Chapter 3: Carried Away Training

Jack and Josh were a few hundred meters away from the arena, and the sky, starting to shift into the late afternoon weather.

"You know Josh; you are one of the strangest brothers I would ever have." Jack grinned at his brother while facing forward.

"What do you mean?" Josh demanded.

"The way the ambition of being a ninja perked you up. One second you were getting beat up by a bunch of these hooligans, and right after that, you changed! Like, the ambition of being a ninja made you fight like a newly trained fighter!" Jack exclaimed.

Josh grinned back, slightly embarrassed.

"Well… those hooligans did punch the heck out of me… what else was I supposed to do?" he asked back.

"Don't worry." Jack said, his face coming to a neutral expression. "It takes lots of effort if you want to achieve this long term goal of yours."

"Well you can't blame me!" Josh exclaimed back.

"I can blame you." Jack said, smiling. "You seem to put off this ninja goal of yours way too much."

"Everyone forgets once in a while." Josh sighed, his voice getting hoarse. "Besides, about this ninja goal. Your words are making it sound like it's a long-term goal!" Josh finished.

"Like I said, face the facts!" Jack snickered back. "You really think you can be a Ninja Master really fast?"

"It may take a bit of effort, but it won't take a long time!" Josh exclaimed back, defending what he believed in.

Jack just sighed back in reply, still smiling though. "Don't just let that stop you! Your skills will improve, if you put effort in it." He nodded.

"I am!" Josh exclaimed back.

"Maybe, you are not trying hard enough?" Jack asked.

"What…?" Josh said, completely shocked. He WAS trying his hardest during the fight at the arena with the hooligans, and he was sure he landed a lot of powerful and very painful hits to them!

"Yeah! I know you Josh. You can do better than those lame moves you just unleashed at the hooligans." Jack grinned again.

"What do you mean, 'Lame Moves'?" Josh demanded back, very annoyed at Jack.

"Seriously? Launching yourself and ramming your back against a hooligan? What kind of move is that?" Jack laughed. Josh grew a bit furious.

"Oh shut up! That's just my kind of freestyle moves!" Josh said, closing his eyes when he said that and crossing his arms.

"Like I said. You are one of the strangest brothers I would ever have." Jack briefly continued to laugh before finally stopping. "That's your freestyle? Hah! Your mind is so weird."

"Your fighting moves are weirder than mine!" Josh retorted back, with a fierce, sharp tone in his voice.

"Oh yeah?" Jack smiled. "What move did I do that was weird?"

"Well… you're…um…." Josh stammered, trying to remember all of Jack's moves he had seen him unleash in last fight's against the six tough hooligans.

Jack stifled laughter. "Go on." He said, in a smooth voice.

Josh then noticed that there were punch marks all around Jack's bracelets. "You might have used those bracelets as your style of 'fighting'." Josh said, relieved he found a great explanation to counter his brother's teasing and annoying taunts.

"I did, as a matter of fact." Jack's eyebrows raised a bit. "That just comes to show how stupid those hooligans are."

"What do you mean 'stupid'?" Josh asked.

"What do I mean, 'stupid'?" Jack chortled. "Two of Brian's hooligans were dumb enough to punch them!" he nearly shouted at his brother Josh. "Common Sense!"

Josh then realized why it was common sense. After all, there were punch marks near Jack's bracelets, which indicate that someone has made those marks, definitely not Jack of course.

"Why do you even wear those black and blue bracelets anyways?" Josh asked. "Those bracelets look so weird when you where it."

"I've always been wearing it." Jack replied back. "I got my reasons."

"Like what?" Josh asked.

Jack chuckled briefly. His brother sure acted strange and weird and annoyingly curious at some times.

"Our cousin Jack has his reasons for his bracelets." Jack snickered. "And I have mine, and it's none of your business." He snickered again.

"Why do you always admire our cousin Jack?" Josh asked. "He's so cruel do you know that?!"

"Like I said, he always has his reasons." Jack muttered back.

"Well, that doesn't mean you should copy him like he is!" Josh sighed.

"Why, what's wrong with copying people?" Jack asked.

"Nothing bad, but… just, well, why can't you be your own self?" Josh suggested, hoping his brother Jack would take his advice, but he knew what his answer was going to be.

"I don't have time for that." Jack replied back, before walking a bit faster.

Josh noticed that and picked up his pace.

"Say… where do you think we are even going?" Josh asked.

"Common sense Josh." Jack smirked. "This is supposed to be an adventure in the realm. We shouldn't know where we go!"

"Oh, right." Josh said, very embarrassed at himself.

Jack and Josh walked on in silence for some more, and they could already see the sun changing a bit of color from bright yellow, to just the normal yellow.

"It does gonna be afternoon soon." Jack said, while looking at the sun, with his right hand in the salute stance over his forehead.

"What do you suggest we do?" Josh asked, smiling. What can his brother Josh even do?

"I suggest we find something to do before dusk, and then we will find a place to stay for the night." Jack said, effortlessly, without taking barely any time to think. Josh griped back in reply.

"I don't get it. Why do you know so much about this realm?" Josh griped.

"It's just common sense." Jack laughed. "Things look so complicated to you, but if you just put effort into thinking about this world, and it's revolving cycle of life, you will see." He smiled back.

"Hmph!" Josh muttered angrily, crossing his arms together again, while walking.

A few minutes later, Josh and Jack came upon a lake that was surrounded by a bunch of small plateaus and some trees and lilypads scattered throughout all of the edges around it. There was also a small island near the middle of the lake, that had land connecting to it in a very small bridge like shape.

"Here we go! Here's something we can do!" Josh exclaimed excitedly.

"Like what?" Jack chortled back. Josh then gulped.

"Um… we could…" he was completely blank out of his mind.

"Look Josh. You are terrible at swimming, so why don't we just continue on?" Jack suggested, smirking.

Josh grew a bit furious at Jack's reply.

"Well we can't just walk on and leave this place!" Josh sighed. "We have to do something with it!"

"Ah… I see." Jack nodded. "You see that small island right near the middle of the lake and a small grassy bridge connected to it? Let's go to the island and I will tell you what we can do."

With that, Josh could feel himself smile.

"You really mean it?" Josh asked, astonished at what Jack said. Jack was usually the one making all of the choices, but he seemed cool with this choice.

After Josh and Jack crossed the small grassy bridge towards the island, Josh turned around near the edge of the island and looked at his brother. "So, what are we gonna do?" he asked.

"Head's up!" Jack exclaimed, stifling a laughter as he punched towards Josh's face.

"AH!" Josh exclaimed, frightened a bit, but managed to block the punch and duck. Jack stepped backwards chuckling a bit. Josh could feel himself get a bit angry.

"What was the meaning of that?!" he demanded Jack.

"Don't you see? I'm trying to test out your-" Jack said, as he front-kicked towards Josh. Josh quickly grabbed Jack's foot and pushed it forwards. Jack stumbled backwards but didn't fall down.

"Test out what?" Josh asked.

"Test out your reactions!" Jack exclaimed, with his white teeth still showing out of his smile. Jack then punched two times towards Josh, and Josh quickly blocked the first one, with his fist, and then swiftly moved to the right, grabbed Jack's other fist, and then forced him to move forwards. Jack tripped over Josh's right leg that he stuck out, and he rolled forwards and stopped near the very edge of the island.

"Good one, but ninjas react faster than that!" Jack commented. He was beginning to like his very own decision that his brother Josh came up with.

"I think my reactions are fast enough!" Josh boasted back, and stepped backwards; bended his knees a little bit, and held up his fists in front of him.

"You got to be able to block this!" Jack shouted as he punched towards Josh.

"Hau, Ha!" Josh shouted as he swung up his right fist and blocked the first punch, and then quickly, when Jack punched downwards, Josh used the same fist, and swung it down to block it.

Jack then smirked and spun around to the right and used the side of his right fist to hit Josh in the face. Josh ducked and then kicked forward, aiming the direction to the left. Jack blocked it, and then ducked again when Josh spun around to the left and kick him in the process, and then reached out his hand and striked Josh in the chest.

"Augh!" Josh muttered in pain, as he quickly jumped backwards into his freestyle looking fighting stance.

Josh punched Jack to the face on the right, and then on the left. Jack quickly blocked both of those, and then hook punched forward. Josh ducked under and head-butted Jack. Jack quickly whacked Josh in the neck while they were on the ground and rolled away.

"Huh!" Josh exclaimed as he swung his right fist up to hit Jack, and Jack quickly blocked it with his foot, spun around to the right, and then got his leg half-way from the ground and shoved it down towards his brother.

"Ha!" Josh exclaimed, as he rolled away and then quickly yanked Jack's feet. Jack was taken by surprise and fell backwards. He got up and stifled some smiling.

Jack got back up and held up his fists again.

"Good enough for starters." He snickered.

"I am not a starter!" Josh exclaimed angrily.

"At least, I think you are." Jack smirked, as he punched forward towards Josh's face again.

Josh ducked it, but blocked the punch with his hands anyways. He then stepped forward, slightly galloping, and slammed his right foot up towards Jack. Jack ducked, spun around, and while he was spinning around, made his hands shaped like a baseball bat that was swinging around.

"WHOA!" Josh shouted in surprise, and unfortunately, did not have enough time to dodge it in any sort of way. When Jack's double fists hit him, he spun around to the left, his whole body spiraling towards the ground. "OMPH!" he muttered in pain.

Jack stepped backwards and relaxed a bit.

"Don't become so sensitive Josh!" Jack said, stretching his shoulders for a few seconds and then smiled.

"I'm not sensitive! It just hurts!" Josh exclaimed back, and got back up, slowly because of all that pain.

Jack sighed and relaxed his fists. Sometimes, his brother acted so strange.

"The proper way to absorb these kinds of hits is to quit talking!" Jack explained, punching towards Josh's stomach.

"Wait!" Josh gulped, but it was too late. Jack's fist was already surging towards him, with lots of energy and power increasing the pain the receiver would get. Josh held both of his open hands in front of him, but the punch was so strong, that it knocked him back!

"OOF!" Josh exclaimed again in pain, and his shoes were skidding across the grass, but they weren't making him fall.

"Want to try some of this?" Jack smirked as he then landed a big wave of flurry punches towards Josh. Josh was ducking, and blocking, and even punching some of his brother's punches back! After what seemed like an hour of all of that, when it was only just a few long seconds, he stumbled back, panting, and shaking out the intense pain from his knuckles. Amazingly, they weren't bleeding though.

"Can we stop now?" Josh asked, breathing out and having an exasperate tone in his voice.

"One word, Perseverance." Jack snickered as he raised up his fists too. He had been shaking out some of the pain too from his knuckles.

"Come on Jack, you know me!" Josh sighed and sarcastically whined.

"I know you. You want to be a ninja? Persevere!" Jack said, smiling, as he ran towards his brother, ready to punch him again. Josh gulped and all of a sudden, turned around to run, but he got tackled down by his brother.

"Fight back Josh!" Jack encouraged him, while he tussled around with him, and then all of a sudden, they both rolled into the water.

Josh was screaming inside. He knew he couldn't swim that good, and let alone, barely float! But his brother Jack knew more about swimming then him. He was not an expert, but he could master the basics. Jack rose both of him and Josh up to the surface, and then started whacking Josh in the face with his elbow, purposely, not at full force.

"OW!" Josh shouted, after he gulped in a big supply of air for his lungs, and then disappeared under the water. Jack kept on whacking his face with his elbow a few more times, before finally, bringing Josh back up to the grass island. Josh collapsed down, and kept on panting, and coughing out water.

"So how did you like that training?" Jack said, smiling, as he sat by him, hitting Josh's back to make him cough out an extra water. It took a few seconds before Josh finally felt back to normal.

"What the heck were you thinking?!" Josh nearly exploded at Jack. "Punching me to the point where I nearly bled, nearly drowning me, and whacking my face, all at once?!"

Jack frowned at Josh's reply. He did not like what his brother was saying.

"That was real training Josh. Accept the fact that these trainings daily will help you accomplish your goal of… being that realm's best ninja." Jack smiled again, holding in a bit of a chuckle.

Josh shook his head violently, making a bunch of water droplets fly out of his black, spiky looking hair, thanks to the effect of the lake's water.

"This may be good once in a while, but I don't think training that can be so intense, and painful, be right for me!" Josh sighed.

Jack went back to a straight face. "I guess I got carried away." He chuckled nervously.

"You just showed a prime example of that!" Josh exclaimed angrily, and walked away. Jack felt a bit sorry, and followed Josh to catch up.

"Where are you going?" Jack asked.

"I'm finding a place to stay for the night." Josh muttered, looking up at the sky. He didn't even know it was nearly getting sunset.

"Are you sure? It's still bright in the sky!" Jack said, very confused.

"Don't worry, we will find a place to stay." Josh said, very determined. Jack smirked back at Josh's style of tone when he said that sentence. At least, he can improve his speech without getting seriously injured.

"Might as well! It might take us a long time to find a place to stay!" Jack smiled and followed Josh. Josh felt himself relax. He was glad that his anger cooled off fast. He didn't know if that would apply in the future, but at least it happened right now.

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