Meeting with Raimaru (Enja Training Group with Rai-- Chakra Control X1, 4 Nexus Stats X1)

Raijin simply just laughed at the man’s grumbled words, and watched Enja’s movements to get up on the tree fully, as he remained completely still he wondered about what should happen, should he really train Enjin or not? he ignored that part for now, he has to at least try, it’s a favor and a request from the headmaster after all. Listening to what Enjin had to say he raised an eyebrow, “no teaching? why didn’t you seek out the elders help about that right away then? there’s always someone to learn from.” Raijin said as he scratched the back of his head.

The nostalgic feeling of thinking back to the academy days was great but that’s not what was important at hand, smirking at Enjin’s enthusiasm towards the weight training after he reached the top first, “well then… let’s see how well you are on water then.” Raijin said as he reached his arm over to grab the man’s feet before they would both disappear only to appear near the top of one of the mountains near by. A beautiful scenery of a waterfall, a giant lake in the middle, and some greenery surrounding it, like it was made for a scene of a painting.

Sighing a bit as the leaves rustled down around them he looked at the man and let him go before he laid on his back, “what do you want to see for proof that I am indeed who I say I am?” Raijin asked now as he sat up and looked at the man, he had barely any scars from war or battle, he was lucky… ish that way, but luck always ran out. Raijin knew who he said he was, and believed in himself, that’s all that mattered to him, but right now, he needed to train Enjin up and get him ready for his world of fun and mischief, but now was coming the point of having to wonder what was wanted from the man to believe with his own eyes what was going on…
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Enja was curious by his reaction. THe village elders were just occupied by other duties and dealing with students at the academy seemed to be a smaller priority next to the rest of the affairs going on. Enja was already aware of this and didn’t have the ability to argue against it. But it seemed Raijin was fiercely oppose to it and soon reached out to try and see how he could do for himself.

Before Enja could protest, Raijin took a hold of his foot. “H-HEY!? WHAT ARE YO--” FLASH!! They were transported away! The transfer was like a blur for him as if he was thrown away at high speed. When he regained his sense of awareness, he continued. “--YOU DOING, YA ….” He was suddenly silent as he looked around to find himself among one of the nearby mountains with a lake in the center. He was baffled as to HOW they translocated from one place to another. He knew about Space-time jutsu but he never seen it in action before. “Did… did you do this?” Enjin asked, his tone clearly showing he was impressed. He had transported them to a small paradise upon the mountain top.

He was now lying on his back asking how he could prove his power-- despite he just did. Enja frowned, finding that Raijin was just as cocky as he was. If anna was around, she would have poked fun at him for it. It was then that Enja saw the challenge before him--

The pond of water before him. Seeing as how Raijin was gonna go laying on his ass, he might as well try to do this. That was actually his next intent for chakra control. -- Walking on Water cause water was not a solid unlike the tree he used. Taking a moment, he gatherined his chakra and proceeded to slowly walk to the lake. He had gotten a bit better, focusing his energy to certain parts of his body. The trick was balancing it and maintaining it, that Enja was trying to master.

He stepped into the water and surprisingly, it held. It felt like walking on a mattress as it moved below him. He took another step, still keeping his chakra focused and his hand sign formed. After five steps he was on the water-- however, he felt the water below him shift. Balance was the trouble here as he felt as if he was trying to keep his feet steady, but slipping with each movement.

“I got it… I got it…. I --- WHOAAA!!”

SPLASH!!!

Enja fell face first and ended up falling into the water. Needless to say, Raijin might have a good laugh from it as Enja pulled himself up from the water’s surface, all soaking wet and his hair a mess. “Don’t you dare say it….” Enja warned, embarrassed to have failed on the first try.

But he did hold on for at least a few steps. That was good.

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Raijin remained laying on the ground now with his eyes closed, humming a song to himself as he nodded his head with a slight simple “yup!” escaping his lips, after Enjin had seemed to have calmed down. He opened an eye and smirked, “that’s without using a portion of my powers.” he added before he sat upright, he looked around and smirked at some of the memories he spent in this mountains secret scene for those that dared to find them.

What caught his attention next was how determined this man was into mastering control over his chakra control which made him smirk a bit, “hmmm… you grasp the concept of it easily, but keeping it applied seems to be your weakness in learning to control your chakra more… how do I say this… shaped.” Raijin said as he walked over to the waters edge and looked at Enjin and pointed to his feet, “try to not force it, but to ask it to do your will so that you may walk freely upon the waters surface.” he added as he stood back up before he formed a few hand seals to form a clone. “this is one of my water clones, if it can master this ability faster than you but by staying hanging from the roof, then I could consider training you, which means you have a mass amount of potential.” Raijin said stopping before he turned and walked straight back to where he was laying before before he snapped his fingers it seemed like and his helmet appeared to which he laid it on the ground as a pillow.

“But, if my water clone can beat you at remaining upside down for longer than you can remain on the surface of the water I’ll decline the headmasters request and move on in my search for a pupil.” he said as he rested his head against the helmet and enjoyed the suns rays shining down upon him. “you have a head start on my clone, but remember… it’ll catch up quickly, because I know all this, so does my clone, it’ll pick it up rather quickly.” he said trying to encourage Enjin.

“I sure hope this works into triggering that spirit I had when I was his rank at this kind of thing.” Raijin thought to himself as he slowly dazed off into his sleep, Raijin’s clone looked at Enjin and slightly bowed, “you heard him, I’ll give you a five minute courtesy warm up if you’d like.” the clone asked Enja politely and even bowed, but it had a smirk on it’s face that would most likely piss Enja off, the clone was being quite cocky after all.
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Enja had gotten to shore when Raijin had given the advice. ‘Asking’ chakra to do what he would. Enja gave him an odd look. “How am I suppose to ASK chakra to do something? It’s energy. Its not exactly listening unless its a reaction like your own muscles,” he explained his point of view. It was then that he explained to not force the chakra-- and perhaps Enja was doing just that. He was putting so much energy to force his chakra there. It gave a good burst of energy but endurance of it couldn’t maintained for long periods of time.

It was at that time he created a water clone of Raijin-- and as he laid back on the ground, and explained the challenge--- that if ENja could outlast his water clone from standing on the wooden surface upside down while Enja was standing on the water’s surface-- he would agree to train Enja as a ninja and teach him what he had to know.

Enja still felt Raijin was pretty much bullshitting him about the whole Shogun thing. The royal types never went out without bodyguards or even escorts. Still his skill was impossible to deny! He used a Space-Time Jutsu and even created a clone with capable skill. Enja signed, realizing he got showed up and shut up his thoughts about doubting the guy. “Alright… Alright!” he said, glaring at the REAL Raijin. “I’ll accept your challenge, just don’t get smart-ass on me when I show your cheap copycat up. “ he said and quickly tried again on the water.

This time, he tried to just relax and simply let his chakra flow to his feet. Not as much force, and simply gesturing it, as if it was lightning writing instead of pressing a pen to the paper. A weird analogy, but no other way for him to describe it. His footing on the water was still wobbily, but he didn’t lose stability upon it. Before, he felt the need to tense his muscles no different than he was working out or straining to climb. Now he just allowed himself to relax and the chakra circulated no different than his own blood. It was then that he found the key to his balance on the water. The water simply rippled where he stood on it, and kept that way.

Enja felt he could possibly meditate there-- but chose not to if he would lose focus and fall in. He kept an eye on the water clone, and occasionally at Raijin. Despite his help, Enja really really wanted to throw something non-lethal at him for his smugness. Smugness was Enja’s department

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Raijin laid his head still upon the helmet and had started to fade into the abyss of dreams and sleep before he heard a splash and smirked, he knew his clone had just slipped from the wall it was climbing to hit the water, looking over at Enjin he heard him saying something about chakra being just like your muscles before he smirked, “he’s catching on quickly, that’s good at least.” he thought to himself as he laid still for a bit before he heard another splash later on before he glanced over to see Enjin standing on top of the water.

Suddenly a gust of wind appeared where Raijin once laid to be standing beside him, “good, you figured that part out, but now’s the fun part, and you still have a few minutes before that clone sticks to the wall and doesn’t fall.” Raijin said as he turned to look at Enjin from the roof.

“Even energy is just like a muscle, the strength required to masterfully wield a sword as an extension, this is what I have mastered and taught myself over the years of my being a shinobi and a samurai.” Raijin said before he trailed off withdrawing a sword as he twisted it around him with simple ease and all the while he was still walking around the roof of the cavern above the giant lake. “Just remember, your energies are only as strong as you are physically, and mentally, so the more evil you are, the more one sided of energy you will seek and thus your harmony will fall out of whack.” he added on as he started to fall to the water before the clone took his spot and a swirl of leaves took where he was falling to have him land silently where he was laying down.

Sitting back up he looked at the sword he had made for himself a long time ago and smirked at the make of the sword, “we’ve been through a hell of a lot together my blade.” Raijin said looking at his sword which was more powerful now all of a sudden. Looking at Enjin he noticed his clone was standing on the roof like it was nothing before it exploded into a huge amount of water that would probably soak Enjin, “time to see how he takes a forced loss…” Raijin said to himself softly as he placed his sword within it’s sheath.

“Times up.” he called out at the end to see Enjin’s reaction.
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Enja kept his focus as he stood upon the water and listend to Raijin talk. It made sense-- CHakra fucntioned much like in the body, but in the end it was a state of mind and body. A sense of balance between the two. THough his talk about evil was a bit off. “WHat do I strike you as some pyro maniac? “ he said in a half mock to Raijin. “I know about how chakra works. “

He kept his focus, and soon the tension left his body so he could stand on the water with ease. The water merely rippled where he stood. He was completely calm and soon, standing on the water no more of a task than keeping his balance on the tree branch. He was relaxed a bit by the talk and also he felt he could now stand completely on his own. It felt like a half hour went by and he stood had a good foot hold on the water.

It was at that time that suddenly the water clone popped like a water baloon and soon fell upon Enja. The water washed over him and dripped upon him like it bag of laundry. The water quickly fell away, leaving Enja drenched once again-- but he still stood on the water. He didn’t lose his focus to the water standing, but he did have an irritated look on his face. Slowly, he turned and glared at Raijin upon the top of the ceiling.

“You know, you are sorely tempting me to give you a good sock to the jaw. And your starting to talk like an old man,” Enja said, partly trying to egg the man on.

Regardless, Enjin was aware of one detail-- he was severely undermatched to him. Still training with him was a great idea and if he did, he could learn alot. “So your a samurai eh? I been training with a wooden katana for a while. THink you might know where I can grab one of my own? They are stupidly expensive unfortunately. “ he asked as he stood on the water, shaking the water out of his red hair. “By the way, any chance you know any Taijutsu? I would like to be able to use both swords and hand to hand combat.”

That was a goal Enja had. He had a list of things he wanted to learn, including the skills of the Kekke Genkai his clan possessed. There were many arts he wanted to learn. Including Fire Style. “ANd not to be greed, but you by chance happen to have the chakra nature of Fire?” he asked.

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Raijin looked at Enjin with curiosity now, he was able to pick it up easier, but there was still loopholes in his chakra from what he could tell, he heard the man’s quip about being a pyro maniac and he smirked with a soft laugh, “no, all I’m saying is, evil does corrupt your chakra into doing more but less at the same time.” he said as he shrugged his shoulders and loosened them up. “I would say you have a grasp on chakra, knowing and feeling are two different things.” he quickly added to his words of knowing how chakra worked.

Raijin frowned a bit at the old man talk and sighed, “I guess I am just like the old bastard.” he simply said scratching the back of his head as he stood on the grass, looking at the grass now as the wind slowly pushed its breath through it. He glanced back at Enjin and shrugged, “You could try, but I’ve managed to last this far in life without much damage taken in battles.” he said shrugging his shoulders again before he turned his attention back to Enjin fully.

A few hand signs were quickly formed before a short katana was within his hands, “I have one you can use if you wish.” Raijin said thinking about his days of using a the wooden sword, the bokken. Raijin stood there for a moment before he heard something about taijutsu being said and laughed, “what do you take me for? some lowly third rate samurai?” he said jokingly, unsure if Enja would get the joke. He slightly nodded, “yeah I know much about the sword, and unfortunately no, I know three elements, but fire is not amongst them.” he said as he turned to face Enja now but a smirk appearing upon his face, “time to see where your physical attributes are at.” He said now forming hand seals once again, to have yet another clone appear before him, “I want you to spar with my clone, you two should be within the same range of stats, so it will be of a fair fight.” Raijin said looking at his clone.

“What will be your response to this action of challenge? will you fight the clone in a mock death match or will you go back to trainings with yourself?” Raijin said ushering the challenge to Enja.
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“Yeah I admit… you probably cream me-- but hey! “ Enja said with a bit of mock anger. “I’m the cocky one in the clan. Can’t have you dethrone me for that. It’s all I got” He said before making a face at Raijin. Enja was at least happy to be able to be a bit more at ease with this member of his clan. He would like to know more how he was adopted, and let alone become a Shogun. He had no clue how someone near his own age could do that .

Still his subject of knowing and feeling chakra was indeed something different. Feeling his own chakra -- it confused him a bit. He did understand he didn’t have to force his chakra as he used to. Still it was something to keep in mind. CHakra in the end was an extension of his body, like moving a limb. If he could understand that concept, using his chakra better would come easier.

At that time, Raijin made some hand signs and produced a short katana from a puff of smoke. As he caught it, he said that Enja could use it. Surprise took him as he looked to Raijin. “WHat…? For real? I can have this for keeps?” he asked like a kid who didn’t expect to get a present. Having walked back to the shore of the lake, he approached Raijin and lightly took the sword up from his grasp. The Short Katana was well designed. A sturdy tool of steel. with a red cloth wrapping around the hilt, and a red sword sheath to put it through. Enja had been trying to save up to at least get such a sword, and now he had one-- if he assumed right. “Wow… thanks. You're not such a bad guy I figured you for,” he said , lightly making a bit of fun but significantly grateful. “I wonder when I get better-- if i can channel fire chakra into the sword?” he asked to himself.

And then came the next test it seemed as Raijin summoned another clone of himself. He also got the joke about taijutsu-- still it was a desire Enja wanted to learn. While wielding a sword was a great edge in combat, should one truly lose their sword, Enja also wanted to push his martial arts powers further and learn to fight with his bare fists if needed.

The challenge was to fight hand to hand with the clone, who Raijin had made to reflect the same physical abilities that Enja had. However, at the challenge to fight it or train on his own, Enja grinned. He moved his hand into his other and cracked his knuckes with anticipation. “Pfft. You’re kidding right? This is actually something I am good at,” he said and took a fighting stance! “If your trying to scare me off you are going to need to do alot better than that!”

With that, he charged and jumped right into the sparring match! Reckless perhaps, but confident.

Naturally, the use of a sword was not to be done for a one on one fight like this (assuming) so Enja resorted to hand to hand combat. He worked to keep movement up as he jumped and started the fight up with a kick for the clone’s face and followed up with another round house. The moment he would touch the ground, he proceeded to throw a barrage of punches-- to the shoulder, chest and head area. He was aiming to move fast and swift, trying to provide little to no chances for the clone to rest.

Enja’s style was like that of fire. Fast, fiery, swift and driven to reach its mark. Of course, Raijin’s clone wouldn’t be just idle.

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Standing there he laughed pretty hard for a few moments before he caught his breath, “please, you may be vocally cocky but I’m the cocky one of the clan.” he said as he scratched the back of his head, “or at least I used to be…” he said thinking of the wars and all the fights, something bugged him about how the world worked.

Watching as Enja came in and accepted the sword from Raijin’s hand, and asked if he could keep it, “yeah, it’s yours to keep.” he said as he nodded taking his hand back as he watched Enja admire the swords build and shape, he couldn’t help but laugh as he heard Enja’s words of him not being such a bad guy, it made him somewhat glad. But his next words caught Raijin a bit by surprise and nodded, “I’m actually working on a way to make a weapon out of the element itself by focusing chakra into it as a storage with the element you’re strongest with.” he said as he thought about it, “it’ll be great if it works.” he said admiring the thought of it. Looking back to Enja now he smirked as he withdrew his sword and nodded, “if it’s concentrated or built with chakra metal, than you can channel your chakra into the sword with the element.” Raijin said focusing the wind element into his sword, creating a longer length of the blade before he released it.

“Once you have a better handle on your own element, I may consider teaching you a strong skill I have learned from the world thanks to the majority of my own trainings.” Raijin said as he looked at his blade before he tapped his finger off the side of it before he placed it back in his sheath. He smirked at his cocky remark and shrugged his shoulders, “just remember, it’ll pick up strength soon as well.” he said as he walked over and sat down on the grass to watch the sparring match.

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The clone stood there and looked around before it looked at Raijin and looked at Enja before it nodded before it summoned the long katana from Raijin’s storage before it removed it’s swords and gear having them vanish the instant they left the clones body. It watched Enja as he charged in swinging the sword about recklessly it seemed, but that was the thing about it, it was reckless and wild, no way to match it fully without taking damage. So it back jumped out of the reach of the sword attack to counter the kick to the face by ducking a bit under it to jump up into Enja hopefully making him lose balance to pin him to the ground followed by a punch holding the sword.
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Enja proceeded forward. He originally not going to depend on the sworde but it seemed the clone didn’t care to not use a sword and had one as well. Realizing his error he jumped back just a moment to get his sword-- then charged once more.

Enja’s style might of been a bit untamed but it was fluent and fast between blows against enemies. Having trained with the previous tools on the Asakura grounds, he had at least decent skill witht he blade. The clone had jumped up into him, but the fiery youth held fast his sword and used it in close proximity to divide them, He delivered a spinning slash-- not intended to wound but intend to repel.

Upon his descent , this time he delivered a sweeping kick to try and remove and distance the clone, if at best, throw off the balance to the clone himself just as he tried to do to him!

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Raijin remained where he was sitting watching the fight, or more like a spar between children it seemed, it worried him, “I must break him of this habbit…” he thought to himself as he sat and watched the fight reign on longer.

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Looking at his opponent it tried to form seals within the time it had left to create a jutsu, the replacement jutsu to be exact. After it poofed into a cloud of smoke it came charging back in from the same direction but this time sliding down under the blades reach angle so far, but it stuck it’s blade towards the legs to trip up Enja before the clone slid out of the whirling blades to charge back in but with a lunge like attack to temp a block or dodge for a quick last second attack.
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