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 Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 6:41 pm
Kageko arrived at the training grounds after a bit of searching and asking around. The villagers of Kusagakure were surprisingly nice to her, despite her not being a shinobi of the village, and were more than willing to help her out. As she started her customary stretching, the girl began to figure out what she should/could work on in an area as open and public as this. From the looks of it, it looked like her only option was to practice with her chakrams.
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Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 6:47 pm
Stage 6 Jounin
Stage Description: While a set pattern was established in the last stage, practitioners of the style at this level are skilled at copying and adapting to a multitude of styles even when in the midst of a battle. This is yet another show of the signature flexibility of the style. Further improvements in dexterity are made. At this stage, the entire hand of the practitioner can move so fast that only an experienced doujutsu user of the same rank or higher can read his/her hand movements, especially when preparing jutsus. Furthermore, phsyical dexterity isn't the only type of dexterity that has been trained throughout the style. The flexibility of the style also increase both mental and chakra dexterity. However, it isn't until this stage that such aspects are truly focused on. Be creative in how they are trained, just be sure to train them.
Stage Powers: The ability to create hand seals so quickly that only doujutsu users of the same rank or higher can read it. Improved chakra and mental dexterity also open up new possibilities.
Stage Jutsu:
Copy-cat- After the end of any battle or spar, the user is able to copy any weapon technique that they had seen. Only one technique may be copied from each battle and the technique can only be used with the chakrams. When the jutsu is listed in the character profile, it must be noted as a Copy-cat technique in some way or another. While the process is referred to as "copying" it still requires the correct number of training posts to gain the ability.
Kai (chakrams)- Not the usual "kai," this kai gives the user all of the abilities of the normal kai, plus a 50% chance of avoiding any genjutsus that the user normally wouldn't be able to dodge.
Blast- By focusing chakra into two chakrams, it is possible to create a cannon of sorts out of two chakrams by lining up the centers of both chakrams with the target. The first chakram collects and focuses the energy into the center of the "cannon" while the second chakram aims and further focuses the chakra into a beam that is then shot out. The power of Blast depends on the rank of the user, anyone of the user's rank or below cannot deflect the attack. The radius of the beam is 2 meters in each direction. Blast requires two posts of preparation but the aim can be adjusted at any time. While preparing the preparer cannot move at all.Kageko began the next stage of her training. At least, she liked to think of it as the next stage. She wasn't exactly following a set style and was kind of making things up as she went along, but she could definitely see how this training would differ from her previous training. While she had sort of focused on developing set attacks in the last stage, she figured that she also needed the flexibility to adapt to new situations in an instant. [1/16] Kageko figured to herself as she twirled her unsheathed chakrams around with her fingers, As she continued to try and think up of exercises to help her do just that, she continued to twirl the chakrams around her fingers out of boredom. Eventually, her mind drifted entirely from the exercises to her chakram-twirling as Kageko figured that she'd figure some out later. For now, she focused on how many different ways she could move her weapons. [2/16]
The addition of arm movement introduced another level of difficulty to the tricks. Now, not only did Kageko need to move the chakrams around, she also had to make sure that they were balanced so as not to fall down due to a simple twist of the arm or whatnot. At first, doing the stunt with both hands, even if they mirrored each other, resulted in multiple drops. However, Kageko kept at it, even challenging herself to go faster, which resulted in her dropping her Keys even more. Despite the early failures, though, the girl finally managed keep her drops to a minimum and even perform different, complementary, maneuvers with Yin and Yang. [3/16]
The legwork was next. Although it didn't affect the balance as much as the arm movements did, it did result in a bit of unsteadiness and a slight slow-down in speed at first. The speed and accuracy, however, were soon regained and Kageko could perform the same stunts while achieving different poses with her legs. Now came the hard part. Thinking up of hand-arm-leg movements that would make sense during a battle right when she performed them. Once again, she encountered difficulty. It already required a lot of focus to simply keep the chakrams from falling, much less think up of legitimate movements. Kageko reminded herself, Brutally challenging herself, Kageko kept at the movements, even if she had to go slowly. [4/16]
To her surprise, moving slowly was actually beneficial and she started to slow down her speed even more. The extremely slow pace allowed her to analyze and feel how she executed each and every move and gave her the time to make sure that she was performing everything with as much perfection she could muster. It even helped her with her physical strengthening, straining the muscles while moving slowly out of muscle-intensive positions strengthened her and her attempt to achieve perfection in every moment made sure that she was working everything out perfectly while attaining more control over her body. Even when she felt comfortable with the on-the-spot thinking, Kageko continued to move slowly. [5/16]
Of course, it wasn't like the girl to completely ignore progress for some static practice, even if that practice advanced her. When she found that she had no need to focus so much on which movements to make next, and she wasn't resorting to memorized movements either, Kageko made her training even harder with the addition of the chakra factor. Doing the same thing as she had done before, but adding in chakra-related techniques like Infuse and Endurance, Kageko found that she could improve her chakra control greatly in this way, much like she improved her control over her own body when she was moving it slowly. [6/16]
Finally, a full half hour after she added in the chakra factor, Kageko started to speed up a little. However, she even took the acceleration process at a painfully slow pace. Every time she increased her speed by a fraction of the total, the girl would make sure she was executing every move as precisely and as perfectly as possible. If she made a mistake, then she would simply redo the series of movements and try again. The hardest part of this training style was probably the moves that required momentum. Although she did try to limit them, Kageko felt that she would be cheating herself if she didn't practice controlling the speed of those moves and so forced herself to perform them every now and then. [7/16]
Eventually, Kageko managed to demonstrate what could be considered a normal speed for someone her age. That is, someone who wasn't a shinobi. Now the fruits of her labor could be somewhat seen and felt. Kageko felt more control in her movements and more precision. Still, though, she had to make sure that this control and precision could be felt at the speeds that she will most likely be moving at. [8/16]
Knowing what she had to do, Kageko continued to accelerate her movements, until she became nothing more than a blur. She was fast and agile thanks to her training with chakrams and in both the Stolen Salvation and Hidden Mist styles. Her hand movements were perfect and efficient, ensuring that she got the most out of whatever energy she used to execute an attack. Her control was flawless, allowing the girl to make sudden turns on a moment's notice. Sudden turns that would be integral to keep her fighting style flexible and unpredictable. [9/16]
Not only were her arm movements flawless, but so was the rest of her body. She could instantly turn a crushing attack into a light tap and vice versa with a single thought. Her arms were always under control when they needed to be and, as a bonus, seemed to be able to cover a wider area than before. Her legs and upper body, including her head, moved in perfect synchrony with her arms to achieve the desired result. Even when Kageko forced herself into an awkward position, she still managed to maintain a movement that was equivalent to her initial attack. [10/16]
Other than physical improvements, Kageko had also improved her chakra control. As she executed another flurry of movements, this one being one of the ones where she sharpened her weapons with Reinforce, Kageko continued to focus on how she controlled the chakra. As with her physical abilities, her chakra control had become much more refined and efficient, faster too. She was able to switch her chakra around at a moment's notice. While it probably was nowhere near that of a medical or genjutsu user's level of control, it was definitely a lot better than most weapon user's. [11/16]
Kageko continued to move at her current speed, attempting to move faster with the same amount of focus. Focus, that was key to her improvements. Keeping perfect track of so many aspects forced Kageko to stretch her mental limits. As a result, she had become able to focus much more on herself and her surrounding. A focus that she sorely needed to control void and keep her body moving. Even when her muscles were starting to burn and scream from moving at their fastest for so long, Kageko could still focus enough to keep up the control and efficiency from before. She continued training despite the pain; not just to increase her physical capacity and stamina but to also, now, become more focused. [12/16]
Finally, though, the girl had reached her limit. At least, she had reached her limits for when she was just training. No matter how determined one was when training, it can never really equal the adrenaline rush of a fight. Her legs unable to hold her up, Kageko finally fell to the ground lightly, mainly because of her light build, and simply lay down in the very comfortable grass for a long while as her muscles rested, their insistent screaming finally silenced. She knew that she would have to get back up very soon to finish up her training gradually and prevent any cramps, but for now, she was simply content with staring up at the sky while in the lush grass. Her entire body was worn out. She couldn't even move her fingers around to improve their dexterity. [13/16]
After about five minutes, probably a bit less, Kageko forced herself up while gritting her teeth against her very uncooperative muscles. However, she knew that if she didn't get moving again soon and probably cooled her body down, she would be experiencing much more painful cramps. she thought quietly in pain as she bent over to massage her muscles a bit with Shiatsu before standing up completely. The technique worked to lessen the pain considerably and Kageko could finally move again without experiencing too much. Stretching out again, the girl figured that she'd use this short cool-down as a review session of sorts as well. With that thought, she started moving and maneuvering with her chakrams. Kageko wasn't a blur as before, but she was still moving reasonably fast. [14/16]
While continuing to move at the reasonable pace, the jogging speed of her attacks, Kageko put the same amount of focus into each attack. Slowly, she began to slow down. In short, she was basically doing the reverse of what she had done at the start of practice. The deceleration, while not being hard to keep the movements perfect in, presented a challenge in control. Control to make sure that Kageko didn't slack off or move too fast. [15/16]
Finally, Kageko had slowed down to the painfully slow speed that she had started out at. After a couple minutes at that pace, she slowed down even further to a complete halt. Sheathing her chakrams, Kageko promptly fell down and allowed her body to rest completely. The sixth stage of the training had been hard for her, a chuunin, and it had taken a lot out of the girl. Despite that, though, Kageko was ecstatic. She could definitely feel the improvement her body had experienced thanks to the recent training session and it was refreshing to say the least. While she wasn't power-hungry, Kageko enjoyed improving herself through her own hard work; if this wasn't hard work, then she didn't know what was. [16/16]
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Posted: Sat May 29, 2010 6:02 pm
Copy-cat- After the end of any battle or spar, the user is able to copy any weapon technique that they had seen. Only one technique may be copied from each battle and the technique can only be used with the chakrams. When the jutsu is listed in the character profile, it must be noted as a Copy-cat technique in some way or another. While the process is referred to as "copying" it still requires the correct number of training posts to gain the ability.
As Kageko lay in the grass, resting, she noticed a couple of shinobi sparring with each other not too far away. With nothing else to do, the girl turned her head a bit and watched the practice fight from the ground. A maneuver of one of the shinobi's caught the girl's eye and she did her best to memorize it in the short moment that she had been allowed to see it in. Long after the two shinobi had finished their training and left, Kageko was running through the movements of the manuever, trying to dissect them and see if she could copy the move. [1/16]
After going through the maneuver in her mind about a million times, Kageko lightly picked herself up and was stretching in no time. After making sure that all of her muscles were ready for any strain that she decided to put them through, Kageko took a stance similar to the one that the shinobi she was trying to imitate had put on before performing the wanted maneuver. [2/16]
Using the same slow movements that she had used to practice with the general movements of her chakrams not too long ago, Kageko attempted to perfectly mimic every move that the opponent had made. Although she had good idea of the majority of the attacks, it was inevitable that Kageko be unable to remember completely all of the movements. The distance and speed at which they were executed kept her from analyzing each aspect closely. In short, she was going to have to make this up as she went. [3/16]
the girl thought to herself. The physical movements themselves were hard to mimic. If chakra had been involved, the maneuver would have been even harder to imitate even if it was only a simple chakra pattern. Complex chakra patterns would have been impossible. Sure, a chakra blade will be easy to fit in, but it would be impossible for the girl to imitate a jutsu without the use of a sharingan. In short, all she could really copy were weapon techniques. [4/16]
As she tried out a variety of movements and tactics to figure out which one would fit best into the hole in her memory, Kageko laughed a bit to herself as she noticed, It was no surprise that her history with the Uchiha's made her think of just general copying as a technique. Actually, she had realized with slight embarrassment a while ago that she was attempting to mimic the sharingan in a sense. However, that didn't stop the girl. Instead, it pushed her to do better. the girl thought for a brief moment before furiously shaking her head in a negative action to deny what she had just thought, As she vehemently denied any thoughts of possible equality, Kageko's determination grew as she worked even harder to copy the maneuver. [5/16]
Kageko launched a kick into the air and held it in that position for a while before returning her foot back to the ground and then launching another kick, very similar but with minuscule differences. Kageko had encountered a black spot in her memory that needed to be filled. She knew the general form, but couldn't be sure on how it was executed. The two slightly different kicks were part of a large trial run as the girl tried to find the best movement. A bunch of the trial runs were the same except for a minor difference here or there, but that minor difference could mean the world in a fight so Kageko was determined to figure out which would work the best. [6/16]
Despite her leg starting to feel like lead from all of the kicking, many of which she took in slow motion, the girl continued to push forward. Finally, Kageko decided on the best movement to use. Trying it out again one last time to make sure that it was the most efficient, the girl was pleased with the way it felt even when her legs were screaming at her to stop. [7/16]
Deciding to listen to her body a bit, the girl sat down, already sweating despite not having even reached the halfway mark. However, if experience served her right, then things would get faster the further she got into training a technique. That was always how things seemed to be. Maybe not time-wise, but it definitely felt faster. As she gently stretched out her legs, which were both on the verge of cramping, Kageko continued to think about the technique that she was attempting to copy. [8/16]
As Kageko thought, her lips moved in minuscule movements as she silently muttered about angles and guesses at the general chakra flow and how she could best interpret this general movement and that general movement. The pain that she had felt while attempting to go through all of the possibilities physically taught her that it was probably not the wisest things to attempt. Even if it was the surest way to ensure that Kageko had the technique perfect, she couldn't possibly try out every possibility of every movement without exhausting herself and taking too much time on a single technique. No, she needed to examine the techniques mentally and take out the ones that seemed most likely to be useless. [9/16]
With that idea in mind, Kageko continued to sit down and think, having already finished stretching her muscles. She picked and chose the different possible methods for each step. First she narrowed the choice to three-quaraters, then to two-thirds of that, then to half of that. At that point, she couldn't narrow down the possibilities anymore. Her planning done, Kageko finally stood up and started re-stretching her muscles, ready to finish up the imitation. [10/16]
Kageko returned to the initial position and reviewed everything that she had gotten. she thought to herself, Well, of course she remembered. It had only been a short break. Either way, she still needed to check. Now that the review session was done, she situated herself in a weird stance that was really a freeze-frame of one of the intermediary movements. [11/16]
Having whittled down the number of options for this part of the maneuver to three choices, Kageko's body wasn't screaming in pain from having to hold a position for too long too many times. Furthermore, from what she could see, she wasn't losing any of the best movements. In other words, brains and brawns was a lot better than just brawn. Kageko figured to herself after just a couple minutes of trying each movement out. [12/16]
Continuing her attempts to imitate the movements of the maneuver, Kageko found herself managing to choose the most likely movement much more easily than when she first started. After noticing this trend several more times in the course of her training, she took a pause to try and figure out why. With her head tilted thoughtfully to the side and her hand up to her mouth in the same manner, the ten year old simply stood there as her childish curiosity took over for a moment. [13/16]
the girl figured to herself after some time, She smiled to herself as she thought that, flexibility and the ability to cope to a wide variety of situation was always a good thing. It seemed that Copy-cat was helping her with just that. [14/16]
Now that the "mystery" was solved, Kageko ended her quick break and immediately went back to training. The mimicking went by even faster now. Kageko now knew that knowing the flow of a style was important in learning how it should really be used. With that knowledge, she was able to choose the best position even faster by taking the style into account. Much less guesswork was involved. [15/16]
Eventually, Kageko finished the last batch of movements, finishing the technique. To test it out, she performed the entire maneuver, from beginning to finish, without any pauses to fix mistakes. The girl pulled it off successfully and returned to a relaxed position. She had just managed to learn two things: a new maneuver and a way to copy the techniques of an opponent after seeing it just once with a bit of training. [16/16]
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Posted: Sat May 29, 2010 7:57 pm
A small child waddled into the training grounds with big eyes and a big grin. There was another person in this place he did not know. he walked over almost tripping a few times. He could see the girl glowing bright pink. She was content and happy. There was something else there to. A yellow glow deep inside her. it made him feel all shivery. He tugged on her arm, looked up at her with baby eyes, and asked "Miss, awe you an angel" with the most childish accent you can imagine.
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Posted: Sat May 29, 2010 8:14 pm
Kageko looked down at the tug on her shoulder to see a small child. "Umm.... No?" she responded with confusion, wondering why a child was out here all alone. Stooping down to his level, she asked, "Ermm.... Where are your parents? I can't see them anywhere. Are you lost?".
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Posted: Sat May 29, 2010 9:49 pm
"No, not wost" He said intelligently "i'm trying to find the cwoud viwwage". The kid was actually lost despite his efforts to be tough. He still smiled at the girl though. It was the kind of smile that made people love kids.
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Posted: Sat May 29, 2010 9:57 pm
Kageko, being only ten herself, wasn't as affected as an adult would be. Although, she did have to admit that the kid was cute. "If you're trying to find someplace," she returned, figuring from the conversation that they've been having so far that the small child was intelligent enough to understand her, "wouldn't that mean that you're lost?".
Kageko paused a bit, both to give the child time to think and to give herself time to figure out what to say next. She really wanted to help this kid, who seemed only one and a half despite every attempt to make him look older, but she had said that she would be in Grass until the chuunin exams were over and she could meet Axel again. she figured after a long time debating with herself,
After persuading herself, Kageko offered, "Do you want me to help you find the Cloud village? I've been there once and I have a map so I think I should be able to take you there."
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Posted: Sat May 29, 2010 10:14 pm
The kids face lit up like the fourth of july. "That wouwd be so nice" he exclaimed "But could you Cawwy me. I'm getting tiwed". He rubbed his eyes sleepily.
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Posted: Sat May 29, 2010 10:17 pm
"Umm.... Sure?" Kageko responded hesitantly, unable to refuse because it'd be too mean. There was a pause in the conversation as the girl tried to figure out how exactly she should carry this boy. "By the way," she asked as she wondered if she should carry him on her back or just cradle him in front of her, "Exactly how old are you and what's your name?".
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Posted: Sat May 29, 2010 10:42 pm
Ecclesiastes Yawned. "My name is Ecclesiastes, but you can caww me somethin shorter if you want." he smiled tiredly. as if reading her mind he said "you can give me a piggy back ride if you want."
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Posted: Sat May 29, 2010 10:50 pm
"Alright then," Kageko responded cheerfully as she turned around and offered her back to the kid, "Get on. By the way, my name's Kageko." She paused a bit as the kid got on before asking, "What does your name mean? I can't think of a decent way to shorten your name, maybe I can think of a nickname with the meaning?".
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Posted: Sat May 29, 2010 11:02 pm
As he climbed on when they were leaving he responded. "I think it means one who gathers." sleepily again before nodding off. He'd probably wake up when they got to cloud.
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Posted: Sat May 29, 2010 11:06 pm
Kageko nodded and stood up, walking out of the training grounds and towards the village gates while trying to think of a reasonable nickname. As she thought, she could hear the rhythmic breathing of the sleeping child on her back.
-Exit-
(OOC: Does this mean I get to auto-move your character?
EDIT- I, ermm, guess I'll take your lack of a response as a "yes". If it wasn't, then I'm really sorry >_< !)
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Posted: Sun May 30, 2010 12:28 am
(yes it was ok. sorry for forgetting xp )
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Posted: Sun May 30, 2010 10:23 am
Kyo entered the training grounds, but saw no one around. He pulled out his satchel and looked at the scrolls in there. Suiton...kamisama....battoujutsu...he had a lot left to learn. He pulled out the kamisama scroll. Only two left on this one, i'll get those out of the way first, He thought to himself.As he read over the scroll, he noticed he would need a genjutsu dummy."Well, I can probably find one of those at the academy."He turned and quickly vanished to the academy.
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