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The energetic genin popped his head into the office of the chief medical nin. “Umm… Sakura-sensei, do you have some time to teach an out of towner some of your skills.” Sakura slammed down her stack of records. “Of course, this paper work has really gotten me down as of late. So what’s your name?” “Everyone just calls me Akuma.” Sakura stood leading him out to the courtyard.
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“Well that is indeed a strange name. Well we might as well start off quickly before anyone notices my absence.” Akuma was quickly under a barrage of Kunai flying at him from all angles, though Sakura was a medic nin her battle prowess were by no means sub par. Akuma was barely able to keep up with a medical needle of his own in each hand he blocked or deflected the majority of the kunai.
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Cherry Blossom Snow Storm complete
The kunai lay scattered around him and Akuma stood there puffing from the exertion. Sakura gave a small giggle. "You might want to move away from your current location." Akuma looked around for the first time at the kunai scattered around him. Each and every kunai that lay scattered across the courtyard had either a small pouch or a explosive tag attached. Akuma leaped high into the air as Sakura launched a final kunai this one with an ignited tag.
1/4
The explosion was huge and nearly knocked Akuma from his perch on the Hospital's outer wall. "Now that was the cherry blossom snow storm. Are you ready for something even more interesting." She gave Akuma a wink before the previously sakura blossom filled world around him evaporated and was replaced by a hellish landscape. Suddenly Sakura's voice could be heard to becoming from no direction in particular.
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"So Akuma, do you understand what's happening to you right now?" Akuma shook his head. "Nope, but I'm in some odd place that doesn't seem at all like Konoha." her laughter echoed throughout the plane. "Well since you can't seem to figure it out, I'll tell you. At the moment your not a single step from where you were before. Your currently under the influence of a genjutsu that is making you believe that you're somewhere else. Now if your going to try and escaped your going to have to follow my instructions.
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Akuma nodded. "Ok Sakura-sensei, whatever you say," Akuma followed her instructions to the letter. "So let's see if I can't get this to work. Kai," the illusion wavered, but didn't fade. "Ok once more with gutso, Kai" this time the Illusion faded from view and Akuma found that he was still sitting crouched on the outer wall of the compound. "Well there you go kid, you've learned what I shall teach you for today. I've got to get back to work now so you'll have to find a new teacher."
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Genjutsu release Complete

Hedoro

Hedoro had gone to sleep shortly after eating, then woke up when there was a knock at her door. It was checkout time, so she woke up, freshened up, and settled her bill. Stepping out of the hotel, she looked around, wondering what she should do next for her training. There were still so many techniques she wanted to learn, so many styles and ways of fighting she hadn't learned about. She'd never become stronger by being lazy like this! She needed to take action!
(1 of 20)

That was it, she'd ask every ninja she saw if they'd teach her. Today would be nothing but training. Unfortunately, the people she found had other ideas. Most of them thought it was too early to work so hard, or they were already busy. The few that would agree to teach her were only genin like her, they couldn't really teach her much of anything. So she had to keep searching, and began to wander through the village, hoping that she'd actually find someone, anyone, who could teach her something she actually wanted to learn.
(2 of 20)

She must have covered about a tenth of the village like this, and still had virtually no luck. It was really odd, yesterday she'd found powerful ninja one right after the other, and today, nothing. It was like they'd all received a note of something terribly important or something. Rather frustrating, maybe she'd have to settle for a genin after all. Since genin usually managed to learn at least one non-academy technique after they graduated, then surely one of them would have something she could use?
(3 of 20)

Hedoro

Hedoro had been searching for some time, and began asking anyone with a ninja headband if they'd train her. Maybe she came across as too strong, because the general concensus was no. She didn't let herself give up, but she did get frustrated. Moving through the center of the village, she saw another glint of light on a ninja headband, and ran up to the owner of it. Maybe they'd teach her? But she had come across too aggressive before, so maybe try something a little more gentler?
(4 of 20)

Coming to a stop in front of the other ninja, she saw it was a kunoichi. She didn't look very impressive, must have just graduated like she had. She looked like she'd never even had a fight in her entire life. How someone like that could be a ninja was anyone's guess, but it takes all types. She greeted her before demanding training, introducing herself, and only then brought up the issue. She asked if, by chance, she knew any interesting jutsus that she wouldn't mind sharing.
(5 of 20)

Even as she asked, she had a bad feeling about this. This kunoichi looked nothing like a proper ninja, what sort of techniques could she possibly know? Fresh Linen no jutsu? That annoying Shrimp Peeler Tamao had used on her? Nothing that could be useful in a fight, she shouldn't have even bothered asking. But she already had, so she'd at least wait to hear her reply. If nothing else, she'd probably get a laugh out of it. Not that she'd actually laugh, she hadn't laughed, really ever.
(6 of 20)

Hedoro

Had she heard right? Did this odd little kunoichi really say the symphony of water? That was a high-level technique, it was even considered a kinjutsu, or forbidden technique. How in the world did she know a technique like that?! Unless, of course, her odd demeanor and appearance were just an act, to cover up a really strong ninja. That had to be it, otherwise it made no sense at all. She had a newfound respect for the kunoichi, her disguise was even more perfect than Hedoro's own!
(7 of 20)

She quickly agreed, hoping that the offer hadn't just been a joke. She'd read about that technique, it was really powerful, and dangerous too. And what was more, what the technique entailed seemed right up her alley, manipulating water and infusing it with chakra. That seemed awfully close to something she knew really well, herself. Out of all the techniques she'd read about, that one had probably seemed the strongest to her. If she could learn that, then these exams would be a breeze!
(8 of 20)

But she couldn't get ahead of herself, first she had to learn it. With a technique that difficult, the training would likely be just as bad as anything else she'd been through, or more likely even worse. But she'd persevere, she had to. Both to learn this much-desired technique, and to become stronger. This would be a huge step in her training, she would probably feel a lot stronger after learning it. Even if she didn't, she'd still know a new, powerful technique that lots of other Genin probably didn't.
(9 of 20)

“Lee-sensei! Lee-sensei!” Akuma dashed over to the upright teacher. As Akuma approached he would notice that his teacher wasn’t even awake, but it looked as if he was still training. The sleeping jounin teacher was still going at it, every few seconds his teacher would strike forward, putting another dent in training dummy next to the countless dents already there. The repetitive strikes rained one after another for what seemed like forever. It was as if knew that he was there too, for as soon as Akuma approached the sleeping jounin turned his focus to him.
1/3

Akuma was barely able to dodge as Lee threw a right hook at his face. Next came a round house kick which Akuma caught with both hands before spinning him a circle. “Wake up Lee-sensei!” Lee just back flipped trying to crush Akuma into the ground with his feet. Akuma blocked with both arms above his head launching his much heavier up into the air with some difficulty. Lee landed with seemingly no effort at all. There was no pause as Lee came at Akuma again this try to catch him with a sweeping kick, Akuma leaped up barely clearing the sliding kick.
2/3

This was crazy, Lee was like an unstoppable dynamo and he was asleep. Lee came at him again with a left hook, Akuma gripped Lee’s arm at the wrist spinning so they were back to back, Akuma was able to strike him with one of the medical needles in his sleeve, he drove it lightly into a spot on Lee’s neck. Ever so slowly Lee’s breath calmed as he drifted into a true sleep. Akuma had been lucky he had been able to strike his teacher at the stone point, causing him to fall into a deeper sleep then he was already in. “Phew, note to self, never bother Lee-sensei when he’s sleeping,”
3/3

Akuma would soon find himself training with a new teacher. Youji stood there with that same bored expression that usually played across his face, his toothpick idly moving from side to side. “So you see, now that I know the needle spit skill I wanted to work on its accuracy so I thought I’d come and see the best person with toothpicks in the village. So will you help me?” the jounin shrugged. “Sure kid why not? It’s not like I’m busy or anything.” the toothpick slid idly from side to sider as the older jounin lead the young genin off to a training field to practice the needle spit skill.
1/3

“Ok…ummm…. Let’s see. You got some thing that’ll work as a toothpick right?” Akuma nodded, removing one of the medical needles from the sleeves of his black cloak, he deftly twirled it between his fingers before placing it in his mouth. “Yep, now we match,” Youji looked non plussed. “Sure, well it’s pretty simple just aim and shoot, there isn’t a whole lot else to it. Give it a shot try hitting that leaf over there. Of course wouldn’t you know it the tree and leaf Youji indicated were about 50yds away from their current location. Akuma was intimidated, but he was prepared to try his hardest none the less.
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Akuma focused his sights on the leaf; his mild medical training had given him a heightened sense of accuracy and when he shot the toothpick it only missed the tree by a few feet. “pretty good for a first shot, but your going to have to be able to hit that leaf from this distance to say you’ve mastered this skill.” Akuma removed another needle from his sleeve and this time he struck the trunk of the tree. “Once more, you’ve almost got it.” And Akuma did, on his next shot he was able to pierce the leaf right through the center. “And there yah go, your now skilled enough to use a toothpick in battle effectively.” Akuma gave his thanks and headed toward the docks
3/3

Nemu was a shocked when the person she'd been teaching said she'd done it. Already?! It had taken her well over an hour, with help, to even get to this part, and she'd done it in what, ten minutes? These new Academy students seemed to be a whole other level compared to her class. If she could already do this, then what sort of limits did she have? But she had to center herself, the lesson wasn't done yet.
"Okay, very good. The next step is to press out with your will, move your chakra, and the water with it. It may be *yawn* difficult, but raise it up. With enough practice, you can shape it into different forms, but for now, just try to make a sphere. *yawn* Then use your chakra to charge the water, and it will turn black. Then when it hits someone, it will paralyze them. We don't *yawn* have a volunteer, so instead maybe hit that tree over there."
This was the hard part of the lesson, the sheer amount of will and knowledge of space made it hard to move the water, without losing the connection between the water and the chakra. If she managed to do this, then she would have used the technique, and it would be her own, to use as she saw fit. But it was really difficult, it had taken everything she and Komen had just to do this part. Just working on her own, it would have to be even harder.
(84-86)

Nemu stared in shock once more, as the kunoichi performed the Symphony of Water almost perfectly. They'd only been working at it for about an hour, was she really only a Genin?! This technique had taken all night for her to learn, now some new face shows up and learns it in the time it takes for a leisurely lunch? It made Nemu feel all the more pathetic, maybe she'd just been abnormally slow, and the one she had just taught was the normal. She really was hopeless! But she didn't want to appear depressed in front of anyone, so she put a bit smile on her face as she congratulated her student.
"That was fantastic! You are really something, I bet you'll be famous one of these days! *yawn* Was that the only technique you wanted to learn? I could kind of use a nap."
She hoped that this was the end, at least for the moment. She was getting pretty tired, and she was feeling kind of down. Maybe she could head home, get a nap in, then return to her own training. Wait! She still hadn't remembered what she had been forgetting! Today was something important! But what was it?
(87, 88 )