Shoving Off {Jigen and AoC}

Niiro had came to this area for the simple reason that it had been awhile since he had last been here. He looked around to see if there was anyone else in sight, but there wasn't a single person there besides himself. What he did come to notice was that this place was also open like the other area where he was training the girl named Kasumi; it was perfect and nothing would get in the way, and that was what this training was about mostly. After teaching the boy a few jutsu, he would of course start a spar with the boy so that he could see if he would be able to keep up with someone who was superior to him. The only thing he would have to do now was to wait on the boy to arrive so that the training could begin.

Soren appeared from apparently out of no where by using the body flicker technique to get to the training ground. He knew that a high skilled shinobi like Niiro would not be startled by this, but that wasn't the point of using the technique. The reason he had to use it was because it was the only way to make it here as soon as he could. Soren was a few meters behind Niiro when he looked around and said, "So this is the place huh? Nice spot. Very quiet too. I like that. So what are we going to learn today Niiro Sensei?" Soren then waited for his sensei to speak.

Niiro rotated his shoulder and a popping sound had came from it; it had been tight all day and it was frustrating him. Now that that was out of the way he could focus on training the boy. He turned around and looked to the boy and said, "The technique that I'm going to teach you is called Hiding with Camouflage Technique. It hides your presence, pretty much making you invisible. It's the technique I used to disappear when you and Kasumi were sparring." After he said that he had did a set of handseals and he instantly became invisible. He then allowed his presence to be seen and he was standing next to the boy now. He then said, "Pay attention very closely." He then showed the boy the handseals for the technique. "You will not get this on the first time you use, maybe not even the second, your appearance may be half invisible and the other I can see just fine. Your objective is to use this technique successfully. If you can't... you may die." After he said that he stepped in front of the boy, a few meters away. He then waited for the boy to attempt the jutsu for the first time; when he did, the training would begin.

Soren popped his knuckles and neck to loosen up. He then listened to Niiro as he described the hand signs and how the jutsu worked. Soren understood what he was saying, "So what level jutsu is this Niiro Sensei? I mean, does it only hide your physical body, or does it hid your chakra presence as well?" Soren then made then hand signs and concentrated on turning invisible. He was trying to make his whole body invisible, but only his top have became invisible. He then released the jutsu and scratched his head, "Well I guess you were right about not getting it right the first time. Do you have any advice on how to succeed at this? Any technique that you use?" Soren then prepared himself for what his sensei would say.

Niiro watched the boy and the first thing that the boy decided to say was a question; he was asking what rank the jutsu was, but Niiro didn't really feel like telling him. He decided to tell him anyways, "It's A-ranked." He was really hoping that the boy didn't think that Niiro had high expectations of him because his expectations for most people were pretty low. "It only conceals your appearance, it doesn't hide your chakra or smell or heat signature or anything like that. This technique works best for assassins like me who can already hide their chakra, smell, and heat signature." After saying those things he watched as the boy attempted the jutsu, but failed; because of his failure it was time for the intense training regimen. When the boy asked the second question Niiro answered with, "Your best bet is to focus your chakra throughout your entire body instead of it being concentrated in one area." Niiro then cracked his neck and said, [color:d8c5=cd143c]"You now have something else to worry about," Niiro then threw a punch at Soren, "You have to dodge my attacks as well." There was a reason for all of this, but he wasn't going to give out that information right now. He was going to watch the boy carefully now.

Soren had started to try again with his new jutsu, but before he could, he saw a fist fly at him. He couldn't continue the jutsu yet for he had to get out of the way. Soren immediately lifted his hand and blocked Niiro's punch, he then followed up his block with a tuck and roll back. He was attempting to get his distance. As he ran back wards, he made the hand signs again and concentrated as much as he could on his chakra surrounding his entire body. He then stopped running backwards, for he had successfully made his entire body invisible, but it soon faded quickly. The reason was he had lost concentration. He was too focused on what his sensei was about to do next.

Niiro was surprised that the boy was capable of blocking his attack, but that wasn't as important now. He was also quite surprised that the boy was capable of making himself disappear for a few seconds but almost immediately his appearance had came back; he lost his focus too easily. The boy needed to know that when in a fight that he might have to focus on multiple things at a time, and if he couldn't do that how would he be able to learn this technique? Niiro decided to continue with his assault. He ran towards the boy pulling his right hand backwards, forming a fist, and thrusting it towards the boy's face. All of his power was not put into the attack, but there was enough to push the boy back some if he wasn't careful. His intentions were not to kill the boy but for it to seem like he would. The lesson here was all about focus and he needed to know if he the boy had enough.

Soren finally figured out the meaning of the exercise. At first he had trouble understanding why his new sensei was attacking him, but he finally solved it. The distance between Soren and Niiro wasn't much, but it was enough for Soren to make a hand sign and use body flicker. Soren appeared about 50 meters away. He then formed the proper hand signs and cast the new jutsu once more. Unlike last time however, Soren remained invisible. He didn't move a muscle for he kept his guard up, waiting for his sensei to attack again if he was able to find him.

When Soren had used Body Flicker to get away from Niiro he wasn't really surprised that the boy could use it. What he did do should have been expected by everyone. Niiro had instantly did Body Flicker, following the boy to where he was, but of course he had left some distance between them simply because he didn't want to be all up in the boy's face. He stood there with his hand down at his side and he watched the boy as he had vanished; it had surprised him that it only took the boy a few times to get the technique under control. The next thing he needed to see was if the boy would be able to keep this up for a while. Niiro had watched the boy's footsteps and he didn't make anymore than what he did when he used Body Flicker, so he knew that boy hadn't gone anywhere. Then he had started to thrust his his fist towards the boy, but as he was doing that he disappeared. Suddenly he reappeared in front of where Soren was and the thrust-like motion that he was making earlier was now fully extended going towards the boy's chest; it was packed with the same amount of power as the last punch.

Soren saw Niiro do body flicker a few moments after he had done his. This was no big surprise, but he was surprised that Niiro allowed him to complete his jutsu. Soren then watched as Niiro came at him again. Soren was prepared for Niiro this time, but he wasn't sure how Niiro was able to see where he was punching at. "Damn, he must have noticed I didn't move, oh well, I will have to dodge I guess," Soren thought to himself. Soren then jumped high over Niiro, doing a flip and twisting in the air. He landed several meters away from Niiro and was faceing his back. Soren would continue to remain defensive and not attack. He knew that would be unwise due to the sheer power of Niiro. Soren then waited for his sesnei's next move.

It would seem that when Niiro attempted to punch the boy in the chest he had missed somehow; he was quite sure that he wasn't off in his calculations, but no one was perfect so he could have messed that up somehow. Before he was about to confirm his error, he heard a thud behind him. Quickly he turned around and saw some snow fly up into the air as if something had just landed; that had officially made hims sure that Soren was over there. Now the only thing he really needed to do was land the hit, but what would be best in a situation like this? Speed was key right now, or at least that's what one would think; he decided to go in that route. He dashed towards where he saw the snow fly up at top speed, but as soon as he was about a meter away from that spot he disappeared. A hand then reached out of nowhere from behind the boy; it was reaching out for his right shoulder. Suddenly the rest of the body appeared with the hand and it was Niiro; he was standing perfectly still. He then waited to see what the boy would do.

Soren had anticipated an attack again, but he wasn't expecting Niiro's speed. As soon as Soren saw Niiro vanish, instinctively held up one hand sign. He then looked to his right hearing a noise and saw that it was Niiro attempting to grab his shoulder. Soren thought while Niiro's hand seem to move in slow motion, "How does he know what he is grabbing at? This guy is unreal!" Soren couldn't do anything for he was almost totally caught off guard... almost. Soren couldn't maintain both the invisibility and the next jutsu he was about to preform, so he released his invisibility. Niiro would have been successful at grabbing Soren's shoulder, but any contact with Soren's body and Niiro would become paralyzed. Assuming that he grabbed his shoulder.

Not knowing of the technique that the boy was about to release, Niiro just went ahead and grabbed the boy's shoulder. He suddenly felt a jolt go through his body and it would seem like he couldn't move; this move definitely surprised him. Although the boy had successfully paralyzed his Sensei, he had to release the Hiding with Camouflage Technique that he had been using so well so things may get a little rough for him depending on these next events. Niiro didn't like the position that he was in so he exerted the chakra in his body and he suddenly felt that he had control over his muscle and body. He clenched the boy's shoulder for a brief second before letting go. He then said, "Good job, we've gotten that out of the way. You can relax for a bit now." Niiro then rotated his shoulder around a little bit then walked over to a tree that wasn't too far away. He sat under the tree and decided to try and regain his chakra; a white aura was being exerted from him while he was regaining his chakra. He then said to the boy, "It would probably be best for you to do the same." Niiro had no intentions on stopping the training at this technique, but he wanted to make sure that they could continue training without running out of chakra.

Soren saw that his jutsu had worked. He was pretty low on chakra but it didn't matter, for his plan had worked... or so he thought. Soren then saw Niiro start to move again not but a few moments after having been affected by his jutsu. His jaw dropped and his eyes widened. He thought to himself, "No one has been able to do that before! EVER! Ofcourse to be fair, I haven't faced such a skilled shinobi before either. This guy is no joke. I am glad I am not his enemy." Soren then stopped and watched as Niiro sat down and started to replenish his chakra. He scratched his head and wondered, "Does he plan on continuing to train? Well just in case I had better replenish mine as well." Soren then sat down a few meters away from Niiro and started to replenish his own chakra. The then wondered about Kasumi and how her training was going. For some reason, he kinda missed her being around.

Niiro had closed his eyes, caught in regaining his chakra, then he had noticed that the boy had came and sat down as well; this was probably a good idea especially since he didn't plan on giving the boy much time to relax. Although they were taking a break the training did not stop there. He had a lot of things planned during this time while they trained and they only did a small percentage of this. If anything, he would completely exhaust Soren until it was almost impossible for him to even stand. He had finished; he had completely regained all of his chakra, it wouldn't have been very hard since he didn't really use that many jutsu or expend his chakra more than he needed. He cracked his neck and stood up. His white/blue eyes pierced down at the boy and said, "From now on, you'll have to regain your chakra on your own time; there will be no more breaks like this." He was a hard sensei, but that didn't mean that he was doing this for no reason. He was sure that the boy may get hurt, but it doesn't mean that he wouldn't get stronger. His eyes never moved from the boy that was still sitting on the snowy ground; he was waiting for him to get up so that they could continue their training.

Soren had been gathering chakra for a few minutes now. He was glad to see that his sensei would give him a break every now and then. His thoughts though were interrupted by his sensei telling him that their would be no more breaks like this one, and that he would have to regain his chakra on his own time. Soren nodded and said, "I understand." He then got up and dusted himself off. He then popped his knuckles again and asked, "So what are we going to do now sensei? Are you going to teach me a new technique again?" Soren had no expectations, nor any foreknowledge of what Niiro was about to do.

As soon as Niiro was about to begin to give Soren what his next jutsu was going to be he suddenly got a chill run down his back. He didn't know what it was, but suddenly it became unimportant. He looked to the boy and said to him, "The technique I'll be teaching you now is Crow Clone Technique. It's like clone technique but a little more advanced." Niiro did the few handseals required for the technique and poof there was an exact copy of himself right there standing next to him. Niiro then elbowed the clone in the chest then stabbed it in the face, but instead of it disappearing and leaving a cloud of smoke a flock of crows flew from where the clones were and went into the sky. Niiro then showed the boy the simple handseals for the technique, then he said, "After you've created a single clone, let me know." He then backed away from the boy, sat in the snow, and regained more of his chakra.

Soren listened to Niiro explain the next jutsu that he was going to learn. Soren nodded and knew of the crow clone technique from some of the books that he liked to read. Soren then watched the hand signs and saw a clone appear. Watching Niiro destroy it, he saw the crows fly into the air. Soren grasped the concept pretty quickly. It was a useful jutsu indeed. Soren then watched the hand signs again as Niiro preformed them. Soren copied them accordingly and practiced preforming the hand sign's a few times. After he got the pattern down, he then decided to attempt to make a crow clone. Soren preformed the hand signs and channeled his chakra to make a physical clone, but instead he made a regular clone.

Soren facepalmed himself and said, "Uh... that isn't was I was going for." He then released it and tried to preform it again. This time though, he put more chakra into it, and also concentrated on making it physical and with crows as the composition. He then made the hand signs and preformed the jutsu. All of a sudden a Crow Clone appeared. He then released it and crows flew around his body. He then looked at Niiro and said, "Um... is that good?"

Niiro wasn't really paying much attention to the boy simply because he was regaining his chakra. He had completed it and it seemed like he had gotten done right on time too. The boy had just successfully created a clone that was composed of crows. It had surprised him that Soren had finished so quickly, but who knows; maybe the boy was getting stronger even now. It was good that the boy was getting stronger for if he were weak then it might become difficult for the boy to live in this world. He stood up and walked over to the clone, surveying it to make sure that there weren't any problems with the clones; he had seen none. After the boy had released the clone and it turned into crows. He nodded his head confirming that he was pleased with what the boy had did. Unfortunately training didn't stop there. He looked to the boy and said, "The next technique I'm going to teach you can be used two ways." Niiro then performed a few handseals and crows had flocked out of nowhere and surrounded the two of them. "This technique is called Scattering One Thousand Crows Technique. It pretty much summons the crows from all over the place and has them circle around the opponent. Now the way I prefer to do it is slightly different." After he said that the crows all flew away to places unknown. Niiro then did a few handseals and created a clone. He struck the clone again and clones had flocked out of it. Before all the crows would have escaped the body of the clone, Niiro crated more handseals and thousands of crows had flocked from the clone and surrounded the two of them. "Now you can do it like this, or just summon them from wilderness; it's truly up to you." After that was said they all flew away. He stood a few meters away from the boy and waited for him to try the technique.

Soren watched as his sensei, the masterful Niiro, examined his crow clone before he released it. He saw that his master was pleased with his jutsu and this pleased Soren as well. The reason being that Soren was only after learning jutsu to gain power. Not out of greed, but out of necessity. Soren paid close attention to the next technique and the hand signs that would proceed it. He had no idea that he would me learning so much jutsu all in one training session, but Soren was excited that it was turning out that way. Soren then watched as the hand signs were made. He then saw countless crows come from out of no where and surrounded the two of them. He was impressed by the subtle effectiveness of this technique. He then saw Niiro release them and try it a different way. Soren started to play scenarios in his mind of how he could use this technique to his advantage. As he suspected, Niiro used this technique in conjunction with his crow clone technique. Soren knew that the crow clone was a good distraction method already, but using both of these together would defiantly overwhelm a small group. Soren nodded to signal that he understood what Niiro was trying to teach him.

After the crows vanished out of site and Niiro had stepped back, Soren thought to try the new jutsu first. After practicing the hand signs a few times, he channeled his chakra to his location and imagined the surrounding crows in the area, to come to this spot. At first only a dozen crows came. He then thought, "Well I guess a little more chakra is needed." Soren then tried it again, only this time, all of the crows in the area appeared. Soren smiled as he was glad to have successfully completed the technique. He then thought, "I wonder if I could use this in a reverse way of what Niiro sensei was talking about." Soren then preformed the hand signs for the crow clone and made 2 clones from a few crows that had surrounded himself. One crow clone was behind Soren, the other was infront of Niiro. Soren then smiled and said, "So would that work too?"

It came to no surprise to Niiro that his student was getting better at performing jutsu, but he wondered if the boy had the stamina to be performing all these techniques without them physically straining the boy's body. He didn't know if the boy would be able to keep up all of this, but he was truly contemplating on whether or not he should push the boy to his breaking point. After thinking about it for a moment he decided not to go over the limit and to just end it here. He cracked his knuckles then said to the boy, "I believe that we've done enough training for one day, so we'll pick this up some other day." After he said that he disappeared and went somewhere that he could relax or something. It wasn't that he was tired or anything he was just getting lazy for some reason, or maybe he was just not in the mood to be training anyone; it was irrelevant really.

[Exit]

(Gained 40 TP For teaching two jutsu to AoC)

Soren nodded as he heard his sensei call it quits for today. He had learned much and would utilize his new found knowledge well. He would then start to walk back into town to get himself something to eat. He was starving due to all the training. He also wanted to get more acquainted with the area. For this would be his new home and he would need to know every inch of it.

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