A rare training session from dad [specialty training]

Kumagawa stood at the training area awaiting his father to show up. Kumagawa stood in the training ground. Sighing once again he had to make sure he was alone. No sensei, no annoying teammates, and most importantly... no animals. Some reason the animals had been out of their homes and been following Kumagawa almost everywhere he went. Even to the bathroom and that was really weird. The wind blew across the training field as Kumagawa began to come up with a stance. It wasn't anything special but it was something considering Kumagawa was learning on his own and not with a sensei. As far as he was concerned, she wouldn't have been much help anyway. She meant well but his research told him that she would be ill-suited to a student with his.... difficulties.

Sighing Kumagawa began to throw kunai at the wooden dummies. The sound of his ninja tools colliding with the wood at the steady pace was soothing, but only to Kumagawa. The bushes behind him rustled. Kumagawa didn't notice it at first but once he felt something bore into his back he turned around. There he saw his father, he was twice the size of a Kumagawa and one could say twice as strong.

“Finally, what took you so long?”

“Wanted to see if you were still were on your game, alright you ready?”

“Ready for what?”

“Ready to learn a for some training, your shurikenjutsu is horrible.”

“How do I-”

Kumagawa didn’t have a chance to really ask because his father had already begun to move. The Uchiha clan had didn’t have a set way of teaching things everything was learned through battle. Nothing was Kumagawa was lifted his arms to guard against his father but he would have none of that. His father would lunged for Kumagawa’s ankle. His long fingers would curl around Kumagawa’s ankle as he lifted him by his ankle and threw the younger Uchiha. Kumagawa would fly into a tree before molding his chakra so that he could stick to the tree, at that moment he would draw a kunai from his pouch. His father was faster at moving though. He would pull out his chain from his waist and use it as a whip. First he would disarm Kumagawa by pulling Kumagawa’s kunai out of his hand before Kumagawa could use it.

Kumagawa cursed as he winced from the pain of the spiked whip rip his weapon from his grasp. Kumagawa knew that his father was faster and stronger than him due to their difference in rank. Kumagawa needed to find a way to beat him.

Kumagawa’s father didn’t let up, he began to use the whip to cut at Kumagawa’s skin. Kumagawa cringed as each strike would pierce and cut up his skin. The pain was almost unbearable, especially when it wasn’t stopping and the pain had no intervals of rest. Each cut was replaced with a new one. Kumagawa tried to grab the whip, but the whip was moving so fast when he caught it, it just cut his hand. Kumagawa tried everything in the book to stop the whip. He tried grabbing it multiple times, he tried using his chakra to reinforce his hand to withstand the cuts. Nothing worked he just sat there taking the whip. His father just looked at him. His face was filled with disappointment. His father could grasp a technique as easy as this. Sighing he stated,

“I guess you can’t learn this technique. Such a waste of my time. Sad even your sister was able to get out of a situation like this with ease”

His words stung. Not only because Kumagawa was the older brother, but because his sister who was 4 years younger than him had way more talent than he. Not only that his father even said Kumagawa wasn’t even worth the time… It stung. Kumagawa had stopped moving taking the continuous punishment from his father. It hurt, but not as much as his father’s words. Kumagawa tried to find the will to get up, to fight back, but it was in vain. Every time he got up he was knocked down. he wouldn’t get a chance to get up. The Uchiha weren’t that kind.

Kumagawa tried to circulate and gather as much chakra together. If he was going to keep up with his father he needed to be able to keep up with his father’s movements. At the moment he couldn’t keep up with his fathers movement. As he felt his chakra reach his head he found that it was being blocked by something. What was this? Kumagawa didn’t have time to figure out exactly what it was or what it did. At this point it was life and death, it wasn’t uncommon for Uchiha’s to accidentally kill someone in the midst of battle or at least it wasn't uncommon for his dad. Pushing all the chakra he could through that small blockade, Kumagawa found his mind open. The whip seemed to move in slow motion and Kumagawa found himself able to avoid it, moving his head he swiftly avoided the whip. Seeing his little brother dodge the one whip, The older Uchiha drew his other whip and began to use both of them in tandem to cut down Kumagawa noticing a single tome in the small Uchiha’s eye.

Unfortunately at this point Kumagawa had already gotten up and begun moving. In a moments notice he was already at his father. Bringing his kunai upward and moving in a spiralling motion he gave his father an uppercut hoping to put a hole in the man’s face. Instinctively his father’s sharingan activated as he attempted to dodge. Kumagawa didn’t stop though. And it was too slow Kumagawa’s kunai had cut into his father’s jaw before he could even realize what had happened the father was only able to reactively dodge to protect his life. Kumagawa’s father didn’t go flying, nor did he get knocked out. He merely looked at Kumagawa after touching the cut spot, blood had begun to pool from the cut. He smiled at him and kicked Kumagawa in the chest. Sending Kumagawa back into the tree. He lifted both whips and said, “Again.”

Kumagawa smiled. He must have figured it out, or at least come close. Pushing off with his right foot he began to head toward his father. Shuriken were in between each of his fingers. With a smile he had thrown them at his father. The older Uchiha blocked the attack with a whip. Though that wasn't the extent of Kumagawa's plan. Pulling a Kunai from his pocket he rushed under the first whip and threw the Kunai at his father's foot. Seeing Kuma's straightforward attack the older Uchiha dodged with ease by moving his foot. Kumagawa drew two more kunai, he threw them once again one at the chest the other at the head.

The older Uchiha would twist his weapon around so that the kunai would get caught in the links of the chains. The older Uchiha smiled and looked at Kumagawa.

"Is this is all you got you will never be good at shurikenjutsu... hell I bet you will suck at bukijutsu."

Kumagawa's eyes would narrow as he made a single handsign. His father would look slightly confused before he noticed that the kunai in his chain were suspiciously burning. The older Uchiha's eyes would widen as he would drop his chains and jump away from them. In the moment the chains would explode. Turns out Kumagawa placed explosive seals on the kunai. Kumagawa cursed as his attempt failed.

"Well, seems like I was wrong, maybe you have a talent for this."

The older Uchiha would draw his own Kunai and rush at Kumagawa. Kuma, initially shocked barely blocked the first strike from his father. Kuma wasn't exactly used to close combat with weapons. So the clash of weapons was spectacularly. The sound of metal touching metal resounded through the field. Kumagawa frowned. With as much sound that was happening Kuma couldn't touch his father. His father was a much better fighter than he. With a couple more strikes Kumagawa would be on his knees panting out of breath.

"Well kid, that was fun... there might be some hope for you yet."

"Huff... huff... really?" he asked.

"Well you aren't as good as your sister.... but its passable... at least for you."

With that his father began to walk away. Kumagawa would smash his fist into the ground. He cursed with disappointment. He vowed he was going to get better, he was going to prove to his father that he was better than his sister. He was going to prove to his family that he not his sister was good enough to claim his inheritance. Getting up and wiping up the dirt from his clothing he would turn to the wooden dummies and begin throwing his kunai at them. After an hour of throwing he would move in closer and start working on his close combat skills. When he finished, he would already be thinking about when he was going to comeback tommorow.

[WC: 1503]
[Bukijutsu Specialty acquired?]

Approved