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Name: Hamono, Akira
Sex: Male
Age: 16
Height: Average
Weight: Average
Shinobi Rank: C-Class, Chuunin
Village: The Hidden Leaf Village

Health: 70
Chakra: 25, Stamina: 70
Intuition: 5 < 5.7
Power: 6 < 6.4
Seal: 5 < 5.3
Speed: 6 < 6.3(4.3 with weights)
Stealth: 3
Ninjutsu: 3<3.5, Taijutsu: 4, Genjutsu: 4
Attack: 8, Defense: 8
Personal Element: Wind
Application Type: Advanced
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Talents
Beginner Talents: Survival, Unarmed Combat, Acrobatics, Infiltration
Intermediate Talents: Martial Artist: Sharp Edge Form, Swift
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Techniques:

Kawarimi no Jutsu (Body Replacement Technique) [E-class, Ninjutsu, Supplementary]
This is a technique that usually confuses the attacker. The user quickly projects themselves with another nearby object such as a plant (normally a section of a log), an animal, or even another person within reach, leaving the opponent open to a counter-attack.
In the anime, a straw man bundle, a boulder, mud, and even a scarecrow has been used as a Body Substitute Jutsu, though this may not be considered canon by few fans.

Bunshin no Jutsu (Clone Technique) [E-class, Genjutsu, Supplementary]
This is a basic technique taught to ninja at an academy. In certain years, Ninja are required to know this jutsu in order to advance to the Genin level. Bunshin no Jutsu creates one or more clones of the user, which can be used as a means to create a diversion, distraction, or cause confusion. Unlike Kage Bunshin no Jutsu (Art of the Shadow Doppelganger), these illusory clones will simply disappear if come into contact, thus, they are substanceless, and cannot do anything to damage the opponent.

Henge no Jutsu (Transformation Technique) [E-Class, Genjutsu, Supplementary]
The user utilizes the sheep hand seal or the tiger hand seal and concentrates their chakra to assume the appearance of another person, an animal, or even any object. This is one of the required basic jutsu taught at the Ninja Academy. Fundamentally, all ninja know this technique.

[Konoha Senpū], (Leaf Whirlwind), (Offensive, D-Class, Taijutsu)
This Jutsu is mainly a set-up one, and consists of kicking the opponent high into the air, thus leaving them vulnerable to a subsequent more powerful attack (usually Kage Buyō, Shadow of the Dancing Leaf). Gai's version of this attack has chakra around his foot which would make his a C-rank.
Short Range

[Kuchiyose no Jutsu][Summoning Technique][C-Class, Summon]
Using a contract, seal, and the users blood, allows the user to summon an animal. The type of the animal is determined by the contract used, and the blood is the 'signature'(Which can be on a scroll, tattoo, etc).
Animal Type is Shisa

(Wind Release: Faithful Ball of Destruction) ][C-Rank, Ninjutsu, Offensive]
For its impressive name the technique isn’t in all that destructive. After performing the required handseals Akira puts his hands in a triangle like formation and compresses the air around him into a ball of wind mixed with chakra he then fires the attack at an opponent when he can’t fight at close range.
Mid Range

[ Kage Buyō,], ( Shadow Leaf Dance) (C-Rank, Taijutsu Supplementary)
While the target is airborne, the user jumps in such a way as to appear below the target while following a similar trajectory through the air. Since the victim is airborne, he is in a vulnerable position to a more damaging attack such as Omote Renge or Shishi Rendan.
Short Range

[Kai], (Cancel), [C-Rank, Genjutsu, Defensive)
Description: A jutsu that destroys/cancels out an illusionary jutsu attempted on the user. More powerful Genjutsu techniques(their chakra spent on Illusion is greater than your Cancel ability) can still overcome this technique however.

[Magen: Jubaku Satsu], (Demonic Illusion: Tree Bind Death, Supplementary, Genjutsu)
With this jutsu, the user can make themselves disappear so that they can approach their opponent unnoticed. Once near the desired target, a tree will grow at the target's feet and branches from an illusory tree will bind them from behind so that they are unable to even move or use hand seals. Once the opponent believes that they are captured, the user can then reappear from above the tree and quickly kill the opponent, preferably with a kunai.


Specialty Techniques:
[Gōken][Iron Fist][Taijutsu, Special]
Gōken is Gai's and Lee's characteristic fighting style, requiring great strength and speed, as well as mastering the opening of the eight chakra gates in the body to tap massive amounts of chakra at the cost of increasingly severe physical damage, and even death, to oneself.
Gōken is the most basic form of Taijutsu. It aims at inflicting external damage and breaking bones.
With this Technique you can transfer up to 7 chakra into each hand-to-hand attack for extra damage.
Short Range
Trademark Techniques:
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Demon: ??????????? (Izuki the Seven-Tailed Fox)
Demon Arts:
Fast Healing: While resting your body heals at an accelerated rate.
Stat Modification(s): Heal up to your Power Stat in Health points every hour.
Cost: None
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Shinobi Tools:
Forehead Protector [Worn around arm]
Body -Custom Armor- Mesh top, Ninja-to (in sheath]
Right Leg Holster- Exploding-Note Type 1, Smoke pellets, Kunai
Left Leg Holster- Communication Device, Handle-less Kunai, Scouting Device

Weights-Arm and Leg Weights(stat mod speed -2)

Accessories: Necklace, Long Belt, various scrolls left by Taiki/Karen, and Go game stuff (in a scroll).

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Character Description:






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Summonings:

D Class:

C Class:
Ranmaru, Shisa, Fire
Health: 50
Chakra: 25, Stamina: 50
Intuition: 3
Power: 4
Seal: 3
Speed: 4
Stealth: 3
Ninjutsu: 4, Taijutsu: 4, Genjutsu: 0
Attack: 7, Defense: 7

Techniques:

[Howling Fang], [Taijutsu, C-Class, Offensive]
Ranmaru runs towards the opponent spinning rapidly like a tornado and strikes his opponent cutting anything in his path.
Short Range requires 2 point running start.

Trademarks:

[Fire Release: Passion of the Hidden Leaf], [C-Class, Ninjutsu, Offensive]
Ranmaru shoots a giant ball of fire at his opponent. The ball's size is equal to Akira's faithful ball of destruction and has the same destructive capabilitiy.
Mid Range


Ransutski, Shisa, Water
Health: 50
Chakra: 25, Stamina: 50
Intuition: 4
Power: 4
Seal: 3
Speed: 4
Stealth: 2
Ninjutsu: 4, Taijutsu: 0, Genjutsu: 4
Attack: 7, Defense: 7

[Water Serpent], [C-Class, Genjutsu, Supplementary]
The target sees an image of a water serpent attacking them relentlessly.


Trademark:
[Bubble Burst], [C-Class, Ninjutsu, Offensive]
Ransutski shoots a ball of water at his opponent, interestingly enough the technique does not require any medium as the water comes from within Ransutski's body which creates the water itself.

B Class:

A Class:

S Class:

Table of Contents for Fanfiction
Chapter One- A lesson from the White Queen. (Short, Oneshot)
Chapter Two- Shopping (Short, Oneshot)
Chapter Three- The newest member to Team Blossom (Short, Prologue)
Chapter Four- The first mission. (Med/Long hard to decide)
Chapter Five- Please don't kill me master! (Short)
Chapter Six- Pain and Testament Pt. 1 (Short)
Chapter Seven- Pain and Testament (Med)

Amarigatachi-A position where you were apparently attacking nicely and pushing the opponent around, but you either let the opponent live or got a trivial profit.

Is it mercy, or lack of skill?

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Honestly, sometimes I wonder what's up with that girl? Oh well at least, Aksura-Sempai told us where to meet up tomorrow and at what time. So only one more day of Mai's nonsense before the next mission. Well at least all I have to do today is pick up some milk from the groceries store. No more training whatsoever and I can finally sleep with both eyes closed. Akira casually strolled down the street on his way home holding a large gourd looking up at the sky before crashing into a large man in business atire who's eyes were covered. Oddly enough the man was dragging a very similar gourd of his own before crashing into Akira. The two scrambled to their feet before Akira handed the man the gourd assumed to belong to that guy.

After walking a few feet Akira noticed that he no longer heard a swishing sound inside of the gourd. Also, it seemed to weigh less. "Holy...oh my...where did all this money come from?"

"HEY that's the same gourd stop that kid he has my money." A short pudgy man yelled pointing at Akira who was soon being chased by two ninjas.

"Oh c'mon Zanzu isn't even with me, since when did his luck rub off?" Akira shouted as he turned the corner into an alleyway. The chase continued for several minutes before Akira eventually lost them in a crowd. I have to find that milk. There's no way I'd be able to find another container to hold enough milk.

About this time the man realized his container now held something different. "That kid...he made off with my darn proffit. I did not plan years planning...for milk!" He stated angrily sealing it up. "HEY!" The man noticed the pudgy man from the store he robbed pointing at him and a set of ninja soon followed after. "Long day, huh." He quickly turned tail and ran.

Akira was spotted as soon as the crowd began to dissapate and he had no choice but to run again uknowingly passing by the man with his gourd who was evading his own pursuers. Akira attempted one of the handseal combinations he was forced to run through today hoping that it would work as a feint. "Kage Bushin no Jutsu." A poof of smoke appeared next to Akira with nothing inside as he attempted to make a solid clone seeing as the only reason the normal Bunshin worked on Mai the other day was because she misjudged the situation. "Isn't it wonderful how the day she sets aside to work on jutsus...is the day SHE SENDS ME OUT FOR MILK!" Oh well may as well see if Taijutsu works." Suddenly stopping Akira prepared to stand his ground as the ninja ran past him and came back to restrain him he used a chakra charged roudhouse kick to their heads to knock them out. "Sorry, here have some compensation cuz what I'm about to do, well let's just say people certainly pay alot for this treatment in certain clubs." Akira dumped out the contents off the gourd and replaced it with the clothes of his pursuers. "This...has got to be my worst plan ever." He said looking down at the now exposed ninja. "Worst..plan...ever." Carrying his now laundry bag of sorts Akira resumed his search for the well-dressed man.

The man as luck would have it had lost the shinobis chasing him and was now looking for Akira all over the place. At least three times did the man come into a building to look for Akira just as the boy left looking for him until they both decided to go search by a nearby fountain. "Darn kids so hard to find. My boss will be furious if I don't bring back the money!" The man stated looking down at the ground defeated

"Yeah...grown men aren't any easier. My sis will kill me if I don't bring back the milk!" Akira responded in the same defeated pose. Soon the duo immediatly jolted to their feet point at one another accusingly "YOU!"

"YOU!"

"You stole my milk."

"You took my money."

"Your stolen money."

"Possession is nine tenths of the law. Ah-ha you admit to stealing it from me."

"I didn't steal it dumbass how bout a trade?"

"Fine with me, I have no use with this crappy gourd."

"Oi, I was forced to make that so called crappy gourd myself don't you dare call it crappy it is a work of art you hear?"

"Take your precious art back then!" The man nimbly chunked the gourd at Akira who was hit in the head and knocked off his feet by it.

"And take your worthless pile of cl-money." Akira tossed the gourd to the man back in retaliation as soon as he got on his feet and the man was soon knocked off his feet in the same manner Akira had been earlier.

Looking inside his gourd Akira was relieved to find the milk all in place. The man however stared angrily at the clothes jammed inside his gourd. "What the heck you brat! I'm gonna kick yo-" By this point Akira was already walking away having tossed a kunai with an explosive note at the gourd. The man took a step forward to follow only for an explosion to occur and cause a chain reaction with the explosive notes belonging to the now-nude shinobi who were apparently carrying some as well. Alerting the Shinobi who were chasing the man to his now burned location.

"Oops my bad." Akira shouted with a chuckle making his way back to his sister's appartment. Knocking on the door anxiously Akira presented the gourd to Mai who stared with an eybrow raised.

"Uh...what's that?" A piece of the other guard had been loged into the gourd from the explosion. Akira stared at it before pulling it out which served to create a hole in the bottom of the gourd releasing all the milk. The sibblings stared in idle disbelief befored Mai began to speak with a warming smile.

"I suppose you'll have to find another way to feed them." She stated walking inside.

"Them?" The question was unfortunately answered immediatly as two large Shisas jumped out from the front door which also tore it from place and tackling Akira with a hungry look.

"Oh, and fix the door when you're done."

"AAAAAAAAH!"

Akira made his way to Lake Tian. He noticed a group of female kunoichi conversing and his curious nature got the best of him so he hid behind a tree and decided to listen.

"Sakura, do you know where sempaii is she said we had a big surprise today." The blonde of the group asked as she adjusted her glasses.

"I don't care, Yuka." The redhead responded twirling a kunai.

"So mean." The last girl commented as she played with a butterfly.

"Misaki stop your childish games. You know what, I'll end them for you." The redhead readied the kunai for throwing when suddenly a loud crash could be heard. The tree Akira was hiding behind had been knocked down. Exposing not only Akira, but Mai who had been standing behind the boy without his knowledge.

"Sorry, we're late. I had to pick up some paperwork for the temporary addition of our new team member." Mai called out before pushing Akira forward.

"New team member? You mean that peeping tom, I refuse to accept him as a squad member!" Sakura called out in a huff.

"Peeping tom?" Misaki asked confused.

Yuka adjusted her glasses and answered the question promptly. "He's been hiding behind that tree for quite some time, Sakura was growing annoyed and was just about to throw a kunai at him. Using your absent-mindedness as a distraction."

"Oh." The girl responded with a giggle. "Guess he's not too good if he can't even hide himself." By now Akira was a little annoyed to say the least. They were talking about him as if he wasn't even there it was ridiculous.

"OI? Who are these guys sis?"

"SIS?!" The three girls called out in unison.

"You are all way to hyper. It's going to be an annoying day. All you guys need to know and accept is that we are all part of the same squad and will be working together from henceforth. Now, as for today's mission we were hired by the Hidden Sand to rescue a member of the royal family who was kidnapped by shinobis from the Hidden Grass. We will proceed immediately." She smiled as she sprinted forward leaving the four looking at her from behind.

"I appologize for our earlier rudeness." Yuka called out to Akira before the gilrs all turned to run after Mai.

On, the bright side it is a team full of cuties. Akira began to move after the group, but increasingly found it difficult. He could only manage to keep them in eyesight.

"He's slow sempai, even if he is your brother. Why would you accept him to our team?" Sakura asked Mai who continued to dismiss all comments. Yuka and Misaki looked back occasionally trying to hold back their laughter. Akira smiled as he realized they really weren't so bad, just annoying in the same way he used to find the others to be. Nightfall reached soon, and the group decided to camp out about a mile away from the Hidden Grass Village.

"Obviously, we have to be on guard tonight as a campfire would easily be spotted at this distance. The trees and cover of the night may help a tad, but we can't ever all be asleep at the same time." The girls were already exhausted after a day of sprinting nonstop without eating. Misaki was shivering, being the only member of the team to not wear a jacket wasn't the most comforting thing at the moment. Akira moved to take his duster off and tossed it over to Misaki.

"Quick, put it on before you catch a cold." He called out.

"Th-thanks!" She replied blushing at the gesture. He simply smiled in return. TWAP!. Akira soon felt a sharp pain in the back of his head. Mai had thrown a rock at his head to get his attention.

"Food, gather it. If you want to live and perhaps not starve." Looking around Akira noticed that Sakura had used a jutsu to start a fire and was heating their meals. They had already packed for the trip, he was the only one unprepared. WHAAAA? Not wasting a moment he ran to the East looking for some food.

"He has some stamina, still so much energy." Yuka noted adjusting her glasses once again.

"Eh, he shouldn't be tired moving that slow." Sakura called out.

"Meanie, he moved just as far as we did and never lost us, so who cares if he was slower than us?" Misaki commented. "Go make sure he doesn't get attacked by enemy shinobi on his own." Sakura growled a little before running after him.

Akira sighed as he finished gathering herbs that could be useful in medicines, as well as some that were edible. "Quite a good haul today." He looked out at his surroundings, finding himself in a small secluded lake he decided it would be the proper time for a bath and removed his clothes. Taking his forehead protector and ninja-to with him he jumped in the lake without a care in the world. He closed his eyes and began to relax. "Why would being on this squad, be anymore different than being part of my normal squad. I don't see how this could help my training, sure sis is with me all the time now. But how can this help me any really? But at least the girls are cuuute!" He chuckled as he floated around. He held his breath and submerged himself in the water to calm himself. Sakura had been tracking for Akira for some time. She ran by his clothes confused. Staring she tried to figure out if he had been captured. Suddenly the sound of Akira surfacing from the water caught her off guard and she turned drawing a kunai.

"AAAAAAAAAAAH! PERVERT!" She threw the kunai at him immediately. And turned to run away. He cautiously caught the kunai with a single finger and sighed.

"Crap, this always happens. I'm really not as bad as everyone makes me out to be geez." He moved out of the water and put on his clothes quickly. Collecting his stuff he ran after her. "Oi, Sakura wait up!"

"Ecchi, Ecchi, Ecchi." She called back! A kunai whizzed past her face grazing her nose and the two quickly moved to pair up back to pack. "How many do you think?"

"No idea, can't tell at this point." Akira replied. He wasted no time and dropped to a knee to remove his weights.

"You wore weights? ON A MISSION!" She called out aggravated. Laughter surrounded the duo as a group of nin moved in. They were all wearing Hidden Stone headbands. None of the opposing ninjas seemed to be smaller than 7 ft tall, and their weapons were just as large to match. Wasting no time Sakura went through a series of handseals and placed her hand on the ground. A flame pillar shot out and engulfed three of the ninja in one go. She dropped to a knee almost as fast as the jutsu activated. "My Immolation jutsu drained too much of my chakra. I shouldn't have made the flames that strong." Two of the ninja charged for her ready to decapitate her. Akira quickly punched the closest ninja to him in the stomach and sprinted for the other two. Sakura was taken aback he matched her speed perfectly.

Running past the ninja Akira jumped past the pillar of fire turned in mid-air and performed the Wind Release: Great Ball of Destruction. The wind jutsu mixed with her flames and took the shape of a spiraling dragon of flames incinerating the two ninja. He sighed as he looked around, they had held back just enough not to kill the ninja. "Geez, weaklings making us waste so much chakra and attracting attention. OH CRAP!" A bear suddenly jumped on Akira's back and clawed away wrestling him. "THEY HAVE A PET!" He tried sprinting to get away and the bear tackled him down

"So he's not useless." Sakura took note of him using chakra with his punch to knock out the first opponent. "I was worried, I would have to break my chakra binds. They limit my chakra by such a great amount." Suddenly, the ninja regenerated their injuries and began charging again. Sakura performed the Fire Release: Great Fireball jutsu engulfing the group of shinobi. Unfortunately it was a moot point. Soon after the shinobi began to regenerate their wounds once again.

"If ninjutsu isn't the answer." Akira moved towards a duo of shinobi and threw a flurry of punches. However, their bodies didn't even seem to be affected by the assault. One punched Akira in the stomach, and as he bent forward clutching his abdomen he was kicked in the jaw sending him flying through a series of trees. Sakura was quick to react she dodged three concurrent punches and avoided an axe kick narrowly.

My chakra's tapped out. How can this have already happened? Maybe they are stealing my chakra in some way to heal their injuries. Like he said if Ninjutsu's out of the question, Taijutsu. She pulled her arm pack her hands extended in joint stabbing forward the moment a Rock nin got close enough. Still unaffected by their attacks the rock nin pulled his arm back and punched her with impressive force knocking her to the ground. He raised his other arm into the air hoisting an impressive sized axe and moved down to cut her in half.

Then poof he faded out of existence. In front of her was a scrawny looking grass nin with a kunai in hand moving ever closer. Akira soon kicked him in the jaw sending him into a group of unconscious old men. "As if..I've been caught in way too many genjutsu to be taken down that easily." He was puffing for air on one knee obviously exhausted. The bear jumped on Akira's back once again clawing away at him. It was wearing sumo outfit and began to claw away at the ground forming a ring around them.

Akira growled back at the bear and clashed arms with it. He was pushed closer and closer to the edge until at the last moment, he over powers it and suplexes the bear out of the ring. "Why couldn't it have been an illusion too. You don't know how long I've been fighting that stupi-" Cut off mid-sentence he was tackled by the bear yet again. Sakura just stared in disbelief and began walking back to the campsite. "Hurry up we need to report what occured." The duo jumped up to the tree tops and leapt full force to the campsite. Misaki and Mai were already sound asleep, but Yuka was on guard duty.

"We ran into stone nin."

"They were grass nin, the genjutsu made it seem like stone nin. But anyways they were expecting us. Maybe we should pull back it's a whole village and those guys were just the weak fries."

"So same old, same old?"

"Same old, same old."

"What are you two talking about?"

"I guess you don't know what this squad is Hamono-san. This is one of many special training squads for shinobi interested in becoming part of the anbu. Or any other special groups created by the the Hokage. Only A-S class missions are allowed to be taken by squads of these nature." She adjusted her glasses

"Wai-what?! She never mentioned that. I'll kill Mai." Akira yelled out before being tackled down by Sakura who placed her hand on his mouth.

"Shush, do you want to alert the whole country of our whereabouts? Now get some sleep, you have the second shift." She got off him and dusted herself off.

"But I haven't ate yet." The glare he received in response was all the motivation Akira needed to turn in early.

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With the first rise of sunlight the squad noticed that Mai was already up and prepared to move. She was talking to a small creature on her hand quietly giggling carefree about the situation. "Alright, Team Bloom. It seems they're expecting an assault and that security has beefed up in one building in particular. Our plan of attack will be to move in two man cells. Misaki and Akira take the West, Yuka and Sakura East. I will move in from the North. We should effectively scramble their forces and make escaping from the South easier. We won't be able to rest til we reach the country of wind since we will be chased undoubtedly by the Grass's Anbu. Once we reach the Wind it should be quite an easy trip to the Hidden Sand. Don't try to be a hero and engage in a fight you can't possibly win. Alright now go and make some noise." With a poof of smoke Mai disappeared. Yuka and Sakura soon followed suit.

"Hamono-kun, please don't die." Misaki said in a childish tone sending a chill down Akira's spine. The duo sprinted for the West Entrance. Without a second thought they charged in and were immediately chased by grass shinobi swordsmen.

"Crap, crap, craap!" Akira shouted as the neared, without saying a word Misaki calmly opened up a scroll and a torrent of water shot out knocking the shinobi down. That wasn't just water it was a jutsu. I've never seen someone use scrolls instead of hand signs for their jutsu. They ran past another group of ninja who turned to chase them not slowing down to even think about fighting. They could hear loud commotion from the North. But were still unsure about the fate of their other teammates.

When they finally reached the building housing the captured royal family member. They saw a pile of bodies, all living, with Sakura sitting comfortably in the center waving a pair of fans. "You're slow."

"How'd you get here so fast?!"

"Yuka's speed is tough to match, so it's no surprise to me really." An overweight shinobi jumped up from the top of the building only to be enveloped in a pillar of flames created through one of Sakura's jutsus. An explosion was soon heard as Yuka created a whole and charged out of the side of the building with the girl on her back.

"Run!" The girl was a blur leaving no trace as she left her teammates behind. They all turned to move, as the mission went without any problems so far. On the way back they met no resistance till they reached the decided exit. Where Mai was immobilizing shinobi with a scalpel made out of chakra. Upon noticing the rest of her team she sped up her efforts creating a path for them to escape.

Horns blared all over the village as a group of hunter-nin were assembled to chase after the intruders. Bloom silently moved for two days straight finally reaching the border of the Wind country, with no problems. Or so it seemed. An explosion knocked the group apart.

"Daring leaf ninja." A gruff voice called out.

"To charge into a village alone for one girl." A soft voice followed.

"Very brave, and very stupid. They only sent five of us, when one would most likely be enough for people this stupid." A third voice cackled.

"Oi, Oi make your deaths fun." A bloodthirsty voice called out sending yet another chill down Akira's spine.

"We are the infinite blades of grass. Today you have all sealed your fate. We were gonna have a ransom on her pretty little head. But she is now the first person to escape from our prison. Because of that, we can't allow her to live either. So goodbye." The smoke soon cleared and the group of ninja became visible. They were all wearing robes and held their masks in their hands. The last one to speak and most likely the leader was holding a large spear the size of his body. The female of the group was spinning her twin ninja-tos. The largest one of the group was hitting his fist against each other. The one who was still cackling was wearing a ring sword around his waist. The gruff one just smiled hiding his hands inside of his robe.

"AAAAAH!" Renka screamed scrambling to her feet and hiding behind Mai.

"Everyone, you know what to do." The group all ran in different directions with Mai carrying Renka on her back. "Listen, I need you to calm down I won't let them get you. But, you need to cooperate." The girl nodded in response.

"Oi, It's an honor to fight the white princess of the hidden leaf. Please don't go easy on me. I'd hate to kill such a beauty with no effort. I am Kyo Nagasaki the Devil Spear." She gasped upon hearing his name but paid it no mind taking up her Sharp Edge fighting stance. Kyo spun the spear above him as he charged forward increasing it's power with centrifugal force. When he slammed down to try and cut Mai in half she easily side-stepped to dodge, but a cut appeared on her cheek. Renka screamed and move to hide behind a sand dune.

I see, so even if I dodge the blade chakra's surrounding it, so if I'm too close I'll still get hurt. Not bad. But, I have a similar trick. After a series of handseals she performs the the chakra no mesu creating chakra scalpels with her chakra. She jabs forward towards Kyo's head, who tilted his head to dodge, but he felt a numbing pain in his cheek as the scalpel cut muscle.

"Oh, not bad. Pull out that staff that made you famous. Don't use such a childish trick on me. Naive attacks won't work on me." Kyo noted before swinging the spear. Mai back flipped quickly avoiding the assault. Kyo charged forward once more and swung the spear only to have it caught by Mai's hands.

"Hard Edge Style: Repel." The chakra stored in her hands used for the chakra blade shot out forcing her opponent to move back a couple feet. Leaving an opening for her to dash forward and cut the tendons in his right leg with her scalpel. "I'm sorry such a naive attack could never work on me." Kyo chuckled as he held himself up with only one leg.

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"I am the Kuro Steel Fist my fist are like rocks can break weapons with no difficulty. It'd be easier for you to just jump in a ditch and die." The largest member of the Hunter-nin shouted out to Misaki as he honed in on her.

"I'm sorry Mr. Steel fist, but I have no choice, but to beat you." She opened up a scroll creating a large lake beneath them. She managed to stand on top the largest hill of sand to still stick out above the water and Kuro did the same. He ran across the water to try and punch a hole right through her only to be blocked by a wall of water. "No matter how many times you throw a rock into a lake the water will continue to regain it's shape. My defense is the best there is!" He threw a flurry of punches towards her, and with each attack the water moved to protect her as she held her place.

Kuro circled around and tried to kick her in the back. Without turning around the water moved to block his attack. He jumped up and flipped in mid air sending down an axe kick to try and get her from above to meet the same result. It seemed she didn't have to look at him to block his techniques with the water.

He continued to try and break through her defense to no avail. With every punch he threw the water moved to block her. He jumped back disgruntled with his results.

Rage filled Kuro as he formed a series of handseals and the sand shot up from beneath Misaki in the shape of a spike. She jumped up and was safely pushed out of the way by a wave of water. "Geez, you're a meanie!"

"You can't win by never attacking me. Child, you can only run for so long." Kuro pulled his arm back and threw a punch full force. This time when the water formed to block he moved through it no difficulty hitting her in the face and making her body bounce against the water as it went flying.

Wha-wha? Was he just holding back to play with me earlier? Could he punch through the entire time? Kuro licked his lips as he whipped his leg to kick her in the stomach passing through the water like a knife through butter.

"Your defense is nothing to my offense. I've opened my initial gate. Die, die, die." He kicked her in the head causing her to spit out blood as he did so. She jumped back before he could land a finishing punch in.

"Oi, mr. meanie don't let anyone know I used this on you." Misaki's chakra suddenly became visible as a dark green chakra enveloped her body. She performed a series of handseals and the water all formed into a dome enveloping Kuro. He tried to punch his way out to no avail. "Bet you didn't know water has it's own gravity, can you handle the pressure of my Gravity Bomb Jutsu?" The water pressure gradually increased in the dome until Kuro's bones were crushed by the force. The dome fell apart as Misaki released the jutsu.

"Oh, I should have just used a genjutsu. I didn't want to hurt him that badly. It's your fault for giving me too much chakra bad fishie baad!" She shouted to what seemed to be no one in particular as Kuro's unconscious body floated at her feet. "Well peace!" She looked down before skipping away.

~~~~~

"Hiro, the Puppet King. And what is your name?" Hiro asked chasing after Sakura still keeping his hands inside of his robe.

"Sakura Agawa. Now burn into nothing ness." She jabbed forward with her arms extended in joint. to try and connect a hit to his chest. Hiro knocked both of the hands away by jumping up and kicking the arms away. He jumped back preferring to avoid direct combat. He pulled out his left arm to reveal that he had attached chakra strings to her body and pulled her towards him.

"I guess now you di-"

"Immolation Jutsu" She jabbed forward performing the handseals with her left hand as she jabbed him with her right hand releasing dark red flames to engulf his entire body. "Good, it was just a genjutsu weakening my jutsu earlier."

~~~~~

The one with the ring sword had found Yuka who was adjusting her glasses. "You're a fast one lass. But I am a Hunter who has never missed his target in 15 years. Loko's the name."

"Pleasure, I'm sure. But frankly..." She disapeared and reappeared behind him. "You guys picked the wrong squad to deal with. We didn't spread out to run. We just didn't want to get in each other's way." She formed a series of handseals and pointed her right index and middle fingers at her opponent. "Heaven's Light!" A bolt of lightning shot out striking him in the neck knocking him out.

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Akira was in the middle of fighting the kunoichi who called herself Lain. Her skill with the blades prevented him from getting a solid punch in to this point.

He charged at her only to have both ninja-to to move down towards his neck. Without thinking he pulled out his ninja-to and clashed with her blades. He pushed her blades away with strength alone to try and clumsily cut her chest only to have her knock the blade away with her leg as she slashed at his chest with both blades. Akira screamed out in pain, but held his position. Sweat was rolling down his body as he was positive she was going to kill him. "Bunshin no Jutsu!" He charged forward with his clones to try and confuse her to the real him only to have her slash at all the Akira's with enough speed to make him only see one attack. He clutched his stomach as the latest wound to his body bled out.

She's so good it's ridiculous. The others, must be having as much trouble as me with their opponents. I need to hurry up and help them. She moved in to try and stab him in the head with her left ninja-to. But Akira caught the blade with his sheath and when she tried to slash with her right one he parried it. But soon he kicked her in the stomach with a chakra charged kick forcing her to back off the pressure. He sheathed his ninja-to and took a step forward before backing off. She was glaring at him obviously tired off playing around. Her eyes they looked so much like Anasia's. That same bloodust it scared him to the pit of his soul.

She dashed forward about to cut his distracted head off when the blades were suddenly stopped. Akira looked up to find Yuka to his left holding one and Misaki to his right.

"I change my mind about you...you are useless." Sakura called from behind taking up a fighting stance Akira's never seen before and moving forward. She jabbed her hands into Lain's neck forcing the woman's grip to weaken. Yuka and Misaki let go leaving the fight to Sakura.

"It's okay Hamono-kun I'm sure you would have won." Lain swung one blade towards Sakura's neck who blocked easily by hitting the flat edge with her arm. But the attack was a feint and at the moment of the block Lain spun to try and slash Sakura from behind. But Sakura was quick to throw a kunai to block the incoming blade from behind.

"Twin Fang!" The woman pointed both blades in front of her before spinning like a drill towards Sakura. Sakura pulled out a Fuuma Shuriken from her front pocket and opened it up she threw it forward missing Lain.
"Bad Aim girlie." The kunoichi laughed as she closed in. Sakura was forced to block as much as she could with a kunai, but slowly a smile appeared as unbeknownst to Lain the Shuriken curved back and moved to collide with her unguarded back. She groaned in pain stopping her assault.

Sakura then followed up with a series of jabs at Lain's unguarded stomach forcing the older kunoichi down to her knees. "Mantis Strike." Sakura then jabbed both of her hands at a downwards angle towards Lain's neck knocking her out.

"Let's go, he needs medical attention with all this blood lost." Yuka picked up Akira who lost consciousness after Sakura won the fight.

~~~~~

The trio ran up to find Mai and Kyo charging past each other. Mai dropped to one knee worrying the girls, who soon gained relief as Kyo went unconscious.

"Sempai, sempai. He's lost a lot of, this isn't right." Misaki looked down to see Akira's wounds were already starting to close up.

"Please no one tell him. I know you all share that trait in common with him. But I'm worried if he finds out about the special quality that he's gained he'll rely on its power. When he has the potential to become more powerful than me as it stands. But now you know why I brought him to this squad to train him, but I guess he isn't quite ready yet. Seeing as you all dealt with your opponents without using your bijuus right?"

"Ye-yeah of course Sempai. I knew that since you don't have a bijuu it would look bad of me to win with it yup yup." Misaki replied nervously seeing as she drew on hers out of laziness.

"So what hapenend?"

"Well when it looked like he had the advantage, he broke apart. And almost died." Yuka adjusted her glasses as she slung him over her shoulder.

Renka stepped out from behind her dune. Still in awe with the fight she just witnessed. "Arigato. I didn't think I would be saved ever. It's too bad about how weak the boy of the group seems to be or whatever." Sakura laughed softly in agreement. "Um Miss Hamono, I know this is a little out of the blue but I'd like to discuss hiring you for another mission..."

All war is based on deception.
Therefore,
When able, appear unable.
When moving, appear inactive.
When near, appear far away.
When far away, appear near.
Lure the enemy into weak positions.
Control them by keeping them confused.
When prepared, appear disordered.
When superior, appear to fear confrontation.
When angry, appear submissive.
When humble, appear overconfident,
When relaxed, appear nervous.
When united, appear divided.
Attack when the enemy is unprepared.
Appear where they least expect.
Tactics such as these lead to victory.

Who needs these type of tricks master!

It had been a week since Akira had agreed to train under Taiki. His latest test was to try and hit the real Taiki in a group of shadow clones. Suffice to say the past 24 hours have not been going so well seeing as he could only land a hit when Taiki allowed it. But it seemed every time he landed that hit another one of the Taiki's would attack him from a now undefended side.

"Junior, look I know your family's style better than you. You should be fully prepared for fighting multiple opponents if you utilize the areafully." Akira warily scans the area around his person and lunges forward in rage to miss a shadow clone whom responds by circling around him kicking him in the back.

"ARGH! It's so hard."

"You're losing yourself in the battle remain calm." Taiki made three more clones. There were now 6 Taiki's surrounding Akira. "Martial Arts exist only to destroy a person they can't be used to protect any one after all."

"You're wrong." All 6 Taiki's closed in as Akira ducked down and tried to hit them all with Konoha Senpuu. But alas one grabbed him by the legs and the rest all started kicking him.

"See look at that, you lost yourself in your own anger again. You have to think everything out. EVERYTHING! Both your and your opponent's breaths, gravity, the wind everything is important to note." The Taiki holding him tossed the boy aside and waved him to try again.

Akira then got an idea he pulled out a smoke bomb and threw it at the center of the Taikis. Okay memorize where they are standing and attack from the best angle. When the bomb went off he followed up with a kunai with an explosive note attached.

Akira tossed up a victory sign, then froze in place he couldn't move his body anymore. "Wha?"

"Kagemane no Jutsu. Useful huh." Taiki called out through the smoke. Akira moved forward despite his reservations against it until he was face to face with the only Taiki left.

"Not bad, I used the clones to throw me out of harm's way. But you still managed to knock out the knock offs Junior it wasn't a bad move really, but you left yourself open for my jutsu and even expanded my range with the explosion."

"How, could I defend against something I didn't even know about. It wasn't fair!"

"So, you're telling me all your opponent's will tell you their jutsus before they use them? C'mon you have to be prepared for all types of attacks." Akira was released from the jutsu and received a palm thrust to his jaw. However, Akira immediately grabbed Taiki by his arm on contact and threw the Jounin behind him. Sure Taiki flipped in mid air to land back on his feet, but the fact of the matter he still had Taiki off guard for a moment. "Not bad at all, you're starting to get it. Against opponents with an advantage in combat, you have to bide your time and make your openings in combat. You pull off another move like that, and I'll play you in a game of Go tonight."

"Yo-you mean it?!" Akira got exited at the prospect and charged forward towards Taiki. Who was prepared to counterattack, but at the last second Akira sidestepped and then jumped up with a chakra charged knee to Taiki's face. Taiki barely managed to block it.

"Geez, you're getting a bit more dangerous. If I was even a fraction of a second slower that would have been bad. Good work, you get the whole concept of creating openings I can tell." Taiki swung his free palm forward into Akira's abdomen taking the breath right out of him. "That's enough sparring for now. We should move on. I think we'll just play Go tonight. You've earned it." Taiki pushed Akira forward knocking the boy off his feet.

"You really don't excel in Taijutsu, Genjutsu, or Ninjutsu. Luckily the small skill you do have is quite balanced making you an even bigger hassle to teach. Though I suppose that's what's fun about you. You may not have any talent for the important things, but You do, however, seem to have some skill in chakra control and taking hits as you keep infusing your attacks with chakra as well as taking my blows no problem. However, you can push it further and put more chakra into your blows. You just need to concentrate harder on the task. I can train you in four areas tactics at night, chakra molding and jutsus in the day, and basic body building in the morning. We can't exactly work on techniques until your basic training is over. But after that we can mix some of the good stuff in."

"Are you gonna teach me some super Taijutsu technique, or maybe that Kagemane jutsu?"

"Eh not exactly Junior."

"Awww, c'mon teach me something sensei."

"Since when did you start calling me sensei? Fine, look I'll show you two tricks but you can only practice in your off time by yourself I won't stray from my regiment just so you can learn jutsus you can't properly use. Oi, look closely now." The shadows in the room circled around Taiki before he started moving around like a blur. "You can use this training to try and improve your goken seeing as the concept is the same. Release your chakra to try and increase your movement speed to cross great distances. But what you want to use it for is obviously combat right? The second is..." Taiki stopped in front of Akira and performed the Kage Bunshin no Jutsu. Both then circled around Akira twirling their scythes leaving no opening for escape. "This one's tougher especially what with having to maintain a Kage Bunshin for lack of speed in being able to do it fleet footed."

"But you kept using the Kage Bunshin to train me sensei."

"Well I guess they don't call me a genius because of lack of skill then." Taiki laughed loudly at the statement before noticing the look on the boy's face. "Hey, listen up someone with no talent can beat a genius if they exert ten times more effort. But I want you to exert 100 no 1000 times more effort and become better than me...Junior." Akira nodded and attempted the Kage Bunshin only to have a clone of a dead Akira appear. "You really don't have much talent do you? Well at least you're an expert at getting beat up."

"Don't listen to that so call genius." A soft voice called out from out of view. "Ta-kkun. Your menu was nice. But do remember to let me have some fun."

"Who the hell is that?" Akira asked confused.

"Oh, that's my wife. Karen. I forget to mention earlier. I won't be your only teacher here. Karen's what one would call a jutsu specialist. Don't you worry about her."

And so the rest of the days went as Taiki said they would. In the mornings he had to run 5 laps around the village hauling Taiki who was sitting on a log. While carrying to jugs of water on his arms with two arm bands with curved spikes attached to prevent him from lowering his arms less he stab himself. He would then have to spar with Taiki for as long as he could before practicing offensive and defensive drills. And the morning would end with him having to strengthen his stomach and back muscles over an open flame while tied to a rope attached to the ceiling followed by running five more laps hauling Taiki, but this time ran on his hands before the finale that was breakfast. The afternoon would consist of Akira practicing handseals over and over and practicing his jutsus over and over during Taiki's sessions. When Karen took over she would make him practice the two jutsus that he saw Taiki try and teach him as well as work on his Goken to the point he could pour more chakra than before into his attacks finished off with a late lunch. Nights would start off with go games and end with dinner before sleeping. Occassionally Seth would be visited by one of his teammates when he had some time to rest. The pattern would continue for weeks until Taiki received word from the sand shinobi that Mai had initiated contact with the Akatsuki and were battling in a town a couple miles away from the village. Akira charged ahead of his jounin teachers to try and catch up to his teammates.

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