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She quickly and rentlessly threw the plaes as fast as she could real and fake. Drago looked and he could barly keep up with the plates that were going by. Drago quickly went crazy as he jumped up i nthe air sending hsi nakes out quickly to attackever y thing that moved. his eyes moved and sod did his snakes. They were like unrelenting dogs with the smell of blood on their noses. Drago looked and he quickly kept striking the plates as he found five of the six real plates. Anko kept throwing the fake plates. Drago looked and he flipped backwards and sent his snake behind him and the last snake bit the plate in half. DRago looked and he landed on the ground as she looked at him and sighed.

"Yeah....Come on Anko.."

Anko looked at Drago one last time before he dissappeared.

"Look Drago that attack has to be only used in a dire stiuation becuase those bites that they have are acutally quite venomous. They will grip onto something and not let go. They have a nasty bite....So becareful when using that techique..."

DRago looked at Anko and nodded as he learned another techinque bringing him one step closer to reaching his dream completly. He used Body Flicker and he was gone just like that.

Gatz sought out Kakashi for training again, this time wanting to learn the Body Flicker technique. He found the ninja reading his favorite book again.
"... How many times have you read that thing?" he asked.
"I believe I've lost count," Kakashi confessed, marking his place and standing up. "So, what do you want to learn today?"
"Body Flicker," Gatz answered.
"Ah. Always good to get the basics down," Kakashi said. "Right then. Let's find a place where we have room to run around some..."
Kakashi and Gatz walked of until they found a relatively unoccupied area of the town to move around in.
"Right then, Body Flicker..." Kakashi began. "Well, basically it's moving from where you're standing to some place else so quickly that your opponent's eyes can't track you, giving the illusion that you have dissappeared. It's also possible to use the surrounding elements to pull off the effect, like leaves, mist, smoke..."
"I bought some smoke bombs awhile ago," Gatz offered.
"Yes, smoke bombs are a good way to set up effect as well. That's why they have them, afterall."

was still cooking up ramen at the local shop the money was good at least.... he had even thought of another way that required even less effort on his part kama could be seen leaning back in a chair reading manga while clay hands with wings attached flew around the kitchen preparing orders in record time his clay performance was actually drawing quite a crowd. He was still working technically since it was his chakra animating the clay. from the coner of his eye kama could just see a man cloaked in black even though it was quite warm outside just standing there. kama wondered what he wanted.

"Sorry I was away for so long, I was sick and I couldn't leave the damn house" Nara Tora looked up at his cousin who was napping in a tree by the edge of the forest one afternoon.

"Well stop talking and get back to practicing you remember everything I take it? Don't lose control of your shadow anymore." breathed Shikimaru barely looking up before he lept from his tree to a spot on the ground a several feet away from Tora. "Go."

Tora took his place, concentrated his chakra and sent his shadow flying towards Shikimaru it soon faded and was back to the way it was "Dammit! I know concentrate." Alright I have to prove to him I can do this, and do it right! Alright concentrate...My shadow has to get to his..push all my chakra to my shadow and hand seals and NOW! His shadow lept across the ground and didn't fade this time it made contact with Shikimaru's! Shikimau started laughing.

"Hey let go that tickles!" Shikimaru jumped back and landed with a smile on his face. "Good shadow control, work on that and you'll be better for it, I think thats enough for today I'm kinda hungry so yeah I'm gone." And with that Shikimaru vanished.

"Well you did well last time you made contact with my shadow so today were gonna practice that and this time I'll be evading you so you've got to try just a bit harder, Alright?" Shikimaru looked at his cousin who looked tired, he could tell he had been practicing until the short hours of the morning.

Tora's eyes focused as he smiled, he had been practicing and he was getting pretty good, he thought. His hands flew through the seals so fast you could've barely made out one from another and his shadow darted towards Shikimaru, who looked almost suprized in a lazy sort of way, his head tilted to the left just a bit as though he was thinking and then jumped straight back and when he landed Tora's shadow was just a few feet away when it stopped dead, it hadn't faded but it was very thin and had stopped moving forward though it looked as though every ounce of Tora's will was pushing it forward. Tora's face was screwed up in concentration and he was breaking a sweat, Why did it stop?! I'm not doing anything wrong whats going on?

"Well it's a good effort but your shadow can only go so far, however there are ways of adding to your shadow, like standing in the shadows and sending your projected shadow through other shadows so, give it a try don't move any further forward but see if you can get your shadow to me."

Tora stood there for a moment, his shadow still aching to go forward then it receded a little and shot towards the trees. Tora could feel all the trees' shadows adding to his own and aimed his shadow back out of the trees and towards Shikimaru again this time it was going to make it far enough! Shikimaru was caught off guard, he seemed to be half asleep and again Tora's shadow made contact and Shikimaru laughed.

"Ok good," he said between laughs "same time tomorrow." And he was gone.

"Now then," Kakashi, said, instructing Gatz, "when pulled off sucessfully, the Body Flicker should look something like this---"
The elite ninja seemed to dissappear from where he stood, a swirl of dust the only thing left behind. Then he reappeared on the other side of the street.
"Now you gave it a try."
Gatz made an attempt at it, but only got a several feet on his first attempt before he slowed down enough that the normal eye could track him again.
"Not bad. Focus on point more power into your legs when you first take off. It will help carry you farther. After that, just don't slow down."
Gatz made a second attempt, and this time he Body Flickered a whole ten feet.
"Much better," Kakashi said. "Up for a little 'follow the leader'?" he asked, then using Body Flicker to move slightly farther away then Gatz had previously 'flickered'. Gatz smiled and 'flickered' after him.