Chapter 6 : Show What You've Got (Team Sendo Survival Training)

Chapter 6 : Show What You've Got

Dawn had creaked into the village of Konoha. Alarm clocks rang, beds stirred, morning routines started, clan compounds came to life, shops opened and training schedules initiated. 

It was the day the new Genin teams showed their Jounin what they were capable of.

After Sendo went trough his morning rituals of eating, give young Aburame pointers on their jutsu during his breakfast which he always ate on a porch and gathered his gear he headed for his designated training field. It was, most, forested with several clearing and some large ponds here and there.

He performed one of his trademark jutsu and pulled a scythe out of the ground made from rock and black minerals. Going into the opening stance he flowed into his warm up kata's.

Hayate woke early that day, to make sure he was good and ready for whatever his new Sensei had in mind for himself and his team. He had a bad feeling about this guy, he seemed far to shady (See what I did there?) to really trust. Even with his research the day before he couldn't tell if he knew enough about this clan to really hope to guess what was in store for Team 1... But, he had come to far to back off now. Gathering his things, which consisted of basically his headband and clothes, he set off to the meeting point.

He seemed to be the first to arrive, apart from Sendo at least, who seemed to be in the middle of some kata. "Morning Sensei" he spoke, watching the man's movements with that rather deadly looking scythe he used. At the same time, he was making note of everything in the area, while it wasn't certain they'd be doing their next test here or not, he wanted to make sure he had a good feel of the surroundings before anything happened.

(Rawl Investigation to survey the area)

Early morning broke with the first rays of sun in the Sarutobi Main house and only a few seconds after the rays of sun would hit the alarm clock would the machine begin to make beeping sounds. However it would be to late to truly perform it's function as the young Sarutobi heir was too exited and pumped up to really sleep much and woke up especially early, having gone to bed much earlier than usual as well on purpose.
She would smack on the top button of her alarm clock stopping it for a moment balancing on one hand before she would continue with her morning push-ups followed by the rest of her morning work-out routine.
The girl was VERY passionate about training and achieving, a side-effect of her upbringing.
However she was already at the end of her routine which she started and finished with a set of 30 push-ups, quite impressive for a 10 year old.

"Morning!!!!" The girl would jump from the staircase onto the living-room lamp dangling from it onto the kitchen counter trying to draw her parents attention as much as she could, but her power-slide along the kitchen counter sadly didn't provide her with more than the sandwich she grabbed on the way in mid-slide. Her mother which was standing at the kitchen counter and her father eating his own breakfast behind the table while reading the paper and smoking a cigarette didn't seem shocked, surprised or interested in her at all at the moment however.

The girl would do a handstand on the kitchen counter before jumping off of it and taking a bite from the sandwitch before she would start speaking with a full mouth.
"I gwowt muh suwivul ekwuswayse twodway..." The girl would mumble with the food obscuring her words.

To this, unlike to her earlier cry for attention her mother Kurenai would raise her red hues from the food she was working on and give her daughter a little parantal glare.
"Sarutobi Kouhi!!!! How many times do I have to tell ya?! No speaking with your mouth full!" She would exclaim sternly.
Asuma would chuckle puffing some smoke out as he smiled looking back over his shoulder at the two most important ladies in his life.
"Hey hey now hunny. No reason to shout." He would say with a calming smile to Kurenai who would stop and look a bit surprised at her husband blinking.
Kouhi would hear this and grin before giving her mom a know-it all pose and sticking her tongue out at the woman. "Ah!" Kurenai would exclaim baffled by her daughter's behavior.
To this Asuma would chuckle and turn back around in his chair saying.
"Just tell her if she ever does that again or disrespects you again we'll just stop training her."
Hearing that Kurenai would smirk at her daughter now and raise her eyebrows giving Kouhi a nod as if saying 'now you know what time it is.' .
The little girl would let out a little whimper at those words and then hand her shoulders defeated quickly munching on her sandwitch as she mumbled with the last piece still inside her mouth.
"Dhwats nho fhail."
"What was that?" Her mother would inquire with a sly grin to the Sarutobi heiress.
Kouhi's eyes would widden as she would quickly swallow the rest of the sanwich and shake her head at her mom scared waving her palms in front of herself defensively.
"Nothing....nothing...absolutely nothing." She would say and chuckle a bit uncomfortable which would cause both her parents to laugh out loud and smile before the two would give each other a loving smile and a nod.

The little girl would look between her parents confused as they were laughing and giving each-other those looks. Eventually it would cause her to join in and laugh along with them as she rubbed the back of her head and smiled widely, eyes closed. She loved her parants, loved her house, loved her village. And today, she was going to become just like her parants, a true shinobi. Determination would rise in her mind as she stood there laughing, today she was gonna make it....she had to. She had to preserve these things she cared for.

A few hours later at the designated time the girl would arrive on the training grounds with a small plastic bag over her shoulders. However Kouhi wouldn't be arriving on foot, the girl would be training herself already trying not to touch the ground on her way to her destination jumping from building to building, tree to tree, rock to rock or from car to trash-can and so on. However once at the gate she would land on her feet and proceed through the entrance.

As she would enter the girl ran past Hayate giving him a pat on the back and grinned.
"Morning Hayate-kun!" She would then spin around dropping her bag on the ground before dashing over to her sensei.
"Morning Sendo-Senseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeei!" She would exclaim exited and then stop and for a moment look intrigued at the Aburame's kata.
Archin a brow and then drawing an amused smirk on her face the girl would proceed to copy her Sensei's movements going along with his Kata as best as she could at the same time to show the man that despite her young age she was still rather good at hand to hand combat.
(Brawl : C , Taijutsu 3 )
As she would copy her sensei's movements to the best of her ability she would try and follow his movements to see what she could learn from there, she assumed he was better than her at this, an easy to make assumption.
(Saru Miru Saru Hayaru - Monkey See Monkey Do ....on Sendo's Brawl skill)

Ryochoku woke up with a mixed feeling. Heck, he didn't really want to wake up if that was alright and he struggled for quite some time before eventually going out of bed. The one thing he missed the most for the morning was his mother's delicious breakfast. He was instructed to not eat so he has to skip it. His mother did insist on packing him a set of bento though, just in case. He asked his little brother and sister about what to expect but the answers were pretty useless. His brother has forgotten what he did on his first day few years ago while his sister said that every sensei probably has different choice of what to do.

Going out of the compound without a clue, the road to the designated training field was more or less ordinary and without much event. He was the last one to arrive the scene and he kept a fair distance between himself and the others, waiting for instructions from his sensei.

[Roll: Investigation D for checking the surrounding area]

Hayate glanced over at the newcomer, nodding in greeting to Kouhi as she started to copy their Sensei's movements.. odd. Though not as odd as that other boy who had shown up. Older than the other two and apparently not in the least interested as far as Hayate could tell. Deciding to ignore this, he proceeded to pass off his lunch near the tree and move over to stand in line waiting for the others. This was going to be interesting, to say the very least.

Kouhi would hear her Sensei speak and nod to him as he explained what they should do but waited for Hayate to go and do that first while she herself would keep copying the motions of her sensei for another moment. "Hmmmm...you're pretty cruel with those moves Sensei." The girl said but instead of an intimidated smile the girl had a happy exited smile on her face before she would do a cartwheel in the direction of the tree grabbing her bag on the way as she did her second cartwheel landing near the designated tree and setting down her things before she would run over into line and salute her Sensei straightening her back. Sure she was the shortest of her team, but she'd make sure she'd stick out, somehow.
"Sarutobi Kouhi! Reporting for duty!" She said with a determined look on her face full of childish excitement and optimism.

Ryochoku did as instructed by the Aburame, putting his bento under the tree before going back to position. This time, closer to his teammates as instructed. He took position beside the boy and away from the girl(Hayate is the center), who he was trying to stay away from if possible. It's much safer to be close to a calm boy than a hyperactive girl. The Tenshu has a serious lack of emotion the whole time, looking like he was trying to go against his sensei in a "who is more emotionless" contest. Screw emotion, one of the few things he liked about this cursed "shinobi" profession was that emotion's not necessary.

When the group assembled Sendo eyed each of them for several seconds. His stern gaze shifting from Genin to Genin. Then he held up the Kai and concentrated as if he was preparing to cast a jutsu. With a fast snap the hand shot forward and the outstretched index and middle finger hit Ryochoku and Kouhi on the head. "What did I tell you about eating breakfast? This will force me to... adapt the program."

He took out a scroll and rolled in out on the ground. On it was a map of the training field with a large amount of lines on it. Sendo straightened up and bit his thumb to let several drops of blood splatter on markings on the border and finished with a series of handseals. The ground started to rumble, shake and even move all over the place. Suddenly the floor opened up to drop them down a dozen feet and close right above them. Such a drop was no problem for even genin so they would all land safely on the ground. They were now standing in a moderately sized square room. The walls, ground and ceiling were all made of hard earth and stone since they were obviously underground. Sendo patted some dust form his shoulder, folded his hands together into his sleeves and motioned for their attention.
"The training will begin as soon as you step out of this room. You will find further explanation on the wall to your right. Make sure that you pass." And with that the Jounin sank into the ground leaving not even a crack in the ground. Behind his was now visible an opening leading into a dimly lit passageway. To their right was indeed a tabled with instructions carved into it.

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Game Technical Translation

You are now inside a enemy facility and must escape. You estimate that you have between 15 and 25 turns to do this. Capture of the team in this Scenario would mean defeat.

Every turn you may spend actions as if you were in a battle. You move squares equal to your speed per action. Feel free to use any actions listed in the combat system that you may find useful.

A turn will end when the appropriate amount of actions have been spent (turn count starts when you leave the room). You do not need to use your whole turn for 1 post because that would make things messy due to limited sight and such.

Hayate was waiting for something to happen, maybe a challenge to find some bells or anything along those lines. Not a freakin' trap like that though. Landing with little difficulty he rolled his eyes. "Well this is awesome... Alright, before either of you go running off, we're gonna have to show him we can work as a team. Understand?" he was mostly talking to Ryo at this point, seeing as Kouhi would probably be happy to follow along. He checked the table to see what exactly they were gonna do before turning back to his comrades. "We don't want to separate and get lost in here. I'll go out first, you two stay a little back in case of traps and to cover me. You see anything, you tell me. Alright?" he looked to the pair before turning to the exit.

[2 actions - Scan/Search the hallway]

He gave the hallway ahead a look over for any dangers, signs of traps and the like. Should he find that there was nothing there to stop them, he'd move forwards as far as possible.

[2 actions - Move down the hallway if there is no sign of traps]

-If he finds a trap-

"Well, that was a little early on, eh Sensei? Either of you two good at disarming this kind of thing... Otherwise we're gonna just have to risk it." He waits for the others.

Hayate would find a ninja wire strung low to the floor connecting to both walls (3rd square from top)

What the frak? Is he...testing me? Ryochoku still has an empty stomach for the morning yet his sensei said he ate. Perhaps it's a test to see how he would react to it? Lucky for him, he was used to this kind of stuff back in his compound. He's among the lowest status thre and anybody can just step on him whenever they wanted to and they sure did a fair amount of them. Ryochoku merely give the sensei a slight nod before he was thrown into a maze along with his teammates.

Hayate took charge pretty soon, it's good in Ryo's view as he much preferred his teammates to be in front and take whatever traps that might be there instead of himself. Following behind silently and make sure that he always has some distance away from the girl, he stopped as Hayate stopped. First trap of the maze. Ryochoku could probably trigger it off from distance with his brother's kunai...only if he didn't return it back to his brother yesterday. He checked around the room, no water either. Damn Suiton and their requirement of water, he wondered if other elements have these sort of limitation. Ryo gave Hayate a mere shake of his head to say he got nothing before proceeding with his own stuff.

Since he has nothing much to do, he decided to scan the right wall for the explanation that his sensei was talking about.

[1 Action: Move 3 squares forward]
[1 Action: Check right wall for "further explanation"]

Ryo would find a circular hole in the wall on the right wall a foot above the ground. Something would probably be launched out the hole when the wire trap is triggered.

Ryo wasn't sure what he found was further explanation but the hole seemed to be of the trap. "I see hole on the right wall, it's probably related to the trap." He said about his discovery to the team.

Kouhi blinked and blushed shocked as her sensei told her she ate breakfast, which she did indeed, she had no idea that Ryochoku didn't and thus assumed he did as well connecting this in her mind as Sendo having spied on them.
"SENSEEEEI!!! You can't just spy on UUUUUUUSSSS!!That's not Faaaaaaaaair!!!" She exclaimed in a whiny protesting tone her hands as her sides, her eyes closed as she shouted it out.

Then as they got encased in this labyrinth their sensei seemed to spawn out of nowhere she would blink in amzement.
"This...this...Is this a Doton Jutsu or a Summoning Jutsu....or....or was this time-space? What's going on here?!" She exclaimed confused as to the nature of the technique that caused this labyrinth to appear around them. Or was it maybe them who appeared inside it instead?

Kouhi would note the messages from her team-mates and their finds noting the hole in the wall as well as the nin-wire trigger.
"I have not a clue how to really disarm traps, I am not too good at it to be honest. But I am a pretty good and confident climber and I can use Kawarimi if I get caught in a trap.." She said happily raising her fist in a gleeful motion before coming to a realization that would make her pout and drop her shoulders just seconds later with a defeated huff.
"But I don't see anything to switch with!' She whined and sniffled a bit.

Kouhi would concentrate and look through the room scanning the environment.
[2 actions scanning the hallway for possible further traps or info on the trap at hand.]
[2 actions , use Trap skill to determine whether she can dismantle the trap at hand and how or otherwise how she could use her athletic skill to pass by it unharmed.]

Seeing as there is only 1 string of wire strung between the wall low to the ground, the trap can simply be avoided by stepping over it. (sorry if that wasn't clear)

Hayate just shrugged and looked at the wire, seeing as there didn't seem to be anything from stopping him, he'd just walk over it. "Well... that was easy" he half expected the ground ahead of him to just fall down or something, but apparently it wasn't the case this time. At least he hoped not.

He carefully stepped over the wire and made his way to the end of the hall, where he would peek carefully around each corner to see if there was anything new down either corridor.

[2 Actions - Mooove/Step over wire]
[2 Actions - Check left and right down at the intersection]

[OOC: I still have one actions from turn 1 that I haven't use up, can I add them into this turn's actions now that we are in turn 2? If no, I will just focus one action on the left side]

Ryochoku found no reason to not do what Hayate just did and so he walked over the wire carefully and be done with the first trap of the dungeon. Moving on, he followed Hayate to the crossover and scanned both side of it.

[1 Action - Step over wire + Move to same square as Hayate]
[2 Actions - Scan left side, D Rank investigation]
[1 Action - Half-Scan right side, D rank investigation]

Kouhi assumed this would be easy then and smirked with a nod preparing herself as she would charge her chakra converting her Physical and Mental Energies into spiritual force.
[3 Me and 3 Pe used, 1 Me and 3 Pe left. Chakra Control C = 3 + 1 = 4 x 3 = 12 chakra.]

[1 AP used, charge chakra.]

She would then run along the wall using chakra walk to avoid the trap-wire down below rather than stepping over it, she would be running along the wall that was to her left as it was closest and would keep on running if possible. She'd stop once she'd move around the corner though to look around.

[ 3 Ap Used, chakra walk + Move x 3 = 12 meters]
[ 4 chakra used, 8 chakra left]

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(Next turn, since I am confused about the order of things at the moment...as well as the distances on the map)

Kouhi glanced around the corner to check if there were any traps along the wall she was walking on.

[2 AP investigation D Rank checking to the left way corridor.]

If she would find no traps there she would proceed to run along the wall further in that direction until the next corer.
[2 AP move]

If she would find a trap there she would try and see how she could bypass it, or if there were ground traps how her team mates could bypass it, she would stop and ask without turning around.
"How does the other side look, you guys?" The was some sweat on her forehead, whatever was going on here was everything she hadn't prepared for. What was this? What kind of training or test was this? Survival exercise?!!! Well Fitting name, she figured and sighed to herself. The young Sarutobi hoped none of these traps were lethal.

Kouhi, would you please be so kind as to wait with your 2nd list of action until the next turn and post them then? It will make easier to follow. Every one gets their own number of actions per turn equal to their speed, these can be in any order. Also you move squares equal to your speed. Each square is also 1 meter

Seeing as Kouhi decided to take the initiative and go on without him, Hayate decided to move long to follow her. Seeing as he had spotted no traps, he walked carefully ahead, before heading down the next corridor and then again into the next intersection after checking for traps.

[1 AP: Move to the square one down from Kouhi]
[3 AP: Move to the next intersection, Check the corridor for traps]

No traps are spotted

TURN 3

Ryochoku merely followed his teammates, as he found it too dangerous to just wander around. It also didn't help his initial impression anyway. He followed his teammates and continued to check for traps along the way.

[1 Action: Walk to Kouhi's square]
[1 Action: Walk to 1 square below Hayate]
[1 Action: Check front space]

Kouhi would keep on using chakra walk and strutting along the wall, towards the next corner, so she would stand opposite to Hayate and would look on along the corridor ahead of her checking it for traps.
If she wouldn't spot any traps she would continue moving along as far as she could with her speed.
If she would spot traps but not along the wall she was on, she would still proceed on.
However if there were traps there she would stop and wait for her team-mates to catch up.