Transforming for the Better!

Post by **Niro** » Mon Feb 21, 2011 5:41 pm

Kawa stood atop a small wooden pillar in one of the training grounds that littered Konoha. The day was nice, having a cool breeze and not too much humidity with a few splotches of white decorating the endless expanse known as the sky. Today he was here to meet his new team mate, Katashi. He had asked him to help him train a bit for the upcoming exam they were planning on taking. Today would be stamina, boosting it to a more reasonable level.

Kawa hopped down from the pillar and stood with his arms behind his back, waiting for the young Hyuuga. Hopefully he'd get to meet their third team mate soon enough too.

Arion · Post by **Arion** » Mon Feb 21, 2011 5:46 pm

"This seems to be it," Katashi told himself as he walked unto the training field. His doubts were gone once he spotted Kawa. He walked over to him, greeting him as he did.

"Hey! Found ya," He stopped a few paces away, facing him. "So, the plan was to work on stamina? Did you have anything in mind?" He asked, wondering where they should start.

Post by **Niro** » Mon Feb 21, 2011 6:00 pm

Kawa grinned when he saw Katashi walk onto the field and come up to him. "Yeah, I have a bit of a plan. It sucks to run out of steam during a fight, huh? I hate when it happens to me. What I need you to do is strike my upper body and arms a few times with maybe 75% of your max strength? Afterwards we're going to have a taijutsu spar. It may seem brutal but it's effective."

Kawa pressed himself to the back of the wood and braced his body, his muscles clenching as he waited for Katashi to start.

Arion · Post by **Arion** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 12:43 pm

"Oh?" He listened to Kawa explain his plan. It sure seemed physical enough, perhaps a bit brutal. The Hyuuga shrugged, ready to comply with the demand. He stepped up to Kawa and gave a nod, signaling for him to get ready. Raising his hands up and making two fists, he did as Kawa had wanted to delivered several strikes to his upper body and arms, all while holding back as his fellow genin had wanted. When he finished, he backed off to get some distance between the two. The taijutsu spar came next. He didn't know if Kawa was any good with taijutsu or not, but he was about to find out.

"Ready when you are," He shouted out, more or less wanting to se how he was after the strikes.

Post by **Niro** » Wed Feb 23, 2011 5:46 pm

Kawa took every hit with a deep breath and relaxing his muscles upon impact to lessen the damage taken by the hits. They hurt and he'd definitely be getting bruises tonight. Now he needed to actually fight through the pain and past the limits of his endurance to build upon it.

Kawa winced as he moved forward and rubbed an area where a particularly strong punch had struck him. "Alright, let's go. I might suck at gen, but I'm pretty good at taijutu!" He launched himself into a straight punch aimed at Katashi's solar plexus.

Arion · Post by **Arion** » Wed Feb 23, 2011 6:10 pm

"Ok," Katashi replied with a nod. So they were both good with taijutsu, it was going to make for an interesting spar.

"I got an idea though for when we are done," With that said, he got into the spar. The straight punch was easy enough to dodge as Katashi simply stepped off at a 45 degree angle to his left, and stopping coming to a halt at Kawa's right side, slipping past the punch. As he had stepped out, he raised his right hand to block and deflect Kawa's punch and with his left hand, quickly threw a hook punch aimed at Kawa's side right side.

Post by **Niro** » Thu Feb 24, 2011 10:06 am

Kawa free hand came across and grabbed the punch, using it's momentum to jump to the right. 'Alright, he's no slouch either. Should've expected that.' Kawa jumped back a few steps and started to run towards Katashi. Once he was three fourths of the way there he jumped and aimed a kick at the other boy's head.

If the kick was blocked he would jumped back, using the object that was used to block as a springboard. If the kick was dodged he would land and duck into a roll before getting back up and running a few steps away.

Arion · Post by **Arion** » Thu Feb 24, 2011 12:31 pm

Katashi grinned when Kawa used the momentum to back off. He was pretty good, at least he didn't lie about it. However, his new attack pattern wasn't something new, but what he would do next was going to be a crucial step. As the kick came in, Katashi took a step back in order to evade the kick altogether. With both of his hands up and ready, he seemed as if he were about to dash in up at Kawa.

Post by **Niro** » Thu Feb 24, 2011 12:46 pm

Kawa rolled back into a standing upright position and drew his hands in close to his face. Whatever Katashi was planning was probably going to hurt if it landed so he braced himself for when, or if, the other genin rushed in.

"C'mon Katashi! I'm the one who is suppose to be getting hurt here!" He called out as he slowly moved to his left in an attempt to circle the Hyuuga boy.

Arion · Post by **Arion** » Thu Feb 24, 2011 4:40 pm

"Don't worry," Katashi yelled as he advanced towards Kawa, following in his semi-circle so that the two were facing each other. "It's coming," It was time to get to it as Katashi decided to cut loose. These was no set pattern of attacks, it was just a barrage of punches and kicks aimed directly at Kawa in order to break him down. Katashi kept a firm stance and observed Kawa, trying to spot an opening as he circled him, giving him little room to escape.

SpoilerShow

*Dainamikku • Akushon [Dynamic • Action]
D-Rank Taijutsu
A simple destruction technique, Dynamic Action relies on the user’s own ability to string combos. In a short burst, the user unleashes a barrage of kicks and punches aimed to break a guard and pry open openings in a well defended opponent. The technique is delivered from a flexible stance, combos being able to be stringed as both the target and the user move around the field.

Post by **Niro** » Fri Feb 25, 2011 1:03 pm

Kawa's hands and feet went into action when Katashi attacked. He knew he wouldn't be able to block everything but he tried. Using his hand and forearms he redirected punches and with his knees and shins blocked kicks. A decent amount struck his arms and upper body but he grunted every time and winced when a particularly bad one struck him. He good feel his endurance starting to break down and when Katashi's attack ended he stumbled back a little relieved, his guard reformed as he looked at the Hyuuga and prepared his own attack.

With speed above that on a normal genin Kawa rushed in, aiming two quick jabs at Katashi's face with his left hand and an elbow strike to his face with his right hand. The attacks were aimed to stun him enough for Kawa to deliver another blow.

Arion · Post by **Arion** » Fri Feb 25, 2011 4:52 pm

Katashi's barrage had worked for the most part as he could see Kawa beginning to wear and breakdown. However, he was still holding up and on top of that, mustering some offense of his own. With a sudden burst, it was Kawa whom now unleashed an attack of his own. Katashi raised his arms to block, taking the strikes to his arms and leaving his midsection open. It was close to an end, despite Kawa not giving up. The Hyuuga needed to come up with something in order to put an end to the spar.

Post by **Niro** » Sun Feb 27, 2011 2:03 pm

Kawa rushed in for one more barrage of forward jabs to Katashi's upper body and face. Hopefully it'd distract the boy long enough. He was starting to get extremely tired and that was the point of this. To go to his limits and push even further, find even the smallest pool of energy he had and bring it to the surface. With a grunt Kawa punched twice more and brought his right leg around for the sweeping kick at Katashi's left knee.

OOC: We're only about halfway done. We'll add another thing or two if that's ok?

Arion · Post by **Arion** » Sun Feb 27, 2011 3:33 pm

Katashi took most of the hits to the midsection since his arms were already up. The last punches thrown, Katashi took on his arms as well. Seeing the leg wind up, Katashi moved right up close to Kawa and placed his right foot behind his left foot and with his hand, went to shove Kawa down with a palm strike to the chest.

OOC: Sure, I had an idea too, but go ahead with yours.

Post by **Niro** » Sun Feb 27, 2011 5:43 pm

OOC: Nono, I have to think of an idea. Go ahead and tell me yours. We can do both. We'll probably need it.

Kawa grunted and winced as kick barely struck Katashi and the palm strike struck his chest, feeling a rib or two crack under the force. Yeah, definite bruising. Maybe a little internal bleeding and definitely wrapping after this when he got home. His right hand grabbed Katashi's wrist and his left came around for a left cross to Katashi's face.

Arion · Post by **Arion** » Mon Feb 28, 2011 12:35 pm

OOC: To wear you down even more, take a nice long jog, after the spar.

"Heh," Katashi took the left strike to the face as he lifted his leg in between himself and Kawa and used it to push off. Landing roughly two to three feet in front of Kawa, he couldn't help but smirk. The boy had turned out to be not so bad, but with the last strike to his chest, he knew it probably wasn't best to keep going or there would be broken bones.

"Want to take a break?" He asked, still standing ready in case the spar was to continue.

Post by **Niro** » Mon Feb 28, 2011 2:15 pm

"No. I'm suppose to pass myself past my limits. Sure, I'm extremely close but I got a bit more fight left in me!" Kawa panted and kicked off the ground into a flying front kick with his left foot. Sure, he might've cracked some ribs but those would be healed in no time by his father. He could feel his body rapidly losing adrenaline now and the pain from the wounds would come in at full force.

Arion · Post by **Arion** » Mon Feb 28, 2011 5:42 pm

"Ok then," Katashi replied with a shrug. However, when Kawa did his skip front kick, it didn't take much for the Hyuuga to dodge it by stepping in at a 45 degree angle towards Kawa's right. At the same time, he went for a body hook punch aimed at Kawa's right side while keeping his left arm up for defense. He didn't use full force, but at this point, he wasn't sure if it would help or not.

Post by **Niro** » Mon Feb 28, 2011 5:45 pm

Kawa took the punch to his side and hit the ground with a dull thud and groan. He was completely exhausted. Probably more so than any other time in his life. His ribs were messed up and cracked, his body was sore and had black splotchy bruises forming. He knew his body was protesting in agony as he got back up and rubbed his temples.

"Alright, sparring is done. So is beating me up for amusement. Any ideas of your own?" Kawa asked as he stretched his legs for his final workout or two of the day.

Arion · Post by **Arion** » Mon Feb 28, 2011 5:52 pm

"I actually didn't have much fun," Katashi confessed, "We'll have to do one when we are both at 100, but that's for another time." He rubbed his chin with his hand as he thought. Then he got an idea, it was something he and his mentor had done when he was training.

"Yeah, let's go take a nice long jog," He said with a grin, "If that isn't challenging enough, we can drop at random points to do sets of push ups. When you are ready, begin. I'm going to be slightly behind you so don't let me catch up to you."

Post by **Niro** » Mon Feb 28, 2011 5:56 pm

Kawa's face paled. Jog? Sets of push ups? Aw crap. He gulped nervously and started to jog slowly, wanting to work his way up a bit to a good speed. "Y'know Katashi, I was only joking with the amusement content." Kawa grinned and shrugged as he continued to jog. "Yeah, a more intense spar would definitely help us when we're both at 100 percent."

"Just tell me when you want me to drop and do a set or. Preferably NOT on concrete."

Arion · Post by **Arion** » Tue Mar 01, 2011 2:05 pm

"Yeah, I had hoped you were," Katashi said as he picked up his pace to be just behind Kawa. He was going to be the push, but if he wanted this to work, he needed to really push him. "You know, I didn't say what would happen if I caught you... Let's see, since we are out here working so hard, we'll need to eat to recover our energy. So if I catch you, you're going to pay. If you survive, then I'll pay."

With that said, he stopped, "Hold up, first set is now," He shouted. He dropped to the floor and did ten push ups. It didn't seem like much, but considering they just sparred and were about to jog, it would all add up. "It's just push ups, shouldn't matter what surface you do them on. Whenever I say drop and do them, just do it. Take your time if you need to, I won't chase after you until you are back up and ready. Oh! Let's take our jog to the west apartment complex." With that said, he waited for Kawa to perform his first set. The hike to the west apartment complex was going to be rather long.

Post by **Niro** » Tue Mar 01, 2011 2:12 pm

"B-but! Couldn't I just get some food from my house for us then?" Kawa cried fake anime tears and nodded to Katashi. "Fine, I'll pay if I lose and if I don't drop dead because of this you'll pay." Kawa knew he needed to seriously push himself past his limits and this might just be the trick to achieving that greater height. Sure a spar was good for building up stamina and so was taking a few hard hits, and this type of exercise was commonly done by everybody to build stamina so it'd probably work.

When Katashi stopped and did ten pushups, Kawa also dropped into a prone form and did ten quick push ups. They'd be easy at the beginning and his slowly recovering arms would deteriorate again and pushing his own body up would be hard. "West apartment complex? Aww, crap. That's pretty far from here! Dammit! Let's start!" Kawa got up and started to jog again, faster than his initial take off.

Arion · Post by **Arion** » Tue Mar 01, 2011 2:36 pm

"No, nothing from home," Katashi told him, not buying the anime tears. When Kawa dropped and did his ten, he looked on and counted for good measure. He wasn't going to let him slack, this was after all what he wanted and he would help push to the limit.

"That's the spirit!" He yelled out when Kawa took off, faster than he had the first time. He followed after him. He didn't run all that fast, but he didn't slow down. It seemed that he was only running fast enough to keep Kawa at edge. Then he stopped again, calling out to his partner as he did.

"Ten!" Doing ten more pushups, they were no longer in the training field they had started in, getting closer to their destination, but still not quite there just yet.

Post by **Niro** » Tue Mar 01, 2011 4:01 pm

'Man, slave driver.' Kawa complained in his mind. They had been on one of the farthest training grounds from the West apartment complex. Jogging there with a completely messed up body was extremely tiring and as the adrenaline wore off the wounds started to hurt more and more.

When Katashi told him ten more he immediately dropped down to a prone position and did ten before getting up and rolling his shoulders. Afterwards, he took off once again at a slightly slower pace.

OOC: 1264/1500

Arion · Post by **Arion** » Wed Mar 02, 2011 5:26 pm

"Slowing down?" Katashi asked as he took notice of the slower pace. He didn't blame him. His body would ache for the next few days, but after all this, he would be that much more stronger and have built his stamina.

"We're almost at the complex," He shouted as they came closer to their destination. However, he made a sudden stop, signaling the next set of push ups.

"We're doing our last set, so let's do fifteen this time. Also, we need to finish off strong so if you got any ideas for when we get there, I'd like to hear it. I'll think of something in case you don't. We'll simply jog the rest of the way there and stop when we arrive."

With that said, the Hyuuga dropped to push up position and did his set of fifteen rather easily considering that he wasn't all that beat and had more stamina than Kawa. He waited for his fellow genin in order to proceed.

Post by **Niro** » Thu Mar 03, 2011 4:54 pm

"Psh? You wish Katashi!" Kawa grinned but on the inside he was grimacing. His entire body felt like it would crumble to pieces in the next few minutes. He knew that despite all the pain his physical stamina and chakra capacity would rise, if only a little bit.

Kawa nodded in response to Katashi's shout of their location and got on his knees and into a prone form almost immediately. When Katashi told him fifteen now instead of ten he sighed and nodded before he started to do the set.

Kawa did seven and stopped for a second to rest. His arms were killing him and he rested for a second. Then he continued and did the last eight. "I hate you, so much at the moment Katashi."

Kawa got up and rubbed his arms. He then started to jog at a fast pace the rest of the way to get the compound quicker.

Arion · Post by **Arion** » Thu Mar 03, 2011 5:04 pm

"You shouldn't say such mean things," Katashi spoke out as he ran alongside Kawa. After a short while, they finally arrived at the complex as Katashi took lead and then stopped, thankfully, it wasn't for more push ups.

"We made it," He said, though didn't sound all too pleased. "We need to finish off with something... We ran, did push ups, sparred, what else? Jumping jacks? Some kind of weight lifting? Sit Ups?" He offered a few ideas, but really didn't know which to pick or if there was anything else. He didn't plan on going all out, just wanted to do one last thing to end it right.

Post by **Niro** » Thu Mar 03, 2011 5:32 pm

"Let's do some sit ups. They're probably the most effective at the current moment." Kawa suggested as Katashi gave up a few ideas when they reached the complex building. "We're are NEVER doing this again. I hurt in places I shouldn't hurt."

Kawa took place on the ground and put his hands behind his head.

"How many? 50 maybe?"

Arion · Post by **Arion** » Thu Mar 03, 2011 5:44 pm

"What do you mean never again!? I went through this twice! We got one more to go and I'm saving the good stuff for the next one," Despite the reaction, he was merely joking as he grinned and smiled. He sat down on the ground next to Kawa, ready to do sit ups with him.

"Fifty it is," He agreed with him. With his arms behind his head, he started his set of 50. Kawa was almost there and when they were done, if this last part was complete, Katashi planned on getting some steak, for two like he had said he would.

Post by **Niro** » Thu Mar 03, 2011 6:16 pm

Kawa nodded and set his concentration on completing the last task. He blocked out everything, even Katashi. Sure, he knew he was there but he wasn't even acknowledging him right now. It might've been rude but hopefully he'd understand. Kawa started on the fifty push ups and could feel the burn in his abdomen almost immediately.

The spar with Katashi and the somewhat beating before hand had caused some problems with his body. Major bruises were forming under his clothing and he could feel his rib becoming more aggravated. He needed his father to look at it and soon. It was a good thing they were close to his place otherwise he might've passed out. He kept on with the push ups. Kawa stopped at twenty five and took a deep breathe before he started the last twenty five with a renewed vigor of a determined man.

Kawa finished the set of fifty push ups and sat up. His entire body feeling like it'd fall apart at any second.

"Hey, Katashi? I'll hold you to that lunch eventually. Just not today, unless you wanna carry my passed out person home?"

OOC: 1654/1500

Arion · Post by **Arion** » Fri Mar 04, 2011 4:51 pm

"Sure thing," Katashi said as he sat up after completing his set. He understood full well when Kawa blocked him out, choosing to focus on the task. However, there was one last piece.

"I'm not carrying you home, I have to get home myself. That's the fun part, you now have to get back home. You probably hate me, I hated my sensei for doing it too, but after a while, I came to realize how good it was, one day you will too. We're done, great job! I'll be heading out now, see ya next time and get some rest."

Standing up, Katashi waved at Kawa and begun to walk away, his part complete.

OOC- You can turn it in now if you'd like; training for you and social for me.

Name	Village	Rank	Team
Tatsuo [color=#940839][b]	Iwa	Tsuchikage	Team 18 Jousai
Kinomichi [color=limegreen][b]	Iwa	Bannin	Jousai
Kotetsu [color=slategray][b]	Iwa	Chuunin	Team 7
Ashura [color=coral][b]	Suna	Chuunin
Sai [color=#FF14A1][b]	Kiri - MN	D-Rank
Yamato [color=#C71585][b]	Kiri	A-Rank
Yoshinori [color=steelblue][b]	Konoha	Chuunin
Shikatsu [color=chocolate][b]	Konoha	Genin

Name	Village	Rank	Team
Tatsuo [color=#940839][b]	Iwa	Tsuchikage	Team 18 Jousai
Kinomichi [color=limegreen][b]	Iwa	Bannin	Jousai
Kotetsu [color=slategray][b]	Iwa	Chuunin	Team 7
Ashura [color=coral][b]	Suna	Chuunin
Sai [color=#FF14A1][b]	Kiri - MN	D-Rank
Yamato [color=#C71585][b]	Kiri	A-Rank
Yoshinori [color=steelblue][b]	Konoha	Chuunin
Shikatsu [color=chocolate][b]	Konoha	Genin

Name	Village	Rank	Team
Tatsuo [color=#940839][b]	Iwa	Tsuchikage	Team 18 Jousai
Kinomichi [color=limegreen][b]	Iwa	Bannin	Jousai
Kotetsu [color=slategray][b]	Iwa	Chuunin	Team 7
Ashura [color=coral][b]	Suna	Chuunin
Sai [color=#FF14A1][b]	Kiri - MN	D-Rank
Yamato [color=#C71585][b]	Kiri	A-Rank
Yoshinori [color=steelblue][b]	Konoha	Chuunin
Shikatsu [color=chocolate][b]	Konoha	Genin

Name	Village	Rank	Team
Tatsuo [color=#940839][b]	Iwa	Tsuchikage	Team 18 Jousai
Kinomichi [color=limegreen][b]	Iwa	Bannin	Jousai
Kotetsu [color=slategray][b]	Iwa	Chuunin	Team 7
Ashura [color=coral][b]	Suna	Chuunin
Sai [color=#FF14A1][b]	Kiri - MN	D-Rank
Yamato [color=#C71585][b]	Kiri	A-Rank
Yoshinori [color=steelblue][b]	Konoha	Chuunin
Shikatsu [color=chocolate][b]	Konoha	Genin

Name	Village	Rank	Team
Tatsuo [color=#940839][b]	Iwa	Tsuchikage	Team 18 Jousai
Kinomichi [color=limegreen][b]	Iwa	Bannin	Jousai
Kotetsu [color=slategray][b]	Iwa	Chuunin	Team 7
Ashura [color=coral][b]	Suna	Chuunin
Sai [color=#FF14A1][b]	Kiri - MN	D-Rank
Yamato [color=#C71585][b]	Kiri	A-Rank
Yoshinori [color=steelblue][b]	Konoha	Chuunin
Shikatsu [color=chocolate][b]	Konoha	Genin

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