1 Cruisin' for a Bruisin' [Open] Sat Mar 23, 2019 10:40 pm
Atsushi
D-rank
Atsushi stood in a wide horse stance filling his lungs slowly completely with air before releasing it slowly back out from between clenched teeth. He stood in the middle of an open field that surrounded a single pond fed by a slowly trickling mountain stream. He was waiting in the quite dark of near dawn. Not for training, or a mission, or for anything in particular really. His right palm slammed down on his forward, right thigh as he began to focus on his technique and breathing, the sound piercing the cold quiet. His chakra would distort the air around him slightly causing the slightest amount of sweat to begin to trickle down his forehead as he began channeling mystical energies through his body. Behind him in his left hand he held his spear ready waiting to strike at a moments notice. An hour would slowly pass as Atsushi would motionlessly wait for his quarry. The sun was not quite so patient before its rays pierced the horizon the celestial would begin to splash the paints of dawn along her day time canvas as oranges, reds, and purple spread themselves into the blue of the coming day. Slowly recognizing her talent creatures would slowly begin to applaud the as the light wrestled them from their sleep. Fish began to slap on the surface of the lake, cicadas began to chirp in jubilation, and frogs would sing to the brilliant celestial calling upon her to appeared to receive their praise. Still Atsushi waited.
Atsushi was motionless as the sun pierce the horizon and its wave of radiance began to pour over the land. While the local fauna rejoiced the was an out of place alabaster canine that was rather upset at the piercing light. She'd wander over towards the lakeside as she'd noticed the dawn illuminating the lake in a golden aura. Peering down in to its depth for a moment longer than she'd intended Hotaru noticed that deep at the bottom of the lake remained some of the crumbled remains of some once deified humans. They along with the rest of the ponds bottom were covered with some sort of disk like shapes, as far as she could tell the were refracting the light of the sun through the water. She would note that some of the fish would also glow with that same golden aura as she decided she'd spent too much time on the matter and lazily paced to a nearby bench hiding in its shade. She looked over towards Atsushi visibly confused, but it wasn't the weirdest thing he'd ever done, so Hotaru would lay her head down and wait for her friend to cook her up something tasty when she awoke.
A dragonfly would slowly and curiously hover over towards the statue like figure that had been erected in its absence. As it moved closer and closer in small bursts, Atsushi's focus slowly intensified on his prey as he watched the dragonfly get just a little too close. with a burst of speed, the genin's blade glided on the air the sound of a refreshing breeze filling the air as the spear rushed towards the unsuspecting creature. Atsushi exerted his pressure on it as he swung paralyzing the creature despite primal instincts telling it to flee. In the span of a blink Atsushi's blade was mere centimeters from the critter when the sound of the breeze grew more intense. As the creature made contact with the spear it was not cut though and didn't get crushed. It simply made contact with the blade and was simply taken along for a ride as Atsushi slowly decelerated the spear releasing the uninjured bug from the clinging grip of the centrifuge. Atsushi didn't know what time if any his opponent had chosen, but he would wait here until then attempting the same trick over and over, succeeding only about 20% of the time.
Two Days Prior:
A memo had been placed in Kumo's training grounds pinned to a post. It had a simple message. Looking to get into a fight at the Gold & Silver Pond! The paper had been split into a few different section as someone had made slits on the bottom 1/4 of the page so that there were now multiple tabs. Some of the tabs were already missing having been crudely ripped of the page and claimed by another already. The ones that remained simply had a date and time scribbled on them.
Atsushi was motionless as the sun pierce the horizon and its wave of radiance began to pour over the land. While the local fauna rejoiced the was an out of place alabaster canine that was rather upset at the piercing light. She'd wander over towards the lakeside as she'd noticed the dawn illuminating the lake in a golden aura. Peering down in to its depth for a moment longer than she'd intended Hotaru noticed that deep at the bottom of the lake remained some of the crumbled remains of some once deified humans. They along with the rest of the ponds bottom were covered with some sort of disk like shapes, as far as she could tell the were refracting the light of the sun through the water. She would note that some of the fish would also glow with that same golden aura as she decided she'd spent too much time on the matter and lazily paced to a nearby bench hiding in its shade. She looked over towards Atsushi visibly confused, but it wasn't the weirdest thing he'd ever done, so Hotaru would lay her head down and wait for her friend to cook her up something tasty when she awoke.
A dragonfly would slowly and curiously hover over towards the statue like figure that had been erected in its absence. As it moved closer and closer in small bursts, Atsushi's focus slowly intensified on his prey as he watched the dragonfly get just a little too close. with a burst of speed, the genin's blade glided on the air the sound of a refreshing breeze filling the air as the spear rushed towards the unsuspecting creature. Atsushi exerted his pressure on it as he swung paralyzing the creature despite primal instincts telling it to flee. In the span of a blink Atsushi's blade was mere centimeters from the critter when the sound of the breeze grew more intense. As the creature made contact with the spear it was not cut though and didn't get crushed. It simply made contact with the blade and was simply taken along for a ride as Atsushi slowly decelerated the spear releasing the uninjured bug from the clinging grip of the centrifuge. Atsushi didn't know what time if any his opponent had chosen, but he would wait here until then attempting the same trick over and over, succeeding only about 20% of the time.