Trials of Sand Part two

Bookwoman, left behind by Yakate after he gave her a qhort explanation about the kid he'd be training, felt old habits kick in and trust went off to gather supplies.
Her Bookwoman spirit jubilated to be able to talk with a jinchuuriki but her former alias was scolding that attitude by reminding her that Chiriko wasn't an curiosity in a cage that belonged in a freak circus.

She got food, water, a few empty scrolls, ink and brushes, a new bag and some clothes along with long capes they'd have to wear when it was night in the desert. She was not going to repeat a night with Yakate who was disturbing her meditation with his teeth clattering from the cold.
...That reminded her that Yakate could use fire jutsus and hadn't even thought of making a fire. What a moron.

After a good hour of shopping, she walked over to the portal. Asking directions to the guard, she managed to remember vague details of the desert, giving her enough data to be able to travel after Yakate and the Sand Rat.
Not that they could use body flicker or such complicated jutsus either.

Half an hour later, she reached the Idiotic Rapunzel and the kid. She stayed behind, seeing the child smile while chattering with Yakate. Maybe she wasn't exactly human anymore but she had manners and could be understanding that her presence wasn't welcomed.
When thinking of it, why did she actually join them? Oh yeah. Because the Idiotic Rapunzel had yet to teach her to use the sand.

Bookwoman was immersed in her thoughts when she heard the kid speak about puppetry.
That strange chakra involved art that almost neared necromancy? She shivered at the memory, pictures and descriptions she had seen and read flashing back in her memory.

She didn't wait for the kid Chiriko to ask her and called:
"Sand Rat Kiddo Person, if you impress me while you train with Idiotic Rapunzel and agree to answer a few questions about your bijuu, I'll tell you everything I know and give you a scroll I got about puppetry."
And on that, she searched in the bag and picked an apple out of it; finally a decent fruit! She bit in it enthusiastically and let the juice drip on her chin.
Delicious.

Before Yakate could say anything, Bookwoman stepped inbetween the sensei and student, blocking Yakate from Chiriko's view. She had seen the frown on the boy's face and felt his irritation.
She was maybe losing her vision, but she felt the chakra stirr uneasily inside of the boy's body. Don't ask how or why - she didn't know either. She also knew that playing with the temper of a jinchuuriki was madness. But she didn't care about conventions, neither did she listen to the demands of a brat that stole - yes, stole- her brother away from her for his training, while he had promised to train her first. And what did they atteign up till now? One single, pinsy, winsy weak jutsu.
So, the Sand Rat was going to pay.

"Look, kid." she started on a clipped tone. "I don't care if you have a bijuu inside of you that makes you easily irritated or anything. But if you don't at least try to keep it down, you'll keep on hurting people and will keep on saddening the Idiotic Rapunzel over there, who was supposed to train me."
A murderous glare for the blonde.
"Now, I won't call you by your name till you impress me and make it feel worthwhile that I let Yakate train you."
She had crossed her arms over her chest with a huff and kept on looking down at the brat, a pounding headache hitting in the back of her forehead and behind her eyes.

The jutsu training had given another result: headaches and regularely bleeding eyes. Oh joy.

Chiriko grinned at Yakate's idea, this was a perfect chance for him to get his frustrations out on this woman without getting in trouble. Knowing he was already slow enough physically he decided to allow his sand gourd to melt away back into the sand it was made of. Doing this caused not only 5lbs of sand to fall from what used to be the gourd but also the 150lbs of sand that was inside the gourd. Chiriko knew he could easily regather the exact grains of sand regardless of where they traveled do to how long he had been using this sand and how much blood and chakra was infused with it.

"You ready asa.." He asked, a demonic grin spreading over his face. With that Chiriko raised his arms slightly as the sand around him, (mostly the sand that was from his gourd) began to rise into the air above all three of them. In a few moments the sand would rain down in the form of long thin senbon.

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Suna Shigure - Sand Shower
Rank: -
Range: Close (0m ~ 5m), Mid (5m ~ 10m), Far (10m+)
Type: Attack


The Suna Shigure is a Ninjutsu technique utilized by the Sand ninja Gaara. Using his chakra to control nearby sand, Gaara will levitate small clumps of sand above his opponent. This sand can be used to distract his target while he starts his Sabaku Kyuu technique or to provide further sand for the sand coffin itself.

Bookwoman wanted to murder Yakate for making her work more than necessary. The damage from their training hadn't faded yet and using chakra for a jutsu was out of the question.
"Who said I wanted to see what the Sand Brat can do?!" she shrieked at the blonde happy-go-lucky idiot, glaring at him while keeping her attention on Chiriko from the corner of her eye.

She widened her eye when she saw sand rise into the sky and slowly take form of spikes. She had to find a place to hide, now!
But around her was sand, sand, sand and sand. And stone dunes that rose up from inbetween the sand ones. Cursing loudly, she dashed off to a big rock, taking shelter from the deadly rain. She actually thanked Bookman for the first time, having made her train to run for her life to a rather obsessive point; the sand wasn't exactly an obstacle for her.

She barely reached her hiding place in time, a sand needle having hit her leg.
Annoyed, she brushed the sand away from the wound, wincing at the pain.
"Are you trying to kill me?!" she called at Chiriko. "If you do so, I can't tell you anything!"

Chiriko grinned, "I wouldn't kill you...just harm slightly..I mean what better way to learn how a jinchuriki fights then first hand?" He said with a soft chuckle, a shred of darkness was heard in the chuckle that would make a normal human shiver.

The sand below Chiriko began to raise around him in clumps before taking the form of several shuriken. "Can you dodge these?" He said with a laugh as his fingers made a slight waving motion. With that the shuriken flew at Asako at a speed slightly faster then a thrown shuriken.

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Suna Shuriken - Sand Shuriken
Rank: D
Range: Close (0m ~ 5m), Mid (5m ~ 10m)
Type: Attack


The Sand Shuriken is a Ninjutsu technique utilized by the Sand ninja Gaara. Using his chakra to control nearby sand, Gaara will hurl disks of sand at his opponent. Spinning through the air the disks are deadly in strength, inflicting large amounts of damage to his target and surrounding objects.

Still being stuck with the pounding headache and the chakra that just refused to mold itself, Bookwoman could only do one thing; dodge while running towards her opponent.

It was almost a suicidal plan, but she didn't have much of a choice. Or her speed and endurance would serve her for once, or she'd die and the Sand Rat would be nicely stuck with not having any puppetry information she had gathered, dating from more than three hundred years back up till the modern times.

The sand shuriken looked rather sharp and she didn't feel like dying just yet, she realized. How sand could be sharp, was something she wondered about but decided not to ask. Admitting outloud you don't know about something as a Bookwoman, simply failed.

The sand made weapons scratched her arms, cheek, cut some strands of messy black and red and cut her new shirt near her shoulders and left elbow.
Pissed that her new clothing was ruined, Bookwoman decided to teach the kid a lesson.
She kept on running towards him, preparing to punch him fair and square in the face, hoping to break his nose while she was at it.
"I personally think that a nicely narrated description would have fitted enough for my history records, Chi-ri-ko." she replied, irritated at the cocky attitude of the kid.

Chiriko saw the punch coming and knew his automatic shield wasn't going to protect him this time, which means it was a good thing that he always wore an 'armor of sand.' Do to this he would be able to take this attack with little to no damage. However do to the sand tentacle pushing him over, he fell at an angle into the punch that would kill a normal human being do to the bone being forced into the brain.

However thanks to the armor of sand the punch just did was it was intended to, shattered his nose. Falling to his knees Chiriko held his nose as blood rushed down his face. His eyes teared up causing him to have trouble seeing. With that he let out a loud scream "GAHH!!" he screamed out as he chocked on his own blood. "What are you thinking Yakate! If i didn't always have the sand armor I'd be dead right now you bastard!" he growled, for the first time in his life raising his voice at his beloved teacher.

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Suna no Yoroi - Armor of Sand
Rank: C
Range: Close (0m ~ 5m))
Type: Defense


Suna no Yoroi is a Ninjutsu technique utilized by the Sand ninja Gaara. If Gaara's Suna no Tate fails, Gaara uses an almost invisible thin layer of sand to cover his body. For the sand to cover Gaara's body, he has to use his body's chakra. When covered by the sand Gaara becomes heavier and it is more difficult for his body to maneuver. Though the sand does provide some protection, sufficient strikes will break the armor to expose Gaara's natural body.

The punch she had delivered had been probably a tiny, pincy, wincy too strong.
And she had missed enough of the cartilage of the nose that it hadn't broken to need the kid to see a hospital.
But, in an almost unconscious move, she had managed to use her chakra, in her fist, to make the impact stronger; she could still feel the warm feeling tingling in her muscles of the arm and her eyes bleed again from the pain of the use of chakra.

Even though, she felt bad. Was it because Yakate had helped her? Was it because she had drawn the first blood and really hurt Chiriko? Tearing the hem of her shirt completely off, she came closer with the last bit of eyesight she had to the child.
"I'm sorry." she mumbled. "Here, use this to wipe the blood off. I didn't break it; you'll just have a sore nose for a while."
She didn't excuse for having punched him while having chakra added in the move. It was unnecessary information for him to have.

Upon having said that, she stomped over to the general direction of Yakate, because she couldn't see enough anymore to mark his presence precisely. Stopping at around two meters distance from him, she tried to glare at him and failed pretty much.
"What. were.you.thinking?" she growled at him. "This was MY match. You can't just step in because I can't see! I got my own pride too!"

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Justsu in training:

Name: Chakra punch/kick
Rank: C
Type: Taijutsu
Element: None
Range: N/A
Description: The user pours chakra in it's leg or hand and arm and releases it right at the moment that he/she hits the target. The chakra makes the member more resistant and stronger.


I'll make sure to get a 600 word count and make around 3-4 posts to finish training this jutsu~

Chiriko winced ignoring the bandage that was offered by Asa, because he knew the wound would heal in a few moments whether he wanted it to or not. Sitting patiently for his nose to heal he just sat in the sand calmly and quietly meditating as to get a calm flow of the chakra in his body for a speedy recovery.

After a few minutes he was done waiting and his nose was as good as new. "He did it because he knew that my sand armor would block that punch no problem...with me likely getting no more then a small bruise...He wanted to show me pain because its not something i feel often, but something every ninja should feel now and again to know that they are not a god...That is the first time someone who wanted to was fast enough to draw my blood...thank you for showing me my weakness Asa.." He said as he stood up and bowed his head slightly. He wasn't happy about it, but he knew his dead parents would be angry if he didn't show some respect at least every now and again.

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Advanced Healing: Chiriko utilizes the chakra of the one-tailed Shukaku in a more unique way then any of the Jinchuriki before him. Do to the bond between them because of the double sacrifice the bijuu grants Chiriku a healing chakra that speeds up his healing process. However do to the fact that human cells only can regenerate a set number of times, each time Chiriko heals from a large injury she losses a small portion of time in her life.

Bookwoman, who was too blinded by pain the blood that was dripping down from her eyes again, didn't see the formal and polite gesture of Chiriko. But she heard his voice very well along with the message he brought along in them.
He was clearly angry and irritated by the fact she had hit him and brought him pain; her, a weak person compared to him, a woman who wasn't even a ninja anymore technically.
"I apologize for having done that. It wasn't my place." she answered stiffly. "But thank you for having kept me alive, Chiriko of the Sand."
She bowed to him formally and turned back to her brother.

Yakate was right; she wouldn't underestimate the Sand Rat anymore. But she had shown nothing at all, proving nothing to Chiriko nor denying that she was weak. It had been a fluke, the chakra filled punch and she could guess that the Idiotic Rapunzel had noticed that too.
Distinguishing barely the open hand Yakate showed her, she shuffled closer, having lost all sense of orientation without her eyes. The desert was too silent and her brain too inexperiented yet to be able to walk towards a voice without deviating from her path.
"Thanks." she muttered when she finally grasped the large hand of the ex-kage.

Bookwoman had sand everywhere. In her shirt, pants, shoes, hair...And it was an irking, irritating and annoying feeling that was driving her to the edge of madness. She wasn't a sand manipulator (yet) and didn't have this magic trick Chiriko and the Idiotic Rapunzel had.

She stood stoically up, her face blank and emotionless and dusted herself off. She was not going to show any weakness to the boys.
The shock had stopped the bleeding of her eyes and brought her eyesight back along with the headache that had been slowly fading while they travelled.

She looked around her; the mountain was a dull place to be in her opinion. It was gray and boring and with way too many places where people could hide and attack. Plus, without her eyesight in a good state, she couldn't go anywhere without Yakate, which was in short, humiliating.

"So. What now?" she asked while grabbing Yakate's sleeve with her left hand, not wanting to let him go.