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Haruko watched as Rashir ran across the room to get his sword, 'This is why I warned him about opponents not always allowing him the free time to grab the things he discarded. In a battle for life or death, one must never leave his/her opponent unattended to. He needs to remember that if he hopes to make it out alive during harder battles in the future.'

From her spot up at the ceiling, Haruko watched as Rasir threw her kunai right back at her and followed through with an attack of his own. 'Good, he's finally following through with his attacks. Now, where is he aiming?' Haruko looked at the taijectory and saw that he would most likely aim for her damaged arm. 'Good tatic, but don't expect me to let you injured me more that easily.' Haruko quickly reached for her kusarigama with her right arm and whipped out about half the chain and whinced, 'Shoot, I moved my arm too quickly. Guess I hurt my arm more then I thought, must find an opening quickly. Ignoring the pain, Haruko added wind chakra to her kusarigama before she whipped it in a snake like motion knocking the kunai aside, she aimed to hit Rashir with it. 'With the wind chakra now surronding my chain, once I get it close enough, he'll be cut by the chakra surrounding my weapon.' Haruko also braced herself to jump away if Rashir was to somehow get pass her attack.

As Hiro used his quick movement to disappear and reappear next to Kenji, he apparently didn't take into account the fact that the water barrier he had been holding with him and Akuma inside was meant to keep things out. The second his body struck the water shield, the water in the area raged and swelled up, swirling around the sphere quickly, as it pushed him back, and repelled him from the barrier.

Kenji then turned his head towards the waters, as he saw it push Hiro back and was surprised to see him there. "Oh, Hiro, my apologies...if I had known you wanted to come in, I could have just made an opening for you.' Kenji formed a quick seal as part of the barrier split, leaving a section of the barrier open to the rest of the room, allowing Hiro inside to sit with him and Akuma as they watched the battle, closing the barrier behind Hiro once he was in. "So, what brings you to our training area today?"

Kenji smiled as Hiro commented on his water barrier, grinning as if he had won some imaginary battle between the two. After Hiro had finished, Kenji continued to focus on the fight at hand, but answered him none-the-less. "Well Hiro, perhaps if you had gone through the academy, you would have learned all about the water barrier.", Kenji turned to look at Hiro for a second, smiling coyly at the way he had phrased the obviously loaded statement. "However, if you wish to fight Akuma, that is his decision. He is a Genin now and can make decision like this for himself. However, if you were to have a spar, I would request you do so somewhere else so this lesson can continue without interruption."

Kenji then turned to Akuma to see what he wanted to do..."What do you say Akuma? Would you like to spar with Hiro?

Haruko watched as Rashir defelected away her chain and prepared to strike her with a backhand punch. Tightening her hold on her kusarigama, Haruko crouched down a bit before pushing herself diagonally off the wall towards Rashir, keeping her body bent downward, she zoomed past Rashir and landed once again on the dojo floor. Turning her attention upward, Haruko whipped her kusarigama towards Rashir in an attempt to wrap it around his waist so that she could whip him across the room.

After whipping her kusarigama at Rashir, Haruko realized she was a second to late and Rashir was able to reach the ceiling before she could wrap the chain around his waist and whip him across the room. 'I pushed off to late so adding that with the time it takes to turn around and throw the kusarigama, my timing was a bit slow. But neitherless, this allows me to see how quick his reactions are.'

"Not bad Rashir, you're doing much better then I expected. That flash step of yours is truely an amazing technique, I wonder if this new one's going to be any different?" Haruko said as she jumped back after seeing Rashir land on the ground and prepare some sort of attack. With quick, well practiced movements, Haruko retracted her kusarigama and replaced it on her waist with her right while her left took out a scroll. Quickly biting her right thumb to draw out blood, she whipped open the scroll with her left and whipped the blood over a certain line summoning out her koto. 'Lets see just how strong his attack is.' Letting the scroll drop to the floor, she kicked it aside with her right foot as her right hand began strumming short deep notes. A potective barrier of sound suddenly surrounded Haruko just as Rashir began to swing his sword at her.

{Sorry I took so long to reply. Homework. Oh and Rashir try not to use the Emoticons during your rp responses seeing how we're writing in a novel sort of format and having that there kinda makes this whole thing seem too casual like a msn type of conversation.}

Haruko watched as Rashir stopped his attack midway and shook her head at his decision. "Once again Rashir, I see you're just expecting me to give you the leisure of resting while I go about and wait for you. Rashir, in the real world, the enemy won't be so nice. The moment they see an opening, they'll go for it. Its life or death out there and you'll want to be the one to come out on top and live"

Haruko stated as she quickly changed from stumming the same low notes repetitively to doing three quick long swipes across her koto. Her barrier disappear and with each swipe, she released a blade of sound at Rashir. Once she sent out her attack, Haruko prepared to strum up her barrier again if nessary.

{It's okay, besides that's why you're here. So that we can teach you about these things. I agree that its funny but its just too casual, makes this seem like those MSN conversations. But as long as you know now. That's good.}