Ryo sighed as he walked through the village heading off to do whatever it was he wanted to do. There was nothing to be done as he hadn’t been assigned to a team yet, and thus wasn’t supposed to do any complicated missions. Still, today he was just wandering around or at least wandering was what some would call it who didn’t know him better. In truth, Ryo had actually taken a mission that was supposed to be helping him. It was a mission to spar with another shinobi of the village. Just a simple straightforward friendly fight between a pair of ninja. This was his mission and he was heading for the location of a shinobi he knew. This Shinobi was a Genin the same as Ryo was, and this meant he would have to work to fight. He neared the other Ninja smiling softly “Well, it’s good to see you. I was hoping to find you here classmate.” The shinobi whipped around very surprised to see Ryo who had been a year younger than him in the academy, but who was now a full shinobi as well. He frowned deeply shaking his head in surprise “Well, that’s something. I didn’t think you would make it out of the academy.”

He smiled nodding his head while he adjusted the scroll that was on his hip “Well, I am sure you are sad to see that I did make it, but let’s have a good sparring match like old times?”

His opponent sighed taking out a large Kunai knife nodding his head lightly “Fine, I shall be happy to do just that.” He said as he rushed forward towards Ryo who seemed like he was perfectly ready for the fight to come at him. He grabbed the scroll at his hip and was quick to unroll it placing a palm to it he focused his chakra summoning up the puppet from inside of it smiling “mmm, this is much better.” He said as he connected his chakra strings to his beloved Kuro. With the strings in place he smirked and snapped his arms forward sending his Lupine construct forward charging his target.

This was only a sparring session, so he wouldn’t unleash the deadly weapons that were inside of Kuro, as he didn’t want to seriously hurt the other shinobi. As Kuro got closer Ryo twitched his right middle finger making Kuro’s right paw swipe out aiming to hit the other shinobi. He parried the blow with his Kunai knife deflecting the metal claws that were coming at him. No sooner had he deflected this than he aimed a punch straight at Kuro’s face. With a twitch of Ryo’s left ring finger Kuro’s mouth opened and snapped up the fist that was coming at him. The pain in the Shinobi’s hand was enough to make the blow almost completely ineffective, but with a kick to Kuro’s chest he managed to separate himself from the wolf puppet.

Ryo wasn’t done here however as he continued to move his arms and hands in a dance or rather THE dance of the Puppeteer. Kuro danced forward being that the focused chakra strings were able to move Kuro as if he were a human, or rather a living creature. He moved Kuro forward twitching his left middle finger to make Kuro swipe at his opponent with his left paw the metal claws aiming to pierce the flesh of his foe. Of course, the shinobi was ready for such a trick and brought his Kunai to his defense yet again. With another kick he lashed out at Kuro trying desperately to defeat the puppet or at least break it. Ryo wasn’t about to let that happen as he quickly recalled Kuro away from his opponent.

No sooner had he done so that the other Genin rushed forward heading towards Ryo ready to slash him with the Kunai. Ryo smirked as he dropped his chakra strings bringing his hans up to form the seals of his Jutsu quickly before he brought his hands up to his mouth as if he were playing the trumpet. Only then did he unleash the Water Trumpet jutsu he had been working on. Now he shot forward the high-powered stream of water slamming right into the other shinobi causing him to be sent tumbling backwards into the sand and dirt.

When he came up he coughed and spit up the water he had been forced to swallow and he shook his head “Alright, Alright, that’s enough. I give. You’re more skilled than I thought. Now get out of my sight already!” he roared. Ryo laughed as he moved over to his puppet placing the scroll under it before he sealed it away again inside of it taking the time to carefully roll it back up “Thank you for the great sparring match you gave me. I appreciate you taking it easy on me. I wish you well my comrade. Good day and good living to you.” He turned and headed back to tell his superiors that his mission was a success.

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