Again To Training

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After failing the chunin exams many people thought Timothy would be saddenned. Instead he felt no way about it at the moment. The failure just meant that he would have a better chance the next time he decided to participate.
Walking into the room set up before hand he realized that his sword was delivered. He saw the cloth wrapped sword with the handle still visible. Gathering up equipment he pulled the weights out of the room before, locking it back. Setting up the barbell system Tim placed 50 lbs on each side of a dumbell. He then placed a pulley system at the end of the bench that if tripped would lift the bar. Laying a towel he lifted the weights and felt the weight bend his arms. He had the urge to kick the lever but decided to persevere. Focusing every muscule in his body Tim strained against the weights. He felt the anger of the failure of the chunin exams course through him and he felt the bar lit a few inches, the sweat broke out on his forehead as the bar raised a bit more. After 15 minutes he had managed to do 2 reps of 3 presses each. He felt ashamed for his weakness. Getting up he slipped off a 25 lb weight off of each side. Lifting them he did 8 reps of 50 lifts each. At the end of this he had lost feeling in his biceps and his forearms. Dropping th e weights he stepped into the pre-set leg weights before jogging off to the forest. Sure he couldn't feel his arms, by the end he shouildn't be able to feel his legs. By the time he finished his 28 mile jog he was stumbling back into base.Steppig out of the weights he collapsed onto the cot.
Waking up Tim felt a painful weight in his extremities. Struggling to sit up he reached for his ready made food pack. Groaning he realized that the pain he felt was only lactic acid. But he felt no specific new speed about himself. Sitting onto the rack again he slipped the weighhts back along with more. Now he lifted the 150 lb in total for the same amount of repititions, before repeating the single arm lifts for 10 reps. This went on for 2 weeks with 1 day breaks for each week. By the time the 2 weeks were over he definately felt an almost unbearable burn in his arms and legs. He then rested for 3 days. Throughout these days he did mild aerobic excersises, and ate. After all of this he finally went to pick up the sword. It was heavy, yes, but not unbearable.
Fitting the sword and straps onto his back Tim went off in search of something to eat as he was getting tired of the MREs. After 2 days he found a cave. "Probably a bear" walking into the cave he realiized that it wasnt as dark as it should be. There was some sort of light source, and by this source he saw an average size bear. Gripping his sword Tim drew the blade and smiled. This craftmanship of the sword was awesome, it felt 'at home' in his hand. Whistling he saw the bear wake up, and upon seeing him the bear began to lumber towards him. Swinging the sword he saw a line appear on the bears shoulder, the blade had cut cleanly and the arm fell away. Smiling he spun and swung again knocking the bear off of his feet with the back of the blade. Again he felt the anger boil up, and the spikes protruded. BRinging the sword down with his newfound strength Tim killed the bear. Hearing another growl he turned to see the bears mate. Stepping forward quickly he saw the that the bear was way larger than the other. He bodyflickered above the bear and drove the sword down behind the head, the spikes increasing tha damage and killing the bear as it severed the spinal cord. Taking meat from the bear Tim stumbled back to the base. Where he cooked and ate the meat and slept. When he woke up he still was on edge, wired from the chunin exams.

+7 Strength
+Ability to use Shim Destroyer

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Jogging on to the scene was Vaan with his newly forged weapons, The Masamune and Nenekiri, along with a scroll that he made detail the procedure to master a new jutsu, Distant Fury/Fist. Vaan knew he had a limited time before he had to go to capture the beast for his chunin exam but never wanted his efforts to be put naught. Vaan finally decided that he would stay up as much as possible to master the jutsu but learn how to wield a sword properly.

First he decided t at least learn how to wield a sword properly by seeking a kendo teacher. After learning some quick training advice from the teacher Vaan quickly went over to the training grounds again and wielded his Masamune. First he did the basic swing for 500 times with 30 pound weight strapped on his arms, legs and mid-section. After that Vaan then did the reverse where instead of swinging downward he swung upward for the same 500 times. Immediately following that he did an completely new exercise where he swung his blade vertically downward, then horizontally to the left then vertically upward, then horizontally to the right and finished with downward stab and did this for 1000 times non-stop.

After using the masamune Vaan then sheathed it and took up the Nenikiri. Since the Nenekiri was different in length Vaan mainly practiced using it by doing 400 jabs forward, then 400 stabs forward. This was repeated in all directions possible.

After learning the basic motion of his swords Vaan began to formulate how to make each of the swords motion into but thought to himself that he would learn it on his way to the tailed beast. Instead he decided to at least learn the new jutsu.

Jumping on to a long and balancing on one leg Vaan began to charge and distribute chakra from his core throughout his body. At first when he tried he could only charge his left foot, right fist and his nose. Noticing this he decided to try concentrating his chakra on small surface areas such as his feet and hands.

Before he could continue he noticed Noticed it was already dark. To Vaan this was the perfect time for him to test out his skills on a fierce beast. Jumping down on to the ground from the log Vaan immediately noticed his feet were lighter. With his feather weight feet and his two swords, he ran full sprint into the training ground forest while trying to concentrate his chakra in his his which improved his eyesight, hearing, smell and perception. Next he concentrated his chakra in his skin, improving his textile senses. Although he was augmenting his body with chakra he tried not to waste it by constantly recycling the excess chakra as well as using a low output of it which conserved his chakra.

At the end of his sprint Vaan was fully augmented with chakra, from the strands of hair on his head to the toe nail of his feet. At the same time Vaan discovered a cave where he heard a fight ensuing. Quickly Vaan ran into the cave so he could try out his new found skills on a group of beast. When he entered he saw the bodies of a two bears which were brutally killed. Looking up he saw a familiar face. It was Tim who had killed the beast. Seeing his chance Vaan decided to greet his comrade with a jumping horizontal slash at Tim with a little bit of killing intent.

Tim saw the reflection of his friend off of the blood on Shim. Swinging the sword violently downward Tim blocked the slash. Through the light of the sparks from the constant contact Tim projected the spikes and using them easily disarmed Vaan with a twist of the wrist. As he still was on edge Tim slammed his knee into his chest before pushing off with the other leg. When Vaan hit the wall he pressed the large sword to his throat with a gentle menace. he then threw 6 kuni to pin the boys sleeves to the wall. Three kuni to each sleeve [bicep, elbow and wrist]

When the swords clashed and with great elegance Vaan slid one hand to the but end of the sword and with a quick downward hand motion and great strength did a reversal and disarmed Tim instead as his heavy sword would have crashed into the wall of the cave. This is because of the swords unique reversed handle making the sword easily manueverable as well as being able to change direction during mid swing as well as Vaan using the weight of the sword as well as his forward motion of both himself and Tim and shifted the direction of the attack.

Next Vaan fininsh his attck by drawing his Nenekiri and hit Tim in his stomach with the but end of the sword. This attack would have knocked Tim back away from his sword. Wanting to try something new that he should have learned from the scroll about his new juts. Vaan then concentrated some more chakra into one of his fist ( the mount he used was similar to the amount one would use for a E-rank jutsu) and with a twisting motion in his punch sent off a bullet like chakra shock-wave towards Tim that would have slammed him into the wall but not causing too much damage.

As he felt the direction of the sword change, Tim produced a spike behind his hand preventing it from slipping out. He then dropped the sword to a height to block the other sword.And produced other piked that wedged the but of the sword onto the blade. Reaching to grab Vaans shoulder Tim instantly sent snakes that wrapped around the boys hand and up to the rest of his body. If Vaan cut the snakes two more appeared and as he had never seen Tim use this jutsu it was strange to him. Smiling as the snakes disarmed him Tim threw a few kuni with tags into the ceiling. Vaan would be too busy with the snakes to notice

Before Tim could even grab on to Vaan he used the cutting edge of the Masamune to cut away the spikes that had stuck to the Nenekiri as well as the handle of Tim's sword, then with his augmented speed and agility appeared behind Tim, by body flicking, before his snakes could even touch him. Although he was a small distance away from Tim, Vaan raised his Nenekiri and it extended to the point where it bearly touched his friends head.

"Thought you would try something" said Vaan as he span his other sword in his hand so that he could hold it in the reverse where the sword was pointing behind Vaan. Vaan now waited for his friends next move to see if he had any other chance at becoming a chunin.

"I suggest if your gonna point that sword, that close to my head, you better have the balls to use it" Tim growled he then smiled before rolling forwarrd, turning and bodyflickering a distance away. Twirling the sword he hedl it infront of him with his hand on the flast of the blade. Walking towards his friend Tim used a snake still in his sleeve to run down his pant leg and into the ground. He then stopped a few feet infront of Vaan. Well out of Vaan's sword's range.

"Well I dont wanna kill my friend. I'm not a Uchiha" said Vaan as he placed both hsi Nenekiri and Masamune in their sheaths. Vaan then noticed that he was storing too much chakra in his body and it started to hurt him. Vaan knew he had to let off some of this build up chakra so he sent the excess into his Masamune.

Vaan then remebered something that the kendo teacher told him. It was that certain weapons were able to be further improved when enhanced with chakra as well as that when a weapon is drawn from hi sword it is one of the fastest way to kill an opponent. Vaan also remembered that this jutsu also enables him to send shockwaves through his fist or a sword. Now with a single fast stroke Vaan quick drawed his and sent a small yet fast shock wave (same level of a E-rank jutsu) toward Tim that split the ground.

As Tim saw the flash of the shockwave he allowed it to glance of the broad face of the sword and to the left. "And if you want to use small swords" Tim said this and clipped the Shim to his back. Before drawing one tanto. He quickly closed the distance swinging the tanto in a feint of a blow to see how Vaan would react.

(OCC: You can't cause a wave to bounce off as it will diffract around your sword and some of it will still hit you.)

Seeing that Tim tried to block the wave while it will only wrap around his sword and still hit him Vaan rushed full speed and started to slash viciously. Between his barrage he quicked draw his Nenekiri that sent off a piercing shockwave (same level as a D-rank move) that would not have been seen by Tim as he would be too busy trying to avoid the sword strikes.

[OCC A shock wave will actually bounce off the sword if it was vertical. And 3 feet wide is wider than a 10 year old so i wouldn't get hit if it was horizontal.]

As Vaan ran towards Tim, he was tripped by the snake and would feel a fist connect with his adams apple "knocking the wind out of him".[you cant avoid the tripping btw] When Vaan's gaze moved from Tim he summoned an earth clone which did the punch while Tim hid in the shadows. As the boys body jerked up Tim's clone slammed his elbow into his back bringing him face to face with the ground for a split second. Turning him over Tim swung his fists at Vaan's face. Tim never held punches, training or otherwise and Vaan knew this. Swinging harder and harder Tim began to speed up until blood began to leak from his fists. Smiling he continued swinging the punches. Before better knowledge caused him to stop. Stepping off he offered his hand to his downed friend "Told you that you better have the balls to use that sword properly"

Opening his eyes after his pummeling Vaan then grabbed Tim's hand and pulled him towards Vaan's head so that he could headbutt him, as Tim would not have suspected this. After getting a headbutt Tim would take some time for him to recover but before he could react Vaan rushed into him with a double knee dive into his chest after blasting a wave behind him that sent him forward as well as another way towards Tim's earth clone that would cut it in half, [This would kill the snake if there were any nearby]. This would send Tim into the ground where Vaan would land with full weight on top of Tim. Tim would instantly know this would be payback for what happened some time ago. Just like clockwork Vaan began smashing Tim's face with a mixture of heavy fists and shock-waves that would have made a crater where Tim head would be after it was covered by rubble and as a finisher used a hammer smash that shook Tim's chest and the cave, sending Tim into the land of dreams. After this Vaan rolled off his friend now exhausted from the beating and the fighting.

[OCC you dont know i have a clone]
As Tim got the head but and stumbled off he felt Vaans hand. Still being psyched from the fight. The spinning would end quickly, and as the double knees hit his chest he gripped Vaan behind the knees and ttwisted his body slamming the boy face first into the dirt using his momentum against him. The original Tim would have ran ut the cave wall to dodge Vaans shockwave without revealing himself. As Vaan hit the ground Tim landed more punches to the back of the head sending him on a one way trip to Dream World....

Feeling Tim's hands wrapping around his legs Vaan quickly fired off a two E-ranked shock-waves, one from his knee so that it would push Tim off even if he had a vice like grip so that he had to let go or else he would suffer a debilitating concussion from the whiplash caused by his head jerking so suddenly. The other shock-wave would cause Vaan to fly upward towards the ceiling where he planted his foot on to and immediately stuck to it

As the clone flew off letting go of Vaan's leg it stumbled back and jumped after the boy. As Vaan's eyes would follow the clones movement. The clone then bodyflickered beside Vaan. He would realize this clones movement beside him allowing it to deliver a shattering blow to his temple. As this punch connected snakes flew from 'Tim's' hands wrapping Vaan's face in the scaly embrace. The clone then fell from the roof connecting Vaan's face to the ground in another shattering blow. If this connected the least that would happen is that Vaan's head would crack. The original Timothy would be in the shadows surveying his handy work charging chakra. He would then make anpther clone that would join the fight setting traps before hand. Picking Vaan up the 1st clone would deliver a superplex. Into a rising Kuni moving at blistering speeds from the quick draw manouver. The connection would sever Vaans jugular vein.