Stamina Boosting

## Stamina Training 2-25-16

Kaiiaki: - "I'm tired of this." Kaiiaki spoke out in her little impish voice towards the emptiness of the training grounds. No one was there at the moment; that she could see. She was sure the anbu were watching her even now. Watching every movement she made, making sure none was out of place. ~And it is probably a good thing too.~ She thought silently to herself. Those fools in Konoha had been so happy go lucky. They hadn't even bothered to keep an eye on her. The ninja of Hoshigakure weren't so fool enough to pass off something like what she was. They knew when they had a powerful weapon in their midst, and to use it when needed. Which Kaiiaki drooled with excitement over. She wanted to be sent somewhere, destroy something. It excited her, down deep into her bones. But for now, they were just gauging her power and her control over it. She would just have to show them before she was to be sent anywhere. And that was one thing she didn't mind at all. Showing off her power was something she loved to do. And today, she was going to train to work on attaining even more power. Kaiiaki's black ninja sandals clicked against the dark soil. They were the only sound coming from the whole area. For now, she was only walking back and forth, pacing. It was a habit she was beginning to pick up from her older sister Dahlia. "So many things I could work on...but I think I could go for some stamina training for today. The longer I can go, the more enemies and pitiful excuses for ninjas I can take down. Hah." Kaiiaki let out a little laugh before she suddenly jerked her head off to the opposite side of the training grounds. Thinned black pupils and deep red eyes greeted the intruder unto the barren field. She stood still for a moment, the red eyes scanning over the appearance of the intruder. But as she realized who it was, her eyes faded back to their normal grey color. "You again. Now what would a little academy student want with me here? I thought I beat the hell out of you. Did you come crawling back for another beating?" Kaiiaki grinned evily, the grin slowly stretching from ear to ear. She turned to face him now, hoping to scare the boy off.-

Andikins: {AJ} Ari Junrei, the little goofball and heir to the Junrei clan name, had been assigned to a team already and on it was the girl who nearly killed him in a simple sparring match, Kaiiaki Crystal-somethingorother. Well today he was approaching her to get to know her a little bit or get some things done. He just grabbed the brim of his bucket hat and pulled it down then up as if tipping it as a greeting to her, "Nah, I came to talk to my new teammate and see if you wanted to do anything today." He had been assigned to be a part of the team with the jinchuriki without knowing what she was. This was in part because of his natural carefree nature when things weren't going hectic. It was a wise choice to pair the two up seeing how different they were and how their skills complimented one another. Like now, even with her insulting him, he just had the right side of his mouth crooked up into a dimpled smirk like he was being told a moderately funny joke that can't warrant a full out laugh. "I don't think you'd get the drop on me again like last time with that clone trick. Just saying is all. NOT looking to start anything." It was true, despite being a genin, Ari had a surplus of chakra and plenty of skill in ninjutsu, but he had the right mind to know when to duck out, especially against a monster cream filled psychopuff. "My name is Ari Junrei by the way, don't think we exchanged names last time. Because of, you know, the whole you-trying-to-stab-me thing." {AJ}

Kaiiaki:-Kaiiaki stared at the boy with her cold grey eyes. The gaze unwavering on his figure until he had finsihed speaking. "Hah." Kaiiaki gave out a short clipped laugh after he had finished speaking. "I was told I would be put on the same team as a weakling like you. I did not want to believe it was true at first. But it seems they were right." Kaiiaki's right hand raised up to tug at one of her purple pastel braids, tugging at it like she seemed uninterested in this conversation. "Kaiiaki Kurisutaru. Pronounced KaI- Ak- EE-" She prounced the symbols out loud and slow for him as if he was 3 years old. "Heh." She laughed at him now as if he was inferior. Before twirling around on the edges of her shoes and walking off in the opposite direction. "I am doing stamina training. You might as well be here. You need this training more than I do. Because if you slow me down or put the mission in jeopordy..." She let the words trail off while she began to focus a small amount of chakra unto the soles of her feet. She let this chakra flow throughout her chakra network, and spread throughout her feet. Once the chakra was distributed evenly, a small purple glow began to emit from the bottom of her feet. She was going to see what all she could do today. No matter how long it took her.-

Andikins:{AJ} What was this girl's problem? Sure he wasn't the strongest of ninja right now, but Ari was more than capable of holding his own. Just rolling his tongue from one side of the front of his teeth to the other while listening to her, he demonstrated great patience for her. When she suggested what might happen if he slowed her down, he cut in where she trailed off, "Yeah, yeah, I know. Dire consequences and all that cryptic crap." He crouched down, extending one leg out all the way to stretch the muscles as he bobbed up and down, then repeating the process with the other leg. Once he was all limbered up and ready to go, he rolled his shoulders and neck. "I'll have you know something, I'm nowhere near the subpar level you think I am, you just seem to have a little something extra that gives you an unfair advantage." Trying to figure out just how she managed to pull off some of the things she did, Ari tried to pry into her. {AJ}

Kaiiaki: -Kaiiaki first adjusted herself to a more suitable running position. With her left foot in front of her right, about shoulder-width's distance between them. She dug her feet into the ground, and listened as the ground gave out a crunch from the chakra beneath them. Kaiiaki looked over at the boy after he had referred to her as having something a little "extra". All she gave him in response was a cold blooded sneer, and then returned her gaze to the grounds in front of her. ~1,2,3!"~ She counted off to herself silently before bursting off unto the soil with the speed of a leopoard. She wasn't going to answer his foolish question. Everyone had to know by now what sort of a creature she is. Although...she hardly knew herself to be honest. She wanted to know more about it. To see if she could somehow harness the power of this creature, and use its power for her own usage. Perhaps someone of the village knew how to control this power, and would give her some insight upon it. She thought about all these possibilities while she continued to run the entire length of the barren wasteland. The training grounds appeared to be about a mile and a half in diameter. It was small, and it would take Kaiiaki quite a while to try and outrun this. Kaiiaki then had a devilish thought. Perhaps she could give this boy some "obstacles" in the grounds if he was going to try and keep up with her. With a grin, Kaiiaki fixed her focus on a point in front of her, off to her right side up about 16 feet in distance. She mixed her chakra within the air, mixing the molecules of her chakra together with the molecules of the air. When they had successfully mixed, she stretched the shape into a medium sized boulder. This took the appearance of an amethyst crystal boulder. The size stretched over to about the width of 8 feet and length of 7 feet. It was a decently sized boulder, enough to definitely cause a problem for the boy heading straight towards it. Kaiiaki laughed as she sped on past the boulder to her left. He would probably get past that one but she wasn't finished with her stamina training yet. And she had more contraptions to tear up the training field with.-

Andikins:{AJ} Ari, feeling her cold sneer, just looked on forward and sighed as his gaze drifted up toward the clouds, this girl was more troublesome than any of his posssible fiances. When she rocketed off, Ari shook himself out of the daze and ran off after her, deciding to try and keep up but keeping some distance in the event of-yep, attempts to bung up his jogging as well. There was enough distance between the two of them by the time the amethyst boulder rose up from the ground in front of him that he could perform the handseals for his Flowing Current kekkei genkai. If this girl wanted to make it hard for him to keep up, he was going to make it hard for her to make it hard for him! Makes sense, no? With his liver kicking into overdrive and processing liquids faster, he gained his enhanced dexterity and flexibility. Running straight forward to the boulder, as it was rising up, he went into a twisting handspring, facing perpendicular to the boulder as his hands touched the ground, then when his feet did his back was to the boulder. "Up, and, OVER!" With a vaulting backflip, and a twist of his body midair, Ari was able to clear the boulder in its entirety and land close to the ground like a spider with his fingers splayed out on the ground with the palms off of said ground. His toes and balls of his feet firmly planted but his soles and heels elevated. Right away he was back to running, even going so far as to catch up a little to Kai, "Sooo, want to do that again?" Half sarcastic and half trying to get her to enjoy herself, Ari was digging a hole metaphorically. {AJ}

Kaiiaki: - Kaiiaki growled as she saw his body pole-vault right over her precious boulder like it was nothing to him. He was some sort of freak all right. She had never seen anyone be able to conform their body in such a way that he had. It made sense now that they had been put on the same team. If anyone could squeeze their way around razor sharp crystals, it would be him. "Pft. Of course he would make it." Kaiiaki growled to herself. Ignoring once again the little quip he was teasing her with. This time, Kaiiaki began to form her chakra and mix it with the air molecules off to her right side up in front of her about 18 feet. She concenctrated into forming these molecules into crystal thorns. They began on the ground, forming as deep roots within the soil. Then stretched out towards the boy, slicing their deadly thorns into the air about 3 feet. Three direct branches about the width of 4 inches soared out of the roots up until the height reached 4 feet tall. Roughly about the size of the genin, Ari. Kaiiaki passed right on by the crystal thorns just as the branch to the left grew behind her to block the path behind her. "Hah. Good luck getting past that one." She snickered at him while she continued her running. At this point she had put in about 6 miles worth of running and still had plenty of more energy to expend.-

Andikins:{AJ} "Again with the stabbing? What's with you?" Ari spoke his disdain for pointy sharp objects being aimed for his meaty bits, as anyone would have disdain for, when Kaiiaki grew more thorns like last time, this time sending a multitude for the lad. He knew what she had inside of her, but he just didn't want to say it to her face without her telling him first. It's not like what she was pertained to him anyways, just that she was a teammate and possible comrade. Back to the matter at hand, Ari slid along on his knees, bending backwards so much so that he went right under the arc of one of the thron branches, getting on his hands to perform what looked like a backflip but he pushed himself forward off of the ground, corkscrewing through a couple of the branches coming his way. Then he could land safely on his feet and do a gainer flip over the massive branch that Kaiiaki had grown to block the path, "Other people need to use this track you know! You're gonna have to clean up more and more if you keep this up!" He called out to her while on top of the path blocker, jumping off of it before she decided to try and skewer him with it. Ari sprinted to get caught up with her, starting to get a little winded from all the sprinting to catch up and jumping like a spider monkey. Good thing he had his litres of electrolyte water on hand. He uncapped one of the bottles and started drinking from it before resealing it and attaching it to his hip, refilled with great vigor after drinking a third of the bottle. {AJ}

Kaiiaki: -Kaiiaki rolled her eyes at his comments. She could stab whoever she wanted, given the opportunity of course. That part didn't even matter to her. What mattered most was whether he could keep up with her or not. He was doing better than most would by this point. Given his unique kekkei genkai, it was no wondering he was able to contort his body throughout her crystal thorns. "Hah. You think I care about whether other people need to use this field or not? This is the most self cleaning jutsu out of any. In order to demonstate, Kaiiaki turned her head to the side along with her right hand. With a single swipe of her hand across the crystal tree behind her, she seperated the molecules of the crystal and air molecules. This instantly brought the crystal tree down to a sparkling end upon the ground. It shattered into thousands of glittering amethyst sparkles. With a smug grin, she turned back around to face the track ahead of her with a newfound energy. She enjoyed showing off her power to other people. It made her feel superior. With this new momentum, Kaiiaki surged her body on forward. For about half an hour, she simply concentrated on keeping her running at a steady 5.5 mph pace. But after she began to get a little bit bored, she thought she might pick back up where she left off on her oh so lucky teammate. With a surge of chakra, Kaiiaki now mixed a medium amount of chakra to make a basic crystal tree half a mile in front of her. It looked to be nothing too extravagant at first. The tree's roots just grasped into the soil of the ground such as any normal tree. The bark of the trunk appeared to be 8 feet in width and 7 feet in length. However, this one grew no crystal thorn branches. If one were to pass by it, they could do so easily without having any trouble whatsover. Kaiiaki passed by this branchless tree with ease, quickly making it past. She glanced behind to look for the little boy, waiting to see the reaction he has having to all this running yet.-

Andikins: {AJ} Getting a demonstration of the 'self cleaning jutsu' Ari just jogged in a backwards motion while turned around, watching as the massive crystalline tree dissolved into dust. "So it is! And really handy too! If not downright manic in how ready it is to make polka dots on someone with the rapid stabbing." Spinning back around and jogging forwardly, Ari waited a couple of minutes before he released his kekkei genkai, finishing off a whole litre of his electrolyte enriched water that had been partly drank already. A rather uneventful run after that for about another thirty minutes. "So tell me, do you know what our sensei even looks like? I haven't seen anything of them other than a name on a card." When Kaiiaki grew another tree, Ari got a little fancy, performing the handseals for two jutsus on top of one another. The first for his Flowing Current kekkei genkai, the next was something that forced a lot of water to his arms and out of his wrists. "Whiplash." With his arms crossing over his chest, he thrust them outwards, lashing out water that sprung back around his wrists in the form of rings with current spinning about them. "Now it's my turn to show off." He swung his right arm for the top of the tree, letting free the right tendril around his wrist and the sticky whip latched onto the top of the tree, letting him jump up and get a wide arcing turn around the tree, even picking up speed to get ahead of Kaiiaki. When he was far enough ahead, he threw his left arm forward, letting go of the tree with a snap of his right. The left whip stuck to the ground and he was able to quickly pull himself to the ground and start running ahead of Kaiiaki. {AJ}

Kaiiaki: -Kaiiaki let out a slight dark chuckle at the compliment Ari had just given her. ~Swiss cheese indeed...~ She thought to herself, thinking back on the last person she and her sister Dahlia had killed. His death bared a similar resemblance to those words. This one was intent on speaking to her though. For some reason or the other he was making it his mission to get into her head. So she gave him the simplist answer she could in response. "I really do not care what our sensei looks like. All I know is they better be able to handle me. And that they better. watch. out." Kaiiaki said those last words of that sentence clipped off and short. As if each word was a sentence of their own. Their own seperate growl. She didn't know what sort of sensei they would put her with. But whoever it was to be, had better be able to handle a tailed beast. Because perhaps Kaiiaki would let the beast out of its cage so to speak. Just to see what all they could have thrown at them. Or perhaps, just to create a little bit of havoc. Kaiiaki patted her small stomach with the palm of her right hand. ~Would you like that nine tails? Perhaps a little bit of Jonin blood spilled?~ Kaiiaki laughed along with the dark growling laughter inside of her soul. The poor little Jonin would get quite the surprise, their first day on the job. And to their surprise, they would be stuck with the one known as Kaiiaki. And it would be the last job they would ever take. Of course the Hoshikage wouldn't be happy with her. But they would get over it. How exactly would they discipline a Jinchurriki anyway? They needed her. And even if she was going to be watched, she wasn't going anywhere. Not for awhile at least. Kaiiaki was then brought out of her thoughts by what sounded like a giant piece of rubber being stretched. Ari had somehow flipped himself around and even in front of her with some kind of jutsu. "GAH! You little prick!!!" Kaiiaki screamed at him. She didn't like to be shown up, and he was trying to make a fool out of her. Kaiiaki dug her heels into the dirt, pushing in hard as she ran. "The only way you COULD catch up with me IS through playing little monkey games you little loser." Kaiiaki spat at him as she caught up with him and quickly passed him by. The next few hours, Kaiiaki concentrated mainly on her running. She took sips of water when needed but barely bothered for anything else. With every lap she took, she made another tree of crystal thorns in the middle of the field. She was no longer trying to stab the kid with anything at this point. She was simply stretching her stamina ability with continued vigorous activity and chakra usage at the same time.-

Andikins:{AJ} Once he was ahead of Kaiiaki, he just gave a salute-wave from his eyebrow to her with just his index and middle finger. He really didnd't have much a care about anything, other than avoiding getting stabbed, "Hey, monkey games are more fun than playing Iwa Roulette with your stabbing fetish." He kept on after her, just jogging to keep up as his lungs started to burn from the pushing his stamina beyond its limit. He was starting to wheeze and cough by the end of the run, chugging down his remaining bottle of electrolyte water. "Jeez-the fiances-never make me-have to run--have to run this much." {AJ}

Kaiiaki: -After making numerous artistic thorn pieces in the middle of the field, Kaiiaki had stopped at tree 12. Breath escaped from her lips at a rapid pace. Her heart was beating out of her chest. Kaiiaki slowed her pace to a jog, walk, then finally a standstill. She stood still, trying to catch her breath back up with the rest of her. It looked like Ari had spent himself as well. And honestly, she was surprised he had gone as long as he had. No other genin should have been able to continue for this long. Maybe this kid was better than he had seemed before. But she wasn't going to stick around and talk to him about it. She was out of chakra at this point and wanted to go home and get a good rest. She had done well today. And she would be right back at it tomorrow, giving it her all. Pushing to be the very strongest in this village. With a single wave of her right hand, Kaiiaki shattered all the crystal pieces she had created over the past 2 hours. The glittering purple trees turned into dust, and then they were nothing again. "See ya loser." Kaiiaki muttered under her breath as she turned her back to him. She left the training grounds without another word.-