Ukido's Training

[Runeska]

Dante Runeska stood inside the kenjutsu dojo fo the Sand village. It was time for another of his lessons. There were many other students there as well, a good deal of them weren't even ninja. As a result, Dante refused to use any form of ninjutsu while withing those walls. After a few monthss of actual reflex trailning, the master of the dojo finally considered it tim to start teaching the techniques to her students

Mae-zuki (Front Thrust)
Rank: D Rank
Effect: A weak (D Rank) strike a frontal attacker
Special: None
Drawback: None
Description: Commencing from a standing position, the practitioner draws and thrusts a frontal attacker then quickly sheathes
Restriction: Must have a Senpai/Sensei of a Kenjutsu Dojo to learn; must have Quick Strike Training (D)

There wasn't any exchange of words. She simply stood in front of the class and did Mae-zuki for the whole dojo to see. It was a relatively easy move from the looks off it. However, many of the students were having a hard tiime with it.

Dante quickly rose up from the mat he was sitting on and prepared himself for the move. While staning, Dante slowly drew his sword out o his sheath, angled it forward to thrust, then returned it to the sheath. His trying to condition his arm to the way he would have to yank and pull on the blade. It took about five minutes of this before he considered himself ready for the move.

Now, Dante was infront of the practice dummy that had been set up for him. In a quit motion, he yanked the blade from the sheath and drove it into the wooden dummy. The blade simply bounced of the wood for it was too slow. Taking this into consideration, Dante resheath his sword to try again. Five minutes passed him by as he practice the simple blade thrust. He kept it slow at first to assure that he would aim it at the target properly. Once he had his sight set straight, he began to speed up and stuck once, twice, thrice. Each time, the blade stuck the spot, but never plunged in. However, he was aiming right.

He took a break for a moment and looked around. Kiho Fuji, the master of the Dojo, was eying everyone inside the dojo. At her glance, Dante returned to his training. She was very beautiful for her age, or so he assumed. He didin't believe someont could master anything at an age so young, but it was rude to ask her age. It also appeared that at any given time, she could watch how a student moved a blade and read their mind based solely on that.

Dante had trained on just this move for another half an hour. The other students were taken a long break. Dante continuously thrusted at the wooden figure. He didn't have to break. The chunin exams would be here any moment now. His dummy was beggining to get holes in it now from his constant thrusting. He was getting the move now. The movement was becoming more easier and he was moving far faster.

The other students had resumed to training by now, and Dante was still at it. His attack was begging to look like a flash now. It was fast enough now that every time he did the move, all that was heard was the initial scrapping sound of the sword being drawn from the sheath, the thunking sound from striking the wood, then the click of the sword hitting the sheath. After this, Dante's hand was beginning to shake, and the veins on his thin arms were standing.

He did one more quick strike successfully then prepared for another. Just as he was begging to pull the blade out the sheath again, Kiho Fuji grabbed his wrist to prevent him from pulling out the blade. When insisted on attemping to drawn his sword, she nimply flipped him onto his back in front of all the students. "Dante, it is time rest. If you draw your sword in between these thirty minutes, I'll discontinue your training in this dojo."

[Itaru]

Learned!

[Runeska]

Kesagiri (Diagonal Cut)
Rank: D Rank
Effect: A weak (D Rank) strike to an approaching attacker
Special: None
Drawbacks: None
Description: Commencing from a standing position, the practitioner draws and strikes an approaching attacker then quickly sheathes
Restriction: Must have a Senpai/Sensei of a Kenjutsu Dojo to learn; must have Quick Strike Training (D)

Dante waited out the thirty minutes as he was told to. He didn't wish to anger his sensei, especially being that he needed every moment he had. And the time passed painfully slow, making dificult to stay still.

Suddenly, Kiho Fuji stood, and introduced the students to another basic move. This time, it was a slashing attack. Immediately, Dante rose from his feet to attempt his move but froze and stared at the the sensei. When she nodded her head at him, he went to his dummy to continue his training.

It continued starting from the stance again. He quickly drew his sword and sliced at the wooden target. The blade sliced into the first layer of wood, doing little more than a grazing blow. He was dissapointed in it and immediately lashed out at the chunk of wood, trying put more power behind his slash. Due to the amount of power he generated into the lash, it slashed in pretty deep. However, there was very little, if any control behind the attack. Consequently, when the attack hit, he couldn't pull it out. The attack failed because he couldn't put his blade back in the sheath.

With that, Dante pulled back on his sword and attempted again. This time, he sent less power on the blade and simply tried his best to control the slash and resheath it. He did this about thrity times with the same amount of control and speed until he felt his arm getting used to the pattern. He then lashed out at the dummy with a little more force. The blow stuck clean and left a small slash mark on the wood just as intended. The only problem is that in the accuracy of the slice, he forgot to resheath, meaning he couldn't personally feel satisfied in the attack.

Feeling the eyes of the sensei on his back again, he stopped for about five minutes to drink some water and rest his arms, although this was mainly so that she wouldn't drop him again. So as the time passed, he resumed his training. After about half an hour of training, his speed had increased without stealing from the strength of his attack. He was now making it one fast and fluent attack, only distinguishable by the sounds of the sword drawing out and resheating with a click.

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+7

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[Runeska]

7/10

Dante looked at his training dummy again. He hadn't done too much damage to it, outside of the mistake he made. His thoughts on this was too see how many he could keep going at a time. Quickly, he moved back into position. After a deep breath, he commenced to the quickest, most accurate movements he could make. It was amazingly fast, but put alot of strain on his arm.

He continued on through the pain, because he was slightly enjoying it. His mind had been caught up lately and this was helping him not think about it. He decided to time out how many he could do in under sixtly seconds. He began the lightning quickly slashes again, each time, the click sounded, the sword was already lashing out again. As a result, the sounds weren't matching the blade strokes anymore. He stopped for a moment and surveyed his dummy. The wood was half worn through due to the rapid strikes in the same spot.

[Itaru]

Learned!

[Runeska]

Gouken no Kamae (Iron fist stance)
Rank: E
Skill: Taijutsu
Effect: Once in this stance one’s speed and strength increases due to positioning of muscles and limbs.
Special: None
Drawback: None
Description: Not exactly a technique, but a fighting style. It packs tons of speed and power and relies on the user's physical strength and fitness. It is also the prime holder of the majority of Konoha's elite taijutsu techniques. Standing with one arm behind their back and one extended, the user is ready for a quick strick with their fists and feet. This leaves them open for quick spins and jumps that will power their attacks.
Limit: none

The master of the Dojo closed up for the day. Dante wanted more lessons, but when she said you were done, you were done. Dante therefore decide to got home. It didn't make since for him to negotiate. About ten minutes later, he was back at the small house that he had lived in with the older nin, who had since moved up in rank to a Jounin. Of course though, he wasn't there, leaving Dante to himself.

Thinking on it for a second, He decided to take up an unarm combat style. It made sense to him. He often depended on his sword too much. If he was disarmed, he could fight free handed, but he'd eventually run out of things to do. Out of his choices, he choice Goken, the stone fist. It was a widely used style, but from it, Dante could launch into other techniques with relative ease.

Standing outside now, Dante was infront of a dummy that he'd set up for himself a long time ago. It was old and ragged, but it had with stood new fits of rage he had when he was in another mind state. So, to begin his training of Goken, he took the stance that his guardian had showed him numerous times. He had his left arm behind his back, and his right extended, just standing this way, he felt that his body could make a more attentive painful attack. To test this, he suddenly lunged out at his attack dummy and punched it once. It didn't break; he didn't want it to. However, it reverberated from the force of the blow. 'Oh yeah, thought Dante. I'll have some fun in this.'

[Okami]

Learned.

[Runeska]

Dainamikku-Entori (Dynamic Entry)
Rank: D
Skill: Taijutsu
Effect: Jumping forward with a kick to the opponent’s face, the user sends the opponent flying
Special: None
Drawback: Leaves the user open after the kick if dodged.
Description: Nothing more than a flying jump kick straight to the face. Used as an opening attack. The user jumps straight at their opponent one foot forward hoping to knock them back.
Limit: Must know Gouken no Kamae

Feeling comfortable in his new stance, Dante immediately took off at his first move, dynamic entry. He lunged into a flying jump kick straight at the top of the dummy. His foot hit it, but it was a highly unorganized attack, he hadn't put enough force into it, and therefore fell backward after hitting. He was glad that no one was around to see him. Besides the kendo that everyone new of, he didn't want others to know what he was capable of.

He rose back to his feet a second time and took the iron fist stance. At a quick pace, he jumped and kicked out with his right foot. This time, he fell backward for a moment, but recovered with relative ease. The kick was already there, because it was a basic attack. However, this was a set up for another attack. He needed to react fast. In a real fight, should he use this move, he imagined that he'd have the advantage if his opponent went flying, but only if he could recover himself.

He soon realized that the strenght of the attack began with the speed, allowing the power to follow on it own. So, he lunged back at the dummy and landed a powerful kick on it. Instantly, Dante began to fall backward again, but caught himself and launched back up to his feet. He surveyed the dummy, which barely had any marks on it. Had he done this to it's fullest, the dummy should have went flying out of the ground.

He began another regiment of attacks, each one getting slightly more forceful then the previous, but not really doing anything. Seeing this, he stopped, took a breadth, and analyzed what he was doing wrong. He figured that his leg that he stretched outward wasn't nearly straight enough. So this time, jumped out at the dummy with his leg adjusted. This time, he struck the dummy and heard a slight creaking noise. The sound distracted him, and he forgot to catch himself. But when he rose back to his feet, the dummy had been moved back about a few feet, leaving dirt upturned in the road.

[//Talo//]

+6

{6/10}

[Runeska]

6/10



It had been half an hour, and Dante nearly had it. He knew he could do it, and simply started at it again. Consentrating, He flew up at the dummy. His quick had now increased in power, and when striking the dummy, it left a dent in the spot where he hit it at. He caught himself before he fell, and instantly retook his position. He launched out again and again, each time, his muscles were physically memorizing the moovements.

Once, his foot struck, and the dummy nearly flew out the ground, but instead, it only tumbled to the floor. That when he realized that he never reburried the part that he kicked out already. After about a five minute break, he reburried its bottom in the ground. Once that was accoplished, he resumed his training.

When he was about to launch into another kick, he realized that his leg was begging to hurt. He ignored it though and launched into the kick. Less than a second later, his foot made contact with a loud thud. The dummy didn't move, which dissapointed him, but it was begging to split toward the top. He didn't notice, and continued with his training normally.

About ten minutes later, he threw his all into one perfect kick, probably the only one he'd throw that day. When his foot connected with top of the dummy, the top split in half, leaving him to continue flying forward. As his first leg went over the split, his second got caught on the rest the dummy. Before he knew what had happened, his whole body had flipped few time in the air, and his head was quickly approaching the ground. He closed his eyes in anticipation of the painful crash, but it never happened.

A moment later, he realized that someone was holding him in the air. He opened his eyes and looked upon the face that was holding him, and realized that it was his jounin caretaker, who he simply called Hatsuno

[Koori.]

Learned.

[Runeska]

Douyou Kobushi (Shaking Fist)
Rank: D
Skill: Taijutsu
Effect: Punching out with their palm, the attacker quivers the palm before hitting in order to do more damage
Special: None
Drawback: None
Description: Upon striking the opponent, one makes their fist vibrate slightly before impact to do more damage than a regular punch could do. This punch’s secret is in the vibration causing the internal organs to be vibrated/shocked. They bump around due to the movement and damage is caused.
Limit: Must know Gouken no Kamae.

Standing inn the Gouken no Kamae, Dante scanned his practice dummy. By this time, he’d have to replace the training dummy by the end of the day. He didn’t even want to think about what it looked like standing before him right now. Sensing his hesitation, Hatsuno said, “I’ll get you a new one when you destroy this one.”

With that said, Dante rushed at it and jabbed at it’s center. His punch was strong, but it was flimsy for what he was attempting. Taking the stance again, he stood in front of the dummy and struck repeatedly with each fist. Each time, he struck harder and harder, trying to increase the strength of his attack to make it quiver and shake as the move was designed to. His fist was beginning to hurt, and the dummy was beginning to whittle away. The whole time, Hatsuno watched him train at this one move in silence.

About half an hour passed, Dante’s hand was beginning to bleed, and he’d made no progress with the Douyou Kobushi but continued along with it. He landed another attack, this time it left a large mark on the target, but that was all.

After nearly another twenty minutes, Hatsuno stopped him abruptly. “Alright, I’m sick of seeing you screw this one up. Look, I’ll teach you some of what I know.” Turning to a nearby tree, he turned and said, “This is the shaking fist. You fist must vibrate before you can gain anything from the attack.” He then struck the tree in the center of its truck. It reverberated at the trunk, slowly moving up the trunk, to the leaves. Ultimately, it shook the whole tree for a few seconds, sending some leaves to the ground. “This is what you are trying to learn. I’ll be back when you’ve got it.”

Dante, seeing the demonstration, practiced the move as he saw it done and found out that it was far more easier. However, his hand was still sore. After about ten minutes of resting, he got back to his training. Having corrected his mistake, he quickly made a lot of progress. The punching vibration was beginning to shake and rattle the dummy. He continued on like this until it reverberated viciously like a tuning fork. After about ten minutes, Hatsuno returned, a smug expression on his face. It would have been quite annoying to the average person, but Dante didn’t care. He simply continued jabbing at the tree while listening to the sounds of the vibration.

When it sounded strong enough, he stopped took a deep breadth. Summoning forth all the concentration that he could muster, he jumped forward and threw out his right hand. It shook violently and knocked the dummy around for a few seconds. When it stopped, he looked back at the wooden dummy hearing a slight creaking sound. Upon further observation, he realized the training dummy was splitting through the top.

[Itaru]

+10 Learned

[Runeska]

Suiton - Teppodama
Rank: "C" Rank
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: Allows a user to shoot a ball of water out of their mouth.
Special: "Handseals"
Drawback: ---
Description: The Teppodama is a Ninjutsu technique utilizing the Water Element. The ninja does some hand seals which then causes a a big ball of water to come from the users mouth and then hit their target.
Limit: Water Release

Dante watched as Hatsuno simply rose and departed from the yard. It didn’t seem the least bit surprised or impressed, but that was normal. He never seemed to be impressed about anything. And quite honestly, Dante couldn’t care. Other than a few technique tips every here and there, Hatsuno really meant nothing to him in terms of family. And why should he? He had a mother out there who he intended to leave the village of sand for, even if that meant becoming missing nin himself.

He could still remember every detail of her facial expression from their last encounter, which was only a few months ago at best. Her expression was full of a nearly rabid fear. Their eyes had met for the span of a second, full of concentration and acknowledgement. They both knew he each other was. She was the, the mother he was forced to leave, he, the son she was forced to give away to the elements. He just had to find her. If not to hold and caress her or to have someone to love and hold on to, then he’d do it just to put his raging mind at rest. But before he could anything, he had to get stronger. What was the use of becoming a missing nin to find a loved one, if he couldn’t protect her after he found her, or even survive long enough to find her.

It was through this means that he decided to practice a familiar jutsu. It was one that his mom had used for a long time when they were still together. Despite the fact that it was half his life span ago, he still remembered every Jutsu that she had ever used around him. Doing so of course brought the other side of him closer to the surface. It happened whenever he thought about his mom or water jutsus. Concentrating deeply, he began to make the handsigns.

Ten minutes later, he hadn’t made any progress. His mind had memorized the actual techniques, but the handsigns were currently blurry. He delve a little deeper within his mind to remember the proper handsigns. After a bit of work, he managed to pry them lose at the cost of a minor headache. Beginning again, he started to build up the chakra for the jutsu. As it began to condense and harden, he opened his mouth an spit outward. A small drivel of water escaped his lips. So he tried again, this time holding the chakra longer to try and make sure it was channeled right. His attempt failed and left his choking on water for a moment.

He realized something was wrong and quickly tried to figure it out. He could probably realize what it was if he delve more into his repressed memories, but that always led to more problems. Deciding on not do that, he quickly continued training on his own. He was more than intelligent enough to figure what he was doing wrong sooner or not. He continued on again. Making little progress with the jutsu. By this time, all he was really doing was applying chakra to his mouth. He stopped choking though, so he had to have corrected something.

[Runeska]

Dante was Gasping for air, the jutsu still was making much progress. He was basically just releasing a wad of spit with little to no force on it. It was agrivating him inwardly. The fact that it was a water ninjutsu was slowly drawing on his inward voice. If he allowed it to slip that far out of controll, he didn't want to think of what could happen.

Suddenly, Hatsuno appeared behind him. "Kid, I don't know where you sense is. You're a sand ninja practicing water techniques without water. Do you think you're a god or something? Most water nins can't do that until they master the release. If that is your plan, I suggest that you take it else where. You'll cause too much damage to this house any other way."

Dante was surprised. It wasn't too often that Hatsuno even said this much to him. His eyebrow raised a bit is surprise, but other than that, there was no other facial expression to try and guage him from. That was the way he'd rather it be. Without anyother words being spoken, he turned his back to Hatsuno and walked away. He was becoming a tad bit annoying anyway. His training would probably go better away from this anyway.

[Exit]

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+10/30.