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The whole while they had been trying to get the boy, whose name appeared to be Yomonaru, to the bench one of the girls kept assailing Notwen and Nagamichi with questions. The main points were why he had fallen from the sky to begin with, as well as what was to be done about it. Presently Yomonaru sat unconscious on the bench with his head resting on the shoulder of one of his female companions. The other girl stared into the dark-skinned blonde's eyes with a solemn expression, which added some measure of guilt to his already sorry demeanor. Nagamichi picked up on this fact and addressed the girl.
"My sensei knows no healing techniques, but i do. I'm sure that i can do something for your friend." He turned and walked over to the girl whose shoulder was serving as Yomonaru's pillow. "In order for me to do my work i am going to need you to move away from Yomonaru's body. Also," he declared so that the three of the the unconscious boy's comrades would be able to hear his voice clearly. "No matter what i do, do not attempt to stop me. You might be putting Yomonaru in danger." With that said the white-haired boy reached over behind his back and drew his sword. It looked as if the blade would have come down in an arch and cleaved Yomonaru in two, but Nagamichi's proficiency with Hagia du Albae proved to be more than enough to stop the blade a hairs breadth from Yomonaru's cheek. One the flat of the blade tapped the boy's skin, a white glow began to emanate from the blade and pass over to cloak the unconscious boy. All that could be heard for those few seconds was Nagamichi's breathing as he concentrated on the healing jutsu. Finally the white-haired boy withdrew the sword and sheathed it skillfully. By then all the scratches and bruises that had been developing were gone, with no trace that they were there to begin with. "He should be coming to any moment now." said Nagamichi turning to the group.

((RP Note: The character that used the sword was not my RPC, but my ally. Notwen didn't speak at all in that post. But i pologize for not adding the colors to clarify.))

It felt kinda weird for Takeshi not to get right back into training or go onto his next objective. The way his family was, there was no room to slow down and if you did you would be punished. He let that thought fade though as he knew that he was not with his militant father, yet with fellow genin whom he knew very little about. There was also the half-order that his new Sensei, Notwen, have him which was to rest up and let the wound on his back heal up. It would bother him if he continued to think about it anymore, but then Cruxis chimmed in with a suggestion. It seemed that there was a rather large Shogi board in the downtown area of the village. One thing he remembered as soon as Shogi was mentioned was his father teaching his eldest brother about the military advantage that playing shogi gave someone. Since the day that they ended up leaving their home village though, His father put away his Shogi board and had yet taught him anything about the game. He knew exactly why, but there was nothing he could do about it. Then he heard Rissa state how she thought it sounded like fun, then asked Takeshi if it sounded like fun. In all honesty he didn't know but decided to give a nod suggesting that it might be fun. Like Rissa though, he didn't know where this over sized game was located so he knew that it would be up to Cruxis to lead the way. "I'm also not sure where this shogi game you mentioned is located Cruxis... I guess you'll have to lead the way"

"Well then... Follow me! If you can keep up that is!" the gennin grinned as he leaped up onto roof and began to jump from rooftop to rooftop. He ran along the slanted tile roofs, recalling the path towards the hidden park; a fun location really - one had to traverse the rooftops, jump through a few clotheslines along the way, and make empowered jumps to get there quickly; part of the reason that Cruxis had chosen to develop his bukujutsu; the sky dance technique. The giant Shogi board was actually a part of an old man's park - and perhaps had only been a part of his training to make the rebellious youth show some patience and thinking; but nonetheless was an interesting location; the giant shogi pieces lay in place on the giant board, each square five feet by five feet; making the entire board a forty-five foot by forty-five foot square.
Cruxis's father had introduced him initially to a game called Chess, which was similar to Shogi though more fast-paced and final in terms of the pieces. In Shogi one could place captured units on their own side; making captures even more important in Shogi. Thus Cruxis always tried to set up a few key points when playing Shogi because of this; a strongly protected king; a well fortified line of pawns; and the bishop, rook, and a pawn all supporting a later attack by the rook's silver or knight. However while diffifult to break down with a frontal assault, there were flaws in his sides, leaving a back door to his defenses... Similar to genjutsu in a way; while he could push the opponent with a frontal assault, attacking from means they did not expect was the true way to harm an opponent with the art. If one thought they were in a genjutsu they would try to disbelieve the genjutsu, making it less likely to affect them; a part of the reason Cruxis tried to work with mind-addling techniques they directly impacted the brain; such as his End of Reality technique.
Glancing up towards the rooftop he cautiously calculated the incoming followers' angles in order to assure he would not get landed on, before maneuvering towards the board and hiding behind one of the giant pieces.

Rissa blinked as she watched Cruxis leap into the air. She smiled towards Takeshi. “Guess I'm getting another work out today. Let's go Takeshi~” She turned then, leaping into the air onto the nearest roof top, following behind Cruxis as best she could, yet she still found herself falling behind bit by bit. She really needed to work on her foot work, to get faster and stronger. What was the point to being a medic if she couldn't protect herself.

She glanced back behind her for a moment, before she kept going, bouncing and leaping over long leaps. Maybe she could develop a jutsu for foot movements, one to keep her out of reach of her opponent, but close enough to make strikes at them and disable them.

She gave a little smile at the thought, unable to think of killing someone, even though she knew there were those out there who wouldn't hesitate to kill her. She shook her head, landing near the shogi board, breathing quicker than before, and glancing around for Cruxis, who had arrived before them, before looking back for Takeshi. He had been near her the entire time, so he wouldn't be long. She moved to the side, giving him room to land, before surveying the shogi board. It didn't resemble Go at all, the game she and her father played when he had free time. Hopefully it wouldn't be hard to learn.

Takeshi stood as everyone ran off, in leap and bounds. There was only one reason why he wasn't moving yet. Cruxis had mentioned for them to catch him if they could. Takeshi was smirking as if it was a challenge, which is the exact way Takeshi was going to take it. If he wasn't aloud to train, he wouldn't miss this opertunity to race. He leaped onto the roof of the closest building and watched as the two rushed away from him. He would wait until they were quiet aways away knowing that at the speed they were going he could catch up to them. Part of his Taijutsu training after all was being able to out-move his opponents, so a race was something he knew he was good at. Once Takeshi thought that the two had a long enough lead, he dashed forward. One of the few times he was able to use his full speed was ether in full out training, or just when he felt like it and had the room to actually do so safely. As he full out sprinted, he could feel the gusts of wind press against his face, a light breeze at this speed felt much stronger, yet still held little resistance. Always looking forward, he could see he was fast approaching both Rissa and Cruxis. He knew that it was this moment that he would need to slow down since there was little chance to slow down in an instant. He'd finally caught up to Rissa, just after she'd turned her head back forward from looking back. He was on the other side in which shoulder she looked over so she wouldn't have seen him. They were really close to the shogi board now, so close that everyone could see it in fact. The running had stopped, and all there was in between them was a rather small (to him) leap to reach the ground level. Leaping with little care, he aimed for an open area of the ground so he could land. When landing, the first part of his body to impact was his left foot and right knee at the same time. He landed in a kneeling position like he normally did, but this time it was with much more force then he hand hoped for. When he stood up he noticed that his knee had made an indentation in the ground. Oh well... no one was going to kill themselves from that dip in the ground so he moved over to Rissa and looked around for Cruxis, who was out of sight even though he'd gotten there before anyone else.