The non crazy Sensei. [nde|o]

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Saint walked up and stood beside Ozai who had arrived shortly before him, the smell of his cigarette lingering in the air. He looked around and saw some training dummies, obviously another training ground. He looked up and Koori and finally took the time to check him out, always observant of his surroundings. His blue hair had a large contrast with his red eyes, which at first were a little odd but then he realized he had seen weirder things before. He then gazed at Ozai out of his peripherals, sizing him up as well, noticing he didn't seem much older than he was but was definitely shorter. It was nice to be the taller one for once because he was normally shorter than most of his friends. Saint put his hands into his pockets and then rocked back and forth on the balls of his feet, waiting for the last guy Jak to get here.

"All here? Good."

I said watching the last of my Genin students arrive at the nearby training grounds, as I sat upon the large rock formation. My team lined up, one after another, all male. Interesting, there was usually always a girl. Perhaps I just got the short end of the stick? I hoped that wasn't the case talent wise, however. I pulled out three small scrolls from my ninja pouch which hung over my right ass cheek. I opened them all up, and lay them down before me on the large rock so I could easily read them.

The information displayed on them? My teams info and stats.

My red eyes began to glow brightly, as the Tasukeru activated as I read over the scrolls. If they had a Bloodlimit, I would either recognize the blood, or record it for later reference. Unfortunately, none of them had a bloodline. As my eyes scanned the scrolls, and then their blood to confirm. All three of them were younger then me, Jak only by a year, the others by two.

The first one I looked over, after deactivating the Tasukeru

Saint could see Jak as he finally arrived and as he did he turned his attention towards their sensei, waiting for him to tell what was going to happen. He raised his left eyebrow as he watched his sensei pull out 3 scrolls and as he went over them Saint noticed he and each of the others were being peered at. It probably held some info on each of them and Saint momentarily wondered what Koori had just learned about him. Then abruptly, or atleast it seemed so, Koori gave an introduction of himself, and then some words of the wise about ninja and being prepared for battle and death. It was one of those when you least expect it situations because all of a sudden there was nothing but darkness.

Saint hadn't been prepared for that and that's why the words Koori spoke then meant so much more. Saint turned in time to see Ozai launch an attack in a position relative to where Koori had been and he was then pumped and ready. Saint performed a few hand seals, gathering his chakra and as he performed the last seal, several hundred bluish white sakura petals began to form and float around him. Instead of attacking he realized that the likelihood of Koori still being there was low, so instead he decided to wait and see what would happen next before making his move. Normally he would just rush in but there were also times where just observing was the best thing to do, like now for instance.

'Not as helpless as they look.'

I thought to myself as balls of smoke were launched at me. I simply focused chakra about my body and fused with the large rock underneath me, appearing to the rocks right now, as the darkness enveloped their sights. However they could still hear. Jak new this well, and put his headband over his eyes drawing his scythe. Suddenly, flower petals began to resonate around Saint, and he prepared himself also. Things were starting to get better. My hands continued to do more seals after I had completely emerged from the stone that was now beside me. Chakra seeped out from my body, and once again onto my Genin's. Their shadows before them, suddenly rose up, and formed a humanoid type of creature. The shadow molded and formed as it rose, starting out very blocky, and became human like.

However these creatures were far from Human, but would hit my Genin close to home. They would be shadow replicas of themselves. The shadow replicas stood in front of each genin as they took each ones form, there was one for each, and each one looked like the person it stood across from. The difference was they replicas were completely black in color all over. However, they possessed the same abilities, as far as their eyes could tell.

"Attack!"

I shouted from beyond. As each shadowy creation began to do something. Saints replica began to focus chakra to his palm of his hand, and formed a lightning bolt in his right palm. Ozai's clone did not possess a gourd, so he charged in towards the real Ozai, fist pulled back, as he took a right handed swing at Ozai when he got close enough. Jak's clone immediately focused chakra to his mouth and began to whistle, letting off a ear rattling whistle towards all three of my Genin.

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Doton: Iwagakure no Jutsu (Earth Element: Hiding in Stone Technique)
Rank: "C"
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: Allows the user to phase in and out of rock in order to evade attacks or track opponents.
Special: ---
Drawback: Can only be used on stone. Cannot perform handseals or attacks while phasing through stone.
Description: By applying the principles of Underground fish projection, the user is able to quickly sink in and out of stone on a whim, avoiding virtually all damage. By simply focusing doton charka through their body, the user will briefly change the same color as the surrounding rocks before vanishing from sight. As they travel through the ground, no other skills can be performed, but their movement speed is dramatically faster so long as the user stays within stone. This skill is only usable 5 times a day once trained; however, this jutsu can be retrained in order to obtain the ability to add another usage.
Limit: Earth Release. 500 TP in earth release. Underground fish projection.

Lesser Simulacrum
Rank: "B"
Skill: GenJutsu
Effect: Simulacrum creates an illusory duplicate of any creature.
Special: "Hand seals"
Drawback: ---
Description: At all times the simulacrum remains under your absolute command. No special telepathic link exists, so command must be exercised in some other manner. A simulacrum has no ability to become more powerful. This is a technique that is perceived into the opponent. User performs the hand seals needed as the opponent, whoever may be around is suddenly affected by this technique. The shadow of the creature affected by the technique rises up from those that are affected, (Maximum of sixty meters radius). The shadow takes the form of the creature affected, as well as the strength, and possibilities. This is considered to be a mimic technique as the Shadow of the creature being affected takes a semi life through the perception of one's mind. The Shadow since it’s the form of the user's mind retains all capabilities that of the one affected but the damage that the body feels is one rank less than a normal attack. The Shadow only forms its counterpart and no one else. The only way to defeat this creature is to defeat them. Since the creature is not real, and it’s within the person's mind, the Shadow figure is only 2/4's of the person perceiving strength.
Limit: Must know the Shadow Perception.

Saint didn't waste time looking around for Koori, he knew that he wouldn't find him in this darkness. He merely focused on what was going on and waited for something to happen, but when it finally did he wasn't expecting it. Out of the darkness in front of him, a shadow began to rise and form, taking on a human shape similar to his. It wasn't until it was fully formed that he realized it was a clone of himself and with a quick glance to his sides he saw that Ozai and Jak had clones as well. It was then that he heard Koori issue for the clones to attack and although he wanted to try and pinpoint where Koori was given the opportunity, it would be more fun to play around with the clones. Saint watched as the clone of himself used one of his own jutsu, realizing that it had all of the abilities he had even though that should have been obvious.

He was about to retaliate but was interrupted by a piercing noise in his ear, throwing his hands up to cover them.Through his squinted eye's he could see Jak whistling and knew the sound was coming from him, a sound jutsu. He turned and noticed his clone hadn't yet gone on the offensive although he was prepared to and decided to deal with the biggest problem at hand. Removing his hands from his ears Saint formed a series of handseals and the sakura petals that were floating around him stopped momentarily before a group of ten or so shot out, flying at the upper torso of Jak's clone. Saint knew that he didn't know any jutsu that affected multiple people at once so that wouldn't be a problem but the fight could get very difficult if Jak's clone wasn't kept in line. Saint then turned his attention back to his clone, watching its movements so that he would be ready to react, he didn't want to chance watching Jak's clone too long to see if his attack hit.

Ozai's clone got knocked back a few meters into the distance as the shoulder thrust connected with his shadow apparition. However, he made a flaw in his approach. He was a bit too careless, and Saints clone wasn't aiming for Saint. The already made bolt was flung with surprising accuracy at Ozai, and when the shoulder connected with his shadow apparition the black lightning bolt would be already almost at his position. If he was unlucky enough to be struck, even a little bit he would be shocked and feel like he was hit by actual lightning (1/2 Real).

Although Ozai's clone took a direct attack from what felt like a "S" Rank attack, and his rib cage collapsed under the pressure, the clone looked up, and began doing a set of handseals as Saint failed to move. Inhaling some black smoke from around him created by my Genjutsu, Ozai's reformed clone launched 24 Smoke bullets at Saint, completely black in color, but not invisible despite the complete dark background. Ozai's clone wasn't human, and although was severely injured, could still function somewhat.

As the Real Jak and sakurai flower petals flung at Jak he stopped doing the Sound Technique, and shunshined toward the real Jak, slightly past him, drawing out a black scythe of his own, also charging towards Saint. I simply stood in the background as all this happened, thinking about how silly they looked attacking nothing. This was going to end shortly either way, with only a few things happening, I was already getting a mental image of what my Genin were capable of, and what their team skills were like just from this little exercise.

ENOUGH!

Saint had been keeping his eyes on his own clone, making sure he would be able to react to whatever it did. However, when it finally took action it wasn't at himself like he thought it would be but aimed and threw the bolt at Ozai. He was momentarily surprised and was about to shout for Ozai to get down but was once again surprised as he immediately hit the deck. It was a good thing that he was looking that way because it was then that Ozai's clone formed and shot a couple dozen smoke bullets straight towards him. They were hard to make out but he had a way to effectively block the attack without actually having to know where they were.

Saint formed a few handseals quickly and the flower petals that were still hovering all around began to cycle around him at rapid speeds, obscuring him and protecting him from the bullets, or atleast he hoped. His defense could only block against attacks that were so strong but he figured due to the size of the bullets that they shouldn't be too powerful and was right. When the bullets made contact a few flower petals were knocked out of the vortex but he himself was safe and it was then that he let the shield down.

As Saint's barrier dropped he realized that he was no longer surrounded by darkness and that the clones they had been fighting were gone. He looked towards Koori as he announced that they would be evaluated here next time they met and then left without saying anything else, Ozai doing the same only moments after. He looked towards Jak and wondered if he should stay around and get to know him a little but he wasn't too interested at the moment. It wasn't necessary to force it either since they would be spending more time together in the future.

"See ya"

Saint said as he walked off back towards the village.

[Exit]

As I would slowly approach the training grounds from the day before, my night out with Atreya had been an interesting one, not allowing for much sleep to say the least. With my gourd upon my back, the added weight surely wasn't welcomed this early in the morning. The time was roughly ten a.m., but it felt like the crack of dawn. A large stretch and yawn would leave my body as I realized I was the first to arrive. Beating even Koori to this mornings meeting. Untying my gourd I would lean it against a tree while I waited I would leap up into the tree next to the one I leaned my gourd against. Up out of sight I would place my rear, leaning back against the trunk of the tree. I crossed my legs and decided to catch up on some well deserved shut eye.