Self-Training

Ioritsu started out with the boar seal of her preference followed by the dog, bird, monkey and the seal of confrontation. It amounted to nothing now since there was no rush to pull it off for emergency nowadays.

Her instructor appeared at the front of the mansion where the deal is going to be closed next to her and her client; It was supposed to be enough for only her to complete the task. It all changed in a moment when there is an awful amount of hostiles surrounding the dealing area. Unlike her, her client looked calm and collected. However, the dealer changed his mind decided not to do his part of bargain. She was barely able to use the arm of her client to get protection. In a moment, He knell and made an earth dome to ensure the mission doesn't end just there. Using the posture to the advantage. He performed another hand seal to get reinforcement, There were at 5 others now in a cloud of smoke and the dome broke under pressure. Everyone on his side began their move. Using the broken dome as ammunition to toss multiple rocks as accurate as he could sense the hostiles, Ioritsu grabbed her client by her hand and began moving towards the mansion gates where two guards looked to be in a stance of taking her down but In a flash of movement her ally dated next to the man, dodging an incredibly slow punch that looked like it will kill Ioritsu and paralyzed him with a simple seal, grabbing the other man from behind and placing a similar seal on him before turning and throwing the two men to the side and opening the gates by force, leaving Ioritsu to move ahead with her client.

Ioritsu knew beforehand that it wasn't her client's first time here and asked her for the location of the safe in the mansion where both of them could complete their task. The interior wasn't an defenseless as Ioritsu could tell that there are a few of them lying in the wait and before she could do anything both of stopped moving against their will. Then, a guard came out from the ground a few meters in front of them looking to perform his final blow on the pair. Just when she thought her life was over, the guard got pulled back by force and it looked like he smashed himself to the wall. Everyone lying in the wait came out for the client's head now as though a backup plan was formulated. But even so the pair is now freed from the invisible binding; it didn't help. her savior simply appeared presented the overwhelming nature of his own chakra shown to the attackers in the form of an aura. The sheer size and power that the gigantic dark dragon was enough to cripple most shinobi in fear in and of itself, and the aura radiating from it was directed at everyone but the pair; One of them broken through his trick and Ioritsu struggled to parry the attack for him, suffering a cut on her left arm for him to react. He held out his hand at the target, blasting him with a bolt of Chakra, the fuinjutsu array on his hand flaring up for a moment as the chakra concentrated there, trapping them both in a genjutsu as they were hit by the bolts. Ioritsu knew that she had to move on with her client quickly down into the corridor guided by the client.

As they moved down onto the straight path of the corridor projectiles appeared from the rooftops and the pair had to stay clear by procedding down the sides of the corridor. Someone she couldn't sense is clearly controlling the building from behind the scenes. Instead of proceeding further where a trap from the side awaits, she threw a shuriken with a tag upwards to blast a hole on the ceiling so that she could proceed from there. However, more guards came out but was clearly frightened of the chakra that was emanating from her ally but still resolute enough to try and fight her. Taking advantage of their morale, she threw another tagged shuriken at a point in the middle of them to clear an opening. Se proceeded with the five handseals required for the summoning technique and brought out a large rock that allowed her client and herself to move upwards to another floor. She was surprised at the range of technique her ally was using. Upon reaching the room were her client thought the safe would be, they see a single guard with a jagged katana that looked like it had seen much weather. Both of them were nowhere in a state to engage the enemy. Her company knew that Ioritsu is not someone capable of combat yet; Another ally saved the day by stopping the blade right in front of the neck of her client by a chakra thread coming from the side of a hole in the opening wall. She quickly backed off seeing that the attacker is resisting the effects coming from the chakra thread as both of them proceed to figure out a way to make their goods exchange a success.

It reminds her of how bad can a mission gone wrong.

It was chaos everywhere as her organization had to hold the enemies for her unexpectedly. Threads after threads was used by her ally to attempt bleeding out the enemy as he seems to be taking cuts regularly from er ally's quick setup; Both of them were well protected as the enemy could not find a way past to them. The safe was the kind that was locked with password of the certain Morse Code. It wasn't the type of locks that are used frequently during her previous missions. She could do nothing to help her client as she looks at the client trying to keep her cool and get the safe to open. The room was filled with sounds of quick footsteps initially and panting was heard after an hour of battle. One was wounded on the skin so badly that his movements slowed down and the other had to deal with his chakra reserves; Her client hasn't made any progress yet. It was then she realized that she had made a mistake to let her client to try and break the deadlock to the safe. It was time the trio had to evacuated with the others. She stored the safe and grabbed her client by hand as they rushed out to the window to end the battle right behind them.

Ioritsu had no choice but to let the client land on top of her, dealing her the first physical blow of the mission as they continued on moving out of the compound. Her instructor caught a glimpse of her and closed in on them as enemies on his side were dealt with; That was when he dodged the attack of himself, giving both of them a shock. The dodger turned back into his original form as her real instructor asked her to run for the exit, betting on the fact that Ioritsu had completed her mission. Ioritsu and her client did not face any resistance on the way out as everyone were either knocked out, dead or met their match. The moment when the pair were a few meters outside of the gate. The entire team that backed up Ioritsu regrouped in a few seconds as a gigantic worm came from below the ground and swallowed everyone. Bringing the entire operation to close as the enemies stopped in their steps while rushing out of the mansion. The worm burrowed into the ground again as no one was left behind for their escape. It was the first time Ioritsu had seen ninja combat in her mission. Little did she know that she was not intended for such a task in the first place and nobody knew what happened to the dealer. She would learn the truth later on as her client would have time to complete the deal; By force.


Nothing important came through the summon after all. Not that there was anything of importance that is in her possession right now. However, if she had to perform an emergency summon right now at least she knows that her skills were still with her.

She was told to get over to the training area during her free day while taking a break on the bed provided by her organization. She had performed dozens of low-risk missions by now and was used to the way the her company operates. However, they were intending to fully integrate Ioritsu into their activities from the start. Every time she had to head, the difficulty of her upcoming task would increase as they like to teach her something when they want to let her shoulder more responsibility. Nevertheless, they gave her life a purpose and she would do as told as a form of paying back to them.

Her instructor arrived at the venue earlier than scheduled as usual. Ioritsu looked at him and ask what will she be learning this time round. He went straight to the point and proceeded to land his palm on the ground as a giant bird came out and she had to cover eyes from any dirt getting in. You will be learning the summoning technique today. He said with a serious tone that she had been hearing ever since she got used to how the company operates. He had to do it as it is considered duty time to him and explained the technique's usefulness and how it will have an impact on Ioritsu's rate of success on dangerous missions that she will be taking on as she grows older. When asked of the technique's current usability of the technique in contrast the the type of missions that she had been assigned to. he told her that she would be using it as her next upcoming task is an exception from danger but would require the use of it since she would be faced with obstacles that would be impassable by normal means even with jutsu that could bridge gaps together. She nodded and began practicing the technique, the instructor stopped her at this moment and asked her to wait before he made a clone for her to use as the target to be summoned; She got embarrassed right at that moment for diving in to learn it immediately which her instructor ignored.

Being a novice at the technique, she had to use all of the required handseals. However, as others had to do it with both hands mentioned by her instructor, she does it with a single hand which is the reason for the venue; It was her specialty that distanced herself form the others as even her instructor was looking at her execution with satisfaction even when he received the silent message that she failed on her first try when his clone did not make it out of the summon alive successfully. He made another clone for the purpose of her practice again, hoping that she would succeed before he passed out.

As the sun goes down, Ioritsu was done with her training for the day due to her panting instructor that exhausted his reserves; For the first time, she witnessed funny versions of her instructors at the end of the session. Though she hadn't catch the trick of the technique yet, she could see the potential of how it would give her more opportunities to take on greater task as compared to the others techniques that she had learnt.

Looking at her current state; she smiled as she reminded herself that life is full of surprises. She would never expect to be forced out from her comfort zone where she was earning her keep steadily though there were times of trial; They were always there for her and that was possible because the summoning technique learnt had always served as her main tool of reinforcement.

[Exit]
TWC: 2020
Claiming 10 stats and Summoning Jutsu

approved

As Ioritsu removed her finger from the paper she saw sitting on the paper without the seal, a smile appeared on her face. It was the first time he had seen her being happy as he assumed that she had gotten over the incident a little and passing her another copy to let her practice. She channeled her chakra again before picturing the mental image of the required seal structure to break in her mind, placing her hand on a scroll again she began molding her chakra again shaping it and pouring it into the paper handed to her. She felt her chakra waver a little as she struggled to maintain the chakra manipulation due to this being her sixth attempt that served to break the given seal. However, refocusing her mind managed to help her break the seal with little trouble. She could feel herself getting the hang of it now and he could also tell that she needs a rest.

Let's take a break for now. He said and handed the bottle of water to her as she handles the bottle with both hands.

The birds chirped as the start of early afternoon shines its light directly down to the roof shone while Ioritsu found the water to have tasted better indirectly signalling the fatigue within herself. It didn't take very long for the instructor to get some food for her, he was becoming more of than an instructor for her now.

After a lunch break she resumed the training of breaking seals. He handed different patterns of seals to her in paper this time. However, he had something to attend to and he trust her not to cheat. I will be back soon. He said as he left extra copies in case she had figured out the required structure earlier than expected. She took a few seconds to take a good look on the new seal pattern and give it a thought before using her chakra again. She whispered within herself as she followed her chain of thoughts to form the structure required the break the seal. She foresees that it will be a little different from her last successful attempt since this requires additional details to be taken care of but most of the process should remain about the same. With a second of focus, she poured chakra to her fingers.

It didn't went smoothly for her. Although the seal was broken, a loud noise startled her right after her try. she realized that she had  used too much chakra and hence her thought process on the technique needs refinement. Not only the seal broke but the paper got shredded as well and left a noticeable scar in the table where her leftover chakra had escaped from the seal. Okay, I definitely need more practice. She said as she took another copy left on the table by him and began focusing on the method to break it again.

This time round, she began working on her ability to read the seal structure and understanding the weak points in the seal so that she wouldn't repeat her mistake again; Or this would be what she could come up with from her previous attempt. He hurried over to see what happened that turned out to be a false alarm. He resumed his duties after looking at the shredded paper. It would take a few more attempts herself before she could break the new seal pattern properly. Once she got the hang of it, she found herself taking copies after copies quicker and getting the hang of it again. It would still take a few different patterns in order to fill her mind with the key knowledge of seal breaking so that she could be more useful for her employer.

Eventually, the time would come for her to undertake certain task that would be related as such. These kind of task often gave the company a greater cut but drags down the moral image as a whole; Not that it mattered to her nor it would be within her grasp to change those that gave her a life to look forward to. She didn't have trouble breaking any of the seal her supervisor had provided her and it was time for her to take up her assignment to pull strings according to request sent to the company.

It is a small favor by someone who wanted a certain safe to be opened; The tone at how its written would give her a hint that this is something which would preferably be settled without a trace. It doesn't seemed like it would have big involvements after reading the request a few times. She had an hour to prepare herself for the task. It would take her a few hours to get to the mission area and she would be spending a whole day on it judging by distance for return trips.

The meeting point wasn't very brightly lighted as expected, Ioritsu walked over the only person waiting with the back facing the light. Before and during the meeting there were both them. After the meeting, the client would take advantage of the closing hours to be allowed to try breaking the target lock hastily. The safe-keeper paid no attention to him as he thought it would be efforts wasted anyway; This gave the client a chance to leave her within the room of safes for the night.

After everybody left with the place secured with powder sprinkled all over the place to detect intruder and locks to all doors were tightly shut. Ioritsu had to stand perpendicularly using other safes as the floor; She hadn't made any marks on the soles as far as she had checked. The instructions were simple; Break the seal and use the item given to her to replicate a fake one. She took a close look at the seal formula. Although the seal looked very different to her, she could tell that it used the same basis of knowledge gained from her practice. The breaking of seal didn't took her very long, the hard part came when she had to keep herself in a form which would conceal her identity until when the place is opened again where the client would come to take her out in order to complete the mission. Ironic difficulty as it seems, she would have to do well in holding out until the next day.

Hopefully this technique would come to be usable again.

[Exit]
WC: 1084
Claiming 5 stats and D-rank @ Fuinjutsu breaking.

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