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At the end end of the day Schi was beaten up, laughed at, and terrorized by his fellow classmates as he was tricked by opening his can of cola it was shaken up and sprayed all over him at lunchtime. But it was all worth it to finally become a real Genin. He walked up to his teacher smiling with soda all over him still, not caring at all and asked : "Teacher, May I wash up in the bathroom. I've stilt soda all over myself." She nodded painting her toe nails behind her desk with a brush and a small container of fire engage red toe nail paint. Skilled as she was she hadn't missed a spot it looked perfect and absolutely beautiful. "Thank you." The boy said leaving the room, shutting the door behind him and sighing loudly. Schi wanted to cry. His classmates hated him, his teacher was so proud of him but she really only cared about how good she looked and he knew that. He walks down the hall being giggled at by a crowed of around eight preppy high classed rich girls. All making fun of how he looked sticky and was drenched in soda. "I hear he's the biggest geek in the school, he's completed even an advanced class of running class." One girl said. Another explained that : "My boy friend told me he kept making googly eyes with his teacher, to bad she isn't a *****." She whispered to her other peers. Schi just walked faster, locked the bathroom door behind him and started to cry. Others would think he was blessed to be who he was, a crusader, fighter for good and justest. A nice guy, but little did he know. 'Nice guys finish last.' That's what he thought about but realized, Was it worth it to exact his revenge on others? Probably not. He'll be out of School in no time at all. The other students probably know that and want to get the last laugh or pick on Schi some more. He looked in the mirror, wiped his tears, and smiled. "Everything is going to be alright." Schi said then began to wash up and walk back to his classroom down the crowded halls he ignored all the points, whispers, and stares. He opened up his classroom door and sat down in his seat not saying a word. Just smiling. He closed his eyes and began to meditate. Focusing his chakra in his mind, Schi left the outside world and floated around in his mind. In the real world he was drawn on and poked by his class mates. But out of it he just kept envisioning his meaning of 'perfect balance.' Schi was practicing for hours and hours but still no luck. He finally woke up and sighed. "What happened now?" Schi said looking around his classroom. It was after dark, everyone had gone. So Schi just sat back in his seat thinking what he should do next. "I guess i'd better go home now." He got up and started walking to the door. He jiggled the handle. "Locked.." He tugged on it, again and again. He thought about what if the kids were on the other side and was enraged. "How dare they lock me out!" He shouted ripping the door off in a single tug. He panted dropping the door on the floor, walking threw the hallways in a blind rage losing his sanity till he came to the edge of the schools court yard. "I'm sorry teacher." Schi said calming down back to his usually goofy self and went home.

(606 / 500 Leaf consecration.)

(237 accumulated so far + 106 I went over this post I have the rights to +300 sparing and my Genin diploma. Officially graduating the academy.)

He stretched his arms and legs out, turning and smiling as he looked out over the lake. He kneeled down now, removing each of the weights from his legs. He set them down by himself and sat beside the lake. His legs felt sore from all the running combined with the chakra use and weights. He decided now would be a perfect time to rest and meditate. It would allow him to clear his mind, look within himself and focus his energies for what he intended next. He gently crossed legs, closing his eyes, as he placed his hands together. He could feel his heart pounding from the previous exertion. He took a deep breathe and then exhaled slowly. With each new inhalation and exhalation, he slowed his breathe bit by bit. Soon enough, his breathing was calm and slowed, as was his heart. From there, he listened to the wind, the grasses, leaves, and water. He began to isolate himself from each sound, and then each feeling and stimulus. He concentrated as he traveled into himself. He sensed within, listening to the sound of his flowing blood, feeling the movement of warmth throughout his body. Sensing even deeper then that, he looked into his own chakra system. He felt the energies of his mind and those of his body mixing, as chemical and physical energy from every cell in his body flowed into his chakra system, and intermingled with the energies that flowed through his brain and nervous system. He used his previous lessons and let it flow from his center where most of it was mixed, into the rest of the vessels throughout his body. He concentrated as his body felt literally filled with energy. The aches in his legs and body disappeared. He never felt stronger, his senses were never more acute and his mind never more clear.
He looked out to the trees then. He slowly stood up then, and walked to one of the trees. There were fallen leaves here and there. He gently picked one up before turning around. He walked back to the lack, sat down, and resumed the meditative position. He looked up as he set the leaf on his forehead. He looked to it as he could, and felt it. He imagined it as a point, a single point. It was his single point of focus, the one area of attention. It was the world, his senses, and all that was him. Placing his hands together in a seal he concentrated with his chakra. He let it flow, and directed it, as he had with his feet in water walking and tree climbing, to a single part of his body. He focused purely on the leaf, and let the chakra flow into his forhead. He could feel the heat and energy from it as he concentrated it around the leaf. As he concentrated, at thought formed in his mind. He could combine this technique with his chakra molding. He had experience in chakra nature manipulation, as well as the fundamentals of shape manipulation in his mind. He began to direct the chakra letting flow over and envelope the leaf. He shaped the chakre, implanting a certain supply into it. He stood up then, and carried the leaf with him, feeding the leaf chakra and shaping it around it. He stuck it to the tree, and let go. The chakra he implanted into and around the leaf caused the leaf to stick to the tree. It was unhindered by the wind and gravity and only relied on his chakra to stay put.
He sat down and waited. Normally he would detest doing this, but he really wanted to see how long it would stick. After about 5 minutes, the leaf finally fell. He stood back up and held it. He made one hand seal as he concentrated his chakra towards his other hand. He imagined his chakra grinding against itself, sharpening, and flowing like the air. After adjusting the amounts of bodily energy and mental energy, he let the chakra shift in it's properties, letting the nature of absorb that of wind. He could almost imagine it turning from white, it's natural imagined color for him, to a light green. He then directed the wind chakra from his hand into the leaf. Slowly but surely, from one side to the other, a cut formed in the stem of the leaf. The cut opened up, gently running along the the stem towards the body of the leaf. The stem had been split completely in half, and then the cut started to travel along the body. It appeared as if the leaf itself was opening up. Finally after a few more moments, it separated complete. Looking down, he smiled as he was left with two equal halves of a single leaf.
He let the leaf drop then, having no more need for it. He had a couple of bigger tests to do. Glancing around, his eyes returned to the battle dummies. They would be a perfect test subject for his family's signature techniques. He approached one and made a handseal. He imaged his energies mixing within him as they hand before. He shifted the balance of physical and mental energy differently, with the mental energy dominating the physical. He let this chakra flow through his legs, and feet, and finally, into his shadow. He could feel the flow within the shadow, as if it were a very extension of his body. Looking up to the battle dummy and it's shadow, he used this jutsu. Shadow Possession Jutsu His shadow extended outwards and enveloped the shadow of the body. He released his hands from the seal, and began to move his arms about. The dummy, with it's joints, responded in kind as the chakra flowed through it, making it move in kind to him. It's arms shifted up and down, side to side, and then stretched outwards. Shikarama turned around and the dummy reflected this movement. Turning quickly then, Shikarama grabbed kunai and shuriken in his hands and tossed them at the dummy. Each blade hit it's mark. He released the dummy and turned to a second one. He began forming several handseals. He gathered his chakra, and quickly mixed with with his wind nature. Feeling the wind chakra flowing through him, he released the seal and quickly tossed kunai into the air. Attached to each kunai was a string. These strings were attached to reals under his clothes. He then activated the jutsu. Wind Style: Multi-pronged Trap A large burst of wind flowed from him and fired at the dummy. It pushed the kunai all forward in front of it, their blades facing towards the dummy. First the kunai struck, some hitting them, others hit the surrounding dummies and the ground around him. Them the wind hit right behind it, driving the kunai deeper, and, itself leaving numerous light cuts, as well as hitting it with blunt force. Then in one swift motion, he used the shadow possesion jutsu, completing the trap. His shadow traveled through the shadows of the strings and captured the dummies. He tested his moments on them before releasing the jutsu. he breathed heavily from the exhertion and gathered his kunai. He headed back to the academy as the time came. Approaching his sensei, he bowed, and then accepted his headband.
Skill points: 300/300, 300/300, 400/400, 600/600, 600/600, 200/200, 200/200, 300/300, 300/300, 300300, 500/500, 500/500, 300/300
Total: 4823 SP/chakra
Henge no Jutsu-complete
Bushin no Jutsu - complete
Art of Substitution - complete
Tree Climbing - complete
Water Walking - complete
Dummy Fighting - complete
Shuriken/ Kunai Target Practice - complete
Weight Lifting - complete
Weight Running - complete
Meditating - complete
Leaf Concentration - complete
Chakra molding - complete
Sparing - in the process

Sanosuke was a fairly energetic young man at the Academy with a fairly long flirtatious streak. Unfortunately for him, the females he tries flirting with usually tend to have something that gets in the way of him trying to make a move, like a big scary father or a group of harpy friends, or a boyfriend, or they're a lesbian or some other ridiculous problem. Poor guy. Good thing he never let that get him down at least, usually maintaining a fairly cheerful and upbeat disposition overall. He was sitting outside right now actually, on top of a tree branch to be exact actually, while he seemed to be enjoying nature a bit while he ate his lunch. He was admittedly a little farther from the Academy itself than he probably should be but he sure as hell didn't give a damn. He was enjoying himself at the moment and did not care to be disturbed, unless of course some lovely ladies decided to walk by for a visit. His lunch itself was just a simple bento box really that he made himself this morning actually. He never bought into that lame stereotype that men can't cook and he was fairly decent enough at it himself. It was simply rice and some sushi bits really but he liked it. He pulled out his pair of chopsticks, leaned back against the tree trunk and started to eat and enjoy his food, listening to the birds singing and chirping in the tree above and around him. He seemed to be fairly relaxed right now and simply content with his spot there away from the noisy Academy and other students. He may not seem it most of the time, but he was surprisingly a 'down to Earth' kind of guy with an unusual connection to nature.

After a little while of enjoying both his lunch and the sounds of nature around him, he sat up a little more before putting away his chopsticks and closing up his bento box. He looked out into the woods and smiled as he stretched out his arms over his head and let out a simple yawn. "I should probably head back now before I get another earful about being late or something..." He muttered a little to himself as he started hopping down the tree branches a few at a time. He was actually surprisingly high up in the tree originally, but when he could just walk right up the damn thing like a vertical surface, it wasn't all that hard to do so. He finally reached the ground with a soft thud as he skipped a handful of branches towards the end before standing up straight and looking around. "What a shame...I wasn't visited by a single beautiful young lady at all...ah well..." He simply shrugged to himself and turned around in the other direction, putting his hands behind his head and lacing his fingers together before starting off back towards the boring old Academy.

Sanosuke was relatively zoned out for most of the day and was only snapped back to reality by the general sounds of people getting up and packing their stuff around him and chattering about what to do when they got home with their friends. He blinked a few times and looked around, having almost dozed off to sleep, before he stood up to stretch his arms out over his head. He covered his mouth as he yawned a bit before he cracked his neck to each side and gathered up his miscellaneous crap. He made his way down the hallway, walking by several other students and a few fine young ladies...who where draped over their boyfriends. He shrugged it off and simply kept walking until he came out into the open training yard. He took in a deep breath of fresh air before exhaling it out. "Time to get to work then." He smiled to himself and started with his standard warm up stretches like it did every day. He needed to loosen up his muscles from sitting around and doing nothing all day. After he finished, he walked out towards the forest around back and simply kept walking until he couldn't be seen by anyone not intentionally following him. He liked to train in private and out in nature as it helped him both relax and focus better. He headed right through the mass of many trees until he reached a particularly large oak tree with some bushes and a tangle of roots underneath. He waded through the bushes and got close down into the tangle roots that his a concealed empty space beneath the tree from which be pulled out two long cases. He smiled as he pulled them out and laid then onto the grass before opening them up. One contained his master work spear, and the other held his equally impressive japanese katana. He smiled and pulled out his spear first, his preferred of the two, and stood back into an open space where he began working on and practising his basic combat forms and maneuvers with the shafted weapon. He enjoyed it far more than he did those rather pointless classes and he felt that he was getting much more out of it as well, which was certainly proving to be true.

Shki sighed as he stared down at the ground. " Gimme a break" he said. Shki had to surmise that no matter what he said to the one on the floor, he wouldn't acquire any help from him. Shki stabbed his chain sickle into the tree with all his strength." Here we go" he said hesitantly.
Shki suddenly ran to the edge of the branch and jumped off the side, rapidly dropping down the side before his feet hit the tree, kicking off of it to drop lower. As the wind flew by rapidly, Shki pondered how he could have prevented this situation. He had heard that there was a skill among ninjas that allowed them to walk on vertical objects like this. The information he'd heard in school flowed in his mind as he dropped down. Feeling chakra leak out of his feet as he felt the tree press into him. Near the end of the drop, he got a feeling of almost walking on the tree. For a moment, he thought that he'd figured out how to use the tree walking jutsu but he couldn't be certain.

Ilithyia's eyes twitched a few times as she walked inside the academy, starting her classes later in the day. It wasn't her choice, mostly her parents who still had her work at the local shrine in her village, a price to pay while training for this new career. As the female walked inside she noticed a few students staring at her, eyes wide, most likely because they where not use to seeing rebreather mask. It was common for Hidden Rain shinobi to wear the strange breathing mask however her's was customized for her liking. It had steel spikes coming from the top, and gave the appearance of a more industrial type mask. The city of Amegakure was known for it's more,.. Strange ninja appearances, mostly due to the piercings and mask they wore. To Ilithyia she was just wearing what was considered normal and as she stared back at the children who where in her class she saw them as freaks. ' There could be poisonous gas in the air and all of them would be dead. Are they not afride of the war going on in the villages or are they just foolish enough to think that the Academy is safe,...' She thought while glaring towards the other academy students.

' Something wrong Miss Murasame?" Asked one of the instructors who was also from Hidden Rain.

" It's nothing,.. " She said while turning her attention from the fools and back towards her instructor. " You said that we where going to train today, yes? " She asked while tilting her head to the right a bit.

With a simple nod the instructor lead the girl to the outside and stopped walking when they where in front of a pond. " We are going to start out with something that should be easier to you. Out village is always covered in water whether we like it or not and now your going to learn how to walk on the streets without getting your clothing yet.' He explained in a sarcastic voice, knowing full well that any villager did not mind getting their clothing wet, especially if they spent half of their life in the Rain village. He quickly took four steps back words, now walking on the pond water behind them. " All you need to do is concentrate your chakra in to the sole of your feet, then balance your self on the water. It's going to be a bit odd feeling at first as it feels as if your ice skating kind of, but in time it will be less noticeable and your balance should be decent. "

When hearing the humor in his voice she couldn't help but to grin behind her mask. The female ending up placing her hands together in the normal hand seal, keeping her two index fingers together. The girl forced the little chakra she had in to the bottom of her feet, forcing it to stay on the soles. When she felt a bit prepared the girl ended up taking a few steps forward. She hesitated when she got up to the pond edge and shyly had her left foot forced on the water. With a bit more courage she then got her right foot up however when this happened the girls balance was off, forcing her body to slip forward. Lucky for her she was caught by her shoulders by her instructor. " Oh gods, " She muttered while feeling water enter her shoe on her right foot.

" Haha don't worry you'll get the hang of it,' The instructor said with a chuckle, helping her stay standing.

" Hopefully, " She said while forcing her body to stand up straight and had her right foot stand on the water again. With the help of her instructor the girl started to walk forward. Her body swayed to the side a bit a few times however she was able to walk on the water with ease.

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All was normal in the Village Hidden in the Clouds. The Village itself was covered in…well, clouds. The thick screen given by the terrain of the area of course decreased the range of vision that one could use. Of course, the denizens of the Village generally became accustomed to such a fog and continued on with their daily lives. Thus was the daily lives of most citizens. Either they were shopping, working, training, or like most children, going to school. In fact, even with the dense fluffly looking foliage around them, the genin of the Hidden Cloud continued training as if ther were no issue whatsoever. As a matter of fact, one could look upon the building and it’s max areas of perimeter and see the work ethic of the students. Many were inside of the main building, taking tests or discussing the theories that descripted ninjutsus and the processes of creating a unique individual jutsu. Others were outside, training with Kunai knives or shuriken, working on their accuracy or sparring one another.

Then there were those that went beyond the theoretical field of the Ninja Universe and set their focuses on increasing their own capabilities with Ninjutus, varying from Chakra training to practicing school jutsus to family jutsus. It was quite easy to guess at times what kind of Jutsu a student was using, as the flames from a Katon Jutsu lit up the surrounding clouds around them. Another was if one could feel the moisture that was lingering in the air, revealing that a Water Jutsu was being practiced. However, over near one of the few trees in the schoolyard, a boy, around eighteen or nineteen sat meditating.

Above him, buried in the tree was a Zanpakuto, one that seemed to cover the dark haired man beneath and cast a faint shadow over him. The blade itself was of a larger side, about a longsword but with more length than a general one. The blade was…more unique than a normal Zanpakuto, and it seemed to emit a strong sense of chakra, one quite in tune with the man’s own if someone was capable enough to sense it. The pulsing was stronger around the tip of the blade, as if forming around a ball of focal energy but it was quite unnoticeable.

Sighing, the man’s eyes opened wide as he grasped the Zanpakuto, ripping it out of the trunk, the tearing being quite evident as the man entered a stand. In his hand were a group of scrolls, each tied with a rope as to ascertain their non-flapping around. Quietly, he opened the scrolls again quietly began to poruse through them, his eyes absorbing the material once more again, this time quite quickly than the times he had prior to this occasion. ”Alright.” He murmured quietly, his hands closing the scrolls for what was hopefully the final time. The teenager had spent most of his time researching and examining the theory behind each of the Jutsu that he was about to learn. It had been a couple of months…but he felt he was more than ready to begin work.

As he set the scrolls down, he looked up and down the tree that stood behind him. There was only one problem that he would most likely face under these conditions…his chakra was too wild, for a reason that he knew quite well. The Hachibi that dwelled within him, it made his own chakra more than beyond larger than life, or rather just plain old harder to control. Fortunately, he had been working on his Chakra Control for upteen years…so he perhaps might be able to pinpoint the exact amount of chakra to be used. Once he obtained that…he would never forget it. Call it a…second sense if you would. Whenever he learned something or was forced to remember anything that would call for out of the ordinary work. Frowning only slightly, he struggled to recall as he searched through all the theories and ways of performing certain tehcniques. But then, it hit him harder than a chakra enhanced blow to the chest cavity, and he remembered it.

Nodding his head, he turned to the tree and placed his foot on it, trying to obtain a feel for it as he very slowly raised his chakra output near his foot. It wasn’t enough, as his foot continuously began to slip off of the bark of the tree. So he continued to increase it. Too little and he would slip off like a fish on a smooth surface. Too much, and he would be blown off of the tree as if from a cannon…and frankly, he really didn’t want that to happen to him. It would probably be quite painful and really Kade didn’t enjoy pain at the best of times nor the worst of times. Something needless, you could say. Thankful was he that his mother had been a Medic Nin, some of that control he must have obtained from her as well as his father. In an instant, his foot began to take hold and he remembered quickly what level of output he would use under such circumstances. And with that, he began to climb the tree, to figure if he had the technique controlled….he did. It may seem small but it was quite good for him.

Smiling to himself, he looked back around to watch the other students for a moment, just to simply watch their amount of progress…hmm…they were struggling it seemed. Chuckling to himself, he walked around looking at the various students that worked out in the fields, away from Kade. It really only made him chuckle. The people knew who he was…what he was and they had told their children to simply be weary of what that Kade boy was. It wasn’t a fear…the others were simply cautious around him, watching what they said and so forth. It wasn’t like it really made Kade worried over everything…he had been alone since his parents died…but he wanted things…and when you were left alone, things like that didn’t happen.

Smiling, he finally remembered someone of probably worth…her name was…Rosalia? She was very pretty…grabbed his attention kind of quick…but he didn’t know her. Sighing, he looked around for another person, he really didn’t feel the desire to become someone like her….and he found some fat kid trying to train…how cute. He then recalled the next Jutsu he was meant to learn….henge. Nodding, he recalled all that he could over the technique, the theory and the principles involving usage. Just focue the image…and that as basically it right besides using a decent amount of chakra?

He focused, and in a second, he appeared…as another fat kid. Snorting, smoke plumed up as he reverted back to his normal form with a satisfied look in his face…well, he was ready to become a full fledged genin then….finally. It was something that he had been wanting for quite a long time…and it was going to happen. He had felt so limited being just a student but he had finally been able to surpass that which the Kage had thought of him…he had broken free and was ready to fly.

2000 Chakra Points
309/300 Henge no Jutsu
609/600 Tree Walking

It seemed that time was passing by slowly as the youth female was climbing up the tree. It took her an hour but she was already resting at the top, sitting on the last branch that would hold up her weight. As she sat the girl was watching the rest of the young ninja's who where training to gain genin status. She noticed severl other males who where training in the grounds but so far no female's in the training ground. ' Huh maybe mother was right. The gods dislike it when woman fight,' She thought while a simple shrug of her shoulders.

" Hey are you done yet?!" Yelled the girls trainer from the bottom of the tree.

From this height she could barley hear him however the echo of his voice was more then enough for her to get the point. The girl let a simple smile on her face before standing up on the tree branch. With a small sigh the female found her self walking down from the tree, using the tree climbing skill that she had just mastered. As she came down she noticed that her teacher was now sitting on the ground, cross legged, and seemed to be waiting for her. When she was more then half way down from the tree the girl released her chakra and jumped down, landing on the ground in front of her instructor with the same simple smile on her face as always. " Well now what? There has to be more. " She said in a slight demanding voice. The girl couldn't help it. She wanted to return home as fast as she could to tell her parents and tell the gods of her shrine that she had passed.

" Yeah yeah calm down. I can teach you a technique that shoudl have been gone over with your younger schooling. It's called Bushin no jutsu. It's basically a technique that creates a copy of your self. It resembles the ninja in every way and is normally used to confuse the opponent however once it's attacked the it will poof."

" Poof? " She asked while rising her left eyebrow. With a quick shake of her head the girl decided to ignore his odd way of describing things and placed her hands together in the basic hand seal. She thought of her own body and how it would look as if she was facing a full length mirror. ' Another one of me,..' She thought before a cloud suddenly appeared around her body. Suddenly there was two clouds and both dispersed there stood two versions of the female. One was the original while the other was a clone. Ilithyia could only stare at her clone with a bored expression on her face. She then raised her left hand and punched it directly in the face, watching it fall back and turn back in to a cloud. " I really hate people who look like me. " She said, explaining her actions to her teacher.