The rain fell hard on the roof, hard enough that you could hear each drop hit. Kazu sat against his bedroom wall watching the window, waiting for the rain to "Just go die in a hole.", which he would normally say. Kazu sighed. The reason why he didn't like the rain, was because it'd destroy Firefly. His precious roller blades. His eyes wandered from the window to the corner of his room, to see his roller blades rest against the wall. He could feel the urge to grab them and just go out and explore the village. But alas, the rain destroyed all thoughts of this early morning thought.

It was roughly 9:35 in the morning. He had a whole day to kill, but he couldn't figure out what to do. He thought about going to watch a movie, but didn't see a good movie playing this week. So he discarded that idea. The candy shop might have a good selection... he thought as his eyes laid back onto the rain drops falling right outside his window. He shook his head and ran down the stairs, he knew what he was going to do now!

He grabbed a dark green jacket with flame patterns on it and quickly put it on and ran outside. With the hood up he walked down the street, going by shop after shop. He quickly turned and walked down a small cramp alley. As he kept walking down that path, roughly 5 minutes in, he walked into a clearing. This clearing was large enough for a spar, but it had a ceiling. Well, it was more like a bunch of planks going from one roof to another. The rain was still coming in, but not as much and more spread out, and slower.

Kazu took his jacket off and put it under a dry spot. He walked to the center, which was only slightly wet, and decided he would practice his Taijutsu. He got into a appropriate stance, did a leg sweep, then chained it with a strong right hook then followed with a leg chop going downward. He quickly moved from the spot he landed and started to punch and kick the air as he moved backwards, spinning in directions. He was moving along with the raindrops falling against the wood above him.

The sound of the raindrops, was the music that he needed to practice his Capoeira. He wanted to make sure his technique would be able to get him closer to his dream. He also liked the movement of this technique. He kicked and punched, and even headbutted the air infront of him. Moving about, like he was actually fighting a ghost or something.

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Keiro walked down the street enjoying the pitter patter of the the raindrops on the ground. He could feel every drop hit the ground as he occasionally stepped in a puddle. He would muster aggression every time he stepped in a puddle, but mainly only because it was cold. He walked by a few buildings, but he knew not what they were.

Then, he stopped. He spun towards an ally that he felt heavy movement from. He walked towards the ally and kept his hands against the wall for guidance. He felt the steps getting closer and heavier as he walked down the ally and when it seemed as though the movement was in front of him he stopped. He looked in the direction that he sensed the chakra, and tilted his head to the side.

Kazu kicked a deep puddle of water that created a splash effect. The water landed at the feet of a strange person who walked into the open area. Kazu stopped moving and looked at the guy, wondering why he was in the rain to begin with. He looked from top to bottom of the new comer. But Kazu never changed from his fighting position. He wasn't truly sure what this stranger would do. Alot of things happened recently, and Kazu wasn't eager to trust anyone.

Kazu stepped sideways, to be directly across from where that man is standing. "What cha doing here?" said Kazu as he twitched his hand. He wasn't sure if this person was strong or not, but one of Kazu's family rule is, if they are strong, they are to be respected. Kazu squinted, trying to see if he might've known who this person was, but it wasn't coming to him. "What's yer name?" asked Kazu, hoping to gain some sort of information.

Keiro looked down at the water that splashed down at his feet. He looked back in the direction of the voice. "Your style. It's different. Keiro Kanji. You?" He tilted his head to the side again and closed his eyes revealing the tattoos on his eyelids. The brown eyed tattoos looked at the man and Keiro opened his eyes.

"You're here alone. Why?" He question the boy though he didn't know much about him or who he was and didn't really care. He spun himself around and then turned back. "It was just a raindrop." HE looked back to the boy questioningly.

"My style? And I'm Kazu Kasai." he said, loosening up his stance. When Kazu spotted the tattoos on Keiro's eyes, he tence'd up and returned to his fighting stance. Kazu twitched his left hand again. He took a small step to the right, watching the man very carefully. The man asked him why he was alone, which kinda didn't make sense really. Kazu always wondered why nobody came to this spot, probably because it was surrounded by vacant buildings that are beat up and just looks completely messy.

But to Kazu, who loves training, its the perfect place to train techniques when it rains. "Training. Why else?" said Kazu, in a almost rude tone. "Hey! How bout we spar? I want to test your power!" screamed Kazu, in a almost excited tone. Kazu loved to fight. It's how he tested peoples worth. And also how he past the time and to further his own personal goals.

Keiro peaked the mention of training. He shifted himself into a shoulder width frontal stance with his fists at his side. He brought a foot back quickly and glided his toes along the ground, in case Kazu tried to attack. When his foot got far enough back he dropped it to the ground and shifted his weight to his front foot. It allowed him to feel Kazu's movement easier and it would allow for a quick and powerful blow from his hind foot.

"Shall we?" Keiro prepared for Kazu's movement and swung his hind leg quickly and aimed for Kazu's head. He hoped to hit him and even if he didn't, he would follow through with a spin and a stern solid fist aimed at the face. He figured even with this simple tactic he could still be in a good position to defend himself.

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"Let's get it ON!" screamed Kazu, but before he could even throw a punch, Keiro already went for a kick to the head. It was easy enough with Kazu's technique, Capoeira. Kazu decided moving down would be efficient enough. But as he moved, he noticed a fist flying towards his face, he really didn't want to get hit. Kazu threw his body away from the punch, forcing his to act as a stand so he could roll away. He swooshed his foot against the water to see if he could distract his opponent with the sound.

Kazu noticed that his opponent was blind, on how he reacted to the water falling. He dash'd to the right and threw a weak left hook at Keiro, and then quickly moved again, and followed it up with a leg sweep, then moved around and followed with a strong right hook. And, very quickly, threw a kick to the ribs, on the right side, going downwards. And after-wards, quickly crawled away awaiting a counter attack.

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Keiro dodged the attacks with ease by listening to the sound coming from them. He accepted the kick to the chest because it wasn't that hard. He focused as he heard the water and ignored it. His opponent knew he was blind and was trying to play to the advantage. Keiro couldn't let that happen.

He moved in relentlessly and kept swinging. He didn't wish to hit but if he did it was even better. He jumped back after his attack, and performed the two-handed hand signals for one his jutsus. He created clones and then threw out another set of hand signals and then rushed forward and threw a powerful punch to Kazu's gut.

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Kazu moved swiftly to the drops of the water falling, with the Capoeira technique, it was easy and necessary to use sounds to fight along side. But Kazu thought if he kept using the same tech, then it would get old pretty quickly. Keiro seemed to back off pretty quickly, and started to form handsigns. What jutsu he'd use is completely a mystery, but whatever it would've been, it'd be dangerous for Kazu to be close.

Kazu saw the clone appeared and a sneer came onto his face. "Bringin' aid to the spar huh!?" said Kazu as he used his hands to block the punch to the gut. The punch was weak, not strong enough to move Kazu far, but he needed to keep moving, so he wouldn't get caught up in a fight with two people. Kazu jumped over one of the Keiro's and did a quick handsign, and thrusted his hand forward to the back of one of the Keiro's. A powerful gust of wind extended from Kazu's palm and then quickly moved away, awaiting a counterattack.

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Keiro heard the gust of wind and spun in the direction. It destroyed his clone but he was expecting it too. He looked to the boy. "Quick and quiet." He rushed forward with punches and kicks. Left jabs, right jabs, hooks, uppercuts, high kicks, low kicks, mid kicks, something similar to a button masher would in a fighting game. He made sure to stay light on his feet so he could dodge any return attack.

His goal was to try to tire out his opponent so he could pummel him relentlessly. Keiro didn't tire easily and wasn't going to give this up. He refused to let it end in a stalemate. This guy was a lower rank than Keiro, how is he not down yet? It didn't make any sense in keiro's head, but that wasn't going to stop him.

Kazu blocked and countered with each exchanging blow. Kazu was straining just to keep up with the other guy, he seemed way more experienced then himself, so he was pushing himself to another level just to keep up with each strike and movement. But he was actually keeping up at this level. And maybe, just maybe, Kazu could push for another higher level of fighting. Kazu would back away after each exchange, trying to keep minimal damage to his body.

Kazu didn't wish to even get hit once, due to the fact that if he did, he might get hit with some sorta technique or something like that. Kazu took two leaps back and moved onto the offensive with jabs, kicks, headbutts, leg sweeps. He was moving all over the place with his movement. He would make quick movements on the water, making noise all around to see if he could create an opening. Kazu moved with a quick jump to the left and did a quick jap to the right shoulder blade of his opponent.

Kazu then connected that with a spinning downward kick to the left shoulder. If it hit or not didn't really matter, for Kazu then used his hands as his feet and pushed himself away from Keiro for some distance. Kazu moved away from Keiro for a chance to catch his breath. All that movement was draining Kazu, so he needs to take a quick moment to rest.

Keiro jumped back with every quick jab that was thrown at him. He heard the wind rush towards his right shoulder and stepped back with his right leg to avoid the hit. and then the kick to the shoulder hit him. He grunted with a 'tch.' and spun back. He noticed the boy's movement died down a bit so he figured this would be a good time to rush. He ran forward and jumped into the air right in front of the boy. He did a back flip in the air hoping to catch the boy in the chest or in the jaw. When he landed he stepped back a few feet then he formed hand signals to make himself appear as a serpentine dragon.

He rushed the boy again and threw blow after blow. The boy must have thought Keiro turned into this dragon and was now breathing fire upon him. Keiro smirked as he threw punches and kicks and backflips at this boy hoping to eventually make contact. As soon as he made contact once, the boy would be weakened heavily, and then the real assault could begin. Keiro was relentless and though it was draining him to rush the boy this much, He figured if he could wear the boy out quicker then he could get worn out, then the battle, would be his.

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Kazu was not expecting a counter attack that quickly from his opponent. Kazu was now trying not to get hit by the on coming onslaught, but was caught offguard with the first initial attack. And what Kazu appeared to have seen, was a dragon coming down upon him. This made Kazu's movement even more frantic and unpredictable. He took a punch to the shoulder and then he started to push his muscles to the max to move away from the dragon. Kazu didn't like whatever it was, and he knew he had to get away from it. "What kind of technique is this!?!" screamed Kazu as he pushed away a punch.

He spun around and bolted up a wall, climbing up some wooden planks and window ledges. He grabbed onto some metal poles that connected between buildings, that held up the wooden planks above. He held on and swung over to the other side, to move farther and farther away from -whatever- that was. He stopped on a ledge and looked at the dragon. He couldn't see Keiro, so he knew that if he kept away from the dragon, he'd be safe from any attacks that Keiro might throw at him. Kazu took a few quick seconds to rest, and then continued moving in the rafters/planks above the ground. The rain would block out the sound from the metal being grabbed. So he was making very little noise, and moving constently so that he wouldn't be spotted.

Kazu looked around, trying to find a perfect place to rest for a few more seconds. He was burning energy, and this training session was very good, not just for him he guessed, but for the other guy as well. Kazu stood silently in a window ledge, just waiting for the perfect moment to strike that beast down below. He followed it with his eyes, making sure it would not be able to surprise attack him.

Keiro looked around him with this dragon illusion still up and looked around to find Kazu. "Are you getting tired boy?" He smirked. He found it funny that his jutsu made the boy retreat, and Keiro had to find him. He looked around for the boy and hoped to get some sort of sense of where the boy was. "Hiding is just a coward's way of retreating. I'm not going to kill you, and if you wanted to stop for a breather you should have just said so. I don't mind if you wish to catch your breath, just don't drop down on me without alerting me first."

Keiro dropped his genjutsu and leaned against a wall. He waited for the boy to catch his breath, and waited for the boy to come down. He didn't realize he was going that hard on him, and if he did, He would have stopped. The boy just had to say something. He relaxed against this wall and caught his breath himself.

((I also have Chakra Sense.... I'm not sure if that means anything, but if it doesn't, please let me know and I will then edit my post.))

Regardless, I am allowing him time to escape for a short while.

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Kazu sat against the wall from a little ledge, over looking the small area. He listened to Keiro, and sighed. It wasn't that he was going too hard on him, it was Kazu hasn't had a good fight in a while, so he was just going hell bent on getting his body back into a fighting shape. He leaned over and saw that the dragon was gone. Which made Kazu a little curious on what was going on. Where did it go? What kinda technique did this guy use? Kazu shook his head and took in a few deep breaths.

"Alright." He said, climbing down slowly. "You win.." He said, with a shameful voice. He was ashamed that he had to admit defeat. But the rain was making Kazu feel drowsy, so he figured they should stop and wait for a rematch on a perhaps brighter and warmer day. When they both could go all out. Perhaps a day like that could happen, who knows? Kazu walked up to Keiro and reached his hand out. "Let's have a rematch on a... much better day, yea?" he said, with a smirk. He had a plan in mind for later. He already seen some of Keiro's techniques, and now Kazu will be able to figure out how to counter that dammed Dragon illusion technique. Kazu waited for him to shake his hand, if he did or not, only time would tell.

Keiro smirked. He reached his hand out and shook Kazu's hand. "Your a good fight and I look forward to our next spar. You have earned my respect. Keep with your training, and I will keep mine. Perhaps next time we spar, we can be chunins and the spar will be much more intense!" He chuckled a bit as he began to walk out of the alleyway.

Keiro turned back for a moment, "If you ever wish to contact me again, walk out of the forest, and over to the big hill. Call out 'Keiro Kanji' and then turn around. Within a few moments I will be behind you. For now, I must go home and rest. Good fight, and good luck to you." He then proceeded to walk out of the alleyway, and out of Konoha.

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