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Tosatsu chuckles, flexing either arm as he waits for Ares to attack. They were both bloodied and battered, so this little battle should not take long at all. Ares runs forward, kicking at Tosatsu's face, and at the same time, slashing down with his katana at Tosatsu. Blinking in surprise, he raises an arm to block the kick, though feeling it's pang as the force almost knocks him down. Though the pain only got worse, as Ares' katana slammed down into his arm. He flinches, closing his eyes for a moment, then allowing them to snap open, as he pushes the katana's blade away and slashes with one of his two retractable blades at Ares' throat. Though naturally Ares managed to dodge it without a scratch.Tosatsu frowns, flicking his other retractable blade forward, and towards Ares, though figuring it wouldn't hit. And of course, it did not. Instead, Ares' katana's hilt slammed into Tosatsu's stomach, causing him to keel over and come close to falling to his own knees. Then, just as suddenly, Tosatsu's retractable blades recede into his sleeves, as he then grabs Ares by the head and slams him into the ground at his feet. "Die, damn it!" He demands, before stomping down on Ares' back with a good deal of force. Ares lay crumpled into the ground, unflinching after Tosatsu had stomped down on him. "Yeah.. That's more like it..." Tosatsu says, smirking as he turns and begins walking away, as far as he could tell. His training was done so he might as well leave for better training, further into the land. As Tosatsu was walking, a kunai flies past his head, instantly, Tosatsu spins around, drawing his long sword form it's sheath and holding it at the ready as he glares at the now standing Ares. "Round two... Already?" Tosatsu asks, with a raised eyebrow as he looks at the wounded teacher shinobi. Ares charges forward, raising his katana and slashing down at Tosatsu swiftly. Tosatsu barely manages to block the attack, as he staggers backwards then moves forward, kicking at Ares. Ares smirks, grabbing Tosatsu's leg and pushing it down with one hand, his other hand slashing with the katana at Tosatsu's back with a swift arching motion. Tosatsu raises his arm, blocking with the hidden retracting blade beneath his black haori's sleeve Tosatsu then pushes the weapon away, and punches with his free hand, aiming to knock Ares backwards. Ares rolls as he is knocked backwards, standing and then running forward again, as he slashes with his katana. Tosatsu blocking the slash with his long sword's blade. "Heh..." Tosatsu says, pushing hard against the clashing blade. Ares smirks, holding his katana in one hand, as he uses his other to draw a kunai and stab it forward. Tosatsu was forced to pull away from their clash of blades, in order to dodge the attack. Though his movements were extremely slowed, from all this constant fighting. Tosatsu weaves to the side, ducking low and slashing at Ares' ankles, with two swift horizontal cuts. Ares moves away, managing to get one leg out of the way, though taking a cut in his other ankle. He shifts, dropping down to one knee and glaring at Tosatsu. Tosatsu smirks, standing and walking towards his opponent, and teacher. "You actually think you have me beaten?! You couldn't kill me, even if you wanted to.. You're pathetic.. Useless.. Go on, try and kill me! Worthless kids like you, could never even put more then a scratch on my body!!" Ares says, laughing rather insanely, the lack of blood, and wounds covering his body. Ares slowly stands, using his katana to prop himself up, as he begins to rapidly make hand signs, glaring at Tosatsu with hatred in his eyes. "No one ever beats me... You will die... Everyone that dares to fight me, and wound me, dies...!!" Ares yells loudly, finishing the hand signs, and without a word, his chakra flares up around him, causing the area to darken a little. Ares leaps upwards and into the air, three fireballs suddenly being shot down at him, their large force, threatening to incinerate Tosatsu as soon as they hit the ground. Tosatsu raises an eyebrow, turning and running away, while diving and rolling across the ground, as the flames lick at his back, singing his clothing. Ares lands again, smirking as he rests against his katana for support. "And there's more where that came from... So why don't you try to attack me now..." Ares says, before breaking into insane laughter again. Tosatsu stands shakily and then shakes his head, his former teacher, and now enemy, appeared to be completely insane. He had to either be knocked out, so Tosatsu may get away, or killed. The second option seemed safer, but harder to get done at this state in the fight. Tosatsu looks around slowly, before dashing forward, unsure of what could be done yet, to hinder his win, and escape. Ares smirks, making hand signs before there were three of him, standing there. Tosatsu glances around slowly, looking from one to the next as they all begin to make hand signs. s**t.. Three at once... They must be clones, I'll just dispose of them.. Tosatsu thinks, before he slashes at the first clone. Even before his sword connects, all three clones explode, knocking Tosatsu far back, as he flops around, rolling and tumbling across the ground before hitting a low wall. Groaning, Tosatsu slowly attempts to rise to his feet, his gaze peering around for any presence of his opponent, Ares. What was that.. Exploding clones... How? Tosatsu thinks, as he gets to his feet. Most of his upper torso clothing was burnt away, or at least burned to that of blackened pieces of cloth. He pats at his head, killing the burning embers that were in his hair, before his hair lit. "Show yourself!" Tosatsu calls out, frowning as he looks around, his sword lay on the ground where the explosion had occurred, and as tinted a red color, from the flames of the explosion heating it to the point here it couldn't be touched for the time being. Gasping, as he rips off his retractable blades and throws them to the ground. Ugh... I was burned... He says with a frown, looking down at his completely burnt arms. Tosatsu looks up, at Ares as he frowns and slowly stands. He was no weaponless.. How could he possibly escape, or fight back? Tosatsu looks around slowly, then ran for his sword, hoping it would cool enough to be used, by the time he got there. Sliding across the ground and grabbing his sword, he swings it up in time to defend himself from an air attack by Ares. Holding back a grunt from the heated sword's hilt, he pushes Ares away and stands. Gripping his sword tightly, as he runs at Ares again, Leaping upwards and kicking, in the hopes to knock Ares out. Ares smirks, a little too confident as he stands and turns around, just as he turns, Tosatsu's foot connects with Ares' head, knocking him to the ground, and into an unconscienous state. Tosatsu sighs and retrieves his weapons, before he turns and begins walking away from the village. Now what... I'm sick of training.. And this is only going to lead to either my, or his death.. Tosatsu glances back at the knocked out form of Ares, before he passes from sight continuing on into the Academy for a moment, retrieving a change of clothing, and changing into them. Until he races out, as fast as he can away from the Academy. He headed for the docks, to which he could take the boat to his first village, and his next phase of training, to learn a good deal of jutsu.
[ 60 lines = 1,200 CP
Chakra Molding- Complete
Leaf Concentration- Complete
Shuriken/ Kunai Target Practice-Complete ]

"Alright Kikyo. Time for your last bit of training and then you graduate. Are you ready for this?" "Ha! I've been ready since the second I saw your ugly face Perv! Just tell me what it is we're doing and I'm ready!" Ebisu smirked before dashing at her at a great speed. She managed to block the kunai he'd brought out with her katana. "We're going to do a litle sparing. By the way, nice blocking Kikyo." "A spar? Joy. I've been wondering how long I'd have to wait before I got to kick your a**."
((Sparing: 1/3))

For the first several minutes it seemed Kikyo was losing. She kept getting hit with punches and getting kicked around. Finnally she got so anoyed that she had to come up with a plan. "Well now, if you can't even fight, then you might as well just give up." 'Damn! I have to do something!' She did a few quick hand signs. "Bushin no Jutsu!" Several clones of her appeared in front of Ebisu. "What ever you're planning, it won't work!" All the copies of her smirked smuggly.
((Sparing: 2/3))

The clones started doing a series of hand signs. "Henge no Jutsu!" There was a puff of smoke and when it cleared, all the clones were transformed into nude neko girls and winking and making kissy faces at Ebisu. Ebisu's face turned bright red and put his hand to his face, trying to look away. While he was distracted, the real Kikyo snuck up on him from behind and tagged him with a bomb. She then ran away from him as fast as she could before bursting into laughter. Ebisu turned to see her so far away and wondered why she was laughing... until it hit him.
((Sparing: 3/3))

KIkyo half skipped over to the now charred Ebisu. "Wow Perv, you're pretty durrable if you can handle being exploded. But, I guess I still win since you're on the ground and I'm not. Guess this means I pass and that now I can graduate from the academy." Ebisu just wimpered in a pain a little bit as Kikyo walked off to have a bit of a celebrstion of her own at the dumpling shop. All the clones disappeared in a puff of smoke after waving at him and telling Ebisu good bye.

Kikyo looked up at the sky. It was almost night time. She took in one last breathe of the sweet smelling Konaha air. Now she would be returning to the Hidden Heaven, after a visit to the docks. She took the head band she'd gotten earlier from her bag and looked at it. The last rays of the sunset reflected on it. She took her mask off and smiled at it before kissing it quickly. "That one was for you mother, father, sister. I hope I can live up to this ninja life I've chosen. But I'm sure the Perv... Ebisu-sensei trained me well enough." She smiled once more before taking the head band and wrapping it around her arm and then slipping the mask back over her mouth and nose. 'Thank you Ebisu-sensei. I won't forget the training you did with me.' And with that, she headed towards the docks on her way to her village, ready to begin her new life.

Yuan sat practicing his hand signs. The instructor had shown him the signs he would need to make for the all-important Henge-no-jutsu. Yuan's face was pulled into a tight look of concentration. He sat manipulating his hands, back and fourth, in and out. His hands weaved a complex string. Despite the fact that he knew the hand signs by heart now, practicing his signs was never a bad idea. He would need to be fast in combat in the future, and he was a strict believer that skill made good, but practice made perfect. He sat, appearing to be in a trance, as his hands made their complex formations. Anyone who saw him would assume he was meditating. The instructor looked on with a smirk on his face. He was just glad to have a student who could actually get the hand signs the first time.

2/3 Henge no jutsu

Small puffs of smoke could be seen out in the hallway, emminating from the classroom Yuan was in. He was trying to pull off his first transformation. The process was not going smoothly. When Yuan had first tried the jutsu, nothing had happened. The second time, he came out with an abnormally long nose. On the third try, Yuan had gotten the face right, but had come out much fatter than the target. This was much to the dismay of the instructor, as Yuan was attempting to transform into him, and he was forced to set down his lunch after only finishing half of it, in order to avoid feeling to fat himself. On his fourth try, Yuan got it right. He walked around the room, and even shook the hand of the instructor, thanking him and turning to leave the room. The instructor however, would not let him leave without removing the disguise. Yuan strolled out of the school with his usual slouching swagger, hands in pockets and a smirk on his face. The long tails of his blindfold billowing out behind him in the breeze. He gazed out at the blue sky, a lazy sort of grin on his face. Its gonna be a good day I think. Thats good, because who knows what tomorrow may hold? Yuan walked to the back of the school, looking for the lake.

3/3 Henge no jutsu

Yuan and the instructor sat discussing the water walking technique for quite some time. They discussed its practice, and various uses. They also got off on a tangent about where the technique first came from, which started a debate about history class which the two had attended together. After some time, and a break to cool off, the two began practicing. The lake had some shallow areas that were perfect for learning the technique. The water was as still as glass in these eddies, which would make for a much more stable learning area. The instructor walked out across the top of the water, letting Yuan examine his every step so that he could get some idea of how the technique was performed. The instructor showed him how the chakra being emitted from his feet allowed him to "float" as one might call it, atop the water.

2/6 Water Walking

Yuan stepped out onto the water... and immediately fell facefirst into the 6 foot deep hole. The instructor was laughing so hard he almost fell in himself. Yuan swam to the surface, glaring at the laughing instructor. Don't make fun just cause you know I'm going to surpass you as a ninja and a human being. Yuan said with a joking stare. The instructor wiped his eyes and laughingly said, At this rate, the only thing you'll ever surpass me in is arguing! Yuan pouted for a few second before deciding to try again. He stepped out onto the surface of the water once again. This time, he only sunk up to his ankles. He glare smugly out at his instructor. The instructor smirked. There may be hope for you yet Yuan.

4/6 Water Walking