BLACK & WHITE [T][P|ROOSTER]

Dray woke up calmly and quite early this graceful morning. The weather was extremely calm. The breeze coming in from every available ventilation in the spacious room. Dray's room was perfectly built that it had a sort of cross ventilation style while dray's bed was in the centre of the ventilation. His knowledge of reading and studying as well as he trained had served him well that even when the weather was unusually hot at night time, he was able to ventilate his room by creating little fire at the opposite ends of each of the available ventilation spots causing the wind to come in and try to put off the fire while cooling him that was in the center.
He had used this method the previous night due to the hot atmosphere and as expected, the night went calmly.
Dray raised the bed sheets from himself to reveal that he was wearing just shorts. He got up from his soft bed and went to the corner where he had started a fire the previous night for the cross ventilation style to happen. He did the same to the fire lit at the mouth of the other ventilation.

As usual, he walked up to the mirror and stared at it. Whatever was in the mirror, he wanted to see it. Just a few days back, he had woken up from sleep and stared into the mirror and in this same mirror, he saw something different. His right side was his exact face while the left was a dark shadow with a bright red eye, shining in the darkness. For the duration of the few days and now, dray had fought every thoughts of the sharingan overpowering him and he seemed to have conquered as the image in the mirror he was looking at now was his perfect self. Dray wondered what it would look like to use the sharingan. He was aware of it's powers but that was due to reading and hearing. Those were not as good as putting it into use. Perhaps, the right time would come. Today was just like any other day. He was not actually free or off duty and he was not actually occupied or on duty too. He was likely to be summoned by the raikage at any given time but that might not happen any time soon as the raikage was out of the village and she was not back yet.
Dray sat on the couch as he thought about what to do for the day.. He had attained his last stage of medical jutsu, same with ninjutsu and of course, bukijutsu. He smiled at his bukijutsu master title. In all of the shinobi world, he held the title of weapon specialist. His ability to launch projectiles into the air from thirty metres away and even more without missing was a brilliant feet. He wondered if there were other masters out there who held various titles in their field of expertise.
Perhaps, a meeting of masters should be convened soon. He loved his sense of humour. It was more like sarcasm and it was highly likely to piss off someone.
Back to his statistics, he was well trained in genjutsu and together with this three tomoed sharingan, he was a master in genjutsu. He also acknowledged his skills in sensory skills. Able to sense whatever, about hundred metres away and once again, together with samehada as a quasi- sensor, he would hardly miss a target.
The only field of skills he had not yet excelled in was fuinjutsu and taijutsu. Perhaps, he should embark on one of these skills and yes, that was what he was going to do today but his method of doing it was what came to his mind. He loved learning things right in the middle of action itself. Perhaps, a person to spar with would be nice but he wondered who would spar with an S- ranked ninja like him. He wondered if there was anybody who could put up a good challenge. The raikage, Juri han, the other S- ranked ninja in kumogakure no sato, the village hidden in the clouds, the medical capital, the home of goons was not around and dray had not seen saburo for a while now perhaps, he was occupied with an anbu mission. Every anbu was given solo missions that would probably take them out of the village, out of the land of lightning but that did not matter as anbus did not have comfort zones so it was possible that saburo was on one of these.

Whatever happens, he would go to one of kumogakure no sato's training grounds. The valley of clouds and lightning perhaps to see whatever might happen. Dray took little time in taking his bath, brushing his teeth, and dressing up. He armed himself quite well with tricky little weapons that looked useless to a man his caliber. He strapped samehada unto his back as he picked up his forehead protector. He tied it to his forehead as he slid the left side down over his sharingan to cover it. He did not want people looking at him suspiciously, he just made it look like a new style of his since everyone who knew him knew that he was unpredictable and his facial expressions were not readable since he hardly showed any or only when he wanted to. Being an anbu really gave that benefit of concealing emotions.

All geared up, dray left home as he headed to the valleys. A training ground that only the bravest dared trained due to random lightning strikes. Dray got to the valley and checked to see whoever was around. The sun was high up in the sky, shining brightly as the valley was a vast area of land covered in green grasses. There were no trees or shades around. The only visible thing was a broad stream of water that flowed about twenty metres to the left from Dray.

WC:1000

Dray stood on the vast grass land as he watched the blades of low grasses flow in the direction of the wind. The sound of water flowing calmly. A good source of drinking water it would serve. The sun, still shining brightly made dray feel warm. The tides changed as dray looked forward and walking in heroic steps, he saw another fella. He was clad in all black as that was the only visible clothing from that distance. Dray watched him advance in his steps as he fixed his gaze on him. Dray's attention was withdrawn by a bolt of lightning that shot into the ground by his left. From his stand, he could well see the crater in the ground caused by this bolt of lightning. So much destruction pure lightning could cause. The lightning flashed in his memory as he remembered that his father was killed by a bolt of lightning right here in kumogakure or so he heard since He never got to know the truth behind the incident but that was a story of the past, he had moved on with his life since then and he was successful.
Dray once again focused on this man. He could not really make anything out of him due to the distance between them both but his ace eye could well spot a weapon when he sees one due to it's position or he could be wrong afterall, he was the weapons master in all of the shinobi nations. Also on the man's head was a village's forehead protector but his black hair prevented dray from making out the symbol emblazoned on it. The sleeves of his clothing looked weird as they were unequal in the sense that one was longer than the other. Once again, dray's bad sense of humor kicked in as he hoped that a demon's hands would be hidden beneath that clothing for it to be covered as such.

The man held his hands up probably two fingers above his head as dray recognized it to be the signal for a friendly spar. Perhaps, this was the one Dray had been waiting for. A spar eh... Dray stood his ground. He of course accepted the challenge but he gave his opponent the honour of taking the first step.
Dray calculated the distance between both of them roughly. He was about seventy metres or a bit more from the man. As the man would take his first step, dray would take his too. After a while, covering quite as much as twenty or a few more metres as he had expected the man to cover too, dray would perform some quick handseals, as two lightning clones would form on both his right and left sides. Some metres away from the man, dray would perform another series of handseals in a quick method due to his expertise in ninjutsu as he would slam both of his hands unto the ground. This reaction would cause the earth beneath the man to be as cold as ice as ice itself would finally surface after which three ice dragons would erupt beneath the target at beautiful speeds and coiling up his legs and hands, immobilizing him as this process would happen almost instantaneously without giving any sort of warning to the target followed by this, both clones would leap into the air as the first one would perform the wind release: air bullet technique, shooting six air bullets at the target and the second clone would perform the wind release, gale palm technique while sending about five shurikens in the stream of the wind towards the target. The clones' attacks would still be executed regardless of if the first attack was successful or not or if the man changed his direction, their attack would still be locked on him. If he managed to evade or defend an attack as simple and plain as that, then he was worthy of fighting the real master mind...
WC:670

Spoiler:

In a matter of seconds, dray's attack was executed but to his suprise, the man faded away like he had used some sort of replacement. That was a beautiful way to escape dray's assualt because if that attack had connected, the ninja would probably be out of duty for a white because the air bullets and the gale palm would cause numerous bruises and cuts all over him to the point that his bones could even be fractured.

Just as dray's attack dispersed, a huge shadow covered dray and his clones as they all looked up and dropping was the sky was an earthen lid so big that it could completely cover dray and his clones but there was not much to be afraid of. Only an idiot would not know the basic elements, their strengths and their weaknesses afterall, that was what the shinobi academy was for. To teach ninjas to be the basics they needed to know. All three drays would stand in a V shape with each performing the required handseals for the attempted technique and gathering lightning to their hands, dray could have simply evaded the attack with his clones using the body flicker technique but he wondered why the man would use such a technique that was not likely to hit the target. There had to be more to this attack than meets the eye so dray was bent on finding out if that helps in detecting where the man is as he could likely be on top of the earth lid. With the lid in close range, all drays would leap into the air charging at the earth lid with the lightning on their hands.... "LIGHTNING RELEASE: ELECTROMAGNETIC MURDER" as they would all thrust the lightning into the earth lid as the lid would shatter in several tiny pieces due to earth being weak to lightning naturally.

With the lid shattered into a thousand flying pieces, dray would disperse both clones as he would activate the sensing technique.
Opening his right eye wide as if he shock, he would jump a few inches backwards, the opponent was ten metres below him. Perform the Rabbit, boar, rat, horse, tiger, snake handseal in quick seconds, "DOTON: EARTH FLOW DIVIDE" as the earth would split right at the point where the opponent is after which another piece of earth would shoot out directly beneath him, launching him out of the earth as dray would watch and see closely.
WC:414
[spoiler] Electromagnetic murder: -30
Sensing: -12.5
Earth flow divide: -20
(377.5 remaining)

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Dray's defence was successful. He freely shattered the earth lid into tiny numerous pieces. After dismissing his lightning clones, upon landing unto the earth's surface, two hands emerged from beneath the earth and grabbed dray's ankles. He gasped as he marvelled at such a beautiful sneak attack. So the earth lid was a distraction right. Dray loved this fella. He had skill. He showed potential. His level of stealth was beautiful but that was because dray had not activated his chakra sensors. This man had the potential of becoming an anbu perhaps, a black anbu op of the kumogakure no sato. Living a free life in the light and working to protect everything about the vilage in the shadows. Dray loved being an anbu. At first, it was not easy. He could bot balance the light and dark part of his soul but as time passed, his light side developed into dray while his emotionless side evolved into ICE. His anbu code name but even when he did not want to disclose his name or when he preferred to keep a person in suspense, he simply gave his name as ICE. Perhaps, after this little spar that would soon be over, dray would question the ninja about his future goals. The anbu would be a beautiful place to build his skills and protect the village in return..

Now, back to business as all dray's thoughts were not more than a tick of the wall clock or a driz of the hour clock or even half an oscillation of a pendulum clock.
As the two hands grabbed dray's two ankles, he felt himself going downwards into the earth and he recognized the technique perfectly after all, he was no slacker when it came to earth techniques. He had all five basic elements at his finger tips.
He let himself to be dragged into the earth but instead of allowing his head to remain above earth, he would shoot deeper into the earth using the same "hiding like a mole" technique that his opponent had employed as he would then dig through the earth and and re- surface about fifteen metres away from the man who was now also above the earth's depth as dray would withdraw samehada from his back and hold it's hilt with it's head touching the ground in it's bandaged form as dray would move his left hand to his kumogakure no sato head band that he had slided down his left eye.. Perhaps, it was time to test out this beauty that was now a part of him..
WC: 340

Spoiler:

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All the while, while being under the earth and burrowing to extend his distance from his opponent, dray was using the hiding like a mole technique to keep track of his opponent's movements through the magnetic forces he felt. Just a few seconds later, dray felt his opponent land onto the ground abnormally. Probably not on his two legs. As just about immediately, the earth would constrict in dray's position as he was amused and waited for what would happen. Dray found himself locked in the midst of gear like objects while he was crushed and grinded, receiving little injuries here and there, nothing much to put him in pain for he had withstood worse situations.

Once again, dray would feel his opponent move away from position but this time, dray better not underestimate his opponent. Whatever was coming, dray would have enough space to perform just three hand seals. The snake, ram and boar hand seals as the earth around him would cocoon him. Good thing he was surrounded with enough earth the enclosed him in a large dome beneath the earth capable of stopping whatever attacks was coming at him from his opponent. Just immediately this happens, he felt something, not one or two hit against his shelter.
As if that was not enough, travelling through the earth, dray would feel fist hits against his shelter with the shelter cracking more and more and with one final blow from beneath trying to shoot dray upward, dray's shelter would break at the point where dray was almost shot out of the ground and with the opponen's jutsu canceling out just before it perfectly executed it's aim...

With a fist out of the ground, dray would emerge slowly with nothing but a smirk on his face.. His opponent was impressive perhaps, dray should turn up the heat.

Dray held his for but a second. This was the exact opposite of the anbu black ops style. In the anbu, you learn to attack silently, work in the shadows, move in stealth, enter through the back doors and leave through it... but dray knew what he was doing though he had some doubts.
This open action of his almost costed him his life while he was young and inexperienced in the anbu ops. He signed up for the raikage tournament years ago and stupidly, he walked in through the front doors into the arena and this open action left him lying on the hospital bed with several injuries that were healed except a lightning scar on his left face that was bound to be there forever.... "Itome Uchiha' ..... Dray muttered but this time, he was fully aware of his plan.

Dray wanted to see more of his opponent skill. He had taken it upon himself as an S- ranked ninja and an high ranking member of the anbu to see if this man was worthy of becoming an anbu. Due to this, this spar was considered "near death" since a dead body would not serve kumogakure in anyway.

The sun refused to go down. Whatever this day meant. Perhaps, something good was about to happen.. Dray had taken time to study the world around him and how it affected him directly.
Dray was becoming rusty or so he thought. Not a good spar he had had in quite some time. Maybe this spar would charge him up good...
Now standing about twenty metres away from the opponent wherever he was, Dray would draw his opponent's attention... "Ahoy, let's swim"... Dray would say and performing some quick handseals, dray would spit out an enormous volume of water that immediately change the area to a body of water.. Time to go for a swim... and in no time, dray would sink into the bottom of the water and he would have undergone the shark mode transfromation, fusing with samehada as this transformation would heal dray of whatever injuries he might have suffered. A beautiful sight to behold. His hands and legs would be joined with webs in between his fingers and toes. Visible gills on his neck to enable him breathe under water. A beautiful tail to steer through the water and land hits on his opponents as well as sharp claws and a large scale on his back resembling that of a shark.

As all these transformations would occur under water without the opponent noticing, dray would begin his swim towards the opponent who had no idea of what was happening. Dray would let him in on some fun as he would shoot out of the water like a dolphin to glisten in the sun for a quick while that only a glimpse would be visible to the opponent before shooting back into the water and going towards the opponent in a random movement. Not straight enough for the opponent to pin- point dray's shark mode movement as his speed was boosted by this transformation...
WC: 830

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EXIT INTERRUPTED

After being crushed and grinded by the earth to receive minor bruises, dray did well to encase himself in a dome of earth using the earth rock shelter technique but it was not enough for this beautiful attack of his opponent. Pounding on the outer cover of the dome, the black needles would finally find their way in slowly as the earth rock shelter would have already decreased their speed and piercing power. In no time, dray would have been impaled by countless black needles though fortunately for him, none of them hit any of his vital spots neither were they strong enough to pierce his dermis or so he thought but there and there, they striked through the dermis perfectly rendering dray quite immobile while shattering his earth shelter defence too...

With another unseen attack, dray would receive severe hits from unseen forces. Another earth technique definetly. This hit would break several bones within dray rendering him almost useless and finally, the earth beneath him would strike a block to his back, slightning missing his spinal spot as the effect would shoot dray out of the earth with him coughing out blood but as if that was not enough, his opponent would proceed to welcome him out of the earth by cutting through him with a weird weapon. Once of which dray rarely saw.. A wakizashi.. Of course, he knew what it was, he was not a bukijutsu master for nothing..
All of his opponents attacks had met beautifully with dray now lieing on the floor with bruises, cuts, blood and broken bones.. With his opponent before him.
His body almost became numb but he was fortunate to still be able to move his right hand and as a form of last recovery resort, dray would grab samehada and fuse with it just before the opponent was able to do or say any other thing as he would transform into the shark mode right in front of his foe. In this instant, all of dray's injuries would be healed and broken bones rejoined.
WC:345

Spoiler:

Never in such a long time had dray had such a hectic and challenging spar. His lighter part was taking the better of him as each day passed by. On his first glance at his opponent which was right before the spar began, dray only planned on sharpening his blunt self by checking out his opponent's skills. He had no other motives and for this reason, he did not charge in with full effect.
He had taken his moves on a low key just to do as much as push his opponent to his limit hoping he would run out of chakra sooner or later but at a point in time, dray found outstanding prowess in his opponent which intrigued him the more. He probably felt like dray was hiding something and he wanted to force him out of his shell.
All his opponent's attacks were transmitting but only one message to dray's ears and this message was very clear in dray's interpretation of it- "Dont hold back, bring it on!"....

As this message was being delivered through what seemed to be an invisible medium, ICE had been sitting gently in a corner of dray's mind like a tailed beast sealed away in it's host. He was a living part of dray. He used dray's body, mind and soul as his home. He watched as the whole scene unfolded through dray's very eyes. He did not plan to intervene yet. Perhaps, dray could take a little more beating.
ICE was dray's anbu personality. It was orignally his code name but now, he was a personality that had come to life. He was born in darkness, he grew up in darkness and he is still embracing the little darkness that is left in dray's memories. He had no emotions, no thoughts, all he often had was a mission and regardless of what the mission was, ICE always completed it using any method neccessary.

He always switched places with dray on anbu missions and switching places right now only meant drawing blood from this opponent, leaving him in a near death state or at worst, killing him.
That would only add to random killings which dray was not often happy with. His opponent had done quite well, a fact which dray could not deny but he had gone too far to cause cuts and bruises to dray and even as far as fracturing and shattering lots of bones in dray's body something which was not the least bit polite afterall, he himself showed the "friendly" spar signal. So much for being friendly...

With his opponent practically above him, dray had been fortunate to have the bone in his right hand not shattered as he had gripped samehada with his right hand. A process which would cause his chakra gates to link with that of samehadas' and so it had begun. The shark mode transformation. The tailess beast state. Something legendary that had only being done once and that was with the legendary kisame of the mist. A beast in reality. Only he had attained the stage of fusing with this living beast in the past and repeating history again, dray had attained this stage even though it took him years to accomplish.
The transformation was almost instantaneous but even the word instantaneous required time no mater how little it was, it was still regarded as time. In this little time that dray was taking to transform, he would see his opponent begin to form hand seals after taking a step backwards and once again, these black needles that had earlier broken his earth rock shelter would strike again as they would impale him in their numbers and at numerous spots too but as before, these needles would not hit vital points as if the opponent was controlling where they should hit and where not but still.

Dray would once again have to acknowledge his opponent's skill like he had done before. This ninja's attacks and beautiful strategy would have killed a ninja his class or render a ninja one class higher impotent as he had actually tampered with dray's skeletal structure but that was in the past now as dray would be fully healed by this transformation. Being through worse situations had helped him to keep calm regardless of how many times he was hit. He could well recall that none of his attacks had hit his opponent but still, he had not dealt more than a few blows.
At this moment and subconsciously, ICE would begin to knock on the door. "You have become too soft, dray". He would say. "Perhaps, it is time to turn the tables, turn over the hour glass, activate the sands of time and grab the bull by the horns.." He would conclude.
"Instead of switching completely, I'll partially let you in so you won't do anything rash like you always do.." Dray would say to ICE...
"Mhmm.." ICE would respond as dray would open the lock on the door and activate the leash on ICE.

Back to business as this little scenario between dray and ice would not even take up to a fraction of a second in reality. It was Dray + Ice not and not dray alone. With both sharing the body but dray dominating the most consciousness, he would feel his body that was already impaled and pinned to the ground. The muscles tissues that were greatly impaled were healing as this transformation was completing. He would look his his opponent who still seemed to be deciding on what next to do. If only he had not underestimated dray and had focused more on him for even if he had managed to greatly restrain him even limb by limb, hardly pinned to the core of the earth, dray's mouth alone was a deadly weapon in it's class that was not to be understimated and the fact that the opponent probably skipped this would cost him his flesh if not more.
Using the fang tongued acid technique, dray would continuosly spit out acid from his mouth at extreme speeds. About ten bullets of acid all aimed at the foe who was just a step backwards. He probably would not evade the attack in time regardless of how fast he currently is, the distance between them was just too short that the acid bullets would hit him and burn through whatever they came in contact with. This was natural acid. Not something elemental. Five of the bullets would be aimed at his upper body including both of his arms while the rest five would be aimed below. Perhaps, his movement would be slowed if they hit.
If fortunately, he manged to evade all ten bullets as dray could not think of what quick defence would stop such an attack in such distance and speed too, the attack would force him out of position thereby preventing him from executing what other actions he was planning.

Only if he knew how brutal dray could be with strategy alone, life in the anbu wasn't bread and butter.
As this attack would be launched at the opponent, dray's transformation into shark mode would have already been completed as dray would use his right hand to hold unto the wakizashi's blade, freezing it with his ice affinity technique and finally breaking it off and tossing the broken piece away as the rest of the blade in dray's side would be pushed out by his repaired muscles. The opponent's weapon would be useless now if not reforged properly later. Also, as dray's acid attack would have hit or forced the opponent out of position, his black needle attacks would have probably been cancelled as dray noticed that all the while he was impaled, the opponent stood his ground and analysing it, he knew that the attack would be canceled if the opponent lost his position but if he had analysed wrong and the attack was not canceled, he would now be fully recovered as he would protrude spikes from his hand to combat the needles..... all this happening in but a quick while- right after the acid attack would be launched.

With a leap of grace forward directly from the ground as if projecting himself in an arc form towards his opponent wherever he was, dray would form two hand seals- Horse> Tiger- and build up chakra within him to expel a large volume of fire from his mouth unto the opponent while he would be one metre away to avoid sneak or blind attacks and keeping a watchful eye on his environment... Dray would be eager to see what his opponent would do as he had brought on a real spar that would not involve death on his side perhaps, the opponent would admit that dray was in a much higher class and he would then stop the fight before it even began......
WC:1507

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Spoiler:

In the middle of thinking, his thoughts were rushed she his opponents focus snapped over to Ondori's own location. Weird tongue maneuvers and spitting ensuing, Ondori was weirded out and a bit disturbed, but didn't want to wait to see what it was. That said, the Special Jounin quickly utilized the Shadow Gathering technique and executed the required hand movements just as he released Shadow Sewing. The timing would be in such a way that the Shadow Tendril to strangle his foe would emerge out the ground around his foes neck so fast that the Shadow Needles couldn't even fully fall back into the ground. This would result in an almost unavoidable strangle. His foes transformation over and complete as this happened, his healing phase would be over and he'd be left with the puncture wounds int he muscles from the Shadow Sewing Technique. Hopefully this could end the battle, this being the strangling of his foe if Ondori was successful enough to link the Shadow from one side of his foes neck to the other. The tendril would move at an immensely fast speed and would move if need be to grab the target's neck if he had tried to sit up, roll over, shift to the side, etc. The cord thick and durable, the Special Jounin just had to play the waiting game as he crouched there with a scrunched up fist with his transformed foe in front of him, wakizashi still through the gut and punctured throughout the legs and arms.

254 WC

no additional chakra cost from last post.

Fortunately for dray, the black needles began to retract from his skin as his jutsu had not been executed but unfortunately, the opponent was at the edge again as shadows came over dray, moving themselves from left to right across his neck in an attempt to strangle him but he would of course not succumb to such an attack even though it was fairly good.
Dray felt the pain in his body from the many punctures of the black needles and too bad his healing phase was over but that was something to worry about later.
He had to admit that the opponent had won this fight. It had all been dray's fault for losing at the beginning and underestimating his opponent. Like ICE had always said, dray was becoming too soft and today, right now, that was costing him so much. Dray looked at the shinobi and how determined he was to win fight. He had expressed his will to do so from the very start yet dray had not but even if he was going to win, dray was not going to give in to being killed or being knocked out.

Looking at the weather, dray knew he still had a few tricks up his sleeves as he condensed water in the atmosphere. His planned trick did not need any hand seal or anything of such and luckily, his opponent was well within his range. Still resisting the strangling attempt, dray would protrude spikes about three feets long from his body as this spikes would pierce the target if he did not move his position.
Following his analysis, as this spikes would aim for the opponent and pierce him, the strangling agent on him would disperse as dray would manage to get up and reform back to his real self while already being seven metres from his foe and making his escape.
WC:315
EXIT

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