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Suoh felt something inside him click with the new mastery added to his arsenal. He now knew the face of his adversary and new he would have to master the Summon Diety to advance in his journey. He unzipped the left arm of his swimsuit and he could see the tatto on his forearm, just below the elbow. It was a blue anchor and the hooks looked more like two whale tails and actual normal hooks. Suoh pulled out a needle and pricked his index finger. A quickly crimson node developed and Suoh whiped it off on the tatoo. He could feel a white pain burning through his arm. He dipped the needle into the water and Raised it above his forearm. A single drop formed at the bottom end and dipped onto the tatoo. Suoh felt a large amount of chakra leave him and a whale surface in the lake. Suoh was astonished such a large creature could fit in a lake that could barely be more then fifteen feet deep.

Suoh quickly felt the drain on his person. He could only stare silently into the eyes of the whale. Neither spoke but they greeted each other warmly and as friends. After several moments Suoh felt a slight breeze and looking around it was as if he had been transported to a beach. The sky was a bright gold with no obvious sun, the sand was a diamond whiteness. THe water was an extraordinary blue that seemed to have its own light. Diety was no where in sight but Suoh could almost feel the whale speaking to him in his mind. He knew he was supposed to gather as much water as he needed from the ocean. He performed the symbol of the hare and then the dragon and the water began drifting upwards slowly.

Ripples formed and drops the size of rice shot forward first. They formed bigger drops as they came to be in front of Suoh. As the orbs hovering around him grew larger globs of the blue liquid came at once. It was like a snowball going downhill. With each passing second more and more found it to him. He quickly had a double helix circling around his person. He had begun to feel the strain on his muscles. He opened his eyes for only a brief moment before closing them again because of the drop in the water level but in that instant he could see all the veins in his hands bulging with strain, blood, and chakra.

Suoh stopped breathing altogether and felt the water rushing around him. It was spinning faster and faster as his heart tried to pump the blood that was receiving no added oxygen. He opened his eyes gasping for air and realized he was in the forest looking at an empty lake.

Now that his seal was activated he only needed to perform the hand symbols to Summon the creature. As he got out of his meditation position he saw the man, Junichiro, across the lake and coming toward him. It hit Suoh instantly that he might have died just then had he not come out of his meditation but he had to focus more on what was at hand. Junichiro stopped half way across the lake and motioned for Suoh to initiate the fight by coming toward him. Suoh shook his head no so the adversary quickly gave a large leap and landed only inches away from Suoh.

Suoh quickly performed the seals to call forth Diety back to the lake, it might be blowing all his chakra at once ubt if this man really defeated him before it was worth it. The man looked at Suoh quizically so Suoh probably didn't use diety against him in their last battle. Deity appeared using his Body Entry. The man was still on the edge of the lake so Suoh wouldn't have to summon him again. Junishiro saw the shadow coming down and leapt out of the way but the wave of water knocked him over when he landed. Suoh ran around and leapt onto the whale's forehead.

Junichiro threw several kunai knives up with thunder seals attached. Suoh scrambled to pull them out of Deity and received much of the shock himself. Neither person had said a word but they both knew they would eventually fight each other to the death to stop the feud between them. Suoh knealt on top of Deity's head to steady himself and performed his Aqua Lung Skill. At the same time Deity opened him mouth for a Sea Water Blast.

The two waters combined and created a surge that bent the trees and blew Junichiro out of sight into the sopping wet foliage of the forest. Suoh thanked Deity and allowed him to leave.

Suoh felt drained so he ran back to Kirigakure where he could rest before being attacked again.

((I have to go eat...*stomach grumble*))

Kama stared up at teh face of the cliff there was no foot holds of any kind he would just have to find the proper balance of chakra to keep him attached to teh cliff and knock off teh boulders to crush his oponents. he rose and dusted himself off and he prepared to try again. he ran up to the cliff face going up at a 90 degree angle his feet stayed cemented but he wasn't knocking anything down. How disapointing he just realized this as his feet lost there hold on the the mist slick cliff face. His body made a small crater as it hit the ground while he pondered the mysteries of sticking to this very slick cliff face.

Suoh walked along the outside of the city spinning his needle between his fingers. He thought about how he needed to do some more training with Deity in order to master his summon and be able to fight Junichiro at the drop of a hat. Suoh felt like not training at the lake today. As he walked through the forest the trees thinned a little and he realized how quiet his surroundings was. The bird had fallen silent along with the usual hum of bugs.

Suoh strained to hear something when in a flash he had a masked ninja grasping his shoulder. The ninja came from the tree on his right and dove down tackling him from the shoulders. Suoh continued with his force into a roll and pushed him off with his legs. The ninja dip a lazy flip through the air and landed easily. Suoh got back to his feet and looked at the ninja. A red swirl was the only accent to his mask. Suoh instantly recognized him. Haku was his relative and he would never forget their bond.

Haku launched at Suoh with two of his accupuncture needles drawn. Suoh dodged the first volley while retrieving his own weapons. The air was filled with a sizzle of metal clinking and flashes of light. Haku's attacks were slowly heading from the chest level toward the neck. Suoh knew this was Haku and felt no hatred in the attacks but wondered why he would be so adamant on landing a hit that could put Suoh in a semi-induced coma.

Suoh could feel the cold breeze on the blood collecting under the skin in his back. He felt the bruise and it was definitely a bruise and not an open wound or fracture. Suoh ran headlong at one of the mirrors and leapt in order to kick it in hopes of cracking the thing. He landed hard but when the ice should have given way it stood firm and Suoh felt the pressure travel up his leg and hit his knee hard.

He rolled on the ground for a few moments before getting back up on his feet in order to combat any attacks. He rested his weight on his other leg in order to not injure his knee any further. He could actually hear the whoosh of air behind him. He spun out of the way in time to see a flash of red and white as Haku looked at him in passing from mirror to mirror. Suoh realized he couldn't just dodge attacks forever. He would have to tire Haku out of break the mirrors and neither seemed like a likely conclusion.

He performed his Aqua Lung Technique to get some available water and then dodged an attack from his left. He held his breath as he summoned his Water Clone. Before the thing had finished completely forming Haku delivered a volley of needles that caused it to fall back as water as quickly as it had formed.

"Althought you have not mastered the summon you certain know how to add interesting twists to an attack." Haku called as he stopped cradling his arm. Suoh watched the bulge of Haku's shoulder shrink as it slid back into its socket. Suoh knew he still had left over energy left thanks to his meditation.

"Now you can try to summon the Demonic Ice Mirrors." Haku explained.

Suoh copied the symbols he had seen Haku do to start the attack. He focused his energy into large rectangles around him. He completed the attack and looked out to see Haku. It was as if he were looking through matn windows all at the same time. He could see through all of them but couldn't move through them all. He would have to leave his mirror and jump into another. That was the weakness of the attack, exposing yourself was a necessary weakness to move around the mirrors.

Haku removed his mask and slid it into his robes, "I can already see you working the problem out. Why would it be wise to move if moving only means you risk getting it? Well that isn't your only problem. You have to use the chakra to increase your speed, through your oponent off the real you and keep all the mirrors strong so no one does this." He raised the elbow of his arm and smashed it into the mirror. Suoh saw a clump crack and fall away easily.

Suoh realized instantly he obviously didn't have the capability as pulling as much water out of the atmosphere as Haku and would have to use his awau lung to make them a sufficient density while away from an available water source.

Suoh leapt from the first mirror at Haku's knee with an accupuncture needle poised and ready. Haku quickly raised his leg and stomped down on Suoh's back. Suoh rolled out from under his master's heel and dove into another mirror. He tossed out the needle back into the area outside the mirrors and Haku caught that as well without even turning to face his assailant. Suoh and all the mirror reflections performed the sign of the hare and then Suoh focused the chakra in his legs. He leapt out of the mirror and felt none of the wind of speed as he realized he was across in a flash. Haku hadn't seen him move either. Suoh gave several more leaps from mirror to mirror and Haku only perked up on one occasion. Suoh quickly leapt out of the mirror and delivered a punch to Haku's scapula that caused him to lurch forward and his shoulder to pop out of socket again. Haku reached across to pull the bone back in but in doing so Suoh had already moved around and stuck an accupuncture needle into Haku's other shoulder. Now that both his arms were limp at his sides Suoh flew out of the mirror and stopped with his open palm only inches from delivering a nose smashing heel thrust. Haku smiled and rolled his shoulder back into place as he pulled the needle from the other arm.

Suoh returned his breathing to normal and felt the chakra flow back up his legs. The mirrors turned to smoke, then mist, and then slowly back to water leaving him and Haku standing a foot from each other.

"You have come a long way. Here it is only a couple days back into training and you already know Aqua Lung, Water Clone, Water Dragon MIssile, Deity, and now Demonic Ice MIrrors. Take the rest of the day off to meditate"

Haku patted Suoh on the shoulder adn turned to go back to the village. SUoh sat down to tend to the wounds he had received durring the days sparring...

((done. I believe I have done enought to master this technique))