Team One: Tree Climbing

**(Location and Time Frame): At the training grounds a day after Team One met up at the Ramen Shop. Genin were instructed to met at the training grounds by 7:30 a.m.**

**Kaiiaki:** ＿φ(￣ー￣ )"Thank you for the training yesterday, Dahlia-chan." Kaiiaki spoke with a slight smile towards her elder sister. In Kaiiaki's mind, yesterday had been less than prodctive. All her sensei had done was have a meeting that came to an end just as quick as it had started. Kaiiaki had felt ripped off after that. So she quickly had left that ramen stand and came back to her sister to complain. Dahlia listened to Kaiiaki's words carefully. Listening to the story in its entirety. After Kaiiaki had finished complaining, she offered her own opinion. Dahlia thought that perhaps Kane had thought that meeting each other was in itself a sort of training. Or setting themselves up for what was to come in the future. However, Kaiiaki only believed the part that they were setting themselves up for future purposes. And as for Kai, she was indeed setting herself up to adjust to the weakness of her teamates. Now it was the day after, the day where some actual training was to take place. Kaiiaki was forcibly woken up early at 6 am by Dahlia. Kaiiaki had kicked and protested, but once Dahlia had reminded Kaiiaki she needed to be on her sensei's good side, Kaiiaki woke right up. And even more so when Dahlia mentioned that Kaiiaki needed to show off her power in front of her other teammates. This made Kaiiaki pop out of bed like a cork from a bottle. She was up like a shot, running through her morning routine like she was in a race. By the time she had gotten all of her ninja gear on, it was 6:30 A.M. It took an additional 10 minutes for her to run down to the dining hall and shove her breakfast down. "The earlier I get there, the better." Kaiiaki said through a muffled mouth at an incredulous Dahlia. Kaiiaki had never eaten like this before. She was always a dainty little princess about eating her food. Dahlia said nothing, but stared at Kaiiaki like she had lobsters growing out of her ears until the moment Kaiiaki ran out the door. "Love you sis!" Kaiiaki shouted out behind her as she closed the front door behind her. "Let's see how fast I can get to those training grounds today...." Without a second thought, Kaiiaki dug her ninja shoes into the ground, the pushed off for take off. Kaiiaki's speed seemed to be one of the highest in all the village. It certainly helped with assisting her in capturing people in her crystal jutsu. Not so good though for those unfortunate enough to find themselves trapped within her range. Kaiiaki smirked to herself while she was pushing through the few people who were out and about on this early morning. The smells of baking bread tempted her nostrils. But it wouldn't cause her to slow down. Not this morning. Within 7 minutes, Kaiiaki arrived at the training grounds. Fully apt and ready to go for the day. She estimated the time to be about 6:50 A.M. now. No one was around at this time. Not even Kane-sensei. "Hah. I beat all of them here. These guys are just going to have to get used to be being ahead of them." Kaiiaki smirked once again. Satisfied with the thought that her two teamates couldn't match her in anything. ~I'll just sit here and wait until someone takes the liberty of showing up~ She thought to herself. Although, the ground below her was covered in dew. She didn't want to get her pants wet. That would make them clingy to her skin, making it harder for her to move. Not to mention it might cause some uncomfortable chafing later on. Kai looked around for awhile, not finding a sensible place to sit that wasn't already covered in the summer dew. Disappointed, she crossed her arms and rose her nose high into the air. ~Like I need a seat! Those teammates of mine may think I am weak if they catch me sitting. Hah! I'm better than all of them. I don't need to sit or rest.~ And with that, Kaiiaki continued to stand, waiting on her sensei and teammates to arrived to the designated training grounds. φ(￣ー￣ )ノ

**Kenji:** Kenji Uchiha did not have the same fortune as his teammate kaiiaki of getting up at 6am, Being an uchiha meant getting up at 5am because that was when the police force shifts changed. Something the young boy had gotten used↵to. So he set about his day to day business for the time being, getting dressed. He opted to wear his usual attire. Several other uchiha bowing to him as he walked towards the kitchen to get some food. He in turn bows to them out of respect. After he got what passed for food, in this case a oatmeal of sorts and some rice balls, taking the liberty to pack a meal for his sensei and teammates, figuring he may as well bring extra’s. Kaiiaki was as apt to forget her lunch, and the other boy Ryota, he was not sure if he would bring a meal, taking a moment to grab his kunai, the Senbon needles, his sword and smoke bombs, while affixing his Hitai-ate to his head Kenji left the uchiha compound. Grinning as it 0550 in the morning, the sun had just begun to edge over the Hokage monument, and the forest, creating a sea of colors in the sky, almost an art canvas of sorts, several early risers were out and about doing their own business, as Kenji walked towards the training grounds. He of course figured that Sensei would be the first to arrive at the training ground as it took him rough 45 minutes to get to the training ground. What shocked him was that he had indeed arrived at the training ground first it seemed, so he tied his stuff to a low hanging branch and monkey climbed the tree, sitting on one of the lower hanging branches of the tree, waiting for his team to show up Kaiiaki was the first to arrive after him, and when he heard her cry out her victory  he couldn’t resist the urge to laugh “ hahaha Wrong on that account Kaiiaki-chan “ Kenji commented sitting in his tree for the time being food still secured to the branch, as he hopped down, and decided to start the morning off, with some stretches, doing crunches and hamstring stretches, Something that had been drilled into his head by his father since he was old enough to train, He didn’t really care of Kaiiaki thought him weird for the early morning stretches or the fact he started next after his stretches to jog a few laps around the training field, this was done to pass the time, if asked why he was doing this, he would explain why.

**Ryota:** Ryota who helped his aunty uncle and cuzin in celebrating  the fact they got there squads and met there teammates. Ryota would then go to bed at about 10 pm that night and try to sleep but he couldnt. The pain would rip through his head from where the scars were. He had nightmares all that night. the same one reoccuring all night till about 7 am the next day. Ryota would open his eye and and look around before looking to the clock and seeing the time. " OH SHIT ITS 7 AM! " Ryota would rush to get his stuff together not even stopping to get breakfest or anything to eat or drink as he would put on his cloths and equipment as he would then rush down stair slipping his ninja shoes on and running out the door. He would rush  out towards the training ground  trying to make sure he wasnt late seeing it he would slow down to catch his breath as he would look to his team mates and waves-

**Kane:** Kane: Kane Rinha woke up at 6:30 a.m. at his alarm clock that blared through the silent room. He looked out the window to see it was still somewhat dark but light was starting to peak through. He pushed the covers off of his bed and stood up while stretching his arms over his head and yawning. Then, he lazily walked to his dresser and got his clothes out consisting of a custom made blue jounin flask jacket and blue shinobi pants along with black open toed shinobi sandals. He went in the bathroom to take a 20 minute shower and do all the other things he normally does in the morning. When he got fully dressed and placed his Kunai, Shuriken, and Senbon in his rectangular black pouch that was strapped onto his right leg he walked out of the bathroom. On his right hip there is a cylinder shaped small black pouch that is big enough to hold his scrolls. At 7:15 a.m. he set out of the house towards the training grounds. He knew based on their first experience that they would most likely beat him there, which he didn’t mind. If they wanted to be early then why not, long as they aren’t late. He arrived at the training grounds at 7:25 a.m. as he walked over to his team. He leaned against one of the trees and stood in silence for five minutes until it was time to begin at 7:30 a.m. He did that for a reason, even though he would let the team figure out that reason for themselves. He stepped forward and cleared his throat, “Alright, today you will be learning a useful skill that doesn’t not take a lot of chakra but may very well safe your life or benefit you one day. This will not be a test of your physical strength. This is an exercise that is precisely targeting your chakra control. So you will need to pay close attention and have precise concentration on this exercise. Your first step is to control an anchored amount of chakra controlled down to the bottom of your feet. If you break focus and your chakra control becomes to weak then you will fall. But, if you have to much controlled chakra you may bounce off the tree from the force of your chakra and the tree colliding, so it has to be the perfect amount.” He demonstrated this for them as he concentrated a small amount of his chakra to the ball of his feet and climbed the tree with eyes as he stood on one of the branches. “I have given you your instructions. If one of you is to learn this quickly, then I expect you to help your fellow teammate to learn it. You will soon realize that some things one of you will get quickly and some things one of you will get very slowly. One of you may learn this technique on the first try, but later on with another technique it may take you a few more tries, so you need to get in the habit of helping each other. I expect no questions to me, if you have any questions then ask your teammates and figure it out together. Everything you do from this point on will be with each other and helping each other get better. Now begin.” He sat down on the branch of the tree with his back rested against the base as he closed his eyes and relaxed.

**Kaiiaki:** ＿φ(￣ー￣ ) As Kaiiaki spoke those last words, she heard a voice of a boy off in the distance. It seemed to be coming from a tree. "What the hell?" She yelled. ~She was certain trees weren’t able to talk, or was this some sort of jutsu?~ Kaiiaki was sure that no one else had been here. That she had been the first of her team to arrive. She decided she would go and check this out while she was awaiting the 3 other simpletons. She began to walk cautiously towards where she thought the sound was coming from. In the direction of a tree off to the west seemed to be the suspicious spot. "Kaiiaki-chan." Were the words she thought she heard coming from this tree. She knew that no living soul from this village would call her that except her sister. But Dahlia was definitely not here at the training grounds. "Hey! Stupid tree! Who do you think you are!" Kaiiaki began to kick at the tree forcefully in irritation. "Hey!  I'm talking to YOU! Do you think it's funny to not talk back now?!" Kaiiaki growled at the tree before she temporarily stopped assaulting the tree to look around for the source of the noise. She thought she had heard a few rustling of the leaves from a branch above. "HEY! Who's up there! COME DOWN!" Kaiiaki demanded at the unknown intruder. It was probably one of her teammates trying to play a trick upon her. Before Kaiiaki could confront the stranger more; she heard the pounding of footsteps upon the ground. She turned around to face the oncoming person whom she recognized as “Copycat.” Kaiiaki smirked before crossing her arms, and leaning on the tree, "Oh look who decided to show up this morning." Even though she was just yelling at a tree that definitely did not and could not talk, she was still going to look cool anyways, and let the boy bask in envy at her. She chose to not speak towards the monkey in the tree she recognized to be Ragboy or the Copycat near her. She didn't need to speak in order to look cool and beautiful. She'd just let them stare at her. Her mind wandered into the thoughts of learning new jutsu today. She was excited about it, but wouldn't show it in front of the simpletons. ~Someday...I will be stronger than every ninja in this world. Crystal is unbeatable, that much I have seen. I must improve on it. Hone my skills so that I can beat the Hokage himself no matter what he may throw at me...~ Kaiiaki sneered, as she was brought out of her thoughts by what she presumed to be “Mute Man” off to the tree nearest to her. "Did you decide to clock in yet?" She jeered in his direction. It highly annoyed her that he would only start off when he so felt like it. She wondered what the man would do if she forced him to do something...if she just used a little crystal to get his attention. ~How would he react to it?~ She wondered to herself, a smile forming on her lips as she plotted ways to get him to react to something. After she had formulated a few naughty plans, the man finally found himself at liberty to speak. So Kaiiaki listened. Only because she wanted to find out what he was going to be teaching today. Whatever it was, she was going to excel past the other two at it. ~Treeclimbing? Pfft piece of cake~ ... ~Help each other? Why the hell would I help those two simpletons?~ ... ~ Of course I'll be the first one to get it right~ ... ~Begin? Hah. I was ready when I first got here.~ Being a wandering nomad, Kaiiaki had trained in skills similar to this by her sister. It was vital to their survival. Although, it had been awhile since Kaiiaki had last attempted this. It wasn't exactly on the teaching list on the academy. And since Kaiiaki was no longer a wandering nomad for the time being, she had not needed to use it for about a year. But, nevertheless, she was going to show up Ragboy and Copycat. "Hah! Watch this!" Kaiiaki pulled out a kunai with her right hand, twirling it around her fingers, then grasping it tight within her hand. With that, she focused a small amount of chakra onto the soles of her feet. She could feel the chakra distributing upon the muscles of her feet. Feeling and spreading out evenly, using her shoe as a solid base for the chakra to take the solid form of. ~Not too much...~ She struggled for a second, biting her lip and concentrating it to stay the same solid amount emitting from the bottoms of her feet. Using the sole of her shoes as an example helped her. Assisted her in remember to keep the amount of chakra even, lest the "shoe" fall off. After about half of a minute of falling into concentration, she felt she was ready. It should be good enough. Kaiiaki took a head start run towards the tree she had been kicking at earlier. ~Hah. You really think I was stupid enough to think I'd kick at a tree thinking it was alive, those simpleton team-mates of mine. ~ She smirked to herself. My tree will have less lumps and bumps than yours will, which in turn would make it easier for her to go over a smoother tree than one with all sorts of bumps and cracked bark upon it. Kaiiaki soon crossed the small distance between her and the tree, without breaking her concentration. She placed her right foot up on the tree feeling the chakra stick her foot on it like the strongest glue. ~Do not get nervous...it is just like walking on the ground... Concentrate...~ Kaiiaki's brows furrowed in concentration. Her black eyes scanned the tree in front of her as she began to run up the smooth bark. 3 feet...5 feet...6 feet...10 feet... Kaiiaki avoided looking over at the other two, and looking below. She didn't want to break her concentration. She needed all of it she could take since it had been so long since she had done this. 13 feet.... 15-... Kaiiaki felt the bark below her start to crumble. ~Too much in my left foot!!~ Kaiiaki felt panic rise within her. She was sure her sensei wouldn't catch her from below if she fell. He'd probably want them to learn their lesson the hard way. He wouldn't be concerned about something so much as a bruised bone or worse. "No!" Kaiiaki cried out, as she refused to let herself fall to the death trap below. Within a precious second, she refocused the amount of chakra into her left foot using the sole of her shoe as a base. She began focusing the chakra in an even, small amount upon this spot while distributing it evenly before she attempted to place her left foot back upon the tree. And...It stuck! "Hah!" Kaiiaki proclaimed, realizing that she was better at this than she had at first thought. 15 feet....20 feet...30 feet...35 feet... Branch! As soon as Kaiiaki saw a suitable branch to sit upon, she veered off to the right, placing her feet upon the branch as she would the trunk of the tree. After carefully edging herself down to sit, she looked over at the others. Now bothering to look and see how their progress was going. φ(￣ー￣ )ノ

**Kenji:** “ Jeebus Kai, you really need to lighten up some, I was here first. “ He said before paying attention to teacher. Help each other out? Yeah sure, what the hell, why not? He paid attention to Kane as he climbed the tree, listening to the parts of too much chakra, and too little, before he looked to both team-mates. Kai, as always, was “chomping at the chain” to go and well frankly, looked to understand the exercise well. He had a decent grasp of what to do. It was simply trial and error till he got it right. His tree was a bit rougher then hers and the bark were far more edged, making climbing a pain to say the least. Kenji walked over to the tree, and placed one foot on the tree, spreading chakra evenly throughout his foot, and well he put far too much into his foot, and the result was someone who looked like he had been shot from a cannon as he propelled himself at high speeds backwards.  He hit the ground and did several cartwheels in the air, before coming to a stop face first in the ground, remaining still for a moment, before pushing himself up off the ground. “Ok way to much chakra that time, “ He made a note to keep in mind how much he needed in case he ever needed to blast himself in a different direction mid fight. Perhaps he would practice that stunt on his own time. He brushed himself off, before walking back over to his tree to inspect the damage done. Whistling sharply as he had splintered the bark and the tree itself with that much. “Yeah definitely too much chakra that time..” He commented running his hands through his hair.

**Ryota:** Ryota watched his team-mates practice and smiled seeing how hard they were working. His own thoughts were surfacing through his mind, that nightmare of a memory... That day he lost his eye. He looked to the others as he witnessed Kai master the training in moments while Kenji seemed to have a bit more trouble blasting part of the tree.  He laughed and yelled to kenji. " Just like an Uchiha to destroy something so easily," he'd chuckle as he focused his chakra  into his feet.  He took a deep breath to calm himself to attempt to block that thought of what happened to him. Then he took a running start as he rushed at the tree before him and attempted to run up the tree. As his foot touched the tree, the chakra  caused the tree to be blasted resulting in ryota to fly back on the ground and his eye patch  flying off giving everyone in his team the view of what was under his eye patch. It was a hole. His eye socket with no eye in it and 2 massive scars coming from that would lead down and across his face. This was Ryota's most painful secret and memory as he would try to cover his eye as not to let his teammates see.

**Kaiiaki:** ＿φ(￣ー￣ ) As the exercise continued on, Kaiiaki watched her teammates from down below. She was extremely amused by what she was seeing. "BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!" Kaiiaki broke out into laughter as she saw Ragboy blast himself off his tree. Her hands clutched at her stomach in laughter. For she could hardly contain herself at the sight of his idiocy. The sound of her laugh felt earsplitting to her own eardrums. But to anyone else, it would have sounded like the giggling of a fairy. Her high-pitched giggling only increased when she saw Copycat try his luck at the exercise. "BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!" Kaiiaki jeered at the copycat. He didn't even make it farther than Ragboy did before blasting off. Kaiiaki pointed at Ragboy, laughing at him and picking on him first. "HA! I thought Uchiha had a reputation for being talented! You can't even climb a tree~!" Kaiiaki then collapsed upon the tree, now in a laughing fit. In her mind she was extremely funny and clever. Her own joke was making her cry from so much laughter. She then pointed at Copycat, now laughing at him. "HA! You can't even get off the ground!" Kaiiaki was laughing her butt off now while kicking her legs up into the air. But as she looked back over at Copycat, she noticed something was off about him. Her laughing came to a quick stop, as she gazed upon the remains of Copycat's eye. She was silenced for a few moments, as her black eyes stared into the empty socket of skin. It was only a moment, but she saw it before he was able to cover this eye. Kaiiaki let out a blood curling scream out to the heavens suddenly. She was horrified by the ugliness this eye patch had hidden. Of course in the past, Kai had seen many disturbing things. Being a nomad she had seen gruesome deaths performed by her own hand even,but she wanted this...Ryota to know that his appearance freaked her out. And she would never look at him in any other way than disgust. "You...you...what the hell...you...FREAK!" Kaiiaki yelled out towards the boy. She wanted to get as far away from him as possible. So with that, Kaiiaki focused the same small amount of chakra  throughout her chakra network. Working it down throughout her body and into the soles of her feet. Forming it in a solid base under the soles of her shoes. Making sure it was evenly disturbed in a solid form. When that was done, she placed her right foot upon the bark of the tree, with her left foot following. Kaiiaki then began to go up the tree, higher than she had been running before. She was running up the tree as fast she could without breaking concentration on her feet. 40 feet....50 feet...60 feet... After making it up to about 65 feet, Kaiiaki looked back down at the two. She didn't figure any of them would make it up to this point anytime soon. She tried not to look at Copycat, since his appearance was beyond repair and greatly disturbed her.  φ(￣ー￣ )ノ

**Kenji:** Kenji stood up and Looked to his comrade for a moment, seeing the eye patch and what it hid, he took a different route and walked over to the patch and picked it up. Before he got really angry with his teammate, she didn’t have to remind him. So, he came to the conclusion. He would show her to pick on his comrade; he expected to get in trouble for this stunt, but so what, he drew in a deep breath for a moment, before bringing his two fingers forward to his lips as if he was going to blow a whistle, before he exhaled hard. “Fire STYLE Great Fireball Jutsu “Kenji called out, aiming for the base of her tree. He knew that without a doubt the tree would splinter as the red hot ball of flames sailed right into its target. His voice echoing, He did not regret this action. She had no right to pick on their teammate and call him ugly and a freak, and above all. He had finally had enough. Someone really needed to knock her down a peg. “ Sorry Sensei “ Kenji commented turning towards their teacher and sensei, He was sorry for reacting, but not what so ever for defending his teammate, even if it came to blows between him and Kai.  He looked to his friend and checked to see if Ryota was fine. His hand still holding the rag out to his friend, the all to famous Uchiha glare turned towards Kai, the next moment.

**Ryota:** He would take Kenji’s hand and get up slowly while not saying a word. He then went to go over to his Konoha eye patch and replace it. He silently growled as his one eye slitting like that of a reptile as the scales on his arms would sharpen as he stared up at Kai while getting ready to attack her when  Kenji intervened and attacked Kai for her remarks. He looked at him with shock since he wasn't really used to the kindness of others as he sighed  and would then look to Kenji and mumble " Thank you my friend..." He would say as he could hear the sadness in his voice. Something had traumatized him. Something that caused the loss of his eye. He would look to Kenji and say in a sad tone. " Again thank you bro. " He would go over to a new tree focusing his chakra at the soles of his feet  and would beginning to walk up it using a  bit of chakra but keeping it in check as he would walk up it slowly  as in his mind he tried to block out the voice of his father and his comrade Kai. He walked up the tree slowly before getting near the top and losing control causing him to fall off again.

**Kaiiaki:** ＿φ(￣ー￣ ) Before Kaiiaki knew it, her teammate Ragboy was lashing out at her suddenly. She had never expected any sort of retaliation back towards her. ~He is either very brave or very stupid. And I think it is the latter~ She chuckled in the back of her throat. "Give me a break, weakling." She spoke out loud while watching his fireball jutsu come towards the base of her tree. Without another thought, Kaiiaki moved her chakra throughout her chakra system, moving it of her her body and into the air. With her chakra, she mixed it with the molecules of water within the air. Forming it instantly into crystal. She had no need for handsigns for this jutsu. "Crystal Thorns!" Kaiiaki yelled out. Forming crystal thorns at the bottom of the ground, all the way up to where her tree was collapsing. The base encircled the next closest tree, coming up towards her from the ground the crystal thorns had stabbed into the ground like tree roots. Crystals stabbed into the air, much like branches upon a tree. They stabbed upwards, like stalagmites within a cave. Except these had a much more dangerous point at the end. Sharp enough to pierce the skin. Except the crystal that came upon her was formed vertically and wide enough for her to walk across. The crystal formed so fast, all she had to do was to simply step off of the falling tree, and onto the crystal thorns that had formed into makeshift branches for her. She placed her feet with chakra formed underneath the soles of her feet unto the crystal. Keeping herself upon the crystal as she simply walked upon the crystal over to the closest tree. When she was settled at the top of that tree, she looked down at her so called teammates. "What the hell were you thinking Ragboy?! If you were aiming to hit me you missed by a mile." Kaiiaki smirked, crossing her arms over her small chest. She was angry that this boy tried to attack her. He should have known better. ~Who did he think he was anyway?~ "Well Copycat and Ragboy. If you want to come get me, you have to come up this tree. To do that, you have to get past these crystals. And if you trip or lose your balance even once, you will fall and these crystals will pierce through your heart and kill you." She smirked down at them, her black eyes peering down at the two boys. "Of course, I am the only one who can make these crystals shatter." She let that sink in a moment. Letting the boys know who the strongest team member was. There was no way any of their jutsu would be strong enough to counter hers. It would take a higher level of ninja to even put a dent in these crystals. And even then, only certain jutsu was able to counter hers. But she had never before seen anyone skilled enough to counter it. "Buuuttt~ I MAY be persuaded into shattering the crystals, for your benefits." Kaiiaki winked down at them, and them blew them a kiss. She was teasing them. Trying to get under their skin. But she doubted that they could resist her unique beauty when she did these actions. Or maybe they were too angry to notice at this point. Whatever the case, she deserved to feel angry too. He just attacked her out of the blue. Just like that. Sure, she had said some teasing words to Copycat. But did she really deserve to be killed because of those actions? Had he been trying to kill her? φ(￣ー￣ )ノ

**Kenji:** Kenji’s eyes widened for a moment, and quickly flashed through the needed signs to utilize the body replacement technique, putting him just outside the jutsus range. In a tree himself, "What the hell Kai, that could have killed us?” Kenji said before catching the wink, sighing as he then proceeded to explain his actions the best he could “Kai-chan, I never actually aimed to hit you, to be honest, I aimed for the tree to make a point, Your good yes, I’ll give you that point, but we are a team, we have to work together. We need to work together, and Honestly I would like to call you both my friends, not just Ryota alone. Look I am sorry I acted out as I did, he is a comrade like you are. Like it or not,” Kenji said before placing his feat to the tree, balls of his foot first, having been watching kaiiaki the entire time. He lowered the chakra he put into the tree the last time, and slowly made his way up shaky step after step, slipping now and then. He aimed to speak with her on her level at this point. “A team is only as good as it’s weakest member, Kai your weak in the social department, you are brash and bold and you think your better then everyone. I admit you have been on your own… However you have a team now, people you can work with, people whom one day I hope you can trust. Me I don’t have much going for me in the way of Jutsu, I know fire based Jutsu, which to be frank aint as impressive as your crystal based Jutsu. Not by a long shot, But when it comes to Taijutsu, recall IN the academy, I did best your more often than not, and I am able to spot a genjutsu, long before either you or Ryota. And Ryota is the team’s strong arm.  He can fight longer than either of us. Plus we all have our own skills that more than make up for each other’s downfalls, when I get my sharingan, think when that happens, Justus’s that you could make use that against the enemies. Know I could memorize them and teach you the hand signs. You’re our justu’s Specialist." Kenji commented recognizing her importance in the squad while not downplaying the other two members. Slipping several times as he climbed the tree slowly and steadily towards Kai, getting used to the amount of chakra, adjusting it slowly, as he walked he didn’t even pay attention if Kane had accepted the apology or not, this was something the three had to work on together, and If the Uchiha had to be the bridge of peace and bow his head first then so be it. “So kai-chan, what do you say, are you willing to give being our friends a chance? I am willing to and I am sure Ryota would be as well. “Kenji said adhering himself on the tree. Using his chakra to stick to the tree, which was tougher then walking it seemed. Turning his head towards kaiiaki, Kenji offered a sincere smile.

**Ryota:** Ryota would slowly make his way up the tree learning to control his chakra, after his downfalls, almost in an instant. He would make his way to a nearby tree branch close to Kai's crystal tree and stared at her with a hateful look in his eye that would rival even the Uchiha’s known for hate filled glares. He would then yell to her " Yes i am a freak, a monster as you and my father put it and this scar.. This is what my father did to me ya bitch! " He would say out of anger as he would then here Kenji's words of wisdom. He then hopped off of the tree and go as far away from Kai as he could before sitting in the grass and meditating to calm down.

**Kaiiaki:** ＿φ(￣ー￣ ) Kaiiaki was surprised to see Copycat running towards her after her insulting him. "Now this one, is coming towards me out of stupidity. Hah!" He looked like he was greatly struggling against the tree. Trying to get to her by nails and teeth. "Hah. Weakling." She giggled like an imp to herself. Once he had finally come up semi-close to her tree encrusted around crystal he gave her a hateful gaze. And something else... It almost looked like self infliction to her. Kaiiaki met his orange eyes with her own black eyes. Staring back at him with just as much hatred for the existance of him. She didn't cower, nor back down. The gaze didn't intimidate her in the least bit. In his attempt to get her to submit, he screamed at her. His words violent with the spit of his tongue. He didn't hold back when he called her a bitch. She was ultimately surprised. Surprised that this timid boy had such anger within him. "HA! You are calling me a bitch? Well I will show you how much of a merciless bitch I can be." Kaiiaki gritted her teeth, anger seething through her veins. Kenji was saying something about how they needed to work together, and be friends. ~Blah, blah, blah. I do not care what he is saying. I am going to kill this little bigmouth copycat.~ Kaiiaki ignored Kenji for now. She was full of anger, like her body was radiating off of it. She had killed people in the past for doing lesser things than this one had. He would learn that she was not the chick to mess with. "I WILL KILL YOU!" Kaiiaki screamed in her little soprano voice. She noticed that Copycat was now trying to calm himself by sitting on the ground and meditating. "You...little..." Kaiiaki growled through her gritted teeth. With a surge of chakra, Kaiiaki mixed her chakra with the air molecules in the air, instantly crystallizing into the Crystal Thorns she so loved. "CRYSTAL THORNS!" Kaiiaki screamed, her voice perforating into the air. With that, Kaiiaki attempted to form these all around Copycat. Aiming to encircle him at first, all around his body. The thorns connected with each other, forming a cage. The cage grew upwards, just big enough to come to the tip of his head. The encircling crystals were about a distance of 4 feet from Copycat. Crystal thorns stabbed forward towards him. They spread out in all directions towards his body from head to toe. The piercing thorns would reach within an inch of touching any and every portion of his flesh if her attack had been successful. Kaiiaki pounced down from her tree encrusted with crystal. She easily found her way down until she was right in front of Copycat. Once she was staring at him with her black eyes, she stared at him with ferocity and animosity. "The only thing more satisfying than killing someone is letting them live in fear." Kaiiaki paced around Copycat, never once breaking eye contact with him. "I am letting you know I could easily kill you if I so wished. But..." She paused, sneering down at him. " I am going to let you live with yourself. Simply because, surviving in such a manner as this, is pitiful. You look like you torture yourself enough." Kaiiaki commented, noticing the bit of self-loathing she noticed within his eyes. "I am just giving you more of a reason to torture yourself. Hate me for being better and stronger than you. And live with that knowledge and fear." Kaiiaki jeered at him, laughing once again. At that moment, an image flashed at the back of Kaiiaki's mind. A sincere smile from Kenji, offering to her his friendship. But this smile was different from that she had seen from people. Everyone that she met gave her a smile of respect and acknowledgment. A smile of obligation and respect for the Kurisutaru Clan. ~Why was his smile so different from theirs...~ Kaiiaki pondered to herself for a brief moment. But then she shook her head back and forth, clearing her thoughts. She would have to think about it when she got home, maybe even ask Dahlia-chan to elaborate upon it. "Tch...." Kaiiaki waved her right hand up into the air, crossing over the areas to which crystal still clung. With that wave of her hand, the crystals shattered, their essence returning into the earth. Glittering like her fish scales before disappearing for good. "I'm going home." Kaiiaki said coldy before walking towards the exit of the Training Grounds. φ(￣ー￣ )ノ

**Kenji:** The young Uchiha shook his head. Kenji had been completely overlooked for the most part in a fit of anger. “ and I thought the uchiha had anger issues “ Kenji Stated quietly to himself, referring to his two teammates. It was not worded as an insult and spoken more to himself than anything else. “well there is nothing left, but to keep up trying to get through to my teammates. “ Kenji Stated before making his way towards the top of the tree trying keeping his chakra flow even. Kenji had finally gotten used to the exercise. Slowly he made his way back down the tree, and to make sure he had gotten it right. As soon as he reached the bottom of the tree, Kenji turned around and walked right back up the tree one more time, using the balls of his feet to adhere himself to the tree. Climbing the tree with nothing but his foot, he made a mental note to visit kai-chan later to thank her for her suggestion; it was only after he watched her climb the tree that he got it down himself.  After kenji got out of the tree, he walked over to his bag, retrieving his lunch, reaching into the bag “hey Sensei hungry, Brought some extra food along figured the team could use some food after the exercise” Kenji stated with a smile as he offered up the second bagged lunch. “Ryota there is one in here for you as well, and Kaiiaki has one as well.” The Uchiha said before sitting down to eat his meal.

**Ryota:** After taking a couple minutes to calm himself, he began to think to himself. He didn’t hate himself but rather hated his father for what he did to him. He would take a few deep breaths as he would then get up and walk over and sit next to Kenji and smile to him.” Okay I’m all calm and chillax now. I’m sorry you had to see me angry ken.” He’d say in a sincere voice as he would stretch and then ask “So can I have that food now. I woke up late so I didn’t even eat breakfast” he would say as his stomach would let out a big growl.

**Kane:**- While the spar went on Kane pretended to pay no attention to the genin while he relaxed on the middle branch of the tree he climbed up to earlier. The wind blew a soft breeze occasionally as the temperature nearby was only interrupted once and that was from Kenji’s fire ball jutsu heating up the area for a short period of time. He made sure to keep an eye on them as they learned the tree climbing technique and was thoroughly impressed as well as disappointed in their efforts. He was impressed by Kai’s quickness to learn very quickly to a new concept, but disappointed in how she acted towards her team mates while doing so. Perhaps, this could benefit later on by inspiring her team mates to become better and train harder to reach her level, but he knows her cockiness will one day be Team One’s fatal downfall. How soon will that time come, and how they will cope with it is questionable at this point. By now, he made a conclusion that it was inevitable. Kai will always be arrogant about her abilities and appearance, so her team mates would have to figure out a way to lure that trait into a positive influence and replace that weakness with strength.  Every team has a weak point though. Team’s are just like the Hyuuga’s clan almost perfect 360 degree vision except their one weak spot. He also didn’t miss Ryota’s eye patch falling off Kai’s reaction towards it. How could he? Her scream was loud enough to disturb his period of relaxation and send the birds flying away in fright. He was proud of Kenji’s reaction and how he handled the situation. He stood up for his team mate and show to show reason between both of them even though he could have handled it a tad better. After all two wrongs don’t make a right. Once they were finished he looked down from his resting spot to see Kenji offering food. He climbed down the tree calmly and took the food with a nod, “Thank you. You did well today Kenji. You will be the glue to hold this team together, I just ask that you always see both sides of the equation not just one. You always have to consider what the other side’s perceptive is before you make your call. But overall I’m proud of all of you. We still have a far road ahead of us.” He smiled at Ryota before giving him a pat on the shoulder. He went to grab Kai’s bag that Kenji bought for her in his right hand before disappearing using his Body Flicker Technique to appear before Kai. He looked down at her with a stoic expression as he spoke, “I am proud of you for your success to day. Even though you had a success you also had a failure. You failed to understand the concept of a team and follow my instructions. The point of doing this as a team not each individually was so that you had an opportunity to get in the habit of working and helping each other. Insulting, taunting, or trying to harm your team-mate will not be tolerated. I’m going to be very strict on you because I expect more from you. You are brighter than most, and you have exceptional talent. People are blinded by your arrogance that they don’t see the person you really are.” He then looked at her with a bit of regret in his eyes as he continued to speak, “Before it becomes to late, form a bond with your team so they can have enough trust in you as well as you have enough trust in them. I was just like you when I was a genin. Maybe not exactly, but I was an individual. And nothing is worse than the feeling of one of your teammates death weighing on your heart because you were to blinded by your own strength and cockiness that you live a life with regrets on what you could have and should have done.” He then gently dropped the bag of lunch that Kenji brought for her by her feet as he began to walk towards the Hokage Office. Hopefully, she will see her team still wants her involved even though she left without so much as a goodbye. He remembered the face of his old team mate when she was only 13 years old. Her eyes laid closed as she bled to death at his feet while he stood their frozen unable to react. Blood stained his hands as the rain poured down over the two genin. The world seemed like it stopped moving back then and everything was silent in that moment. He would always live to regret that day in his past when the first time in his life he felt he was powerless. No amount of power would ever bring her back alive.-

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