The Enemy

Kurono, now airborne, looked at the oncoming spears thinking of how to dodge them while in mid-air. He reached outward and made a fist then quickly pulled it to his chest and the bird puppet flew over to him. As the spears got closer as did the puppet, soon the puppet was right next to Kurono and the spears were mere feet away. Kurono kicked off the puppet forcing it away and pushing himself hard in the opposite direction. The spears narrowly missed them both and Kurono landed hard just out of the bug ring around Kantello. He rolled to the side as the spears came back and barely dodged them both. "Nice job." Kentello said with little or no emotion in his voice. "You haven't seen the half of it." Kurono replied. He then made several hand gestured and looked upward. Kentello was confused for a moment then remembered the hawk puppet. "Black hawk, stinger air strike!" Kurono called out. as the puppet swooped low over the pair of them several compartments in it's chest opened up. They opened in intervals of 1 second so the contents was dropped in a line rather than all at once. The contents in question this time was a series of smoke bombs. As they hit the ground they splashed into a large cloud of blue smoke. The smoke wasn't poison but it was blinding as for thickness and above that it stung the eyes and lungs of those within it. In this case, Kentello. Kurono then made another few gestures and the bird came down for a return trip. Kentello had ran and rolled as the smoke bombs fell making him just on the edge of the cloud when it formed. He rubbed his eyes and was fairly unaffected. That was why the hawk came in this time. It had large wooden claws that interlocked to create large rings much like thick hand cuffs. As the bird came down it grabbed Kentello by the arms and lifted him only a few feet before letting go again, due to Kentello squirming and stabbing at one of the bird's legs with a kunai. He was, however, carried just where Kurono wanted him. As Kentello fell he landed squarely in the center of the smoke cloud.

Kurono ran along roof tops leaping and laughing as he flew threw the air and landed still in full run. "Genin are comin' out to play today." He said to himself laughing. He ran for a while and eventually saw Gaaza wondering around the village. Smirking to himself Kurono jumped down in front of Gaaza. Gaaza got into a defensive stance as the gust from Kurono landing rushed over him. "Hello cousin." Kurono said with a smile. Gaaza smiled back and replied "Just decided to drop by?" Kurono chuckled to himself and answered "Well you know me." They walked together for a while talking about what they had to do that day which ended in Kurono being very anxious for a little spar or even a random fight. "There's got to be some jounin in this town willing to have a quick match!" Kurono almost shouted, "Sure there is, you've just got to find him." replied Gaaza. "Come on, you know who would train with me, who is he??" Gaaza smiled and eventually answered "His name is Kentello, he is a leaf jounin of the aburame clan." Kurono grinned "Alright, thanks cousin. There's still some time before the genin need to be asigned, more than enough for a good match." And with that Kurono leapt back up to the roof level of the city. He looked around for a short bit and quickly found his target. He was in the academy, luckily right next to the battlefields. "Hey! Kentello right?" Kentello turned to see Kurono standing behind him. "You up for some rough training before you hafta deal with some inexperienced genin kids?". "Sure, the battle fields are near by anyway." Kentello agreed. Kurono lead him to a large field roughly 25 feet squared. They spaced themselves about 10 feet away, and facing each other and prepared to fight. Kurono pulled a scroll off of his back and laid it on the ground, after making a few hand signs a large bird like puppet appeared in front of him, then he said "I'm feeling generous, you get the first move.? cheerfully.

Name: Kurono Age: 21 Gender: male Rank: jounin Village of Origin: sand Appearance: He wears a black ninja jump suit with three scrolls on his back. He is about 6'2" and 200 lbs. His hair is short and spiked and he has dark green eyes, and he wears black leather gloves that leave his fingers exposed. Likes: games, sparring, training young ninja via sparring, making puppets, and puppets. Dislikes: people breaking his puppets, losing, people who don't like sparring, and sushi. Personality Quirks: He often has full conversations with his puppets. He will sometimes challenge people out of nowhere just to have a small bit of fun sparring. Special Jutsu: puppet technique. Special Weapon: three puppets, one names black hawk, who is a large bird like creature, one named puma who is a big lion like beast, and one named law maker, which is his most powerful puppet that resembles a puppet-esque replica of himself. Bio: He was trained and raised in the hidden sand village. Choosing his shinobi way was difficult but he eventually decided to follow in his fathers footsteps. His father, Kankuro, was very proud and taught him much about the making and using of puppets. Kurono spends much of his time with his cousin Gaaza and helping him here and there in his teachings. Gaaza enjoys teaching and believes sparring is a great way to build on one's strengths, but he dislikes fighting for fighting's sake so he often gets Kurono to fill in. Which works out nicely because Kurono enjoys fighting and sparring.

Gaaza walked down the streets of the leaf village smirking at all the soon-to-be genin, and the eager to teach jounin. "Wow it's Gaara, it's actually him, I can't believe it!" Gaaza turned to match the young voice to an academy student behind him. The kid had a wide smile and a look of awe in his eyes, and was walking with his mother who was also quite surprised. "I'm sorry my boy, but my name is not Gaara." The mother, now confused, asked "Well then who are you? Some sort of impostor?" Gaaza smiled openly "No nothing like that, I am Gaaza of sand. Kazekage Gaara is my father. I am hear to help teach some of the up and coming genin." he mother and boy smiled thought fully and the boy replied "Wow Mr. Gaaza, maybe you'll teach me!", before Gaaza answered the boy's mother cut in "Come on now we still need to get groceries. Stop bothering the nice young man." After they walked off on their way Gaaza continued his tour of the konoha streets. He eventually came to a field and looked over to a boy playing with a small bear. He grinned and decided to walk over. Although he walked in the path of the balls and a few almost hit him. "Hey buddy, watch out!" called the boy as a ball missed Gaaza's head by almost an inch. Gaaza didn't want to get hit, but more so didn't want to ruin the boy's came so he walked around to the side of the ball diamond. The boy paused to see what Gaaza was doing then after Gaaza explained "Don't stop your fun I'm just here to observe." he kept playing with the bear.

Name: Gaaza of the desert Age: 19 Gender: male Rank: Jounin (he has seniority over jounin in training exorsizes, if he decides a method is not fair or too dangerous he has the rank to stop the jounin from using that exorsize, but in all other situations other jounin have seniority over him, as a trade off) Village of Origin: sand Appearance: [URL=http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w134/hifzhan_arimi/Gaara_by_UVER.jpg]Gaaza[/URL] His short red hair similar tatoo and overall body type , along with his sand gourd like his fathers, make most who first see him think he's the Gaara kazekage of the sand village, and not the great Gaara's son Gaaza. Likes: sand, games, fun, girls, and jokes. Dislikes: things that don't make sence, hate, love, and death Personality Quirks: easily angered but not easy to get fighting. Special Jutsu: Kekkei Genkai- desert life/desert fusion Special Weapon: sand Bio: He grew up under the tutalage of his father Gaara, being the only other person with the sand kekkei genkai at the time he was the only one who could teach Gaaza about it properly. He tought his son all of the abilities and powers of the sand and how to perfectally control it. Gaara atained the blood line trait from baring the shukaku. After learning from his father Gaaza decided he wanted to be a teacher himself, he now travels from village to village being praised for his teaching skills. When it comes to fighting Gaaza is a complete neutral, believeing he isn't fit to decide which sides motivation is more just. He never fights unless he himself is in danger. He may help slightly to defend a loved one but otherwise he won't blink an eye to a village being destroyed. For that matter no one has ever seen Gaaza fight, they've seen him on the battle field doing nothing and around the villages teaching but not one person has ever seen him in the midst of a fight. Contrary to that, almost everyone who's heard of him believes he's one of the most deadly warriors ever to grave the battle field, he has all of the fearfull abilities of his father Gaara, and more, having his bloodline trait advancing to the next stange, like the sharingan and mangekyo sharingan the sand line has two levels- the first being able to control sand the second being able to convert your body itself to sand and back. These powers make people who haven't seen him even get angry think he's one of the worse enemies to ever be facing. proof: Gaara's sand power is never officially made into a kekkei genkai but he only has it after the shukaku and he still has it afterwards, so in theory it could be entirely plausable that it is a blood line trait. OOC: Hey man, I decided to use my newest guy, he's overpowered yah, but he rarely fights, usually giving advice or training. Also, Kusu could be in this too, because having a villian to fight now and then is always fun. Just tell me if you want him in it too.

Name: Gaaza of the desert Age: 19 Gender: male Rank: Jounin Village of Origin: sand Appearance:[URL=http://gr00pz.ds-play.com/meercat14/homepage/gaara.jpg] Gaaza[/URL] His short red hair similar tatoo and overall body type , along with his sand gourd like his fathers, make most who first see him think he's the Gaara kazekage of the sand village, and not the great Gaara's son Gaaza. Likes: sand, games, fun, girls, and jokes. Dislikes: things that don't make sence, hate, love, and death Personality Quirks: easily angered but not easy to get fighting. Special Jutsu: Kekkei Genkai- desert life/desert fusion Special Weapon: sand Bio: He grew up under the tutalage of his father Gaara, being the only other person with the sand kekkei genkai at the time he was the only one who could teach Gaaza about it properly. He tought his son all of the abilities and powers of the sand and how to perfectally control it. Gaara atained the blood line trait from baring the shukaku. After learning from his father Gaaza decided he wanted to be a teacher himself, he now travels from village to village being praised for his teaching skills. When it comes to fighting Gaaza is a complete neutral, believeing he isn't fit to decide which sides motivation is more just. He never fights unless he himself is in danger. He may help slightly to defend a loved one but otherwise he won't blink an eye to a village being destroyed. For that matter no one has ever seen Gaaza fight, they've seen him on the battle field doing nothing and around the villages teaching but not one person has ever seen him in the midst of a fight. Contrary to that, almost everyone who's heard of him believes he's one of the most deadly warriors ever to grave the battle field, he has all of the fearfull abilities of his father Gaara, and more, having his bloodline trait advancing to the next stange, like the sharingan and mangekyo sharingan the sand line has two levels- the first being able to control sand the second being able to convert your body itself to sand and back. These powers make people who haven't seen him even get angry think he's one of the worse enemies to ever be facing. proof: Gaara's sand power is never officially made into a kekkei genkai but he only has it after the shukaku and he still has it afterwards, so in theory it could be entirely plausable that it is a blood line trait. OK I kno the rp is closed but I really like this guy and I'm just putting it here so I have it for later and I won't forget where it is, so please don't delete this thanks.

OOC: two things buddy, one: he has two bone SPIKES from his palms, not swords this time two: his name is Kusu, with two u's...Oh and Ushima, Kantello was faking an attack on your team just for fun the real Kusu is attacking aswell but he's against Toru, Yuki, and shinaru in battle field 25 _____________________________________________________________________ Kusu looked around in anger, he'd been fighting two minutes and already the genin were piling up again. This one intrigued him though, Toru, his main style was taijutsu a personal favourite of Kusu's. Kusu smiled at the sight of a fight and ran forward. As he approached, Toru countered with a basic horizontal slash. Kusu stopped in time to dodge the blade but he was cut slightly anyways. He looked down at the cut on his chest and then back at Toru frowning. "Mistake genin." he said angrily. Then he dashed forward again. Toru smiled that he got a cut in and said "Wow you don't learn too quickly do you?" as Kusu tried the same pattern as before that got him cut. Just the same Toru slashed horizontally, maybe a bit on an angle this time. Before he made contact however Kusu leapt into the air in a large arched spinning flip. As Kusu landed behind him he slashed open the young genin's back with the tip of one of his palm spiked. Toru winced and gritted his teeth trying not to cry out in pain and turned quickly to cut Kusu while he was behind him. Kusu did an instant backward hand spring dodging the blade all together and Toru chased after him. Toru got close enough to slash as Kusu landed on his feet again and took the opportunity, Kusu however did not stop. The second he landed on his feet he continued the momentum and flipped backwards completely dodging again. Infuriated Toru ran forward and slashed vertically, in hoped to catch Kusu even if he flipped up again. This time, however, Kusu went into a low crouch when he landed, and kicked off tackling Toru to the ground. Kusu tried to stab a palm spike into Toru's throat but Toru luckily got his feet under him in time. He kicked Kusu off of him toward his head and jumped back to his feet. Kusu spun in the air and landed on his feet facing Toru yet again. "You're not half bad kid." he said it a disturbingly honest tone. Toru attacked again slashing as if to decapitate Kusu entirely. Unfortunately for him, Kusu bent back and stuck his palm spikes into the ground, with a solid support he pulled himself into a handstand kicking Toru in the chin and knocking him up and back. Kusu continued pulling and put his feet down in time to pull out his spikes and see Toru hit the ground landing flat on his back. Kusu grinned and got into an attack stance again. The others watched in terror afraid for Toru's life but also too scared for their own to step in. Gosa the most of which was steaming with anger watching his friend get defeated but also knowing from his last fight that he couldn't do anything to stop it. Toru eventually stood again, bleeding from his lip and the cut in his back having drenched his shirt in a crimson flood.

Kusu swore under his breath "OK I'm definitely not up for seeking out that damn fox joinin again. Who was next on my list?" He paused and thought for a moment "Oh yah that's right, the annoying speedy kid. After a while of looking around in secret for Shinaru, Kusu came across the battle fields. "Hey pretend I'm that Kusu-guy from yesterday." At the sound of his name Kusu stopped on a dime and looked around. [I]"Where am I?"[/I] he thought soon he saw a little wooden sign that said "battle field 25" [I]"Well that was oddly specific. Who's talkin about me though?"[/I] His gaze crossed over several random genin students then found Shinaru and Yuki fighting. [I]"Hmm that's...convenient."[/I] He thought about the odd circumstances and irony for a moment then thought he'd better watch as they where themselves out before attacking. He stood up on the tree branch he was in and did a few stretches. After he was done he made a bone dagger with a teleporting seal on it and threw it between Shinaru and Yuki. Both of them opened their eyes in fear and stopped fighting. They looked to the direction from which the dagger came but saw nothing. Half a second later Kusu appeared in mid-air above the dagger and in the midst of a spiralling air round house. First hitting Shinaru in the jaw then spinning to hit yuki in the shoulder as well. They flew in opposite directions away from each other and the speed of the hit stopped either of them from catching themselves before impact. As they hit the ground Kusu landed and made twin bone spikes, one out of each palm. They were roughly a foot long and both sharp and hard as any steel blade. "You didn't think you could get rid of me that easily did you?" Kusu asked while getting into an offensive battle stance.

Kusu threw a bone dagger backwards as he threw a smoke bomb to the ground. The area erupted in a black cloud and Kusu used his teleporting move to swiftly vanish from the scene. He reappeared about 75 feet away and ran behind a building, after a few minutes he looked around the corner to check if someone followed yet, no one. He could probably kill a good number of those leaf ninja, but the remaining few would probably kill him. If that bug shinobi hadn't hindered his chakra it would be much easier to kill the group. Kusu then slid his back slowly down the wall and sat down for a while, picking off a few remaining bugs and catching his breath from the fight. "Obviously attacking the group is a bad idea." he said to himself quietly "if I am to take out any of them it will have to be one by one...damn." He then stood and ran into the forest to hide out for a while in a safe house he set up. It was a small shack in the darkest part of the wood, hidden in underbrush and thicket. As he went in he avoided leaving any trace of his presence to keep from being tracked. He stayed for a while in the small building to devise who to attack first then in what order to proceed. The shack itself was small and cramped, it had a stump as a table and a whole for a window, the bed was nothing more than a pile of leaves, and the walls were just branches weaved together. Kusu eventually developed a plan of attack and sought out the uchiha girl. She was the most dangerous genin with the sharingan at her aid, and if he fought even in front of her she would memorize his moves and for one- use them herself, but also she'd be able to counter them the next time Kusu himself used them. On top of all that who knows what she could do if she attained the mangekyo sharingan, although this was extremely unlikely at such a young age, even the great sasuke uchiha only began developing his sharingan at the age of 12. Kusu's sources told him Yue was only 14, near impossible for her to even have the mangekyo sharingan by now, let alone be able to use it's full extent. At this thought Kusu let out a sigh of relief. He stepped outside and stretched a bit before darting off toward the village. He eventually found Yue chasing down a rather fast fox, with the help of a fox of her own. Recognizing the fox she chased as the summon of the fox joinin he assumed it was some sort of test. He decided to only observe for now, to see what kinds of abilities this Yue girl had. Using a camouflage jutsu he hid from sight and tailed her after the fox.

Kusu gritted his teeth, he despised being underestimated. ?Hey fox obsessive!? he called to Snicker, who looked over and frowned ?Please tell me your mutt didn?t just insult me.? The fox and Snicker both growled almost in the exact same tone. ?Well I guess I should show you people why they fear me.? He made a motion as if flexing his muscles and bone spikes shot out all over his body. His arms and legs got a row down the front back and outer side, his shoulder blades reformed to adorn his back as axe like blades with a spike srtip over his spine, his chest sprouted another rib cage, sharper than the original and ending in several tips rather than re-connecting, and last his head was fitted with a crown of spikes. ?Ah much better.? Almost everyone?s eyes went wide at the traumatic sight only Snicker and his fox remained frowning. ?Well let?s get this over with. Tell you was fox obsessive, if you cut my skin, I?ll give your kid that ramen he was whining about. ? Much before Siniku or anyone else could react, Kusu made a series of hand signs ?Water style!? ?No stop him!? Siniku called out running toward Kusu ?Hidden steam jutsu!? Kusu finished. He then blew out a huge gust of searing steam covering the area. ?You fools have no idea who you?re messing with.? Kusu?s voice came from all directions in the fog. Snicker?s fox could hear sound that none of the others could ?He?s making hand signs!? she said urgently. ?Secret water style: forbidden jutsu- water state change, blades of destruction.? Even Siniku hadn?t heard of this move. The mist behind him then solidified into a blade made of ice, and flew quickly at his back. He barely dodged it and watched as the blade busted back into a poof of steam as it got a foot away. ?Oh my god.? said Snicker as he predicted the moves power. ?Everyone get ready!? he called out encase any jounin or genin wondered into the steam without him noticing, seconds after he screamed out, half a hundred ice blades formed and vanished within the steam screen, flying all directions and both sharp and hard enough to rip them to shreds. Siniku got a few grazes on his arms and legs of where it almost hit completely, where the blade did made contact was cleanly cut and torn to bits. His fox also got a nick here and there, but they were sharp enough to cause progressive bleeding. The ice blades died down and Snicker rested for a moment. But it was only a moment he got, because instantly after the ice blades were clear Kusu reappeared from the steam cutting and slashing at him. But as the ice, Kusu vanished into the steam again as soon as he could, then dashed out from another direction. He often called out horrid things while visible, things like ?I?m sure at least three genin walked into my steam before the ice blades ripped them up?.? ??maybe four, and a stupid jounin worried about your safety? That accompanied with his cruel laughter was almost too much for Snicker to handle as he futilely tried to hit Kusu threw the mass of bone spikes made earlier.

"You surprised me kid. I have to give you credit, you got some good moves. But you never faced someone like me before." Kusu grinned at the slight challenge. "Think your summon can handle the extent of my dead bone pulse?" Gosa didn't know at first what Kusu meant but then he made the connection between dead bone pulse and his bone sword. "A kekkei genkai!" exclaimed Gosa as he caught on. "Well you're not entirely moronic." said Kusu as he looked at the giant bear "And I hate to disappoint you but I've taken out summons bigger stronger and meaner than that thing." Kusu then leapt up onto the wall of the ramen shop and kicked off toward the bear. The summon swung a massive claw to rip apart Kusu, but Kusu flipped and kicked off the claw as well, leaping even closer to the bear's neck. When he got their, within a few seconds, he made another sword. This one was an enormous zwiehander, which Kusu used to rip into the bears shoulder then fall down cutting a deep slash right to it's paw. The bear roared in pain and as Kusu landed he quickly dashed to the bear's ankle which wasn't too far away, and cut it's achilles tendon causing it to fall to one knee. "Whew, that was a workout." Kusu said in a somewhat joking manner. Gosa watched in shock and awe as his massive bear fell bleeding tremendously. Kusu then took his sights on Gosa as a battle target and ran at his after dropping his larger sword. He slashed quickly but Gosa was just barely fast enough to avoid getting cut. Unfortunately he wasn't near fast enough to dodge and attack, mainly because after missing two slashes in a row Kusu made another thin sword to fight double handed. Kusu then dropped the swords and threw a small dagger like blade of bone quickly made in his palm at Gosa. Gosa dodged with relative ease and Kusu ran backwards and in a circular motion as he consecutively threw almost two dozen. Kusu then stopped and leaned down on his knees appearing out of breath, Gosa took his chance and ran over to attack. He went for a kick and Kusu ducked slowly narrowly avoiding a strong blow to the head. As Gosa reared for another attempt, Kusu vanished. "Huh?" Gosa said in confusion "where could he have gone?" Kusu then delivered a strong flying knee to Gosa's back, knocking him to the ground in agony. "Haven't you heard stories of the 'yellow flash of konoha'??" Gosa remembered the tales of the fourth hokage, he developed a technique allowing him to teleport to locations with a seal set on them. "But how did you use the technique? I never saw you make a seal for it." Asked Gosa still confused but now standing. "Look around boy, I've made plenty." As Gosa re-examined the make-shift battle ground, he noticed his bear slowly recovering behind him and all of the bone daggers Kusu threw, they littered the ground almost everywhere, and it appeared as if they grew with a strange design. Upon closer inspection Gosa picked one up and realised that the strange design was in fact the seal for teleporting! Kusu them vanished and reappeared sat the bone Gosa was holding, swiftly making contact with an airborne round house. "It's not official yet, but you will be one of the few able to address the white flash of kirigakure!"

Kusu walked along roof tops effortlessly but gracefully leaping from one to another when reaching an edge. He grinned, bloody bone swords still in hand "Well that was a nice warm up." He threw down the swords into a roof to tease any ninja tracking him. "OK step one complete, I have identified the potentially dangerous ninja becoming genin. Now I have a choice. I can continue and kill off the risky one's eliminating a large portion of Konoha's war capabilities, or I could try to make peace with the leaf village seeing that they will have a powerful group of shinobi on a few years." Kusu continued smiling "Let's pick the fun and gruesomely enjoyable option shall we?" he said joyously to himself. "I need to take out some jounin first, they will obviously interfere. I need not kill them though, just discourage them, give them the oh so grand feeling of being unable to help their useless students as they get slaughtered one by one all the while fighting back futilely against the unknown killer for the sake of saving their precious village or saving their already defeated sensei. It is a constant joy seeing how the genin try to match those who even the jounin did not fair against. Pathetic." Kusu was a twisted and brutally dark man, loving his power to create suffering and using it to it's fullest. He decided to test out some of the students and give that speedy kid a show. He wanted to kill him and the female jounin accompanying him, but he hadn't had his daily warm up yet, god forbid he pull a muscle or sprain his ankle while fighting an infinitely weaker ninja not even the rank of chunin yet. Kusu reached his destination: the roof of the local ramen bar. He saw a jounin and two lesser ninja walking up just in time. It looked like Gosa, Yue, and the jounin was the famous Snickerfox. Kusu thought back to his observations to figure out what to expect from the group. "Hmm ok ok, Gosa is a ninja of the Kosenki clan, they're fire people I think...yah that's right they have the ability to completely engulf themselves but only burn enemies, tricky. Next up is Yue, she's a ninja of the uchiha clan, yes an uchiha very nice, the sharingan. Powerful copying, remembering, and predicting abilities of the lower level users. I'm glad she's not older or she may have developed the mangekyo sharingan." he paused and shivered at the thought "Then there's Snicker, Siniku Yoshimitsu, he can transform into and summon a fox signaturely, but I'm sure he has other skills." Kusu, after consulting his memory for information, finally decided to make his presence known. He walked off the edge of the roof casually and fell quickly to the ground, focusing chakra on his feet to soften the impact, he landed directly in front of Gosa as the server tried to hand him a dish, causing the man to drop the food. The surrounding civilians ran in fear, hearing about the attack in the area and not being completely incompetent they put two and two together and came to the conclusion that Kusu wasn't someone to clutter around. "Howdy," Kusu started in a rather insulting tone. Then looking behind him to see the spilt ramen. "Awww you weren't going to eat that just now were you?" Gosa, enraged, stepped forward offensively and angrily. Kusu stepped back and faked a scared expression. Then Gosa drew his sword, but this time Kusu's reaction was a quick flick of his wrist. A semi-long thin bladed sword then grew from bone out of his palm and he took grasp of it, going into an attack stance, the blade pointing at Gosa. Kusu then taunted "Ha! You think you can take me?? Bring it on tiny!" OOC: Hey people of the naruto rp, I'm back! And I'm dying to have some fun, so I write tons, sorry about that.

After a dirty look from Siniku. Kusu continued to the genin exams. As he reached the building he used a focus of chakra on his feet to quickly scale the wall. Once safely on the roof and generally out of sight he preformed several hand seals and spoke quietly "transformation jutsu". A slight poof of smoke and he was dressed in perfect leaf jounin garb. His headband was on his forehead in place and with the right symbol. And he had a different facial appearance all together. Once he checked himself over he jumped down and landed with little or no sound, and walked around to the entrance. The exams had already started but he could still go in to observe and keep order. He watched the students around the room with a smirk. All the while keeping a low profile and watching silently from a corner. If he drew too much attention the other joinin might see but not recognize him, blowing his cover s a leaf jounin. If they saw threw his jutsu he could be in serious trouble, plus being surounded by top class enemy ninja wasn't a good strategy. He was extremely talented with battles even in numbers, but he would still have a tough run for his money if he was caught now. This just made Kusu more exited to collect his information in such a manner. And as such his smile grew as he tried to stay unnoticed in the corner.

Kusu walked throughout the streets of the leafe village. He travelled there over night for a mission: to identify the new leaf gennin and any unique abilities, keep record of any uchiha students or hyuga students coming to age, that sort of thing. He knew some of the leaf ninja personally and they accepted him, usually scouting or gathering information isn't too threatening. He also just enjoys laughing at the gennin who fail. He almost never missed a gennin exam just for that reason. But the gennin who pass always think so highly of themselves, he had fun giving them a little spar to remind them where their place was. The exams were today so he casually walked around just waiting for the exam to begin, he was well enough at the disguise technique so he could slip in and watch as a leaf instructor unnoticed. He found his way down the streets and came across Siniku. "Well well, if it isn't the laughing fox guy." Kusu knew his nick-name and hated how childish it was so he called him a slightly more mature, albiet less catchy version.

[B]Name:[/B] Kusu Kaguya [B]Age:[/B] 17 [B]Gender:[/B] male [B]Rank: [/B] Tokubetsu Jounin [B]Village of Origin:[/B] Mist/rain [B]Appearance:[/B] [URL=http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p257/darkassassin_itachi/naruto/akatsuki/other%20members/kaguyaclanakatsukicolourcopy9u.jpg]Kusu[/URL] He doesn't usually wear a shirt because of his use of protruding bones, and contrary to the pic he wears two head bands as arm bands as explained below. He is roughly 6'2". [B]Likes:[/B] fighting, proving himself, girls, winning, and showing off. [B]Dislikes:[/B] Losing, being out done, being insulted, and liars. [B]Personality Quirks:[/B] He is quick to solve his problems with fighting and often attacks people for things that offended him, even if they had no intention to. [B]Special Jutsu:[/B] kekkei genkai- dead bone pulse: manipulating the cells used for generating bone in your body. Flying thunder god technique: he learned this at a young age and it played a big part in his latest promotion. It's a technique used to instantaneously transport to a pre-set destination. It may also be worth mentioning that Kusu specializes in most tai gen and ninjutsu but he usually uses water based nin and bone based tai. [B]Special Weapon:[/B] bone swords, and bone cat-claws. [B]Bio:[/B] Kusu's great grandfather was a member of the kaguya clan of the hidden mist village. He married out of the clan breaking sacred vows, and impregnated a common girl in the village. They got married in secret but soon the town found out what had happened, his own clan banished him and attacked him as an enemy. His wife left and took refuge at the hidden rain village. But he did not get so lucky, his clan hunted him like a dog and killed him. several months later Kusu?s dad was born. He grew up in the hidden rain village and married off eventually having Kusu. Kusu didn't know of his heritage until he discovered his powers while training his jutsu abilities. Furious that his family hid his past from him, Kusu ran away and returned to the hidden mist village. He got even more ninja training and soon became a chunin. Roughly a week after his chunin exam his superiors promoted him again, to the rank of tokubetsu jounin. Though not a full fledged jounin he had the fighting skills of an experienced ninja sensei. And was promoted for his experience and abilities with gen tai and nin jutsu as well as his battle talents. He often goes to the other shinobi villages for research on recent activities, or for missions. He wears a hidden rain headband as a strap on his left arm and a hidden mist village headband on his right arm. He decided to have both worn being as he has gotten training from both villages.

Reese drew his umbrella into a battle stance and ran into a group of mutants. He swung swiftly and accurately killing with each blow. Within minutes he had killed at least a dozen. He then opened the umbrella and kept fighting. His new strange movements and unexpected aerial feats were too much to handle for the majority and he cut down twice as many in the same period of time. He didn't look over to the girl but he figured she was probably holding her own just as well. Reese put a new ability to his misdirection ice clone. Every few minutes one of the creatures would get off a hit. But by the time it actually made contact Reese was far gone. The classic sculpture taking his place would lose a chunk or two before a needle imbued with electrical magic, struck into it. The sculpture then shattered with great force and killed just about all around it. Reese fought valiantly leaping threw the air every once in a while and using his umbrella to carry him airborne a few extra feet. he moved with inhuman speed using another one of his spells from the long cursed list he accumulated over the hears. Dashing about just faster than the human eye could see. Though this spell was hard because of the extreme speed, so he could only go a meter or so. Alas that was all Reese needed to get the upper hand. He was near constantly vanishing and reappearing meters away. Throwing off his attackers entirely and dodging hits one after another. he then leapt into the air as high as he could, using his dash upwards for even more airtime. Upon seeing the girl he floated down to her and made a small dome of ice. Just before the dome formed over their heads he threw the umbrella up. When it got about 3 meters it clicked open again and the momentum of it opening caused it to spin. It went up another foot or so and rained needles down all over the field. A few even pierced the dome of ice narrowly missing Reese and the girl by inches. After it stopped Reese shattered the dome from inside. A few ice shards hit the remaining mutants that were alive. The move was costly to the use of needles it needed but worth it for the area and damage it caused. "That takes care of the first wave." Reese said with a grin as he retrieved his umbrella, closing it and returning it to his back. The girl had a wide eyes look on her face as another couple dozen mutants appeared on the horizon of the field. Reese shouted to her "You need to deal with these ones, I have to meditate to regain energy and control." The girl nodded and got into a battle stance as the next fleet approached moaning and groaning as some sort of battle cry.

Reese grinned and jumped high into the air as another hidden wave tore the ground beneath him. While in the air he threw three needles at the girl. She blocked them with the face of her sword and slashed in his direction another few times. He first ducked then rolled to the sides as a goal post behind him took several deep cuts. The girl was clearly frustrated and ran towards him slashing for melee damage. He dodged most of them then ducked one and shoulder checked her back a couple feet as she stood up, angrier than ever. The flicked her wrist as her large blade clicked into a fire-arm. She shot at Reese aiming for his head and hit directly as Reese?s eye's widened. The shots each chipped off a large chuck but it was ice. Confused she looked at the man closer. He was standing still like a statue and bullet marks lined the top right side of his head, they just knocked off a few bits of his head which it seemed was made of ice. Confused the girl turned to walk away. Just to see the same man standing behind her, and going into a low round house. She jumped reflexively and switched her weapon back to it's blade form as she fell slashing at the man. She barely rolled out of the way and leapt back to his feet. By the time he looked over the girl was already slashing at his chest. Reese turned quickly and her weapon clashed against the large umbrella donning Reese's back, it was the first time she got a good look at it and didn't really understand his choice in weapons. But it didn't matter, he would be dead soon enough. She kicked Reese's back making him step forward a few times. When he turned he saw the girl preparing for another onslaught with her gun. Reaching back Reese grabbed the handle of his umbrella. He swung it over his head and opened it as it got to the ground. The sharp edge dug in and he crouched as the girl fired. The bullets bounced off of the hard shield and didn't leave a mark. Reese, while hiding in protection, grabbed a hand full of needles from two pockets in the umbrella, plus a few from his belt. He heard the gun click a couple times as it needed to be reloaded and he stood. Closing the umbrella and returning it to his back, Reese threw the needles, 15 at least. The girl flipped her gun back to a blade and thought of how to defend quickly.

Reese was walking around the streets, looking for some form of transportation. He found his path had led him into a storage area, surrounded by 8 large storage garages he knew he could at least find some supplies here. Roughly half of the garages were still untouched. The doors were dented and blood was everywhere as the rest of the city, but the beings lurking around had not made it inside. Reese walked up to the first one and opened it, nothing, it was unused. The second had some furniture but nothing of value. The next was the jack pot, an old motorcycle stood leaned up against the wall inside. The creatures usually stayed hidden during the day, but they would come out if there was a good chance to kill. Reese being in the area meant just the opposite. The was glad to see the bike had a good bit of gas, he needed to get to Guelph to find the survivors that were meeting there but it would take about an hour to get there on the bike, not to mention trying to walk. He rode fast threw the streets. He had to swerve to avoid a mutant or two here and there but it was generally a safe trip. He arrived in guelph a little over an hour later and ditched the bike as it had run out of gas just within the city. Not as large or populated as Toronto Guelph was a nice reprieve for Reese. He had to find someone, anyone, that could help him find and restore the seal. The first person he saw was a girl, the was jumping roof tops and definitely a survivor heading somewhere important. Reese quickly flew up the walls of an ally as he had done earlier and was now in hot pursuit of the girl. The seemed strong and very fast, hopefully she would be able to help him. There were no mutants on the roofs so they were in no danger of attack, only falling. It was a high speed chase and Reese knew the girl would see him before he caught up to her. He only hoped she didn't attack him. Thinking he was one of the more powerful mutants.

[B]Name- [/B] Timothy "flash-bang" Conner [B]Age-[/B] 27 [B]Personality-[/B] Smug and 'snobby'. He believes he is the best already and noone cann match up to him, and thus he treats everyone as somewhat lower than himself. This would be easy to diminish, however his beliefs are strengthened by the fact that he has never lost a pokemon battle. [B]Appearance-[/B] [URL=http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o20/dragonmaster_666/cool%20anime%20guy%20pics/Hotguy-1.jpg]Tim[/URL] [B]When they started training-[/B] At the age of ten. [B]Are they a gym leader-[/B] Yes, but in another region. He's currently training in new locations to enhance his strategic abilities. [B]Pokemon-[/B] [U][I]Gengar:[/I][/U] AKA Shadow, lvl 50 [I][U]Alakazam:[/U][/I] AKA Ali, lvl 45 [I][U]Dusknior:[/U][/I] AKA Jasper lvl 55 (pokemon from forth season) [I][U]Mismagius:[/U][/I] AKA Witchy lvl 50 (pokemon from the forth season) [B]What they want to be-[/B]Master [B]Bio/Writing sample-[/B] He grew up in a standard home, fasinated by pokemon. When ever he got some free time all he would do was read and study about pokemon as much as he could, learning battle plans even before he was a trainer. When he turned tn he was first in line to get his first pokemon, his choice turned out to be a duskull, much to the [I]creeping out[/I] of everyone in his home town. The two became the best of friends and earned many badges while training. One of the best days of Tim's life was that of his duskull's evolution, it was a proud and tall dusclops. He trained hard, catching other pokemon and making them part of his unstoppable team. His trusted ally Jasper became his most powerfull weapon shortly after Tim became the owner of his own gym. The mighty dusclops, thought to be as powerful as it would ever be, evolved again! The creature was new and unheard of, a Dusknior. Tim's battles were a sight to behold among other things. Not only would people go to challenge him for a badge, but others would gather around every time he took a battle. Their main idea being "If the challenger is strong enough, maybe we'll get to see the famed Dusknior" soon becoming a legend in his own rite. Now knowing that not alll about pokemon is true, and there is still some left to be discovered, Tim trained harder than ever. Travelling the world in search of new battles and pokemon, and hoping to find another evolution. Which he did. His misdreavus evolved aswell! A pokemon thought to have only one form changedinto something stronger, yet another secret weapon is Tim's already heavy arsenal. He recently got a letter to help defeat team incarnate, unwilling to give up a challenge and knowing his skills would be a valuble asset on the mission, he eagerly headed off.

Zak walked down the street looking up. He got to the edge of the sidewalk just as the street lights turned colour in his favour. Grinning at his good timing he began walking across the street. A few guys from his school were skateboarding behind him and laughing about something or other. Zak turned once he was across and said "Hey guys you better get to shelter it's gunna down pour soon." One of the guys laughed and said "Oh thanks Zak, how do you use your [I]powers[/I] to predict the weather like that??" taunting and teasing Zak for saying he had some strange abilities. Zak raised an eyebrow and replied "I didn't need anything to use anything to tell you it's gunna rain.". One of the dumber kids said "Uhh how do you tell the future without your magic??" The guys laughed again but Zak calmly replied "There have been dark clouds around all day dumb-ass." All but the brainless guy were still laughing but now at him rather than Zak's [I]stories[/I]. Zak then rolled his eyes and shook his head as he walked away again. "Fine, do what you want, I'm gunna find somewhere to hide from the H[SIZE=2]2[/SIZE]O." he said to himself. He planned to be a chemist in his dream job so he tried to know as much bout chemicals as possible, as a result he sometimes called things by their technical names rather than their common labels. The closest place with an available roof was the pavilion in the town square. He headed over and got caught by the rain before he made it, despite his efforts. Perturbed, Zak now walked slowly to the square anyway, the rain was still cold, even though he couldn't avoid getting wet perhaps he could avoid pneumonia. As he made his approach he saw some people also keeping out of the rain. "Damn, company." thought Zak as he prepared for more ridicule. The closer he got however the more he saw the people for who they actually were. First he smirked thinking that the guys he saw were stupid and were now wet. Then he walked in under the cover from rain, and stood behind the girls so they wouldn't notice him, they weren't anyone he knew to be cruel but you can't be too careful.

Everyone is just getting used to having random monsters in the streets, so for now we're all wondering around trying to find some other survivors. ____________________________________________________________________ The wind blew slowly through the streets. The bustling city of Toronto had become a ghost town. There were cars parked throughout the streets, when the first creatures appeared there were a few grid locks around the city. The vehicles were drenched in blood, as were the streets themselves. Littered with corpses of those who didn't turn, but didn't escape either. Broken glass was everywhere, from shattered windows of tall skyscrapers, broken windshields splashed in red. The roads seemed empty, but if any person were to step foot in public, they would be swarmed instantly. The shadow of a man groped the wall of a high building. Dozens of grotesque beings were at a near by window, screaming blood thirsty howls. They clawed at the figure with long twisted fingers, cutting their arms on the jagged glass still lurking on the edge of the frame. The shaded figure pounced off the wall, cascading and flipping through the sky until it reached another similar wall on the building opposite of the wall. It whipped it's arm around, launching three silver specs into the air. The specs flew hard and fast, driving themselves into the necks of three beings in the opposite side of the street. By now, many of what were once called humans had gathered to the window of the newer building. The shadow dropped off falling threw the air quickly as it watched the blade-like glass covering the road, quickly come closer. As it got to the ground a large group of the beings following it could be seen falling after it. They screamed in anger as it hit the ground with a smashing noise. The shadow shattered, revealing that it was some type of ice sculpture. The creatures however hit with disgusting cracks and splatters of gel-like blood. Reese walked out of the darkness and into the stammering light of a street post half short circuited. He looked at the mauled bodies and dead beings and frowned, turning his back. He then heard a scream, it sounded human, like a real human, a survivor! Reese dashed down the center of the street just in time to find a group of huge beats gorging on the carcass of a man. As Reese turned his view away, the beasts growled and turned to his direction. Sensing his danger he ran down an alley and jumped onto the wall, he leapt wall to wall, quickly ascending several storied and ending on the rooftop of a massive office building. He looked out at the sun rise and grinned "This is definitely going to be a long day"

OK then, I'm starting the rp npw, because I'm anxious to rp. The signups are [U][B]NOT[/B][/U] closed. One of the great things about this story is the facxt that we could always find a new surviver somewhere :) .

[B]Name: [/B] Reese Drakest [B]Age:[/B] 25 [B]Gender:[/B] Male [B]Personality:[/B] Very mysterious. He stays to himself and talks as if he is always in deep thought. [B]Appearence:[/B] [URL=http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e99/PillowMagic/Hotsuma.jpg]Reese[/URL] [B]Skills:[/B] He is a powerful magic user, using elemental magic. Focusing on ice and water for the most part. He also has a few more assorted abilities for practical use. [B]Bio: [/B] Growing up as a member of the elusive 'keepers' he was taught all about magic and the history of it. He learned about weaponry as well and decided to take up mastering the battle umbrella and throwing needles, as exotic weapons they are meant to surprise the opponent. He learned fast and became a high ranking member within a few years, recently he noticed the magic effects on the world and his sanctum was attacked. Using his battle prowess and magical skill he escaped unscathed, but the majority of his branch were killed. Now he searches for new partners to help him find and restore the seal of ages. [B]Weapons: [/B] A large umbrella[URL=http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l142/gooseberry_01/Battleumbrella.jpg] PIC[/URL] (I have virtually no drawing skill) This is the info written in the pic: [I][U]Needles:[/U][/I] The needles are exactly 5 inches long and in the thickest point are one cm thick. Reese mainly uses them as a throwing weapon, but in the umbrella they can fit 5 per pocket in the needle pockets threw out the underside. For the most part they stay in place, but they can be taken out by hand or they will quickly shoot out if the umbrella is spun rapidly while open. [I][U]Closing:[/U][/I] When the umbrella closes, rather than simply forming a cone, the plates fold and form a star-like shape. Virtually making a pole with razor blades lining it. On the handle there are three symbols, energy, water, and ice. Pressing in the ice symbol (bottom) the mechanism activates and the umbrella opens. [I][U]Panels:[/U] [/I] Each panel is made of carbonized steel. They are 3 millimetres in thickness, for weight purposes, and they are hand sharpened.

[SIZE=3][COLOR=Teal]Shadow Winds:[/COLOR] [COLOR=Red]The Awakening[/COLOR][/SIZE] The year is 2021 Many believe magic is only a myth, a story of powers that's been all but told too many times. But there are few ,however, who know the truth...Magic has often only been talked about in medieval times. The reason isn't spoken of often, but is known: magic was only used in medieval times. The power of magic itself was sealed away ages ago. When great kings feared wizardry dethroning them. The seal used was not so much strong as it was secret. A powerful individual who actually found the seal itself could destroy it, and that's what exactly has recently happened. A descendant of a dark and magical family line read about the seal and tracked down it's location. The seal was in the form of a large carved stone tablet, hidden deep in a cave on an uncharted island. This man hunted the seal out and eventually found it. He went into the cave shrine and broke the tablet, releasing the magic energies. Although, the energies did not do as expected. The man had thought the energy would surge threw himself, giving him the power to rule anything he wished. The magic did flow threw him, but it indeed went threw him, and kept going. It crawled over the planet, contaminating everything it came in contact with. Turning house hold pets like dogs and cats into large beasts of hellish design. Bigger animals like elephants and lions became dominating creatures of death and destruction, rampaging over the planet killing all they saw. The worst beings came of the humans themselves. People turned into mindless killing monstrosities. roaming around like zombies, but they did retain any knowledge of damage they once had, the ability to shoot and fight was all that remained. Some could even drive, if only for a short while before hitting something bigger than the vehicle. There was some hope. A few men and women survived the contamination. They joined forces with those of an ancient society known as the "keepers". The keepers are those who kept up their magical ancestry. They remembered the teachings of the old code and fight strong. They use their magic against the beasts, though for good and justice or for mere survival is unknown. _______________________________________________________ OK, so there are roving bands of monsters and demonic humans all over the planet. Those who somehow survived have to join together as one force, then they must find the seal and restore it. You can sign up as a magic user of the old code, they use magic and medieval style weapons. Or you can be a modern civilian, obviously they utilize whatever technology they can get their hands on. Including but not limited to: firearms and explosives. [U]Sign ups:[/U] [B]Name:[/B] [B]Age:[/B] [B]Gender:[/B] [B]Personality:[/B] [B]Appearence:[/B] (pic or description) [B]Skills:[/B] (Any special talents, this is where you put magic if you use it) [B]Bio:[/B] [B]Weapons:[/B] (Guns and various others for modern, bladed and the like for magic users)

[B]Name:[/B] Samual Albian [B]Age:[/B] 20 [B]Gender:[/B] Male [B]Appearance: [/B] [URL=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5f/SlyCoopertheThief.jpg]Sam[/URL] He's about 5'7", and roughly 150 lbs [B]Personality:[/B] Fun loving and care free, he never gets as tence or nervous as anyone around him and alays takes things with a laid back attitude. [B]Race:[/B] Demon beast [B]Breed:[/B] Raccoon [B]History:[/B] Sam is a legendary thief, in most of the world he is only a rumor. The few who have seen him up close fear him as a master of stealth, capable of vanishing into the night with a puff of smoke. He has honer however and usually steals from thieves. Earniong his the reputation of a backstabber among criminals, and a menace among law enforcers of all kinds. His fighting skills are decent but extremely close to sub-parr. He mainly relies on his skills with hiding and sneaking to get jobs done. and often avoids head to head encounters. [B]Weapons:[/B] the cane in the pic.