kill the child.

[TWC = 414]