Today was supposed to be Kaekio's day off, hower she had been instructed yesterday that today was the day that she was to meet her new sensei. The location of the meeting was the thunder grounds and they were to meet there at roughly mid day. Kaekio got up early that morning and got dressed in her usual outfit, and made doubly sure that she had her headband on, she didn't want to be meeting her sensei without it. then she headed out the door at around 5:00 am, she was planning on giving herself some time to train and get warmed up before her sensei got there. the streets were barren of life this morning, probably because most people had the day off and chose to sleep in today. Kaekio walked through the streets looking at the clouds and the barren roads and also the sun that was just beginning to rise, she let everything catch her attention with no real guard up except for her passive Kekai Genkai ability, she figured no one would be attacking someone like her this early in the morning, and so she was relaxed as she walked at her own pace to the thunder grounds. she arrived there around 5:50 and waited around for about ten minutes until she decided that it would be time for her to begin her training. she stood up from the rock she had been sitting and and walked a little bit forwards before she sat down on the ground and put on some arm weights. Then she got on the ground into the push up position, and then began doing push ups. her strength was weak at best and so she needed to increase it in order to be a better shinobi.  she kept pushing herself up and then slowly letting her self down, then pushing herself up and then slowly letting her self down once more, repeating the cycle over and over again, feeling the fatigue  slowly increasing apon her, but she knew she had to keep pushing through, and so she kept at in until about 8:34 when her muscles finnaly quit on her not being able to take anymore, well her arm muscles atleast. she plopped over on hte grounda and took a short nap before continuing with her training... once she woke up she decided she needed to strengthen her legs aswell, and so she removed the weights from her arms and attacted them to her legs. then she went over to a very large rock, and then pressing her back against it she "sat" down as if there was a chair there and then put her arms to her side, out stretched like she was about to hug someone, except they were held up against the rock as well. then she sat there looking around, quickly feeling the burning sensation in her legs signifying that her training was working. at around 9:30 her legs gave out and she collapsed on the ground, quickly falling asleep, and by the time 12:00 came around she would still be asleep unless someone woke her up.

WC: 527
Strength training = 75 + 150 + 225 = 450
527 - 450 = 77 words left over

Rushing water was beating down his houlders with tons upon tons of force as Sanosuke sat cross legged with nothing but a pair of shorts on. The sound of a waterfall was all that Sanosuke could hear as the crashing sounds deafened his ears. Fortunately, Sanosuke had been using the buzz effect technique so often that not many loud noises bothered him anymore. That noise flooded his ears off any other sound besides the water. That's just how Sanosuke wanted it. He just wanted to focus on the water, as he let the water beat down on him. Even though Sanosuke could literally feel the pressure threatening to rip his skin to nothing but shredded wheat, Sanosuke didn't once drop his statue. Only a few puffs of carbon dioxide that Sanosuke released from exhaling was what came out of his mouth as he meditated. If Sanosuke didn't clench his fist as he meditated, then Sanosuke didn't know how he would deal with the pain. Although Sanosuke was never actually thinking about the pain and instead, his mental state was sound and thus focusing just on the inner workings of his mind. But still though, without having a way to cope with the strain of the waterfall the finding inner peace would be definitely harder to achieve.

"SANO!" Navi called out loudly. She was away from the waterfall just observing Sanosuke during his training. He was here primarily for his own training. After all, he was to be annointed as Raikage in a few weeks; he had to shape himself up and make sure he was strong enough to control himself. The entire time, Sanosuke had his head slumped down as though he was merely resting under a powerful waterfall. His eyes were closed as he continued meditating, it twitched slightly whenever a rain drop with slither in the cracks of his vision. "We still have to meet some kid to train them ya know. You're gonna be late, it's already half past 11!" That was enough for Sanosuke to get his attention to turn himself away from the waterfall. He had enough training for one day, now it was soon time to train someone. Unclenching his fist, Sanosuke struggled under the pressure of the waterfall to bring his hands together for one loud clap. That clap was enfused with water chakra that he had gathered around his body thanks to the water. As soon as the clap's sound had rippled out of the water and into the air, the water veil that was currently around his body dispersed in a miniature repulsion blast of water to shove the water back; thus temporarily halting any water coming down from the waterfall.

Stretching his body, Sanosuke let out a large yawn as he walked down from the entree cave of the waterfall and onto the body of water that the waterfall created. With chakra under his feet as he walked, Sanosuke strolled on top of the water to dry land where his clothes were. His body ached as he slipped on his usual attire. He even made sure to bring his headband as well. Wrapping it around his right bicep, Sanosuke checked himself out in the reflection to be sure that he was presentable to the student he would be instructing. "I completely forgot! Here, if we hurry we might be able to make it on time." Sanosuke said quickly as he briskly walked out of the forest with Navi following closely behind him. That walk turned into a jog, and from a jog into a full blown run. Smirking, Sanosuke smiled as Navi was barely keeping up with his speed. Before Navi and Sanosuke were on equal speeds when the wasp sage hadn't entered sage mode. Now Sanosuke can easily outrun the wasp. Smirking, Sanosuke made the running turn into a free run session as he leaped from tree to tree doing different sorts of flips and backflips through the air.

"Will you just slow down please?!" Navi called after her partner. All Sanosuke did was laugh to himself as the wasp couldn't keep up. They had finally reached the spot where he was to meet his new pupil. When he got there, Sanosuke and Navi were walking up to a girl whom was sleeping. She seemed to be caked in sweat. The girl must've been training while he was gone. It was impressive indeed, but now she had to wake up. Getting low enough, Sanosuke got the genius idea of tickling the girl awake on her sides to get her to stop sleeping.

"Come on, wake up! Your sensei's here!"

it was nighttime and kaekio was in an unfamiliar place. before her stood a shinobi in all black robes. she pulled out her dual swords and held them in both hands. then she sent high amounts of lighting chakra into them and glowed a very bright blue with lighting arcing all around them and massive arcs as well, they would be noticeable from quite a distance. then she charged forwards moving at lightning speed and about 4 meters away from her target she slammed her foot down and used it as a source for her to draw power from as she swung both of her swords forward, her target jumped back and threw a ton of kunai at her, but she released a ton of raiton chakra into a ball shape around and blocked all of the kunai and before any of them had hit the ground Kaekio was already behind her target and then she stabbed him with both of her sword straight through the heart, he poofed into a log. but with kaekio's chakra sensing abilities she found him instantly and then right be fore she was about to decapitate him, she felt hands hit her side hard enough to wake her up and start tickling her. she started to giggle, but muscle reflect also made her reach up and grab her sword and swing it hard at the person in front of her, before she even had the ability to stop herself, mid swing her eyes opened and she saw Sano standing in front of her, but it was too late to stop the blade, however she could get out some words "Sano!?!" she said as the blade would come down on him and if he didn't do anything it would hit him in the shoulder cutting a tendon, but with not to deep a wound seeing as how her sword was a little rusty. 


WC!
320
strength training E-3 -> D 320/300
97 words left over total

The girl's body squirmed in protest as Sanosuke relentlessly attacked her with a barrage of tickling. His fingers glided from her sides, her stomach, and even her neck. Most of the points on the body that were normally the signs of tickling were attacked by Sanosuke. He wouldn't allow her to even be able to fight back. An evil smile creeped on Sanosuke as the first signs of an evil laughter were slowly showing. It started with a chuckle, then finally a mocking evil laugh. Sanosuke was just having too much fun. The girl was out cold from all her individual training, so it would be a while before she awakens. That was why Sanosuke had to be sure to tickle her awake. Even though she was sleeping, Sanosuke could hear the girl giggling from her sleep. Sounds like his tickle no jutsu were having strong effects on his student. She couldn't help but giggle. Soon she's going to wake up and then beg his strong, powerful, and knowledgeable sensei to stop him. He looked forward to that. Navi was floating above Sanosuke's head. If the wasp's head could be seen, then someone could easily see Navi shaking her head in disapproval. Being the voice of reason, most of Sanosuke's antics were dumb and would one day lead to him winding up in the hospital.

The girls' exclamation rung in Sanosuke's ears, and suddenly he was remembered of Navi's advice. From the corner of his eye, Sanosuke could see how quickly the girl's arm retracted to the sheath on her back. This can't be good. The girl, on just reflexes alone, unsheathed her blade while she was giggling and aiming it directly at the shoulder of the black hair sage. If it was some other shinobi, then the blade would've struck true. From the looks of that blade, Sanosuke would've guessed that it was rather dull and would probably deliver a semi serious wound. But the blue haired kunoichi made a big mistake; she revealed the body's most vulnerable and ticklish spot on the body: the armpit. Moving with the upward movement of his tickling already, Sanosuke tickled his way up her body to her armpit swiftly with his left arm. His palm rested right under her armpit to halt all movement of her swinging arm. With the immediate danger out of the way, the wasp sage's fingers did the dirty work of tickling the young genin to torture. She would surely be crying of laughter as his free hand was tickling her sides at the same time. From the girl's point of view, it would've looked as though Sanosuke had merely avoided getting cut down by pure dumb luck.

"Is that what you're gonna call your sensei?" Sanosuke asked jokingly asked while he didn't let up the attack. Sounds of his own laughter could be heard as Sanosuke laughed alongside his student. He was  having too much fun with messing around with his pupil.

WC: 216
OOC: sorry for the short post, but it was all i could think of to write

Navi couldn't help but smile as Sanosuke was amusing himself with tickling the girl. She saw it as though the girl and Sanosuke were just siblings whom the older brother was just having too much of a good time with his little sister. Even though Sanosuke was getting way into the tickling, Navi didn't see any immediate danger from what Sanosuke was doing. That was when the kunoichi was withering and twisting her body desperately to spare herself from the tickling that Sanosuke was putting herself through. The girl was laughing to the point where she was wheezing and coughing to catch her breath from the laughter. Tears streamed down her face as she couldn't stop herself from the laughter. It got to the point where the girl no longer struggled and passed out from the laughing. Sanosuke had no idea that the signs of her passing out were close, but Navi did. Winding up her body, the tiny wasp the was cloaked in a ball of light rammed Sanosuke over the back of his head. The force was like one of his own first striking him over the back of the head. Already he could feel a bump growing furiosuly on his head. Whipping his head around venomously, Sanosuke was about to tear into Navi verbally but his partner beat him to it.

"SANO YOU IDIOT! Look what you did to that poor girl!"

Looking at his student, that was when he noticed that she was limp in his arms and passed out. He had used tickling to knock out his own student. Already Sanosuke could hear the ridicule he would get from all the other teachers of Kumogakure. Sanosuke felt a sweat drop from the back of his head. This wasn't good at all. Picking up his student with both hands, Sanosuke shook her violently to wake her up. "WAKE UP!!" Sanosuke yelled loudly to get her up. But she was knocked out cold and not answering to anything that Sanosuke was doing. It seems as though she would be knocked out for a while. Picking up her body in the shade, Sanosuke carried his student bridal style towards the shade where she would get some time to cool off and rest. Scratching his head, Sanosuke scratched his head embarrassed. "Looks like she's going to be out for a while." He said to Navi as she rolled her eyes and decided to take watch over the girl as Sanosuke went back out of the shade to do a little bit of individual training himself while the girl was fast asleep. Sitting cross legged, Sanosuke put himself in a meditative sitting position and focused on his tenketsu points that govererned his chakra pool. He would turn a majority of his chakra points against him so that it would feel somewhat similar to a waterfall coming down on his body once more. Sanosuke would then attempt to create a small veil of chakra around his body while he meditated. This would prove difficult due to the handicap he put on himself. Fuuton chakra built around himself as the shinobi felt himself levitating about a foot in the air. He had to focus on this task while the girl was knocked out. He would continue to meditate until Navi would alert him that his student as awaken. Until then, he needed to focus...

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Blink, Blink. Kaekio woke up to the sound of birds and thunder around her, as her head screamed out in pain. she still had a migraine from when she pass out but a minute ago. Kaekio pressed her palm to the temple of her head as she simply said "oww..." the pain was steadily increasing and so her eyes in turn were slammed shut due to the pain. however this didn't mean that Kaekio was blind, in fact she could see fine... for the most part. their was a little fairy in front of her that seemed to be checking her vital signs to make sure she wasn't dead, and Sano seemed to be floating about 3 meters away.... WAIT FLOATING! Kaekio opened her eyes in a flash to find out the her current perception had not lied to her at all, ont even in the slightest bit. there sat her sensei and a meditative stance floating above the ground. Kaekio's jaw dropped and she made a big O with her mouth, in pure awe of the sight before her eyes. SANO WAS FLOATING! she couldn't seem to get that thought through her head without attacking it with all sorts of doubts. her pinched herself hard in the harm to make sure this wasn't just another dream of hers that would end at the very best part. Nope, she was sure she was awake as the blood slowly began to trickle down her arm... she could not believe the sight before her eyes... by now the fairy might have alerted Sano of her awakening, but she couldn't be sure seeing as how she was in such shock. Kaekio stood up and walked towards Sano unsure of what else to do "i'm feeling better now Sensei" she said in a quiet and calm voice "im ready for some training"

WC: 315
Total: 628

"Sano! She's up!"

His concentration was entirely on the task of just pure meditation. Right now Sanosuke had to put everything he had into the task of meditation. Chakra was pushing his body down to the ground as though he weight 20 times more weight than he usual weighs. This exercise were based off the entire topic of using his own willpower to defy gravity despite the odds. With each second that passed, he felt his own chakra threatening to slam him back to the ground. Even so, the sennin had a responsibility as a master to tend to his student. Popping open one eye that were closed to take a look at his pupil being amazed at what he was doing. This was something that was far advanced for a genin to know. Hell not even many jounin could actually do this complex chakra and body conditioning exercise. To her, the blue haired girl may have been looking at pure sorcery. It was polite that she didn't immediately interrupt his meditation and instead just watched as her teacher was doing a private exercise. Sanosuke smilled to himself as he now had to pay attention to her and tend to her. She was someone whom was earnest, diligent and determined. The genin wanted to start training right away, it was admirable and kind of cute. She had no idea what she was about to get herself into.

"Look's who's finally up. We can train of course as much as we want, you are my student. Let's at least get to know each other" Sanosuke smirked at his student as he was still floating under his meditation. Taking a deep breath, Sanosuke maneuvered himself with his chakra control so that he can move around still being suspended off the ground. Floating around the genin, Sanosuke made sure he wouldn't bump into her by accident. "Let's start off with the basics. Your name, your hobbies, what do you like, what do you dislike, your dreams, and why do you think I should even train you." By the time he had went through his entire list of interview questions, Sanosuke winded up being in front of the genin once more. This was more for him because he completely forgot the name of his student. Navi knows whom she was because she was actually good at memorizing, but Sanosuke is terrible with names.

Kaekio still couldn't keep mouth mouth closed, as she was in awe about what she was seeing in front of her eyes... She watched as her sensei floated towards her... "Look's who's finally up. We can train of course as much as we want, you are my student. Let's at least get to know each other" he said to her as he did so... YES at least she could get some training in today.. he began circling around her... she watched him purely stunned... the pain from her headache was beginning to go unnoticed. Partly because of the fact the she was witnessing an unnatural act before her eyes, and partly because of the fact that she was now getting oxygen into her body once more and so her head didn't have a reason to continue screaming at her... Sano opened his mouth to speak once more."Let's start off with the basics. Your name, your hobbies, what do you like, what do you dislike, your dreams, and why do you think I should even train you." Kaekio thought about the things he had just asked her to state... her placed her hand under her chin and stuck her finger up as she if was shushing herself, looking as if she was in deep thought. Then she looked up at him with her Deep blue eyes and said "My name as you know is Kaekio, but my family name may or may not come to a surprise to you..." she paused for a slight moment to add dramatic effect "my full name is Ryuzoji, Kaekio... as for my hobbies... i doon't really have any, well except for training, but i don't really count that. my Likes are, well i guess just having fun... my dislikes, hmm... Assholes... hate them more than anything... My dream is to become a powerful ninja someday... and finally i don't see a reason as to why you HAVE to train me, but why you should train me, is because i am strong, focused, energetic, and most definitely the funnest genin to be around out of the bunch." she gave a little nod at the end to kind of end her little speech, then she thought for another moment.... she figured it was her turn to ask some questions, although she could only come up with one "Sano-Sensei, i have one question to ask in return.... When do we start?"


WC:414

As Sanosuke was focusing on the chakra exercise of resisting the downwards, man made flow of the chakra that existed in his entire body; the wasp sennin was taking an interesting towards his soon to be student. There was something very familiar about the girl, but he couldn't exactly put a finger on the face. The only thing about the girl that was eagerly scratching at his mind was the matter of how she was talking. It was very respectful and at the same time filled with her own bubbly personality. She could tell very much that she was what she claimed to be. Picking out the things that she said, Sanosuke thought about them long and hard. So she's from the Ryuzoji clan? They were a clan that produced many elite and powerful shinobi that were at the time the back bone of Kumogakure while he was away. There was one member in specific that he was talking about. Bokuden Ryuzoji, he was a sannin and had left shortly after the funeral of Reika Misora. He was to be named Raikage until he denied the position and retired from his duties as a shinobi. Interest flickered in the eyes of the sennin as he looked at the girl with even more intrigued. So she was from the exact same clan as a Raikage candidate, the clan that was Kumogakure's strongest? She would be someone very interesting to train indeed.

There were so many things he could do to train her. What kind of techniques did she know, what were the fields of the shinobi that she specialized in? Well the sage did know one thing though: she was adept with the sword. That stunt with the tickling he did to her was only successful because he was on a completely different league than her. Had he been a genin Sanosuke would have found himself bleeding out because a rusty katana was wedged in his shoulder. Floating up to her face, his student Kaekio Ryuzoji, Sanosuke inspected her face to the point that they were so close that their foreheads were touching. He figured that his presence would most likely leave her stunned at trying to figure out what he was doing. He was this close because this was as close as he needed to be to have access at looking at her chakra signature without the need of sage mode. All sages have the ability of sensing chakra signatures, but without sage mode they can only sense things that are in their immediate area and not without clarity. Sage mode acts like an amplifier to their chakra seeing ways. But being this close, Sanosuke could see Kaekio's chakra signature as though he was looking through a magnified glass.

His eyes were closed as he looked inside of her. It was dark but in it there was a tiny orange light. It's shine grew and shattered the darkness while at the same time playing around in its new lit home. Just observing the tiny personification of Kaekio dancing around made the sannin smile. She was really a carefree girl after all. Taking his head back, Sanosuke pulled his forehead back from Kaekio and chuckled. After laughing, Sanosuke floated away from Kaekio's positioning so that he can give the girl some space. "You're right in one field. You certainly are the fun type. I guess you already know who I am, but I like introductions so here we go: My name's Sanosuke Flynt, and I'll be your sensei." Sanosuke announced to his student whom was still trying very much to get started with training. "And this annoying ass wasp is my partner, Navi. She's a bit of a loud mouth, but she's as a whip." Sanosuke was pointing at Navi whom was now floating at Sanosuke's side. At first she looked like she was about to beat the crap out of her partner for yet again insulting her, but it seems the compliment caused her to calm down.

Allowing himself to drop down to the ground, Sanosuke landed on his feet and then sized himself up Kaekio. She was pretty average height for her age, but he was towering over her like a giant seeing as he was taller than 6 feet. Scratching his head, Sanosuke thought about what he could do for training for his pupil. He thought of an idea shortly. Getting out the broadsword he has on his back, Sanosuke focused chakra around it so that it was completely dulled thanks to the chakra field that in cased the blade. "I want you to try and come at me with the sole purpose of killing me." Sanosuke instructed Kaekio. Of course there would me some doubts in the girl's mind of why her teacher would chose to use such an overkill weapon in a sparring match against his student, but she had no idea that this wasn't his true weapon at all. "Don't worry about this sword. It's completely harmless. I wrapped a special field of chakra around the sword so that it can't cut. Meaning it's going to feel like you were hit with a bokken." He added that part just to make her feel safe Getting in a stance, Sanosuke smirked.

"Try your best. If you can knock me on the ground or make me submit, I'll treat you to lunch to wherever you want to go."

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Kaekio felt slightly uncomfortable as Sano leaned in so close that their head were touching each other, she looked at him with confusion but then he pulled away a few moments later. but not before chuckling, which again Kaekio thought to be strange and wondered if all sensei's did this... or just hers? then he said "You're right in one field. You certainly are the fun type. I guess you already know who I am, but I like introductions so here we go: My name's Sanosuke Flynt, and I'll be your sensei." then he pointed to he flying pixie, or what ever it was and said "And this annoying ass wasp is my partner, Navi. She's a bit of a loud mouth, but she's as quick as a whip." Kaekio giggled a little bit and he said this and hoped that one day she would become great friends with the both of them. that's what she wanted right now she wantedd to develop a close bond with her sensei and his... pet? she couldn't be sure of how their relationship worked and so Kaekio would just say that Sano and Navi were friends. Sano stopped leviatating and dropped down to the ground, then he pulled out his blade... oh no. were they going to spar with one another? this wouldn't turn out well for Kaekio... the last higher ranking ninja she sparred with almost lost her her arm. "I want you to try and come at me with the sole purpose of killing me." yep there it was... she was gonna have to spar with him. Kaekio closed her eyes for a second and adjusted her current perception to combat range, now she meant business. "Don't worry about this sword. It's completely harmless. I wrapped a special field of chakra around the sword so that it can't cut. Meaning it's going to feel like you were hit with a bokken." oh cause that made her feel better, blunt force truama from a sanin... this day was getting worse and worse. she openned her eyes and looked at him with a cold stare from her dark blue eyes. "okay, if this is what you want Sano-sensei." she picked up her sword and sheathed it, not moving to fast as to alert her opponent, then quickly she made the hand signs for misty flames dance and then breathed out exhaling quickly filling ten meters in front her as fast as she could, then held her left arm up and held it's bicep with her right arm and sent out her lightning sparkler justu, then she stopping the very next instant, she used small amout of time for her explosion to pull out her sword and light it with Raiton Chakra, her signature technique. then she ran into the dead center of smoke running towards Sano, she used her Current Perception and located him instantly then she ran towards him as quickly as she then once she got close to him she she brought her blade forward diagonally in front of her. she was going to give her all this match, and she was going to prove that she was worth training to her sensei.


WC: 545

She giggled when Sanosuke had said his introduction to his pupil. That was good. Maybe she didn't think he was a complete loser. After all, he had never had a full time student before. There were times where he was called a teacher by teaching someone only part time, for a short period of time. There was Dameon, Toraika, and even Yuzu. But they were all for a short period of time and not at all something that would be long term. However, this time he'd be training someone long term. Chances are they would even get close to each other to the point that after she has become strong enough, they would go on missions together and even become friends. Sanosuke would look forward to that, but in order for them to be friends, then he'd have to get Kaekio to like him first as a teacher. It took everything in his power to not laugh when he saw the expression on his student's face when Sanosuke told her that training would involve sparring. That's when he explained how his sword that he would be using would not be able to cut her in case one of his strikes would strike true. She seemed to be getting ready for combat. That look in her eye caused him to raise an eyebrow slightly. Let's see what the girl can do.

At first she went in for a simple motion of just walking over to his sword that was on the ground and sheathing it slowly. He kept his eyes on her as the young blue haired kunoichi sheathed her sword slowly to not arrouse suspicion. The clank from her sword sliding into its sheathe could be heard as she made the explosively quick motion of quickly making different hand seals. Impresive, she was able to switch from position to position with ease. Looks as though she was quite skilled in ninjutsu. What kind of ninjutsu will she unleash towards him? His question was answered as she breathed out a jet of gas from her mouth while moving backwards. The gas filed the area around of him in a cloak of gas. To be honest, the wasp sennin was a bit disappointed. He wanted to go against Kaekio in a blade to blade showdown. But oh well, he'd have to see her full repertoire at some point. While he was thinking, Sanosuke realized that the gas he was in had a strong smell of something that was surprisingly similar to gasoline. Realization sparked in his head as he leaped out of the gas that Sanosuke believed to be just a smokescreen, but was really gasoline. He was able to escape the gas before a tiny spark could be seen igniting the gas.

An explosion went off due to the chain reaction. A strong wind came from the explosion causing him to guard his face from the wind turbulence. It was only so strong because he was really close to the explosion's center itself. When he landed on the ground, he found himself in the middle of the smoke that was a result of the explosion. He tried looking around to see that he couldn't see a single thing around him. The smoke was making it hard for him to even just see his very own hand in front of him. In fact, just being in the heart of the smoke was slightly irritating his eyes so he just shut them. He used his body except of his eyes to be able to sense whatever was coming at him. Taking a whiff of the air, Sanosuke could only take in the smell of burning ash hanging in the air. Coughs came from his mouth as he was trying to breath. Normally, Sanosuke would have easily been able to restrain himself from the coughing; but he wanted to bait Kaekio into coming into the smoke cloud. From his coughing, Sanosuke heard what sounded like footsteps heading right at him. Then the sound of crackling that reminded him of lightning shortly followed. His body could feel the heat of something coming right at him. It seems as though Kaekio was making her move finally.

He brought his sword to block the incoming slash of the genin by using a reverse grip on his sword. Focusing chakra in his sword, it was enough to block the lightning that was coming from Kaekio's katana. As soon as the swords would make contact, his chakra would explode slightly to bounce the katana of of its blade. With enough force behind his parry, Sanosuke planned on using his superior strength to move the sword away from his body so that he would have an opening for his open palm to strike her in the stomach. It wouldn't be enough to cause her too much pain, just enough to wind her significantly. "Come on Kaekio, you're gonna have to do better than that if you're gonna want that free lunch." Sanosuke teased. He would be completely prepared to fight Kaekio in the smoke until it finally dispersed in the air so that Sanosuke could see again. He would just buy time by engaging her to sword to sword combat.

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the smoke was all around Kaekio, it was so much that she had to close her eyes at to not get smoke or dust into them. however her eyes did not need to be used at the moment, her clan-born abilities allowed her see the strong lightning radiating from her sensei, to her he stood out like a sore thumb. Her blade bounced off of his as he focused his chakra into it. she used his parry as an escape route back into the smoke, it would still linger for a little bit longer and so she figured that she could use this to her advantage. she jumped backwards landing so he could hear her, his palm striking vacant air. then she moved silently around him as he talked to her, using the sound of his voice as a cover for the tiny sound her footsteps where currently making. the sound waves coming from her blade would be bouncing off of the smoke and dust particles that filled the air around them making it harder to locate her. she could still see him clear as day him standing there anticipating her next attack, she need to be careful about how she went about this. how she planned her next move could mean the end of this battle in one way or another, whether it be in her favor or not. Kaekio did a quick assessment of her options, she was now behind him, she could strike, left, right, straight in the back, or..... Kaekio looked towards sky above. this would be her route. Kaekio jumped and aimed for a much higher approach as to forwards, but she would still reach her target. she positioned her blade above her head. then she started sailing towards the ground... right at her target, but now the smoke was beginning to clear, she swung her blade forward hopping to hit sano-sensei dead center in the back of the head. this all happened in a matter of seconds after he finished talking.

WC:339
Charka 110/150
Maintained Blue blade

He'd have to give some credit to the girl, it wasn't everyday that someone was quick enough to move out of the way of one of his strikes; especially when that someone was a kunoichi fresh out of the academy. Sanosuke could definitely confirm one thing as a matter of fact'; this girl had a much better reaction time than the average genin. Sanosuke didn't know much about the clan that Kaekio hails from, but he'd have to remember to look right into her pupil's clan to learn more about her kekkei genkei. Maybe Sanosuke would talk to Kaekio about her abilities over lunch, that is if she can even lay a finger on him. Sanosuke's palm strike didn't hit true as he thought he would and the thin air instead of the stomach of his student. Before Sanosuke could even strike again at the girl, she disappeared back into the smoke out of his immediate field of sensory. Maybe holding back so much of his strength was a grave underestimation of Kaekio's skills. He had been using about 40% of his true power to make it easier for Kaekio to fight back, he gauged his self-maintained handicapped by restraining himself from using his advanced techniques and also pulling his punches slightly. Sanosuke smirked to himself as he was once more by himself in the smokescreen. She wouldn't get away from him that easily the next time she would strike.

No matter where he had looked, Sanosuke couldn't see a damn thing because of the smoke cloud. It's pretty obvious that Kaekio wouldn't have tried attacking once more like that again. She'd definitely try attacking once the smoke around them has been diminished. But he wondered what would happen if that troublesome smoke that she'd been hiding behind had suddenly blown away in a powerful gust of wind. And just like that, it was his cue to throw a wrench in the gaping mouth of Kaekio's plan. Focusing a large sum of wind chakra around him, he let it rest in his body. More and more wind chakra ensnared him in a tight cocoon. From anyone that looked at the sennin, it would look as though a tiny tornado was circling around him at rapid speeds. With a simple exhale of his in held breath, Sanosuke let go of the wind chakra that he had been holding in. All around him, the fuuton chakra that he had been holding in was blasted outwards all at once in just one area blast. With enough force, Sanosuke knew that the blast was no where near enough to cause any harm to his student, however it was definitely strong enough to blow away the smoke cloud he was currently in.

He had dispelled the smoke cloud just in time to feel the buzzing heat of the lightning blade that Kaekio was wielding in her hands. A tiny blue light was caught in his peripheral vision, she had just revealed herself to him. The very first mistake that she had made was relying too much of her strategy on the hopes that the smoke shroud would hide her essence for too long. With that gone, Kaekio was now committed to an action that she couldn't yield from any longer. Whipping around to his back, Sanosuke saw his student winding up a slash to the back up his neck. If he hadn't disperesed the smoke earlier, then he would've been cut down. Too bad for her. Aiming a slash with his chakra blunted sword, Sanosuke winded his arm up to bring his sword down right on the right shoulder of the young Ryuzoji shinobi. With Kaekio in midair and her sword already commited to the action of cutting his neck, there isn't really any escape for the girl. His sword would come down faster than hers just barely, but it should be enough to have her sent right back down to the ground hard. Her sword arm will be in quite the bit of pain, but she'll live.

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ALMOST! she was almost at her target area Sano turned around lightning fast and brought his blunt down upon her shoulder. the look of kaekio's face was pure shook as she was slammed to the ground. the pain in her right shoulder was agonizing and layed on the ground with her face scrunched up because of the pain she was in, it hurt worse than anything she had ever felt before, but she knew this was part of being a shinobi and so she should probably not be laying on her ass while her opponent stood before her and so as he brought his blade back up kaekio channeled a small amount of raiton chakra to her hand, not even a significant amount to be noticeable, then she raised it up slowly with and open palm and moved her head as far away from sano as possible to look at if she was pleaing for him it stop, to make it look like she couldn't go on, then she fired the bolt traveled the distance in less than a second, it could travel 5 meters in a second flat and she was closer than that, about half that distance and so it traveled quickly. she sat bolt up and grabbed her sword with her hand, luckily it hadn't lost it's raiton charge yet and so she picked it up and continued the flow with her left hand now, she was just as strong in this hand and so it wouldn't be much of a difference. she charged Sano not even seeing if he had been struck by the wave or not and started slashing at him with her sword, if parried or dodged she would just keep coming, kaekio did however remain alert and focused now switching her current perception to close range in order to have a much faster reaction time to his movements. she was going to leave a mark on him and she going to prove to him that she could do good, she couldn't let another person down... oh please not another.

WC:352
Chakra: switch perception range: 15 Wave of Inspiration: 10 and maintain blue blade: 5 
110 - 30 = 80

The way she had struck the ground after his slash even made Sanosuke make a face. Sanosuke had to quickly regain his composure before Kaekio would see his face. He couldn't help but look down to see how Kaekio was doing with the pain. She tried to hide it but there was no escape from his eyes, his vision was too sharp to not get a single glimpse of the girl's face. Sanosuke kind of felt bad for hitting her too hard, but then again Sanosuke had to think that this was just a love tap compared to the training that he had received from Guru Pathik's physical conditioning. He may be a frail old man, but with that precise chakra control it's like taking a shot in the kidneys by a donkey's kick. But still, Sanosuke had to show a little restraint after all. Holding back one's full potential was quite the workout itself; too much power and he could be charged with killing his own student, too little and little Kaekio might kick his ass just because he dropped his power way too low. The pain that she is experiencing is only just the beginning of what she will go through as a shinobi, if she can't even deal with having her sword arm being bruised, then she had no business being a shinobi.

There was still hope for the girl as she tried to pick herself up from the ground that Sanosuke had punted her into. Her arm that Sanosuke had left temporarily unusable from the trauma that his blunt sword caused, shook painfully as she tried so very hard to get herself up from the ground. A small smile grew on his face like a flower in a field as he felt something grow in his chest. He didn't know specifically what was this feeling in his chest that it was growing. His face felt flustered and he couldn't get rid of that smirk. He felt proud of something, maybe admiration of how determined and tenacious his student was. This was going to be fun indeed. She weakly rose her hand as though to beg for mercy. The very second she did that, Sanosuke didn't believe her. It was a simple tactic. Basic rules of deception that all shinobi were taught in the academy; hell this was most likely even before academy rules, simple slapstick comedy. Besides the look in her eyes when he suggested the spar told him that she was someone that wouldn't back down from a fight no matter how hairy it got. Sanosuke had his sword leaning on his shoulder as he approached the girl while keeping a close eye on her. What kind of trick would she use against him?

His question was solved on cue by a flash of light coming from Kaekio's hand that she rose to show her surrender. So much for a surrender right? The light was turning into sparks of lightning that would strike at Sanosuke if he didn't act fast enough then the lightning blast might actually do some damage to him. That was obviously the  main reason why he had approached Kaekio in the first place, to see what was going on with the right hand. Her hand was in striking distance before she even had the chance to fire. Sanosuke moved to smack her hand out of the way. He wasn't quick enough as the main blast of the lightning was only partiall diverted. It zipped by his ear only grazing it slightly, however his left arm that he used to smack the hand away was buzzing slightly in pain. "Damn." Sanosuke muttered as he backed his hand away from Kaekio. He'd have to remember to treat the burns on his left hand, that lightning most likely left him with a burn. Before he could retalliate properly, Kaekio had put forth all of speed and momentum in grabbing the sword that she abandoned when Sanosuke had struck her sword arm to cause the genin to drop it.

When she grabbed it, the kunoichi grabbed her sword using just her left hand and ran at him. That was a katana she was wielding, a two handed sword that was to be used with just that; two hands. If she was to use that sword's full potential then she would need to use both hands and not just one. Using his sword to counter the kunoichi's slashes. Sanosuke followed the movements of her sword with his eyes. Even with her injured arm, the kunoichi still had the strength from her other arm to wield that katana with just one arm. It was remarkable. But not at all profecient. The girl needed to be able to use the sword properly, he'd tell her that soon after their training. Sanosuke got his sword from his shoulder and continued blocking the strikes of the kunoichi. His sore left hand combined with the oddily even more determined look in Kaekio's eyes made it harder for Sanosuke to slip in his own counterattacks. She was barely letting Sanosuke get in. Her strikes were coming in stronger and with more purpose than just swinging it with just the hollow purpose of doing what sensei said. He'd let the girl get comfortable with the exchange of slashes that was occuring between the two before finishing it.

Lightning sparked as his sword collided with Kaekio's lightning charged katana. If he hadn't covered his body with a light fuuton coat of chakra, he'd have been shocked a long time ago. When the moment was right, Sanosuke decided to make his move. The sennin waited for the girl to be in mid swing of her sword swing that had her push a lot of her weight in the swing. Moving up to meet her, Sanosuke got inside of her space fairly quickly. Before she could retreat, he placed his leg between his legs and twisted his right foot so that it was perpendicular to the girl's left heel. Before his foot even hit the ground, Sanosuke hit the very bottom part of the girl's katana hilt so that his blunt sword would collide with the girls' fingers with enough force for her to immediately drop the sword on the ground. As soon as he would hear the katana clatter to the ground, Sanosuke would place the tip of his sword to Kaekio's neck. "Yield, you've done enough." Sanosuke would instruct to his student while his left hand was retired behind his back. Throughout the entire blade to blade matchup they had after Kaekio had shocked his left hand, Sanosuke was using only one hand to wield his sword while the other was folded behind his back.

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It was amazing! Kaekio could see all of the electrical signals traveling through out Sano-Sensei's body and she could easy predict his movements, this allowed her the ability to make swing after swing after swing and give Sano little time to react to them, however something did seem a little bit off. Kaekio mid swing glanced over at where his left hand should be, and noticed it wasn't there... huh that was strange, and judging from the look of his shoulder she figured it must have been behind his back tucked away somewhere. Kaekio's his turned to dark hatred as she glared at her sensei. was he really that cocky? did he truly believe that he only needed one hand to take her on? well of course all of these distractions had their repercussions. Sano made his move and quickly. he sword went flying away and the tip of a blade was held against Kaekio's throat in almost and instant, she stopped spending chakra on everything and let the rest of her chakra settle in side of her. Damn... he had her and there was nothing she could do about it. she gave her Sensei a quick look of disgust that she would hope he missed, she had really wanted the fight to continue, but very soon her exhaustion caught up with her, she had spent a considerable amout of chakra at her level and this was not something that could be taken lightly, however being a sinobi she quickly hide her desire for a nap and A LOT of rest very very quickly, however she couldn't hide the heavy breathing the took her almost instantly "Yield, you've done enough." uhhhhh kaekio was once again a disappointment.. she hadn't even managed to lay a single finger on Sano. She bowed her head in shame as she picked up her sword and then sheathed it, as she then quickly put her left hand on her right shoulder, it hurt more than anything she had ever felt... even when she had gotten shot by the raiton arrow a few weeks earlier. this pain was much greater, but kaekio simply grinned and boar it. "I'm sorry i couldn't hit you Sano-Sensei" she said with her head still bowed down towards the ground, "what a great way to start out Kaekio" she said in her head mentally kicking herself for failing. Now she would simply await her Masters next orders, and hopefully she could actually follow through with these ones.


WC: 427
Chakra: 110, 0 spent this post

You can find out the kind of person someone is in the face of defeat. During they short bout of the blades, Sanosuke had noticed the frustration that was easily seen on the face of his student. She looked at him with annoyance and temporary hatred that Sanosuke took note of. She must have quite the furious temper to have that look on her eyes. There was something familiar about the way she looked when she was angry that Sanosuke couldn't just place his finger on. But that didn't matter. Even though his skills were more than enough to beat Kaekio with just one hand behind his back, Sanosuke did it for a reason. If he didn't have his hand restrained that was burnt, Sanosuke would have thought that Kaekio would have struck it since it was wide and in the open like that. So of course it made sense that he would tuck it away so it wouldn't be such an open target. After all the sennin did say that she should attack Sanosuke with the sole purpose of trying to kill him. If that meant she should strike a wound that would greatly prohibit her opponent, then it would be stupid of her not to take it. Those eyes that she had, it was as though she was desperate enough to pass his test for some reason. Was it to prove something to herself or for another reason?

After Sanosuke had gotten Kaekio to yield, he retracted the blade from the girl's neck and swung it away from his student with impressive speed and precision of his fingers so the sword's hilt was twirling between each of his fingers and the back of his hand. Finally, he grabbed it and put it in its sheath that was on his back. For a brief moment, Sanosuke saw a look of disgust on Kaekio's face that he could've sworn was there. It was for a split second, but it was definitely there. It made Sanosuke raise his eyebrow in curiosity. So the girl was a sore loser? Well there was no better teach than defeat. She will learn that soon enough. With a bow, the blue haired kunoichi moved  She did it, but a look of pain flourished onto her face. It must have been from the strike he delivered earlier. to grab her sword that Sanosuke had previously knocked to the ground. Her wound should be just some bruised muscles, nothing that will kill her just leave her sore for a few days. But still she bored the pain with a smile and even apologized for something that was out of her control. He had designed the test purposely so that it would be impossible for her to pass, this was more for evaluation if anything to see what she had to work on and to gauge her skill level. As of now, she was a remarkably gifted shinobi that could go far if she was taught correctly.

He'd have to give some sort of encouragement to the girl that would make her feel as though her attempts was a complete failure. He hadn't expected her to actually land a blow on him. So that was something. "You actually did better than I expected, don't beat yourself up to badly-ow!" Sanosuke would say and put left his hand softly on the girl's shoulder that wasn't bruised. With a great skill in acting, Sanosuke pretended to be in pain from touching his shoulder. He pulled away while exclaiming quietly the pain he was in and revealed his left hand to show the burn he had received from diverting Kaekio's lightning technique. The sennin would make a face and purse his lips at the wound. "Well damn Kaekio. It seems as though you did get me after all. Didn't see that coming at all." Sanosuke chuckled while patting her shoulder.

Silence was all around them. Sano must have been thinking about all of the stuff that had just happened because of how silent he was being. then all of the sudden her perked up when Kaekio apologized for not being able to even leave a single mark on him. "You actually did better than I expected, don't beat yourself up to badly-ow!"   Kaekio didn't buy the act Sano-Sensei was giving for a second. she tell plan as day that there was absolute no marks on his shoulder what so ever, and so as he contined Kaekio simply gave him the one eye brow cocked look. and besides she saw where her sword strikes had been hitting and none of them even so much as tapped his shoulder. then he pulled away pretending to quietly be in pain, kaekio couldn't help but giggle a little bit. he was trying so hard to make her feel a little bit bett-. her train of thought was interuppted as she saw the burn upon his left hand.... the one he had been hiding, kaekio let out a grin from ear to ear. she had actually managed to leave a mark on him... kaekio's guess would have to be that hen he hit her hand to redirect the wave of inspiration... that... that is when it happened. "Well damn Kaekio. It seems as though you did get me after all. Didn't see that coming at all." kaekio bright smile was unrivaled... she had actually proved that she could accomplish something. "Well i didn't knock you on your butt or make you give up so i guess lunch is on me?" she said as her stomach growled from not having eaten in a few hours or so. she had lost and is what the bet was... and she couldn't follow through, so she would cover lunch for the two of them... and possibly Navi if she ate.


WC:330

Her giggling made Sanosuke feel so much better that he had led on his student throughout the entire fight. She had talent with a sword and her chakra manipulation abilities was definitely something that shouldn't be expected from a genin; hell Sanosuke would have been surprised to have met a chuunin with that kind of skill and potential. If Sanosuke could somehow control and mold that potential the girl has, she would be a shinobi that would surpass even him someday. Kaekio might not have listened to him if she was too busy being pissed off at him to even listen to a word he'd say. Even at the antic of pretending that he was harmed, where Kaekio's sceptical eyebrow raised knew that he was full of crap, But still if it was enough to get her to lighten up her mood, then Sanosuke would gladly play the role of the idiot. And just when Sanosuke had "mistakenly" revealed his burnt hand, the sennin could help but laugh to himself at Kaekio smiling so happily and carefree. So that's what what she was after. Just landing one little wound on him was all that she wanted. Sanosuke would make some improvements so that she can take it a step further.

"Well i didn't knock you on your butt or make you give up so i guess lunch is on me?"

"Yea-" Sanosuke began to say before being shoved aside to one side entirely by a certain ball of light that had more strength than one would think. It was thanks to his sharp eyes that Sanosuke could look closer through the light that she used to hide her fairy like appearance to reveal before him a girl with her arms crossed, and tapping the air as though it was the ground angrily. He didn't need for her to scream at him about being a terrible teacher to his student. The sennin shot the wasp a dirty look before standing up properly and returning his attention back to his student. "But you did land a wound on me. Didn't expect that. So I think that counts as a win so I'll let you pick where we eat."

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"But you did land a wound on me. Didn't expect that. So I think that counts as a win so I'll let you pick where we eat." Kaekio rolled her eyes once more but the smile she bore never left her face for a moment. "Well if i am paying i damn well better be picking where we eat" she said giggling as she gathered up all of her stuff and then stood in front her new sensei and waited for him to be ready to move out before she told him where they were going. the idea of having a mentor, to guide and watch over her made Kaekio happy, and she looked forward to all of the grand adventures that the two of them were going to have together. she was also very anxious to see what kind of Shinobi she would turn out to become like, and if in fact she would ever become strong at all, or if she would simply stay week for the rest of her life... Kaekio held on to her right shoulder, it still hurt quite a bit and she figured it was probably going to hurt for awhile more, but still she couldn't help but hold it as if it was going to make it feel better, which of course it didn't but still what was the harm in trying anyways. Kaekio looked up at her Sensei, the tall powerful man the was now duty bound to teach her the ways of the shinobi, and said "You know... im really glad to have you as my Sensei" she said wanting to make sure he knew that now, because it was the honest truth. While others might have seen what he did here today as cruel or made him out to be a bad teacher, kaeio had learned from the experience and Sano had learned something about her and she grew as a person, so by her standers today training session went relatively well, but at this point the only thing on her mind was food.


WC:348
TOTAL words for usage: 3383
-1000 for blue bolt
-1000 for Great fireball justu
-750 for Perception E->D
-550 For Endurance E-2 -> D
83 words left over

"Well it'll be easier if you just made us lunch at your place." Sanosuke laughed while half nudging Kaekio as the genin was collecting her gear from the ground. She was already very much tired and strained from her sparring match with him. The kunoichi had fought well that much was certain. Sweat was clearly seen on her body as she struggled to deal with the pain that was building up on her shoulder. It was unlikely that she was going to be fit for cooking in her state, after all cooking with just one hand is close to impossible. He had been the one to cause the injury, so Sanosuke would be the one to cook for her. After all, Sanosuke loved being in the kitchen cooking. Navi began to float around his partner happily as she knew what he was thinking. While on the way to Kumo from the land of the wasps, Sanosuke had made very appetizing meals from what he found in the wild. Just that was enough to make the wasp's very tiny mouth water with hunger. So imagine what he could do with a full kitchen to his disposal. Plus he might even get to know the genin. Then Kaekio said that thing that made him blush a bit. He looked the other way so his student wouldn't see thee face of her blushing sensei. "You know you, starting from today it won't be so easy. So think of today as just a warm up....but thanks though, it means a lot." He'd say before waiting on her to get ready so they can leave to where ever his student chooses.
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Kaekio Agreed with Sano that this whole problem just might be a little bit easier ate her house and so when Sano was ready, they would head out. however the second thing Sano said made kaekio a tiny bit worried. Only going to get tougher? her shoulder ached at the thought of that. She finished getting her stuff ready then said "Sure, my place sounds like a great idea. im ready to go lets. and with those words the two of them headed away from the thunder grounds, and back into the village.
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