It was the voices of those he had left behind that brought him back. His body rose quickly like a vampire rising from it's coffin. His eyes darted the area trying to make sense of it all while reality slowly made it's way back into his mind. He noticed Atsuko was there with him. The other two weren't. Someone had treated his wounds he could feel it. Grunting in pain as he got himself up from the ground. He looked over at Atsuko and asked, "What do we do now?" He was back to his normal self.
Atsuko was waving the others out when shortly after Roxas rose from the dead. The uchiha was quite glad he was alright, being done in by a bear would have been one bad ending to his story.
"Now we head to Takumi. Except our goal is the mayor, I have a proposition for him"
He'd help Roxas onto his feet and lead the way, making sure he was doing alright and that he could at least keep a mild pace.
● Flames of the Uchiha; Fire techniques are moderately increased in rank, flames have a blackish hue. Costs 10 Extra Chakra. ● Dragons Greed - 1.5x Ryo rewards from missions or jobs; With a love for wealth instilled by his chosen animal Saiji is particularly good and negotiating higher sums for missions or jobs. ● ●
Taijutsu time. Atsuko knew that learning ninjutsu was a much harder task for a rogue so at the very least he'd start with something he could learn before they started to bargain with the villages. First was the single action punch. Much like the fabled six inch punch this was one that was fired from close range. Luckily it was relatively easy to understand the basics so he moved past that one swiftly. [1]
Next was uping the complexity in a double punch of sorts. By taking his hand that was farther away from the opponent and swinging it around he brought forth more momentum. This made it into more of a hay maker punch. He definitely enjoyed how it complimented his initial technique. [2]
Next technique involved his hips and alignment of his fist to elbow. By keeping it in a angled lock and fist straight to elbow he created a hooking type attack. With a quick swing around from any angle he was able to deliver strong hits and quips. Even better was it seemed very versatile for many different situations. [3]
Next for this stage was an uppercut. Using his legs he'd fire them off along side his upward punch. This created a very quick and jarring upward jab that would easily knock someones lights out if they weren't careful. Once he got used to using his legs with his fist the rest was a piece of cake. [4]
Now he was moving onto the next stage of his training, and with this next stage meant a progression of complexity. He needed to find a way to mix chakra across his hands to make some sort of barrier. What initially came to mind of course was along the lines of boxing gloves.
Since Atsuko had little knowledge of ninjutsu as of yet learning the full metal jacket technique was a bit of a struggle. The chakra that was focused around his hands tended to fall apart rather quickly after it had formed. But as always with enough practice and patience he eventually managed to get it to stay in place. [5]
Up next in line was the double jab. A very aggressive move that might leave one open also opened up the possibility for combined attacks. He'd take what he'd learn of course from his first stage and apply it here.
Standing straight he began to practice varies combinations. Just from the feel and shift of them he could tell it would be hard to use ones that were overly complicated for this, but simple ones seemed MUCH easier. In not to long he was able to punch and weave all in a smooth motion. [6]
Double tap time. This style was completely focused around the art of boxing in the truest form of a sense. Hitting in rapid succession one after another, like a gun firing off.
The next technique was only really practiced through repetition. One two, weave. One two, weave. Rinse and repeat until it was instinct and move on with things. [7]
Now he was onto the final step before his stage progression would begin. This one was a stance that would cement the fact that this technique was for punching alone. It was done by adjusting the body into the proper format, one that allowed for maximum power out of punches.
It took a bit of awkward practice for this one unfortunately. The pose that he had to get into was very important for both the angle, stance, and how his arms were raised. Only once he had managed to get all of that down did he feel how it set his body up for proper fighting. [8]
Ho boy the third stage. Atsuko knew that training without much of guidance would be a chore but he could already feel the ramp up just as he got onto the next technique. Though it was only quite minor at the time being he swore he could even feel his own body getting stronger little by little. Ah well, time for parrying.
More specifically a parry technique. He had a few tricks here and there for defense but any good boxer wouldn't be worth his spit unless he was able to block AND deflect attacks. For some this might have proved rather tricky to practice but Atsuko had someone, or at least something, to form fake punches. Asumo.
What they did was start at a really slow pace. The fire lizard would dart his head out towards Atsuko as he sat cross legged and Atsuko would attempt to block the head butt. Both arms out in front of him, palms facing Asumo.
Gradually over time they were able to increase intensity. The flurry of headbutts would get deflected by Atsuko one after another. By the end of it all he was able to avoid getting thwacked at least nine times out of ten. [9]
Next technique in line would be another defensive one. In boxing when you needed to go full turtle there were a few ways of doing it. Keeping your guard up of course was always the standard but by bringing BOTH arms in and protecting both your head and chest it lent to greater protection.
The caveat to all this was of course that his legs would be exposed. Not that he had any real attacks FOR his legs, at the very least he would be able to keep his vitals well protected in the process. At first he would do this all slow of course, for starting out doing it wrong would be doing it pointless.
His main focus to all of this was of course how he pulled his arms in. They came up so that well his face and chest were protected he still kept a line of vision, keeping additional options to him. Only once he found the happy middle ground between defense and full turtle did he mix up punching with it.
The way Atsuko trained it was in a similar fashion. He practiced jabbing and dashing attacks before pulling into a defensive guard. Over and over he'd do these steps until the guard was more of a second nature then a thought process. [10].
Atsuko felt that he was progressing fairly well, or at least not to any poor degree, so after a short rest he'd move onto his next technique. Guarding in hand to hand was extremely key. Being able to protect your face, torso, anything the opponent could get at from the belly up. What he would learn would be a guard breaker of sorts.
The more he took time to study these techniques and consider how he could evolve them the more he appreciated what a lot of them were. Sitting down with a pen and paper he start to write out a few different notes before he'd proceed to any real training. He wanted to make sure he wouldn't forget anything going forward so that when it became a routine he could recheck things in the past.
The technique in question was as simple as a powerful overhand punch, coming from above and down. It would snake around guards, catch people by surprise, all well packing one hell of a no pun intended punch. He kept to practicing it at first however by going nice and slow out of guard, but always retreating to the same position.
Through this habit he was able to intermingle the move within his other sets, punches all a blur before they'd change from in front to above. It took a while to get used to the change of direction but it wasn't so jarring as to have major difficulties. In little time he managed to get the hang of it and could move on to his final move of the stage. [11]
The last move was called dodging projectiles. Ironically, though maybe not so much, it was used for much MUCH more then just that. Atsuko wondered if the percentage favored melee over projectiles.
What it was was the reflex to dodge something at the last second, so much so that even your opponent doesn't realize they missed. A hairs breath away. Which meant that it would be horrendous to train.
A lot of the other techniques could have been put to theory but this one was to straight forward. Skipping the note book Atsuko had Asumo do what he thought would be best to train it. Either a) Atsuko would dodge at the last second, or b) He'd receive a nasty headbutt. No blocking allowed, and no dodging early.
This was quite the terrible process, by the end of it Atsuko felt his body was more bruises then flesh. To make it worse Asumo evolved from just head butts to scratches and bites, trying to push his master further and further. It wasn't until he was ready to give up that Atsuko managed to get the hang of it....for his upper body at least. Thank god that's was how he was supposed to do it. [12].
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[ Training Western Bursting Fist Stage Four ]
Now he was entering the realm of the REAL techniques. A place where he'd have to try his hardest to get the hang of each technique that was thrown before him. Even the ones that seemed the simplest would take proper dedication to get down.
His arsenal was somewhat balanced out for the time being but he felt he wanted to add on another dodging move. Well he now had one that could be used to dodge an attack entirely it wasn't one that he could use to successfully counter attack somewhat. That needed to change and fast.
Now for the most part this style left his legs almost entirely out of the equation. There wasn't much of a need for them when the focus came entirely for the upper body, perhaps he'd rectify this later down the line with another style, but that didn't mean they were necessarily useless. After all a leg didn't need to kick to lend power to its owner.
By ducking down away from an incoming attack he locked his legs into a position where his options became limited, not in a negative sense. With his hips contracted down his main opportunity was of course to re open them and send himself flying back upwards. Add a punch into this movement and suddenly you get both your arms power and your legs, effectively striking the opponent with you whole body.
That is how he'd train this technique. In a sort of mad squatting regime he'd squat down, avoiding an imaginary attack, and swiftly come back up with one of his styles techniques. Rinse and repeat this for an hour or two.
By the end his legs were screaming for mercy with each crouch down and spring up. He had been counting and only once he reached a total of 500 did he finally collapse. That was just the beginning of this training nightmare. [1]
In martial arts there were many different forms of training. However the core concept for a lot of these ideologies of training was....repetition. Repeat a thousand moves only one time and you learn little. Repeat one move a thousand times and you have a weapon.
This was unfortunately the core concept of his next step for upgrading one of his earlier techniques. In order to proper train it he found one of the broken pieces of walls that they wouldn't be using anymore and mentally prepared himself for it. Well that, and prepared his hands.
One way that people toughened their body was when they would repeatedly strike something over and over. Creating micro fractures in their hands that healed over time and regrew stronger meant they could train with more intensity as well as strike. Of course it wasn't a very enjoyable process, the act of bashing ones fist into wood or sand isn't attractive to many people.
Getting into his shooter stance Atsuko would be prepared to do just that. One leg facing towards his fake opponent he brought his fists up and started. The dull thwacks of flesh against wood would resonate in the cave.
The goal for this technique, outside of toughening his fists, was to truly harness the strength of his strikes. Everything he had been learning was all aimed towards fist strikes so it only made sense that by now he should have some level of mastery over it. He did keep to only basic strikes for this portion of training, as he didn't want to lose his focus on what the training was for.
By the end he had reduced the piece of drift wood into mostly saw dust, and his hands had to be bandaged up. This was a painful process of course with both of them being extremely hurt but Asumo helped as best he could. Once that was done he'd sit down for a bit of a rest, and to give his hands a break. [2]
Now he had two more techniques remaining. Out of these two however he'd start with the much simpler one. After all, he definitely did know his element.
This technique was coating ones own fist in their respective element. Some people had two or even three elemental affinities but not Atsuko. He himself was merely pure fire, which meant that pulling this off should come easily.
The only caveat to all of this was that he had to do it without hand seals. Well he was favored for fire techniques he was still low in power which meant he was also low in practice. In fact up until this point he had next to no fire techniques at all so this would be his first real attempt with the medium.
With his hands still healing properly he took his time to meditate and reflect back on school. In it they were all taught about the basics of each elements and how to focus/create them. On top of that they were all given a paper taste, which brought out your element. Atsuko remember his, the paper busted into flames in mere moments.
The core concepts to it wasn't to hard, as even children were taught it. He merely had to focus his thoughts to the task at hand. A part of his mind did feel like he was forgetting something but he shrugged it off for the time being.
With new focus and resolution he brought his hands forwards and raised his chakra levels. Pushing it to focus around his fists sure enough they lit up in a flash of black flames. This followed immediately by the realization that Atsuko had no fire resistance. The rest of his day was spent with his hands in cold water. [3]
Now would come the most complicated technique to round it all off. Until this point all of his techniques had been plainly put physical. This one however would literally shoot blasts of chakra from his fists. Just that thought was enough to make the young Uchiha a bit giddy.
Luckily because he had trained a technique that taught him how to bring chakra into his fist getting to that stage wasn't the hard part. Even better was the fact that his hands didn't have to hit anything, the poor things needing much time to recover after all of this hell was over. The REAL trick was getting the condensed chakra to fly off.
This was a bit confusing for Atsuko at first. This technique wasn't maruton, elementless, persay but it was rather close. That also meant he had to focus his chakra on his own in a way he wasn't used to which proved to be his first road block.
The beginning of his training with it because of all this was rather boring. Instead of trying to fire them off right away he just focused on making sure the chakra could actually stay there and stay condensed at first. If it faded away when he touched it then he wasn't trying hard enough.
Only once it was solid could he actually proceed to the next step. Target practice. With help from Asumo he set up misc targets around the area and practiced firing off only one pellet at a time.
Skip forward a few hours and Atsuko had managed finally to get it up to the intended amount. Like a shotgun, no pun intended, it blasted through the targets he aimed at. Once his chakra/stamina reserved ran low he'd finally hang it up for the night. [4]
● Flames of the Uchiha; Fire techniques are moderately increased in rank, flames have a blackish hue. Costs 10 Extra Chakra. ● Dragons Greed - 1.5x Ryo rewards from missions or jobs; With a love for wealth instilled by his chosen animal Saiji is particularly good and negotiating higher sums for missions or jobs. ● ●
It took Artemis longer than she'd ever admit to find her base again. She wanted to blame her amnesia, but that didn't mean continuous memory loss or a bad sense of direction for life. She entered the base, feeling refreshed from the morning air. She called into the base, "Ay, Atsuko! You wanna go evacuate in the city? There was some artificial tsunami." Her voice boomed in the empty base. She figured Atsuko would be just relaxing and not still asleep considering it was later in the morning.
odoeb
Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2017 8:15 pm
There wasn't any initial movement from Atsuko even when Artemis called out. It took Asumo nudging his masters head to actually wake the boy, sitting up in his make shift bed with tired eyes. He rubbed his eyes tiredly, bandaged hands and body still aching from the training previous, before he finally realized that Artemis was where. That of course was the reason as to why he quickly snatched his shirt that was laying next to him and put it on before he got out of bed. Outside of his various minor injurious and his hands Artemis would be able to see a rather apparent development, his sharingan had awakened. Both of his eyes held it though there was only one tomoe, though Atsuko himself didn't fully realize he kept it on naturally yet.
"Did you say something about a tsunami? More work is always good I suppose. Glad to see your still doing okay, I haven't heard anything else from the others but that just means we are all busy.
I got a chance to get my training in so I know a bit of hand to hand finally. How about you? Did your jobs go over well?"
● Flames of the Uchiha; Fire techniques are moderately increased in rank, flames have a blackish hue. Costs 10 Extra Chakra. ● Dragons Greed - 1.5x Ryo rewards from missions or jobs; With a love for wealth instilled by his chosen animal Saiji is particularly good and negotiating higher sums for missions or jobs. ● Sharingan One Tomoe (Active) ●
Artemis didn't have to wait long before she got a response. Atsuko appeared, greeting her warmly enough. They hadn't been separated a week but the kid already looked much different. She ran a hand through her hair with a smile. "Yeah, some fool was trigger-happy with their suiton tech. It sounds easy enough, escorting people to safety. Could win us some fans with the citizens." Her eyes narrowed as he got close enough for her to notice his stark red eyes. Ah, that was new. "I see you've awoken your sharingan," she commented with amusement. Everything was changing for the better since they'd gotten the base and she could only imagine how much farther they could improve from here.
"I did a bit of training myself, just a technique that lengthens my blades with chakra or lets me punch s**t hard. I'm sure I couldn't take you on, especially with those li'l things." She gestured to his eyes again. Would she ever get used to looking at them?
"I held over the tailoring shop for that arse, Gima. What a lazy idiot... But I'm ready to do some real work now. Hopefully, I get make a good enough name for myself to get continuous work. I figured you might want in." She put her hands on her hips, waiting to see if Asumo would come along as well.
odoeb
Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2017 12:47 am
Atsuko merely smiled at the compliments, he barely knew how to react to flattery at this point. He was definitly glad though that she was doing well, it meant likely the others were in a similar state.
"Let's head out quick then. Oh and you might want to look into getting a business license for Takumi, it's quite profitable and not expensive. If all of us get one then we'll be able to get the base up and operational in no time"
Atsuko said all of this as he prepped himself to leave, walking out the door with her following as the pair would likely head towards the cross roads.
● Flames of the Uchiha; Fire techniques are moderately increased in rank, flames have a blackish hue. Costs 10 Extra Chakra. ● Dragons Greed - 1.5x Ryo rewards from missions or jobs; With a love for wealth instilled by his chosen animal Saiji is particularly good and negotiating higher sums for missions or jobs. ● Sharingan One Tomoe (Active) ●
Artemis liked the idea of a shop, though she didn't know how much use she could put that license.
[exit]
odoeb
Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2017 9:47 pm
▬▬▬▬▬┤|Houou Senju|├▬
~D-Rank~~Rogue~~Eiseijutsu~~Bloodline~
Chak:: 420 Stam:: 190 Ryo: 9,130 AC:4,050
Personal-Infamy:430 Public-Infamy:100
The moment they crossed into the snowy mountains of the land of sound, Houou turned to Atsuma with a stern, serious look on his face.
"The location of this base is never to be revealed under any circumstances. Please mask your footsteps with chakra as we proceed forward, I'm sure this won't be an issue for you."
Walking up to the base of the mountain, Houou guided Atsuma through the terrain as the trees got thicker and thicker. As they approached the massive mountainside entrance of the hideout, Houou seemed to disappear into the lush green snow covered bushes that lined the surface. Making his way down the stars of the entrance and through the long tunnel, Houou guided Atsuma into the courtyard of the Shishin hideout. It's was exactly the same as they had left it, burned down and in shambles. Houou even cringed as he noticed the plants had grown even more out of control in his absence.
"this place isn't much at the moment but it's my home. You will have to hunt for your own food, but I'm confident that you can manage. I only ask that you please tread lightly, and I don't mean just on the snow. My team isn't as kind or accepting of outsiders as I am. If any of them enter this facility, you should announce yourself before they approach. You will want to immediately tell them that Houou sent you. As we seldom give out our real names, they will know you can be trusted. Your mission is to inform them to await my arrival here at the hideout. It is of grave importance that they all remain here and wait for me."
Houou left Atsuma to his thoughts and curiosity as he began to explore the hideout. There was no need to be concerned with this kid Houou thought to himself.
My Name Is Atsuma Ket. Pleasure To Meet You! I Hope We Can Become Great Friends!
The shadow clone would listen to Houou's instructions to the T without uttering a single word. He would simply nod and obey. Once he left alone in the hideout, the clone would cross his legs, close his eyes and wait.
My Name Is Toya Takahashi. Would You Like To See My World?
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Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2017 9:43 pm
Atsuko led the way back to their home, glad to be back to a familiar setting even if it was a bit disheveled. That would be soon to change however. With all of that money he had earned from missions on top of what others had earned he expected they could get this base whipped into shape in no time, maybe it would actually be comfortable to sleep in for once!
All of these thoughts however were quickly derailed when, once he was in the entrance, he spotted and unfamiliar face inside of their base. It wasn't super threatening to a degree, after all they didn't have anything of importance in their base if you could call it that, more so just odd that he was sitting there. Atsuko activated his sharingan as a precaution and cleared his throat to get the mans attention well putting his arm out to stop Artemis if she hadn't noticed him already.
● Flames of the Uchiha; Fire techniques are moderately increased in rank, flames have a blackish hue. Costs 10 Extra Chakra. ● Dragons Greed - 1.5x Ryo rewards from missions or jobs; With a love for wealth instilled by his chosen animal Saiji is particularly good and negotiating higher sums for missions or jobs. ● Sharingan Two Tomoe (Active) ●
Artemis shifted her knapsack uncomfortably. She wasn't used to travelling with so much ryo on her. It made her somewhat paranoid about theft, but also forced her to lean backwards as she walked if she wasn't careful. She fidgeted with her posture further, preoccupied with herself until Atsuko's arm was in front of her and she put herself in a defensive stance. She looked around before noticing the unfamiliar character in front of their hideout.
Her eyes narrowed, but they weren't already dead yet, so he probably wasn't going to kill them.
Probably.
She released her hands from her backpack handles and cupped her mouth, shouting, "Who the ******** are you?"
My Name Is Atsuma Ket. Pleasure To Meet You! I Hope We Can Become Great Friends!
Atsuma had grown bored of sitting still and had begun creating art to pass the time. As the two foreign individuals entered the hideout they would be greeted by the sight of him sitting cross legged and patiently folding paper in his hand to become his desired intent. The sound of the people walking didn't catch his attention nor did their immediate defensive positioning, but the woman cursing at him sure did. With a startle the boy would look up with a panicked look in his eyes. He was so immersed in his work that he had forgotten about the world! "I...Uh...I came here with the Turtle! He said he could help me get back home and I could help him in return!" Atsuma said feeling extremely nervous. He barely knew the turtle. Would these people kill him before he made it back to suna? "I...I made paper roses if anyone would like one. They aren't all that, but I do think paper is very beautiful! It's like us you know. You can mold it into almost anything really!" The boy was rambling praying against luck that they wouldn't murder him. The female seemed like she would find great pleasure in it. The male appeared to be much more cautious about Atsuma.
Two new toys. But one looks like he has the eyes of a demon. He won't be so easily fooled hehe he. This will be fun.
My Name Is Toya Takahashi. Would You Like To See My World?
When the stranger didn't immediately attack, she figured they were safe. No hidden assassins or elemental dragon attacks or barrages of kunai were coming after them, so she had to figure that he meant no harm. He mentioned turtle - Houou - and she eased visibly. She turned to Atsuko and mumbled, "I don't remember us discussing a sleepover." She bit back a comment about bringing over Shiro if they were allowed to have guests, though she figured this stranger wasn't comfortable with Houou the same way she was with the Kumogakuran.
She also knew that with her partner's Sharingan activated that she could let herself be the more diplomatic one if he stayed on the defensive, and waved at the newcomer with a pleasantness that wasn't there before. "I'm more of a carnation kinda gal than roses, but you can keep knocking yourself out and making more." She came forward slowly, observing the ground in front of her in case of explosive tags or trip wire. "So, Mister Paper Man, how did you meet my good Turtle?" She eyed his paper craft with mild interest, focused on his hands in case they felt like digging in pockets or making seals.
