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❋Kori Shirayuki ❋

A cold breeze just rolled in.....

Kori sighed in relief. If she didn't know about it then she probably wouldn't look down on her for her heritage. She didn't have many friends being a Yuki clan girl, but maybe this girl could be a first. She had never had another friend that was female before besides her sister and mother. She shrugged at her question.
"I'm not sure as of now. We might get the same jounin I had before or we might have a new one. As for it just being us, I think it might just be. The note didn't mention anyone else. Sorry. I don't know a whole lot."
She really hadn't had enough time to make a connection with any of her teammates except Rei and even that was brief. A new sensei and a new teammate may be good for her.

.....oh wait, that was just my breath.

❋Kori Shirayuki ❋

A cold breeze just rolled in.....

Kori laughed. It seemed Yuzuki didn't like the Raikage anymore than she did. "Well I'm glad we can agree on something. How did he address you?"
Kori shrugged. Training sounded like a good idea. She could get a feel for her abilities and perhaps learn something from her as well. She only had one genjutsu herself and she would like to improve it or learn others. "I can spar with you if you want, and do anything else you want to practice in. As for what I specialize in........"
Kori stepped out onto the lake, walking on the water with chakra being forced onto her feet. A few yards out, she turned and looked towards Yuzuki, marking her position. She made a single handsign and the water around her began to swirl and rise up around her. She focused more and more and the water began to take a snake like shape. Her face scrunched up in concentration and flicked her hand forward towards Yuzuki. The snake slithered quickly through the air, making its way to the shore. About a few feet from Yuzuki, it seemed to lose shape and force and splashed to the ground, just shy of the cloaked girl. Making her way back to shore, Kori sighed. "Damn.....That was the first time I've tried that, but I thought I had more control over it."

.....oh wait, that was just my breath.

((Water snake jutsu-C rank-234/750-Elemental bonus applied))

Yuichi Shizen

Entering into the area at a fast pace a tall blue hair boy moved easily from one rock face to the next. Easily climbing the large platau he had been told to meet his new team mates at. Seemed easy enough show up wave smile, train a bit. No problem at all.

Arriving at the top of the platau the boy used a little extra burst of speed to get above the cliff face, sliding to a stop once hed landed. With a deep breath he stood up looking around the platau. As expected there were two people there, both girls, both practicing some new jutsu of some sort. One seemed to be practicing some water based attack, while the other was... well he wasn't quite sure, it was probably genjutsu based because she didn't seem to be doing an aweful lot of moving.

Already he could tell one girl used the water element, which was interesting. He would have to come up with ways to combine with her techniques to boost their effectiveness. Though at the moment she seemed to be having an issue with her jutsu.

Adjusting his jacket and making sure he looked decent he took a deep breath, "Um, hi I'm Yuichi Shizen." he introduced himself with a smile. Though to be honest he didn't really think his name would be a welcome one. None the less they needed to know his name if they didn't already.

Thinking for a moment he looked to the blue haired girl. "Um If I may, I think you would have better luck if you used a more relaxed and flowing motion." he said scratching his head. "Water isn't something you can just throw, its better to let it build momentum as a whole so it doesnt break apart... thats just my thoughts on it though, I don't use water style." he said with a grin.

❋Kori Shirayuki ❋

A cold breeze just rolled in.....

Kori nodded understandingly. That damned kage loved to woo her with blue hair jokes and curvy notations all the time. Each one was met with icy retorts and cold glares to which the man either shrugged and continued his business or feigned fear and looked away, smiling all the while. God, she disliked that man......though he was the one that encouraged her to learn some of her jutsu. He had even taught her her first water jutsu, giving her advice and coaxing her through the motions. The water was to be an element that flowed along at its own pace, not to be controlled by another. Though if one was careful, one could control which way the water flowed. Direction, was the only thing he had explained, is what governed water jutsu in his mind. From there Kori had to figure out how to command the water to come to her will and direct it in any way she saw fit.
This jutsu was no different though, looking back on things, she had been trying to control the water too much as she was trying hard to make an impression. Instead, she flipped her hand up in the handseal from before and the water flowed upward and outward towards a tree near the girls in a different, more flowing manner. This way, the water looked more uncontrolled and violent. The snake head crashed into the tree and the force knocked it slightly from the ground, causing the whole trunk to tilt dangerously over. The rest of the roots managed to halt the wood's timbering movement and the tree was left half pushed out of the ground. She smirked over in Yuzuki's direction. Wet worm attack indeed.
Before she had time to respond to her friend, a boy with blue hair slid into view from the cliff side. His adjustment of his jacket earned him a huff from Kori. She disliked most men and boys. This one obviously seemed full of himself if he though he could impress them. His introduction sparked a memory of an earlier occurrence. Her sister had mentioned this boy's father and his deeds. Was this one trust worthy? He didn't look too bad despite his arrogant appearance though this could be just a farce in an attempt to get close to them. If Kori knew from experience, it was that the closer you were to someone, the more it cuts deep when they betray you. She could thank her father for that lesson.
His introduction was fine and Kori nodded afte Yuzuki. "Kori Shirayuki. His advice, however, was met with a roll of Kori's eyes. "Wow. Really?" Her retort spat daggers of spite to the boy and it was clear in her tone of voice. Was he trying to tell her how to do her jutsu? And he doesn't even use water style?!
"So let me ask you, O great jutsu expert, do you have any other blatantly obvious tips for me before I continue?" If there was one thing Kori hated, it had to be people telling her how to do something she was clearly the more knowledgeable about.

.....oh wait, that was just my breath.

((Water snake jutsu-C rank-234+531=765/750->Learned!))

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"Aww... you scared our potential meat sheild away. That's almost no fun." Yuzuki quirked an eyebrow at the young woman that was with her, poor Yuichi... if looks could kill he would have left in a casket. This girl definatly had something of a venomous bite to her. Yuzuki rather... liked that. Granted to throw away the poor boy wasn't something that she had wanted so soon. Like him or not he could be of use to them in the future, especially when missions were involved. For now, she supposed that it might be better if they let him lick his wounded pride for a while and try again to get back to them. She was sure that after he sprung that sort of bear-trap that he would keep his advice to himself unless he had something worthwhile mentioning. As in... he could give first hand advice instead of regurgitation from a scroll. Well, lesson learned. Yuzuki also took note of that tree that was knocked down by the Wet Worm Jutsu. Perhaps she had been a little premature in her naming of it. But it was a cute little name for a cute little jutsu. She would be sure to tease Kori about it whenever she got the chance. She stood next to her female commrade and watched Yuichi practice his own jutsu. She raised an eyebrow at the progress being made by him. Dammit! He was one of those kids that could pick things up so quickly, the ones that use to run circles around her way of thinking and left her in the dust when it came to learning jutsu.
Well~! She certainly wasn't going to be shown up by him! Not after she had come so far. She looked over at Kori.
"Hey... that little wanker has caught up with us learning jutsu. I don't know about you but I'm not going to tolerate that."
The challange had been set, the bar raised and the pride had been stoked up once more. Yuzuki twisted on her heel and walked over to the body of water that Kori was on. At least this way, she wouldn't burn the whole village down with her attempts.

Yuzuki walked over to the body of water that Kori was occupying, she brought her body in tight and made the sign of the tiger as she closed her eyes. She tapped into the elemental chakra that rested inside her body and began to kneed it from the base in her stomach, she had been working on this for a while now, but the technique was something that was just out of her reach, she still struggled with her chakra control a little with her larger techniques, using it in subtle and miniscule ways was easy for her, when it came to giant ball of fire was something else entirely. She continued to concentrate and calm her emotions and thus, ease her chakra and make it easier to control. Once she got to the point of finding her calm point, she opened her eyes and began to make a series of hand signs, she gathered the chakra from the stomach and brought it up through her mouth. Lowering her mask, she brought the side of her lips, slightly away from her mouth. She pushed her chakra out of her mouth. Azure flame flowed and began to twist and form into a smaller version of what she was trying to, in the end it turned into a beach ball size ball of blue flame before. Yuzuki’s eyebrow twitched. She pulled back and tried again bracing her stance a little more before trying again, she needed to get more chakra into the attack, she needed to learn how to use her chakra in a far more generous way but not over do it like she had done so many times. The Jutsu itself bordered on the Chunin rank because of the chakra that it consumed. Regardless she was going to get this done, she breathed a little deeper, mixing her chakra in with the air to make it more of a combustible substance. She also tried to expand her usual capacity into something a lot bigger and more… damaging. She gathered her chakra to the point that she was comfortable with the amount. Once more she brought index and middle fingers slightly in front of her mouth and to the side and expelled the brewed chakra and oxygen into it as well. Yuzuki braced herself and pushed the chakra out into the world. She used the chakra at her fingertips as an ignition source that brought the blue flame to life and had it rage into a howling inferno in the middle of the lake. Yuzuki’s eyes narrowed and began to try and put more into it, it was large, but it should be larger than what it was, she was finally understanding how something like this would work, she experimented with her Azure ball of fire and loosened up on the chakra as well as put more into it until she was finally satisfied with what she had accomplished. Just to make sure that she fully understood and was satisfied with the combination, she performed it again. With a few hand signs and deep breath she exhaled her kneaded chakra and expelled it once more, getting the desired effect that she wanted to. The gentle glow cast eerie spectral shades of colour around the landscape until Yuzuki finished her jutsu. She inhaled once more and exhaled deeply, licks of the blue flame formed outside of her nose and away from her body as she burnt off the rest of the chakra.

However, she was not finished learning what she wanted to yet, after all, the Fireball jutsu had a variation that she needed to learn in order to actually accomplish this jutsu, she needed to learn how to manipulate the flame so that it was a flamethrower instead of a fire ball. Yuzuki closed her eyes and concentrated for a while. She needed to think about the best way to get this done, after all, it wasn’t as simple as just letting your chakra fly everywhere. Chaotic and characteristic for the flames as it may be, little control yielded little overall power. She needed to fan and arch her flow of chakra in order to get this to work well enough. She inhaled deeply and let the calm wash over her, she thought of the nothingness that was the darkness. It was tranquil and serene. She took a few more deep breaths and brought her chakra back up with each breath. She would do the same thing as she did with her Globe version of the jutsu. She brought her hand to the side of her lips and away from her mouth as she did before. The world once more ignited with the fires of the blue flame, instead of the orb of fire that she had practiced for so long, she let the shape vary, she let it spread out a little ways, but limited its distance of the spread with her chakra. She continued to push her flame, trying to get the feeling just right. She let it die down before trying again, she wanted to make sure that she got the proper feel for this jutsu so that she wouldn’t have to concentrate on it like she had been doing before attempting this jutsu and its variations. She quickly performed her hand signs and once more tired the fireball itself once more, then she performed the other variant of the flamethrower. She had to tinker with the later a little more, the way her flame came out it was still trying to curve in on itself a little more than it should, creating a horseshoe more than it created an open spray like pattern. She braced herself and tried again. She was starting to get a little tired, but she could push one more time for it to happen. She inhaled once to calm the excitement of almost getting it right and then tried again. She performed the hand signs and performed the jutsu, much more to her satisfaction this time on the flamethrower variant that made up the jutsu.

Yuzuki more or less let gravity pull up a seat for her. She had sweat starting to bead from her brow. She hated Fire jutsu to be honest. It took so much out of her when she was use to working with such a limited, as needed amount. It was like trying to push a car by practicing pushing a thread through the eye of a needle. She hated to admit it, but she kind of needed a few minutes to catch her breath. She would probably work on taijutsu next, that wouldn't require chakra and it would help build up her stamina even more so that she could do more jutsu. Yuzuki lean back, bringing her arms behind her to prop herself up. She looked over to Kori and raised an eyebrow. She had pushed two jutsu, was Kori up for the challange, what about Yuichi? Granted, she was clearly the most awesome of the three of them so it wouldn't surprise her if they would just roll over and more or less give up on trying to outpace her.



((Fire Style: Fireball jutsu C-rank 1000/1000))

Yuichi Shizen

As the girl spoke of him as a meat sheild Yuichi didn't really seem to react not because of some high and mighty attitude but simply because he had no idea what to say. It wasn't exactly an insult... but then again it wasn't really a compliment either.

As he mused the implications of being called a meat sheild the girl then brought up that he had already caught up to them in learning techniques. Really it was that easy? he thought surprised. Then watched as she practiced a fire jutsu of her own. Then the angry girl spoke and, well he stopped listening.

Turning back to the downed tree he sighed, it would be useless when it came to training now. He would need to find something sturdier, and preferably something that didnt send a shock back at him when he hit it. So choosing a good sized rock he cracked his knuckles for a moment before raising his hands. slowly he began to bounce back and forth on the balls of his feet before picking up speed. Slowly he moved about the rock throwing a few quick jabs at it to test its sturdiness. Every time his fist made contact a light hiss resounded as electricity coursed over the rock.

Coming to a stop he sighed, he needed to figure out how to hold larger amounts. Even if it was for only one blow, a more powerful attack could be useful for fighting stronger opponents. However lightning nature was tough, he would have to be cautious or he could use too much chakra in one attack and drain himself or too little and have it not be effective enough.

Bringing his hands together he made a few small handsigns choosing carefully to focus his chakra right. Then holding his hand out in front of him he gripped it with his other hand to make a more stable current of chakra. A small crackling began to form around his hand. He was moving slowly, measuring his chakra carefully compared to how much he was putting into the jutsu. At the moment the ammount was small.

As quickly as it had come the electricity vanished leaving him standing there just looking like an idiot. He needed to use more chakra, but how much more? Did he have enough chakra? He would have to use more for now and be careful not to go overboard. Even after he could focus the chakra he still had to define its characteristics and shape after.

An audible sigh escaped the boy, why am i even doing this? is it because she said so? he mused looking over at Yuzuki. Shaking his head he went back to his training. Focusing again he chose diferent hand signs this time, this time focusing on the characteristics... what characteristics did he even want?

"Perhaps something that can hit an area would be good." he thought out loud. He already had one technique like that but it was limited by the fact that he had to be falling to use it... and he wasn't a fan of falling all the time. Not to mention free falling around a battlefeild was a good way to end up on someones sword. However a wide spread attack meant he would need even more chakra then normal to pull it off.

Bringing his hand up again, his other hand gripping his forarm once more to increase his chakra flow, he tried to focus. Maybe he had gone about it all wrong, he would break it down slowly this time. First thing he had to do was increase the output on his static pulse. And what easier way to do that then to multiply it. One finger at a time.

Closing his eyes he let his chakra flow freely, he had to use an amount of chakra "Per finger" in a way. If he could do that there would be more chakra built up and he could still control it. As an added bonus he could do the area strike he was planning and possibly control it with his fingers. Well, that was his hope at least.

Slowly electricity began to sprout from his pointer finger in a small arc. A good sign, he was making progress. Then he moved onto the next finger, his middle finger. Soon the same thing was occuring there as well. Next was his ring finger and pinky, he could do both simultaneously due to their closeness within the mucles of the hand. So soon he had electricity coming from those two fingers as well. Next came the tricky part, the thumb.

Bending his fingers he turned his palm up focusing harder to get the thumb. Soon enough sparks lept from his thumb as well effectively incorperating all five fingers. The eletricity arced beteen his fingers, spouting off into the air now and then. Now came the easy part, something he did normally with the static pulse. He had to bring his palm into the equastion and incorperate his entire hand. Taking a deep breath he released chakra from there as well and the result was instantaneous.

The electricity connected with his palm creating a free flowing circuit within his hand and fingers. The hair stood up on the back of his neck at the electricity given off by the technique. More importantly he could feel his breathing getting labored. This was taking a gret deal of chakra to maintain. After all he was using his fingers and palm to generate elctricity all at once. It was likely a far greater amount of Chakra then his normal techniques. He most likely wouldnt be able to use this very often. However he had succeeded in creating a much larger charge then with the static pulse, which was a definite step forward.

As his mind danced with ideas his hand began to shake. Quickly he realized exactly how draining it was. He was getting pretty close to his limit at this point and he hadn't even launched it yet. Which meant if he used this in combat its uses would be limited. Very limited. At least for now. Once he trained more and aquired larger chakra reserves he may be able to use it more. For now I don't think I should use it more then once or twice in a single fight. he thought to himself.

Then he realized, he had yet to actually test it out. Which was probably a good idea. He had to know how it behaved if he wanted to make changes to it. So letting go of his forarm he opened his eyes. Slowly he planted his feet digging his feet into the hard rock so as to steady himself. Then looking down at the ground he drew his hand back, slowly closing his hand the electricity running wild as the circuit became smaller.

Swinging his hand toward the ground he struck it as hard as he could. Only to find the jutsu fade before impact. His bare fist striking the solid rock. Small sparks and tendrils of electricity jumping about over his hand and forarm for a moment before everything went silent.

Taking a deep breath to quiet his breathing he sighed. It had failed, horribly, he couldn't even maintain the chakra let alone launch an attack with it. He was exhausted, out of chakra and out of ideas. He would have to wait for another day.

Closing his eyes, he noticed the strong breeze, the smell of the trees nearby, and the distant sea breeze. It swept his hair from his face and cooled him off. He always loved being up so high because you could always smell the sea. He had visited it once before when he was young but only once.

It was always such a calming thing, being up so high, away from the hustle and bussle of the city, Being away from the constant spying on him after his fathers coup de ta attempt. It was annoying, because he had always been able to spot them. Ambu with their masks hiding in trees, on building rooftops, anywhere they could to keep an eye on him. And every jounin and teacher watched him particularly closely compared to the rest of the class.

To his classmates he was getting special attention for being a so called "Geneous" when really he was cursed to a life of being watched in every action he did. And if he stepped out of line or showed any signs of doing something they didn't like he was sure they had no qualms with ending him right then and there.

The fact that they had let him join the academy at all was a shock in hind sight. However here he was, on his way to becoming a ninja. A strange twist considering he could simply follow in his fathers footsteps. Maybe that was what they wanted to test...

Sitting down on the rock Yuichi had picked out he closed his eyes and listened to the breeze as it danced amoung the branches or the nearby trees. The warmth of the sun covering his body. He was now very low on chakra so it was likely the end of his training for now. Now it was time to rest and relax.

He looked over at the two girls the angry one having asked about sparring. It was a fun idea but he didn't think he should ask to join. Even if he had the chakra the angry one seemed to have a chip on her shoulder that... well he didn't want to deal with right now... not that he thought she would let him anyway. Why are women so complicated? he thought with a sigh.

????-A Rank 1636/6000

❋Kori Shirayuki ❋

A cold breeze just rolled in.....

Kori shrugged when Yuzuki invited Yuichi. She didn't care much for men and boys and this one seemed intent on showing himself off. She wasn't against working with him, she was just annoyed he tried to give advice on something he obviously knew little about. Maybe he wasn't bad at Taijutsu and they could learn something.
"C'mon over here Yuichi. We can all learn from it."
She eyed each of her companions and sized them up. Yuzuki was on par with her in height but she wasn't sure about their weight matchup. She could be heavier or lighter, hard to tell on girls until contact was made. Yuichi was a tad taller than the girls but didn't look too much bigger other than that fact. Taking each of them shouldn't be too tough. Gesturing to them, she allowed herself a smirk.
"So who's first?"

.....oh wait, that was just my breath.