After Shounta left, Ayra continued to train. She decided to work on her ice jutsu's. Lately she had been working on converting her ice-skating to a from of taijutsu. Difficult yes, but it could be done.
She performed the hand signs and quietly said "Icy Tundra Jutsu". The area became ice as she saw the familiar jutsu take place. Hesitantly she stepped on the ice without ice-skates. She decided to try to skate slowly to get use to skating with normal ninja sandals.
After an about ten minutes she was used to it. She tried to go faster, seeing how fast she would be able to go. She quickly discovered that she was close to the speed she could do with her ice-skates.
Feeling both proud and brave she tried to do some of her more advance ice-skating moves. Like the rest of her skating she could do them.Now she wondered how she could some how make this into a taijutsu. Normal taijutsu would obviously not work, so what could she do? She looked at what was around her. She saw a training post was also surrounded in ice. She went over to it, and tried to kick it. Only to land on her butt.
This time she tried to punch it, again she fell. Again and again she tried, only to keep on falling. After an hour she finally fell for the last time. She decided she didn't want to get up.
'What am I doing wrong? What can I do to make this work?' Ayra thought grimly.
"What's a youthful person like you giving up?" The voice of Gai came to her. Ayra sat up as her approached her.
"I don't know what I could do to do taijutsu on ice. I try and try, but I keep falling, something just doesn't work. But what could I be doing wrong?" Ayra said to Gai. Gai could only smile as he watched her try to punch the post again.
He stepped on to the ice, and walked over to where she was. He looked over her form. He saw what was wrong.
"Ayralena is your name right?" Gai asked her. "Hai, and you are Gai-sensei. But please call me Ayra." She told him. Gai could only smile.
"I see what you're doing wrong. You need to kick like this." Gai told her as he spun on his foot and did a roundhouse kick. To Ayra's surprise he didn't slip, but he hit the post successfully.
"What about a punch?" She asked. Gai thought over it for a minute. Again he spun and gave the post a backhanded punch. Ayra watched this intently. She now knew how to deal with this newfound taijutsu.
Spinning was the secret to the taijutsu she soon realized. Eager to discover more about the taijutsu, she began punching and kicking.
She tried to doing cartwheels and flips to see is she could find a way to use those as well. She discovered that she could do just about everything on ice. Her hand backs quickly became sore and bloody.
"Gai-sensei what could I do so the backs of my hands won't get damaged?" Ayra asked him. Gai looked at her hands and rubbed his chin thoughtfully. "I would suggest gloves with metal backings, like Kakashi has." Gai told her.
Ayra thought about it and decided that gloves like that would work. "Alright, arigatou. I'm going to see if I can find some of those gloves. Arigatou, Gai-sensei" Ayra said as she left. "Good-bye, Ayra-san" Gai said to her. "And remember to keep being youthful!" Gai yelled as Ayra was far way.
"So that's Ayralena Ickerrocka. She's interesting. I wondered about the rumor about an ice Ickerrocka." Gai said to himself as he left the training grounds.
After Ayra returned home with some things she bought at the clothing stores and a few other stores. She looked it over in her room.
Two pairs of fingerless gloves with metal backings (like Kakashi as Gai had said). Some bandages (more than she needed). A few pairs of pants and shorts (like Sakura's). And finally some more hair ties.
She looked over at the clock. 5 pm. She knew her brother was still home, hell he didn't even leave his room all day as far as she knew. She walked through the halls quickly, determined to get to her brothers room. She stopped at his room.
She knocked on his door once. And waited. No answer, he was ignoring her or anyone. Or maybe he finally left his room, but this was Stijn, he wasn't going to leave his room.
"Stin-kun(1) open up it's me" Ayra said to the door. Again no answer, she was starting to get angry. "Stijn, open up!" She said forcefully. He still didn't answer.
She was very mad now. She pounded on the door. "Stijn Ickerrocka, open this damned door now! I don't care what your doing, open the door now, or I will come in myself and hell will break loose!" She shouted. No answer.
She had finally had enough, she opened the door and looked inside. There was Stijn, still on his bed. Awake, looking at her.
"What the hell is your problem! I've been knocking on your door for the past few minutes! And you just sit there like a baka!" Ayra yelled as she exploded.
"So, why are you here?" Stijn asked her. "Stop being an ass and maybe I will tell you!" She yelled. Stijn didn't answer, he just waited for her to claim down. After a few minutes she finally did.
"Alright, so why did you want to talk with me?" Stijn asked her. She looked at him and smiled. " Shounta knows that she's going to have to fight me in the finals next month." Stijn eyes widened, both of his teammate are going to fight one another. One being his sister, but still that was hard.
"I see. That's going to be hard." Stijn remarked. Ayra nodded. "Today I was working on a new taijutsu. But it didn't work until Neji Hyuga's sensei, Gai, helped me." Ayra told him.
"What is the taijutsu like?" Stijn asked. "You fight on ice. You have to spin to be able to hit your enemy and not fall." Ayra explained to him. Stijn nodded, and looked at her hands.
"Ayra, I thought you had said you weren't hurt anywhere but your back. So what's with your hands?" Stijn said crossing his arms. "Stijn, stop being a baka. This is from training. Gai-sensei told me I should wear gloves with metal backings. Which I do have." Ayra said in a matter of fact tone.
"Your right, gomen. It's just, after the fight. Your injuries worry me, and I can't tell what injury is from what." Stijn told her as he mentioned her scars. Ayra smiled, her brother was worried. "I just don't know what to do to help you." Stijn said finally.
"Stijn, all you need to do is be come clan head. When you do that, try to change the Ickerrocka. For the future of ice, that is why you should change the clan." Ayra said to him. With that she left her brother's room.
Stijn sat on his bed, thinking over what his sister said to him. He decided he would change the Ickerrocka. Not only for his sister, but also for the future of ice.
1) Stin-kun is one of Ayra's nicknames for Stijn, like Shona-chan is Shounta's nickname.
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