It was one of those days she wished she would’ve stayed in bed. When she got up, she only found a note on the kitchen table, basically explaining the fact why it was so quiet in the house. Everyone had something to do that morning.
Both her older siblings were on some stupid lame mission, her younger sister had a meeting with her squad again (seriously, what kind of nerd sensei was that?), Tomasu had school today and her parents were at work.
Freaking awesome. Suzuna let out a dramatic sigh, already anticipating the feeling of boredom which was bound to come sooner or later. A loud bark snapped her out of her thoughts when their dogs Akita and Saphira dashed into the kitchen. It wasn’t hard to figure out what they wanted from her.
“Don’t worry, I’ll get it for you,” she grinned and poured some dog food in their bowls, which they gulped down – too hungry to chew – as if they hadn’t eaten in three days or so.
Suzuna rolled her eyes. “One day, you two will choke on your food.”
A glance at the clock would then reveal to her that it was almost 11 a.m. or in other words, time to do something productive. It resembled a miracle as she actually got dressed in her usual attire and decided to go train for a bit.
While Saphira started running laps in their huge garden, Akita followed Suzuna, obviously wanting to come along.
“Aw, I don’t know if dogs are allowed on the training grounds.” Short pause. “Tch, whatever, I’ve never seen any signs with dos and don’ts there. So let’s just go!”

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The place was pretty much empty except for two boys training – not together, each on his own. How boring. Akita immediately started looking for food, turning into a vacuum cleaner for anything eatable she might stumble on. Suzuna could only hope that her dog wouldn’t find a mouldy sausage sandwich or whatever the cool kids had for lunch these days.
Her thoughts were cut short abruptly when she stepped on a sharp item. “OW!” she squealed, only to see that the thing which had almost torn her foot in half appeared to be a shuriken. Oh, plural – there were a handful of shuriken lying on the ground. The heck.
A smirk spread across Suzuna’s lips as the pain faded. Perfect! Some hobo must have left the projectiles there. She had forgotten her own weapons at home anyway.
With the same grin plastered on her face, she picked up one of the shuriken and threw it against a tree – for training purposes. A simple thing to do – After all, she needed to warm up first. Uh… at least it was meant to be simple.
Unfortunately, the shuriken missed its target by just an inch – okay, busted, maybe a few inches – and flew towards... one of the two boys training. Oh shit.
“OUUUUUUCH! THE HELL!”
The shuriken had hit the boy’s leg. Tears glistening in his eyes, he looked around and screamed in hot fury, “WHO DID THAT?!”
Oh-oh. Suzuna quickly wanted to cut and run, but then someone else tapped her on the shoulder. It was the other boy and he didn’t look all too happy, either. “HEY, you bitch! Those are my shuriken!”
Before she could say anything in her defence, however, the wounded boy pointed at the other male.
“WHAT?!! YOU SHOT THE SHURIKEN? I’M GOING TO KILL YOU! ”

A moment later, they were chasing each other across the training grounds. Suzuna breathed a sigh of relief. “Phew, that was close.”
She wondered for a second what she should train next. For a second.
Then she dismissed the thought with a wave of her hand and lay down on her back beside a shady tree. Time to take a break.
From the corner of her eye, she could still see Akita going on patrol with her nose to the ground.

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Training 676

Akita:

Training:

Spoiler:

Life in the uchiha household isn’t like Suzuna’s, it isn’t alive with the hustle and bustle that comes with a large family. No, Masaaki’s family life pales in comparison to Suzuna’s, its just him and his father and his father is rarely around in the mornings or afternoon and often comes home on the evenings unless he’s on a mission, as a result Masaaki almost always cooks for himself. Sometimes he wondered what it would’ve been like if he had a little sister, someone to tease and annoy, and same with a little brother, he would’ve imagined if he had sisters he would be irritated with having to wait for the bathroom every morning while they fix their hair and make-up.

Well at least he have Neci now, it’ll be an odd but not entirely unpleasant change to the usual quiet mornings. It’ll be lovely to cook for someone else now that he thinks about it.

But the sudden change had made him anxious, it’s odd really. While he is sure he’ll get used to it soon but right now he just need his own space and what’s the best way to do that? Train.

His favourite place to train would be the forest, secluded and not overcrowded with people.

So he dashed through the trees, followed by shiro on the ground who had decided to accompany the uchiha. Masaaki wonders if some day he can train shiro to be a combat dog but on the other hand, he rather not put Shiro in harm’s way.

He was getting closer when he spotted the boys chasing each other, and judging from their body language they weren’t playing. He inwardly groaned, now he’ll need to pick a different spot if he wants to avoid being distracted. Unfortunately the uchiha didn’t noticed he had landed on a faulty tree branch and as soon as his foot added weigh on, the branch broke, with a shout the uchiha fell backwards but quickly formed the hand signs and performed lightning arc restraint but the jutsu was still fairly new to him so when the white chakra ropes extended out to wrap itself around another tree in the hopes that he can swing himself onto another branch, it didn’t work however due to his unfamiliarity with as the chakra rope soon dwindled and broke off all together, sending the boy falling to the ground below and right into a muddy puddle.

Masaaki cursed under his breath and pushed himself back up; soaking wet with a large mark on his knee that he is sure will turn into an ugly bruise at some point or another.

WC: 440

The sound of something cracking interrupted Suzuna’s doze-like state. Curiously, she opened her eyes, spotting a boy who must have just stepped on a faulty tree branch and was now trying to avoid the fall that was naturally to come. He started weaving some hand signs mid-air, performing a rather interesting jutsu: looked like a chakra vine which wrapped itself around another tree.
Quite impressive… at least before he couldn’t maintain the jutsu anymore and fell in a muddy puddle. Suzuna had a really hard time restraining laughter at that point; she even had to cover her mouth with both hands in order to hide her amusement.
Then she quickly got up, no longer wanting to be a bystander. Come on, there was a living being right in front of her, a person she could talk to – Maybe this training session would finally take a turn for the better!

“Hey!” Suzuna called out, running over to the white-haired boy. Her smile remained unimpeachable as she glanced up at him. “Aw, you alright? This looked kinda intense!” Not really, but whatever. “I’m Suzuna!”
At the same time, Akita came rushing their way or to be more specific, to the boy with the interesting hair colour. The dog began to sniff his hands, his legs and especially his pockets, tail wagging excitedly before another dog joined the three of them.  
Suzuna’s eyes widened.
“Oh my God, is it a he or a she? Aww, they like each other! Aren’t they adorable!” The two pets played for a little while although Akita soon decided that it was a better idea to sit in front of the boy and beg for food.
“Sorry, she always does that! Did you pack your lunch or something? I think she smells it! She's like a food radar!” Suzuna didn’t even realize that her new “friend” couldn’t hear her. Up until now, she hadn’t given him enough time to respond anyway.  

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Training 1011

The white haired child dusted himself off further and let out a irritated sigh, he haven’t even got to the center of the training fields and he already hurt himself. Oh he can see this day going to annoy him.
Before he could regain himself, someone else had to add to his slight embarrassment simply for being there to witness his failed attempt to salvage his pride. So as soon as he saw the girl run up to him he took a step back, the genin had caught him off guard and the first thing his eyes locked onto? The lips, the only way he can communicate after all.

And she talks…a lot. His concentration was mildly affected by his surprise and fall so the lip patterns before she asked about his dog’s gender completely went over his head. Therefore he did not at all understand what she said.

He figured he’ll play it cool though, he already embarrassed himself, no use digging his pit of shame further. But now it’s awkward because he didn’t caught her name…and what if she already said it? He’ll have no way of knowing unless he asks. “Hi.” He finally said, somewhat shy, his hands reaching out to stroke Akita’s ears, a fond smile extending across his lips “They’re definitely cute, Shiro doesn’t get to socialise with other dogs that much.” Replied the male as he pulled out the packed lunch, now a crumpled up mess. The genin didn’t seem bothered as he plucked a few pieces and fed Akita a couple before putting away the bento.

And then he looked her in the eye, green eyes and raven hair. He’ll need to remember that if he needs to find out what her name is without directly asking her. “I’m Masaaki.” Said the Uchiha, deliberately avoiding the Uchiha name. He paused fro a moment before speaking again “I’m hard of hearing by the way.” Said the boy, hopeful she wouldn’t be embarrassed.


Training: C-rank 328

Hard of... hearing? Suzuna gasped, hands covering her mouth for a short moment. “You mean you’re deaf?”
She hadn’t even noticed! How embarrassing, now he probably believed she was some insensitive brat and wouldn’t want to have anything to do with her and then she would be left to train on her own again!
But… wait, he could speak. And he seemed to have understood her words nevertheless.
Her eyes widened, this time in amazement. “Wow, who taught you to speak? And you read my lips, didn’t you?” she blurted out excitedly, flashing him a bright smile. “This is awesome, Masaaki! It’s so nice to meet you!”
She remembered to make a pause as not to give him such a hard time deciphering what she'd said. Meanwhile, she knelt down to greet the other dog – Shiro was his name, wasn’t it? – and let him sniff the palm of her hand.
Akita gulped down the pieces of bread hungrily, scratching Masaaki’s leg with her paw when he stopped feeding her.
Just as Suzuna was about to suggest that she and her new acquaintance could train together, a group of teenagers, possibly around their age, arrived at the training grounds.

All of the three boys were dressed in leather jackets and pants, wearing sunglasses and multiple black necklaces. Suzuna grimaced. Great, some gangster kids who would undoubtedly cause trouble.
This assumption proved to be correct when one of them immediately pointed at Masaaki and called out, “Oh, look at that pussy over there! He’s completely soaked! Either he likes to bathe in puddles or he pissed himself! Hahahahahaha! ”
Suzuna threw a sideways-glance at Masaaki, not sure whether he had understood the insult, but the way the three morons were laughing and nodding in his direction was probably hard to overlook.
Ugh, how she hated bullies. Masaaki hadn’t even done anything! At once, she felt anger boiling inside her, unable to ignore the ones who had just dared to call her new friend names. Who did they think they were? Hah, time to teach them a lesson. Annoyed, Suzuna snapped back, “Oh yeah? And what are you doing here? If you want to buy more necklaces, you better head straight to a jewellery shop, girls! And you don’t want to make your expensive clothes dirty anyway, do you?”
The gangster kids stopped laughing instantly. Almost in synchronism, their faces contorted into scowls as they approached Suzuna and Masaaki, coming to a halt shortly before them.
“Yo, bitch,” the tallest guy sneered and looked down at her small frame. He smirked. “You do realize that you’re outnumbered?”
With the same grin on his lips, he took out a kunai. “We are three and you are two.”

It was probably not wise to continue arguing, but Suzuna couldn’t help but let out a mocking chuckle. “Why don’t you get a couple more guys then so it’ll be a fair fight?”
This… might have been a bit too much.
“You…!” the leader of the crew yelled furiously and brandished his kunai in the air, obviously ready to charge at Suzuna and Masaaki. Nodding to his comrades, he added, “Let’s show them what it means to insult the Black Leather Kids! ”

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Training 1559

(OOC: Okay, it's Sayomi's turn now ^^ )

“Another uneventful day in the Hidden Leaf Village,” Sayomi thought to herself as she let out a deep sigh, “How bland.” Sitting upright on a tree branch overlooking a popular training ground for younger shinobi in the village, her eyes would dart back and forth around the scene below, scanning for anything that might pique her interest. She didn’t expect to find anything particularly fascinating, but she had grown tired of the monotony of her everyday life and sought something to spice it up. One can only train so many hours a day before diminishing returns set in. If nothing else, she was sure she’d get a laugh or two out of watching these children play shinobi.

It would take only a few moments before her hawk like eyes locked onto a situation off in an open area of the training grounds that caught her attention. “Five people. Four males, one female. And two small animals,” she mumbled to herself, crossing off her mental checklist as she analyzed the situation as best she could from that distance. Even from afar it was clear to see from the reaction of the girl that something was amiss. Not one to pass up on an opportunity, Sayomi would swiftly leap down from her perch and onto the training grounds, making her way over to their location.

Sayomi arrived in time to catch the ending of their conversation, the group of boys causing trouble and this girl standing up for herself. She couldn’t help but smirk at the look of defiance in this girl’s eyes as she stood her ground against the taunts and threats of the juveniles before her. It was nice to see that there were still people in the world that weren’t total cowards. Even in a situation where this girl was outnumbered she still insisted on fighting. Sayomi’s admiration for this resilience and distaste for bullies would lead her to finally step in and even out the odds, so to speak.

“You’re right,” Sayomi would add as she casually walked towards the group of boys from behind, “There does seem to be an imbalance in numbers here. I hope you don’t mind me taking the opportunity to even things up. I’m sure you won’t though. I mean obviously some big and strong gentlemen like yourselves wouldn’t see any issue with fighting a fair fight. Unless of course you are only a tough guy when picking on women and children, but that isn’t the case. Right boys?”

Her tone would be as frigid and piercing as the glare she shot the boys’ way as she spoke, flipping her hair nonchalantly as she drew closer with each step. She would stop a few feet short of the group and throw a glance over to the girl and small boy who stood on the other side. “However,” she continued, “Let it not be said that I am without mercy. I’ll give you one chance to apologize to those two and remove yourselves from my sight. So choose; repent or burn.”

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520~

[So sorry for the delay >__< Can't believe I didn't remember it was my turn!]

Okay, she hadn’t seen that coming. Seemingly out of nowhere, a girl or she looked more like a grown woman actually, showed up, declaring her help – in somewhat cryptic sentences, but still. Suzuna turned to the newcomer curiously; tall, black hair, dark eyes. Not to mention, quite pissed off, at least judging from the sharp tone in her voice.
“Hi, thanks for helping out!” Suzuna beamed, obviously not completely aware that their current situation could take a turn for the worse any moment.
Of course it did – right afterwards. Two of the gangster kids weren’t impressed by the other girl and her proud speech at all.
“Do you think we let ourselves get intimidated by a bitch with big tits like you?” One of them taunted, accompanied by his friend’s mocking laughter.
Before anybody could react to his words, the two already took out a kunai each and threw the weapons at Suzuna and Masaaki.

Suzuna gasped, instinctively ducking herself under the projectile and grabbing Akita by her collar.
“Quick, get out of here! This is too dangerous!” With a “shoo”-sound, she gave her a small nudge in hopes Akita would do as she was told. And well, the dog did… kind of. For a moment, Akita only tilted her head to the side in confusion; then she took advantage of the hectic situation: While Masaaki was preparing a Fire jutsu, she stole his lunch and ran away with it.
“Aki, don’t! Give that back!” Suzuna called out in a low voice, not sure whether she should feel surprised or embarrassed about her pet’s naughty behaviour. But okay, technically speaking, she was in the middle of a fight, so she had no time to worry about her dog sneaking bread or… her dog not even listening to her command.
A short moment of distraction which she would have to pay for immediately. Before the young kunoichi could turn around to face her opponent, the gangster kid saw his chance and punched her in the back, sending her tumbling forward.

“Ouch!” Thank God she hadn’t lost her balance – otherwise, she would already lie in that muddy puddle just like Masaaki had. Absolutely indignant about such a bitch move coming from her opponent, Suzuna spun around, rubbing her back with one hand. “Are you stupid?! I wasn’t even paying attention, I was talking to my dog! How dare you just hit me from behind?”
The animosity in her voice (of course it must have been that) left the boy speechless. One second. Two. Then he broke out into laughter. “What kind of shinobi are you; you can’t even fight, this is ridiculous!”
Now come on. That was mean! Offended, Suzuna stuck out her bottom lip.
“I can’t fight?” she repeated angrily, but he didn’t even seem to hear her because he was still laughing. Fine!
As fast as she could, she lifted her right leg and kicked him in the balls.
A shrill scream emerged from his mouth as he started crying like a little baby and then fell over whilst holding his crutch. Suzuna was almost surprised that she had been the one to cause him such pain. At least that self-defense course her mother had forced her to take must have done wonders.
She observed the boy rolling on the floor in bewilderment… until the pain subsided and he shot her a murderous glare. Oh damn… Suzuna scratched her head, flustered. She should have probably attacked in the meantime or some of that stuff.

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The third of the guys, the “leader”, who had been unable to prevent his gang members from attacking head-on, decided to focus on the hot chick that had joined their party. He made sure that he kept his cool posture steady and nodded to the four people fighting beside them.
“Sorry, they’re too hot-blooded.” He shrugged his shoulders in a very manly manner. “Let them kick each other’s heads. Why don’t we have a little chat meanwhile? I promise I don't bite. Or do I?" He winked at her. "I’m Ronert Pansyson. Yeah, my parents couldn’t decide whether to call me Ronald or Robert, so they just mixed both names.”
An absolutely, totally, completely irresistible smile split his face. Come on, the girls were queuing up to be with him. He could have any bitch in the world with a snap of his fingers.

“Do you think we let ourselves get intimidated by a bitch with big tits like you?"

Sayomi’s eyes narrowed as her cold glare turned to the boy who made the disrespectful remark. She remained silent for a moment, taking the time to observe the beginning of the fight. She watched as one of the cowards struck the brunette girl from behind, causing her flames of her rage to intensify. The white haired boy however, seemed to be holding his own just fine, redirecting the thrown kunai and dousing their opponents in a highly flammable gas. She recognized the jutsu simply by the smell that the gaseous substance let out as it blanketed the area. Fortunately, her position allowed her to remain outside of the invisible cloud, a position she intended to use to her advantage.

She was somewhat amused by the brunette girl’s kick, but her face remained solemn and unwavering as her attention shifted to the man that was now approaching her. “Sorry, they’re too hot-blooded.” He shrugged his shoulders in a very manly manner. “Let them kick each other’s heads. Why don’t we have a little chat meanwhile? I promise I don't bite. Or do I?" He winked at her. "I’m Ronert Pansyson. Yeah, my parents couldn’t decide whether to call me Ronald or Robert, so they just mixed both names.”

Sayomi probably would have advised against sharing such a ridiculous origin story for one’s name, but she said nothing nor even reacted to his words. She would throw a glance in the direction of the brunette girl and motion with her head for her to move, casually saying, “Stand aside.” Turning to face the man in front of her once more she would use her left hand to brush aside her hair flirtatiously before immediately thrusting her arm forward and taking hold of his throat. She would firmly tighten her grip around his throat, relenting only to prevent herself from crushing it, and dug her nails in enough to draw blood. “You disgust me,” she said coldly, a comment to which he would be unable to respond to because of the crushing grip that had seized his throat, “But you are at least more well behaved than your two mutts, so I’ll let you off with a warning.”

She would casually toss him off to the side before beginning to mold katon chakra in her lungs. She allowed flickers of flames to escape from behind her teeth as she breathed, making eye contact with the girl and boy she had come to help in order to let them know to clear out before she proceeded. Once they had done so she would release a flamethrower style stream of flames from her mouth, igniting the gas that had already settled on the grounds into an explosion.

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Training Dragon Fire: 750/750

Chakra: 135/150:

With the hoodlums sight obstructed, the Uchiha made his way into the gas he had created to approach one of the trouble makers, while he left Suzuna to take care of the second one and the last one to Sayomi, after all they each need a piece right?

“Where are you!?” roared his target, while Masaaki couldn’t lip-read in the gas let alone hear anything, he could however judge body language through the shadow he can see in the gas so he knew best to keep his footsteps silent but…well the bully can see his shadow as well. Luckily, Masaaki’s reflexes is trained enough. “There you are!” snarled the hooligan as he spotted Masaaki’s shadow and lashed out, Masaaki stepped to the side to dodge before countering with a well-aimed punch to the jaw and then a stomp to the boy’s knee to stagger him while he moved away. With no weapons, and to be honest Masaaki would rather not use any harmful jutsus against fellow leaf, even if they’re bullies.

His target seem to sense Masaaki’s hesitation “What the matter deaf lugs?” he sneered “An uchiha can’t fight? Ha! What a joke!” it times like these, Masaaki is graceful to be deaf to the cruel words of others. He can fight, it just his kindness is his weakness. With another cry, the hooligan charged at Masaaki, Kunai in hand waving it around like a manic,

Masaaki dodged but tripped over a rock and so the kunai cut his cheek, creating a flesh wound. Then the bastard had the nerve to attempt to stab him in the chest while Masaaki si down, the boy rolled to the side to the dodge and it was then his fight or flight instinct kicked in. So he isn’t going to resolve this peacefully is he? Oh well, angered the boy delivered another punch to the jaw, and then disarmed the other with a swift kick to his hand, leaving the boy to yelp in pain before it was cut short by a foot colliding with his lower regions.

And then the genin slide away, forming the hand seals for arc restrict while he did so before shooting forth white ropes of light to capture his opponent, however in that present moment his eyes locked onto Sayomi, alarmed he quickly jumped out of the gas to escape the incoming explosion, before making sure to hook his line onto his opponent to pull them out to save him for grievous harm. He landed on a tree branch nearby, his chakra ropes wrapping around the tree to pin the bully there before Masaaki quickly concealed himself behind a tree to protect himself for the explosion that would erupt.

WC: 452

OC: Ending this thread because you guys stopped and I need my arc restrict training done xP

*BOOM!*

Masaki might not be able to hear the explosion, but damn did he feel the vibration. Even the very trees shook.


"W-what the fuck?"

He looked down to spot the foolish leaf bully trembling, from the shock or the fright. He can't tell, and doesn't much care. With a sigh he undo his jutsu and dropped down relatively easily. "Are you ok?" asked Masaki as he eyed the other with a serious glare. He might be a bully, but he certainly doesn't deserve a spell in hospital just for being a prick.

"I hope you take today lessons to heart and don't bully others again." the bully didn't give response as he dropped, legs too weak to stand. The white haired genin had a feeling the man won't be swayed from humiliating others in the future. Bullies seldom change. Masaki gave a nod to the other genin, mentally he made a promise to himself he'll invite the two to a meal next time. But for now today is over at far as he's concerned.

[WC: 178]
[Full WC: 1314, training complete]
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