The Nitty Gritty>_<T/I>_<Ryuzaki, Erisu

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Training Intro-
Erisu awoke so suddenly, covered in a cold sweat. He breathed in hard and deep trying to calm himself down. He let his breath out through his mouth slowly, and tried to regain his focus. He glanced around his dark room and quickly it all came back to him.
He needed no reminder, but it seemed his mind would never let him forget. Not that he wanted to forget it either but to always be reminded? He could see them, his past team-mates,dying, as they did in the few scattered memories of that day. Every night they died in his head and every night he saw herdie right in front of him. "Torturous Memories." He mumbled right before collapsing back on his pillow and going back to sleep.
*2Hours Later*
He woke up again, except in a much calmer fashion. The room stayed dark, although the sunlight intruded through small holes in the closed shades covering the sliding glass doors next to his bed. Erisu rose quickly from the bed and faced the sliding doors. He threw open the shades and the sunlight finally stormed in. Erisu cringed from the sudden increase of brightness, but then his eyes adjusted and he looked outside."Well, well."He spoke to himself,"Such a big suprise, its rainy weather again.

He looked down on the village from his apartment's sliding glass doors. He gazed at the view he had from so high up, noticing the few people who were about right now so early. It was slightly overcast as always with a few raindrops scattered about. It was "nice" out now, but it would get worse later. The breeze blew in through the open door and little cool rain drops peppered his face. He closed his eyes and enjoyed it. It felt peacful. He stretched his limbs and yawned. His arms ached deep down into the muscle. The stretch both hurt and felt good at the same time.
The large room was alot of space for just him, and there wasen't much to decorate considering he only really slept here. Most of his busy days were spent doing missions and that meant sleeping on the road.
He made his bed quickly, neatly placing the navy blue linen on the bed. He threw the two fluffy pillows of the same color, back into their position at the head of the bed. As he walked away from his bed to his closet, the wood floors moaned with each step until he finally reached his destination. He went into the walk-in closet and came out shirt-less with a lime green towel draped over his shoulder.
He headed to the shower, hoping he could wash the dreams away too.

*25 Minutes later*
Erisu emerged from from his apartment fully dressed and ready to go. He closed the sliding doors behind him, and then locked it. He turned and lept high into the air,he soared and reached as high as he could before gravity started pulling him back to earth. He centered his momentum and front flipped once during his descent, landing gracefully on the stone paved road.

"Erisu, you are exactly 35 seconds late." A voice giggled behind him. Erisu didnt even have to turn in order to tell who it was. "I've put alot of thought into what you said Akari,"Erisu turned around, and continued "and I think that you are right."He looked into her eyes when he spoke those words, and she smiled when she heard it."You know little brother, I think you're finally starting to learn something." They both laughed a bit at her comment.

It had been a while since he laughed and it felt good. The smile crept from his face quickly though. "Well since you made the offer to help me train, i'm gonna make you work hard." "You work me hard? Before i'm done with you, you'll be begging me for some rest." The edges of his mouth curled into a slight grin. "Yea right."

He looked down at her face because she was shorter and realized how much she had actually changed. She was 3 years older than him but she was the closest in age to Erisu than his other three sisters. He hadnt paid much attention to his family for the past year but she seemed more mature than he remembered, then again she did take care of him for a while so maybe that forced her to "grow up" some. Her face still had the old smooth features he remembered and she shared his white hair color, it was a family thing. Her white hair had many white clips in the them Her aqua blue eyes always seemed to see inside of Erisu's head; she could always tell what was on his mind. She was skinny and very beautiful, but never seemed to take an interest in guys.



They arrived at the Ryuzaki family house and slowly stepped inside. "I never thought that I would ever come back here." He took a deep breath when he closed the door behind himself."Dude, you need to relax. Mom and Dad are not here so you have nothing to worry about.They walked down a hallway with wooden-floor boards that moaned even louder than the ones he had in his apartment. Just being back in this house filled Erisu with nostalgia. He started flashing back but then they reached a door at the end of the dimly lit hallway.

Akari broke the silence "Alright, we go all the way down to the bottom," she pointed to stairs inside the door, leading downwards into darkness,"you tell me what you wanna train for,"she continued, "and i'll make up a training regimen for you to follow that will best suit your needs for mastering the jutsu." She grabbed a candle-lit lamp off of a small table just inside the door. Erisu was suprised by the confidence of her words. " Hmph. You sure sound knowledgeable about this but your not actually a shinobi, so how could you possibly know anything about this?" They started down the steps. The candle's dim light seemed to swim on the dark stone walls.

Erisu's eyes brightened up intensely as he stared at his sister.She turned to him, looking extremely pissed "You went to the academy so you didnt have to go to regular school. Regardless of what your hard head thinks, there are other things in life besides being a shinobi." She walked down the steps slowly but continued speaking. Erisu followed," Anyways, it just so happened that I learned a few things and i'm really good at thinking outside the box."She stopped and looked at Erisu, " Do you want my help or not?"she hissed fiercely. Erisu looked down to her,"Of course I do! But nothing new yet, I have to get good with my current jutsus before I learn anything else."" Good, because I was just thinking the same thing. Now what would you like to work on first?"

Erisu thought about it for a minute, but continued his descent down the stairs. Finally he made up his mind. "Two things,"he started,"First, I should probably work on my Sonar Tech, but only because I'm really bad at it now. Second, How many stairs do we have to walk down? We've been walking down here for a while now."
" Ok, I'll have to set up for like an hour when we do get down there for that technique and what does it matter with the stairs?"
"Well it would help to know, since I'm gonna have to walk back up all these steps anyways."
The dread of trekking up so many stairs after training was scary.
"Dont worry, we're here already!" They both walked up to a large door, Akari opened it revealing...darkness. She walked to the corner of the west and south walls and flicked on the light switches. The training room was revealed." How did you find this room? I didnt even know it existed!""All I did was clean out this old basement room. When you left the house alot of money came to the family due to your success in the village. Mom and Dad refused to give you anything since you removed yourself from the family. I just took some of that money and cleaned this old place up. There were alot of old, dusty antiques that were never used here so I sold those too."
Erisu looked around at the large training room. The walls and ceiling were white, the wooden floor was covered in softly firm green mats. The room was lit by the lights on the ceiling.
"Stop gawking and go get ready!" Akari yelled suddenly snapping Erisu out of his stuppor. "Ready for what?" He yelled back across the room. She responded even louder, "Get ready to start your TRAINING dummy!"

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Let The Training Begin! /Unrated/
"Sonar" x1
Rank: D-C ranked (D)
Skill: Supplementary Ninjutsu
Effect: The user can locate the general location of enemies.
Special: Bird, Boar, Ox
Drawback: Some objects might interfere with the sonar. Low rank provides a 2-D reading (explained below). Must be learned multiple times
Description: The user performs the need hand seals. From there, the user emits 3, very low pitched sound waves(via voice or weapon). The sound travels very quickly in a 360 degree radius. The low pitched sound bounces off various objects with the area and returns to the user to interpret. With this done, the user can pin point enemy movement and location in fractions of a second. The draw back to this that the sound wave only travels in a flat line until a C-rank is attained.
The user begins with 10 meters distance, increasing 20 Meters every time learned. After 50 meters, Training is moved to a C-Rank, which then allows the user to emit the sound wave in all three dimensions. Every time learned in C-ranked increase the distance to 25 meters, With a maximum of 150 meters.
Limit: Must have sound release.

Erisu walked back into the training room. His black cloak lay in a corner of the great room. His arms were left exposed now, and even with all the bandage wrap around his arms he felt slightly nervous as to what would happen, if he put too much effort into his still recovering arms. Akari brought her attention to Erisu's face and saw his distraction. She walked up to him and quickly took control. " You won't be needing that big ass sword of yours," she pointed and continued,"or any of your secondary gear for this training. In fact, we'll be using some of these secondary items to help you train here today."
Worry flashed on Erisu's face, "Hey, don't break up my stuff. Some of us aren't so rich." Akari let out a loud laugh, then responded, "No need to be all worried, your 'stuff' will be just fine, trust me."
Erisu set his Great Sword down and threw his secondary gear pouch down right next to it. Akari reached deep into her purse and pulled out a handkerchief. "Blindfold yourself with this," she handed him the handkerchief, "when you're certain that you can't see anything say 'ready'."
He took the handkerchief and wrapped it around his eyes tightly. "Ready." He spoke it with confidence. "Save your questions for the end. What i'm doing right now is scattering some of your secondary inventory around you in a 10 meter radius. You will need to locate the items and identify them. Afterwards I will reset the inventory and we will repeat. This will improve your technique and allow you to expand the radius of your jutsu. Also it will help you with the technique of your handsigns because you will not be able to see the handsigns you are weaving for this technique. Any questions?"
He spoke with his head tilited in the direction of his sister. "Nope, but getting started would be nice." She kicked him in his shin swiftly, and she watched proudly as he grimmaced and rubbed his shin gently to ease the pain. "Begin." she giggled as she walked away.
Erisu began weaving his handsigns, and the signs felt so familiar. First he formed the bird, and quickly flipped to boar and then ox. He could feel the chakra pulsing through his damaged arms. His chakra itself seemed to be burning him from the inside! He quickly focused the chakra to his lungs and he felt the burning ease away. He spit out three low-pitch bursts, and waited two seconds for those same bursts to return to him and provide him with the vision the blindfold took away.
The bursts returned very quickly and as soon as they came an image formed in his head.
"Okay, there are three shurikens 2 meters in front of me, one kunai on my left side, about 6 meters away, one kunai on my right side 5 meters away and three senbon 9 meters behind me. How did I do?" He asked very calmly.
Akari spoke from across the room, "Take the blindfold off and see for yourself." Erisu grabbed the blindfold and gently tugged it off his face. Shock wrinkled his face. Three shurikens in the front, one kunai on each side, at the correct distances but thats where his success ended. There were 6 senbon behind him, their thin nature hiding their "duplicates" behind the first three. All of these items hung from the ceiling from lots of wire. The shock Erisu had wasnt from the extra senbon, his shock came from the 20 ft of wire, in the loose shape of a sphere around where he stood, that he had failed to "see" in the first place.
Anger rose up in his chest but he quickly suppressed it. The wire was too thin to give him much of a reading at all when it came to trying to spot it. He would have to concentrate so much harder if he was gonna have any chance of sensing it.
"Again." His voice echoed softly off the walls. Akari was already behind him. "Blindfold on please." He threw it on very fast, and whispered, "Ready." Akari reset the items as fast as she could. She finished in a timely fashion and then stepped away. " Whenever your ready Erisu."
Erisu began channeling the chakra to his lungs again, trying not to draw so much chakra through his arms. He flipped through bird, boar, and ox signs once more. He spit out the low-pitch bursts and listened as they returned to him. He concentrated hard to each pulse of sound, the first shaping the "image", the second adding to it, and finally the third clearing it up.

He concentrated on the image in his head for a short time before he spoke. "I couldn't see the wire before, but I can definitely see a lil bit of it. It almost like static in the image when I focus so hard on it." Akari watched taking notes on his training,"Well i'm just glad you can almost "see" it. I was worried that you wouldn't be able to sense it at all." Erisu continued speaking,"Ok, so it seems like you used more wire although I cant really tell how much more though.. Hmmmm, that trick with the senbon wont work twice, I am a shinobi after all. Four senbon in total, six shurikens at various distances around me. How is that?"
Akari laughed, "This is gonna take a while."
Erisu ripped the blindfold from his vision. "Four senbon, six shurikens, more wire, what did I get wrong?" Akari looked at him and pointed down at her feet. Erisu was confused at first but then glanced down and noticed the kunai at his feet. "Damn!" frustration angered him but his sister's giggles stopped him cold.
"So you think this is funny?" He asked obviously pissed. "So you thought this was gonna be easy? It was there before and you didnt notice, so maybe you should try paying attention!" She retorted.
"Okay, okay. Let's get this thing started again." He calmed with each word he muttered. If he allowed himself to get frustrated this easily he would never improve. He tied the blindfold tightly. "Ready." He whispered intently.
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Sonar Training Continued 10/10
"Sonar" x1
Rank: D-C ranked (D)
Skill: Supplementary Ninjutsu
Effect: The user can locate the general location of enemies.
Special: Bird, Boar, Ox
Drawback: Some objects might interfere with the sonar. Low rank provides a 2-D reading (explained below). Must be learned multiple times
Description: The user performs the need hand seals. From there, the user emits 3, very low pitched sound waves(via voice or weapon). The sound travels very quickly in a 360 degree radius. The low pitched sound bounces off various objects with the area and returns to the user to interpret. With this done, the user can pin point enemy movement and location in fractions of a second. The draw back to this that the sound wave only travels in a flat line until a C-rank is attained.
The user begins with 10 meters distance, increasing 20 Meters every time learned. After 50 meters, Training is moved to a C-Rank, which then allows the user to emit the sound wave in all three dimensions. Every time learned in C-ranked increase the distance to 25 meters, With a maximum of 150 meters.
Limit: Must have sound release.

Erisu stood in the middle of the large training room. Sweat glistened on his face. He wiped his brow with the back of his forearm. His arms stung and burned inside. He tried to box it off in his mind and think outside of the pain.
"Erisu, you've been at this for over 4 hours. Maybe you should take a break." Akari stared at her brother concern etched all over her face. Erisu being blindfolded didnt see her worry, "I'm fine." Confidence echoed in his voice and Akari's mind was eased, but only the slightest bit.

"Four senbon 10 meters in front of me, explosive note directly in front of my left foot, two regular kunai 9 meters behind me, and 3 shuriken hanging 2 meters over my head." He exhaled slowly trying not to waste any stamina. He didnt even remove the blindfold this time. His sister stood checking the results and recording them into her data. "You have been picking up the farther items much better now. There is a pretty good chance that your range is expanding somewhat, however you will need to increase the amount of chakra and focus in order to take in the image on such a large scale." His sister then began breaking down the set-up and reseting it. She continued on, "Pretty soon I'm going to start testing your range but first I want to begin testing another area of this technique." Erisu was confused under the blindfold, "I dont follow you so well, what other 'area' is there for this technique?" Akari giggled triumphantly, "If I told you what I was gonna do it would make the training easier. Your gonna beg for mercy before this is over!"
Erisu laughed lightly."Ok, I'm ready let's do this."
Truthfully he was exhausted and Akari knew it. She knew he was to hard headed to listen to anyone but himself, and so that left only one option in order to make him rest. Wear him out. She was going to push his limits and sooner or later he would crumble try again later. She finished erecting the new set-up. She would test him in multiple ways now. She walked confidently outside of his range and sat down with her book, ready to take notes. "Begin!"

Erisu took his time. Focusing his chakra through his arms burned. It felt as if everytime he focused it someone was simultaneously lighting it on fire. He took a deep breath and began summoning his chakra. Instantly his arms crawled with fire, and he bit his lip in order to not cry out from the pain of it. He boxed the pain away and refocused the chakra to his chest. He flipped through his handsigns, every movement causing his arms to ache heavily. Bird, Boar, Ox, and then he spit the first low-pitch burst out, pausing to give it some seperation from the next one. He then spit out the second, and two seconds later the third. He found through his training if he gave the bursts a 0ne or two second delay the "images" came out with more detail when they came together. The bursts came back building the image in his head. "You've really out done yourself with this one Akari." He focused hard on the image and certain "anomalies" became apparent to him. "Your not using only my secondary weapons anymore are you?"
She marked some things off in her notes and spoke to Erisu. "Well, Duh! Thats the easy part, though I hope you can focus and figure it out." She started writing again. Erisu wiped away the sweat and cleared his throat."Ok, five senbon scattered about 11 meters in front of me, two vases I believe on my right, close to twenty feet of wire on my left side, one explosive note behind my left foot, and a....statue? Maybe 8 meters behind me." He exhaled hoping he found everything.
Akari walked over to her brother,"Take off the blindfold so I can show you." Erisu complied quickly. Akari walked over to the vases and turned to face her brother. "You did well to take their shape into account,"she pointed to the vases,"and you identified pretty well but you did miss something." She removed the top from the first vase and reached inside and pulled out a shuriken. "You failed to notice this," she removed the top from the second one and pulled out a kunai, "and you failed to notice this. You failed to notice the explosive note on the opposite side of the statue as well. You need more practice but you need to rest as well." Her concerned look did not escape Erisu this time.
He gazed on her face on then smiled brightly,"Akari, you already know that if I was tired I would rest." He gave her a big thumbs up, "I'll train for a few more hours and then we'll go get something to eat."
Akari smiled back, " Ok, if you can make back up all those steps." She giggled. Erisu's eyes brightened intensely,"Um, Akari answer a question for me." "Sure anything little brother." She responded.
"How did you get that heavy ass statue in here so quietly and where did you get it from?" His curiosity was definitely teased.
"That was definitely more than one question."
"Yea it was, I know."
"Well I have my ways."
"That's it?'I have my ways.'"
She grinned hapilly, "You'd better put your blindfold back on."
Erisu spoke calmly, "You don't get to have cool secrets like that you know."

The set-up having been reset, Erisu drew forth his chakra. The burning sensation came back, his eyes teared, but he was starting to get used to it. He flipped over the handsigns, bird, boar, ox, and spit the low-pitch bursts from his mouth. He would have to focus on each item independantly and inspect it, searching for these hidden items. The bursts came back and he focused intently upon his inspection.
He could "see" the shurikens in the ground in front of him. He "spotted" the Kunai hanging directly behind his head. The statue took some time to inspect and he made sure to check all of its angles this time. The vases were different though, their "images" were slightly different. They "sounded' different from each other.
"Ok I noticed the shurikens, the kunai behind me, and the statue. I got the two explosive notes on it and the kunai in its left hand." Akari looked over at the statue and the kunai in its hand. "Good." she responded. "The vases are different though." Erisu focused hard, "Yea they're different, and its hard to explain. They both "sound" different from each other. I think you did this intentionally. Maybe one has nothing in it and the other is full. or one has less than the other, i'm not sure. Hmmmm." He couldn't figure it out. "How did I do?" he asked. He ripped the blindfold from his face.
"You did really well, and you almost nailed it on the head." She spoke to him trying not to discourage her younger brother. " The one vase was filled with senbon," she pulled the senbon out of the vase. "This one was empty." She smashed the empty vase on the floor. "Everything else was nailed pretty good. I'm glad you can distiniguish the differences of these two vases but soon we're gonna have to get you to 'see' what's inside of them. We are mostly done with this step so next we are gonna test your range." She walked taking notes with every step.
Erisu was happy the training was going so well, soon this technique would be battle ready. "Start setting up the next one." The blindfold was already on his face before his sister could respond.

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Non-Training>_<

"Ok, I'm definitely finished for today." Erisu was exhausted. Akari scribbled the few notes she had left, and then she rose to join her brother. "Finally! I thought you would't stop until you were dead." She walked over to where he was in the great hall. "You should probably shower and get ready to eat. You must be hungry by now." Akari placed her hand on Erisu's arm and he flinched at her touch.
" Sorry,"he quickly responded not wanting to make her worry unnecessarily,"My arms are still a little sensetive."
Akari grinned,"It's ok, I know you wore yourself out today, and besides your gonna train even harder tomorrow."

They started walking towards the door when Erisu stopped,"Wait, I might need the items of my secondary pouch. A good shinobi is always prepared." Akari couldn't help but laugh. "You sound like an academy rule book." She laughed again, "Don't worry though, I'll have your things ready for you by the time that you leave. For now you should go clean up."
Erisu thought of her words and liked the idea. "Ok, I'll go do that. Let me know if you need help cleaning up." he gestured towards the mess that included alot of his secondary items and some other things. "Thanks but no thanks. I got it covered, just focus on getting yourself ready." Akari walked away to go clean up. Erisu picked up his arm to wave goodbye but his arm stung harshly on the inside. He grimaced from the pain, and glad that his sister didnt notice he quickly made his way for the door.

*0ne Hour Later*
Erisu threw his cloak on, the soreness of his arms interferring with this action slightly. He didnt show the pain on his face, it would fade soon enough. He was standing in the living room area of the house. The expensive furniture with silk cushioning that he remembered so well was still in use. Silk cushioned couches, and chairs and a wonderfully designed crystal table.
Akari finally emerged from the staircase.
Erisu spoke first, "Thanks for cleaning my clothes, I only took so long becasue I had to rebandage my arms."
Akari smiled,"Your welcome! Now let's go I'm starving."
They both exited through the front door in search of a good meal.

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Erisu and Akari, both walked back into the Ryuzaki compound. "You know I haven't really asked you, but where has the rest of the family been? I was here all day and not once have we been disturbed." Erisu and Akari exchanged a serious glance.
Akari then smiled trying to lighten the mood. " Dude, you shouldn't even worry about them, they've been gone for two days and they aren't coming back for at least another week."
Her smile was sweet but Erisu was buying it completly yet, "Listen if this is some sort of attempt to get me back into the household, and it is a really good attempt, mom and dad are really gonna have to talk to me at least first."
Akari grinned, "You know you might be psychic. They wanted me to convince you but its not only them who wants you back. We all do."
Erisu thought about it and then smiled back at her, "I'll think about it. But I make no promises."
"That's good enough though, and thats all I wanted anyways."
"Ok now that its settled for now, can I crash here for the night?"
"Of course you big dummy!"
"Is my old room still mine?"
"Yup!"
"Ok then goodnight!"
And with that Erisu ran upstairs to grab some sleep before his next day of heavy training leaving his sister at the bottom of the steps. "Sweet dreams." She whispered to herself.

On the next episode: The Hidden Mist's Radar!

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"Sonar" x2
Rank: D-C ranked (D)
Skill: Supplementary Ninjutsu
Effect: The user can locate the general location of enemies.
Special: Bird, Boar, Ox
Drawback: Some objects might interfere with the sonar. Low rank provides a 2-D reading (explained below). Must be learned multiple times
Description: The user performs the need hand seals. From there, the user emits 3, very low pitched sound waves(via voice or weapon). The sound travels very quickly in a 360 degree radius. The low pitched sound bounces off various objects with the area and returns to the user to interpret. With this done, the user can pin point enemy movement and location in fractions of a second. The draw back to this that the sound wave only travels in a flat line until a C-rank is attained.
The user begins with 10 meters distance, increasing 20 Meters every time learned. After 50 meters, Training is moved to a C-Rank, which then allows the user to emit the sound wave in all three dimensions. Every time learned in C-ranked increase the distance to 25 meters, With a maximum of 150 meters.
Limit: Must have sound release.

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"Wake up sleepyhead!" Akari's cheerful voice intruded upon Erisu's dreams. "You've been sleeping for close to 12 hours now." Erisu let out a small moan and then quickly rose from the bed. His arms hurt but no worse than any other time he'd woken up after training. He stretched, extending his sore arms as far as they would go. Pain and pleasure became one, and then he stopped stretching. Erisu hopped out of bed. Training would have to be quick today, he had wasted time sleeping and there were things to be done today. "Akari, I need to change." Akari with her everlasting smile responded, "Ok, I'll be downstairs waiting. Dont keep me waiting."
Erisu waited for her to leave, and then quickly threw off his robes leaving his torso exposed. He slid his combat gear on, brushed his teeth, and then he ran downstairs to begin his training.

He arrived downstairs in the large refurnished training room, and he walked over to where Akari stood. She spoke first,"Today I'm going to test your range, more than anything else. Don't get sloppy though, because I'm gonna be throwing you a few curveballs."
Erisu was curious of course, but he had given up on the unexpected mysteries of his sister already. He quickly through the blindfold on and then waitied for Akari to finish setting up."It's ready!" Erisu could picture the smile she had plastered on her face.
"Alright," he responded,"let's do this!"

He ran the chakra through his arms and they burned but only slightly. He focused the chakra to his chest, and then flipped through his handsigns. Bird, boar, ox, and then he spit the low-pitched sounds from his mouth and waited for them to come back. They came back alright and he wasen't ready for the change in scope of the image forming in his head. The "Image" was so much larger. He could cover more ground with the bursts. Normally the boundaries of this tech were smaller and everything outside the boudaries was a dense haze. Now it seemed the haze had been pushed farther back.
Erisu quickly ran through the handsigns again. He hadn't focused on the "image" because of his suprise. The chakra again ran through his arms and chest and once more he spit the bursts from his mouth. They came back quickly but this time Erisu was prepared. He began taking deep notice of everything within his area.
"Statue, 27 meters in front of me. Ummmm, 1 explosive note in between my feet. Two shurikens 21 meters behind me, 4 senbon 29 meters to my left and 1 kunai 8 meters to my right. That statue has a single kunai hidden behind it as well." Erisu smiled like his sister, proud of his success. She spoke to him, "You did super good! You just missed 2 things, but thats because I over-estimated your jutsu range. You weren't able to pick up those long distance items yesterday but it seems that goodnights rest helped out ALOT."
"Well how much farther are the items that I missed?"
"Two senbon, about 40 meters ahead of you and one shuriken 45 meters behind you."
"Damn....I thought I could improve faster than this. The faster I become better the faster I can protect those dear to me. I failed last time, I won't fail again."
Akari tried to reassure her brother "That wasen't your fault dummy, you were lucky you didnt get killed yourself. You know the med-nins said that you died twice in surgery to repair your arms."
Erisu was overwhelmed by sadness and anger. "Fuck that, set it up again!"
He focused his chakra, and then flipped through the handsigns. Akari felt sorry for her brother, but didnt want to interfere. He had to get over this on his own. Erisu spit the bursts and waited for them to come back. Akari jotted some notes down pertaining to his training. The bursts returned and the "image " formed in his head. "1 Kunai to the left 15 meters. 4 shurikens 20 meters to the right. Senbon 30 meters in front of me, senbon 24 meters behind me, senbon 12 meters to the right." He waited for his sisters critique.
Akari stood shocked. He hadn't missed anything this time. His pained resolve pushed him to be better. She grew worried but didnt show it. "You did great Erisu, you didnt miss anything!"
He didnt even respond to her encouragement. "I'm ready.....redo the set up."
He would stay here and train until his arms burned all over again. He needed the get rid of the pain and everyday his arms grew stronger.....

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"Sonar" x3
Rank: D-C ranked (C)
Skill: Supplementary Ninjutsu
Effect: The user can locate the general location of enemies.
Special: Bird, Boar, Ox
Drawback: Some objects might interfere with the sonar. Low rank provides a 2-D reading (explained below). Must be learned multiple times
Description: The user performs the need hand seals. From there, the user emits 3, very low pitched sound waves(via voice or weapon). The sound travels very quickly in a 360 degree radius. The low pitched sound bounces off various objects with the area and returns to the user to interpret. With this done, the user can pin point enemy movement and location in fractions of a second. The draw back to this that the sound wave only travels in a flat line until a C-rank is attained.
The user begins with 10 meters distance, increasing 20 Meters every time learned. After 50 meters, Training is moved to a C-Rank, which then allows the user to emit the sound wave in all three dimensions. Every time learned in C-ranked increase the distance to 25 meters, With a maximum of 150 meters.
Limit: Must have sound release.
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"Damn," Erisu muttered to himself, "that last one was pretty difficult." Akari rose and walked over to Erisu. "It wasen't meant to be easy." She let the last word drip off her tongue. Erisu took his blindfold off and then sat abruptly on the floor. Sweat glistened on his brow and he wiped it off in one motion with the back of his forearm. He wanted to rest, and badly too, but he knew that if he stopped now he wouldn't want to continue later. For now he focused on regaining some stamina. Akari appeared next to him with a large cup of water. "I know your thirsty, drink this." Erisu took the cup and guzzled it right down. He took a single deep breath and then rose. He would master this technique, and nothing short of death itself would stop him. He reached for the blindfold and grabbed it, tying it swiftly around his head. "I'm ready Akari."
Akari finished her preparations. "You can begin anytime you like."
Erisu had practiced this enough times to know what came next. He gathered the chakra into his weakened arms, feeling the slight burning sensation. Next he focused the chakra into his chest and flipped through his handsigns. Bird, boar, ox. He flipped through them quicker this time having had enough practice. He focused his chakra and spit out the low bursts in one and a half second intervals. He focused intently, listening for the bursts to return and return they did.
The first thing noticeable was the broader range and larger circumference of the "image" formed in his head. The second thing he noticed was that the "image was no longer presented to him as a flat piece of paper. His "image" now seemed to carry some measure of depth to it. A smile tugged on the corners of Erisu's mouth. "Akari, your gonna have to do way better, this is gonna be too easy." Akari responded, "Ok tough guy, since you're so good, tell me what things "look" like."
"Easy enough, 2 shurikens 42 meters in front of me, 2 vases about 35 meters behind me. One is empty, the other has a single senbon in it." Akari's attention was grasped hard, by Erisu's skill. "Let me see, um, 1 kunai 5 meters to my left, 2 senbon 20 more meters after that, and my double-bladed kunai about 12 meters to my right. This is soooo much easier now. I can basically "see" everything my sound bursts come into contact with. The sound returns so much differently, depending on what material the object I 'see' is made out of."
Akari grew happy at her brother's training reaping him some benefits finally.
"Ok so you really need to take a little resting time."
"Akari, dont talk down to me like that. I'm grown now, i'll decide when I need to rest."
"Sorry, I just dont want you to hurt yourself." The smile faded from her face.
Erisu could hear the change of the tone of her voice. "Ok, i'll take five minutes, but after that I'm right back to training."
Akari could only muster her smile once more for her brother.

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Non-Training
The cool air outside the Ryuzaki household felt good on Erisu's face. He took his five minutes of rest and enjoyed it. He finally regained some his stamina. His arms did ache, but they didnt pulse with fire everytime his heart beat anymore. Akari sat by his side with him enjoying the cool weather. The wind cooled the sweat on his brow.
The music of the festival blew in on the wind playing low in the background. Erisu closed his eyes and remembered the numerous festivals of his past. He had so much fun back then it made him a little nostalgic.
Akari lay in the grass, feeling the gentle breeze, and humming the tune of her favorite song. Erisu rose having felt like he wasted enough time. "Akari that was like 10 minutes. It's time to get back to training." Akari moaned, "Do we have to? Can we just have a little more time to rest? The music from the festival makes me remember all those good times." Her eyes glazed over with the memories of the festival. "I wish we could just go over there and just enjoy it ya' know?"
Erisu exhaled already knowing where this was going.
"Alright, alright. I guess we can go for a little while but you have to promise that we can come right back and get straight to my training."
Akari grinned ear to ear and stuck out her hand."Sounds like a deal." she giggled.
Erisu shook her hand and grabbed his cloak.
{Exit}

[← KIRA →]

+7

[Spirit™]

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"Sonar" x3
Rank: D-C ranked (C)
Skill: Supplementary Ninjutsu
Effect: The user can locate the general location of enemies.
Special: Bird, Boar, Ox
Drawback: Some objects might interfere with the sonar. Low rank provides a 2-D reading (explained below). Must be learned multiple times
Description: The user performs the need hand seals. From there, the user emits 3, very low pitched sound waves(via voice or weapon). The sound travels very quickly in a 360 degree radius. The low pitched sound bounces off various objects with the area and returns to the user to interpret. With this done, the user can pin point enemy movement and location in fractions of a second. The draw back to this that the sound wave only travels in a flat line until a C-rank is attained.
The user begins with 10 meters distance, increasing 20 Meters every time learned. After 50 meters, Training is moved to a C-Rank, which then allows the user to emit the sound wave in all three dimensions. Every time learned in C-ranked increase the distance to 25 meters, With a maximum of 150 meters.
Limit: Must have sound release.

7/30

Erisu rose from his deep sleep, giving a large stretch and a yawn. Being here in his old house felt good, but he knew that it might not hold up that long once his parents returned from their vacation. Akari was supposed to keep him here until they arrived so that they could talk and make up, but Erisu knew it wouldn't be as easy as she believed it would. For now he would keep her happy though.

Erisu quickly shuffled through the usual morning routine, he came downstairs into a broad dining room, where there was a plate already served with steaming food waiting for him. He knew that it was for him, but he also knew that Akari didn't cook. Or even better yet that she could cook, but you didnt want to eat her creations. Erius gobbled the bacon, toast, and eggs down hastily, prepared to face whatever training regimen she had prepared for him today.

Erisu walked down the creaking stairs very quickl,y throwing open the double doors at the bottom and seeing only total darkness. Erisu thought this to be odd, he had not seen Akari in the house when he woke up, and he didnt see her through the darkness of the room either.

"Enter." Akari's voice boomed through the darkness.
Erisu scanned the room with his eyes but seeing nothing through the darkness of the large dojo like room.

"Sonar." He mumbled while forming his handsigns. He flipped through the Bird, boar and ox handsigns and then focused all of his chakra to his chest. He spat out the three bursts and waited for the to come back, listening very intently. They came back and finally Erisu was relaxed.

"Really Akari?" Sarcasm dripping from his words. " In the dark?"
"Yes Erisu, really." She said using and equal amount of sarcasm.
"With the blindfold on, you dont see anyways. So what's the big problem?" Akari said sounding slightly frustrated.
"No problems for me, but how are you gonna be able to see?" Erisu asked curiosity getting the better of him.
"Night-vision goggles!" She giggled to him.
"Something bought with my money?"
"More like our money." She giggled again

The door closed behind Erisu locking him into the dark room. He no longer needed the blindfold he was holding, so he tossed it aside.

"You seem to have gotten the hang of this jutsu pretty well so far. I'm gonna teach how to use that big ass sword of yours to get a better result out of that jutsu." Akari spoke somewhere in the darkness.

Erisu began charging his chakra once more for another go at it.

[Elgar]

+0

There was no training in this post

[Spirit™]

I was not expecting such a quick rating, I didn't finish!

SPOILER: Click to show

"Sonar" x3
Rank: D-C ranked (C)
Skill: Supplementary Ninjutsu
Effect: The user can locate the general location of enemies.
Special: Bird, Boar, Ox
Drawback: Some objects might interfere with the sonar. Low rank provides a 2-D reading (explained below). Must be learned multiple times
Description: The user performs the need hand seals. From there, the user emits 3, very low pitched sound waves(via voice or weapon). The sound travels very quickly in a 360 degree radius. The low pitched sound bounces off various objects with the area and returns to the user to interpret. With this done, the user can pin point enemy movement and location in fractions of a second. The draw back to this that the sound wave only travels in a flat line until a C-rank is attained.
The user begins with 10 meters distance, increasing 20 Meters every time learned. After 50 meters, Training is moved to a C-Rank, which then allows the user to emit the sound wave in all three dimensions. Every time learned in C-ranked increase the distance to 25 meters, With a maximum of 150 meters.
Limit: Must have sound release.

"Okay, I'm listening." Erisu began, "How do I procede?"
"I'm getting to it," Akari spoke from the dark. "If you scrape metal with an object usually the sound emitted is that of the high pitch nature. If you can scrape metal with more metal, then the sound would be of an even higher pitch. You, have to strike your oversized sword in such a way that it emmits a pitch high enough for you to use for your sonar."

Erisu paused going over the details of what he heard and then a question passed through his mind.
"Where is my sword?"
"You have to find it dummy!" She giggled. "Start looking!" She yelled from the darkness.

Erisu was entirely used to the bird, boar, and ox handsigns for this jutsu, and flipped through them quickly. If there had been light in the room, it still would have been pretty hard to identify the signs he used due to the speed of his fingers. Sucking in alot of air he focused his chakra to his lungs and spit out the three bursts of sound. He "saw" the large sword almost instantly, the metal, casuing his bursts to echo and return quickly. It hung from a mantle on the wall. He continued, focusing in the full radius of his technique.

A little father away from the sword he noticed Akari standing in the darkness sporting her night-vision goggles. They were big and awkward on her face and looked as such. Erisu ignored this however and sprinted straight to the mantle retrieving his large sword.

"Alright so I suppose I'm gonna have to look for the metal item, with which to strike this large sword with?" Erisu asked his tone hopeful for a simple solution.
"Yup." Came the giggled response.
Erisu moved foward quickly beginning his handsigns. Bird, boar, ox. He pulled a deep breath and focused his chakra simultaneously, spitting out the three bursts in a few seconds.

The bursts expanded, and spread, canvasing the every nook within Erisu's 50 meter radius. He waited for the light pinging of a metallic object but it didn't come. Obviously, he wasn't searching in the right area. He moved out of that area of the dojo like room knowing that Akari would never make things easy on him.

He spotted up once more, after gaining enough distance from the first try and fired up his handsigns again. Using the chakra from his chest he fired out three bursts and then listened hard, straining his ears to hear everything. It came back softly at first, but became louder as each burst returned to his ears.

Burried deep into the wall, almost up to the hilt, was Erisu's double-bladed kunai. He sauntered over and ripped the kunai from its place.

"Can we stop playing games and get some real training started?"

[Spirit™]

SPOILER: Click to show

"Sonar" x3
Rank: D-C ranked (C)
Skill: Supplementary Ninjutsu
Effect: The user can locate the general location of enemies.
Special: Bird, Boar, Ox
Drawback: Some objects might interfere with the sonar. Low rank provides a 2-D reading (explained below). Must be learned multiple times
Description: The user performs the need hand seals. From there, the user emits 3, very low pitched sound waves(via voice or weapon). The sound travels very quickly in a 360 degree radius. The low pitched sound bounces off various objects with the area and returns to the user to interpret. With this done, the user can pin point enemy movement and location in fractions of a second. The draw back to this that the sound wave only travels in a flat line until a C-rank is attained.
The user begins with 10 meters distance, increasing 20 Meters every time learned. After 50 meters, Training is moved to a C-Rank, which then allows the user to emit the sound wave in all three dimensions. Every time learned in C-ranked increase the distance to 25 meters, With a maximum of 150 meters.
Limit: Must have sound release.

?/30

Akari, began giving instruction, knowing of Erisu's impatience. "What you need to do is strike the sword at such an angle so that the sound that is emmited is of an extremely high pitch."

Hearing enough Erisu began, trying to focus hard. He drew on his chakra, focusing it upon his sword this time. The chakra pulsed through his arms causing them to ache and burn considerably from his old injury. He finished imbuing his sword with his own chakra and then ran through the handsigns quickly, bird, boar, and ox.

He took the heavy Kunai and swung it hard at his sword. Scraping across the broad side of his sword, the sound that came forth was indeed high pitched, causing Erisu to cringe from the sound. He scraped again this time, slightly faster but producing mostly the same effect. Erisu struck the blade once more with the heavy Kunai, this time sliding it along the face of the blade. The last strike, less audible to the ears, but producing a very shaky, vague "image" in Erisu's head.

He was happy with the last result a little and he decided to keep going. "Maybe you dont have to make such annoying sounds." He spoke aloud to his sword.

Again, he thought to himself, and quickly began molding chakra to the sword. He made the same quick handsigns and then taking the heavy blade, he slid it horizontally across the sword. The first pitch was on par with his first try, the loud scraping making Erisu cringe. But the second and third swipes were smoother to the ears creating quality high pitch sound waves.
He could almost see the detail on Akari. This new way had more definition then the regular ones he had tried. Maybe it had something to do with the metal of the sword he guessed.

Whatever it didn't matter. As long as he could "see" better it wouldn't matter.

[Spirit™]

SPOILER: Click to show

"Sonar" x3
Rank: D-C ranked (C)
Skill: Supplementary Ninjutsu
Effect: The user can locate the general location of enemies.
Special: Bird, Boar, Ox
Drawback: Some objects might interfere with the sonar. Low rank provides a 2-D reading (explained below). Must be learned multiple times
Description: The user performs the need hand seals. From there, the user emits 3, very low pitched sound waves(via voice or weapon). The sound travels very quickly in a 360 degree radius. The low pitched sound bounces off various objects with the area and returns to the user to interpret. With this done, the user can pin point enemy movement and location in fractions of a second. The draw back to this that the sound wave only travels in a flat line until a C-rank is attained.
The user begins with 10 meters distance, increasing 20 Meters every time learned. After 50 meters, Training is moved to a C-Rank, which then allows the user to emit the sound wave in all three dimensions. Every time learned in C-ranked increase the distance to 25 meters, With a maximum of 150 meters.
Limit: Must have sound release.

?/30

Erisu was growing more accustomed to the new way of using his jutsu. In a way it was like comparing a flute's music compared to that of a random person whistling. It made a big difference. This new way was a bit more tiresome then the old way though. That seemed to be the only drawback.

Erisu had been charging charka for several seconds, waiting to try again. He chained his handsigns, bird, boar, ox. He then molded his chakra to the surface of his sword in preparation for the strikes he was about to deal to it.

He struck the blade the first time with his kunai. He had been getting better at this, and so his first attempt was good. It was still slightly audible, but returned giving him good "vision". The second was not audible at all, and gave Erisu the clearest "sight" he'd had since beginning the jutsu. The third strike was very good. Not audible and very clear. He could finally see back to the range of his sonar's radius and he saw Akari across the room, dutifully watching over him. She didn't take any notes here in the dark, but Erisu was sure that sometime in the near future he would find her writing in a bright room.

He shook it from his mind and continued knowing that he had to perfect this one if the jutsu was gonna be any good. Molding his chakra and performing his handsigns had become second nature for this jutsu. The sword glowed in the darkness, tinted by the bluish-green chakra that surrounded it. Erisu took the kunai, and trying to speed up the jutsu, he struck the sword quickly. Nearly as fast as when he used to just spit the sound waves from his mouth.

The sounds of metal on metal scraped out first but the last two strike were on point helping Erisu form an image in his head. He hadn't noticed this before, but he could hear a loud pinging noise from overhead. He looked up and noticed ten shuriken imbedded high into the ceiling.

Akari broke her silence from far away. "I thought you'd never get around to notcing those. I guessed it would take a little while for you to get the strikes down correctly, but it sure did take a long time for you to notice those."

Erisu silently cursed himself for his futility. Eventually he would get it down, but for now he would have to train.

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Add A Tp count. Don't just quetion mark it. +18

[Spirit™]

25/30

[Spirit™]

SPOILER: Click to show

"Sonar" x3
Rank: D-C ranked (C)
Skill: Supplementary Ninjutsu
Effect: The user can locate the general location of enemies.
Special: Bird, Boar, Ox
Drawback: Some objects might interfere with the sonar. Low rank provides a 2-D reading (explained below). Must be learned multiple times
Description: The user performs the need hand seals. From there, the user emits 3, very low pitched sound waves(via voice or weapon). The sound travels very quickly in a 360 degree radius. The low pitched sound bounces off various objects with the area and returns to the user to interpret. With this done, the user can pin point enemy movement and location in fractions of a second. The draw back to this that the sound wave only travels in a flat line until a C-rank is attained.
The user begins with 10 meters distance, increasing 20 Meters every time learned. After 50 meters, Training is moved to a C-Rank, which then allows the user to emit the sound wave in all three dimensions. Every time learned in C-ranked increase the distance to 25 meters, With a maximum of 150 meters.
Limit: Must have sound release.

25/30

Chakra was definitely low now. He had been training since early that morning. The last time he had eaten was breakfast. Erisu's stomach grumbled and complained. Erisu rubbed his hungry belly thinking only of food and cookies.

Working on this jutsu, was definitely more difficult then he thought it would be in the first place. Already the jutsu had gone through seperate stage of clarity. The last session giving Erisu a good, clear "view" of things.

He had to continue until he finished. Akari walked towards Erisu in the darkness. "It seems as if you've almost got it down. At least you can 'see' what is around you, using this method."
Erisu interrupted anxious to continue, "Hey can we get a move on with this one, i'm starving here!"

"Alright then." Akari said sounding slightly frustrated. "Begin!"

Erisu gathered his charka, focusing it on the broad face of the great sword. He drew the kunai from its pouch and struck the blade onto the face of the sword three quick times, done so quickly and at such an angle that each strike could not be heard.

Instantly Erisu's ears perked up listening intently for the return of his blades screams. They quickly felt out everything in Erisu's 50 meter radius and returned to him, "showing" him everything within the area.

"Ok, so there are senbon lodged in the ground near my feet. Four of them I count, and just so you know that is very dangerous. If I would've stepped on one of those..." he spoke his voice trailing off as he imagined stepping and having his foot pierced by one of those sharp needles. "Anyways," he continued, " Three shuriken 20 meters straight ahead, and two handle-less kunai imbedded in the ceiling above me."

"That was pretty good!." Akari encouraged from her position. "But you should really do it again, just in case you missed anything ."

Erisu was confused, he was sure he hadn't missed anything but if she had suggested it, then there had to be a reason.

He molded his chakra to the sword once more and flipped through the three handsigns. Striking the sword firm and quick, the sound waves leaping off of the sword. He listened, straining his ears as the sound came back, and he made sure to examine every little thing.

The senbon where still in the floor, the two kunai in the ceiling, he searched and double checked and it was in double checking that he found what he was looking for. The kunai that pierced the ceiling also pierced through two explosive notes.

"The explosive notes." Erisu said to his sister.
"Good." She spoke back. If you continue like this you'll have this done in no time.
"Can I get something to eat?" Erisu said, his stomach complaining once more.
"Sure." came the response.

Erisu ran for the stairs hoping above anything else that lunch would be mysteriously made already like his breakfast.