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After what seemed like forever Gash graduated from the Ninja academy.

((Is that all i do? Im not so sure.))
[Post in the Training Completion thread, following the rules on the first post of the thread. And place under other. "Graduated Academy" or something of the like.]

Nita continued to read his bible for a little while longer before looking around and seeing a couple of kids hanging around the window, looking in at him. He knew by the looks on their faces that they thought he was weird for reading a book inside the classrooms when they were not in session but he really did not care. It was the ultimate book for everyone to read at least one, if not for the religious benefits then for the morals of the stories that it holds. Nita smiled to himself as he closed his eyes and shut his book before standing and lifting his other hand with the rosary and signed a cross over himself saying, "En Nomine Patre, Et Fili, E Spiritu Sancti." The phrase roughly translates to, "In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit." Nita bowed his head for a few moments before straightening and then walked out the doorway, moving through the hallway and finally outdoors once again. He looked around and found a rather beautiful pond that had a small outcrop of land that someone can use as a way to walk further into the pond. Nita took that opportunity to sit down while being mostly surrounded by water and closed his eyes, letting nature flow through his body. He could see it as a flow of chi, a spiritual energy that other religions such as Buddhism could feel, moving through his body, entering his eyes, mouth, and heart, leaving through his hands and feet. It was a calming feeling, even though many sounds of children filled the air as they went and did what they wanted to do, like playing or training themselves for the world of death and suffering. If it were up to him, Nita would just stay in the temple and learn more about how to control the arts more and become stronger than most. Hell, he may even be able to reach the final levels of the arts and be able to calm down his enemies and make them friends. But yet, he still knew that there were evil in the world. He could feel a dark power affecting some of the minds of the people that he met back in the temple. He recalled a particular religion that was devoted in voodooism and even a powerful agent of evil known in his religion as the Devil. There are many would would be drawn to that as the Devil would promise them many things and even give it to them in the exchange that they give him eternal worship or more souls to corrupt like theirs. Nita was not sure if the spirit he talked to was a agent of the devil or if it was an angel of his God but he could not care less. He was happy for the opportunity to start over. Though he would have to keep his past a secret for the most part, knowing that he was hated by many although for some of those people, he was not really sure why. He knew he had loved before, but he could not think of who it was he used ot love. Maybe that was the price to trade into the world that he knew and loved now? Nita shook his head to clear those thoughts and decided that it was about time that he should start training so he could get out of the academy when the basics have been learned. He recalled there was a particular technique that allowed you to be able to transform your looks to someone or even something else although it was not a perfect transformation, meaning there will be flaws. Nita looked around and saw some kids practicing hand seals. Walking up to them, he observed one of the kids using the hand seals and creating a clone of himself. Although the clone was rather horrendous looking. Nita smiled kindly as he reached them and said, "Hi, I am Nita Kyota. I am pleased to make your acquaintance. I am new though so I do not know the hand seals needed to perform certain acts. Will you show me the hand seals for the Henge no Jutsu, or the transforming technique, please?" The kids looked at him awkwardly for a bit before nodding. They were quick to show him the hand seals but that was to be expected since they were all probably weary of him, being new and all. Nita smiled and thanked them before quickly running his hands in quick succession from one hand seal to the next and suddenly was enshrouded in a cloud of smoke. As the smoke cleared, the kids noticed that he had transformed into someone else however, the style of hair was a bit off so they were able to recognize him straight off. "Wow," they all would say. They were more impressed with the movement of Nita's hand seals than they were of him transforming but what you used to be a powerful ninja, some things just stay with you. Nita smiled to them all and then asked what the hand seals for the clone technique would be. They nodded to him and showed him the hand seals for the technique and Nita copied them. Another puff of smoke appeared and beside him stood a clone of almost exact likeness.

Memory; Training Days: Age - 12
Name: Sanosuke Kodohma



Hareo sipped at his tea as he read the morning paper, he was an odd sight to see in the Squad 11 Barracks as they were known for being huge battle junkies. Truth was that Hareo was one of the biggest battle junkies there but that didn’t mean he couldn’t be an intelligent person. This was about the only time of day when he was this civilized, most of the time he was far more, fiery, in personality. He scanned over the last few stories, taking in the obscure bit here and there for use later in a debate or something like that, which, in truth, had no chance of taking place due to his intense distaste for politics. It was too much thinking and not enough action; it was unbecoming of someone like him who enjoyed the thrill of the action filled life he was living. Sure it was perfectly within his abilities to be someone of great legal standing and seeing as he was the adopted child of a noble family people often tried to saddle him with such political responsibilities, they were lower nobles so it didn’t really challenge him that much to do the things they wanted, usually arranging for protection, getting some renown to further the reputation of his family, escorting the daughters of other noble families about in hopes of finding a good match that the other side would hopefully find beneficial, which would end in arranged marriage. There had been a few talks of such marriages, but the girls usually were wedded off to better families, it seemed that Hareo dating a girl made her more desirable to the higher noble families, obviously untrue, but still something to blame when it didn’t work out. Hareo collected the scattered pages of the paper and pieced the thing back together and folded it up once more as it had been just with a few more creases. He got up and before he left the little table he had been at he finished his tea and placed the cup on the table upside down, as he usually did.

Hareo walked out of the barracks and went for a walk; it helped to get the initial weariness out of his bones and as he stopped at an intersection and looked over the Feudal Japanese design of the Seireitei with mute pleasure, he admired the functional beauty of it since, in all actuality, it was all rather plain looking if one peered at it with only the appreciation for physical beauty. Hareo took a deep breath in of the vibrant air of the Soul Society, and it charged him up when he needed it to, like on these stale mornings. It was probably about nine in the morning at this point, he was walking over to the Unizaki Estate to see if there was anything they needed him to do on this day, there usually was. He noted the lack of non-Soul Reaper persons about the Seireitei as usual, they were practically forbidden except for when they delivered supplies or if they worked in establishments that had only recently been allowed into the place, or the more widely accepted role as servants for nobles. He had a rather impressive tab at one of the bars in the Seireitei, he had bet the owner that he couldn’t get him drunk and the wager was that if he didn’t get drunk he paid nothing if he did he paid double what the tab was. Hareo hadn’t so much as gotten buzzed in twenty years; the tab was in the millions now. Hareo rounded the corner to the Estate and looked up at it, as it sat on a hill, and noted how isolated it seemed to be from the rest of the world of course security is important.

It was a few more minutes of walking before he made it to the main gate and they let him in as he was identified on sight, and let in with no problems. He had often mused at how big a security risk that was because anyone who knew could disguise themselves as him and have unrestricted access to the grounds. He would have to bring up this point to someone eventually. Hareo took to the steps calmly there were one thousand and eighty steps up to the estates Residential gates; they had made it to be as such while they were building it. Hareo didn’t know exactly why, something about having ten times the steps as there were beads on a rosary. It didn’t make much sense to Hareo but the noble were allowed to have their eccentricities. Despite his rather neutral view on his family business he actually loved most of them, mainly the children who sort of revered him, which was probably why he liked them so much. If it wasn’t for the pressure the higher ups in the family placed on him he would have quite the Reapers in order to stay and look after the children. He didn’t quite know why he liked them so much but they were definitely the main reason he liked the place. He trudged up the stairs toward the place where he would be shoveled up to his neck with odd tasks and jobs. It was all rather pointless and boring to him, they didn’t seem to notice that the more he did for them the less he did for the Soul Society, which made his rank progression so much slower. Though by now he could have easily been third seat, this new Captain was a Nazi representative for strength. Tehra Bearclaw was her name, she seemed pretty barbaric and he had witnessed the fight, which ended in the previous captain resigning with a statement that she would do, which meant that she probably wouldn’t be usurped any time soon. It was so tiresome to be around this place, Hareo didn’t really even want to be a captain anymore, they seemed to get picked off so quickly around here, in a few years seats had changed hands so many times that it was almost like a mass exodus was happening. Ever since those intruders a few years back everything had gone insane.

Hareo looked into the hall and took his time getting down to where the family elders were he could see them and they him, and to make matters somewhat more strained they both knew that the other didn’t really want to be there at the moment. “So what do you have for me today?” He asked bluntly to them without even giving the proper respects or even so much as a ‘Good Morning!’ like one may give his parents. They responded with the usual unhappy stares, and he responded with a smile for a few seconds and then he tossed his paper aside and got down into the Seiza position, and bowed to them. “Revered Elders, I bid you the fondest greetings and wish you a very happy morning. Is there anything you wish for me to do for you today? For if you do have any such desires I would be humbly honored to carry out any such wishes that you have of me, revered Elders.” Hareo said forehead still touching his fingertips which were on the floor, a practiced smile gracing his face as he spoke in his practiced voice of happily devoted adoptee that is honored to have been given the opportunity to serve a noble family in so much as the slightest of ways.

“We do have something that will require your service.” They said to him in their big self important voices, that they always used. “There is someone that we would like you to look after for the day, understand that the protection of this person is the most important thing.” They said as if he didn’t already have to be told that he was expendable to them. “Of course revered Elders, just tell me who they are and they shall be protected.” He said, though now he was being serious, despite his distaste for his families abuse of his station he took each protection job seriously, because once he was protecting someone else then his problems didn’t matter. Simply he bore no grudge against them so they didn’t deserve to be hurt by the hate he bore another. Despite his fiery personality he was calm when he needed to be, it paid off to be able to control your emotions when need be, especially if you were nobility, even if you were adopted and not of noble blood and seen largely as an outsider despite them picking you. “Her name is Motoko Tatsumiya, she is the youngest daughter of the Tatsumiya Clan, they have long been allies of the Unizaki Clan so you can see why this would require someone we can count on to see that she makes it back to the Tatsumiya Clan safe and sound.” They said. “I understand… It shall be done.” He said and waited to see if they had any more for him and it seemed they weren’t making it seem like more than it was because they remained silent for a few seconds. “You are dismissed.” They finally said to him, and he rose from his knees turned to leave, purposefully forgetting his newspaper behind, as he focused on the job, and then he stopped in his tracks “Uh… where?” He finally thought to ask them. “The Tatsumiya Estate…” They replied a slight bit of anger held back in their voices because they realized their own failure to inform him of that most basic of details. “…Thank you revered Elders.” He said with a slight huff and briskly walked out of the hall ready to do his task to the best of his ability.

The Tatsumiya Estate was easy enough to find, a simple trip down to the Squad Ten Barracks gave him the location, though it meant paperwork which he was well used to since they had him down here a lot, so much in fact that he had made a few friends in the office. Though that didn’t mean he got any less paperwork, which was understandable he didn’t expect any preferential treatment for making friends. He made his way to the Tatsumiya Estate though now instead of his normal slow walk he was holding a rather brisk cadence, He wanted to get there before eleven, because chances were they weren’t going to wait for him, and they didn’t tell him when they were departing. He finally decided that roads were taking too long so he started with a swift hop and then he was on a wall then another jump and he was off cutting across the cityscape with practiced ease. From his calculation, which was basically sun position and heat, it was about ten-forty maybe ten-fifty, so he had some time before he was late on his own watch. He landed on the road leading to the Estate and officially started hauling a** toward the gate, though he was smart enough to slow down once he got in sight of it, someone charging full bore at the gate would raise some alarms for sure. He slowed to a trot as he got to the gate and he raised a hand to the guards to signify them to wait a second as he caught his breath. He took a deep breath in and held it for a second then let it go, he repeated this a few times then took a final exhale and turned to them. “Hareo Unizaki of the eleventh Division, the Unizaki clan told me I was to accompany the Lady Motoko Tatsumiya as a guard this afternoon.” He said standing at attention. The guards looked him over and then sent a messenger up to the Estate to fact check this, and after the messenger’s return he was admitted. He took the stairs three at a time and made it look easy too. No wasting of time now, he was on the job and it was an important one too. He reached the top of the stairs and immediately spotted what he was going to be guarding, and sighed. They didn’t seemed to be worries about blending in because Hareo was looking about twenty men clad in gold inlaid robes, and a rather flashy looking portable shrine. Inside, he guessed, was the one he was supposed to protect. Chances were they weren’t even going to leave the Seireitei so why they wanted protection he didn’t know. Chances were they were trying to set the two of them up without them knowing. Perhaps solidifying their old bonds even further than they were, their goals were their own and if she did take a fancy to him then that was fine, he would marry her if she wished to be his.

These thoughts were quickly quelled as the gossamer curtain was drawn back by a rather feminine hand and the face of a child stared at him as he approached. The little girl couldn’t have been more than ten years old, stunning glossy black hair and fair, yet tanned skin, and deep, beautiful emerald green eyes, despite all these amazing features he was looking at nothing more than a child. He was a glorified babysitter. Hareo approached to the edge of the men and stopped, waiting either for them to part or her to address him. There was a long pause and then she removed her hand and the curtain slid back into place. “Inside ‘flame man’ of the eleventh division, I wish to speak with you.” Her rather young vibrant voice spoke from behind the curtain beckoning him inside. He balked for a second, this was a new one for him; she spoke differently than he thought she would, more intelligently than one would expect from a child of ten years. He moved through the men and approached the curtain and reached out and parted it slightly and saw her staring at him expectantly, almost impatiently as her little green eyes peered at him, “It’s not a trap you know,” She said teasingly “And for your information I don’t even bite that hard.” She said seriously. Hareo chuckled a little to himself and cracked a smile, “Fair enough…” he said with an almost brotherly tone and parted the curtain far enough for him to deftly get into it, he had never been in one of them before, this one looked deceptively small but there was enough room for them to have a few feet apart, he was in the Seiza position once more, the shihakusho agreed well with this way of sitting.

Motoko rang a little bell and suddenly Hareo felt the dais shifted as it was lifted, it felt weird to be carried around like this, as if he were actually being considered of his position. She had flipped open a fan which she held in front of her face as she stared at him and he stared at her. “So… Tell me… Wh-“

Sanosuke clapped the book shut and stared at it, making a rather sour face as he tossed it aside into a pile of other books that he had started on and abruptly stopped reading. They were droll, boring, and they annoyed him with their lack of anything interesting, no pain, no sweet suffering brought at the hands of their loving masters. He could still feel the sting from the master’s whip even now, after all this time away and it brought a grin to his face. He closed his eyes and an almost peaceful look came across his face as he basked in the sharp throb that remained after an invoking of the mark. Sano opened his eyes and gently slid his finger’s across his left palm, he was in the Ninja Academy’s library mostly it was technique books, histories, and school oriented texts but there was a small fiction section and Sano had been through its entirety and hadn’t found a single book he liked. He didn’t really sleep anymore so he spent most of his time in this room. His masters had told him to go to the Academy to become a stronger ninja so that he could be of more use to them which made him happy that they were thinking of him. In truth they had just wanted to get rid of him for as long as possible, and saw this as an opportunity to not only get rid of him for awhile but also get a slightly stronger peon whenever he did return, though that had worried a few of the higher order clan members given how they felt about him. They mostly regarded him as someone who needed to be watched and it wasn’t surprising whenever he looked at him his eyes seemed to regard them like a hawk would prey; Hungry, almost expectant of something and always vigilant.

But he was graduating soon apparently his creepiness wasn’t limited to the family, his teachers and a majority of the students seemed on edge whenever he was around, needless to say they were eager to see him gone. And he had the time to do all the work too and he did it all because he wished to be back in the beautiful Village Hidden in the Night. The caress of the loving darkness seemed so far away now as he sat in the dimly lit library. Students weren’t allowed in after dark but he was far too creepy for anyone to say no to because it meant that he would be staying with them until they said yes, and eyes like his watching you constantly was most unnerving which often got him the things he wanted. He just figured they were being nice. He got up and vacated the area, he wanted some of the night air, and he needed to practice all the techniques he’d been learning in the Academy, they had him slated for exams real soon so he wanted to pass with accolades befitting his determination. He stopped to stare at the empty desk near the entrance; seemingly the attendant had left awhile back. He continued on out the door paying no heed to the fact that there was no one around, he was far used to it by now. Sano always crept about the halls of the estate after hours; an extra set of rather eyes keeping careful watch over the Main family he believed, but if anything it made them even more wary of him.

Stepping out into the darkness Sano smiled the cold embrace of the night air was like a mother’s hug to him and he glanced over to the training area and started to stretch, after all he didn’t want to get a cramp, that would be quite uncomfortable. He would start off with the first of the basic techniques, Henge No Jutsu, it was transformation, he concentrated on summoning the chakra and weaved the signs needed to initiate the Jutsu, and there was a puff of smoke and he was exactly the same… or was he? Upon closer inspection he had merely given himself a light tan. What was next? Bushin No Jutsu, which was a cakewalk for him his pale skinned illusion didn’t last long since he used it to substitute himself using the art of Substitution and the rock he tossed into the air dissipated the clone as it rushed through the mass of malformed chakra.

Sanosuke took a break and sat down to meditate and decided to multitask and grabbed a leaf and molded his chakra to hold it on his forehead for as long as it took to clear his mind which was a monumental task. It took him over an hour to get the hang of clearing his mind after he managed to clear it out he could do all three training exercises walking, and he did, well except for meditating which required one to be stationary otherwise it was deep thinking as you wandered about with a blank look on your face… in other words daydreaming. He grabbed a set of the practice shuriken and weights and prepared for another multitasking session. He put the weights on tight about his calves, and focused chakra into his feet there were a few tall poles on the grounds for the tree walking practice, and he took off directly for it he had the shuriken and kunai ready and he ran about ten feet up the pole and launched himself off and did a light spin and let the shuriken fly then in rapid procession he threw as many of the throwing weapons as he could before he had to focus on landing. He tucked and rolled and hopped to his feet sliding a little but the added heft of the weights proved helpful to regaining stability, he looked and saw that some had missed but most hit and a few were right on center. Not perfect but passable considering how he had gone about doing the practice. With that he considered his tree climbing done and he unclipped the weights from him and left them there like everything else he’d used. He looked at the dummies in the far corner and then at the weights, two birds with one stone, picking up the weight bar he fitted a few pounds on the end and wielded it as if it were a war hammer. It wasn’t long until the dummy snapped off its rather thin support and he dropped the weights and looked for water. That was the last thing he wanted to do then he’d get up on the roof and wait for morning and think about the sparring match he’d had with one of the other academy ninjas-to-be it was practically a rout, the kid was too put off by his staring eyes, a few body blows and the teacher stopped him.

Sano found his pool of water and ran out onto it like a child after an ice cream truck. He was tapping around it having extreme fun with the fact he was walking on water focusing some chakra into his hand he did a cartwheel and then started to walk on his hands, and he started laughing like a mad man, which broke his frayed concentration and sent him plummeting underwater with a mouthful of water, but as he came up he spit it out and started laughing again, sure he had almost drown but that made it fun.


(Title not included)+3,765- 2,500 = 1265 x2 = 2530.

Rei had started off about one hundred yards away from Shizaru but she quickly closed the gap to fifty at which point the wild life near Shizuru would sense her presence and shift behavior, luckily the pup seemed to be a bit lethargic and Rei ginned devilishly as she silently scaled the tree, she had long since activated one of the clan's invisibility Justus and grinned as she slowly crept closer to the unsuspecting victim that was the tiny little fox. She snapped a twig and froze, needless she couldn't be seen, and as Shizaru had so cunningly mused to himself, staying hidden in a tree was easy.

And like a shadow Rei made her way ever closer to her prey and was eventually a single tree away from him. She grinned widely as his eyes drooped closed and his concentration waned, coiling up she put great effort into lifting off from the tree silently as was greatly successful as nary a leaf twitched as she lifted off, she was heading straight for where he would be and she wasn't going to miss. It took all of her lithe dexterity to avoid the branches in between the two of them but she managed it and she smiled to herself as she landed on top of the boy and both of them fell from the tree heavily.

"FOUND YOOOOOOOU!!!!!" Rei squealed absolutely delighted with herself as she hugged the little fox into her massive bosom. Rei looked to be about 23 but in reality her form was what she'd look like at sixteen, she was blessed with an innately voluptuous figure as it seemed and was totally clueless to the fact that she may appear desirable in any way. Rei was definitely lovable, even if she had a bit of a problem knowing when to stop pranking people. People in the village were still running into her randomly placed traps even now after her few months of absence in order to attend the Academy.

Rei had spotted the rather obviously kitsune boy a few minutes after she came to the academy and she had pretty much been ambushing him with hugs, love, and pranks in near equal proportions ever since.




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Rei heard him ask to be put down so she released her iron grip on him and pretty much dropped him straight on his rear. Rei readjusted herself in front of him and went back to fawning over him. "So cutie... what cha' doin'?" she asked with a rather devastating smile on her face, apparently oblivious to Shizaru's feelings toward her. Rei played with her boobs again as they were apparently uncomfortable and ignored the small one as she did it. She stopped and looked at him. “So… what are you doing?” She asked him once more having gaped the time between asking so even if he did answer she’d not have heard him as was probably normal.

118 + 369 = 487

"What? They were getting a little uncomfortable. Sometimes these clothes can be so constricting I just want to rip them off." She says ignoring the pure sexuality of the comment with unbelievable nonchalance as she fusses with her breasts once more. "Well now that we're no longer in the tree why don't we go... do something." Rei said it like a statement, they were going to go do something, and there was no choice in the matter. This was further made evident by her grabbing his wrist in such a way that it wasn't tight but he still wasn't getting loose. It wasn't hard to believe that she was a kitsune, despite her airhead personality she often showed great clarity of a situation and her real power was how she could change that situation to her advantage, altering the speed to that of her choosing, which was usually balls to the wall stone cold crazy. A speed people who knew Rei often found themselves at when she was around them.

487 + 170 = 657

Rei smiles at his okay and they were off, ninjaing made her hungry so they were off to one of the academy eateries which basically a small wooden stand, that served food and had bar space. She was well liked at all of them, ever the diplomat, and she got her food free because her word of mouth was golden and always drew customers. They name dropped her and they got a little "extra",meaning nothing but touch more broth to make it seem like there was more, in their bowls, and she got free food for bringing in more business. Plus her and her figure being seen there usually drew the male clients anyways, so it was in their best interest to keep her happy. "Two please!" She said happily to the cashier hauling Shizaru into the seat beside hers and the ramen was served quickly, Rei grabbed her chopsticks "Itadaki Masu~!" She said emphatically and dug into the bowl with gusto, it was amazing how even as ditzy as she was she managed to always keep her fox parts suppressed masterfully. Though the way her hair was parted it was made to look like animal ears. "Maybe after this we can do some training and then hit a sauna." Rei said, to someone like Shizaru she just said let's get sweaty, and then go take off our clothes together in a steamy room. "Maybe I meant a hot spring..." she said thinking about it, and quickly dismissing it, she peeked over at Shizaru's bowl and stole some of his food with a foxy grin.

657 + 265 = 922

"Why yes he is..." Rei said affectionate putting her arm around his neck and pulling him into her bust. "And I just love him so much. Reminds me of his father..." Rei said dreamily with a touch of melancholy for reality, "Couldn't dream of a better son either. Oh! It's time for your feeding isn't it?" She said wistfully fussing with one of her breast as if she was about to breast feed him. "No." she then said flat out letting go of Shizaru, "He's a fellow student of mine." She said ruffling the little fox's hair and then going back to eating her noodles with a grin. The man's face had gone through many changes. "I'm taking a break..." He said with a slight look of disbelief on his face "Tsubame take over..." He said stepping out of the shack the man's daughter stepped forward. She was about 16 like Rei and they had a good friendship. If Rei was a mature beauty then Tsubame was the only one about who could be her equal, which was why Rei liked her so much. "Hey Tsubame looked at the cute little thing the black cat dragged in." She said calling herself by her own nickname of black cat, just as to who gave it to her and why was a mystery but many agreed it fit and used it.

229 + 922 = 1151