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Izaya surged chakra through his entire upper body while taling his anaami off. this left his upper portion exposed so that the bones could come out his chest and bac without running the risk of sewering his clothing. Izaya grunted as the spies began to all push at the same time. His breathing picked up quickly and his muscles in the legs began to quiver as if lacking oxygen. Izaya dropped to a knee and palmed the ground with one hand. He looed up to find Ibizu starinig at him with a skeptical look on his face. He knew the elder was worried about Izaya's loss of chakra form training so hard all day but Izaya wasn't ready to quit yet. "I know that look...but it's no use with me...I'm going to learn these dances, and I'm at least going to learn this one before I do anything else today..."

Ibizu sighed and asked, "You haven't even eaten anything today have you? You've just been training and pushing and running low on stamina, and low on chakra... You learned 4 or so jutsu today alone, and you still just won't take a break? This is not the way to train...at least not on these basic jutsu!" Izaya wiped a bunch of sweat from his forehead and said sharply, "The dances of our people are not basic jutsu...these are the things that our clan was nown most for...If this is what it taes to master them then so be it..." Ibizu shoo his head in fascination. "You will never cease to amaze me boy...rarely do any your age train so furociously in one day increments...What do you thin this is going to do to your body in the future?" Ibizu questioned while Izaya forced himself to stand up on his legs. He charged chakra to his innercoil while holding the focus seal.

It too a minute but the chara accumulated, and Izaya then felt his spikes even out in length. He resembled a porcupine now. "I think...that when I am older...I will have a good body, and be in supreme health...Because...I will find a way to keep old age from afflicting me...In fact...I can't have any problems with my body at any age, because if I am going to lead our people one day then I will need to be in top shape to handle the oppositions...I'm telling you Ibizu...I'll be better then you one day...better then Master Waso...Better then Masaaki...Better then any ninja of the mist that ever set foot on this earth...Right now I am going through the motions...but I can see it...I can feel it Ibizu...I'm destined for great things...I have...what...it takes..." Izaya said through labored breathing. Izaya fell to his nkees and his eye's flickered as if he where going to feint soon.

Ibizu chucled and then turned away. "Well...your body disagrees with your getting the hang of the dance of pines tonight...You will probably passout where you are soon, and so I'm going to retire for the day and se you in the morning...probably late in the afternoon, because your body has been pushed to the brink of your chakra resevoirs..." Izaya reached a hand out lazily after Ibizu, trying to form the words to tell him not to leave yet. but then Izaya dropped into a pile of flesh and spies, slumbering cold in a deep sleep.

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Izaya awoke some time later, the hangar was quiet except for the sound of Ibizu's loud snoring up in his loft. Izaya pushed himself up off the floor and looked around. The place was dark at night, but his eye's could make out a little light...from the holes in the roofing that they had made earlier with the Hessenden bullets. Izaya noticed he was still covered in spikes. He rose to a sitting position and looked over at the door at one end of the room, the diving pool at the other end, and the huge pile of trash at the other far end of the room. " The moon is out...I must have only passed out for a few hours...That means I can still keep my promise, if I train through the night..." Izaya said confimrationally rising to his feet.

His stomach gurgled as he stood, but he wasn't worried about fish right now. He wanted to geth this dance down pat. He reflected on the words that Ibizu told him earlier, about needing to spin on the tip's of his toes as an axis. Izaya nodded to himself and clapped his hands together. He stood in the center of where the light was trying to see the ground around where he was going to work. "Hmmm...this isn't enough light..." Izaya said. He reached a hand up to the rooftop and fired four more bullet's to brighten the room a little more. The ambientlight came down from above and Izaya had enough light to see where he stood and then some now.

"Alright then...let's surprise the master by showing him how much self initiative I have...If Masaaki could learn this by himself then so can I..." Izaya resolved. He began spinning around on his one foot, trying to balance himself out as he spun three rotations and nearly fell on his ass. "This will be the triciest part..." Izaya said to himself. Even with all the balance of body phsyique he had with training in the martial art's, he had to admit finding his center of gravity while having all these bone spikes sticking out was a difficult task at least. Izaya tried to spin around again after adjusting his arm's. He spun around four quick times and had to plant his feet to eep from falling over. His eye's were a bit dizzy so he had to tae a moment to adjust them as well.

"So...I'll have to learn to do this with my eye's closed as well...I see, your meant to use your senses aside form sight to maintain direction and clairity...therein lies the art, of the dance..." Izaya said figuratively. He thought over who the creator of this dance really was. What mind would have pondered these techniques?

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Izaya closed his eye's now, focusing on the technique and the concentration involved to perform it succesfully. He swung his arms around, pivoting his upperbody and began to spin in a clockwise direction, maing a full 6 rotations with his own momentum alone. Dust under his two feet rose up as he twirled and settled shortly when he finished. Izaya kept his eye's closed and tried it again. As he spun, the ambient sounds of wind outside and metal beams creaking could be heard. It was a perfect setting of serenity. In this moment Izaya felt more inwardly focused then he had in a long time. His mind wandered over the events of his life most recently.

Where before he had learned his basic bone jutsu, and then moved onwards to learn the bigenning basics of goutetsu, to the few missions he had done to his meeting with Tsuyu and Achilles, to finding masaaki inn the woods. He had really gotten involved with the village since becoming a genin. And now Izaya was thinking of forming a team, learning advanced jutsu, woring on his elemental releases, and becoming a tactically proficient fighter. He spun around on the ground in a circular motion again, this time lifting to a single foot as he spun. Izaya found his speed increase by doing this and he managed to make it around in 8 rotations. He planted his feet again and let the dizzyness fade from his mind. Then with a deep breath, Izaya tried again, he pushed off hard this time, spinning around fast and he swung his arm's outwards to catch the momentum, and then brought them inwards towards his body as he lifted to the tip of one foot.

He spun around fast and then even faster as he did this, his body making a whooshing noise as he rotated. After a full ten rotation's Izaya practiced repeatedly to do the same thing. He was beginning to get the hang of this skill. Now he needed to get the hang of adding chakra to the mix. Izaya poised his feet again. And focused on his inner coil. The chakra was there but it had only reaccumulated a little since he had rested only a couple of hours. Izaya wondered if he would have enough to perform the jutsu corrcetly. His mind wandered to the memory of when Masaai performed this jutsu. He too had trouble finding the right chakra control, and adding chakra to his rotations. "Well...I'm going to get it down before the sun rises..." Izaya thought smugly.

He swung his arm's out and then pushed off hard spinning around. As he brought his arms in to catch the momentum he lifted up to one foot and applied a small amount of chakra. He could feel it slicken the sole of his feet, and as this happened he added a bit more to it. He felt his spin slowing down, but he also noticed their was less friction so he could spin more without stopping at ten rotations. Now Izaya could manage 20 rotations in one go. He had only used a small portion of chakra just to do this.

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Izaya stood in the middle of a dark hangar still. The night air was growing lighter as the young genin kept at his work. His dedication to power was overwhelming...consuming even. All he could think about was getting to the next level before Masaaki. He looked at thoughts of Ibizu and yearned to have the power and knowledge he had. Why him and the old man where so lax and simple in their lives was beyond Izaya, he couldn't understand why for the life of him that they would accept these meager humble lives when they had the power to make a better life for themselves. Didn't they have dreams? Ambitions? Or where they too old to care anymore...

Izaya pushed off the ground, his body turning into a rapid spin which quickened evenly as he brought his arms inwards lie an ice skater. Once they where brought in Izaya lifted to one foot and throttled his chakra slightly. His body began to pick up speed as his momentum threw his body into an everlasting spin. He wasn't quite a blur of motion yet, but he was spinning fast enough that his jutting spikes could cut someone if they got too close. I need more speed...I need to be like a tornado, so that anything that comes close will immediatly be shredded apart, not just nicked and cut...
Izaya thought to himself. He stopped spinning and stopped to take a breath for a swecond. He had been at this all night now, and the sun was coming up finally. He wondered if master Waso was going to come in this morning and see him here training already. if so izaya would rather be able to surprise him by finishing the touches on this jutsu. or better yet surprise him by not revealing some of the things he had learned today. there was no reason to show all his training, besides he could use it to one up to man at a later time.

Izaya rubbed his stomach thining he should really get something to eat, but he new he couldn't abandon right now. He gave a final look at the light of the sky, and went back into stance. He kicked off the ground and began to spin. Quickly he moved on to bringing his arms inwards and then lifted to one foot and added the chakra again. He surged his inner coil and began to spin faster and faster, trying to pump out more and more energy, abandoning the risk of low chakra reserve. Izaya spun like a thrown suriken now, his hair flung out, his arms tuced in leaving only the deadly spikes out from his body. The ground under his foot began to shimmer with a slight blueish tint as chakra accumulated in that one point. the dust from the ground began to slightly ick upwards into the air as well. A soft swooshing sound reverbrated in the morning silence, and Izaya stuck to it this time. He was going all the way as far as he could go. 20 revolutions, 30 revolutions, 40, 50, 60, faster, faster, faster!

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Izaya started to spin to the point that a vortex of dust was swirling around him. The sound of wind whirling was very audible now, and it would be easy to see that approaching him at these speeds would leave your body rent and spent. Outside the air was beginning to warm up and the sun was coming. The moon had disappeared behind the mild sky blue cascade that was going to send the village into it's morning ritual as usual. Izaya faltered for a second, his eye's closed, and his mind stuck into a state of clarity where he focused on a mental image of the room around so as to avoid the sense of vertigo from the intense revolutions.

Izaya noticed that his chakra was running low once again. He hadn't slept a full 8 hours and recovered, though he prolly needed even more rest then that as well since he had been training non stop for the last few weeks. Izaya slowed his rotations somewhat and then came to a complete stop, his right foot sliding out to ground himself and reveal a ring of dust around him as the room became quite save for the morning's ambiance once more. His breathing was heavy and his head was light again as if he felt like passing out. Izaya's ears pricked up to the sounds of the morning outside. He could hear the seagulls and the sound of the morning surf sloshing and flowing. In no time at all the villagers would be rising up for the new day, and so should master Waso be coming in today to begin the morning's training. Izaya rubbed the small of his back, feeling the aches of performing this jutsu so much over and over.

"It appears that I have not much time left to learn this technique...I have to get this down in the next go..." Izaya said. He looked at the front door to the room after saying this as he heard a creak at the hinges. Izaya's eye's widened to see that it was master Waso who walked in with a surprised look on his face and then that look turned to curiosity. "...And just what brings my pupil to the hangar this early in the morning? I have not been here all night...and so you couldn't have been training...and yet you look spent...no...you are spent..." Izaya stared at his master, his breath heaving in slowly, and then out slowly. For a full ten seconds nothing was said, and then Izaya's brow furrowed. "I have been learning how to dance in the moon light!" He shouted before crouching low and then leaping up high into the air.

His hands performed some handseals to form earth clones of whcih Izaya spun slowly in the air above, spitting out globs of mud to form them a few yards away all around the room. In all he had formed a total of four clones, before landing on the toes of his left foot. His right foot was entwined behind the left, not touching the ground. Izaya's hands swirled around mesmerizingly as if to catch the eye of his master with a flourish. The clones began running inwards towards Izaya, there hands ready to strike him down.

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The clones kept running over the distance of the floor as Izaya kept spinning. His pant's twirled in the wind, and his hair shook furiously as his body went through the familiar revolutions. It was hard to press his revolutions because his chakra was so low. But this was it, he said he'd learn this over night by himself, and by golly he was going to. His mind began to center inwards on a still image of the room, and so he released his mind from the dizzyness of his equilibrium, his subconcious locking his body into perpetual balance. As well his center of gravity was locked in as well due to his spinning momentum...

This was it, he had to perform this well or he would be failing himself...

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Izaya spun at full speed now, reaching revolutions that would have caused anyone unaccustomed to these high speeds to pass out. But alas he had reached the mental clarity needed to endure the high velocity. As the mud clones he had created came close to him, they would leap into a uniform pounce at the distance of about four yards away. Izaya could sense them coming close somehow. His ears, wether because of the sound release or because his ninja senses had developed, could tell that bodies where nearing his presence. The clones came close, their hands pulled back in tight fist ready to pummel the young genins head in and stomp him down to the ground. If Izaya didn't pull this off he wouldn't have enough chakra to try again.

The sun was showing now over the horizon, casting a bright sky blue sheen in the sky above. It was one of them clear days today, not cast with the usual mist like usual. Master Waso watched calmly right at the front door looking to the pupil of his show yet more results of his progress. One clone hit the barrier of spinning bones and was instantly disentegrated into dust and rubble! The next hit the barrier of spinning bones with it's fist, which was ground all the way to it's shoulder before it was broken into bit's of rubble and chunks of dirt on the floor.

The third hit and it's hand was blown away into dust, causing it's body to turn around 180 degree's before it was ripped apart into some large chunks and peices. And finally when the fourth hit It's hand was deflected but not broken or shredded. The rest of it's body slammed into the barrier and was tossed to the side, rolling over the ground until it came to a halt. Izaya slowly began to slow down his rotations then, sensing that his diamter was clear now. The genin stepped his right foot out and grounded himself, causing the circle of dust to appear as he spun to face the last clone which laid on the ground unmoving. Izaya could be seen covered in bones, sweating and breathing ravenously. His eye's where low, and his arms hung at his sides, fatigue maxed out again. His leg's shook as he watched the clones waiting for it to dismantle into a pile of rubble.

However, after a few moments, Ibizu seemed to interupt the intense moment by coming out of his shack to see what all the commotion was in the morning. "What in the hell is going on so early in the morning? Who goes there?!...Eh, Huh?" The big Kaguya rubbed sleep from his yes and looked to the ground below from the railing walkway above. He surveyed the floor, and counted Waso and Izaya and the clones of mud which all where destroyed except for the one. "Hmph...so you awoke in the morning and resumed things yourself huh? And by the looks of it you almost perfected the dance! Haha...well we have all day now..."

Izaya glanced tiredly at Ibizu and frowned. But his head snapped back as he heard the clone getting to it's feet. Izaya felt an immense wave of dread and disappointment wash over his body. The clone rose to it's feet and began to hobble towards Izaya, like some sort of mud clone zombie. As he watched the slow hobbling clone make it's way with a blank expression Izaya felt rage and anger like never before. His failure at this technique was overwhelming. His hands began to clench into tight fist, and his blood seemed to boil beyond the cause. Master Waso saw this with the eye of the wise and experienced, so did Ibizu who knew the cause of such a rage. both of them tensed and snapped into their serious mind frames, thinking that Izaya was going to go berserk with the bloodlust of the Kaguya. Their eye's met each other intensely for a moment, hands slipped into pockets, and feet shifted to the balls of their feet.

However, right when it seemed things would be out of control Izaya's mud clone simply disentegrated into pure earth. The clone actually had been rent by the barrier of spikes just enough to break the spell of binding chakra within it after all. And now the room went silent and still...Master Waso seemed to relax and take his hands out from his robe sleeves, while Ibizu's hands came from his pockets and he relaxed. Izaya's breathing could be heard. The genin seemed to still be seething somewhat until he looked to the shining sunshine through the holes in the roof.

"Goddamn right..."

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Jigoku no Mimi (Hells ears) Universal
Rank: "D"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: With this technique the user is capable of figuring the location of where a sound is coming from. This takes a post in order for this type of technique may take place.
Special: "Hand signs" and "Holds with the Boar"
Drawback: The user must stand still, with their eyes closed in order for the user to gain the capability of judging the direction of the sound.
Description: The way this works is that the user concentrates along the Sound release as they push the chakra along towards their ears. As the user does this, they concentrate on certain sounds that surrounds the user. If the sounds are in a large area and more sounds is created the user is capable of identifying the general location as to where the sound is coming from.
Limit: Sound Release

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Izaya went to sleep the rest of the day and awoke the next morning after learning the third dance of his people. Upon doing so Izaya would sit in the garage hangar with his master, master Waso. Master Waso was sitting in the center of the floor meditating to himself with his hands held in the focus seal for gathering chakra. Izaya took his coat off and set it near the front door like many times before and then approached the center of the room where Master Waso was sitting. Izaya sat down and crossed his legs and then began meditating as usual. Things where quiet for a moment, but then master Waso spoke up. "So how has your Sound release been coming along? I notice you have exceeded expectations in your clan jutsu and your goutetsu is coming in very well..."

Izaya replied, "Well, the thing is I don't have any sound jutsu...Completely undeveloped in those areas..." Izaya said accumulating his chakra to the inner system. Mster Waso reached into his robes and then pulled out a heavy scroll. Very well then...here...I do not have the sound release myself, but this is a scroll full of the most basic sound jutsu I picked up through a friend of mine...it will introduce you to both the basics and some advanced jutsu...It will also teach you the proper hand signs which will show you how to form your own sound jutsu and recognize it in the hands of others...Try the first jutsu it is easy..."

Izaya picked the big thick scroll up and began unraveling it to read the first jutsu over. after a few minutes of understanding the text and practicing the easy hand signs Izaya felt ready to try the jutsu out. the hand seals where not so in depth, and this didn't require alot of chakra he noticed. He made some quick handseals to himself, activated the chakra and then sent the chakra up to his ears. He could feel his ears slightly vibrate with new energy, and the sound's around him seemed to ...spike with all new clarity. Izaya's eye's slowly closed, and he focused on the noises and the directions they came from. He could hear the birds chirping and sqwaking in the air above outside. He could hear the bug's under the concrete floor in the ground below him. He could hear Ibizu snoring softly in his loft, and the sound's of background village ambience as the villagers of the town began to walk the streets far away from the junk yard.

It was like having the ears of a dog or something, being able to listen in on everything within the immediate to moderate vicinity like this. A very healthy surveillance technique Izaya would think. He opened his eye's and smirked trying the handseals one more time to dedicate them to memory. Then he would pick up the scroll for the next jutsu.

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+8, gotta have that training throughout the post >_< sry!
(couldn't count the whole first paragraph)

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Master Waso watched Izaya's performance and when he finished he watche d him also perform the handseals for memory without performing the jutsu itself for clarity. "No, never train a jutsu and remind yourself only of the handseals...you must always perform the whole jutsu and learn to respect the power you learn to wield...The techniques you learn mean you need to be more dignified then to just play with the handsigns. Remember all these techniques will always be used against your enemies or another you wish to profit from...therefore, this will always be a way of power and as such you must always have respect for power...especially if it works and is secure...so, you wil try again performing the entire jutsu just to illustrate proper form and ettiquette..."

Izaya nodded at this and apologized shortly. It would appear the genin had matured somewhat since the first days of training. He held respect for his master in high standing now, and when chastised he learned not to question the mystery but to instead follow the instruction all the way to definite enlightenment. He performed the hand seal's evenly, performing like someone who had poise and was trying to put on a good performance rather then do the motions. once done he ushered the chakra to his head where it split from his brain cavity and went to each ear like before though in a more uniform manner this time. Izaya saw now the reason to perform his jutsu in a ruly manner, having respect for the powers he learned would also help his disipline. He would make a better mind to understand the jutsu he learned and the way they worked. if ever he had problems in the future with a jutsu, his disipline would be able to point him to what may be wrong because of having done things in a orderly manner for so long.

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yea i understand, I'm not tryin to be mean, I just like to be consistent when I grade >_<

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Bo-karu Koukyoukyoku Chishiki (Vocal Symphony Knowledge)
Rank: D
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: Allows the user to use Gakushi Voice techniques.
Special: Handseals
Drawback: The user cannot perform hand seals when utilizing voice techniques.
Description: This technique is the user's ability to combine their chakra with the vibrations emanating from their vocal cords, creating the unique voice techniques. In order to be able to perform a Voice technique, the user must have this technique of a corresponding rank. Thus, if they want to learn a D Rank Voice technique, they must have Bo-karu Koukyoukyoku Chishiki D Rank. C Rank is required for C Rank techniques, and so on.
Limit: Sound Release

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Izaya held his hands together as the jutsu was being prepared for the next lesson he was learning. The scroll talked of needing to learn a prerequisite jutsu in order to learn how to use vocal sound techniques. If you didnt learn this jutsu then other jutsu couldnt be learned for the use of the mouth. Izaya was busy practicing the handseals for this technique running his hands through them over and over, trying to get his speed right and keep his eyes from focusing on the seals he was making and more on the activation of the chakra. Once he felt ready he summoned his chakra to his vocal chords. Once there he could feel them vibrating slightly and at first he almost coughed because it felt like someone was tickling the inside of his throat.

He calmed himself down and suppressed the urge before trying to open his mouth and spout out a humming sound. He immediately gagged on his own words suddenly. Izaya rubbed at his throat, feeling the soreness from hurting his vocals. He hadn't done this before and his vocal chords where unaccustmed to doing this too much. Izaya tried to relax himself and get back to the technique at hand again. He gathered his chakra to his inner coil and then pushed it to his throat. unlike his ears this was different in that he had to feel the miniscule amounts of chakra surround his individual chakra chords.

Once done, they would slightly begin to vibrate once more, causing Izaya to adjust his throat before taking in a deep careful breath and then letting out a slow humming sigh. Once done, he could feel his vocal chords throttle their vibrations. His voice let out a deeper sound then he tried to make, and he could barely, just barely make out the distortions in the air as if he was breathing out vapors. Izaya almost chuckled in excitement, but that's when he choked again on the vibrating vocals. He spat up the invisible dust he was choking on and swallowed hard to still the vibrating vocals and disperse the chakra instilled there.

He rubbed at his throat now, feeling sore in his throat, but he knew that his voice would just grow stronger in the future from this. Izaya tried one more time to get this right, he took in a deep breath though his voice hurt doing so, and he slaped his hands together. He quickly yet carefully flew them through their seals, and directed a flow of chakra from his inner coil to this throat and then opened his mouth to emit a low humming noise. At first the vocals vibrated too strongly, which felt like they were on the verge of tearing, but then he managed to control them and reduced the vibrations to a low rumbling instead.

Again the vapors could be seen, which were just the air distortions. He wondered as he did this, just what jutsu would make use of this prerequisite.

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lol idk, everyone grades according to their own standards. GL with ur rivalry thing tho haha