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Shirayuki Shinichi - Former Hikkomori

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LV. 40 | Experience: 0/8000 | Hp: 520 /520 | Cp: 720/720 | MHp: 2200/2200

"Mm... the lives of your comrades are important too. And your life will become important to others. Don't waste toss it away so carelessly or you'll die early. Your life is worth a lot to other people... like your parents."

Shinichi stabs the ground with the bottom of his cane, goes back to being an old blind man. He searches for trees in the vicinity, hits something hard, feels the trunk. But it isn't the tree he's looking for. The one he's looking for had a slash mark he had put on it earlier.

"By the way... you shouldn't give your name so carelessly to strangers. Shouldn't be so polite to someone who threatens to kill you. If you see a chance to escape take it. And you should only reveal your weaknesses if it's to bait your enemy or feign one to get the enemy to underestimate you. Hrm... as for the rest, I'll let your sensei fix that."

The cane hits something hard, but from cold and smooth surface, it's only a rock. Damn it. Where is that tree?

"If you're still curious about the eyes, well... I suppose you could run around your village and ask questions about the story behind a guy named 'Uchiha Seiji'."

Ah, here we go. Slash mark is here... so the way back to the village should be...

"Nice to meet you Yakedo Saito."

[Exit Forest.]

(This post takes place in an alternate time frame)



Tairu walked slowly through the forest as he looked for a suitable tree to carry out his training on. Today he was going to learn how to concentrate his chakra to his feet and walk up the trunk of a tree. It wasn't long before Tairu found a tree that was thick enough for him to fit both feet on the trunk of the tree. Tairu pulled out the scroll that he had written all of the information about tree climbing on. Okay, so I have to constantly put out a set amount of chakra and hold my feet to the tree trunk. With his objective in mind Tairu pulled out a kunai from his belt and looked at the tree trunk with determined eyes.

[DC]
11 + 10 = 21

Tairu ran straight at the tree and tried to concentrate his chakra to the soles of his feet. When his foot connected with the tree trunk Tairu began to feel a strange sensation as his body went parallel to the ground. Tairu then place his second foot on the tree and then started to walk. He didn't make it far before starting to slip though. Tairu quickly marked the spot with his kunai and then pushed off of the tree so that he could land on his feet. That was great, I actually managed to stick to the tree on my first try!

Mizuki smiled as she saw the wolf chasing the girl and walked the rest of the way. She felt out a breath, probably because she wasn't used to all this running. She looked down at the bandages and tighten them a bit since running made them a bit loose. She stood up again and walked up to the girl, "By the way...my name is Mizuki, what's your name?"

Training? She looked at the other girl before she looked back at the man in the tree. What exactly is their relationship? Is that guy her teacher? Maybe they went to the Academy together? Those thoughts were pushed out of her mind as she thought about what he said. She wasn't sure she could do any real training with them, since she was still an Academy student and didn't know all of her required jutsus. She spoke up timidly to the man, "I...I'm not a genin yet...do you want me to leave so I don't get in your guys' way?" She would train with them if they let her, but she wasn't sure what the man would say.

Before Aryza was able to answer the girls question about what her name was Taiju came barging in saying things like why they weren't kissing. Tilting her head at such a thing she looked at the big man. "Eh? Taiju why would I want to kiss her?" She honestly had no idea that the man was assuming she was homosexual, hell she didn't even know what it was. Her mind was as innocent as that of a 3 year old.

"Ah but Taiju I have been training! I was training until that big explosion happened which made Okita-sempai leave." Unfortunately for Taiju Aryza had been sitting still for nearly over 20 minutes so she had quite a bit of energy wanting to burst out of her at the moment and there was nothing she was going to do to stop it. One would very easily come to the conclusion she was a hell of a lot more hyper then normal which some would find impossible to actually believe. "Okita-sempai was a big jerk too! He went so rough on me! It's not my fault I'm inexperienced or that it was my first time! But did he take it easy? Noooo, he didn't! I don't ever wanna do that again! It was horrible!" She was actually kind of glad the explosion had happened, it had made him leave. If it hadn't happened she would've attempted to run away.

Taiju shook his head and cracked his knuckles. "So i suppose i'm just here to take up space? You have a name girl or should i call you 'red' for the rest of your natural life?"

But what was this about Okita? Taiju had met him once or twice; he came off as a smarter-than-thou a** who couldn't go five seconds without quoting some old history text. But he had been hanging out with both the new girl and Aryza?

He went so rough on me! It's not my fault I'm inexperienced or that it was my first time!

Wait.

WHAT?

Surely she didn't mean what he thought she meant. First Yarotai and now Okita? Did all of the male teachers at the academy suddenly become ***** it was a coincidence. Surely someone looking outside on where Taiju was right now would be confused as well. It wasn't everyday that the often "brutish" Taiju was with two young girls. Or any girls for that matter.

But unlike Yarotai and Okita, Taiju was focused only on training. Everything else was secondary to him.

"Alright you two. First off the nameless girl needs to give me a name, and then you two are going to start training. Unless you've dragged us out here for nothing Aryza."

Aryza put her hands on her hips as she looked at Taiju. "Drag? I didn't drag anybody anywhere, you decided to follow so don't blame me if it isn't what you want! Hmph..." She said not even worrying if what she was saying would get her in trouble. "...But...maybe I little Taijutsu spar?"

[Entering from Otogakure's Village **Main Gate**]

There was an eerie mist that seemed to linger out from the forests. A signature arrival for those that new of it's forecoming. From within the mist, a darkened silhoutte could barely be seen emerging from within it. From within her hands, could barely be made out be a bouquet of Yukigakure Morning Lilys. How strange... my trajectory was off... but in order for that to happen there must be powerfull jutsu in play. without finishing her thought, the only partner she brought with her emerged at the edge of the mist.

Something tells me that things have changed quite a bit since you told them of their oppressor's destruction. Zenjin replied, the mist seeming to recede back into the wilds from whence it came.

Yes, well, we weren't exactly greeted kindly back then either... but can we really blame them? .... Actually, don't answer that. I would have thought that Rasen or Kon would have told their Kage about us... but I don't think that was the case. Nakamura concluded, her form clearly visible now that the mist was gone.

"So... where do we go from here?" her arctic breath rising as she spoke. "I haven't been out this far in years."


"So what say the two of you?" a diembodied voice came to them. It sounded as if they were directly in front of them, and yet, nobody was seen. Perhaps they were training?

"Sounds like we've stumbled into something; it's probably best if we don't interfere and just try to make our way to the Memorial Stone."Nakamura concluded, her footsteps muffled by the light steps she took towards the village gate. Beside her, was Zenjin, sticking close to her.

Unbeknownst to them, there was an unforseen danger lurking in the woodlands behind them...