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[Megumi Tanigawa]

Standing off to the side of the main area of the training field, was a young girl wearing an intricate and long red kimono. The grab was detailed and had flashes of blue as outlines of the leafs. The young girl had a Guzheng standing up beside her, however it lacked the strings to play the beautifully carved and gold inlaid instrument. Setting the Guzheng down gently, one could see the gold inlays told a story of a tree going through it’s yearly life as leafs were dancing around the image.

The kimono wearing girl looked as if she was an entertainer, and her short pixie like hair revealed her pale silken face. Clasping her hands together, she would form strings as she separated her hands.

Stringing and tuning the charka strings onto the voiceless instrument. Each pluck would echo of into the distance brushing it’s serene voice of the battle worn training grounds. Starting the song of slow it slowly picked up as the girl plucked and caressed the strings as if her it was a lover. Getting lost in the music the sounds of the refinement of years could be heard through the  instrument.

As she finished her warm up, the girl would look around as if she was waiting for someone. Even though no one listened to her song on the empty battle field, she kept playing anyway as if she was trying to soothe the souls of the splintered targets and battered dummies of the training grounds. Even if she was alone she would play for herself and act as a beacon for any weary students looking to rest after a day's hard training.

 

[Yoshihiro Ichida]

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Chucking the Shuriken and Kunai into the bag, Ichida zipped it and pulled it up onto his shoulder in a swift motion, then proceeding to walk out the gates of Training Grounds 3. "What shall I have for dinner tonight?" He spoke quietly to himself, massaging his shoulders, that grew sore from the full day of training. "Hmmmm... maybe Ramen? Or yakiniku? Bahhh I'll just decide later." He continued to say, closing the metal gates behind him, when Ichida heard a faint melody of strings.

Following the direction of where the melody was coming from, He came to Training Grounds 8, where Ichida saw a girl, about the same age, in a long red kimono, with her hands running back and forth on the body of what seemed to be a gold instrument. He was puzzled, however, when Ichida realized there were no strings on the instrument. How was she playing that beautiful melody? He stepped closer, unknowingly, out of pure curiosity, when she noticed him walking towards her.

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[Ryu Hime]

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Body Mind Switch was a Reconnaissance Technique and a unique ability only able to be performed by those with the mental sharpness found in the Yamanaka Clan, this ability allows the Yamanaka to actually expel their own consciousness within their Body, in an attempt to enter the mentality of another, even animals. Hakuren has many pets in which she likes to control. As a Yamanaka she enjoys possessing her animal friends and exploring the village without physically leaving her room. It was a very handy reconnaissance technique and she was quite good at it. Today she was hopping around in the body of a rabbit. This rodent was a native to the forest climate that surrounded the village and thus it attracted little attention.

She had planned to spy on the training field near the academy to take note of some potential students. What she found was something that definitely peeked her interest. Hakuren has used her Yamanaka abilities in ways few have conceived of using in such a matter. Hakuren adores those with outside the box thinking. She also a strong believer in showing beauty and grace through one’s fighting technique. In Hakuren’s eyes Gumi was a diamond among the rough. The student used chakra strings normally used for puppetry as an instrument. Such creativity could only bring a smile to Hakuren’s face.

Despite her interest in the young girl she kept her distance like any normal rabbit would. Plucking a blade of grass and nibbling on it she watches as another is drawn to the melody. The boy stares at the girl with curiosity. Perhaps if she continues to spy on these two students, she could catch the name of the musical girl that has caught her interest.

 

[Megumi Tanigawa]

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The girl continued to spin her musical tale, surrounded by a blissful web of a siren's melody. Hearing the approach of someone she would look at a the boy, that seemed to have been caught by her song. He had purple haired that lazily hanged from the sides of his head. His traditional clothes denoted that he was from a family that held onto its traditions. The girl would pluck a string or slide her hand across the instrument, for every step and slight movement he had almost as she was playing out the song of his life.

Looking of into the distances as she played out the boy's movements, as if it was a game of music simon says. Seeing that her song had caught the attention of one of the animal kingdom's sharpest ears, she would have to up her game for the small creature nibbling on a blade of grass.

The boy seemed to be controlled by his whims, as she looked at the stringless instrument as if he was a baby doe opening it’s eyes to see the world for the first time. Looking back to him and giving him half of a look as she started the crescendo.

Putting more charka into the strings, they would become visible to even those with impaired vision. The girl would stop following the boys movements and pluck the strings at a faster rate raising and building up the tempo, as the boy seemed to drawn to her music. The tempo hit its pinnacle and with the last pluck, the sound wave warped the world around it into a nightmarish landscape from just a moment.

The music would stop abruptly as the girl tried to understand what had just happened. In all her years she had never had such an effect with her music. Could it have been do to the excess charka she used to show the boy what was behind the curtain.

 

[Yoshihiro Ichida]

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As Ichida slowly inched closer, expecting the strange melody to grow softer, it only grew more intense, louder and stranger than ever before. There was a strange sensation welling up in the boy's body as he moved closer, as if the melody were orchestrating his every movement, like he was a puppet under the hands of a musical puppeteer. What was this weird-shaped instrument, and how was this girl able to create this beautiful melody with not even a string on it? All these questions began to fill his mind, as he stepped closer and closer towards the girl in the long red dress, losing more control over his body with each step,

Ichida had never felt anything like this before, and yet, he only grow more curious by the second, insisting to himself that he must find out what was the behind all this - who was the girl? What was she playing? How was she doing it? Ichida must find out.

As the music intensified even further, the boy was now able to see an azure blue energy pouring from the girl's hands, or more precisely, her fingers, into the stringless instrument, as the sensation within Ichida accumulated more and more, just like oil filling up a jar to its brim, until the world around the boy and girl warped completely, turning into a nightmarish landscape, as Ichida fell to the ground, exhausted, as if he had all his chakra drained right out of him.

 

[Ryu Hime]

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Hakuren listens to the music and watches the events unfold. No words were exchanged but things were clearly being said between them. Questions and answers move between them in unspoken words. The boy was curious of how the girl was creating such music with a string-less instrument and she replies by showing him that it was not as string-less as he was lead to believe. The music was almost hypnotic and the boy was seemingly enraptured by her song.

The girl was quite impressive and it seems Hakuren did not go unnoticed. A glance went by her way, but she was sure that the little gal had no idea who was watching through the long eared rodent’s eyes. Hakuren loved the fact the girl did something creative and beautiful at the same time, but could the girl make it battle worthy?” Could the chakra stringed instrument be used in a fight? As if to answer her question a genjutsu was cast. Hakuren could sense it trying to influence her mind, but Hakuren is far too skilled in the illusionary arts. Being of much higher level she resists the illusion without even trying. From the boy’s reaction she could gather a little bit of what type of illusion it was. If she were to stab a guess, she would say it was a visual illusion.

 

[Megumi Tanigawa]

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Feeling the residual vibration of her angelic melody turned devilish score. Looking down at her instrument and recreating in her head what she had done to cause a monument of what the afterlife awaits for those who live a tainted life.

Looking at the boy who had been her muse, as he layed their drained from his emotional twist from her music. Giving him a devilish smile, as she lifted her fingers over her now invisible strings. Flowing more charka into her strings until they glowed brightly with her own life force. She plucked her strings and bared her soul for the boy to see.

Starting off slowly and she let her notes hang, and calmly brush over the boy as she tried to pick him back up from his exhaustion. While the first genjutsu, was a mistake on her part, she would try to focus her mind and thoughts on revitalizing the boy.

Thinking as if she was trying to raise a sleeping child gently out of their slumber. She would calmly stroke the string, while adding in a few low key sharp notes to light a fire under the boy. Continuing to play and guide the boy along with her music. Looking at the boy as she played her revitalizing song for the boy as an apology for her mistake and as a thank you for helping her unlock a new ability that she was unaware of.

As she payed she thought of what she could do in battle with her puppets. No longer would she have to drop or deal with forming hand signs for her jutsu. Feeling ecstatic with her new discovery, her song began to grow into a uplifting tune that felt as if it was going to burst at the seams. To other around her that felt her soul, they would feel light and joyful. Even the world around them seemed more bright and vibrant.

 

[Yoshihiro Ichida]

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Black. That was all Ichida could see in the moment, as if he were being suspended in the darkness, unable to remember anything that happened before it. A warm, comforting melody then began to ring through the boy's ears, and into every part of his body, as he felt the very life sucked out of him being regenerated gradually, like the jar was being slowly filled with oil again, awakening the boy little by little, with each drop. Ichida could feel as if his heavy spirit was being lifted off the ground, revitalised, full of energy again.

The melody then began to take a more uplifting twist, this time growing with joy, filling Ichida's spirit with glee as it filled him more and more. The regeneration within Ichida grew more intense, feeling as if the oil was pouring heavily into him, overflowing and bursting at the seams, and he began to regain consciousness, his eyes slowly stretching open.

A pale silken face, short pixie-like hair, and a long red kimono, Ichida noticed, his eyes blinded by the sun as he tried to open them, memories slowly flooding back into him. The boy then began to remember all that had happened before he passed out, while he continued to try opening his eyes: finishing up his training, hearing the beautiful melody, then following it, to discover a girl in the fields, playing a stringless instrument, and then nothing. None of these events made sense to Ichida, and he grew even more confused as to why he felt that comforting melody, how was it able to help him regenerate, and why was he laying on the ground?

As soon as the boy's eyes had accustomed to the bright light of the sun, he saw the girl standing in front of him - pale silken face, short pixie-like hair, in a long, red kimono. "Where... am ... I...?", Ichida utters weakly, as he tried to regain his strength.

 

[Ryu Hime]

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Meanwhile not too far away a female cat is on the prowl. She crawls down low with her body hidden in the tall grass. Only her long black tail can be seen poking out amongst the grass. Her nose presses against the ground as she tracks the scent of her prey. Soon she comes upon a big fat field mouse chewing on some grass seed. The cat’s tail lowers below grass level and she begins circling the mouse like a tiger. The mouse lifts its head noticing the movement of the grass. The cat stops and stays perfectly still. The mouse, not seeing or hearing anything, goes back to eating his seed. The cat them pounces and attempts to grab the rodent, but it slips from her grasp. The vermin runs away for its life, but the cat was quicker. She stealthily circles ahead of the mouse’s path. The mouse stops thinking that it lost the predator after it.

The cat gets ready to jump again, when suddenly a pair of talons came swooping down from above. Luckily the mouse escapes its clutches. The cat looks up to see a hawk flying high above. It seems that the cat was not the only animal on the hunt. She hisses at the hawk angrily and the bird screeches back at her. She then puts her nose back on the ground and tracks down the rodents scent once again. She kept her tail down for she did not want to attract the bird’s attention. If that bird of prey wanted that mouse it will have to do it with its own hunting skills.

After some more tracking the trail stops and another trail begins. This one smelled like a fox. It seems that this vixen beaten him to the mouse and claimed its prize. Lunch was start to turn into an all-out competition out here. The cat had no chose but to look for something else and that's when she sees Hakuren. A nice plump rabbit would make a much better meal than a field mouse.

Hakuren's attention was pretty focused on what was going on in the training ground before her. However she could not shake the feeling like she was being watched. Her head perks up, she looks around and her ears scan the area to pick up any strange sounds. Not noticing anything out of the ordinary she goes back to watching the two students. Suddenly the cat pounces towards Hakuren and quickly snatches her in her mouth.

The cat begins to run off with her prize, but she did not get very far. It was not the cat’s lucky day for the prey she captured was far more deadly then she expected. Hakuren despite what body she is possessing, or even in her own body, emits an invisible aura of chakra. Chakra Aura normally take on an elemental property. Unfortunate for the cat the element of this aura is the advance element poison. Three feet away from where Hakuren originally sat, the cat drops her catch and falls over. The cat giving a painful cry as it feels the poison coursing through its small body.

 

[Megumi Tanigawa]

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She would continue her song as she watched the boy, and to help the boy regained his strength while practicing her new ability. As the boys eyes acclimated to the sun, he weakly asked where is was.

As she heard the boy’s words, she placed her hands atop of her strings to silence them. Looking around as she saw a hawk swoop down at it’s prey. Heer mind immediately thought back to the rabbit that was enticed by her music. Looking to the last place she had seen the rabbit, it was still oddly unmoved even from her outburst of genjutsu and the predator in the sky.

Letting the rabbit continue it’’s feast, she would look back at the boy and answer his question. “ You're still in the training grounds”. Looking at him as she put her instrument off to the side and offered her hand to help him up. “ You're not who i was expecting, but it is better than no audience”. She would let out a small laugh as she helped the boy up, thinking about about her classmate Sara that said she was usually around the training grounds. Not crying over spilt milk she would make do with what she was given.

As she helped the bewitched boy up to his feet, she would sit back down and pat on a rock nearby as to tell him to have a seat after all he has been through. “ Sorry about what i did to you, i did not know that would happen and in truth i am not sure what it was myself”. Giving with an embarrassed look as she had accidentally put him under an illusion. “ By the way i’ve never seen you in class before, are you a new student”?

As she was trying to apologize and get to know her audience better, a loud sicken cry sounded off in the distance. It was a terrifying and gut wrenching cry, as if something saw it’s last moments of it’s life. Quickly turning to see what had happened on a reflex, she could see a cat spasming and weighting in pain where the rabbit once was. Shocked by the scene, in the corner of her eye she could see the rabbit a few feet from its positions surrounded in a sickly aura.

She had thought that the rabbit was odd, but now she knew that it was simply no rabbit. Pulling out a scroll from out of her long sleeve she would call forth Ibuki and send her after the strange rabbit. Megumi did not wish to harm the rabbit but only to capture it as she needed it to figure out how to make an antitoxin for the poor cat, that may have seen it’s last day on this world. Focusing on her target as her fingers danced as she controlled her puppet. The blue charka strings would flow around her red kimono as she would make sure not to lose her target.Seeing the boy regain his strength, was it from her song or the boy himself. His eye’s opened weakly as he stared at her with a puzzled expression as he could not grasp what had happened. To be fair the girl herself was not entirely sure of it herself.

 

[Yoshihiro Ichida]

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Ichida awakened with each passing chord that emanated from the girl's chakra strings, rejuvenating and recharging him with every skilful play of her fingers. When she noticed that the boy was now well enough to gain his composure, she put her hand on the strings, silencing it, seeming to Ichida as if she was taking the bow after performing her finale. The girl then looked to an area of the training ground that seemed empty, the action puzzling Ichida, although he didn't read too much into it, as he was still trying to gain a grip back into reality, recovering from the chaos that had just taken place. "You're still in the training grounds", the girl replied, looking back to the boy, who now offered him a hand to help him to his feet, putting her instrument to the side.

"You're not who I was expecting, but it is better than no audience", she said jovially, letting out a small laugh, as the boy snickered along. Patting a nearby rock, the girl invited Ichida to have a seat, as she sat back down on another. "Sorry about what I did to you, I did not know that would happen and in truth I am not sure what it was myself", explained the girl, as she gave an embarrassed expression on her face. "By the way, I've never seen you in class before, are you a new student?", she continued to ask.

"Oh, it's alright, I'm sure you didn't mean it.", "But... it really was the first time I've ever experienced anything like that.", the boy replied, "And... yeah, I'm actually a new transfer student from the 1st year Academy Students.", the boy continued humbly, trying to avoid showing any arrogance in that achievement, in which he felt a sense of pride in. As they continued chatting, a loud sicken cry pierced through the air, coming from a distance away. The cry was filled with terror and pain, as if something had just witnessed its end. The girl's darted in the direction of the noise immediately, the boy following suit.

It was a cat, shaking, shivering in pain. The girl wasted no time, pulling out a scroll from her long sleeve, calling forth a puppet of sorts, Ichida finally coming to the realisation of what her ability was at this point, as the puppet chased after a rabbit that was covered in a strange, seemingly twisted aura. "That's no ordinary rabbit for sure!" commented the boy, while the girl's fingers skilfully moved, as if dancing on the air, orchestrating the puppet's every move through a blue, tangible, flexible string. Seeing this, Ichida flew towards the rabbit, stepping off the rock he was sitting on, using it as a sort of a platform, crushing it in the process. The boy then held out his hands, as he swooped through the air, almost reaching the rabbit.

 

[Ryu Hime]

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Seems like Hakuren’s cover was blown and thus there was no more point in hiding the fact. The rabbit moves her arms around in an almost shinobi like fashion. It looked a little like she was preforming hand seals, though with paws the motions did have a slightly different look. As the puppet comes charging at her, the playful puppet would find its target to be quite larger than expected. Hakuren casts a transformation jutsu in order to take on a more human-like form. She was now a tall, slender woman dressed in black with bunny ears hanging down the sides of her head. Being the Marionette was originally going for something lower to the ground, she easily dodges it by placing her hands on its shoulders and leap frogging over it.

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“Now, now. There is no need for that.” She snaps her fingers and vines begin to entangle the poor feline. From the center of the plant a white flower blooms. This is a special type of flower for it drains toxins form living things into itself. As the flower draws out the poison infecting the cat the petals change to a blood red color. Once the flower was completely stained the cat was cured and quickly comes to life. The feline struggles with the vines and tears it off its body. Once freed the cat makes a hasty get away. "Maybe next time she'll be more careful who she tries to eat." The woman says watching the cat run away. She then turns to look at the to students, "Now then my name is Tsuki and who might you two be?"

 

[Megumi Tanigawa]

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Seeing the shoot off of the rock and dive for the rabbit, “ Don’t go near it, we don’t know how far it’s poison reaches”. Even at her protest, it for too late for the boy as he seemed to be one of those leap before you think types.

As she closed in on the deadly mamule, it formed high sighs as if it was trying to perform a ninjutsu. Sending more chakra through her stings as to speed up her puppet after seeing the oddly comical display from the rabbit. As her puppet was about to reach her, a puff of smoke encased the rabbit, and it took a more humanoid appearance of a women with ears. Taking the high ground the rabbit would use her puppets to leap over it and the boys dive. With a playful sounding tone the rabbit spoke as if they were the overly aggressive ones.

The girl would draw her puppet back and take the other two out as the rabbit snapped it’s fingers. As she strung her puppets she watched as vine encircled the feline. They seemed as if they were draining something from the cat. Moment later, a flower bloomed from whatever the vines had taken. Seeing the cat spring to life and escape the prison of vines and flee to live another day and the rabbit’s comment on how it should be more cautions about it’s eating habits, made it safe to assume that the jutsu that the rabbit created detoxified the feline.

As the cat left, the rabbit would introduce itself as Tsuki as she looked to them. She would keep her eyes on Tsuki and think about what she had just saw. The rabbit that she saw was in no way any kind of contract creature. Tsuki used poison jutsu of some kind, meaning that they are adept in ninjutsu meaning that her and the boy would most likely be unable to win in a fight against it. On another note, Tsuki used an odd jutsu to remove the poison from the cat. It was a creation jutsu and it resemble similarities to the Yamanaka Clan. Thinking more in depth to what the Yamanaka were know for was poison and their mind transfer jutsu, which makes them one of the best at gathering intelligence.

Using the informations she was giving, the girl would put her theory to the test. “ Is that the rabbit’s name or the man behind the curtain name”. She would keep herself on guard as she continue to speak and continue her investigation on Tsuki. “ I never made my preformance a private affair, or do most Yamanaka prefer to watch from the shadows”?

 

[Yoshihiro Ichida]

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Upon reaching out his hands towards the rabbit, Ichida heard the girl from behind him, "Don't go near it, we don't know how far its poison reaches.", the boy looked back, took a second the register what the girl had just said, then jam-stopped by plunging his fingers into the grass below him, slightly digging into the semi-solid soil beneath the grass. His feet then descended towards the floor, aiding him in stopping just an inch away from the rabbit.

Meanwhile, the girl's puppet continued the pursuit, as the poisonous rabbit appeared to form hand signs, as if it was performing a ninjutsu. Seeing this, the puppeteer poured more chakra into the puppet's strings, amping up the power and speed of her puppet, almost reaching the rabbit, when out of nowhere, a cloud of white smoke encased the rabbit, as it morphed into a more humanoid appearance, taking the look of a young women with rabbit ears, who now used the puppet as a boost step to take higher ground, standing over Ichida and the puppeteer girl.

"Now, now. There is no need for that.", the rabbit woman commented, snapping her fingers, where vines, upon command, entangled the poor cat, as if it was absorbing something out of it. The vines sprouted a flower, that was now stained, after absorbing substances from the feline. Struggling free from the vines, the cat scurries away hastily, after the traumatic experience it just went through.

"Why did you do that?", Ichida questioned, "Maybe next time she'll be more careful who she tries to eat.", the rabbit woman replied, now turning to the two students, who then introduced herself as Tsuki to them. "Is that the rabbit's name or the man behind the curtain name", the puppeteer girl questioned, appearing to keep herself on guard against this rabbit woman, who seemed fairly dangerous, and if she wanted, could possibly make quick work of the Ichida and the puppeteer girl, or so the boy thought.

"I never made my performance a private affair, or do most Yamanaka prefer to watch from the shadows?", continued the puppeteer girl, "Yamanaka? This rabbit woman?", Ichida commented, "I've never heard of any Yamanaka clan member being able to morph into animals! Aren't their abilities simply the Mind-Transfer Jutsu?", the boy argued, still puzzled by what had just happened, trying to make sense of the situation.

 

[Ryu Hime]

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Tsuki bounces up and down while clapping her hands happily. "Ding ding ding. Five points to the puppet girl for guessing Yamanaka." She then quickly halts her display of excitement and gives the boy an icy glare. "Minus five points for degrading my master's bloodline.” Yamanaka was more than just one jutsu and to say it as such would be an insult. “Also minus a point to both of you for failure to introduce yourselves." Shen then crosses her arms and gives a little nod. Her smile returns as she continues her little game. Tsuki always enjoyed games and loves to play. Unlike most Yamanaka, Hakuren did not take full control when possessing her pets. Instead of suppressing the animal's consciousness, Hakuren merges her soul with the creature’s soul.

"Looks like puppet girl is in the lead, but can she keep it up in the question and answer round." Tsuki was starting to sound like some sort of game show announcer. "But first a word from our sponsors." She stands a one foot a twills around like a ballerina. When she stops she begins to explain a little bit of herself. "You were right about my master being Yamanaka, but your question leads be to believe you are under the impression that I am no longer in control. True most possessions are like adding oil to water; suppressing the original inhabitants and taking dominance. Master is kind and gentle. Master sacrifices dominance and settles for balance control.” Tsuki puts her hands together inner locking her fingers. “Master merges her soul with my own.” A slight redness could be seen on her cheeks as she explains the situation. “It’s m-more intimate then your average possession.”

Tsuki then slaps her cheeks to wake herself up. “Okay, back to the game. First up is you puppet girl. Can you name me one other jutsu the Yamanaka are known for?” She will then wait for the girl to give an answer before moving onto the next question. “You boy, Is a Yamanaka able to use jutsu while possessing another individual with Body Mind Switch?” Tsuki was giving the kid an eaqsy one. He should be able to get this if he was paying attention.

 

[Megumi Tanigawa]

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What had been a simple day of wanting to share her family's Music with Sara. Had turned into some kind of bizarre game show. As she guessed the correct clan Tsuki seemed overjoyed as she bounced up and down clapping, She would also be lying if she did not feel a certain rush from her theory being correct. The joy quickly faded as Tsuki tured to the boy who severely played down the abilities of the Yamanaka. Looking to the boy she would give him an idea of what the Yamanaka are capable of. “ Be careful about what you say about the other clans, While the Yamanaka are known for their mind transfer jutsu, they have many more abilities that are not as well known, but are just as dangerous. The could topple empires with their skill set with just one of their abilities, don’t take anyone in the shinobi world lightly, remember knowledge is power and the Yamanaka are very knowledgeable”.

Hearing the playful rabbit continue it’s game by calling her out as puppet girl, and stating she was in the lead, sounded it off as if they were in a game show. Breaking for her sponsors the girl wanted to look around to see if there were cameras, as it seems like she is part of some sort of joke. Dancing around the bunny girl would give some context on herself and her owner. From the explanation it seemed as they had a more consented form of mind transfer jutsu, something that only two trusting parties could carry out. It still seemed as the rabbit was at the helm and the owner was along for the ride, adding in help when needed.

Slapping herself out of her odd fantasies, she bought the show back from commercials. Hearing them ask her about the other abilities of the Yamanaka, and the boy a question that has already been answered. It seems they don’t have a high opinion of the boy after his comment.

She would not let Tsuki and company, continue their little game. Thinking about the comment on her and the boy not introducing themselves. She would postpone the game to correct her statement. “ In a manner of sense you have not introduced yourselves. One half of your union may have, but there are two of you in there”. She would give the playful duo a taste of their own medicine. “ Since we are all friends, and it is blatantly obvious that i can be only two things”. She would pause and move her puppets to wave at Tsuki. “I’ll make it easy for you as you seem to be stuck. I am Tanigawa Megumi”.

Giving the boy a small glance, and then the shattered rock, but her expression turned from calm and analytical, to concerned. “ Using her puppets she would push aside a piece of the shattered rock and pick out her Guzheng that had been damaged by the boy’s foolish charged. Glaring at the boy as one of her prized possessions from her family had being damaged by him. Looking down at the instrument, and lightly following the crack down the side of it.

 

[Yoshihiro Ichida]

Following the somewhat lesser-than-sensible comment, both the rabbit lady and the girl, who would come to be known as Tsuki and Megumi, shot him looks as if he had said something ridiculously insulting. "Ahh... I'm sorry about what I said... I wasn't thinking straight...", Ichida said apologetically, after realising he'd just heavily insulted Tsuki, and he didn't even know her yet! "What a great way to introduce yourself man... as a complete fool.", the boy thought, scolding himself again for not thinking before he spoke.

"Be careful about what you say about the other clans, While the Yamanaka are known for their mind transfer jutsu, they have many more abilities that are not as well known, but are just as dangerous. The could topple empires with their skill set with just one of their abilities, don’t take anyone in the shinobi world lightly, remember knowledge is power and the Yamanaka are very knowledgeable”, Megumi explained in a reprimanding tone, while Ichida remorsefully nodded his head in agreement.

"Ding ding ding. Five points to the puppet girl for guessing Yamanaka.", "Minus five points for degrading my master's bloodline." replied, looking over to Megumi with a gleeful expression, then shooting an icy glare towards the boy, as if she was reprimanding him for insulting her master's bloodline. Ichida felt even more remorse, at the ice-cold glare Tsuki shot towards him, as he apologised even more, wishing for them to forget what he'd regretfully said earlier.

“Also minus a point to both of you for failure to introduce yourselves.", the rabbit lady continued, crossing her arms and at the same time giving a nod, letting out a slight smile as she continued what seemed to the boy like her little game show, and from her expression Ichida could guess that she was enjoying every moment of this. The boy would play along, concluding that there was no way out of this unless he played along to the end, and until he did, he wasn't going to hear the end of it.

After declaring that the puppet girl, Megumi was in the lead, she called for a break, with a "message from the sponsors." The rabbit lady would then continue to explain more about the Yamanaka clan's abilities, while Ichida and Megumi listened on, as Tsuki explained about how most Mind-Transfer possessions would take dominance over the transferee's body, with the transferee being the master over the body. However, for her, she sacrifices dominance, and goes for balance control, which would require a hell load of training and chakra control, Ichida thought.

"You boy, is a Yamanaka able to use Jutsu while possessing another individual with Mind body switch?", Tsuki asked, continuing her quiz game, which now came to Ichida's turn, after Megumi had already answered corrrectly again. Realizing it was a simple question, the boy was going to take this chance to make them change their already awry impression of him. "Yes! You would be able to use jutsu, due to the ability to use that body's chakra as well.", Ichida proudly answered, hoping they would be even a little bit impressed with his answer.

Megumi would then interrupt, introducing herself with a wave of her puppet, also playfully commenting that only half of Tsuki had introduced herself. Getting the cue, Ichida followed along, "Oh, and I'm Yoshihiro Ichida!", continuing after the girl's introduction. Glancing back at the boy, Megumi then looked to the shattered rock, at first looking calm, her face turning into a display of worry, as Ichida responded with a worried expression, looking on as the girl used her puppet to push the rock aside, revealing her guzheng instrument, with an addition what Ichida and Megumi were both worried about, and it turned out to be true,

There was a crack down the instrument. Megumi's worried expression culminated into a fierce glare, as she saw her precious family instrument damaged by the boy's careless actions. Ohhh darn it. He done messed up this time. He knew apologizing this time wasn't going to help at all. He needed to do something to fix this. "Ahhhhh i'm sorry!! But I-i-I can fix this!", Ichida anxiously assured, frantically thinking of ways he can salvage the mess he had made.

 

[Ryu Hime]

The puppet girl Megumi was not playing along and it was frustrating the rabbit. Pulling her ears in anger she gives up. "Fine if you don't wanna play the game then we will end it here." Like back when she used the transformation jutsu before, her body was masked by a cloud of smoke. When the smoke clears there stood before them was now what looked like a priestess holding a white rabbit.

"Forgive Tsuki, she just likes to play games. My name is Yamanaka Hakuren and it is a pleasure to meet you both." Yamanaka Hakuren, also known as The Sacred Flower, is probably the most famous Yamanaka in Leaf if not the country. Hakuren has reached a level of enlightenment that no Yamanaka has reached in over a hundred years. As an Enlightened Yamanaka she has access to some rather special abilities. "But the answer to the boys question is indeed yes, however a full possession is technically not required to channel a jutsu through her. For example."

The little white rabbit takes a deep breath as she does her best dragon impression. Tsuki then spews out a plume of flame from her maw. She aims in upward so that she would not accidentally burn someone. A student set a flamed would end this improvised lesson right quick. "This is called elemental channeling. Anybody with a sufficient affinity for an element can channel a ninjutsu through there weapon." And in the shinobi world, just about anything can be used as a weapon. Looking at the broken instrument Megumi was holding she continues, "Are there any questions?" She expects Megumi would ask about how she cast an genjutsu through her instrument. Though likely the biggest question she will get is where the hell did she come from just now?

 

[Megumi Tanigawa]

As she looked over the damages, it was nothing to far gone, with a simple restoration she could revive her wounded instrument. Peering over at the boy as her apologetically pleaded to her. Megumi’s eyes narrowed as his apology only served as white noise.

Going back to focus on the damages. Megumi would hear the bunny girl combo, speak out at her out of frustration at Megumi for not playing along. Giving the bunny girl a small glance as she looked at the duo, pulling at their ears. She was about to go back to focus on the damages, when a puff of smoke enveloped the hybrid of beast and man.

As the smoke cleared, their appearance changed once again. However they finally revealed their true forms to the two of them. Looking at the snow white rabbit in the arms of a older girl. Examining the black haired shrine maiden, outfit and all. Megumi knew that the Yamanaka ran a shine out of Konoha, but their was something odd about the older girl. She was very slim to slim. The girl would look like she would shatter from a fal. As she introduced herself as Yamanaka Hakuren.

As she explained her transformation to Ichida. Megumi would think on how the women stood before them now. Tsuki said that they had an interesting relationship through the possession. Maybe as it was not a full possession she could still of had control of her real body and was simply staying out of sight, until she entered the smoke from the retransformation from her hiding spot from the shadows. As she said a full possession does not require her to transfer jutsu to the target. Megumi had another thought. ‘ Maybe, the intimate possession the rabbit was talking about was more of a fusion than a possession and they simply reverted back to their separate form ‘. It was not an impossibility, but the mind transfer jutsu only transferred the mind not the body.

Megumi would continue to think on Hakuren’s sudden appearance when the rabbit spewed flames from it’s mouth. Explaining it as elemental channeling, Megumi knew what the women was talking about. However most people tended to channel their elements through their weapons to give them an added effect. Would be much more difficult to channel through another living thing as it had it’s own chakra you would have to bypass or convert. Megumi would think on what had happened with her playing and how she already molded and channeled her chakra into strings for her instrument. Hakuren would look at her broken instrument as she asked if anyone had questions.

Megumi got the obvious hint that she knew about what had happened while she played. “ Elements are fine, but genjutsu affects the sense. How could i possible channel a visual genjutsu through an auditory device it does not make sense”.

 

[Ryu Hime]

Hakuren smiles as the girl lead the discussion in the desired direction, however she did find it curious that neither of them asked where she came from just now. “Indeed there are some people that have learned how to channel; the illusionary arts through weapon. There are those called Shadow Boxers that use melee to knock a genjutsu into their opponent.” Hakuren gives a quick jab into with her free hand. “You however seem to be what is called Cadency. Similar to the Hashigaki you cast illusions through songs.”