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Naruto clapped his hands together and closed his eyes as he was molding his chakra to the bottom of his feet, as he slowly walked onto the coal he gridded his teeth at the heat

Little ninja Naruto, I'll jump up and down on your head. Hurry up, cause I need to be fed. I suck at singing but you suck more, cause my rhymes are better and drop Tutsumi to the floor. And don't forget the most important thing. We have to fix that damn door.

..: biggrin ust continued to sing off key the tune from the infamous childhood song of "Itsy-Bitsy Spider" with his own lines, as he worked hard as his clones returned from their tasks, all the while Dust was reading from a scroll working on the handseals, learning each one, and than he knew he was ready. It was a spell which involved a very unique set of skills which was obviously brought upon by Kaimen Clough, as he was the one who believe in fusing elements to create newer ones, instead of focusing on the purer elements. Forming the handseal required, Dust looked at the two pots which were currently split around the two cylindrical posts which made up the frame of the Ho Dojo::..

Ainoko Gogyou: Menuri Dosha

..: biggrin ust spewed from his mouth white sand, which stuck around the pot, not falling to the ground, than water instead of sand came and was attracted to the sand, turning the sand to mud. All the while a series of glyphs appeared around Dust's fingertips. This was not part of the original skill, as it was an idea introduce to the skill. The glyphs soon ignited, and let of a white flame, which Dust had attack the mud, which heated it so that it formed a protective seal. This fused the two seperate pots, which had been cut back together, so each of them surrounded the two different posts. Each pot now had a post sticking out of it, and would soon be filled with rich soil and the plants::..

Alright clones finish up, I'm off to the Main Dojo to see if I can find anything interesting to do their. Plus I am hungry.

..::Laughing as he left to go and get some food, Dust could only grin to sense that Naruto was completing the first trial of the Ho Dojo::..

Good for him, ofcourse, he is still no match for me. I hope he becomes powerful one day, so I am not left here all alone.

Naruto jumped off the heated coals seeing that his shoes were burnt to a crisp, he looked back up to Sephiroth and greeted him, "Nice to meet you..umm..Sephiroth! Please tell me...what was the point of me standing on that bed of hot coals?!" He asked in a kind of anoyed, yet calm voice at the same time.

"Ohh..." Naruto's eye's widened at what he had just said about the fire, "Wait...you mean im going to learn how to weild fire?! Sweet!!" Naruto said with excitement as he jumped up and down.

He returned the bow, and smiled softly. It was true, Dust had improved quite a bit. And his egotistical streak had left him, it appeared. He returned his gaze to Naruto. "I apologize for being away. As you can see--" he shook his arms, throwing water onto the coals, causing them to hiss angrily. "Sorry." He said, as if talking to the coals. "As you can plainly see," he began again, "I went on a bit of a trip." He smiled airily, then turned. "The man you just met, though I'm sure you've seen and talked to him before, is Dust. And," he looked after Dust, "he speaks very highly of Ho. However, his praise may be misinterpreted. Ho is not a Religion, thought to think of it that way flatters me, as I'm sure it does the Element itself. But it is not a requirement to think of it as such." He looked Naruto over. "Ah, now, where were we? Oh yes. You have done well to show that you can use your chakra to sustain yourself. I've no doubt your prowess using Jutsu, or controlling your chakra. However, this particular," he trailed off, then, "for lack of a better word, 'Assignment', requires that you use no chakra. You must.. feel the burn." He said this as if it were easy. "It will hurt, but don't worry. If it begins to hurt too much, step off." He took a deep breath. "The meaning of this lesson--since we're using educational terms right now--is to let you feel the fire. Take it in. You -must- respect it, in order to use it. You don't control fire, fire lets you use it when you call upon it. But in order to reach that point, you must show it a great deal of respect. Only then, will it begin to respect you as well.."

*Mouko walks into the room lined with coals, nodding in approval....* A true room of Ho...... *He thinks to himself as he takes of his shoes and throws them against a wall, where they stick, held by a ball of kaze. He walked onto a row of coals, taking in te heat, happy with the fealing that they provided. It was refreshing, empowering. He was where he had been in the very first ninja academy......*

He smiled. "It's nice to meet you, Finn." He made his way inside, the bookcase rising up behind him.

"I'm glad you like it, Mouko." He said, walking beside the coals. "Finn, take off your shoes please." He said softly. What I need you to do is step on the coals." He turned his attention back to Mouko. "Am I right to assume that she has already learned to take in the heat, rather than let it burn her?"

*He looks at him, smiling* I couldn't teach her everything could I? I left that one for you.... I was helping her with control.... *Clearly happy that he didn't have to teach this often painful lesson to a student, he continues to stand in the coals, waiting to see ow Seph handles the fun....*