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Post your rp samples to determine your placement here, no real requirements, do your best and I will find out if you didn't write it .

NOTE: DOES NOT HAVE TO BE A NARUTO RP ONLY

Pharao's Note: These should be QUALITY samples! For most of you, you'll jump to Chuunin rank however EXCEPTIONAL RPer's with EXCEPTIONAL samples will be promoted to Jounin. This opportunity ends Monday May 31st!

(Its a little broken so sorry....)

As he reached the ground he turned angry eyes upon the man for his comment as it had all happened in a second. He noticed the building of energy and he had barely enough time at all to analyze it and amass the equal spiritual pressure to the Ceros power. The area around the grounds shifted and the gravity increased past a bearable point for any in the area. This wasnt even at full but it was more than enough to crush the bones of the others around him, even Dai would have to further increase his output if he didnt want to be brought to his knees. Thrusting out his palm facing the Cero he made contact with the Cero, holding it in place stopping it completely with the release of equal reitsu the massive Cero started to absorb into Hogoshas palm and then dispersed in a flash as Hogosha had canceled it. He panted slightly now from the sudden stress and he jumped back from Dai,"I see now, it looks like this alone will not be enough after all...." He turned the sword upside down the tip pointing to the ground as he called out his Shikai release a phrase only known to Dai. Neither Bao nor Suzuki had ever seen it and he hoped the would never have to, he had no doubt their reactions would be strained and fearful, the other woman he was uncertain of. "Burn black over our enemies, Kuro Kasai!"

As he called out to his zanpakutou his reitsu soared the increase could not be described as it was so great in strength. Gravity nearly reversed and the wind soared around them as dark menacing clouds began to form around the battlefield from the sheer force of the release. The pressure would bring both Suzuki and Bao to their knees at their highest point of release, the woman beside them would no doubt also be severely effected at this moment. A black flame ignited at once at the very tip of the blade and burned black up the sword to the handle and then dissipated. His zanpakutou was now a black single bladed katana, both edges now sharp enough to cut through pure reishi. The blade was ignited and burning with black fire down to the tip and he held the blade upward at arms length towards Dai.

" I remember that but do you remember what I am " said Dai looking at the soul reaper. He was not set back by this in anyway for he had felt this same power long ago. He kept his blade in his right hand while he put his left hand down after he shot the cero. Now he just waited to see what he was going to do with this.

His eyes narrowed as his reitsu spurred and flashed around him, now so strong it was clearly visible a flashing green color. "This is all I will need to finish you now," even if Dai had gotten stronger so had Hogosha. He was stronger than Dai in the past and on par both of their training would only up their initial power with out closing the gap. Dai could not hope to win in his current state not even his highest resurrection could prove to stop Hogoshas superior intellect and the devastating power of his complete Bankai release, now only the clock knew how long Dai would be left alive. Hogosha disappeared from even Dais sight now his speed having a substantial increase almost triple the previous speed his Shinsoku would also triple giving him an ungodly advantage over Dai with out the help of his resurrection to close the gap to a manageable pace as before. In the millisecond he had used to move behind Dai he had created a black burning orb of fire about average size at the tip of Kuro Kasai. He swung his blade down from the air in the second millisecond and executed his second Shikai ability: Kuro Kasai Kyuutai (Black Fire Orb).

Dai remembered the Shikai and he observed it little before than he could now,"So hes using fire then?" He spoke to himself as he twisted to dodge majority of the attack a slight graze catching his shirt a flame. He pointed his middle and index fingers at Hogosha now and prepared a Cero even stronger than before to obliterate him quickly.

Hogosha felt the man quite dense to have ignored a single hit like that, though last time he never hit him till the end. The orb passed by Dai and hit the tree and ground, when it hit the orb burst spraying black flames everywhere now burning lively in a wide area across the ground they were in extinguishable and would stay that way. The graze to Dais shirt was a costly mistake for now the black fire spread quickly burning across his shirt and soon part of his torso. If Dai wasted any more time the fire would catch his body and then he would soon burn alive, as the fire not only burned for seven days but it spread faster than the wind itself. As the blue line came at him his still flaming sword hacked through it and turning when he sensed Dais directional change he caught the blade with in his sheath as he sent a wave of black fire towards the fingers before the cero was fired the fire would cut off his finger tips and start burning his bare flesh now. Hogosha jumped back to regroup jerking the sheath to jar the blade from the mans grasp as he would already be occupied by his flaming fingers and shirt now. Dais only option was to remove his clothes hastily and cut off his hand before the fire spread over his entire arm, or he would be consumed by the unquenchable flames.

(Lols Oath, what a huge sample. XD)

((Guess I'll type this up right here, the sample will be Rei's past. Might as well))

"Mommy, where are you going?"

"No where too dangerous honey. We're just going on another mission. This time we have to gather a bit of information on our neighbors. Daddy and I are just going to say we're on some business to purchase something, that's all."

"Hehe, that's right, Rei. You know how good we are at low profiles. Just watch over the house with grandpa, and we'll be back in no time. You still have your defense?"

Rei giggled, moving the oversized hat on her head up again as she held up the makeshift weapon they had helped her make. It had no trigger, but a barrel that one gathered chakra into and by will shot it at a target. Rei was too weak to use it for now, with her age and lack of training with her chakra. Everytime she tried, it would simply cough up a small amount of dark blue chakra that only reached about five inches before dropping. Little Rei waved to her parents as they left for their mission, with her grandfather standing behind her waving as well.

It didn't take long ofr the news to reach her though. Her grandfather was grave, and Rei hadn't seen her mother or father come back when they were supposed to. They had been killed during the mission. It was a simple case of being in the wrong place at teh wrong time, they assumed. Whether it had anything to do with their ability with weapons and threat, or it really was just coincidence, they were gone. Rei was raised by her grandfather from then on, seeming more emotionally withdrawn, not even really wanting to go out with the other kids to play. As years passed she concentrated more on her other skills, such as study and crafting weapons. She loved mystery, and often tried to figure out small mysteries for the village locals, making a small reputation for herself for her knowledge and ability to figure things out a girl her age would never realize.

She enrolled into school, the ninja academy to become a genin. Her years and lack of friends or anyone to talk to other than her grandfather had made her feel like she was missing something. She wanted to use her abilities for more important things, to spread her name to more than just her own village if possible. She'd make her family as well known as they had once been before her parents were killed. But, life wasn't easy for someone like Rei. She had no social experience, and her physique made her unlikely to get along with girls as well as boys. She was book smart and had common sense, yet she knew nothing of how to make friends or even how to talk to others. As if it wasn't enough, they teased her or stayed away from her because of her boyish personality and look, with her shorter hair, and did little things to set her off or make her run off in a panic, like taking her hat away for her, which had been a gift to her when she was a child from her father. She finally passed, despite her personal failure at defeating the lonliness in her heart.

Rei sighed and opened her eyes. She sat up, looking up at the leaves of the tree she laid under. She put her hat back on and stood up. She was still waiting on confirmation that she'd have a sensei and a team to work with. "A team..." She seemed downcast. "If only I could be sure this would turn out well...but..." She trailed off and shook her head. "I'll just have to get past it. If I ever hope to make myself into something, I have to." She removed her makeshift weapon form her memories from her pants and aimed it at a small spot at the base of the tree. The barrel glowed a dark blue and something sped out of hte opening at the end of the barrel. There was a smoking strike where she had aimed, and it showed that the chakra had dug at least halfway through the trunk. Satisfied, Rei put the weapon away and turned to head back into the village.

Anonymous_Alcoholic sat quietly behind his laptop, his fingers tapping away at the keys. He was making a list, and checking it twice, and he damn sure knew he was going to troll Zaine and Joe if they didn't give him a Jounin position.

This was my training to attain Shikai in The Dawn of a New Era.

With his head held as high as his spirits, Alder stepped gracefully onto the Squad Eight Training grounds. His intent was to attain Shikai of his own volition, since Kumiko and Hoku were busy at the moment with Tsukirou's betrayal. Quickly, he strode across the field to what seemed to be a clearing, mostly devoid of training dummies, with the exception of one directly in front of him. "Alright....." He said to himself. "First, I need to force myself into a subconscious state, and the only way to do that..." He vanished with a shunpo, and appeared in front of the dummy, rapidly striking it with his hands and feet, placing as much reiatsu into his palms and feet as possible. "Is-to-over-exert-my-body-!" He said through punches and kicks as he barraged the dummy. The doll could no longer stand his assault, and it broke with a deafening creak of wood, along with the others that followed.

Over the course of fifteen minutes or so, he'd gone through about six dummies, and it didn't look like he was anywhere near stopping. As he continued, his punches and kicks got more and more rapid, and he was learning to condense his reiatsu into his fists, much like his old Hierro. "That'd be cool if I didn't have to lose Hierro..." Alder said with a chuckle as he continued to smash down on his seventh dummy. He aimed a pivoted roundhouse kick at its midsection with his right foot, smashing it in half rather easily. He used shunpo, and continued to his eighth. Unfortunately, the dummies continued to fall faster and faster, and the dummies were running out quickly. Much to his disdain, he found only fifteen dummies remaining out of an original twenty five in this area. At this rate, they wouldn't last much longer, meaning he couldn't exhaust himself entirely on the practice dummies alone.

"Damn..." He said to himself. "The thousand year old trees in this area are so beautiful, but I think I'll have to take one of those down just to find something that can take the abuse I have to offer...." He said grumpily. With his refined reiatsu fists, the last fifteen dummies were gone in a matter of a couple minutes, and it was with sheer force that he moved on to one of the humongous trees in the area. He was lucky to have found one of these trees, as they were extremely rare. Measuring nearly fifty feet in radius, this tree was extremely old and powerful, possibly the only thing in the area that would serve as an adequate training dummy. He lunged ferociously with his legs and hands, and began smashing parts of the tree off. At the rate he was going, it would take him at least an hour to bring the tree halfway down. He was satisfied to know that at least SOMETHING could withstand that pummeling.

It was another fifteen minutes later of constant refining and pummeling that the aforementioned tree crashed to the ground, in only a fourth of the time he predicted to getting half way completed. He cursed in frustration as he continued to use the tree, pounding on its thick sides just as he had when it was upright. Yet, he went through that in thirteen minutes tops. He hated this; his reiatsu was getting more refined as he went, using less energy and more destructive power. Alder used to do this naturally, but now it was only proving to be a hindrance, even though his heavy use had still drained him of three fourths of his reiatsu. "Damn it...." Alder said grumpily as he continued to pile-drive on the tree from above. He leaped into the air, focusing more than three times as much Reiatsu than needed to perform a Shunpo, and slammed his heel on the tree, cracking it in half.

Thankfully, Alder was nearing his last legs; The past hour of pushing his body to the most extreme of limits was not only paying off in terms of Shikai, but Alder believed to have attained a sort of Hierro for Shinigami as well, by supercompacting Reiatsu in the layer of outermost skin. He felt his vision start to decrease, and obvious sign of losing too much Reiatsu, as well as his movements becoming more and more sluggish. His bodily functions started to shut down, and he found that he could no longer support that rock hard skin technique he developed. His last few steps before slipping into his subconscious were slow and sloppy. "Here....we go...." He said, as his footsteps came to a staggering halt, and he felt himself falling slowly to the ground, drifting slowly into his subconscious.

As Alder neared the ground, his entire body vanished into what seemed to be a portal in the ground. This, however, was just him slipping into his subconscious; that hadn't really happened. As he was floating through this pitch black space, a deep, threatening voice boomed all around him. "What is your purpose here, Shinigami?" The voice said, in a tone that shook Alder's frame from the intensity. "Me?" Alder asked. "I've come to challenge you, nothing more, nothing less. I wish for your power to be mine, and I WILL attain it." He said, an excited grin forming on his face. Suddenly, the immediate area turned from pitch black to a dull gray. From the looks of the area, it was a humongous dome shape. From the gray formed a silhouette, a complete black shadow formed from the open space. It was obviously masculine, by the build of the shadow.

"If you wish to attain my powers....then you must defeat me in this space....in my UNIVERSE...." The shadow said darkly, as thousands of eyes opened on every available inch of wall space in the dome. The eyes didn't trace him specifically, but with every eye in the dome, Alder couldn't make a move without being seen. "Well...." Alder said with a hoarse chuckle. "This is certainly....interesting." He threw out his palm, and fired a Byakurai without chanting. As he expected, the shadow sidestepped before he'd even fired the Byakurai, seeing his move being before he'd even cast the spell. In this space, it would be impossible for Alder to hit this shadow; no move he made could be executed without that shadow knowing.

But...then again, there WAS a move he could made that the shadow couldn't predict, one that he couldn't anticipate until it happened. Alder moved with Shunpo, and appeared in front of the shadow, swinging his reiatsu empowered fist at extremely high speed towards the shadow. His efforts met no avail again, as he'd predicted; the shadow merely faded, then appeared behind him, slashing at Alder's back with a shadow claw. The attack was stopped at his back as an Enkosen shield formed at his back. He spun around and leaped back from the Enkosen, blasting it with a Byakurai as he flew backwards, blowing the shield up, and creating a large cloud of smoke around the shadow, engulfing him and Alder.

"Good..." Alder mumbled to himself as he drew both off his katanas. With extreme speed he lunged at the shadow through the smoke, and his swords met their mark as he rapidly spun and slashed at the shadow, not wasting a moment or opportunity to hit him. Black smoke started to pour from the invisible cuts Alder landed on the shadow. As soon as the smoke faded, Alder noted that at least three fourths of the eyes had shut, allowing him areas to attack the shadow where he couldn't see. "Well, it seems your visibility is limited now. He gave the shadow a grin he knew it could see, hoping to entice an attack. Quickly, he analyzed the blind spots of the dome, now that most of the eyes were closed.

"Foolish attempts as such will not temper my spirit, fool...." The shadow said in the same commanding voice. Almost immediately, arrows of reiatsu shot from all the eyes rapidly in the dome, forcing Alder to perform rapid shunpo to dodge all of them. Alder noticed, however, that when an eye fired an arrow, the eye closed, and each of the eyes were firing arrows at the same moment. Another problem presented itself, however; with every round of arrows fired, they created a constant ring of arrows around the shadow, meaning that Alder would have to take a hit to defeat it. Taking the inevitable risk, Alder lunged in with a shunpo, and stabbed both of his Katanas into the head of the shadow while the eyes close. He felt two separate arrows plunge harshly into his skin as the shadow started to fade away slowly. "You have one more challenge to overcome...." He said one last time, as he faded into darkness.

Almost as quickly as he had entered, the scenery changed to a more relaxed area. Alder found himself standing over a large lake, with trees lining the borders. A waterfall stood on one end, and a river flowed evenly on the other side. About thirty feet in front of Alder, a white mass began to take form, piecing together quickly from the dense particles of reiatsu in the air. "Remember me, Alder?" The figure said. His skin was white, and his hair was long, just like Alder's, only it was pure white. His eyes were a deep shade of purple. "My name is Redla, your inner hollow...and I intend to kill you here, and take control of your body!" He yelled as his reiatsu spiked. Redla vanished, and appeared in front of Alder, executing a rapid set of slashes with both black katanas.

Alder blinked once before his lips pulled back into a wicked grin. "Yes, Redla, I remember you....I beat you last time, so what makes you think this will be any different?" Alder said with a laugh as he began to rapidly parry blows. Redla began to charge a Cero, and a purple Cero burst from his left palm at Alder. "Hadou number 63, Thunder Roar Cannon!" Alder yelled, as the kidou burst from his own left palm, completely shattering the Cero, heading straight for Redla. The Hollow's eyes opened up in terror as the near Gran Rey power blast came soaring at him. He slashed his hand open, and fired his own Gran Rey at the blast, causing an explosion between the two opposing forces. Both Alder and Redla were forced backwards from the blast, landing in the water.

On Alder's real body, an interesting development was taking place. Half of his skin was hollow, the other half was shinigami. A Vizard dominance battle was taking place once again, and Alder had no choice; once this battle was over, he would be a Vizard once again, forced to hide it until the time came when it was necessary to use his powers. Back at the battle, Alder had the upper hand. "Not bad, Redla." He said with a murderous chuckle. He vanished again, appearing above Redla, with his heel raised into the air. "You never had a chance." He laughed loudly as his heel cracked with pure reiatsu. He brought it down with crushing force on Redla's left shoulder, sending him crashing into the water below.

About twenty feet underwater, Redla's left shoulder was broken, and bleeding profusely, as well as his torso being badly burned in the front. "When...." He thought to himself in disbelief. "...I never thought I'd have to use all my power against him..." He said, his frown turning into a grin. His reiatsu spiked, sending an explosion of water up at Alder from below. Up on the surface, Alder was sent into the air by a large pillar of water caused by Redla's explosion in reiatsu. As he was soaring upwards, Redla appeared next to him with a fully repaired shoulder, sporting both Katana. The two flew higher and higher, their Reiatsu evenly matched now as their blades clashed ferociously. Their energies became visible now, both purple in color as they viciously spiraled with each other, just as rapidly as the two opponents' katanas sparked against each other. "Not bad, Redla!" Alder said with a laugh as his reiatsu climbed higher and higher, matching Redla's.

The Hollow didn't respond. He merely grinned as they slowed down in the middle of the air. His blades traveled even more rapidly than before, hard pressing Alder to keep up. He would find his efforts to suppress the former Primera inadequate, however. No matter how rapidly his blades moved, Alder seemed to keep up perfectly. "It's over....Redla." Alder said with a chuckle as he locked Redla's blades with his, tipping them into horizontal positions. Alder was above Redla, and he kicked Redla further to the ground with a Reiatsu strengthened kick, forcing Redla's blades out of his hands. Alder sheathed his own blades, and shot down at Redla, pummeling him all the way down to the water with rapid, near superhuman speed and strength punches and kicks, barraging the Hollow's entire body. "You'll never best me again, Redla!' Alder screamed as he flipped in the air, bringing his heel down on Redla's midsection, slamming him into the water with a deafening crash. With the defeat of his inner hollow, words flooded into Alder's head; he now knew how to release his Zanpakuto's shikai.

Outside of the subconscious area, before Alder regained consciousness, the Hollow skin was absorbed into his body, once again granting him Vizard powers, the likes of which he could still fully control, due to his Hollow still being the same. Slowly, Alder's eyes opened, and he let out a laugh as he sat up against the thousand year old tree; he had attained Shikai, and Vizard powers without intending it.

Wait, wait, wait. Does this mean that Ace is a Chuunin now O_O?