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Batsu actually grew fond of his new friend since they shared similar quantities. However, Batsu was unable to help Kagami in this exercise because his own chakra amount was so great and he didn't know how to expel that much of a quantity. That didn't mean that he couldn't help the other in a different way though.

Batsu folded his arms across his chest and paid close attention to Kagami. "Well, let's see whatcha got then! You say you just need to do it one more time then get to goin'!" Batsu was determined to help drive Kagami by cheering him on when needed and helping out when possible. If Batsu was gonna make it, so was his friend. He was gonna make sure of it.

"Allright! Allright! Chill down... I gotta focus.." Kagami said with a grin of confidence on his face as he then resumed his stance and clapped his hands together once, holding them infront of himself before he began to circulate his chakra. It was good to have a friend there to cheer him on, and boost his confidence. Kagami enjoyed the enthusiasm that was being shown aside from his own.

However, his training attempt at this last repetition was met with another failure as he simply just weakly rotated the chakra around his body. It caused his shoulders to slump and his head to shake in denial of the attempt. Failure was unacceptable. 'I'll stab myself in the spleen with a rusty spoon if I dont get it right the next time.." He thought to himself before looking up to face Batsu. "That was no good..Lemme try that again.. eh heh heh.." He said while chuckling uneasily at the end.

(Since Jake is on hiatus, I'll get Taka-sensei to help him knock out the last two jutsu.)

Batsu walked back over to Taka-sensei and figured that since he was so adamant about teaching him a new jutsu, then he'd hellp with the final two he needed to graduate. It defintiely would be a great help to him in order to accomplish his goals, so Taka-sensei helping out would be a great assset.

"Hey Taka-sensei, could you help me with one of the last two jutsus I need. That way I'd be able to spend more time training elsewhere and being as strong as you one day." Of course, he knew that he'd never reach his teacher's expertise, but trying wouldn't hurt.

Taka smiled at Batsu "Of course I'm willing to help you! It is my job after all. What jutsu do you wish to work on?" Taka asked Batsu, truth be told he wasn't too sure exactly what jutsu Batsu knew. He had tried to keep a list of everyone's jutsu but he had lost it in the fight which had broken out. He sighed students could be so rowdy sometimes.

Soon he was plesently surprised to see yet another new student approach him. It seemed like Kirigakure would be having quite a large new generation of ninja. Soon the boy reached him and began talking, the boy quickly corrected himself and spoke in regular language. Taka grinned however "Ahhh a Mizukiba, eh? It's been awhile since we've had one of you, welcome aboard! I'll be your sensei during your time here, the name's Taka. And this is Batsu." He said in the boy's native tounge, meaning to surprise him, while he roughly put his hand on Batsu's shoulder.

Taka's grin disappeared, yup definately a Mizukiba, why couldn't he just get more normal students? That raised another interesting question aswell, why where half the clans so arrogant but he pushed the question off for now. "Alright first you need to perform the 12 handseals correctly." Taka said to the boy as he picked up a book detailing all twelve. "Here this tells you want each one looks like and how best to perform it." He handed the book to Kento, making sure to turn the the first page which detailed all twelve handseals.

((I've notice, when it comes to Water element users that their attitudes can be fierce and strong [like water], while Ice is cool and collected [like ice]. I just made a Water Element clan believable.))

Dice 1

Next one was the Boar. It seemed relatively simple enough. He prepared himself as he did the last one, and then snapped into the hand seal with no problems or even a slight bit of troubles. He just sorta chuckled and spoke. "This is just a little too easy." He said as he practiced it a couple more times succeeding at each individual attempt.

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Dice 2

After that was the dog seal. It was more easy than the last in his own opinion, letting practicing with the book before preparing to do it solo. He snapped into position. He found it funny how each hand seal didn't look like the animal it was named after, yet people accepted them as the symbol for it so readily. He would just shrug it off as he would continue forward with his training as planned.

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Dice 3

After that it was the Dragon symbol. It was yet again another seal easily gotten into and executed. He felt he would easily master these hand seals in little to no time at all, practicing only a few times before he took his eyes off the book to make sure he had done it properly. Taking his eyes off the book, he gave it a few executions before he would go off to another hand seal.

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Dice 4

Feeling comfortable with the Dragon seal, he moved on to a the Rabbit seal. Another simple seal, arranging his fingers as seen in the picture he practiced a couple times. By this point though he was growing suspicious of why the others around him had been so silent, but he choose to ignore that fact and it didn't matter much to him. He gave it a few non-book tests to make sure he could memorize it and continued forward and onto the next seal.

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Dice 5

He noticed the next one's name. It was one he was not familiar with, nor did he even know what it was. He pointed at the symbol and looked at Taka and asked one thing. "What does this word mean?" As he pointed at the word Rabbit. He didn't care to much for it to be honest, but it wasn't as if he had much else to do as he practiced the seal as he awaited and answer and then tried the seal for himself until he was comfortable with it and then took his eyes from the book and tried the seal a couple times without it getting it right each time.

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Dice 6

He would then move onto the next seal, the Horse seal, but his luck would soon run out. As he was too focused on when his teacher would reply to his question or not, his practices were completely wrong seals redoing the rabbit once more, not even realizing it. As he went for his test, on the first try he had noticed he had been doing the previous seals. Instead of embarrassment he felt like he had completely not been paying proper attention. He shook his head and decided to press forward.

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Dice 7

He made sure his attention this time was on the horse symbol, or as much of it as he could focus. He did a few practice runs and then went for his test and thought he had done it to perfection until he went on to the next one and noticed the seal from both side views and the back. He had missed a few minute details and he decided it best to learn the proper seal and not half a** it as it wouldn't have an effect or the desired effect if he were to have tried it in using Jutsus.

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Dice 8

He studied the details in great measures and then went off to perform the seal as it had instructed of him. He gave it a few practices correcting whatever mistakes that might be lingering and when he tried it in a personal test he once more attempted to perform the seal. His test run was perfect with no flaws to speak of and he became overcome to let out a single word. "Finally..." as he went to skip to the next one at this point forgetting the question he had asked his teacher due to the focus he put on his work.

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Dice 9

Next in line was the Ox hand seal. When he saw it he had a funny feeling he'd fail the first time, but practiced it anyways. As he practiced he thought it felt right and then tried a bit of a test to see if he got it, as he went in a finger slipped the wrong way and ended up failing as the hand seal completely. He just sighed and shook his head and looked at the picture again to make sure what he thought he saw and back at his hands. He'd get it on the next time though, he was sure.

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Dice 10

Kento looked at the very next seal. It was the monkey seal. It was something one of his older siblings used to get constantly on his reports, and got punished over it several times. To Kento, monkey was a bad thing, it means pain and blood. But it was what he had to learn and master though, a sense of foreboding came over him as he knew it was a bad symbol. As he practiced so he could get passed it fast, continuously trying to focus on small details. And when he came to his self test, he had done what he had done with the last seal, he had placed his fingers in the wrong area. He had rushed and poorly performed it and now he must once again look at the word which he disliked.

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Dice 11

He once again went back to his practicing trying to figure out where he went wrong in practicing not thinking about his nervousness to the single word monkey. As he continued to try and master the hand seals to move on to more pleasant things, he noticed he had been too nervous to try and perform the seal. And so he took a deep breath and exhaled. Now with a renewed point of view on the situation, he went right to doing the actual test of if he had learned it well enough. Snapping into place a few times he had made his seals completely and accurately. Proud of his current progress he decided to continue practicing and mastering, though looking at his master to see if there was anything else he could do.

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Dice 1

Kento grew more and more excited as he continued his self training, the next seal on his list was the snake. As the last, he thought it to be an easy hand seal as he sat and tried it out by practicing it a little. Though boring and initially a lonely task, he would soon once again get to interact with someone, namely Taka. He did not think of him as a sensei for he barely taught him anything, and his track record so long is saying hi, speaking improperly in his tongue, and handing him a book. This wasn't exactly the most fun of classes, which is what a boy of ten really needs to keep his focus. But now with only a little left to do, is excited that the end is near. As he ends his practice and goes onto a self test of his memory, he perfectly executes the hand seal on the first time and goes back to refer to the book.

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Dice 2

It had finally came at long last, his final hand seal, the tiger. It was a befitting end seeing how Kento himself was like a wild tiger, fierce and unpredictable and a hunter of a pack. He look at Taka, "It's my last one, so think up some more training for me to do, ya hear?" He said in his own way as his hands were going and practicing the hand seal and getting a feel for the position, he'd do a quick couple tests with his eyes off the book and made them perfectly, using the book still as a reference. He then walked up to his teacher and performed them. He would have said all their names too had he been taught how to say most of them. "I'm done, see? So what else do I have to do?" He asked with a wide grin on his face looking up at Taka.

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