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No matter how many times Akuma swung at Asuma he couldn't even come within striking distance. "Come on kid this attack only works if you can get near your oponent." Akuma twirled his blades between his fingers working on a strategy in his mind. Akuma droped his stance for a moment removing his headband from his neck and retying it over his own eyes. "You really think you can get me with that thing on your head?" Akuma nodded, it was a trick he had learned from Zabuzza; cuteoff one sense to strengthen all the others. Akuma waited the whole world shifting around him. Then in one rapid motion he charged Asuma, but as soon as came within range he dropped both blades and instead drew the zanbatou from it's holster on his back. He swung downward and it was finally Asuma's turn to dodge the over sized weapon. It would take him a moment to realize that he couldn't move backward, though he had dodged the gargantuan blade something was still snagged on the front of flak jacket, the extened tip of the zanbatou. "Good, but not good enough to say you've mastered it, I'm surprised you were able to extend your chakra all the way down that blade. A tenous bit of chakra like that won't be able to do any damage though."
3/4

"Now I only got one other technique I can tech you at the moment. here hold this." Asuma handed his newly lit ciggarette to Akuma. "You might want to move back a bit, this attack gets a bit messy." Akuma obidiently moved backward holding the ciggarette at a distance as if it would bite him.
"Now this attack is what I like to call Haisekishou." With that said Asuma formed a quick set of handseals and expelled a huge cloud of ash onto a near by tree. The cloud floated their until Asuma cliked his teeth together creating the tiniest of sparks. Needless to say the tree went up in flames.
1/5

"Soooo.... Sarutobi-sensei, do I have to smoke these things like you do?" he stood there looking at the unfamiliar object in his hand.

"Give it a shot kid, you don't need it exactly, but it sure makes it alot easier if you do."

Akuma nodded placing the ciggarette to his lips and inhaled, which was followed imediatlty by a large round of coughing and sputtering to background noise of his techer chuckling.

"Maybe your still a bit young for this type of thing. Just take it slow no need to rush into things."
2/5

Akuma nodded, placing the ciggarette cautiously to his lips again. He took in a slow breath and then exhaled a cloud of black smoke, not ash but smoke. Akuma shrugged, it was a start.

"So do you feel that gritty feeling when you inhale?" Akuma nodded. "That my student is the ash your looking for, it doesn't take a whole lot to do this technique so why don't you give it a try with what you've got.

Akuma's hands slipped through the short string of handseals and then focused on exppeling the ash in his mouth, but all he got was a small comical puff of smoke. "lemme guess use more chakra?" Akuma sighed eyeing the cig.
3/5

Tai left the docks with his puppet. He then went out into the forest on the outskirts of the village. He loaded kunais with packets of tiny explosive scrolls attached into his puppet. As he snapped the puppet's arm closed he said "There. Now we'll see if we can do some damage with this." He began making handseals and said "Kugutsu no Jutsu" and chakra strings shot out from Tai's fingers and attached themselves to the puppet. The puppet then sprung to life as Tai maneuvered it. He pulled on one of the strings and the puppet's arm popped open and three kunais shot out with the special packets.

((Cherry Blossom Snow Storm 1/2))

Since there were no targets, Tai reached into his shuriken holster and threw three ninja stars at the kunais. The stars tore open the packets and mini explosive notes showered the desert. "Cherry Blossem Snow Storm" Tai muttered as he threw a kunai with a regular explosive scroll at the ground. The scroll caught fire and burned to its end. The paper exploded and the fire spread to all the tiny strips and created an even greater explosion. Tai hadn't anticipated such a great explosion. He maneuvered his puppet in front of him to protect him from the shockwave. After the smoke had settled, Tai peaked over the puppet's shoulder to look at the aftermath. As he looked at the crater it had created, he smirked and said "Now thats what i call fireworks." He put the puppet behind his back and walked back into the village feeling accomplished.

((Cherry Blossom Snow Storm 2/2))

“249,997, 249,998, 249,999…” Rock lee paused in his morning training as a new figure came bursting out of the underbrush. The teen in the white coat stumbled forward briars and wines trailing from his coat. “Your Lee-sensei right?” Akuma looked up at his next teacher hopefully. “Indeed I am.” Lee struck a thumbs up pose with one of those eerily glinting smiles. “How can I help with your training today?” Akuma paused looking thoughtful. “I want to learn anything you can teach me! Yah see lately I haven’t done much work on my taijutsu and I really need to work on it.” Lee nodded. “A healthy body is indeed important, we shall start with something fairly easy. “This attack was created by the great Gai-sensei and it’s called the Dynamic Entry,”
1/3

“Now watch closely, this is a ranged attack, that dummy over there shall be our target.” Lee removed a kunai from his holster and threw it just to the left of the dummy following the kunai he did a flying jump kick which cracked the dummy in half. Akuma rushed forward to see his teacher. “But don’t you wanna hit the target with the kunai and then kick their head in?” “No the key of it is that you don’t hit them, the kunai is to distract them from you, do you understand ummm…” “Akuma” he provided “Akuma, right. The key of making it a true a dynamic entry is that your enemy is completely unaware of your second attack.
2/3

“Ok, so throw, distract, leap and then kick right?” Lee nodded his approval. They moved back to where they had begun the training. Akuma aimed one of the blades found in his sleeves just to right of the next dummy available and threw. One downside of being born a Mizu and training with people like Haku and Zabuzza is that you don’t really know how to miss a target, if an attack misses it’s because the opponent did something to avoid the attack. So when he threw the blade instead of going to the right it struck the dummy right between the eyes. “Ooops… Umm lemme try again!” Akuma reeled back and threw his remaining knife like a tomahawk and launching himself into a spinning kick right after it. The blade the time flew right past the dummy’s left ear providing the perfect distraction, though he didn’t split the dummy like Lee had, he had at least knocked it over and put a large dent in it.
3/3

“Good Job!” Lee gave the same triumphant thumbs up pose that his former teacher used to do. “Now my Student, the next technique we will learn is the Leaf Rising Wind also known as Konoha Shoufuu. Now try and attack and I will show you how it is to be preformed.” Akuma didn’t hesitate to attack drawing the huge scythe from the holster on his back and bringing it down in a glittering arc only to have to go flying off in the opposite direction. Lee-sensei had moved under his strike and kicked the blade of out of his hands.
1/3

His hands were throbbing as he went to pick up the scythe, the blade end planted solidly in the ground. “Wow, that’s a great technique for disabling you opponent right?” Lee nodded. “Now it’s your turn to do it.” Lee disappeared and reappeared in front of Akuma a kunai in hand, he swung down at Akuma. Akuma had no other option then to leap backward to avoid the blade, he had no time to raise his leg in defense. “You have to be prepared for your opponent to attack at any time.” Akuma was prepared for anything now.
2/3

His teacher vanished again reappearing this time behind him, but this time Akuma was prepared and he crouched down and struck out behind himself with his right foot. There was the clang of metal and a shower of sparks as Lee’s kunai connected with the metal bottoms of Akuma’s shoe. “Very good, but your supposed to knock the blade from your opponents hand. Once more and we might have it down. Lee came at him again this time from the front and when lee swung his Kunai down at Akuma, this time he was able to kick straight up and knock the blade straight out of his hands. “Good job, now we move onto some serious training!”
3/3

Tai jumped into the air 'Damn i wish i could jump as high as lady Tsunade' he thought to himself. Tsunade looked up at him as if she was expecting a miracle. Tai fliped in the air just as Tsunade did. He stuck out his leg and pushed it down to speed him up. As he accelerated towards the ground Tai declared "Bruising Sky Leg!" Tai's foot slammed into the ground but with no effect on it. "OWWWW!" He fell down and grabbed his heel due to the throbbing pain of having it slammed to the cold, hard, gound. Tsunade laughed and said "I had a feeling that would happen. I just thought it would be fun to watch"

((Brusing Sky Leg 7/10))

Tai got up on one leg as he held on to is throbbing heel. "You mean you knew i was just going to end up hurting myself?!?" Tai yelled. Lady Tsunade laughed and said "I just wanted to see your own approach to it. Well, now that i've seen you crash and burn," she said with a giggle "i'll give you a bit more direction this time. Now tell me. At all during that time, did it ever strike you to focus chakra in your foot? That would probably be a good place to start." Tai gave her an annoyed look as he put his foot back on the ground and muttered to himself "well...i guess that would have helped...but how was i supposed to know....sheesh. i guess i'll give it another try."

((Brusing Sky Leg 8/10))

As Tai was walking back to the village he heard the sound of metal clashing together. He wondered what it was and walked over to the sound. He reached a clearing and saw hundreds of weapons stuck in the ground as if a massive battle had just gone on and in the middle stood a girl with black hair tied in two buns. She noticed Tai out of the corner of her eye. "Oh, Hello" She said. Tai walked over to her and said "What happened here?" She smiled and said "Oh i was just practicing a technique. By the way, my name is Tenten."

((Rising Twin Dragons 1/9))

Tai smiled and said "My name's Tai. Umm would you mind teaching me?" Tenten smiled and said "Well i've never had a student befor but Sure. Uumm you'll need two weapon scrolls...but you can borrow mine. This technique is called 'Rising Twin Dragons'. Basically you jump in the air and summon hundreds of weapons to rain down on your opponent." Tai got excited and said "Well since i have a puppet, i've got tons of weapons." as he pulled out two weapon scrolls. "I keep them with me in case i need to add more weapons to my puppet." he said with a smile. "Great! That'll help us out." Tenten said. "Its a pretty effective technique considering how simple it is and its great for weapon masters like myself." She said.

((Rising Twin Dragons 2/9))

Tenten dispelled her previous technique and all the weapons disappeared with a cloud of smoke. "Of coarse you need to perform seals beforehand. After you've done that, a cloud of will be emmitted from them. The scrolls will then fly into the air and begin spinning around in the form of two smoke dragons. Then you jump in the air in the middle of the two spinning scrolls and summon all the weapons." She said. "Sometimes if i miss my opponent, I attach strings to the weapons to pull them back up and rethrow them. So if your a puppeteer, you could attach chakra strings to them instead of carrying wire around."

((Rising Twin Dragons 3/9))

"So if your a puppeteer, you could attach chakra strings to them instead of carrying wire around. Seem simple enough?" She asked. Tai looked at her and nodded. Tenten said "Good now i'm going to demonstrate the technique so you can see it in action. Initiatin the technique is the hardest part now pay close attention to my handseals. That's the most important part." Tenten then walked a few steps back so she could avoid hitting Tai. She then reached for her weapon scrolls. After she took them out she placed them on the ground across from each other. She then began making hand sings.

((Rising Twin Dragons 4/9))

After she had finished the hand signs, she declared "Rising Twin Dragons!" and there was a great explosion of smoke. The smoke engulfed Tenten. Two massive smoke dragons then shot up from the cloud with the scrolls in the dragon's head. After reaching a certain height, the scrolls then began circling at a fixed point. Tenten then jumped into the air into the fixed point where the scrolls were spinning. All sorts of throwing weapons began to appear and as they appeared she grabbed hold of them and began throwing them at a spot on the ground. More and more weapons appeared and soon there was a barrage of sharp weapons.

((Rising Twin Dragons 5/9))

The ground looked as if there had been a war. Tenten then landed on the gound and said "We're not done yet" She jumped back into the air and spread her arms out. Tai noticed in the light, that she had string wrapped around her finger. She pulled her arms back and the weapons were pulled out of the ground. They hovered in the air for a few seconds and Tenten thrust her arms forward. Once again there was a rain of weapons and the all were driven deep into the ground. Tenten landed on the ground and looked at Tai with a sense of satisfaction. "And thats pretty much it. There's nothing to it really" she said.

((Rising Twin Dragons 6/9))

"Now you give it a try. Remember my hand seals. Oh yeah, you don't have to rethrow them. That was just something i did to show off a bit" she added with a laugh. Tai nodded and pulled out his weapon scrolls. He crouched down and placed them across from each other and began making hand signs. "Rising Twin Dragons!" Tai declared. There was a a huge burst of smoke that came from the scrolls. Just as Tenten, Two vicious smoke dragons shot up and began spinning around one another. The dragons faded away to reveal the scrolls. Tai jumped up in the air in the center of where the scrolls were spinning.

((Rising Twin Dragons 7/9))

Little by little weapons began appearing. As they appeared Tai grabbed on to them and hurled them at the ground 'Good thing i did that target practice in the academy' Tai thought to himself. Soon the rain of weapons was over as Tai ran out of weapons. He landed on the ground. He looked at Tenten and said "I better get some practice." He jumped back into the air and began making hand signs. He then said "Isshi no Otoshina jutsu" Chakra string shot out from his fingers and attached themselves to the weapons. He pulled his arms back and the weapons flew back into the air.

((Rising Twin Dragons 8/9))

"This is my own personal twist. You might want to get out of the way for this." Tenten nodded and jumped to the top of a tree. Tai then began spinning in the air and the weapons followed. The weapons spun around Tai faster and faster, slashing trees as they passed by. He then began releasing the weapons till he had none left. The weapons had been thrown in a wider range. Tai landed and smirked looking at the damage he had caused. Tenten jumped down from the tree clapping. "Well done! I'd never thought of that. That seems like a good twist to hit a larger range of enemies. Well it was great haning with you and i'm glad i could teach you a thing or two. Good luck" Tenten said as she walked back to the village.

((Rising Twin Dragons 9/9))

Tai left the docks and headed into the forest. As he was walking he noticed a man with white hair and his headband following him. The man thought to himself 'hmm i've seen him before...better keep an eye on him'Tai spotted him on one tree and saw him instantaniously teleport to another three. "Who goes there?" He yelled. The man then teleported in front of him. "Hatake, Kakashi" he said. Tai was in such shock. "How'd you do that?" He demanded. Kakashi replied "Its the Body Flicker Skill. I could teach it to you if you'd like."

((Body Flicker Skill 1/3))

Realizing the man wasn't a threat, Tai lit up with happiness at his offer. "Really?" It was hard to tell but Tai saw the smile through the black mouth wrap "Really, its a pretty simple skill. This skill is a high-speed movement technique, allowing a ninja to move short distances at an almost untraceable speed. To an observer, it appears as if the user has teleported. It is accomplished by using chakra to temporarily boost the user's reflexes. So just focus chakra in your muscles and dash for your destination. Remember its temporary speed so it doesn't work-" Kakashi flickered behind Tai and finished "-forever. Now you try."

((Body Flicker Skill 2/3))

Tai then began tapping into his chakra network. He could feel the chackra going to his reflex muscles. Tai could feel he had enough chakra. "So do you mean like-" He then flickered behind Kakashi and finished "this?" Kakashi turned around and smiled "Good. Well now you've got that skill added to your arsenal. If you keep practicing, you can cover longer distances. Well, i'm running a bit late for a meeting so i'll see you later. bye" Kakashi then used the same skill he had just taught Tai and dissapeared. Tai said to himself "Late? But he was following me. Hmmm better keep my guard up."

((Body Flicker Skill 3/3))