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As I fall from the sky, all I can think about is how I should have taken Setami Sensei's warning to heart. After all, she did say today was going to be a tough day of training. Never would I have imagined she meant this tough. 

My body rushes towards the ground, and I try to flip myself to land on my feet. I hit the ground and dust comes up around me, but alas, I landed on my feet. Setami Sensei comes barreling towards me, ready to strike me again. This time, I activate my storm barrier. Although Setami can absorb the lightning power it emits, it will stop me from taking any damage from her attack. Once her kick hits my barrier, I take this brief interval to jump backward and behind a tree.

"Good job! I can't sense your presence, but hiding will get you nowhere with this fight. As I've said before, if you want to defeat me, you must aim to kill me."

A trap I set up earlier sends a kunai towards Setami, but she dodges it. Thinking that I resided where the kunai was thrown, she speeds towards it. I prepare hand signs and jump out from behind the tree. 

"Ninja art, twisted dragon!" I breathe. Then, two small dragons come out of the ground and spiraling towards Setami Sensei. Already preoccupied, she doesn't have time to dodge both of the dragons. While one of them goes right into the tree, the second one hits Setami Sensei right in the stomach and she goes flying into the ground. Smoke comes from the area and I rush over to see Setami Sensei on the ground.

"Are you alright Sensei?" I ask as I approach her. The smoke hasn't quite settled so I can't make out her condition, but I hear her chuckle.

"Help me up, won't ya kid?"

The smoke has dissipated and I see her reaching for me with her arm out. "Sorry Sensei," I apologize as I help her up.

"Don't sweat it kid, I didn't know about that. Where'd you learn it?"

"I read it in a book. People really give away the most valuable things and don't even realize it."

Setami laughs and we start to head back to the hotel. This month is going to be fun.

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"Call upon the nine tails," Setami says the middle of training. We've been training in the hidden cloud village for two weeks now, and not once has she mentioned the nine tails until now.

"Why now Sensei?" I ask her with obvious confusion.

"For this next part of training, you're going to need a lot of chakra. It will be easier if you have the chakra of the nine tails."

"What are we going to do?"

"Allow me to show you," Setami says and does hand signs. "Ninja art! Summoning jutsu!" she yells and places her palm on the ground. Symbols form under her palm and a massive amount of smoke appears around her. Once it all clears, I see my Sensei standing next to a massive tarantula. It's at least thirty feet wide and ten feet tall, and all of its eyes are staring at me. It's massive and covered in bright green hairs, much like Setami Sensei's. 

A scream escapes me. "SENSEI I HATE BUGS!" I scream as I run behind a tree.

"Who are you calling 'bug' little miss? My name is Kumo, and I am no bug," says the giant fuzzy creature. It crosses its two front legs in front of its abdomen and looks up to the sky. 

"Madi, come out from behind the tree and apologize to Kumo," Setami Sensei demands me.

Slowly, I make my way out from behind the tree and look at the massive spider. When she finally looks down at me I try to form words, "I'm sorry for calling you a bug, Kumo."

"Thanks! Don't do it again please!" 

I rapidly shake my head up and down. Setami Sensei takes out a scroll and a kunai and places them on the ground. She calls me over and slowly I creep over to her and the massive spider. 

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