The sharpest blade of grass...[T/I]

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The sound of an intruder...in his dojo? The restraint was there, but the strength to restrain was not. The chakra fluctuated...spiked, and then Kizaki was off the ground bolting for the Kaguya at his doorway. The air moved past his skin like a trout swimming upstream. In the span of .05 second's Kizaki had got up, and ran at the newcomer with hand's that would slap a elephants head into and out the rear end. But alas in the span of half seconds Kizaki managed to at least aim the acceleration elsewhere. He let the tip of his toes launch him to the left side right before impact, and put his hand's up to plant firm palms right onto the hard concrete walls. A plume of dust flew from a spider web of cracks which appeared around his hands when they hit the wall.

A loud sound followed by a mild airborne tremor could be felt anywhere in the room as Kizaki raced his breath trying to calm himself. The fourth gate was unlimited power, but the fifth...it was something else...something in a league of it's own. There would and could be no more idle training...it was life or death now...the slightest mishap could spell disaster for Kizaki...or other's around him. And he hadn't even begun to open the gate yet. Month's and year's of preparing for something that even he could not fully comprehend in the next 3 lifetimes. How did other master's do it? Could he overcome?...

Of course he could...in time...

His head swiveled over to the kaguya who had twirled his bone sword, "...Get the fuck....up outta here..."

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There was a moment of pause, mostly because Kizaki couldn't exactly move for fear of over motivating his muscles. He was actually trying to close and shut off the enter circulation of chakra to gate locations. His breahing came in quick raspy breaths as he looked at the young one-eyed ma-

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"You got an eye out too huh?" Kizaki managed to spout quickly. He took his hand's from the wall and stood stiffly, turning though looking as if on the verge of punching the earth into two halves. He surveyed the 3 foot long bone sword in the Kaguya's hand for a second and then breathed in deeply...before he unsheathed, and performed a blinding flourish with his gladius in mere second,s then sheathed it just as quickly as he had brought the blade out. "Check this out...you teach me how you read my body back there...and ill teach you some tight shit with the blade...names Kizaki by the way...(sniff)" Kizaki said shaking the bang's from his lone eye before walking into the center of the room.

Turning at the back of the wide 50 yard wide room, Kizaki gripped both hands behind his back and stood militarily like a true master. "Yeah any time man...just show me what you can do already..."

...and then Kizaki kicked over a floor board and tossed a wooden sword to the kaguya. "Also...you will train with that if yer gunna walk in my dojo...fuck all that accidental injury shit..."

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Dub 13

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Listening to the man lecture him intently, the Kaguya nodded.



Without bothering to wait for an answer, he pushed off, body and mind focusing on the man ahead of him. Taking his master's advice, his focus switched from heavy-hitting strikes to faster-moving ones. A slash dropped towards his mentors knee, his wrist spiraling and twisting the blade back up as he raised his arm to aim a cut across his chest. Turning the momentum of that into a spiral, the Kaguya twisted his legs turning in a full circle to aim a final strike below the mans ribcage on his side.

However, he was far from done. Dropping low, he swept his legs out around him, aiming to knock the mentor's feet out from under him. Righting himself quickly, his wooden blade became a blur, lashing out in a series of swift, consecutive strikes. Elbows, knees, collarbone, all of the bony areas and joints were targets of the dull blade, as the Kaguya aimed to cut this man down slowly.

Pausing, he held his blade at the ready, eyeing his mentor.



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Kizaki listened to Takeru speak...



At the last word Kizaki would let his right eye look up and at his student. He watched the subtle shifting of the upper body as the thigh's powered forth. He saw a flexing of the shoulder's and then he knew that something was gunna come low. Kizaki simply let one hand release the sheathed gladius, dropping the thick blades point from a horizontal plane, to a vertical one where his grip on the handle locked tight. This resulted in a very simple yet efficient prevention from his knee getting hit. His lone eye watched carefully at the shifting momentum again. Takeru's feet flexed, and his shoulder's bunched high as he rose up to drag the blade to a higher level at the gut.

The wooden blade was twirled before slashing right at the mid region where Kizaki predicted, though not truly necessary. He simply reached out and slightly raised his gripping hand to parry another horizontal slash. And again Takeru flourished wonderfully. To send another slash at the gut. He was torn between developing skill's of his own whilst also studying the method's of his student. But just when he felt comfortable his eye caught sign of something! No...he felt it...like the flow of combat when the mind entered zen. Something in the way the air moved between them told him that Takeru would drop low. So before he even knew why, Kizaki had knelt along with the pupil, slamming the sheathed gladius point to the ground to block the sweep. A thick metallic sound rang from the impact, and then Kizaki found his pupil rise again. There was not enough time for lazy tricks, as Kizaki rose along with the student he pulled up his sword which unsheathed it smoothly.

Upon rising to full stand, his own hand would flourish, twirl and spin his blade to match the swift strikes of the student. He was learning at a more exceptional rate then any Kizaki had ever seen. His ability to wield this blade had taken a sharp turn, and it was almost...inviting for a good clash of blades. He let his eye rove around at the locations for striking and realized his student was attempting to break him down. A smirk on Kizaki's face was accompanied by a swift back flip, swinging a leg out like a blur. Just as fast as he had flipped, Kizaki would land on the same lone foot that he kicked with...But the Gladius would be pointing right between Takeru's eyes. "You are skilled...you need practice though...you're understanding of basic principle is enough that you can be trained...but it takes effort and dedication..."

He returned to a normal stance and went to kick his sheathe up in hand. Sheathing his sword slowly, Kizaki looked over the holster and realized that his pupil had been one to cause him to pull his blade. There was a time when doing so meant the life of any who had seen his shining blade. These thoughts caused a grim momentary glare from the lone eye. "It seems we see eye to eye when our blades swing...I think you and I are more then master and pupil...we learn the same as we are teaching...swinging our blades for the village-" Kizaki said while bowing to his pupil AND a master in return, "-We are like the sharpest blades in grass..."

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Bowing to his comrade he saw something uncertain in the lad's eye as he left and wondered about that last statement as he left. However, it was time for Kizaki to tend to his own training once again. Therefore he set himself back to training in his ability to advance in the skill of his prediction of maneuver's. He summoned a quick clone and then set himself apart form the clone, circling it as he sent the mental order to attack his body. The clone would nod shortly and then run right for Kizaki with swift attacks following his punches and kicks. Kizaki would spin around and duck under the attacks while watching his opponent maneuver against him. He was having an easy enough time while moving this way and that, watching his enemy attempt to land simple enough attacks on his body.

Ducking low the clone would spring upwards into a rising Shoryuken and in that moment, Kizaki found he misread the attack. Trying to jump over th clone, Kizaki would feel the clone explode under his gut as it rose upwards with what would have been a devastating punch to his gut. Kizaki rolled over the ground and then came up to his feet spinning around misshapenly as he realized he almost got blasted by his own creation. He made his hand seals to form another clone a few yards away form him again and once done he would get ready while sending the mental commands to the clone to come and attack him. He watched the clone make a zig zag pattern of approach running with long strides to the front and side of him.

Kizaki would watch the clone come around to him from the left where his blind eye was hidden behind his patch. And this time he barely perceived the clone dropping low once again. Time slowed to a crawl and everything around the two bodies would turn to pitch black. His head turned slowly as his mind recalled watching his opponent's foot gestures right before breaking right ways. He let his synapse fire through the systematic law of physical motion that his opponent had ran through. He saw the clone's upper body lower while pivoting, and saw the arm become tucked up under as th clone pivoted on one foot getting ready to rise up into Kizaki's face once more.

He let his own eyes widen as clarity of what was coming reached his mind and reason became action. Time picked up sharply, and Kizaki sprung into a extremely lithesome back handspring, as the clones fist thrust inches form up under Kizaki's own chin. As he flipped around he lifted his two legs up from the ground in a powerful kicking motion but he couldn't exactly connect with a follow up kick because the clones was already some 20 feet airborne now. Kizaki would bunch his leg's down and decide to follow the clone however. He pushed off the ground, kipping upwards so strong that he followed in pursuit of the clone. As he reached the peak of his climb he met the clone with a rising kick from both feet, but the clone would simply air shunshin away from Kizaki and land on the ground far below.

Kizaki would swing his head to look right down to the ground now as he began to fall. He swung his legs over and landed a few feet from the clone which was already coming at him once again. Kizaki would rise up to a full stand and then enter a fluid system of dodging multiple punches aimed at his head and such until he finally got kicked by a very low snap kick to the ankle. Of course it caused the clone to disperse but Kizaki realized again that he should of seen that one coming for him. Kizaki would then rub the back of his neck realizing that he was becoming better but not fully as good as he shoulda been yet.

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After taking a breather it was time to get back into the swing of his training. Kizaki wanted to be able to out fight anyone he came across and the former pupil of his had shown him these things. He made his hand seals and summoned the form of three bunshin clones right in front of him. Immediately he waved his hands in a beckoning fashion to get the clones to rush after him. Kizaki would take a easy careful stance, trying to swivel his eyes and absorb all the factors of three peoples movements in order to gauge their plan of attack. He would watch as the two outside the left and right of the other clones would come at Kizaki's flank.

Kizaki would spin around while moving in forwards and then leap into a high backflip over the third middle man, flying high. He saw the three clones meet up where Kizaki was previously standing but he had succesfully evaded their rush. He landed apart from them again, now it seemed as if they where all on opposing sides of each other. He would re adjust his stance and take in a deep breath this time realizing that these clones where seriously much more harder to read then one clone fighting at full capacity. His mind was fast...very fast due to his training for the gates but the ability to predict every single incoming maneuver made Kizaki feel cautious yet. He had never practiced the dynamics of another person moving so much that he could predict their every move.

The clones rushed inwards once more, coming at Kizaki in a zig zagging fashion this time. Their hands flourished in front themselves as they approached and the initial clone would drop low as if to prepare a leaping kick. Kizaki hunched down when this clone lept up and he would spy the second coming in behind the first as time slowed down to a crawl. Mere split second turned into what seemed like 2 seconds in real time. He was dropping low and saw the second clone coming in with a sliding kick to Kizaki's leg's. He could tell because of the way the clone pivoted in a full sprint while lifting the first foot and tucking the second under his sliding hip. At this point Kizaki had lowered down to about the heigth of a tight crouch and the initial clone was already airborne forming the form of a flying kick.

Kizaki waited and watched with his keen right eye for the third enemy coming from the rear. This one seemed to pull back his right hand and arc the upper body forward in a full sprint slightly slower then the second follow up clone. And that's when he realized the tactic of all the clones. With dedication Kizaki trusted his instincts as a fighter. He dove forth into a roll under the first clone, dodging and shooting under his flying kick. As he rolled forth, Kizaki would push up hard on his hands and spring his leg's out over the bottom clone which slid right under him. With his head still rising over from the roll he saw the initial clone already turning in the air to land on a lone foot so he could follow back at Kizaki's rear.

Kizaki rolled his head forward then and over the sliding clone to see a horizon of the third clone bringing his fists up from under into what Kizaki understood would be a shoryuuken. the timing was perfect for the clone had Kizaki's clarity not grown better. Using the limberness of his body, Kizaki creased his spine forcing his legs to tuck under, and plant on the ground as if he kipped up. the chakra held the tip's of his toes grounded as his hands swung forward raising his upper body up into what would now appear to be the spring loaded position for a backflip. The clone's fist came under aiming for Kizaki's chin and he knew it would be close...

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Kizaki would now begin to walk his way in retreat drawing the clones with him as he swat and slapped the clones punches aside in order to avoid each punch. The miracle thing about it was he could read their body movements now like a book. Every simple punch and kick only had so many ranges of movement and approach and thus Kizaki found he was very able to predict them by seeing the subtle manner in which the clones shifted their weight from leg to leg or pivoted their shoulders while dipping either the left or right side of their body. Kizaki would then spin around and deliver a feint spinning round house to both clones heads causing the clones to retreat. Kizaki paused as his leg stayed suspended but still it was bent without fully extending the leg.

A smirk spread over Kizaki's face as he realized that the clones would look at each other as if they had been tricked out of their programming. Kizaki himself saw a bit of his personality in the clones right then as he realized they weren't supposed to naturally retreat like that. It must have been that the clones where naturally beginning to pick up the development of Kizaki's own tactics. He certainly was giving them a run for their money it would seem. slowly he lowered his leg and beckoned his own clones on. They ran at him one at a time this time. One clone would rush in delivering a Konoha senpuu kick at Kizaki's head. When the clone flew in with a maneuver like that it had actually caused Kizaki to dodge based more off of instinct rather then watching the body.

The process of the kick just seemed to happen far too fast for Kizaki to dodge the maneuver based of intelligent scrutiny. He would duck low and let the kick fly over his head, but in that moment he saw the second clone come in with a forward flip to deliver a spinning heel drop at high rotation. Kizaki's lone right eye widened as the kick came for him and he would then roll over to the side, and spring back up into the air flying back another 10 meter's. The speed and indecision he saw in that maneuver forced Kizaki to feel the need to back up some but the clones pressed after him! He skid to a halt only to be chased with a flying kick again and a lateral sweep to the gut. Kizaki dropped into the splits to avoid the flying kick and the lateral kick. Kizaki would then swing his leg into a windmill while pushing his hands up off the ground, forcing himself to fly upwards into the air again.

While airborne Kizaki would be upside down floating and free from the pressure. Or so he thought as he took a sigh of relaxation and then opened his eyes to find the rising forms of his two clones. A punch came blasting for his face and Kizaki would instinctively flex his spine while arcing his head back only a second faster. The fist flew right inches in front of his nose, Causing Kizaki to draw a momentary blank. And in that blank he knew the second clone was coming at him unexpectedly. However, his feet had just barely touched the roof, and that was the beginning of a slight smirk as he suddenly flew down to the ground flipping four times tightly before hitting the ground on his feet, as the second clone had delivered a hook to where Kizaki was once at.

Kizaki would land on the ground now and find himself chuckling as he realized what was going on. In all these years of taijutsu experience he now understood what years ago he might not understand. He always naturally had a way of predicting movements and finding a way out of sticky situations. his mind replayed the maneuver of pushing himself to the air earlier and realized he had subconsciously remembered from past attempts that it took a certain amount of acceleration to propel himself up to the roof. In doing this without knowing it he had prepared himself for what would be the most natural progression for his clones to come at him. He had literally subconsciously strategizing the next way to avoid anything that could possible come at him in a close range follow up.

As he laughed, in his crouch, the clones would drop down after Kizaki and he would simply say, " Ok...thats enough for now..." And snapping his finger's the clones would just poof into smoke clouds before dropping falling heel kicks over his head. He let the smoke waft over his head as he rose to stand and rolled his head around finding that he had really gone through a decent enough warm up. And so he would begin to take off his upper wear exposing his ripped and godly chiseled upper body. He was covered in a light sheen of sweat and as well ton's of tiny black kanji which belonged to the names of those he had survived intense honorable fights with over the years...people he'd never forget in his mind.

13/80

Having taken his shirt off and letting the sweat cool his body combined with the open air, Kizaki decided that it was time to go back to his gate training. He made his way to the center of the room after looking around a bit at the distance between himself in the center of the room and the walls all around him. The place had long suffered some grueling battery from his gate training and he fully realized the threat that an undisciplined practitioner could do to the area around him when practicing. He had nearly almost killed the kid who had come into the room earlier in fact he found out. And so he settled himself down to the floor in order to train his sense's and body in preparation of unlocking the gate. He brought his hands up to his chiseled pectoral plates and held his finger's into the chakra focusing seal while closing his eyes slowly.

Breathing pattern's seemed to slow down after a few minutes and the sweat would have stopped dripping so much as he harmonized his physical self. His pulse became quite calm within himself and his brow relaxed as his nervous system became dulled to the outside influences around himself. Slowly he would begin to pick up deep intakes of oxygen as he breathed in deeply taking in the earthy aged and sweat soaked smell of the room. It seemed only moment's ago he was in the heat of training intense close range combat with his clones and now...now he was simply at peace in the body. These thoughts swam in his mind now as he reminisced about the day's training so far. it had been quite the long day for him indeed, learning a few things from the kid earlier. the style he used was indeed potent and Kizaki wondered what else it may have had to offer him.

But these thing's would only serve to cloud his mind. So he began to erase the thoughts of the past for now, and make his mind empty save for the ambiance of his penial gland. He quieted his thought process with willful control, and brought himself into total darkness. There he heard no more of the world around him, and he saw nothing in his head. There was only will....the spirit within him that was the motivating factor in forcing a gate to unlock. the spirit; when all else became clear, was the actual key to unlocking the celestial gate itself. And so when he had taken enough deep breaths and made sure he was ready in soul, he brought his confidence to the brim and began to unlock the gates systematically this time instead of all at once.

At first, he began by unlocking the initial gate which at this point in his training was an easy thing to do and meant hardly any trouble for him at all. It was as easy as blinking to access the initial gate, so when he willed it on a thought alone, it caused a sudden distortion of the air around him as the chakra began to radiate like heat waves from his tenketsu. This was a safe realm for him and any fighter really with the proper introduction to the gate extremes. Kizaki felt his hair waft on his forehead, slightly as the space near his body had become lighter it seemed. as if the chakra distorted the law of physics slightly. Next came the healing gate which was also just as easy to unlock from within. Kizaki felt his body begin to flood with a surge of healing chakra's, and his mind felt more energized. His muscles felt lighter then air now as if he where brought to the brim of youthfulness.

Tensions in his body relaxed almost immediately and his stamina returned in full. Blue swirls began to radiate around his body like ring's of some planet. Swirling and morphing here and there as more energy flooded his mind. There after Kizaki took in a deep breath because the margin of will was significantly disproportionation for the third gate. It was the beginning of the forbidden techniques to learn amongst the unprepared and unwisened. Kizaki would send a strong mental command to the naval region for it to bring out power, causing a sudden shift in the air to occur. The distortion's of the air around Kizaki suddenly became intense as if the transparent fog of chakra emanating their had turned into a gale force torrent. His hair rippled furiously as he did this now and then a static change in his body occurred as the nervous system's inhibitions where released.