Inner Forest of the Training Grounds (Open)

The sight of the two of them truly was love in Jojo's eyes as she would giggle her way to heading out with everyone. She personally found such a venture to be truly helpful as she would traverse out and about. She gladly smiled in doing so as she would travel with the two as she would be heading out to the shop. It wasn't that much of an adventure but with the two of them then perhaps it would have it's venue of elegance about it. All apart of the plan in a way as she would follow after with an ease about her.

((EXIT))

Kaito would be dragged into the forest deep back to where him and Jojo had been training before. It would appear though the place was finally dried up with the sun ever head shining over everything in the area. It was clear as day out side in the forest, even though they were extremely deep in the inner workings of the forest. Kaito was more interested when Katara was going to let him and Jojo go so that they could stop and actually get started doing some training for once. ‘At least this time around the ground is dry and hard. No more needing to use excess chakra to keep traction on the ground.’ Jaden had thought to himself.

[Entrance]

It was simple per say, the use of using one's own personal body to be dragged around like a high price rag doll. She saw no problems in this yet at the same time she didn't like how this was always ending up to being her trouble as she traversed through the area with an ease all to herself. With a calm calculation she would present herself in all happy bubbly esteem as she looked at this place. The place that she had trained with Kaito before still reminisced to her. It was a proper place, the best location for training too, "Hey Katara-chan. Do you mind letting go of my wrist, we're hear and all but your dragging me is causing my wrist to ache up." She smiled lightly as to dismiss the remark so it would not be taken the wrong way.

(Entry)

"Okay, sorry about that, I didn't realize I still was holding your wrist Jojo-Chan!"Katara apologized. Letting go of their wrists, Katara looks around, realizing finally that she had dragged both of them back to where she had first approached them, earlier that day. Taking a deep breath, she looks up, staring at the tree tops, and smiling. She can hear birds sing, and the breeze flutter around them. It was starting to warm up, the sun was drying up all the rain that had poured earlier. Finally looking down, Katara smiles at Jojo, and Kaito. "So, what first?"Katara asks, looking intensely at Kaito, for she wanted to show these two what she was made of, that she wasn't here for nothing. Standing with a slight nervous flutter in her stomach, she starts to dance around a little, trying to ease her nervousness.

-Entrance Post-

Kaito listened, as Jojo would simply ask for Katara to let go and in the process of that Katara would let go replying back to Jojo that she was sorry. Katara then turned and toward Kaito asking what we were going to do first. Kaito smiled, as Katara then would begin to dance around for no apparent reason. Kaito would smile and then say, “Well I will begin this training with a little spar between Katara and I. Jojo if you don’t mind please sit out for a moment while I test some of Katara’s skills.” With that Kaito begun to move away from Jojo and Katara spacing himself out ready to begin. Kaito glanced over at Katara signaling to her that he was ready to begin the spar. With a light sigh out of Kaito he would relax himself setting up a proper fighting stance waiting for Katara to get in front of him to test out her own skills.

(Katara you can go on ahead and post since Jojo will be busy for the next few days you will just spar with me for now until she gets back.)

'He wants to spar.......with me?'Katara thinks to herself, blushing a little. "I hope you aren't expecting much from me.' She says, a little embarrassed. But all the same, she looks at Kaito, Katara nods at him, and begins her battle stance. One arm in front, holding a kunai, protecting hre chest, while the other is at the side, ready to grab shuriken if needed. Taking deep breaths, she closes her eyes really quickly, and then opens them. Slowly, she begins to walk in a circle, keeping her eyes glued to Kaitos'.

Kaito watched, as Katara would begin to set her stance preparing herself, as she would pull out a kunai. Katara would then ready the kunai close to her chest ready for any on going attack and with her other arm she held at her side. Kaito was familiar with this kind of stance; it was a basic ready stance for defense or attack as needed for the situation. Kaito would loosen up a bit taken in a slight breath as he pressed his feet firmly to the ground. Kaito was preparing for him to start a charge to see how Katara would react to such a thing. So with a quick burst of speed moving at a decent speed not quite his full speed, but nothing slow when judging a Genin. With dust flying behind Kaito moved into the direction of Katara, as she would circle around the area.

As Kaito sprinted off towards Katara he would lightly grip his Ninjato resting on his back hip, unlocking it from its sheath so that it would be easily drawn for use if need too. Kaito continued with his current speed towards Katara ready for what she might do next closing in on her fast with only ten meters in between them now. Kaito wasn’t sure how skilled she was quite yet, but new that she was a genin and had to be at least near the same level has him and Jojo was.

Smiling at Kaito, she keeps circling around him. As she watches, Kaito moves with much speed. Soon, he heads straight towards her, loosening his weapon. She waits until the right moment, and then, as he almost collides with her, she flips over him, her feet landing on his shoulders for a few seconds, and then kicks off, pushing him, using the momentum to gain distance, four meters away. She lands on her hands and feet, reaches for shuriken, and throws two of them swiftly. Breathing in a steady rhythm, she waits for the reaction. "You're fast", she says while she watches him.

As Kaito came into a close enough range to basically plow right into Katara, she moved at a similar pass as Kaito’s dodging him completely in the process. How she did this was by timing his speed just right to jump up flipping right over him flying through the air to evade Kaito. So as she basically matched his speed she would land her feet right on his shoulder for a brief moment just so she could use them to kick off in the opposite direction.

Using her own momentum she would have launched herself away from Kaito. As she did this Kaito watched it all losing balance for a moment as he quickly stopped himself and slid making a one eighty turn so that he was facing Katara one again.

As Kaito looked on he watched as Katara would land about four meters from him. She landed on her hands and feet kicking up dust as she did and as she would look up she quickly reached for something.

As she reached Kaito knew he would need to act quickly so he would grip his sword starting to draw it from its sheath moving at the same speed he was before.

While he did this Katara threw two shurikens at him with a swift and agile movement. Kaito was very intrigued and could tell this girl was smarter than the average genin. With that the shurikens moved at a quickened pace.

Kaito quickly jumped back into the air as he flipped backwards letting the first shuriken fly over him, as it would appear him doing a twisted back bend almost, but with him in mid air. As he would land one hand on the ground to brace himself he would continue his flip over doing a one handed handstand the second shuriken would come into range to hit him. With his Ninjato fully drawn now Kaito would flip it around in mere moments bracing it with his arm blocking the shuriken in mid air perfectly. With a quick twist Kaito would push off with his hand pushing him back up on to his feet.

Kaito was impressed with how well Katara was doing and was glad he decided to spar with her first. Kaito would look on at Katara facing her still as she would say to him that he was fast. Kaito just smiled with that said re sheathing his Ninjato saying back to her, “Well your pretty fast yourself, but I am just getting started.” With that said Kaito would sprint off once again still moving at the speed he was before. With Katara so close it would only take a moment for Kaito to reach her so with that he would begin his first barrage of attacks.

First Kaito would attack with a basic sliding kick trying to sweep her off her feet and not even having a first date either. Once that happens he would use his own spinning motion to swiftly move into another hit like an ice skater moving from a downward twirl back up he would intend to strike with a side kick either aiming to hit her while in mid air from being knocked off her feet or just into her side. If hit or blocked he will continue with his attacks by finally going for a basic strike by swinging his arm around with a spinning motion once again, but aiming to strike her on her opposite side. The strike should move towards her shoulder area or possibly her side depending on if she was still falling from the leg sweep he did earlier.

Once all his strikes were finished Kaito would jolt backwards with a swift motion to make sure there was distance between him and Katara ready to take on anything she might have planned.

Landing nimbly on her feet, Katara lets out a small grunt of air. Hearing the compliment from Kaito made her feel alive, and as she watches, she sees Kaito coming at her, faster than before. Soon, he is in front of her, and he quickly knocks her down with a sliding kick. As she falls she is hit in the side, as Kaito flings his arm out. He jumps back as she falls on the ground, holding her side, breathing hard. Looking up, she grins at him, and gets back on her feet. Still grinning, she looks around, looking for a distraction.
As if in a dance, Katara twirls around Kaito, grabs a branch from a tree, and jumps up on to it. Looking down at Kaito, she says, "Catch me if you can!" Grinning, she leaps from branch to branch, making sure Kaito was keeping up.
(She is moving at the same speed as before, no speed changes)

Kaito would just grin and smile as he would sprint off after her, but not at his full speed knowing that if he keep up such speeds he would just tire himself out. Instead Kaito slowed his pace and began moving at a speed that would be no longer draining on him so he could continue on. Kaito was not quite as strong as he would hope to be and knew that he needed quite a bit more training to get to where he wanted to be.

Kaito would continue to smile as he watched Katara look back seeing if he was keeping up. Kaito knew that she must be starting to wear down and would need to slow down sooner or later; so he would just keep up this pace knowing that he would be able to keep up later on if he needed too. With that Kaito ran off after at an easy pace for him continuing to follow to see what she might do next.

Coming to a standstill, she stops jumping from tree to tree. Only for a moment though. After a few seconds, she bends her knees, and jumps backward, up and over Kaito, landing nimbly behind him. Smiling, and blushing a little bit, she wraps her arms around his waist, giving him a tight hug. But this wasn't for nothing. Taking a moment, she slips her hand into his shuriken holster, grabbing two of them. Then, after whispering, "Thanks!" into his ear she jumps back, a sly grin growing on her face. She then jumps down to the ground, grunting slightly as her leg muscles take the shock from the impact. Breathing deeply she looks up, grinning at Kaito.

"What do you think?" She calls up to him, hoping she impressed him, at least a little.