Open Ninjutsu 101: Principles of Chakra [CLASS]

[Chikamatsu Shin]

Shin let out a sigh... Kanmuri, Peko, Kazuma, Taisen Hakuren, Tanatsu Neko, Amaterasu Hina of the Chikamatsu, Chikamatsu Ayame, Hayate Tadashi, Toraono Toji, his son Chikamatsu Suisen and his two daughters Chikamatsu Toyoko, Chikamatsu Sora...

He had taught so many students over the years. He covered topics from illusionary warfare to emergency medical treatments and from hand to hand combat to advanced elemental combinations. He taught so many lectures of such varied topics and over all this time he was still concerned if he was qualified to teach the next generation. He was a Medical Chief, the Overseer of the Chikamatsu, a Sennin, and even the Kazekage, yet through all of this time he never knew if he was doing enough for his students. He lost a few pupils over the years and those lost weighed heavy on his heart.

The classroom today was rearranged in a slightly different manner, where instead of a lecture hall like layout, it felt more like a labs room with open space in the center of the room and tables circumventing the space out by the walls. On each table there would be 5 different scrolls each with a different seal on them: Earth, Fire, Lightning, Water, and Wind. Shin had each of these scrolls on his hip as he stood beside a table that had multiple glasses filled with water on it. He would put on a smile and wait for his students to begin to arrive, and one by one he would hand each student a glass of water and tell them that this water was not meant for drinking and to make sure they did not spill it as their lesson today was going to be centered around these glasses.

WC: [289/1000]
Post: [1/5]

 

[Chikamatsu Kasai]

Kasai lingered at the doorway, molten eyes catching the light of the crystals as they traced across the room. Her father stood at the center, calm as a mountain, a smile stretched on his face that she knew was oftentimes for show. She could see the weight in the way his shoulders held, like stones piled atop one another. Her gaze fell to the glasses of water lined neatly upon the table, five scrolls waiting in their seals like a promise of exploration. To the others it was instruction, but too her, everything was a test. Every step she took into the room was not just another student arriving, but a daughter measuring herself against the history that already surrounded them. She wanted to surpass them all, not simply to learn what they had learned, but to do it better and faster.

She was the first to arrive and took a seat in front of a glass of water. Shin’s eyes met hers for only a heartbeat, but it was enough to make her chest tighten in unease. She was told the water was not for drinking, and so she would not spill it. She would hold it, and make sure a drop did not leave the glass. Kasai wrapped both hands around the cool surface, staring down at the liquid as though it might betray her. She imagined it boiling as the heat of her own will rose through it. Fear caught her as she imagined turning the water into something alive that would burst forth from the glass without warning.

To anyone else, this was just water. To her, it was the first step toward proving she was more than another name in his long list. She would not be forgotten, and she would burn brighter than all the rest.

[WC: 302/1,000]
[Post 1/5]