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With the new weapon in hand, Komen Usai was one step further in the race of power. He needed all he could acquire since he wanted to become a great Shinobi of the lands. This drive was what made him as powerful as he was thus far. Komen Usai walked through the village as he was making his way toward the Anbu headquarters to finally finish his training with them. He wanted to go out of his village to learn more techniques but he wanted to try and finish what mattered the most to him at this moment, which was trying to finish his training with Anbu. Komen first off had to get to his home so he could perform the tobidougu sealing for his weapon. He could really do it anywhere, but he felt like he should go home, get a bath and then head off toward the Anbu headquarters. Komen saw some children run past him as he smiled. he was happy to see some happy people in his home village. This village had been in so much destruction that it was a wonder that this village was still in one peace. A lot of restorative techniques with Earth techniques and fire techniques were able to reform the mountain and the faces of each of the past hokages and the present hokage. Komen was hopeful that he had done all he could to help make this village a great village. Komen was wearing his simple clothes as he had discarded his alliance robes at the wedding chapel that was trying to celebrate the marriage of Drago and his bride. For the life of him, he couldn't remember the name of the girl that had married Drago. Komen shrugged it off as he was reaching his home. "Well I shouldn't really get too comfortable with that one now should I? I am part of the Alliance, well former Alliance anyway." He said with a sigh as he entered a building. The building was a normal apartment building inside Hidden Leaf. Komen didn't like to live in some lavish home, rather something simple and that had enough room for him to live comortably in.

Saizo had awoken and decided to skip breakfast as he decided to get to his training. The first place he decided to go to was Kakashi. He was a legendary ninja so it was an obvious choice. Plus, Kakashi knew several of the Uchiha Clan’s strongest techniques. However, Saizo Uchiha wanted to start slowly before he got to those techniques.

As he passed a ramen stand he decided against skipping breakfast and ordered a bowl of beef ramen. The chef was quite busy, so Saizo knew that he would have a decently long wait before he got his food. Still, he was looking forward to the ramen. Ramen in the Hidden Leaf village was some of the best anywhere, plain and simple. IT was obviously the best that Saizo had ever tasted, but then again, Saizo had never been outside of the village so he did not have much to go by to decide what was good ramen and what wasn’t. However, he was lucky because the general opinion was the Leaf ramen was infact good ramen.

Saizo passed the time by zoning out. He did that quite often. It is obvious that Saizo is not nearly as focused as the average member of the Uchiha clan. He did have quite some cloud envy, that was true. However, he was not lazy by any means of the word, simply could amuse himself quite easily. However, I degress. It took the chef, about fifteen minutes more than it would normally take for him to finish the beef ramen. Saizo thanked the man before beginning to eat it. IT was quite enjoyable, if he could say so himself. Hell to tell the truth, the ramen was some of the best that he had ever tasted in Hidden Leaf. He would most certainly be back here again.

Body Flicker

After he had savored and finished his meal, Saizo continued on his way. Saizo had a long way to go before he would get to his destination. However that did not truly bother him because he was the kind of person who believed that it was not the destination but rather the journey that made a trip worth while. That the a part of his belief system and was probably one of the things that had kept him alive through all of these years. This was of course not something that he knew simply because he did not know that he was clinically schizophrenic. I have already been through his story so I will not be any more specific than I am already.
Saizo knew the winding alley ways of Hidden Leaf. He had learned them quite quick when he decided to leave the darkness of trhe Uchiha section of the village and actually walk out amongst the rest of the people of the Hidden Leaf Village. He maneuvered through those alleys until he found himself at the home of Hatake Kakashi, the Copy Cat Ninja. Saizo planned to get a large amount of training done here before continuing one to where ever the wind blew. He knew that this would be a great place to start. Kakashi was one of the foremost ninja in the village, a legendary ninja geneious in his own right. Why not start his training with a man such like that.

Saizo knew much of Kakashi’s exploits. Trained by the fourth Hokage and the son of a legendary ninja, Konoha’s White Fang, Kakashi was a necessity during the ninja war that he grew up during. War times were a bad time to grow up during, however, Kakashi made the best of them, making his name.

However, onece again I digress. It did not take long for Saizo to get to the home of Hatake Kakashi. Saizo found Kakashi, surprise, reading a makeout paradise novel. In all truth This really did not surprise Saizo since every other time that he went to train with Kakashi, he seemed to always be reading this book. However that really did not matter. He was always ready to train someone, even though his attention was never fully on that person that he was training.

The first two times that Saizo had went to Kakashi, he had wanted training in some of Kakashi’s more difficult techniques. However, this time, Saizo simply wanted training in some of the more rudimentary techniques that Kakashi offered. He walked into Kakashi’s humble abode and stood in front of him, patiently waiting for him to stop pretending that he did not notice that Saizo was there. There was very little chance that someone like Kakashi would have not noticed someone like Saizo at this point so Saizo knew that it was simply an act. It fit his personality when Kakashi was not in battle, that was true. However, when Kakashi was serious, it is hard to believe that his Kakashi and the serious Kakashi are one and the same. That is the truth. While waiting for Kakashi to start talking, Saizo let his mind wander again. Once again Saizo had begun to think of other things. He was in his own head for a bout . . . well the truth was that Saizo had no idea how long he was lost in his own thoughts when he came out and realized that Kakashi was nowhere to be found.

Thinking back on it, Saizo decided to he probably should have maintained his concentration when he was waiting for Kakashi. He looked around the room and was fortunate that Kakashi had simply changed locations and did not actually leave. Now that it seemed that Kakashi was prepared to train him Saizo smiled and bowed. Kakashi, well it seemed by the one eye that you could see that he was smiling, or at least that it seemed that he was smiling. It was always hard to see with him. You know, with the mask and all hiding and obscuring the lower part of his face it was kind of hard to read his facial expressions.

Inner Decapitation technique
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Chiyo smiled a bit. She nodded as she once again took the stance of the Hyuuga fighting style. “Yukimura, no. Even if I tried to copy exactly every move she did, it wouldn’t be my own, just a washed up copy. What would be the fun in learning something when you don’t make it your own somehow? Or learn it a different way than what the “teacher” taught you?” She then turned her attention to Hayate. “Whenever you’re ready, Hayate. Mind you, I’m stronger than I look, even though you’re way stronger than I am.” She grinned again, remembering some of her training fights with her family. They always went easy on her. She also had a strange feeling that this was going to be an interesting fight.

(( I figured this is the best way to bring my character back into active status... ))

Sango would slow stroll up the path towards the large gates that protected the entrance to the Village Hidden among the Leaves. Sango’s eyes have not fallen upon this village over the course of many moons due to the fact that after earning the rank of Chuunin months ago. Sango had set out on a personal mission of service in hopes of offering the other villagers a through of good rather than the sadness that is often expressed as their eyes fall upon a surviving Uchiha clansmen. Sango does not let the opinions of others sway her actions all that much these days. Sango was glad to see the carved faces of the past Kages on the side of the mountain and watching over the village as they did while holding the office of top ninja and protector of the Village Hidden among the Leaves. Sango would allow a slight smirk to cross her face as she glanced up and then back down towards the busy street. Sango almost instantly noticed that the streets of the village had not really changed all that much over the last few months. Sango took this with a mixed blessing since it would make her look less stupid as she moved about the village. However, it was also just one more thing to remind her that even after the personal hell of a mission that she had completed recently that nothing had really changed of the passing of the time. Sango would just simply shake her head from side to side as if she was attempting to throw the thought from her head. Sango slow and surely moved her way through the streets while working her ways towards the ramen shop in order to enjoy the first hot meal that she would have eaten in months. As the sight of the shop getting larger while it crested the horizon, Sango would smile to know that she was going to get a chance to put an end to the growling that had roared from her stomach all this time and had she not focused to control the sound it would be almost over bearing to the ears of another villager that even stood within a few feet of her. Sango was not planning to remain with the safety of the village to long as she was planning to complete additional training in a few of the other villages in order to advance her fighting potential. Sango was not like most the other Uchiha that manage to survive the slaughter of so long ago. Sango would not relay heavily on the strength of the bloodline that is so famously known across the entire Shinobi World. The Sharingan is almost feared as much as it is respected by the other clans. However, Sango does use the fear that most have of the Sharingan to her advantage any chance that she is able. It is part of the reason that Sango trains in the techniques that she does.

Arriving in Hidden Leaf on the boat from Hidden Craftsman, Eluamous Nailo stepped onto solid ground in the land of fire, breathing in the warmer air in as a sigh of relief, finally out of the northlands of Hidden Snow, and the area of Hidden Craftsman had not been much warmer. "It's good to be in some decent weather again..." Eluamous spoke aloud to himself, making his way towards Hidden Leaf's library in order to look up details on the summoning tome he had acquired. Having been hired by the villagers of Hidden Craftsman, his payment being the new Infinity Armor he now wore, the job had seemed simple enough, weeding out a group of brigands that had been raiding the village. Instead of a stash of gold hiding within the mountain, he'd found the 'brigands' were actually mages, seeking the summoning tome he now held, which had been buried within the mountain. Upon discovering the mages' intents for the summon, Eluamous had killed all three of them and stolen the tome, taking it with him to Hidden Leaf in order to fully understand the nature of creature summoning. Though he possessed the ability to summon an unnamed toad, it was obviously a weak summon; and though useful to distract an opponent; it was of little help to Eluamous in most circumstances; though it had proven its worth in protecting Eluamous when he battled the shinobi named Paradox, from Hidden Gears; having fired water blasts as a crucial distraction to the demon-like shinobi while Eluamous had been trapped inside of the Genjusu; Eluamous had managed to come to his senses and form a proper attack on the demon while Paradox had been distracted by the toad, so in retrospect, while weak and not very useful in terms of proper combat; the Toad was still a useful summon at times... Arriving at the steps of the library, Eluamous decided to sit outside of the library for a moment, taking a seat on a nearby bench to eat his lunch.

Eluamous's lunch consisted of some day-old bread, a leg of chicken he'd gotten gambling in a game of bones with the sailors, and a small canteen of apple cider which had been about a quarter full after he'd arrived in town. Sighting the incoming Shinobi, Eluamous quickly took in details of the man's appearance. His headband marked him from Hidden Stone village, and was a cloth band, the symbol sewn in as opposed to having a metal plate forged into the cloth; a rare case as cloth bands were normally torn easily; even Eluamous's seal was made of metal; though only the seal and not the traditional rectangle sheet metal; his own seal made of brass. The man wore a simple design of a chestplate that appeared to be made of hardened and molded leather; like that of a horse's saddle. His shoulder armor was made of metal, however, attaching to a collarbone guard of hardened leather; and a scar ran across his left cheekbone, crossing up to his nose. The major feature Eluamous noted was the mark tattooed into the right side of the man's face; and if he remembered his lore correctly; it was a Cursed Mark; a symbol given only to those who had survived encounters with Orochimaru; or so what he'd read stated... A flash in his memory recalled that Tsuki had possessed a similar mark when he'd encountered her in Hidden Snow... an interesting note to take... "I could say the same thing about you... hidden stone, correct? I've yet to visit there, but your headband has the symbol of it... But yes, I am Eluamous Nailo, the last remaining member of Hidden Mythology's Spartan Clan... at least to my knowledge. I came here to do some research on a summoning scroll I found, though it might save me trouble to ask another shinobi rather than dig through books. have you any knowledge of Advanced Summons?" As this shinobi had come out of the Library himself, it couldn't be a mere chance that he should meet him. Perhaps they both shared a common interest in summons, or the art of summoning, in Eluamous's case. He had a summoning scroll, all he needed to do was figure out how to properly summon it.

Nodding as he took in the information, Eluamous's mind immediately wandered off as he heard the term God Summon... did this refer to the legendary demons? Or perhaps something even more powerful, something that existed outside of their world... Whatever they were, Eluamous was determined to learn more about them, and then forge a pact with one... a God Summon would guarantee success in Exams, though he knew a Gennin had no hopes for them, as a Chuunin he might be able to forge a pact with one, and then use it in the Jounin Exams to ensure victory! "Interesting... so this tome... is actually a contract... I see, so by signing it, I gain control over the creature? If you have one too; perhaps we should both summon our summons; we could avoid risking harming others, assuming advanced summons are of similar strength... that would avoid the risk of either of us being harmed..." Unrolling the tome he had obtained within the cavern along the outskirts of Hidden Craftsman, obtained while on his hunt for brigands, Eluamous showed Agito the tome, embedded with the picture of the dragon it was said to summon, Fai Ryu... "Apart from the picture and it's name, Fai Ryu; most of the runes here are faded... I can't exactly tell what is what... do you know if all summoning contracts contain the same format? Perhaps if I compare mine to yours, I can figure out how to sign it! Let's find that book again!" Eluamous quickly stood up and rerolled the scroll, making his way towards the library and motioning to Agito to lead the way to where he'd found the book on summoning. Recalling what he'd overheard the mages saying, that Fai Ryu would requite one hundred humans sacrificed in order to unleash the dragon's full power; Eluamous's hand quivered in fear of what the summons might be able to do... But he knew it was not in the summon's persona... it had been their desire to use a corrupt method to unleash the summon's power... He knew he had the ability to control this summon... he would not allow it to consume innocents to fuel its power; he would do what the mages feared, and use his own chakra to summon the dragon's full power; and would not resort to bloodlust in order to use it...