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Post by blink on Jun 5, 2007 20:32:22 GMT -5
Taj jumped up the face of the Hokage Mountain, orange robes flapping around him and staff held to one side. As he cleared the final space, he landed on the flat surface of the mountain top, taking a deep breath from the exertion before planting his staff and sheding hsi outermost robes in preparation of Yoh's arrival... This last dance would be the most satisfying and most difficult to teach, the complation of all the others. Death given a beautiful yet horrifying face.
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Post by Kaguya Yoh on Jun 5, 2007 21:09:27 GMT -5
(What with you changing the color you use for Taj all the time? First purple then blue then red and now blue again tis odd)
Yoh jumpped up the same path as Taj went. The young genin some distance behind the chuunin. Once again Yoh feeling angry with himself with being weak. However he tired not to let it hit his face Yoh finally arriving at the flat top. Blue eyes looking over the to the old Kaguya seeing him strip himself of his staff and robes.
"So what is the last dance Taj-dono?" Yoh asked wanting to know what it was so he could try and dig up some memeries of his father when he allowed him to watch him practice. The young genin thinking that recalling those memories would help him.
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Post by blink on Jun 5, 2007 21:33:18 GMT -5
(Becuase I like confusing you, Kaz. that's why.)
"The last Dance I know is that of the Larch," intoned Taj, "The first Dance seeks to have you wield a blade like a petal in the wind, everywhere and nowhere at once. The second teaches you to treat your body as a deadly weapon. The Larch combines the two and makes you all but untouchable at close quarters, deadly on defense and attack."
He finished stripping away his outer robes, leaving his torso bare. The Kaguya Monk looked Yoh in the eye, features unmoving as bladed bones erupted from his skin along his arms, ribs, spine, chest, and even a single razor sharp crest on his forehead. Bone armor formed under his skin. "This is the most demanding Dance, one you can only truely teach yourself," he finished softly, "The one we all try to Dance from the moment we learn how to use our bloodline in combat.
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Post by Kaguya Yoh on Jun 5, 2007 21:49:08 GMT -5
(*gaps* the betrayal poor blue don't sorry though maybe Toto-kun will use you again someday with Taj lol)
Yoh listened carfully to the explaination that Taj gave him about the last dance he was goign to give him. The young genin feeling a little confused for he remembered his father praticing other dances as well as the once that Taj taught him. Although Yoh wasn't going to question it after all Taj had told him that he learned the dances from a scroll so it might have not inculded the other ones.
Part of him grew a bit confused when the monk said that it was a dance that everyone in their cla tried learning once they learned how to use their blood limit. Was the dance really all that? Blue eyes exsamined every bone coming out of the Monk's bone. "I think I get it, but theres something I don't understand. Why would everyone in our clan want to learn this dance so badly?"
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Post by blink on Jun 5, 2007 22:10:48 GMT -5
"The point of a fight in the Ninja world is incapasitate or kill your opponent without taking injury yourself, in as little time and as quietly as possible," replied Taj softly, lifting one forearm and rolling it slowly in front of him, "No more. No less. Don't believe anything else. The Larch... is our attempt to embody that idea in a single fighting style. A master of the Larch can only be defeated in close combat by someone of far, far greater power like a Jinkiri or the user of a explosive suiside technique like the various KinJutsus."
He shook his head, smiling to himself, "Of course, our clan developed two other Dances which I don't know, one of them far more showy and destructive than the Larch, but it is my personal belief that they were created to satisfy the bloodlust of a Nin who couldn't master the Larch. Does that answer your question?"
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Post by Kaguya Yoh on Jun 6, 2007 1:43:25 GMT -5
Yoh listened closely to the explanation that Taj gave him about what the Larch was used for. The young genin taking it all in repeating every word in his mind to stick it to memory. Yoh took interest when Taj spoke of the other dances that there were. A look of regret going into his eyes when he heard about the other two dances being nothing but something to satisfy the clans blood lust.
Yoh understanding a bit why his father always cursed their clan so much whenever he asked questions about them. "It dose," Yoh replied to him bluntly. "So how are we going to do this? Are we just going to do what we did for the first dance or... what?" he asked wanting to know how to continue.
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Post by blink on Jun 6, 2007 22:07:02 GMT -5
"What we did before. The Dances are best learned via practical example rather than dusty scrolls, something I discovered to my embarassment and pain," replied Taj, continuing thoughtly with a smile, "This will be difficult, but not as difficult as you might think. Whenever you switch from bone bullet to dagger to sword and drill and back again within the same attack pattern, THAT is the basic nature of the Larch, you as a tool of your bloodline, actively manipulating it in response to your foe's every move. With a little thought and practise, I'm sure you'll master it as well."
Taj took up a fighting stance, bony projections catching the light on his torso, the smile fading to a content smirk, "There are no forbidden strike zones here, no weapon off limits. No set forms, although it has been easier for me to base my spurs off of already existing bones... You'll find your form soon enough. Put up your bone armor and come at me."
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Post by Kaguya Yoh on Jun 7, 2007 1:02:43 GMT -5
Yoh listened to everything Taj had to say about everything he had to say about the Larch Dance. Yoh, again, repeating everything in his mind to make it all stick in his mind. A questionable look going across his face when Taj mentioned that he based his form on already exsiting bones. The young genin not really understanding the concept about it but he was going to go with it until he was told he was doing something wrong.
The young Kaguya striped himself of his robe leaving his thin torso naked just as Taj was. Yoh not wanting to put holes in his robe while training. Tossing his white robe on the ground Yoh placed a bone shield under his skin. The young genin feeling a bit nervous about attacking not really wanting hurt Taj. Although most likely it was going to be the other way around and he wasn't going to get much of anything in.
For a small while Yoh just stood there not really knowing on what to do to start. His mind just focusing what was most likely going to be the out come.
Taking in a deep breath he calmed himself Yoh raising one hand and moved it with quick motion sending five finger bones at Taj as if they were shuriken. The young Kaguya then dashing up to the older Kaguya a bone sword coming out of his right palm Yoh jumping up and came falling down at the monk with a downward slash. However right before his bone would have hit the monk Yoh used the water flicker to come up behind the Kaguya and send a side slash at his back.
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Post by blink on Jun 9, 2007 21:59:40 GMT -5
(Sorry for the delay. Finals AND no inspiration.)
Taj pushed off on one heel as the bullets came at him, dodging most and raising a forearm blade in time to deflect a bone that would have hit him in the eye. He reclaimed his footing in time to brace for oncoming charge, smiling as the water-flicker took Yoh behind him. The strike buzzing for his side was caught by a suddenly blooming rib, two of its adjacent siblings stabbing straight back to impale the Genin's weapon arm.
Whatver the result of that, Taj flickered behind Yoh, striking at his head with a bladed forearm, following it up with knee blow to the kidney.
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Post by Kaguya Yoh on Jun 10, 2007 21:55:44 GMT -5
(Tis no problem)
Blue eyes narrowed when Taj used his ribs in order to block his attack. Then they quickly widen as he notice that the bone was comg at him as well. Yoh quickly jumpping back in order to avoid the attack that was ment to impale his arm.
Yoh then watched as he flicker Yoh looking behind him seening that was the most probable space anyone would take. The young Kaguya ducking in order to avoid the attack, the bone sword only getting a few strans of hair. When the knee came in Yoh raised his arms, growing a bone shield on his outskin. Yoh blocking the attack his body boding back a couple steps after the impact.
The bone shield on the outside of his skin reteating back into his skin. Yoh raising his sword against his opponent as he dashed at Taj once more. He sent an upward slash and quickly turned it back into a downward slash.
After slashing at Taj Yoh had a bone shield come over his fist all the way to his elbow and sent a punch at the monk's chin.
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