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Akemi frowned, as kind as this man was to teach him things, he was kind of an a*****e. Though when the random ninja came flying in and punched him in the face Akemi burst into a fit of laughter from deep down inside. "Karma is a b***h." He really wanted to join in on this, and he had his chain with him ... no he needed to learn jutsu first.

Akemi made a small finger pistol with his left hand, sticking his thumb up and pointing to his right with his index finger, then he slid his right hand into it so that his pinky stuck out on the other side of his thumb. Then he turned his attention back to the a** kicking momentarily as the a*****e got up and kicked the random guy in the face. This was exactly what he wanted school to be like, meaning he needed to become a genin as soon as possible.

[Learning hand signs:
Hare 4/12
DC=10
Int mod = -2
17-2 = 15 = pass]

Akemi stared in awe at the fight, lusting or a bit of action with every sounding of wet flesh hitting wet flesh. That smacking noise, the angry faces, the accelerated breathing ... 's**t, I'm supposed to be doing hand signs.' Akemi tried to regain focus again.

[Learning hand signs:
Dragon 4/12
DC=10
Int mod = -2
1-2 = -1 = Major failure]

How depressing, the fight ended before it ever even got started. That last kick to the random guys stomach was pretty good, so he had to give a*****e credit, but it was rather disheartening that nobody had died, hell nobody even bled from the looks of things.

Akemi tried to make the hand sign again. He interwove his fingers and pointed his thumbs and pinkies outwards before turning it so that his knuckles faced a*****e and Random Guy. "Who the hell named these things, this looks nothing like a dragon." Akemi was becoming frustrated at the lack of thought that went into these hand signs. He needed pictures to remember things.


[Learning hand signs:
Dragon 5/12
DC=10
Int mod = -2
19-2 = 17 = Pass]

"Well Gennosuke two years of training everyday will do that to you." Shinzu told him smiling but his smile disappeared as he remembered dear Andou Sensei "Nah this isn't a full time job for me, I was here learning to use the Shuriken and when I finished I noticed him and some other Hoshigaki Academy Students doing nothing. So I decided to traing them a little." Shinzu explained to him before turning to address the Hoshigaki "Hey don't forget that tha great Sage of the Six Paths created and named those signs so honor them." He told him, half wanting to thumb him again.

[15-1=14 || Pass]
Akemi tried to think of what the snake hand sign was, unconsciously putting his hands together and interlacing the fingers as he thought and what it could possibly be. Then after what seemed like several minutes of thinking without coming to a final answer Akemi looked down and saw his hands which sparked his memory and led him to remember that the position he had his hands in was actually the snake hand sign. He seriously had no idea how it even remotely resembled a snake, but he was not complaining.

[6-1=5 || Fail]
Next up was horse. 'Oh no, I'm drawing a blank again.' All Akemi could remember was that horse had appeared to be a rather difficult hand sign. He began to try and replicate it, interlacing his fingers and pointing the tips, but eventually when he had finish he realized it was actually Dragon that he had made.

[2-1=1 || Fail]
Akemi tried to think about which sign was the sign for horse, but all he could think about was a line of horses jumping into a wood chipper as their blood sprayed out over the other horses, who lapped at it like water before leaping into the machine themselves. Akemi gained a dopey smile and started to laugh a bit before saying, "Stupid animals jumping into wood chippers." Then as he realized that he had said that out loud he looked around and quickly went back to training hoping that nobody had heard him during his mental field trip to the wood chipper.

[17-1=16 || Pass]
Akemi suddenly remembered, after that little mental break of his, that the horse was an inverted dragon, so rather than point his pinkies downward he interwove them like his other fingers and held his index fingers up to a point, resting his thumbs against his index fingers. "And it still doesn't look like a horse. I have no idea how I'm going to remember which one is which if I can't even see the pictures." Akemi was disheartened at his inability to see a horse in this, but maybe he just wasn't seeing the pictures right, after all he wasn't exactly the brightest bulb in the dark alleyway where the young girl was about to get jumped by some homeless guy named Ricky that got kicked out of his box last week by his ex-wife and is looking for a little bit of action in a dark alleyway that is dimly lit by multiple bulbs, of which Akemi is not the brightest one.
Or something to that effect.

[7-1=6 || Fail]
Next up was ram, but Akemi was still trying to make sense of his analogy, and thus he zoned out again. This seemed to be an increasing problem today.

[16-1=5 || Pass]
Then Akemi quickly corrected himself and pointed his index fingers and middle fingers to the sky, holding them tight and cupping his remaining two fingers on his left hand into the gap on his right hand. "Ram. I got four left, then we can spar like you wanted Mister genin."

[Learning hand signs:
Snake, Horse, & Ram 8/12
DC=10
Int mod = -1 ((Went up by one WOOT!))
Rolls: 15, 6, 2, 17, 7, 16
15-1 = 14 = pass
6-1 = 5 = fail
2-1 = 1 = fail
17-1 = 16 = pass
7-1 = 6 = fail
16-1 = 15 = pass]

[Sense motive 8+0= 8] ((I'll just write it up as a failure unless you want to roll an innuendo for your previous post.]

Akemi looked at the bloodlust in his clansman's eyes, followed by the immediate disappointment. They were so much alike. Hoshigaki understood other Hoshigaki in a way that meat treats could not. Akemi would propose a three way fight, seeing as this man seemed so confident of himself, but feared that his clansman may try to steal the glory of first bloodshed. Then again Akemi knew a trap when he sensed one, and this was most definitely not a trap.

[5-1=4 || Fail monkey sign]
9-1=8 || Fail monkey sign]
12-1=11 || Pass monkey sign]

Akemi sped through the rest of his training, improperly doing the monkey sign twice. First he put his left hand on top, then he locked the wrong fingers together, but on his third try he slid his hands together and locked his left thumb and right pinky together and formed the monkey hand sign. Three more and he could continue training with the nice man.


[Learning hand signs:
Monkey 9/12
DC=10
Int mod = -1
Rolls: 8, 5, 9, 12
Sense Motive:
8+0=8 || Undetermined
Training:
5-1=4 || Fail
9-1=8 || Fail
12-1=11 || Pass]

Shinzu thumped the Hoshigaki twice once for cussing and once for cussing out the Sage of the Six Paths. "You still have a lot more training to do." Shinzu told him half wondering where the puppet teacher was. Shinzu wasn't trained to be an Academy Teacher, heck he wasn't even a Chuunin plus if he was going to get out of here he needed to keep training and hard.