A dash, a blur of pale blue light, and the landing of his feet  were all that could be heard as Bokuden made his way through and expanse of forest, cutting through every tree in his path. A distinct click could be heard as Bokuden sheathed his chokuto having just completed his personal sword training. He stood but a few meters away from the lake as he walked towards the boulder he had left his things by as he trained, never turning back to see the result of his cuts. As he walked away the trees began to fall one by one, rapidly almost like a line of dominoes. The loud thuds of the large mountain trees reverberated through the area and shook the ground as each came crashing down, leaving behind nothing but a series of stumps. “One, two, three,” Bokuden counted in his own mind as he listened to the falling timber, “Four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, t-“ Bokuden raised an eyebrow and stopped as he turned to look back at the fruits of his labor, seeing the last tree he had cut still standing. Its base was cleaved more than halfway through, but it was still standing, much to Bokuden’s chagrin.  “Tch! Not good enough,” Bokuden growled to himself as he stared down the final tree that he had failed to cut through, “I need more power.” Frustrated by the sight of his own failure Bokuden charged up a large amount of raiton chakra in his hand and sent it towards the half-severed base of the tree, blowing open the other side and causing the tree to finally fall. Bokuden turned and began walking back towards his belongings with the creaking of the tipping tree sounding through the forest before finally crashing down with an explosive thud.

As he arrived at the boulder where his belongings had been placed Bokuden grabbed a towel that he had brought with him in his bag and used it to wipe the sweat from his brow. Even on cool Kumo nights Bokuden’s long and arduous private training sessions would work up a sweat with any man. Having gotten used to his own grueling methods however, Bokuden no longer became drenched in sweat, but instead had worked up a light sweat which just barely glistened off of his shirtless body in the white moonlight. He threw his white towel over his left shoulder, half covering the tattoo of his clan’s symbol which was inked upon his body, and let out a sigh as he ran a hand through his white silver hair, slightly disheveled and spiky due to his previous training session. “Still not strong enough,” Bokuden thought to himself as he reached for the water bottle he had placed upon a break in the rock formation, high enough up for it to be convenient for him. Parched from his intensive training he hurriedly twisted open the top and drank from it with a ravenous thirst, tilting his head back and simply pouring the water straight in with no concern for sophistication as a small stream of ice-cold water overflowed from each side of his mouth and trickled down his chest. Once he had depleted the bottle he crushed it in his hand and threw it down onto the pile where the rest of his belongings were, planning to pick it up later… after he felt that he had adequately assessed his new squad with their first real practical test. Sword still in hand, but arms hanging at both sides Bokuden turned his gaze over towards the horizon in the direction of the village. “They should be arriving any moment now.”

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Suiton S>SS: 615/9000

Chakra 290/300:

A long day passed for Masayo. A day full of cleaning and working in the yard. Before her doing all the work outside in the yard and inside in the house, the grass was almost 20 centimetres high. Inside the house almost everywhere lay clothing, washed clothes and already used clothes. Normally Renji would have done all those jobs but he had to work, again. Sometimes it could really piss Masayo off. It seemed like she had to do everything in the house, plus her duty as shinobi. All together she has a lot to do. Next time she would just leave it and only clean her stuff and the yard. She loved being in their yard and just going and being outside in general. Everyday she would go outside even in Kumogakure's weather.

When Madayo woke up this morning she would have never thought that this day was going to be spend with work and training. She kinda did expect it. After all she knew Renji would come up with another stupid excuse for not helping her. Sometime he was a real jerk, but what could she do about it? He adopted her and teached how to communicate correctly, or at least just communicate. Masayo is only polite too her higher ups and maybe her friends as well. But since she doesn't have any she doesn't need to be friendly and nice to them. She does consider Renji as a friend but that's different since she has to spend every day with him.

Before Masayo knew it she was already doing the laundry. In her mind she was declaring herself as crazy. Why would she do it? Why does she do it? It just seems like her duty in the big house and she hated it.

First she finished the laudry amd then she went on cleaning the kitchen. Sort all the stuff in the cupboard and closets. Clean the sink and everything else that needs to be done. Masayo grabbed a fresh cleaned glass and poured some water in it. Some bits of the water were even frozen due to the cold temperature in the freezer. Masa would always put her water in the freezer because then it gets cold much faster and it has instant ice cubes. The Yamamoto member raised the glass full of ice cold water and placed the edge on her lips. The liquid slowly poured in her opened mouth and went through her throat.
Masayo finally finished the inside of the house and now the outside got its turn. This of course wouldn't take long since the raven haired Yamamoto loved working outside in the green yard. She watered the plants and moan the lawn. By then it was already getting dark and the sun was going under. Damn, she still had to get ready for the training. Masayo quickly ran upstairs to get out of her jumpsuit and changed to her usual clothing, her bandaged top and red skirt. Today she also took her rapier Nusumu with her.

When she stepped outside she could see the sun slowly disapearing over the hills. The black dots in her eyes reflected the orange orb perfecrly. A shine in her green hued eyes could be seen. It was a shine of happiness. She probably did not realize yet but she really made it into a squad and a fun one at that.

"Squad Karma... Just you wait."

With that her legs began to move in a fast pace. She sprinted to the borders. Her breathing got heavier the closer she got. Her heart was pumping faster and faster the more she ran. When she finally was close she started to slow down and suddenly she saw some flash in between the woods. Her insticts were the boss and made her run between the trees. Her feet constantly brushed against the grass and leaves of the trees. When she walked closer and closer she saw her sensei drinking some water casually. A relieved sigh escaped her lips as she started to walk toward her squad sensei. She leaned againt one of the trees and spoke up.

"Fancy meeting you here, sensei. That flash was a raiton technique, right? Why did you use it? Were you training?"

Masayo apperantly had a lot of questions, but just he wait when she wints that bet. The girl looked at the sunset and then raised her head up to look at the stars and moon. She loved the night as moch as she loved the day. A little breeze came by and swooped a few strings of Masayo's hair in the air.



Bukijutsu [Swordmanship] B > A 778/3000

Nine o'clock pm. Normally, prior to becoming a genin, this would be Miyako's approximate time to retire to her sleeping quarters, knowing that should she waste time lurking about within the house she may risk upsetting her mother. But today - and probably with the days following - would have to be an exception, as it marked the first training session that Team Karma was to have. Tugging on her short jacket and finishing by wrapping her scarf around her neck, Miyako stepped quietly out of her room with her sheathed katana in hand, only to stop abruptly as she came face to face with her mother. It was an eerie sight indeed, the pale, slim form of Kaede standing in the middle of the dimly lit hallway wearing a simple silver nightgown. But that wasn't what made a small flash of fear flickering through Miyako's eyes. It was the fact that her mother was awake, with her gaze fixed on Miyako's katana.

"Mother, what --" She flinched before the blow even came, knowing what to expect but not able to stop it. The first was a slap, with enough force to turn Miyako's head to one side. And then came the harsher blows, mixed in with small shocks of raiton. This continued for a fifth of an hour, until Miyako finally fled out of the house, leaving Kaede to support herself in the dark hallway. It was another one of Miyako's mistakes - it always was, regardless of the situation. She had informed her mother of the training sessions date and time that day upon returning from the introductory meeting, but had forgotten to remind Kaede again. As the years progressed, her mother was getting more and more volatile, sometimes even the appearance of Miyako was enough to place her in one of her violent moods.

Breathing heavily, Miyako travelled nonstop towards the arranged meeting place, her tongue occasionally flashing out to lap up the blood welling on her lower lip. Every movement sent a small jolt of pain through her right side, which she had sacrificed to protect her left arm, knowing that she relied more on the latter to wield her katana. Angry red marks decorated her left arm, though thankfully it was covered by her shirt and jacket. As she travelled at a fast running pace, she let the wind and cool air take her emotions down a notch, allowing herself to burn out the built up mess of complicated feelings that was conflicting within her. She didn't cry - she never did - but any hope that her mother would support her on her first training session with her new squad was crushed in the usual way, something that she should have come to expect, but allowed herself to wish differently.

By the time the training spot was in sight, Miyako had pretty much gotten used to the pain, though she couldn't do much about her split lip. Slowing down to a walk when she spotted Bokuden and Masayo, she finally decided to slip her katana through one of her straps on the right of her body, relieved that it wasn't some surprise lesson that started right away. Dipping her head at both Bokuden and Masayo, she approached them quietly, noting that Bokuden was drenched in either water or sweat, and seeing his unsheathed blade, concluded that he had probably been training before their arrival. She scanned the area for Miho, finding with surprise that the first arrival to their introduction meeting was now the last to arrive for the training. But they still had some time to spare, so the blonde girl wasn't necessarily late yet.

[ Ninjutsu C>B -- 617/2000 ]

It was the middle of the night when Miho finally got home from her trip to the burial ground to seek for the weapons that her clan was using during the bloody fights back then. Her whole body was electrified from the very well known feeling of thrill. She finally had  found the place where people of her clan were lying and made the investigation, no reckless actions at first. Everything should be planned as best as it could in order to succeed. Miho was good at planning. She stayed up all night again thinking about every move and situation that could occur until she remembered, that squad training is coming up soon. Miho gazed at her chakrams placed carefully on her bed. She came there and gently brushed them.

“I shall take care of you, some work is waiting for us later.“

She was as gentle with those as never is with people. One that would watch her that moment, wouldn‘t believe she could be the same girl that acts mean all the time. Miho took one chakram into her arms, that weighed a lot of kilos, but she had no problem in lifting it since she was used to do that from the age of five or something like that.  She started polishing it since some time was left until the training. After Miho was done with one „brother“, she took the other one and did the same thing, until the gold that was melted into the weapons shined as bright as it could. Miho moved her finger and two chakrams rose in the air, then started spinning slowly. She took a deep look at them in order to see if they were prepared to the level of perfection. Indeed they were.

“We shall take a little trip now.“

Miho always did talk to her weapons when she was alone, maybe that was because she was insane about them or maybe one could say that she was lonely. However, being a Kyouki, Miho really had a great bond with those, that could be considered similar to that one the puppeteer has with his puppets or a master has with his pets. But most likely the bond could be defined as the one that person has with his lover, full of care and jealousy and even the grief.

As soon as the weapons were ready, Miho headed out of her huge and shallow house. That one looked like a haunted place, but it was just because it was full of metal stuff outside the house, the inside was really impressive and pompastic. While running to the meeting place, Miho was breathing slowly, she was capable of running fast and not getting tired, because she did not have to carry her heavy weapons with their. They were folloving her steps in the distance of 25 metres, so it seemed like Miho was runninf around and the weapons were floating in the air by themselves. That view was quite unusual even in the world of shinobi.

The moment she came into the woods, she stopped a little. It was a disadvantage that she felt her own chakra perfectly, so that it was harder for her to feel the chakra of other people unless the amount of chakra was really big and powerful. Which Miho felt at the moment. She assumed that must be her Sensei, thus, headed towards that direction. Some moments ago, the big lake appeared. The first thought that rushed to her head was that the lake should be an advantage for her as she has water as her second. Miho took a look at the place and spotted the whole team being already here. Sensei was standing here, seemed like recently has worked out, but the sulky emotion was running through his face. Maybe he was disappointed with something. There was Masayo also standing near, her face seemed curious about something. Maybe she already asked questions or was just looking forward to their training. And even the shy girl Miyako was there, looking a bit tired. Miho was the one that was missing to this milk shake here.

“Hey, team, nice to see you this early morning.“

Miho  waved to Masayo and Miyako standing further from them. Then she turned her hips to the Sensei.

“Good morning Sensei. I know it is already morning, but your nightmare has just arrived.“

She was reffering to that comment Bokuden had made the other day. Miho was bad at forgetting things that strike her, especially those that are not quite pleasant. However, she was standing there calm, seemed like waiting for someone to arrive. After some minutes two metal round things showed up floating in the plain air without no chakra strings attached. Miho extended her hand to those things and spoke up again.

“These are my babies, I call them Deadly Brothers and they are happy to meet you all.“


[O.O.C. words in italic are thoughts]

Trainin my Bukijutsu S>SS
W.C. 820/9000

Just moments after speculating about the arrival of his squad Bokuden saw a figure approaching from the horizon. Ever wary of potential threats Bokuden glared in the direction of the approaching person as he raised his right hand over the hilt of his sheathed chokuto, ready to “welcome” any person that might be coming to see him with ill intentions. Bokuden’s body became less tense as the figure drew closer, revealing more details of the person and eventually her identity. He lowered his word and sighed as he saw Masayo running towards their location, slowing down to a brisk walk as she approached Bokuden.

"Fancy meeting you here, sensei. That flash was a raiton technique, right? Why did you use it? Were you training?" Masayo blurted out as she leaned against a tree just a couple of meters from Bokuden. Bokuden let his sword arm hang as he let out a sigh in response to her flurry of questions.

“More questions, huh?” Bokuden replied, raising an eyebrow at his raven-haired student, “Getting ahead of ourselves I see. Did you forget about our deal already? I’ll answer your question… if you can earn it.” Bokuden smirked as he awaited Masayo’s response, enjoying pushing the buttons of his overconfident student, “Unless you think yourself incapable. In which case I’ll be happy to let you sit this training session out and watch from the sidelines.” Bokuden could tell that this girl was confident in her abilities and that the idea of her skill being questioned would upset her. During this training session he would test how she behaved under duress.

Bokuden’s amusement with toying with Masayo would soon fade away as another member of the squad joined them. It was Miyako, approaching the group… slowly. She had done so the first time they had met at the café, but this was different. This wasn’t a girl being hesitant out of shyness, this was the look of someone who had suffered wounds in a battle. His eyes winced as he inspected her person, allowing her to silently approach he and Masayo without saying anything about it. He scanned her up and down, taking note the marks on her face and the cringing she was hiding as she was clearly favoring her left side, barely doing so much as breathing heavily to prevent its contraction. “I see you got some early practice in before you came here like I suggested,” Bokuden said with a faked smile and cheerful tone as to not draw unnecessary suspicion to her appearance, “I told you not to go overboard though.” Bokuden was concerned, but there was no reason to involve the other girls in this before he even knew what was going in himself. This was something that he would have to inquire about himself.

Bokuden’s attention shifted once again as the final member of the squad, Miho, arrived. “Hey, team, nice to see you this early morning.“ Bokuden wasn’t sure if she was being sarcastic or what as it was the middle of the night, but figured it largely irrelevant as he returned her greeting with a silent nod. “Good morning Sensei. I know it is already morning, but your nightmare has just arrived,“ she was still going on about this morning thing apparently, but hey maybe she was just a night owl like himself. The second part of her statement is what bothered him the most however, immediately connecting it to his exit back at the cafe. His nightmare? From her words alone this girl was turning out to be everything he feared she would be. Hopefully she wasn’t a man eater too. “These are my babies, I call them Deadly Brothers and they are happy to meet you all,“ Miho continued, pointing to two floating chakrams which she seemed to be manipulating with nothing attached. It was an interesting ability, one that was at least uncommon even in the shinobi world. Maybe this would be more interesting than he thought.

“Well, since we are all here,” Bokuden said as he addressed his newly assembled squad, wiping his chest off with the towel he had slung over his shoulder, “No point in wasting time. Let’s get right to the training, shall we? Walk over to the lake and use your supernatural walking practice to stand on the water. It’s taught at the academy so you all should know it. Walk a good distance on the water and separate put some distance between yourselves. Once you do that I’ll proceed with the next step in the training.”

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Suiton S>SS: 1387/9000

A deep sigh had escaped Masayo her parted lips when her questions were tossed aside once more. Was this guy for real? It were just normal questions really. It was quit obvious that he was trying to irritate her with his next words that came out of his mouth. "Unless you think yourself incapable. In which case I’ll be happy to let you sit this training session out and watch from the sidelines.” A wide grin appeared on her tanned face when she looked down and went to sit on the ground. Her back was leaning against the tree. With a slow move she raised her head to look at her white haired sensei. One of her eyebrows were raised while the grin was still stiched on her natural colored lips. A certan shine in her eyes made clear that she would never chicken out even if she knew it would end bad for her. "Sensei, you really don't know me now do you?" The grin from earlier changed into a smile and she looked once more up to the stars. "You should be more observent when it comes to getting to know your students. And i would never chicken out after i made a deal. That is only for people who think bad of themselves and as you probably already know, i think quite good of myself and i probably am not as good as a say but no one can blame me for having a bit confidence. Or do you think you can blame me for it, sir?" Madayo heard footsteps coming closer. Who would it be Miyako or Miho? She would soon find out.

A smaller figure could be seen and it was Miyako. Masayo looked at the girl and saw that she was quite beaten up. With a concerned look the green eyed Yamamoto stood up to take a better look at the second Ryuzoji. "Looks like someone took a warm up pretty serious. You alright?" She joked a bit with the first words that came from her throat, but the last part was really meant. Would she still be okay to train? Masayo hoped that she could still fight, not for her health of course but she would like to observe her techniques and abilities. She really wonderedwhat this petite girl had as power and skills. Not as enemy but as a teammate she wanted to know such information, so they would get to use combo techniques that are much more powerfull than just individual jutsus.

Masayo her thought were interupted by a certan person that arrived at last, Miho. Finally she showed up, Masa could not wait any longer for the training to start. Of course, Miho was the most talkative one of all three girls and greeted in a very obvious way. "Hey, team. Nice too see you in this early morning." Masayo got confused as she said 'early morning'. It wasn't morning, it was midnight. She juat shook her head and looked at Miho and closer her green tinted eyes as a greeting. Her back leaned against the same tree as before and she stood in a relaxed pose. An annoyed sigh escaped the raven haired Yamamoto member as Miho began to talk again. "Good morning Sensei. I know it is already morning, but your nightmare has just arrived,“ Masayo felt such a urge to give a comment and so she did. Her lips curled in a smile and she parted her lips to speak, "Seriously? You can not get more cheesy, or maybe you could." Obviously she meant Miho. Her eyes were half covered by her eyelids and the dark orb in the middle had the eyelids resting on them. The middle dot of her eyes reflected a shine of the moon and she had a devilish smile playing on her now closed lips. When Miho her weapon finally showed up Masayo wasn't that suprised since the day before training Masayo had been searching things up in the library. "Just as i expected. No chakra string or puppetry is used. This is your clan technique am i right? The usage of weapons at 40 metre distance for a Genin. The higher your rank the further you cab use the weapons. Quite handy if i say so myself, but the chakra that one uses in their chosen weapon can not be taken back and will always stay in the chosen weapon. The more weapons one put chakra the the less chakra the wielder has. Yeah, i've been doing some homework." Masayo wasn't lying, she really did do some homework. Luckily for her, the green tinted eyed girl lives very near to the library. "Then it must be time to show Nusumu as well" Masayo raised her hand to her back and pulled her copper rapier out with a smooth move. "This is Nusumu, the copper rapier."

"No point in wasting time. Let’s get right to the training, shall we? Walk over to the lake and use your supernatural walking practice to stand on the water. It’s taught at the academy so you all should know it. Walk a good distance on the water and separate put some distance between yourselves. Once you do that I’ll proceed with the next step in the training.” Bokuden explained what to do first. Masayo did exactly what he asked and used the Supernatural Walking Technique to walk on the lake. "So what now?"

Jutsus used:

Chakra: 145/150
Bukijutsu [Swordmanship] B > A
1729/3000

Even with only the moon as their greatest source of light, Miyako knew the moment she arrived that both gazes were on her, and it would take a blind person to not notice the most obvious blemish on her face. Straightening up in an attempt to show - and prove to herself - that she was fine and ready for the training session, she was relieved to hear both Bokuden and Masayo's casual remarks about her rather disheveled appearance. Prying questions and suspicions about whether she was in the right shape to train were the last things she wanted. Without actually moving her arm, she flexed the muscles in her right arm by curling her hand into a fist and tensing up, checking for any damages. Though it hurt - she dropped her face into her loosely wound scarf to hide her grimace - nothing seemed to be too particularly damaged. Raising her head, she offered a small apologetic smile to Bokuden, quietly adding, "I'm sorry. It won't happen again."

She was surprised when Masayo asked if she was alright, hoping not expected the other girl to be one to care whether she was okay or not. But still, she gave Masayo a reassuring nod. "I'm fine, I got a little excited. Thank you ... for your concern." It was rather strange to see a seemingly always quiet and withdrawn person admit that she had gotten over excited and injured herself during a warm up, but it was clear that Miyako was sticking to that lie - whether it sounded realistic or not. And she wasn't all too sure if she would be able to keep the promise she just made to Bokuden. Whether it happened again or not depended on how well she managed to move around without detection - that in itself being a form of training. 

It was shortly after this exchange that their third and final member of the squad made her rather dramatic entrance, floating chakrams in tow. The other's comment about it being morning puzzled Miyako, though she found herself more fascinated by the chakrams to actually join in the conversation. Although her expression didn't reveal much, her gaze followed the floating weapons in wonder. Fighting someone whose weapons don't have to be controlled physically would be a challenge, and Miyako realized that even with her flirty behaviour and tendency to speak so highly and confidently, Miho would prove to be a formidable opponent. Even without having to analyze this ability of Miho's, Masayo had already begun listing out information, revealing that such an ability was part of Miho's kekkei genkai. And immediately after this sudden blurb of information, Masayo displayed her copper rapier, introducing the weapon. Miyako's gaze flickered over to the blade, happy to finally see the rapier that Masayo had only briefly mentioned during their first meeting. Suddenly feeling self-conscious once more that her weapon did not posses a name, she was relived to hear Bokuden cut the chatter short to begin with the first part to their training. But the relief was short-lived; as she realized what they were being told to do, she felt a spark of worry. While she had passed the Academy with excellent marks, there were limits to what she could do perfectly and water-related skills happened to fall under that category. 

Approaching the lake, she stepped onto the water before she gave herself time to hesitate, putting in much concentration to ensure that there was a steady pool of chakra at her feet. Taking another step, then another, she turned to face Bokuden, waiting for their next orders. Walking on the surface of the water was simple enough, but seeing as neither her primary nor secondary element was Suiton, she was at a definite disadvantage if they were to engage in combat or some other form of training exercise on the water.

Jutsu Used:

-- Chakra: 145/150 --
[ Ninjutsu C>B 1276/2000 ]

As Miho greeted everyone she saw some confusion running though the faces of her team members. Well, she did not feel like explaining that she barely manage to fall asleep at nights and that the amount of four hours is normally the longest period of time she bears asleep. Not that Miho is having some nightmares or had somekind of disorder, that is just a habit that continues on and on from the very young years when to sleep was considered to be the waste of time by her father, thus, instead of that he made Miho train at nights with her weapons. However, none of this is anyone‘s bussiness.

As soon as Miho spoke, Masayo couldn‘t help herself but make a comment. Miho didn‘t pay much attention to those comments, because none of Miho‘s words were really serious things, she was just being as friendly as she could be. And If someone is having problem with that, she really has no time to deal with those people. The night was short and they had to seize this time as well as possible without distracting themselves by growling at each other, because after that the hot day is coming and to train in the weather like that would be much harder. After that, Masayo spoke again and leaked all the information about Miho‘s abilities covering that as „the homework“. That made Miho a little disappointed.

“Didn‘t you just say the other day, that will say nothing about abilities until it is showed in the training and seen by own eyes? I purely admired your mysterious manner then, but  here you are now, pouring the whole information like water for everyone, and what is even worse, the information about things that do not belong to you. I am not mad that I am not interestig anymore or something like that, but just think about Sensei and Miyako, they already know about my abilities so they will not have the interest to figure that out by themselves, which is I believe the part of our training. So, you just made the game less interesting for them. That is a disappointment really.“

After her words were finished the inconvienient silent lingered around and the shallow aura was gathering around Miho that one could even see her whole mood and even personality changing. The silence was broken by the Sensei some moment ago, who announced their first part of training, which seemed too easy for Miho to do. He asked the girls to walk on the water, which was nice, because water was her second and she truly adored this element. As soon as the task was announced, Miho went back from her shallow vibes and curved a smile that was lost somewhere some moments ago. They finally get to do thing more than talk.

Masayo started the task first, she was very quick and eager to know what task was following after this one is done.  Her walk was just perfect without any obstacles in the way. Then Miyako also started her walk, she seemed very concentrated and careful. However, the walk aslo turned out to be a real success. Now was Miho‘s turn. She decided to make a task harder for herself and by putting her hands in the air she cauth her chakrams flying right into them. The reason Miho decided to walk on the water with those in her hands was because each of them weighed a lot of kilos making a total of 25 kilos. No one new that so if she would fail with the walking on water task, she would just look like a total loser and weakling. However, she knew that if the real battle would occur on the surface of the water, she would have to use her weapons anyway, thus, Miho risked to take a chance.

She moved her feet near the lake carrying the chakrams, it seemed that she was hesitating for a moment, but that moment was just too short for others to notice. She took one of her chakrams into one hand and the other one into another in order to keep the perfect balance. Miho finnaly stepped on the water, it seemed that it was harder for her to walk compared to the other two girls from the team, but she couldn‘t care less. The thing that mattered the most was that she herself knew what was going on and that she managed to do both the task that Sensei has appointed and the task that she challenged by herself. Miho was really glad that she proved to herself that whatever the situation would be, she wouldn‘t have to leave her weapons behind and was strong enough to take care of them.

After walking to the point where the other girls of her team were she stopped nearby them still carrying her chakrams. Miho turned around and spoke.

“We all managed, good job.“

Miho was surprisingly friendly and glad about something, maybe that was because the training stuff truly makes her feel better or maybe because she was looking forward to the next task, that she believed will be more complicated and hard. In the end Miho dropped her both chakrams into the water and they quickly went under it. Then she called them in the air  and made the wet chakrams spin making a little shower above herself. It was a perfect way to refresh. As soon as she felt that was enough, Miho took her chakrams back into her hands again.

Training Bukijutsu S>SS
820+932 = 1752/9000

Jutsu used:

Spoiler:

Chakra left 135/140

Eyes still curiously inspecting the condition of Miyako, Bokuden watched as she began tensing her body, struggling to curl her hand into a fist and grimacing. She tried to hide it and probably did so from Masayo and Miho who were too busy being themselves to notice, but Bokuden saw everything. Apparently there was something he and Miyako needed to talk about.

"Seriously? You cannot get more cheesy, or maybe you could,” Masayo commented in response to Miho’s greeting before turning her attention to the two floating discs just overhead, “ Just as i expected. No chakra string or puppetry is used. This is your clan technique am i right? The usage of weapons at 40 metre distance for a Genin. The higher your rank the further you cab use the weapons. Quite handy if i say so myself, but the chakra that one uses in their chosen weapon can not be taken back and will always stay in the chosen weapon. The more weapons one put chakra the the less chakra the wielder has. Yeah, i've been doing some homework."

With a bit of an annoyed expression Miho responded to Masayo’s speech, “Didn‘t you just say the other day, that will say nothing about abilities until it is showed in the training and seen by own eyes? I purely admired your mysterious manner then, but  here you are now, pouring the whole information like water for everyone, and what is even worse, the information about things that do not belong to you. I am not mad that I am not interestig anymore or something like that, but just think about Sensei and Miyako, they already know about my abilities so they will not have the interest to figure that out by themselves, which is I believe the part of our training. So, you just made the game less interesting for them. That is a disappointment really.“

“Ladies,” Bokuden interjected into the conversation before it went any further, “That’s enough. Save the animosity for your training, you’re going to need it. Now, to the lake.” Bokuden watched as one by one his students demonstrated their ability to maintain a constant flow of chakra with their Supernatural Walking Practice jutsu, at least he wouldn’t be starting from scratch with any of them. He looked off into the horizon once more before letting out a sigh. “She’s not coming after all, huh?” Bokuden noted to himself before strolling over to the edge of the water. Placing a single foot atop the surface of the water Bokuden waited until each member of the squad had taken a position before continuing.

“Well,” Bokuden began as he walked out to the center of the lake, “I did have an opponent signed up to fight you all, but it appears as though she got caught up with something else and will not be able to attend our training session.” Bokuden turned to face his students as he reached the middle of the water and smirked before continuing, “It’s a shame really, I was hoping to avoid doing this. I don’t think you’re ready for this yet, but it seems my hand has been forced. Your opponent for this training exercise will have to be me.” Bokuden looked up into the moonlit sky for a moment and exhaled deliberately before redirecting his gaze back down to his students. “This should go without saying,” Bokuden began once again after his moment of pause, “But the objective here is not to win the fight or beat me. If you want to stand any chance of landing a single hit on me there should only be one goal motivating you during this fight, killing me.” Bokuden took no particular battle position as he watched his students’ reactions to his words, simply standing up straight gripping his chokuto in his left hand as his rested on his hip, “Whenever you’re ready girls.”

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Suiton S>SS: 2049/9000

After Masayo had inished her short description of Miho's Kekkei Genkai. A whole speech was ready as a reaction.
"Didn‘t you just say the other day, that will say nothing about abilities until it is showed in the training and seen by own eyes? I purely admired your mysterious manner then, but  here you are now, pouring the whole information like water for everyone, and what is even worse, the information about things that do not belong to you. I am not mad that I am not interestig anymore or something like that, but just think about Sensei and Miyako, they already know about my abilities so they will not have the interest to figure that out by themselves, which is I believe the part of our training. So, you just made the game less interesting for them. That is a disappointment really.“ Miho apperantly did not look that happy about the information Masayo had found and shared, but her intention of saying the abilities of the kekkei genkai, wasn't to let others know how it worked. She just wanted to be sure what was written in the several books of the library. Masayo her reaction could only be seen on her face and her green hued eyes. A serious expression had taken over after Miho had given her a lecture. The expression said it all, Masayo just did not care if anyone was listening or not. Hell, she would even sum up the abilities of one's clan in a silent crowd or even a microphone. All she cared about was her information and if it was true or not. The black orbs that were situated in the middle of her eyes, looked straight at Miho. Her eyebrows showed no emotion as well, it was just the look that could give one chills and goosebumps. Her eyelids were resting on her orbs that were reflecting the light absorbing orb its shine. Speaking of the moon, it was a beautiful night, there were a lot of clouds but the moon could be seen very easily thought them. The form of the round celestial body was a perfect circle. Tonight the orb of the night was a full moon with some sparkles shining so bright and with pride next to the heavenly body.

Masayo didn't even notice the Senei of Squad Karma trying to stop this particular conversation. Masayo had turned her back to Miho and turn her head sideways so she could still see the disapointed female in the corner of her always serious looking eyes. The urge to answer back was the raven haired Yamamoto to big so her mouth opened while looking at Miho from the corner of her eye. "As I was told at the Academy, emotions useless in battle or training, so why should curiosity be an acception? Besides, i want to give everyone a fair game. And also most of the time the first training consists out of team play, so why leave Miyako uninformed about your clan's abilities. Just as you stated in our first conversation, we should share this information with each other for better teamwork and also better results." Masayo her gaze shifted to the lake as the moon was floatng right above it. A special effect could be seen in the slpw moving water as the moon was reflected. "If it is such a big deal for you, i will not hesitate to tell my clan its abilities, but since it is such a known clan, i think i do not need to tell any of you. And if one of you still does nor know that my kekkei genkai is the Storm release, Ranton. That means that, that person is the most stupid and slowest person i know." What that being said her legs moved to the water. It worked perfectly just like always. Now she was looking at the rest to come on the water as well. When she stopped in the middle of the lake her pose and body language changed completely. Now it looked like she was ready to take a punch or beatig every second. Her eyes had no emotion or that special shine of intrest like usual.

First was the beaten up Miyako. She looked very concentrated and in the beginning she hesitated a bit but she did manage to walk on the liquid surface succesfully. Next up was Miho. She took her chakrams in both her hands and moved her legs to step on the water, but just as Miyako did, she hesitated before walking on the blue liquid.  

When everyone was on the water, except for their tutor, Masayo her eyes were following Bokuden his every move, even just the slightest change of position. She did not want to miss anything, that could be part of this squad training. She saw the male who was just a bit older than her own, looking at the horizon. The urge to look at the same thing his eyes were gazing at was hard to overpower, but she managed to keep registering his movements. "She’s not coming after all, huh?”  Right when she heard that, so much questions started popping up in her mind. Who did he meant? Why would he be saying that? What is their first opponent? Masayo hated when such irritating questions did not get any answer from anyone. She also knew if she would ask Bokuden, he would just ignore her like the first time, so the Yamamoto just kept her lips on eachother and didn't even bother asking those questions since it would be a waste of breath and time.

Finally Bokuden started to walk to the middle of the calmly waving water and once started to speak again. " Well, I did have an opponent signed up to fight you all, but it appears as though she got caught up with something else and will not be able to attend our training session. It’s a shame really, I was hoping to avoid doing this. I don’t think you’re ready for this yet, but it seems my hand has been forced. Your opponent for this training exercise will have to be me. This should go without saying, But the objective here is not to win the fight or beat me. If you want to stand any chance of landing a single hit on me there should only be one goal motivating you during this fight, killing me." The white haired man started stopped in the middle. "Whenever you're ready girls." Not the slighest change was made in his pose but Masayo did change hers into a more defensive position. Who might know what he has up his sleeve? The tip of the green eyed girl her foot was pointing at the tutor, but her feet were still on the same place. Her light reflecting eyes were fixed on her sensei as she waited for anything, but since he did not move and someone had to make the first move, Masayo decided it was going to be her. Even though it was not smart to move as the first but she wanted that free question.

While running up to the Jounin she held her rapier in front of her to block if a move was made by the Ryuzoji. As she was running, she made three usual clones in front of her. The four Masayo's zig zagged toward him. While they were moving randomly between eachother once Masayo disappeared. The other three were now running at a fast pace toward their enemy, that was her sensei, Bokuden. When the three finally reached him they started slashing randomly at the male, hoping for at least one to hit. The three copper rapier was shiny due to the heavenly body uo high in the sky. The disapeared Masayo was waiting for the right moment to jump back in the fight. The Jounin ranked shinobi probably had already seen where that one Masayo went to, but she just went for her luck. A loud breath could be heard behind the tutor. It was the Masayo, apperantly she had disappeared under water. When she came back above the surface, she stood on the blue waving liquid, quite close too the squad its sensei. On the exact same moment she jumped on the liquid she tried to hit her teacher. The chances of actually hitting him was ver very low, but now she could only hope that at least one of the clones would hit him.

Chakra:

1447+1729= 3176
Bukijutsu B > A
3000/3000

Suiton S > SS
176/9000

Miyako paid little attention to the bickering - she seemed to have a natural talent at tuning out anything that didn't directly involve her, a skill that might come useful as this squad continued to train together. Masayo and Miho both seemed to bear no actual ill-will towards each other, but it was obvious that they weren't going to stop pushing at each other's buttons for a heated reaction. Thankfully, Bokuden intervened again, bringing their attention back to the quick warm up test that he had provided. If they had any other sensei with a less dominating authority, the squad would be sure to fall to immature squabbles. But that wasn’t to say the harmony between the squad members could be kept but authority alone – if they didn’t start learning to trust and respect each other as fellow shinobi, it may affect everything they did as a team. Of course, even while she was able to understand this, Miyako herself would have difficulties learning to be an equal with her teammates, having been so used to being alone or around those who looked down on her for so long.

Trying to keep herself light on her feet, Miyako adjusted her attention from Bokuden momentarily to watch Miho join them on the surface of the water, hands gripping on her floating chakrams. At first, Miyako suspected the other girl of using the twin weapons to keep herself up, but something told her that it wasn’t the case, as it appeared Miho was still using the Supernatural Walking Practice jutsu to keep herself afloat. The blonde girl’s sudden praise came as quite the surprise, and although she didn’t respond, the young Ryuzoji member smiled inwardly – she had gotten approval from her fellow teammate, even if it was a collective praise. The moment Bokuden joined them on the lake, Miyako’s first thought was little voice in her head whispering, “Uh oh.” Clearly, they didn’t come to the lakeside simply to have the lake as their background, and there were clear intentions for them to have their training session on the water.

“I did have an opponent signed up to fight you all, but it appears as though she got caught up with something else and will not be able to attend our training session.” What did that mean? If it was someone he had arranged to train with them, then it must have been someone who specialized in Suiton, right? So if that person didn’t show … then was the training session cancelled? Or at least modified in order to suit the current situation. “It’s a shame really, I was hoping to avoid doing this. I don’t think you’re ready for this yet, but it seems my hand has been forced. Your opponent for this training exercise will have to be me.” Okay, or not. Their first training session, and they were up against their sensei? More importantly – they were up against Ryuzoji Bokuden? Knowing that all members had Raiton as their primary element wasn’t much of a reassurance at this point – when fighting a skilled Jounin, anything could happen. But landing a blow was almost out of the equation, unless all three genin could work well enough together. Even then, the possibility was incredibly small.

Masayo moved first, the rapier-wielding genin immediately making a beeline towards Bokuden, but was then accompanied by three clones which had materialized almost instantaneously. It was a smart, basic move – it allowed them all to see what their opponent would do against multiple attacks, and the number of clones happened to match the number of squad members. Instead of moving to back Masayo up right away, Miyako nimbly took several long strides back, away from the center of conflict. While it appeared to be a selfish move, she knew that she had yet to see the forms of combat of the others, and simply jumping in may result in clashing with the other fighting styles. Bokuden had instructed them to attack him – with the intention to kill – but he hadn’t mentioned whether he would simply be on defense, or if he was intending to be on the offense as well. Seeing as this was their first training session, the first was more likely, but no matter what, she should be ready for anything. Unsheathing her katana, she waited, eyes scanning the vicinity around her.

Jutsu Used:

-- Chakra: 145/150 --
[ Ninjutsu C>B 2019/2000 ] – Complete.
[ Ninjutsu B>A 19/3000 ]

Miho was following the approaching Sensei, it was obvious that something was on his mind, maybe he was planning something to give  his girls to work with. When he finally came near them, she spoke announcing that his plans were torn to pieces as his comrade or whetever didn‘t show up. Well, it seemed really unacceptable to Miho, why promise stuff and not come? Although, she was glad and relieved for a moment hoping that the girls will have the chance to work with their Sensei more without any interference of other people. What made her blood circulate faster was Bokuden‘s words afterwards. He told, that the team should land a hit on him, but in order to do that one must be going in for the kill. Miho turned around and wondered.

“I wonder if any of them had killed someone. Sensei. Sure had. Masayo and Miyako are still a mystery, they  both look nice and kind, but who knows really, I should not assume without any knowledge or just by the first impression.“

As for Miho herself, she has killed before, despite the fact that she‘s still in her years of sixteen, her first killing was when she was barely a thirteen old girl. Those chakrams she was holding at the moment, those that were shining in gold and metal perfectly had been stuck in people‘s heads or dead bodies for a lot of times by now. No one could have thought, she was really skilled in polishing her weapons. However, when Sensei suggested to attack him as going in for the kill, Miho got all thrilled. She could do that, she does that everytime.

The line of Miho‘s thoughts were interrupted by the sudden attack by her team mate Masayo. She seemed really impatient at that point, they probably should have gathered and came up with the strategy first, but as Masayo was already in move, that thing wasn‘t possible for now. Miho turned to Miyako asd saw that she changed her position as well. Miho was the only one that stood there calm and relaxed, yet at the same time streched long and graceful. She turned her head to Miyako again and pointed her head to her katana. The distance was too big between them to discuss the strategies without the Sensei spotting that. Miho pointed her finger into herself reffering to „watch me“ thing. She moved her hands in the most invisible manner and the next second her chakrams were gone in the woods that they were nowhere seen by the eye. Miho again turned to Miyako to see if she saw everything and to make sure that she understood what Miho was trying to tell by that movement, which was the she sure got their backs and that her chakrams could come and interfere any second needed. As both Miyako and Masayo were the wielders of sword-type weapons, they must be  skilled as close range fighters, just like the Sensei was. Miho wanted to tell that if both of them unite against the Sensei in the close battle, then Miho would be able to get him from the back from afar. That attack coming from afar would be more difficult to dodge for a person who is very good at close battles and who is already busy with fighting two of his students.

As soon as Miho made her first invisible move withouth bringing any damage she got in her head, she had so many ideas how to play this game, she couldn‘t pick up one.

“What to pick, should I make some clones and give them a weapon per each to control them, or should I work with people and give them some freedom from thinking about movements and dodging attacks by controling them through my weapons from aside?“

She gazed at standing Miyako again, however, she couldn‘t do anything by herself. That was also because she wasn‘t alone anymore, she had her team besides her to work with and that was the main point of this training. Miho was watching Masayo‘s attack very carefully and examining every move. She didn‘t believe that oe attack could land a hit on Sensei, but still, Miho had some unexplainable faith in her. Maybe the next attact and those strategies even wouldn‘t be needed.  However, she was standing there still on that water and waiting to  see to which direction the things will go. Miho moved her hands again which meant that she stopped her chakrams from travelling any further, now they were waiting somewhere around to get in action again, this time not for a bloody one Miho hoped. It is too much of a work to polish them perfectly like that afterwards.


Training Bukijutsu S>SS
1752+800=2552/9000

Jutsu used:

Spoiler:

Chakra left: 135/140

The first of his students to react to his words was Masayo who immediately took on a defensive position as she stared Bokuden down intently, perhaps anticipating him to make the first move. Assuming a defensive stance was a good start, however Bokuden would not be making the first move in this training session. It wasn’t his style to begin with and besides, he would rather force the girls to show their hands. There was more to being a skilled shinobi than power alone, now would be the perfect time for the group to show him that perhaps they embody some of those qualities. If they understood the significance in the gap between their power the girls would know that a direct frontal assault would be foolish. Bokuden narrowed his eyes as he looked back and forth between the three, awaiting the brave or foolish soul who would make the first move. The first to move was Masayo, not really a surprising outcome considering how she behaved up to this point, but interesting nonetheless. The kunoichi darted towards him, holding her rapier out in front of herself in a defensive posture. Her form was good, at least from this brief glance at her swordsmanship that Bokuden was seeing. Maintaining a defensive posture was wise as well, keeping in mind that an opponent will try to counter your strike. Bokuden admired the courage she displayed by taking the offensive and initiating the action, but charging him head on and alone was nothing short of foolish. Before he could even finish criticizing her approach Bokuden witnessed three clones appear before Masayo and, along with the original, begin darting back and forth in a zig zag pattern, no doubt an attempt to mask the location of her real body. It was a good plan, especially considering the limited jutsu arsenal Bokuden assumed she had, but an Academy level bunshin jutsu would not be enough to create an opening against him.

What Bokuden found more curious about the current situation was the fact that Masayo was the only student even attempting to make a move against him. Were they really going to just leave her out to dry like that? Surely they didn’t think that anything short of a total team effort would give them even a fraction of a chance to overtake him. Miyako had taken a defensive stance as well, drawing her katana in anticipation of a possible counterattack launched by Bokuden. The act of drawing her katana before engaging in a fight intrigued Bokuden. He knew that members of the Ryuzoji clan were practitioners of countless different kenjutsu styles, but truly he hadn’t bothered showing up to spar with his clansmen in years. He was used to his Iaido style and generally found it to be the best suited for his abilities, but he would be curious to find out how Miyako utilizes her ability. Miho stood back as well, seemingly trying to communicate something with Miyako, but Bokuden couldn’t decipher it immediately so he let it go. He did wish that they would be a bit more secretive about communicating, but given their lack of prior experience with each other he couldn’t really fault them. He could however, fault them for not backing up Masayo. “It looks as though I will have to get these two involved in this fight myself,” Bokuden thought as he made a mental note of what each of his students was doing.

With his two other students seemingly frozen in place Bokuden turned his attention back to Masayo and her clones. It was a simple matter for Bokuden to distinguish between the clones and the original as the clones possessed no real bodies and therefore no electrical signals, giving away the location of the original the moment that she entered his range. Even if he didn’t have his sensory ability he would only have to look down at the surface of the water to locate the real Masayo. Academy bunshin have no physical forms and are unable to interact with the world around them corporeally, making the small splashes on the surface of the water made by Masayo’s footsteps a dead giveaway of her real body. As the clones drew near Bokuden sensed Masayo’s real body submerge itself under the surface of the water, an interesting choice. It was a smart plan at least. Against an opponent other than him it might have been a very effective tactic, but unfortunately he would not be letting things slide that easily for them. Heavy breathing could be heard from behind Bokuden as Masayo emerged from the water and prepared for a sneak attack. “Ugh,” Bokuden thought to himself, “Control your breathing if you are going to try and be sneaky.” Knowing that the bunshin were not capable of actually inflicting damage on him Bokuden decided to ignore them and instead take this fight into his own hands.

In one fluid motion Bokuden gripped his sword and drew it while spinning in a complete circle. As he spun Bokuden skimmed his blade against the surface of the water, the speed and precision of his cut causing a thin veil of displaced water to splash up. Using the displaced water as a cover for his movements Bokuden darted at full speed across the lake in what must have appeared as a blur to any of the genin if they could even see him through the distraction he created with the water. His first target was Miho, who he moved directly behind of before wrapping his arms around her, constricting her movements. “What?” Bokuden said in her ear as he pulled her up against him, “Did you think you were safe back here?” Bokuden would then follow his restraint up by lifting Miho off of her feet and performing a suplex which would send her flying down into the water head first. If performed correctly there would be close to no pain, but it would certainly be disorientating. Honestly it was more to send a message, “Make a move before I have to”. He would then throw a glare over to Miyako to see how she would respond and await the next assault heading his way.

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Suiton S>SS: 3093/9000

Masayo had noticed that none of the others were there to back her up. If that was the case, why would she help them out? Oh yeah, she wanted to show her sensei that she can kick some butt. That's why they had to work together. Apparently, no one wanted too so Masayo wouldn't save their ass when they were attacking or at least trying to attack since getting a hit on their tutor was quite hard. Masayo her strategy was blown into piece when she was out of air and had to get some as fast as possible. "Damn it..." She thought when Bokuden ran at amazing speed toward the others. "This was all for nothing. Great..." A sigh left her mouth as she saw nothing worked of her rather pathetic strategy. At least she did something and not just stare at the fight. Masayo found her balance on the water again and started to run after Bokuden, not that she was fast enough to follow him. Masayo couldn't even see her sensei completely when he was running. With seeing that Masayo felt a bit stupid, even if she would get there it would already be too late. Masayo made the clones of her poof away as she was running toward her fellow squad members. The 18 year old Yamomoto member saw Bokuden getting his arm around Miho. From a far i looked very... strange. Masayo her eyes widened and an eyebrow was raised. "What are they doing? No, that is just... A tutor shouldn't be doing that even if it was to fight. Damn, even if they did not help me, i shall help them." While she was thinking that, she saw Bokuden suplex Miho with her head touching the water first than her body followed. A splash could be heard and seen. "So he was planning to do that... Miyako must watch out now. With me and Miho away for a second, and when your opponent is a Jounin anything can happen in just a mere second. Just hang on a bit Miyako, i'll be there to back you up in a second." Even though Miyako did not back her up when she was attacking, Masayo couldn't just leave her as a pray for Bokuden.

When she saw Bokuden look toward Miyako, she thought to use one of her clan jutsus. To be more specific the green eyed teenager used Gale Style: Storm Senbon. Her voice said in a calm matter the name of the technique as she did the handseals for it. In her hand she created ten senbon. She ran up in range of Bukoden and started throwing the first three at once. After that she threw a pair of two senbon. Masayo now had five senbon left that she threw at her tutor each at a different time when she came closer. Finally when she was in reach for her rapier to maybe touch the squad its leader. She started to use different fencing techniques to try and hit him. Of course with him being at Jounin level, none would make a hit, but now Masayo hoped for her teammate Miyako to make a move. Maybe with two they could at least have more chance on hitting him. "C'mon, Miyako, you are from the same clan, figure out what tricks he may have." Masayo was actually relying on Miyako to do something. If Miho would come and help, that would also be a plus, but seeing that she just was slamed into the water, it would take a second or two maybe.

Masayo her rapier kept swinging in all kinds of styles. After every slash that she tried to make a hit, her position always went in the en garde position. That is the position that with every fencing match was used. It was a basic but defensive position than was often used. In fencing the footwork is of great importance and since Masayo was interested in fencing and used a rapier as well, she knew a lot of positions how to place her feet in all kind of fights.

Chakra 125/150:

879/9000
Suiton S > SS

((OOC: Sorry for the not as good as usual post. I didn't know what to write. D:))

Keeping her attention focused on Bokuden while her teammate was making hand signals to her was incredibly distracting - not to mention the amount of thinking that was needed to figure out what those gestures meant. In all its entirety, it didn't take much to decipher that Miho had sent her chakrams away and out of sight as a backup weapon to be used later - the simplicity of the plan could have been noticed by Miyako even without the whole gesturing and secretive movements. It was just the waste of time that had Miyako slightly irked - they were sorely in need of a more effective means of communication, preferably one that wouldn’t be detected by their opponent. After nodding once to Miho to show that she had understood the message that was being conveyed, everything happened all at once.

It was clear Bokuden was confident against the corporeal-lacking clones, seeing as he hadn't bothered to move as they rushed towards him. At that point, something in Miyako's head clicked - a piece of information that she should have thought of the moment Masayo’s clones had materialized. Of course Bokuden wouldn’t have to bother with the confusion that normally came from dealing with clones. Their clan’s kekkei genkai simply allowed him to keep track of the real Masayo the entire time – there wasn’t a single moment when her whereabouts became unknown to him. As soon as she realized this, Miyako’s eyes widened, mouth opening to call out a warning to both Masayo and Miho. But whatever she was to say died within her throat as Bokuden sliced his sword across the surface of the water and charged towards them, making a beeline for Miho first. Without moments he locked the chakram-wielder in a hold and performed a suplex, flipping her upside down and plunging her head-first towards the water. Breath catching in her throat as Bokuden glared at her, Miyako finally moved into action, feet skimming over the water as she ran towards the left of Bokuden, holding her katana diagonally with both hands to the left of her body to minimize resistance as she ran. Before she even reached Bokuden, she could see Masayo moving towards them, hands doing a series of hand signals before throwing something towards their sensei. As Miyako approached Bokuden, it became increasingly obvious that whatever had been thrown – it was small, so likely to be senbon – was fused with raiton, a bright, noticeable presence even in the passive range of her kekkei genkai.

“Masayo-san, don’t use anything with raiton! He can sense them, even if they’re small!” She burst out, volume much higher than how she normally talked. Even in her rush she made note to call the other with honorifics, clearly not comfortable with talking down or casually with her teammate just yet. Though her short warning didn’t fully encompass the capabilities of Bokuden – after all, it wasn’t true that raiton was completely ineffective against those of the Ryuzoji clan – she hoped that what she said was enough to prevent any further unnecessary attacks. If her teammates depleted their chakras simply because they didn’t understand the kekkei genkai they were up against, Miyako herself would feel at fault, seeing as how she was so familiar with it. But what would be the limit to the amount of information that she revealed? They themselves were vulnerable to raiton, yes, but only if it was of an equal or greater skill – something which none of them were likely to have if compared to Bokuden. Even if all three genin possessed an affinity to raiton, it would require incredible teamwork in order to effectively use a raiton technique against him.

When she got close enough, instead of slowing, she continued to the left of her opponent, cutting up at an angle in a basic swinging motion, aiming to slice at his torso. As was standard with using a katana, she aimed to cut with the tip of her blade. Even as she made her move, she was prepared to spin around whether the hit landed or not to go for another attack, knowing that Masayo was nearly upon Bokuden and would continue to attack with her rapier – hoping in a series of repeated motions to keep Bokuden distracted.

Jutsu Used:

– Chakra: 140/150 –
[ Ninjutsu B>A  756/3000 ]

The moment Miho was thinking of strategies and possibilities to fight against the Sensei, he approached her in no time reaching an incredible speed. Even before that Miho had known that her team abilities will never get him and he is just pushing them to their limits. As Miho was the only one standing there layback and all into her head, the Sensei though to give her a lesson. Bokuden suddenly appeared behind her, that was no surprise to her, men tend to do that. He whispered some comments into her ear about the mistake she was making and that gave some pleasant chills. Fighting with men is fun. Yeah, that is how she likes it to be. Miho managed to curve a smile before being sent right under the water. One might think that this would distract her, but her sleek and tight outfit really comes in help here, as the resistance of water is decreased by fifty persent than it would be for people wearing normal clothes. She swam a couple of metres under the water and then made some hand signs. It was a great disadvantage that she didn‘t know what was going on there on the surface of the water. Miho might think that the second target would be Miyako, but if they managed to attack first, no one will need to be a target at all. However, it was too hard to quess what moves would her team members use as this is their first battle together. She did saw Masayo‘s movement, so with this information she could work along, but she didn‘t know anything about Miyako‘s techniques, so that would be a risk. Now Miho was regreting a little that she never had any interest in people.

It  was taking a really long time until Miho finally got out of water. She jumped with one of her clones.  It was looking identical, curving a devilish smile. Miho was a bit irritated inside by the idea that all of their effort will still be a joke to Sensei. She was addicted to winning, maybe that is why she felt that way.  However, she was not planning on giving up. She and one of her clones were standing still until her weapons went back and one landed in the hand of one clone, that was standing right beside the real Miho and the other one landed into her real arms making them  look even more the same. She thought that maybe if she place them like that, Sensei would not know which is the real one. Although it was a disadvantage to move right now, because the surface of water  would give the real Miho away to Sensei as she was way heavier than her actual clone. She had a plan for that as well though. Miho and the clone were sqeezing the chakrams in their hands ready to jump in the fight. It was no use in keeping her chakrams away anyway, because now  she saw, that two of the girls are too close to the Sensei and it would be too dangerous for Miho to perform her jutsu, because it would give the second degree burns to both of her team mates in this case. The close battle, that she was not that keen on, was left.

Both of them started moving towards the direction of Sensei to assist for the fighting Miyako. One chakram, that was in the hands of real Miho and was lifting her in the air a little, so that she lightly moved her feet on the surface of the water,  just at the same level as her clone did. Those movements were identical. She sent her clone moving into the same route Miyako was moving to make Sensei think that this one would be the real one by the side of her friend. While Miho herself went in the opposite route to distract Sensei from both sides.  It seemed as they were doing circles to cofuse. As Miyako aimed for the torso with her katana, Miho didn‘t see if that worked, because she was too concentrated on the chakra that was in the weapon to keep her up a little from the surface of the water. After that, in order just to be sure, Miho made her both chakrams spin one being in the hand of her clone and one in her real hand making a chainsaw effect. However, it just looked like a dangerous thing, but that could not cut through bone. Finally, it was the matter of seconds while Miho made an attack as well. While Miyako aimed at Sensei‘s torso, Miho was in her playfull mood and aimed at his remaining clothes. If she cannot beat him, maybe at least could satisfy herself with a funny view.

Training Bukijutsu S>SS
2552+801 is 3353/9000

Jutsu used:

Spoiler:

Chakra left: 130/140

From his position atop the surface of the lake Bokuden could sense the submerged Miho halt her descent into the water. Curiously, her first action was not to immediately resurface and come up for air, but rather to stay submerged. Bokuden raised an eyebrow as he threw a quick glance down to the water below his feet, wondering what Miho could be planning that required her to remain underwater for longer than she needed to. Not that it really mattered though, whatever it was Bokuden would be made aware of it soon enough. She would not be able to get anywhere near him without her presence being revealed by his kkg and besides, shinobi or not unless she magically sprouted gills she would have to come up for air eventually. “Let’s see how these two will fare when fighting one man down,” Bokuden thought to himself as he turned his attention back to his other two students, who now seemed to be making their moves.

“It looks like someone is finally ready to participate,” Bokuden thought to himself as watched Miyako dart towards his left after the stunt he pulled with Miho. She held her katana close to her body and gripped it with both hands as she seemed to skate across the surface of the water towards Bokuden. An amused smirk pulled on Bokuden’s lips as he witnessed what seemed to be his students deciding to launch yet another head on attack against him without taking advantage of their numbers, “I guess they still haven’t learned their lesson yet.” Before Bokuden could make his move in response to Miyako’s charge he threw a glance from the corner of his eye in the direction of the only student who wasn’t accounted for already, Masayo. “Well, she’s certainly not afraid to get right into the thick of things,” he mused in his own mind as he took note of Masayo once again charging at him, this time from the opposite side from where Miyako was dashing towards, “Although I’m not exactly sure whether I’m ready to deem it courage or foolishness just yet.” Bokuden allowed them to close the gap between them a bit, remaining motionless until Masayo was within 10m of him (which he could tell by her body’s unique electrical signature becoming illuminated within his Current Perception: Passive Range) when she began preparing some manner of jutsu. Bokuden turned his attention away from the charging Miyako, confident that she was no real threat to him in close combat even if she did strike with intent to kill, in order to get a better look at the hand signs that Masayo was waving.  A grin appeared on his face as he realized that she was preparing a Storm release jutsu, an idea that delighted Bokuden quite a bit. Despite the Yamamoto clan’s renown within the village Bokuden had never gotten a chance to experience combat against a member of the clan first hand and although he was fighting on anything but equal grounds with Masayo he intended to analyze and learn a great deal about her clan’s advanced element through this training. Bokuden watched intently, examining each and every hand sign she made, recognizing the various raiton and suiton affiliated signs intertwine to create a sequence that was foreign to him. Even the chakra build up was foreign to him, but that should be expected from an advanced nature kekkei genkai. He could easily sense the raiton buildup, but it seemed to only be a part of the jutsu, the other nature being out of the jurisdiction of his sensory ability. If it weren’t for the fact that he knew she was a storm release user beforehand, he would not have been able to identify the second element being molded into her jutsu. Even so, the fact that her storm release necessitated the utilization of raiton chakra all but assured his ability to sense and react to its molding and release.

His eyes never leaving Masayo’s hands as he studied her use of her storm release jutsu, Bokuden made a mental note of where Miho and Miyako were with his sensory ability. He couldn’t just forget about them now, could he? Miyako was closing in fast and Bokuden knew that he would have to deal with her soon, as apparently she had no intention of allowing him to study Miho’s storm release in peace. Likewise, Miho had finally reemerged from the water and had seemingly decided that it was time for her to enter the fray of her own volition. Bokuden couldn’t help but smirk as his little display earlier had gotten the message across clearer than even he had expected. He was now being attacked from practically all sides, with Miho, Miyako, and Masayo and her storm release senbons closed in on his location. Could he get out of this situation? Of course. Rather easily in fact, but that wasn’t the only problem he had to worry about. He could have easily leapt out of the way of the staggered senbon, avoiding them entirely, but that would endanger Miyako and Miho, whether they knew it or not. If he waited until the last minute to jump out of the way the girls would likely run right into the ranton jutsu that was meant for him before they even had a chance to react to the situation they would have found themselves in. This may have been shinobi training, but he didn’t want to have to carry anyone to the hospital after a training session, at least not this early in their squad’s career. Bokuden let out a sigh as he felt annoyed by the sense of responsibility for the girls’ safety that he was feeling before weaving a sequence of hand signs himself. In what may have appeared as just another blur to the group of genin Bokuden darted towards Masayo, zig sagging out of the way of her ranton senbon as he approached her, but not before leaving two water clones behind underwater to deal with his remaining two students.

Knowing that the inaccuracy of Masayo’s senbon would cause some of them to veer a bit off path and fly towards her squad mates Bokuden created the two water clones in order to cover for them. But he would let them sweat a bit first, waiting until just before the girls would collide with the ranton senbon to have his clones emerge from the water and rescue them from harm’s way. The water clone that was designated to get Miyako out of the way did so with ease, throwing her over his shoulder and carrying her that way out of the path of Masayo’s stray jutsu “You’re being dangerously chatty today, aren’t you?” the clone said to Miyako, clearly referring to her surrendering information regarding their clan’s ability despite it being forbidden. The water clone that was meant to take care of Miho had a slightly more difficult job as Miho had apparently made a clone from behind the original Bokuden’s back, requiring him to identify the real Miho. This was of course simple underwater as he need only look up to see that only one of the two Mihos was causing a disruption on the surface of the water with her footsteps, a dead giveaway. Once the real Miho had been identified the clone would spring up from the water, sweeping her off of her feet and carrying her in that manner to where the other clone would have carried Miyako. “You really need to stop leaving yourself so open for me,” the clone said to Miho sarcastically. Once both of them were securely out of harm’s way Bokuden released his clones, causing them to revert back to water and allowing Miyako and Miho to splash into the lake in the process.

The real Bokuden had made is way over to the charging Masayo, stopping right in front of her and using the sheath of his sword to slam into the guard of her rapier, causing it to dive tip first down towards the water while he used his sheathed sword to sweep at behind Masayo’s legs in an attempt to trip her and force her to splash into the water as well. Regardless of how things turned out Bokuden was sure of one thing, there was a lesson to be learned from that little engagement. He assumed that he wouldn’t need to explain what was wrong with their previous attack. There was a difference between coordinated strikes and rushing in carelessly. Masayo’s jutsu put her squad mates’ safety in jeopardy due to its wildness. At the same time she might not have been forced into using her jutsu so thoughtlessly if her squad mates had not charged in so recklessly without taking her jutsu into consideration. Overall their first attempt at teamwork was resoundingly uninspiring, but it was a minor issue. Team work and coordinated attacks could be taught. What Bokuden really wanted to measure was not the strength of their teamwork or shinobi skills, but the strength of their character. How they respond to their first failure would be an important example of behavior for Bokuden to observe. Failure was said to build character after all. “Well then,” Bokuden addressed his squad in a serious tone, “Are you all ready to actually begin this match or do you still need another warm up round?”

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Suiton S>SS: 4690/9000

Chakra: 212/300:

As Masayo had her eyes focused on Bokuden, she could still see Miho and Miyako running toward the squad leader out of her focused eyesight. As they were now running to him from three different sides. When Masayo used the Storm Senbon technique she at least expected Miyako to notice them coming closer when Bokuden moved away, since what she screamed earlier was also her clan's kekker genkai. The Jounin leveled Shinobi was now running at Masayo. The close combat could begin, but before Masa could fling an attack her rapier was going downward into the water. The next thing she knows was that her body fell now in the water due to Bokuden using his sword to trip her over. As Masayo now lay in the water, she was thinking of a strategy. All her movement could be seen by one of the Ryuzoji clan. They could sense the electricity in once body, jutsu and basically everything with it. But the thee kunochi also had such person, Miyako. She had the same kekkei genkai as their sensei. If once Bokuden disappeared she had to be the eyes for Miho and Masayo. If it was for long range fighting Miho had the ability to do that. For closer combat Masayo was the one, but so far close combat never really worked with Bokuden as a opponent. If Masayo could just get close in his blindspot. With his kkg it was near to impossible. Maybe if she used a Suiton technique he wouldn't sense it and with once coming from underwater he couldn't see it. The only thing he could do was sense where Masayo was. Should Masayo help Miyako and Miho with the copies of Bokuden first? Masayo cursed underwater and went up to take some air, but then she went under again. Luckily, she was a good swimmer otherwise it would take her much longer to get to the other kunoichi. Masayo swum right under the two Bokuden as she was ready to use one of her Suiton jutsus, but just now she remembered she didn't specialize them enough. Except for one but that was a defensive jutsu. "Damn it... I knew i should've trained them better." In her own head she was scolding herself for not training them enough. She didn't have any other idea than to use some of her kunai, but first she would use a raiton technique to distract the sensei of the squad.

Under water Masayo made the handsigns to use another jutsu. The jutsu was another Storm release technique. "Gale style, Lone Bullet" Masayo mumbled in the water as she shot the one and only bullet from her finger out of the water to one of the Bokuden's. That was just the beginning, Masayo then used another jutsu. The Body Flicker Technique, she used it to appear under the feet of the lone Bokuden. With a kunai in her hand, she threw it from underwater to Bokuden's back. The 18 year old kunoichi then channelled chakra into her feet to stand back on top of the surface. With that she began to fight with her fencing techniques once more. With the beginners position named 'En Garde' she used it as a defensive position. The technique means 'On Guard' and so Masayo stood ready after every time she made an attempt to attack the Jounin ranked male. Every attempt to strike in a straight line to the chest, Masayo was hoping for a hit, but she was dealing with a high ranked shinobi. If she would land a hit it was because he wanted to, to make a distraction, or to create a moment of surprise so Masayo would be unguarded by her rapier and open for any kind of attack.

Masayo her footwork was advanced and without it she would have no chance at fencing in general. Her feet moved constantly, back and forth and back and forth. With one feet straight at Bokuden and the other pointed to the side, Masayo was able to accomplish such good footwork.

With the foot that pointed to the outside she placed it a bit under the surface into the water. Then Masayo lifted her foot back up scooping up water and sending it flying toward Bokuden his head. With that done Masayo made another attempt to attack in a straight line to the squad's sensei his chest.

Chakra: 105/150:

1620/9000
Suiton S > SS

So she was a tad offended that Bokuden had bothered with his act of chivalry, sensei and future clan head or not. Actually, it was because he held both statuses that she was more offended – he should have clear ideas of what skills she possessed as a member of the same clan, and would have at least trusted her with fending for herself against the senbon that she could clearly sense. Still, she supposed she could see sense in him wanting to move Miho and herself out of the way, seeing as Masayo was opposite from the two of them and throwing senbon in such a way that could have accidentally inflicted damage on the wrong people.

As she ran towards him with her katana ready to strike, she could already tell that his attention was barely on her, even if he was aware of her approach. She could see Miho moving alongside her, chakrams in hand and ready to attack. That last burst of speed that she put on in defiance was futile – she knew it even before he disappeared from sight, leaving her face to face with Masayo’s ranton technique rapidly flying towards her. It was a closer call than expected, seeing as Miyako herself had been running at relatively top speed towards the incoming senbon. But nevertheless her katana was ready to be raised in order to deflect the tiny weapons – only she never got the chance to. A water clone suddenly materialized before her, grabbing her by the waist and throwing her over his shoulder. The surprise appearance took her off guard, and before she could react enough to plunge her katana into Bokuden’s clone, it spoke.

“You’re being dangerously chatty today, aren’t you?” Miyako froze and completely stopped her struggling, looking towards the real Bokuden – she couldn’t exactly meet the clone’s eyes, seeing as she was thrown over it’s shoulder with her upper body facing his back. Was he mad that she had revealed their kekkei genkai? But her squadmates would have figured it out eventually if they were to continue training together – surely she didn’t commit an offense by revealing that small tidbit of information. The clone didn't wait for her reply, suddenly splashing back into the lake and, as a result, dropped Miyako into the water as well. Startled, she responded immediately by channeling chakra on her feet, upper body swaying precariously out of balance before she managed to right herself on the surface of the water, though still rather unstable. Not giving her body a chance to doubt it's center of gravity, she looked up to see Masayo and Bokuden engaged in combat once more. Knowing that their only chance of landing a hit on Bokuden was if all three of them engaged in combat with him at the same time, Miyako glanced over to see if Miho was ready before pointing silently at one side of Bokuden, motioning for Miho to help cover any possible escape routes. Miho’s long ranged weapons would serve as a useful tool to cover a larger distance should Bokuden try to flee.

Without checking to see if Miho had understood, Miyako ran once more towards their sensei, hoping to reach the other unprotected side and assist Masayo as soon as possible. With any luck – as this entire exercise was based not only on skill but on luck as well – the only options for Bokuden to escape would be to go underwater, or counterattack. As she neared him, this time on the alert for more clones, gripping her katana with both hands, she pushed off lightly against the water in a vertical leap, katana raised high and swinging in a downward arc towards the back of Bokuden’s shoulder. The tip of the blade gleamed in the moonlight – clean of any contaminants but calling out for blood.

Jutsu Used:

– Chakra: 140/150 –
[ Ninjutsu B>A  1407/3000 ]

As Miho had expected the attack that was done was a total failure as the Sensei dodged every move that was approaching to him. Well, still it was worth trying, as she got to know now, that the Sensei is able to make some water clones, that were suddenly snaching her and Miyako and taking them to the side of the lake. She was irritated that this kind of trick got her, maybe she was getting a little tired  or bored at some point.  However, to her amusement, the clone talked.

“You really need to stop leaving yourself so open for me“

Miho supported herself with a hand, hanging there over the shoulder of the clone. “ Oh, I will get you for this.“ She was gazing right into the battle that was occuring between the Sensei and her other team member Masayo. It was a good chance to rest a little and to get the lost strenght back. Until the moment the clone disappeared.  Miho , due to her speedy feet and a good control of her own chakra, instead of making a big splash into the water, she focused on her feet and landed lightly on the surface of the water.  She turned to Miyako to see if the clone was still holding a grip on her and if some help is needed.  However,  Miho saw that the other clone disappeared as well and that Miyako gave a signal to some strategy for the next attack. At the beggining, the girl seemed so shy and fragile, but yet now she  is thinking  about the strategies and is not giving up on the whole team work, that was quite inspiring.  However, Miho is still Miho, she could not care less about other people, the point was to impress the Sensei, not just because to show off, but to prove herself that she can do that. The whole training thing now reached the higher dimension at that point.

After some seconds she spent in her head resting and thinking, Miho noticed Miyako jumping into the battle as well, covering the other side of the Sensei, that he could not escape. The only way that was left was going uderwater. Miho was standing there afar, examinating the whole situation. It seemed really rude of her not to jump and help her teammates right away.  Did she care? Probably not, she would have some minutes ago, but as she reminded herself, that the point is not to make some friendhips,  the whole thinking about the wellbeing of the others faded away. Her eyes now were burning in flames of revenge and anger, the whole emotion and aura changed again. No one cared when her clan was struggling at the first place, why should she now care about those whose fathers and mothers wiped her people from the ground. Miho remembered the purpose of her whole life and sqeezed her weapons in her arms. She streched her neck and was prepared to make another attack. The underwater was not the only way, the whole space was open for the Sensei just simply jump in the air and escape.  Well, that way should be closed.  

Miho  got on her feet quickly  with two weapons in her hands and was approaching to the fight. I may have looked as she would just attack directly, however, she suddenly jumped in the air, supporting herself with chakrams, that she was controlling by her chakra.  That worked as a good trigger to go higher, that a normal gening would jump. After she reached the proper heights, she turned around in the air and threw the spiky spinning chakram  that was aiming for Bokuden‘s head  from above. Miho herself went into other direction and landed on the surface of the water, not to go underwater herself.  She was waiting, because she did not know if the Sensei dodged the chakram or it really made him go underwater. To dodge that speedy spinning  thing would be a hard task, when there are so many attacks  going around the oppenent, however she was not expecting, that the plan would work on the Sensei being a jounin, but still, any idea is worth trying at this kind of situation.  When Miho landed, she spoke, locking her eyes to the place where Bokuden was waiting to see what he has pulled.

“IF he went underwater,  were should jump and someone should use a lighting technique on the surface. I heard that he can sence that and will not be hurt, but at least maybe he would feel that!“

The words that she spoke were directed to her team mates hoping that if the plan has worked, someone of them could finally show him they really are woking together.

Training Bukijutsu S>SS
W.C. 3353+795 is 4148/9000

Jutsu used:

Spoiler:

Chakra left 130/140

“Now… how to go about this?” Bokuden thought to himself as he closed his eyes and awaited his students to respond to his taunt, “Thinking back on it, I’m not sure what qualified me to be put in charge of my own staff other than my rank. I’m no good with children. Although… I’m not sure if “children” is the right word for these girls, especially not Miho and Masayo. Perhaps the fact that they are older played a factor in why they were assigned to me. Assigning me two scantily clad women however, is another issue entirely… My skills aren’t really suited for practicing with novices either. This is the anti-personnel squad after all. Using Suiko-Tenno against them is of course out of the question, as is using offensive jutsu. I want to test their aptitude for this line of work, not kill them. It’s difficult to hold back this much though. Limiting myself is one thing, but down to gennin level? This whole squad situation is turning out to be more troublesome than I originally anticipated. The more I think about it the more absurd it feels. For me, Ryuzoji Bokuden, a jounin of Kumogakure to struggle with a group of mere gennin. The idea of having to limit myself so much is infuriating. Much more so than fighting for my life against powerful enemies. And to think I spent all those years in the academy giving the instructors grief. They had two deal with a whole classroom full of the little demons, I only have to deal with three gennin and I’m already stressed out.” Bokuden folded his arms and began tapping his foot, just barely keeping tabs on his girls with his Current Perception, “What would a good sensei do? Probably not get lost in his own thoughts in the middle of what is supposed to be his students’ training.” Bokuden opened his eyes once more and decided to take his time to analyze what was going on with each of the student’s carefully. If he were to be honest, he had been having more fun toying with them up to this point than worrying about productive teaching, but that would stop now. Play time was over, now it was time to assess his girls as a teacher.

The first of his students to deal with was Masayo as she was the closest and seemingly the most eager to engage him in combat. “What do I know about her so far?” Bokuden thought to himself as he began his active analysis of the training session up to this point, “Well, I suppose the first thing that would have to be mentioned is that she is a Yamamoto, which means storm release. I’ve already seen her use a storm release jutsu once so far in this match, so logically I should expect to see more of them. Advanced element users do tend to love to utilize their kekkei genkai more often than not, which means one can somewhat know what to expect.  If I’m dealing with storm release I have to be prepared to avoid it due to the raiton chakra that is being used to augment the suiton that the jutsu would be comprised of. That in itself however, creates a dilemma. She has not yet shown her hand and utilized her ability to manipulate the movements of her storm release jutsu after they have been released, but knowing the abilities of storm release jutsu it would be irresponsible to discount her being capable of that as a possibility. My usual strategy of waiting until the last minute to dodge in order to create an opening should probably be reconsidered against her while in mid to long range combat. She is also a fencer. She’s decently fast and her form and footwork are solid, but even so she’s not a threat to me in close.”

Comfortable with the information he had amassed on Masayo for the moment Bokuden turned his thoughts to Miyako. “What’s there to say about Miyako?” Bokuden pondered, questioning how much there really was to uncover about her abilities, “She is a Ryuzoji. I know exactly how her abilities work, probably with a greater understanding than she does. She is a raiton user, that is a given. A powerful one at that due to our natural affinity for the element. Her secondary element however, still remains a mystery to me. I can only be certain that it is not futon and at the very least if she was a doton user her jutsu would have become far less effective the moment she ventured out into the middle of this lake, away from any readily available source of earth.  So what I should really be on the lookout for from her is either suiton or katon jutsu, easy enough. I know for a fact that she is a kenjutsu and ninjutsu user, and she does not practice Iaido, easy enough to deal with knowing the information regarding her abilities that I do. Given how little she is capable of doing to surprise me she probably poses the least threat to me at her current level, although given that she is from my clan there is a decent chance that she is the most powerful of the three.”

Once his mind had finished processing and archiving the information he had gathered about Miyako’s abilities there was only one student left to consider, Miho. “Now to worry about her. I probably should have read the dossier on her after our first meeting. She is without a doubt going to be the most troublesome of the group and on top of that she is the member of the group that I know the least about. Even making an educated guess as to her abilities is problematic. All that I really know about her is that she is a bukijutsu user who used chakrams. An uncommon choice of weapon for a shinobi, but an effective one if used correctly, which I hope her ability to control them seemingly telepathically will allow her to do. Other than that I haven’t seen much of her. Well, haven’t seen much of her abilities at least. In that outfit I’ve seen plenty of her…”

Bokuden shook the thought from his head as he sensed the molding of raiton chakra from under the water beneath his feet. “Masayo,” Bokuden noted as he remembered she had not emerged from the water since he tripped her and caused her to sink. From the way it was being molded Bokuden guessed that she was preparing another ranton jutsu, although the behavior of the chakra did catch his attention. The way it was being molded was almost identical to the way he molded his Shock Bullets. Was she preparing a similar jutsu? Regardless, he had no intention of sticking around to allow his theory to be tested on his own body. At the same time he took note of his other students making their moves as well. Miyako charged once again in an attempt to flank Bokuden followed by Miho, who had used her chakrams to try and cover more of Bokuden’s possible escape routes. Bokuden leapt back out of the way of the ranton jutsu that he had assumed Masayo to be using and to his surprise discovered that he had correctly surmised her jutsu was similar to his own, but his surprise would be short lived as a kunai came flying out of the water and at him, followed by Masayo herself swinging around his side to flank him and attempt a flurry of strikes with her rapier.

At this point Bokuden was beginning to become annoyed with his squad’s insistence on charging at him carelessly despite it having not worked either of the previous times. What did they think would change? Repeating the same tactics over and over again was foolish and a waste of resources. With his Iaido he was able to easily deflect both the kunai and chakrams that were headed his way, at least temporarily, keeping in mind Miho’s ability would probably allow her to redirect the towards him once again. It looked like if he wanted this lesson to stick with them Bokuden was going to have to force them to change up their plans. As the girls recklessly charged in to engage Bokuden in close quarter combat he simply amassed a large amount of raiton chakra into his left hand and proceeded to thrust it down into the water beneath his feet, using the water’s natural conductive properties to channel his jutsu over the surface of the water in all directions around him. He purposefully used the weakest charge he could to prevent serious injury to them, but this attack was not going to be pleasant for his squad regardless. As close as they brought themselves in there would be close to no reaction time to avoid how quickly the electricity would surge through the water. Even if they were capable of reacting to it quickly enough to perform some form of evasive action where would they go? Standing on the surface would ensure that they took damage from the hit, going under water would only make it worse, and in the middle of the lake there was no safe ground they could retreat to. Their only option would be up, but how long could they remain air born? And more importantly, how would they defend themselves in mid-air while they fled from his raiton jutsu?

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Suiton S>SS: 6300/9000

Once again Masayo failed trying to get a hit on her skilled sensei. It wasn't a surprise really, Bokuden was a Jounin ranked shinobi, and a strong one at that. The moves Masayo made were probably as clear as water to him. Just as Masayo began to think this thing through, she just felt bad. It was probably an idiotic idea to even try to hit him with close combat and after those other miserable attempts to use close combat, that all failed and only had disadventages for her own sake, she still didn't want to give up with close combat. But even if they were all able to work together someone would screw it up and that would probably be Masayo with her overconfident personality. At least she has some back bone and doesn't care about pain, well she can't feel any pain at all due to her disease. The disease can be handy at the moment, because then she can't be stopped by a stingy or shocking feeling, but it of course has it disadventages as well. When she gets hurt the wound is still the same and if Masayo doesn't see it on time it will probably get worse. But Masayo actually doesn't care about that nor her health.

When Masayo shot out of her deep thoughts she saw Miyako approaching. Not that it would do something, most likely it won't do anything. With a furrowed brow Masayo looked at Miyako trying to figure out where she would try to strike so Masayo could go and try to hit the opposite side of Bokuden. But as expected it didn't work, nothing worked up until now. But than again, not everyone had done something up until now. Masayo was lost in thought once more, with her feet moving smoothly over the surface, she tried to dodge if an attack was made. Without knowing, her other team mate Miho, floated above the three shinobi. With her chakrams in her hands she threw them down. Hearing the weapons cut through the wind made Masayo snap and quickly move away. If she did not move the weapons could have striked her as well. Another frowned expression was made on Masayo her face as she looked at Miho. "Damn her, it could have striked me instead of Bokuden, if i was still dreaming. Why exactly was i lost in thought while battling, anyway?!" Masayo scolded herself, but there wasn't any time for that. Bokuden dodged the attack from above and not much after the skilled shinobi chanelled raiton in his hand. Just as Masayo knew what he was trying to do, her muscles and tendons worked together to get out of the water as fast as possible.

Masayo kept jumping forward and when she almost stood on the land, the water under her feet was connected with the lighting that Bokuden used. One more jump was needed to get to the side but to do that she had to stand on the raiton infused water. When her feet touched the liquid a shock went through her body, but Masayo herself did not feel a thing, only wounds could be seen on her feet and a few spots on her leg, from water that splashed in her tanned skin. The jump could still be accomplished and she got oit of the water. Without knowing how much it would hurt for a normal person the 18 year old female fell down. With her green hued eyes she started at the water waiting for the raiton to be gone. The soft hands of the girl where placed upon the ground to push herself up, but just when she tried to stand on her injured foot, she fell back down. It looked like her skin was quite fragile and she did not know that it would effect her skin this much. "Why can't i stand on this stupid foot?!" But then she remembered that the raiton in the water had probably shocked her. An annoyed expression could be seen in her eyes and on her face. "I wonder... How would this feel to a person that can actually feel pain." As she looked at her foot, the female pushed herself up again. Now she could at least stand on it, without falling down. When she found her balance, her head looked up to the squad leader. "That bastard... You just wait, i shall get my revenge, maybe not today but i surely won't forget it." Masayo switched her gaze toward Miho. "For her its the same. If those chakrams had touched me and i didn't see it. I would be losing blood just because she wasn't careful. I'll get her."

Chakra: 105/150:

2424/9000

OOC: In light of rl issues and subsequent inactivity amongst several members of the squad from this point forward, this thread will be closed indefinitely. Any continuation from the final post in the thread will be continued in a separate topic in the event that all parties involved are able to return.