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Only a slight bit more reading and Kazuma would be done, it was a rather thin book and he had already went through almost half of it, and after this section he would have only less than half and have to reread it to make sure the information sticks in his head and he could try to widdle when he gets some money from doing missions, until he does though he would have to rely heavily on ninjutsu and his team mates to keep him safe from threats. He wasn't the type to fight hand-to-hand or even remotely anything close to that. He would have to fix this gaping hole in his fighting style if he were to ever be good enough to be a Ninja of considerable skill, and be remembered after he dies. He was to be one of the first Puppet Masters in Kirigakure, and possibly the last. He would have to make it far for there to ever be someone who wanted to be like him one day. He would hit another tough spot in the book not knowing what soem of the words were to long for him to understand and sat pondering their meaning for a bit.

Successes: 4/10

Kazuma continued reading the book, not really knowing when Nadiya would start the next lesson, because it depended on when his class mates finished there tasks, which didn't seem to be much more. With Gwen sparring with Nadiya, the fight should be over relatively quick considering it's a Jounin against an Academy Student, it was hardly worth considering a challenge or even anything remotely close to that. He had faith in Gwen, don't get that wrong. He just believed Nadiya's training made her even more suited to the task. And Hachiro, who seemed to be far from an end left Kazuma wondering if he would ever finish. He knew it wasn't a very supporting thought but he didn't know what he could do. He had help Gwen only slightly, and because she had gotten into a good grove with the handseals already. Hachiro though, he needed some luck in a bad way. And to pick up the pace a little bit. He had barely made any attempts at doing it, meaning he was probably more focused on the fact he and the two girls had finished before him, rather then focusing on finishing. But he had forgot about reading further due to his own lack of concentration, though he didn't need to worry to much about it, he had time to slack off since he had leaped ahead of them all in the way that he did.

Successes: 5/10

Kazuma flipped the old dried out pages. The pages themself were dry, though they still had a little bend to them. But near the binding was moist and soft. It had a smoothness to it all on it's own. Perhaps this was to keep it to where the book could be read. It was actually an interesting way to preserve the books seeing how doing whatever it was to the whole book would probably distort the words in it, and destroying a perfectly good book by ripping out the pages to laminate them and bind them together would probably have been the smarter thing to do, but doing this way gave it an extra value to it since it was still in one piece. Kazuma liked the idea and couldn't wait to have these books in his own possesion. He wanted to be free to read all the books his father had in store. Kazuma kept reading on in the book he had pilgered from his father. Though he didn't enjoy taking things from his father, his books were the only thing he did this for. He couldn't help it though, the books caught his attention due to what they were of. Kazuma was really tempted though to read his father's one large book. It had no title on it, but bore the mark he placed on the puppet he made on the book's cover. His dad though caught him once near this particular book and has since put it in his room under lock and key. But kazuma zipped through the next small portion which was about safety when widdling. Kazuma knew it could be dangerous, he had once witnessed his mom slice her finger on a knife when she was making a dinner from a new recipe. she as long since mastered the art, but it still served as an example of how a knife could hurt.

Successes: 7/10

Kazuma though determined to finish the book for once push forward into the book and passing up words to try and guess their meaning. It couldn't have been as bad as the advance manual that his father had in his book shelf on master puppetry techniques, and thing dealing with it. He had strained his brain once trying to read it. His father said in time the meaning of them words would open up to him, though Kazuma wasn't exatly sure on that. He had always wondered what his father meant by that. Though he never truly questioned his father, because when he did his father always came back with an answer for something making a intelligent conversation nearly impossible for Kazuma. His technique of reading ahead of the tough words and there meaning has successfully gotten him to comprehend the book. He needed the knowledge this book had, even if it was a very small amount. But any small bit at this point would be more then good enough to get him by for a little while until his training got him more into it.

Successes: 8/10

((Wow, I just noticed my posts for reading this book are massive, I'm seriously bored in a bad way if I can think of that much to say about a book. xd ))

Kazuma kept on with his reading. He didn't have much else to do after this but read the other book he had brough along which he would read if the training was not completed by Hachiro and Gwen. He did hope that Nadiya would be gentle with Gwen. He didn't know what she was capable, but he knew she couldn't be as bad off in terms of physical as Kazuma is. Though honestly, he didn't mind, he would eventually find a way to make up for it, though he wasn't sure exactly how he would achieve it. Though if he did he would try to make use of Ninjutsu prowess rather then using Taijutsu prowess, which he had no real ability for. And he wouldn't think about pursuing it even if he was. Again he had allowed his mind to wonder to far from what his focus should have been, though it was a well-deserved break from it. He had been training pretty much the whole time. This book, though not exactly training was more then enough to compensate for it. And cold, if one wanted to call it, ninja training as well.

Successes: 9/10

Kazuma though didn't dispair about how easily his attention was diverted, but rather he kept going on with his reading hoping that it end was close. Though his mind still wanted to wonder he attempted to keep it on the subject of the book. He wondered though, still to this moment, how his father had so many ancient texts from suna, but not a single one from the current days. Was his father an ancient art collector he wondered trying to keep the bulk of his concentration on the book itself. But the possibilities of how his father was, was more then an amusing prospect. He kept thingingon the different things his father could be rather then what his father was. And the option that his family had once lived in Suna several years ago had never crossed his mind. It was actually the last thing on his mind as Kazuma once more pulled his attetnion from his book as he imagined his father as a ninja going into an art museum and taking the books for himself in his younger days when hima and momma were just dating. Though he knew his father was never a ninja, but it didn't mean he couldn't have practiced the art of theft. He wasn't sure though that a man with his level of intellect would do such an act.

Successes: 9/10

((That's right dice. You like it when i talk dirty to you huh? Yeah, you like it like that. rofl ))

Kazuma just remembered he was trying to read a book and lifted it back up and jumped right back into reading it. He had only a small bit left, and yet whenever he got to the end he always seemed to wander like that. It annoyed him so much that he could be so easily distracted by things. When he finally read the last bit and went through some of the step by step manuals he smiled. That was the first time he had ever finished the manual. He usually had to hide his reading it from his father, and when he found himself in this type of setting he always had to do something before he got the chance to finish it. Though he wanted to read the other book he didn't know how much longer their training could persist. So he would give it a little while. If it turned out they got done before him when he started to read the next book they would find very quickly that Kazuma was the type to make people wait after making him wait.

Successes: 10/10