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Kiyomaru was about to die he had no idea what to do, he was scared and he wasn't sure what was going to happen.

Velar stirred and saw in front of him neoshin holding a child about to kill him. "My friend has gone to the dark side." he thought "Kage bushin no jutsu!" 3 clones appeared Velars clone body flickered infront of the kid put his hand near his neck and started transferring bone. I grabbed Neoshins leg and did the same. the 3rd clone got ready to use mystical healing hand just in case. Velar was barley concoius but it would do.

The clone grabbed the boy and body flickered into a tree, velar did the same leaving the other clones to disappear. "Are you alright kid?" asked velar "Ya im fine you." said kiyomaru "I'm fine I think you saved my life thanks." said velar "You did the same ill thank you." replied kiyomaru. "We have to get out of here my friend has turned evil. Jump on my back." Kiyomaru jumped on Velars back and they escaped, running through town he went into the safest place he could think off. The academy there were still many jounin and chunin on guard there. He told them neoshin was trying to kill him and this kid in cold blood. they put them in a room with guards and Velar passed out again.

Velar grinned as he looked at the gigantic hole that he had just placed inside of the tree. "Heh, I guess I mastered another one of your taijutsu moves." he said with a light grin as he looked at Lee. "So, is there anything else you want to teach me?" Velar asked as he looked at Lee inquisitively. Lee nodded his head as Velar asked his question. "Yes, there is one more technique that I can teach you, it isn’t much of a fighting move, but it is still helpful for getting your techniques across." he told Velar as he pointed to the Dummy. "Go and get the dummy, bring it here and I will show you.

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Velar had a slightly confused look on his face as he heard Lee tell him about the technique. "Well if Lee says it is good, then I guess I shouldn’t complain about it." Velar said with a slight grin on his face. Without any more hesitation he walked over to the training dummy and picked it up. "Wow, this has some weight to it." he said with a light chuckle as he still wasn’t having a hard time carrying it or anything. "Here you go." he told Lee as he dropped the dummy right in front of him with a large smile on his face.

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Velar had a grin on his face as he watched the dummy fall onto the ground with a loud thunk. "Wow, what is in that? Rocks?" he asked as he picked it up onto its feet for Lee. "Oh well, show me this new technique of yours." he said, still grinning widely at the possibilities of this new technique. Lee stood up with a smirk on his face. "Thank you for picking him up Velar." he said with a grin on his face as he looked at the dummy. He seemed to disappear as he reappeared right underneath the dummy, sending a kick straight to the dummies chin, sending it into the air and flying backwards. He then disappeared and appeared right underneath the dummy again like its shadow. "Ok Velar." he said with a grin on his face. "That is the technique, it is used to get your opponent prone for an attack."

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Velar was slightly impressed by how versatile this technique could become for him. "Alright, I think I can do this." he said with a light chuckle as he walked back over to the dummy, reaching over and lifting it up. "Now, where should I put him?" he thought for a minute as he gave up and just plopped the dummy on the ground. "Ok, let’s do this." Velar was now ready. He seemed to disappear almost instantly and reappeared underneath the dummy in a cloud of smoke.

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Velar grinned as he was beginning to be able to see just how useful this technique would be. He shot his leg up, kicking the dummy right in the chin as he did so sending it hurdling into the air. 'Now for the second part.' he thought to himself as he disappeared, reappearing underneath the dummy as though he was the dummies shadow. He just sat there as he didn’t see a reason to injure himself by trying to do anything else to the dummy and just landed back on the ground with a grin on his face. "So lee is there anything else you can teach me?" he asked with a smile on his face. "Well, there is one more technique, but I don’t think you have the time to learn the dynamic entry technique, so I guess I will just let you go then." he said with a small grin on his face. "Good job Velar, you still have time to train before the exams truly begin, so I expect you to be more than ready to face them." and with that Lee walked away.

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Nemu had fallen asleep. Anyone who knew her would be utterly unsurprised by this turn of events, she'd done so so many times before it was almost expected of her. She had dozed off in mid-training, the box of wooden orbs at her side with a single one still on her open palm. she hadn't gotten much farther in her training, she was still clumsy at manipulating her chakra when it was outside of her body. She used to be somewhat good at it, but that long stretch of inactivity had atrophied her skill into almost nothing.
Without preamble, she woke up, raising her head and blearily looking around. She stretched somewhat, and tried to remember what she'd been doing. Looking down at herself, seated outside on the soft grass, with the Tears of Heaven, she remembered. Letting her mind wake up a bit more, she delayed returning to her training for a moment until she was more alert. She moved her legs, stretching them out to their full length, and did a few stretching exercises to get her blood pumping a little faster. That usually did the trick for helping her wake up.
Finally, she was ready to begin. She yawned hugely, stifling it with one hand while she rubbed her eyes with the other. Then it was time to begin. She shook her hands loose, and picked up the sphere again. It had fallen onto her lap while she was stifling her yawn. Her chakra that she had placed inside of it had dissipated while she slept, so she had to infuse it with yet more chakra. This time, she tried only putting in a small amount from the beginning, her last attempt showed that had worked better for her to learn how to use the sphere.
There, that was enough. She could feel her chakra inside of it, it felt like she was looking at a small light, perhaps from a tiny candle in her hand. She willed the light to move, to grow lighter than the air and float up and up. Closing her eyes in concentration, she kept willing it to move, knowing that if she lost her concentration she'd have to start over. She visualized the light a good foot above her open hand, but didn't dare risk opening her eyes to see if she actually had accomplished what she thought she had. That could wait until she was more confident in her abilities.
She continued to will the light around, moving it up and down, left and right, forward and back. She kept it slow, not thinking she was up to rapid movements yet. It'd be too easy to lose control if it went faster than she could manage, so she kept it to a slow crawl. With practice, she could eventually make it move faster, though.
This continued for several hours, until she felt confident in her abilities. She kept her focus high, and finally opened her eyes. There it was! She was really moving it! Not very fast, she could easily move it faster by actually using her hands. But still, she was moving it without actually moving! That was pretty cool! Finally, she stopped, and willed it back to her hand. When it touched down, she looked at it closely, to see if something about it had changed. No, it looked the same, it must just be that her skills were starting to come back.
Looking down at the box, she gulped nervously. That had only been the first level of training with these objects. The next would be much, much, much harder. She could control one somewhat good now, but she had to actually manipulate them all at once, to hold them all in place in the form of a prayer bead necklace, like Sagi had done. That sounded impossible, but she had hope that if she tried hard enough for long enough, she could get the hang of it.
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"Now...Where is he...?" Velar mumbled to himself as he walked through a rather forested area. He had left the docks only seconds after he was dropped off from the boat. Now he was hunting down that Nin Sakura had mentioned. What was his name...? Rock Lee...That’s what it was. Sounded like some old martial arts dude you'd find in some old movie. Shrugging slightly he was drawn towards a noise as he noticed a bit of training equipment here and there. On the ground in front of him was a Nin with a bowl haircut, large eyebrows and was dressed in a rather odd green jumpsuit. Definitely the one Sakura had described. Yet he was surprisingly fast asleep, his knuckles bruised and battered. The boy had obviously worked himself into a state of exhaustion. Sighing, Velar tapped his shoulder lightly.

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Almost immediately, the boy's fist flung up, narrowly missing Velar's head by an inch. Nervously, Velar stepped back as the green clad ninja slowly got up to his feet, his body swaying as some tired person would...Or some mindless zombie, but that was besides the point. Slowly, the spider-nin crept forward, only to swiftly block an oncoming kick. "What the hell's up with this..." he started but his voice trailed as he got a better look at the boy's face. His eyes were closed...He was still fast asleep! Velar sighed then before pulling out an exploding tag and tossed it to the ground. It exploded with a large boom seconds later. Sure enough, it snapped Rock Lee out of his daze.

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“Wha....What happened?" Rock Lee mumbled then, suddenly becoming aware of his surroundings before his gaze wandered back to Velar. "And who are you...?" he asked, raising one of his bushy brows then. Velar blinked, slightly dumbfounded by the sudden change of scenario. "Who I am aint important just yet...But what the heck was that all about? You attacked me in your sleep! How....Why?!" The bushy browed Nin shrugged then. "It’s a technique I've been taught. When your rest, simply calm your mind, and relax your muscles. At the slightest disturbance, they will switch your mind into a fighting mode, yet you'll remain fast asleep. But of course, this takes a lot of practice, so it may take you a few tries to get used to it...Anyway...Who are you again?"

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Tai followed Kirby into the forest. When they reached a clearing, Tai waited for Kirby to make his move.