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Tai then began walking around the village not knowing what to do.

As Tai walked throught he marketplace, he spotted Lyon looking at a scroll. 'Well he seems like a ninja. Well at least dressed like it. Maby i could train with him.' He walked up to Lyon and tapped him on the shoulder. As Lyon turned around Tai said "Hey, your a ninja right? I was wondering if you wanted to train a little. Nothing like to the death or anything serious like that. Maby just work up a sweat. I've been looking for a training partner. By the way, My name's Tai." Tai looked around at the busy market as it buzzed with conversation from the other villagers.

1/11

The voices in the bar were so loud that they stole quite a few puzzled looks from the crowd that was now forming outside the damaged building. By the sound of things, someone would probably start calling the police. Even the bar tender was threatening to file a law suit.
Ignoring this, Sayuri kept thinking about Tsunade-sama's drunken rampage, then someone called out, "Excuse me!"
Ignoring this, she let out a little laugh. "Excuse me," came the voice again, but it was lost in Sayuri's thoughts. Coming up directly behind her this time, the voice finally reach her. "Excuse me miss," came the friendly voice again.
Hearing this, Sayuri turned around to find herself facing Shizune.

Bruising Sky Leg 1/10

Shizune was quite a sight. In the five minutes since Tsunade-sama's rampage, she had russled hair, tired eyes, and was hunghed over. Even the pig, probably called TonTon, looked weary.
"Yes?" Sayuri asked puzzled.
Behind Shuzune she could see Tsunade-sama moving and swaying like a drunk. Following her gaze, Shizune sighed and said, "Tsunade-sama has been having a bad day-" before she could finish, Sayuri butted in.
"So it really is the great Tsunade......" she said, sounding quite dissapointed. Tsunade had been her hero and role model. And now, here she was, right in front of her.
And she was drunk.

Bruising Sky Leg 2/10

Shizune could here the dissapointment in Sayuri's voice, and gave her a pitied look. "Yes she is.......... But I promise you, this Legendary Sucker's been doing quite well lately. Hasn't been drinking much at all. This is the first time this week that it's happened," Shizune exclaimed, obviously trying trying to cheer Sayuri up. But she was failing terribly. You could see it on her face that she was lieing.
But nontheless, realising just how hard Shizune has been working with Tsunade-sama and all the heart that she had to be able to put up with Tsunade-sama's drinking, really touched Sayuri. Doing her best to act happy, she looked into Shizune's eyes and said, "I'm sure she'll get out of the act. Old habit's die hard."
Her words seemed to effect Shizune as her face lit up. She then spilt her heart out about her worries.

Bruising Sky Leg 3/10

As Shizune spoke, Sayuri listened very carefully, hoping to make the poor lady feel just a little bit better. "The thing is, Tsunade has quite a reputation to live up to. And with all her drinking, she hasn't beening doing a good job," Shizune said. "Hopfully,if I work a few strings, this whole mix-up might go unnoticed. But the is one problem."
She was looking straight at Sayuri this time. "You were the only ninja in the bar, thank the gods for that. So, hopefully, you wont tell anyone about what happened today......"
Finally realising her point, Sayuri exclaimed, "Of course I wont tell. Tsunade-sama is my hero. I'd never do anything to hurt her reputation. But all I ask of you is to teach me a few o her tricks," in a teasing sort of tone. "Speaking of Tsunade, where on earth did she go?" Sayuri added, looking around.
There wasn't a trace of Tsunade anywhere.

Bruising Sky Leg 4/10

Looking around puzzled, Shizune spoke, " I'd love to teach you a few techniques", smiling, "And by what do you mean Tsunad-" she was cut off as her scream pierced the air. "She's gone! She can't be gone, Oh crap, she really is gone", Shizune said, hysterical. Even the pig looked like it might go into shock.
Putting her arm on Shizune's shoulder, Sayuri tied desperately to calm her down. "Don't worry Shizune, she can't have gone far. I'll just use my Byakugan, and we'll spot her in no time, ok?"
Apparently Sayuri's reassuring words touched Shizune and the pig a little, as her shoulder's relaxed a bit. "Yeah, that would be great. If you use the Byakugan, you'll surely be able to spot her in no time" Shizune said. She sounded more like she was trying to reassure herself instead of reassuring Sayuri.

Bruising Sky Leg 5/10

Upon finally deciding on a means to attack, or rather, a means to find Tsunade-sama, the plan was to have Sayuri lead the way using Byakugan, looking to see If she could find Tsunade-sama. Whenever she would find someone who fits Tsunade-sama's physique, she shout at Shizune, but would still be on the look out. Shizune would go in and investigate the would-be Tsunade. Though not the best plan in the world, it was the only one that had any chance of working, at all.
Over the past one hour, they had check over thirty would-be Tsunade's, but none of them were successful. They even asked around for a blonde, drunked lady, but no one seemed to know. Either that, or she'd done something that made everybody keep quiet.

Bruising Sky Leg 6/10

Continuing on from there previous unsucessful hour, came another.
Sayuri had spotted someone who looked like Tsunade on the fifth floor of a hotel. Rushing in, they had asked who was currently staying in the room, and found it to be reserved by a man by the name of "Takumi Origamu". Completely shocked at what Tsunade could be doing to the poor man, they ran fill-speed up the five stairs, and carried on at that pace until they reached Takumi Origamu's room on the far end of the corridor.
Since the door was locked, Sayuri smashed it open with gentle fist, only to find Takumi Origamu talking with his 'sister', Suki Origamu, a blonde, but not the blonde that they were looking for.

Bruising Sky Leg 7/10

Another failed atempt was when the spotted a women two hundred metres away. She seemed to be looking at some flowers.
After finally regaining their breath from their last unsucessful find, Sayuri, Shizune and TonTon, who needed to be carried by Shizune, sprinted like hell.
On the way, the disturbed a group of boys playing soccor, some girls bragging about the flowers that they had found in the forest; Sayuri recognised one as Hyuuga Kaori, thinking that she and her gang had just come out of the woods.
They also destroyed a food cart that a middle-aged man had taken so much time to create.

Bruising Sky Leg 8/10

After all the trouble Shizune, Sayuri and TonTon had gone through, and caused, they came upon the 'Yamanaka Flower Shop' to find that the girl was only a seventeen year old buying a bouchet for her sick boyfriend. On walking back down there path, it seemed as if a tornado just struck, moving in a perfect, straight line. After apologising for their rampage, The two girls and a pig sat down on the bench they had started from.
"We'll never find her," Sayuri said, sighing.
"Don't give up Sayuri, we'll find her.... Eventually," Shizune replied, even though she had sided with Sayuri.
As the girls went on and on about how Tsunade was lost and started comparing ideas as to how much damage they had caused, TonTon started squealing towards a restaurant, where, at that very sencond, a man came flying through a smashed up wall. Standing inside was a drunk and rather pissed off Tsunade.

Bruising Sky Leg 9/10

Sayuri didn't know if she felt relieved or annoyed with the fact hat Tsunade had bee only a few metres away and they hadn't even known it.
Looking back at the pissed off Tsunade, she, Shizune finally came to their senses and followed TonTon through the crowd of people who had formed around the restaurant.
Tsunade had stoled everyones attention as she seemed like she would kill this tall, skinny man right here and now. As she began raising her fist, Shizune stepped infront of her, grabbed onto her, and dissapearded in a puff of smoke. When she finally reappearded, she was holding an unconscious Tsunade and laying her down beside a tree. As Sayuri walked towards them from the crowd, she said, "Boy, is she ever going to get the biggest hand over known to man when she wakes up," joking.
All Shizune did was sigh.

Bruising Sky Leg Complete

As Shizune stood over Tsunade's drunk body, Sayuri walked up to her and examined Tsunade closely. Not noticing it befroe, but Tsunade was actually quite beautiful closed up. The scary thing about her was her amazing strength, that she is said to have inherited from her grandfather, the first hokage.
"You're really quite fond of Tsunade-sama, aren't you Shizune?" Sayuri asked, looking into Shizune's kind, almost motherly face, which was quite strange considering the fact that Tsunade was over two times her age.
"Yeah. We've been through a lot together. Besides, I find it my duty to protect my sensei," Shizune said softly, tying not to wake Tsunade.
"Tsunade-sama was your sensei?" Sayuri asked, surprised.

Needle Spit Skill 1/3

"Yeah, she was. After I became a genin, Tsunade found me and trained be up into the ninja I am today. She didn't seem quite surprised when I became a poison ninja though," Shizune replied.
"Shizune-san's a poison ninja?" Sayuri said, not to surprised herself.
"Yeah, I'm a poison nin," she said wearily, realising just how tired she really was.
"Thats great then, Shizune-san can pay me back for keeping this whole thing a secret by teaching me some poison nin moves," Sayuri said teasingly.
"You're not going to let this whole thing go off easily, are you?" Shizune asked, patting TonTon.
"Hell no!" Sayuri replied, smiling.

Needle Spit Skill 2/3

Shizune smiled. She had expected this to happen. She'd done the same thing, blackmailing Tsunade-sama into teaching her this really powerful poison technique.
"Well, I can't blame you. I would have done the same thing if I was in you position right now," Shizune said, smirking. "There is this one technique, called Needle Spit Skill. You do a hand seal and blow hard. Let me demonstrate."
Shizune walked back a few metres, straightned up, drew a hand seal and blew as hard as she could. Sayuri didn't see anything happen, but when she followed Shizune's gaze to the tree twenty yards away, she was surprised to find nine thin, ling needs loged into it's trunk. "You can place poison on the needles if you wish. Now you try," she said, looking at Sayuri.
Straightening up, Sayuri copied Shizune's hand seal and blew as hard as she could. When she looked at the tree fifteen yards away from her, she could see five needles loged deep into it's trunk. Shizune let out a little laugh.

Needle Spit Skill Complete

((Oops >.>;; ))

Tai pulled out the scroll on his back. As he opened the scroll he said "Well for now there's no need to put myself in danger. For now I'll let you fight my new puppet." Tai bit his thumb and ran it along the scroll. A cloud of smoke appeared in front of Tai with his ivory colored pupped enshrouded within it. He made hand signs and muttered "Stringless Marrionette" The puppet sprung to life and began loosening its joints. Tai then made a second set of hand signs and was covered in a great cloud of smoke. When the smoke cleared Tai was no where to be found.

3/11

((It can't be that bad xD))

The puppet quickly reacted to Lyon's punch. It was unwise to go at a Kaguya with hand to hand combat. Taijutsu was a stlye of fighting the puppet was well protected against. Not only because of its ability to bend bones but also because it was entirely made out of bone harder than steel. If it had been made into an avarege puppet, the bone would simply tear through the wood turning the puppet into splinters. The puppet proceeded to perform Dance of the Larch. Bones spikes appeared all around the puppet protecting it from any direct while Tai waited in his hiding spot.

4/11

As Sayuri looked at the thin, silver needles, she looked at Shizune and said, "Though thats quite an easy jutsu, placed with the correct poison, that jutsu could do quite a bit of damage"
Shizune smiled. "Your quite good you know. Most people refuse to learn this technique because of it's simplicity. They fail to realise the true potential the jutsu carries when thought through carefully. But you..... Your different. And thats a good thing."
Sayuri blushed and replied, "A shinobi should always open their eyes. You'll be surprised at the unlimited possibilities."
"Thats a good quote. Tell me, where did you ever come across it?" Shizuni asked, walking towards her.
"I didn't come across it anywhere........ I made it up right now," Sayuri, looking at the ground in embarassment.

Poison Mist Skill 1/8

Shizune let out another laugh. "Thats even better. I always love seeing young ninja think outside the box." this time, she was directly infront of Sayuri. She gently placed her right hand under Sayuri's chin and lifted it up, so that they were looking at each other eye to eye. "And it's nothing to be embarassed about. Your quite a luck ninja. I wish I could've thought like you when I was your age." she commented.
Instead of replying, Sayuri turned away and blushed. "It's nothing, really......."
"Oh, don't you worry, you'll realised the truth in my words soon enough," Shizune replied, sighing.
Sayuri pondered on the thought.

Poison Mist Skill 2/8

Sayuri turned around and sat down, still pondering on Shizune's comment. Shizune was now sitting by Tsunade, examinign her breathing. Sayuri could smell the sake in Tsunade's mouth from where she was.
"Shizune-san, why does Tsunade-sama drink and gamble all the time?" Sayuri asked, as she closed her eyes and lay down on the ground.
She could here Shizune sigh. "Did I say something wrong? I didn't mean to offend you." she said, hoping she hadn't.
"No, no you didn't offend me. Tsunade started drinking and gambling after her younger brother and boyfriend both died in the war against the Sand. She's always thought it was her fault, as she was the healing nin at the time her boyfriend, Dan, got struck. She couldn't heal him. And it's not like anyone could. His liver had been completely distroyed. When he dies, she was covered in his blood. This brought on her phobia. She quit and left the Konoha because she would collapse at the sight of blood."
Sayuri shot up and looked at Shizune. "If she collapsed at the sight of blood, then why did the elders make her Hokage?" She asked intentively.

Poison Mist 3/8

Shizune was silent for a few minutes. She then started to say, "After the 3rd Hokage died, the elders requestted Jiraiya to take on the role of Kage. Jiraiya refused, saying that Tsunade was better suited for the job. But of course, the elders objected. Jiraiya made a deal. If he could come back with Tsunade, they'd make her Hokage. So Jiraiya and naruto set off together to find Tsunade, which was quite easy, you could imagine, thanks to all her drunken rampages. Jiraiya got to her just after Orochimaru did. He made a proposition. If she would heal his arms that the 3rd wounded in their battle, he'd bring her little brother and boyfriend back to life. He left and Jiraiya showed up. When Naruto found out that Tsunade was going to get the role of Kage, he got really mad. Tsunade, who also got mad at him, took him outside where they fought. Of course, the battle didn't even last thrity seconds."

Poison Mist 4/8

Tsunade used Bruising Sky Leg whiched managed to block Naruto's half-completeed rasengan. She made a deal. If he could master the rasengan in a week, she'll give him the 1st Hokages necklace, her grandfather's necklace. The thing was, she gave the same necklace to both her younger brother and boyfriend, and they both died soon after. Naruto ignored this and went off to learn the rasengan.
A week later, Tsunade went off to meet Orochimaru, where she refused his offer. Then occured the battle of the "Legendary Sannin", in which both Tsunade, Jiraiya and Orochimaru fought. It was here that Tsunade overcame her phobia of blood and where Naruto almost died when her protected Tsunade with the fully mastered rasengan. He won the bet, so Tsunade gave him the necklace. It was his bravery that convinced her to take on the role of Hokage." Shizune finally finished.

Poison Mist 5/8

Both Sayuri and Shizune were silent. Even TonTon was quiet, which Sayuri soon realised because he had fallen asleep. The only sound that could be heard was the sound of Tsunade-sama's deep breathing.
As Sayuri recounted what Shizune-san had said, a wave of admiration came over her like nothing before. "Tsunade-sama has had a harsh, painful life....... One day, I will surpass not only her, but Haruno Sakura and every other great healing nin Konoha has been blessed to have. I will become the best healing ninja the Village Hidden In The Leaves has ever had"
This was Sayuri's goal. Everything else was just a stepping stone in the road to achieving it.

Poison Mist 6/8

The silence between them started again. At last, Sayuri broke it. "I'm a healing ninja you know."
"Yes, I could tell. You seemed like the type," Shizune replied softly.
Before Sayuri could ask her 'what the type was', Shizune added. "Your goal is to become the greates healing nin known to Konoha isn't it?"
Surprised by her sudden knowlegde of her,Sayuri replied, "Yes. But how did you know?"
Shizune smiled. "Anyone sane would have that as their goal after hearing Tsunade-san's story."
Sayuri could sense the sense behind her words. She then asked, "Shizune-san, would you please teach me one last poison jutsu?"

Poison Mist 7/8

Shizune was silent, then replied with a soft, "Yes."
Getting up, she walked over to where she demonstrated Needle Spit Skill, she said, "This jutsu is known as Poison Mist Skill. You do a couple of hand seals," demonstrated the hand seals, then continued, "And like you did with the Needle Spit Skill, you blow. A cloud ofpoisoned gas should come out like so."
Preparing herself, Shizune preformed the two hand sealsand blew. A large cloud of poison gass escaped from her lips. As she finally stopped blowing, the gas stayed in the air for abouttwo minutes before finally fadding into the air. "Now you try," she said, indicating to Sayuri.
As Sayuri walked away a few yards, she quickly completed the hand seals and blew. A cloud of dark purple gas exhaled from her mouth, slightly smaller that Shizune's.
Shizune smiled and said, "Well done."

Poison Mist Complete