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Nine of Twelve

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The mass of paper would continue to swirl about his person with an increasing speed, going almost as fast as to disappear from the human capability to see. The paper would be visible more as a swirl than an actual individual paper as it did so, the blur of the motion becoming almost blindly as it went. Soon, wind would follow the motion as it went, sweeping the particles of water about, and away from his own person in addition to the paper that did so. At this point it went so fast as to disallow any water from literally touching the surface of he. As Asato's eyes watched the other, a solemn look fell over his face. It wasn't too bad training when it was with another person, namely one as strong as Kidate, it helped to lessen the monotony; and surely make it vastly more interesting.

"Lets kick it up a notch."

Whilst the paper swirled more and more was continually added to the mass, continually -- without end, that is at least until his paper supply was exhausted. As the area about himself became more and more filled with paper he would distance the orbit from himself more and more, adding in layers of orbit, papers assigned to different orbits. As these orbitals were added to and subsequently moved about a chaotic frenzy of movement within them would ensue. Not only did the paper within the orbit move, but soon the orbit itself would revolve around Asato. Later even the paper would begin to rotate, building up momentum and inertia as it went.

High-rising grass would be cut out of the way instantly as he began to walk, getting tossed about as he began to slowly walk toward Kidate. Several pieces of paper would be turned into Kunai as he went, transformed in a mere thought, he no longer using hands to symbolize such. Nay, he never needed his hands in the first place, he using them as a simple way to give Kidate vantage. But he knew now just how on par the two shinobi were, even if Kidate's aresenal was filled with more and a wider variety of jutsu than his. Every kunai that was fly toward Kidate was at risk of becoming too soggy due to the rain, and as such they would be preprogrammed with specific attack vectors.

That is, that they would have a preassigned flight path toward Kidate and the Iwa Bunshin, rather than simply flying straight they would attack in wide arcs, which would take them back into the mass of paper that swirled about him. This would mean that they would then become dry whilst spinning, revolving, and rotating in the innermost core of the mass. The spherical mass by this would have stretched well out, covering a radius of nearly twenty meters from his position. They paper which flew at Kidate and his Bunshin flew almost like a machine gun, an assembly line of firing and returning. Within only a few moments, he had covered nearly ten meters. [/font]

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Paper Weapon S'more.

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8th post, 2nd since grade.

The Hyuuga standing there against the rain would continue to watch, that paper was moving faster and faster, just how fast could this shit get would be the first question going through his mind but at this point he would just keep watching. When he heard Asato speak he heard what he was saying, damn, another notch, that’s like almost serious shit right there. Either way, this notch would be pushing the borderline of the whole sparring and if it wasn’t Kidate he had said that to, it be most likely that he would have killed whoever his ‘sparring’ partner was. Still though, that paper was move faster and faster and one would wonder, while watching how fast this was moving, how tiring and how much control one must have over the very paper to really do something like this. The Hyuuga could see the chakra being poured out to control the paper and one would only wonder if he was planning to use this as an attack.

“Your paper is becoming borderline annoying man.”

The Hyuuga would simply say with some soft smile, this simple sparring session in and of itself was becoming quite the hassle. Without much time at all Asato would start his attack, the same Kunai attack but the sheer speed that they had been traveling at was like that of one using the Shunshin. In fact it was strong enough to where Kidate would have to question using his strongest type of techniques or rather style, the Jyuuken style just to be able to defend him. Using pure chakra to defend him, these pieces of paper may be able to pierce through some Doton, hell probably all types of release defenses but this was pure chakra, in the end, Asato’s very attack had been chakra related so the Hyuuga knew this defense, with the proper strength and dishing out of chakra should suffice.

So the Hyuuga would simply give out some quick spinning twirls but during this time he would use two simple sugizous to speed up the process of his twirling to make sure he could get this defense off in time. While his hair would spin with the speed the light blue color of chakra would rush out of the Hyuuga’s tekutsu and with that it would create some somewhat large twirling effect that would simply look like a dome of pure chakra. The bread and butter of the Hyuuga’s defensive measures, you out beat this technique and there isn’t much else Kidate could really do in terms of defense and since these mass amounts of paper had been traveling at such speeds there would come the limit of using shunshins to dodge these bullets of paper anyways.

With this pure light blue dome of chakra rushing through the Hyuuga’s tekutsu as he continue he could hear these rather strong Kunai coming against his defensive chakra dome and the sound wouldn’t cease, it was like these things didn’t give out even one millisecond of a break. It was constant and if the Hyuuga had to use some simple handseals for this technique, he thought that it might have been too late. Still however, he pulled the technique off but he already knew that his 8 Iwa Bunshins had been defeated and the Hyuuga knew at that point that really creating those damn bunshins had become useless. There purpose wasn’t even served, the paper was moving at such an acceded rate that having multiple target to attack would become almost like child’s play and the Hyuuga himself would wonder how long this attack could really go on. Could Asato keep at this for a while longer or would there come the point where he would have to turn it down a bit, the Hyuuga would just hope that it was the whole toning down bit.

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Hakkeshou: Daikaiten (Hands of the Eight Divination: Great Whirl) [70]
Rank: B
Skill: Taijutsu
Effect: An advanced version of Hakkeshou: Kaiten, the user releases a greater amount of chakra from their tenketsu while spinning like a top, creating a defensive chakra dome of a greater size.
Special: --
Drawback: --
Description: The user begins to spin like a top, excreting chakra from their tenketsu at a much higher level than the Hakkeshou: Kaiten. This creates a dome of spinning chakra that will repel or stop Taijutsu, projectiles, and Ninjutsu of B rank or less. The radius of the giant dome is ten meters, and is capable of blowing opponents backward up to fifteen meters.
Limit: Must learn from a Jyuuken teacher or at the Hyuuga Mansion. Must be a Hyuuga, Must know Hakkeshou: Kaiten, must know Jyuuken Advanced Stance, Main House Only.

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Ten of Twelve

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"Well, I had no choice really."

The sight of Kidate having to pull out his best defensive technique to block his own paper aberrations didn't surprise Asato in the least. Paper was in fact a very formidable release, perhaps one of the strongest if not the strongest of them, there were few things that could block it properly. The various Jyuuken moves where pure chakra was pumped out in a defensive or offensive way was probably one of the few things that could well verse his paper, of which was similar in construction. His paper techniques were little more than pure chakra applied to a single piece of paper to strengthen it.

When the paper creations of his slammed against the divination he could feel the intrinsic struggle of superiority of the two constructions. While his paper sought to completely overpower and run through the sudden barrier, the barrier only sought to diverge the paper's vector. Obviously, the barrier had succeeded in such or his paper would have made Kidate little more than swiss cheese. There was some sort of gain from the opposition though, he feeling out how opposing chakra felt against the paper of his, and devising a plan to make his own chakra-based-paper constructs harder. So in the end, it was a win, win, situation.

As the rain didn't let up he was forced to keep his swirling mass of paper active, it waning on his own chakra reserves little by little. See, though it would have normally taking a lot of chakra to do what he was doing it really didn't. No chakra was lost in the process of swirling the paper around. In actuality it was tendrils that attached to every single piece of paper that put a constant chakra flow between his own paper and himself. They were more like veins than anything else. The pumping action of the chakra about was what caused enough force to move around the paper, and not the actual ability to move the paper esoterically, though he possessed that power too. In this way he could keep his chakra wasting to a minimum.

The repetitious spinning of the flowing of the paper would slowly become the norm, Asato smiling toward Kidate as his divination finished and they were both once again faced each other. What would he come up with now? Hopefully the next thing he choose would challenge him further, and allow him to further make assumptions onto how to make his paper even stronger. The next part of the chuunin exams would be starting up soon, and as such they needed to make haste in this training, not that rushing anything would help any.[/blockquote][/font]

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Doton: Deido Bunshin no Jutsu (Earth Release: Mud Clone Technique)
Rank: C
Skill: Ninjutsu Defensive, and Offensive
Effect: Allows the user to create clones out of Mud.
Special: Dog, Rat, Boar, Ox
Drawback: Needs a source of mud that can supply enough mud to make the desired amount of clones. Ex: If there is only enough mud to make four clones, you cannot make eight, only four.
Description: Using mud in the area, the user can create mud clones depending on his/her ninja rank/class. Because the clones are made of mud, they are more durable than most other clones. May take two hits to destroy instead of one. The personality of the clones depends on the user’s personality. The user can channel thoughts with the clones. The weight of the clones and amount of mud needed depends on the user's body weight. Finally, the user can control what the clones say, and control the clone’s actions. The Mud Clones are capable of using any technique that deals with mud.
D Ranked Ninjas: Up to four Clones at a time.
C Ranked Ninjas: Up to eight Clones at a time.
B Ranked Ninjas: Up to 16 Clones at a time.
A Ranked Ninjas: Up to 32 Clones at a time.
S Ranked Ninjas: Up to 64 Clones at a time.
Limit: Must know Earth Release.

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The Hyuuga would continue to hear this paper going against his pure chakra dome and the speed was unrivaled almost and if it wasn’t for this dome that would always be around then Kidate could have ended up worse off. The pace would slow down some however and the Hyuuga hearing this as he continued to move in some type of circular motion. At this point the water that would continue to drop down from the sky wouldn’t ever touch the Hyuuga as you could already imagine, it would simply just beat against this pure chakra spinning dome and that would be it. There hadn’t been anything else to describe it; the Hyuuga would find himself coming to the point of need to take that break. This training was something serious and he didn’t have a mass amount of chakra.

Granted he had more then the normal for the rank he was but even he would come towards the point of needing to rest and with the exams of the first round ending soon, he wanted to make sure he was ready for the second part. Right when this thought came through his mind the beating of those papers Kunai had stopped and with this, the Hyuuga figured he to should stop with the whole spinning for defensive purposes. Now, after the spinning would cease the light blue chakra color would start to fade away, like mist moving from one area to the next or something of the sort and he would be looking face to face with Asato again. The distance wasn’t much and at this point the rain was turning the ground area into something muddier. Seeing this the Hyuuga figured he could start training in the simply mud techniques that he wanted to master, there hadn’t been many but there was 1 or 2 that he wanted.

His chakra reserve was running low but he would simply move his hands over towards the lower chest area and start some fast moving handseals. He was hoping this technique would seem more like he mastered it rather then he was actually training it, well he hoped it seem that way towards others, mainly Asato. Training in another technique that was completely unlearned in sparring was rather odd for him, different you could say, but at this point, it was muddy and there was the open opportunity. After the finishing of these simplistic handseals and the molding of his strongest release there would be 32 clones that would formulate all around the area, clones of mud and 32 of them. Granted at this point in time the Hyuuga was still low on chakra but this was some simple ‘C’ ranked technique and it wasn’t as hard for the Hyuuga to pull off. With these clones the Hyuuga knew since the mud was widespread he could have formulated them anywhere which is why he had made them all circle around Asato.

At the same the Hyuuga had read in the technique that one could use these clones with the whole mind aspect and whatever he was thinking he could have his clones do, there wouldn’t need to be any exchange of words it would just be like some whole mind transferring type of thing and he would make sure to tell them all to rush him, but be cautious about it, that spinning dome wasn’t exactly friendly and even with some mud properties they would still fall victim it, at the same time however the Hyuuga knew mud was just some rougher type of liquid and if these mud clones had rushed into this dome he would wonder if that would add more wet properties towards this paper. It was quite obvious that Asato was spinning this paper fast because he simply wanted to avoid having the paper get wet, so these mud clones could add more of the whole hard acting type of thing towards this paper and it would be tougher for Asato to continue he thought and with this, all 32 clones in circular motion would rush towards Asato and his paper.

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Eleven of Twelve

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Asato had wondered just what Kidate could possibly throw at him now. The release that Asato figured would thought would probably be most effective was in fact the earth release constructions he had so easily beaten with his paper. If that didn't work, what else would? Of course it was viable that water or fire release jutsu would beat his paper to some degree, but there was always a way out of it right? Well, this wasn't exactly true either, he hadn't yet come up with a way to get out of tidal wave or related abilities, he'd figure any of his manipulations would prove useless against such.

With a look to the ground Asato had deemed it likely that any further use of the earth release was unlikely, the ground itself saturated due to the rain. Any construct created out of the ground would surely be too wet to use in such a way, or at least he thought so. The barely visible Kidate, which was barely visible through the constant rain and swirling of his paper, had been seeing once again performing handseals which meant at any rate, he was planning something again. What would he throw out now?

The sudden creation of clones startled Asato a bit, but he knew that these would be felled easily by his paper. A brief look into how they moved, a bit odd compared to Iwa bunshins, gave away that they had in fact been mud clones, something he had encountered before. Unlike the Iwa Bunshin that moved somewhat normally, their hard limbs giving them a similar range of movement as that of a human, mud bunshin didn't really move at all. They limbered along, their semi-viscous limbs failing to provide the correct correlation between hard and viscous, resulting in odd movement patterns. Now, he couldn't be totally sure of this, but it is what he had hypothesized, and thusly he would attack as if such.

It was precisely because the mud bunshins would be semi--viscous that his approach would be a bit different. His arms made wide arcs as he directed the paper about in a different way. The haphazard patterns of orbit turned into normal ones, orbiting in straight line patterns about himself, making them something akin to the rings of saturn, those being particles which are forced into such a linear orbit. As such he would expand them outward toward the bunshin which rushed from all sides. This would effectively possibly cut the bunshin down to size, literally sawing off limbs and torso alike. [/blockquote][/font]

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Shibu +10
Imagine +20

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Doton: Tamaishi Danmaku (Earth Element: Pebble Barrage)
Rank: "D" Rank
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: A simple technique used as a distraction in which the user uses a few hand seals concentrating along the chakra towards the ground. Doing so, the user takes the chakra and the rocks as they use the simple knowledge of the Doton Soushi no Jutsu (Rock Creation Technique) to push forth sending multiple small grape sized like pebbles towards the opponent.
Special: "Handseals"
Drawback: Depending of the rank the user knows of Doton Soushi no Jutsu (Rock Creation Technique) depends on how much pebbles the user is capable of pushing forth.
Description: Small like stones is created along the ground in pebble like form as they are pushed up along the ground and sent flying towards the very enemy or enemies depending on the type of distance the enemy or where the enemy is standing. This type of attack is somewhat of a basic like attack and is to be considered more of an annoyance when first learned by the basic form of Doton Soushi no Jutsu (Rock Creation Technique). When the user gains rank as well as Difficulty class of Doton Soushi no Jutsu (Rock Creation Technique) the technique of Doton: Tamaishi Danmaku (Earth Element: Pebble Barrage) becomes even more grand and more dangerous.
Limit: Needs the Earth Release, must have knowledge of Doton Soushi no Jutsu (Rock Creation Technique)

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The Hyuuga would watch on as all 32 of these new born clones would start to attack Asato, the amazing thing about this was Kidate made it seem like he had already known this technique but in actuality he just trained it and mastered it like that. Granted he was at a level that these types of techniques had become simple but still, it was rather nice to see him mastering something so simply like this. It would tell him that he was getting better and better with the whole understanding of chakra. As he watched these clones rushing all around Asato however he would see the paper formation that Asato was giving, it was like some orb of fast moving paper and the Hyuuga would see that this rain hadn’t been affecting him as much as he had hoped. At the same time however, this was some simple or rather dangerous acting of sparring so in the end wither it really affected him or not didn’t matter.

As Kidate would watch on with his activated eyes he would notice with this ring it would present some slight opening, with the whole turning of this ring if the Hyuuga would attack from above or rather in an area that was over these rings while he was attempt to use this fast moving ring to hit his 32 clones then he figured that he could pull of some sneak attack or something of the sort. At the same time, Kidate knew his chakra was running out more and more and before to long he’d not be able to continue, it was getting to the point as it was anyways. The Hyuuga knew that if he was going to attack him from above then it would have to become something small, something that wouldn’t take up to much chakra and wouldn’t need a huge amount of chakra. At the same time this all worked out because if this opening was worth utilizing then using something killer lethal could kill Asato.

So something small was of the Hyuuga’s and Asato’s best interest. This would be yet another technique that the Hyuuga hadn’t mastered, something small and almost insignificant to an actual battle. This technique was more of something bothersome but at the same time, it improved depending on the rank of the user and the rank of rock creation he had and Kidate had both of those rather large and high in rank. He needed to get this off fast before Asato would revert back towards the whole dome affect of his paper. As his clones went down the Hyuuga would mesh together his wet hands and start the simple handseals on an attempt to master and use a simple technique. The technique itself was just something that would have rocks shoot up from the ground around his area and then rush over towards the target like the speed of thrown Kunai. As you could see from this description of the technique it wasn’t anything lethal of this technique did happen but it would tell Asato that this area was open if he landed it.

Telling him to watch out for this area if an actual lethal battle did happen, none the less when the Hyuuga finished the simple handseals and everything the rocks would as stated, shoot up around his area and then rush over towards Asato himself in the upper area of his paper ring, like the ring of Saturn. As Kidate would watch on as these rocks would rush faster and faster towards Asato the Hyuuga would wonder if he mastered the technique itself, he had to, it looked just as he imagined from times when he would study earth type techniques. There speed was perfect and his aim was flawless and with all these things being in the manner of the technique, only one would be satisfied to call it the mastery and the Hyuuga would. Now he would just stand there, he knew that this sparring needed to come towards the end soon, he was loosing more and more chakra and he knew he wasn’t the only one. Both of them had to be reaching there limit in the whole sparing standpoint of things but still, he had gotten far with just this simple spar and mastered some techniques he was looking to master.

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Twelve of Twelve

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It was excellent to see that his hard work had paid off, watching the mud clones being easily taken out by simple paper manipulations. He had come a long way from his first conception of the release, having learned it from Yuri such a long time. Nay, he did not only come a long way, he had likely become the strongest paper user to date. No longer could he just be called a paper user, now he had truly entered the realm of mastery. He would have to one day approach Yuri again to show him his mastery, that was surely now at least on par with his. Though, he did remember Yuri saying he was not yet fully adept.

As the clones were cut down he would instinctively draw his shield back into himself -- or rather what was the shield of paper. As he drew it in it would become again his shield against any onslaught that would come at him. This meant that Kidate was out of luck, and thusly the pebbles that would come later would be nothing against his paper. The pebbles would be intercepted that came his way, turned into fine dust by the constant rotative energies of the paper, curing through them easily and effortlessly. There would be nothing left of them by the time they hit the shield, the rotating shield of paper eviscerating all that pebbles that came his way.

At the exact point of impact, during the exact time of impact he felt a sudden burst of energy, a massive strike to his chakra reserves. It had felt as if a sudden fire had built up in the pit of his stomach, and such rebounded to his paper. It seemed to strengthen it beyond his maximum capability to do so. Naturally, it had seemed as if there was no way it could get this strong, the feeling of the paper having changed intrinsically much, feeling more rigid and strengthened than before. The paper itself seemed to gleam with a certain hint of shine that it hadn't before. Had he reached the final nirvana?

After the pebbles were turned nearly to dust, the majority of his paper returned back to it's respective holster. As it returned it infected all the paper which hadn't been exhausted, the infection spreading amongst the the rest of the paper, each beginning to become hardened by it, his chakra continually adding to their strength. The feeling brought him a sense of mastery too, an innate sense that something had been triggered within. The spar had paid off in the end, and it had brought him one step closer to complete dominance over the paper release. With this only one more pedestal needed to be climbed, the pedestal that stood between him and completely mastery.

"The chuunins should be starting soon. Lets go."

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+10 Shibu

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Woot woot. c:

[▐Shibu]

The hell was he on would be the first question the Hyuuga had been asking his mind as Asato left to go back to the capital no doubt. Still, the Hyuuga would kill off his Byakugan and the rain that had been pouring down because of him, and then he would follow, with each of there abilities he had no doubt that the second round would be no problem for the two.

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Flashback Training

It was time to continue training and at this point he would just need to keep doing just that to gain more power, something he just doesn’t think he’ll ever be satisfied with. The continuation of training will be of the reverse direction technique, changing the direction of attacks and making them head back towards the person that used the technique in the first place. The direction or rather the distance in which one could get on the re-direction all depended on the whole level that one had on this technique. Kidate was looking towards getting the ‘B’ ranked version since he was currently at the ‘C’ ranked version of the technique. He hadn’t known what the distance could or would be upon mastering the ‘B’ ranked version of the technique, all he knew is once he mastered this he would be able to redirect stronger techniques, obviously.

The only right way to go about this training was just like the other two ways, creating clones and simply using those clones to attack you with strong ranking techniques. There wasn’t really any other way around training this technique. He figured if someone didn’t have clones then he would need someone to give them techniques that they would dish out towards him. Still however, with Kidate standing there thinking about all this he would simply move his hands together. God, he had gotten so use to this whole training and the handseals garbage that most of the time it hadn’t even crossed his mind about how moving his hands together just came naturally now. Upon each finger placed together and the handseals finishing up he would summon two Iwa Bunshins. The basic bunshin that he used often, the only ones he could really.

Upon the two of them created the Hyuuga would be standing behind them, his eyes moving over towards one, then the other. Those white eyes of determination, when looking at them the Iwa Bunshins had there back to the Hyuuga. Kidate would simply tell them the reason of there creation and be done with it, hoping they understood so they could really get started. With his lips parting you would hear words, of course “Use mass amounts of boulder throw, I don’t care if it looks like I might not dodge something, do it.” The Iwa Bunshins with there backs still to Kidate would simply just nod there heads and head off, running with great speed towards like 60 meters of the Hyuuga himself. The fact that these boulders are 55 meters in size, they had too.

There couldn’t be any way that the Hyuuga could reverse the technique if they didn’t give out some good distance. Once the clones reached a good distance from Kidate they had turned around, rather slow but it didn’t matter. They would look at the Hyuuga in some long distance and simply just stand there, nodding. With this they would both do some handseals and the Hyuuga himself would be ready for anything they through at him, knowing full well what it would be however. With the clones finishing there handseals they would dig the tips of there fingers into the ground, Kidate himself didn’t know at this point how he would handle two large sized boulders. His concentration intense he would bring his hands together for the first counter but still unsure how he would counter the second, only time could tell on how he would do it, or if he even would.

OOC: Taking advantage of the whole allowed to train while in Chuunin's.

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Fuuton: Sakasa Houi no Jutsu (Wind Release: Reverse Direction Technique)
Rank: D, C, B, A, S
Skill: Ninjutsu, Counter Defense
Effect: Creates a great tunnel of wind which reverses the direction of an oncoming attack.
Special: Handseals
Drawback: Does not effect Taijutsu or Genjutsu.
Description: By performing the correct hand seals, the user will channel chakra along the lengths of both of his or her arms. Then, when an attack is incoming, the user will extend both of their arms and release the swirling tunnel of wind towards the attack. The wind will envelop the attack and then drag it backwards towards the opposite direction. The reversed attack can only travel for five meters for every rank of the technique that the user has, plus an additional ten meters if the user becomes a Wind Master. Requires the user to have the same rank of this technique as the rank of the technique that is being countered.
Limit: Must have the Wind Release.

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I’d be doing the quick hand seals to redirect the first boulder headed towards me, it was faster… faster then I would have originally expected on of my clones to through this thing to begin with. I was expecting slow but instead, this large boulder was headed towards me at almost about the same speed of some thrown Kunai. I knew if I wasn’t as fast as I would I’d be taking a face full of earth right now, luckily I was fast enough with these hand seals and I redirected right where its path was, which of course was towards this clone. I had bigger problems however, larger problem if you can call it that. I had to worry about this other boulder that my second clone had thrown; it wasn’t as close as the first but that wasn’t saying it was far away either. It was right on the second boulders tail but it wouldn’t seemingly be unaffected by me redirecting the first.

Heh, of course the first wouldn’t encounter the first, I mean that would just be too easy, am I right? I also knew this was close and the only way I could get away from this was the ever so affective shunshin technique. The time was running thin, very thin and I needed to use 6 shunshin to get out of the way of this attack. So with the first shunshin I wouldn’t seemingly be paying any attention, I couldn’t get hit by this damn boulder, that wouldn’t be good at all. I wasn’t looking to be in the hospital because someone of my own damaged myself. I mean, I seemingly don’t mind being laughed at but now while I’m injured, I mean who did? The first one, the first boulder that I redirected was on the right course however towards my other clone. You could wonder what it was thinking, knowing it couldn’t do anything but die.

As I’d watch this clone that I redirected the boulder towards I would notice it was doing hand seals again. Great, they are fighting back and the only technique I’m looking towards using is the redirection technique. Not cool, so with that I would activate my Byakugan, let’s play serious then is what I would tell myself since they seemingly want an actual fight. The Iwa Bunshin would dig his hands into the ground again, destroying the boulder I redirected with the earlier technique and then he would slam his hand into the ground. What, what was he doing? He’s trying to breaking my balance with that technique? Not cool, so I would simply jump in the air with another technique, I needed to do it fast however because of this other boulder headed straight my way.

I would reach the height of 10 meters and when doing so the ground would shake, making that other clone of mine lose his balance however I was in the safe. I knew though that with what was coming towards me and the limited time I had to jump, I wouldn’t reach the height needed to dodge so the only possibly solution was try to beat it out with hand seals and redirect the boulder that was coming towards me. Just like earlier, the other boulder would be seemingly raining peaces of earth and soil, because of the two colliding they would in turn crumble together. I couldn’t pay attention to that however, I had started the hand seals already and one thing I knew is this would be cutting it really close; it would be something like skimming the edge of the skin type of cutting it close. At this point, molding the chakra, all I could do is hope.

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The wind type chakra to reverse this large boulder had been released several seconds before and the boulder was traveling at a good rate to hit me. I hadn’t known, I couldn’t get injured though, I just couldn’t. The second clone had failed on his attempt to hinder my movements as well and I hadn’t known what it was going to continue doing, at this point however I was just hoping the technique would work. The boulder after one or two seconds of continuing to move would stop, where it would stop, about an inch from my face and that would be around the point that I was dripping or rather having sweet run down my face. My hair was wet or could have been wet if it wasn’t so cold, which I seemingly seem to have become accustomed to. The technique got out in time however and that was the relief of the whole situation.

The wind would push forward towards that Iwa Bunshin that had thrown the boulder at me however at this very moment my other Iwa Bunshin would start to form some hand seals again. Not good, I was in the air, immobile so there had only been one solution towards my way of evading the whole technique that my Iwa Bunshin was doing. Granted I hadn’t known what it was planning but from the knowledge that it could only use techniques that I knew, I could put two and two together on what it was looking towards doing. Simply because of the beginning hand seals being similar towards that of my earth senbon technique; that and the fact that I always seemingly did the technique when my opponent was up into the air to immobilize him all the more.

However, one thing I had that my Iwa Bunshin’s didn’t was simply more speed in the formation of hand seals but oddly enough. What these attacks meant was that they had been using my chakra source so the attempt to hurt me was in the end, like some suicidal and sadistic crap. Wow, what a huge relief to know that I was battling myself in the end. Latterly, but the fact that my hand seal speed was faster would show that even in the air I was beating him out, granted I knew that the combo would result in the senbon of earth type rushing up from the ground and then aiming towards me. That was the obvious part, and I did have other techniques to in turn make the combo useless but the one thing that I was attempting towards accomplishing with this sparring if you’d call it that was the in betterment of the whole redirection technique so I would use that technique to evade.

Granted more or less it really wasn’t me attempt to evade the technique that was coming for me and me just redirecting the technique towards the ground that I had a feeling my Iwa Bunshin was going to make it come up from. Of course I was correct with all the understanding of my own technique; the senbon had been heading right below me. Directly almost and since I knew that my hand seal timing beat out my very clones that I had enough time to redirect the chakra no problem, when I did so the molding and understanding of this reverse direction technique I had reversed the direction of these very senbon. Unfortunately I knew that these senbon that had been headed towards me from below would only go back towards where they began, which was the ground.

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30 [:] 50

Once these senbon reverted back towards where they came you could hear the sound of them hitting against the earth. It was like fast moving objects hitting the unintended target but at least I was using this technique more and more. Which was the point of this training, however I wasn’t done yet and the clones hadn’t let up, there continuing onslaught just continued and continued. It was good though, it gave me training that I didn’t really think was achievable. As I was coming back towards the ground both of my clones would be setting up some hand seals, there speed slowly but the point that I knew was there, and I couldn’t be in the air any longer. That was the one place I hated doing battle, the retreating in the air for me was extremely hard. However, as my feet touched the ground floor I was waiting to see what they would do, noticing.

After looking for less the 2 seconds I would notice what both had been doing, pebble barrage. Something I just recently learned, the most recent of techniques. I knew that this would become quite easy, however two of them using the same technique. I knew this would also cause for me to really bring up my chakra with the wind reverse technique, if I don’t then I could end up eating some pebbles and that isn’t something I’m going to do. Simply because I couldn’t have that happen, I needed to continue training and having that happen to me, I wouldn’t be able to. So knowing this now I would bring my hands up towards my stomach area to set up my quick speed of hand seals. I was standing around 60 meters in distance from my clones as well.

However, when I started my hand seals I was doing them later then the clones themselves, so I knew that they would beat me to finishing there’s. That would require me to retreat and then release the wind reverse technique. Of course I could just stand there and attempt to cut it close like before in my earlier training but to be honest I wasn’t looking to cut anything close. I was just looking to advance myself in this technique, which was quite obvious. As I continued the hand seals I would notice at this point that my clones had finished and I was still going at it, again simply because they started there seals before me. I didn’t really panic or anything as I knew I would just simply have to either cut it close as I thought or just simply retreat until the molding of my chakra was finished. Which was nearly there, I almost felt as if none of it would be needed.

Meaning that my retreat until I was ready to release the technique was needed, I felt as at this point I was finished and could release the technique now. The stones had been rising up from the ground, small yes but none the less I knew that these pebbles of earth would hurt if made contact with me. The technique was used twice as well so at the very same time I knew that it would hurt more then just usual. Racing towards my person now I would release the technique, I didn’t know if my molding and the release was premature but I didn’t think so, I had the confidence that the release of the wind type chakra that I had molded would be enough to reverse these pebbles of earth and at this point, it would just be the whole wait and see.

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Standing there releasing the wind type chakra I would notice the pebbles that been headed to me would stop, just like each and every time I tried this technique before hand. They technique that I always targeted would seemingly stop and then turn around heading towards the person that used the technique. Or rather, the one side effect towards this technique that I noticed was that it would only head towards the area that it was thrown or started at and since these pebbles started near the ground then I knew that they wouldn’t go after my clones, it didn’t matter however. The training was coming towards the ending point; I could just feel it but just the ending point. It hadn’t finished yet and I wasn’t done, and I would be thinking about this while these pebbles finished coming towards me simply because I had the time to think about this.

It was time to finish this however, of course when the pebbles had started to stop they would reverse there direction as the technique I was mastering called for. Of course I already mastered it but now I felt that not only did I master it but I went towards the next level of the technique. As the pebbles raced towards the earlier area I would set some new hand seals up, these hand seals being the meaning of finishing this little training session and taking out my clones, once I did that I would take my long awaited break that I was looking towards having. Simply because this training was becoming more of some hassle that I really wanted to become involved in but still, I had to finish the training first which these hand seals that had been nearly finished.

The pebbles at this point would be beating against the ground now and it would sound like bullets but just slower then that. They would be hitting against the ground, the pebbles breaking and the technique showing me that I had mastered it fully. It was rather a good feeling to be finished and being able to move on to something more. However as my hands continued to mesh together my clones would be standing there, almost as if they are accepting defeat but this still was something as simple as training so accepting defeat was really what the point was. It was just too simply make me stronger with the reverse technique. The hand seals finished and right around this point the earth would start to formulate in some large looking oval creation right around the clones.

The oval shape would start to show its true intention around the area of where the clones had been, taking in anything and everything that was above it. That was quite simple, and I’d simply be watching as the clones would be done with and I could be done with this training. It was harder to maintain with the clones then I had originally thought, but I was able to do it. Of course I was quite tired, that was quite obvious. Simply because I was sweating after all that, but none the less the clones had helped me but at this point they had been some victim of one of my favorite techniques that I find quite useful. As I whipped my forehead from the sweat that was running against it and down it I would start to turn around, realizing that my clones had just reverted back towards what they had been made from. I knew this simply because the chakra they had been taking up isn’t anymore.

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0 [:] 10

Another day of training, I hadn’t known what would reach me or meet me at the preliminaries for the Chuunin Exams but I wasn’t intending on slacking before they started. Which in the end, is why I’m here to begin with; as I stood on the rugged dry earth that was present towards my feet I figured I could train in another earth type technique. It was something I was looking towards mastering fully, all the way as I’ve heard things about the mastery. Useful thinks, but anyways, I knew about some technique that involved surrounding the target in earth type pebbles, something like a technique I already knew but the higher stage of the technique. The more useful stage of the technique if you will, but enough about really thinking about it, I just needed to simply attempt it and master it.

With myself refreshed I would start that attempt, putting my hands up towards the normal area in which I did hand seals I would bring myself in harmony with the whole earth release it self. The molding was simple most of the time as it was my most common release and I’ve never ran into any difficulties with it, and I knew I wouldn’t on this attempt towards the technique. My hand meshing against each other I would do the first seal, then the next and at the very same time I continued to keep myself relaxed. This type of training wasn’t anything like some spar; it was just simply me relaxing as I attempted to master some technique the simple and more relaxing way. Also the way I preffered most when trained, just chilling and becoming stronger at the same time, that was the best way to go about it. Hell there ain’t any better way to get stronger then just by relaxing.

The seals would be finished none the less; my final hand seals would trigger earth pebbles of all shapes and sizes to formulate around some random area. I hadn’t really given myself any real set target which wasn’t as usual as I did most of the time, most of the time I would give myself a clone of myself to really go after but this time I figured I would just keep it more simple. They would float around this random target that had been about no less then 15 meters away from me and it was like watching some ring floating around some intended target or something like that. Which of course saying this would show that I hadn’t really brought these pebbles of the earth down upon this random target, which hadn’t even been an actual target to begin with, my whit eyes would just simply look.

Out of no where I would then send these pebbles of the earth crashing down into the target that hadn’t really been. Of course since there wasn’t anything stopping these pebbles from crashing against each other they would do just that. Crashing against each other and the sound would coordinate with them doing so, it wasn’t that hard to listen to or anything but each time one crashed against another they would crush like someone with large hands crushing a peanut. Of course this would cause the earth that they had been made from to fling around all over the place in that area which wasn’t disturbing either, since I was at a good distance away. Another technique in the bag however, is what I would tell myself and it was time to move on. Knowing full well that today would just been mass amounts of training before these preliminaries started.

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Doton: Ijou Tamaishi Danmaku (Earth Release: Surrounding Pebble Barrage)
Rank: C
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: Creates an array of rocks around the entire opponent, which rise into the air and then strike at the opponent from all sides.
Special: "Hand Seals"
Drawback: The rank of the user's Rock Creation technique determines how many pebbles can be created.
Description: An attack that is based off of the Tamaishi Danmaku, the user usually only attacks the opponent from one side, allowing for an easy way for the opponent to believe that it is all the user can do. In response to this, a technique was created which releases chakra and creates the pebbles of the Tamaishi Danmaku all the way around the opponent instead of simply in front of the user. These pebbles will then rise up into the air and then attempt to strike the opponent from all sides, decreasing the chance of dodging the attack.
Limit: Must know Tamaishi Danmaku. Must have Doton no Jutsu.

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