Training Grounds

[Irobashi]

Dark purple nails with a dark air to them faced the sky where it cast light to race across their edges. Miak's hands with locked together, palms up, over her head as she stretched her arms and back outward before letting them drop back down at her sides. Her thick blue braid swayed behind her down at her knees while her sleeves moved with her all the same. Her green and yellow gaze scanned the surrounding area for the people her scroll had named. Peh, she would await them in a suitable area that wasn't taken over by those her paper had not beckoned her to pester.

While having a team felt like a leap of faith that she'd been waiting for, it was also deteriorating her mood. She hated meeting new people, even if she didn't outright show unwarranted aggression towards them. The lack of trust in them was part of it on top of lack of knowledge on their personalities and behavior. She always chose to say that it was the actions of others that determined what kind of person they were, not their family backgrounds or whatever tall tales that they could come up with. She'd observe them for the time being and play nice, in silence. Being able to trust her team one day was a nice thought.. Her team. That too had a nice ring to it.

She continued on her stroll, slowing dramatically in comparison to the speed from before. That was another fun idea.. Almost like a game. Do not show them everything until they enlist their doubt through action. There was no need to show off or display everything she could do. Now that she thought about it... What COULD she do? Huhn.. It's not like she had much to display anyways.

Her expression shifted as her frown tightened out of dislike, the right corner pulling back with a sigh vented through her nose. She prayed they'd show soon, for leaving her to her thoughts proved just as tiring as running a lap around the world.


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[Smyles]

Arriving at the training grounds with Amaya, the clone of C would have a look around and spot one other member of the new team. He knew her name, but seeing her working hard at running laps he didn't want to disturb her. One more lap, then he would call out her name.

"Miak-Chan!" The clone of C waved, and brought his hand back in a motion of 'come over here' so they could be all together as a group. It was nice to see that there were two of the members already here, and being a jounin of the village he knew most of the notable genin pretty well. For example he knew that Miak was the Nibi, and that would mean she would have some special training in the future. Before he met Amaya he knew her name, but didn't know much about her. As for the third member all he knew was his name. Hakushi. It was only a matter of time before he would join them and form the full cell team.

[Irobashi]

Her feet touched soft ground that hid years of long and hard weathering. Secrets beaten into the ground and walked upon without second thoughts. If the Earth beneath their shoes could speak, if those in the area would listen, so many questions would be answered and so much would be learned. Even if learning all there was to know from the ground here took an eternity. It started somewhere, at some point, it had to end somewhere. Technically, today, it would not end. No, most likely not. As it is the Present, however, it is the last point in history thus far. Each second carries the timeline on and continues to take note of the tales being written here. Including that of the cell team's work today.

Bi-colored gaze shifted towards the one who called her out. It held onto the clone for a drawn out moment as Miak stopped and watched. Already she could see two members of this team she'd be assigned to. She drank in their appearances and demeanor before continuing forward like a large cat venturing silently towards the unknown. Her pace picked up once she found it safe enough to continue on and the distance a bit tedious.

Finally, when she'd reached them, she stood her ground at a good twelve feet away before locking her hands together, in a loose grip, behind her back. "You're C?.." Her face was as still as stone and as watchful as a hawk. Next, her eyes fell upon Amaya next, choosing to let them speak anymore before she did. Today would be a day of pure observation, unless by some miracle she felt comfortable enough to act differently.

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[anbukurono]

Taking his shortcut down the side of the cliff that overlooked the lower regions of the village, Hakushi reaches the entrance of the training grounds faster than even he expected. Walking some of the ways into the training grounds he sees that a small group seemed to have already arrive. Upon closer inspection, he'd recognize one of the people there as being Amaya. ~Hmm well if that's Amaya then that must mean the rest of these guys are the new members of the team.~ He thinks to himself before walking forward getting closer to the group.

Moving up within a noticeable distance to the gathered group that would be his team, Hakushi calls out to them. " Yo." He says with a smile motioning to the group, moving in closer to the group, stopping just in front of them.

[Amaya Arashi]

Amaya would look over the girl that had seemed to have been training there before they had arrived. He wonder as to the identity of this girl would quickly be answered when C calls out to her. That makes three of us. Now where's Hakushi? Amaya would think to herself wondering what was keeping Hakushi. That wonder wouldn't last long as Hakushi soon joins the rest of the group completing it. It wasn't a bad gathering from the looks of things, especially now that Amaya wasn't the only girl of the group. Only thing was to see whee things went from there.

[Smyles]

Bringing up his right thumb, the clone of C would poke himself in the chest. "My real name is Cloud, but because of this tattoo--" He paused for a moment to switch his thumb over to his shoulder, the Kumogakure Lightning tattoo stained into his skin. "I am called C." He finished with a smile, looking around all of the genin.

"Now that we're all here I want everyone to introduce themselves. Your name, nindo, and something special about you." The clone of C went on to say, eyeing each individual that stood in front of him. "I'll start. You know my name, my nindo is 'You can always become stronger, you just got to believe in yourself.'; And I am one of the fastest, and strongest shinobi in the village." Taking a deep breathe he finished, lowering his hands to his sides, and looking to Miak next for her response.

[Irobashi]

Uhuh...

Well, either their dearest Sensei was putting on a show or he was one to share background information. This would make getting to know these three easier, but it also may prove problematic if the very same was to be expected from her. Miak had no intention of giving up information about herself, not out of paranoia, but out of dislike. She didn't feel the need or want to do so. If anything, it put her on the spot and she greatly distastes that.

Loosen up and quit looking so sour.

The light mental scolding was a voice so familiar. She wasn't ever quite certain if they were her own thoughts or perhaps her conscious. Her annoying, finger-waving conscious.

Yeah.. Hey, there's another girl in the group? That could be fun?

Her silent gaze greeted the one called Hakushi before that met back with Amaya again. Hrn, she knew nothing about her. That would change, eventually. Perhaps too soon or not soon enough. That was always the conflict with Miak.

By the time C had finished his introduction, she'd looked back to find his eyes set on her.

What?? Oh.. Hell...

She soured again, on the inside.

Her jaw tightened and her ears tensed, pulling back as far as they'd go. That stare hardened, almost threatening C, even from her height. Of course, while her poker-face slowly began to look slightly more feral and aggressive, she meant no harm. "I'm Miak Doragon. No nindo." She wasn't going to bother even mentioning anything 'special'. Her 'thing' was to blend in with the background and out of sight. If anything, that might very well be her specialty. On top of that she was sure that at least the Sensei knew of what she was and no pride was to be taken in saying it.

Hi, I'm Miak, and most people think that I'm a monster.

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[anbukurono]

Hakushi knew that really the only two that he had had to listen for were C and Miak having already worked with Amaya for months prior so nothing she said would come as a surprise to him. From what he could tell of them C seemed to be more open than their previous sensei, going out of the way to say things that Miki would have called them too prideful for. Miak on the other hand seemed to like keeping things to herself rather than telling about herself. Maybe she'd open up more with time.

Deciding to go next in the introductions, Hakushi introduces himself. " I'm Hakushi Ichijun. 'Taking it to your own beat' is my nindo. As for something special about me, my style is kapawara." He responds flipping back on his hands, spinning on them with a kick before jumping back down.

[Amaya Arashi]

Amaya would listen to the introductions that everyone gave though she was already familiar with Hakushi and beginning to grow familiar with C's style. Miak was still plenty of a mystery to her however it didn't seem that they were gonna learn much of it today. Maybe that they were both girls she could learn some more about her later down the line. " My name is Amaya Arashi, I don't currently have a nindo though. As for something special, I've trained in kenjutsu almost as long as I can remember. I want to be one of the village's strongest kenjutsu fighters." Amaya would say feeling prideful about her personal goal.

[Smyles]

The real C would arrive to the training grounds, landing from a large jump next to everyone. In a flash he would release his clone in a cloud of smoke, and asses all information that his clone learned about his genin. Taking a moment he would bring a hand to his chin, and think for a moment.

Lowering his hand, and crossing his arms in front of him, C would speak in a sure fired tone. "Yosh. Looks like each of you have something special that we will work on. But for now its time for a team building exercise." He paused to look around the great field to see a lonely in the field. It was small, and crooked, but it was a mighty tree none the less.

"Your mission is to stop me from touching that tree." C pointed to the tree, letting everyone take a second to look at it, and see what they had to work with. "You have two minutes to prepare yourselves, I wont move until then. But heres the catch, you must come at me like you want to kill me." C finished, letting his Genin prepare themselves now.

[Irobashi]

She'd spotted the real C before he'd landed in next to them. It appeared that they'd all chose to share something about their fighting styles or a status that had to deal with fighting. Hn, perhaps it was best that she hadn't shared her first thought.

A team building exercise. I need to quit being such a stick in the mud, because that's worries m-

Was he serious? A brow raised at that, breaking her straight face. She was still that one person who would either be too picky about the cold water to even touch it or cannon ball in and soak everyone else. It didn't appear that there was ever any middle ground. The ten year old Genin figured that this might be amusing to him, in the end. If he touched that tree, she was going to be pissed.. If you don't care to begin with, you won't lose. At this moment, she cared, which meant that was a possibility and she did not want that. Wait- that last part.

Come at him like we're going to kill him? I don't think I could. Is he to return that favor? I don't really like this idea.. And the timidness returns.

She turned towards the rest, eying C once more before locking her focus on her team. Her team. It had a nice ring. "I would suggest we get going and on the way, see who brings what to the table. I'll start." A part of her detested her loss in desire to hide. On the inside, she cringed over it. Still, none of it stopped her. Miak took off on the spot, darting towards the tree that had been gestured too. On her first initial step she'd torn up ground. That was something special; her speed and agility. That was definitely something she took pride in. She worked to build her endurance and stamina every day. After awhile, you get used to the pain and learn to use it.

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[anbukurono]

From the sounds of things their first exercise was going to be tower defense style; they couldn't let him get past their defense to get to the tree. Only problem was they didn't really know anything about C's skills in order to prepare well enough. Seeing Miak retreat back towards the tree, he'd move back some as well. " Just like the Island Turtle test. We should trap the area around the tree to slow him down." Hakushi suggests remembering the Chuunin Exams finding the situation to be similar.

[Amaya Arashi]

" I've was on a mission with him earlier and from what he showed me, he's a skilled taijutsu user," Amaya would say passing on information that she knew about him from their mission. At very least, Amaya thought it would be helpful to the three of them if they at least had some information. " If we can keep him at a distance, we should at least be able to avoid his deadlier taijutsu." Amaya would say giving her own two cents in an opporation against C. While she had her Ranton, problem was that Hakushi was nearly pure taijutsu and Miak was a mystery in of itself. But either way, anything they could use the information for could be helpful.

[Smyles]

Seeing that everyone was at the tree now, C would begin his countdown. Two minutes, they had two minutes to prepare. So what was C to do during these two minutes? PUSH UPS! That's right. C dropped down to the ground, and began to do some push ups.

"One, Two, three, four, five...---" C mumbled out with every stroke of a push up. Sure it may look weird to his genin, but it was the only thing he could think of to do. Well that or sit ups, or stretches, or squats. There was actually a lot of exercise C could do, but he liked a good old fashioned push up.

[Irobashi]

Her heels dug into the ground and turned sideways as Miak skidded to a stop where they were to all meet outside of that tree. She took note of its height, the span of the branches, anything that could be used to C's advantage.

Taijutsu. Actually, that was good. We didn't have to... Would he count clones? Would he produce clones to fight them off while he went for the prize?

In response to both Hakushi and Amaya, Miak nodded before locking her hands together in a series of the needed hand seals. Next to her, her clone formed in the same position before the two stood with hands at their sides once more.

"I deal mostly with fire. On top of that, speed and agility. I could probably at least be a burden and stay in his way if he got close enough." Her clone spoke, eying the other two. Even the clone was beginning to loosen up a bit and stop hiding from the team.

"Right, as for traps, if we're doing any of that, I suggest we get started! Behr, traps, traps.." The real Miak looked around.

'We should just go ahead and let Hakushi plan that out. You have your job already.'

"Hakushi, you said you've done something similar before. I'm going to assume that you can take care of traps better than I can. Amaya, what can you do?" She looked Amaya over. She looked like she could handle her own just fine.

The longer they spoke, the more time that went by. Time was so precious. Time was the one thing that money could not buy.

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