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With the story she hears, Nashida feels a bit of a kindred nature with Jun. They had some similarities; both parents were engaged in a kind of combat, and both left part of their life behind in order to live somewhere off the beaten path. It was odd to have the destination of the very small island of Snow country, across a vast sea from Bear Country, and so Nashida had to make a few inferences of her own; perhaps they were unloved and untrusted mercenaries, explaining their nomadic lifestyle. When one becomes a nomad, one becomes untrustworthy by nature: no ties, no loyalties, and not even a binding to any land in particular. She couldn't imagine that kind of life, and she imagines that most of the villages wouldn't be capable of imagining it, either. Perhaps they had been pushed from every other country, and now the only place left was a nigh-inhospitable wasteland of ice and snow.

It was a sobering thought, but it was only an inference, and it might not even be the full story of what happened. Both women were likely somber now, but Nashida was always just a little bit stoic. She does give Jun a little smile when she makes light of her eating too much, but then she's coming down into sleep, using the heated steel from before to keep warm without needing any kind of sleeping bag. One might think the Tantetsu Genin was made of stone, with how hard she seemed to be against the ground underneath the tent. Or hard as steel, perhaps. Nashida rests without dreams, which she always had considered a good omen. Her only problem was that she was still somewhat worried about the campfire being the only spot of bright light during the night-time storm, possibly drawing attention to them. Nashida sleeps anyway; if they are attacked, she's seen the power that Jun can command, and not even an army of bandits would attack after seeing one of their own men reduced to ashes by an explosion from one woman. While it would be a shame to miss the chance to see Jun's techniques in action again, meaning she had lost her chance to study how the kekkei genkai works, she would at least be able to rest without worry.

[Muramatsa Jun]

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[attr="class","skulloverlap"]Checkmate!

[attr="class","skullbody"]As the night came and went Jun wouldn't find anything of note however she did happen to hear something but whatever it was it would scattered just a short moment, she raised an eyebrow and walked out to check but didn't see anything out of the ordinary so far so good.
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With her night being over Jun would go ahead and make her way into the tent seeing the girl rather oddly just stay sleeping without wearing anything to keep her shielded from the cold it was quite odd, but perhaps there was a reason. The girl would smile to her and gently nudge the girls to wake her up.
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"Nashida, its your turn." the girl would say as she took a seat. "So far the night was uneventful but its gettitng dark so you'll want to keep the fire lit, if you need me call for me I'm here to help." the girl would then take out her journal and start sketching something for a brief moment, before turning a a few page in her notebook.
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She was a bit upset that she didn't get the opportunity to study her further, but was certain that she'd do well handling herself on her own and figured her defenses were fool proof, but despite that she would rest rather lightly making sure that she could hear Nashida if she were to call her.

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[nashida]

Nashida awakens rapidly as she gets nudged, her eyes snapping open to show a bright blue stare that softens to a more gentle look when she sees that it's Jun waking her for her shift. She rises up from her sleeping position, showing the heated steel now much more hard, and she re-forms the steel back into her normal shuriken as Jun gives her a report on her watch. She's glad to hear that it was uneventful, but they had half a night to go before they could travel again; even if the storm subsided now, the keep would be asleep themselves and likely wouldn't accept anyone coming to them for shelter, whether they had a medicinal package to transport or not.

She leaves the tent as Jun starts to sketch in her notebook, nodding once to her to let her know that she's heard and understood her statements as she rises up out of the tent like a great sapling springing up out of the snow. Nashida moves immediately to the fire, but instead of looking across from it, she turns her back to it, allowing her eyes to adjust more to the dark surroundings instead of letting herself get blinded by the fire. She'd thankfully made enough embering logs to keep the fire going for several hours, and she simply adds a few more to the pile of smoldering char. She notices the crunching sound of footfalls, but whatever is making that noise is staying just barely outside of the range of the firelight.

The Genin prepares herself silently, breathing in deep as she hears more crunching snow around the camp; they must have snuck a bit closer when it seemed that nobody was watching the camp, but now that Nashida was plainly visible, whoever or whatever it was had become more cautious. Nashida simply waits, standing tall and preparing herself for the combat to come when several figures step out of the woods towards the camp, brandishing axes, spears, and even a few swords. However, she waits until the seal seems to activate, causing several of them to stop suddenly with eyes wide in fear, like reflective glass shining back the firelight. Nashida makes only a single handseal, focusing intently on being exact with the division of her chakra, and with two new copies of herself being created, she feels significantly less powerful, but far more prepared.

"You'll get no graves here."

With that, Nashida and her clones make a rapid series of handseals, each one forming steel over each of their fingers until all three forms of Nashida have steel bullets prepared. With careful coordination and focused blasts of chakra, all six bandits are rapidly put down, thankfully still held in place by the activation of the Fuuinjutsu to keep them from trying to avoid being shot by multiple projectiles. Once there is nothing but stillness around the three towering giant women, the two clones disappear in puffs of smoke, and the Genin takes another deep breath before going to each body and collecting her steel back up; there was no need to leave more traces of their passage than necessary, and even bandits have families that are willing to go looking for their kin.

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NAME: Kage Bunshin no Jutsu [Shadow Clone Technique]
RANK: B
CHAKRA USAGE: Medium
CLASSIFICATION: Ninjutsu [General]
ELEMENT: None
HANDSEALS: 1
DESCRIPTION:

The Kage Bunshin technique evenly distributes your chakra between one or more clones with form and substance.

The clones created by this technique are able to utilize any jutsu the original ninja knows, has all of their special abilities, as well as their kekkei genkai. Typically a clone's equipment doesn't retain any special abilities and the clone itself is dispersed when hit with a single attack or incapacitated, although the clone can also choose to disperse itself or be dispersed by the user.

When the clone finally disperses, any new knowledge it has gained along with it's remaining chakra are passed back to the original ninja and any additional clones.

NAME: Kōtetsu no dangan [Steel bullets]
RANK: C
CHAKRA USAGE: Medium
CLASSIFICATION: Ninjutsu
ELEMENT: Kōton
HANDSEALS: 5 ending in finger pistols
DESCRIPTION:

Fire bullets from his finger tips with great speed faster than an actual bullet. Can fire 3 shots per hand. But an adept shinobi can see and predict and is not that hard to dodge as long as the fingers are visible.

[Muramatsa Jun]

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[attr="class","skullbody"]Jun had finally found the time to fall asleep after sketching and would hear that Nashida thankfully didn't need her, as she rested she'd awake the next morning to find that Nashida was still standing firm, and as a kindness would place a hand on her shoulder. "Go you rest for a short spell, I'll make breakfast and then we can head off." the girl would say her voice rather soft in nature wanting to make sure the larger woman didn't over exert herself.
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There were bodies left in her wake 6 of them to be exact a rather impressive bunch to take down. "Seems you had your hands full." the girl would call out to her as she would craft a few handseals and start a new fire using some extra timber the Tantetsu had brought. "Anyone or anything to write home about?" the girl would wonder curious about their adversaries.
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Given the fact that there weren't too many wounds on their bodies aside from a few small holes and some serious loss of blood it would appear that the seal must've helped in her efforts to dispatch them, but Jun would be lying if she said she was curious as to how she managed to do it knowing the way she forms her metal seeing that she would've been able to defeat them with something so minor was interesting.
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With that aside she was pleased with how things went and judging by how clear the skies seemed on this particular day and the slightly warmer temperature traversal to the keep would seem to go off without a hitch all they needed to do now was finishing breakfast, pack up camp, feed their horses and head off back towards the fort.

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NAME: Katon: Kaen Dangan [Fire Release: Flame Shot]
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RANK: D
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CHAKRA USAGE: Low
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CLASSIFICATION: Ninjutsu
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ELEMENT: Katon
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The user will first mold superheated chakra at the base of the stomach, after which, forcefully exert that fire through use of the lungs and fires it from the mouth in a reaction as if one were to spit. The fire comes out at similar to a speeding spit would towards the target with a flame trail. The fire stream is 3 feet long and 8 inches wide at the top of the fire, and slowly decreases to the base. The fire itself is incredibly hot, and can induce 1st to 2nd degree burns if touched upon directly, and even catch clothes on fire in the process.

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[nashida]

Nashida clearly doesn't think much of the bandits she'd dispatched so simply, and she shakes her head when Jun suggests that she'd had her hands full, a small smile on her face as she's asked if they were anything to write home about.

"I wouldn't even write to you about them. They're worth less than the chakra it cost me to dispatch them, but if I hadn't, I felt the seal perimeter you'd left up would have been a waste... Besides, if they had been scared off by being paralyzed by your seal, they might have come back later with a lot more. If they never come back, their peers become terrified of what might have happened to the ones that dared to cross us."

It wasn't a short explanation. Perhaps Nashida is becoming more accustomed to speaking with Jun around. She ends up resting for only a short while before she awakens again for that previously promised breakfast. The Genin eats heartily, having apparently used quite a bit of focused chakra in order to use those jutsu and therefore needing to get her energy back up before she pulls the black bear-skin coat off her horse and once again saddles onto it. She follows close behind the other woman on the way to the Hyozan Keep, staying close but otherwise finding the trip completely uneventful, thankfully. With the people of the keep clearly feeling so grateful, Nashida smiles at each person in turn before they head back towards Yukigakure.