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

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Sadoko stood in her house's backyard, staring straight at some random rock half way across the yard. It sat there, mockingly, annoying her simply by existing. And why did it annoy her so much you might ask? Well, it's really quite simple. She was frustrated with herself for wanting to train something, but not being able to decide what. She was merely using an innocent stone as a target for her ire. And then she finally settled on something.

Sadoko stood and walked over to near where the rock sat, and turning, took a running leap at the tree where she had been sitting only moments ago and gave it a good kick. Dropping to the ground, she nodded and took up the same position as before. This time, Sadoko stood straight upright. She placed her left hand with the back facing out about a foot from her face and with the thumb tucked in.

Her right hand was in a similar position, though tucked behind her back, the thumb again tucked in, and the first joint of the thumb in contact with her spine, right in between her two shoulder blades. She placed her heels right next to each other, turned out at a ninety degree angle from one another. The left foot was pointing the same direction as her head, along the shoulder-line, straight towards the tree she had determined to be her target. More specifically, a knot on the trunk, about six feet or so off the ground.

Bending her knees slightly, Sadoko kicked off with her right foot, taking off like a rocket straight at her improvised target. When she came within about ten feet or so of the tree, she jumped up off the ground and twisted her body, pointing her right leg straight at the tree, her left knee pointing away from the tree and her left foot pointing towards the tree. She tried to time this so that her right foot still had a little momentum from the twist when it hit the tree.

Instead, she was a little late, her bare toes kicked the side of the tree, and she fell to the ground with tears of pain streaming from her eyes. Sadoko blinked the tears away and looked at the damage. Nothing life threatening, just a scrape, but boy did it hurt. Just like a paper-cut, how could something so small hurt so blasted much. Sadoko cleaned and healed the wound using her jutsu, then walked again to the spot near the rock.

The gennin took the same pose as before. Standing straight as a post, left side of the body leading, right behind. Left hand up, a foot in front of the face, right behind the back and tucked in between the shoulder blades. Thumbs tucked in, feet at a ninty degree angle, the entire body coiled to instantly spring to top speed, or to burst into one of the spinning moves that are so common within this particular house of combat.

She calmed her heart-rate, and leaned forward, bending her legs for an instant before taking off like a cruise missile. Sadoko pumped her arms hard, moving at the highest speed her body could maintain. When she got to about the same place she did before, Sadoko leaped high into the air and aimed another strike at the same place as before. She twisted a little faster than before, pausing with her hips still rather squared off, then at the last feasible moment, she finished the twist with a burst of speed, adding to the force of the kick.

This time, she hit the tree dead on. The bark hurt the soles of her feet, but it wasn't as bad as skinning her toes on the side. Sadoko kicked off the tree, landing on the soft grass with a gentile...ish grace. She sat down for a moment, and began feeling the criticizing glare of that same rock from before.

[Masakuni]

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Konoha Reppu (Leaf Gale)
Rank: D
Skill: Taijutsu
Effect: Spinning kick made to send an opponent off their feet.
Special: None
Drawback: If dodged, user is open for an attack.
Description: With a burst of agility and speed, the user of this move quickly performs a low spinning kick at their opponent’s feet. If successful this will knock an opponent down and leave them open for some of Goken’s more powerful attacks.
Limit: Must know Gouken no Kamae

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"Ohayo Sa-chan," said a boy standing on Rui's fence. "Ohayo Yu-kun," Rui said, the boy on her fence was Fumihiko Noriyuki, her sempai and the one who taught her all she knew about Goken, that was to say, not much. In fact, he was a master of the fighting style, and had promised to teach her more, but hadn't gotten around to it.

"I see you're getting better at Goken." he said, hopping down off the fence. "Yeah, no thanks to you." Rui countered. "Touche." Yuki walked closer to Rui and suggested they spar for a bit while getting into the Goken basic stance. Rui quickly followed suit and stood just as she did when she was practicing Dynamic Entry.

The two of them stood there for a moment. A sakura petal drifted lazily past the two shinobi, as soon as it touched down on the ground between them, Rui, interested in trying out a new move she had thought up, began a controlled fall as she took a step forward with her right foot, making sure to keep the foot itself off the ground. She quickly picked up momentum as she fell, and as soon as her toes touched the ground, she kicked off, redirecting the momentum she got from falling into forward momentum, rocketing forward like a, well, like a rocket.

She kicked up off the ground and spun into a well formed Dynamic entry, aimed squarely at Yuki's head. The Tai-master ducked down and to his right, avoiding the flying medical ninja. Rui landed on the soft grass just short of the tree she had been incessantly attacking moments before. She spun around just in time to duck under a basic punch thrown by her sensei and aim an elbow thrust at his left breast. He jumped back to dodge it, and countered with a right hook. Rui parried it and the two of them proceeded to evade each others CQC blows for a few moments until Yuki ducked under one of Rui's high kicks and used quick low kick to sweep her remaining foot off the ground and sending her spinning through the air.

Rui then received a straight kick that used the maintained momentum from Yuki's Konoha Reppu, knocking her against the tree. Yuki backed off to let her get back up while he got back into his Goken Basic stance. Springing to her feet, Rui leaned forward and used the tree trunk like a spring to reach her top speed almost instantly. Rui threw a few half hearted punches at her mentor, then jumped up and aimed two quick kicks at his torso and head respectively. He repulsed her, countering with a right straight, which struck her on the shin which she had brought up in the nick of time to block. Doing her best to quickly regain her stance, Rui landed, then dashed forward, leading with a light, back handed blow using her left hand, aimed at her sparing partner's nose.

Following close in it's shadow was a chakra-less version of one of her Will of Kratos Taijutsu, aptly named 'Punch'. Without the Chakra, it wasn't nearly as powerful as a chakra enhanced version, but it still packed a punch, no pun intended. Yuki blocked the first blow, then used the momentum from the second to send Rui flying over his shoulder, landing in a crouch before springing back at Yuki. She feinted with a right hook, instead trying to duplicate the Konoha Reppu used earlier by Yuki by dropping down at the last second and performing a quick leg sweep, knocking a surprised Yuki off his feet.

[Masakuni]

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

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Yuki stopped his fall, springing into a side flip. To this day, you still surprise me with your ability to pick up on an opponents taijutsu and- But Yuki never got the chance to finish this thought, because Rui had already closed the gap and was about to break his nose. Even out of a decent stance, Yuki broke Rui's form and flipped her over onto her back.

As she slid across the ground, Rui used the momentum to shift her balance to the point where her shoulder line and spine met, then kicked hard with both legs to get back on her feet. But Yuki didn't want to let up, he dashed forward as soon as Rui was back on her feet, not leaving her nearly enough time to get back in a stance.

He came at her hard and fast, aiming a blizzard, albeit a slow blizzard, of strikes at her torso. Rui stepped back repeatedly while deflecting the blows. As Rui approached a dead end, she contemplated using Shunshin, but their standard sparring rules dictated no chakra.

And so, devoid of any way to avoid getting hit, Rui turned her body sideways to avoid most of the damage. As her partner's blow glanced off her chest, she began a tricky variant on a basic one-two combo. She started with a deceptively slow left jab, and when he blocked it, followed with a full power and speed right hook. The jab had been aimed at his face, while the hook, which used every feasible joint in Rui's body, was aimed, and almost hit, squarely in the solar plexus.

Yuki, could see the attack coming, but wasn't fast enough to catch it, so he bent his legs a little, causing the hook to slam into his sternum, much harder than the 'plexus Rui had intended to hit. The result was that the attack wasn't nearly as powerful as Rui had intended, and only slightly winded her sparring partner. Trying to keep Rui at a distance while he recovered, Yuki threw a few weak blows when Rui tried to advance. Rui, meanwhile, did her best to avoid them and still close the gap, forcing Yuki to back pedal.

Rui quickly siezed the momentum and pressed the attack, ducking low and aiming at the chest. Yuki parried most of the blows, and finally struck back, a hard right jab to Rui's forhead. He had intended it to be to her torso, but because of the height difference, that wasn't possible. Rui turned her head to roll with the blow and reduce the damage, then utalized the momentum to move into a leaf whirlwind.

However, Yuki took a step back so only one of his feet got caught, and with it up in the air, he took advantage of the opertunity to kick Rui in the back while she was recovering from the Whirlwind. She was sent flying forward from the kick and only barly mangaged to turn her momentum into a summersault to get back on her feet. She quickly wheeled around and kicked at the rapidly appproaching Yuki, causing him to jump to the side to avoid running squarly into her foot. In the small gap in his guard that caused, Rui saw an opening and took it.

She turned and, using every available joint in her body to maximize the power and speed, threw a powerful right hook at Yuki's torso. Just as it hit, Rui's hand shook a little, causing the momentum to bump around the internal organs. And the fact that it hit squarly in his solar plexus likely didn't help much either.

Yuki stumbled back, out of breath and seemingly in pain. He held up his hand, palm out, meaning he needed a break. He colapsed onto the ground, with a troubled, pained look on his face. Suddenly he began coughing. When the fit ceased, and he pulled his hand away from his face, he stared at his hand and got an almost frightened expression.

Rui moved over to see what the matter was. The palm of Yuki's hand was dyed crimson with blood. An internal injury caused by Rui's careless attack. After getting(or threatening) Yuki to calm down and lie back, Rui activated her Byakugan and began looking for the problem. It wasn't too bad, mostly just ruptured blood vessels in the respiratory system. (while this may be bad to most people, to Rui, who was a fairly skilled medical ninja, it was actually rather easy to fix)

Rui placed her hands in an 'X' formation, and activated her healing hands, slowly moving them over her sensei's damaged body, taking the time to heal a few other, almost unnoticeable wounds dotting his body. Everyone has such wounds, just very few know about them.

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Raiton – Raiu Karasu (Thunderstorm Raven)
Rank: D, C, B
Skill: Ninjutsu.
Effect: Creates ravens of lightning to attack your opponent.
Special: Tiger, Dog, Tiger
Drawback: Must be learned multiple times in order to truly master. The swallows dissolve if they pass out of forty meters of the user.
Description: The user forms the hand seals, creating ravens of lightning around them. The ravens are roughly two feet in wingspan. The ravens are comprised of pure electricity, and discharge into a shock of electricity when they strike an object. Each swallow discharges with a D rank shock. The user can control the motions of the swallows completely. When first learned, the user is only capable of creating up to five ravens at a time. Each time learned, the user can create an additional five ravens. When the user attains to capability of creating fifty ravens, the technique increases to a C rank technique, allowing for an additional five per training as usual. When the user reaches the capability of creating one hundred twenty swallows, the training becomes B rank. The user can create two hundred swallows, total, before they max out.
Limit: Must have Lightning Release.

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While Rui was healing Yuki, the memories of the day they met rose unbidden, but not refused, to the edges of her consciousness.

Flashback

Even though she couldn't see back then, Rui was trying her hardest to fit in. That day, she was walking home from the market with her seeing eye cat Dinah; yes seeing eye cat, Rui got allow better with cats, and Dinah was a close relative to the wild cats that live near Kirigakure, only one or two generations removed. As such, she was about the size of a medium dog, but with the temperament of a well behaved cat.

Even though her whole world was a world of smells, sounds, textures and shapes, Rui managed to get along quite well back then. Though the kids in her class didn't like her much, perhaps because she had a habit of staring off into space when talking to someone. Anyway, I'm getting off track. She was walking home from the market with Dinah when she was stopped by some older boys(keep in mind that Rui is only about 8 or 9 at this time).

For some unexplained reason that I'll delve into at some later date, should I find the time, those boys forced her down, presumably in an alley or some such, though as she couldn't see at the time, and she never bothered to ask Yuki, I cannot tell you for sure. Though she did her best to stop them, without being able to see, she was unable to protect herself. Just as she thought there was nothing to stop them, Yuki barged in and stopped them. Though Rui never found out exactly what happened, she did hear the sounds of multiple people fighting accompanied by breaking bones.

After accompanying her to her house, which was nearby, Yuki told her that she should be more careful, then left.

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And that was the first time that Rui and Yuki met each other, though she wouldn't know that it was Yuki until months later, when they would meet at school. Yes, I know it wasn't much of a story, but that was the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

Now back to the modern day, Rui had just finished healing Yuki when he suggested that he teach her a new Raijutsu, the 'Raitonin Roru' as he called it. In truth, it was identical to the Raiu Karasu, but just known under a different guise. Whether this was Yuki's invention or not was still up to debate.

Either way they began by performing a series of nondescript hand-signs, leading into a guided meditation of sorts. I'll leave out Yuki's instructions as they would be a tad bit redundant.

After performing the hand-signs, Rui formed a single layer of chakra along the palms of her two hands, not dense enough to actually be solid, or even visible in any given light spectrum for more than the occasional outlying instant, but there nonetheless. This insulating layer of chakra in place, Rui delved into her inner self and brought to light the image of lightning. She bent that image into a sphere and allowed her chakra to flow freely into that image.

She had learned and used the release of electricity, and understood many of the methods of creating and controlling electricity, both natural and otherwise. With that under her belt, so to speak, the standing Rui began to mold the electricity into a loosely formed sphere, the rough size and shape of a baseball, one rendered in a 128 bit system, flat and given it's stitches only by it's skin. And as this was a sphere of rather excited electrons, and not of any solid form, it was devoid of even the aforementioned 'skin'.

Her chakra began to cause a chain reaction, exciting electron after electron and causing them to billiard into other particles, continuing the reaction. And back on the much grander scale that humans can perceive, the pseudo-baseball began to take a form visible to the naked eye as the electrical energy built and built. When Rui decided that it had built to a comfortable level, herself safe from learning how painful it is to be a human circuit due to the insulating layer of chakra she had bade into existence at the beginning of this instruction.

And that was just the beginning. With that done she began to reshape it almost like a lump of wet clay, into a rough bird shape. Elongating the sphere, she stretched and thinned one end into a neck and pointed beak. She then pulled a tongue of electro-chakra off the opposite end; flattening and widening it until it had become the tail feathers that avians need so badly to stay properly aloft.

Next she pulled another section of chakra out from the right side of the pseudo bird and carefully formed the delicate feathers that actually provided the lift needed to take flight. Once finished with that, she mirrored the same process on the other side. Done, the first bird was done. And with it done, she had worked out a process that she could later use to create more birds.

For now, she should practice controlling just one bird before moving on to more. Taking the delicate creation in hand, she gave it a little push, like a mother kicking it's baby bird out of the nest in the hopes that it could take flight on it's own...if not, oh well...she could always make more and try again.

But she didn't have to make another, not yet at least, as the delicate being of pain took flight, flapping its wings, although it was a fruitless effort, it didn't need to flap. She began to put it through it's paces, dragging it through the sky in complicated displays of aerial excess that Rui could never in her life duplicate.

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Kagemane no Jutsu, ‰e^Ž—‚̏p (Shadow Imitation Technique)
Rank: "C", "B", "A" Rank
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: The signature move of the Nara family, this jutsu allows the user to control their own shadow and merge it with their opponent's shadow, combining them. This links the movements of the user with the target; the target is subsequently forced to make any movement the user makes. It is an extremely versatile technique, as the user can contract and change the shape of their shadow, potentially grabbing multiple targets at once. The degree to which the user's shadow can be stretched is limited by its total surface area.
Special: "Hanseals"
Drawback: Must Be Learned Multiple times in order to truly achieve something grand. Must hold Rat hand seal until the technique connects with the targets shadow.
Description: Using the shadows of other objects, the user can extend their shadow beyond its normal range. The amount of time for which an opponent can be held is limited by the user's chakra, since the user must constantly maintain the jutsu. The jutsu is also more difficult to maintain at greater ranges or for multiple opponents, since the user's shadow must be stretched constantly. At closer ranges, it requires considerably less effort on the user's part. Additionally, the target can force their way free with enough effort, though the amount of effort required to do so is considerable. There are two tables or understandings for this technique that consists of the Difficulty class of the User as well as the Opponent, and as to how far the user is capable of using this technique. When first learned the user is only capable of using this technique at a distance of Ten meters. Each higher Rank archived, the user is capable of extending the shadow another five meters. The user must first however, learn each rank a certain amount of times before then next rank is obtainable. The C rank version must be learned five times total. At which point the ditance is upgraded to "B" Rank training and now extends ten meters each time trained. This version must be learned 3 times total. The "A" Rank version, extends the range to Seventy meters, and every additional "A" Rank training extends it another ten meters. This technique caps out at 100 meters. The user is capable of making their shadow split and by doing so takes up the distance of the total form of the original technique. This means that if a user has this technique to where they can use thirty meters and wishes to make this technique split to three shadows the maximum distance is ten meters per shadow.

Difficulty on Escaping: Escaping the Kagemane is a tricky art for some, easier for others. Depending on your Stamina and Difficulty class depends on how well the opponent can escape the Kagemane. The Kagemane is held for a Certain time frame depending on Rank of the technique learned. "C" Rank can be held for 18 seconds before it breaks no matter what. "B" Rank 36 seconds, "A" Rank 54 Seconds. For every difficulty class the user is above the opponent, add another five seconds. If the opponent for every difficulty class above th user, subtract five seconds. If the Opponent captured is a Taimaster, subtract 15 seconds additionally. If the opponent is a Tai specialist, subtract 5 additional seconds. If the opponent is a Taijutsu Non specialist, leave it as is. After doing the math, the amount of turns held will be apparent.
Limit: Nara Clan Technique

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When Rui returned home that afternoon, after learning the 'Raitonin Revoru', as she called the technique, and treating herself to a rootbeer float at the local drugstore(it's an oldfashioned one with an authentic soda fountain. She goes there often enough to be on a first name basis with the soda jerk), her mother handed her a letter that had arrived for her earlier that day. Taking the letter with her to the back yard, she broke the wax seal and untied the string that held it closed and fully opened the letter. It read as follows:

Yamakiri Sadoko,

Congratulations are in order, you have been accepted into the Nara clan. Included is the first technique that you must learn, the Art of Shadow Imitation, as well as a small selection of others. Please do not allow these to fall into the hands of others. Again, congratulations on joining the clan.

{Name withheld}
-Head of Nara Clan

All told, it was a short letter, but it held a large boon to young Rui, a selection of new techniques. And the best part was Rui was looking for a new technique. Picking up the second piece of paper, the one that held the techniques written in microprint, Rui read and prepared to train the most basic of all Nara techniues: The Art of the Shadow Doppleganger.

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As it was still early in the afternoon, Rui's shadow wasn't very long, but what she needed was a training partner. Oh well, for now, she could focus on just getting her shadow to move. That couldn't possibly be easy.

Sitting cross legged in the dirt, the sucrose from earlier still coursing though her veins, Rui began to meditate and use her chakra to try and move her shadow, holding the Rat handseal all the while. Exactly how something that was simply the phenomenon caused by the lack of light was anyone's guess, but it worked, that was all that mattered. Rui slowly allowed her chakra to flow into her shadow. With her eyes open and the sun to her back, Rui watched her shadow slowly darken, growing more and more solid by the moment. Growing more and more corporeal by the second, her shadow became as black as ink; exactly the way she had first seen the technique done. woo who, that's one bit down And at the precise moment that happened, she noticed that everything around her shadow was darker too...a cloud had passed in front of the sun...

Oh dear Rui sighed, setting back to work. She did again the handsigns required of her to use the techniques, and closed her eyes to better get a feeling of her inner chakra flow. Now, lets try this again. Rui's eyes began to flicker behind her closed lids, all the while, she used to chakra to create a jet-black fabric as thin as only a micron at it's thinnest point, though the thickness varied as much as 200 microns at any given point. Every time her eyes flickered away from the center, Rui forced them back to the center, focusing on an ever-shifting psudoscape of swirling clouds and forbidden colors. (reddish greens and yellowish blues mostly) As she she felt the fabric become more and more corporeal, she felt also a touch of uneasiness. With no clue as to the source of the uneasiness, Rui thought of it only in passing and continued on with her eyes shut against any outside stimuli.

As she forced her eyelids to stay closed, they began to twitch slightly, even as her eyes tried to dart away from the center. And even still, Rui pressed forward, until the fabric was complete. She didn't need to open her eyes to tell, it was as much a part of her as her skin. Instead, she tried to move it, and felt nothing so much as a twitch. It was apparent that it wouldn't heed her instructions, instead it played quite well the role of the unruly youngster. Rui introverted her attentions, focusing on her Innerself, or rather on the inner personification of her shadow. 'Is she sure she wants this?' 'I doubt it, but go ahead anyway.' Voices flutter in Rui's ears, as gentle as a butterfly's wings. And still, she thinks nothing of them, and continues instead on her chosen path. 'Well then, lets get started.'

Even as she turned ever inward, the sun came out from it's hiding place behind the clouds and warmed the earth below, even through the ever present mist that cursed this village. Even as Rui's skin warmed, the fresh light slaying any nearby shadows, her own stayed as black as ink, as the space between the stars in a Cold Winter's Night. Though she hadn't seen it with her own two eyes, she was correct in her shadow being solid black, filled with her chakra. The sun warmed her bones, it was a perfect day for a light nap. A perfect day to just leave all the pressures of life for another day and relax.

And now the raven-haired Genin stood in an endless expanse of water, as smooth as glass. Off in the distance, what seemed to be almost Roman ruins jutted out of the water. "What the? Rui took a few tentative steps and, finding the water as solid as the glass it so closely resembled, began to trot towards the nearest-seeming ruins and the horizon where the glass-sea met the perfect blue sky. 'I wouldn't do that if I were you.' Rui stopped in her tracks and turned about towards the voice she had heard. Sitting at a white-iron-and-glass table was...her; a her whose face looked the same, but was at the same time different. Rui just couldn't place it. The table itself was adorned with a fairly fancy looking tea set, with a place set both for the girl at the table, and one guest. One guess, guess who.

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'But then again, I don't suppose it really matters how far you go. You just wind up back here,' the girl at the table smiled, taking a sip of her apparent tea, 'don't believe me? Then try.' Rui was about to take her up on that offer just out of spite when the girl continued: 'But instead of wasting your time on a fruitless endeavor, do please come join me for some tea.' Something in the air told Rui to take her on this offer, and walked across the smooth-glass-water that was pretty much the only way to tell up from down and pulled the second chair, also made from the same white-iron and glass construction as the table, out and sat down in it, clearly suspicious of the girl that sat across from her at the table. Upon closer inspection, Rui could tell that the entire tea set, the pot, both cups, and both saucers, were all made from bone china with a gold-leaf floral design on them. The tea was already pored into her cup, still steaming, and imbibed with a rich, dark color and scent.

The girl sitting across from Rui had the same face as Rui, but dressed very differently. Her hair was pulled back under a black lace bonnet with a white lace trim. She wore a white frilled and ruffled blouse with a simple black bell-shaped skirt. She also wore a pair of white over-knee socks and black 'Mary Jane' shoes, polished to a fine reflective shine. All in all, she looked much like a doll. But something was still off on the face, it didn't quite match. 'Now then, shall we continue where we left off?' The girl across the table said with a flourish of her hand. 'It's your turn.'

Confusled(not confused, confusled), Rui looked down at where the girl was indicating with the flourish of her hand and saw a chess board about half way through a game(white was winning) sitting on the table. As the white pieces were facing away from Rui, she assumed that she was playing white. As she moved the white pawn, the game began...or perhaps continued. Later, towards the end of the game, Rui moved her white pawn into a space at the far end of the board and changed her white pawn into a queen, an action which also placed the red king in check. The girl across the table moved the king out of check and next to the red queen. In response, Rui moved her new queen to capture the red queen and place the red king in checkmate.

The girl's face contorted in rage and she flipped the table up towards Rui, sending chess pieces and tea flying everywhere. Rui jerked back, causing her chair to tip over backwards with her in it. The whole world seemed to slow to a crawl. As the table flew over Rui, the girl emerged from behind the table and punched Rui hard in the face. The attack knocked Rui back and through the water-glass surface. Lost in the limbo inbetween, Rui lost sense of which way was up, and was catapulted back into the air. She opened her eyes and saw that she was now in some sort of city, with tall buildings of glass and metal all around her, though the streets were the same water-glass as the other place.

Rui landed and looked behind her when she got socked in the face again by the same girl in the black and white lolita clothes. Rui went flying back and impacted upside down in a building, cracking the glass. She fell to the ground, the water seeping into her clothes, but there was something different about it, insubstantial. Rui struggled back up to her feet, and began performing handsigns for a jutsu. But when she finished, her chakra wouldn't come to her. She tried her Byakugan and the story was the same. The girl got up close to Rui and tried to punch her again. Rui dodged and tried her Zankuuha, but to no avail; she couldn't use any of her chakra.

The girl struck again, landing a hard punch in Rui's gut, knocking the wind out of her and opening her up for an elbow to her shoulder, followed quickly by a mean right hook. Rui just barely parried the hook and retorted with an elbow of her own to the girl's ribs. Rui spat the blood that was welling up in her mouth and closed with the gap with the girl. Rui ducked low under a jab and struck back with a strong blow of her own to the girl's face, breaking the fragile cartilage in her nose. As the girl reeled back, Rui grabbed both sides of the girl's head and forced it down as she jumped up, kneeing the girl in her forehead.

For a moment Rui floated in the air as the Loli-girl tried to see through the searing pain and blood and tears that now stained her face. As gravity, or whatever filled its roll, caused Rui to accelerate downward, she caught the girl's shoulder and used it to direct and control her fall, bringing her elbow down on the girl's forehead with all the force of gravity and both shoulder joints, hitting the same spot as her knee did just moments before. Where the skin was merely split before, there was now much more damage to the girl. As she staggered back, Rui moved in at top speed and spun about, using all her momentum, as well as all the strength and energy from as many joints as possible to strike with her elbow squarely on the girl's temple.

Now lets explain and review for a second. When someone is hit in the head, the brain moves as well, and when the head stops moving, the brain continues for a bit, compressing against the inside of the skull. These compressions cause damage not only to the brain itself, but also to the arteries in the brain. With enough trauma, these can hemorrhage, spilling blood into the cranium of the subject. This blood squeezes in on the brain. And combined with the continued blunt force traumas, can lead to unconsciousness and death within moments. In addition, the knees, elbows, and skull are among the hardest parts of the human body with the least amount of fat and muscle to pad them, allowing for maximum energy transfer. Also, there are two basic types of joint movements: Small movements, which are quick, but have little force, and Large movements, which have more force, but take longer to complete. By using multiple small movements through multiple joints, however, the same amount of force as a large movement may be achieved in the same space of time as a small movement.

Because of all this damage, the girl fell from her feet when Rui connected with that last elbow to the temple. The adrenalin fading from Rui's body, she ran over to see if her aggressor was OK. If she had been paying attention to the building she had smashed into, she would have noticed that as the two of them fought, the large cracks that her impact had left had vanished. If she had been paying attention to herself, she would have realized that with all the damage she took, she should be feeling much worse.

[|Ayame Unbound|]

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Shunshin no Jutsu, 瞬身の術, (Body Flicker Technique)
Rank: "C" Rank
Type: NinJutsu/TaiJutsu
Effect: A High speed movement technique where a user moves from one point to another as if appearing to teleport in a short distance in almost untraceable speeds. User moves in 10 meters
Special: ---
Drawback Able to use 3 times a day when first learned. Each time learned after first time user is able to use it one more time. If user uses it passes the number capable, leg muscles cramp dramatically and user is unable to move till medical treatment. May only be used on the ground in a straight line whether facing forward or away.
Description: This jutsu is a high-speed movement technique, allowing a ninja to move short distances at an almost untraceable speed. To an observer, it appears as if the user has teleported. A puff of smoke is occasionally used to disguise the user's movements. It is accomplished by using chakra to temporarily boost the user's reflexes. The amount of chakra required depends on the overall distance between the user and their intended destination. When used this technique does not take up any movements. However a user may only use this technique equal to half the amount of their movements per round rounding down. Thus 3 movements user may use it only once per round. 15 movements user may use it 7 times per round without it taking up a movement.
Limit: User must have a Character.

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Rui hopped back from where her fallen counterpart lay. She gulped in air as the adrenaline faded from her system. And right before her eyes, the other her stood up like she was simply getting up from a nap on a warm sunny day. The other her stretched her arms and back, not unlike a cat, yawning visibly. "Well, that was a nice warm-up. You're not half as bad as I thought you were." Rui felt her temper flare. Her doppleganger noticed this and a smug smirk spread across her face. "It's time to have some real fun." The dopple-Rui's smirk grew and she clicked her fingers saying, "Lets start with your speed."

As the sharp sound echoed throughout the surreal city, Rui's inverse walked up to the original, the smirk turning into a disturbing grin right before Rui's eyes. Now thoroughly enraged, Rui reared her right hand back and threw a full right hook at her look a like. But her fist stopped dead only a millimeter from the other's face, as if restrained by a thousand invisible ropes. The alter-Rui's disturbing grin morphed before her eyes into a toothy grin. "We can't have any of that, now can we,' she said right before mirroring Rui's own movements, with the difference that nothing held her back.

The world exploded in a dazzling display of bright stars and crimson blood and Rui's nose flattened under the force of her foe's knuckles. Rui landed head first on the ground and skipped off the surface of the glass-water, flipping through the air. By the time she had lost enough rotational momentum to land on her feet, Rui was both dizzy and in pain, though the stars were fading. Rui managed to get her feet below her head and in contact with the surface. But she couldn't get any traction, her feet slipped and slid like there was an oil slick beneath her feet. Before Rui could even try and get a grip, Other-Rui had caught up with her in a flash, and dashed passed her, stopping a few feet behind her before turning about. She waited until the last second and kicked.

A sickening crunching sound resounded throughout the city as Rui's spinal cord was severed just above the stomach. Rui didn't scream in pain; instead, she fell to the ground unable to feel her arms or legs. "Come on," Doppl-Rui said, "is that all you got?" She leaned in close to Rui's head, "Maybe you just weren't cut out for this, you know, being alive? Maybe I should have...oh well, that's easily rectified." Rui couldn't feel her arms or legs, she wasn't even sure they were still there. But...Rui focused on one thing at a time, contracting just one muscle group at a time. One group at a time, Rui put one hand on the ground, then the other, and struggled to push herself back up.

"Well, this one has some fire," Alt-Rui said, "lets heat things up!" Before Rui could get up, Alt-Rui ran up and kneed her in the face. "You need to speed up a notch kid, otherwise you'll perish here!" Fireworks exploded behind Rui's eyes and everything Alt-Rui said afterward was muddled in a near-concussion. Robbed the ability to fight back or think clearly, Rui did the only thing she could think of. As soon as she gained enough footing to stand up, Rui saw her doppleganger charging forward and turned on her heels and booked it out of there. "Is that all you can do?" Rui looked to her right and saw Doppl-Rui running along side her on the side of the buildings, which were much closer than they should be.

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Alt-Rui kicked off the wall and struck at Rui, who barely managed to dodge by jerking hard to the left. However, she over compensated and clipped her right shoulder on a lamp post, generating a cracking sound and spinning the hapless genin around. Alt-Rui's big, toothy grin returned to her face, "Like I said, you've got to speed up if you want to survive." Psudo-Rui took a few steps towards Rui, "otherwise you're just another inferior being." Rui grasped her shoulder to try and ignore the pain, unable to think clearly enough to wonder how she could feel or move at all when her spine had been broken.

Rui's already burning temper flared, "Just what the hell are you talking about?!" Psudo-Rui laughed like a mad man for what seemed like ages. When she finally calmed down, she began to speak, "Well aren't you the interesting one; ok, I'll tell you something about what's up. Some fun things are about to get started, and you're gonna die if you don't get better. and that's why we're here." Alt-Rui dashed forward again, striking at her opponent, though Rui was able to dodge this time, backstepping to put some distance between the two. "Ha! You're getting faster, soon enough you'll actually be able to fight!."

Soon enough?! Rui's temper flared again, and she struck at her aggressor. And again, something stopped her hand before contact. And again, she got clobbered. As she hung in the air before gravity took over, other-Rui's face contorted with something similar to anger and she said "I said speed up, not beat down!" Before the natural gravitational forces could take over, alt-Rui ran over and struck Rui upwards into the belly, repeating the blow again and again, knocking Rui higher and higher into the air above her head before jumping back and allowing Rui to begin to fall. Just as Rui reached about level with her doppleganger, alt-Rui kicked her hard in the chest, sending her flying. "Can you understand what I'm saying?"

Rui caught herself and managed to stand up properly for the first time in what seemed like ages. then if speed's what she wants, speed's what that bitch'll get Rui turned heel and ran away, taking a sharp right down an ally way. Alt-Rui followed Rui tightly, just as she thought she would. Just as Alt-Rui turned the corner, Rui came springing out and jumped over her opponent, catching her off guard and giving Rui the time she needed to get moving again. Rui then turned right around and dashed straight at her opponent and unleashed a high-speed barrage of light attacks with a heavier finisher that launched Alt-Rui forward. Rui didn't really notice why her attacks connected this time, but instead she turned around and ran away, letting her opponent chase after her.

Alt-Rui got up with a somewhat satisfied smirk on her mug and quickly chased after Rui. By the time she finally caught up with her prey, Rui was running at top speed, and alt-Rui was just barely catching up. "You're still not getting it." As soon as Alt-Rui said that, Rui hyper accelerated to a point faster than the human eye could perceive, stopping on a dead-end-wall before rebounding back with the same incredible speed. Before Alt-Rui could react, Rui kneed her in the nose at these perhaps hyper-sonic speeds. Alt-Rui was sent flying back into the main street. Rui strode out into the main street, following her adversary. Alt-Rui began to stand up as the world around them began to dissolve like a glass powder.

[Uchiha Satoshi]

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