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Zen stood up from the kitchen table. He had been sitting for an unorthodox amount of time. And so he made his way to the main entrance of the main dojo and sat down, right in the middle of the door.

Taking a kunai out from his back pouch, he started to scratch out a rather complex looking seal. With in the seal at which all the enchantments and chakra lines gravitated outward from was the hexagram (#61) known as "Center Returning." With this finished he placed his hands over the seal, concentrating chakra through his arms and into the wood.

With a burst of blue flame the seal burned to life, creating a field from which genjutsu would be disrupted. With this done he stood up and proceeded to the rafters.

(( Guys,

I found a link to the old Academy thread back when the GNA was still in GGN, and have been reading through it all night. It's insane...things are a lot different now- Academy life was a lot more sarcastic back then. I noticed a lot of the comraderie and friendship has dulled down over the years and we need to fix that, if it's even possible. I dunno.. I mean, I realise this post doesn't belong here but finding that link was a stark reminder of how far a cry this version of GNA is from the old one.))

"Well..."

Iri reaches into her left pocket and takes out another pebble. Then she looks around for a target. She really doesn't want to have the ammo ricochet off of another tree. After a moment or so, she decides to just aim for the sky. Just like she did before, Iri reaches out with her right palm facing outward. A clockwise flowing cyclone forms around her middle finger, while a counter-clockwise cyclone forms around the index finger. Iri "loads" the pebble and watches as it speeds off into the distance. Odds are that's gonna scare some poor woodland creature, but that's okay!

"Can't recall what inspired me, but it's kinda fun."

Iri blinks. "I hadn't thought about other projectiles yet. Yeah, that's something I've got to try out." Then she turns to look at Reeve. "As for making my own techniques, that's how I started learning kaze. Remember when we met? You found me unconscious in the woods. I had passed out after using too much chakra on my first kaze technique, and no one taught me anything beforehand. Nyl started teaching me awhile back, but not until I had already learned a few things on my own."

"Hmm..." Iri tilts her head in that curious manner. There's an idea sparking behind her violet eyes, but she's not giving it away quite yet. With a wing shrug, she lets her eyes wander back to the trees, and whatever was there hides itself. "So the Academy's gone that long without a steady kaze instructor? Makes me realize that I'm gonna have to come up with a new strategy if I want to advance in my element."

"I wouldn't worry about advancing too far- have you seen a sensei's paycheck around here?" He asks, eyeing her critically.

" Yeah, that's what I thought," Reeve says wryly. "I haven't seen one either."