Yori, took step by step. He glanced at the ground, with a look that could convince anyone that he was in a state of depression. No, that was quite that, to him anyway. He kept much to himself, not being ignorant, but being sensitive. He had decided that, he had things to do today. Today, those things would involve the Training Field of Konohagakure, the Great Leaf Village in the Fire Country.

As Yori stopped, he glanced up, his dull black hair hanging over his eyes. His black eyes quickly judged the distance between himself, and his target. He looked at the target, and then sent a kunai it the leaves of the tall tree. Today, I will try, and use the Dragon Fire Technique, he thought as he took a deep breath.

Next, as he let out his deep breath, he began gathering his chakra. Snake, dragon, Rabbit, Tiger, before inhaling once more, as his chest expanded. "Dragon Fire Technique!", he said as he leaned foward, expelling a large, torrential flame at the tree. After it hit the tree, it instantly caught fire, and fell over into a nearby river.

"That's what I thought.", Yori said as he turned away from the burnt tree, and stopped his training as he took anyother deep breath.

Hana was walking towards the training grounds. She was carrying a small bag about two hand lengths in both width and height. It was a light tan and metal clinked together inside with every step she took. She needed to practice throwing some Kunai. After all she specialized in weaponry at the moment. She didn't want to get rusty.

She had a slight smile on her face. She had slept in and had enjoyed getting the extra sleep. It always made her that much chipper to sleep in. As she was wandering she heard someone yell and then heard a rather large splash.

Hana's eyes widened as she decided the best thing to do was not to make noise in case of an enemy ninja. Though the girl really didn't think ahead too much. Why would an enemy be in Konaha's training field? More than likely she just wanted something exciting to happen and playing pretend slightly was more fun.

Hana began sneaking up using the light footed technique she learned in the academy. After all it was a ninja basic. She got even closer and realized the boy was one of konoha's. He wore the Uchiha symbol on his back so she knew he wasn't an enemy. Deciding that making a new friend would be fun she smiled and walked out of her hiding place behind the bushes that were a few feet away from the boy.

"Ah, hello there. My name is Hana. It's a pleasure to meet you," she said to him. She was walking towards his back though she made sure to make noise with her feet. It would seem weird if it looked like she was sneaking up on him. The boy had the Uchiha good looks. His ponytail was a nice touch too.

He looked mature. Was he sixteen? Either way Hana wouldn't mind being his friend. She admitted he was VERY good looking. Though she wasn't going to fangirl like she knew many other girls in the village did with Uchiha boys. She kind of pitied the Uchiha's for that. After all the girls WERE pretty shallow. She knew of a few guys from her class that had the same problem. Poor guys were constantly running away from girls.

"Um.... you wouldn't mind if I trained with you, would you? I could use some practice," she asked the boy.

As he finished taking his breath, he felt forced into a situation where he'd have to speak. Dammit, I didn't think I'd have to deal with others today, but training with someone else is better, he thought as he turned around to look at her. At first glance, Yori thought her hair was somewhat golden. Is she serious, it seems like she spends more time on her hair than her skills, but looks can be decieving, he thought.

"Greetings Hana, I'm Yori, of the Uchiha clan.", he said in a somewhat quiet and disturbing tone of voice. "I'm glad to meet you aswell.", he stated. I guess I can't and shouldn't be judging her either, he thought to himself as he turned his attention to her body. I might seem like a pervert if I said anything, besides she doesn't look that old, not much older than I, he thought.

"I wouldn't mind training, in fact it's better to train with others.", he said, giving her a smile. "But before we train, I'd like to know about yourself and your skills, if you'd gladly share.", Yori said to her, still retaining the genine smile. Even if she doesn't want to share, I'll gladly tell her my skills, he said.

Like most Uchiha this boy seemed a bit broody and moody. He seemed polite as well. Too bad. Hana was going to loosen him up. She smiled. "It's nice to meet you Yori."Both were sizing the other person up. Hana was curious about this boy and training sounded really fun.

"Okay well, I'm Hana Kuroda. Of the Kaguya clan. I'm fourteen years old, and my element is water. I'm really good with weaponry as well," she said with a smile. She was slightly bragging. "I'm a genin and I really hope I get a team soon. That way I can learn more jutsu."

Hana moved her hand to her hair and began playing with it and twirling it around her finger. "So what about you? How old are you? I bet you're sixteen huh? You look old enough to already have a team," she began mumbling.

She stopped herself and looked at the boy. "Hey, would you spar with me? It would be awesome if you could," she said with a smile. "I actually haven't sparred with anyone for a while. At least, I haven't sparred with anyone worth sparring with." Keira shuffled her feet slightly and looked into the onyx colored eyes of the Uchiha boy.

Yori continued to blackly stare at her. Kaguya, he thought as his eyes widened up. Not only that, but she can use the Water element, and she's great with weaponry, he thought. He could surely downplay the Sharingan in this eviroment, because he didn't awaken his yet. But at least she's only a genin, she has no advantage over me besides her element, but those clan skills should be watched, he thought, his eyes returning to the dull yet tranquil stare.

He wanted to sigh, but held it back. He felt like an idiot if he couldn't take Hana seriously, and it's all because of how she dressed. Now she's playing with her hair, he thought. "Well, as you can plainly see, I am of the Uchiha Clan, one of the two founding clans of Konohagakure.", he stated. "My father died before I was born, and my mother remarried and was killed with my new father.", he continued, leaving out the vital parts about his step-father.

"But, I specialise in Ninjutsu, and use the Katon Element.", he stated. "I am only 13, and long to be on a team like you, but I also have a wish.", he said as his eyes met the ground.

"That wish, is to create peace in a world of Shinobi.", he said.

His eyes looked back up at her. Assume as much as you like, as long as I don't hear it, he thought. "If we're going to spar, I feel like we should agree to go at each other with killing intent.", he stated. His eyes met hers, and he continued. "Of course though, if someone is seriously injured, or one of us is immobilised, the spar ends."

Hana watched as his eyes changed slightly. She hoped she impressed him. Though knowing the Uchiha's it took a lot to impress them. Though then again she only knew a few Uchiha's to begin with. Though it seemed to be a clan requirement to have a stick up their ass. Though this guy didn't seem to be looking down at her. He seemed polite and maybe a bit uptight.

Hana listened intently to him talk about his past. She wasn't going to offer up any information about that. At least not to a stranger. Even if she was only going to tell him small things. She supposed it was kind of bitchy of her to think that way but she really didn't like to bring it up.

Hana noticed him look to the ground. Why was he doing that? Was it something about his confidence? She thought all Uchiha were proud and didn't show any sighs of weakness. Hana felt a slight twinge of guilt for judging him based on his clan. She thought that perhaps she could get along with him better if she would stop judging him based solely on only the few uchiha she had known.

He then explained about his wish. Hana's eyes widened. It was something so selfless, so goodhearted, and something that was just golden in general. Why was he ashamed of it? Sure, it was almost an impossible dream. It was something only a goodhearted boy would think of.

But at that moment Hana's eyes were solely on Yori. She wasn't thinking of anything else, except that this boy was amazing and good hearted. She had the urge to really make a friend out of him. He had succeeded in impressing her.

He then continued talking. Hana was thrown out of her musings about peace as he talked about how they were to spar. Hana's eyes darkened with seriousness. "Fine by me. Then it's all seriousness from now on!"

Hana quickly drew some shuriken from her satchel and threw them at the Uchiha. Without waiting to see if they hit their target she dashed to a nearby tree. Her eyes darted around as her whole demeanor changed. She was taking everything in while the boy was distracted and was most likely dodging the shuriken.

Regardless of the outcome, I'm sure Hana is as warm hearted as I, he thought, studying her once more. It's all about how we think and act in the spar, as Yori would gladly put it, however he knew he was at the distinct advantage. Without the Sharingan, I cannot level the playing field, he said, as he was about to utilise a jutsu. Instead, with his left hand, pulling out two Shuriken. His right hand pulled out one Kunai. as he pulled out the Kunai, he launched the two shuriken, hitting two other shuriken.

He jumped back, using the Kunai to try and block several of the remaining Shuriken, and took two in his left shoulder and one cut his abdomen. She's not taking any time, but a reasonable strategy can prove all the helpful, he thought. Yori's hands moved quickly, into Rat, Tiger, Dog, Ox, Rabbit, then finally Tiger. "Katon Housenka no Jutsu!", he said, with small flames flying wildly at the tree Hana took cover.

Little should she know, is that these flames are hard to dodge, as using my chakra I can control them, along with the fact I can hide weaponry in them aswell, he thought. He drew three senbon, carefully aiming them at the right side of the tree, incase she went to that direction. He drew a Kunai, standing still, his eyes watching the tree with a kill intent.

As Hana was scanning the battleground she noticed how easily Yori took care of her kunai. Though he seemed to play it more reckless than safe. If he did that then perhaps Hana could wear him out. She had the advantage with that since she could heal bones easily and she tired less.

She blinked and Yori began a new jutsu. He was quite fast for a genin. That meant he had more of an advantage over Hana. She wasn't quite as fast with her jutsu. She leapt for the right side of the tree. It seemed that was where the flames were the weakest.

Hana gasped as all three senbon claimed the flesh on her arm as their target. She continued on, towards the tree that he had earlier knocked down. Hana continued to run. Using short bursts of speed and dodging while making her movements seem unpredictable since she would backtrack as she dodged.

Hana quickly turned and stopped as she prepared a jutsu. "Drilling finger bullets!" she yelled she pointed her hands towards Yori. The bones in her fingers shot out towards the young Uchiha. Hana began running again with her head over her shoulder. She knew to never take her eyes off an opponent.

She fell for the Senbon, but the jutsu is useless now, it hit the tree, he thought as he looked at her right arm. If there's any point on her body as to which I should target, binding her down could be my best solution, he planned quickly. He quickly took note of how she ran, in bursts. That's excellent, she's doing better than my former expectations, he thought. He started moving towards her, in a walk. I would run, but I don't need to wear myself out, he thought. "Say, Hana, isn't this a great spar?", he questioned.

His eyed looked at her as she stopped. Drilling Finger Bullets, what is she planning, he thought as he took notice into it's name very quickly. It must have to do with her fingers, he thought as he watched it. He jumped back as she fired off her Drilling Finger Bullets. I'm going to either have to choose to get hit, or lose my foothold against Hana, so I choose two, he planned once more, landing with enough time to barely jump over the jutsu.

Yori, wincing in pain, landed. his left hand had been pierced, and nonetheless he would need to continue. The previous handseals he had created for his previous jutsu were made, before Yori pulled out four Shuriken. "Katon - Housenka no Jutsu!", he said as four, small flames were fired from his mouth. He then fired the Shuriken, two aimed for the left and two aimed for the right. Yori was using his chakra to control the flames, and as it approched the tree, it split into a different path, going for what was left of it.


He pulled out three more senbon. [i]She's good, I cannot doubt her skill, she thinks on the battlefield, and we both have gained enough ample time to do so.

As Hana neared the river she turned on her heel and faced Yori. She smirked and replied, "Yes, it's an amazing spar. I'm really enjoying it. Though my arm seems to say otherwise." She looked down at her arm and then back to the Uchiha. "I suppose I'll have to end it early before my arm becomes completely numb."

Hana did a few handseals as Yori's shuriken and flames came straight at her. " Hidden Mist Technique!" she yelled. It took a moment but soon the water on the river began to churn differently. Mist began seeping off the top in waves. After a few moments the mist circled around Hana making her completely disappear.

As she was in the mist Hana made a ton of handseals. She smirked and began the next phase of her plan. She slunk through the mist closer to Yori as the mist began to infest the battlefield. Anyone watching would know that Hana had gained a huge advantage. Especially now that she had the use of the river.

Nobody watching would know if Hana was hit by the shuriken or not. Hana pulled one of the Shuriken that hit her out of her right leg. She winced. "Damn this hurts like hell. How Yori can stand the pain, I'll never know."

He feel to a kneeling position as the fog curled around him. "Even as a genin Hana, I didn't expect a technique such as this, the Hidden Mist Technique, that of which even the Sharingan or Byakugan cannot pierce, or so my clansmen have told me.", he stated, through sheer endurance he stood up. She is right though, one of us will need to end this, and I'll use the Great Fireball Jutsu if need be, he thought. But even Yori knew that the jutsu would drain him moreso than his other jutsu.

Even if I cannot tell she was hit by the shuriken, using wired weapons would be a great advantage for either of us, he thought out, standing up straight, as he glanced behind himself. "If your move doesn't end the spar, Hana, mine will.", he stated. "We've both shown a considerable resolve as genin, but we also must know what limits we can reach.", he said. "Though I bear no hatred, I must share with you."

"Growth occurs when one goes beyond one's limits. Realizing that is also part of training.", he stated. "I will awaken my sharingan at one point during my life, perhaps I will master it, one of the three great doujutsu.", he continued, sparing no detail as his hands slowly began handseals. "And if I must, I will rely on my skills alone, and not what comes to me from my blood.", he said, as the jutsu was prepared.

Two clouds of smoke formed, revealing two Yori Bushins. These basic bushins will provide me with some safety if she comes close, he thought as he looked around. "This is it, Goukakyuu no Jutsu - Great Fireball Technique!", he said, falsely using a jutsu. There was no fire, but instead, Yori threw several rigged Senbon, Shuriken and Kunai he had worked on while talking and making fake handseals.

"This is a very risky point in the match, so let's keep it going.", he said as the last of them were throwen down.

Hana was making her own handsigns and preparing her own plans of action. With this mist she had total control over the battleground. Yori was going to have to come up with something quickly. Hana listened to his speech. She was actually quite interesting in what he had to say. The boy was quite intelligent.

Hana's leg was killing her. She continued running. She didn't have time to make a tournekit though. She needed to finish this before one of them really got hurt. She really didn't want to be injured badly and Yori already had injuries as well. She wasn't sure how much blood either had lost but they were definitely going to go home and lick their wounds afterwards.

There were dark figures in the mist that Hana saw glint past her. She didn't pay them any attention. After all she had a goal. She ignored the pain in her leg and continued running. Though the limp was well defined. Not to mention she was bleeding all over the place. The wound wasn't too deep though she was losing blood.

Hana's eyes widened at his speech. A fireball jutsu? But wouldn't that weaken with all the water in the air? Then again it must have been very powerful because she thought Yori was much smarter than that. Not to mention from his voice it seemed he thought he would win. It must have been very powerful. Luckily Yori's figure in the mist seemed to be staring straight ahead.

His speech about his Sharingan was quite admirable though. Hana continued on. A moment before he made his move Hana's water clones ran towards him through the mist. There was no stopping them. Part of the plan was to try to get to him before he made his next move. There were three in all.

Though Yori didn't use a fireball technique like he said. Taking Hana completely off guard. The clones' eyes widened as many different throwing weapons came directly at them. It was much faster than they expected. They had expected the jutsu to take a few more heartbeats to finish.

Hana gasped as the weapons exploded upon impact with the clones. It seemed as if Yori had thrown them randomly but there were still many weapons still flying. Luckily Hana was almost to his back. His clones seemed to act like guards. Luckily the mist still covered her. She only had one chance at this. She had to do it perfectly. It was now time to stop hiding and start going for the hand-to-hand fight. To finish it.

It only took her two heartbeats to finally reach his first clone. "Dance of Camellia!" she roared fiercely. This was a very different voice than what she normally used. More than likely she had never used it before. Hana had the fire in her eyes of a serious fight. One thing she had never had before. Apparently the fear and adrenaline was getting to her. Making her almost savage yet strategic as well. A dangerous combination.

The bone in her upper arm quickly slid out of her skin in her right arm. Almost like her skin was butter. It was painful yes, but if it meant winning the match she was going to use it. She swung her long bone blade at the clone as it slid out. Giving her a few seconds to actually get it out all the way. Then she stabbed the other clone, her blade going in a wide arc.

In one last breath she pointed the tip of her blade at the real Yori's heart. The tip lightly touching the fabric on his chest. Hana panted as she bled. "I have no more energy left..."

"Then it is as simple as that.", he said as he heard the explosions. It came together smoothly, I assumed she'd come close, and it appeared so, he said as he could hear water splash to the ground. "Hmm, so did you realise this was an offense attack, Hana.", he asked as the first clone became a cloud of smoke. "Or was it a defense measure to keep you away?", he questioned as the other bushin poofed away. He glanced at her, the dull black eyes looking at her.

"You weren't being careful enough, Hana.", he said. His wounds were obviously weighing on him, and he had to react by either giving up, or ending it. "You look like you will collaspe if I do not yeild.", he stated to her as his eyes looked at the bone. "There's no possible way I can break it, is there?", he questioned. "But you must exceed your limits, as I will always try to do so, throwing caution aside to protect the things I care about.", he stated.

"You could call this, an Illusion I physically play on your body.", he said as, instead of him standing in front of Hana, the burnt tree from before was. "Surrender now, not only are you surrounded by explosive weaponry you cannot percieve, but I can also unleash a jutsu apon you.", he stated. "You were very well Hana, you did good to keep up with my moves, but I feared that I would take you too easily.", he stated.

"Perhaps, if you had've approched me before raising the mist, you could've had a better chande.", he said as he held the final handseal for a certain fire jutsu.

Hana realized her mistake too late. Though she wouldn't have had that advantage over the Uchiha without the mist. It was one of the best strategies in her arsenal. It seemed instead of her leading him into her trap, he had changed strategies and forced her to come to him. Like a mouse with cheese and he snapped the trap over her.

"I assumed it was to find my location while you thought up a strategy," she answered while panting. She also nodded at Yori. "Yeah, my bones are hard as steel. So it's even better than a sword."

At his next words Hana showed confusion on her face. "What are you trying to protect?" she asked. Hana's eyes widened as she watched the boy turn to a stump. Substitution. She really hated that technique. More than even painful or powerful jutsus.

Hana sighed and her bone sword slowly began retracting back into her arm. "But I have more water type jutsu than I do Taijutsu. At the moment I'm better at working up strategies and with throwing weaponry. I'm not as good with hand-to-hand combat. I only have the dance of Camellia for that. Well, and the basics they teach you at the academy."

"The mist jutsu was my best strategy and good for giving me time for planning," Hana said while smiling. "You're pretty good. Worthy of my respect Yori. I surrender. At least for now. Next time I'll be strong and better. You'll have to work twice as hard."

Hana backed away from him with her hands up in surrender. "Now then, I suggest we head to the hospital for now. To get our wounds looked at. You look even worse than me," Hana suggested.

His eyes had a someone surprised look on his face. I should've used a piece of cloth, I wouldn't feeling it now, he thought. He smiled as his right hand met the left shoulder, removing the two shuriken. "We should head over, these injuries shouldn't be allowed to get any worse.", he said, agreeing with her. He looked up. "I'm sure in our next spar, we'll both be improved.", he said as he started walking.

He took his time, breathing deeply to make sure he didn't increase his heart rate. "You had every advantage against me Hana, except you gave me the chance to complicate things inside the mist.", he said to her. "I have Katon jutsu as my main offense, and everything else is something I need to think up as I go along.", he stated. "To be honest, I didn't think you'd get past the explosive tags and weaponry.", he said to her.

He glanced up. If I wish to become stronger, I must exceed my limits and grow, she will need to realise this aswell, he thought. "So, I'm sure you heard me talk, tell me, did you understand what I said?", he questioned her. She may know what I'm talking about, if not then I'll tell her, he thought as he looked at her.

Hana nodded as he explained to her what she did wrong. She would store this in mind for future reference. So she needed to think another two steps ahead when she did that jutsu next time. Perhaps she could do more with clones? Maybe keep her enemy distracted while she still kept an eye on him. That way she could prepare for her next stage of her plan while the clones kept her enemy busy.

Hana was a fast healer. She decided to just go home first and clean her wounds before heading to the doctor the day after. Her leg wound was already scabbing over. The senbon needles were for certain other deeds as well. Not really for tearing of the flesh or making big wounds. So Hana didn't have much injuries with those.

She assumed the Uchiha didn't use them to their full potential. Hana continued listening to the boy and nodding when he said something that she knew was important about their battle. He then asked her one last question. Hana smiled. "I actually think I did understand. At least some parts of what you said. I'd like it if you explained better though."

As they continued walking Hana chewed her lip slightly. It was a bit painful though since she could reconstruct bones and such with her Kaguya techniques she healed faster than most. "Hey, Yori. I want you to head to the hospital today. Your wounds are worse than mine. I actually heal better than most since I'm a Kaguya but I'm going to get my wounds looked at tomorrow," she said yawning. "I'm just too beat at the moment to want to deal with hospitals and doctors. I'd rather just clean myself up and sleep it off till the morning."

She'll be improved the next time we spar, and when I'm sure I must, I will strike fear into her, he thought. His strategies always had a flaw, as with his strategy he used on this very field. One wrong step and anyone on my side, or even I could've been killed, I have to make sure I tweak out these strategies, he thought. He glanced at her leg, and kept his cool look. She's healing quicker than I thought, an impressive feat she'll need in this world, he thought. "So you think you've understood, then perhaps, another day, we can meet again and discuss it.", he said to her with a sincere smile.

She doesn't have to understand my words, I would be more than obligated to speak with one who managed to back me into a trap, he thought. She then begin talking to him about his wounds. My wounds, worse, I'm an Uchiha, we are supposed to be elite shinobi, he thought, brushing it off as her being kind. "I suppose my injuries are somewhat more severe, so I'll head over soon.", he said to her. He raised his hand and motioned it slightly.

"I'll see you some other time Hana, train hard and exceed you limits.", he said as he walked back towards the center hub of Konohagakure, stuck on the fact he wouldn't go to the hospital for minor injuries.

"I don't blame you about not wanting to deal with those, they are truelly difficult to be around, but they are needed.", he said to her, thinking about all the prodding and pricking and poking they enjoyed doing.

Hana smiled. "I hope we will." She continued walking rubbing her sore shoulders. "Alrighty, get better soon. The sooner you heal the sooner we get to spar again. Hopefully by then I'll have more jutsu."

Hana grinned and waved as she headed towards her apartment, the opposite way that Yori was headed. "Hospitals definitely suck. Sometimes they just make things worse too." Hana began walking backwards as they were talking.

"I'll see you again. Yori Uchiha is definitely a name I will remember." She then turned back to the road and walked away. Soon she was close to her house. She breathed a sigh of relief as she began limping slightly. She hadn't wanted the Uchiha to see her weak. After all, she had really wanted to make an impression.

Though Hana was a bit of a baby when it came to pain. She took the key that was "cleverly" hidden under her door mat and opened the door. She was instantly glomped by a mass of ginger fur. Hana giggled and hugged the little ball of fluff to her bosom.

"I missed you too," she whispered in the foxes large ear. It barked slightly and nuzzled her neck. She carried him to the bathroom where she stripped her clothes off. She grabbed a bottle of antiseptic and sat on the tub edge. She put her pet down and sighed. She winced as she began pouring the brown bottle of liquid directly onto her wounds.

"Uff, this stings..." she whined to the little fox. He in turn seemed to be giving her a pitying look. "Jeez, I don't need pity," she teased. "Especially by a pervy fox like you." She then winked which made the little tyke seem to roll his eyes. He was quite an amusing critter.

Once Hana was done with cleaning herself up she hopped in bed and began to go over various strategies that would have helped her in the battle earlier in the day. She slowly drifted off to sleep with her darling pet at her side.

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