Personal Training [Permanent/Private]

[Sirén]

Speed of the Mind
Rank: "C", "B", "A"
Skill: Skill / Knowledge / TaiJutsu
Effect: Within this, this type of knowledge and technique enables the user the capability of withstanding the elements of the Chakra Gates. They must learn this multiple times. Without this the Chakra gates become more destructive within the body. The body must be capable of enduring the gates, and this allows the body to endure the speed for the gate.
Special: ---
Drawback: Must be learned each time before they go into a new gate. For Gates one through three they must learn the "C" Rank version, for Gates four through six they must learn the "B" Rank version, and for Gates six and seven they must learn the "A" Rank versions.
Description: ---
Limit: Must become a Chakra Gate User.

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Meditation. It was a wonderful thing that she had discovred while trying to quell her own raging thoughts. Aiko had been focusing on speeding up her own mind to catch her own mistakes in the midst of battle. The speed of mind was important for taijutsu, one would not be able to be able to increase speed without being able to increase the thoughts at which they can process the actions of their bodies, without the ability to think at the speeds one can travel, then the whole ability to fight at such speeds goes down the drain.

Hence, she was meditating, using her own mind to battle herself and combat her own thought processes. Within her own psyche she would rip apart her mind and increase the thoughts that she could have, the ability to process the movements with the bodies was one thing, but to be able to know exactly what one wanted to do while traveling at that speed was another. If you were zooming around with no direction, chances are you are likely to hit something, or land in a trap, or get hurt. Whatever it was that decided to come try and kick her ass.

The whole point of meditation was to keep her mind calm so that she could perform the enhanced chakra gate speeds while still keeping her mind calm and her her body under control. This all kind of intertwined with the Kenpo ideaology, the idea that one must be in control of their emotinos to fight fluently, so, adapting and controling ones body was key to performing the chakra gates, as long as one could keep their minds sharp and their bodies fit. The will to perform was also a factor, but she could get to that later.

If one allowed the chakra gates to overwhelm their bodies, it was all over, so by learning how to keep her mind up to speed with the overwhelming pain and body deterioration, one would overcome the disabling drawbacks of the gates. For a while at least, to go into the gates, one always knew the risks that if you activate the final gate, it would be all over. The ability to comprehend and accept that, well, it was either madness of knowledge that one had become the ultimate fighter, even if for a short while.

Aiko had accepted the fact, she would meditate, allowig thoguhts to cross her mind, allowing herself ability to master the quickness of thought and descision. It was all in the moment thoughts, if one could not think fast enough while in the gates, it was over, thoght processes, be it in battle or simply in her head, they were required, this just allowed her to think on her feet better during battle, nothing she could really adapt into real life, as when would she be required to think at a hundred miles per hour?

[Sirén]

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Well...you're back...

'I am?'

Yes

'Where am I?'

Here...

'Where exactly is here?'

In your head of course

'What?'

So many questions...Let me uncover your eyes...

Aiko squinted against the bright lights that shone in her eyes, so blinding, yet she wanted to see the full force of it. It was like a dream, yet she knew she was awake, just not aware of her body, everything was all...Floaty, for lack of a better word. Everything was light and she could hardly feel her body beneath her, even if she could see the outline of it, the bright light making most things vanish in whiteness. It was all so, otherworldy.

Of course it is, after all, this is your mind

Aiko saw a darkness in the light, it was odd. The dark spot in the middle of the light, writhing and fuming against the light. The surrounding light pulsed calmly, but the inferno of darkness began to malform and twist angrily, growing from the small area to spreading around the light. Aiko did not know what was going on, she could feel her body move beneath her, but it was as though she was not controling it. If it were not for her footfalls, she would not have been able to tell she was running at all.

Looks like you forgot how to control your body...What a shame, cause you can die in your mindscape you know, if you let your psyche overwhelm you, better get control over your body, or you may be here for good

Fear gripped Aiko as she tried to move her body, which, unfortunately for her, did not budge beneath her. No matter how hard she tried, no matter how hard she willed it to move, her thoughts did not match up to her body. Everytime her mind began to shift to the thoughts of moving her body, it began to fade into blackness, as though being sucked from her mind by the writhing darkness that was draining it from her mind, her thoughts whirring, panic beginning to overtake because she could not think straight enough to move her body.

Looks like you're boned...A shame too...

Panic felt as though it was going to explode forth from her mind, the sheer force of her thought pounding against her head, screaming at her muscles to move, yet they would not budge. All she could see was the overwhelming blackness sweep towards her, a torrent of darkness flooding over her. Then, as it began to envelope her, suffocating the darkness form around her, her thoughts clicked, as though the terror of death sparked that exhileration inside of her, the adrenaline pumping madly through her veins, her thoughts a whir of madness.

'I will not lay down and die!'

Her body began to fight its own stagnation as her mind screamed at the nerves and muscles as they refused to pull against the taught movement of her muscles. The blackness was almost complete, but her body had reacted just in time, every nerve in her body on fire and her muscles feeling as though they were tearing at all points, yet somewhere at the back of her mind there was another voice telling her that this was simply in her head. Yet it felt so reall, as though the shadow would take her soul.

[|Ayame Unbound|]

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[Sirén]

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The light burned at her retina, the sudden explosion of it as soon as her body burst from the black pervading skies to the clear thoughts of her mind. It was as though her mind had been whiped clean, and the strain on her body was no longer present, as though she had been completely revived by teh light. However, the roaring swell of the darkness was still eating up the unblemished atmosphere behind her, the torrential sound, like death unleashed.

Her feet fell like raindrops before a waterfall, the lack of intensity radiating from her movement, just completely overwhelmed by the storm of black behind her. Her mind was clear, her eyes took in the information of the world before her and her mind processed it with lighting efficiency, the obsequiousness of the area become clear to her. The light was not as pure as she had seen, it had hidden traps littering her own mind, something she would not have expected, the walls and the traps. Her mind was a lot more clouded to her own psyche than she had thought.

The tendrils of darkness were ever so slowly catching up to her, trying to drag her back into the depths of her mind, yet she ran, continued her path in the everlasting wasteland that was her fragile psyche. Arms of black essence shot out towards her, but her mind was thinking at a thousand miles a second, and as though she did not even think, as though she had been in this situation millions of times before and the actions were ingrained in her muscle memory, her body reacted, swiftly and gracefully, hurdling over the tendrils and arms of the dark mass.

Her body swiftly became as lithe and writhing as the very mass chasing her, her mind adapting and altering her bodies path as she sprinted along, her lungs heaving and her muscles straining against the amount of stress she was putting them through. Even though her body felt as though it was going to explode due to the pressure that she was putting it under, her mind was alive, working faster than it ever had before, processing any information it came across, the sights, smells, sounds, touch, and taste, anything that could be used to avoid getting swallowed by her own dark thoughts.

The white light in the air burst into a bright blue, clouds and birds zooming overhead, the grass beneath her prone position tickling against her legs, her eyes snapping wide and her entire body falling backwards. Surprise flittered across her face as she struck the grass with the back of her head, not painfully or anything just surprising, considering just a moment ago she was milimeters away from being swallowed by her own mind. Meditation...A wonderful thing...Right.

[Zetsumei]

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[Sirén]

Striking Principles
Rank: E D C B A S
Skill: Taijutsu - Knowledge
Effect: Increases the users ability to effectively strike a vital point depending on the rank of technique.
E - Basic Knowledge of vital point location, roughly 50% chance that the user will land a direct hit on one of these points.
D - Increases the chance that a vital point will be hit to 60%.
C - Increases the chance that a vital point will be hit to 70%.
B - Increases the chance that a vital point will be hit to 80%.
A - Increases the chance that a vital point will be hit to 90%.
S - Increases the chance that a vital point will be hit to 100%.
Special: None
Drawback: None
Description: Effective striking with the weapons of the body to the opponent’s vital points is essential for a victorious outcome in a hand-to-hand struggle. A ninja must be able to employ the principles of effective striking if he is to emerge as the survivor in a fight to the death. Strikes should be targeted at the opponent’s vital points and nerve motor points. Strikes to nerve motor points cause temporary mental stunning and muscle motor dysfunction to the affected areas of the body. Mental stunning results when the brain is momentarily disoriented by overstimulation from too much input—for example, a strike to a major nerve. The stunning completely disables an opponent for three to seven seconds and allows the ninja to finish off the opponent, gain total control of the situation, or make his escape. Sometimes, such a strike causes unconsciousness. A successful strike to a nerve motor center also renders the affected body part immovable by causing muscle spasms and dysfunction due to nerve overload.
Limit: Must be Yellow Belt Krav Maga

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The knowledge to disable an opponent was integral in the art of Krav Maga, and using it, it could be also effective in other styles also, making her ability to disrupt the abilities in her opponent more effective no matter what she was doing. The Krav Maga was a style that was meant to disable quickly and effectively, so that there would be minimal injury and damage to the user. The strikes, if succesful, would cripple a limb if the right motor center was striken, or even if the nerves were struck, either way, there were many ways to cripple the muscles.

The art of striking principles was really only the knowledge of the locations of the nerve centers and the ability to strike them. Hence, Striking Principles. Aiko was fairly familiar with the human bodies and the workings of most of it, but she had never went in depth with the actual mechanics and the possibilities of crippling musculature workings and movement, making her move into this style a good choice, especially against other taijutsu users, as she could close down their joints as they fought, less effective against longer ranged users, but she took what she could get.

As a taijutsu user, Aiko was fairly used to feeling the cramps in the specific parts of her body that she knew were effective, so using the little knowledge she had, she would be able to come up with spots on the body to strike to cause pain and crippling, even if for a few seconds. The first and most uncreative place she could think of, of course, only on a male, was the genitals, of course, a sensitive area for girls too, but guys tended to exaggerate enormously, exclaiming in pain and anger.

Another good spot that had her nearly in tears was the kidneys, those strikes were enourmously painful, and there was no ribs there to block anything. Kidney shots often could cause quite a lot of damage, if one were to be struck there, kidney failure may be immenent, and then they would be a walking blood-pisser. Those strikes often took a bit of time to recover from, but they were not fatal, which was unfortunate considering the sheer simplicity of striking them.

Probably the most notable one, and most effective, aside from the testicles, was the Solar Plexus, a collection of nerves in the chest that were hidden just beneath the sternum, but still reachable if one knew how to strike it. It was a strike and lift method to strike the complex of nerves, and ifit was struck hard enough, it could cause death, or if not severe, it would wind the opponent for long enough to kill them or finish them off. Well, there were many parts of the body that could be struck to kill, she would just take her time to find all of them...Now where was her juice box?

[|Ayame Unbound|]

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[Sirén]

Strength of the Body
Rank: "C", "B", "A"
Skill: Skill / Knowledge / TaiJutsu
Effect: Within this, this type of knowledge and technique enables the user the capability of withstanding the elements of the Chakra Gates. They must learn this multiple times. Without this the Chakra gates become more destructive within the body. The body must be capable of enduring the gates, and this allows the body to endure the speed for the gate. For this, they are capable of enduring the hitting power that comes along with the Chakra Gates. What this means is that when they hit an object, their very body does not instantly break.
Special: ---
Drawback: Must be learned each time before they go into a new gate. For Gates one through three they must learn the "C" Rank version, for Gates four through six they must learn the "B" Rank version, and for Gates six and seven they must learn the "A" Rank versions.
Description: ---
Limit: Must become a Chakra Gate User. Must know Speed of the Mind

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The morning was crisp and fairly cool, slightly damp, but Aiko did not mind, it was easy enough for her to ignore it. After all, training her body to withstand the rigours of the Chakra gates. She had set upon herself some painful training for her to do, to increase the strength of her muscles and to tear them, all so that she could recover and get them back into shape. The strength of the body did not require simply strength, it required the ability to not overuse and kill your body. Strength was not all muscles power.

Muscular endurance and physical atrophy went hand in hand. If the body could not recover from damage to the muscles, then it would not sustain physical functions, and thus, shut down from movement. If one were to train their body to be able to recover from atrophies in the muscles for specific actions, then one could adapt and begin to focus on the body damage to keep healing it and resting it. Over the course of training, it was never wise to train your body until it could no longer move, it needed to rest and recover, so the rest was probably more important than the training.

Although this would be the first time in a long while she had trained like this, it would be easier, as she had been training, although specific fighting training, it helped her body get into shape. Aiko had felt the increase in her body movement as she had been training, plus she had felt all her muscles becoming tighter and the fact that her legs had never looked better must have been a damned good sign that her training was paying off. She had found that she was looking at her body more in the mirror, noticing the differences.

Cracking her nuckles, she thought on what her training would be today. It would start with a warm up, perhaps some light sprints, get her muscles all warmed up before she would blitz them with intensive workouts, using the environment around her, the trees and earth, as training. Her body would be put to the edges of her will, and she would not be able to train any longer. That was when her resting phase would begin. It was vital to her training, to allow her body to recover from strenuous activity.

The atrophy her muscles would endure would not be severe enough to damage her body too badly, so her rest period would be simply enough to get her moving again, and it would involve use of the stream that ran through the grounds near where she was. It was pleasant enough, and her muscles would be able to recover in the cool stream, so she had no qualms about resting there. If all was well, she would be able to recover fairly soon and continue her focus on learning how to perform the gates.

[Sirén]

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Aiko felt her heart wrenching against her chest as she continued to pound her feet continuously against the ground, the rythmic pattern of both her breathing and her foot falls echoing in her head. Her eyes scanned the area as she ran onwards, sweat beading down her face, her deep breathing in through her mouth and out of her nose keeping her mind clear. Wind sprints, probably the most tiring of all training. She had marked out four hundred meters, and was practicing wind sprints, working her lower body, and of course, her lungs, as her breathing felt tight and restricted.

Her legs felt fairly tight, but she would continue running until she could no longer keep her pace. As was, she was running a regular pace, not as fast as she could, but after the twelth sprint her times were going up, something she expected, but until her times got too terrible, she would continue training. Every time she finished a marked sprint, she turned and walked back, creating a constant motion in her movement, so she would not have to fall prey to the lactic acid buildup in her muscles which would cause cramps and stop her from being able to move up to her full potential.

Her breathing was heavy, and she was feeling the nausea coming on, too much work, too little food, not a good combination. Still, it was something that she would need to keep her body prepared for, so she would ignore it, after all, she could not stop just because she felt a little sick. After all, it was just her body beginning to feed on the protiens in her body instead of carbohydrates and other simple sugars, which would easily be converted into energy within the body, when the protiens were being broke down it took more effort, so her body was trying to tell her that se needed to stop or face the consequences.

Fighting against her body was the whole point of this excersize, but Aiko knew she needed to keep it within limits, this was simply training for the first gate, it was not as harrowing as it could be. To train for the final ar maybe seventh gate, perhaps then it would take immense harm on her body but this was simply getting her body ready for harder than normal movement. In the first gate, it would be as though she was moving faster than ever before, so her muscles needed the extra training to allow the preperation for such a painful experience, even though it would hurt regardless of whether or not se trained well.

She had nearly gotten to the end of her walk, and her body was beginning to shake from the training, after all, it had been nearly two hours of straight sprinting, her full effort every time, he muscles were feeling the ache now. She would finish it off with a thousand push-ups and sit-ups, then she would allow for some rest for her body to rebuild the snapped muscle tissue and increase her wounded muscles. However, along with rest, she required some protien, so a meal was in order, otherwise her muscles would nto healk and grow stronger. They would, but not as fast as she wanted them to, which was her problem.

[Sirén]

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Her whole body felt as though it was on fire, each and every one of her muscles were aching and felt as though she could rip them any moment. It kind of sucked, but she knew that to obtain her goals, she needed to keep her body in a state of constant recovery, her body always adapting to the pain and tearing of her muscles. It would be the only way to keep her body strong for the gates, and the more gates she were to open, the more damage she would sustain, and only her will and ability to overcome her own pain would keep her alive, aside from the final gate of course.

Her movement was sluggish, but the water in the stream was pleasant, all she needed to do was actually get her clothes off and climb in. Unfortunately, she did not think she could move that much to do so, as she was hurting quite extraordinarily right now. The restoration of her body could not come too soon, it was a shame there were no natural saunas around here, she could do with the heated springs. Even if it was not for simply her body, as her skin had been feeling rather dry and porous lately as it was, too much training, not enough time for herself.

The cool water would be better than warm water anyway, as when muscles were damaged, warm water helped the breakdown of muscles occur, and even though it felt better, it was not a great long term solution. Ice baths were a great way for the body to recoup after strenuous damage to muscles, but consiering the fact she had no ice, a cold stream would do. The ice would help repair the micro tearing in her muscles, which would be the small tears that occured in the fibres which made up her muscles, each would be slightly torn from the arduous workout.

The cold water also helped out with the vasoconstriction of the vessels in the muscles, as it would squeeze out all of the bi-products that the muscles would create, such as lactic acid, and force them into the blood stream. Once in the blood stream, it would help process them, and the body would be able to recover faster, and that was the whole goal of the recovery, the process to help the body adapt to wounds and to recover the cardio-vascular and the muscular tears and micro-tears faster, and thus, healing.

Of course, using the gates, her body would be more damaged from the inside, getting worse as she progressed through the gates. The cold water would be a god send for now, but she would still need to keep her body moving to dissallow the stiffness frm setting in, as that occured when the body was warm and the muscles began to deteriorate and when at rest, the muscles would begin to harden again with the rips and micro-tears still present in the muscles. That was why the body was unable to move smoothly when stiff, as the muscles were not at one hundred percent capacity and were still repairing themselves usng the protien or carbohydrate stores within the bod.

[Kinz]

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[Sirén]

Power of the Soul
Rank: "C", "B", "A"
Skill: Skill / Knowledge / TaiJutsu
Effect: This is the battle within. This is the type of thing that is needed, the final thing that would be needed in order to unlock the gates. This is considered to be the knowledge to where one must let their inner being go, to improve themselves to become something great, something better then they have ever been before.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Every gate except for the final gate has one of these. The First gate located within the base of the spine it deals with survival and is blocked by fear. Let your fear become clear, one must be concerned about their survival, and must let go of their fears. The Second Gate deals with pleasure and is blocked by guilt, now one must look through all the guilt within their lives and see what they blame themselves for. One must accept who they are, and must accept the reality that things happen, but not allow it to poison within their inner body as they must do their best to forgive themselves. The Third Gate deals with will power, and is blocked by Shame. One must look into what they are ashamed of and must seek to what they are most disappointed within themselves. They must never deny the greatest moments of their life, they must accept who they are, what they are, even if they are ashamed of what they have done. The Fourth Gate is powered by love, and blocked by Grief. One must lay all grief out in front of them, one must look into what they have lost, and must accept and bring the love into their heart. They must accept the love within the heart, and let the energy flow through, to where they allow the pain flow through and escaped through one self. The Fifth Gate deals with truth and is blocked by lies. The ones that we tell ourselves, lies to where one must keep it from others, but as well as others. They must accept who they are, what they are, and stop telling lies within their inner bodies. The Sixth Gate is brought forth by insight and blocked by illusion. The greatest illusion of this world is the illusion of seperation. Things where one think are seperate and different are actually one and the same. This is where everyone is connected. Even the seperation of all elements is an illusion. One must open their mind to accept that everything is different, but in the greatest illusion must come to the realization to where everything is the same, such as passing their own limitations. deals with all cosmic energy and blocked by all earthly attachement. This is where one must have complete and control of all their actions. One must bring forth what brings them down upon the very earth, and must look at all attachments as to what keeps them grounded. They then must let all of these attachments go, letting the energy flow all through. One must let these go to bringing forth that everything must be let go at one time or another, whether it may be good, or bad. The final gate is quite different then that of the rest. For that, they must become one, they must understand that in order to live life, they must first choose death. This means that to truly live, one must seek the truth of death. This would be considered as the final test within the Power of the Inner Soul.
Limit: Must become a Chakra Gate User. Must know Strength of the Body

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Fear, the unknown, the part of life that made the small hairs on the back of your neck tingle with anticipation as you waited for whatever spook in the night wasiting for you. What made children, and even adults run from the dark. What followed her every time she entered a place unfamiliar with her, it was that creeping feeling in the pit of your stomach that screamed that nothing was going to be alright. Fear was a crippling sensation within her and everyone, this training was vital for her to overcome it.

The ability to open the first gate was bore from ones ability to overcome their own fear, and to do that, one must realize what they fear most within. Which meant more meditating and soul searching for her. Although she was kind of afraid of what she would find, which just made her more annoyed that she was afraid of finding what she was afraid of. It was one giant circle of fear, meaning she was not doing very well at this at all. Granted she had just started, but still, she had thought she was braver than this.

Sitting naked in a stream really put things in perspective though. It allowed her tosee how something could be so strong, yet so soothing at the same time, like a natural enigma of life. Here she was, resting her muscles in a river, which flowed gently across the land. Yet at the same time, it had the power to destroy her completely, no fear, just continuously flowing, never ending and unhalting, the kind of will she wished to be, unstoppable, yet gentle, natural, and full of beauty. Yet, that would be hard to attain.

To become like the natural worl around her, she needed to fear nothing. In order to fear nothing, she needed to, not look upon the outside, but within, into her own psyche, where she would need to overcome what she feared most. In the depths of her mind, she knew what it was, but she did not want to admit it, even if it helped her progress, both as a shinobi and as a person. Her fears were things that had held her back, her inhibitions controlling her, a deep seated neurosis that she had never the confidence to find the root of.

Aiko sank a little deeper into the water, letting it lap the bottom of her chin, the cool water flowing over her, her eyes closing, and her mind slowly blocking out all thoughts as she let the soothing sounds of the natural life around her into her mind, slowly falling deeper into her own psyche, letting the stream carry her there, ignoring everything else in the world, letting the stream sweep her into the darkest part of her mind, where her fear rested, where she would overcome her limits and be freed from her physical frailties.

[Sirén]

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Welcome back, you're coming here often nowadays...

I still don't know who you are

Well, unless you figure out, it is gonna stay that way, good luck though

Can't you just tell me?

Doesn't work like that

Figures

You're here to do something anyway aren't you, I dont think you would be here for fun

I'm looking to face my fear, not looking forward to it though

I wouldnn't be either, seeing it from in here, you're afraid of a lot of things, I'd say you're a coward

Shut up

Fine, no help here then

Aw crap

The disembodied conversation halted, and Aiko awoke in blackness. Nothing was around but darkness, the polar opposite of what had happened last time with the bright light. She supposed that this was the back of her mind, her true concsious, where all her fears and secrets manifested and grew here, like some sort of depraved greenhouse of horrors, where everything she never wanted to face was here, ready to engorge her from the shadows, simply waiting for their feast. Unfortunately, her path ahead of her lead through all of them.

Swallowing difficultly, she took a step forward and the world around her exploded into light. Screwing her eyes shut, she turned her head away from the light, but shehad already been hit, her eyes already slightly blinded. It took a moment before she could see properly again, but as it all cleared, she wished she was blind again. The brothel where she had grown up, the wretched house was standing in front of her, the door open and swinging wildly. Her deepest fear, her past. It made a little sense, but she did not fully understand yet.

The door to the house swung open easily enough, making a low whining noise as it did though, making the blood in Aikos veins run cold and her skin to crawl. The house was dark, the hall only lit by a small candle, which flickered warily in te dark, as though not wanting to be lit and surrounded by the darkness, as though, if it were to stop moving, it would be pulled into the darkness. She could not blame it, she did not want to be here either. Taking a tentative step forward, she cringed as her weight caused the floorboard to crack and creak creepily.

This was scary enough as it was, and it was just darkness. Taking in a deep breath she headed for the stairway, the floorboards cracking beneath as she moved across the rickety floor. The stairs looked decrepit and seriously faulted, but she would do what she needed to. Placing her foot on the first step, she let her weight on it. It cracked, but there was no breaking of the step to her relief, meaning she could continue onwards. With every step, her thoughts began to spin more uncontrollably, her heart began to pound harder, and the bile in the pit of her stomach felt as though it was about to be thrown up.

Aiko looked down at herself, she was no longer the strong warrior she had grown to be, but was, once again the small afraid child in the house of sin. She was once again lost in the folds of her fear, almost immobile as she reached the final step and the figure came towards her. Shivering, she allowed herself to be grabbed harshly by the back of her too large sweater, and be thrown haphazardly into the room at the top. She knew this room, she did not want to be here, she could not be here, this was not real, not real. The harsh slap across her face begged to differ, and the young girl sat shivering on the floor, tears streaming down her cheeks.

[Sirén]

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"So bitch, you were trying to sneak in on the conversation between me and your mother here?"

Her mother was indeed in the room, yet only unnoticed by Aiko, as she was in between the sheets in the old rotten bed that sat at one side of the room. Her mother, a pink haired woman also, was sitting in the bed, covers hardly covering her frail figure, her knees to her chest and tears streaming down her eyes. She must have been crying for a long time now, as her eyes were red, the tear marks on her face were mostly dry, and her cheek was bruised, not yet hidden by the make-up that Aiko had grown so accustomed to. The kunoichi tried to reach out to her mother, but she was paralyzed with fear.

"Well, now I'm done with your mother, I suppose you came at the right time"

The dirty man leered at her for a moment before turning to her mother. His face one of rage and disgust.

"Get out of the bed you filthy whore! Lets see if your daughter can put up more of a fight than your sorry ass"

Aiko tried to feel anger, but all she could feel was the numbing hands of fear clawing at her insides. She could not stand up to this foul creature, she was too scared. He grabbed her roughly by the shoulder and threw her onto the bed next to her mother, she made a slight noise, but otherwise nothing, she just let the tears roll down her cheeks, silently hating him for what he was going to do to her, for what he had done to her mother. She squeezed her eyes shut as she felt an arm around her, but the soothing voice of her mother was in her head as it happened.

It's not real, fight it, it is not happening, you're stronger than this

It was the voice, the one that she could hear in her head whenever she slept or whenever she found herself alone. The voice was her strength when she needed it, and right now, she needed it. The man was comingonto the bed, a gross smile upon his face, but Aiko held on tightly to her mother, who held just as tightly back. She was afraid, this could not be happening to her, she had left all of this behind, there was no longer a brothel here, no longer the perverted old men who lusted after her and her mother.

That is it, fight it, we are not here, overcome your fear, it's just us

The man reached for her color, pulling her away from the safety of her mothers arms. She kicked and punched and screamed, fighitng her way from his grasp, the tears rolling down her cheeks. She struck him in the chest and he fell backwards, shock written on his face, she fell forward on top of his body, as he still had a firm grip on him. Her hands found their way to his face, over, and over, and over again, mercilessly beating him, the feeing of his face breaking beneath her hands.

He is your fear, be strong, get out of here while you can

With one final, heart-wrenching punch, she rolled off the body and moved to the door, her heart pounding in her chest as she burst from the cursed room. Her mothers words were echoing in her mind as she rocketed down the stairs and kicked through the door to the outside world. The air hit her lungs and she fell forward onto the earth below. Turning onto her back, she screamed, forcing herself to look at the building, the worst part of her life, she would no longer think of it as a prison, but where she and her mother were released.

I'm glad...

Thank you mother...

[Tenkai]

Learned.
Add it.

[korakas]

<sub>{Enter - I have permission from Siren to post.}

Nature was her bliss, her solitude, her escape. Now that her home was empty, it wasn't a place to spend much time at. The memories lingered there, and since the loss of her father was recent, it filled her with pain to stay at her own home. So, lately Miryoku spent her hours wandering through the misty lands, absorbing the nature that surrounded her. And even though there was no one left in her family it seemed, a smile still managed to stay surfaced on her face.

Her mother was out here somewhere, and she was confident she could find her. She would just have to search hard, and never give in. The parent had left several years ago, but maybe she was still in the land of Water? She could only hope and continue her pursuit. Besides, it was about time she ventured off to become a better ninja.

The frail female came across a tranquil river where she decided to stop at and have a drink. Even though the water looked fairly clear, Miryoku decided to put one of her Academy techniques to use just to be on the safe side. She began to shift her hands into several different hand seals, and once they were completed, she cupped her hands together, and placed them into the water. After her hands filled with the liquid, she pulled them towards her and directed her chakra into her palms. After waiting a few seconds, Miryoku poured the refreshing water down her throat. She stood back up, wiping her mouth with the back of her hand. These Academy techniques were actually useful.

Afterwards, the female continued to follow the river. She walked alongside it, listening to her footsteps and the gentle lapping of the water. Once traveling a bit further, she spotted a body in the river, not seeming to move. Did someone die and was deposited into the water? Miryoku gulped, then cautiously walked up to the body. It appeared to belong to a female around her age, and she was naked. Her eyes were closed, but she appeared to be breathing.

"Uhm, excuse me, is everything alright?"

The Onigami questioned, with her almost demonic-looking red eyes glancing at the girl's face. She had no idea that the girl was relaxing in the river, mentally conquering her fears. To Miryoku, she just thought this stranger could use a little help.</sub>

[Sirén]

"Uhm, excuse me, is everything alright?"/[/i]

Aiko snapped her head upwards, a slight tear running down her cheek. Wiping it quickly, she hid her sad face and looked at the girl, who surprisingly enough, looked not dissimilar to herself, of course, the blatant obviousness between hair colors aside. She did not like being seen in her sad moods, so, she forced herself to smile, even if it did look a little false, it was the effort, and if the other female could not appreciate that, well, then it was not really something that would cause her to lose any sleep over, after all, she did not know this girl at all, and thus, her opinion was meaningless.

"Oh! Uhm, nothing's wrong, nothing at all"

The girl had similar slender features to her, but her body was much thinner and less muscular, not that she was large or anything, she looked down over her toned arms just to make sure, and then back up at the girl. Her clothing was strange, but it was very pretty and well coordinated, making her feel rather dirty in her own sweat and filth stained training combats. Oh well, just a sign of her hard work and effort in her pursuit of the Chakra gates, not that she knew or anything. Naked and still submerged in the river, Aiko did not think it would be too polite for her to leave the water now with the girl here, so she guessed she would ask her own questions.

"So, who are you? And how come you're here?

[korakas]

Miryoku watched as the tear rolled down the female's cheek, really wondering if everything was fine. She didn't look injured or anything, and she didn't want to impose on what was going on, as she thought it would be rude at this point to ask why the girl was laying in a river naked. Miryoku accepted the smile without questioning it, assuming the other female was trying to be friendly. Well, that's good, she didn't want to approach this stranger only to get herself in trouble. She didn't have much to defend herself right now...

The Onigami nodded when the other female claimed she was alright, relieved that she wasn't in any trouble. The pink haired female appeared quite similar to herself, although she looked a bit better structured than Miryoku. She had accepted that though, as her bloodlimit wouldn't allow to develop completely. At least no comments on her appearance had been made. She wasn't ashamed of herself, but many people questioned the deep red eyes that she was born with.

"My name's Miryoku, and I'm just wandering through here, enjoying nature. What's your name?"

Miryoku questioned softly, putting her hands behind her back and opening her palms. She allowed the water that had partially crept down the tubes in her arms to drain out, making sure to keep them clear and clean. Apparently with bad maintenance, they could get clogged, backfire, and even blow off her arms. She smiled warmly to the stranger, waiting to get to know her a bit better before asking perhaps more deep questions.

[Sirén]

"Well, if you wouldn't mind, can I get out of this river and changed before we chat? It's kind of cold"

Regardless of what the girl said, Aiko would clamber out of the stream and shake off, she was sodden, but it did not bother her much, she needed a cleanse after her training, and she had given herself one, now it was time to put on her clothes and talk to this girl. As she approached her clothes, stark naked, it did not really bother her, after all, she figured the girl would be more embarrassed than her, so she would probably turn around while she put her clothes on. Having little attire, it would only take a minute or so to do so, then she looked back up at the girl, her clothes slowly soaking up the water on her body and becoming moist and making her feel all gross. That had been a bad choice.

"I'm Aiko Raku, I was just doing a little training"

[/i]

She pointed at herself running a hand down her sodden clothes to try and squeeze a little of the water from them. She really should have brought a towel. Oh well, it was too late now, and she supposed the only way for her to get dry to was keep in the sunlight. Perhaps a little workout, a spar maybe? She looked at the girl again, maybe? Although it did seem a little up front, well, she would ask after the girl spoke, so as not to seem rude, but it would be a nice and polite question, she did not want to force the girl into doing anything.

"Fancy a spar?"[/sub]

[korakas]

Miryoku blinked, then nodded as the girl arose from the river. She did glance away to give her some privacy, as it was probably rude to gawk. Not that she fantasized about naked women anyways, but that was beyond the point. For now, the female merely glanced down at her hands that she brought before her, studying the tubes within them. She often checked the condition of them, just to make sure they weren't clogged. She was quite conscious of their cleanliness, as her father often lectured her about the importance of keeping those tubes clear.

The Onigami returned her focus on the girl as she introduced herself, revealing she was just training. Well, at least she hadn't gotten into any predicaments earlier; there was nothing wrong with meditating in a river naked?

When Aiko brought up the question of sparring, Miryoku appeared to be slightly hesitant. Fighting? Well, it wasn't a serious brawl, but it was still something that she wasn't fond of. Sure, she had to do some of that back at the Academy, but she needed to in order to graduate. She didn't have much confidence in herself, as she only recently began to train on her own.

"A spar? Well, I suppose we could..."

Miryoku replied, but there was a hint of nervousness in her voice. She wasn't too keen about it, but it was going to be a friendly spar. She chased away the cautious look on her face, pushing out a smile. Perhaps this would be good for her, because in the future, she would probably have to face even greater brawls.