Kikisu had been lounging around all day, either sleeping or meditating. He felt he should go out sometime today, to see whos in town. The rest of the day he chose to walk around town, under the hot sun he was starting to sweat. His puppet had been wrapped on his back since the day started and there was a spot of sweat in the shape of the puppet on his back. He arrived at a giant cactus , also known as the meeting cactus. It was no very budy here today, thus far noone but him was there, so he took his puppet, Tabok out of his back, Set up his chakra strings on his puppet bringing it almost to life. He started practicing normal movements like walking like a human and common movements to simulate a real human.
He then started to make it mimic his movements, making it make puppet master movements, slight finger movments. It was almost belivable as a person. (using focused control) Word count 164

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Sili slowly wandered through the desert, not sure which direction she ought to be heading. Her robe dragged behind her across the sand, gathering a dirt along its edges. Her hands were placed together in front of her with her sleeves connected, as they normally were when she didn't have need them. Her hands clasped each other tightly, making her arms somewhat tense and her upper body firm. Sili's legs slid across the sound, allowing it to brush over her feet and crumble between her toes. So hot. Need water. Thirsty thirsty thirsty. Sili had just quenched her thirst a few miles back, and the desert sun wasn't abnormally hot this day for Suna. She was merely, well, how she always was. Sili depended on water, whether she needed it or not. To her, it was a comfort, something solid she believed she understood with almost certainty. Without it, she felt somewhat lost. Well, that and the fact that she actually was lost in the vast desert of Kaze no Kuni. She noticed two figures up ahead, one standing directly behind the other and both appearing to be looking in the same direction. One would walk occasionally, twitching slightly, while the other one stood there and stared at it. Well this is odd. What could they be doing? As Sili approached the two, she became more and more curious. Her thoughts whipped around in every direction they could find, leaving her more lost then she was physically. Why isn't he doing anything? And why is the other one just walking back and forth? He must know the other person is watching, does he not care? I haven't seen people act like this before. Could this be the culture here? What a bizarre land. Maybe it's because they don't have any water... Sili approached somewhat faster than she was walking already, wanting to get some answers. As she drew near, she could make out that the figure in front didn't seem quite...natural. It's body was stiff and didn't wear clothes, in fact it almost looked as if it were made out of wood. Puppets were actually one of the few things Sili hasn't seen yet in her travels. She could make out the person behind it as being a real human, but wasn't quite sure about the one in front. She tilted her head back and called out.

Hey! What are you doing? Who is that? Is he alright? Who are you? I'm Sili; nice to meet you! She smiled as she continued approaching the two of them at a slightly hurried pace, her robe bumping along the sand behind her and her hands now at ease in her sleeves and lightly swaying back and forth.

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While he was practicing making his puppet act human a girl had been approaching him from the side she called to him in a confused voice Hey! What are you doing? Who is that? Is he alright? Who are you? I'm Sili; nice to meet you! She seemed quite odd yelling this to him in the middle of the desert, The afternoon heat was quite hot and heat stroke was not uncommon, but he was jogging towards him and doubted that she had heat stroke. One thing though she was very pretty, taller then him by at least 3 inches, and long black hair. she would be worth at least talking to for these reasons. He wanted to also test something so the moment she called him he made is puppet wave, he then called out while looking the other way while moving the puppets mouth
Why hello there I am Kikisu call me Kiki,and whats a pretty lady like you doing in the desert, want some water you look thirsty he kept motionless as possible while he made his puppet start to walk as natural as possible towards the girl. Once Tabok came up to the girl Kikisu made him hold his hand out to shake it. awaiting a response, kikisu stood by the cactus acting as if he he did no hear or see her. If this girl was from Suna she would catch his charade right away, but otherwise she would at least be confused for a little while. He then made his puppet run his other hand through his hair to make his puppet seem as natural as possible.

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Sili heard the man to the right speak, though it seemed as if the one on the left was moving instead of him. Perhaps they're one person? How strange.. The one to the left began walking up to her as the other person stood motionless. She cocked her head in confusion and pointed, What's wrong with him? As she did so, the one who had approached her now stopped and held out his hand in greeting. Sili was about to take his hand when she noticed his face. The eyes, mouth, nose, everything seemed stagnant. It was as if they were carved in, and when they did move it was in linear fashion, as if on hinges. Sili redirected her finger towards the puppet's face, jamming it into its mouth and feeling around. You aren't human? She then turned to the other person who still remained motionless. Then what about him? She was puzzled by the whole interaction. This is such a strange land. Maybe he lives through this thing? What if his body's paralyzed? I couldn't imagine living that way. Well actually, I could I guess. I could see living almost any way. That would be quite different, though. I wonder how he perceives the world? Sili leaned in to get a closer look at the puppet's eyes, which didn't seem to have much light in them. How sad...

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The girl had stuck her fingers in his mouth, well Taboks mouth but the notion was the same Then she started asking questions to which he yelled out Hmm thats not polite for a lady haha why dont you come down to the shade beneath the cactus, you know get out of the sun while moving the puppets mouth, which was not really that convincing but would make it more of a show, so to speak. He then made his puppet walk back towards the cactus while waving her on to come o the giant cactus. He had thought justly, she was pretty and cute, but as it seemed she was as dumb as a doorknob. On the way to the cactus he turned the marionettes head and started moving the mouth with his words again And by the way its a marionette jutsu. Your not from around here are you beautiful Hahaha . The puppet then went back to his masters side and stood there as Kikisu looked up and smiled.

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Kikisu spoke as Sili continued prodding the inside more and more. Sili eventually worked her hand in the puppets mouth, feeling the joints being pulled. Here. And here. Mostly wood though. As he finished speaking, the puppet turned around and began "walking" back, inviting her over. She didn't quite care so much about the sun, it didn't bother her. She was more interested in finding a water source to balance her mind. She turned to look around, but there wasn't much of anything else in the desert beside a few smaller cacti. Sili smiled contently and returned her hands together in front of her. She felt the finger she used with her other hand and thought about it. Marionnette...a puppet, of course! That makes much more sense. How strange I couldn't come to that conclusion. I've seen puppets before, but not like these. Well, I have seen something else. I should not assume I know everything about anything based on finite observations. Sili nodded as her feet instinctively moved forward towards the cactus. As she held her finger, she began thinking again. [i]I wonder what my stones do to that? Well, I've thrown stones at puppets before, but as I decided, that doesn't mean I would know how one would effect this "puppet". The only logical thing to do then is-[i] Sili pulled her hands apart slightly as she knelt down while walking. She quickly closed them again around some sand and stood back up in a fluid, albeit slow, motion.  Sand filtered down into her sleeves with them now closed again around her hands. Sili was letting it fall from her hands as she sifted out a few stones she could use from it. She found three flat-ish ones she could use, then slipped two of them into a pocket on the inside of her sleeve. She pulled her hands apart again with a stone in her right. She was barely two meters from the puppet and at least ten from Kikisu. She continued at her normal pace, smiling as she had been already, and threw the stone at the back of the puppet's leg. Her throw was swift, mostly all wrist. Her hand moved a few inches forward while twisting upside down, her fingers shooting out with the stone having just been released. Sili threw it in such a way to make it skip back into her hand if it hit its target properly.

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He was watching intently at this girl as she reached into the sand and started fidgeting wih her sleeves he knew was, happening... he needed some practice. Her hand flicked up as she was walking towards him with a smile and he switched into fight mode he made hi puppet do a backflip over the object which looked kind of like a stone. As the puppet flipped, he drew his rusty scrap Sword and got his other hand ready, as he landed he rushed the girl with a feint with his sword to her head, and at this range it would be almost impossible to dodge his kunai he flicked the puppets wrist open and shot the three sharp kunai the girls chest to the left in particular aiming right at her heart. directly after the shot, he made Tabok spin around with a 360 degree spinning cut to the girls head. This will teach Her snide little bitch she is, she shouldnt have messed withme a master puppeteer he thought to himself.

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Sili wondered what the stone would sound like as it bounced off the relatively sturdy-looking puppet's leg. Instead, however, the puppets leg swooped up and her stone flew through the air and into the sand; skipping a few times forward aimlessly. She wasn't surprised, knowing most people don't like having stones thrown at their stuff. Though I don't know why. However at the sound of dull metal scraping across wood and various other mechanisms chirping, she knew something was wrong. Sili wasn't wearing any stones, and such, felt rather vulnerable. She instinctively clasped her hands together as the puppet flew overhead and landed behind her. She hadn't survived on her own this long without learning to be cautious. Immediately, a large portion of stone began rising from beneath her, propelling her up into the air with the puppet left down at the pillar's base. When it had fully grown, Sili was fifteen meres high in the air on a statue made of earth.
She then stomped her foot down at the top, raising a smaller block of stone in front of her. This rock was different, however, as it appeared to be a much brighter white/black then the orange/brown earth below her. It was made of pure calcite, and Sili did not waste time. She slammed her hand down on top of it, breaking up a large portion of the top. These tablets were often easy to break through; if Sili was more proficient in Taijutsu, she may be able to break through the stone entirely. However she merely loosened the top few layers, allowing her to brush her hands over it and feel her robe with stones. As she scooped them towards her body, the pockets on her arms naturally picked filled with them. Then, as they splashed against her, they filled her front pockets as well. This fully filled her robe, however at the cost of many of the stones being wasted during the process. Her table of calcite was now about half its normal size, however this didn't dissuade Sili. She scooped up 15 stones in her arms and ran forward, leaping off the pillar towards Kikisu. She threw the stones up in the air above her, allowing her to snatch them out of the air and throw them. They fell faster than Sili, since she had more surface area, but not too much faster. This would allow her to grab and throw each one before they were out of range. The snake seal Sili used as she jumped off erected two stone pillars to the right and left of the path between Sili and Kikisu. Sili threw her stones directly at Kikisu and at each of the pillars. This way, her stones would skip off the pillars and redirect towards the middle, bouncing off each other. Sili was throwing her stones all with slightly different angles, so they would basically scatter in the center, spraying the area at and around Kikisu with stones. Sili knew, however, that these still wouldn't cover a much larger area than 5 square meters, so she activated the second part of her throw as well. As each stone skipped off a pillar, or collided with another stone, or hit the ground, it would give off a splash around it. This would certainly cover a much larger area and be very difficult to dodge, with water coming from almost all directions.

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This girls skills were not as bad as he had originally thought, she seemed to throw stones very well, which made her a long ranged combatant, as he was.  This girl had made a 15 meter high to block his puppets onslaught, it was no use though the moment the pillar had stopped going up he flicked his chakra string up, sending his puppet flying up the pillar as fast as he could, and the puppet arrived at the top the girl had made a smaller pillar in front of her, for some reason he didnt know. As soon as his puppet made it to the top it started swinging at this girl, first two cuts to the head and then two to the legs and finally flourishing and going for an overhead chop. all of these attacks were delivered in mid-air directly after she had thrown the stones at him,but, there were the stones to deal with flying at him, during his puppets attack he released a jutsu towards all the stones and the splashes that were near him, trying his best to block the jutsu to his bests ability.
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OOC: I'm a little confused; you seemed to have ignored the fact that you have a relatively large torrent of water surrounding you. It's coming from literally every direction (over head due to the stones colliding with the pillars/each other, then all over the ground from when they land). The meeting cactus is larger than normal, but nothing obscene. It would surely not cover you from the water coming at you from the sides at least. You have to state if you are hit by anything, and if not, how you avoid it

OOC- sorry i forgot about this thread i fixed her up though

As Sili leaped off pillar, she could hear the puppet round the top of it. It was launching after her as she dove down and she unleashed her stones without flaw, but had to think fast to defend. As her hands drew back to her sides from releasing the last stones, they were outstretched to the sides on her right and left. She glided them around overhead, her hands come together to form a snake seal. The two of them were descending rapidly, and just below Sili began to grow another pillar. Her forearms blocked the initial two swings to her head, clashing with her robe and making a noise as if they just hit stone. Instantly after this happened, the stone pillar below Sili caught her feet and began lifting her. The puppet's lower attack slammed into rock just as Sili was pushed out of the way. Had it been a higher attack, it probably would have caught her before the stone arrived. As it was, the puppet took a moment to lift its blade back off Sili's arms and swing again, and the pillar had grown large enough to meet that as well. The two hits, however, smashed a good chunk of the pillar out from itself, causing it to lean rapidly backwards. Sili leaped off it once more, now recomposed. She made the snake seal again and another pillar appeared towards the ground in front of her, as well as one directly under her so if the puppet persuid it would be jetted up. She was heading right towards the one in front of her to land on, not too far ahead and in a second high enough to catch her perfectly. She whipped her hands around then and began flinging stones from her robe. She flung 10 stones at Kikisu, who had just shot out blocks of earth to deflect her stones/block her water. Those had already fallen to the ground however and wouldn't save him this time. She skipped each stone off the pillar in front of her she was about to land on, skipping them in a horizontal wave towards Kikisu with a little variation in altitude. They were again fanning out to cover a general area towards/around Kikisu. As they skipped, each of them splashed and let out a bit of water. However, the water would truly be useful when the stones fall all around Kikisu and cause another barrage from their splashing. By doing this she again tried to ensure his general area would be covered by not only an initial barrage of stones but by an eruption of water in-case he tried to escape them.

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Kikisus onslaught had failed once again this damned earth pillars were a pain in the ass but it ws the stones she was throwing at his puppet and the stones she was throwing at him, his puppet had barely dodged the last set of stones by shifting to the left of the pillar the girl had jumped from. His puppet had reachd the ground around the same time, just as she had been throwing more of her damned stones, he clicked his puppets leg open, the one with the wire and weight, and sent it flying towards the girl in a 180 degree arc, if it hit it would wrap itself around her and tie her up, the puppet would proceed to click open it other leg and release its small buzz saw and fly towards the girl, tied up or not and deliver a kick to her arm, with would rip open flesh on contact and then spin around and chop at her chest with its sword. Hopefully this would work out and actually hit this girl. He then noticed the stones coming his he proceeded to run to the left far enough to the side to be out of the path of the stones coming his way, he then ran around to the side of al of the pillars and ran up one of them, stationing himself on the top of a pillar.

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~posted from wrong account, please ignore~

OOC: Uhm, you just ran THROUGH my jutsu. Should I assume about 10 of those splashes just hit haha?

OOC-By run at them i mean i run forward befroe they touch the ground where they were aiminng at him, he got hit by like 1 splash by dodgeing them

Fixed :D

Sili crouched as the pillar carried her into the air. She has just evaded the puppet and knew it would be upon her again soon. As the stones clattered and bounced off the sand, and water filled the air, she could barely tell where her adversary had gone. Sili knew he wasn't the real danger though, and decided quick what to do about the puppet. She clasped her hands together in a snake seal and the pillar she stood on began growing even higher. Just before it took off, she noticed Kikisu run towards a pillar in her peripheral vision. Higher and higher, the pillar stacked upon the one already grown before and amassed to 60m tall. Sili heard a light tapping noise from the net below as it hit the rising pillar. At the top, she paused for a split moment, not sure how to handle being up in there like this. She remembered a time she stood atop a great mountain, overlooking acres of curves on the Earth. She laughed to herself in a breath, remembering, When in trouble, go for a dive. She licked her lips by pressing her tongue out half an inch and retracting it, Thirst thirsty.

The sun beat down on her as she stood up straight and let out a heavy breath. She redirected herself towards the pillar she saw Kikisu run towards and, without giving it a second thought, ran forward and dove off with her arms together in front of her. As she tilted forward in the air, she pulled her arms out of each other's sleeve and, spotting her target down below climbing the side of a pillar, let out two stones. Her arms then flew back and forth, grasping the sleeves violently as they slung stones out as fast as they could. As she fell more and more towards the pillar, she eventually got 15 out in a spray of stones at/around Kikisu.

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Kikisu made his puppet fly at the falling girl once more, delivering 4 slices to the girls torso. At the same time he was being attacked by more stones all of them flying towards the pillar he was standing on before any of them reached him he ran as fast as he could back down the pillar noticing the skipping stones start to hit the pillar above him ripping chunks out of the pillar, he reached the bottom and ran up the pillar to his right of the same height. when he got to the top he motioned his puppet to attack the head of the girl . This girl was not going to get the best of him no matter what happened it was like a 2 v 1 since his puppet was helping out.
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Chakra strings maintained and supernatural walking practice.

OOC- fixed again Sorry :D

As Sili leaped to the lower pillar, slinging stones from her robe as she flew threw the air, the puppet flew up towards her yet again. She was nearly to the pillar when the puppet smashed its weapons into her torsoe, again only to make loud "thunk" noises and bounce off her stones. She smiled, her robe serving her well as it had all these years. She landed on the stone pillar that the boy had just began running back down, crouching to catch the momentum and taking a breath. It was a bit of work jumping around like this with so many stones in her pockets, but then again, its what she had done all her life. To think my stones would ever be seen as a burden... Sili shook the thought instantly, smiling as she stood back up. No, merely a burden to the body. And the body is nothing but a temporary shelter for the mind to rest in between journeys. Heck, one might say it's a puppet. She giggled at the thought of her joke, realizing that the puppet she had just defended against was quickly re-approaching her. It was good that she took a moment to rest, it gave her not only some much needed energy but also the perfect vantage point to see the puppet. She held her arms up in an X and defended the puppets swing at her face. The blade was caught on top of her forearms and she held it for a moment before swinging her arms back out, forcing the blade off and the puppet to slide back a few feet. She looked around for the boy and noticed he was on top of another pillar now, less than 10 meters away. However she was sure that the puppet before her was about to charge yet again, and so decided not to let out another barrage of stones but instead focus her attention on it. The puppet stood directly between her and its puppetteer. She took a solid stance; placing her right foot back and her arms out in front of her bent, preparing her next move.

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Kikisu was getting slightly tired of her armor, it was very useful in a normal attack her arms qould be cut up but the stones were both offensive and defensive, but now she was sanding guard it front of her in between her and his puppet, he decided to take a different route he quickly pulled his puppet back as he pulled out his scroll, and quickly sealed his puppet back into his scroll but he kept he chakra strings out and cast another jutsu, he covered his strings in spiked chakra making al ten of his strings able to cut 1 inch into flesh now. he then whipped them at the girl all ten of them at her legs hoping to trip her off the pillar and cut her legs up.

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At the sight of the puppet retreating, Sili eyes widened, This is my chance! She threw her arms back behind her and launched her back leg forward, propelling her towards the edge of the pillar. She leaped off the edge towards Kikisu, closing the gap between them. As she was in mid-air, she saw the boy flick his wrists and suddenly the chakra strings flew back out again, this time seemingly barbed with some sort of spikes. She was already in the air and had no way to maneuver, the only thing she could think to do was defend against it with her own jutsu. Her hands flew together to make three hand signs rapidly, water beginning to pour out her sleeves as she finished. She threw her arms out at different angles in front of her to best cover her front while, knowing the jutsu would also be cast out the bottom and top of her robe. Suddenly, a torrent of water exploded out of her robe in every direction, blasting towards Kikisu and deflecting the chakra strings. She was no more than 5 meters from him at this point, and with the speed of the water, Kikisu had no hope of dodging this time.

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Kikisu barely had time to see the water, dodging it was out of the question, the torrent of water hit him and he suddenly felt like he was very weak and tired. the torrent of water knocked him clean off the pillar he flung his charka strings around the pillar to catch himself, but the pillar was very weak and his strings started to cut clean through the pillar and when he was 5 feet from the ground his strings cut clean through the pillar, causing him to fall the rest of the way, and the pillar fall ing after towards him. Kikisu used the little amount of strengh he had to roll to the left of the fallen pillar and make sure it didnt land on him. Kikisu stood u slowly, his legs felt tired and he wanted to sleep, but the fight wasnt over yet, he looked up and saw the girl he whipped both of his hands towards the girl, one coming from the right and one coming form the left, his right hand aiming for her face and his left hand aiming for her leg.
Chakra 65 Maintaining chakra strings and barbed strings
Fatiue= .25

As Kikisu was launched off the pillar, Sili could see his figure falling. She landed on the side of the pillar and pressed her hand up against it to slide down. As soon as she did, however, she saw the chakra strings whipping around once again. She was almost to the ground but still a good 5m or so off of it, so she pushed off and hoped for the best. She hit the ground rolling, feeling a slight thump on her back but nothing she hadn't dealt with before. It didn't take her long to recompose herself and find her opponent, which was good because he had already found her. Kikisu yet again slung his barbed strings towards Sili, who immediately ducked in an attempt to dodge them. She planned on sliding out of the way as she ducked, however her rocks weighed her down a bit and made it difficult. The barbed string caught her right calf and sliced it; a 1 inch deep cut about four inches in length freshly carved. She winced at the pain, but quickly smiled. All sensation is but in the mind, and the mind is a glorious thing. Pain is not to be feared, but enjoyed. Still bent over, as soon as the strings passed, she brought her hands up in front of her, swinging them up and then back down again, clashing with each other's wrists again and again and launching stones out rapidly. In total, 15 stones were let loose. She made a large fan-like structure, each of them skipping on the ground and several of them stacked on top of each other so as to be launched upwards as well. As each collided with the ground or another rock, they let forward a splash. This would make somewhat of a wall of water heading towards Kikisu, and on top of that, the air above and around him would soon be filled with stones. The ones not heading directly up would hit the ground again and splash all around him, hopefully spraying him with water.

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