Mr Nim

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Can't wait for this to start ^^

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Yoshikuni Kageshiba

Name: Yoshikuni Kageshiba || Kageshiba Yoshikuni
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Race: Spriit

Appearance:


Height:
1.67m
Weight:
50kg
Hair color:
Pink
Eye color:
Blue
Skin-tone:
Fair

Personality:
Yoshikuni has two personas. One she uses when she is disguised as a human, and another when she is in her spirit form.

While in her human disguise, she is rather cheerful and enjoys the company of others deeply, but hates being in the sun or anywhere which might have too much light. She also dislikes flashlights, computers and TV due to them producing light, but she can tolerate using them or being around them if she needs to. She is rather outgoing and would love to get her hand on people, and seem to also like it when two people's shadows are touching, as if their shadows are kissing or hugging.

While in her spirit form, she keeps her cheerful attitude, but also seem to have a tendency of talking about people's shadows as little snacks. She also tried to get people to have their shadows touch hers, mainly due to the fact it allows her to eat their shadow slowly until they lose conciousness. Her dislike of light also seems to become greater while she is in spirit form.

Quirks:
Enjoying when shadows touch each other, lick her fingers after touching a person's shadow and also lick her lips at the sight of a rather large shadow.

Likes:
The Dark
Shadows
Her job at the bakery
Spending time around other people
Anything that can be done in the dark

Dislikes:
The Light
Anything that can make a place lighter
Seeing a shadow vanish
Fire (She dislikes the heat)

History: ---

Occupation: Student, also works at a local bakery.

Parameters:

Code name:
Shadow
Spirit number:
15
Angel:
Leliel
(He manifests as a small scale moon, a bit smaller than Kurumi's angel)

Weapon:
Shachor:


When combined with Leliel, it becomes Hoshech:


Astral Dress:
Laila:
(She wears it closed.)


Risk Factors:
D
Spacequake:
E

Strength: 100
Consistency: 160
Spiritual power: 140
Agility: 70
Intelligence: 140

Ability:
Shadow Controling - Yoshikuni has several powers that she can use from this ability.

It gives her the ability to literally eat another person's shadow. When she does, the person will feel weak, and its possible to also be knocked out, but she cannot kill through this. She must consume a shadow once every while in order to maintain her own life, which can be shown by looking at her own shadow, which will slowly become grey if she takes too long between her shadow meals.

She can also manipulate shadows with her staff, make the shadows bind a person and also attack by sending the shadows at someone, and the shadows will be sent towards the person as if they were arrows, which dissolve a couple of moments after hitting a surface. She can do so by waving her staff in the direction of the attack, and she is able to bind others by spinning her staff. She can also have the shadows protect her by tapping on her leg twice, making a shield out of a shadow around her.

When she calls out Leliel, her angel, he is manifested as a small moon behind her, and she can shatter the dark orb on her staff in order to replace the orb with a miniature version of Leliel, which makes her staff turn into an advanced version of her weapon. This makes her control over the shadows much more advanced, but also takes a lot more from her to use. An additional power she gains from Hoshech is the capability of making a shadow sword, which she can wield in her open hand and use that to attack directly.

Date A Live - Alternate

Well, I believe he said its "First cme, first served."

So you'll just need to be quick about once the applications are up! :D

Date A Live - Alternate

I'm also interested! :D

Leaking Worlds (Horror/Exploration/Mystery RP)

Heh, I already like the idea. Especially the part about ripping the life out of chars. Count me in!

Naruto : The Rise of The New Generations

One on One Session
Kumoga and Tora

A collab between Glitchy and Mr Nim

Summary: Tora and Kumoga have their first one on one session, which serves as an introduction session.

1 on 1

Kumoga was told not to be late, so instead she took it upon herself to arrive early. It was partially due to a slight eagerness to find out what exactly Tora's one on one sessions were going to entail, but mostly she wanted to leave a good impression by being a bit more than just punctual. She could already see the field and slowed down to a measured walk, now she could see Hatake-sensei and once she stopped, standing just in front of Tora, she gave a small bow in greeting. "I'm a bit early, Hatake-sensei, I hope that's okay."

Smiling to her student, Tora nodded her head "It is perfectly fine Kumoga. I arrived here a few moments before you. Seeing you are here, we can go ahead and get started." She said and then moved to the center of the training field, motioning to Kumoga to come join her as she sat down with her legs crossed "This isn't a test of skill. This is so I can get to know each one of you better, and understand better what makes each of you keep going. Its vital that the leader of a team will understand his team, but I assume you already know that." She said.

Quietly and at her sensei's gesture, Kumoga walked up to join her at the centre of the field and sat herself down as well, sitting on her knees with her hands gently resting on top of them. "I do not know much about leadership, actually..." She admitted, looking a little bit down-trodden with her answer.

"Thats not how I saw it in the training earlier. You were the one who gave instructions to everyone at the beginning, when you were chasing Kakashi. Was that just because you thought it was right at the time? Because things like that don't just show up out of no where." Tora said, and looked at the ground. She took four small stones and place them in front of Kumoga, with three of the stones facing the forth one "Tell me what did you think when you made the plan to catch Kakashi." She said and moved to look at Kumoga.

Mostly, Kumoga watched what Hatake-sensei was doing, placing the stones down as she was. But she listened to what she said and gave a brief nod. "I simply thought it would be possible to capture him using my webs, like a spider would natually capture it's prey, having the other two to assist in chasing and directing him towards the web I made caused for capture to be more likely... I guess I treated it more like I was hunting him instead of trying to get those bells from his tail." She explained, looking at the stones as if trying to figure out why they were even there.

Nodding, Tora motioned to Kumoga to take the three stones "I am going to give you a scenario now. And the three stones that you will control are you and your team. The forth stone is one of a target, one which needs to be captured alive and interrogated. After the interrogation, he may be disposed of. Now tell me how you will capture him, who will interrogate him, and who will be the one to dispose of him, after how you saw each of your teammembers act earlier today. " She said and then straightened up, waiting to see what will Kumoga do in this scenario.

Kumoga picked the stones up and looked at them for a few moments, thinking carefully. "I figure that I would attempt to capture the target myself, with my venom and webbing it would be easier to get him out of the way, but I cannot be sure about the interrogation and disposal... Shiratori-san might be good for the interrogation, but she seems to have a desire to kill more than anything, meaning she may get in over her head and kill the target before getting the information needed. Fujiwara-san was very quiet and, if anything, blunt. Despite that he could possibly work better for interrogation, seeing as he would get straight to the task and be able to control himself, unlike the doubt I have over Shiratori-san. Would it be possible to set both of them onto the interrogation, as to allow Fujiwara-san to stop Shiratori-san if she were to go too far?" As she spoke, she set one stone down first as herself and held the other two stones carefully, one in each hand whilst discussing the thoughts she had.

"You need to do the mission as quickly and quietly as you can without attracting attention. So, you need to think more carefully. Would putting two people on the same task be efficent for the mission?" Tora asked, liking how Kumoga was thinking about all of the options at hand.

"I guess not, going by my impression of Shiratori-san, she has knowledge of the human body like no other on the team, meaning she should reasonably know how and where to apply pressure or to cause pain to. And unless the target was especially hardy or strong of will, they would crack quickly... And that would leave Fujiwara-san for disposal, so long as he was able to find an adequate place to get rid of the body..." Pausing once more, she looked to Hatake-sensei for some form of response to her set-up.

Tora looked at the set up and thought about for a moment "I think the set up is good. Shiratori is indeed the best choice for the interrogation, and the way Fujiwara follows instructions makes him a very good choice for disposing of the body, as he is likely to find a good spot as Shiratori will perform the interrogation. And now I want you to ask yourself this." She said, picked up the forth stone and threw it backwards, where it hit a tree and fell backwards "What would be the first thing you will do if one of them failed in their part?"

Apparently it was a good plan, it was reassuring that Hatake-sensei thought as such about what she put together. Although the option of one of them failing their part brought concern. "Well... were it entailing that hte target was able to escape before they were finished, I would attempt recapture and send a clone to make sure that whomever failed their part is still alive and well." It seemed simple enough, right?

"That is fine and well, but that is not what I meant. What if Shiratori caused the person to die during the interrogation? What if Fujiwara fails to hide the body well enough, and it is found? what would you do then, as you were the one responsible for the mission's failure, as the team leader?" Tora asked, now her voice turned into a bit more serious, and it would become very clear that Tora is trying to lead Kumoga somewhere.

Kumoga was trying to think about it, the role of leadership did mean being held responsible for both successes and failures, and that was something she dreaded, the responsibility. She didn't feel cut out for such a thing, where it was down to her that something did or didn't happen, regardless of if it was actually her fault or not. "I... Do not know, perhaps I would have to find a way to correct whatever caused them to fail. Such as curbing Shiratori-san's appetite for killing. I would have to try and recover the situation as much as possible though, get myself and the other two out of the area to prevent being captured ourselves. As well as accepting the cost of failure when we return." Hatake-sensei's tone of voice was deeply concerning her as she tried to figure out what she was meant to do.

"Those are the right things to do." Tora said and then looked at Kumoga "But as of now, I am not looking for another leader in the team. I will give everyone a chance to lead the team at one point or another, but right now, you need to remember you are in a team. If you go and bark out orders, it is not fine, even if they follow you without arguing. I want that in the upcoming mission, you will talk and form a plan with your team instead of on your own, because they might be able to point out things you will not think of." She said, and then looked at the three stones "You did notice that you hesitated in putting the other two down, and only placed your stone down within a moment?"

What Hatake-sensei had to say about the way she took leadership brought the beginnings of a frown to Kumoga's face, looking down herself as she continued to quietly listen to her. "It is somewhat the reason why I do not think of myself as being capable of leadership, I am too prone to acting alone in favour of having a team to work with. Collaborative efforts are not a strong-point of mine." She paused for but a moment at the question. "That is because I know what I am capable of, having only known Shiratori-san and Fujiwara-san for such a short amount of time I would find it difficult, if not impossible, to know what they're fully capable of. It would take more time to be able to make such a confident decision with those two as I did myself."

Tora smiled again before taking the stone Kumoga placed down and put it in the young girl's hand "How will you ever learn more about your teammates, if you rather bark out orders than to hear what they have to offer. That is exactly one of the reasons they placed you in a team. So you will learn how to cooperate better with others. It may appear like it comes naturally for some, but for most its something that needs to be worked on. Thats why on the next mission, I want to see you not just go and tell the others what to do, but to ask for their opinions, as a beginning. See if they have anything to offer." She said and stood up "We are not done yet, but this part is over. Come." She said and begun walking in the direction of the tree which was behind her.

With the stone she had first set down in her hand now, Kumoga looked up to Hatake-sensei as she explained what was supposedly one of the reasons why she was put into a team, by the end of it she simply nodded in confirmation and stood up after Tora did to follow her to the tree. "What more is planned for this session, if it's not too much to ask?"

Walking beneath the tree, Tora looked up and jumped, grabbing a branch with her hands and then moving to sit on it "What we are going to do now is fairly simple. I want you to tell me about yourself. Family, how went the academy, and your combat abilities. You don't have to over describe anything, but I want to learn to understand you and your teammates better, which means getting to know you better. After you'll describe your life and combat abilities, you may ask me anything about myself. There are some things I won't answer, but most of the questions I shouldn't have any problem with answering." She said.

"Oh, well I am unsure if you've heard much of the Dobustu clan, but the main body of our clan are travellers and unless someone wishes to settle down we pretty much stay as unaffiliated with a specific village, most members of the clan are taught techniques revolving around arachnids. For example my webbing." She explained and showed as she spoke, webbing spooling from the tips of her fingers before she whipped it up to the branch above Hatake-sensei's and with practiced ease, she swung up and landed on the branch.

"The academy was okay, I was very quiet during that though, but I graduated, else I wouldn't be here. I was even part of a team before this one..." The young kunoichi came to a quiet point as she brought that up herself. "But there were a few problems, so I was moved to a new team, which is your one. I would not say I am very combat capable though, at least not in a direct fight, in a fight where I can conceal myself and out-manoeuvre my opponents I am best, but I do have a heavy reliance on my webs sometimes."

Nodding as she listened, Tora looked carefully at how Kumoga created her web with ease and brought herself to stand on the same branch she sat on. The fact she was in a team before this one didn't surprise her, as she did get to read her file, but she wanted to see how much she was willing to share, and she slowly got her answer "Okay. We will work on your combat skills, so I will show you how to turn a direct fight into a fight which suits you, as well as work on how much you relay on the webs. But go on." She said.

"Most members of my clan have special glands that allow us to create webbing from our hands and the base of our spines, as well as these fangs-" The girl showed what she meant, revealing amongst her normal teeth that her canines were in fact longer than normal. "-that have a venom in them to debilitate and nauseate someone we bite, I have been told there is another use for them, but that technique is reserved for when I'm more capable." Now she paused and looked to Hatake-Sensei. "What sort of techniques are you capable of using?"

Smiling, Tora opened her mouth and let out a small stream of water without doing any seals. After a moment she closed her mouth and then looked at Kumoga "I mastered Water and Wind releases. I can also use Shadow clones and you already know that I have a summon who can use shadow clones as well." She said and leaned slightly backwards while holding the branch with both hands, tilting her head backwards to watch a nest of birds with a small sparrow warming its eggs.

"That did surprise me when he turned out to be able to use clones as well... Is there anything that's unique to you? Like my clan and our webs, I do not doubt that there's something you can do that no one else is able to do." Kumoga's curious stare was focused on Hatake-sensei, she'd been given free-reign to ask her sensei about anything, so why not use it to find out what she could do as well? It was metaphorically an eye for an eye, after all.

"Well, lets just say that I have something that I prefer to avoid using unless its extra dangerous or a situation in which I will not have any other choice. But until then, you'll be safer not knowing about it." Tora said and gave her a smile and she moved back to a proper sitting position on the branch "Anything else you'd like to ask before we wrap up this session?" She asked, and already knew who she wanted to have the next 1 on 1 session with, but she will schedule that session for tomorrow.

Now Kumoga seemed extremely interested, despite being told that she'd be safer not knowing she wanted to know more due to he dangerous nature of it. Upon the prompt of any other questions, she gave a small nod. "What sort of things do you do, outside of training and missions? Like hobbies or places you like to go to?"

"Hmm... Good question." She said and did a small flip to hang herself from the branch with both hands "I enjoy taking walks around the village, reading a nice book and talking to people I know. Meeting new people is always nice, but doesn't happen too often, unfortunately." Tora said before letting go of the branch and land on the ground like a cat.

There was a small nod of understanding as Hatake-sensei explained in little detail what she liked to do outside of shinobi work. "I mostly stay at home and spend time with my parents or my spiders." Despite mentioning it, she was sure that she'd already given off a rather introverted impression when they'd first arrived at the training field earlier that day. "I have nothing else I want to find out, Sensei. So I guess this session is over, yes?"

Nodding, Tora gave Kumoga a smile "We are indeed done. It was a good session, and should you ever feel the need to want to talk to me or train, you can always come and tell me. I'll help you anyway I can." She said and motioned to her to come down off the tree "It was a delight learning more about you." She said and wondered if the session would count as good in her student's eyes.

Kumoga dropped from the branch and caught it briefly with her webbing to ease her landing before she bowed slightly. "It was really interesting finding out a bit about you, even if I did a lot of the talking... I will come find you if I need help at all." After that, she flashed a smile. "I will be on my way now, sensei. But I should admit that you have me extremely curious about that thing I'm safer not knowing about, it seems to be a rather important thing if it is so dangerous to just know about."

Tora returned a small bow in return "Well, lets hope you won't ever need to see me use it." She said and then watched as her student walked away from the training field. This was a good session, and it felt like Kumoga, even while she still had a bit of work to do with her, was someone she will get along with. Which was something important for the team. She hoped that Takeshi and Naoto will be the same as Tora begun walking away, leaving the training field as well and then walking in the direction of her house, wondering what she will eat for dinner.

Naruto : The Rise of The New Generations

Next achievement is the 1111 post. WHO SHALL GET THAT?

We have to wait and find out.

Also, I find the lack in Shadow's presence disturbing.

Naruto : The Rise of The New Generations

Chou Minori

After what she considered was a very average morning, Chou was all set to go. Living on her own meant she was always the boss of herself, which made it somewhat hard for her to get orders from others. But that was something she knew she would eventually get used to. She opened her scrolls and made sure she had enough weapons sealed in them before closing both of them and putting the medium one on her lower back, using a small rope to make it stay there and the small scroll in her pouch. She had already recieved orders to arrive at the docks, and that was what she was going to do.

She quickly left her small apartment and locked it before beginning to walk, taking a bit to leave the building in a quiet manner. Chou then walked in a faster pace outside, arriving at the docks about 20 minutes later and wondering if she arrived too early. She looked at the sea, not being able to see its edge, and wondered where her old mentor was now.

Naruto : The Rise of The New Generations

Getting ths second bell

A Collab between Mr. Nim, Solokolos, Glitchybugger and Alternatan

Summary: Naoto Shiratori, Kumogatarui Dobustu and Takeshi Fujiwara are heading toward their sensei; Tora Hatake after succeeding in getting the first bell. Now they will be going after the second, but this is easier said then done..

Collab

Naoto's response, saying how whomever is able to get the bell should get it if there was a second bell, brought a small nod from Kumoga as they kept moving ahead. "Let us just work together so that one of us can get it, then." The comment was idle and unneeded, but she had to say it, she felt. Although her team-mate's apparent eagerness to kill did disturb the girl slightly, especially if that giggle was anything to go by.

Kumoga's comment lead Naoto to nod in agreement, taking in the sights around them. She suddenly turned to Kumoga excitedly, and smiled broadly, "What are those spider web things, anyways? They're so cool!" She asked quickly, ignoring the formalities of names and titles. Naoto suddenly seemed very childish, wanting only to know more about the people around her.

A question about herself? It seemed harmless enough, despite how... odd her ally seemed to be. "Well... They're unique to my clan and aren't too different from those on a spider, through the use of chakra I can start spinning webs without any fuss, it doesn't take a lot to use either. But these are naturally occuring to the clan now, older members used to have to acquire them through extensive surgery." Maybe that was enough of an explanation, she didn't want to get into too much detail after all, it might get boring hearing the intricacies of these things.

All the while when the girl were talking, Takeshi followed them silently. He was very happy about getting one of the bells and was now focussed on helping the two girls out when getting theirs. It was not his intention to eavesdrop but he could not help overhearing their conversation. Naoto's giggly and sudden display of childish interest and playfulness was really cute in his opinion. Kumoga on the other hand turned way more serious than she looked in the beginning. Takeshi did not know either of them well enough to form a stable opinion but for now he decided 'cute' and 'friendly' were good words to start with.

When Kumoga mentioned surgery, Naoto perked up, obviously more interested then before. "What kind of surgery?" She asked simply, taking note of Takeshi following them. He seemed to be lost in thought, but at the same time attentive to his surroundings. Naoto wasn't very good at multi-tasking, so this interested her as well, and without realizing it, began to stare outright at Takeshi. Her eyes held vague interest as she studied him, scanning up, and down his body carefully, as if looking for weaknesses. It didn't seem threatening, just like it was a nervous habit.

Questions about the procedures used? Kumoga didn't quite understand what went on back then, so she thought for a moment. "Uhh... Well I didn't learn much about how it was done, but it was bodily modifications to allow use of the glands implanted in their fingers and the base of their spine. It's all more than I know, really."

"Glands, huh?" Naoto said switching her attention between Takeshi and Kumoga quickly. She seemed to run out of things to stare at on Takeshi, so she instead turned her attention forward. She felt like they were getting closer, so she wordlessly reached for her wazikashi, unsheathing it with practiced ease. Her footsteps seem to disipate into the sounds of the forest, as she became more careful with her walking.

Takeshi thought Kumoga's power and how it worked mighty interesting, the one moment he focussed back on his surroundings he saw Naoto looking at him, taking up his whole posture. The unusually tall genin had to blush a little, never had a girl so obvioulsy looked at him. he cracked a small smile, something that most of the time fends off a stare. Naoto did not look at his face but still focussed her view back into the direction they were going. Takeshi saw a hint of light, they appeared at the edge of the forest where they left off to find Kakashi and found Tora-sensei standing in the same spot they left her.

Kumoga nodded briefly. "Indeed, you would need to ask an elder of my clan, but I strongly doubt they would be willing to impart such knowledge to an outsider." Hopefully that would put a lid on Naoto's curiosity for now as they would arrive out at the training field where Hatake-Sensei and Kakashi were. "We got the bell, Sensei, Fujiwara-san has it."

Smiling as her students approached her and informed her that Takeshi has the first bell in her possession, Tora nodded before speaking "Thats good to hear. I was a bit fearful that Kakashi might've tried to take a bite out of you, but you did well. Now, for the second bell." She said and pointed at the tree behind her "Naoto and Kumoga, since you two do not have the first bell in your possession, you will be racing up this tree to retrieve the second bell. You will find it tied to the highest branch. But I feel the need to warn you that some branches are more fragile than others due to the tree's age, so be careful with your steps. Takeshi, you will stay here. I wish to give you a different kind of task." She said and looked at the three young genin who stood in front of her.

Kumoga's direction towards the elder of her clan for more information, and the unlikeliness it would be obtained, got through to Naoto pretty solidly. Kumoga might have known more, but Naoto wasn't going to force her to tell her about the pretty webs, and their history. Kumoga personally announced that Takeshi had gotten the bell. Naoto nodded in agreement, and listened closely as Hatake-sensei first praised them, then went on to explain the second part of the challenge. Since Kumoga, and herself, lacked a bell they would have to climb the tree and retrieve the second bell from the highest branch. Naoto took note of the part about the branches being fragile, beginning to come up with a plan as she studied the area around the tree, taking note of nearby foliage that could assist in climbing.

Takeshi smiled brightly as Tora-sensei praised her team to manage getting the first bell. Takeshi let it rang a little to clarify its presence. He couldn't have done it without the help of the two girls, espicially Kumoga's webs came in handy, he smiled at the two girls as if he were to say Good job you two. He turned back to Tora-sensei as she annouced the second part of theri assignment, which was to retrieve a bell from a treetop. Takeshi got pumped and was about to say he would help the girls as Tora-sensei siad she had something different in mind for him. So he stood idly by awaiting further orders after nodding in confirmation that he understood what she said.

The second part of the task, climbing the tree to the highest branch and getting the second bell? That seemed too easy, even with the warning of fragile branches. "...Everything is not as it seems, yes, Hatake-Sensei?" She would suddenly ask with a sideways glance. "Then we should be ready for anything." Immediately afterwards she threw a comment to Naoto, a secondary warning as Kumoga approached the tree and placed her hand on the trunk, then placing another and she began her own climb, using a technique of her clan to make the fine hairs on her body akin to that of a spider's and enhancing her grip.

"You could say that." Tora said to Kumoga before looking at her climbing in her own, unique way. Deciding she was going to be interesting to teach, she turned to look at Takeshi "Take out your bell and then focus your chakra on it. I want you to try and make it ring without moving it from between your hands. This means you need to stay perfectly still. It is a test for me to see how well your chakra control is." She said, and gave him a smile which was supposed to tell him it is a fairly simple test, while it wasn't.

Naoto noted Kumoga's warning, feeling that this tree was some sort of illusion, meant to grab their attention, and distract them from the real problem. So Naoto walked around the tree scanning the trees around it for something that would make climbing easier. When she saw a nearby tree with low hanging branches, she had an idea. She walked over to it, and pulled herself up onto the branch, before scanning the area around her. She repeated this proccess a couple times, reaching the top of the tree she had chosen, before making a short leap to another nearby tree. Unfortunately she missed the branch she was aiming for, and crashed into a branch below, barely holding on. The branch striking her knocked the breath out of her, causing her to gasp for air, before her lungs finally decieded to work again. After she felt ready, she began climbing this new tree branch by branch.

Takeshi looked at Tora-sensei with a bewildered look on his face. He had quite a lot of chakra but his control had some space to improve. He took a seat on the ground and crossed his legs. He laid his arms across them, his hands cupped together with the bell in it. Takeshi took a deep breath and closed his eyes whereafter he remained completely still, focussing all his thoughts on the bell in his hands. Chakra flowed around in his body and Takeshi tried to direct it directly towards the bell while the two girls were furiously trying to get the second bell out of the rigged tree.

Kumoga's ascent was quick thanks to her technique, being careful to watch for the weak branches, not that she needed them. But without warning one of the tags that Tora had planted was set off by her approach due to the chakra being used, and it went up in a bright flash that utterly broke the girl's concentration, not to mention temporarily blinding her with it. In the loss of concentration she couldn't grip the tree any longer and started to slip, quickly becoming a fall as she let out a brief shriek of shock and began trying to grasp for the branches she couldn't see. Although as luck would have it she collided with one and hand enough of a chance to grab it. "...I never expected that..." A groaning complaint escaped her, clinging to the branch and waiting eagerly for her eye to readjust so she could begin her work again.

Hearing a blinding tag go off above her, Tora looked up to see Kumoga just barely catch a different branch. Enjoying the sight of one of her student's quick reflexes, she decided that she will let those two go all the way to the top before going to see who got the bell. She moved to look at Takeshi again, who was now doing as he was told "Try to visualize the bell and the small marble within that makes the ringing. That should help." She said and moved slightly closer to him before sitting down on the ground with her legs crossed and closing her eyes.

Naoto saw a burst of light on the other side of the tree they were supposed to climb, and blinked surprise, wondering what had caused it. "Maybe Kumoga used some sort of jutsu," She reasoned to herself out loud, before proceeding with her plan. Naoto kept climbing, quickly reaching the top of her current tree. After taking a short look around, she found that the easiest path would be to jump from the tree she was on to the tree with the bell on it. If she succeeded she would only have to climb 10 feet to get to the bell! Naoto grinned, feeling accomplished as if she could already hear her sensei's praise. Naoto began measuring the distance, before making the leap to the nearest branch, and immediately triggering an explosive tag. The explosion deafened her, and threw her back the way she had came, causing her to fall for what felt like an eternity, before she came to her senses, and reached out to grab a tree branch. She caught herself, but the force of her fall pulled a muscle in her left hand, making her cry out in pain and let go of the branch. Luckily she landed on a branch that was right below the one she had grabbed at. She slumped back against the tree, her eyes growing wet from the pain.

The one male genin of team Hatake sat on the ground but had a hard time concetrating because of the screams of his teammates, the sound of the explosions and the flashes of light that came with it. The chakra flow in his body came to a standstill and flowed back into an idle state. Takeshi sighted while his eye muscles tightened. He graoned softly and shifted his weight around before relaxing again. He heard the word of Tora-sensei encouraging him. Takeshi shut out the world around him and slowly breathed while all sound ceased to excist and total darkness evelopped him. His thoughts fowed to the bell, he could see the bell laying in his hands. shining, silently waiting for his chakra to reach it. Takeshi sat completely still he looked tranquill, one with nature. The genin releashed his chakra directing it slowly but steadily through his arms to the bell and eventually succeeded to let it ring ever so slightly, but Takeshi was not satisfied yet, he would not stop untill he would et it rang loudly! those thoughts broke his chakra flow for a moment before Takeshi poured all of his chakra through his arms towards the bell.

"Trapped branches.... Will need to keep a look out for any hints of those, or test myself.." Kumoga pulled herself up onto the branch, however wobbly it was and paused, looking up and down the tree as she held a hand out and slowly spooled some of her webbing out. "How about.... you?" She flicked her wrist and whipped the webbing up into the air, letting the wind carry the threads over to the branch she was looking at and they wrapped lightly around it. Nothing. That was very good, so with her safety confirmed this time, she quickly flung out her other arm to send more webbing up to the branch so she could pull herself up via climbing it. Once upon that branch she tested her method again and flung fresh, chakra-laced webbing to the next branch she picked, which exploded upon nearing it. "Proximity traps, maybe? But that would mean I cannot even get close." Kumoga inwardly spoke after flinching, a reactionary attempt at protecting herself. She'd continue this method then, of loosing her webs to test the branches, and once deemed safe, she'd continue her climb. It was a slightly tiring procedure, and would of course take time, but she was sure she had plenty of that.

Opening one of her eyes to look at Takeshi, she could see clearly he was focusing very well. Perhaps even too well, as she heard a small ring and then nothing. Moving to her knees, Tora approached Takeshi and looked at him "Open you eyes. Now." She said, and sounded serious and concerned, as if he might've done something wrong. She also slightly feared that if he used too much chakra, then the small marble inside the bell had been forced outside the bell and lunged itself into the flesh of one of his hands. She had already seen it happen before, at her own team training. And when she examined the hands, she could already spot the small marble, which went inside his left hand's palm. She then begin pressing next to the marble gently, doing it slowly and as least painfully as she could make the small marble leave the tiny wound.

Naoto began mentally beating herself up for not seeing it coming. The branches were trapped, and she hated that she didn't think about it earlier. She looked down at her left hand, where she could still feel her wrist throbbing. She tried to move it, but that led only to more pain. Naoto sighed, accepting that she would have to climb with one hand, knowing she would not make it quickly to the top of tree as easily as she was planning before, maybe not at all. Resigned to her fate, Naoto began her upward journey once again, using her right hand alone to climb the branches. It was a good five minutes before she made it to the spot she had been at before, though this time the branch she had jumped before was barely a stump on the tree. Naoto scanned the branches near it, and drew a kunai, immediately throwing it at the branch. A flash of light burst from the branch, temporarily blinding Naoto for a few seconds, and almost making her fall again. She now better understood the obstacles in front of her, and also knew what the earlier burst of light had been. She inwardly hoped that Kumoga had been injured as bad as she had.

Takeshi surged chakra through his arms into the bell, it rang, hard but short. he tried again and again but no sound come out "Open your eyes. Now." Tora-sensei's voice resounded in his head, breaking his concentrating and bringing him back to this world. He looked right into Tora-sensei her worried face. Takeshi followed her gaze to the tiny wound on his hand. His eyes grew big, the surprise greater than the pain. The bell had an exiting hole and apperantly the marble buried itself inside his hand "how..." started Takeshi but quickly grinded his teeth as the pain overwhelmed the surprise as Tora-sensei was craftily removing the marble out of his hand. The young genin hoped he passed the test...

Kumoga's ascent continued mostly uninterrupted as she loosed webbing to test for trapped branches and then climb higher, on the other side she could hear Naoto still working and briefly saw the flash of light that she'd just set off. There wasn't much more to go, it seemed, she was already quite a way up the tree and all she'd suffered was a little bruising from her first fall. She wasn't sure what Naoto's state was, but she felt concerned, like maybe she had been slowed down by something. Although for all she knew Naoto was fine and that she should keep climbing anyway, just to be sure one of them got to the bell before anyone grew tired. She began once more with her method of climbing, although she was running out of sturdy branches, as several had snapped when she pulled on them.

After a bit more of pressing on Takeshi's hand, the marble came out and Tora took the bell and marble and placed them in her pocket. She looked at the tiny wound "You are lucky its that small. If you put any more chakra into it, then you could've ended up breaking one of your fingers." She said and looked at him, letting go of his hand "You used too much chakra on the bell. You did not need to use too much. Next time, try to focus on the flow of your chakra instead of the quantity. But we will train more on that. For now, I want you to tell me if you know what chakra nature you have." She said and gave the three a glance for a moment, hearing a few small branches falling down and softly landing on the ground around the tree. She wondered for a moment how far up they have reached so far.

Testing the branch below her to support her weight again, she began going around getting to the top of the tree a little differently. Naoto ran, and made a long leap to the shot stump, instantly wrapping her arms around the trunk as far as she could reach. She whimpered in pain from using her left hand, but she was still proud she made it. Next she turned to the branch she had thrown a kunai at, and jumped at it, barely grabbing it with her right hand alone. Using the force of her jump, she swung herself around, on on top of it. Looking up, she thought she had an idea, but it was far flung, and she doubted it would work. Even so, Naoto had to try, but first she had to get closer to the top. She looked around, and spotted a branch in close proximity, but before she could jump for it, she realized what that would entail. Inwardly laughing, she unsheathed a kunai, and threw it at the branch. It stuck into the tree's flesh easily, not reacting in the least. Naoto sighed with relief, knowing if it would have been trapped she wouldn't of been able to avoid its effects. She jumped to the branch, testing it to hold her weight before continuing.

Takeshi rubbed a little over the small hole in his hand, surprisingly enough it did not bleed. His chakra heated the marble inside the bell so the blood vessels were immediately scorched closed. He looked up at Tora-sensei who asked him a simple question, he smiled slightly "Mizu no Kaze" he answered. Water and Wind. "Kekkei Genkai, Yukiton". Takeshi looked at the two girls up in the tree and felt proud of his teammates process, they were doing good. He stood up and stood next to Tora-sensei, the difference in length with her was smaller than with the most people he knew.

Kumoga's time-tested method of climbing was at a loss with the lack of branches nearby, but she spotted one near the top that she was sure she could reach if she tried hard enough. She flicked the webbing up once more and caught the branch, tugging on it gently before she felt confident enough to swing herself up. As before it worked like normal, until she reached the apex of her swing, wherein the branch suddenly exploded from a tag with the shock-wave of the blast throwing her violently off-course and into a brief flailing fit as she tried to find something to catch. Falling more or less the whole way down she caught a branch by loosing as much of her webbing as she could in the time she spent scrambling for safety and swung down, slamming into the trunk with a yelp and slowly spooling more web to put herself safely on the ground. She'd caught the branch too far from the tag and failed to realize it would go off... That was a foolish mistake to say the least, exposed skin was peppered with splinters from the exploded branch and she was certain that must've been the worst, although her ribs were extremely sore from that impact with the trunk. Although now she had to start again from the very bottom, so with as straight a face as she could, she started once more to climb to the top, just trying to follow her previous path.

As Naoto continued her plan, she slowly climbed higher towards the top of the tree, making sure to test every branch. When she was about 8 feet from the bell she stopped, and looked carefully at it. This was going to be the hardest part of her plan. She knew she didn't have the strength to make it to the bell by climbing, so she could only do one thing. Naoto took a shuriken from the pouch on her side, and began to focus. If she did this incorrectly, it could make the bell fly into the distance, never to be seen again. Naoto took the risk, and threw her shuriken carefully, though her first throw was a long ways off. It spiraled off to he right of the bell, uselessly. She frowned, and tried again, this time with the opposite result, leading the shuriken to stick into the tree next to the bell. After a few more failed attempts Naoto got lucky, and cut the string of the bell, causing it to begin to fall. She made the small jump to an adjacent branch, and caught it. . . Then slipped. Naoto fell quickly down the tree, but reacted fast enough to grab a branch not to far down. Unfortunately, not only was the branch trapped, but the force of the fall dislocated her right arm, causing her to shriek again. She fell again, hitting a branch with her back hard. Her senses dead, she scrambled to hold onto the branch, not even being able to breath. Slowly her senses returned, and she looked down at her left hand. The bell chimed softly, and Naoto groaned. "I did it," She mumbled emptily, before looking to see how much farther she had to go down. It wasn't too farther, so Naoto dropped to a nearby branch. Soon she was standing on the ground her right arm laying limply at her side, her back bruised, her left wrist already swollen and pulsing. . . and a ball in her hand. Naoto had done it.

From where Kumoga was on the tree, she saw Naoto make the daring attempt at getting the bell, the tenacity of the girl as she held onto it even after being hit by a trapped branch, along with a no doubt jarring fall... It surprised her to say the least. But as soon as she saw that Naoto had the bell, Kumoga let out a sigh and began descending on her web to touch down on the ground safely once more, she was worn out after all of that. When accounting for the previous encounter with Kakashi though, she felt she'd lasted rather well. Now that Naoto was on the ground as well, Kumoga silently stood and awaited what Hatake-Sensei had to say about it all. Having barely noticed whatever Takeshi had to do during her trial and error in climbing, Kumoga assumed that those with the bell got the same task, she wondered what she'd have to do herself.

Watching as Naoto came down, Tora quickly noticed the girl had a dislocated shoulder from the way she didn't use her right arm. She took a moment to see Kumoga come down as well before giving them both a nod "Both of you did well. I will first quickly take care of Naoto and then give you my final instructions for the day." She said and then moved to kneel next to Naoto and grab her right shoulder with one hand and the arm with the other "This is going to hurt, I'm not gonna lie, but try to not let the pain get to you. I'm gonna push the arm back into its place at the count of three." She said and then made her hold over the shoulder steady "One...Two...Three." Upon finishing the count she would quickly push the arm back into its place, wishing to ensure that Naoto would go back home the best condition she could be. She then moved back a bit from Naoto and saw she appeared to be fine, and then she turned to look at Kumoga, who she noticed had a slightly injured skin with several splinters. She took out a small medical kit and opened it, taking out a small tweezer and beginning to take out the splinters gently one after the other "This will just take a moment." She said as she continued to take those out.

Takeshi stood beside his sensei seeing the two girls go for the bell as two lions for their prey. Kumoga had developed a slow but steady and safe way to go up while Naoto took a lot more risks but her approach was way faster. Takeshi kept rubbing over the little wound in his palm, it itched like hell. Still he wondered how that could have happened, at the moment he wanted to ask Tora-sensei he heard a small shriek followed by a yelp and other sounds that one could hear if someone fell out of tree, exactly what Naoto was doing. Takeshi felt bad for his teammate, she was quite roughed up. Tora scurried over to Naoto to help her with her injuries as Kumoga slowly let herself down from the tree using her webs. However, she too did not come off unscathed. The boy walked up to the girls and agreed with Tora-sensei that they did a good job. He looked at Kumoga for a second the only one who didn't have a bell "don't worry" he said. Slowly but steadily he was opening up more to them but he still remained silent for the most part. Even while he understood that the girls treatment was more important he did feel a little sting that Tora-sensei did not react to his answer on her question. as if anyone had a snow release!

Naoto bowed her head thankfully when Kumoga and her were complimented by Hatake-sensei, but flinched away when her sensei came closer to put her arm back in into place. When Tora started explaining what was going to happen, Naoto nodded in understanding, letting out only a slight whimper as her arm was put back into place. Hatake-sensei then moved on to get splinters out of Kumogo's hand, which Naoto watched with interest. After Hataka-sensei finished, Naoto looked down at the bell, then at Kumoga. She forcefully grabbed Kumoga's hand and dropped the bell into it. "You deserve it, after all. . . Leader," Naoto said simply, the slightest smile on her lips. She wondered to herself if this act of kindness would make Kumoga more willing to bend to her wishes in the future. Naoto wondered if this would be the best first step to fully manipulating her team. Only time would tell.

Kumoga quietly stood there, watching and waiting for Hatake-sensei to finish tending to Naoto's injuries as best as she could by relocating her shoulder. And once she was done it was Kumoga's turn, although she flinched briefly when she approached and began working, letting out a repeated utterance of "ow ow ow" as she plucked the splinters out... It wasn't that it hurt much, but it more reactionary, and in general she was quite sore from the ordeal. Although without warning Naoto approached and put the bell in her hand, stating that she deserved it more, the small kunoichi wore a shocked expression before offering it back to her. "N-no, you were the one who got it, not I..." Being called leader really put the pressure on her without trying, she didn't want to be a leader. "It was just an idea that happened to work, nothing leaderly about it."

After finishing taking out the splinters, Tora watched with curious eyes as Naoto approached Kumoga and told her that she deserved the bell, as she the leader. Kumoga tried to deny that by stating it was an idea that just so happened to work. Standing up, she took a couple of steps back so she could have a clear sight of all three genin "I think I can safely say that all three of you passed. I should let all of you know that we will go on a mission soon enough, but first I wish to have a one on one sessions with all three of you. I will send you a message prior to the one on one session with you, and I can tell you it will be within the next 48 hours." She said and gave Takeshi an apologizing look "Sorry for not responding earlier, Naoto and Kumoga just caught my attention, but what you told me is very interesting. I will talk to you more about it during our one on one session." She told him before looking at all three of them again "If any of you have any questions regarding the mission itself, those will have to wait until the briefing. But you can ask me anything else." She finished speaking and waited to see if anyone else had anything to say.

Takeshi smiled as Naoto offered Kumoga the bell and said she deserved it. In all honesty Takeshi felt both of them deserved it, all three of them did. too bad there wasn't a third bell. As Tora-sensei told the three genin that they passed Takeshi had to smile brightly, he was happy that he did and that Naoto and Kumoga did too. Tora-sensei explained what the plan was, about a mission and a one on one session before she apologized to Takeshi about not responding earlier, it made him feel a little better. He had no further questions and thought about what to do in preparation of their one on one session.

When Kumoga forced the bell back upon her, she cursed in her head. "So close. . ." She thought to herself, abandoning her plan till later. There'll be plenty of oppurtunities, she was sure of it. When Hatake-Sensei said they all passed, Naoto again bowed her head respectfully. She went on to inform them that there would be a mission soon, but before that one on one training sessions within the next two days. Naoto blinked in surprise, as she hadn't even thought about that sort of thing. "I hope the missions aren't too early in the morning, with my dad out of town," She muttered. Although it was a lie, after all her father had been home for a while now. Hadn't left the same spot for a week.
Naoto took the bell back, which Kumoga was thankful for, she didn't want to feel like she owed someone for something they did. But to cut that thought short Hatake-sensei said that she was going to have a one to one sessions, explaining that they would also be having a mission soon with the sessions being within 48 hours of now. "Is there nothing more for us to do this training session then, sensei?"

"This training session is finished Kumoga." Tora replied, before looking at Naoto "The missions will take place whenever they need to take place. If they require us to retrieve something within the night, we shall operate in the dark. If they want us to gather information in a crowded village in the middle of the day, then we shall do so. I do not know exactly when the mission will be, but I will let each of you know at the end of the one on one sessions. I hope I was clear Naoto." She said, sounding both cheerful and serious. She then gave them a wave of her hand "You are all dismissed. And Kumoga, you are the first one to get a one on one session. It will be in the evening, at 6 afternoon, right here. Don't be late." She added and then gave all three a smile.

Takeshi listened carefully to Tora-sensei when she explained the way missions were to be done to Naoto. As she dismissed the three genin, Takeshi bowed slightly in a way of saying goodbye. He pulled up his scarf, covering his mouth and nose before turning around and leaving, greeting his two teammates with a single wave of his hand as they went into the other direction. He was looking forward to the one-on-one session with Tora-sensei. But first its time to get something to eat thought Takeshi as his belly rumbled.

Hatake-Sensei's response spurred another head bow of thank you, as her number on priority was being polite at this point. When Naoto, and the others, were dismissed, she bowed her head one last time before departing for her home. She was definitely excited to shine during the one-on-one sessions with Hatake-Sensei, but she needed to do the laundry before she could start day dreaming. Naoto started jogging home at the thought, eager to get the chore done.

Kumoga nodded slightly upon being told that the training session was over, then she listened to Hatake-sensei's answer to Naoto's question and the dismissal of the team. So when they had a mission they were to do it regardless of what it entailed, that wasn't a problem to her at all, really. Although she did look a tiny bit worried when she was picked for the first one to one session, but she nodded in confirmation. "Understood, sensei. Six in the afternoon today." It turned out that she was the last one to go as well, as her two team-mates had already left.

Watching as all of her students left the arena, Tora closed her eyes and let out a small sigh. Luckily for her, it seemed like teamwork wasn't something she will need to work too much on. But she will need to work on several other things, but before beginning to think on what she will need to work on with each student, she opened her eyes and then walked away from the arena, intending to plan her one on one sessions more carefully at the comfort of her apartment. She whistled a small tone as she walked away, vanishing into the streets of Kiri.

Naruto : The Rise of The New Generations

Tora Hatake and Kakashi the Panther

The Tora clone disguised as Kakashi decided now was enough, and she transformed back to her normal self and gave Kumoga a smile "You handled me very well. Good job. but you should always ensure your opponent cannot do any seals even by making sure that they cannot even move their fingers." She said, and because Kakashi was slightly wider than her it allowed her to move her arms slightly, but just enough to barely reach each other, and do a single seal which made a couple of smoke tags on her activate with an explosion, and the Tora clone was gone.

The Kakashi clone that Naoto followed had quickly avoided her and reached the clearing just in time to see Takeshi jump on the real Kakashi, who now remained still due to the amount of webs holding him. Its eyes followed carefully as Takeshi would grab both bells, and smiled as the clone appeared to know something the genin did not. The clone vanished and only the real Kakashi remained, who felt Takeshi grab his tail and take something off it. He let out a sigh before looking at Naoto and Kumoga "You two might want to hurry back to Hatake. I mean, Takeshi only has one bell." He said before poofing away, and Takeshi would see one of the bells in his hand also vanishing in a poof of smoke.

Tora, who was mostly aware of the situation due to her clone, went and jumped up a tree's branches and tied the bell to the highest branch before beginning to go down the branches and placing smoke tags and explosive tags on different branches, aiming to serve as distractions. She placed the tags on places which would not hurt the genin, but if they used the Tree Climbing techniques near them, or any kind of jutsu, the tags would activate, exploding different branches or causing a distraction and block the view with smoke.

Landing back on the ground, Tora waited to see who will be the first to reach her and reach the bell. From what her clone saw, she already had a guess on who got the first bell, but she decided that without her clone watching them, that anything can happen on the way. She was also curious to see if the remaining two will continue to work together, or will they start to try and reach the bell first.