“You can change here,” said the old farmer pushing open the door to the wooden shed. “Good job today. You really helped me out, boy.”
Takuma thanked the farmer and entered the shed to change his clothes. Helping as a farm hand was a common D-rank mission. Strong shin...
2022-12-31 17:32:18 +0000 UTC View Post“This isn’t what I thought I would be doing as a shinobi,” said Ai, grumbling as she pulled out weeds in an old lady’s garden.
This was precisely what Takuma thought he would be doing when he became a shinobi. And with hundreds of thousands of people capable of supernatural doing the ...
2022-12-30 00:44:34 +0000 UTC View PostTakuma gazed at the sign of the multi-storied building situated in the industrial district. It was his first time in this part of the Leaf, and it had taken a bit before he found the address. Panka Couriers— said the blue and white sign over the entrance. He looked down at the mission slip in his hand th...
2022-12-27 03:44:28 +0000 UTC View PostTakuma glanced to his right at his friend, wondering how he should start. He felt awkward— he didn’t want it to be, but after what had happened, he couldn’t blame the vibe between them to be such. He decided to keep it simple.
“Healed?” he asked. Taro and Ai had visited him during the recovery p...
2022-12-25 17:37:50 +0000 UTC View PostRecovering after the final tournament taught Takuma the importance of— if he could put it plainly— not getting his body fucked during a fight because even with the miraculous power of iryojutsu, the recovery period was just plain awful. There was a limit before the iryojutsu healing became a burden on the...
2022-12-23 18:56:47 +0000 UTC View PostTakuma breathed out a shaky sigh as he hobbled out of the medical tent. Whatever Shady Guy had given him had dulled the pain, but his body felt stiff like a wooden plank. He would be as good as a standing target if he entered a fight like this. He needed to regain functional combat mobility before...
2022-12-21 20:16:28 +0000 UTC View PostHe felt a pang of pain in his chest every time he took a breath into his lungs. The ringing in his ear was deafening. Every twitch of a muscle pulled on his singed skin, a reminder that he had just bathed by fire. The only thing helping him concentrate through the bouts of dizziness was his sole f...
2022-12-20 20:07:11 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Takuma opened his eyes, he was staring at a moss green tarp roof. One eye blink later he remembered where he was and he shot up for tearing pain shot up from every part of his body. He groaned and grunted painfully as his body forced him to fall back on the stretcher bed lying upon.
Takuma kept his eye on Arisu Arisu as he walked onto the field among the cheers, hoots, and jeers. Arisu did the same and locked eyes with him. Takuma didn’t look away and kept eye contact with the girl. It wouldn’t do for him to lose the mental battle before the fight even starts.
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Even in his wildest predictions, Yoshio wouldn’t have guessed that three of the five genin representing him in the genin basic training final tournament would make it to Day-2. The final tournament happened every year during basic training. It had never happened before—three of the final fo...
2022-12-16 21:35:29 +0000 UTC View PostThe atmosphere at the training field was like the peak of the cherry blossom season, and people had come together to picnic and view the cherry blossom— just that they weren’t here to see the beautiful nature, but people duke it out in combat.
“Almost half of the people in the tournament are ...
2022-12-15 11:04:01 +0000 UTC View PostNenro watched Takuma walk away with Ai to the medical tent to get the light bruising on his body treated. The fight had been interesting but not how he had expected it to go. Takuma exchanged words with his opponent, Ohta, who then seemingly went into a rage. The entire fight until the end was a b...
2022-12-11 23:48:38 +0000 UTC View PostTakuma furrowed his brow as he twirled the shuriken in his hand as he tried to locate the target. The thick white mist obstructed his vision, hiding the painted wooden stump from him. It was so thick he wouldn't walk outside with the visibility he was left with in the fear that a car would run him over....
2022-12-10 15:21:19 +0000 UTC View Post"I disagree!"
Takuma didn't have the time to rejoice or even completely take in the announcement. He turned his head toward Kameko, who had dared to raise an objection. While it did surprise him that the objection came, it coming from Kameko didn't surprise him one bit.
The group d...
2022-12-09 05:34:24 +0000 UTC View PostThe effects of Yoshio's forest 'lesson' could be seen entrenched in the group as they approached the last days of the basic training. Team-5 operated the same as before the forest challenge, but the same couldn't be said for others. The two winning coalitions had members of the four teams, meaning that at ...
2022-12-06 08:09:56 +0000 UTC View PostTwo days after the Training Ground No. 42 excursion, Takuma walked into his group's usual training area like he routinely would, but today he had switched his usual back waist pouch with a slightly larger one to accommodate the raincoat and boot covers he had carried to protect his clothes from the smell when they ...
2022-12-05 02:47:19 +0000 UTC View PostTakuma could feel everyone's eyes on him as he stared at Rei.
"I'm assuming you have the pentagon token," said Rei, smiling. "Come with us, and we will sleep under a proper roof tonight. Who knows, maybe we may very well be back at our homes by the end of the day. What do you say, let's go?"
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2022-12-04 03:27:11 +0000 UTC View PostThe forest that grew in the confines of Training Ground No. 42 was a significantly large area but not big enough that a trek from the boundary to the center would take more than a day.
Takuma gazed at the central tower. He could just see the tip of the building with antennas fixed on the top as he ...
2022-12-02 03:31:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe forest in Training Ground No. 42 was unlike any forest Takuma had trekked in. The trees were giants compared to anything he had seen, with canopies so thick that they only let soft glimmering rays of light through the gaps. Every tree trunk was colonized by a shroud of parasitic vines that covered the base of t...
2022-12-01 03:18:03 +0000 UTC View PostTakuma dumped his backpack onto the ground beside his foot as he looked at the large board tied up on the metallic chain-link fence with barbed wire weaved not only the top but also through the chain-link that made up the fence's body.
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Takuma yawned wide enough to fit three fingers into his mouth as he poured over the uncurled scroll that flowed down both sides of his lap onto the grass of the training field, the same he had once used with Maruboshi.
Reading complicated theory written in a jutsu scroll at four in the morning wasn...
2022-11-28 19:04:22 +0000 UTC View Post*Riiip!*
Takuma couldn't completely escape the sweeping sword. The tip of the blade edge sliced through the fabric of his vest, splitting the threads when it wanted to split the skin beneath it.
The ground under Takuma's feet exploded as he threw himself back faster than b...
2022-11-26 22:33:29 +0000 UTC View PostTakuma rested his temple on his palm as he flipped through the thick pages of an old binder in front of him, reading the small font that populated the page.
He knew choosing a jutsu would be difficult, but spending three hours flipping through D-rank jutsu catalogs in the jutsu archives for the las...
2022-11-25 22:49:34 +0000 UTC View Post"Come on, you lazy bastard, you can do it!"
Takuma yelled at the top of his lungs with his hands framing his mouth as he looked up at the wall with three people on the other side of the concrete wall. Standing alongside with him were Nenro, Ai, and Masaaki, along with another three genin from anoth...
2022-11-25 02:11:49 +0000 UTC View PostAs the winters warmed, biting winds turned into cool breezes, which Taro appreciated greatly. If he was to struggle under the sun all day long, then it would very well be with gentle currents keeping him nice and fresh, something that was difficult to maintain with most of his time spent in the gruesome basic train...
2022-11-23 21:45:36 +0000 UTC View PostYoshio stretched his legs as he got up from his outside chair and pocketed the scroll he was working on. Keeping the tree-walking practice at the end of every training session worked very well for him. He got one hour of free time that he used to complete work other than training the brats, which allowed him to cal...
2022-11-21 23:31:51 +0000 UTC View Post"What are you doing today?"
Takuma raised his head from his feet to his three migrant teammates, who were looking at them with curious(or dubious) looks.
"Training for the tree-walking practice?" said Takuma, his tone twisting in the end. It was the second day after Yoshio adjusted...
2022-11-21 23:30:49 +0000 UTC View PostIf Takuma could say it, he would say it up close to Yoshio's face. For all his bulging muscles and overwhelming masculine energy, the chunin instructor was softer than Maruboshi. Takuma definitely feared Yoshio's metal baton, verbal harassment, and the punishments for mistakes, but he would take all of tha...
2022-11-19 21:05:41 +0000 UTC View PostThe roofs in the Hidden Leaf village were considered free property for shinobi to traverse through. Any day, one could spot at least two dozen shinobi jumping from roof to roof to avoid the roads crowded with slow civilians.
Takuma looked down at the road street from a tall roof in a residential ar...
2022-11-18 20:15:12 +0000 UTC View PostTakuma could hear his breathing inside his head as he observed his team in various states of exertion. On the first day, the rookie genins had been apportioned into teams of five each. Any group activity was to be done with the team.
His new team... was an interesting mix, to say the least.
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