The girl was exhuasted as he lay on her back with her head resting on her arms. she looked up at the stary sky with wonder. How Many people had looked at these stars before she wondered she was hungry she hadnt eaten in a couple of days. it was different when she was on a diet since it was her own choice but this was killer her stomach growled and she punched it yelling to shut up. now her stomach hurt from the hunger and her punch and she cursed herself for acting before she thought. She was tired of traveling alone. She hadnt seen or talked to anyone for weeks and several times she had stopped herself from talking to herself her father had told her that it was a sign of insanity when people talked to themselves and she didnt like the sound of that word. She rolled closer to the fire as the night air got suddenly colder.
Chikusa: Why is it so cold tonight? I dont think winter is close....Though its been so long since Iive seen a calendar I really have absolutely no clue.
She saw a shooting star and rose her hand crossing her fingers like her father had taught her then she closed her eyes
Chikusa: Please shooting star let me meet many wonderful people in the future ones that arent mean and are fun to play with.....Oh! And please protect me from people that would cause me harm.....and....um.... Let me strive to be all I can be.
She uncrossed her fingers and opened her eyes. The moon was full tonight so it was pretty easy to see her surroundings. The trees were kinda scary with there spindly limbs but she had been told not to be scared of spooks since that made them stronger
Chikusa: I know your out there spooks but im not scared of you!
She said going into a tighter ball. A owl hooted and she shrieked. She was scared of a lot of things. Mainly wild animals and mean people. So this was a thing that happened often.
Chikusa: Go away owl Im no mouse.
The owl kept hooting completly ignoring her. She didnt like being ignored so she picked up a rock and through it at the trees. The hooting stopped but suddenly there was flapping and a loud cracking noise and she scurried away behind a rock peeking over it in a way that only her nose and eyes could be seen. she scanned the trees for movement certain that something was gonna pop out. several minutes passed by before she very slowly started crawling back to the fire keeping her eyes on the trees. Any fool could have known it was just a tree branch breaking mostly likely from the rock she had thrown,but Chikusa was something special.
Chikusa: I wont let you get me! Im super strong and will kick your butt!
It wasnt a very convincing statement since she was shaking. After a bit longer she closed her eyes and tried to sleep.
When morning came she got up she hadnt slept well but at least she got a few hours. She didnt like only sleeping for a few hours cause she felt more tired when she woke up than she did when she went to sleep but she had been told people who sleep in too long get fat and she didnt want that to happen to her. She had an image in her head of falling asleep the way she was then waking up 12 hours later and being one of those people that had to have the wall cut out of their homes to get out. That made her shiver. She looked around, her fire had gone out but it must have stayed on long enough since she wasnt too cold. She stood up and stretched and decided to get her morning exercise, walking over to a low tree branch she jumped up to the limb then swung backwards hanging by her knees. She then crossed her arms on her chest and started doing upside down sit ups. She mad carful not to drag her hair on the ground while she did it. She didnt like doing morning exercise especially when she was hungry. But there was some good in it since it woke her up.
She reached fifty and by that time her stomach hurt too much to do anymore. so she decided to do arm strength instead. she flipped to her feet and picked up the biggest rock she could lifting it above her head and began pushing it up.
her arms started to shake so she dropped the rock on the ground. and started doing squat thrusts. after finishing her last training set she walked down to the river splashing water on her face. Then she looked at her reflection in the water. She was happy with her looks. She was sure she wasnt the best looking girl ever but she was pretty decent. And she wasnt greedy so she smiled then walked over to the spot where she had thrown her fishing pole. It was a crude one but it got the job done. once she picked it up she started moving more rocks till she found one with a big enough bug for bait. she hooked it on and slung the line into the water. Then she hooked the pole to the pile of rocks she had made and closed her eyes listening to the river go by.
While she listened she hummed a song that calmed her down. She had made it up one day while she was walking around. Being alone a lot gave her time to make up songs to sing. she was up to three. She liked singing it was one of her favorite things to do along with dancing and cooking. She couldnt count very high and she didnt know a lot of big words and didnt know the value of money but she didnt care about that stuff. She just practiced what she knew. Thats all she was taught so that must be all that was absolutly necessary. she opened her eyes when she heard a splash and saw the line getting tugged so she grabbed the rod and jerked up hooking the fish. she quickly ran inland to pull it out of the water then pounced on it to hold it down beating it with watever she could find till it was dead. She then put it in the water again to clean it then carried it to the place she had made the fire to cook it.
Chikusa: Im sorry mister fish but I have too eat. Thank you for leaving your life behind so that I may keep my own.
She got the fire going enough to cook the fish and then ate it. She looked around it was nearly noon already and she needed to start moving again. She didnt like to stay in one spot cause if she did then something might attack her. She packed up her blanket and fishing pole wrapping it up in the blanket so that the poles was safe and the blanket stayed rolled then lid it under the strap that held the sword too her lower back. she touched the hilt smiling. It was the only thing that she had that she knew was given to her. Her only present ever. It was her mothers sword. Her mother had been a strong ninja in a great village at one point but had been tricked by a rogue ninja. She was told to meet him and he snuck up and killed her.At least that had been what she was told. It was the only thing she had to remember her mother by. She didnt know what she looked like or sounded like but that was ok since she could come up with her own ideas. She figured she looked like her mother so she imagined her as an older version of herself. One that was strong and brave, who helped those that needed it and stopped bad people from doing terrible things. She pictured her voice as very kind and kind of quite but with a tone of strength that made her very respected. Someone to look up too. Someone to model herself after. This was why she trained every morning. Maby someday she could be great like she pictured her mother
The girl started sprinting upstream. She hadnt been taught ninja techniques so she just kept to the ground ducking her head to avoid low branches she decided to get a workout while she moved so she picked up a heavy log and layed it over her shoulders while she sprinted. It served to purposes, one it made her work her leg strength and two she had to weave side to side to avoid catching it on the trees. she counted this as evasion training.
Chikusa: where will I go today? Hmm im kinda tired of the forest maby the mountains? or the beach? I should decide quickly since they are completly opposite directions from eachother.
She decided to head for the mountains it sounded more interesting than a thing of endless blue she already had the sky what good would more blue be? So she turned left towards the plain she had to cross the river and bit her lip. She couldnt swim so she looked for a shallow part and started to cross it. She lost her footing and went under making her panic. The water wasnt too deep if she put her toes down she could walk on them across but being under water scared her so she started flailing. Of course this made it worse since she breathed in a bunch of water making her cough.
Her situation didnt improve from there, the river was pulling her further down she could no longer feel the bottom she panicked more thrashing her arms and legs wildly. She sunk like a rock but when she used a bunch of energy kciking her legs it would get her just high enough to get a small gasp of air. the kind where it eases the pain in your lungs but isnt actually giving you air she needed more fast. Suddenly she felt a sharp pain in her side, she didnt know if it was a stick or a sharp rock but something had cut her and that made her cry out losing more air and causing large bubbles to raise to the top. When she opened her eyes under water she could see waves of dark blood going by and she grabbed her side trying to stop it. she felt a rock it her leg and she kicked off it she hurt her shin bad but it got her above the water for several second which she used to gasp for air. But once again she was pulled under and she started frantically thinking.
Someone save me! I dont want to die. Please save me....
Was this really it? All her dreams all her training to die before she had done anything? Before she even made a friend? What was the point why had she existed in the first place if this was it? The last thing she had thought of before everything turned black was that the star she wished on hadnt done what she was told. She wished to be protected and it had failed her, then there was darkness.
Hours passed by. And she woke up the bottom of her waist was wet and it took her a while to realize where she was. She looked around as her eyes adjusted she was laying on the ground she could tell. then she remembered the river and she quickly pushed herself up with her arms she felt a searing pain in her right side and screamed in pain she looked down and realized the lower half of her body was still in the river she had been washed into the ground at the curve in the river. She looked at where the pain was coming from and felt sick. It was deep as least as wide as her hand and sitting in the water. she didnt know how she hadnt bled out but she was definatly weak. she drug herself onto land feeling tears running down her cheeks from the pain. She bit her lip hard. She had to do something to stop the bleeding so she thought of her blanket. she could cut a strip off wrap it around her waist and tie it with the string from her fishing pole. so once she was far enough from the water she reached behind her back and whimpered she couldnt feel anything back there and her heart sunk was it gone? she reached lower and felt the hilt of the sword she breathed in a sigh of relief, but her situation was bad with nothing to tie her wound closed with she had only one option burning it closed.
She put some twigs and sticks in a pile and lit it on fire. She didnt know if it was lucky or not that the flint had been tangled up in her shirt so it was dry. She wasnt looking forward to this she struck it on the very bottom of her kunai she didnt want to damage the tip. and it let out some sparks and she kept hitting it til the fire lit. The kunai wasnt big enough to get the whole wound in one go and she already knew she wouldnt have the guts to touch the hot metal to her skin then lift it up and do it again so she decided to use her mothers sword. it was a katana so normally it wouldnt be wide enough but since it was almost six feet long she had modified it with a hing in the center that could swivel and make the sword wider and half its length. with it two times as wide it was just wide enough so she set it on the fire and waited. She waited for several minutes until she new the blade was hot enough. She didnt pariticularly want to do it and find out it wasnt hot enough. So once the blade was glowing red she put the sheath in her mouth adn lifted her shirt. then she started counting to three around the sheath
Chikusa: hwan......thoo.....hreee!
she crushed it to her side screaming she could hear and smell the skin sizzle she then through the sword down to the ground thrashing around throwing anything she found with her hand. after several minutes and almost passing out several times she limped over to the water. her leg hurt and now that she wasnt going to bleed out she realized how bad the bruise was she fell onto her knees by the water and started splashing water on the burn then took off her bandana dipping it in the water and holding it to her side
She rolled to her side laughing to herself well at least my hunger pains arent so bad. She laughed harder at the crude joke then whimpered in pain. she laid still, it hurt too much to move and she didnt want to get dirt in her blistered skin. The sun was setting and she had wasted an entire day and had no idea where she was. She had to be sevaral miles downstream since even the trees were slightly different. she didnt care about finding aplace to sleep she would just lay here tonight. A thought she ended up regretting once it was dark. she couldnt see anything at all it was pitch black. When she was laying there earlier she hadnt seen the thick canopy the trees made blocking out the sky. She was scared of the dark on top of her many other phobias. She closed her eyes since they were useless anyways and try to figure out what was around her. She heard frogs, frogs werent scary, and also something else. Maby a bob cat or something. A bob cat couldnt hurt her so that was ok. The only reason she was scared of birds where their weird feet. she didnt want to be touched by their feet
She then heard something not natural to this area. It was defiantly people at least two maybe more. She rolled to her stomach pushing herself up biting her lip to keep from gasping she then crawled into the thickest bush she could making as little noise as possible. She stedied her breathing and listened. There was footsteps in the area where she was laying she strained her eyes to see. They looked like bandits or something. one reached down and touched the ground where she had been laying
Man: Its still warm there is someone very nearby id wager kekekekeh
Chikusa started to crawl backwards slowly deeper into the brush she could tell that these were bad people and needed to get away but before she got far her hand hit a twig snapping it and they looked her direction.
Man: well well I wonder where they might have GONE!
He said reaching his hand through the bushes at her she stumbled backwards and squeaked and the shoved to her feet and started running. she could have cut his arm with her sword but the thought made her stomach upset so she ran, she was in a pretty thick wooded area and several times was hit in the face by branches she could here them behind her
Man: Ohohoooo I hear a woman!
They were catching up, she wasnt able to run very fast with her injuries she didnt want to kill them and didnt know if she could in her condition anyways she reached a hill and tumbled down it. once she hit the bottom she got up and kept running until she reached the edge of the water. now she was stuck. she had nowhere to go. She still couldnt swim and the men where closing in she put her hand on the sword hilt. She hated fighting so she decided to fall back on her hobby, so she started to sing, she chose one of her sorrowful songs to show she was sorry for what she was about to do. the men started laughing
Man: This bitch is singing to us now? Hahaha what a stupid brat now come here!
He reached towards her chest and she drew her sword lopping off his fingers. he howled in pain grabbing his hand she looked at his hand and felt sick but then she snapped out of it hearing the man who had just lost his fingers yell KILL THE BITCH! she saw a glimmer of a blade catch in the sliver of moonlight and ducked down gasping feeling the burned skin pulling on itself she swung the sword upwards almost catching the first man on the chin but he fell back to avoid it. His friend swung his blade downwards and cut her shoulder, she bit her lip to keep from crying out not wanting to show weakness and continued singing her sad tune. The second man noticed her not pay attention to the wound not making a sound luckily the night had covered her biting her lip.
Man 2: She is wacko!
Man: Of course she is she lives in the woods shes probably a witch too just kill her!
She used that moment to flick her wrist extending the blade too its full length peircing the second man in the chest as he rose his arm to strikehe fell to the ground and she thought to herself thank the shooting star that they werent ninja or she would already be dead. the first man stumbled backwards seeing his buddy fall and losing his nerve. having lost the fingers on his good hand and now losing his backup he was at the disadvantage and like all bullies he suddenly became far more boot licking. He started begging for his life as he ran away. He probably thought she would give chase but she let him go she hated causing pain she loooked at her sword and saw the blood then her eyes fell on the body next to her and she threw up. She wasnt a ninja or a warrior why did she have to see this? She thought. She fell to her knees crying why are people so mean to eachother she had completly forgot about the darkness around her as she stared at the man laying on the ground. Why had they attacked her? What did she do to them? These were her thoughts as she started digging a hole. He was a cruel man but he still deserved to be burried he had been a person after all.
It took her a very long time to dig. now everything hurt, the bruise on her leg the burn on her side and now she had a cut on her shoulder, at first she was kinda scared that the knife may have been poisoned but after so many hours of digging with her heart rate way up she felt no worse other than exhaustion. So she dismissed the thought and it was replaced by a scarier one that the other man may return with more people so she just got the hole deep enough to roll the body in and covered it up vomiting several more times till she had nothing left in her stomach. Now she just gagged. which was almost worse. once the hole was covered she closed her eyes and clasped her hands together.
Chikusa: Im very sorry that I killed you I hope you find a better place on the other side....
She remembered her fear of the other man and decided she needed to leave. the quicker the better. So she cleaned her sword and put it in its sheath turned and started to jog. It was a slow jog because she could till hardly see and she didnt want to fall down another hill, she was hurting enough. As she ran she held her side, wishing the pain away.
She ran until morning, yet another sleepless night. She new this was bad because a person that didnt sleep enough couldnt think correctly. She would have to be sure to get some tonight. She was certain that noone had followed her and that she was in the clear. It was time for morning exercises, just because she hadnt slept and was hurting really bad didnt mean she got to skip out. So she found an open spot with a low branch and hung from it. she started her sit up whimpering from her wound with every one she started breathing around the shots of pain after she learned where the catch was. she did all she could then crawled off the branch and continuing with the other ones. Then sat down and crossed her legs to think.
Chikusa: My original plan was to go to the mountains but i dont think i could scale it in this condition....So I need to go to a place thats more flat.
The girl had decided to move closer to a village, if any of her wounds started to get infected she would need proper medical care. She really hated to go into town, she had no money as such she couldnt afford to actually buy things. She ended up having to steal the things she absolutly needed and it always made her feel terrible. She would always leaf something as payment but she figured it was probably not enough to pay for the item. She looked through her stuff she lost her blanket already so she couldnt use that, her fishing pole was gone too. She had taken a few coins from the man that attacked her probably enough for some bread. She was hungry and hurting as she walked out of the forest and looked around. She had heard there was a terrible eclipse before she was born and much of the vegetation had died. Even so the world had made an impressive comeback the power of nature awed her and made her wish she was tough like it.
Chikusa: I wonder what the village is like in these parts.....I hope everyone is very nice!
She combed her hair with her fingers and straightened her outfit. She was always clean but her outfit was harder to wash in the river it always came out wrinkled
[participating characters = Chikusa, Raysha]
[Posting order = Ruseo,Miku,Ruseo, Miku]
Raysha starts running down the road saying shit shit shit shit I'm going to be late. Obviously ignoring the majesty of the nature around her.
dust got kicked up under her feat as she ran as fast as she could to the next village .
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Chikusa was finally happy with her appearance. Her hair was combed and her shirt was as wrinkle free as she could get it. She started walking out of the current cluster of trees she called home. She had a feeling today would be different but she didnt know how it would be different but she was excited. She fiddled with her sword hilt as she walked she had a couple of similar habits like biting her lip when she was nervous or thinking. This was one of her least destructive habits. She stopped herself and kept walking, it was really hot today and she could already feel a little bit of sweat on her brow luckily her head wrap kept the sweat out of her eyes. She prefered cooler weather. Not cold spring time was her favorite time of year since everything was pretty and the temperature was perfect.
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Raysha keeps Running her coins making a rattling sound from all the money in there. she continues to run unable to enjoy the hot weather as she runs forward at top speed. her hair waving all over the place as she ran, her shirt flapping in the wind she continues to run till she passes by a cluster of trees. the water she carried on her waist flaps around and drips as she ran past the trees she thinks to her self.
"shit I can't believe I'm late for my next gig next I got to leave earlier "
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Chikusa squints as she sees movement in the sun its someone running. She didnt know why someone would be running through this particular area but she didnt feel any anger or scaryness coming from the person so she ended up being interested. She always wanted to meet new people, but she didnt know if she should approach the new person since they seemed to be in a hurry. She decided to just wave, if they wanted to talk they would come
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She sees the person waving and immiedetly forgets she is late. She always loved meeting new people because it was a chance to make new friends. She stops by skidding to a halt saying hi who are u I'm raysha. her long black hair falls down her back her coin purse makes loud rattling sound from the jolt of movement she notices the sword next to her and wonders what it is for.
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chikusa immidiatly hugged the girl. She had been told that people that liked eachother hugged. And when two people that really liked eachother kissed but she was pretty sure people had to travel together some to like eachother a lot. So a hug would do.
Chikusa: Hello Raysha im Chikusa. We are friends now right?
Chikusa wasnt too good at relationships since she never spent more than a couple of minutes with a person at a time. So she was doing the best she could with the words she knew
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Raysha looks at her oddly wondering y someone who just met her hugged her. she quickly pats her self down slowly and checks her purse to make sure nothing was stolen. she then smiles nervously at her and says
"nice to meet u chikusa normally people don't hug until they spent a bit of time together. unless u want people to think your trying to steal something a hand shake works better. And as for being friends I'd love to be friends with u nothing I love more then making new friends."
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Chikusa was kinda hurt that the girl immediately thought she was a thief but she figured it was just because they were in a forest and someone just came out and touched her. Hadnt this girl ever had friends before? She wasnt one to talk though she had never had one either. when the girl said hand shake she bit her lip trying to think of what she meant before trying what she thought and flapping her hand in front of the girl. This felt stupid hugs felt nice this was just weird.
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She looks at her face after she sees her comment and says
"sorry I didn't mean to offend you just trying to help you".
She then looks closer at her face as she bites her lip. She then says
"here I'll show u "
She then grabs her hand and shakes it. Then goes and explains the problems with hugging people u just met. Then says
"by the way what is that sword for
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After the girl showed her a handshake she looked at her hand. It was an odd thing to do but whatever floated the girls boat.
Chikusa: I still think hugs feel nicer...
She then noticed the girl eyeing her sword it was fine that she was looking she liked to look at it too then the girl asked what it was for and she took it out hugging it pressing her cheek to it.
Chikusa: This is my present. My mom used to own it
she said as she closed her eyes and smiled
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"O that's nice ur so lucky to have something of ur moms all I have is my moms old headband and They may feel better but normal people won't like u hugging them right away."
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Chikusa opened her eyes. and looked at the girl.
Chikusa: You have a present from your mom too?
Chikusa liked this girl they had something in common which is the first time she had ever had that happen. It was nice to have something in common with someone. She had seen a group of riends laughing together and she had wanted to experience that for a long time. But her father said it was not safe to mingle with other people. That they may try to hurt Chikusa but this girl seemed perfectly nice
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She says
" yea but she told me that it's a bad idea to show it to other people because they may try to hurt me if I do."
She then holds her breath hoping she wasn't one of the bad people her mom told her about
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Chikusa tilted her head and bit her lip as she thought. After a while she started to pace back and forth trying to think of what she was gonna say next. It was something important that pertained to the girl something about what she was doing. Then she remembered.
Chikusa: By the way why did you seem to be in such a big hurry back there? you were running pretty fast
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"O shit I just remember I'm late for my gig I'm supposed to be dancing there do u want to come with me"
she says as she jumps up and down anxiously while nervously looking around to see her her hair waving around as she moves her hair waves around her coin purse jingles Her shirt flaps around.
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Chikusa was very excited about this. she was good at singing and an ok dancer she thought anyways but she had never met a professional. She nodded in excitement at the thought of getting to see a trained dancer it also might give her new song ideas.
Chikusa: Yes please! I would love to see you dance!
At this point she had heard the coins jingle one too many times. So she decided to ask.
Chikusa: How did you get so much money? Is that from dancing?
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Raysha smiles excitedly she didn't have any real friends so she was so so happy to finally have made one. She then thinks to herself
"Maybe I won't have to be alone now "
She then says
"ok ready when you are lets hurry".
As she is about to get ready go run away her coin purse jingling even more she then hears her say something. so listen in closely then says
"Yes it is I get more then I know what to do with sometimes".
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Chikusa heard her say that it really was from dancing and wondered if she could get as much for her singing. But she also didnt want to just let everyone hear it. what if she sang and noone liked it? The only people she had sang to were ones that were gonna die. She was sure she would be too nervous in front of a group of people, there were just so many things they could choose to hate. her voice her looks her outfit, she didnt like the prospect. She thought as she ran behind the girl
Chikusa: So do you buy tasty food or pretty cloths with your money?
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"Yes of course also I love to gamble with money also and tons of other things so do u have any special skills chikusa"
She then continues to run at top speed her hair flowing in the wind her coin purse jingling her back pack shuffling around the water in her pouch making a swooshing sound she begins to think to herself
"I wonder if I should tell her I'm a ninja mom said to be careful about who I told this so I guess I'll just have to wait and see"
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Chikusa thought of telling her about singing but decided not to so instead she thought of her other skills. There wasnt anything too interesting just really helpful stuff for surviving.
Chikusa: well I can make fishing poles and fish. I can start fires really well, I can do situps to as high as i can count...Oh and i know how to do laundry and um...... I am good at scaring goblins away
She was most proud of the last one even though it was the most laughable
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She looks at her confused and gives her a wierd look then says what's a goblin. And can u do anything besides just making fishing pole and making fires and other stuff
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She gives her a little wierd look and says
Chikusa thought that was a weird question. Whats a goblin?
Chikusa: you know the little green guys with pointy teeth that live in the forest.
Then she felt kinda insulted when she asked if she could do anything else those were very cool things. So she thought what else she could do.
Chikusa: I can skin animals and make cloths but its really hard and doesnt turn out very good and um...... I can draw and stuff
She was running out of things to say. She was starting to get embarrased maby everyone else had more stuff the could do was she weird or something?
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" there no such thing as a goblin".
She then sees her face and says
"sorry if I insulted you but with acception of fishing pole everyone who travels alone can do those things from what I've seen. but drawing is a interesting skill how good of a artist are you. Also can you do anything else.
She then try to think of what else to talk to her about she has never been good at talking to people she continues to run as she talks to her and try's to think of what else to talk about
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Chikusa: There is so goblins! They come out at night and eat you! Umm im an ok drawer
she pulls out a paper that has a really crappy stick figure on it. looks at it and puts it back in her pocket. She had run out of skills to talk about other than sword fighting and singing so she chose sword fghting.
Chikusa: I have trained in sword fighting for a long time so i can defend myself...what about you? You havnt said anything but dancing
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"Hmmm I'm good at dancing, gambling and jumping and hand to hand combat. dont really use sword that much mostly use fists. Also I know some other basic stuff but that's really great that your good at using a sword".
She then keeps running eventually they get really close to reaching this big town. full of japanese style houses and food stands with large red banners out front. As well as the smell of countless different foods In the air there was a big stage in the middle with ornamental decorations all around.
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Chikusa could smell the food and her tummy rumbled and she smacked it coughing loud to cover it up. She didnt know what gambling was but it sounded interesting she would try that later but she kept following the girl since she had never been in this town before and didnt want to get lost. She didnt like being in towns there were so many people and it was really loud.
Chikusa: Whats gambling?
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Raysha keeps going but she thought she heard her stomach rumble but just ignores it. as she sees her punch her self in stomach she wonders if she ok or if she needs food. she then begins to hear her cough and gets even more worried. Raysha begins to wonder what to do and if she should ask if she ok. She then remebers to secure her coin purse then moved her hand over her purse and secured it so it would be a lot harder for pic pockets to get it. then she heard her question so she responds
"it's a thing where u spend money and take a risk like roll a dice or pull a lever or play cards or other things it's really fun to do it's one of my favorite things to do. "
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That sounded stupid why would you risk spending your money on nothing? even so she wanted to try it once. She wanted to try everything once. So she decided to ask.
Chikusa: Well when we have some time is it possible you could show me?
At this point she thought of one cool story she hadnt thought of. So she decided to talk about it.
Chikusa: I met a witch one time did you know that?
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Raysha smiles at her and says
" of course I'd love to show u some time"
She then thinks "opps I never told her what she could win". Then stays lost in thought till she hears her new friend talk to her again so she says
"no I had no idea I never knew witches even existed what was it like."
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chikusa got really excited as she talked about her experience. There were so many cool things that happened.
Chikusa: She could run on trees and fly! She could even control butterflies. I tried to keep up but it was really hard with her bouncing over trees....
Chikusa wanted to learn it to she didnt know if it was some evil thing in that case she wouldnt but if she didnt have to eat little kids that was ok.
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Raysha laughs histarically then says
"yes I imagine meeting a witch would be fun ".
She then thinks to herself "I guess she doesn't know what a shinobi is well it coud be a honest mistake I guess. " then debates whether she should tell her that she is a witch also and what a witch true name is .
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Chikusa pouted, It wasnt fair she trained every day why could she do amazing things. Maby she needed to train her leg strength more. maby she wasnt flying just jumping really high! And if she didnt eat for a long time she would be lighter and gravity wouldnt effect her as much! She decided thats what she would do. As she ignored her stomach rumbling.
Chikusa: Im gonna learn how to do it!
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Raysha laughs some more when she sees her pouty face then continues to debate whether to tell her. she seemed like a nice person but she was afraid she would tell someone bad if she showed her. she then hears her stomach rumbling takes out her back pack while still running using her kekkai genkai to make sure she wont run into anything . Once she has her back pack she then takes out some food and gets ready to hand it to her when she hears her talk. So raysha says
"learn how to do what "
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Chikusa: to fly over trees and control butterflies i think that would be really cool. but i have to lose a bunch of weight so that i dont get pulled down by gravity.
Chikusa was sure she had it this time. If she could do these things AND swordfight she could always be safe
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Raysha laughs some more and says you
"you don't need to lose weight to fly over trees and climb them I'll show you but u have to promise not to tell anyone ok"
She then begins to focus her chakra and then begins to walk on the trees standing side ways to show chikusa. She then says
"Here see I can do it so y can't you but like I said I have to promise not to tell anyone I'm a witch or that I showed u this or people could try and hurt me "
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Chikusa got super excited squirming side to side.
Chikusa: ok-ok-ok just show me how! I want to know
She started bouncing up and down she had never done witch training and it looked like it was gonna be fun. But it also brought a question to mind.
Chikusa: So only women can do this stuff? Ive only seen girls do it so there is no wizards?
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"yes there are wizards but like I said certain wizards and witches hate others especially hunter witches and wizards who will hurt you especially if they wear a headband. As for witch training just make the hand sign.
She shows her the hand sign then says
"then try to focus your magical energy to do it "
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Chikusa did a sloppy handsign and closed her eyes.
Chikusa: go spell! Go!
She tried really hard focusing on her fingers she didnt know about chakra or what it felt like so she wasnt sure what she was supposed to be feeling if she was doing it right or wrong. But she felt no different so she assummed she was doing it wrong. But she didnt want to open her eyes since she was scared of heights
Chikusa: am i flying?
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"nope only certain wizard and witches can fly u have to be born with the power to fly. like for example the hyoga clan can look through walls" .
she then starts quoting different kekkai genkai abilities then says u can still jump high and walk on trees She then shows her a normal ninja jump then remember she hungry so throws her some food in midair. Then says
"your hungry here eat this "
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Chikusa catches it and looks at it. then eats it quickly she hadnt eaten in a long time long enough that she had forgotten how hungry she truely was once she had finished. she thought about the right questions to ask.
Chikusa: So what does it feel like when the magic flows through? And of do i get it? And what do you call yourselves? Since the other girl said she wasnt a witch
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She smiles as she eats it she didn't realize how hungry she was so she get out more food and says
"here want more "
She then hears her talk about chakra so she explains what it's like then says
"where called ninja or shinobi"
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Shinobi....She had heard that word before.... the man at the house had told her about it. She hadnt known what the word meant when he said it so she thought it was an insult or something. she kept thinking and forgot about the offer of food. She needed to learn more.
Chikusa: how can Learn more about shinobi and their powers?
She needed to study, if there were more people like this then it was more dangerous than she thought and she needed to be able to protect herself and others. Her father had taught her that the most important thing in the world is to protect yourself and those important to you
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"that's very hard to do only way to do that is find a shinobi village or have a other shinobi teach you. they ussally keep to themselves and hide so are hide to find or learn from. are u sure you don't want more food I have plenty. Also don't worry so much as long as your with me I'll try to make sure no one hurts you and teach you everything my mom tought me .
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Chikusa was certain she could trust this girl now they had so much in common she was just about to agree to hit as a figure began approaching them, she paid him no mind since there had been lots of people that walked near them since they got here. She just figured he must be going into the house they were by. She decided to keep doing her handsign. If she got really good at it maby she could do the tree jump thing faster than other people....After she figured out what her chakra was of course
Chikusa: So....what does chakra feel like? If i know that maby I can tap into it?
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She sees the man and is extra careful not to lose her purse of coins. then continues walking around looking for the stage keeping a eye one the strange man. while walking around she notices the man looking at them but then hears churumi. She then says
"it feels like a energy source inside you".
She then goes into further detail at explaining chakra then says
"Remember not to tell anyone this "
Raysha then begins to wonder if she should tell her about her kekkai genkai and if she could be trusted to keep a secret.
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Chikusa continues trying to use her chakra. However there is no way for her to tell if its working or not. Maby if she had a spell that actually made something like the butterflies the other girl could control. If she new she could see it when it worked it may be easier. At this point she could feel something warm in her stomach and got excited maby this is what she was supposed to feel actually now that she thought of it when she focused on it she could feel it moving all throughout her body into her arms and legs even her head. This was it she was sure so she asked.
Chikusa: Is ther any spell that allows you to creat something that you know of? Like a butterfly?
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Raysha continues looking around then starts sampling the food. while she is looking around the town enjoying the food she starts looking for the stage she is going to preform on. she continuee to keep a close eye on the man while secretly taking out a small dagger and keeps it concealed. she then hears chikusa talk and goes back to her then says
"there's the clone jutsu and transformation jutsu for transformation jutsu. just picture what you want to turn into and just keep trying I'm sure you will get it eventually. I'm going to look around while you practice just yell if u need me ".
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The clone jutsu sounded really hard but she figured she could pull off a transformation. It sounded like a very realistic version of imagination so she decided to try that. But what should she turn into? She could turn into anything she wanted? She liked the sound of that! How about a dragon!? Or maby even a tiger? Or another person like a famous person! She wanted to be famous since she new what that word was it meant everyone knew you but she didnt know anyone like that. The only two people she new enough to copy were Raysha but she figured if they both looked the same she might forget which one was her that would be bad. and then the girl she had met in the forest. the one with the butterflies so she decided to copy her. She got the image in her head and started concentrating on the warm feeling trying to move it. If she pictured it in her head she could see her whole body outlined in this energy so she decided to shape it like the girl she had met.
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Raysha starts running down the road saying shit shit shit shit I'm going to be late. Obviously ignoring the majesty of the nature around her.
dust got kicked up under her feat as she ran as fast as she could to the next village .
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The clone jutsu sounded really hard but she figured she could pull off a transformation. It sounded like a very realistic version of imagination so she decided to try that. But what should she turn into? She could turn into anything she wanted? She liked the sound of that! How about a dragon!? Or maby even a tiger? Or another person like a famous person! She wanted to be famous since she new what that word was it meant everyone knew you but she didnt know anyone like that. The only two people she new enough to copy were Raysha but she figured if they both looked the same she might forget which one was her that would be bad. and then the girl she had met in the forest. the one with the butterflies so she decided to copy her. She got the image in her head and started concentrating on the warm feeling trying to move it. If she pictured it in her head she could see her whole body outlined in this energy so she decided to shape it like the girl she had met.
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Raysha looks around looking for The stage while keeping a eye on the strange man and enjoying her food. while she is looking for stage she also looks for casino and other places to gamble and eventually forget about stage and sets down near a casino she found. it has wall to wall slot machines, a craps table poker,black jack and others things to. just as she begins to play she just make sure the strange man isn't getting to close and sits down and starts playing.
after awhile and a few hands of cards few hands of cards she wins lots of money. then Raysha begins to wonder if Chikusa was alright. she then begins to think of what she will turn into she knows she can't turn into a mythological creature and hopes she doesn't turn into her. so she heads back to meet with chikusa and sees a strange women and says hi mam have you seen a friend of mine and begins to describe chikusa.
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Raysha starts running down the road saying shit shit shit shit I'm going to be late. Obviously ignoring the majesty of the nature around her.
dust got kicked up under her feat as she ran as fast as she could to the next village .
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This was amazing! She had no clue it was her! This was the power of this magic that shinobi had Chikusa thought of telling her it was her but then she thought it may be funner to milk it, so she shook her head and threw her voice saying.
Chikusa: No im afraid not but I may be able to help you look ive got nothing better to do.
She was distinctly aware that the man from earlier was following her and her new friend. It was starting to scrare her so she made sure to keep an eye on him
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Ok I'd love to She then begins walking around and holds up a huge sack of money tightly so that the man walking around couldn't grab it outa her hands. She then says I just got all this money gambling I was going to give it to chikusa so she could have fun with it. Then starts walking around yelling chikusa where are you while keeping a close eye on the strange man. While she walks she buys some food and starts to eat it happily while she continues to look around.
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Chjikusas mouth almost drooled when she said the money was for her, she thought of so many cloths and tasty foods she could buy and she almost wanted to say it was her however that would mean the joke would end and so she strengthened her will and kept playing along as she followed calling out chikusa as well. Then she got a really good idea.
Chikusa: So is this girl close to you?
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She sees her Drool and smiles thinking i wonder if she just never saw so much money before and says
"was hoping to take her gambling then we could try new foods I found.
She then hears her talk and says
"Kinda to early to say since I just met her and haven't had much time for friendship to grow. but she seems like a very nice person and hope we can be great friends. on top of that was hoping to find her soon since I have to get on stage in a bit.
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She started squirming when she said gambling and new foods. She couldnt last much longer and she blushed deeply when she said that she was very nice, so she turned around to hide her face.
Chikusa: Ill go look over this way!
She says running around the corner attempting to drop the transformation
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Raysha looks at her face and started to get suspicious then thinks to herself I wonder if that is chikusa. She seems deep in thought till chikusa says " I'll go look this way" so she says
" ok I'll look over there. " then raysha uses her wind kekkai genkai to jump high into air. Them try's to hide her self by pulliing clouds down and slowling her fall with a wind cushion. she waits for her to drop the jutsu and thinks to herself maybe I should play a trick on her. while still keeping a close eye on the strange man .
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The same girl walks back around the corner a few minutes later crying and rubbing her eyes.
Chikusa: Raysha? Its me Chikusa! *sniff* I played a joke on you but I cant turn it ohohofff
She sobs as a snot bubble comes out. She was really scared she didnt want to be stuck like someone else
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Raysha drops outa the air behind chikusa and pokes her head saying
"Baka it isn't nice to play tricks on people u wouldn't like it if someone did that to you would you "
She then begins to to think then says
"Ok how bout this"
She then begins to circulate her chakra into her hoping to disrupt the jutsu then says
"ok try to focus your chakra and think of turning back now "
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Chikusa does as she is told and eventually the transformation ends and she wipes her nose.
Chikusa: That was really scary. Thank you for helping me. This stuff is kinda dangerous but it can also be really useful if your able to control it huh? That does it im devoting myself to learning all the spells!
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She smiles happily at her and says
"anything for a friend and that's a great goal I hope you master then all. Well now that the serious stuff is over with let's have some fun I know of some great food places "
She then hands her the huge bad of money while smiling making sure the strange man doesn't get to close being very careful not to get pick pocketed she just stands there thinking I wonder what the strange man is doing y is he standing there watching us so much it creepy
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Chikusa looks at the bag and shakes her head.
Chikusa: I cant take this i didnt do anything to earn it.
She says as she starts to push it back towards her
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Raysha looks back at her With a bit of a perplexed look on her face she says
"ok I understand well do u still want to try gambling or do you want to get more food first "
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Chikusa: I wouldnt mind trying gambling but it still sounds like a bad idea to risk money for no reason.
She said as she tilted her head and bit her lip. She could tell that the girl liked to gamble so she didnt want to insult one of her hobbies
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Raysha could tell she didn't like idea of gambling, so she didn't want to push it. instead she came up with a few new ideas to have fun before she preformed. She then smiles at her and says
"you dont have to if you don't want to just trying to help you find new fun things. do you want to go clothes and food shopping instead."
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Chikusa: No its ok i want to but shouldnt you be going to your dance? Wont they worry about you?
Chikusa didnt want to get in trouble for stopping the star of the show from getting to their job that sounded really bad, she had heard that fans of something can get really crazy.
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She looks at her with a startled look her eyes wide from shock. she takes her hand forms it into a fist and lightly pounds it on to her hand. she then says
"o yea let's get going I'll show you to the stage "
She takes her around the town Walking through the town then slowly working into a run. They run past all these food vendors until they reach this grand stage with huge wooden support beams.
Streamers and other intricate and extravagant decorations are place on and all around the stage.
The stage is a large polished mhagogony floor with bright lights beaming down on it.
she walks into a changing room with a secret trap door in bottom and changes into this dazzling and sexy dancer uniform. It is flowing and doesn't look hard to move in but has a few ribbons and other decorations on it to give it a touch of elegance. She walks out on to the stage and she composes her self, then starts dancing This captivating, memorizing, dazzling, entrancing, sexy dance on stage. She completely looses her self in the moment while preforming for tons of people.
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When the girl started dancing Chikusa was very impressed she had never seen dancing like this! She had danced only once with her dad and she was too short at the time to be able to keep up very well. it was just a simple one though, this looked difficult, but that is why she is payed so much she supposed. She was really enjoying it until there was a large bang and the the area filled with smoke. Chikusa started coughing and several people screamed others laughed thinking it was part of the show as several men ran through the curtains onto the stage and into the crowd.
Chikusa: I dont understand what is happening?
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Raysha as raysha was really enjoying her self she was lost In her own world until the bang happened her instincts took over and she ran for dressing room the moment the smoke appeared her kekkai genkai began spinning it around to cover her escape while she was running the men yell
"ok valuables in the bag now and no one wil get hurt "
After awhile the wind begins to whisper to the villains
"its rude to interrupt a show your going to die"
Then raysha bursts out of trap door and appears Disguised as her alter ego assassin Zeus "
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Chikusa was shocked when she saw the weapons come out at this point it wasnt a part of the show. She stood up taking her sword out as the bandits either started taking things or attacking people. The one that the assassin appeared behind turned to face it and laughed.
Bandit Leader: Thats quite the getup you got there.
He said as he hefted his huge cleaver. Chikusa looked around and saw one of the bandits about to kill someone and she ran over and tackled him doing handsigns so she transformed to look like him. As they rolled over and over on the ground punching eachother
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Raysha then jumps high into the air using her wind kekkai genkai to elevate her high as possible. then uses the wind to slow down her fall as much as she can while then she preforms shadow boxing moves in the air. shooting out powerful wind gust in the form of a invisible punch or as she kicks a wave of wind. at the bandits from above with each punch and kick .
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The bandit leader does a fireball jutsu to break through the wind getting stronger as it absorbs the wind chakra barreling at Raysha, chikusa is amazed by the jutsu and remembers the handsigns for later. She fill practice that attack and learn it when she has the chance. She rolls over again kicking the guy in the groin then gets up kicking his head.
Chikusa: TAAAAAAKE THAT!
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Raysha makes a current of pure oxygen enhance the fire and lead it back to the bandits. She then thinks to herself how can bandits do jutsu. She continues shadow boxing shooting wind blast at the bandits that won't be hit by enhanced fireball jutsu she was sending back at them. The wind whispers
"leave now and I won't kick your ass"
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Several of the bandits explode while the one with the jutsu jumps back.
Bandit leader: Didnt see that coming did yeh? Your a ninja too right? you should join us! The money is way WAY better ekekekekeh
Chikusa: Hes a wizard to right!? Beat him up assassin guy!
It looked kinda funny since it was chikusas voice coming out of one of the bandits mouth
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"the wind whispers to chikusa yes he a wizard and I prefer my way it's more fun I make enough money no let's finish this "
She then shoots to curve wind blasts at him one on from left diagonal one from right diagonal.
Then thinks to herself *must be some of the bad people mom was telling me about I better be careful * she then begins thinking of what to do next as she watches the bandits moves
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Chikusa runs around the corner to hide as she starts doing a few hand signs over and over that she had seen the guy do. She wasnt sure how to do it yet but she knew the right motions she just needed to make this chakra stuff do what she needed.
Bandit Leader: Well? What are you waiting for? Give me your money!
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The wind whispers
"like hell I will you give me yours "
then she uses the wind to increase her speed And she shadow boxes a uppercut. sending a uppercut wind blast at his chin, then does a round house kick shadow box in rapid succession to send a curved blast of wind as his side.
While she fighting she is wondering what chikusa is doing and if she will be ok.
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The bandit is hit by one attack then narrowly dodges the rest holding his side while Chikusa remains hidden she continues doing the handsigns and testing her chakra at one point she feels a massive energy going up but it scares her because the rest of her body that isnt being touched by it becomes tingly like it had fallen asleep so she starts working on turning it down she just wanted to test it not blow up a building. She focuses her chakra until it is a small stream almost like a welder. She then touches her mouth to a rock since the guy had shot that fireball out of his mouth. And she squealed in glee as the rock caught fire and forgetting where she was and what was happining she jumped up holding the rock calling out for Raysha
Chikusa: RAYSHA LOOK! I did it!
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Raysha then begins attacking rapidly with wind blasts, shooting a wind punch at his gut and face. then jumps high into air axe kicking to send a wave of wind straight down at him like a collum. Then does a round house kick sending a diagonal wave of wind making a x shape if you can read the wind or have really good eye sight. She then lands and waits to see what his next move is.
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he gets up coughing and wipes his mouth he is wounded pretty bad but it doesnt seem to bother him much*
bandit leader: your strong ill admit that! to bad you wont join me youd make a fine right hand man!
Chikusa: RAYSHA WHERE ARE YOU!? LOOK WHAT I DID!
she yells holding the flaming rock as the leader looks over at her and gets the idea to use her as a shield
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Raysha disguised then runs at him and then starts throwing kunai at him while he looks at chikusa. She then starts to try an think of ways to stop him from using her as a hostage. She throws one at his shoulder, another his gut, another his head, his two feet, and last his heart. As she runs closer and closer to the man hoping to get within distance of tai jutsu.
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He dodges side to side unable to actually move so it allows hewr to get in close as chikusa weaves through the handsigns she then starts to focus her chakra. As she watches them fight she moves around the rubble
Chikusa: If i can get behind him i can get the drop on him
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She then yells out leaf whirl wind and preforms a sweeping motion with her leg. aimed at the bandit once she is close enough to him,while she keeps a eye on chikusa to see what she is doing.
She then throws more kunai at him after she preforms sweeping motion.
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the attack hits him breaking several ribs but he grabs her leg punching her face blocking the kunai with the width of his cleaver meanwhile Chikusa gets into position motioning to the assassin she is gonna attack so that he will move.
Chikusa: This is exactly what the guy did im pretty sure
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Assassin falls backwards as he punches her in face and falls to the ground wincing in pain. she then sees chikusa and kicks his arm with the other leg as hard as she can hoping it will make him let go .while using both her arms to stab both his feet with kunai just incase the kick to the arm didn't free her.
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he lets go since the pain is so great and stumbles as Chikusa finishes her hansigns and inhales deeply then she holds her fingers up and trys to activate her jutsu when she does only a large amount of smoke comes out of her mouth
Chikusa: Uh oh *coughs as she breaths in the smoke*
Badit Leader: Im gonna kill you all!
He yells holding his bleeding wounds. And he turns to attack chikusa
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Assassin raysha still woozy from the punch to the face stumbles to her feet waits a few sec to gain her composure then chases after him. She runs as fast as she can hoping catch up before he can hurt chikusa. she then throws some bramble thorns in front of him in a attempt to slow him down . She then throws her voice so it comes from dressing room and says
"focus chikusa i know you can do it"
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He burns the brambles with his jutsu and Chikusa backs up as she does the handsigns again and comes to the same conclusion.
Bandit leader: You dont have enough chakra to do fireball jutsu little girl.
*He raises his sword over his head to slash you as she raises hers to block he swings down smashing it into her and she screams as the ground cracks a little under her she can feel the strain in her bones and isnt sure if any broke or not*
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Assassin throws her voice again and yells
"NOOO!! "
Then the assassin throws two giant wind mill shuriken at the bandit while he busy with chikusa. but because she used shadow shuriken Justu it only looks like one shuriken is heading towards him.
Then runs at the bandit behind the shuriken afte she threw it. Hoping to get close enough to try and brake some more of his bones if the shuriken can't stop him.
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Chikusa grabs his hand biting it and he yells in anger and pain as his hand catches on fire he swings his arm turning just in time for the shuriken to hit him dead in the chest he grunts as blood sprays from his mouth.
Chikusa: Dont kill him!
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The assassin just sits down close to him using last her her remaining chakra to make the wind whisper
"why shouldn't I kill him"
She then goes from sitting to meditating in a attempt to recover chakra. as she meditate she try's to think of why she wouldn't want her to kill the bandit. Especially after he attacked them and ruin the performance. She just sits there in a mediating state awaiting her answer.
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Chikusa: Its wrong he cant fight anymore. Look he is done.
She points over to him as he passes out from blood loss.
Chikusa: see he cant fight..... anymore
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She used the little bit of chakra she recovered to make the wind whisper
"mercy is a luxury we can't afford as soon as he wakes up he will try to kill us again. the logical option would be to finish him once and for all. If we let him live now it will only bite us in the ass someday. He isn't worth that kinda risk I can't understand why we shouldn't kill him.
She then goes back to meditating to recover more chakra while she waits for chikusa response so she could continue to use the wind to continue to talk.
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Chikusa: But if he attacks us again we just have to beat him again right? he wasnt that tough....
She said trying to convince the assassin not to kill the man
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The assassin slowly stops meditating again and sighs. she then makes the wind whisper to talk to her again and says
"yes but now he knows what we can do. if we let him live he is going to go get help and we may not be able to beat two or even three ninja bandits. it's to big of a risk not to kill him we as ninja can't afford to really show mercy."
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Chikusa: but if thats the truth then we just gotta learn new stuff to win with
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She then makes the wind whisper again and says
"That's easier said then done it isn't easy to learn effective new techniques "
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Chikusa wanted to fight more but she was tired and hurt so she started a sentence before passing out closing her eyes. She couldnt move anymore so she just slept.
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Raysha walks over bends over and slits the mans throat then takes something of his incase he was a rouge ninja so she has proof she killed him. Then runs over to trap door goes to dressing room and changes back to raysha. After that she disposes of the mans body lays down next to chikusa and goes to sleep.
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Several hours later chikusa awakes and looks around rubbing her eyes. She noticed it was dark outside and felt her stomach growl.
Chikusa: Is it dinner time yet? Im really hungry....
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Raysha wakes up soon after her and yawns putting her hand tp her mouth and blinking a bit. then says
"we can get something to eat now if you want "
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Chikusa was about to agree when she remembered.
Chikusa: wait what happened to the other guy the bandit?
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"Hes was gone when I came out no idea what happened to him sorry if I couldn't help more
So do you want to go get something to eat, have fun, or rest some more.
Then thinks of what they should do next
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Chikusa shook her head making her pony tail flip back and forth. she thought it was weird that the guy would just get up and walk away but she decided not to press the point she was indeed hungry but she wanted to learn more spells.
Chikusa: He called it fireball jutsu shinobi call their spells Jutsu?
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Raysha then smiles after she drops the subject of the other man and says
"yes that is true, there are 4 different types of jutsu. ninjutsu which makes magic like fireballs,
Taijutsu which is hand to hand combat, gen jutsu which makes people see things that aren't there as well as other scary illusions, then kin jutsu I think it's called is a forbidden type of jutsu that can either hurt you badly or reverse the laws of nature like bring back the dead. You never want to do kin jutsu because it very very bad and is called forbidden for a reason.
So what do you want to do now food or something else."
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Raysha starts running down the road saying shit shit shit shit I'm going to be late. Obviously ignoring the majesty of the nature around her.
dust got kicked up under her feat as she ran as fast as she could to the next village .
(all my post from before this and after up to point we posted again are in spoiler above)
Raysha then smiles after she drops the subject of the other man and says
"yes that is true, there are 4 different types of jutsu. ninjutsu which makes magic like fireballs,
Taijutsu which is hand to hand combat, gen jutsu which makes people see things that aren't there as well as other scary illusions, then kin jutsu I think it's called is a forbidden type of jutsu that can either hurt you badly or reverse the laws of nature like bring back the dead. You never want to do kin jutsu because it very very bad and is called forbidden for a reason.
So what do you want to do now food or something else."
Chikusa: So kinjutsu is necromancy? Ok i wont do that but id still like to learn about that too. Ninjutsu and Grnjutsu.... I need to learn that too. You said taijutsu is just hand to hand combat thats not very cool i can already do that. What else do you know i want to know more! You activate jutsu by doing thses right?
She starts doing the handsigns to the firball jutsu. She isnt trying to activate it just show an example
" yes it kinda like necromancy but you really shouldn't try to learn to much about it at most just learn how to beat it. As for the other two it's called gen jutsu' as for how to activate it and taijustu. yes just make those hand signs while focusing chakra to activate it and Taijutsu isnt that simple. it's a lot harder to master then you would think but if you think you already know hand to hand combat y don't you show me."
She then gets up onto her feat then uses her hand to show the bring it on motion.
Chikusa didnt want to fight on an empty stomach plus she hadnt done her morning excersises she didnt want to be hurting when she did that but more so she wouldnt back down from a proper challenge so she stood up dusting herself off raising her fists as she stared the other girl down for a second. She wanted to learn this ninjutsu stuff not fighting with her fists but whatever she would learn everything she had already decided that so she charged throwing a punch at her face
She smiles at her new resolves eager to show her the proper use for Taijutsu and how useful it really could be. She bends down gets ready for attack moving her legs into a proper fighting stance. She quickly sees the punch coming and then begins to use the, sickle and hammer technique to jump Into air and blocks the punch with one leg then kicks at chikusa neck with the other leg. She wonders if she has enough skill to block or if she just had basic fighting skills. She then says
Chikusas eyes flash to the side seeing the kick coming she doesnt know how to track the angle so she just raises her arm to block the whole side of her body kick connects sending her tumbling she rolls swinging the back of her arm crossways at the side of her head as she stands up its clumsy but she is very physically strong even without chakra enhancement so the sound of her arm swinging can be heard.
She smiles at her response and figures this is a good time to test out a new idea. so she jumps up onto her tippy toes like a ballerina while crouching down a little. She moves into position for leaf gale. Then catches her arm with both her Arms just incase she is to strong then uses the kinetic energy from her attack to make her pivot and increase the power of the attack and yells
"leaf gale "
She kicks at her legs, making a sweeping motion with her leg and using the increased kinetic energy she got from chikusa's attack to increase the power of her attack. hoping to make her fly into the air like her mom showed her, then gets ready to make her next move. while watching her body movement for clues.
Chikusas eyes widen as she feels herself being lifted into the air she looks around trying to determin where the attack is deciding her only option is to keep blocking until an opening appears, she didnt know that you could use someone elses strength against them like this she would remember this for later but if she had to she could use the reverse side of her sword she was more comfortable fighting with a weapon.
Raysha takes her opportunity she smiles at her temporary sucsess. Then as soon as she goes into air she uses a motion like naruto clone rotation where she flips and spins multiple time in air to increase the power of her kick. then raysha swings her legs down at chikusa gut like a axe with her all her might. hoping to end this one blow she purposely aims for the side of her gut. the oppisite side of her sword hoping to make her land down on her hard sword so she takes extra damage even if she blocks it.
Chikusa lowers her gaurd to absorb the blow as much as possible she gasps in pain as the damage to her ribs catches from when the bandit had slashed his heavy sword at her she grits her teeth and as soon as she feels the kick land grabs her ankle as she smashes to the ground on her back the hilt of her sword digging into her back but now that she has ahold of Rayshas leg she kicks her leg upward under her chin holding her so she cant jump away
She uses her Taijutsu skill to try and absorb the damage with both her arms. gritting her teeth in pain as the impact hits her she grunts in pain. She recovers the best she can and puts all her weight on the legs chikusa is holding. Which frees up her other legs allowing her to use another axe kick to chikusa head.
Chikusa lets go and rolls over drawing her sword so the blade is pointed up where her foot is coming down if Raysha continues the kick she will end up cutting her foot instead. Chikusa looks behind her angleing her blade.
Chikusa: I can see that you are much better than me at this but i can win with this....
(you forget I have 25 points in weapon skill also )
Raysha sees the sword and a look of shock comes over her face. She quickly alters the kick to hit her wrist of the hand thats holding the sword while she gets a shuriken outa her pack and throws it at her fingers in a attempt to get her to let go of the sword.
"so this is where it gets interesting, I guess I proved that you don't really know how to do tai jutsu now I just need to beat that sword."
Chikusa rolls to the side several times to get out of the way speeping the dull side of the blade at the back of Rayshas knees. then figuring her next move will be to jump over her slash swings her leg up so that she will hit her if she jumps.
(ok kinda confused so sorry if I mess this up also shouldn't we end this soon since it was already graded)
Raysha gets knocked on her butt and winces in pain from chikusas attack. then takes out some shuriken from the pouch on her waist and throws with both hands 10 shuriken at chikusa. after she is done throwing them quickly gets out two kunai blades one for each hand and gets ready.
Chikusa sees her digging out the kunai and dives behind cover and the shuriken hit the wall clanking as they hit the ground. Chikusa peeks around the corner diging her own kunia out preparing to throw them back at Raysha. Chikusa had never been in this even of a match her heart was racing she didnt want to lose so she would do her best.
Chikusa: its dangerous throwing those if i hadnt dadged they could have really hurt me!
Chikusa yelled suddenly realizing the situation she had been put in
(really o didn't know that because thought was in same thread )
"look who's talking, you started it when you pulled out your sword, I'm just evening the playing field. "
she then charges at chikusa her kunai in both hands held up in a defensive position. ready to deflect any shuriken or kunai she throws at her, wondering what it's going to take to beat her. also if she will realize tai jutsu isn't as simple as punching and kicking .
Chikusa rolled in an attempt to keep the wall between herself and Raysha. She was trying to regain her breath her arms felt heavy she couldnt breath very well either with her ribs wounded. She was also tired and hungry. She rolled once more around the next corner of the building.
ChikusaI I was attacking with the dull side of my weapon there is a difference. But if you wanna get serious I can do that too!
She said flipping the blade in her hand so she would attack with the sharp side
"you held your sword up so if my leg came down then I would need stitches. your saying that isn't serious I'm just lucky I'm fast enough to move in time."
She then keeps running toward as fast as she can, hoping to get there before she has a chance to move outa the way.
Chikusa smiles her friends mind worked fast if she thought of that well no turning back now she thought she was in an allyway with an intersection where the road was and across the way was another building. If she ran fast she would be able to get to the other ally as well as throw her kunai. So she broke from cover throwing the kunai for a none vital area while running for the new cover. If they were going to get stronger they couldnt hold back they had to put therselfs in danger just make sure not to kill eachother
She smiles and uses the weapon skill her mom taught her to deflect the incoming kunai quickly. while continuing to run toward her unable to keep up to well because of her speed. She then uses all her skill to sheath the to kunai in holes in her skirt. Raysha then takes out 10 more shuriken and throw them at her all at none vital areas.
She then jumps high into air takes out her kunai again and jumps onto the wall near the alliey to she has a better vantage point on chikusa.
Chikusa: Thats not fair! I havnt learned how to do that yet!
She sprints as fast as she can with her chest hurting she knew she couldnt when in a straight on battle so she would play a cat and mouse game using the buildings to hide in between she zigzagged through allyways attempting to get Raysha lost she knew if she could turn her around she could use her speed to win
She then says in a half joking half friendly mocking tone
"it isn't fair but I thought you already said you knew tai jutsu and all those skills. I also remember you saying tai jutsu and weapon skill is just as useful as spells and illusions. "
Then as she was on the wall she catches up to the winded and injured chikusa and gets in range of throwing weapons. she makes it rain smoke bombs then using the silent killer technique to throw water balloons full of paint at chikusa. to mimic the effects of a non deadly paper bomb.
Chikusa runs into the building remembering what she did with the rock she puts her mouth on her sword as she dips around the corner inside the room out of sight.
Chikusa: Your using your chakra to enhance your attacks thats not straight hand to hand combat you said something that wasnt completly true. So what i said was right I do know hand to hand combat taijutsu seems different.
She through her second kunai to break the light and make the room dark wincing at the staitic shock sound that happened when the lightbulb exploded
She smiles and in the same mocking jokingly tone she says
"ehhhh wrong again havent used any chakra this entire time. just different things my mom taught me so again it all tai jutsu and weapon skill. "
She then blows the smoke and throws a tear gass bomb into the room chikusa in. then uses her wind kekkai genkai to guide the tear gas toward chikusa. After that raysha waits out side at entrance to ambush her.
Chikusas face pales as she sees the gas she looks desperatly around until she sees a window and jumps through it she keeps her mouth on the blade then licks it and it catches on fire like the rock did and she smiles happy she was able to do it again she would be able to surprise Raysha with it!
When she doesnt come running out raysha goes inside to check and sees the window. she then leaves and circles behind hoping to appear behind chikusa and surprise attack her. while she is circling around jumping and running around large buildingns she thinks to herself what is she planning. Then keeps a kunai in one hands and a water balloon in other to simulate a paper bomb. Then as she runs she drops smoke bombs to conceal her presence for the sneak attack.
Chikusa sticks her back into a corner so she can keep her eyes on wherever Raysha may come out her sword is getting hot so she moves her hand further down she can feel the pull on her chakra that lighting it costed plus she doesnt know how long it will last before the flame goes out she hated not knowing anything about this new ability that she had recieved. She would need to test it later she deteremined as she waited for Raysha to come out.
Raysha eventually comes near by so she throws a tons of smoke bombs into the air. then as they explode she uses her wind kekkai genkai to cover the entire area in smoke including where chikusa is. Raysha then quietly focuses her chakra runs up the wall and drops a few water balloons towards chikusas.
Chikusa: You cant sense me can you? I met someone that could sense where other people are but you dont seem to be able to so that must be a special ability only some people can use?
Chikusa runs deeper into the smoke then climbs up the wall using a dumpster to get to the roof
Runs up to the roof with chikusa , Throws her last remains smoke bombs to cover the area in smoke. She then listens closely and using the silent killer technique tracks chikusa movements. After that raysha throws more water balloons at chikusa. Then silently changes her position and gets ready to strike again.
Chikusa gets down on her hands and knees letting the baloons pass over her head wondering why she switched to water baloons in the first place she can tell that her sword being on fire will cause visavle light and that Raysha will probably assume that she is near the light so she closes her eyes and waits trying her best to hear movement hloding her sword up so it appears she is still standing
(accept since silent homicide is a tai jutsu according to wiki wouldn't I be able to sense better )
She the sees the sword notices how the balloons just passed over her so this time she adds a fuse to the balloon. She times the fuse so it will explode when it gets close to the sword. After that she throws 2 water balloons toward chikusa. Then as silently as she can she moves to a different position.
Chikusa sighs irritated as the new waterbaloon comes into view where the heck was Raysha getting all of these anyways? She decides she cant stay her so rolls off the roof landing on the dumpster she had used to climb up griiting her teeth at all the noise it made. She then waited for Raysha to follow she would attack now no more running away
Raysha stays on the roof and starts sniping chikusa with shuriken. then in the shadow of the shuriken she uses the shadow shuriken technique to hide her last remaining 2 water balloons.
After that she waits on the roof to see how chikusa responds .
Chikusa slashes the kunai away cutting one of the waterballons in half but the other one hits her shoulder covering her left arm in paint she looks at it confused what was this gunk? She would be mad if it ruined her cloths!
Chikusa: paper bombs?....hahaha silly goose paper doesnt explode! You write on it.
Chikusa tried to wipe the paint off she was mad she had lost and plus she had goo all over her cloths she would need to wash them and didnt want to be naked until she could so she looked around. Now she would have to buy new cloths. Luckily Raysha had given her that money but she hadnt wanted to buy something boring with it. She sighed at the thought
Raysha raises a eye brow then gets a mischievous look on her face. She decides to see what chikusa reaction would be to a paper bomb. She says in a interested tone
"oh really then what is this"
she throw a paper bomb attached to kunai into dumpster so chikusa couldn't get hurt by it. then it explodes and garbage comes raining down ,
Raysha falls on her back laughing histarically at chikusa reaction. then Laughs even harder when she throws the piece of paper and it hits her in face. after awhile of laughing she eventually gets up slowly tears of joy streaming down her face. She wipes them away and says
"it's a special material people use to fight other ninjas. there no chakra involved to answer your first question. there so much things you can use to fight like poison acid and other things. that's y I said I won when the balloon hit you because in the ninja world that baloons could've killed you if I wanted it to."
Chikusa gets more confused as she talks. She wants to know more about nija but wonders how far her friends knowledge went? Did she know any useful jutsu that she could learn. She knew she would need help from a lot of people and she seemed to be lagging behind other people her age. She didnt want to be weak. But why hadnt the things her father taught her helped? And why hadnt he taught her about shinobi and jutsu? They were so useful she remembered how many times she couldnt have a fire cause she had run out of flint and how easily it wouldve been if she could just do some things with her hands and have a fire for the night. So why?
Chikusa: I need new cloths...where is the cloth store?
She noticed the puzzled look on her face and sighs with a exasperated look. she then says
"the reason I tell you these things is so that a enemy does use the same trick on you at some point. as for clothing just follow me "
She focuses her chakra and runs down the building. Raysha then leads chikusa to the clothing store as she then fantasizes about all the different cloths she could get Also all the different types and styles.
Chikusa follows behind doing the fireball handsigns over and over again. trying to do them faster every time.
Chikusa: how many of these hand things are there? And what are they called? How many Jutsu are there? Do they all use this set of hand things? Or do they each have their own set? And do you have to do something different for genjutsu?
She smiles and keep walking to cloth store as she hears her talk. So she says
"No you do same thing for genjutsu most of the time. As for how many hand signs she tells her all the ones her mom taught her. Also there to many jutsu to keep track of there thousands maybe millions of different jutsu and each uses different hand signs from that one.
Chikusa: So has anyone learned them all? Where do they keep track of all of them? There has to be a book listing them or people would forget them eventually right?
Chikusa was intrigued now she hadnt thought of the possibility of a book with all the jutsu in it. If she could look at it she could learn all sorts of jutsu. Then she would be the strongest ninja ever and her father would be proud of her! And then she could go live with her family. She had been told that everyone had a clan that they belonged too with lots of people in it. If she could find her clan she would have lots of friends to play with she wouldnt be lonely anymore. Raysha was a good start but she wanted lots and lots of friends
