Ninjas of the Rain

[ray]

A short female looking kid wondered the streets of the Village hidden in the Rain. The kid was actually a boy with long red hair, but often times people didn't know that. He looked around and sighed. there was nothing to do, and he couldn't believe he had to wait still for the exams. He wanted to move up a rank now! His team's training had ended and the young boy didn't know what to do, his mother had some customers in their shop, which was their home as well. Mitarashi, the boy sighed and stopped, looking around.

[Dustfinger]

Kangeki was standing on the roof of a building near Mitarashi. He had been watching people go passed; trying to understand why they did the things they did. People were so interesting to watch and yet so hard to understand. They perplexed Kangeki, much like they perplexed the rest of his clan. Suddenly long red hair caught his eye and he was attracted to a girl...or was it a boy? who was walking down the street. Leaping off the building, he landed safely in front of him; deciding it was a him once he had gotten a closer look. This kid was most perplexing of all; he looked a lot a like a girl. Why? "Hello, I'm Kangeki."

[ray]

Mitarashi had stopped instantly, deep in his own thoughts. He thought he felt some one watching him... then another feeling entered, like some one he was meant to know was in danger, but it soon passed. He took a step forward, not noticing some one had jumped in front of him. The long red head jumped and blinked staring at the ninja in front of him. "Erm.... hello...?"

[Wolf]

There was yelling and splashing on the street the young Shinobi where on, blood seemed to twist on the ground between their legs. "Come on! This isn't so tough for her!" More yelling. A red scarfed, black haired female Shinobi ran past them, blood seeming to twist up her arm in a wound that kept bleeding at an incredible rate. She was attempting to bandage it up while running. This was what training with her clan was like, it was different with her team, less.... fun. There was a smile on her face. Her name is Phoenix Ketsueki, a well known member of the Ketsueki clan. But she was never seen alone while walking around, or just.. relaxing in town, it was even rare that she got out to do things other then train. She was a hemophilia, and her father worried about her, since their clan used their own blood in their attacks.

[Dustfinger]

Kangeki had been about to respond when Phoenix came running past. Her clan was especially interesting to watch. He didn't know why he was so fascinated with human emotion; he felt the same feelings as everyone else. He knew why he felt them, but he wondered why everyone else felt them. No two people were exactly alike right? So why should everyone feel the same emotions? Realizing he had gotten distracted, he turned back to Mitarashi with an apologetic smile. "Sorry, and yes hello. Whats so odd about hello?"

[ray]

Mitarashi was distracted too, seeing how the blood was flowing from Phoenix's wounds. It abnormal, and it worried him. he blinked then looked at Kangeki. He was strange... But Mitarashi was caught off guard with the sudden hello. "There is nothing wrong with hello. Hello.. I'm Mitarashi. Sorry i didn't introduce my self earlier..." What a strange person... he thought.

[Dustfinger]

Kangeki couldn't stop a laugh. "No need to apologize. I tend to 'drop in' on people." He couldn't stop a chuckle at his corny joke. "Just ignore the corny joke. I have knack for those things." He could see that Mitarashi too was distracted by the girl. "That was odd wasn't it. It didn't look very good either. Do you think she needs help?" A look of concern came over him. He was back to his usual self; not worrying so much about human emotion. He did his best to only study that while fighting, but it did sometimes overcome him.

[ray]

The young red headed boy nodded, "I do want to check it out...." He stopped in mid nod though, his eyes going wide. He had seen the blood twisting underneath their feet. The blood... it was moving on its own.... That... was some thing Mitarashi never heard about. He didn't know much about Phoenix and her clan... He stepped aside and watched the blood deep in thought.

[Wolf]

Phoenix's clan mates ran past the two boys. One of them stopped and leaned against a wall sighing. "I'm out..." he said to does running by. He was joined by a couple more. "Well, she cloned her self.." someone of them, who seemed paler then the others. "I just saw two of them run on the roof....." Phoenix was hiding in an ally in which she had slipped into, breathing hard and cursing at the bleeding that didn't creased. A white wolf was besides her breathing on it, to help close it up. It was one of her summoning animals.

[Dustfinger]

Kangeki's eyes widened as he realized the number of people who had been chasing her. One would think she had committed some sort of crime. Although it did look like she needed some sort of medical attention. Very strange... "Well let's go talk to her." He took the most discrete route to the alley she had hidden in, making sure that no one else noticed. "You ok? You're bleeding a lot. I'm Kangeki by the way. Nice to meet ya." He was very curious to know what was going on.

[Wolf]

Phoenix looked up, startled seeing Kangeki there. She quickly moved and covered her mouth to listen. She then sat back and glared at him slightly. "Did they see you come in?" was the first thing she asked. The wound she had seemed to stop bleeding, but it wasn't completely healed. Chishio, the white wolf, looked up at Kangeki. "She's fine for now....." Blood seemed to still twist and turn up and down Phoenix's arm though.

[Dustfinger]

"I made sure that no one was watching. So we should be okay hopefully. You never told me your name." Kangeki considered it rude to not respond when someone offers you their name, so he was slightly offended. He wasn't dumb enough to come in while they were watching. "One would imagine you were some sort of criminal the way they were coming after you, but you don't seem like the criminal type."

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Mitarashi followed Kangeki looking at the wolf then at Phoenix's wound. "Wow.. can't believe the bleeding stopped that fast......" He said he looked at Kangeki then at Phonenix. "You aren't right? YOu know a criminal....."

[Wolf]

Phoenix sighed, relaxing almost. "My Name is Phoenix Ketsueki, next in line of the... ,well Keetsueki clan..." she said. The blood tighten around her arms, just to be prepared of any attacks. "Sorry for shushing you quickly, i have my reasons to do that, very good once at that." She listened to the boys talking about her being a criminal or not, and she almost gave a loud laugh, but she caught her self, and only gave out a small laugh. "No, i'm not a criminal. Its just daily training with my clan. And that wound is nothing compared to what i can get..." She hugged Chishio. "And i am fine. Chishio is the best healing animal i could ever have."

[Dustfinger]

Kangeki smiled at Phoenix, "Well I'm glad to hear that you aren't a criminal." He took up a relaxed position, leaning up against the wall of the alley. "Seems like training for you is very odd. Its hard for me to train my techniques; I use genjutsu. I use my target's greatest fears against them, but no one really wants to train with me since its a scary experience. I can still train other skills, but my family's training is limited to missions. I come from the Itami clan." he picked up the chain on his pants and began to spin round his finger. He was careful not hit anyone.

[Wolf]

"In some views, are training is odd, even our abilities." She watched as Kangeki started to swing is chain, thinking to her self. What is my greatest fears? she thought. It was simple enough. Bleeding to death. She did not care for her parents at all, all they did was worry about her.... Well her mother would have worried like her father as well. And she had no friends, yet, that she would have to worry about. All she really feared is bleeding to death because of her illness.... "Well, I'll help you train, Kangeki. I never really encountered much genjutsus before. Just as long as.... well,never mind that, i can tell you that later..." Phoenix said. She often avoided talking about her illness.

[Dustfinger]

Kangeki cocked his head slightly, looking at Phoenix with confusion. "Well you had better be prepared to face your greatest fear; I don't have to know it for this to work. I use your own mind to create the image. I don't always have to use that technique, but it is my families specialty. I could help you train in return if you are willing. What is your training for anyway?" She was a very curious girl and very interesting.

[ray]

Mitarashi sat on the ground listening to the two. His eyes seemed to almost frown at what Kangeki had talked about his genjutsu. It was nothing compared to what Mitarashi could do... But it might just be from his clan.. maybe... He blinked and looked up. "Well, I can probably help you both train.. maybe... I'm not all that skilled in any fighting jutsus really... Just genjutsus.... So it could help me try to find a good fighting style other then run....." But could he face his greatest fears? And could he stand facing some one who was a possible hemophilia?

[Wolf]

"Well, I'm most likely am.." Since almost every day i have to worry about it..... She stretched slightly. "Well, our training deals with how much chakra, and because of our abilities, how much blood we use in each and ever jutsu and attacks. There are different kind of trainings we do, that works on different things other then our mane focus. Such as using our defensive jutsus and our offense jutsus, how hard we can make the blood, how fast we can move it, an what weapons we can make and how sharp we cane make it..." Phoenix said, hoping she helped him.

[Dustfinger]

Kangeki nodded at Phoenix and Mitarashi. "Well it seems we can all agree to help each other. That certainly sounds like an interesting bloodline, but wouldn't that require you to cut yourself or something to get the blood?" He hoped no one would find them there. Maybe they should move to a safer area; one where they were less likely to be found. The alley wasn't particularly clean anyway; it smelled of trash and looked like it too. There was probably rats picking through the overturned trash cans. Phoenix had certainly picked a dirty place to hide.

[Wolf]

Phoenix looked around, to get a good luck around her surroundings instead of paying attention to one point. She didn't mean to hide into such a dirty place, she had simply picked the nearest, well hidden place. She needed a rest, and she didn't know how long she could keep up with that wound going..... She didn't know if she even keep training up with others..... The blood user forgot to pack plasma pills. Phoenix looked up and blinked. "Well, we do have to cut our selves to get the blood, but i keep a container of my blood with me. The wound i got earlier, that was just a lucky hit..."

[Dustfinger]

Kangeki was still surveying the alley when Phoenix responded so he merely nodded in response. The place was getting distracting. "Should we maybe find somewhere else to hide?" He didn't want to be boss, but he did want to move somewhere else. It really wasn't that great of a place to hide either. And, again, it was rather disgusting.

[ray]

Mitarashi was looking out side the small ally, seeing what he was able to see. He looked over at the other two. A blood user? That wasn't probably good. What if they had to fight a long battle and keep cutting them selves when the couldn't reuse the blood? He blinked and looked around, almost flinching away. This was unhealthy. "I agree with Kangeki, we should move." he said.

[Wolf]

Phoenix nodded and stood, dusting off her bottom. "We should move, and I think the members i was training with are chasing after the clones i sent out..." She looked around and shivered. She wanted to train, and she also wanted to see what Kangeki and Mitarashi could do, especially Kangeki.

[Dustfinger]

Kangeki nodded, "Alright. I know where we can go! Follow me. We won't have to worry about any interruptions." He took a peak out of the alley, seeing that it was clear. He gestured for them to follow. Then he took off, darting from place to place; ensuring that he wasn't seen. He was soon outside the village. He continued on for a little bit and then came to a huge abandoned ruin of some ancient building. His clan had trained here often and it was said that they had once lived here. He stood there waiting for the other two to catch up.

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