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Keeping Pace [Training]Sept 2, 2024 9:18:46 GMT -5

Kurogane Satou

Life is a journey, not the destination. Let's enjoy it, with all its ups and downs~

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On one hand, Satou had been quite the smart cookie, realising her problem this entire time was in fact the desert heat, and that she'd been suffering heat stroke and dehydration throughout her stay in Suna, even if it hadn't been that long. Her solution to avoid it had been simple; avoid the sun like it was a sign of the apocalypse. On the other, it hadn't occurred to her that wearing a warm fur cloak and a winter scarf might just potentially be contributing to the fact that she's collapsed quite a few times already from the heat, only ever so slightly though. Of course, even if she did realise, she'd stubbornly refuse to part ways with them.[break][break]

Nonetheless as the cool of evening approached, a rather stark drop in temperature to something the snowborn girl was more comfortable with, she'd found herself borrowing one of the training grounds in the village, mainly dedicating herself to simple training, single bladed strokes practiced against an enemy that lived entirely in her imagination.[break][break]

Wordless and determined, her eyes had been focused on some shadow image seen only by herself, no noticeable sign of the ditsy cheerful fifteen year old shown as she focused on thousand practiced swings, familiar yet true.[break][break]

The occasional interruption coming as she'd break her stance to cheerily wave to any curious passerby who'd chance upon the unfamiliar outsider, bouncing happily with a sweet smile that seemed unmarred by any sign of exhaustion despite working up a sweat. While Satou herself hadn't known about it, there'd been some small time gossip fluttering about the place about a weird nocturnal outsider who'd been spending their time in the training grounds throughout the night.

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Keeping Pace [Training]Sept 3, 2024 14:12:54 GMT -5

Oonakayama Asahi

"Words have more power than the sword...."

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The heat didn't bother him as much, but he also wore light white fabrics. It was also why he was so tanned, most people were tanned in the village, it was just a side effect of living under the constant heat. Still that didn't mean it wasn't nice to enjoy the cool evening air, and to go do a bit of training. After all if he wanted to get physically stronger then he was going to have to train everyday at it. So far he had done the obstacle course that his cousin had made for him that one day, but she couldn't keep it active constantly, and so he had taken to building one of his out of his Iron Sand. It was taxing on his chakra, but it was also good training as well.

He wanted to get strong enough that Risuki would notice him after all, and so he could achieve his goal of being the strongest. Though what did it mean to be the strongest? Part of him had started to contemplate that lately after all the missions he had started going on. There were so many people that were stronger than him. After going on that survival trip, and then going to Yugakure he had met some really talented people. If he was going to keep up with them, he would have to train even harder. With those thoughts in his mind he headed to the training grounds in order to work on it more.

Though he was surprised as when he got there he saw a strange person practicing? They were covered in thick furs, and Asahi wondered if that was part of their training as well. The only person he knew who carried around pelts like that was Risuki, and he wondered if this person might be a distant relative of hers.

"Ummm are you okay wearing all those furs? You know the heat is super dangerous right?" He asked them not knowing that they weren't even from the village itself.

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Keeping Pace [Training]Sept 3, 2024 20:06:10 GMT -5

Kurogane Satou

Life is a journey, not the destination. Let's enjoy it, with all its ups and downs~

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Satou'd been practically mid-swing when she'd been called out to—a slight subtle surprise considering most people seemed good with just a wave—her posture had bolted just a bit straighter before she'd sheathed her sword. She'd turned to see the source of the voice, a boy... what, half a head? Yeah, half a head taller than her.[break][break]

She'd beamed brightly, "yup! I've already like, dropped a bunch so far! Kinda had to borrow the kindness of a buncha strangers who hurried me to a doctor... ehehe," she'd declared proudly as if collapsing from the heat was a mark of honour somehow, "it's why I'm practicing right now while it's cool...er. It's still kinda hot actually, but way, way, waaaaaay more manageable!" she'd added further, practically humblebragging about her work around to her predicament, almost completely sidestepping any mention of her warmer clothes—more so because she was really proud about her idea working, and had forgotten that part of the boy's inquiry in her bluster.[break][break]

She'd sauntered over to the boy all the meanwhile, like an approaching sun, bouncing happily, clearly very excited to have a conversation, "how's 'bout you?! Whatcha up to over here? Coming to train? Oooh, can I watch? Maybe we could hang out! Oh yeah, you can call me Satou! Are ya also trying to avoid the heat? I've got like, a BUNCHA tips and tricks to do that!" she'd practically bombarded the boy with questions and comments, unable to really keep still as she did so, the way he dressed had been as interesting to her as the way she dressed had been to him. What more, Satou'd been anything but shy, practically circling the boy thrice over as she talked, a cat-like smile on her face as she'd checked his drip with a finger and a thumb holding her own chin like some sort of detective looking over a crime scene.[break][break]

"You like, live here right? Do ya know any good places to eat?" she'd asked further out of the blue. While she herself hadn't noticed it, she'd likely seemed like an over affectionate stray puppy to the boy, it almost seemed like she'd be wagging her tail if she had one, especially considering she was practically bouncing on the spot awaiting excitedly for the boy to answer all her questions—a little more excited to hear his answer to her last question, not quite realising she might have been just a slight tad overbearing.

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Keeping Pace [Training]Sept 8, 2024 6:36:18 GMT -5

Oonakayama Asahi

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She was talkative, way more talkative than Suisei. So talkative in fact that the lazy golden snake coiled around his neck, that most usually just thought was decoration opened his eyes to stare at her for a second, before closing his eyes again. Jinbi had no time for this peasant woman who was bothering his bodyguard.

"Well yeah I came to train, I'm trying to work on my strength. So I come out here usually in the afternoon to practice my punches on the dummies." He points to the various wooden dummies around them. His arms were currently wrapped up in bandages from the knuckle up to the elbow to conceal the numerous bruises that he had gotten from practicing. Taijutsu wasn't his specialty he wasn't afraid to admit that, but he also took the advice of Risuki seriously since it seemed to be her forte. If someone got into his face he needed to be able to throw a half decent punch to counter whatever they were going to toss at him. Even if it was a feeble attempt, it was something that he needed to learn at the very least.

"I mean I've sorta lived here my entire life so I don't really notice the heat anymore, but during the afternoon there aren't many people around here." He motions around them to show how empty it is around them, since they are the only two around. "It's easier to train when there are lots around, as for places to eat ummmm, there are a couple of places that I like. They import fresh fish from the coastal cities to here, and make some really tasty sushi! The other has the best ramen in the world!" He brags not so humbly with a bright smile.

Closing the distance between him, and the girl who was shorter than him by a bit he smiled brightly extending his hand.

"I'm Asahi nice to meet ya!" He says to her as polite as can be.

Kurogane Satou

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Keeping Pace [Training]Sept 8, 2024 10:52:38 GMT -5

Kurogane Satou

Life is a journey, not the destination. Let's enjoy it, with all its ups and downs~

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The fur-laden youth had been shocked for a moment, mostly with awe and curiosity when she'd swore she'd just seen the boy's jewelry blink, she'd almost gotten a little over excited, ready to point, poke, and ask all about it before the boy'd answered her questions at his own pace, quite quickly distracting her from her previous curiosities.

"Oooh, strength training's fun!" Satou'd jumped like a little kid as she'd declared it, "it's super satisfying when you start noticing your efforts pay off!" she'd added further, yet she'd looked like nothing more than a big puff of fluff in front of the boy, alongside her lightheartedness and lackadaisical whimsy, her thick clothes made it difficult to judge whether she was really that serious about her comments about strength and training.[break][break]

Nonetheless she'd beamed happily, noting that he'd certainly been a local, "that's super cool! I go trottin' 'round the place a lot! I've been to cold snowy places, cold foggy places, and plains and mountains~ but a hot desert like this' a first," she'd said without so much as blinking, "it's kinda neat how we can survive just about anywhere, huh?" Satou'd added further, bouncing happily at her own whimsical pace.[break][break]

"Oh! Oh! Oh! Also, also, also, I've been having like, maaaaaad trouble trying to figure it out, sand gets stuck in my cloak, in my shoes, in my hair, in my eyes—which really hurts, and when there's any sorta big fwooooshy wind, I get blasted like heckers with it too! How do you deal with that?! What's your secret? I need to know." She'd bursted into a tangent, still not aware that she might be a bother with just how much she was talking to the young man who'd come here in the first place to train, not converse.[break][break]

"ooooh, fresh-caught fish's the best! You should really try just-caught octopus! They're weirdly easy to kill, you kinda just go pop and their brains come outta the pocket just like that," she'd made an awkward hand motion trying to explain in detail how it worked, "really yummy though, but yeah! Show me a place next time? Pretty pleeease~?" she'd added further.[break][break]

She'd nonetheless happily taken his hand the instant he'd offered it, vigorously shaking it, a betrayal of her seemingly childish form given that she'd without much thought put quite some strength into shaking his hand, grinning happily, seeming to be quite giddy that she'd made a new bestie.[break][break]

"So! Yeah! Asahi! Pal! What's the plan?!" Satou'd asked curiously, patting him on the shoulders with a boyish grin and a giggle, it'd seemed she'd wanted in on whatever planning he might wanna do, at the very least, she was enthusiastically interested.

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Keeping Pace [Training]Oct 5, 2024 17:01:20 GMT -5

Oonakayama Asahi

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She was friendly? It wasn't odd, or out of the ordinary Asahi felt that a lot of people were friendly towards him though part of that he felt was just due to his family. Though as he listened he realized that this person was like Suisei, and they came from some place faraway, and traveled to places far from his reach. A part of him was jealous, but another part of him was glad that he had a place that he could call home, and live comfortably in. Traveling all that distance all the time was probably super tiring. Still he listened to Satou question him on what the plan was, and he shook his hand a bit since she gripped it so hard. She seemed super strong at least stronger than he was at this time. Maybe she could help him?

"Erm well the plan....I don't really have one, I've been doing a bunch of push ups, and I come here everyday to punch the dummy until I can't anymore, and then I go home." He explains to her with a bit of a sheepish smile. It wasn't that he didn't have a plan it was that the plan was so basic he didn't know exactly if it was good enough? Asahi didn't really have any guidance when it came to this sort of thing he was just sort of flying by the seat of his pants, but he liked it that way. He was doing his best to not ask to many people for help since he wanted to earn as much as he could on his own, but sometimes you needed help.

"Is there something else that I should be doing? I train my legs too! I don't want the muscle to be all in one place, but erm I've never really trained like this before." He says with a nervous laugh hoping they don't make fun of him.

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Keeping Pace [Training]Oct 14, 2024 6:16:18 GMT -5

Kurogane Satou

Life is a journey, not the destination. Let's enjoy it, with all its ups and downs~

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While the Suna-boy had ruminated the difference in their lifestyles, the freedom that Satou probably—rather, most definitely—enjoyed, and the turbulence that had come from affording such a lackadaisy lifestyle, the violet-haired youth... had no such thoughts, completely preoccupied with her excitement at having met a new friend, and more importantly, helping out her new buddy-pal-friend-bestie-buddy-chum out with whatever it is he might have had planned for today, heck if she knew! She'd only just met him after all![break][break]

She'd nodded intensely as he'd awkwardly explained how he'd trained through the day to day, quite clearly deep in thought as she'd worked her brain cells intensely, one could observe the wave-motion of her thought process as her expression waivered between an intense grimace and an elated smile with a whispered "wait no" or an excited "ooooh yeah!" or a hushed yet excited "I'm a genius!, bouncing with each attempt to navigate a way to solve the boy's problem with his regime.[break][break]

Despite the rather lackluster aura Satou might have emanated, she'd only been thinking so hard on it because she really, really, REALLY wanted to help Asahi out. She'd practically popped up like a very cheerful jack-in-a-box, snapping her fingers with an "I've got it!" and a proud smug look of total victory on her face.[break][break]

"So yeah, that just ain't gonna work, Hihichii," she'd said rather plainly, adding an affectionately odd nickname she'd thought up on the spot to the end—in truth, most of her time spent thinkin' had been trying to figure out a nickname that she'd wanted to give him. She'd been brutally honest, mostly because she didn't think it was smart to sugarcoat it, "it's a start, but liiiike..." she'd said with a smile, "mostly a start for someone who's fresh from the get-go, you know? Not to mention if you're wearing yourself down to the point that you can't even move anymore, proooobably doing more harm to yourself than you are improving yourself, stamina's a good direction though, just probs could do way more than this cuz I figure you're a ninja if you're doin' this in the first place, riiiight, Hihichii?" she'd noted with a cat-like curiosity.[break][break]

"You probably have more strength built up than ya think, buuut, beyond the basic basics like your push-ups, squats, pulls and stuff... think 'bout what exactly you're improvin' with what you're doing, you know? You can feel where that is and all that~ honestly might be good to look at some medical ninja's scrolls and learn 'bout your body~" she'd added further, "... s'least what the old boss told me," she'd admitted with a giggle.[break][break]

"If you're looking for some quicker extremes, you could probably look to a taijutsu specialist's training regime, I know some are obsessed with like, carrying weights all up on 'em all the time, but again, rest is important, you break yourself down to build yourself up, but if you hurt yourself doing it you're not gonna be helping yourself out at all, you know~" Satou'd added further.[break][break]

"Otherwise, otherwise, otherwiiiiise... for me, the old boss made me do a lotta stuff as a kid but..." she'd noted the stark difference in height between the two of them with a slight pout that had erupted into laughter, "had to keep up or I'd either get left behind or cooked for dinner and eaten," she'd added with a giggling grin, "nowadays though, I'm mostly after improving my technique buuut, practice swings do help build your arms~ push ups are more for your chest." she'd further noted.[break][break]

She hadn't thought to mention much else, mainly because it had escaped her, never having really taught anyone before, she'd mostly been regurgitating information she recalled, she was fairly confident it was mostly correct, but she figured it'd be best for Asahi to get more expert advice from people who understood the body better—the aforementioned taijutsu and medical specialists—mainly happy to just give the boy some groundwork, "ooooh, a good hobby's nice, rock climbin' was a good one even after I figured out how to walk up walls~" she'd added further, a nostalgic look on her face thinkin' back on how hard it was for her to keep up with her guardian as a child with a giggle.[break][break]

"but yeah, you can probably fit stuff into your daily life to help yourself out, and food's important too, I think, gotta get someone else for thaaat, but you've tots got this Hihichii, just again, don't hurt yourself doin' it~" she'd said with a light cheer and fist pump.[break][break]

"some good practice with someone'd also'd probably be helpful, but iunno who you're gonna find at a time like this, Hihichii~" she'd nodded sagely, though quickly bursting into a fit of giggles, cocking her head curiously to the side wondering if Asahi'd had anyone on hand he could contact at a moment's notice at night like this, quite literally having a :3 sort of expression plastered on her face, not a thought behind those eyes despite her decently wise advice earlier for someone who mostly winged it herself.[break][break]

She might have left out a couple habits that had been hammered into her, not particularly thinking of them as anything beyond what she'd considered normal, but she'd nonetheless been ready to help out where she could.

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