[Nakajima Yui]

The Raging Fire

Yui stood in the center of the training grounds sweat dripping down her body. Her sword hung low its tip buried into the ground. The young woman surveyed the area around her, training dummies littered the area. Some scorched with a few of those still slightly burning. The rest had damage done to them than looked made by a blunt object but also one thinned like a blade. She dropped her heavy training sword before herself dropping to a cross legged sitting position. Yui was supposed to be meeting her new teammate, part of her "last resort" ultimatum. She had showed up early wanting to work out any frustrations and also work up a sweat. "Where is this idiot I'm supposed to be meeting up with? I've been here all morning the note said to meet here and still this baka hasn't shown up." Yui stripped off her jacket sitting there in her small denim shorts and black top. Her top was folded over showing the dark blue hue on the inside. Her shorts were short, almost obscenely so made of black denim. She set her red jacket on the ground next to her folding it up before leaning back resting her head on it like a pillow. If her new "partner" was going to be late she might as well get a nap. As Yui rolled to get comfortable a small note slid from her pocket. At a closer glance it would show she was two hours early misreading "2pm" as "12pm".

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[nashida]

Nashida arrives at the training field right on time, only to see that Yui is already there, looking sweaty and strangely underdressed. This seemed to be a running thing with the Nakajima, and she wonders if it was true that the clan is actually fairly good at controlling their body temperatures. After all, here was a Nakajima that managed to avoid freezing to death in the snowy wasteland that was Yukigakure. Granted, it was within the village and not outside of it, but even so, dressing in so little clothing would normally kill any other person. The Tantetsu herself not included. Her blue eyes gaze over the other blonde shinobi, wondering why she would make the effort to come out to the training ground so early only to nap there. She'd been sure to invite her to the field at 2pm, and it was only 1:45pm. She'd been hoping to get in some early training herself, and she hoped she wasn't going to have such a lazy teammate with her.

After a moment of looking her over, maybe finding her a bit physically attractive though her loyalty was towards Jun at the moment, she clears her throat, loudly enough to hopefully awaken the Nakajima. She was wearing her usual blue militaristic uniform, though most of it was under the black bear hide cloak she often wore over her clothing. She didn't really need it all that much; the Tantetsu were rarely bothered by the cold or the heat, their bodies having become quite capable in compensation for extremes in both ends of the temperature spectrum. At over seven feet tall, she would tower over Yui, even if she were standing, her black leather boots digging deep into the snow and her blonde hair swaying in the occasional cold and chilling breeze.

"I hope you don't often consider napping to be a type of training..."

[Nakajima Yui]

The Raging Fire

Yui's eyes fluttered open showing off her emerald green orbs. She at first thought she was still dreaming. Standing above her was a large woman her blonde hair hanging low occasionally being blown by the wind. The sapphire looking gaze looking upon her made her heart flutter a moment. Her eyes slowly made their was down the large form before realizing if this was a dream the bigger woman would be wearing less clothing. Yui snapped to her senses jumping to her feet sword in hand raised tip pointing at the waist of this new woman. "I don't know who you think you are but I've been here for a while training." In all honesty with her nap she had lost track of time. She motioned her wooden training sword to the scorched and bludgeoned dummies around her. "Does this look like a nap you baka!" She could feel her anger rising, her hair starting to rise turning slowly to blue flame. Who was this woman to question her so? She looked once more up and down the figure. The woman was strikingly beautiful making Yui's face turn red. The size of her could only mean power and strength hidden behind the layers of clothes she wore. As if a sudden flash of hubris crossed her mind Yui snatched up her jacket throwing it on. She zipped it up quickly, a rare occurrence, feeling self conscious suddenly by how much skin she was showing off. She was still angry, her ponytail had become pure blue flame stopping at the hair tie she was wearing. "Who do you think you are questioning a blue flame of the Nakajima anyway? Do you know who I am?" Her skin had started to flicked, her shoulders turning from skin to hints of fire before reshaping back to flesh.

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[nashida]

Nashida watches as Yui gradually wakes up, and she speaks once more, using a line her mother had stopped using after her age had reached the two-digit milestone.

"Wakey wakey..."

Now it seems Yui is fully awake and aware that she's not having some kind of dream, although the look she's giving to the much taller blonde woman makes her wonder just what kinds of dreams the shorter Genin might have been having. She'd seen excitement in people before, so she wasn't completely unaware of what that look meant. Then again, perhaps she was simply "interested" in the types of women that could tower over her. If that was the case, they might have to have a talk about Jun Muramatsa and what she meant to her. But that conversation could be delayed for a while, since the focus at least for now was on training with her teammate and getting to know one another. She looks at the wooden blade pointed at her waist, wondering what exactly she planned to do with it. Thrusting with a wooden weapon was annoying, but it probably wouldn't even pain Nashida all that much, especially if she could twist her body enough to let the wood past her without causing much harm at all.

When she points the wooden training sword towards the scorched and bludgeoned dummies, Nashida turns her head to look at them as well, then draws in her chakra, starting to pull steel from deep within the earth, while still pretending to simply be looking towards the dummies, apparently unimpressed when Yui catches herself on fire. She'd seen it done before; Daigo had turned his limbs to flame as well, although she could see that this Nakajima's flame was blue, where Daigo's had been green. It was somewhat odd to her, since she'd only ever seen red flames before, and those she'd been working with in her forge.

She allows Yui to continue her pouting self-important questions; it gives her time to gather up enough chakra and steel to perform the technique she had in mind, and without using any handseals, she turns to fully focus on the battered training dummies as three sawblades rip from the ground around her, spinning in rapid rotations with their sharpened edges before they get launched at three of the dummies, slicing them entirely in half before she turns to look at Yui once more, with a bit of a smile on her plush, soft, and pink-painted lips

"Yes, it does look like a nap for me. As for who you are, you're Yui Nakajima, of the blue flame. If you were hoping to impress me, I'm afraid Green Flame Daigo beat you to it."

[Nakajima Yui]

The Raging Fire

As the saw blades ripped from the ground Yui jumped. Her eyes widened in excitement watching the blades tear through the training dummies. It was an impressive sight to behold catching Yui's breath for a moment. She turned back looking at the large woman with awe before hearing the name she hated so. Impressed by the other woman knowing her name and rank was not enough to hide the look of wretched hatred. "Daigo is a puppet, he does not deserve the rank in which he was born! The fool will lead the Nakajima to ruin with his blind following of that hag!" She had said to much than she should have leaving all sensibility at the door. She looked away trying to hide the anger on her face before looking up again. For a moment there was silence, Yui did not know if she had just yelled at a Jounin or even someone who reported directly to the Yuki Lady. With a deep breath she stood tall, as tall as her petite frame would allow, placing her knuckles on her hips. "Well it seems you know about me and with that i am impressed. However my unnaturally large acquaintance you have not introduced yourself." Yui tried to make it look as if she needed the name. In all honesty she wanted to know who the big beautiful woman before her was.

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[nashida]

Nashida actually hadn't known Yui all that well, only that she was her newest teammate. Everything else she needed to know was practically told to her by their meeting with one another where the woman had turned herself, at least somewhat, into a bright blue flame, and the only clan she knew of that could do that was the Nakajima. Meanwhile, the much taller kunoichi had the advantage - not everyone in Yukigakure knows of the Tantetsu clan, since it's an Iwagakure clan almost exclusively. She shrugs when it's brought up that she hasn't yet introduced herself, and she finally does so.

"I'm Nashida Tantetsu. Some call me the Ice Bear. And I'm your new teammate."

With this, she gives a quick and short bow to Yui, showing her some level of respect for the first time. She doesn't seem all that surprised by the outburst, nor does she have much of a visible reaction to it, although internally, she's very confused. How could such a famous shinobi of Yukigakure be a fool, and what hag was he following? He knows that the Yuki Lady is somewhat old, but here was Yui, who was also following the Yuki Lady as well, being one of her Genin. It doesn't really make a lot of sense for the taller woman, but there's a time and a place for such conversations. She wonders now if their training time was shot, what with Yui clearly having done some training on her own, judging by the dummies she'd just demolished in a single technique. She wonders for a moment if that wooden sword had been what she was training with that had caused such deep compressions on the wooden dummies, but it might be somewhat dangerous to ask.

For now,s he looks over the much shorter Genin, and despite the somewhat explosive temper, she actually finds her rather cute. Like a yappy dog, or a little sister.

[Nakajima Yui]

The Raging Fire

Yui had heard of the clan once, but only in passing, she knew they were not from Yukigakure and that was all that mattered. Maybe this woman knew not of the division in Yuki, in the Nakajima clan more specifically. If that was so Yui might be able to have an actual conversation with someone without them seeing a potential traitor. The more obvious fact was this woman was who she was supposed to be teaming with. She had expected a young Genin sixteen at best yet Nashida looked older. No it was her size that made her look older, her face still held the beauty of youth. "Ice bear huh? You sure have the size of a lumbering oaf." Yui sneered but inwardly questioned why she had been so rude. Nashida had yet to show any animosity to Yui and had even bowed in a show of respect. Yui frowned more to herself than the woman who towered over so like a parent to their small child. She shook her head focusing on the here and now. She had been summoned to a training area, they were here to train. "Well while we are here we should probably get some form of teamwork sorted. As you already know I am from the Nakajima clan so i specialize in burning my enemies to ash." She lifted the wooden training sword again pressing the tip into the cold hard ground. "However I choose to focus more on my kenjutsu and being in the middle of the fight. If that is your specialty as well you will need to stay out of my way. We are here to train right? Lets go then."

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[nashida]

Nashida stares intently down at Yui when she says her taller teammate has the size of a lumbering oaf, wondering if she should take it as an insult or as a compliment. After all, she hadn't actually called her a lumbering oaf. But she seems to have second thoughts almost right away when she instead suggested that they get their teamwork sorted, and that wouldn't happen if she were planning on spending the entire day on insulting her. That seems just fine for the larger Tantetsu kunoichi, and she listens as Yui explains her abilities in combat, noting her apparent focus on kenjutsu in order to attack foes in close combat, which relegates Nashida to more medium or long-range effects during a combat scenario.

"As fun as it would be to maul you as an ice bear, I'm more of a medium range fighter, anyways. You can focus on getting right up in someone's face, you seem quite intent on doing so already. Despite your size meaning you'll probably be more likely to get up in someone's chest, instead."

She smirks a little at her own jab at Yui's height, since she'd made one at her own. She flips her hair over her shoulder, though her left eye remains hidden behind her golden bangs. She also feels it might be fun to give her just a little bit of a scare, so she brings one of her white-gloved hands from inside of her black cloak, two fingers extended as she reaches forwards to try and poke the shorter kunoichi's forehead, timing the rapid and sudden expulsion of her chakra with the poking of her forehead to try and bind her down momentarily with a fairly simple but very effective technique, even more useful since it doesn't require handseals, so one likely to be rather surprising for those not prepared for it.

"Boop!"

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NAME: Kanashibari no Jutsu [Body Paralysis Technique]
RANK: D
CHAKRA USAGE: Low
CLASSIFICATION: Ninjutsu [General]
ELEMENT: None
DESCRIPTION:
Kanashibari no Jutsu is an advanced Ninjutsu technique used to temporarily bind an individual or animal by stunning them with one's own chakra after making physical contact. This technique is a single and time coordinated burst that must result in the user striking out and making contact with the target. A success will result in the target person frozen in place for no longer than a moment, the user can either take the opportunity to attack or to retreat. Someone with superior strength can overcome the bind of the jutsu, and so does pain.

[Nakajima Yui]

The Raging Fire

Yui can feel her skin turning to sapphire flames again as Nashida makes a jab at her short stature. Her grip tightens on the handle of her training sword wishing her true blade was in her fingers. She had left it a dozen or so meters away leaning against a tree with her backpack. Before she could speak again the larger blonde woman removes a gloved hand from behind the black furred cloak. As the hand reached for her Yui flinched but stood firm, this was supposed to be an ally why would she need to defend herself. Yui was wrong, as the fingers touched her forehead she felt a surge of energy shoot through her body. Her muscles stiffened and froze in place as Yui fell over onto the ground. She tried to turn to fire but her chakra seemed stopped as well, she could not move nor speak. Her eyes widened wondering if Nashida was an Iwa spy here to kidnap Yui and take her back to the village hidden in the stone. The time Yui spent frozen on the ground seemed like an eternity as she waited for the large beast to scoop her up and start their journey. As the jutsu faded and Yui gained the use of her body she kicked up rolling off her back jumping to her feet. She said nothing focusing on the now as she ran to grab her steel blade. As she took the first step her body erupted turning her into a living blaze. She was not going to allow the tall, beautiful, muscular blonde to touch her again. Yui's mind had switched to combat, her rage focused on the now, focused on Nashida.

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[nashida]

Nashida feels pretty proud of herself for catching the other blonde ninja off-guard, causing her to become momentarily stunned by the rush of chakra shot straight at her face and catching her in a binding technique that really was fairly simplistic. The older ninja was fairly well-versed in Ninjutsu, and it really is quite fun to catch someone out with a low-level technique, especially when the effects would be momentarily jarring. The sight of Yui falling helplessly to the ground was nothing short of funny for her, though even with how humorous it was, Nashida's most outward expression of her pleasure was a wry smirk on her naturally pouty pink lips. The fear in Yui's eyes was a bit funny, too, if only because Nashida herself had no intention of causing any real harm to the Nakajima she'd now been partnered with.

Nashida does not, in fact, scoop anybody up, and she whistles a bit with the impressive display of physicality and athleticism when Yui does a kip-up from her back and straight up onto her feet. The sprint to her actual steel blade is somewhat amusing, since Nashida should be able to rather easily snap the sword in half with her Steel Release techniques, but knowing Yui was a Nakajima meant that most of her own techniques were rather physical in their capability of dealing damage would be mostly ineffective. With that in mind, the spar might end in a draw but for one issue; the Nakajima fire techniques could still deal enough damage to cause harm to the taller Genin, despite her body's natural inclination towards temperature resistance.

The rage on her face still reminds Nashida of one of those yappy dogs she saw once in Iwagakure, inside some rich woman's purse, that had a look on its face like it would love to take a finger off of a hand despite being no bigger than a breadbox. It takes a bit of self-control not to giggle a bit, but Nashida is at least stoic enough to avoid outright expressions of mirth.

"Come now, you must be used to jokes about your height by now!"

Although she has a somewhat fun tone to her voice, her hands are still prepared under the bear-skin cloak, formed into the Tiger handseal already in order to prepare herself to Shunshin away from a direct confrontation. Although she could use a Steel Release technique to snap the blade in half, it would be a poor meeting between the two if she did that, so avoidance was preferable.

[Nakajima Yui]

The Raging Fire

Yui turned as she ran the hand seal woven just looking like rolling flames. From the flames that was her mouth she spat thirty-two flaming pellets that were her teeth. After firing the flaming volley Yui retrieved her blade materializing back to flesh and bone. She wondered why the woman did not take her chance to keep her paralyzed but figured the larger woman must be cocky. After all with her size Yui was hardly intimidating especially compared to the tall blonde. Her sword rose pointed forward as Yui's emerald eyes narrowed focusing on her target. "Why are you here? What do you want with me?" She steadied her breath before speaking again. "How did you get into Yukigakure, which traitor let you in?" Her beliefs were firm that Nashida was some spy here to snatch her as an Iwa prisoner. The normally angry woman stood tall, figuratively, ready to defend herself. She had gotten close once, that was Yui's fault, she had let her guard down. The tall woman's beauty made her defenses waver almost causing her to be captured. "You have no true idea who you messed with do you bea... beast."

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[nashida]

Nashida sees the flame moving all about before the first of the pellets of flame come out of the conflagration that Nashida was aware was really the embodiment of her teammate. Chakra is coursing through her body, but she wonders for a moment if her body's ability to withstand intense heat will be able to protect her from the fireballs, and so she stands firm, letting Yui watch as each small fireball hits their target, and although Nashida would have winced at the pain of the techniques, she keeps her face firmly stoic in appearance, and only after the last of the jutsu hit her body in a glancing hit, she activates her one defensive technique to disappear in a flash of movement. In only a moment, she's standing behind Yui, arms crossed after she pulls her hands from the handseal formation she'd made in order to use the Shunshin technique.

Yui would likely find Nashida standing there as though she'd never moved in the first place, and she's nonchalantly brushing the ash off her clothing as she stares at the sword pointed directly at her without fear of harm. After all, she had quite a bit of training with Koton and could probably snap the blade in half if she absolutely needed to be able to do so, which she didn't think she would. Yui was strange, though, asking how she got into Yukigakure. That was odd, she thought Yui knew who she was already. She was even called a beast! The nerve! Nashida gives Yui one of her classic scowls, the kind of glare that often made other Academy Students quake in their boots when she'd gone through the Academy herself.

"I am a Yukigakure ninja, through and through! No traitor is necessary for me to come to my home! And I am no beast!"

As she speaks, she steps towards Yui, brushing aside the blade with her hand as though it meant nothing, and if Yui tried to make the matter more dangerous, it would be a simple thing to flood her hand with Koton chakra in order to change the shape of the steel and allow her to safely shove it away from her during her approach.

"I am your Genin teammate, Yui Nakajima! My name is Nashida Tantetsu, and I am the one who summoned you here for training."

[Nakajima Yui]

The Raging Fire

Yui turned face to chest again with the taller woman. She was tired from her training and did not wish to push herself further today. She lowered her blade letting the tip dip into the dirt. Nashida still had a lot to answer for that Yui would demand. She placed her knuckles on her hips looking up to the larger blonde puffing out her petite chest. "If you are supposed to be my teammate why did you attack me?" She was trying to be intimidating but could feel her heart flutter being this close to such a big woman. "Oh and you are late, I've been here for two hours waiting for you!" That she was actually angry about, she felt her time had been wasted. "Oh also why are you so big? Where did you come from?" She held off from insulting the woman again trying to temper her temper. "Lastly why would you sneak up on me while I am napping? You get off on watching people sleep or something?" She had been pacing now as she rattled off her discrepancies against the beautiful tall blonde.

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[nashida]

Nashida lets up on the frown a bit and she instead raises an eyebrow at the much shorter kunoichi, since her question is actually rather silly. After all, her "attack" had been a rather simple technique, and one that she could have easily used to actually attack her if she had wanted to. She figures that saying that aloud might actually get Yui even more embarrassed, and that might make her more combative, so it was probably better not to go into that for now. Instead, she dismisses it with silence as Yui mentions that she was actually the one late, and she turns away from Yui to walk over to where she'd been laying down for her own nap, reaching down and lifting up the note that had been the invitation to train together.

Once she has it in hand, she brings it closer to Yui as she unfolds it to read aloud from it.

"'Yui Nakajima

I, Nashida Tantetsu, invite you to train with me in the field today at 2:00 pm. This is when the day should be the warmest, and therefore the best time for potential training. While we do not currently have a sensei assigned to us, we should still be improving ourselves, and the best method to do so is by training with one another.

Your teammate,
Nashida Tantetsu'"

She holds the paper aside, showing Yui that it was the same paper that had been the invitation she'd sent directly to the Nakajima clan compound, looking at the other woman with a raised eyebrow while she answers the rest of the questions.

"I'm big because I, unlike you, ate my veggies and went to bed at bedtime. I come from Yukigakure, just as you do. Also, who goes to sleep out here in the training field for a nap?"

The discrepancies were easily handled, almost as easily as it seems Nashida would be able to handle Yui, should it come down to it. She gives the much shorter blonde a wry smile, rather enjoying their differences in height and the embarrassment she can heap on her teammate using that difference. She moves right on up to Yui, using her physical imposition to make her move back in order for her to continue looking at Nashida's face instead of looking up into her chest, which certainly stands out a bit from her position over Yui.

[Nakajima Yui]

The Raging Fire

The short blonde woman stood there dumbstruck, she had misread the letter, she was two hours early when she could have slept in. Never mind the fact she had forgotten her teammates name, she had moved between teams so many times she had quit trying. Her face flushes as she looks up to the taller woman getting flustered by her words. Nashida steps closer making Yui wonder if she is trying to intimidate her. The nakajima does not move, her arrogance and pride not allowing it. She keeps her face looking up her vision blocked and distorted by the chest of the woman. "I had taken a nap after training for a long time waiting for you. Apologies on not remembering your name no one lasts long as as teammates i figured it would not matter." She could hear her voice being muffled by the jacket an over sized "torso" of her new partner. She wondered who would fold first, who would take the first step back and relinquish control. Yui would hope it was not her but at the angle her face was pointed and what it was pointed into she doubted she would be able to breathe soon. Would it be such a rough way to die she thought for a moment, happy her reddening face was obscured.

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