As Haniki and Shusuke bickered about base elements, advanced elements, all this was foreign to the cunningly ignorant Nara. His father never bothered to teach him a thing, and he had yet to have a class on ninjutsu, or these elements these two were droning on about. In the background Shishi was already assaulting a notebook with a barrage of notes that he was taking from his classmates. Near the bottom of the notes he had jotted down he added a quick scribble that was less 'information/data' and more of a personal reminder which read;
'Speak to Haniki about a private tutor, she seems much more learned than Shusuke. Although Shusuke seems to have a more natural edge and has a 'street smart' atmosphere about himself. Two sides of the same coin perhaps?' He felt he could write what he truly felt or thought in here. After all, who would ever read these aside from himself?
Fast forward and Shusuke is tossing Haniki a 'sticky' substance that would, if he heard correctly, kill her?! Shishiwakamaru's eyes would double in size, apprehension to match. "
Wait, is that poison? Who gives you these things?!" We're not in Kansas anymore, Shishi, this be friggin ninja land, hold on to your butts and buckle up. Who in their right mind gives kids deadly toxins??? Looking nervously towards Haniki he would interject; "
Surely we can try something less... um... I dunno, deadly? We can call this plan... F." Slowly reaching down Shishi would lightly pick the vial up and place it into a zip-lock baggy that previously held some carrot sticks he was munching on earlier. How convenient! Looking back to the puzzle in question that needed adhering, he tried to figure out how exactly it was meant to create a cohesive creation. There were more questions needed to be asked, like why did it need to be assembled, and how long did it need to stay connected/combined.
Haniki, however, was already hard at work attempting to decipher the remainder of this puzzle. As if it were barely any effort on her part she easily constructed the pieces together to form a pyramid of sorts with the pieces with the kanji scribed upon their surfaces. Suddenly a small bold of energy lept from Haniki's hand that made contact with the construct. Curiousity overtook the eager beaver Nara as he kneeled down beside Haniki and the pyramid. Cautiously poking and pushing the various wedges like one of those bop-it games for kids seeing if he could replicate what he just saw. "
How did you do that, Haniki?"
He didn't have a lot of time to continue this line of thinking as the class had already moved well past that and were plotting to advance upon an bizarre creature, if you could call it that. Shishi had his reservations about attacking a living thing, if that's what this even was. Raising his hand tried to ask a question; "
This thing isn't --" He was cut off as Shusuke immediately went into bonus stage mode and linked them all up via some outrageously marvelous Yamanaka technique. He wasn't even mad, that's amazing. He was, however, going to ask if it was alive. The concept of purposefully harming a living thing as their 'training' seemed outlandish to the young Nara.
All this aside, let's get back on track here. Where is Shusuke pulling this next level shit from? I mean, telepathy is for comics and cartoons, right? Not for the Yamanaka clan!!! '''
Wait... are we in your head, or are you in both of ours, or are in we each other's all at once. How are we not experiencing some sort of microphone thought feedback from being connected to each other's minds. Or are we, the simple humans we are, never using the full potential of our minds and our brain is automatically compensating for that sort of complication. But if that's the case then that would imply that our minds were already designed to handle or emanate thoughts...''' Both Shusuke and Haniki would abruptly be barraged by a plethora of thinky thoughts belonging to their otherwise coy and placid classmate, Shishiwakamaru! Having been so overtook by the entire notion of telepathy he had completely missed the 'plan' to coordinate anything.
But the serious nature of Haniki's face scouring the moving 'target' before them. Her amber eyes attempting to dissect the anomaly meant to be their pincushion. He could sense that she held similar questions in mind as he did about the being. Immediately gaining validation towards that thought Haniki broadcasted a plan, a line of attack. But coordination was something of an achilles heel for him. He didn't have this upbringing in the shinobi world like everyone else. He was behind the curve in all of this, despite his few victories, if you could call them that. Already he was beginning to cast doubt upon his own abilities. Again a slurry of sullin ramblings exuded from the insecure Nara. Suddenly realizing that they were connected still a look of shame overtook Shishiwakamaru. His own diffidence stuck out like a sore thumb, he was truly embarrassed in this moment. The thought of being judged by those he held close to his heart scared the living shit out of him. He was more insecure than he led on, he was never confident in his abilities and just guessed his way through it all.
Thankfully his teammates were on the ball, and perhaps didn't hear any of that. Maybe Shusuke's abilities were not grand and complex enough to extend emotions n such over telepathy, or maybe it just didn't work that way at all. More things he muttered aloud in his mind as he tried to wrap his mind around the complexities associated with the notion of speaking with one's mind. Anyway, matching the vibes Shusuke was putting out, Haniki did a overly convoluted aerial assault. While Shishi over here like
'am I the only normal/non-shonen dude here today?'
Shishiwakamaru was not the main character by any means, he wasn't a mind dabbling genjutsu stud like Shusuke, and he had maybe a fifth of the intelligence Haniki could brandish. But there was one thing he could write home about, have hope Shishi fans! Numbers never lied, so let's just do some simple math. To be honest, he had no friggin idea if that thing could even be effected by genjutsu, usually you needed, um, I dunno, a mind or something? The thing kinda creeped him out to be honest, he was not in the market for making physical contact with this.... scarecrow.
He had been practicing for a bit, and was brushing up on a few poisons thanks to a special book written by... someone special. While it seemingly seemed like nothing more than a complicated puppetry book, each page deeper into the incredible recesses of knowledge gave tips and tricks of the trade. Still, most of it was way over his comprehension level, if he studied hard and learned everything he could, perhaps someday he could master the pages within his goldmine of insight and knowledge. And so, using what little his noggin had to offer, he triggered the chain of events that would be station #2...
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Alright, let's do this!" His fanboy antics suddenly being set aside in favor of a 'let's get dangerous' vibe, Shishiwakamaru rapidly unreeled a scroll, a shrill zipping sound resounded outwards due to the extreme speed Shishi exhibited (Initiative + Quickdraw). While it was true he was no prodigy like Shusuke, or a genius wiz-kid like Haniki, but what he did have was sheer effort. What free time he had, he spent poring over this book, trying to absorb the very essence of the author. The book was so detailed, so in-depth, so... Yes, you're quiet right, enough about the book. Ahem, where were we... Ah yes.
Perhaps Daiji-sensei would be the only one keen enough to see his deft movements, but Shishi had unstopped the vial of viscous, drawing it across his scroll as he summoned his puppet weapon. A small, ebony-clad construct whizzed towards the scarecrow with great speed, a strange toxin already applied to its body. (Nara-Strategist + Initiative to attack at 0 seconds) While the move itself was fairly elementary, at least in terms to what his book had to offer, it would serve it's purpose perfectly as the tiny 'thing' performed a crafty little spin. The purpose behind the spin was simply to make it difficult for the Scarecrow to determine which appendage the puppet would attack with. What's more, two of the little limbs came clean off in the spinning, but were attached by ninja wire that shot out and tried to entangle the scarecrow to ensure his friend's own attacks. (E-rank puppet tai - Swift Spin paired with Wired Augment). All this together, plus whatever the heck Shusuke's special poison was going to do, surely they stood a fair chance at taking this thing down.
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