Kirigakure Lake

[Mason]

Kirigakure Lake
A lake just outside of Kirigakure known for it's pure, clear water and cool temperature. Many creatures live both in and around the lake, including fish, salamanders, birds, fawn and various forest creatures. Just surrounding the lake is the small forest that leads to the next lake.

Similar to the village, it's fairly misty around the lake and has varying temperatures. This is a popular tourist destination.

[Sentou "X" Shinjinnaru]

[Time Skip - 3 Months After Konoha Saga]

"RAWR!" The bear growled as Sentou smirked its body heavily standing over him, the shade of the entire foliage making him darker than he was. This bear was a monster of an animal, its body much larger than a regular bears, due to possibly being the "Alpha". He would only stand with his fists clenched, his clothing with nothing but his underwear on and a cheeky grin. "Come come, Kuma-chan, you want to wrestle?!"

Deep in the forest living and surviving by his own instincts adept at his own strength and showing forth how far he has come. The deep forests and darkened shades coming forth through the large trees overhead. He enjoyed this feeling, the feeling of surviving through it all. He bent his back forth taking his time, sealing the deal that the next battle would be one to enjoy. Sentou slicked his tongue over his lips and took no change to gather his focus on this creature.

Quickly the battle had begun as the young brawler saw its claws striking forward, dodging them by hair's breadth lengths. He'd keep his eyes on the slashes, smacking his foot against the back of its claw to smack it away. Toying with it as he did. It charged towards him profoundly, tackling itself against a nearby large tree as the tree crashed into the ground. He dodged with an agile rolling flip twisting his body to land on top of the tree that was crashed into then sent himself forward landing behind the bear that regained its own focus. "Here, Kuma-chan, want to wrestle more?!"

Sentou was rushed once more, with its body charging, its maw open to crunch towards his head as it ran on all four's. He quickly gained momentum, smacking the bear with a powerful upward inside split kick, sending the creature away a good ways as it crashed into a few trees. He turned his body once again after the kick landing on the back of his hind legs as he dashed forward. The creatures composure gained once more released a powerful double claw swipe as Sentou ducked underneath, it aiming towards his chest would be highly dangerous. 'Momma's pretty fast! Her strength is pretty large, I guess ladies have lots of strength too!'

More claw swipes had come, Sentou had no fear for them however, his body rolled back and forth, through movements such as rolls, short flips, and kick-offs. "Time for the lightning round!" He landed, saying this quickly before sending himself forward in the heat of the large bears attacks. He held his fist tightly clenching further inward as he moved forward smashing the large bear forward in the stomach with one punch, releasing the gathered force of his strike into that one blow gathering his other fist for the next blow.

"OK Momma! You have earned this one for such a great warm-up!" Sentou tightly clenched his fist again, twisting his body as he sent forth his next strike after gaining his momentum. The towering creature took his next blow full on. "DEATH STRIKE!!!" Setting off the creatures body, as his fist lifted it forth into the air, its incredibly large body sent flying by such a small guy. As it flew backwards its arc began to fall as it landed with a huge impact into the pond.

"I over did it again..." Sentou had laughed for a moment, it was sent a good ways away. Sentou quickly leaped on a nearby tree moving with his agility and leg strength. It took him a bit to get there, but as he did. He landed and stopped watching the bears unconscious body. Its eyes swirled as it laid floating. "Sorry momma, I should have held back, I got too pumped in that shot." He took his time, looking towards the pond at first but then towards the large female black bear. He began to swim with it underneath his body dragging its wet body to the side as he smiled smacking and dusting his hands. "There." What should of been a considerable feat from a guy so small, as seemingly done in ease, the bear was larger than even the trees surrounding them, and yet...

[Mason]

Her eyes widened slightly at the marvel that took place before her. Such an impressive feat for what looked like a small man. No matter, what had happened had happened, and it was an amazing display. She remained hidden in the bushes for what seemed like hours, simply watching Sentou beat on the bear with such ease. It was odd, and it slightly angered Hanata that he was harming such a beautiful creature; something Hanata did not stand for. She didn't just want to outburst and hurt him or threaten him, she had to take this slowly and most likely ask what was going on.

Her perfect blue eyes scanned the lake, hopping from the bear, to Sentou, to the water. She combed her hair with her fingers, smoothing it out to perfection, letting it fall lazily against her back and sword's hilt. She peered at Sentou, somewhat glaring almost. What was she going to do?

Apparently her body decided for her. Hanata jumped from the bush, landing just outside of physical range of Sentou. She placed her hands on her hips and stood with her right hip out. A small grin played on her lips as she examined Sentou.

"What are you doing with that bear, mister~♥" she said sweetly, hinting with an air of mischief. She was an attractive girl. Small, about 5'4", a large buster sword on her back, perfect blue hair and eyes. She wore the typical Kirigakure shinobi Jounin outfit, with her only little flair of a white beaded pearl necklace. She was examining Sentou up and down, taking a good look at him as she made her entrance.

She didn't even look like a ninja, not even capable of using the sword on her back for that matter. It was as if she were an imposer, playing with Sentou, pretending he was in some sort of trouble for entering her domain. Something like that. But she was seriously a kunoichi, and, in fact, was a renowned sword user from Kirigakure; one of the Seven Shinobi Swordsmen.

[Sentou "X" Shinjinnaru]

Sentou had finally began to make his way to walk from the position he was in to somewhere else in which he'd continue his training in the misty region. An abundance of energy was within him still knowing that he needed to keep it up if he wanted to get a better work out later. His fists were clenched as he smiled brighter, taking a step with a turn until...

"Huh?" Sentou's reflexes allowing for him to perform a lightning fast back-hand spring as the woman appeared with such quickness. He hadn't sensed her since she didn't make much of a sound, his eyes bending slightly as he stayed poised. She seemed to be some type of kid... or whatever, with a large sword on her back no less. Was she some type of combatant, her quickness sure was troublesome. Standing quietly listening to more of her expressions, much like she was cheeky.

"That's freaky, it looks like a munchkin just landed in front of me." He placed his hand on his head scratching it slowly placing the grips upon his head. His right eye waned as he chuckled a bit. It was something of a maneuver to get her mad but it was only a joke more so than it was insulting. "You like to scare people half to death by leaping out at them or something, lady? Not really funny..." Sentou's eyes gazed towards the bear and shrugged. "She was just a morning workout, she's still alive, though she's more hurt than I wanted her to be... she'll live."

A small smile appeared on Sentou's face as he chuckled. "You got some good speed on you though, tuts... catching me off-guard like that was something else." He started to laugh more placing his hand on his forehead. "You a pretty good fighter, maybe you're one of those ninjas like Rai, and Supreme Ninja Dude." Sentou placed his pinky into his right ear plunging it. "Either way... you're gonna be my exercise... right?" He hunched forward.

[Mason]

Hanata's brow waned as she glared at Sentou after the munchkin comment. She crossed her arms, pouting. "Munchkin? I'm not a munchkin!" she said more forcefully this time. She was taken aback; he seemed to comfortable with everything, even playing with her seemed natural to him. Her pouting face gave the impression that, well, she was not impressed. At all.

"Your excercise?" she asked. "What is that supposed to mean!?" she asked, taking offence, as if she were being objectified. "I'm not some training dummy!" she growled, removing the sword from her back.

Although it appeared to be a buster sword, the blade was broken, as if there had been a big chunk taken out of the end. It was small, broken and useless looking. Yet, the end of it was jagged and sharp. "I'll give you an exercise, then!"

Launching forward, Hanata stuck her sword out in front of her, spiralling toward Sentou with the intent of digging the jagged end of her broken sword into his chest.

[Sentou "X" Shinjinnaru]

Sentou was on the rise with his words stating things like exercises and what not seemed to get her riled up quite a bit. Until she finally made it clear that she was much angrier than she seemed. A pulsating killer intent resided in her, he knew it... she was a warrior. The aspects of such a powerful lust to kick his ass was something Sentou knew anywhere. With his eyes on the woman's broken sword now, he thought it strange for her to have one.

Quickly he dodged by pushing himself towards the right, and using a quickstep maneuver to get out of the way of the charging female. If she had been recuperating, he'd try to stay away from her for a moment and used a backwards step to catch himself and stand firmly to not attack her. He didn't know her skills, and one thing he learned from fighting was to always watch an opponents patterns. He would take his time to laugh once more watching her as he stepped backward.

"Exercise, more like training dummy, you can't be so weak that you'd use a broken sword to do your bidding right?" He chuckled again, gritting his teeth as he stopped and pushed one foot backwards crossing his arms. "Show me what you got, training dummy." He told her with a cheeky grin. Would she take the bait once more... Sentou was actually sweating just a bit. She was quite fast, he had to be serious when dealing with her, as her steps were agile and quick.

He wanted a real fight... he hadn't had one in a few weeks...

[Mason]

He was seriously picking at her nerves now. Hanata was usually known for her calm, understanding demeanour, but something about this guy was really getting at her. In battle, she turned into someone else, but usually not this quickly or drastically. She was a fighter though, and with that came the notion of being able to keep her cool, even though she could get fairly hot headed.

He had fairly good reflexes, and he was obviously testing her, but she didn't want to give in so easily. She knew he was looking for a fight, and he was going to get one; if only even to just prove him wrong. Taking her sword and lifting it at arm's length, pointing it toward Sentou, she narrowed her brow, glaring at him.

"Nothing will have prepared you for the fight you're about to experience." she babbled, looking directly at Sentou. "For you have picked a battle with one of the Seven Shinobi Swordsmen." she explained, lifting her sword into the air. She didn't care if she was using this technique too early, she was prepared to go all out to show him what she was made of.

"Sokoku!" she called out. Her sword began to glow, suddenly bursting with chakra. The broken end suddenly repaired itself into a full buster sword; huge and lethal. As soon as the technique was complete, the sword's blade dropped to the ground. Hanata rushed forward with impressive speed, even for holding such a heavy sword. The now full buster sword dragged behind her, leaving a trail of mud as she sped towards Sentou.

As she approached him, she lifted it into the air, and swung hard down at Sentou, going for a pure heavy physical hit.

[Sentou "X" Shinjinnaru]

Sentou chuckled a bit, she seemed quite peeved at what he was doing, yet overall he felt that intensity she had begin to rise. More and more the added weight of her words and her killer instinct came into being, he stepped forward holding his fist towards his mouth. His lips widened in a smile as he saw that the woman was quickly becoming serious. The seriousness of her sword slash before even with the blade was something to be marveled at he admitted that to himself. It only made him want to test himself more.

The sword had aimed towards him once more now, what he couldn't figure out was why she used such a weapon to fight. "Seven Swordsman, what the fuck is that. Who the fuck cares about titles, real fighters don't try to strike fear with titles, they strike fear with their ability, tenacity, their own strength." It was something normal for him. He said this in a serious yet sort of sing-song exhibition towards her. But then she went towards him, instantly back on the defensive with a frown on his face.

The swords trick had been answered by the way it glowed and its power released so suddenly with a darkened blue hue. His eyes flashed for a moment as once more her speed had arisen. 'Shit, she got faster!' The waves of pressure that swung from her speeding towards him with outrageous velocity had made him weary, the waves upon waves of mud from the marsh had lifted into the air along with her strike. Sentou couldn't play around this, time gathering his leg force as he pushed off the ground towards the right with a twist in his body before the blade came down towards him with the force. Its power splitting the marsh once again, as the slash cleaved through the mist.

'That's some pressure, and that sword is awesome, she can make it go from broken to unbroken with that whatever energy shinobi's use and what not.' His feet landed into the mashed ground, he was tired of waiting for the woman to be able to get a hold on him. His body hunched forward as his feet went against the mud going deeper and deeper slipping forward with a burst of force from his leg strength. Firing like a rocket towards the woman in a linear path, cruising forth a she clenched his fist. With the lift of air from his jettison, he began to spin his body horizontally, adding the rotation to his entire body into the flow in order to increase the weight and power of his shot...

"DEATH STRIKE!" The forceful blow came downward to strike the woman in an instant to make sure that he would bring down the force much like a hammer to a nail. The force of which would release into that spot causing a mass of tension and do damage in a small area around the path of his strike meaning an impact along his fist.

[Mason]

He was good, that much was clear when he managed to evade her sword's downward slash. She picked it up from the marsh, flicking off the mud that painting it's blade. He was fairly courageous, and he wasn't afraid to speak what was on his mind. He was something else, and he intrigued her. The fact that he hadn't heard of the SSS was quite disturbing in itself. How could one be a ninja and not-

His attack came faster than expected. She had to react fast or she was going to get pummelled. Lifting her sword in front of her, the blade took the impact of his attack, blocking it, but just barely. She slid back a little, taking the force of the attack as an added measure of just how strong he was.

But that was when it hit her. He wasn't a shinobi; he was a brawler. Doing an impressive backflip to move from his immediate melee range, Hanata eyed him carefully.

"You're something else, kid." she said sweetly. Taking her sword once more, Hanata jumped high into the air, bringing her sword behind her back and hovering over Sentou for a second.

"HYYYYAAAHH!" she cried out furiously, swinging her sword down with pure strength as she herself came down from the air.

[Sentou "X" Shinjinnaru]

"You blocked it head-on?!" Sentou's strikes were known to be strong enough to bust hard stone with a fully-powered Death Strike, and normally crack stone with great ease. She was indeed powerful. The force of the attack sent her back some ways it seemed as she slid backwards digging deeper into the marsh. As she flipped backwards, he landed on the ground by flipping against the blade and kicking backwards into a backwards somersault flip.

"I'm something else?" He asked himself for a moment scratching his chin in surprise. But as he did, she was already ready for her next attack. She was still in air as he asked this question basically to himself in a whisper. His teeth gritted as her blade began to come down. She had some type of war cry, he liked it the emotion she showed in the strike would probably release the full potential of the swing as kiai did normally.

'She's open for a strike but that giant fucking sword makes it dangerous!' Sentou's body began to step backwards shortly trying to find a way to counter her attack. But he couldn't. She was skilled, she added the weight into her attacks subconsciously instead of placing the weight into her body using its weight to enhance her strike which caused the immense pressure. Did Sentou mention he was a genius at combat but was fucking idiotic at book smarts... Hard knocks 101.

"WOAH SHIT!" A large and powerful boom in the spot that was hit, as the pressure released outward. "Keh!" The amount of force from her swing cut his chest as he dodged it in a parallel mounting of her blow. It was only a flesh wound but the cut was strong, showing the power of his opponent in troves. Pressing his hand against his chest, he smiled."OK OK!" Sentou's head nodded twice smiling widely. He huffed outward a bit.

"Serious time, serious time... can't slouch, no pout, just going with the battle!" His right arm began to rotate as he grinned heavier showing his teeth. A flickering excitement came from him as he started to walk towards the swordswoman knowing just how powerful she was now. The test and holding back was over. "Lets get this party started, Swordsman of whatever, the battle between the big sword and the fists of Sentou is on!" He held his fist forward once more. Getting into a peculiar stance, his body wide ope as his eyes showed a killer instinct now. He was indeed now, fully ready.

[Mason]

As her blade made contact with Sentou after a battle of missed hits, the smile painted on Hanata's face was indeed one of satisfaction. As she landed, Sentou didn't seem to retaliate immediately, in fact, he didn't seem to retaliate at all. He seemed impressed, instead of angry or resistant to the fact he had just gotten cut. Hanata eyed Sentou with what was only to be a questioning eye. He was tough as nails, and he was also an impressive combat artist; he knew what he was doing.

But the whole thing puzzling Hanata was that he seemed to really have a passion for this. It ignited something in Hanata, causing her to stop for a minute and watch as Sentou stuck out his fist, casually calling her on for more, and that he was truly ready now. Hanata stuck her blade in the ground and leaned against it.

"I admire you, Sentou. You have a passion that seems to out beat your emotions." Hanata said. "You're something else." she winked, repeating herself.

Launching forward with impressive speed once more, Hanata hopped into the air, yet only a little bit this time, while sticking out his arms and sword, making a sort of helicopter spinning motion.

"Spinning Release!" she called out, spinning rapidly now as she approached Sentou. The blade was at about his neck level, so if she were to come in contact with him, he'd be in trouble.

[Sentou "X" Shinjinnaru]

His eyes didn't deter as he listened to her words, his mouth hadn't changed from its characteristic smile showing the rhythm of his serious notion of battle. It was a test now, but she was a prominent and powerful swordsman, and someone Sentou didn't have the luxury of defeating with any off-handed tactics. He needed to seat himself with more than just one choice of understanding, but to grow and understand this woman was in itself an opportunity.

The woman was now sailing towards him with an impressive speed once more, but this time Sentou didn't shrug nor try any antics. Quickly placing himself below the woman's sword slash right at the instant he was almost sliced at the head. He launched himself forward with great impressive speed moving in for a tackling motion as he went for her legs. The complete motion was incredibly fast in that it had no wasted movements, he made sure to lower his body at a set amount, and use that push to gather the strength of his legs and then leap within the amount of a split-second.

His hands would move to collect her legs now as to make her falter as she herself would, but it was only a feint of which he made sure to disguise as the next attack. With the charging motion and forward thrust of his body in such close quarters, his right leg hung backwards. A fierceness appeared in his eyes, a burning and intimidating glow as he began to throw his foot upward, gathering the immense strength of his weight and momentum for a supreme and powerful kick towards her stomach to give the result of an accelerated force a powerful side kick commenced... "DEATH KICK!!!" An incredible burst of force had came forward shooting with much pressure and killer intent than before.

This notion would show that he truly valued her as a combatant someone he knew he couldn't fall back forward now. No more would he joke at her expense, until the battle was done. But for now, this was a combat between warriors, it didn't matter that she was a woman. Sentou saw her as a skilled rival. And that skill shall be placed to the test in this battle...

The release of the powerful kick, sent an incredible wave of pressure forward, due to the flowing motion of the entire body into that one kick, the wind's had been blunt but powerful, drilling into parts of the landscape to a lesser degree as it wavered. Whether the attack would hit, or miss the blow was powerful.

[Mason]

It was basically impossible to evade at such range. His thrusting motions coming at her with a supreme kick maneuver doubled with such force was simply recognition to the fact she could not do anything but brace herself for what was to come. As his voice sounded off "DEATH KICK!!!", Hanata knew she had to up her defenses and hope for the best. His powerful kick came almost immediately, and she was booted back, into the air and landing with a thud on the ground, directly on her back. Yelping in pain, she staggered to her feet as fast as she could, regaining her battle composure.

That really hurt. she thought to herself, panting now. That was intense, even for her. She was some what of a tank, but having such a small body had some exceptions, especially for battles like this one. Sentou had the advantage because he had much more burst and stamina power than she did, and it was beginning to show. She raised her sword, leaning against it once more. She didn't know what to say... well, she couldn't say anything anyway, she was winded. Hard. But no matter, she didn't earn her title for nothing, she simply had to continue on and hope for the better.

It was times like this that Hanata wish she had Kana by her side; her fellow SSS. It was a dire situation, and it was time for Hanata to step up her game. To face someone with such skill was intimidating and hard on the body. It was time to go full force.

"God.. huff.. You're strong.." she said, panting. "But I'm stronger!" she yelled, raising her sword above her head immediately. She shot forward, even faster than before, using all of her adrenaline to force herself forward for a pure strength-speed attack. As she closed in on Sentou, she literally flung her sword at Sentou, throwing it a good distance towards him with such power and speed, if it hit him, it would rip him straight down the middle. How would Sentou get past this?

[Sentou "X" Shinjinnaru]

The kick hit with concussive force that it seeming took her back much farther than his punch did. Even a normal "Death Kick" wasn't as strong as he placed in that one. He used the shift in his body to catch her off-guard, by going for her legs, he'd anticipated that she'd try to either push back or she'd have been caught, which is why he took up the second notion of a fully-weighted "Death Kick". It was an easy designation, he needed to catch her so that's what he drove himself to do.

As the powerful kick landed she toppled from the force of the blow. Her body... was it made of some sort of steel, that body taking such an extreme blow made Sentou wonder what ninja trained with. But he didn't ask too many questions. He couldn't do much about it now. His face was still very much serious and ready for the next confrontation. Standing with his foot forward, his stance and "aura of killer intent" intimidating to those not used to fighting him. He had to fight beasts, killers, bounty-hunters, and survive in a world where he was outclassed by superior abilities. It was a frightening thing.

As she said he was strong, standing with her using her blade to position herself like a sort of walking stick, Sentou's eyebrow raised at her. He watched as she had gotten into position, readied herself for a serious combative dispute. There he saw that she was gathering her utmost speed. "Faster?" He asked himself. The woman had readied her stance, she accelerated forward with her blade at a speed Sentou was frightened of. 'Her top speed?!' Sentou was amazed at how fast she was moving. He needed to bend forward once more, placing his hands and legs on all-fours.

The blade was thrown like a boomerang, no more so like a mini-cyclone technique. Releasing that blade with such vigorous speed it whistled through the air. As Sentou opened his eyes outward in extreme surprise, sweating vigorously from the actual speed she moved. He needed to do this carefully or else he'd be split in two. He did know that with this speed he wasn't getting out of this without being hurt. Quickly he moved forward like the daredevil that he was, much like a dog on all fours as he dashed forward, the blades spinning rotation seen through as his eyes looked forward leaping towards the middle.

He closed in on the blades path, what was he doing? This was a serious situation, was he calling for his death or something? This was going to be extremely dangerous and if it wasn't for Sentou's physical abilities, his death. "HAAAA!" It closed in as he screamed higher and higher, the blades length going against his body as his arms stretched outward and forward, through a flash, a notion that this may be his last battle. SLASH. It cut through his ribs closing in deeper and tighter as it cut more and more spurting blood from his body his two hands gripped the handle of the blade, the blood spurted more, as the deep blade went into his right ribs and body, pouring against his side as he spun in mid-air and landed with a slide... He stood with sweat throughout his body, trickling blood against the ground.

"I'll take your strength... that strength which I admire..." He bent his left knee into the ground as the blade began to change back into its form, he gasped. He caught the blade, not tried to dodge it nor counterattacked but actually caught it. But what had inflicted was a grievous wound. "A true warrior doesn't fear death..." More words of encouragement as he pressed his hand against his wound smiling through the pain. "So lets keep going."

He threw the sword towards the woman as he grasped his fists tightly. "Your move."

[Mason]

The pure shock of watching her sword inflict a grievous wound on Sentou was enough to cause her to cover her mouth in disbelieve that he had actually lived through that. It wasn't her intention to kill him, no, but at least beat him. This had been taken too far; he was a true fighter, and by the looks of it, wasn't giving up. It was scary, in fact, that he was so reckless with his strength and durability that he may misjudge another move of Hanata's. She didn't want him dead, and in fact, she didn't even want him hurt. She was scared now, she was not the type to inflict such danger upon someone.

"This is ridiculous.. he stopped my sword! And he's still ready to go!" she thought to herself, amazed by his aperture. There was no choice in the matter, she had to stop before things got out of hand, and that's the last thing Hanata wanted to happen. She simply shook her head in disbelief, eyeing Sentou with a calm demeanour, studying his bleeding wounds.

"I'm impressed." she said. "No one has ever wanted to pick a fight with me before, and no one has survived such a brutal attack. For that, you have my respect." she explained, nodding towards him. "I'm afraid I'll have to take my leave right now... I don't want to see what will happen if you keep pulling on my battle personality..." she said, eyeing him and taking her sword back. "... I'll see you again soon..." she said, promising that they would meet once more, and hopefully on healthier grounds this time. Turning and taking her leave, she turned back one last time to eye Sentou.

"My name is Hanata... but you can call me Hana." she said before disappearing into the forest.