Kanzaki had been up for several hours once Sanjuro and his three Gennin had finished their first round of training. Kanzaki had been watching from a nearby tree, wearing the form of his eagle, his sharp eyes catching every little detail. In his mind he was marking down how Sanjuro had altered his style since applying the new weights. It was something the three members of his squad had been doing for a number of years, since they first became a squad actually, watching each other from a far and finding holes in their squad mate’s styles so each member could fix the holes and improve. It started off as a competition, a squad member that found a flaw wouldn't tell or exploit the hidden flaw until it came time to be judged against each other, and then they'd use the holes to advance amongst themselves. But now that they were all Jounin, and members of the Shadow Village Black Ops, they used the same methods, only this time showed their team mates the flaws, so they could correct them. For today, the only new hold Kanzaki saw was the fact that Sanjuro was a bit slower, so his strikes and dodges were off and not as smoothly performed, but that would correct itself with time. Kanzaki looked up at the sun in the sky, and tilted his head; it was about time for him to start the individual training of his own Gennin. Buki was the first in line, so while she was being trained, Nagiri and Ailish would be off doing simple missions that didn't require all three squad members
Kanzaki took off from the tree branch, startling the three tired Gennin in the process. Kanzaki quickly headed back to his own house and saw that Buki was already on the front steps waiting, petting the bear cub. Kanzaki waited until he was above his room to change back into his human form. He landed with a soft thud, which caused Buki to look up. Kanzaki motioned to the back of the house with his head and rolled down the back of the roof, landing easily on both feet while Buki walked around the side.
"Now, you've perfected all four of the animal transformations I've given you so far, the bear, tiger, wolf and falcon. You've also master the transformation part of the Gurahl Transformation, where you become half bear half human. All you have left to do with that style is to learn when to use it. Using it against a fast opponent is something that just won't work, so you save that for slower or better yet immobile targets. But first things first, let’s start with the normal animal transformations, starting with the bear, tiger, wolf and finally the falcon."
Buki nodded and placed his hands in front of her face in the hand sign of the tiger. For a few seconds blue chakra swirled around her feet then she transformed into a full sized bear. Kanzaki nodded in approval and motioned for her to continue. Before today, Buki had been forced to revert to her human form before starting with another transformation, but today she went directly from her bear from into her tiger form, which was white with black stripes. Kanzaki hid his surprise, it was a tactic to force his students to do better, if he was impressed all the time they wouldn't work as hard, but this time, he truly was impressed. After approving this form, Buki transformed into a grey wolf, then into a red-necked falcon, each time getting a nod of approval from Kanzaki.
“Alright then, let’s see how well you can handle yourself. Use the Gurahl Transformation against my Shadow Clones. Ready?”
Kanzaki placed his fingers into the Shadow Clone hand sign.
“Here we go Buki, Shadow Clone Jutsu!”
Kanzaki made six shadow clones, then jumped back on top of the roof and took a seat on the edge to watch. Buki smiled and instantly transformed into her Gurahl form and watched as the six shadow clones made a circle around her. The form of the Gurahl was modeled after old legends of people that could change into animals and forms in-between, the Werecreatures. Each one of Kanzaki’s Transformation styles were modeled after a Werecreatures, Kahn (tiger), Garou (wolf), Gurahl (bear), Corax (raven), Rokea (shark), Nagah (snake), Mokole (lizard), Apis (bull), Camazotz (bat), Kitsune (fox) and Ratkin (rat). So far Kanzaki was the only one that could do all the transformation, but Buki was a quick learner and Kanzaki was sure that it wouldn’t be too long before she would be able to perfect all the forms. Kanzaki watched as each one of the shadow clones slowly began to move to the right, making the circle move.
Buki continued to watch as the clone began to move faster and faster until she could just see the blurs of the shadow clones. In a single flashing movement Buki stuck out with her right paw, catching one of the shadow clones in the chest. The other five instantly stopped and did three back flips, distancing themselves from the bear.
“Good move, but that was simple timing, when each one begins to move of its own free will, than you start having trouble. Now, defend.”
The shadow clone behind jumped forward with a kunai out, held backward so if the clone hit, Buki would just feel a thud instead of the sharp pain of a blade digging into her back. It was a good thing he did this, because the clone did connect with Buki’s back. When it hit Buki’s eyes shifted from the clones in front of her to the one on her back. As soon as that happened the two shadow clones in front of her charged forward, clinging to the front of her. The last two shadow clones stood back to watch. After only a few second Buki easily managed to throw the three shadow clone off her, dispelling them. Finally the other two clones, on either side of her charged. Seeing this, Buki transformed back into her normal form just in time to duck and have the two shadow clones to hit each other in the face, dispelling them both.
“Very nice Buki, very nice indeed, but those are just clones; let’s see how well you can handle me.”
Kanzaki jumped down from the room and landed on one knee, looking up at Buki. Buki once again transformed into her bear form. Kanzaki could see that Buki’s chakra was draining quickly. She was good, but she couldn’t hold the transformed creatures for very long. Kanzaki charged at her and slid on the ground between her legs to avoid her massive fist that cam crashing down to the ground. Once Kanzaki was behind her, he quickly transformed into his own bear form, which was a bit larger than Buki’s. Kanzaki grabbed her by the waits and lifted her up, quickly throwing her off to the side a few feet away. Buki landed with a loud and hard thud as Kanzaki transformed back into his human form. Slowly Kanzaki walked over towards her, she was still in the bear form, which meant she wasn’t out cold, or out of chakra, she was playing dead, trying to draw him close, and he deiced to play along, for now. Kanzaki came within two steps and stopped. Buki heard this and used it as her chance, instantly she transformed from her bear form to her fox form. In the flash of lightning Buki moved, her left elbow was driven into Kanzaki’s gut, and before he could even react Buki used her right fist up hit him in the bottom of the jaw, knocking him off the ground a few inches. As soon as she connected with the uppercut, she stood and spun around and extended her right leg, catching him in the side. The force of the kick sent Kanzaki flying into a nearby tree. Buki landed on both her knees and transformed back into her human form, she was done; she couldn’t do anything else but watch. Kanzaki’s body hit the tree with a hallow thump and Buki’s eyes shot open. She watched, almost in slow motion, as Kanzaki’s body transformed into a log. Kanzaki appeared behind her rubbing his jaw.
“You know that kind of hurt Buki.”
Buki turned slightly and looked up at him.
“But, the log?”
Kanzaki laughed slightly.
“Well yes, I did manage to pull off the substitution jutsu, but not until just before the kick. You didn’t tell me you could pull off the Kitsune Transformation.”
“You didn’t ask. And if you don’t mind, I think I’ll head back home and take a short nap.”
With that, Buki stood up and slowly ambled away back to the Gennin dorms. Kanzaki looked up to the sky, it was about eleven o’clock now, which meant Nagiri should have been working on his new jutsus for at least two hour and that Ailish would be waiting for him at the weapons training ground. Kanzaki made his way to the training ground, as he suspected, Ailish was already there. ‘Soon it will be time to introduce her to my secret weapon, but before then she still needs a little training.’ Kanzaki waited at the edge of the training ground as Ailish practiced her sword and body movements. Her motions were so fluid like that she was able to effortlessly move from one set of movements to another.
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