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 Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 5:17 pm
Valkyrie suddenly heard crashing outside the door. Not just that but also screaming. She was worried. THen she got a call on her communicator. Listening to the call, her face turned quite somber. When the call was over she looked towards Koujin and sighed. "It seems that our conversation must be cut short. There is trouble here, but there is also trouble in Moon." She grabbed the map and directions that Koujin had made. "I would ask for your help, but i believe that these people need the power of the Moon's Shining Star." With that she left, clouding herself in Genjutsu to get to the docks.
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Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2009 1:52 pm
 Tamao had returned home, needing a little time away from everything that had happened recently. And what better place than home? The comfort of her old room, the faces of the people in town, so many little things that could have put her at ease. but they didn't. Something was wrong. She couldn't tell precisely what, until she saw the slime girls approaching, pouring into the village and attacking anyone they came across. She froze in mid-step. Slime girls?! It couldn't be?! She looked around wildly, but didn't see the familiar shade of the only slime girl she had met before, even amidst all of the other slime girls. But there was no doubt, these slime girls had a connection to Hedoro. Even so, they were attacking her home. Had her friend, her first friend, really sent them to attack her home? Why? Why did everyone betray her? She lowered her head, unable to bring herself to move to defend her home, not yet.
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Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 12:45 pm
 Hidden NanoThe slime girls had met no real opposition in their attack, and had been enjoying themselves, swallowing up anyone that dared to try and fight them off. Even so, they had not yet attacked an odd, cloaked human. There was something about her that made them hesitant to attack. Not power, although she did seem somewhat capable, but more like a half memory they had inherited from their creator. Tamao still found herself unable to move, watching as the slime girls continued their assault on her home. She compared how they looked to what she remembered of Hedoro, and found there were quite a few differences. Different colors, even their eyes looked different. And of course, none of them was wearing that horrible mishmash of an outfit that was all rags and tatters, either. But they were still slime girls, the same as Hedoro. She knew that they had a connection to her friend, but what? She had to know. She approached the closest one, reaching out a hand to try to stop her and ask. Unfortunately for her, the slime girl viewed that action as an attack and quickly rushed at her, swallowing her up before she even had a chance to draw any of her blades.
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Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 6:22 pm
Hidden NanoOnce the village had been completely overrun by the invading slime girl forces, it began to change. Nothing explosive or particularly destructive. The village was simply covered over by a dome, just like Hidden Substance was. This dome encased the entire village, as well as everything within it, both remaining humans and slime girls.
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Posted: Sat May 02, 2009 8:42 am
 Drago had awoken in Hidden Nano. He licked his lips slowly as he was looking for the sword Master Koujin. Even though he assumed for the worse that this nin was a missing nin. He would try and kill him. Drago only tilted his tokien side ways looking for the master he never thought it would be so easy. "Heh..A sword hut.." Drago walked inside the building placing his sword in the sheathe to find the sword master. drago only cracked his knuckles as he looked around. The place was pretty amazing..Drago wanted to study more of his sword. His sword techniques were okay..he just wanted to get better at the arts of sword play. Make his showmenship that much better. Drago yawned slowly. "So..Koujin..I hear you are like a swordsmaster...Do you train or do you just keep your techniques for yourself..because I would be honored to train underneath you.." Drago said as he bowed slowly. Drago pulled out his sword. The blade of hate..the immense blade of hate it stored as much chakra as his owner. Drago looked and he spun the blade hilt first towards Koujin. "This blade is named Tokijen..the blade of hate...I just want to understand it more..the only way to understand it..to me is to learn more sword techniques.."
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Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 3:20 pm
Koujin took the long pipe he had been smoking placing it on the counter in front of him. "Hmmm... it's not often that we get Sannins coming down here to find people like me, but lets see what your working with first..." Koujin reached out taking the hilt of the famed Tokijen in his hand watching as the sword began to glow with power, he held the weapon up to the filtering light of the shop examining it ignoring the hissing and popping of the blade. "It's a spirited weapon which is bodes well for your ability to advance your skills. As you might have noticed it doesn't like being held by those it doesn't regard as it's master. I dare say that if it hadn't been me who you handed this too they would have encountered a nasty and painful surprise." He placed the blade on the counter for a moment as he removed the heavy plated forging apron that he wore and picked up a cylindrical basket that wasn't visible from anywhere but behind the counter itself hoisting it up you could hear the sound of several hilts clinking together. Picking up the basket and slinging tokijen over his shoulder despite it's obvious protests Koujin started to walk out of the shop. "Come on, we know that your blade has spirit, but now we find out if you have the proper one to swing this blade." Koujin continued to walk and as he did so the glow from tokijen began to glow a ruby red like a meteor just fallen from the sky, the aura of the blade was expanding exponentially as Koujin walked and experimented with the parameters of the blade. They would find themselves in a dusty clearing framed on one side by a series of hills and the town at their back, a lone sakura tree rose from the grass in the shadow of the hills. Koujin tossed the tokijen back to Drago as he set his own sheath of blades down on the dirt beside himself. "Now the first test, close your eyes, this is a test to see how well your spirit is suited to bond with the tokijen. I'll be coming at you, but don't rely on any of your human senses to detect me, rely on the tokijen, a proper swordsman's blade will guide his hand even when his senses deceive him. Now take your stance, this might hurt a bit if your bond is weak." Koujin flipped out a blade from the basket at his side spinning it and letting it come to rest in the palm of his hand. Then he was moving, for Drago relying on his normal senses would be useless as each one indicated that Koujin was running at him from different angles. There was only one Koujin, and it was Drago's job to use tokijen to find him and quick, Koujin was no slow poke. He simply needed to parry the strike to complete the exercise.
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Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 9:50 pm
Drago looked and he was at first worried about the swordsmen and his blade., He thought that the blade would have been more than to much power for him. It had after all hurt plenty of people that tried to pick up that wasn't him...however the blade only hissed at Kouijn. Maybe drago was int he right part of town. He only smirked a bit as he looked up at Koujin when he got his own blade. Drago untied his hair. When tokien was tossed back at him. Drago looked and he cut the ribbon out of his hair and stood there with a slight tilt of his head.
"No human senses huh?> That's fine let's see Tokijen..can you protect me..."
Drago drew out his tokijen as he closed his eyes. He felt vurnable. He could here tokijen but it was more as if the blade was yellign at him. They were out of harmony so much. Drago had only used tokijen as a weapon and not the tool such a weapon deserved to be..however this was why he was there now.. He wanted to be better. Drago needed to be better. Tokijen would make him better. However this situation would prove to be a little different. As tokien told him were to swing..however it was to late. As he felt the pain of the blade connect to him. Drago was hit by Koujin's attack as Drago had swung just a bit to late. The tokijen could be heard laughing at Drago...Drago only growled a bit as he looked at his blade and cursed himself.
"Come on let's go again.."
Drago said slowly.
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Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 9:22 am
The training would only get harder as Koujin came at Drago again, this time, a hand reached out of his own shadow pushing him in the back looking to distract him and break any focus he might have been building up. Koujin would remain silent, the training would either focus him or cause him so much frustration that he would give up on it.
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Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 9:37 am
Drago looked and he had tokijen in his hand. He didn't hold it tight. He had it rather loose as he started to breathe slowly. He allowed the room to disappear and he let his sword run in the pilot chair today. He didn't have to understand. His blade knew everything. His blade knew the world and it knew were to strike. Tokijen knew everything..it wouldn't let him down not again.
"Okay Tokijen..I know that you won't let me down.."
The blade sparked had died down. Maybe the blade was hating Drago. Maybe know they would together. As he felt the push from the shadows. Tokijen calmed him. He didn't loose his focus as this time Tokijen told him were to strike.
"now."
Drago at first was amazed. He heard the voice of his sword. As Drago quickly brought down the blade. Parrying Koujin's own attack towards him. Drago held the blade lightly. As he heard the clashing of the metal running across his own blade. He felt tokijen starting to crackle as the parry was complete. He felt Tokijen's presence. The blade was fierce..but he understood.
"Hmm..So..is that what you meant?"
Drago asked Koujin slowly. Still with his eyes close.
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Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 10:14 am
"Yes, that's the basic step, you'll need to practice that daily until it becomes instinctual, but I don't exactly have time to hold your hand on every day so you'll have to do that part on your own. "
Koujin skipped back a few paces putting distance between him and Drago.
"You can open your eyes now, I know it may seem a bit silly to you as a sannin, but take that blade and come at me as if you intend to hurt me with it, see if you can hit me."
When Drago looked at Koujin it would be the darndest thing, Koujin wasn't even looking at him, he was looking intently at the ground for some reason.
"Any time your ready," he waved a hand not holding the sword.
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Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 10:26 am
Drago opened his eyes. He looked up at Koujin and he scratched his head slowly.
"Yeah Just listening to my blade..it doesn't seem that hard..now that I know it's voice..sort of like a guiding spirit..or another one ontop of the voices I am hearing.."
drago then looked up to the sky slowly. He only scratched his head with his hand that was free. He looked and his hand had started to shaw his claws. He sighed slowly once he heard his term again.
"Why does every call me that..My name is Drago..not Sannin..I don't call you missing nin do I? I am not my rank..I am a ninja just like you..except you have a swordshop...Reina would never let me open up a swordshop..don't ever get married."
Drago twirled his sword up slowly. Koujin wasn't even looking at him. Was he sure..Drago looked and he guess that he was ready for anything.
"Fine."
Drago darted at him so fast that the floor board underneath him started to crack. As he ran he twirled the sword around switching from his left hand to his right. Once he got in mid range of Koujin he swiftly jumped in the air coming down in a 90 degree arc with the blade. He was coming down towards his neck with the tokijen leaning in first.
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Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 10:52 am
"Ahmmm, you either figured the trick on the first try or got lucky, hopefully it's the first one."
Koujin said reversing stepping back until he was vertical upside down standing hanging on the branch of the sakura tree. He chuckled at the comment about wives.
"Ah but wait until you have a child to pass your lineage on too, then I think it might not seem so bad."
Going back to his training, Koujin continued.
"The point of this exercise is reading your opponents next move, the easiest indicator is your foot work, for instance I could tell you were going to jump at me before you jumped. Taking to the air while a good way to mask your intentions from being read often leaves you defenseless against an attack where you would need to dodge, say if I used Shinso, the blade would extend so fast that you wouldn't be able to dodge mid air where you might have a chance to block if your feet were on the ground."
he said as he dropped back to the ground with the blade over his shoulder.
"The other indicator is the eyes, if you can see your opponents eyes, read those before you try to read his foot work, you couldn't tell which way I was going to move until I did, because I didn't look at you or give you any hints. This was just to get a gauge of your skills in these areas, your quick, but your foot work is marginal at best, I can read it pretty easy, someone not trained well they're going to have a harder time, but it is possible for even a novice to read your steps. Come over here and I'll show you what we'll be doing to improve your footwork."
Koujin retreated to the base of the Sakura tree where he delivered a sharp knock to the tree and Sakura blossoms began to drift towards the earth all around the tree. Koujin was among them, between them, drifting almost floating and flowing through the petals as he moved, it was obviously viewed through a slight time slow down as he sped through the motions in real time. Returning to his starting point before any blossom had touched the ground, he sheathed his blade and each and every blossom that had been knocked free split in half.
"That's your next test, the key to hiding your foot work is again trusting in your blade to guide you be an extension of your soul itself. The thing is if you don't know where and how your moving until your already moving not even a trained swordsman can read your movements, in your eyes or in your footwork. You'll have to do the same, slice each petal cleanly in half before they hit the ground, or you'll have to do another run through. I can already tell you it's impossible to do without trusting in your blade. "
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Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 9:33 pm
"Pass my lineage onto? I don't think me and my wife have had enough time to even...Well whatever.. We are both so busy all the time..Her being the Kage of Magic and me being..Well a Sanin and all..Not much time for us to have recreational time.."
Drago watched as he stepped outside and saw one of the most beautiful trees he had ever seen in his life. The people in Hidden Leaf was so missing out on this village if they had never been there before. When he listened to the training advice that Koujin had just gave him it did make since. He never thought about that his eyes gave away his location..or even looking at an enemy dead on would give him that much more advantage of using the sword. Drago while one of the most powerful in the land had much to learn...
"Eh..You are amazing.."
Drago said slowly. As he twirled his blade around and he looked at Koujin slowly. He watched him cut all the cherry blossoms in half. Drago only thought about running threw them all with a blink of an eye and destroying them. After all that was all that he knew that he could do..However listening to Koujin it had gave him so more advice. Know were you are going before you go. Drago neverk new exactly were he was going to strike..Only that he was going to strike eventually. He looked and he watched the cherry blossoms starting to fall. He looked at his blade.
"Okay Tokijen..let's do this.."
Drago said slowly as he whispered to the blade. He watched the blade as it slowly started to whisper to him. He listened carefully as he started to strike the cherry blossoms one by one. However he could see them starting to hit the ground. Drago only started to move a bit faster. As he started to tilt his body down as close to the ground as possible as he cut the cherry blossom in half before it touched the ground. Drago looked and there were still hundreds falling from the sky. However he wasn't done..he wasn't going to give up not yet..
However Drago start listening to the blade and what Koujin had said. Tokijen had start telling him were to strike. When to strike and how to strike. The balde wasn't lying to him. The blade was trying to help him. After being hard headed for about twnety of the leaves falling. Drago start paying attention. He watched as each leaf fell slowly and he was able to plan were he was going to strike. Each time he started to move a bit faster slicing down the cherry blossoms as they fell. Drago only looked up to see that they were still falling.
As He started to move a bit faster threw the leaves. He never noticed that he and his blade were for once syncing. Drago quickly brought the blade up in the air slicign threw the last remaining leaves that were falling to the ground. Drago quickly dashed towards the last leaf spinning th blade around in a large circle as he pulled the blade back in the holster he saw the cherry blossom split in half. He looked to the air and saw that he had did it. He didn't even have to use his speed demon. He was getting faster just by training with Koujin. Drago never knew exactly who this guy was..but he was happy ot have stumbled upon this sword shop.
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Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 8:53 pm
As the last blossom touched the ground a furious wind swept up kicking up the petals and casting the sakura scent deep into Drago's nostrils, as the whirlwind of sakura came to an end, Drago was standing in front of this woman who was looking at him over her shoulder. "So your the one my many times great nephew is training, will you drink with me Drago-san?" she moved to the side revealing a low table set for two with cups of lightly scented sake to be enjoyed, who was this woman where did she come from? It seemed that Drago would have to sit and drink to find out. Koujin could be seen sitting at the base of the sakura tree his head bowed in sleep a straw hat shading his sleeping features.
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Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 9:03 pm
Drago looked as he saw the woman appear from seemingly no were. He bowed to her as he walked to the table were she was at and sat down slowly. He only smiled politely as he looked down towards the ground.
" I would love a drink..been awhile since I had a good drink with a person that wasn't trying to kill me.."
Drago said as he sat down and he placed his sword in the holster. He looked and he held the cup up slowly. However he would wait for her to drink first. Drago was never one to drink before anybody. Out of simple paranoia..These people who knew his name but he knew not of them..all the way out in this country..to be frank was strange.
"And who do i owe the honor too?"
Drago said slowly.
He only tilted the glass down.
"Hmm it appears as if something is getting ready to happen. I am sorry I must be going."
Drago said slowly as he disappeared in a rage of flower petals.
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