Junrei infighting: Ari's clan trials part 1

Humming could be heard within the hallways of the Junrei Clan compound located near the waterworks of Hoshigakure.  Having just gotten back from his shift of supervising the forest for anything out of sorts, Hideyoshi Junrei felt like he needed some excitement after a long day of next to nothing.  (There was a sighting of a fox, a deer, and a falcon. But that's about it).  Hideyoshi was one of the go-getters of the Junrei clan and one of the New Branch members with a flair for flamboyance and a desire for daredevil acts.

So what does anyone like Hideyoshi do on a day like today? Find his nephew, Ari, to pester the hell out of and teach a few new tricks to of course!

Ari was twiddling away with a puzzle box that belonged to his father, something that neither he, nor Ari, could open as of yet (and this thing is resilient too, darn thing won't even yield to fire or an ax.  Ari's contemplative thoughts were disturbed when his dark haired uncle poked his head into the room, his mustache almost twitching like a cat's whiskers with excitement to see that Ari was doing nothing, **"Oh good! You're not busy! Come with me, I want to show you something!"** Emphaticly speaking, Hideysohi just grabbed Ari by the back of his shirt collar and started walking off.

Ari, trying to figure out what was going on in that instant, just juggled the puzzle box into the air where it landed on his bed and the lad was toted off outside toward the pond where the Junrei took care of their koi fish, and a second pond which they used to abuse their water chakra, don't get the two mixed up.  The Koi pond was clearly marked with a sakura tree and a flowing bamboo waterfall.  The jutsu training pond was filled with water that seemed to glow when a Junrei was near in response to the amount of electrolytes it possessed. "Uhh Uncle Hideyo-" Getting a finger to the face, Ari got silenced as his uncle took from behind his back, Ari's own three-section cane, Three Kingdoms.

**"Now I have a little game. You won't be getting this back until you can show me you can grab it from my hands."**

*Alright this should be easy enough,* Ari thought, and a wrong thought it was.  When Ari lunged for the cane, his uncle just bent absolutely backwards using Flowing Current without any handsigns as he was skilled enough to do so.  His uncle followed up with a quick backflip like a jumping spider and kicked Ari in the chest, sending the boy backwards.

**"Exactly as I expected, you don't know how to extend your reach yet."**

Ari groaned, looking up at the partially cloudy sky before turning his gaze to his uncle, "Why is it always riddles with you when it comes to things I clearly won't know? Unless the answer is a growth spurt, which I don't have one coming for a little while." As Ari finished his little sass fest, a whip of water lashed out and slapped him across the top of the head.  Though it had the viscosity of a solid whip rather than splashing like water.  His uncle had two rings of flowing water around his wrists with Ari's cane on his back.

**"Nope, you're gonna learn Whiplash."**

"That thing where you smack me in the back of the head so hard I feel dizzy?" Another smack came Ari's way, which caused the brownhaired youth to rub the spot where he got thwacked.

'*"No you little idiot, the jutsu, the one I am using right now. See?"  **Jumping off of the ground and flinging both arms outwards, Hideyoshi sent two coils of water from those rings around his wrist to latch onto nearby tree trunks, suspending himself in the air.** "It's quite simple and very useful given the right situations. You just need your Flowing Current and then visualize your bodily water on the ends of your hands.  Just start by focusing and then trying to get the wrist rings. Because you are going to use it to get your cane back. The handseals for it are '***Dragon bird tiger dog dragon."**

Okay, so if he wanted his cane back ever, Ari would have to figure out how to use a jutsu he had not seen in practical use before, seems like a decent plan if there ever was one. Ari started off with the seals for Flowing Current, Dragon monkey dragon tiger.  With that and a focus of chakra in his liver, pushing it into overdrive to regulate his bodily liquid distribution.  The next step was to focus it toward his arms, and try to perform handseals with heavier arms thanks to all the water in his arms.  Dragon bird tiger dog dragon.  Ari was able to get the water out onto his wrists, that was a start.  Then there was the fact he could move water away from his arms and move them around a little easier.

**"Good, good. Now--come get your stick."**

Ari, throwing a right haymaker for his uncle, sent out the whip across twenty feet, or he wanted to, but it just jumped halfway along the way off trajectory and then whipped right back, smacking Ari across the head, with his own whip. "Bluh."

**"Not as easy as it looks huh kiddo?"**

Chewing the inside of his cheek, Ari just raised his eyebrows, trying to swing his left arm from his right hip and with a flick of the wrist upwards then downward, was able to create enough tension in the whip that it just burst into water droplets, causing the wrist rings to burst from around both of his arms. "Ooookay, that wasn't supposed to happen."

**"I suggest keeping a good focus on it, instead of the person you are trying to hit. That way you won't whip yourself."**

"Yes, yes. Very funny."  Doing the handseals again, Ari with a little frustration on his mind, got really fast moving water to come out.  That kind of fast moving water that you shoot out of one of those single pump water guns and shoot up into the air to let it rain down on your friends? Imagine that rushing around your wrists constantly.  Ari got to feel that and was flailing his arms right then and there, "Gah!"

This process continued for a couple dozen attempts, getting to the point where Hideyoshi just reclined on his side, scratching his stomach with a yawn here and there, **"You know, the angrier you get at yourself, the more annoyed you are gonna become."** Hanging onto the last syllables of his wrods before the punctuations, Hideyoshi was trying to egg Ari on to get past his frustration so he could at least maintain the damn jutsu.

The frustrated genin just huffed and went over to the electrolyte pond, dipping his head under the water and letting out a scream that caused bubbles to ripple up around his collar-line.  After letting out some of his steam, Ari got a full gulp of the water fresh from the source before pulling back and taking a deep breath. "Okay! I can do this!" Ari got right back to it, focusing his water toward his arms and quickly forming the handseals again, "Whiplash!"  With a spin on his heels and a flourish of his arms with one above the other, Ari had two great whips wheeling about his person.

Now came the lashing out of the whips, trying to latch onto his cane with his right one, which Hideyoshi, now eager to see what Ari would do, leapt backwards, while the left whip of Ari's was flying farther than Hideyoshi before it got enough tension to be ready to snap back.  He just used the tension to snap it to the side and smack his cane off of his uncle's back.

The two then got into a fight at range over the cane, trying to whip it and snap it through the air while they both tried to grab a hold of it.  Ari got his uncle so fixated on keeping the cane away from himself, that Ari was able to wrap his left whip tightly around both of his uncle's grabbing the cane out of the air with his right and yanking it back to himself through the air, "Ha! I win."

The only downside was that Ari had forgotten he had his kekkei genkai active this entire time, and just how thirsty he became.  he thought he had grabbed his cane when he grabbed a tree branch in his delirium and fell backwards to pass out, content in the thought that he got the hang of his jutsu and his cane back.

His uncle however just sighed and looked up at the clouds, **"This is the kid that's gonna lead us in the future? Suijin help us."** Hideyoshi left the cane next to Ari after making sure he got some water in his system and then left the kid to take a prolonged nap, also called sleeping.