Darkness Rising - Path to Chuunin <Rank Training>

Rin Shouten · Status: Offline Trainee Joined: 01 Oct 2007 Posts: 959

The crackle of rocks was deafened out by the peace offering, the barrage of white hiding well the thready wires that split from the bedrock, growing inch by inch. cracking with deep surges, energy split the rocks. The wire twined together, soon meshing within into a single conduit that pushed hard through the precipice through the canal of bedrock until it was delivered within the stench. Smoke rose on grainy pumes, bound by gravity as the slender and lithe cable preceded the smoke, rising and curling about until it was plucked from the very prison of it's confines. The fumes of a midday snack within raw sewage eminated from the well-timed menagerie of stench.

Rotten things, foul things, touched the cable and beheld it, and if the single cable arising aside Rin had a face, it would surely have smiled, however being the stoic inorganic material it was, no such happiness was awarded. Betwixt about the cable now was purple thread, and surging even stronger alight the cable were tendrils of electricity, spread like palms across the plain, until the varying thread of the cable burst open, growing, redoubling, and taking form. Smoke arose in lofty pumes around the form, until soft, silky icy hair pushed forth, draping long past the face that now appears, innocent eyes peering into the remainder of the town that was declared their battlefield. A band of blood and death circled her head as her icy lockes brushed past the nape of her neck, innocent irises staring towards the encircling cables that lanced into a deadly pircing rush.

It was apparent that these cables were coming from a raven source, a shinobi much like Rin herself, however older. There was a long story behind this battle, however everything about ti rang that it was a personal confrontation, you see, this was the very shinobi that had claimed the life of Rin's father, and she had been dedicated to revenge when she had discovered that he remained alive. Spinning to the left into a pitch in order to avoid another cable inverting into a deady lunge, however the sharp inorganic material cut along her right arm, spraying blood upon the terra around her persona. She drew breath heavily as she quickly gathered senbon within her left hand and lunged upwards, executing a frontal flip that allowed her avoidance. Lanmding on the cable,. she lashed out along it's expanse running along it as she lashed outwards with three senbon. The senbon were easily deflected as she lunged upwards. Two cables now asserted themselves before her as she swifltly slid Retsu-Yatsumi from it's scabbard and into a fever-pitched downwards slash.

"You were the one! You slayed my father and now you shall pay for it!"

"You shall be the one who dies for challenging me, little one." The shinobi retorted, without emotion within his voice. He hadn't notice her slashing at one of his cables, and he also hadn't taken notice to the likeness between Rin and his own young daughter. The shinobi gave no part for contemplation to Rin, and his right arm pushed itself back, the muscles pumping and gathering force as his muscles pushed that fist forwards towards Rin as she cut through one of the wires and managed to aoid the other. The fist, as it sped upon it's path, slammed with force into the young woman's sternum and pressed her onto the ground, sliding several feet away from him as the cables snapped back into his backside, smirking as he brandished a kunai. He walked towards the young girl, ready to continue the fight as she found herself quickly lunging back up to her feet, his eyes staring to the shinobi.
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Roleplaying Characters:
Rin Shouten
Sazaku Norimune
Tsubame Inuzuka
No 4th RPC
RPG Stats:
Shinobi Rank: Gonin[SS] ~ Jounin[A] ~ Jounin[A]
Village: Kirigakure ~ Otogakure ~ Konohagakure
Training Points: 0
Inventory: 40 Senbon, Tsukihime ~ shinku Tsukaite; Ketsueki Karite; Shoushihime ~ Tri-Nunchaku
Personal Stats:
Forum Credit: 0

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Zeke Jamora · Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 4:32 pm Post subject:

OOC:

Rin Shouten · Status: Offline Trainee Joined: 01 Oct 2007 Posts: 959

The beat of her heart pounded her insides, making it aware she was a bit nervous, but of course no one else could see this, as her face was remaining innocent, Her kendogi slightly ripped where the fist had made a heavy impact with her, the hair falling down the nape of her neck and sprawling down her back. The eyes of the kunoichi known as Rin swept through the area quickly, the soft blue reflecting off a lot of the shine in the area. Though the other one who she was opposing may think Rin was just a weakling in their fight, that was most certainly not the case. It may have been obvious through her display of skill that the young woman was anything but helpless, and though she had been struck down, Rin found herself upon her feet once more

"The name is Atreyu. I believe you deserve to learn my name before you die, at least." the shinobi said in a young tone, anmd quickly formed a lurr of hand-signs, while speaking a phrase that Rin could not much understand, however darkness seemed to be welling around rin at a constant, until the world around her began to warp and shift. She knew shere she was, the Crimson Sunset Brothel. Rin instantly fell to her knees, hugging her knees and cradling her head, nightmares coming back. Rin floated in the nightmares for what seemed like an eternity, however light suddenly filled around her as she remembered something - there were people who loved her, Katoshi valued her as a friend and companion, and was her friend after all. Not much after she had been affected by the genjutsu, Rin stood up, breaking the genjutsu with the words of 'Kai!' then stepped forwards, a smile managing to cross her countenance.

"That will not affect me anymore!"

With the sight of the one titled Atreyu directed at her, Rin’s eyes widened as her teeth clenched to one another, a small vein on the left side of her temple popped right from his skin. On the angle she was at she could see that of the man, and since he was on an angle he had a perfect opportunity. She stepped forth just as the Atreyu character did, Rin’s boots dragging their heels along the ground, making tracks in the dirt, but right as she knew the man was picking up speed to attack her, all hell broke lose. As his arm jerked back and up towards Rin, She quickly snatched a few more senbon, quickly counting five before letting them fly towards Atreyu with vicious intent, two towards each shoulder and one of the senbons to his right knee with agile flight. It would hit the man within a one or one and a half second delay after his hand was fully extended, And Rin would quickly snap Retsu-Yatsumi, which would be directed for his main torso area, and with such power it was enough to knock the man back a good few feet while causing a light scrape across the torso.

((OOC: Loses mental weakness))
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Roleplaying Characters:
Rin Shouten
Sazaku Norimune
Tsubame Inuzuka
No 4th RPC
RPG Stats:
Shinobi Rank: Gonin[SS] ~ Jounin[A] ~ Jounin[A]
Village: Kirigakure ~ Otogakure ~ Konohagakure
Training Points: 0
Inventory: 40 Senbon, Tsukihime ~ shinku Tsukaite; Ketsueki Karite; Shoushihime ~ Tri-Nunchaku
Personal Stats:
Forum Credit: 0

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Zeke Jamora · Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 5:27 pm Post subject:

OOC: Um, it was a bit fillerish. Only one paragraph was decicated to you actually training...or to your RPC's background. You can't really call that training and what not. I'll allow this Rank Training to go in favor of your RPC's Background. However, when it comes to KinJutsu Training, it must be Pure Training.

And me, when you KinJutsu Train. You could make a 3 Paragrapgh post and get ATLEAST one point. As long as every bit of it is dedicated to pure Training.

Keep up your work.

Rin Shouten · Status: Offline Trainee Joined: 01 Oct 2007 Posts: 959

<OOC - I had a righteous awesome post made but then somehow all of my Firefox windows closed out, so this is a rough template for my next post, hoping to nab 3 points from it.>

'I shall surpass my limitations!'

'You are weak without me, girl...A fragile delicacy of the Hyouton Clan.'

'No..No, I don't need you!'

'You say that now....however what happens when you're beaten?'

'I will become stronger!'

'You will never become strong, you will never survive...without my aid.'

Her hands rasped as she fell upon her bottom, her hair's strands being slightly cut by inorganic essence which writhed about her as if a snake, jutting viciously for a single attack, one that would be lethal enough to be fatal. Trodden upon the terra, her digits soon caressed the tresses of ice-blue hues, before enveloping her lean knees, her head dipping below the slight cover of the jutting rock behind her with enough time to spare in incoming incision of the wiry substance, her mind caressed by her worse nightmares, the inner voice of the demonic essence within her laudable if nothing else and sending her through a midsummer night's stroll down a memory lane that she had abject fear of, memories that paralyzed her at the slightest whisper of a name or thought, inciting such fear, however something 'shone' as if a beacon for her frame to grasp, something that could perhaps tow her from the line between sanity and insanity, to save her from being lost to inane madness.

'You are wrong about me....'

'How is that? I am never wrong...about anything.'

'My father loved me very much, more than enough to die for me, and I have to live for that sacrifice.'

A revelation coursed her mind as the nightmares faded from her, oozing away as if some sort of liquid solvent, and Rin was forced to make another realization just as she quickly found herself coming back up to her feet, however quickly returned to her cover as the organic substance of the wire nearly removed her head from her shoulders where it stood. Rin realized that she did not wish Vengeance nor did she anger at the shinobi fighting her, Atreyu, for his slaying of hjer father, she only wished him peace and had noticed that had she come to this realization sooner, that this entire conflict could have been averted. There was no way to disengage this fight now, as Atreyu had a killer intent radiating from him, and her own curiosity about the very extent of her skills and how limited she indeed was pressed her forwards once more into action.

"I just realized that I don't hate your guts."

"Why not? I am the one who killed your father in cold blood."

"You were just doing a job, and now it's my turn to do mine."

Rin abruptly pushed away from her current position, dashing outwards towards Atreyu just as she spent a few moments to cast several more inorganic cables towards her locale, her right hand withdrawing Retsu-Yatsumi as her legs propelled her forwards in a resounding ringing of metal, hr digits drawing the wakizashi's blade and lashing it downwards and to the immediate left of her, splitting the blade easily into an inorganic cable and lopping it in half before executing a flip and landing firmly on another cable. she was nearly out of breath, however she pushed everything she was into shattering her limiters into the massive heave of a slash, back flipping into a crescent that managed to cut through half of the cable he had brought around to defend himself and slightly into the chest of Atreyu himself. clearly worn out and lacking breath, she stood and regained her stamina from the attack before lunging to the left, avoiding an impaling strike towards her.

Rin's endurance was being worked tirelessly as she continued to run circles around Atreyu, avoiding his cables as he had sent a mass of them all out at once. This tactic was currently preventing her to get close to Atreyu, and thus her agility was tested as she lunged over and strafed, performing parried upon cable after cable that tried without respite to draw blood from her. She found only a moment of breath behind a large rock, however it was quickly shattered moments later and once more Rin was forced to exert herself in order to stay alive. Rin knew that she had to become stronger, that she must become stronger so that she could protect the innocent, those like herself, and continued pushing herself for another two hours before she finally gave out and fell behind a large boulder. Atreyu was kind in the respect of that he gave her thirty minutes to recover before resuming the fight. Rin was currently fighting to not lose and would have to pull of something spectacular to win this fight, she understood as much.

<OOC - Flashback>

The deep, stark black darkness receded into Rin's small room. The only source of light was a small, rectangular window which was etched into the frame of the wooden door. She attempted to sleep, and yet she couldn't force slumber to come to her that night. Hearing a shuffling from within the hallway, she instantly sat up and was startled when the only door leading to her small cupola opened with a loud groan. the old woman that was her mistress entered the room first, preceding two others. The first was a shinobi, obviously from Otogakure, while the second was a young man, also from Otogakure. Rin was able to discern that the shinobi was the younger man's guard. "She will be yours. She is the finest money could buy, a snow-white delicacy of the Hyouton clan." replied the wench in a raspy tone.

"Then I shall enjoy this lay, and you shall be well-payed." replied the young man in a smoothed tone that flowed as if water. The matron was quickly annoyed as another whispered in her ear. she bade the princely youth and then set off form the room, closing the door behind as soon as the shinobi also took his leave. The youth's intent then tuned to murderous lust as he turned to the young Rin. She merely offered a pleasant smile and began to slowly remove her clothing. Grabbing the tattered ends, the youth stripped her in primal ferocity and grabbed her by the nape, bringing her warmth close to him. "You obey me." he mouthed. Grasping her at the nape, he forcefully shoved the young girl away, however was interrupted when suddenly the door bust aside. Before he could arise, the youth was dead. Shivering and naked, Rin stood in the midst of the small cupola, and was hugged by the intruder, a shinobi, and someone who seemed familiar. She started to cry as the man draped her within simple blue robes and spoke only a single line that brought more tears. "I'm your father, and I'm getting you out of here."

The two rushed quickly through the building, the stronger, older man settling Rin on his mount and letting her go towards Kirigakure, while he himself settled upon another mount. The last image he saw was of his daughter, fleeing to a better future, before a pair of shuriken found their mark upon him. Rin had turned back to see her father's death, her pupils dilating, her mind gone to the madness and chaos that had been set ablaze within her soul. She blacked out before long, the dreams consuming her.

<OOC: Thirty minutes later...>

Rin instantly lunged atop the boulder, forming a strong of hand-seals as fast as her fingers would let her while shouting "Kirigakure no Jutsu." soon, deep, dark mist began to settle in and Rin glanced about the mist. Atreyu would be unabl to see completely, and she use this to her advantage, slinging off several senbon before jumping into a large tree and lunging downwards into a slash. By the time the mist had evenly distributed, the senbon lay embedded within the terra around her, her sword slicing through empty matter as one wire swept into her sternum, knocking her onto her back and sliding away from Atreyu with force. She coughed up blood, her left eye sealed as her vision grew hazy, then she fell into a state of dreams soon after. For some reason, Atreyu merely walked away from the Genin.

<OOC: One week later...>

Rin had been disappointed with herself at her lack of strength when she had finally risen from the coma she had been placed within, a few days from the fight that had occurred and had been in the hospital for the rest of that week. she somehow felt stronger, and had instantly returned to her training regimen the moment that the nurse wasn't looking her way. slipping through a small window, she walked into a small dirt circle and instantly began to call upon the blue chakra around her, the etheric essence of blue matter began to form around her in an aura as she practiced her chakra control, finding something weird about her amount of chakra, then quickly after roughly an hour of training her chakra control, finished the night with agility and strength training. Rin just had to become stronger! Otherwise, she would never become strong enough to be of any true use to Master Katoshi, and she wouldn't be able to live out her father's words. When she thought of her fathers, tears strained down her cheeks.
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Roleplaying Characters:
Rin Shouten
Sazaku Norimune
Tsubame Inuzuka
No 4th RPC
RPG Stats:
Shinobi Rank: Gonin[SS] ~ Jounin[A] ~ Jounin[A]
Village: Kirigakure ~ Otogakure ~ Konohagakure
Training Points: 0
Inventory: 40 Senbon, Tsukihime ~ shinku Tsukaite; Ketsueki Karite; Shoushihime ~ Tri-Nunchaku
Personal Stats:
Forum Credit: 0

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Uchiha Katsuga · Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 3:17 pm Post subject:

OOC: In other words, you passed out an entire week.....?
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Lammergeier (Pet-Nin)
Shigane, Makoto (Kempo Master NPC)

Roleplaying Characters:
Uchiha, Katsuga
Shikami, Aoshi
Raptor "Hagetaka", Zetsumei
No 4th RPC
RPG Stats:
Shinobi Rank: Mizukage [SS-Rank]; Genin [E-Rank]; Genin [E-Rank]; Genin [E-Rank]
Village: Konoha (originally), now Kiri; Konoha; Konoha; Pet-Nin (Konoha)
Training Points: N/A
Inventory: 10 Shuriken, 10 Kunai, 10 Senbon, 2 Fumma Shuriken, 5 Windmill Shuriken (small), 10 strands of Chakra Wire, 2 Kodachis (Ranpu and Ankoku)
Personal Stats:
Forum Credit: 6.5

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Rin Shouten · Status: Offline Trainee Joined: 01 Oct 2007 Posts: 959

OOC: No,, in other words, I was in the hospital for a week, like lee.
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Roleplaying Characters:
Rin Shouten
Sazaku Norimune
Tsubame Inuzuka
No 4th RPC
RPG Stats:
Shinobi Rank: Gonin[SS] ~ Jounin[A] ~ Jounin[A]
Village: Kirigakure ~ Otogakure ~ Konohagakure
Training Points: 0
Inventory: 40 Senbon, Tsukihime ~ shinku Tsukaite; Ketsueki Karite; Shoushihime ~ Tri-Nunchaku
Personal Stats:
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Uchiha Katsuga · Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 3:54 pm Post subject:

OOC: Ah, ok. +2
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Lammergeier (Pet-Nin)
Shigane, Makoto (Kempo Master NPC)

Roleplaying Characters:
Uchiha, Katsuga
Shikami, Aoshi
Raptor "Hagetaka", Zetsumei
No 4th RPC
RPG Stats:
Shinobi Rank: Mizukage [SS-Rank]; Genin [E-Rank]; Genin [E-Rank]; Genin [E-Rank]
Village: Konoha (originally), now Kiri; Konoha; Konoha; Pet-Nin (Konoha)
Training Points: N/A
Inventory: 10 Shuriken, 10 Kunai, 10 Senbon, 2 Fumma Shuriken, 5 Windmill Shuriken (small), 10 strands of Chakra Wire, 2 Kodachis (Ranpu and Ankoku)
Personal Stats:
Forum Credit: 6.5

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Rin Shouten · Status: Offline Trainee Joined: 01 Oct 2007 Posts: 959

(OOC: Aww, now I'm lacking a point >.>))
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Roleplaying Characters:
Rin Shouten
Sazaku Norimune
Tsubame Inuzuka
No 4th RPC
RPG Stats:
Shinobi Rank: Gonin[SS] ~ Jounin[A] ~ Jounin[A]
Village: Kirigakure ~ Otogakure ~ Konohagakure
Training Points: 0
Inventory: 40 Senbon, Tsukihime ~ shinku Tsukaite; Ketsueki Karite; Shoushihime ~ Tri-Nunchaku
Personal Stats:
Forum Credit: 0

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Sench · Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 4:20 pm Post subject:

OOC: hah. I have only seen 2.5 points given for a post ONCE, but that post was superiorly kick-ass. I'm surprised that this one earned you two points actually...
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Suija, Enja, Igniz

Roleplaying Characters:
Tachibana Ukyo
Mutou Kazuki
Frederick
Henshin Ellen
RPG Stats:
Shinobi Rank: Hokage (SS) ~ Jounin (A) ~ S-rank Missing-nin (SS) ~ None (C)
Village: Konoha ~ Konoha ~ None ~ None
Training Points: 325
Inventory: 20 Shuriken, Silver Moon, Dark Sun ~ Renkinshou XXXIX, Kris ~ Fuuenken ~ Medical Supplies
Personal Stats:
Forum Credit: 6

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