Training SC [P]

Age : 37 Posts : 2201

Name: Katon Prodigy

She felt like her fingers were tingling from the heat, like the flames were done scorching her skin. Her lungs felt heavy, filled with the up built heat. She felt .. dry.. warm. But she was also alive. More so than in a long time. Fire.. it was manipulative and alluring. It was seductive and frightening. And Kirima always felt so alive whenever she was around it, or when she was manipulating it in a Jutsu. Why she seemed to like fire so much? She didn't really know. It was an element that was the most filled with mystery, or so Kirima felt. It was straight to the point, in a way. It ate at things, burnt and was obvious. You didn't need any special skill to notice it. Plus the colors were something she really loved about it. Her grandfather had often said that she reminded him of the fire. And in some ways she had to agree, although she would have liked to think she was a bit less destructive. For now at least.

Once again, she made the needed hand-seals. Her fingers danced around and on each other, before she was done, and she was inhaling deeply again. Chakra mixing with fire, and then as she put her hand to her mouth, it was spewed out in a large sphere of flames which danced and licked at the air. The heat was getting intense for her, as she struggled to hold the Jutsu longer and longer before moving onto another fire Jutsu. Her clothes had a bit of soot on them, and she felt like there was a small sting here and there from feint and non-serious burns she had developed during her intense training of this particular element. Kirima had to let the Jutsu go as she was out of breath. She bent a bit over and took a few shallow breaths before repeating this earlier process. This was probably the 5th time she performed this same Jutsu, and already she had felt a bit more of a -feeling- with it.

"And that brings me to the next one." Quickly, with experience and practice, she made again a series of hand-seals before she concentrated on mixing the fire element again within her Chakra. And there in front of her, appeared a replica of herself which stared at Kirima with a small grin. Hmh... I always find it as weird to look at myself in person. With practice, she had managed to speed up the progress of this Jutsu a lot, but only today had she found like she had it completely under control. "I guess I shouldn't waste too much energy with keeping you around, but we could take one Jutsu each together." The clone nodded towards Kirima, and without hesitation they both made a row of hand-seals before letting loose the exact same type of Jutsu. The clone was now facing away from Kirima so she wouldn't become a BBQ specialty.

From both of them hurled many small fireballs into the air, and Kirima almost wished she had any shuriken on her to try out the technique of hiding them in the flames. But that would have to wait for a better time. Cancelling the clone, the redhead stretched lazily before trying to loosen a bit up by jumping around on the spot while thinking about what Jutsu to perform next. There was no denying, that with each day which she practiced and focused solely on the fire element, Kirima found herself stronger in that area. It wouldn't need much more until she could proceed in making her Jutsus a bit bigger and stronger, she could simply feel that in her gut.

"Now how about I try out that little theory of mine." She went for the Great Fireball Jutsu again, as it was secretly her favored one. There was nothing out of the ordinary with the first try, but then, as she did it for the second time there was no denying that the flames were bigger. Reached a bit longer. And there was also no denying that the air felt even more heated around them now than before. "Oh score." If she would keep going at this rate, Kirima was sure she could master the fire element pretty quickly. And she was going to try to, as she knew that with the Nibi she would have to be dealing with fire as well. Although that'd be a bit different kind.

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Evasiveness

"Hey you." A bulky, bearded man who had to be at least 6 feet 2" looked down to see a redheaded young girl look up at him with a determined look on her pretty face. "Uh yes?" His gaze ran over to a 2 meter long pole this said girl was holding, and at the end of that pole there was a glove tied. "Can you hold this? And when I say, try to hit me with it?" The man scratched his head, wondering if the girl was joking. He had after all only been taking a casual walk before he had been interrupted by that strange female. Hesitantly he took the pole from her hands while nodding variously, while the girl took a red cloth and blindfolded herself. "Okay, ready." She jumped a few steps backwards, and then took a stance. She bent her knees the slightest bit, and had her arms just a bit stretched forward as if ready to grab onto anything that would be coming towards her. Shrugging in defeat, the man swung the pole and with a bump he hit the girl on the head. Time seemed to stop. Both stood still. There could almost be seen an animated sweat-drop appear on the man's forehead.

"Come on! Don't stop now!" Kirima was listening, and she was trying to 'feel' her environment a bit. She hadn't been able to predict what he would be doing first, and not the second time either as she felt a bumping against her left shoulder. But the third time, she took a step to the right and avoided for the most part a bump against her thigh. Alright I can do this For 5 times, the man swung the pole, and 2 of these times Kirima managed to somewhat evade. But she was starting to notice a small pattern, as he seemed to make three blows towards her left upper side and then follow up with 2 blows towards her right leg. So after a few more times, the blindfolded girl was starting to dance around his blows and able to evade them completely. By now he was starting to grin a bit and found this a bit amusing to watch. And so he picked up the pace a bit and started to change the pattern also. And so together for a few more minutes they were circling and dancing around each other, she was jumping and dodging with an almost cat-like reflex, while the man chuckled but tried to keep quiet as he tried to find new spots she could miss out on protecting. Half an hour crawled away without either of them noticing, then an hour. Both were starting to pant a little bit, but more so the girl who didn't see anything. The man who's name she didn't know had started to really pick up the fun, and he now swung at her legs and her body and head without holding much back; while Kirima jumped, rolled or ducked while trying to avoid completely being touched by the end of the pole.

As it seemed like they had both exhausted any possibility of her being hit, she took the blindfold off and offered a small grin. "Again." Now she was going to aim a bit for more extra-ordinary tactics. As she could see the man. She pointed for him to take the glove off the pole, and then he stepped forward and did a feint blow towards her feet but changed it in mid-course and went for the left side of her abdomen. Kirima had been starting to jump a bit up, but bit back a curse and instead used the small grip her feet still had on the ground, to spin herself to the side away from the blow. She followed that little twirl of hers after with a powerful round-house kick that sent the pole flying to the side. She had known he was a ninja like herself, or at least a man who knew martial arts. Kirima had seen him a few times at the training area and decided he would do for that little exercise she had prepared for the day. And her hunch had been correct.

The pole was now let fall to the ground, and the man stepped forward with a powerful punch of his right arm. Instead of stepping to the side, Kirima followed his punch with a step backwards, before she quickly went forward and threw a powerful blow of her fist at the inside of his elbow. That was enough to make his arm fly a bit to the side, and the man was to say the least very surprised. This little fly of a girl was proving to be quite the match of his. He quickly did a slight sweep of his legs, and the girl went into a back-wards flip through the air and landed crouching like a tiger ready to pounce on a prey. She felt like she was already starting to be able to read somewhat what he was up to by listening to his breathing and seeing how his muscles worked. As she had been blindfolded, she had been able to 'listen' a bit to the movement in the air. And as this hadn't been her first time of such training, she felt like this had been the step she needed to become better practiced in the skill of evasion.

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