kaiens determination (training,nk)

Kaien lands and just silently laughs figuring she would be stopped but never thought she would like that. She stands and dust off her outfit. Then walks over to her bag shaking her head. As she reaches her bag she she picks up the food and hands one to Kira. Then returns to her bag and think its time for her to train jutsu she can use in battle. She can only think of two jutsu she might be able to pull off. So as she begins to eat she tries to remember the hand signs for each one. Was it half horse or half tiger? She thought to herself either way she was not leaving the training ground until I'm able to do these jutsu's.

After she finishes eating she starts to perform the hand sign to see which seemed right. She pulls out her sword and starts a kata. Holding her sword and training helps her clear her head. After Kaien puts the finishing touches on her kata she puts the sword back, and decides she will go with Half-Tiger. She gathers her composure with a smile trying to focus her chakra molding it in her chest. She feels a itch in her nose and before she could stop it she sneezes. She stops after that and begins to giggle because though it was embarrassing it was still funny.

She slows her breathing again to calm down and begin to mold chakra in her chest again trying to hold it in. She releases it and looks at Kira then begins to mold the chakra again in her chest. When she releases it this time she takes the pad out of her bag and writes Kira what do you think would be the best way to learn fire stream and great fire ball? When she finishes writing she tears off the sheet and begins to walk towards Kira to hand her the sheet as soon as she does she gets her distance and starts again thinking maybe she was doing the wrong sign.

Either or she was still determined to perfect this jutsu. She then determines that the seal is half tiger. Forms the seal and begins to mold chakra in her chest (374 wc for fire stream) (twc 1134)

Kiru yawned and headed into the training ground. It had been quite a long day, and he wasn't quite sure how he wanted to end it. Deciding training was the best bet, he headed into the training grounds. He had a particular wind jutsu he wanted to learn, and now was as good a time as ever to train it. The Gale Palm could increase the speed of objects thrown, and would be a useful addition to his wind Jutsu. He also intended to learn the great breakthrough. Entering the training grounds, he noticed two familiar faces. Kira and Kaien appeared to be both in the middle of training. They would likely notice him eventually, but for now he sat at the end of the grounds. From what he read, he had to clap his hands and turn the wind around him into a powerful gale. This didn't sound easily done, and his first clap offered no results. Molding chakra into his hands, and adding the wind element, he attempted it again with no luck. This was really hard. He let his chakra flow off himself, collecting in the air around him. He clapped once more, and he could feel a slight breeze. Smiling at his success, he concentrates once more. He had to feel the air around him, and mold his chakra in the flow of the wind. Then he had to release it in a mighty gust. His chakra once again combined with the air, and he compressed more into his hands. Clapping together his hands, the wind blew in a circular motion around the genin. It wasn't nearly powerful enough for the Gale Palm to work however.

This time he put his hands about an inch apart, molding his chakra in between them. Wind blew gently through his hands, and he knew he was making a little progress. Next he molded the chakra in the air around himself. He could feel the air around him warm slightly with the addition of his chakra, and knew he was getting closer. He concentrated, trying to keep the air around him hold his chakra, while also trying to keep the chakra in his hands flowing. He had heard about jutsu backfiring and blowing up the user, and that was most certainly not the effect Kiru was currently looking for. He pulled his hands apart slightly, pushing more chakra between them while also struggling to keep chakra in the air around him. He just needed a little more and the technique should work, in theory. He pulled his hands even farther apart, about five inches now, and the wind blew a little stronger around him. He sweated as he continued to struggle to keep and adequate amount of chakra in the air. He was so close, he could feel it. His hands came apart another inch, for just a little more power. He added a tiny bit of chakra into the already growing amount in the air around him. He clapped his hands, and the jutsu backfired. Kiru was flung back into a wall with a crash, and if the two girls hadn't noticed him, they would now.

WC- 528
Gale Palm (500/2000)

Her technique hit kaien perfectly, knocking her to the ground as the other two struck at her clone. He first moved to pierce into her shoulder as the second tendril seemed to spiral downward to alive a cut in the clones hip. Naturally as the damage would be fatal if they hit the clone would poof away into a small puff of smoke however Kira's opponent, clone or not, was not quite ready to give up yet. She ducked back, her body turning as her shoulder rotates away from her opponent just enough for the higher of the strikes to pass over her chest and as she did her feet slid against the floor to allow her lower body to follow the same momentum her stance changing from an open there quarters stance to a tight side stance as her left leg shifted inward and then back out in an L to open the stance back up bent slightly backward. The tendrils flowed past to loop back around her and as they did the clone Kira drew the senbon from it's possition tucked safely In between the openings in her fishnet shirt just above the wrist. She considered using a larger weapon but felt little need. Senbon were of course her weapon of choice. The long needle slid into her hand rolling down the arch between her pointer finger and thumb and as it was set in place she looped her pinky finger around one end and her tumb moved inward to ensure the weapon was being held solid. Her hand stretched out in a semi open palmed stance as her feet planted once more and she watched the two tendrils now loop around to strike again at their masters command.

Kira watched her young trainee move, taking note that kiru had entered and she rose up two more of the tendrils, ensuring she poured extra power into the jutsu to extend it's life. One moved towards kaien as she offered the small lunch to her friend and as it reached her, around a foot and a half away it would stop and seem to nod at kaien before looping around the food and bringing it back to Kira. "Heads up" Kira called as one of the new tendrils shot out at kiru with blunted tip just after he would recover from his blight. The attack was aimed to miss, pointed so that as he stood once more it would graze just past his face and if he turned his attention to her she would flash him a mischievous smile.

Meanwhile the clone Kira moved into action. She struck downward with the senbon which thanks to her strength would allow the sharp weapon to pierce into the tendril at her right not near the point that was attacking her but near the unmoving center. It slid through the shadow easily burrying about a quarter of its length into the jutsu as her hand position changed from a blocking style to offensive, closing her fist now around the senbon to give it driving power. As her hand rose up to leave the weapon embedded she lifted her leg I to a hook kick which wrapped her leg under and around the center of the tendril. Powerful legs torques to turn her leg in front of her and as the tendrils hit her right arm struck at the looped tendril which wriggled in her hold to try desperately to few itself. The first tendril impaled itself onto the bit held in her leg and the striking fist pushed a further bit of the tendril to connect it with the other top severing one
The one held by her in half in two places. She turned her body just a bit as the tendril she had defended with slithered from her grip, the two disconnecting pieces dropping to the ground to sink disappearing from view, and returned to the shadows around Kira. As her side now faced the attack, as it severed the first tendril it slid past her, it's sharp tip a few inches from her body. She knew it would come around again and the clinking of metal reminded her she was now down a senbon but she had a plan still.

As she manipulated the shadow sewing jutsu Kira held out her hand and the tendril carrying food dropped the meal into it. Unwrapping the small box she took out a half sane high and brought it to her lips. She hadn't realized until now that she was famished and the first bite was as to ambrosia on her tongue.

(2553 twc)

As Kaien continues to mold the chakra in her chest she then notices Kiru. She waves and thinks would he think she was weird by trying to train two elements. She kinda wanted to keep her fire a secret from everyone. But she is a little jealous that she was the only person not doing a jutsu.

She decided to keep it under wraps and go back to focusing on wind. She plops down crosses her legs and consentrates on a storm brewing inside her. Then she reaches into her bag grabs her sheet and begings to tear it in multiple pieces. Putting extra pressure on herself. She focuses on making her chakra as many tiny blade as possible. Hoping to get as many cuts on the sheet as possible.

She sits there steady calm and focused with Kira and Kiru both around. Keeps her breathing at a good balanced pace. Her focus was the best its ever been. After sitting patiently she opens her hands to notice the paper has a bunch of rips and tears but not a solid cut. Depressed for a couple of seconds she realizes that's what she was going for. Now if when could bring that chaotic mess into the form of two blades there shouldn't be a problem in cutting the sheet.

She stands up and begins to perform her kata starting with kicks then leading to punches. To help clear her mind of the problem she brought on herself. Who knew it would be this hard but she would not give up. After her last kick. She begins to wipe the hear from her face then proceeds to tie it back. She exhales an grabs one last sheet ready to complete the first step in training. When she grabs the sheets she begins to focus and cut the sheet. As she realize it she falls to the ground
frantically kicking with happiness. (Twc for wind 1567, twc 1454)

Kiru slowly stood, rubbing his achy head, and waved to Kaien. Then he noticed the tendril and reflexively moved to the side, even though it was aimed to miss. He sighed in frustration and went to sit down by Kaien. "Its not friendly to attack students who are trying to concentrate." 
He absentmindedly rubbed his injured arm. While the pain was dull, it was still there. There was a chance it would never quite reach full functionality again. Kiru would simply have to find a way around this weakness.Hoping he wasn't attacked again, He simply concentrated on mixing his chakra with the air around him. If he could achieve this, then the clapping portion would be so much simpler. The air felt dense mixed with his chakra, and he felt heavier for it. He wasn't quite sure the amount he should put into the air, only that if he put too much, it would explode. He was tiring pretty fast from the lengthy use of his chakra, but he could make that more efficient once he fully could use the technique. He also practiced pulling the chakra out of the air, and attempted to assign measurements to the amount. That would help later on when he was trying the clapping portion again. Stopping the flow of chakra, he leaned back on the ground a bit. "I'm glad your back Kira. Its nice having you around. Kaien, do you need any more help with wind training?"

WC- 247

Gale Palm- (842/2000) *Got an extra 94 from a previous post.
(OOC/ Kira, do you think you could approve my summon since I have the right stuff?)

"Well perhaps it's also not the kindest thing to not even acknowledge your teacher when you're entering an area where she is training? Kim disappointed kiru, gone only a few days and it's like" she paused as he finally acknowledged her, flashing him a bright smile and a nod. She pulled back the tendril, which had been stuck in the wall around a foot past where he stood and pulled it back until it stood like a snake seeming to stare at him, though not seemingly with agressive intention if that were possible for an unliving though seemingly animate object. Kira took another bit of the as which realizing quickly that she was much hungrier then she had realized as the meal which would usually take her several minutes was consumed in two bites.

   Meanwhile the tendril attacking her clone whipped around to strike once more with deadly intent. The clone kira thought quickly, knowing that the situation was incredibly unfortunate. This time the tendril struck towards the left side of her body, inevitably with the intention of wrapping her up if it didn't hit and she was fairly certain using the same trick twice would not yield desirable results. She pushed off of the ground to leap up moments before the tendril would bite into her arm causing immense pain and inevitably a desummoning of the clone and the narrow miss brought a look of satisfied excitement to the clones face and a slight groan of dismay to kira's lips. When fighting yourself you must assume these things, Kira thought to herself just as the voice penetrated her mind in agreement. 

    "When fighting yourself you must assume these things kira" Amber's voice was calm but held a slight air of disapproval. Kira wondered if the clone heard her voice also or if there was another Amber in the clone's mind, and was quickly answered. "Yes. she could hear me also,  though only if i will to speak to her. That I had hoped would be obvious. Now......Let us find a way out of this. You must be able to get down and dirty. She was able to counter your shadows for two reasons. The first is simply that you are only attacking with a quarter of your strength, or now an eighth. The second is that you attack from afar. While this helps in you not getting hit it does little to assist in your ability to surprise the enemy especially given the situation. Move in and meet her taijutsu with your own. With that you may counter her counters and better be able to catch your opponent's opening. Kira rushed forward to close the distance, keeping an eye on the two others who seemed to be doing her own thing. She had really hoped that they would join in and she could practice fighting against multiple enemies, as three on one one of which was herself would be an interesting and exciting fight but sadly they were content to practice their own things. 

     As the clone kira floated through the air she slid a hand into her side bag to feel around for barely a second before realizing it wasn't actually with her. "Damn.....Training the young....never requires these things she said to herself. The tendril rose up once more to target her and as it closed she brought her hands together. The seal formed only moments before she would be run through and with a pulse of her chakra she seemed to disappear, a large pile of snow dropping to the earth below where she had been. Her body reappeared just to the side of the door, and she bent down quickly to grab the bag and sling it over her shoulder. 

(twc 3180 requesting training for shadow clone, 3k)

Jumping up and down knowing this is another step towards her goal. She acts her age and starts flipping around then she remember there are other people here. She stands up straight dust herself off and is determined to do it again. Going to her bag she gets the pad rips a sheet off. Places it between her hands trying to complete this task again and again until she does it in the blink of the eye. Each time it becomes a little easier  Kaien soon becomes fatigued but decides this time she sits down and instead of cutting it in half she would try several lines this time. The first time she got 2 two go straight about half way the others made it half of that. She decides to take a rest and picture herself cutting the lines.

When she begins to lay down she gets up knowing resting will get her know where. She gets a better idea since training with her katana helps her relax. Forgetting she could put chakra in by fusing it into her sword. She decides that will be her next way to train. She grabs the sword out of her bag. After she unsheathes it she begins swing the sword adding kicks to her movement. She then begins to focus on trying to implant wind with in the sword. At first it seems she back at square one but slowly but surely a little bit of chakra is making its way into the sword. She continues doing the kata she made closing her eyes and picturing her chakra long both sides of the sword.

The kata continues as Kaien looks at both Kira and Kiru neither really paying her any thought. She didnt mind it made her feel at piece. Knowing people where around but also gave Kaien her own space was lovely. As she became use to putting more chakra in a little at a time. She loosened up and became more free with the blade. Kaien realized all she had to do was cover the tip of the blade with wind to have completed it. She thought it would be easy but actually it was harder than cutting the sheet. She stopped mid kata and with both hands on the blade. Pour as much charka into the blade as she could with out passing out. As the chakra was entering the katana she made her chakra as thin and sharp as possible. As the blade tip now covered with wind. Kaien screamed silently and decided she her first teacher looked bored she might give her some company. Knowing it wouldnt be safe doing this on anybody but Kira she now throws her infused blade at Kira. Knowing she will dodge it Kaien sprints behind it attack Kira with a different combination of punches hoping the clone would cause a distraction Kaien goes for another sweep. (twc 2052 request training for wind 2k split between two post/ twc 1939)

Kiru smiled at his teacher, and at Kaien. They were both training to the best of their abilities, and likely getting really strong because of this. Kiru couldn't fall behind. He did sort of wonder why Kira seemed to be training so intensively. Did she really need to be so much stronger? Was there a reason not to be so much stronger? Kiru had doubts to how far he could go. His arm wouldn't ever heal quite properly, and was a weakness in battle. As soon as it is noticed, that weakness would be relentlessly targeted till he was destroyed. Kiru shook those thoughts from his mind. He simply had to concentrate on perfecting this technique. He concentrated the wind chakra between his hands this time. It melded with the air around him, and became rather dense. His arm felt numb, and he wasn't sure it could take the strain of this too much longer. He had to hold it though. He had to have this technique. He felt the need to grow stronger, better. The chakra between his hands became almost visible, and Kiru began wondering if this was unsafe. He was answered quickly as the chakra popped, and send him backwards a few meters. He grimaced at the failure. Why was this so hard? Their had to be an easier way to do this. He just didn't know how.

WC- 231

Gale Palm (1,073/ 2,000)

"that....is unfortunate...." Kira said to herself. She raised three more tendrils as she rushed towards where the other kira had been, realizing the girl could be gone or prepared for her far before she could shift momentum to head towards her new destination. Still, she stopped her momentum, just as she had reached her full speed of seventy, planting her feet a distance apart to allow them to slide across the floor due to her minescule weight and it's dificulty in fighting against her momentum. as she finally slowed to a stop she shifted her body, turning her hips as her lead foot lifted up to change directions once more. She would sprint quickly towards the clone, taking the senbon from her sleeve and sliding into her palm in the same fashion that her clone had previously. She didnt really notice, or more so didn't think about it but their actions were far too similar, which was of course a side effect of them being the same person. 

    The clone drew from the bag two of the kunai and a senbon, naturally one she had fixed with a bit of wire spooled on the inside of her bag. she turned her attention to the girl coming towards her. Four tendrils and a flash of silver just past the girl's thumb let her know this could end incredibly unfortunately for her. She went through her list of jutsu, considering using the great exploding coliding wave for a split second before remembering what had almost happened in konoha...twice, and deciding it best left for when she was outside of the village. She definitely didn't have the edge in ability to attack, she thought to herself, but she could take the advantage in equipment. "Sorrow. " She called out to the weapon she wondered if she could even summon the weapon. True it was 'technically' hers, but considering the situation it would be interesting to test how this would work. 

     At her call a horrific scream similar to the swan song of a young maiden run through with a knife filled the training area and an orb of strange almost black light formed in front of her. The orb thinned out to form a long black staff and from the tip a wicked blade formed. the weapon would form fairly quickly, not taking full physical form until the long change seemed to dance out from the base to the ground below. All at once with the outline of the weapon created from seemingly shadows it was given a burst of color, silver chain and red intricacies now becoming visible as the weapon entered the physical world, and just in time. Kira got into range as the snath of the weapon took form, and the shadows struck out towards the clone, only to meet her weapon. Two aimed at her chest were blocked by the blade as she ducked behind it, setting the base of the snath against the ground to parry attacks, and her free hand whipped the chain upwards to catch another. As it moved she pulled downward, catching the tendril in the loop of chain and with a great pull she shifted it away from her body, controling it's motion just enough to cause it to be struck by the fourth tendril which due to it's distance from her thanks to the substitution jutsu took just long enough to get into striking range that she could rope one of the girl's attacks to deal with the situation. there was a ring of metal as the tendrils bounced off hamrlessly, pushing the weapon backward a bit to be supported against her shoulder as they glanced off to either side of her. the moment they left, with a mighty swing she lifted the weapon, holding the staff now with her off hand and chain wrapped main hand, and sliced through the left most shadow with a downward strike that held enough momentum that with a small pull back it would arc back upwards, drawing a spark as the top of the weapon glanced against the stone below in it's path. The remaining tendril turned quickly after striking the weapon to bee line for kira's head, only to fall to the ground just short as the scythe of sorrow sliced through it severing it's conection to kira and leaving it useless. 

(TWC 3908 wc towards new training 908)

Kiru sat back up a bit dizzy. He was almost there. He had gotten so close yesterday, he only needed to get a little farther. Once this technique was finished, he would finally have another attack Jutsu to his name, and he would be one step closer to winning the Chuunin exams. He stood up and took off around the arena. Quite literally running circles around Kaien and Kira. He used the wind rushing past him to get a better feel of the wind. It rushed past his skin, and flowed through his hair. A smile lit his face as he increased his speed, making several laps around the training area. He absentmindedly watched Kira train, and noticed how good she was at fighting her own self. Her movements were all so precise and calculated. She seemed the the very height of what Kiru wanted to become. He released his chakra into the wind, combining them into a wind element at a steady and neutral pace. He couldn't be too fast or too slow. The amount had to be perfect, and Kiru had almost got it. A small windstorm would almost seem to envelop the genin as he ran and released chakra into the air. Next he put his hands the perfect distance apart, and gathered chakra, that he also combined with the wind. He was so close, he only needed a little more, and the technique would be his. He increased his running speed, and tried to keep the chakra in between his hands from becoming too dense. He had to make it perfectly without it backfiring on himself. He slowed his running speed slightly as he felt the chakra was at the perfect measurements. He simply needed to know the right time to clap, and trigger the Jutsu. His concentration was suddenly broken by the scream of Kira's summoned weapon, that he happened to be close to. In his surprise, he clapped, activating the gale palm and sending a powerful gust of wind at Kira on accident. If she noticed in time, she would be plenty able to brace herself and not topple over. Whether she fell or not, Kiru would blush a deep red. "Kira! You startled me with that! Sorry! At least I got the technique though!"

Kiru would then smile happily at his mentor, glad to have the technique with him. He felt that much closer to being strong.

WC- 405

Gale Palm- (2,000/2,000)  More Gale training  More Gale!
(Could you approve this Kira?)