Nathan, I explicitly said that it was almost noon, and that you would absolutely NOT find sleeping guards in that camp, yet your genin managed to kill two guards in a split-second and immediately after kill a bunch of 'sleeping guards'.
Can you revise you post a bit? Keep in mind that we are a bunch of rather inexperienced genin dropping from the trees onto them and start killing them, and that we will probably get noticed because we aren't an elite as fuck assassin corps group. Please try to limit your post to the attack at hand and not kill an 'undefined' number of 'sleeping' guards in this post, since they'd probably be alarmed enough to stop you from insta-killing them.
Sadly us genin are not dropbears. Aspirant-dropbears is better.
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Lucius Cypher said
The only thing I might have some trouble with is that you say that "Full Armor" hasn't been invented yet. I'm not quite certain what you mean, but I'll go ahead and say that this is the armor I wanted by character to use.
Sadly this armour is far out of the timeframe. It's a glorious and beautiful depiction of a late 15th or early 16th century Maximilian armour with influences of earlier Gothic and Milanse plate armours.
Here is a gallery of the most modern armours, conveniently named 'transitional armours', of the time period of the RP though:
Konoha Team 7
Kensuke Nimatsu
He raised his eyebrows when none of the genin asked for rest. It impressed him a bit, but made him ponder about wether or not this was a good thing. Maybe they just were too rpoud to admit that. Or maybe he had to adjust his expectations a little bit. He noticed Hayate summon two clones who hid in the earth, and gave an approving nod to the genin. A good idea. Regardless of his thought about their skills however, it was time to attack. "Let's go then." He said, runningup the tree they were standing on, and moving towards the enemy camp untill he stood on one of the branches, hidden from view, so he wouldn't be spotted ould any of the bandits look up by any chance. He activated the communicator he had and whispered a message to his team. "Descend slowly and carefully untill we are within earshot." He ordered them, and gave the example. He could hear them softly already, having concentrated entirely at the task at hand, but probably only the Inuzuka girl could overhear conversations from this height already. Once he was at a height where he could hear perfectly what the men were talking about, he whispered his last set of orders over the communication devices. "Attack on my command. Try to eliminate as many as possible without being spotted. Don't kill any enemy in another one's view, and do not hesitate. Ever. Attack now."
Dropping down from the tree himsself, unsheathing his katana which slid from the oiled wooden scabbard without the slightest sound, he improvised a bandit's torso as a new sheath and he landed behind him and rammed his sword into his victim untill the hilt. Using his hand, already surrounded by the flying sparrow technique's chakra, as a makeshift knife, he violently slashed his target's throat to prevent him from making any sound but an eery gurgling as he went down, turning around, knowing that this man had just left a conversation with someone about breakfast being shitty, he ripped his sword out of his first target and decapitated the other man in a single fluid movement, before quickly looking around to see how the genin were doing. It was their job to attack anyways, he was just here to give the example and make sure they wouldn't die at their first mission.
Kensuke Nimatsu
He raised his eyebrows when none of the genin asked for rest. It impressed him a bit, but made him ponder about wether or not this was a good thing. Maybe they just were too rpoud to admit that. Or maybe he had to adjust his expectations a little bit. He noticed Hayate summon two clones who hid in the earth, and gave an approving nod to the genin. A good idea. Regardless of his thought about their skills however, it was time to attack. "Let's go then." He said, runningup the tree they were standing on, and moving towards the enemy camp untill he stood on one of the branches, hidden from view, so he wouldn't be spotted ould any of the bandits look up by any chance. He activated the communicator he had and whispered a message to his team. "Descend slowly and carefully untill we are within earshot." He ordered them, and gave the example. He could hear them softly already, having concentrated entirely at the task at hand, but probably only the Inuzuka girl could overhear conversations from this height already. Once he was at a height where he could hear perfectly what the men were talking about, he whispered his last set of orders over the communication devices. "Attack on my command. Try to eliminate as many as possible without being spotted. Don't kill any enemy in another one's view, and do not hesitate. Ever. Attack now."
Dropping down from the tree himsself, unsheathing his katana which slid from the oiled wooden scabbard without the slightest sound, he improvised a bandit's torso as a new sheath and he landed behind him and rammed his sword into his victim untill the hilt. Using his hand, already surrounded by the flying sparrow technique's chakra, as a makeshift knife, he violently slashed his target's throat to prevent him from making any sound but an eery gurgling as he went down, turning around, knowing that this man had just left a conversation with someone about breakfast being shitty, he ripped his sword out of his first target and decapitated the other man in a single fluid movement, before quickly looking around to see how the genin were doing. It was their job to attack anyways, he was just here to give the example and make sure they wouldn't die at their first mission.
Konoha Team 7
Kensuke Nimatsu
Looking at the heavily breathing squad of genin, he nodded and turned around towards them. They really tried their best to keep up and execute the mission at hand, which made him glad. At least they were motivated. He was amused by what they said though, as they made some beginner's mistakes here and there. "That's the idea Ezuri. Take out the guards before the rest notices. However, we shouldn't count on the rest sleeping. It's 11AM right now, and most likely they're already up for a few hours." He said with a sort of a smile on his lips, before turning back towards the camp that was hidden behind the foliage to most eyes. "About twenty? That seems about right with the scout reports we had. That means the odds are in our favour. He continued, rolling his shoulders to prepare for battle.
"Here's the plan. We climb the trees and get above their camp, since apparently they didn't place any guard up there, if we can believe Ezuri, and then drop down into the camp. From there on we start systematically killing everyone, untill only the guards remain. I don't know how long they have stood there, but there is one thing I know about guardsmen; they are bored, annoyed, and almost never look back into their own camp. Ready?" He told his team, adjusting the shteath oh his katana.
Kensuke Nimatsu
Looking at the heavily breathing squad of genin, he nodded and turned around towards them. They really tried their best to keep up and execute the mission at hand, which made him glad. At least they were motivated. He was amused by what they said though, as they made some beginner's mistakes here and there. "That's the idea Ezuri. Take out the guards before the rest notices. However, we shouldn't count on the rest sleeping. It's 11AM right now, and most likely they're already up for a few hours." He said with a sort of a smile on his lips, before turning back towards the camp that was hidden behind the foliage to most eyes. "About twenty? That seems about right with the scout reports we had. That means the odds are in our favour. He continued, rolling his shoulders to prepare for battle.
"Here's the plan. We climb the trees and get above their camp, since apparently they didn't place any guard up there, if we can believe Ezuri, and then drop down into the camp. From there on we start systematically killing everyone, untill only the guards remain. I don't know how long they have stood there, but there is one thing I know about guardsmen; they are bored, annoyed, and almost never look back into their own camp. Ready?" He told his team, adjusting the shteath oh his katana.
Konoha Team 7
Kensuke Nimatsu
Nodding at Meisa as she looked away, he turned around to his team after reading the coded message. His face grew into a steel-hard expression as he ralied his team. "Allright. Follow me. I'll tell the details on the way." He said, jumping off the stone faces, down towards Konoha itself. Using chakra to soften his landing, a basic shinobi agility skill, he adopted his marching pace as he headed towards Konoha's gates. He had no mercy for his genin at this point, as the only way to increase their stamina was by doing it. Hence, he forced them to keep up with this rather fast way of travelling. Perhaps in a month or two they'd be able to keep up without getting too tired. In the ideal situation they'd get a stamina just as well as his own after a few years, but he doubted that.
Once outside of Konoha's gates, and about a dozen kilometers through the large forests near the Easern borders of the town, he threw a look at his genin. They were catching up quite nicely so far, but their destination was still a few kilometers ahead. He was amused though at seeing the differing grades of physical condition now blatantly visible in his students, but he knew that their basic condition and their youth would let them recover pretty much entirely after a few minutes' rest. They had neared an area where the trees started growing smaller, compared to their humongous brethren near Konoha. The faint smell of a campfire reached Kensuke's nostrills and when skimming the top of the foliage he could see the thwarted remnants of the smoke that managed to punch through the treetops.
"Allright. We're nearing the destination. We have limited intell on their camp, but we do know that they didn't feel the need to set up a ring of forward guards, and that the only thing protecting them from a surprise attack is a few guardsmen. Nothing spectacular thus. They are bandits, so we should expect them to put up a hard fight, but they aren't shinobi. Now, I want you to stuff it in your heads that these are bandits and criminals. Don't have mercy for them, for they won't have any for you too. Don't get yourself killed because you hesitated. If you still have questions ask them now." He told them as they entered the general area. He knew that they might want to rest first, but like hell he was going to order, nevermind even suggest them to. It was their job to notify him of their conditions should anything be wrong.
Kensuke Nimatsu
Nodding at Meisa as she looked away, he turned around to his team after reading the coded message. His face grew into a steel-hard expression as he ralied his team. "Allright. Follow me. I'll tell the details on the way." He said, jumping off the stone faces, down towards Konoha itself. Using chakra to soften his landing, a basic shinobi agility skill, he adopted his marching pace as he headed towards Konoha's gates. He had no mercy for his genin at this point, as the only way to increase their stamina was by doing it. Hence, he forced them to keep up with this rather fast way of travelling. Perhaps in a month or two they'd be able to keep up without getting too tired. In the ideal situation they'd get a stamina just as well as his own after a few years, but he doubted that.
Once outside of Konoha's gates, and about a dozen kilometers through the large forests near the Easern borders of the town, he threw a look at his genin. They were catching up quite nicely so far, but their destination was still a few kilometers ahead. He was amused though at seeing the differing grades of physical condition now blatantly visible in his students, but he knew that their basic condition and their youth would let them recover pretty much entirely after a few minutes' rest. They had neared an area where the trees started growing smaller, compared to their humongous brethren near Konoha. The faint smell of a campfire reached Kensuke's nostrills and when skimming the top of the foliage he could see the thwarted remnants of the smoke that managed to punch through the treetops.
"Allright. We're nearing the destination. We have limited intell on their camp, but we do know that they didn't feel the need to set up a ring of forward guards, and that the only thing protecting them from a surprise attack is a few guardsmen. Nothing spectacular thus. They are bandits, so we should expect them to put up a hard fight, but they aren't shinobi. Now, I want you to stuff it in your heads that these are bandits and criminals. Don't have mercy for them, for they won't have any for you too. Don't get yourself killed because you hesitated. If you still have questions ask them now." He told them as they entered the general area. He knew that they might want to rest first, but like hell he was going to order, nevermind even suggest them to. It was their job to notify him of their conditions should anything be wrong.
Konoha Team 7
Kensuke Nimatsu
Arriving on top of the first hokage's face he thought about the first, or rather, second impression of his students. Hayate was polite in general and he had a good impression of him, just like the first time he trained with him. However, not at all a reason to go easy on me. Not at all. Ezuri was three years older that both other students. He was a bit cocky, but significantly less so than during the training from yesterday. Interesting, Kensuke thought. It seemed the presence of people of about the same age changed his behavior somewhat. Maybe it was because he wanted to leave a good impression on boh younger students? He could use that to his advantage in any case. Shisen was rather shy, but in a positive and entertaining way. He had once been problematically shy himself, but it didn't seem to be much of a problem with Shisen. It'd fix itself eventually as she'd become a part of a smaller group of genin, undoubtedly.
"Ah, you're already here. Well, I'll leave the briefing of the mission to you?" He said, noticing the other shinobi was already there.
Kensuke Nimatsu
Arriving on top of the first hokage's face he thought about the first, or rather, second impression of his students. Hayate was polite in general and he had a good impression of him, just like the first time he trained with him. However, not at all a reason to go easy on me. Not at all. Ezuri was three years older that both other students. He was a bit cocky, but significantly less so than during the training from yesterday. Interesting, Kensuke thought. It seemed the presence of people of about the same age changed his behavior somewhat. Maybe it was because he wanted to leave a good impression on boh younger students? He could use that to his advantage in any case. Shisen was rather shy, but in a positive and entertaining way. He had once been problematically shy himself, but it didn't seem to be much of a problem with Shisen. It'd fix itself eventually as she'd become a part of a smaller group of genin, undoubtedly.
"Ah, you're already here. Well, I'll leave the briefing of the mission to you?" He said, noticing the other shinobi was already there.
Konoha Team 7
Kensuke Nimatsu
Shaking his head as his last student, Shisen Inuzuka, arrived too late, while Ezuri tried to and apparantly horrendously failed to surprise Hayate with his magnicifent entree. He had a sad feeling that of all his genin, he liked Hayate the most; the only one not in his squad. Regardless, he had a job to do. A tough one most likely.
"Training with Kiyomi? Seriously, I'll have to order her to stop training my genin, they keep getting late for my training sessions. I thought she had some duties as a hokage assistant today, which'd prevent her from training her squad, hence we're taking Hayate here with us. Now, we have a mission people. The briefing is done on top of the Hokage monuments, and we'll get to know eachother on the way there. Let's get moving."
He told the gathered teenagers. Well, actually Hayate wasn't really a teenager yet, being what, 11 years old? Ezuri sure as hell was one, all arrogance and idiotry puberty brings included, while Shisen seemed to be just strange for now. Well, at least they seemed to be quite skilled already. Not waiting for confirmation of the genin, he started moving at quite a high speed, his usual marching speed. Kensuke had a magnicifent physical condition and could keep this fast pace up for hours, something he didn't even expect any of the genin under him to be able to keep up for 30 minutes. The young brats always liked fancy fighting more than the more basic and less flashy things such as being able to run around all day without getting tired.
"I'll start. My name's Kensuke Nimatsu, and I come from the Village of Talons. I like cooperative genin and swords. Oh, I'm 20 years old. Hayate, your turn."
Kensuke Nimatsu
Shaking his head as his last student, Shisen Inuzuka, arrived too late, while Ezuri tried to and apparantly horrendously failed to surprise Hayate with his magnicifent entree. He had a sad feeling that of all his genin, he liked Hayate the most; the only one not in his squad. Regardless, he had a job to do. A tough one most likely.
"Training with Kiyomi? Seriously, I'll have to order her to stop training my genin, they keep getting late for my training sessions. I thought she had some duties as a hokage assistant today, which'd prevent her from training her squad, hence we're taking Hayate here with us. Now, we have a mission people. The briefing is done on top of the Hokage monuments, and we'll get to know eachother on the way there. Let's get moving."
He told the gathered teenagers. Well, actually Hayate wasn't really a teenager yet, being what, 11 years old? Ezuri sure as hell was one, all arrogance and idiotry puberty brings included, while Shisen seemed to be just strange for now. Well, at least they seemed to be quite skilled already. Not waiting for confirmation of the genin, he started moving at quite a high speed, his usual marching speed. Kensuke had a magnicifent physical condition and could keep this fast pace up for hours, something he didn't even expect any of the genin under him to be able to keep up for 30 minutes. The young brats always liked fancy fighting more than the more basic and less flashy things such as being able to run around all day without getting tired.
"I'll start. My name's Kensuke Nimatsu, and I come from the Village of Talons. I like cooperative genin and swords. Oh, I'm 20 years old. Hayate, your turn."
Kensuke Nimatsu
Konoha Team 7
Turning around to see the origin of the sound, a smile broke through on his face. The boy had grown. "Ah, Hayate. You're here early, which is nice. In any case, Kiyomi's too busy doing her job as a Hokage's assistant today, so you'll be tagging along my squad for today. We have a mission today, and an interesting one at that.But, I'll wait with the briefin untill everyone's here. I'm not briefing it anyways, so we'll have to wait regardless." He greeted the boy. Yes, he seemed definately taller than the last time he had met him. However, he still was quite small compared to himself. Who wasn't actually? Few reached up to his height, and one of those was Zakito, who hardly ever did anything but tree-napping anymore.
Konoha Team 7
Turning around to see the origin of the sound, a smile broke through on his face. The boy had grown. "Ah, Hayate. You're here early, which is nice. In any case, Kiyomi's too busy doing her job as a Hokage's assistant today, so you'll be tagging along my squad for today. We have a mission today, and an interesting one at that.But, I'll wait with the briefin untill everyone's here. I'm not briefing it anyways, so we'll have to wait regardless." He greeted the boy. Yes, he seemed definately taller than the last time he had met him. However, he still was quite small compared to himself. Who wasn't actually? Few reached up to his height, and one of those was Zakito, who hardly ever did anything but tree-napping anymore.
Konoha Team 7 and Team 2: Kensuke is leading you on a mission, please gather at Trainingfield 13 at 9AM (after reading my post, that is)
Team 7
Sheathing his blade again he peered around, and looked at the clone approaching him. He hesitated in cutting it in half, for it might just be the real genin himself, but when it dispersed the real Ezuri suddenly jumped towards him, or so it seemed, ready to duel him. "Duel me? That isn't the purpose of this excercise. That tree over there is about 20 meters too tall however, and is in a dire need of being cut down." He said, looking at the genin. In the meantime, a shadow clone of himself was hiding in the branches of the tree, ready to intercept any attacks, should this be a distraction. And boy, he did hope it was one, because this was completely the opposite of what he wanted to see.
Ezuri was ready to fight his sensei, his muscles tensioned. He knew the jounin were no pushovers like his classmates, he found that out during his fight against Kiyomi-san last week. He made the fault to take the initiative in the fight against her without first analyzing what she was capable of. He knew he had a better chance to hit his assilant if he was on the defending side, at least, when they were more skilled them himself. "The tree is too big to topple by simple ninjutsu, it can't be the real task" he quickly threw a glance at the tree again. His byakugan didn't fail to notice the shadow clone hiding in the treetops when he was examing the tree. "Fight me Kensuke-Sensei and I'll show you what I'm capable of" said Ezuri with an overwhelming amount of confidence.
"But that isn't the exercise, Ezuri. This tree is perfectly destroyable. It isn't as humongously thick as those around Konoha. It's just an old Oak tree." He replied, remaining in a battle stance, ready to defend his life and that of the tree. The boy in front of him disappointed him, but that couldn't be helped. The goal was cutting down the tree, but instead he was challenging him to a duel. Should he have been an enemy nin, the young Hyuga'd be long dead. He just didn't seem to grasp what this excercise was all about. Then again, it was the goal to teach them that, but he had had an idle hope somewhere that they'd know already.
The young boy didn't bet all his money on one horse, he had positioned himself so that his sensei stood between him and the tree, should his attack miss, he would at least strike the tree. Flicking his eyes up and down to also keep an eye on Nimatsu's shadow clone he thought up a battle plan. Once he knew what he would do he readied himself. He waited for just a moment before acting as his sensei didnt seem to want to make the fist move. Ezuri pretended do dash forward but jumped a few meters back and drew a kunai in a split second which he immediately hurled at the shadow clone. At almost the same time he took a shot at his sensei, who stood in front of the tree, with the eight trigrams air palm jutsu. He followed his attack at high speed, running towards his target.
At least he had some tactical insight and some speed to back up his tragical warrior disorder. However, the clone easily parried the kunai with his katana, and Kensuke himself countered the air burst with his own falcon wing. He used quite abit of chakra in it, so after overpowering the Hyuga boy's move, it'd continue going straight at him with enough force to knock a grown man off his feet. His clone threw a spread of several shuriken in the meantime to make dodging even harder, while also keeping a watchful eye on the surroundings of the tree. Kensuke himself prepared to defend the tree once more should Ezuri break through his barrage of attacks.
Of course his attacks didnt work, would he never learn? Ezuri found himselfbeing in quite a nasty position. The burst of air conjured by Kensuke flew right at him and the shuriken coming from above made clear that the shadow clone was still up as well. Dodging seemed impossible, there was only one way out "Hakkesho Kaiten!" Ezuri stopped in his tracks and come to a standstill sliding. He spun around at high speed releasing chakra from every tenkensho in his body. he didnt mastered the technique fully so the defensive power was not optimal but it should be able to stop the attacks Nimatsu threw at him.
He stopped spinning as soon as the shuriken were deflected and the air burst from the falcon wing passed harmlessly. Ezuri threw some kunai at the shadow clone. (he could easily pinpoint its position due to his byakugan) "Shuriken mizu bunshin no jutsu!" The kunai multiplied by three, the clone would have a really hard time dodging this, if it was able. Ezuri focussed at Kensuke again, and on the tree behind him. He needed to get past his sensei and he figured it would be the easiest if the man came to him. Ezuri took on a defensive stance and waited for his sensei to act.
The clone noticed the incoming danger and charged his blade with chakra, firing yet another falcon wing attack directed at the kunai, which made some of them stop mid-air, but even sent several back towards the Hyuuga boy. Kensuke in the meantime just stood idle, protecting the tree. To signify he was having too much free time, he even went as far as to yawn.
Ezuri was baffled by the clones power, he never saw a clone able to withstand an attack like he just launched. and to top it off his sensei was just provoking him. anger welled up in Ezuri, he quickly took a one of his last kunai out and blocked the incoming ones with it. the chakra reserve of the young boy was nothing special, if he were to cut the tree he would need his shotei and sixteen palms jutsu. Using a little chakra he conjured up two water clones and sent them into the tree to deal with the shadow clone so he himself could deal with his sensei "show me some taijutsu Kensuke-sensei, I've heard you are one of the best around when it comes to that" now that wasn't entirely true but he hoped his sensei would come at him so he would have a chance to strike at him AND the tree.
The shadow clone leaped out of the tree and engaged both water clones at the same time, before they could reach the tree. It wouldn't last long, but at least it'd buy him enough time to deal with Ezuri attacking him. Kensuke in the meantime gave the Hyuuga boy a skeptical look as he summoned another shadow clone. "Well, come and try me." He said, hands in his pockets, awaiting any attacks from Ezuri. He refused to attack his students if they didn't even bother to attack the tree. After all, he didn't want to maim them or anything. Glancing at the lifeless body of the other teammate he corrected himself. Not maim them too badly. The two shadow clones he summoned joined the combat against Ezuri's water clones and quickly turned the tide. It was amusing that he said that he was renowned for his taijutsu. He was pretty surprisingly good at it, as it complemented his kenjutsu, the skill he was known for.
Ezuri's eyebrow started to twitch. It was something that happened occasionally when he was nervous or angry and right now, he was both. He looked at the two shadow clones and the puddle of water at their feet. his sensei behind them "How can I even try to hit the damn tree if I cant even reach it"[b] mumbled the boy. He could never do this on his own. That made him think of his teammates, the little girl who laid unconcious at the foot of the hill and the Inuzuka girl, who never showed up. Ezuri worked up quite rage [b]"This is SO unfair!" he shouted out. Unthoughtful, leaving his defense open and let his anger fuel his attack, closing the distance between him and the shadow clones he waited till the last minute to throw a kunai at them, they could impossibly dodge or block them because it was at such a close range and high velocity. He planned to continue in a straight line to his sensei and jump in the air to use a shotei attack. He would come down roaring on top of his sensei should he not be interrupted.
The boy was pitiful. He was cursed with the same warrior-syndrome as most genin had, but in this case it was pretty bad. He let his anger influence him way too much and went for an all-out charge against his two clones, throwing two kunai at them as he charged from a very close range. However, he underestimated his attacks, as the kunai he had thrown from so close were still parried by both clones. They were clones of a kenjutsu master, and as such were used to blocking lightning fast melee attacks. A close range kunai throw was nothing more than a fast stabbing attack, and as a result quickly countered. As he attempted to charge past both clones, they stuck out their legs, attempting to make him trip him quite comically should he not dodge, which Kensuke deemed nigh impossible due to his anger.
Ezuri was surprised the clones parried his attack and cursed from the inside. his anger made him blind for the legs the clones stuck out to make him trip. He fell for the childish trick and almost fell flat on his face but he managed to stay on his feet and resumed his assault hoping he would be faster than the shadow clones if they chose to persue him.
Kensuke stepped forwards quickly while unsteahing his blade for an upwards diagonal slice charged with a falcon wing attack, enough to blast him a few meters back, while his clones ran after him. Due to the stumbling act he'd have next to no chance of blocking his sudden attack, and should he somehow take it without being blasted backwards, his sudden move forwards would make sure any attacks would have to be done hastily, and inefficiently.
With a high jump and even higher hopes Ezuri thought his chance of hitting his sensei was 100%. Kensuke proved him wrong as the man shot another falcon wing attack at him. Ezuri got hit mid-air and was blasted backwards even over the clones who tried to catch up with him. The young boy landed hard on his back, all air was pressed out of his lungs, he gasped and got up slowly. "If the man is so fond of his falcon wing why wouldnt he just..." that is when he came to a sudden realisation. he was doing this all wrong from the beginning! Ezuri thought up a plan on how he could position himself between the tree and his sensei and then let Kensuke use his falcon wing. Ezuri ran back to the bushes where he conjured his 20 water clones earlier to replenish some chakra and buy himself some time to think.
Surprised by the sudden turn of events, he let the boy run. Both clones climbed in the tree and took a branch to nap on while Kensuke himself sat down, and grabbed a book out of one of his pockets. "Sojutsu in the Warring States period" It was a very interesting subject about the century long tradition of non-shinobi and their use of spears during the period of warring clans that lasted from about 50 years after the Sage's death up untill some 60 years ago, when the Shinobi nations were created. He was surprised b the boy's sudden change of mood and tactics, and simply awaited him now. His eyes scanned the paper while his ears, nose and acute sort of sixth sense, a feeling he had developped together with his killing intent sensing ability that had saved him from an ambush more than once, did the same. "I'm altering the time frame of the exercise. If the tree isn't cut at 10:00 you fail the test." He added casually, knowing that he'd only have at best 30 minutes left. Perhaps that'd spur him into action.
Ezuri grumbled at the remark of his sensei what was just barely audible from this distance. He now knew what he needed to do. He conjured as many water clones as his chakra reserve allowed and sent them around around but in a bigger arc, it would take them some longer but also made them harder to notice. Ezuri observed with his byakugan and think up a tactic. As soon as he knew what he was going to do he came out of hiding, four water clones at his side and casually walked up to the tree. Another five water clones came from the right, five from the left, and the last five from behind. Kensuke could probably not tell which one was the real Ezuri and he took andvantage of that. He and his clones fanned out, zizagging to distract Kensuke and his clones from divergent movement. Kunai from every direction flew at Kensuke and the tree, aimed at the shadow clones while Ezuri and his clones kept circling around tree.
Noticing the clones behind of him and infront of him he put the book away again to take a look at them, as he seemed to make a large move right now. Some 19 water clones, a very impressive number for a mere genin. He was curious if he could match his talent for jutsu and taijutsu as a Hyuga with his tactical insight. Perhaps he'd even come close to the tree now. Considering the large amount of clones summoned he knew each one had a minimal amount of chakra to be able to overwhelm him, something that had been tried on him before. Something that never quite worked up untill now, and he was curious to see how his student would begin this fight.
The kunai flying around his ears wasn't as much of a problem, since his clones dropped from the tree and started deflecting any kunai that would hit them or eachother's backs. The fanning movement of all clones trying to distract him, with Ezuri somewhere in there, was a nice plan, if not for his dojutsu. In any case, he and all of his clones did a horizontal falcon blade attack towards the approaching horde with quite few chakra, most certainly enough to eradicate any clone, but not enough to outright kill Ezuri, should he be hit. The clones circling around the tree were easy targets in any case, and should Ezuri try anything, he had at least a dozen more tricks up his sleeve.
Ezuri and his clones foresaw the attack of their sensei. of course he was going to use the falcon, blade, that was the plan. but he used it outward, not inward. Some clones ducked, some jumped and some just weren't fast enough. about half his clones did not make it and splashed out into little puddles. Ezuri cursed form the inside. He had to step it up. He attacked each of the shadow clones with four waterclones. throwing kunai to buy time, time that was needed to close the distance. surely four of him should have the edge in taijutsu against one of him.
Ezuri and his remaining two waterclones went after the real Kensuke, or rather tried to place themselves between the tree and their sensei. If he suceeded in that he would have his clones hammer away at the tree while he would keep his sensie busy, or at least have him use the falcon blade. Ezuri hoped his plan would work out.
His pupil's mastery over the water clone jutsu was admirable, considering half of them dodge his lightning fast attack, but the quantity of clones heavily diminished the quality of them, and his clones, armed with their katana, could easily hold their own against the four weaker water clones sent at each of them. However, three versions of Ezuri charged straight at him, and he fired a falcon wave technique at them as they charged in. The wide Horizontal gust of air would be more than enough to knock down a grown-up man, and because of the widthness of the move, nigh impossible to dodge in the same way as he had done before. And should he come close somehow, he'd learn him not to underestimate a shinobi who had been considered one of Konoha's best at close combat fighting eversince he was 17.
Ezuri saw the attack coming, it was the signature move of his sensei and because of his byakugan he could react lightning fast ot the moves of his opponent. He made a sliding. his clones however were not so lucky and were hit. behind him Ezuri heard the poofing of some clones that fought Kensuke's shadow clones. two clones, one of each group split off the group and started jamming away at the three, but before they close enough some kunai from the shadow clones found them as they finished off the other water clones. Ezuri breathed heavily, this was going nowhere. "Kensuke... sensei... watashi- watashiha mitomeru (I concede)" Ezuri realized he could not defeat his sensei nor cut down the three and his plan to dodge a falcon wing that would hit the tree failed as well. he did everyhting he could. the young boy dropped to his knees, doing his best not faint of exhaustion and excessive chakra usage.
Ready to deliver a final blow to 'discourage' his perky opponent, he stopped the sword halfwayhis attack, and let the chakra from the sword dissipate as it accutely stopped right before Ezuri's face. "Very well." He said, sheating his blade and dismissing his shadow clones. He stood back upright and waited untill his student would stand up again, noticing how the other genin was being dragged away by concerned bystanders. He knew she wasn't dead, and she failed the test horribly. None of his concerns. Despite being a friendly person, or rather because he was a friendly person, he was very strict concrning his students. He wanted to train them to become good, well enough to not die in a real situation where they would be clearly outmatched. The perk that has made Team 4 under his command such an asset to Konoha.
"Stand up Ezuri. Despite being on your own, you did considerably well for a mere genin, straight out of the academy. Your mastery of the water clone jutsu for a Hyuga is astonishing, but nothing to be proud of yet. In any case, you passed my test. That poor excuse of a shinobi over there didn't." He told the panting genin in front of him, who was clearly at his limits. However, he was still young, and would be quickly able to fight again.
"Take some rest for today. We'll meet here again tomorrow."
The next day Kensuke rolled his shoulders as to get rid of the last stiffness in them. He had slept pretty bad and the overal clumsy stiffness was still present in his shoulders. Luckily he wouldn't have to do much excersice today. His students on the other hand... In any case, he had heard that the Inuzuke student he had initially failedfor absence had been excused by the academy due to medical reasons or something like that, and that she'd be present today. Team 2 would be joining them too today. He was curious to meet this Hayate Hyuzu from which he had heard so much from Kiyomi... Nevermind having done a small training with him in the past. It would be interesting for sure, as he had a metal-manipulating kekkei genkai.
The soft winter breeze failed to chill him as spring was on the horizon. He never fancied the winter anyways. Regardless, waiting at trainingfield 13 once more for his students Ezuri Hyuga, Hayate Hyuzu and Shisen Inuzuka, he stuffed his hands in his pockets and enjoyed the cold morning breeze. "Which one of them will be late..." He muttered to himself, thinking that actually he should wonder which one of the students would actually be on time instead. 9'a clock at training field 13. The note he had delivered should have been clear enough. Problem would most likely be that they'd read it only after waking up, way too late. But maybe he was just imagining things. He had no right to judge them yet, as so far, he hadn't really gotten a decent expression from them.
What took them so long?
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