Training: The Other Genma

[Octopus Garden]

Jinrai, Akistar was in a popular training ground in Kumogakure, as usual, and as such he was not exactly alone. He was somewhat a bit away from the main area, for sure, but their were others close enough nearby that if one were to start making enough noise then someones attention would be drawn eventually.

This meant that every once in a while different training partners were bouncing back with each other and doing different attempts at jutsu, trying different taijutsu, ninjutsu, and genjutsu here and there against and on and with each other as several students tried different things that morning.

The Hell Genma stirred inside of Akistar and leaked out chakra that took a shape before him, a small scarecrow that somewhat resembled himself except it was made of red metal, red straw, red wood, and was half his height. It began walking around and taunting him, rolling its head and eyes around and speaking in a sing song voice as it teased at him and toyed around.

"Oh yeah, Hello, I am Akistar, the Hello Dingo TeeheheheheGenma" It had said in a very staticked radio voice that sounded almost as though it had come from an old vinyl record player.

Akistar responded, sounding the same, "Oh, yeah?" He flicked a corded ribbon towards the small scarecrow, flicking it on the back across its red metal.

The scarecrow shivered for a moment before it cracked and began to split in two, another scarecrow climbing out from the back of the first one where the ribbon had struck it.

"What the fu--??" Akistar had began, but, he watched as the scarecrow opened up to produce another scarecrow, then split in half so that the one that had opened up in the first place then began to piece itself back together and into two separate scarecrows, so now their were three of them.

"Ah I hate when you do that that's so annoying," Said Akistar to the Hell Genma.

"It's efficient."

"Whatever dude."

Akistar rolled his eyes and turned away, focusing on his meditation and ignoring the scarecrows for now, then piped up when he heard a loud chime in the distance.

How bout that, Konegu the Hell Genma had said within him.

Konegu was being exceptionally feisty and demanding today, and had ordered that they have a very specific lunch later, for some reason.

[Texas]

Akihiko was patrolling the village within the second layer of the limbo realm so he could move freely wherever he wanted. He also was using his Stratos training to silently move throughout the village so he couldn't be seen or heard. While doing his rounds, the young adult noticed loud echoing coming from the training grounds slightly away from the others and decided to take a look at it. The pink haired brat saw his fellow jinch host training against a training dummy and Ryeunso couldn't help but laugh inside Aki's consciousness. The Genma knew exactly what Aki was going to do. And that he did.

The Jounin would silently and invisible to the eye, walk over to Akistar as he practiced a technique. Which impressively shattered a training dummy. Aki couldn't help but feel excited at the possible power that both of them could provide on the battle field. With that in mind, Aki got close enough to Akistar and then snapped his fingers. Which within a blink of an eye would appear right near Aki. The child would giggle a bit after simply asking "So what are we doing out here by our lonesomes? Hopefully your Genma isn't giving you too much smack!"

Aki would then wave at Akistar, he had hoped his sudden appearance and shock the Jinch enough to be startled. Oh boy, what a prank that would be. However, this prank was getting common. Some people have adjusted and some have just simply never been able to. So at this point, it was a coin toss. The young adult was excited to learn what Akistar was working on. Aki Squared had enough brain power to function as one human, so mabye it was simpler than what the Jounin could think of. Although, the bar was set pretty low by Akihiko himself.

[Octopus Garden]

The Hell Genma was spawning a multitude of red scarecrows that resembled Akistar but appeared to be made of straw and metal and cloth, and Akistar did sense a presence, his senses were not finely tuned the way the Hell Genma itself was.

Though the Hell Genma felt the aura-like presence of another genma immediately when they got within a certain range, Akistar felt only a slight chill in the air and literally didn't notice any other difference, even when the other Aki was immediately on top of him.

That was just life.

The Hell Genma, because it did in fact like being amused, decided not to say anything to Akistar about it and see what would happen.

To the Hell Genma, the red aura outline was apparent. The fuuinjutsu was another strong source, the Hell Genma could see it in their mind's eye. "How interesting," Konegu the Hell Genma thought seductively into Akistar's ears as though plucking pink vibration chakra into his skull on purpose.

"What's ? AHAHR FIHASFASNFAIKDSPfjoSAJDASFSAJOFGxzdfn'qJ```"

Akistar recoiled and fell backwards as he paniced and shifted into his next form, a multitude of red tendrils bursting out of him and spreading out into more tendrils a piece, a net of red aura tendrils that shot towards the other Aki and almost strangled him, before stopping short and reshaping themselves into a boquet of butterflies, hummingbirds, and ladybugs, all of which instead began to flutter away and fade away as the red chakra dissipated and faded into the air.

"YOU SCARED THE SHIT OUT OF ME!!!!" Akistar said while the Hell Genma quite literally materialized himself as a red aura next to him, literally lay on the ground holding its chest and laughing.

'Ahahahhaha," The Hell Genma Teased.

[Texas]

The pink hair bobbed as the red aura shifted around him like a net. Although Aki was tempted to phase through it, instead he let it play out. To his happy surprise, Akistar realized it was just an annoying prank. However, to his even happier surprise, Akistar found it funny and started laughing. Due to the net, Aki was on the ground. After the dissipation of the aura, Aki jumped up and wiped up the dirt from his legs and began laughing with Akistar. Even Ryeunso was pleased, although he was laughing the whole time.

The young man pointed both of his hands in finger guns and figured this would be a good time to ask what he was up to. "So, what are you doing out here by yourself? Are ya training?" Aki holstered his finger guns to his hips after he asked that question. The young man walked over to the training dummy. It had seemed like it was destroyed, Akistar was clearly looking out for upgrading his arsenals of jutsu. Based on his quick reaction of using his Genma's jutsu, it was clear he was focused on utilizing his power and harnessing it.

There was a report he had read that Akistar had mastered his genma and now was focused on teaching himself jutsu. Maybe Aki could help with that. The Pink Haired Jounin had to do all of that on his own, with little guidance. Now, Aki could help his fellow Aki! What an exciting situation. The Jounin walked over to his fellow Jinch and looked into his deep brown eyes. "It looks like you are whipping up some power here Akistar! Seeing as I don't really have much to do on my day off.... What can I do to help?"

[Octopus Garden]

Upon hearing the question of how Aki could help Akistar, Konegu the Hell Genma chimed up and a red and pink aura materialized out of the aura that was currently rolling on the ground.

The Aura on the ground ceased to look like the hell genma and instead appeared as a red and pink scarecrow, that was about Akistar's height. It stood on two legs straight up with the legs together and its arms straight apart parallel to the ground below. It was reddish pink all over, mostly, sort of, and looked very normal, in that it looked like a scarecrow version of akistar wearing slightly pink and red clothing, made of slightly pink and red straw, and with slightly pink and red hair.

It had red buttons for eyes and a zipper zipped shut for a mouth, though its entire head appeared to be made of some sort of reddish hued burlap sack. Crow feathers could be seen sticking out of it from its joints as well as straw, both of which were slightly red and pink.

The zipper did not appear to unzip naturally, that is to say that it just suddenly began opening but that it did so by opening from the wrong way, the zipper tongue never actually moving It still however did make noise, very audibly making a zipper noise that was incredibly loud, loud enough that one who witnessed it might realize its loudness had certainly been enhanced by chakra. After which, a Crow tongue could be seen in the scarecrow's mouth if one looked carefully enough.

The Scarecrow then spoke in a low voice that crackled as though it was being played through an old vinyl record player.

"He attempts a pale imitation of MEEEeeeee......." The scarecrow hissed as its red button eyes very visibly blinked even though buttons were not supposed to be able to do that.

Akistar sighed.

"That-....That's true, that's what I'm trying to make."

"What about you? What are you up to?"

[Texas]

The pink hair on his head bobbed as he dramatically went into a thinking face. His right hand moved up and covered his right chin. He would try to use all of the single count brain cells he had left to try to think about what he was doing there. It was his day off, but he did want to train a little bit. The more he thought about it, the more it slowly came to him. The young man would snap his fingers and look at Akistar as if a light bulb had appeared above his head, "Absolutely nothing!"

Aki would giggle a bit but then wave his hand as if to notify his fellow jinch he as kidding. "No no, I wanted to go somewhere quiet yet far away so I could draw up some more puppets. I've been spending so much time training, I figured it would be nice to start working on my bread and buttah." Aki would snap his fingers and his 4 puppets would appear almost seemingly from nowhere. They were following him the whole time. "See Akistar these are my 4 Legion Puppets, but now I was thinking of doing some more specialty puppets. Maybe a trapping puppet, poison puppet, I don't know really. Maybe an Akihiko Puppet! Do you have any ideas?"

Based on the chaotic nature of Akistar, maybe he could come up with something so out of left field that it could inspire Akihiko to draw up something dangerous... something powerful.

[Octopus Garden]

The other genma whispered something into Akistar's ear, something only he would hear.

"Ah, Konegu, thank you that is very interesting."

"Puppets, We have umm... how do you say... We've practiced a little and studied and Konegu and I have talked about it inversely, but I've yet to actually utilize any puppets myself,"

Akistar continued,"

"The scarecrows however are a step in the right direction, Konegu tells me that Okipuppetry is actually considered by many to be the pinnacle of puppetry, being that it is autonomous and does not need to be controlled remotely."

The Hell Genma spoke up separately, "Yes, yes, puppets are of course just weak, cheap imitations of an automaton of course," The Hell Genma bragged, a red aura materializing in the air next to Akistar as the Hell Genma's voice poured out.

"Yes, yes, your little trinkets are very cute, but they are mere imitations of greatness." Akistar looked at the red aura for a moment as Konegu began to manifest themselves as though tearing in through a portal in space.

Which, it quite literally looked as though it were.

Red aura oozed from the ground below, it webbed upwards in a spiral that looked like reddish black ichor, for it was dark and blood-like and when the light wasn't hitting it just right it looked quite dark, almost brown to black indeed. In places, it was just black altogether anyway, for effect and no other reason. Why? Because it autonomously could be. Konegu whimmed it, it was so.

An ornate carving of dark red wood and dark red stone began to form upwards from the ground, white pale park splitting off, a keen observer would have noted its likeness to the whiteness of the Hell Genma itself.

"This is the puppet we've been working on for the bad guys, Said Akistar, whom was still young and not quite at terms with the ridiculous monstrosity that he had concocted.

A red aura shrouded the red wood and stone, which began to resemble Akistar even more than the previous scarecrow, this one being quite exactly his height and weight, except that it was made of wood, stone, straw, metal...

And birds.

It screeched its mouth wide once, revealing a crows tongue that shreaked a horrible guttural vomit of more crows that began to flock out of its mouth violently in a flurry of red and pink autonomous vibration horror.

Hell began to store about the scarecrow as its chest opened up and not twelve but twelve dozen knives shot outs of it at the speed of oh shit and made Akistar wince as the tree fell apart very loudly in the distance, but what he really winced from was the large swarm-like mass of crows that had now engulfed the scarecrow and the entire area around them, red and pink and pink crows flying about in a clockwise swirl around them. Red crows, black crows, pink crows, red and pink crows, black and pink crows, pink and red crows, and black, pink, and red crows.

The crows turned into knives, the crows turned into hammers, the crows turned into swords, drums, guitars, wires, nets, suddenly there was a storm of bug catching nets, but they were huge! They were tremendous! They were ridiculous! They swooped around and changed sizes and shrank down and ensnared other birds and fought with each other and tangled up and untangled themselves immediately, damn near instanteously one might say.

Autonomous chakra was a hell of a drug, it was the greatest Kinesis, the greatest taijutsu, the most ridiculous perversion of chakra that could exist.

Akistar, the star of the Jinrai clan, a wretched abomination, a culmination prewritten by the stars and foretold by Destiny itself, he alone would be the greatest Jinchuuriki of the Hell Genma.

The puppet suddenly split in two, merely because it could and no other reason, then the crows began to come out of the second one as well.

It was really quite the sight.

[Texas]

If the pink haired jounin was weaker, he would be horrified and run from what he had just saw. Truth be told, Aki had actually never really been face to face with the hell genma host in person, well to this level at least. It seemed like yesterday Aki and Aki were both in Cold country and only a few tentacles came out of it's body. Now he is able to manifest an ungodly creation at what would appear to be out of thin air. Instantly what would normally be ADD filled of a brain, was focused. The combat compatibility of the two were actually incredibly powerful. Aki could hide and attack from the Limbo Realm while Akistar could be the center tank while sending relentless attacks.

Aki would snap his finger and smile greatly. "Your power is incredible!" Then as if a light bulb lit over his head, Aki continued and with uncontained excitement, jumped up to Akistar. "Akistar, when you get a little bit stronger, we should practice team tactics together. I think you and I could be dangerous in the battlefield. Do you think you could work on making a autonomous clone of me? If you do that then when we fight together, I can hide in limbo while you do a barrage of attacks with a fake body of me acting and moving like me!"

Aki would raise his right fist and smash it over his left open hand to make a point. "This strategy could amplify both of our specialties and we could almost be unbeatable!" If this was possible, Aki could focus on making a bunch of his puppets with himself attack an opponent hidden from reality. With the both of them it seemed like anything was possible!

The young shinobi then took out a piece of paper and wrote down some ideas of puppets. "On another note, what do you think of a shield and storage based puppet with a bunch of shields over it?"

[Octopus Garden]

Hmmm?


A shield and storage puppet.

He pondered internally amongst himself and Konegu.

Ah.

We could trap people in a barrel and stick sword limbs into it like that one douchebag back in Sunagakure, he had realized suddenly.

"Oh, okay okay hold on I have an idea."

Akistar inhaled slowly for a moment then breathed out through his nose as he steadied his nerves. Before him he began to produce a red mass of aura chakra.

At first, it was just a glowing red aura, but it began to peace itself together into a more opaque and finite appearance, taking on the appearance of red wood. Not redwood, red wood, wood that is red. Very red. Blood red. Hell Genma red.

Hell Wood.

Akistar began to pour his will into the autonomous chakra and it mutated shape, juttering back and forth sporadically at it began to stretch out to become his own height and grow two arms and two legs made of Hell Wood. Next however it got very fat all of a sudden. That is to say that its stomach and torso area suddenly expanded to about the size of six Aksitars and it now instead resembled a drum with doll limbs.

Next, the limbs got fat too, and it grew a head, though it was the shape of a pyramid with a point for nose/face.

"Hi, I'm Barrel Dude!" It said suddenly to the two of them.

Alarmed that it could speak, Akistar glanced at Aki. "Uhhhh that's new I didn't expect it to talk right away."

Barrel Dude opened up his stomach to reveal it was lined with instructions for fuuinjutsu to suck up liquids, solids, and jutsu, and also schematics and instructions for how to affix shields and barrier devices to his limbs, the outside of the barrels, and how his own limbs also split apart to turn into stabbing devices for an enemy that might be captures inside of the barrel-shaped torso.

Barrel Dude began sucking in the air around them, and a bit of autonomous chakra broke off to simulate a suiton jutsu, it flew through the air away from them, turned into a large serpent, and then came crashing back towards them, but Barrel Dude opened up a vortex in his chest and began sucking in the fluid and sealing it away.

Brutal.

Efficient.

Akistar loved Autonomous chakra.

"Something like that?" He said with a grin.

"Wait...."

Then he pressed his hands together as though gripping an invisible basketball and the puppet like automation shifted shape and size to resemble Aki.

[Texas]

The Teenager's eyes were bright and filled with stars. He was so excited to see both how much his fellow jinch has developed in such a short amount of time, but also how strong he could be in the battlefield with Aki! The excitement was truly uncontrollable. "Wow... This is awesome!" Aki would take a could of steps back and look at Akistar with a large shit eating grin. "Let's try something, if you don't mind!" Aki would turn his head towards the entrance of where he came form for the training area. The pink haired brat would put both of his hands around his mouth and shout out loudly. "SHIN, HURRY HELP!"

Aki's assistant Shin would rush in with her clipboard, only to see Aki and Aki standing there. It was clear he called her over this way to get her here as quickly as possible. With an incredibly disappointed look, she would gaze upon the two but shoot daggers at Akihiko "If you keep doing that, I won't be fast enough if you actually are in trouble." Aki would laugh a bit. "Common Shin, I was just kidding! I'll try not to do it again." Shin would fold her arms and lean slightly in a disapproving manner. "Well?" Aki would jump backwards towards Akistar. "Can you tell me if you see him and his jutsu's?" Shin would sigh and nod her head.

Aki would turn over to Akistar. "Hey let's see if your jutsu is hidden from sight in my limbo realm. What do ya think?" Assuming Akistar was okay with it, the young Jounin would channel his chakra and then clap his hands. With the clap, came an instant that Akistar was placed himself in the Limbo Realm. When entering, Akistar would notice that the world around him was exactly the same... but it was in black and white. It was as if he was in a realm that had yet to be colored in. Hopefully he knew the que to try to show off his creations in the Limbo Realm.

[Octopus Garden]

"Well you're not the most ugly thing." Said Barrel Dude, though really this was the Hell Genma taunting a handler.

"You dare put us both in a box together and send only one handler?" The Hell Genma teased Aki loudly as they walked up.

Akistar gazed the handler known as Shin in the eyes for a brief moment as his red aura flickered over his own eyes and gave the appearance of an old radio dial flickering. He admired her outfit, her hair, and her gear, and bowed politely personally in her direction as she had approached. He wondered how close by Cros was, then figured she was probably in the trees or something of that nature as well most likely. That would make sense wouldn't it?

When asked about what they were about to do, Akistar surged with a bit of autonomous vibration chakra, it began forming in between the two of them, the two Aki's, forming a very specific autonomous frequency that carried Akistar's voice specifically only to the other Aki for just a brief moment as he spoke the following words, "What are you intending here?" The jutsu would allow Aki to speak back to Akistar.

Akistar had it under good authority that Cros and the other Jinchuuriki handlers did not care for this autonomous technique because they could not hear what Akistar was saying and he always covered his mouth when he used it so that they couldn't read his lips.

Akistar looked around the limbo realm and took it in, the Hell Genma started explaining to him how it worked but Akistar cut him off.

"Yeah, yeah, sh sh Konegu, I want to hear it from the other genma and the man himself."

Barrel dude, even though he looked like Aki, not Akistar, opened up as before but revealed it now had sixteen tentacle limbs like the Fourth Form of Akistar, wildly reaching from out of the Limbo realm towards Shin suddenly, seeing how they would react to suddenly having sixteen tentacles come out of the limbo realm to grab them, they would not be very fast though.

At a control of only eight (8) and thus a strength and speed of eight (8) Akistar sent out sixteen (16) tentacles, just as though he had been in his fourth form, but it came from the puppet. Four (4) tendrils each went for each of Shin's limbs, two (2) wrapping around the limbs going a direction and two (2) wrapping around the other direction, alternating one (1) after the other.

He wouldn't harm them.

[Texas]

Shin stood there in confusion, but watched as the boys disappeared from sight. Nothing ever came out of Aki going into Limbo, only terrible pranks. In fact, she couldn't help but look utterly exhausted with the notion that Akihiko brought Akistar in there. She dropped her clipboard and put her ear to the ground (metaphorically) waiting to hear the rippling sounds of a jutsu or weapon being thrown at her. Low and behold... she could hear a creaking like noise and then a weird splurging sound as tentacles began to race towards her. With frustration so high that a vein could be seen on her forehead, the Jounin simply jumped back to try to avoid the Tentacles. With that jump back, she could hear them continue and this caused her to simply turn around and run away. As she ran she shouted "I will get you back you two!"

Aki couldn't help but laugh, causing him to fall on the floor. With tears coming from his eyes, he would clap his hands together and both of them would appear out of the limbo realm. "She can't take a joke huh!" Rolling on the floor laughing, Aki found this incredibly funny. However, what Aki wasn't aware was there were repercussions he was suffering from mastering the genma too early. Meh, that was a discussion for another time.

After Aki came to his senses, he would pop up fast to gaze upon his friend Akistar. "Your ability is so cool Akistar!" The young lad would walk around him for half a circle before saying announcing "You gave me some great ideas too! I can't wait to see what you can pull up with in the future." Aki would smile and continue, "You know if you keep training you might be ready for the international chuunin exams coming up! Is there anything I can help you??" The young Jounin stood there in excitement hoping there was a way he could guide the future shinobi of Kumogakure like he has been trying to with his genin squad.