"No matter how small my steps are, they will eventually add up. Even if I didn't win today, the step I take now will take shape one or two months from now." Main Theme Song of Mitsutada Gūru
As she leaned up and planted a kiss on his cheek his lips curled into a smile and a content exhale escaped past his lips. As she tugged on his hand he would follow and continue to hold her hand in his. If he recalled correctly, this direction.. perhaps food? Was it just lunch while they talked or perhaps a date..? Who knew, either way, he was pleased with the results. [exit after Shikayumi]
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Battle Theme Song of Mitsutada Gūru "That's why I won't give up. No matter how long it takes, even if it takes a year, I will lead my comrades to victory.."
Passives • [ｂｏｘｉｎｇ//ｓｔｙｌｅ] You can predict peoples movements to an extent [better than a normal person, but worse than someone with Sharingan]. • [Shigure Souen] Shinjikazu - After being trained in both defense and attack the user eyes have become more prone to oncoming attacks and is able to react much quicker giving him insight in battle. He is also able to since someone killer intent and feel the force coming from it. • [Passively Honored] Samurai untapped power is passive. • [CQC Master] Close combat is your everything, you are a master within these specifications. • [Muscle Reaction Expert] Your perception rivals the Sharingan, without the neat tricks. • [Poisonous to the Bone] Immune to poison. • [Deadly Touch] Adaptable Poison runs through the blade of your sword. • [Occupied Hands] Your bloodline techniques don't require handseals. • [CLASS] This is because their training releases a constant field of chakra around their body to where they literally witness time at a slower pace. Samurai can see the enemy's physical attacks in slow motion, because the range of this ability expands just far enough to where they can predict these close-range attacks. Because of this, they will never falter in physical combat. They simply do not make mistakes. They can parry pretty much everything. Your super bursts of speed mean nothing to them. They cannot be defeated by stats, because they are the most skilled. Samurai are essentially the counter class to other physical classes. Other physical classes are left almost useless versus them. • [CLASS] Samurai can use low level techniques (genin and academy) with one hand so that they don't have to weaken their hold of their weapon while they perform jutsu.
It was early in the night, the sun had just sat beyond the horizon giving way to the serene bliss of night. Magnus drifted through the air on his paper place as he passed over the Training grounds. He touched and absorbed the paper and landed on the ground. He created an illusion clone and pulled forth his trench knives. "Come forth." He said as he started into his rythme of dodges of the clones punches as a fresh and funky techno mix played in his ear. [1/7]
"We got the bass, the kick and the melody!" He shouted to the night as they kicked up the speed and joined rocks, trees, waterfalls and all short of things to the mix. [2/7]
"Stamp on the ground, jump jump jump jump, move it all around." He said as he started to run in a circle around the clone. "Go, go, go, GO!!!" Picking up speed as he moved before he noticed it, he ran straight out of the training grounds.
Magnus was begining to come around full court in his training as he reached the end of his training for this stage moving a lot faster than when he first started. His cousin would have a run for her money now and soon he would surpass his father, well maybe not. His that was a Phantom after all, a strong assassin. Magnus was just a mere shadow of him, no pun attended. The origami shadow continued his dodge game with the clone before bringing it to an end. He then sat down and laid out 10 sheets of paper before him and pulled from his ninja pouch a marker and 10 kunai. He attached the kunai to the papers and drew the kaji for shadow on them and fueled his chakra into them creating the Shadow piercing technique. He then pulled the kunai into himself keeping them for later jutsu. [7/7]
Magnus begun next with learning to create a poper clone. He pulled forth from his pouch a series of jutsu he wanted to learn all the way to Jounin. He had planned on keeping this list for a very long time. It would assist him in the future with his many battles that would be bound to occur. He went down to the Fuuton Jutsu section to begin with the wind clone technique. Magnus formed the required handsigns and created a clone before him comprised of swirling wind. "Well, that was easy. Now, I need you to stay here while I work on some genjutsu on you." He said as he dropped a smoke bomb and disappeared from sight, but still within range to see his clone. He looked over the next technique in the genjutsu section, 'Burning Plains', a useful genjutsu for any Leaf Village shinobi. He concentrated chakra around his lips and begun a whisle that his clone would soon be able to pick up on pulling him into the genjutsu. From the look on the clone face, it appeared to be working.
Magnus awaited for the affects to subside and vanish from the clone. Magnus moved on to the next genjutsu to add to his arensal, Mist Servant, which would add him in his stealth missions as well as his kenjutsu techniques and fighting style. He formed the nescessary handsigns as clones of him begun to sprout from the ground and the trees surrounding him and his clone. He moved on to focus chakra around his vocal cords and begun to call out to his clone, this type of genjutsu was customed to the Fire Country as a Leaf style original called the Sounding of the Unfamiliar. The sounds of the night that was accustom to happen within the streets of the Hidden Leaf was now calling out to the clone in all kinds of directions.
Magnus released both techniques as he looked over a Universal ninjutsu called the Sound Masking technique. He focused his chakra through his body and towards his clone's ears amplyfiying the sounds that naturally occurred in the training grounds. The sound of distant training suddenly sounded close and well as the sound of the gentle flowing river sounded as if it was a raging tempest. The gentle breeze in the trees became a torrent of a hurricane as if someone was ruffling a thousand plastic bags at once all around the clone. Magnus drew a kunai from his pouch and focused chakra around it coating it with another Leaf Village orignal known as the Touch of the Unfamiliar. The applified sounds masked the sailing of the kunai through the air that stabbed the clone.
For a moment, the clone didn't realized he was just stabbed through the chest with the kunai and didn't even flinch or notice it until he looked down, the look of pure confusion as if looking at a specter that floated in view and out of view seemingly invisible, but visible at the same time. As if, it existed here, but didn't at all. Then he realized and burst into the wind from which it came. Magnus jumped down from the tree and created another clone next to him. He back up a few yards and charged towards the clone slowing down and then vainished from his spot, appearing just below the clone kicking it into the air with force. He then appeared behind the clone in its shadow as they fell back towards the ground. As soon as they hit the ground, Magnus crouched low into a sweeping kick knocking his clone off of his feet and to the ground. He helped the clone up afterwards. "Its okay, we are learning." He said as he dispelled the clone, no need to beat himself up about it.
Magnus charged forwards and jumped into the air preforming a round house kick in the air and slid to a stop. He turned and preformed another low kick and backed it with another. He was training his legs as he would need to in the future for his taijutsu when his arms will be binded for a time. He created another wind clone and backed up a few yards again. He nodded to the clone, who mimic'd the motioned as he charged forwards. Magnus vainished and appeared beneath the clone launching him into the air and appeared behind him locking the clone's head with his ankles and grabbed the clones legs pulling him into a pile driver towards the ground. As they collided with the ground, Magnus stood up as the clone disapated and looked on the ground for a rock. Once he found what he was looking for, he held out his hand and focused his fuuton chakra causing the rock to shake before finally lifting off of the ground and into Magnus' hand. He dropped the rock as he then focused his fuuton chakra to both his hands and thrusted them downwards pushing the air downwards causing him to shoot into the air like a rocket. Once in the air, he focused more of his fuuton chakra into his hands into a ball and hurled it towards a nearby tree causing the tree to be torn assunder by the wind explosion.
Magnus landed on the ground and held out his left hand out in front of him as he focused his fuuton chakra around his palm swirling it as he did. He expanded that realm of chakra into a flat circular torrent of wind that expanded out to five feet covering his entire frame. He closed his palm ending the technique. With the next technique, Magnus focused his fuuton chakra into the air around him. From out of his body, through the pores of his body his chakra filled the air and moved through it towards a point of focus he was looking at which was at a tree near him. The pressence of chakra in the air caused the air to become stale to the smell and taste as a pocket of air exploded near the tree ruffling the leaves and knocking down a few acorns. He then held out his hand and morphed it into a blade. He then focused his fuuton chakra through the blade, that was technically his arm, but whatever. He sliced the air causing a small tornado that pushed onwards for 20ft. Afterwards, he morphed his armblade back into well, an arm.
Magnus walked over towards a tree and went into his training rythme and threw a jab towards the tree in rapid movement drawing it back and punching lower creating an afterimage from the first throw giving the illusion of a punch leaving way for the second one to connect. This was a technique known as the shadow vision fist. He then turned around and sat next to the tree and sat indian-style and begun to meditate. The first of his meditating techniques he would come to learn called the Battle Meditation. Granted, his goal was to become untouchable, but sometimes when face with a greater threat, that was unprobable. He sat and focused a genjutsu on himself that would ignore any and all pain he would recieve or currently had. Lucky for him, that was none at the moment. Shadow Fist Learned [1/2]-Battle Meditation
After a few moments of meditating, he soon found himself in a sleepless state. His eyes glazed over, but concious of his surroundings none the less. It was a weird feeling looking over the land in a state between the realms of reality and dreams. It was a useful technique to learn, at least, in his mind. With this, he could even fight Yumi with minimal problem with the blissfulness of ignorance. Magnus released himself from it and moved onto the next meditative technique that was taught to shinobi when fighting another shinobi or in Leaf case, when fighting a Kurama shinobi. The ability to seperate the mind from the body in combat that would trap the mind in the genjutsu, but the body would continue to fight relying solely on instinct and fighting like an animal in esscence. It started the same way as the Battle Meditation technique, with a twist halfway through. Magnus meditated once more becoming one with self and entering within the state of sleeplessness. [2/2]-Battle Mediation [1/2]-Zombie Taijutsu
Once that state of blissful ignorance begun to set in, Magnus begun to process of seperating his mind from his body. It was a strange and seemingly long process that ended up with Magnus standing, but he wasn't nescessarily in control of his body. He moved around in a dazed like state turning towards anything that moved. Luckly no one was around him to be attacked or this would have caused some problems. So, Magnus just stood still and unmoving staring off into space. [2/2]-Zombie Taijutsu
Magnus went into a series of backflips away from the tree near him that he was resting at and openned the scroll and looked over the Universal ninjutsu section for iron chain calling. He focused chakra into his hand and slammed it against the ground. He focused on the tree before him, but nothing occurred. [1/2]-Iron Chain Calling
Magnus fueled more chakra into the ground as the ground erupted into a barrage of iron chains shooting up into the air around the tree and wrapping around it binding it. Magnus removed his hand from the ground and watched the chains fall back to the ground and lay there. He looked around for that stream nearby and begun to make way over to it. He stepped next to the streamed and focused chakra into the soles of his sandals and took a step out onto the water. He begun to hold on top of the water for a fraction of a second before his foot begun to plunge into the stream. [2/2] Iron Chain Calling [1/2] Water walking
Magnus took his foot out and tried once more. He focused more chakra to the bottom of his sandle and stepped out once more, this time, he focused and change the flow rate by the amount of boyancy of his foot and did so accordingly with his second step. He was now standing on water with minimal difficultly. After of which he created a paper airplane and took off towards Yumi's office. [2/2] Water Walking
Shadow Vision Fist Learned Battle Meditation Learned Zombie Taijutsu Learned Tessayose no Jutsu (Iron Chain Calling Technique) Learned Suimen Hokou no Gyou (The Art of Water Walking) Learned
Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2015 5:32 pm
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Lars took multiple shaky steps into the Training Grounds. He could feel his mind become clouded and flooded with memories. He collapsed to his knees and gripped his head, pulling and tugging at his hair, nearly tearing it all out. He grunted and groaned, his stomach sounding like a loud roaring engine, an engine that needed food immediately or he would collapse. It wasn't natural for an Abyssal One like himself to ever go a few days without eating something or someone. All of the shinobi training and battling right now, sweating and working their hardest. They smelled...heavenly. It made his nose turn up even made him snarl. The Sannin drooled like a wild beast, clawing and gripping at the ground as his fangs would reveal themselves.
He couldn't control himself at this point, he huffed warm puffs of his breath with each exhale, shivering as people would stop and look. They'd see the Sannin writhe and shake in agony, multiple tendrils revealing themselves from his back and shoulders, his eyes rolling to the back of his head and even his once dark and ominous black hair turned to a pristine and snowy white. He whimpered and picked himself up, his eyes turning a soft red and blue within the iris. He needed to eat, he needed to feed on something or someone.
Gin walked to the training grounds embracing the scenery. She noticed just only few people here, one that was training and that seemed to be in pain or some sort. Gin sat on the ground ready to train. Breathing out slowly she started to put chakra in the soil below her. It soon turned from brown to a silver like color. It began to float around her as she opened her eyes and started to drench her weapons in her newly created iron sand. She created a simple lightning clone as it took the weapons and stood about 25 feet away. It threw the kuni's and shuriken's towards her way. With a wave of her hand, the sand blocked her way stopping the kuni's once it came near.
xxxxxPetals fell about the feral form of Lars. They drifted like snow, swiftly piling about his feet. The scent of fresh flowers would fill the air about him. Cutting through all else like heavy perfume. As the piles grew a figure steadily formed. A hand materialized and reached out to touch the hungry face of Lars. The flower formed body connected together and grew a head. Petals seemingly melted together and faded into the features of a woman. Soft rose gold locks settled about her shoulders and sharp emerald eyes focused on the Sannin. “Hello Lars” She spoke in a low and kind voice. Her other hand swept his snow white hair to the side before both arms shift to wrap about his neck in embrace him. The last they had seen each other was around the time he had first awoken the Abyssal One within him. He had collapsed at her feet, howling in pain then suddenly was a new awoken man. She remembered the fear she felt then, first for him then for herself. That fear still existed insider her. Just like all her other fears. But she had since learned to accept those feelings and grow from them. “It’s time to calm down now.” She spoke against his collar bone before slightly leaning away from the hug she held him in. After spending so much time detached from the world it was good to be back.
Lars gasped as the first petal dropped, then another would follow until he was surrounded by them. He'd smell a familiar scent and feel a familiar touch. It was like a scene of pure nostalgia and he almost felt as if his mind was playing tricks on him due to the hunger. He was afraid to say her name, to think what she might even think of him now that she saw him like this. Like a monster,
"A...ki....Chi...ru..."
Lars whispered as his hair stood at the fine line of black and snow white. His tendrils slowly pulling themselves back into his body and the once ominous feeling that surrounded Lars had been pulled back. It was like as if the angel had soothed the demon, his eyes lowered as his once grotesque and feral form returned back into the man deemed worth of being high ranking and highly dangerous. His body relaxed against her touch, the feeling of her arms around him, the scent of her petals, and her soothing voice eased him of his pain. Lars kept ahold of her as she was getting ready to pull away, his eyes forming small tears. He had missed her so much, in a world where the people he believed he could trust ended up deserting him, he found a familiar face in the crowd of blank ones. His raven black hair covered over his eyes as the tears fell like rain, his voice cracking up and his throat hurting as he would rarely shed tears.
Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2015 9:50 pm
xxxxxShe was at ease to see him return to human form but the new scene brought a crease to her brow. Worried brow furrowed she still smiled even as the tears that fell free broke her heart. He had suffered so much and it destroyed her that she had not been there to help. Lars held so much meaning to her. He had always been close to her heart. Her hands moved back to his face to wipe away the rolling crystalline drops. She cooed in response to his sobs. “Hey hey, it’s okay. Deep breathes, Lars. It’s just me.” She fought back her own tears desperately. She had been isolated and alone in the world for so long, and not entirely all for good reason. Guilt brought her back and now it was guilt that struck her again. Small dew drops formed in the corner of her eyes. Aki blinked with hope to disperse the tears before they grew larger. She brought a hand to her face, we already with Lars’ own tears, to wipe hers dry. A peal of laugher escaped her as she felt the water smeared across her cheek instead of drying up. Inhaling deeply the Chiru stopped fight and began to lightly cry. Her hands placed firmly on his shoulders, she smiled at him through the weeping, “Good to see you.”
Lars moved his hand to her cheek, wiping away her tears. She'd noticed that his hand felt cold to the touch and his eyes softened at the sight of her being there. Just It almost felt as if when she left, she had taken a piece of him with her. Now that she had returned, he felt at ease and calm.
"Its good to see you as well Aki...I missed you so much,"
He gave a smile, the best one he could muster even through his pain. Seeing her again, made him feel less alone, with Kleine having decided to leave him behind as well as Testial being the kage of a village and their own kage going god knows where. He just wanted for someone to stay and not leave him by himself. He then looked up and into her eyes,
"where have you been?!"
Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2015 10:34 pm
xxxxxThe impossibly cold touch of his hand sent a chill across her flesh. Goosebumps instinctively rose but she leaned into his hand. The feeling was foreign yet still Lars so she did not question it. Aki was just settling into a comfort zone when she was sharply asked where she had been. A slightly uncomfortable chuckle answered the question as she made an attempt to step back. How was she to explain her disappearance? Aki scratched her head and looked aside as she thought. Words fumbled on her lips with a jittery “I uh…” Silencing it all with a bite. It had all been for selfish reasons. Escape from responsibilities. Escape from friends. From family. From fear and love. “I guess… I tried to get away from everything. So much happened at such a fast pace. Kya, Arekku, my family, career, training, and you… I’m sorry I was so selfish.” She lowered her head in shame. Regretful of leaving it all behind without a word. “I was scared of everything changing. Then when I realized I should have come back, I was scared being met with anger on my return.” She heaved a sigh and let her hands fall to her sides. It wasn’t that she went on some fantastic adventure, saving a whole country and exploring new lands. She was simply afraid and ran away. Away to small remote farm villages where she could hide. Quiet forests where she could be alone. Solitary had been fine until the regret creeped in. “So, please… forgive me.”
Lars smiled, he scooted a little bit closer and brought his lips to her cheek, pecking softly. It would be brief, but it would show Aki that Lars was more worried than angry. He could never be angry at Aki, well, maybe if she left without saying anything. But thats it. Aki was still his student, so was Kleine. The two could never change that...well, except for when they become kage if he doesn't by then. Lars stood himself up and held out a hand to help her up,
"Aki, I could never hate you. I was more worried and afraid than angry. I'm glad that your here...that you're safe. I need you by my side to keep me sane."
He places a hand on the cheek he kissed, giving a soft smile. A more genuine smile than creepy or hungry.
Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2015 12:10 am
xxxxxThe peck brought her gaze up quickly. For a moment she was surprised. Aki had expected to be yelled at, lectured, at least punished. Instead she had been greeted with the sweetest gesture possible. Blinking for a moment, she collected herself and then returned the soft smile with a bright one of her own. Taking his hand she hoisted herself up. “Thank you. I promise, from now on, I’ll do what I can to stay by your side.” She looked about the training grounds, watching those training. It slowly dawned on her that if Lars had grown out of hand things could have gotten very bad. She didn’t know exactly what he was or what would have happened. Just that there was an innate sense of danger from the hungry look in his eyes earlier. “So… are you okay, now? Or do we need to do something to keep whatever was happening from happening again?” She tried not to sound rude, but worried that whatever the situation had been was still volatile and that mentioning it might be poking at open wounds.
Lars put a hand to his chin, thinking deeply as he would walk a little forward and then thought deeply. He had to tell her, the truth about him.
"Aki, I believe that transformation awhile back did more than just remove my Rinnegan, my ability to become a dragon as well. I believe the transformation turned me into a new form of being as the two immortal abilities fused and became one, converting my very chakra even. I had read books about it and can only refer to it as 'an abyssal one'. As frightening as this sounds, I need to see what has become of me. I was unable to devour and digest normal food, even drinking simple liquids has become dangerous to my taste buds. My body continues to reject all forms of food except for regular darkened black coffee. Though, whenever I'm near others, I become hungry, my nose takes in everyone's scent as delicious food. Well, all except yours anyways. I need to test this theory in the fire country."
He looks to the far left, noticing a large mass of energy collecting in the east of the village, nearby a small settlement of rogues and bandits.
"I'm going to go take care of an infestation problem in the Fire Country, hopefully you'll come with me. Not really to watch me test a theory, but perhaps to stretch our legs and do a little work. If not, we can just relax here and try to visit the streets of Konoha, maybe spend a little ryo."
