Of the two main Shinobi Training Centers in the village, the Dojo is smaller in size than the academy and located farther forward away from the mountain. This is largely due to the lower chance of a taijutsu attack destroying a building and also less likely to be broken off of it's foundation. These two buildings were constructed by the shinobi not far from the Kage's Office with the intention of the Arashikage never being too far away from the new blood. Even after five years, what isn't broke need not any fixing as the Dojo remains the same.
Posted: Tue May 08, 2018 2:18 pm
No matter where she was, Jeon was always preceded by the sounds of whooping, hollaring or wailing. She nearly always had a blast traveling on her own when moving at top speed, proving herself the more acrobatic of the twins even if Jay was always the faster twin. WIth Souta on her back, she was careful to keep a pace that wouldn't send him careening into the ground as she ran in an almost blur across the variable rooftops, mix-matched from the cultural impact that having three wildly different groups living together, closed into a mountain range no less, would have on architecture. She slid down shingles, landing on solid brick, not a care in the world for the stark contrast as she tore her way through. She slowed down once the dojo was in sight, letting Souta down so that he could keep pace with her light jog-speed-skipping. "So! I think today is a good day to start teaching you how to fight like your mother, no?" she would pose turning and moving backwards so he could see her face as they spoke.
"One of the oldest and noblest of ninja traditions of combat and warfare is the art of the brawl!" she would exclaim jumping a whole ten feet into the air with a twirl. She bounced the rest of the way to the Dojo, excited to kick open the door, which she did literally with enough force to rattle the walls they were hinged to when they slammed all the way open. She lead him to an open mat, and expected he'd stand across from her. "Alright, now. Tell me, Son, what do you wanna learn first? Chain sickle?" she would ask pulling the weapon from behind her. The same would happen as she seemed to pull more things from out of nowhere. "How about machetes? Daggers? Bow staff? Naginata? Spear? Scythe?" As the weapons fell, she would be sure to keep a hold on her bamboo staff at the very least. "Honestly, I've got alllllllllllll day, just for you."
Souta bounded into pace next to his mother, a slight grin on his face as they made their way towards the dojo. "Awe yeah!" He shouted, hopping a little bit as she mentioned they were here to learn some proper fighting. The boy might have conducted himself with all the prim and proper air of the son of a kage, but he secretly loved to fight. In fact, he kinda relished when the other kids would challenge him. They'd stopped since he had his little growth spurt, but back when they'd demand a chance to beat the Arashikage's kid he'd oblige off in the edge of the village somewhere, and make up some story for his mother about how he'd fallen down a hill trying to learn how to climb a tree like the ninja did. He was pretty sure she knew, honestly, but for some reason he never got really scolded over it. Speaking of, Jeon was clearly intent on teaching him about weapons for now. He didn't want to kill her mood, but he much preferred simply punching things. There was something more... whole about the experience, the feeling. That said, the spear did catch his eye. He wondered what it would feel like, to experience a fight from a bit further away. Granted, by the standards of fighting what he and the other kids had gotten into barely qualified. He still caught the spear though, feeling the weight. He liked it, a little heavier. He could get used to something similar. "This." He said, staring at the weapon as he caught it before it could even hit the mat.
For once, Jeon was caught without words for a second. She had stopped dropping weapons from her infinite weapon repository when he grasped for the spear, her eyes glimmering into the shapes of stars at his decision. The weapon was much longer than he was tall, but that was never a problem that polearmsmen ever had trouble learning to handle. WHen she had picked up the Naginata for the first time, she had been more than a foot below it. She inhaled deeply, forming a handseal and focusing her chakra. It had been ages since she had done anything with this skill, but now was as good a time as any. From above, a lightning bolt stabbed into the ground behind her, and in the flash, all of the other weapons were removed. She snatched the lightning spear from behind her, showing off in a masterful display of twirling both tool of war and body in what could easily be described as a dance. In just a few seconds she had proven the stories true for her son, and confirmed what many ambient npc teachers already knew: The Arashikage were true masters of the spear. She ended the elegance in a ready position, legs spread in a horse stance, one hand forward, spear behind her cradled in the middle with her hand wrapped below it. "Alright Souta, my love." she offered. "The most important thing is to keep in mind how much range you have, what your threat range is, and most importantly where it isn't." she began. She would invite him to point the weapon at him, then take a quick step in. "Back peddling is the corner stone of basic spear combat. Always keep the damage point towards your opponent." She was keeping as close to basics as she could so he wouldn't be overwhelmed. She stood just beside him, poking forward while moving back, then poking while moving in. It wasn't too dissimilar from foil combat, in practice.
The boy's eyes fixed on his mother in awe as she summoned a spear of lightning from nowhere. He had to prevent himself from simply gawking at it outright, as he rarely got to see displays of his mother's ninjutsu up close. He swallowed the pang of jealously that arose at his sister getting access to this type of power instead of him, and readied his spear. He watched for a moment, eyeing Jeon's technique, beginning with stepping and then adding in thrusting. It wasn't terribly complex, but he picked it up quickly. The weight of the spear was hard to keep up, that much was obvious. It was too big for him, but his form maintained despite that. He persisted, knowing in the back of his mind that he'd have to work harder than Yuno to achieve his goals, that it'd take sweat and blood and pain that she'd almost certainly refuse to tolerate. He wanted it all, everything she didn't, and he wanted to use it to be better than she was. "How am I doing?" He asked between breaths, stopping in the stance that his mother had started in with a little wobble.
Amazing. Magnificient. Superb. There was nothing that Jeon liked more than her son in the entire world, even more than perhaps her own brother. Souta was her flesh, her blood, a piece of her that she never wanted back. To see the blood of her own blood capable of carrying on like she did was an inspiration for her: an entire village was hers to protect and even that came second to her own. "Yes son. You're doing great. Wait!" she called out dropping her spear. "We forgot the most important thing when one starts to work out: the warm up." As the blade born weapon fizzled before it hit the ground, she would keep her legs spread, reaching her hands to the sky. "Alright, reach up and grab the stars!" she would say waggling her fingers as she worked her muscles as far as they would go. After a few seconds she would bend forward, putting her hands on the ground. "Now touch your toes!" she would command. Once he was as far as she would go, she'd stick out her tongue towards him, fully inverted, and say "Now wiggle your bum!" she would say wiggling back and forth. Naturally, Jeon was good with children. "Okay now up!" she would say reaching back towards the cieling, before falling backwards and stretching her arms to the ground, pulling into a handstand. She wondered how smoothly he could follow as she came full circle, allowing her legs to fall into a split. "Always stretch before rigorous physical activity darling. It helps you with dodging." she would say touching her chin to the ground, one leg behind and one forward. She rolled her torso in a circle, grabbing her otherfoot and changing the split to the other direction. [Soft Formless.]
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Posted: Thu May 10, 2018 4:25 am
__ Kenshin stepped into the dojo after a short walk from the academy. When he entered, he immediately sought out a private room to train in. While he enjoyed his spar with Belamos, he sought out solitude in his training with a degree of restlessness. He knew Lady Jeon and her son would be here, but he would not seek them out unless it was necessary. He was certain that she just wanted time with her son and not one of her Jounin subordinates. When he found the individualized training room he would commence learning more styles of swordsmanship after consulting some style scrolls.
Kenshin wanted to begin by reading and studying the rapier style. This style would allow him to further master his weapon. He read of dual elemental charge, meteor shower, and rage of the exploding star. These would certainly add themselves nicely to his range of abilities with a rapier. He began by focusing his lightning and wind elements into his sword after unsheathing it. The duelist then practiced the final two techniques by unleashing his charged rapier into the dummies.
LEARNED: Sen Gekiretsu Nagareboshi Stage 5: Dual Elemental Charge, Meteor Shower, and Rage of the Exploding Star
He continued his training by reading the next techniques with more detail as he felt himself beginning to master the style. Once he finished reading he practiced his stances and thrust his blade multiple times into the dummies. Then he began unleashing chakra from his charged up rapier blade. They struck the targets with extreme precision. Now he was a master of the ultimate style of the rapier.
LEARNED: Sen Gekiretsu Nagareboshi Stage 5: Second Falling Star Sen Gekiretsu Nagareboshi Stage 6: One Thousand Furious Flying Stars One Thousand Furious Falling Stars
Now he would sheath his rapier and examine some taijutsu scrolls and realized that he wanted to master his current style. He held the freestyle stance while he read the techniques descriptions. "I can master this." He thought as he read three of the techniques in detail. He did laps of incredibly fast running around the training room and practiced his moves against the training dummies.
Kenshin felt as though his speed and reflexes were masterfully harnessed as he continued to practice on the dummies. He took a break to catch his breath and read the other techniques. His eyes glided over them as he absorbed all of the information. Now he would perform the abilities of the last techniques of the style until obtaining mastery.
Kenshin then looked at his updated Hyuuga scroll and found that his kinsmen had invented new techniques for him to learn. He had a few of his own, but he wanted to keep the power of his gentle fist rapier to himself for now. He read over the new techniques with great attention to the instructions of how each technique could be executed. He then began striking one of the training models that also contained a model chakra and tenketsu network. The new techniques were incredibly sophisticated and powerful additions to the Jyuken style.
LEARNED: Gentle Palm Stance, Trigram Stance, Eight Trigrams Tenketsu Strike, Eight Trigrams Infinite Strike, Three Hundred and Sixty One Palms
Now he wished to learn one new style of swordsmanship beyond the rapier, which he fully mastered. He started by opening the scroll for Hagane no Shunkan. As always, he had to begin with the basics so he read the techniques for stage one. He set up a new dummy and practiced the basic steps and stabs of the new techniques until mastery.
LEARNED: Basic Stab, Linear Step, Reinforcement
Now he would move to the next set of three techniques. After reading the techniques in great detail he would begin to practice them on the dummy. He began stabbing and slashing at the dummy while performing new stances. After many more attempts, he obtained mastery of the techniques.
LEARNED: Deflection, Forward Grind, Pivot Block
Kenshin would move to the next set of three techniques. After reading the techniques in great detail he would begin to practice them on the dummy. He began stabbing and slashing at the dummy while performing new stances. After many more attempts, he obtained mastery of the techniques.
LEARNED: Calligraphy, Extension, Solid Footing
Next up were the new set of three techniques. After reading the techniques in great detail he would begin to practice them on the dummy. He began stabbing and slashing at the dummy while performing new stances. After many more attempts, he obtained mastery of the techniques.
LEARNED: Twin Blade, Thread Walking, Advance of Steel
Now it was time for the new set of three techniques. After reading the techniques in great detail he would begin to practice them on the dummy. He began stabbing and slashing at the dummy while performing new stances. After many more attempts, he obtained mastery of the techniques.
LEARNED: Brush Stroke, Disarming, Hydra Strike
Now it was time for the new set of three techniques. After reading the techniques in great detail he would begin to practice them on the dummy. He began stabbing and slashing at the dummy while performing new stances. After many more attempts, he obtained mastery of the techniques.
Kenshin's new focus would now be the new set of three techniques. After reading the techniques in great detail he would begin to practice them on the dummy. He began stabbing and slashing at the dummy while performing new stances. After many more attempts, he obtained mastery of the techniques.
LEARNED: Crescent Block, Defense of Steel, Hilt Thrust
Officer Kosei would now learn the new set of three techniques. After reading the techniques in great detail he would begin to practice them on the dummy. He began stabbing and slashing at the dummy while performing new stances. After many more attempts, he obtained mastery of the techniques.
LEARNED: Shearing, Moment of Steel, Movement of Steel
Kenshin would now learn the final two techniques to master the style. After reading the techniques in great detail he would begin to practice them on the dummy. He began stabbing and slashing at the dummy while performing new stances. After many more attempts, he obtained mastery of the techniques.
Now it was time for Kenshin to move on to another style. After reading the techniques in great detail he would begin to practice them on the dummy. He began stabbing and slashing at the dummy while performing new stances. After many more attempts, he obtained mastery of the techniques.
LEARNED: Axle of Rain, Rolling Rain, Misting Rain
Kenshin would now go on to learn the next three techniques. After reading the techniques in great detail he would begin to practice them on the dummy. He began stabbing and slashing at the dummy while performing new stances. After many more attempts, he obtained mastery of the techniques.
LEARNED: Last Minute Rain, May Wind, October Rain, Summer Rain
Now it was time for him to learn three more techniques. After reading the techniques in great detail he would begin to practice them on the dummy. He began stabbing and slashing at the dummy while performing new stances. After many more attempts, he obtained mastery of the techniques.
Next up were three more techniques to learn. After reading the techniques in great detail he would begin to practice them on the dummy. He began stabbing and slashing at the dummy while performing new stances. After many more attempts, he obtained mastery of the techniques.
He looked at the scroll to learn three more techniques. After reading the techniques in great detail he would begin to practice them on the dummy. He began stabbing and slashing at the dummy while performing new stances. After many more attempts, he obtained mastery of the techniques.
Kenshin now wanted to learn the final round of three techniques and master the style. After reading the techniques in great detail he would begin to practice them on the dummy. He began stabbing and slashing at the dummy while performing new stances. After many more attempts, he obtained mastery of the techniques.
LEARNED: Seasonal Dance, Torrential Blessings, The Task of the Next Generation
Kenshin would now look forward to learning the secrets of the stalwart samurai. After reading the techniques in great detail he would begin to practice them on the dummy. He began stabbing and slashing at the dummy while performing new stances. After many more attempts, he obtained mastery of the techniques.
LEARNED: Iaido, A Decade of Peace, RyΕ«tsuisen [ Dragon Hammer Strike ]
Kenshin continued to learn as he moved onto the next three techniques on the list. After reading the techniques in great detail he would begin to practice them on the dummy. He began stabbing and slashing at the dummy while performing new stances. After many more attempts, he obtained mastery of the techniques.
Now he would learn the next three techniques on the list. After reading the techniques in great detail he would begin to practice them on the dummy. He began stabbing and slashing at the dummy while performing new stances. After many more attempts, he obtained mastery of the techniques.
LEARNED: Two Dragon Strike, Two Dragon Strike: Lightning, Form Manipulation
Now it was time to move on to the next three techniques in the style. After reading the techniques in great detail he would begin to practice them on the dummy. He began stabbing and slashing at the dummy while performing new stances. After many more attempts, he obtained mastery of the techniques.
He started to learn the following three techniques as he felt his mastery over the style begin to improve. After reading the techniques in great detail he would begin to practice them on the dummy. He began stabbing and slashing at the dummy while performing new stances. After many more attempts, he obtained mastery of the techniques.
LEARNED: Two as One, Many as One, Divine Scabbard
Mastery was now within Kenshin's reach as he would now train hard for the final three techniques. After reading the techniques in great detail he would begin to practice them on the dummy. He began stabbing and slashing at the dummy while performing new stances. After many more attempts, he obtained mastery of the techniques.
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Posted: Thu May 10, 2018 8:57 am
Well, he did get the half of the Arashikage with the most energy, and she was certainly living up to that at the moment. Unfortunately Souta's spear wasn't one that would just disappear. Carefully he set it aside, and rushed catch back up to his mother. Reach up, check. Touch your toes, check. Wiggle... your bum. The boy let out a bit of a groan at that one, but acquiesced nonetheless. Once again he seemed less embarrassed for himself now than for his potential future self. He started to follow her lead again, but stopped when she started to fall backwards. That wasn't exactly new to him, but she was expecting him to follow. And so he did, landing a little flat but still able to kick himself up into a handstand. He grinned for a moment, until his loose shirt fell down over his face and he had to flail a little to keep from straight up falling over. Despite being the child of an exceptionally athletic pair of people, doing handstand splits was just a little too advanced for nine-year-old Souta to handle. Instead he tilted his hips a little and then sprung back straight, flinging himself back onto his feet and sorting out the shirt situation. [ Soft Formless ]
Jeon held up two hands in front of Souta after widening her stance a little bit. "Stretching helps keep you limber, but it also makes it so you don't have to worry about pains and aches later on. Your grandmother in the Drop District never used to stretch before a day of farm work, and now he's all cranky and achey. Another thing to keep in mind is that the more flexible your mind and body, the easier it is to avoid harm the easy way. We call it "soft martial arts." "Hard martial arts," obviously, are all about direct force." She would tap one hand, offering him the chance to punch while coaching him through it. "Always remember, the power isn't coming from your arms its coming from the body. Keep your stance wide. Keep your body lowered. When you move forward balance is the key. Turn your hips into the punch, then drive it through and recoil. Oh, and don't lock your elbows." the Arashikage would instruct. As he went about it, she would give critiques, hoping to keep him on his toes, as abreast of himself as possible. "The same is true for your kicks. Turn into it, try to keep your knee unlocked. When you block, allow the force to transfer through your body. You aren't the hill that stood up to the mountain, you're the tree that blocks the wind."
Posted: Tue May 15, 2018 5:11 am
They were finally back into his element. Souta smiled as he threw the first punch, a straight right that he stepped into fluidly. Then another, torquing his body to gain extra force with his left arm and also return to his normal stance. He heeded his mother's words, of course, but most of this came naturally thanks to his interest in fighting in general. Now a kick, high but unable to reach above his mother's shoulders, he drove his body behind it, leg unfurling just short of locking out to give a little extra pop. He moved well and hit hard for his age, and while he was unlikely to continue his growth spurt and become the biggest fighter around, there was no doubt that he had a propensity for applying force skillfully. He did have to keep an eye on her blocking though, as it wasn't one of his strong suits. He could get around most kids' primitive defenses easily, but on the few occasions he found other Arashigakure kids capable of keeping up he got tagged a few more times than he liked. Souta worked through a couple more primitive combos before settling back off the balls of his feet? "How was that?"He asked, looking for input and wondering what was up next.
__ Now that Kenshin was done with the majority of his training, he had to go back on patrol. It was close to being time for his shift and he was looking forward to a long while of solid police work. "Time to head to the Gust District, as usual." With that, he began his march towards the Gust District.
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Posted: Sun May 20, 2018 4:49 pm
Amid there session, Jeon was sure to correct his stance where she could, be it loosening him up a bit here or tightening it there. He was, honestly, doing well, naturally. He was, of course, her child. And if her genetic data was almost 100% identical to her brothers, and if they did share bodies more often than they didn't during her pregnancy, then he was theoretically the product of another two ninja who honed their bodies in the art of the weapon. Souta would soar through his physical studies if she had anything to say about it. "That was good! You might be able to beat up a chimp! Just keep your center of gravity lowered. I heard that's actually harder for boys than girls. I wouldn't know, I guess." As she said it, she would rub her chin, thinking of what she could teach him next. She gave consideration to the idea that he might have something he wanted to learn too. "Well then. We can get to training more basic weapondry if you want. I got a knack for throwing things." As she said it, she would produce several ninja tools from her pocketdimension and hand him a kunai, a shuriken, and a senbon. It took her a few moments to set up some targets for him, but once they were up, she ook her place beside him and started to go over basics for each one of them. Their were enough for him to make mistakes, and they were facing a wall so as not to hurt anybody else. Times like these, she really ached for her husband to see the boy's growth.
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Jay entered the dojo from the Academy just across the way, and Jeon turned to her brother, noting that he looked tired, her own chakra network having began to wane a bit. He had clearly been in a scrap. "Just gave Kenshin a thorough testingand promoted him." She nodded, watching her better half as he meandered to a place in the dojo where he could work of some extra energy. Bringing up old memories often made him jittery. He started out slow, as there was indeed a lot to go on about learning for the day. Rather than even give himself a warmup, however, he simply jumped right in to working on things that he already knew with Jeon watching his movements, occassionally emulating what she didn't know while she waited on her son to give them a bit more direction. She also offered critiques for her brother as he worked and the two of them tore through learning more and more new things than they'd had access to previously. Suddenly new avenues of attacking and defending were opened up to them, and they put some time into learning some weapons that they had never really considered before. All of this came with time of course allotted for Jay not to interrupt the time Souta would be spending with his mother. Still the two of them always knew there was room to grow. Self improvement was Key, especially if they would remain the heads of state. Being commander in chief meant they'd probably have to put their foot in someone's a** in the coming days, let alone in the near future, so it was better that they get all of their training out of the way now, as it were. By the time he was nearing completion of his routine, his muscles were screaming. Jay liked the burning sensation, but with a fresh coat of bruises he may have been overdoing it a bit. Jay, however, never once slowed down until he was done completely. [Mastered Kaze no Zougentou and Nunchaku, Finished Jing She Jing Fe, Tame Za Kyoudo, and Shinto Muso Ryo, and lastly trained Kusari Gama formless proficiency, Nunchaku formless, trisectional polearm proficiency, large weapon nodachi, katana, and Machete.]
Souta fumbled with the ninja tools slightly as he was handed them. He had little experience with weaponry, since kids generally weren't allowed to use things purpose-made for harm. Mostly they got big sticks and threw rocks. This was, well, not quite the same. Though his form looked okay, Souta's senbon flew wide of the target as he overpowered the small, light weapon. The Shuriken took a wide arc and embedded itself in the edge of the target. Finally, the kunai landed near the center. Not a direct hit, but definitely on target. Its weight and relatively simple throwing motion seemed to work well for him, and though he clearly wasn't destined to be deadly from range it was clear that he was better off with something he could put some brute force behind instead of having to rely on technique. "Aww, I missed with the first two." He said, slightly dejected at the prospect of missing two of his 3 throws.
Jeon rubbed her child's head, lifting up his chin immediately after so that he could see her stern but encouraging face. "Don't get discouraged, Souta. You can do anything you put your mind to. Now," she continued kneeling and holding up her weapon so that she could see the target behind it. "See the target in your head, think about the path the weapon needs to take to get there, which for now is a straight line." She would slowly lift the weapon and swing it down only barely faster. Then, with a flick o deh wrist, she would send the kunai flying into the target, dead center. "And then let your wrist and elbow do the hard work. Your muscles are just straightening them out," she'd say poking at his bi and triceps invasively.
