[table][row][cell][color=#FFA812]Nijira Inuzuka[/color][/cell][cell][color=#FFA812][right]"Don't you dare think that this is over! I won't just feed on the scraps of [i]your[/i] glory! I'll beat you, and even then I'll keep pushing! I'll beat every single shinobi in the world! I won't stop until everyone acknowledges me!"[/right][/color][/cell][/row][row][cell][sup][color=#2E2C2C]_______________________________________________[/color][/sup]
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[cell][color=#FFA812][b]"HAGH"[/b][/color], coughed Jira, roaring back to life and sitting bolt upright. Something was tickling his neck and as he smacked his neck, he felt something foul-smelling, but warm... sticky... Memories of piercing... red... His hand clenched where the wound had been and he looked around for his best friend only to find Koji standing there with some packet. Komi, who was trailing a few yards behind, ran and leaped into Jira's arms, immediately beginning to lick his chin while whining worriedly. Jira smiled and hugged him tightly.

[color=#FFA812][b]"Hey... I'm okay..."[/b][/color], he said, looking around him. Besides him was Naruko and further off was Gorudo. They were all alive... so it was just a test afteraaaAA!!!

[color=#FFA812][b]"Pbthbth! Aw! That's my mouth"[/b][/color], Jira exclaimed closing his eyes and shaking his head as Komi's flat rough tongue haphazardly annoyed him lovingly. In desperation, Jira slid his back up the tree and stood up and Komi slid to the ground and ran around his feet instead, shaking his butt excitedly. Jira's body was a lot less excited to be standing, he felt as if he weighed a thousand pounds. He didn't think anything was broken, but in this state, it'd have been hard to fight. Keh... It wasn't as if he'd done much fighting before he was unconscious either.

[i]"You... Failed to do anything at all. And after you're dead you won't be able to protect anything. Especially not that pup of yours over there who's chakra will seep out until his heart stops. You can't even complain about it."[/i]

Those words echoed in his mind with a grimace that turned into a scowl and all he could think about was how unfair it was. Of course he'd lose to a jounin, if he was going all out! What kind of test was that supposed to be?!? And it wasn't like his teammates were any help. [i]They[/i] just ran into danger! If they just did what he told them to do instead of... the wafting smell of insta-ramen tickled his nose and his face started turning a bright red. He shook the feeling away and grit his teeth, unable to get the last bits of blood out of his face. Ugh! That idiot! Sh-she wasn't even paying attention to where she was aiming... th-those! A-and Gorudo wasn't any better! What was he thinking trying to outsmart sensei all by himself. Yeah! Gorudo was an idiot. Luckily, Koji interrupted Jira's attempts to distract himself with arbitrary anger at Gorudo by addressing the team as a whole.

[b]"The test is over! We're no longer fighting"[/b], Koji announced, like that meant anything. They were alive and Koji hadn't tied them up and wasn't attacking them. Of [i]course[/i] they weren't fighting. Of [i]course[/i] the test was over. Jira didn't understand why some people really had to point out the obvious. Probably because they were used to dealing with idiots like his teammates. Koji continued, [b]"You have just now... experienced what it is like to die"[/b], he said and Jira's hands balled up into fists, [b]"Whatever you felt, thought, wanted... It ended right there. That was your last moment"[/b], and Jira wanted to wipe that smug look off his face, [b]"My goal as your sensei is to make it so you will never experience that again."[/b]

He looked down for a second and then back at his sensei, his eyes leveled at his, narrowed and burning. He took a step forward and Komi hid behind his legs. It was a second before he began to speak, but when he did, it was a low growl.

[color=#FFA812][b]"I... experienced death? You think you killed me with your kunai? You think what I care what [i]you[/i] think of me"[/b][/color], he snarled, [color=#FFA812][b]"Being dead is knowing that what I feel, think, and want don't matter at all. It's knowing that the only thing that matters is power and that I don't have any. It's knowing that because of fate, I am weak. I died to your kunai?!? ASSHOLE! I'M ALREADY DEAD! I'LL BE ALIVE WHEN I MAKE YOU SURRENDER TO ME!"[/b][/color]

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