Chapter 9: Training begins
An alarm beeped loudly from the bedside table, making the person curled up in the bed groan and reach a hand out to press down on the clock to stop the alarm. Ryouske popped his head out from under his blanket and yawned loudly rubbing the back of his head as he sat up. He groggily looked around the room, which was relatively tidy give or take the odd bit of clothing here and there, and got up from his bed.
After a shower and a good breakfast, Ryouske left his house with his hands in his pockets whistling soft tune. Ignoring the disapproving looks from the people who knew him as the head of the prankster trio, Ryouske stopped along the way to the training ground to get some Dango to go and continued walking. As he walked he contemplated the path him and his team had walked from their days as academy students to now where they had gotten strong.
His thoughts first went to the day he started at the academy. Ryouske frowned at that memory, remembering that it wasn't a particularly good first impression.
-Flashback Jutsu-
Iruka stood in front of a confused class of first year academy students, all of them looking at the odd boy standing next to Iruka with his head down. Iruka looked down at the black-haired boy with the red fringe covering his eyes and then at his students, "today class we will be getting a new student who just recently moved to the village. Why don't you introduce yourself to your new classmates?"
The boy looked up slowly to look at the class and soon received the odd murmur as they saw his eyes, one was green and one was blue. The boy had a hollow look in his eyes, as if he was empty inside, devoid of emotion. "My name is Ryouske Tenno. That is all I wish to say." He said with his voice empathising the lack of emotion his face held.
Ignoring the silence of the class and Iruka, Ryouske walked to the empty seat by the window, but fell on the way as one of the less pleasant students had stuck his foot out. While most of the cloud laughed, Ryouske just stood up, dusted himself off and sat down at the seat, staring at Iruka and the board not seeming to care about the class.
-Flashback Jutsu end-
Ryouske was snapped from his thoughts when multiple people called his name and he turned his head to see Naruto clones running down the street followed by clones of that closet pervert, Ebisu. He quickly jumped out of the way and laughed shaking his head as the clones ran by, "same old Naruto" he thought.
-Flashback Jutsu-
It was their shuriken practice lesson as Iruka instructed them on how to throw a shuriken while the class stood there and watched. Ryouske was leaning against a tree, his arms crossed and his head down with his eyes closed. He heard cheering and opened his eyes, looking up to see Sasuke Uchiha at the plate to throw shuriken, his fan girls cheering his perfect score as usual.
When it was Naruto's turn to try, and fail, Ryouske raised an eyebrow when Naruto picked a fight with Sasuke and looked down. Hearing his name being called, Ryouske walked up to the plate and raised his arm, preparing his shuriken. He opened his eyes to look at the target, then closed them pulling his arm back. Keeping his eyes closed, Ryouske swung his arm sideways, launching the shuriken at the target where with a loud CLUNK it embedded itself into the target….right into the middle.
Opening his eyes to look at his work, he was met with the sight of the kids, especially the girls, in front of him saying how cool he was. Ryouske just blinked at them and walked back to the tree, only to stop when someone grabbed his shoulder and looked over it to find Sasuke. Sauske looked at him with distaste and frowned at him, "didn't your parents ever teach you it is rude to ignore people?" he asked, obviously not liking Ryouske's attitude.
Ryouske just blinked and pushed Sasuke away, hard, making him fall back onto his ass. Sasuke glared up at him but Ryouske just walked away, back into the building to be alone. The Uchiha fan club helped him up and Sakura glared at the way Ryouske went, "what is that kid's problem? He must be a nightmare for his parents," she wondered only for Iruka to frown and turn to the class. He sighed and looked down at them, "the thing is class…Ryouske doesn't have any parents. He was found at the village gates, half alive….he doesn't have anyone."
-Flashback Jutsu end-
He walked past Ichiraku Ramen and looked at it, his thoughts turning to how he, Namito and Naruto first met at the academy. Ryouske smiled widely at the fond memory of that first meeting, one that would mark them as friends forever.
-Flashback Jutsu-
Ryouske was walking from the academy to his home that the Hokage had given him when he heard it. The noise of fighting. He followed it out of curiosity and came across some kids surrounding two boys, their faces bruised. Ryouske looked at the victims, that Naruto kid and a boy with spiky red hair and black triangular marks on his cheeks, and before he knew it he was running towards the bullies.
Caught by surprise, the bullies soon ran away from Ryouske after getting some kicks to the head. Ryouske turned towards Naruto and the boy, the latter of which stood up putting his arms behind his head and huffed looking away, "we could have taken them ya know." Naruto laughed at his friend's actions and turned to Ryouske, "hey thanks for that, those bullies always pick on us. You're Ryouske right? I'm Naruto Uzumaki."
Ryouske nodded and turned his blank stare towards Namito, who soon grinned and held his hand out to Ryouske to shake, "I'm Namito, thanks for the save." Ryouske just nodded and looked at his hand blankly, causing Namito to frown and drop his hand. All three of their stomachs grumbled just then making Naruto grin.
"c'mon, let's go get some ramen," Naruto stated making Namito nod and Ryouske start to walk away, only for his arm to be grabbed by Naruto and for Ryouske to get dragged to Ichiraku Ramen. At the ramen shop Ryouske stood there as Namito and Naruto sat at the counter to order. The owner of the shop, Teuchi Ichiraku, smiled at his two favoured customers and welcomed them, only to frown at Ryouske who just stood there.
Teuchi raised an eyebrow and beckoned Ryouske over, "it's alright, any friend of Naruto and Namito is a friend of mine. Come, sit down and I'll make you some too." Ryouske hesitated then nodded, hopping onto a stool next to Namito, ordering a miso ramen. As they sat there slurping the ramen, Naruto looked at Ryouske "by the way, just ignore those jerks in class. Namito and I always get picked on so we know how bad they can be." Namito nodded and smiled, but the smile turned to a frown as he remember what Iruka said and looked back at Ryouske, "so uhh…Iruka sensei said that you are all alone, is it true?"
Ryouske stopped eating his ramen and lowered his chopsticks, looking down at the counter. Thinking that he had upset the kid, Namito quickly shook his hands but Ryouske looked at him and opened his mouth to speak, "yea…it's true. I have had no-one for as far as I can remember," he looked down sadly only to look up again as Namito put his hand on Ryouske's shoulder.
With a grin that matched Naruto's Namito put his fist up to Ryouske, making the boy look down at it in confusion. Naruto joined by bumping his fist against Namito's so that it formed half of a weird triangle, Ryouske looking at this put his fist forward, completing the triangle and looked at them both. "You won't be alone anymore, we have your back. We are friends now," Namito said making Naruto grin in agreement, only for their eyes to widen.
Tears running down his face, his eyes closed, his teeth bared. Ryouske was grinning.
-Flashback Jutsu end-
Soon Ryouske had found himself at the training ground and he looked around sighing when he saw Karina wasn't here. It was 2 hours later when Karina finally arrived, wearing a black shirt and black shinobi pants, and when she had she looked around to see if Ryouske was here only to see him lying on a tree branch napping. With a sigh and an evil smirk she walked up to the tree and drew her fist back then with her smirk widening, she punched the tree, making it shake and rattle causing a confused Ryouske to drop out of it and land on his hand.
He then got up rubbing his head where a large lump had formed anime style and he glared at her, "what the fuck was that for?!" he growled at her only for her to glare back smirking. "You should never fall asleep while waiting for a lady you know? "She teased enjoying the pouting look on his face. Soon after, the pair were stood opposite each other as Karina began to explain to him the basics of Taijutsu, "Taijutsu is all about having your own form. The Hyuuga have Gentle Fist, the Inuzuka have their canine kind of fighting, you need to create one for yourself so you can have an edge."
Ryouske nodded his understanding so Karina continued, "I'm gonna come at you so show me what you have got," Ryouske nodded once more and got into a basic Taijutsu stance ready to defend himself. Karina launched herself at Ryouske, crouched low as she went, and started to fire strikes at his abdomen, launching an unsuspecting Ryouske backwards. Ryouske got up from the ground with a grimace and felt his abdomen, it was bruised and sore.
Karina smirked at the confused Genin and put her hands on her hip, "my style, as you can tell, is about delivering swift strikes that do little damage but with each strike adding onto the damage. This lets me do as much damage as can be done from a single punch from a stronger ninja."
Ryouske stood up, ignoring the pain in his ribs and charged towards her going for a punch to the stomach, but at the last minute he brought his other fist up for a strike to the head. Karina laughed, expecting both attacks and grabbed his fists locking them in place, bringing both fighters face to face where Karina laughed at him, "too slow, and you think you can become a Chunin?"
Ryouske, for his part, just glared at her with his teeth bared. He brought his knee up to her stomach but she brought hers up to intercept, knocking his away and then delivering a fast kick to his stomach, making him cough and jump away. Karina laughed and waved her finger at him mockingly, "a little bit better, but still not enough," she said with a grin.
Ryouske clenched his fist in frustration but nodded, reigning it in as he stood up fully. Karina smiled at his determination and walked up to him motioning for him to raise his arms, which he did, and soon ran her hands along his right arm and held it, arcing it into the correct position. "Hold your arms like this and it will be easier to move them more fluidly," she advised making Ryouske nod in agreement as she lowered his left arm to his stomach and arced it downwards.
Ryouske raised an eyebrow and looked at her but she smiled, "use this stance as a base and you should be able to deflect some attacks while also being able to counter with your own. Now come at me again"," she instructed. Ryouske nodded and charged at her thrusting his right arm out, which Karina deflected and sent her own strike out, which Ryouske deflected with his left arm and flung out his right again.
Just when he thought it might actually work, Karina grabbed his right arm, bent her hip into him, and threw him over her shoulder onto his back. Flinching in mild pain, Ryouske glared up at her only for her to laugh, "you used the stance well, but I'm still full of surprises," she said still chuckling.
She looked down at him and raised an eyebrow, "that Sky Style of yours, it uses Lightning, Water and Wind right?" she asked making Ryouske nod. She looked at him thoughtfully and smiled, "tell ya what, i'll help you improve on those elements as well, sound good?" she offered making him nod up at her grinning.
This was how it went, day after day, with Ryouske using stance after stance only for Karina to counter and put him on his ass, sometimes literally. By the time 2 weeks had passed, Ryouske had improved immensely and could now keep up with Karina, sometimes even landing a hit on her, eventually being able to create his own style. After this she began to train him in his elements, detemrined to help him improve his use of the seperate elements.
It was during their last training session that Karina stopped early and smiled at the panting Ryouske, exhausted from the effort of training, and walked up to him. "Well I'm impressed. In just 2 weeks you have improved greatly and I would say your style is ready for the finals," she said, proud of her student, who grinned and dusted himself off.
Suddenly Ryouske's stomach growled making Karina blink and then proceed to laugh loudly, "C'mon kid, I'll treat you to some ramen for all your hard work." Hearing this Ryouske cheered loudly and soon found himself at Ichiraku Ramen, sat at the counter next to her. Both ordered Miso ramen and Ryouske soon wolfed it down, while Karina eat slowly and with manners, laughing at Ryouske's manners.
On his 4th bowl, and after answering her question about his past which he told her, Ryouske looked at her, a question lingering in his mind ever since he had saw her changing, "so umm you can refuse to answer if you want but I'm curious, what is with the marks on your body? It looks like an animal got to ya." Karina stopped eating and looked at him then down at the counter, causing Ryouske to shake his hands about to tell her to forget he said anything.
She shook her head and looked at him beginning to speak, "when I was younger, my family carved these marks into me as part of a sort of ritual that has been performed in my family for ages," she explained. Ryouske raised an eyebrow, "what did the ritual do?" Karina looked down at her bowl again and sighed, "It was to give me power, the power to control all 5 elements," Ryouske's eyes widened and he leaned forward, "did it work?"
Karina nodded and looked back at him touching her right eye, the one that was bandaged and closed her left eye, "partially. I can control the elements, but it was at a price, the power almost overwhelmed me and so the source of the power, this eye, had to be sealed by these bandages. I can still use the elements, but not all of the power."
Ryouske's eyes widened and then he sighed and looked at his ramen, "so i guess we both ended up as someones experiment huh?" he said softly making her nod sadly. With a smile, Ryouske reached out and gently patted her shoulder comfortingly, making her smile.
"Well well, so this is where you were huh?" a voice sounded out, making Ryouske remove his hand and both of them look at the entrance to the bar as Izumo and Kotetsu walked in. Karina smiled at them and Ryouske raised an eyebrow before his eyes widened with recognition. "Oh! I know who you two are. You are the idiots who set up that flimsy genjutsu," he stated. At this both Izumo and Kotetsu looked at the Genin with annoyance while Karina just laughed.
Izumo looked away from Ryouske and at Karina with a pout on his face, "where have you been Karina? we haven't seen you in 2 weeks" he said, his voice barely holding in a whine making Karina chuckle at his cuteness. Regaining her composure, Karina hiked her thumb at Ryouske and smiled, "training this kid in Taijutsu."
Kotetsu looked at her confused and raised an eyebrow, "I thought you didn't like to train people?" he asked making Karina shrug in response as she looked at him, "he...turned out to be very persistant, so i agreed." Ryouske chuckled and looked at the confused pair of Chunin with a playful grin, "I stumbled upon her changing and she agreed to train me if i stopped perving on her, her words not mine," he stated, his girn turning mischievious.
The three of them looked at him with mixed looksd, Izumo looked pissed off, and quite jealous, Karina was blushing and looking pissed off and Kotetsu was grinning madly, draping his arm over Ryouske's shoulder. "OK kid spill, what was she like naked? Are we talking cute?" he asked the Genin, making a vein appear in the head of an ever-growing pissed off Karina, while Izumo looked at his friend in disbelieve.
Ryouske grinned pervertedly and shook his head at Kotetsu, "not cute, HOT!" he replied causing Karina to blush so much that if she got any more red steam would come out of her ears and for Kotetsu to laugh his head off fist bumping the boy. Izumo looked ready to deck them both, but Karina got to them first and whacked both Kotetsu and Ryouske on their heads, forming lumps the size of someones fists to raise up as they both yelled in pain.
Karina stalked off, mumbiling about perverted lil brats and idiots friends, followed by Izumo, who was dragging the still complaining Kotetsu, while Ryouske watched, still holding the lump on his head. Finishing his ramen, Ryouske headed home determined to get some much needed rest.
The next day he headed to the training grounds to see what the scroll that Orochimaru gave him was, sitting down underneath a nice shady tree once he had gotten there. He unraveled the scroll and laid it out before him, eyes widening when it turned out to be a summoning scroll. He read the instructions on how to make the contract and nodded, holding up his right arm and biting his fingertips until they drew blood and pressed the fingertips onto the scroll, he then wrote his name in blood underneath the fingertips, once that had been done, he then performed the handsigns and pressed his right hand onto the ground, making a black seal appear and for him to disappear in a puff of smoke.
He opened his eyes to find himself in a bizarre place, the land seemed to be mad eup of different terrain. Looking around he saw a terrain of lava and magma with a volcano, a terrain with ice and water and glaciers and many more that seemed to be based on some terrain or another. In the middle of these terrains, there was a mountain with a cave entrance at it's base, with a raised eyebrow, Ryouske entered the cave heading towards the back of it.
When he got to the back of the cave, Ryouske stopped in his tracks and stared wide eyed at a pair of blood red, piercing eyes watching him from the darkness. A voice then boomed out, beckoning him closer, the voice was deep and and ancient, yet sounded full of wisdom. Ryouske walked forward and practically jumped out of his skin when out of the darkness, a huge dragon apperead from the darkness.
The dragon's body was a deep black with silver markings running across it's body, appearing to look like ancient tribal markings that made the dragon's body seem to glow like precious gems. Silver markings twisted around the dragons head, giving the apperance that the draogn was wearing a crown, which had two horns that were growing from the dragon's temples and looped backwards and then pointed ahead becoming level with the dragons eyes.
Sharp teeth could be seen from the dragons mouth, looking as if they could bite right through the boy. Silver spikes ran down the back of the dragons neck and down it's back ending at the base of a long, black tail that had a silver tip. It's wings grew from it's back and were folded back onto it's body but appeared to be an immense size, big enough to cover 1/5th of the village, silver lines ran along the webbing of the wings making the webbing seem to glow.
The dragon was standing on it's thick legs each with 5 razor sharp claws that were tipped with silver. The dragon's eyes were blood red and heavy lidded with the pupils being a slit that ran down the eye.
The dragon titled it's head with curiosity and began to speak in that old voice, "little human, who are you to sign my summoning contract?" the dragon asked making Ryouske gulp and stand straight and shake with a bit of fear. "My name is...R..r..ryouske T..tenno," he managed to sputter out, making the dragon tilt it's head and laugh. "It seems this form may be a bit much for you, allow me to take a form you may find more easier to address," the dragon said as it began to shrink down.
Once it had finished shrinking, Ryouske's eyes widened as stood before him was a female, and a beautiful one at that. Her skin was a glistening ebony, looking smooth to the touch. She had silver hair that cascading down her back like a river of molten silver, ending at her ass with the ends curled upward and two bangs framing her heart shaped face, where her blood red, slitted eyes watched Ryouske.
The female's body was curvy and hourglass shaped, her body radiating sensuality. She was wearing a kimono as silver as her luxurious hair that hugged her curves like a second skin and gave her a regal look as if she was a queen of the highest grace. The Kimono left her shoulders bare and pushed up her voluptuous breasts, giving the susprised Genin an eyeful of generous cleavage as he noticed a scar running down into her cleavage.
The arms of the Kimono stopped at her wrists, leaving petite, yet sensual hands free to move. A slit ran down the side of the garment, showing strong, ebony legs that seemed to go on forever. The female was also barefoot. She tilted her head and looked at Ryouske, the eyes of whom were locked onto her chest causing her full, ruby red lips to form into a mischievious grin.
She bent forward, giving Ryouske an even better view of her cleavage as she winked at him, speaking in a soft, velvety voice that dripped sensuality, "like what you see human?" she playfully asked. This caused the floodgates to open as Ryouske's nose ran deep with blood, sending the poor boy onto his back. She laughed at his antics and waited until he had sat up to continue.
"Tell me human why have you signed my contract? Why should i let you be my summoner?" she inquired, making Ryouske bow respectfully and look at the ground, "i desire power, the power to help others and to help bring peace to this word and it's inhabitants. I signed your contract because wished to see if i was worthy of being the summoner to such a majestic and beautiful creature as a dragon." Once he had finished saying this, the female blinked at him and smiled, "you know, you are the first human to have called me beautiful in centuries. Your dream for peace is noble, you desire to only help others and not yourself, i admire that. Very well, you may become my summoner."
Ryouske looked up at her and grinned widely, "thank you my lady, i shall endeavor to become a summoner worthy of your power," he said making the female let out a musical laugh and begin to send him home, "remember my name Ryouske Tenno, it is Valora." Ryosuke covered his eyes as light blinded him and when it had disappeared he was back at the training ground, smiling at his success.
It was then that Karina appeared in front of him, clearly much more calmer and smiled at him, "I'm back, squirt." Ryouske raised an eyebrow and was about to ask why when she stopped him with a held up hand, "i'm back because i have two gifts for you, this," out of her back pocket she produced a silver pendant on a black string, with the pendent being a silver circle with a square in the middle of it and within that square was the symbol for heaven, "and the other is a new jutsu which i reckon you might find useful."
Thanking her, Ryouske put the pendant around his neck and soon began to train to learn this new jutsu, his eagerness at the final round ever increasing.
AAAAAAAAND DONE!
Phew this took a while becaus eof course work and stuff but finall finished, next chapter, the final round begins!
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