Welcome to Gaia! ::

“Yaha! That sounds like fun,” the female replies. Youyaku just stares at her with a frown. He had no interested in this element and color dabbling ape. He was more interested in finding someone to fight like before. “Well then what are you looking for?” Didn’t he just tell her that? Youyaku’s frown deepens and he grits his teeth together. “I mean, does it matter what clan they’re in? What about if they’re female or male?”

“It doesn’t matter,” Youyaku snaps, “stupid female naked ape.” The female with hair a pale, dark goldenrod color and eyes perhaps the purest and brightest shade of yellow, seems to be smiling at him.

“Would you please fight me? I’m training too, you know. I want to get stronger so I can surprise someone.” Youyaku looks at her a moment to be sure she isn’t tricking him into a fight and then planning on running and pulling some alarm. “Come on, let’s go,” she urges. She steps back from him and then opens up her hands. She raises her arms so the elbows are out in front of her and seem level to her breasts, her hands on either side of her face. She seemed to be taking some sort of defensive stance by the spacing of her legs. But there was also a slight angle of her open hands that showed she might be able to change that to offensive. “Don’t take time to measure my stance, cheater,” she comments. Youyaku charges forward with a normal fist strike only for his arm to suddenly be pinned between one of her arms and body. But she hadn’t even moved. He tries to pull free but can’t. He aims for another fist strike only for the same thing to happen to his other arm. She brings her head back and readies to head-butt him but seems to change her mind. She touches her forehead to his and then folds her arms in to not only break the two of them free from each others strikes but also to knock Youyaku’s hands back and to his side. The girl then presses a hand to his chest and expels a white chakra from her hand.

He feels a burst of wind and then he’s blown back and away from the girl. She stands in her position as Youyaku is forced back along the ground a few yards. She just smiles at him a while before pointing to his white t-shirt under his brown cloak. She doesn’t say anything, she only gestures to it. She seems to reach into the pouch strapped around her waist and draw out a simple paintbrush. It has no real significant use, it was just best used to give a solid, circular line. She touches the object to the ground and then brings it up in Youyaku’s direction. The brown color of the ground seems to drain from the ground and have coated the tip of the brush. Once brought up in the Gaho’s direction it would send projectiles of earth in his direction. She hadn’t even drawn anything! He motions off to the side to evade the attack as the female seems to cross her arms.

“You saw that painting I made,” she asks. What kind of question was that in the middle of a battle? Youyaku ignores her and uses this time to go in for a strike. The female just stands there while going on, “It only carried basic colors and those of the basic elements of the ninja. Those are my favorite colors. They hold so much meaning.” When he comes in for a strike, creating a vortex with his fists, the female brings her arms out to her side. The yellow from her spaghetti strapped, yellow sundress and soon Youyaku is enveloped by electricity. He holds back a cry as he is shocked by a minor electric technique. “That’s because those colors are the only ones that can have the aspects of the element that they share the color for. White, gray, or clear for wind, yellow for lightning and electricity, red for fire, blue for water, and brown or green for earth.” Youyaku collapses to the ground as the female steps back from him and then begins to circle him. “The color of yellow and the element of lightning perhaps hold the most dissimilar characteristics. For the mind, the color yellow signifies research. In the fact that lightning and electricity seem to be seeking as they travel to a target, most times at random. Materialistic and intent upon keeping their things to themselves in a manner that shows it is dear to them, people of yellow.” Youyaku just continues to lie on the ground. “ Worldly matters are a success for those with yellow of the mind.” Was she complimenting herself? She smiles. “Care for me to go on? I just feel like ranting since you aren’t putting up much of a fight despite me telling you everything you need to know about my more precious abilities.” Youyaku continues to lay on the ground, still paralyzed from the shock. The female stows the brush and then brings out a harder bristle brush. This one is made for making fine lines. “Worldly matters are all about understanding the art of earning money and investing properly. A simple thing for those of yellow.” She twirls the brush in her hand. “Yellow is reflective of the sun more so than lightning and lightning is less like the sun as far as what it’s characteristics are. For yellow is shows the person’s lifestyle to be active and their ability to adopt a lifestyle is fairly simple. A similarity of lightning and yellow are activity. They both signify activity either granting it or showing it in physical ways. All in all, yellow is just a nice, bright color that lightens many moods lightning does when used as energy to light dark places.” Youyaku finally feels his body recover and quickly gets to his feet. He pants hard as the female looks at him.

“Mikuko, right?” The female nods. “You over zealous naked ape, I’m going to knock that big head off of your shoulders.

“Now, now. I’m just talking about the color yellow since I just used it. Earth can be next if I can get you on your knees in my next few attacks. Maybe wind after that?” Youyaku charges in, having no choice since he is close quarters combat capable, as Mikuko speaks again. “Did you know that just the color yellow can be beneficial to the body as well?” Youyaku frowns and unleashes a barrage of punches and kicks. Each time the female swings her brush to bloc his strikes after swiping yellow from her dress. “Yellow is best when dealing with diseases of the stomach and digestive system. Diabetes, liver disorders, and even hemorrhoids can be aided in being rid of by use of the color yellow. Stains and marks on the body can be cleared with yellow as well. Though now I’m really only focusing on the color and not so much the element.” She was really starting to work Youyaku’s last nerve. She sighs as Youyaku uses enough force to push her away from him. “This isn’t just useful information in life, but in this battle as well. I’m trying to give you a hands up,” she says with a small giggle. She was teasing him!

The fight goes on and Mikuko seems to quiet down a bit. She also seemed to be putting less effort into the fight and seems to just drag through it. It just kept aggravating Youyaku more and more. “Stop!” Youyaku seems to stop, without thinking, right in the middle of a punch. Mikuko has her hands on her hips and her eyes shut. “This isn’t working. Our fighting styles are too different and you’re not even scratching the surface of my abilities. It’s a waste of my time and yours. So I quit.” She stows her brush and crosses her arms beneath her breasts.

“You can’t just quite, stupid ape!” The female doesn’t respond. She’d already decided. She would not continue a fight that held no benefit. Especially when the point was to get stronger.

“Maybe you should go and eat something yellow, like a lemon or grapefruit, because you’re deaf and dumb if you think I’m the stupid one. The color yellow to me is the same as electricity. I can draw colors from anything, just name it, and use it to attack you. Charging in and attacking me will do you little good since my range is as broad as that of the colors themselves. So the next time you come and fight me make sure you aren’t as dimwitted and boring as you are now. Bye, loser,” she raves before turning and walking away. Youyaku calls after her but she’s already set on leaving. He wasn’t interested in her anyway. All she did was use those brushes of hers to find. Typical hum woman. Unable to use her fists and relying on material objects to do what she is incapable of.


“Deficiency of yellow color causes diseases and its excess is one of the causes of fever…” Mikuko sits in a ramen shop writing things down in a small notebook with a fuzzy green pen. “Gold, nickel, zinc, calcium, sodium, copper, and phosphorus are said to have yellow rays present. Wearing those in some form hold benefits. Foods of yellow color include: golden cereal, bananas, carrots, grapefruit, lemon, and pineapple. So long as they have yellow skin or yellow to them in some form, like it in the secondary color orange, they also have the benefits of the color yellow.” She continues to jot things down even while Youyaku takes a seat at the counter a few seats from her. “Bringing these things to use in any form penetrates the characteristics of yellow color into our mind and body, as quoted from a source.” She hears Youyaku order a bowl of beef ramen but focuses on her notes. She taps the butt of her pin against the notebook a moment before flipping through the pages. “Lightning is noted as having a hardness, making it a useful barrier. Hm…” She thinks on that a moment and realizes it is correct. It’s just odd when using the word hard for lightning. But lightning does have a certain density to it when people use it as a defense. “Noted,” she finally says. She seems to flip through the pages again before getting started on the color green before going into the color brown and the element of earth. “Green seems to hold some similarities to blue. Which isn’t beyond thought since green and blue are close on the scale of colors. Green symbolizes tranquility and composure…”

“How long are you going to go on like that? No one wants to hear you rambling,” Youyaku complains. The man serving the ramen sets the man’s bowl down roughly, which the Gaho takes note of. He catches a few looks from the staff and the one that brought him his meal and grumbles something.

“If you have a problem with it then eat someplace else. I like to talk to myself when I think. And at the moment, I’m studying to create a new technique, so I’m fake sorry about your inability to take in knowledge beyond your comprehension despite it being basic.” She then returns to her work. Youyaku angrily eats his ramen with a fork as the female seems to scan through her notes. She doesn’t seem to speak for a moment but eventually does. “Love,” she states and makes Youyaku choke a little on a piece of beef. Her suddenly speaking and saying the word love just through him off. “The influence of green on people fill them with love and that love spreads to the surroundings. The result makes surroundings delicate and pleasant. So then blue and green are a little different in the effect the tranquility gives. Green spreads tranquility from the direct source while blue spreads tranquility upon physical or visual contact. The spreading method is unique to the colors. Interesting…” She suddenly looks up from her notes and her yellow eyes fall on Youyaku. The man returns to eating his food, trying to tune the female out. “We don’t have to fight,” she states. “Actually, while you and I are different in personality, we have similarities. So we don’t have to be on opposite sides of the same coin. We can share sides like yin and yang.”

“What are you going on about, you colorfully painted naked ape.” He takes another fork full of noodles and slurps them down. She watches him eat and doesn’t say anything. He looks at her and then sets his fork down. He takes up his napkin and wipes his mouth as she laughs. Surprised, he keeps his napkin against his mouth and stares at her with a raised eyebrow.

“Say, let’s forget the spar and try and be in each others company until we leave this village, huh?” She seemed to be trying to make nice, but Youyaku wasn’t really willing.