Sword Play

[Akuma]

Akuma was tired. Tired of being useless without his spirits, tired of always having to swap out to one of them. This was his time to get better. He walked over to the training field and stood in front of a log. He then withdrew his swords and held one at each side. He threw the swords at the log, then ran as fast as he could to tag it. He beat the swords. He grew frustrated. I need to be able to throw and attack faster and stronger then I can move. Speed alone will never when a fight! Truth be told, he was waiting for an attack on Kiri. He got word that there would be one, and wanted to join the orginization attacking them.

[Ryo_Aokawa]

Ryo was wandering aroud the village doing his usual rounds. He heard the sounds of training and took a peek to see one of his jounin training quite furiously. He walked up to the shinobi not trying to scare him and spoke. "Training hard I see." The wind was blowing and Ryo's long silver hair was blowing with it. "May I ask why it is that your training so hard? I doubt it's just for fun." Ryo found something to be a bit odd with this ninja, as if he was training hard in order to impress someone. Ryo of course wasn't wearing his Kage robe and had his hair tied up, and seemed to be wearing his old Jounin jacket, but why? Well it was simple, Ryo hated his kage robe, it was impossible to move in.

[Akuma]

"I'm tired of being useless without lighting these lanturns." Raine would take the swords from the log and make a horizontal slash, his sword glowing with blue flames around it. The log would burn. "But its useless. In battle I have to use the lanturns or I'd be dead. If somehow they were lost...I'm no stronger then a genin."

[Ryo_Aokawa]

"Then instead of making your body stronger, why not make you knowledge of ninjutsu stronger?" Ryo had figured out who the man was. There was really only one person in his village who used some sot of weird lantern's when he faught, and this guys must be him. Ryo understood this guys fellingtowards being weak, Ryo had felt the same thing on the night his brother killed thier bestfriend and gave Ryo the scar that ran across his chest. "So then why not train with another person instead of just attacking a helpless tree?"

[Akuma]

"Hardly helpless. Have you seen the first hokage's jutsus?" Akuma's attempt at a joke. "But who should I train with? Wait, are you gonna teach me some awesome move!" Akuma smiled, nobody ever tought him a move. All jutsus he learned, he made or read about. But now he had a teacher, this was gonna be awesome!

[Ryo_Aokawa]

Ryo lifted his finger telling the boy no. "I will not teach you any jutsu unless I see you as worthy enough to be taught." Ryo drew his sword and let it sit on his shoulders. "But i will train with you, Though I may have an unfair advantage over someone who isn't of my ranking." Ryo was sort of hinting the fact that he was the Kage of their village. Hopefully the kid would get the hint and act accordingly, Ryo wondered how the kid would act fighting his Kage.

[Akuma]

Raine got the hint, but would treat it as any other battler. He knew he didn't have a chance, but it wasn't about winning. No, this fight was about showing his power. If he could do that, he got a teacher. "Let's go." Raine got in a fighting stance, one of his hands over the lanturn, the other forward.

[Ryo_Aokawa]

Ryo smirked as he noticed that the ninja had received the hint and was still prepared for the fight. "Alright then, let's begin." was Ryo's reply to the ninja's words. Ryo then threw his Sword Mizukami into the air and charged at the ninja performing handseals and released a large amount of water from his gullet. He then did more handseals and summoned a gaint dragon made from the water. Ryo jumped on it's head, grabbed his sword, and rode on the dragon as it charged at Raine preparing to attack him.

[Akuma]

Raine's first lanturn lit as his form changed into the samurai. Two white things were on the swords as the samurai clashed them together, making a giant white dragon charge the water dragon. He's holding back. Damnit.

[Lord Naraku]

Naraku had entered the mist village without anyone seeing him as he was in a disguise, though he wouldn't be for awhile. He had decided to begin his attack, he let Tenchi and Ryu know he would start the attack now and he was sure they would be there soon, for now he would have some fun on his own. He wanted to just destroy the houses and townspeople first but he saw a fight going on nearby and thought it would be a good warm up. When Naraku got there he was surprised to see the Mizukage sparring against one of his ninja Ha ha, mind if I join in on this little sparring session, Mizukage? Naraku smirked at him as he took off his disguise and jumped down across from both Ryo and Raine. Clearly this weak fool won't suffice for a good fight will he? I should do much better! Naraku laughed mocking both of them as he began focusing his chakra, while a red glow began to form around him and he got into his Shouten fighting stance.

[Akuma]

((Sorry that I say Raine a lot instead of Akuma, its just another name I use a lot.))

Akuma was confused, he didn't know who to help. But he did know that whoever he helped would change the tide of the battle. The mizukage had just taken him in, could he betray that? Not as the samurai he couldn't. As long as the first light flickered, he would put honor above anything, even his own needs. "Who is this, lord Mizukage?" He pointed a sword at Naraku, another sword at the ground.