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Tamao

Tamao breathed deeply in relief as she saw Itachi walk away. She still didn't know how she'd made it through that unscathed, but she wasn't going to push her luck. Instead, she'd just wander the village for a while, try to calm down. Maybe something would open up to let her learn another technique. A technique from someone a little less scary. She did not pay all that much attention to where she was going, but now she was watching to make sure she didn't nearly bump into anyone like before. Even though she hadn't actually done so earlier, the cost had still been a bit too high for her taste. Her heart was still racing from the adrenaline that had shot through her system when she first saw who it had been. That had been quite enough excitement for one day, thank you very much.
(2 of 6)

She saw an empty bench and sat down. An instance of adrenaline-fueled paranoia made her look around cautiously as she sat down, but Juliet Spears was nowhere in sight. That was good, she'd had quite enough to deal with already, without seeing her again. She sat down for a long moment, until she felt at least mostly back to normal, then got up again. She couldn't afford to waste too much time just being lazy like this, she really had to keep training! Feeling inspired again, she resumed her search for someone else to teach her. Walking up the road, she saw the former Hokage Tsunade. She was renowned as one of the foremost medic-nin, along with a few others, and was even one of the legendary ninja, the Sannin. If she could train her, surely it would prove useful!
(4 of 6)

She went up to Tsunade, and asked if she'd be willing to train her, even just one technique. Tsunade agreed, and offered to teach her the Nervous System Confusion technique. It was a precise strike to the base of an opponent's neck, which scrambled the signals in their nervous system, making it almost impossible to move or do anything that required coordination. If used right, it could incapacitate a target without doing permanent damage, good for when you just wanted to escape, or to capture someone. This sounded perfectly reasonable to Tamao, so she said she'd like very much to learn the technique. The lesson was over quickly, it wasn't very complicated at all. After just a short amount of training, Tsunade pronounced Tamao had learned the technique, and made an excuse that she had to be somewhere. If the building's name was any indicator, she had an appointment with some dice.
(6 of 6, Nervous System Confusion)

Tamao

Tamao watched as Tsunade walked into the gambling hall, and turned away. She still had plenty of time before the day was over, she should try to keep up with her training. She continued her circuit of the village, and wondered what techniques on her list that she should learn next. There were still a few, but now that she thought about it, maybe she should only do a few more, maybe one or two, and then make her way to another village once again. Spread her skills around, so that if she fought someone from a certain village, they wouldn't be familiar with all of her techniques. Even so, there was such a large amount of techniques to choose from here in hidden leaf, she had to learn at least a few more. So she kept up her search, she'd find at least one more person to hopefully train her, and then she'd move on to another village. She didn't know which village, maybe she'd do the same thing she'd already done a few other times. Namely hopping on a random boat and going to an unknown village. No guarantee there'd be good techniques for her to learn, but the odds were in her favor of finding at least a few that she could use.
(3 of 9)

As she walked, she kept an eye out for any of the more familiar or famous ninja. They were probably the most likely to agree to train her, they probably got dozens of requests every day from ninja like herself. And they probably agreed to a good portion of them, on average. She only hoped that whoever she found next would be willing to do so. She kept an eye out as she walked, moving slowly, not rushing herself. Time was kind of scarce, but if she rushed she'd likely miss anyone that she was keeping an eye out for, and in the long run that'd waste time. So she made slow progress, but even slow progress was still progress, so she wasn't upset. And it finally payed off, as she saw a somewhat famous jounin of the leaf. She had long black hair, and rather distinctive dress. It looked like she was actually wearing an unfurled scroll. It very well could be a scroll, but that didn't matter. She was Kurenai, one of the ones who'd been jounin during those infamous chuunin exams where the sand and sound had attacked the leaf. It had all been terribly chaotic, and many had been injured and killed. But in the end things returned to a semblance of normalcy.
(6 of 9)

She walked up to Kurenai, and asked if she was busy. She actually had been about to go meet with Asuma, but as they had several times before this, neither of them seemed to be admitting the connection they shared. So instead, she said she wasn't really doing anything. Tamao asked if it wouldn't be too much trouble, could she train her for a while? Kurenai agreed, asking what sort of techniques Tamao wanted help with. It was a rather obvious question, Kurenai was known for her skill with genjutsu. And that's actually an area that Tamao had kind of been neglecting, it was just luck that she'd managed to find Kurenai before she left. She admitted it was genjutsu, both offensive and defensive, if it wasn't that much trouble. This was about what most young ninja told Kurenai, she wasn't really phased by it anymore. It seemed genjutsu was a dying class of skills, nobody seemed to use it all that much anymore. Bit of a shame, as it had some very strong and yet subtle techniques. But as long as young ninja showed even a slight interest in genjutsu, there'd be a place for ninja like Kurenai, who had made livelihoods of the illusion class of techniques.
(9 of 9, Flower Petal Escape)

The transport boat slowely stopped as it neared Konoah. Kinomi hopped off the boat and looked around. It seemed rather peacful here. He began running into town. Eager for two things, a nap and a Jounin teacher.

As he went into town, Kinomi spotted some woodland. He figured he could probably teeach Haze some basic ninja puppy things. Then he could take a rest. Kinomi began walking towards the forest.

After entering the forest, there was nothing but trees and grass for what seemed like miles. He laced Haze on the ground and kneeled down next to him, "Remember that time we saw Akamaru pretend to explode and throw kunai everywhere. I'm going to practice that with you now. Ok...First I need you to use the Shadow Clone Jutsu." Kinomi said to Haze. Haze responded by yipped. After a small cloud of smoke, there were two puppy's. "Good! Now...I want the clone to play dead. And haze, you run and hide." the clone imedietly fell and played dead while the real Haze hid in a bush. "When I throw a kunai at the clone, he should explode. You know Haze. Make sure you use enough chakra, ok." he said calmly. Kinomi threw a kunai at the clone. Nothing happened. It simply faded away.

[Puppy Explosion 1/3]

As the kunai hit the puppy clone, it exploded. Multiple kunai flew in all direction right out of the explosion. Kinomi laughed and jumped out of the tree. He ran over to Haze and picked him up, "Nice work!!! I knew it wouldn't take long! I can only teach you one more jutsu, other than that we'll need a trainer. OK!" he said petting Haze. Haze panted and looked tired. "Ok, buddy, we'll finish it up after a nap. I need to restore my chakra too anyway!" Kinomi said placing Haze on the ground. Kinomi lay oin the grass and closed his eyes. Haze jumped on his chest. Imn a matter of minutes the pair was asleep.

[Puppy Explosion 3/3!]

Kinomi walked infront of a large tree and hung a kunai one of the branches. "This jutsu is relatively easy. All you need to do is..Stay there. All you need to do is pee on the kunai. Then close your eyes and see if you can find it. Not hard." Kinomi said holding back laughter.

Haze looked confused. He looked at the kunai and....did his buisness on it. He wasn't life, four inches away either. He was about four feet away. What good is marking the enemy if your two inches away. Haze then closed his eyes and began searchign for the kunai just by smelling it.

[Dynamic Marking 2/3]

[Yes....This is exactly what Dynamic Marking is. Except Kiba and Akamaru use it when they use the man beast thing and spin around. their going so fast they cannot see the enemy so Akamaru pees on the enemy so they can smell him out. Apperantly his pee is acidic...go figure.]

Neoshin got back to leaf as he looked around and noticed a few bloes being thrown in the outward plains, once he got there Neoshin noticed Lee taking on Lyon a shinobi he has never seen before but hes heard about in the academy a while back "What is this kid thinking?"

Neoshin nodded to Lee sending him off as he slowly walked up to the boy stareing into his eyes "So........ your another taijutsu learning student, where are you kids coming from." He rubbed his head signing but quickly set himself up getting into his jeet kune do stance "If you think your diffrent from all the rest of the students that attempt this way of life, show me your skills."

Neoshin looked at the boy fall as he thought he was pathetic and class clown type with no intrest in hand to hand combat but once he threw the kick he knew he wanted to learn, even though it was'nt a very good one he could tell that id he had the motivation and the will to fight on then maybe he could become great, once the miss came and he tired a back attack Neoshin easily twisted his body on the side of his arm to his left and threw up a roundhouse kick to Lyons face to barley tap in him on the cheek and knock him back a bit