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 Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 7:40 pm
Reiniku smirked slightly as his blade penetrated the after image only a second before he was blown back by an unseen enemy, the first after-image just vanishing from view just as Reiniku was shot backwards into the snow, Aisukami landing point first in the snow covered ground directly next to him sticking straight up just inches away from Reiniku's left arm. Reiniku was gasping for air for more than a few seconds and his vision was slowly fading away at the corners, once his finally caught his breath he quickly sat up with a small bit of fear showing in his eyes, searching for Luo he quickly stood while grasping the hilt of Aisukami before forcefully pulling it out of the ground and snow. Coughing before he spoke, "W-what was that? I hit yo-" He began to say in a shaken voice before he trailed off near the end, he remembered seeing Zane and L.T do this before and he would have smiled at his stupidity if it wasn't for the pain in his stomach. "After-images?"
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Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 8:04 pm
Using this unseen speed, Luo tapped on bamboo poles as he circled Reiniku, every once in a while using the flat end of his katana to tap the stalks to give him an incling to where Luo was. He then spoke as his voice seemed to come from all sides as he sped around. "This is the power of the seventh stage Reiniku. No strength is wasted, your body's limit on speed is exceeded beyond measure. If you want to hit me, I suggest you pick up the pace." Luo then stopped moving finally and tapped one final pole muttering, "After-images." Staring at Reiniku through the blizzard that was beginning to return as he'd grabbed Aisukami. He could see the fear in his eyes. It was what would drive the boy to the seventh stage.
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Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 8:17 pm
Reiniku had been watching the occasional bamboo stalk loose all of the snow that gathered upon it and he had begun assuming that it was Luo, but none seemed to near his position, almost as if Luo was only playing with Rein. Reiniku's traitorous eyes could not hide his fear no matter how hard he tried to force them to. But how can I hit you if you are that fast! I can't even see you! Reiniku's thoughts yelled, Reiniku himself keeping silent as to focus his hearing upon the sound of snow crunching beneath Luo's feet. But even that didn't help as the snow seemed to crunch after Luo already had passed. When Luo finally stopped Reiniku released a burst of speed directly when he finished the word "After-images", rushing forward at Luo despite his fear and the pain of his stomach, Aisukami raised at the ready as he neared Luo's general position. Coming at Luo Reiniku jumped into the air before he slashed Aisukami downwards for a vertical strike at Luo's left shoulder with all the momentum of his fall and forward speed placed into the blade.
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Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 8:41 pm
Raising his blade above him, he muttered, "Chakra blade," extending specifically the width of the blade to stop Rein's attack short to confuse the boy as the move was invisible to the naked eye before he quickly lowered the blade and stopped the jutsu to allow Rein's body to drop as Luo sliced upwards at his side. It was a short game for Luo, but something in the boy's eyes showed more than the normal level of fear Luo had ever seen in a mist shinobi's eyes. It was a look he'd seen when a foreign shinobi had encountered the technique. It was an oddity, but Luo ignored it.
((Traitorous eyes you say?))
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Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 8:50 pm
((Uhhh, can't you only stay in stage 7 for 3 posts before muscles rip and stuff?))
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Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 8:56 pm
Reiniku's eyes opened wide as he watched the blade near his side, his eyes dropped all emotion as he had no time for simple things as them, his body seemed to relax somewhat and his breathing returned to its call state. Twisting his entire body around Reiniku caused Aisukami to crash into Luo's Senbon Sakura with a new found speed triggered by his fear of being hurt again. As he was still moving downwards Aisukami slid perpendicular across Senbon Sakura Reiniku quickly pulling on his own blade as he attempted to smash the hilt forward into Luo's face with a enthusiastic roar escaping from his lips. I'm not getting hit again! He thought as he dropped down, his fear replaced with determination as he came at Luo.
(Hope that wasn't to big of a jump between fear and determination...
Just seemed appropriate for the time.)
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Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 2:29 pm
Seeing the hilt coming, Luo flipped backwards, kicking the hilt upwards with one foot, and kicking at Rein's face with the other. He could see a slight change in Rein's expression. He was beginning to understand that his training may very well be the death of him. But Luo knew in his head that he wouldn't go so far as to kill the boy. "Reflex improvement," he thought to himself as he finished the flip and slid back a few feet. He could feel a soreness in his left leg of strenuous movement, but he ignored it. It was the curse of the seventh stage, but Luo knew well enough not to move that fast for too long. He then grinned at Rein's comment, yelling back at the boy to get him riled up, "FASTER! YOU'RE TOO SLOW!" As he said this, he pointed senbon sakura straight forward at Rein through the blizzard. It was unlikely that Rein could see him as he muttered, "bloom." Quickly, what made his blade so special was revealed. The katana separated with a distinct metallic sliding noise as the one thousand senbon which made the blade itself, burst outwards racing towards Rein in the blizzard, controlled and manuevered completely by the sapphire colored chakra strings attached to each one. Luo was the only man in Kiri alive that knew the art of chakra strings. It was something specific to Suna which he'd mastered and decided to use in a completely different method.
((Yeah....Slinky, that's if you're MOVING constantly for three posts. I used it twice....so no. My muscles are fine. And nah Rein, that's fine.))
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Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 6:59 pm
As Aisukami was kicked out of the way Reiniku caught the motion of Luo's foot just in time to block it with the arm that wasn't holding Aisukami, the brunt force of the kick was still enough to knock Rein back as he was sent flipping multiple times back though the snow covered bamboo forest, luckily not coming into the path of a stalk of bamboo the entire way. Reiniku remained quiet as he pushed himself back into a kneeling position, rubbing his sore arm for a second before he began to search for Aisukami, the blade landing a few feet away point down in the snow, Reiniku wasted no time gathering up his blade in his right hand. Where are you....? Reiniku thought as he gazed around the snow covered forest, his eyes alert for Luo's form grazing in between the trees. When his search came up empty Reiniku cursed silently under his breath just seconds before a stinging feeling came from his left cheek, putting his left hand up to its respective cheek Reiniku felt the warm sticky feeling of blood on his hand, pulling his hand back and gazing at it Reiniku confirmed what his sense of touch had already told him. "What is this?" Reiniku thought just moments before the treeline ahead of him exploded outwards in a massive cloud of splinters and wood dust. Reiniku's eyes opened wide as he quickly noticed the danger he was in, whatever had made the trees explode was heading in his exact direction and Reiniku would have bet that it was Luo if it wasn't for the wall of death coming at him.
Reiniku flipped on his hands before sliding to the right but he soon realized that his speed wasn't near enough to escape the destruction rocketing towards him. Come on...Come on! I have to move faster! Move faster already! An inner voice yelled at Reiniku, letting lose a determined and what almost sounded inhumanly roar that shook the snow from trees around him. Reiniku pushed his body as high and as far as he could as his own body seemed to flicker away just a split second before three of the senbon licked the left arm of what appeared to be the form of Reiniku that had been left behind. If one could follow they would see Rein himself darting though the bamboo hoping it would provide some sort of cover as he attempted to find Luo in the dense foliage of the forest. His mind racing as he struggled to cope both with the speed and the shock of the fact that he had successfully moved in the manner he wished within a matter of seconds. I guess I would do better if placed under that sort of pressure.... His thoughts reasoned with him after a short pause.
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Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 7:15 pm
Still holding onto Senbon Sakura's hilt, Luo flicked his wrist upwards ever so lightly as the senbon seemed to stop dead in the tracks mid-air. A slow, deep chuckle escaped his lips as he stood there in silence. There were no cries of pain from the other end through the noise of splintered bamboo stalks and the bark and branches of trees falling. If his calculations were correct, Rein had found in him the strength, speed, and reflexes of the seventh stage. But it was now time for Luo to make the boy hone them. Flicking his wrist upward a bit harsher this time, the senbon flew upwards and around Luo. If someone were watching from the sky, they would notice their shape in the air resembled a lotus in full bloom. He knew the kid couldn't have gone out of the range of his weapon, so he flicked his wrist quickly and harshly downwards muttering, "dance of fallen petals." As he did, the senbon began rocketing towards the ground within the one-hundred yard radius. He could hear some of them piercing stalks of bamboo making a distinct whistling noise as they did so, as well as leaves and small branches. The ones which couldn't pierce, Luo used his mastery of the weapon to guide those few senbon around obstacles. Without the weather conditions if one could see it, Luo's weapon was quite beautiful in its true form, and elegant at that. It was as if Luo's agility and grace were being channeled into her. If Rein hoped to get out of this situation well enough to stand and charge Luo once more, he would need the elegance of movement, but the speed and perfection as well. Anything short of that would be something of a catastrophe against Luo's weapon.
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Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 8:53 pm
Reiniku had been darting though the forests with no avail at a slightly slower speed than the new-found ones he had just unveiled to himself just to keep himself from collapsing into a painful heap of torn muscles, yet he could still feel the effects in his legs and arms as they had become incredibly sore after his first successful attempt at the seventh stage. A light whistling noise sounding much like kunai in flight was what Reiniku had noticed first and he instinctively but his back to a large cluster of bamboo stalks while facing opposite of the noise. His original hopes were that the stalks would absorb the source of the whistling noise but his hopes were soon shot as a second stab of pain crossed perpendicular across the first cut on his left cheek followed by a cut comparable to a light knife wound that crossed his back. The first two wounds was all it took before Reiniku had decided the general position of Luo and had exploded out in a vast gust of snow and wind. If I can just get close that should cut down his combat effectiveness. After all he would have to be careful not to cut himself! Reiniku thought as he ran forward, as soon as he left the bamboo's cover he found himself amid a massive yet spread out cloud of the senbon. He decided to chance it while rushing forward, using both his speed plus the occasional bought of snow manipulation to either deflect the senbon as they neared or to encase them in a ball of snow. Reiniku's body was snaking its way though the senbon with increasing difficulty as a cut appeared on his left shoulder, blood stained his white undershirt while leaving a small trail traveling down his left half of his body, another cut appeared above his right brow and spilled blood down half of his face. Yet Reiniku still pressed on, two and then three after-images appearing in his wake as the real him disappeared from view.
The blizzard seemed to increase in intensity almost as if Aisukami herself was growing excited as well, the after-images themselves once reaching Luo began to circle him at a high speed, wind and snow creating a veil that shot into the sky, blocking out the sunlight farther as three Reiniku's burst forth from the veil. Each one lunging forward with a horizontal slash aimed for a side of Luo's body, one to the front, one to the left and another to the right. As each of them reached Luo and began to thrust their blades forward it was shown that they were simply after-images themselves. The original Reiniku decending out of the sky from behind Luo with two blades in his hand, Aisukami and then his original training blade. As he came down upon Luo the real Reiniku Forcefully cut downwards and diagonally with each blade aimed for an X motion across Luo's back as Reiniku poured almost everything he had into the attack.
(CURSE YOU WRITERS BLOCK!!!!)
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Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 11:12 pm
Luo watched intensely as he was being circled by what seemed to be four Reiniku's. He knew the boy was now in the seventh stage as even his three tomoe sharingan was unable to keep pace with his speed, as the images in the left eye still at his utmost of concentration appeared as blurs. Pulling his wrist up slightly, the senbon retreated back to Luo, as he made a twirling motion with his hand quickly as the senbon returned, but they seemed to be heading towards him. They punctured the three afterimages until Luo realized the snow storm tactic as his vision was impaired even more by the sun being blocked out by the storm which domed over him. As they punctured, Luo made the same twirling motion in the reverse direction, turning the senbon back around and pulling them back into the original form of the blade as they made the once again familiar metal sliding against metal noise as they came together and he lifted his hand and turned around, flipping his blade facing downward and out quickly to block the attack he calculated would be coming from above. As he blocked Aisukami, he found a flaw in his calculation: there was a second blade. He attempted to compensate for the new factor by using the chakra blade technique to add length to the blade to protect him from the attack, but it wasn't quick enough for the slight surprise. He heard a noise as if a knife was scratching another knife. The second blade Rein had slid against the tip of the chakra blade edge which extended Senbon Sakura. It certainly slowed the attack down, but it didn't stop it by any means as since he turned, he received a cut across the upper left side of his chest and a bit of his left arm that was as deep and sharp as a slightly dull kunai. It was still a hit though as his clothing tore and his felt a bit of blood seep out. He then went into overdrive as he muttered, "partial bloom," while his blade was still connected in the middle with Aisukami. At that moment, the tip of senbon sakura, roughly six inches or 25% of the full blade, separated, as 250 senbon shot out in three directions. fifty at each blade arm, and the last one-hundred and fifty towards the boy's chest, stomach, and sternum. The boy's next course of action would have to be well calculated and fast. If the boy was quick enough, he could not only dodge the one-hundred headed towards his body, but block with both blades the one-hundred senbon headed for his arms. It was a difficult feat, but Luo only hoped the boy was quick enough, and smart enough to think of how to do it. It was a method Luo had realized he could do while he used a water body clone to train with against his own weapon in the event he had to fight against it. He didn't know why, but it was something he prepared for. But in that training, Luo had found a way to channel the speed of the seventh stage specifically into different parts of the body instead of just the legs, blood vessels, and lungs. He had gone so far as to be able to use the afterimage technique on his fingers alone. It was true mastery over ones control over their entire body, without wasted movement or effort. It was a level of the seventh stage that Luo wasn't even sure if his dear friend Zane had explored. But he wanted someone else in the mist to realize its power and use it. And he'd chosen to see if anyone other than the Pride of the Mist was capable of such a feat. If Rein wasn't, Luo would be fine with it, but if he showed even an inkling of being able to even block most of the senbon, and dodge most but not all of them, he showed promise.
((I doubt you could dodge them all and block them all in the first go because it's training and Luo had taken so long to be able to do it himself, but you can certainly block and dodge probably 75-85% of the attack.))
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Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 8:11 am
A clone of LT ran in panting, "The mizukage has declared war on sound, and are now helping out the leaf village. He wants me to gather our forces at the docks!" The clone panted one more time then exploded into a puddle of water.
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Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 1:25 pm
Reiniku's left shoulder had been sliced open earlier and the sudden motions were only making his movements harder to complete without searing pain shooting up his arm, He had a slight look of accomplishment glowing off of him as he noticed that he had actually cut Luo with his blade. That look quickly changed to fear as he noticed the top half of Luo's blade had once more 'bloomed' into a small cloud of senbon that split into three parts, one aimed for his center while the other two streams arced for his arms. Reiniku quickly formed a plan in his head as he kicked it into action, both of his arms coming forward in a swiping move across the path of each of the path's to hold them of for a split second that would give his main body just enough time to tuck into an awkward yet completely fluid move that brought him down in a rolling position moving directly toward Luo's feet. Popping up only inches away from Luo himself as Rein just barely moved away from the final stream just as it came down on the lower half of his back, tearing away at his shirt and leaving many bloodied streaks in the path of the senbon. Luckily he escaped most of the damage from occurring as it was only focused upon his back. Reiniku dropped his blades and backed away, hoping Luo himself would see Rein's intentions after hearing L.T's Warnings.
Reiniku only whistled once before Hyousetsu dropped out of the sky, gathering up Reiniku before carrying him off into the sky. "I'll finish this later if you wish for me to! The kage comes first though!" Reiniku yelled back before the tearing in his muscles began, leaving him curled up on Hyousetsu's back in a ball of unbearable pain that nearly made him pass out several times on the return trip.
(Sorry for the post, I know it suuuuucks completely but I really needed to write this out fast.
Sorry once more.)
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Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 4:54 pm
Luo cursed under his breath as LT told him the news and he retreated his blade and sheathed it once more on his back. He didni't want the boy to go into battle like this, but he couldn't help the situation. His body quickly dematerialized into mist, headed straight for the docks. The situation must have been serious.
EXIT.
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Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 7:43 pm
After about twenty minutes, Kooni's body finally rose to the surface, blocking the water of the waterfall. As he opened his mouth, Luo removed the earplugs and sighed. "Stay right there," he muttered. Jumping off of the waterfall, he landed on the water below, staring at the waterfall. He then began forming hand seals and took a deep breath, exhaling a stream of fire at the waterfall in the shape of a dragon. As it hit, the water which his it instantly turned into steam, and the fire penetrated the rock behind the waterfall, making a small cavern as Luo stopped the technique. He then jumped back up to where Kooni was and closed his fists, using Tsurara(icicles) to cover them in a spiked ice glove, as well as his palms. He then slowly lifted the block over his head, the icicles on his hands acting as a grip to help. He then walked to the edge of the water fall and took a deep breath as he turned around. Jumping off backwards, Luo waited until he aligned with the cave still glowing with heat, and threw the block in there, watching it land and slide to the back of it. He knew the ice wouldn't melt because it was hyouton ice, and it in fact cooled the cave once more. Looking up at Kooni, Luo waved. "Thanks for the help, that's it for now." With a nod, the large shark went under once more until the next time he was summoned. Turning around, Luo ran to the docks as the water once again trickled down the waterfall, hiding the new cave.
EXIT.
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