That Which Started It All(James, Sa, P, IO, NK)

James stands in the middle of the training grounds. with a dilemma. He sighs and thinks to himself, "Jutsu or physical?"
He wanted to train both, and couldn't decide if he should practice on his jutsu, which had a whole lot of nothing.
"And by a whole lot of nothing, I mean the basic jutsu, I need more jutsu, maybe some stronger or cooler jutsu." James thinks to himself.
He also was leaning to physical training, to make himself better, in every way. But he couldn't decide how to improve himself either.
He sighs, and casting his eyes around, starts to wander over to where people do hand to hand combat with each other. He decided to practice his fighting skills, and hopefully improve his endurance and his strength.
"And maybe I'll find a mentor wiling to teach me a few jutsu's. That be great," he thinks to himself as he reaches the area where people were fighting. He stops and watches one fight between two incredible opponents, while thinking, "Man, if i could move that fast and be that good."

[twc 181]

Salzem walked casually through the training grounds, sunlight peering through the overcast. It was cool, the air smelled of ozone, and the morning dew was still upon the grass. It was days like these when Salzem felt the least restricted. He walked past a pair of fighting genin, noticing another watching them do battle. He sighed, enjoying the air. He decided to train a bit, drawing his katana and practicing his swings in the air. He was careful to avoid tree obstacles, form and grace were everything. After a particular rising cut, Salzem brought his leg up quickly in an arc-kick flipping himself backwards in a back filp before landing casually on his feet. He grinned, pleased with himself before walking past the genin.

James lets his eyes wander and sees a guy practicing with a katana. He was doing a very nice moveents, but was to flowy in his movements. It was showy, but wasn't very pratical in James's humble, just turned genin, opinion. He watches as the guy flips, doing a kick, and a backflip as well. He starts walking, and walks past James.
He passes James on James's right side, holding his katana his left. When this happens, James will attempt to  lash out with his left hand, grabbing the genin's left hand, stepping around his body, putting his right foot off beside his right foot, making them back to back.
"Hi there," James will say, before twisting his body around, attempting to trip the genin. "I'm James, and I've decided that your going to train me today."

Salzem saw the hand lashing out at him, not fast enough to be any real threat. He let the hand twist him around and trip him. Right before he hit the ground, Salzem rolled backward about two feet, sheathing his katana in one swift movement. He heard the kid's name as well as his announcement that he would be his training partner. Salzem smirked at the kid's arrogance.
"It's not your place to tell me who I'm to to train. But if it's a fight you want, it's a fight you'll get." Salzem lowered himself into a fighting stance, open palms raised to deflect any blows coming his way.
"Come." Salzem said to him, breathing deep under his mask

James grin and says, "Didn't think that would work. Thought you had some practical skills, with you showing off with your katana skills."
He laughs and says, "I kid, I kid. Though a nice duel will be a good way to improve myself."
He then holds up his hands in, just like his opponent, open palm style. He circles around to his opponent's right side. He rushes at Sal, closing the distance between them, throwing an open left handed slap towards his opponent's right shoulder.
"Nice to meet you, mate. What's your name?" James says, no matter how the guy reacted, well short of bones breaking or weapons being drawn. If either of those, James had no idea how he would react.
If he got to ask the guy his name, he would then follow up with grabbing the guy's right wrist, and twist it so that James ended up behind the guy. If he got to this position he would reach with his open hand, to grab the guy's sheathe katana and say, "Oooh shiny."

[twc 494]

Salzem sidestepped James's attack, lashing forward, hand closing around his throat. Then, in one slick movement, he slammed him into the ground (Speed: 20 Strength: 20 (power reduced accordingly)). He would then lean in close so that his sanguine eyes were glaring into James's.
"Salzem. A pleasure." He would then lift James again, still by the throat and toss him into the air. He began to crouch, ready to follow up with another attack.

As Salzem sidesteps James's slap on the shoulder, James grins as he reacts and dodges Salzem's hand by taking a step back and to the right of Salzem.
"Hey shouldn't try to grab at the throat, not very nice dude."
James blackflips two feet and lands, with a lopsided grin at Salzem. He then smiles and says, "Now then, nice to meet you Salzem. Why were you holding back there? You shouldn't be afraid to give it your all. I don't mind, what doesn't kill me just makes me fight harder."
He launches himself, closing the gap between him and Salzem once again, and slides, throwing his feet at Salzem's feet in hopes to trip him. If he succeeds, James will then stand up, carefully putting distance between him and Salzem, before dusting himself off, and giving a grin. He says, "Careful, I hear that this time of year, ants are ever present."
If Salzem dodges, or reacts, James will quickly get back up and defends himself.

[twc 661]

Salzem stares at James blankly as he dodged his attack, beckoning him to go all out. If that's what this James wanted, then that's what he was going to get. As James launched himself forward, Salzem sprinted forward as well. He leaped upwards only a foot above the double leg kick James launched. Salzem raised a leg up, then down quickly in a stomp, intending to slam him into the ground below. Should he end up in front, Salzem would use his momentum and leap after him, unleashing a Leaf Whirlwind at James, his legs moving at a faster and faster speed. If he ended up to the side or behind, he would bring is arm around in a scything backhand, intending to knock the coordination out of him.

(TWK: 322)

As James slides, Salzem lauches towards him, and jumps up, looking as if he wants to slam into James. James smiles, and as Salzem falls towards him, he rolls to his side, while putting his chakra into a wristband on his left wrist, (at the speed of my rt 75), and Titan's Bane comes forth completely covering his body. He can feel the suit help him with his chakra potency and he even felt like he could fight longer (chakra +20, stamina +5) As he stands up, he brings up both hands to block Salzem's swinging arm that was headed to his face.
"Come on, man, can't you aim anywhere else, but the face. This is how I earn my keep, coupled with a winning personality, and of course, the fact that I'm just superior."
Underneath Titan's bane, James allowed the left side of his body to become transformed, turning his body gray, with his pupil becoming black and his eyes becoming red. (This transformatioin occurs at the speed of my chakra currently 38) He can feel his body becoming stronger (boosting health and strength by +10 on left side of body) He smiles underneath as he allows the transformation to come over him.
"Let us truly begin, Salzem," James thought to himself, as he brought up his hands, preparing himself.

[twc 882, Titan's bane boosts chakra +20 and stamina +5, sage transformation +10 to strength and health left side of body, -25 ap due to sage, 125/150 (current ap)]

Salzem didn't even justify Jame's quips with a response. He leaped back as James blocked his attack, landing about about a meter back, slamming is hands together in the tiger sign, two shadow clones appearing on either side of him. Salzem and his two clones slammed their hands in the Ram sign, focusing his chakra throughout his body. They zipped forward (speed 68) One clone lowering himself below Jame's guard, one leaping about 5 meters above him while the real one moved behind. The lower clone brought his leg up in a Leaf Rising Wind (strength 46, Speed 59 (power reduced accordingly)) intending to impact with Jame's jaw, sending him up to meet with the upper clone. Should this attack succeed, the clone hanging in the air would then slam him back to earth with an axe kick. (strength 20)

TWK: 462

(50/210)
-20 Leaf Rising Wind
-10 Body Flicker
-30 Shadow Clone

Clone A: 40 AP
Clone B 40 AP