Kami Akuma knew that his body was capable of extraordinary feats. But what he truly wanted, was to be able to add power to those extraordinary feats. Akuma is extremely fast, but his taijutsu is below par for his own expectations. Kami believes that he should be a taijutsu primary type of shinobi but, then again, ninjutsu comes to Kami as if it was second nature to him. Akuma was born with the ability to mold chakra at his will with ease, but he still believes that his body is where the gold stays hidden. Kami began his day like every other day, running laps around the village of Sunagakure. Kami is a young shinobi but a lot of people around the village know the kid because of the vast distance he travels in his morning runs. Day by day, the same routine was always in order. Kami Akuma felt like today was a perfect day for a change of scenery, Akuma decided to go to a place where he can train with someone else, he thought that another body will surely get his body to the fittest shape in the fastest time. The Sandy Arena became Akumas destination, and he only hoped to see someone there in order to truly train as god intended. . . . Not alone. Kamis taijutsu training mostly if not, nearly always consisted of a speed – style of training. Kami did not want to change this small aspect of his training scheme, although he needed to change it a little bit once in a blue moon to not make him weaker than his counterparts. Kami decided to run to the Sandy Arena with 25 lbs. weights both on his wrist and on his ankles, and if one would have thought that was enough, they would have been wrong since Kami Akuma also held weights that weighed up to 40 lbs. on his waist. This was a true testament to the strength and resilience of the Akuma families will to train.

Kami Akuma ran with more than half of his very own body weight in this extremely hot sunagakure day under the extraordinarily bright land hidden in the winds sun, sweating and still wearing his long sleeved sweater, but still Akuma was sustaining himself and rather looked like he can keep up with the long run and harsh training. The day was still young and Akuma was very much already beginning to feel the effects of his training, he was getting tired but in his training mode, the second wind is always caught when needed. When Akuma got to the Sandy Arena he seen who was training inside. It was the beautiful Misoka Karisuma. Kami seen that she was in a state of “training – mode” herself and Akuma couldn’t help but want to join into the fun. It was a perfect opportunity to get to know Misoka better after all, since they did do a few missions together already. Kami got prepared as he began removing all of his training equipment, IE the weights on his wrist, ankle and waist. Kami Akuma first stretched, knowing that this training was about to get serious, he knew he didn’t want to catch a cramp at the wrong moment. Misoka still didn’t notice Akuma, so Akuma decided to greet his good friend first by appearing by the side of her training space. Travelling at his top speed and getting there in a mere instant Akuma said, “Why hello Misoka. I see that you are training hard. May I join? I feel like I need some work on my taijutsu skills.”

Taijutsu C -> B 602/2000

It was nice seeing Misoka again. She is the first ninja outside of his family that he has ever became acquainted too. Having an eidetic memory, Akuma knows those missions and moments they spent together are never going to be forgotten. As soon as Misoka commented on Kamis training he quickly smiled and lifted his arms as to show the weights, and then his feet to show the ankle weights. Akuma then began to speak when he showed Misoka the weights on his waist, he answered her question. “Well I’m train. . .” before he got to finish, Misoka giggled a little and began to run. Kami couldn’t lie, it was a cute maneuver by the kunoichi. Kami knew that her beauty was certainly able to stun any man in battle and in glorious moments, even females will be caught. Kami knew what he had to do, so he began to follow Misoka. Getting on her side, he began to speak. “Kind of rude not to let me speak. [Akuma looked over at Misoka as they ran and although he wanted to keep a straight face because he was serious, he couldn’t help but give a faint smile because of her beauty and make it look like it was a small joke] Still, I am practicing on my taijutsu abilities. Mostly speed, like always, but today I want to focus on strength when I get the chance.” Akuma then seen an area in the Sandy Arena where an obstacle course was set up. This was a perfect place to run through in order to keep talking. For payback on cutting him in the middle of his speech, Akuma said. “Try keeping up.” And began to run toward the obstacle course. Of course Akuma wasn’t running his fastest, nor was he trying to really escape Misoka, but he was going to make it a training session and thus hard for her to catch up.

Kami began by running through some rings that were positioned, hanging by ropes. These rings were put up for shinobis to train on their balance when on the air. The next set in the obstacle course was a whole bunch of tires that were positioned on the ground and the shinobi was supposed to move their feet as quickly as possible in order to run accros while also stepping within the wholes. This was all hard work but Akuma knew that Misoka was behind him, so he began to speak. “So Miso. We can also spar if you would like that. I have no prejudice when it comes to training. I will surely do anything that will make me a better shinobi.” Akuma looked back at Misoka and let her run ahead, this time he wanted her to run in front and lead the obstacle course in order for him to catch up. Kami also said, “Not to seem cocky Misoka, but I am faster than you. So how about we play a game to get you faster. It’s called cat and mouse!” Akuma quickly accelerated and began to run a bit faster in order to catch up to Misoka.

Taijutsu C->B 1125/2000

Akuma ran with Misoka and it didn’t take her long to catch up to Kami and play her “cute - girl” card as she pinched Akumas cheek. Kami wasn’t one to “play” that and let her get away with it, so he turned his head slightly after saying “cat and mouse” and bit her hand softly. Misoka then laughed at the event, giggling again as she always does. This was Akumas first time flirting, with a girl being that he is so young and was always a lot more focused in his shinobi life than his personal life, but this time Akuma is not to blame since this girl possesses supernatural beauty and charm. Still this is a time to train and Kami snapped out of it quickly after seeing that Misoka began to speed up a bit more. Akuma is not ready to lose a foot – race with anybody, even if it was training. The obstacle was fairly easy to begin with, as it started off with three hurdles. Kami Akuma jumped these hurdles with flair as he used his special characteristic of flexibility to do some acrobatic maneuvers in order to get over the set obstacle. They were so easy that the last hurdle was jumped by Akuma, while he did a few back – flips and landing them near flawlessly. Suddenly, ramps were seem up ahead, and Misoka was still keeping her pace running and not slowing down for anything. There are two broad ramps that are about 3 – 4 feet wide and 6 – 8 feet long. They didn’t seem like much of an obstacle course and they were shaped like a large pyramid that can resemble a capital a ( A - shape ). It appeared that the ramps had a simple goal, and the goal was just to run up and down the ramp, which actually sounded a lot easier than it should be for a shinobi obstacle course. The A – shaped ramps seemed too easy to be true so a keen eye while observing led Akuma to see that the ramp was rigged with traps to set of shurikens. Apparently, Misoka noticed too as she hesitated a little bit before and while running through the ramps. This slowing – down was surely going to be the end of this chase as Akuma picked up a little more speed when he seen this weak spot. Akuma ran as fast as he could, reaching elite speed, just to catch up to this girl and finally have her chase him. As Kami neared her, he seen her beautiful face begin to smirk a little bit while her body posture appeared slumped down as if she was ready to duck. So Akuma did the most logical thing that he could think of while calculating all of the best possible ways that he can tag her successfully, and only one way came to mind, and that is to tag her in her “center of body” which happened to be right on her tailbone.

Akuma ran so fast that he tried to make sure not to give Misoka a chance to duck. Even if she did, he would have tagged her around her neck, if she didn’t duck, then Akuma almost caught het near her butt as he tagged her deep on her lower back. Kami smiled as he looked back and said, “Hahaa I’m sorry about that Misoka.” He then accelerated and said. “Still . . . You are the cat now!” Kami ran and began to see the obstacle course ahead. It appeared harder than then first set, since Akuma had to swim, climb, jump and break through a wall apparently speaking. Kami was able to see the obstacle ahead and it did not appear easy. But he still wasn’t going to lose, so he just had to dive right into the obstacle course, and that is meant quite literally. Kami began swimming in a small artificial lake that Sunagakure placed here for training purposes and the lake was surely a half a mile swim for the very least. This got Akuma tired half way, so what he did was he climbed out of the water and Water walked his way out after he got a certain distance while swimming. Akuma then was forced to climb a mountain like artificial building, something else placed here for training purposes and Akuma thought twice on this one and he wanted to win no matter what it took. . . plus he already “cheated once” by running on water, so he used the tree climbing technique in order to climb the mountain and skip the climbing aspect of the training. Akuma smiled at the fact that Misoka must be having a ball seeing Kami “cheat” in this manner, but if she was to ask at the end, he would simply tell her that it is a life lesson, “in the real world there is no rules.” Now Akuma reached the 4th station of the second obstacle course and it was a repetition of the first since it had hurdle and the two shinobis were forced to jump. Although they looked like the same hurdles, these looked a lot higher than the last ones, twice as high to be exact and Akuma wasn’t even able to flair on these ones as he had to actually try and jump his highest to get over them. After all of this, Akuma was confronted by a wall. This was surely where Akuma was going to be slowed down, since this was in need of strength rather than speed. So Akuma ran as fast as he can and gave the wall a hard punch, it surely cracked it but it didn’t break. Akuma then continued to punch and surely enough, the wall wasn’t breaking. The wall had the strength of a Jounin shinobi and here Akuma can surely see that Misoka is going to catch up.

Taijutsu C->B 2000/2000
Taijutsu B->A 113/3000

Akuma seen as Misoka was broke through the wall. They both raced to end the obstacle course and Akuma seen a trap and a few hurdles ahead. The trap was less of a trap and more of a long jump training equipment, and Akuma knew exactly what to do in order to survive the training. Using his wind elemental chakra, Akuma was able to run his fastest, jump and slightly manipulate the air around his body in order to get a further distance in the jump. The long jump was passed with ease and as Akuma seen Misoka a small distance ahead, he decided to catch up to her so that they can finish at the same time. He said that he will never lose, but he also never wanted to win. The draw is what Akuma seaked and as long as they both trained, then they both won in his book.

Taijutsu B->A 265/3000