Falling Rain (ON HOLD)

Chapter II

Hello there! So here's the second chappie...I know it's been a while, (sorry!) but I had some troubles w/ my computer so I'm writing on an iPad now...it doesn't have italiacs or bold or anything, so, sorry about that!

Anyway, here ya go.

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Anko's POV

"Alright, then, let's see what we can do today."

Kaito-sensei was standing in front of me in the training area, a large field covered in stunted brown grass. I nodded, noting Kaito-sensei's change in personality-that always happened when he was training me. "So what should we start with, sensei?" I asked.

He held out his hand and muttered a few words, and a large sword appeared into his hands. The power of the Shifting Lotus glowed a dark blue around the blade.

"I want you to duel with me. But we shall just do normal combat-no Genjutsu and certainly no Ninjutsu. No chakra at all is to be used-except what little the weapons contain."

He grabbed the blade of the sword and, again, used the Shifting Lotus to split the sword into two identical weapons, throwing one of them to me.

See, the Shifting Lotus was banned because it used a large amount of chakra-often using up the ninja's entire storage and destroying his life source. But really, the Shifting Lotus didn't NEED all of that chakra. Sure, it needed a lot of chakra-about a tenth of your storage each time-but often the chakra that was now placed in the jutsu became "predator" chakra-it would make the jutsu, but then the chakra radiating from it would go BACK into your body again and "feast" on your chakra. While doing the Shifting Lotus, the way to bypass that was to cast ANOTHER jutsu, which would enable a wall around the "predator" chakra for it to eat up. By the time the wall was fully eaten away, the predator chakra was harmless. However, making the "wall" jutsu often required speed of mind and stamina-and a lot of chakra.

At least, that's how I THINK it works. It's a bit confusing, and I don't think I fully understand it myself.

I nodded-not getting WHAT I was supposed to be learning, just using Taijustu. I hoped this wouldn't be a wasted day. I needed to learn as much as I could, so I could set off and get my sister back...

I nodded, and raised my blade in a defensive posture.

Suddenly, Kaito-sensei moved out of his original crouching posture, and leaped towards me, sword flying in long, irregular ovals, his hands, sword, and feet flying and dancing in the air towards-all in less that two seconds.

I barely noticed he had nicked both of my shoulders and my forehead until he flew back from me, feet landing on the side of a tree and pushing off again. He certainly wasn't using Taijustu...

Oh.

That was the point.

Quickly, I focused on Kaito-sensei's blade, and, when it was a couple meters away from my face, I leaped and did a somersault in the air, using one of my feet to kick down on the flat of the blade. It tugged itself out of Kaito-sensei's grasp as my weight hurtled it down to the ground-

Suddenly, Kaito-sensei was under me, as he grasped the blade, and stuck it into the ground, catapulting himself back into the air. I tried to twist myself back up into the air, but blood from my forehead (not to mention the cuts were stinging like hell) dripped into my eyes, and I ended up falling on the ground, the air sucked out of my lungs, and the shock from the hitting the ground vibrated into my body.