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Tin nodded to show that he was ready to learn the next jutsu and then his sensei said, "Tin, you will now learn the Art of Substitution. This will allow you to quickly and if used correctly, allow you to replace yourself with a dummy of sorts, be it a piece of wood or another person." His sensei then begen to explain to him that he had to have the element of surprise on his side if he ever wanted the technique to work flawlessly. "Now let's begin bye going outside. Shall we?"

His sensei then instructed him to go outside where they would have more space to practice substitution since it a little bit tougher if they had attempted to cotinue in the classroom. His sensei then told Tin to attack him using any sort of weapon of choice. Tin hesitated, but said that he couldn't because he was afraid of hurting him, but his sensei reassured him that it would be fine. Tin then pulled out three kunai knives and flung them out at his sensei whow as hit and fell backwards with a small look of pain as the kunai hit.

Tin was mortified at the attack and began to rush over to his sensei to help him, but then as the body fell back it transformed into a piece of wood that clanked on the ground as it rolled away. His sensei then walked out of a clearing while laughing and said, "No need to worry, for it was only a piece of wood and as I said, there was nothing to worry about." Now it's your turn Tin. Tin then began to practice as his sensei then began to throw one kunai knife at a time at him, giving him little time to react to the attack, but stil enough time to make the substitution.

The first few tries were not successful since he was hit repeatably and started to bleed where he was scratched by the sharp edges of the kunais. Eventually under pressure Tin was able to successfully substitute in a piece of wood each time that his sensei launched an attack agaist him. He knew that his sensei was not going to harm him for he was only an academy student, but still the training was a little harder than he had expected when he first attempted it, but now felt it much easier to pick up and learn.

Art of Substitution: 4/4

"Alright then well whenever you are ready we will move onto the next technique to learn. We will from this point on be covering all techniques that are going to help you surive when out on mission and in a real combat situation. Why should I teach you this? Well it's important because it'll help you to adapt to your surrounding in any combat situation as well as foreign lands when on missions. Now if youa ready we can process by heading outside since well this place it too small of a place for us to train and we'll be needing a lot of space."

They then began to walk to a small body of water outside of the academy. As they walked his sensei told him that they would be practicing outiside of the academy for a while so they would not be needing to go back inside anytime soon. "Alright well I am going to be teaching you how to walk on water. This technique is a more advanced form of tree climbing since it requires you to focus your chakra down toward the soles of your feet to get an even footing and to smooth out any rough edges so that you can stand on the water. This is harder due to the nature of water being a liquid as opposed to a tree's trunk which is solid."

After the explanation his sensei then began to demonstrate to him by showing him how to walk on water. He focused his chakra down toward the sole of his feet and then slowly lifted one foot and then placed it on the surface of the water. The foot seemed to be standing on the surface as if it was a hard surface and not at all water, but it still rippled ever so slightly underneath his weight. Then he moved his other food onto the body of water and stood there for a few moments before turning around and said to Tin, "Well that is all there is to it. Your turn."

Tin watched as his sensei then stepped off the body of water and then looked at Tin to reassure him by saying, "Remember to adjust your chakra to the molecules of the water since it is constantly changing and they are never at rest unlike hard surfaces." Tin then nodded and began to focus his chakra down toward the soles of his feet. As his chakra began to flow down his feet, he smoothed it out so that the chakra was spread out across the bottom as evenly as possible so that his feet would not be too unbalanced when he stepped onto the water's surface.

As Tin stepped onto the surface he began to wobble slightly due to the change in the water tension as it slipped around his chakra infused foot. Tin then quickly had to change the amount of chakra or allow himself to keep afloat on the water's surface. Tin then moved his other foot onto the surface and then stood there for a moment and then was overjoyed at begin able to perform the difficult technqiue, but in his overexcited state he lost his concentratoin and the chakra became rought and unbalanced. Tin then slipped and then began to sink.

"Ah!" Tin screamed as he lost his control of the chakra in his feet and then sank quickly into the water landing on his butt. Tin got up and rubbed his sore bottom wincing as he did. "Well it was a good effort nonetheless." His sensei said as he chuckled at his student. "Come one let's dry you off." He said as he threw a towel over Tin and then let Tin dry himself off. "You did a good job and will probably do better the next time you attempt it." Tin then looked at his sensei from the ground and smiled as he continued to dry off his hair.

Water Walking: 6/6

As Tin was trying to completely dry himself off his sensei said, "Well now that you have some mastery over the art of water walking, it is time to go learn the more simpler art of tree climbing. As you did before with the focusing of your chakra down to the soles of your feet to evenly smooth it out before attempting to climb the tree." His sensei then paused to let Tin absorbed the infomration before readying himself to attempt the technique. "Now let me demonstrate how this will work Tin before you attempt it yourself."

Tin watched as his sensei began to focus his chakra as he had done like when they were practicing how to control chakra for water walking. He could sense that the chakra was moving down toward his sensei's leg and toward the soles of the feet. He noticed that there was a small hint of chakra that could be seen, but he was not sure if that was an illusion or if it was merely the show of chakra intensity of how much power was behind his sensei's chakra. Tin stood back as he watched his sensei begin my placing one foot in front of the other and began walking up.

As he was walking up the tree he looked at Tin from an angle and said, "This is not as easy as it seems, but it will become easier with practice. Keep in mind that you must have the right amount of chakra in the soles of your feet in order to maintain the adhesion necessary to walk and climb up trees. If you have too little chakra, you will lose balance due to not enought adhesion is there to stick. As for too much chakra and you will break the tree's trunk with too much force due to excess chakra that is not needed. Now you may begin your training."

Tin listened to his sensei as he finshed his small adivisory warnings about the art of tree climbing and then Tin began to focus his chakra down toward the soles of his feet. As soon as he felt that there was enough chakra, Tin began to slowly move his feet and placed it on the tree, but then his sensei said, "Oh! I forgot to mention to you about this, but it might be better if you start out running since it is easier that way. More experienced shinobi can just walk up." Tin stopped and backed away from the tree and then made a dash at the tree.

As he dashed up the tree, he could feel his feet push against the tree's bark and could feel it slipping underneath the pressure of his feet as they smashed through the bark. Tin's eyes widened as he began to slip down the tree as he got up a few feet. Crap.. it seems that I over exerted the amount of chakra needed to stick to the tree as well as loose the concentration to keep a constant flow of chakra to keep myself adhered to the tree. Tin thought as his feet slipped off the tree, but he quickly pushed off with his left food to push off from the tree.

Tin fell backwards as he fell to the ground. About halfway down he pushed his body and used it to cause himself to flip over and land on his feet in a kneeling position. He looked up at the tree where he had been only moments before and cursed his lack of chakra control. He was going to attempt it again, but his sensei said, "Wait! Tin that is enough for now. You can practice some more on your own when you have the time, but for now let us train on some other skills that will assist you in the field of combat so that you aren't helpless." His sensei said as they began to walk to a new training ground.

Tree Climbing: 6/6

Raigeki sat outside the training field waiting for Iruka sensei who said that he would teach him substitution today, but it took him hours to get to the training grounds.

"Sorry I'm late I kind of got caught up at the tea shop and there was a couple of kids who wanted to know if being a ninja was hard.

"Okay, but I get really good training today because you were late I deserve two jutsu."Raigeki had a sinester smile as though he hoped this would happen.

They walked into the training field and spent ours training and all Raigeki was capacle of replaceing himself was a big rock and nothing else not even a log.

[Art of Substitution 1/4]

a young girl swagered into the classroom she was young and excited for her first day at the acadamy and she did not care that she was a little late. her name was Leiko she was unkept and wild and she was arrogant like her name sugested Leiko also had a small dog who was a shade of brown like her hair with little black dots were its eye brows would be an on the bottom of its feet and this little dog stayed with her always. if you havent guessed she is part of the inuzuka clan and she let every one know it. once she had a foot in the classroom she anounced herself

"ladyes and gentil men the cute and smart Leiko inuzuka has arived!! thank you thank you no pictures please"

"miss inuzuka was it? please sit down"said a women in her 20's Leiko sat in a seat and almost imedetly started to strugle to keep awake.

"alright every one i am going to be your teacher my name is mika but please call me mika sensei"

"how boaring said Leiko with a sigh well as long as i am here i should pay atention" with that last thought Leiko drifted off to sleep

she was woaken about 4 hours later by mika sensei

"hay Leiko wake up you missed todays whole lesson are you sleeping ok at night?" mika did not waight for a resopnse from Leiko "how about instead of you falling asleep during regular class you and i meet up after normal class and i teach you hands on ok? see you tomaro" and with that mika left.

Leiko sat for a moment to take in what mika sensei had just said but eventualy went home

Yada entered the gates into the academy as he smiled walking alongside his Dragon,Yada was happy he could bring a pet with him to his academy training. although Yada didn't really care to call it a pet as more of a partner. "race you to the training fields!" Yada giggled this out as he began to run he entered the building where everyone was learning about how to control chakra flows, luckily his parents had taught him most of what he needed to know before he left. Yada had lost track of his thoughts as he entered the training fields of the academy it was something he thought was really nice looking mostly because he could see that the field was full of beautiful trees and clear water and brite green grass.
(2/??)
Yada began to listen in on what some of the teachers where talking about as his Dragon had already began to doso as it had won the race and was waiting for him to arrive. Yada smiled even though he had already lost it seemed as though he had won from the expretion of his face. Yada started to listen in on the lecture the teacher was giving out. Yada heard a bit then would drift out and back in then out again then in and continued this way the whole time. Yada then looked over to his dragon and wispered "you got this memerised for me?" then it would shake its head up and down. "good, show me what to do" after saying this it began a sherades type of thing and Yada would generally guess correctly at what it thought.
(3/??)
Yada had correctly assumed the items and finished what he was after and went to try it out. he found it to be fun as he focussed his chakra as he prepared for the technique he had his dragon headbut him and as it hit he flew backwards and hit a tree and was instantly replace by a log. he then fell out of the tree that he had hit, "wow! that works pretty good could be very usefull to me thanks buddy!" Yad walked back over to the Dragon and began to pat its head and rub back and forth like petting it. Yada then went back and looked at the log that had taken the blow instead it had compressed on the back where it collided with the tree but was shattered like a crator where the skull hit.
(4/ Art of Substitution)

Now why don't you have another go at it? Aramaki nodded and got ready for another go. He planned to get it right this time. He clasped his hands together and began to concentrate on his chakra. He built it up a lot faster on his second try. He then focused the flow so that it only escaped through the souls of his feet. With the he took off at a run up the tree. This time he was able to make it half way up the tree before his chakra fluxuated and he had to hop off of tree trunk.

Immediatly after hopping off the tree Aramaki started concentrating his chakra again to prepare for another trip up the tree. He did not show it but he was tired. This was the most chakra he had ever given up in one day and that was scaring him. None the less he had to push on if he wanted to master the technique. After a while he was able to build up his chakra again. This time he was not wasteing as much as the first two times. He was deffinently getting the hang of all of this and he as happy for that.

He then concentrated this chakra so that it would only expell through the soles of his feet. He tenderly put a foot on the tree and then the other. Then he took off at a run up the trunk of the tree. One foot, two foot, three foot, going on and on up the tree. It was obvious the he was going to get it this time so why worry about it. He reached the top of the tree and he grabbed hold of it. IT was only then that he looked down and realized just how high up in the air he was. He could barely see Iruka from up there.

However he knew that Iruka was smiling. He had to know that much about the guy by now. Aramaki did not feel brave enough to attempt landing on his feet from this high up, that was for sure. However, he did climb down about half way before doing so. When he reached the ground he saw that Iruka was still smiling. It even seemed like his scar was smiling. "That was excellent. I honestly did not think that you were going to get the technique so quickly. Now that we are through with that I guess that it is on to our next thing.

Why dont you follow me?" "What are we going to learn this time?""YOu will find out soon enough just be patient.""You really like surprised don't you?""What can I say, they are truely worth it."Aramaki finally nods and begins to follow Iruka-sensei. The guy was really creepy but in the end he felt that he could trust him. Aramaki keeps going. They slowly make there way out of the woods. Aramaki feels that he could make it back here if he had to.

Chakra Molding 5/5

Iruka and Aramaki made there way back to the school and by then Aramaki was exausted. He had been working for a long time and would need time to regain his strength. Iruka noticed this. [He had Aramaki follow him to the back of the school. Aramaki had already been there before and knew about the lake in the middle of the garden. Aramaki remembered the tast of the water the last time he was there and could not wait to taste it again. Iruka led him the the lake and sat down. He motioned for Aramki to do the same.

"Drink. The water is just fine." Aramaki nodded not needing to be told twice and sat dow n next to Iruka. He brought his hands down into the lake and brought up a hand full of water. He brought it up to his mouth and drank heartily. He repeated this action a few more times before finally lying down on the bed of flowers behind him. "That water is excellent. How can it be that good when it is still?""Trust me, it is not still. Now I take it that you were here earlier today?"

Aramaki had a sheepish look on his face for a while before he finally answered that question. "In all honesy, I was here for about an hour and a half before I walked into class. I just wanted to be alone before class started.""I can understand that. Now if you are rested enough the next technique that I will teach you is called the Water walking technique. This technique is a lot like the technique that you just learned. However it has one main and very important difference.

Instead of walking on a steady constant surface like a tree you will be walking on a lucid and formless surface that is water. THis will make you require far more chakra control then the Tree walking jutsu because you now have to concentrate on continuously changing your chakra input so that it matches the water flow. That is actually the reason why we are here, to learn that technique. Now why don't we get to it, this is going to be a long training day for you and you need to understand that."

With that Iruka got back on his feet and took a few steps back. Aramaki got up and began to focus his chakra. Within a few moments he successfully builds up hos chakra so that it is expelling out of his whole body. He then fucuses on the flow of the chakra and changes that so that the chakra is comming out of the soles of his feet. With that he is about to step onto the water when Iruka stops him with a hand on his shoulder. "You might want to take those off just in case." Iruka was pointing at Aramaki's swords.

Leaf Concentration 5/5

Aramaki had to admit, he had forgotten that he still had them on. Also, he deffinently did not want to get them wet and risk them rusting in their sheaths. He took his swords off from his waist and began again to walk into the water. He put both his feet on the water and was held up for a second. He then immediatly fell in with a huge splash. After a few moments his head popped up on the surface and he swam back to shore. His clothes were wet and he was really happy that he did not try that with his swords.

"What happened, I thought that I had it.""Remember that this technique is a lot harder then the Tree climbing technique. You have to be prepared to change your chakra output within a few seconds or you will just fall through the surface. Try again, maybe this time you will get it right. Aramaki nodded. Iruka was not going to be much help with this technique. That would make this even harder then he had hoped it would be. Well might as well get back to it.

Aramaki concentrated his chakra in his core and had it flowing again. Once again he changed the flow so that it would flow out of the soles of his feet. With that he stepped onto the water, half expecting that he would break the surface again and fall in. He was half right with that. Aramaki did break the surface. However he di not completly screw up. Aramaki looked down and saw that he his feet were just under the surface but he was not sinking to the bottom. He knew that he must have done something right.

Weight lifting

With his next step he took his foot out of the water and rested it on the surface again. HE did the same with the other foot. THis time he did not even break the surface. He had done it. He had mastered the technique. He walked on the surface of the water for a while while to get the hang of it. He was getting better at regulating his chakra flow and that was the main thing. After a while he walked back to shore and stepped out of the water completly. It was only then that he started to smile.

Iruka was smiling as well. "Very good. I see that you are getting the hang of using your abilities. Now that we are through with that I guess that we should get to the next lesson. The good thin about this is that we will be back in class for this one. You see, it is about time for class so we should hurry up and get back inside. Don't forget your swords. You know where my class room is so try not to be late." With that Iruka left Aramaki and started to walk back towards the building.

Shuriken/Kunai target practice 2/2

Aramaki was not to far behind, hurrying up to put his swords back on while he was walking. He did not realize how much time had passed while he was training with Iruka. All he knew was that he had gotten a lot done in the hours that he had been here. Now it was time for real class. Aramaki walked into the building and was greeted by the same hall that he had seen when he had first walked in. THe only difference was that now the hall was filled with academy students much like himself.

This was going to be a real new experience for Aramaki. He was just going to have to get used to it. The problem with him is that he had no idea how he was going to make friends in this place when he did not even know anyone. Aramaki had always had trouble aproaching people and this was probably not going to be to different from anything like that. Aramaki just took a deep breath and made his way towards Iruka's class room. He saw a line of people infront of the door. THis line included two people from the moon village.

That little point will be importan soon enough however. Now, they were deep in conversation about their day, how hyped they were to be ther and all kinds of stuff like that. All and all it was easy to tell that they were best friends. It was also easy to see that they have always been close friends even though one was a boy and the other a girl. Aramaki situated himself close to them so that he could atleast see a familiar face in the crowd. Finally the doors to the class room opened and Iruka popped his head out.

Weight Running 3/3

"Welcome, welcome all of you. This will be your first session with me so I hope you are all prepared to have some fun, I know that I am. Sadly that fun will not be in here. There is far too much lerning and stuff to have too much fun in here so why don't we all get this over with so we can all get out of here?" Through all of this Iruka had a smile on his face showing that he was just joking but it was wierd to see that and no one elst got it other than Aramaki who had spent the whole morning with Iruka.

With that Iruka finally left the door and went down the stairs to his desk. The other students took this as a sign to walk in after him. Aramaki was last into the class room and saw that everyone else had alread been seated. Luckily for him, in his own mind anyway, The seat next to the two friends was still untaken. He took that seat and settled in. He was in the middle row on the right and had taken the seat closest to the stairs. Aramaki looked over at the ninja next to him and saw that they were deep in conversation.

Dummy Fighting 2/2

They were most deffinently interested in what they were saying. That was a good thing for Aramaki since he really did not feel up to making small talk with the two of them. Aramaki turned his attention back to the bottom of the stairs and Iruka and saw that he man was getting his notes together. After a few moments he shuffled some papers together and looked up at the class. "Now today you will all be learning three techniques from me. These techniques will be the easiest you will learn here

I am saying that so that you will not get a big head and over react about your skills. It is very important for a ninja to know his limitations and be able to act accordingly to that information. From what I heard there are a few of you out there that really need to learn that lesson. None the less the first technique that I will teach you is the henge no jutsu. This is a very important technique. This technique gives you the power to hide in plain sight. Mastery of it means that you could transform into anyone or anything you choose.

Now this technique requires you to concentrate your chakra, having it come out of all of your openings. You need to have that chakra wash over you to complete the transformation. It seems that you are all in groups of three so why don't you all huddle together and use it amongst yourselves. Remember, practice makes perfect." Aramaki and the two next to him got up and turned to each other. [b"]Hey, the name is Gekkou Aramaki and you two are?""I'm Ichazuki Ichigo, nice to meet you."

Sparing 3/3

"I'm Mayonaka Valkyrie." The three exchanged hand shakes as they got down to buisness. Aramaki was first. He chose to transform into Valkyrie. He had a hard deal because he had to get all of those female parts right enough to pass, but he had been practicing all morning so he was not really worried about getting this wrong. Aramaki got down to buisness and started to concentrate on building up his chakra. He did this almost immediatly to the surprise of Ichigo and Valkyrie.

Within a few moments he quickly did the hand signs required for the technique and shouted Henge no Jutsu!"Immediatly he started transforming. When the smoke from the ninjitsu cleared, he saw that he was a pretty much perfect copy of Valkyrie. Of course, Valkyrie did not want to believe it and it would take her a lot of persuading to finally accept it but the point was that he had gotten through the technique without a hitch. Now that that was over, it wast the other twos' turns to transform.

All and all it took some effort for Ichigo, who had decided to go second. The first time he attempted the technique, nothing had happened. He felt really embarrased for that. Fortunately for him Aramaki was there to help him through the transformation jutsu. Aramaki gabe Ichigo all of the advice that Iruka gave him during his training to complete the Tree Climbing Jutsu and the Water Walking Technique. All of that advice paid off big time. When Ichigo attempted the technique the second time he succeded.

Meditation 3/3

None the less when it comes to battle there is no one that I would rather have at my side. She maybe arrogant but she is loyal, and strong demonically strong. That is something that one must be worried about. No one is quite sure about what kind of a person she is. Well that may not be true, actually. One person may know but he will never betray her to anyone. That maybe why they are so close. It is actually quite hard to talk about her without talking about him aswell. Those two have always been know to be together, that is common knowledge. So that at least would be a good reason.

None the less she was suffering from delusions of grandeur. However these delusions were not brought up upon here by her clan. No, these delusions were brought upon her by herself alone. Her family was great, yes, but their power humbled them. They were given the most important job in the village but that job was taxing on the body so no one felt that it was much of gift so much as it was a curse. To have to continuously be putting out a barrier of genjutsu is no easy task for anyone and it is a wonder that so few have gone crazy.

But even so she has delusions of grandeur. She believes that she will one day rise to become clan leader. Her power is strong enough that that may be a possibility for her. So she does not care what anyone thinks of her. She does not care what anyone thinks of her opinions. And she expecially does not care what anyone thinks of what she says about them. She may just be the queen b*tch of the universe, and she is not at all embarassed about it. That is not much of a good sign. Not a good sign at all.

Bushin no Jutsu 3/3