Hide and Seek and Awkwardness Abound (Chigetsu)

With Calis returning back into the school yard, Chigetsu would be left alone just outside the exterior. Chi couldn’t help but stand still, watching the other male leave. Discounting the awkwardness, this had been actually been a good experience. The way that Calis tried to teach everyone around him, including Chigetsu, and had been so patient with Chigetsu’s faults throughout the entire mission was too familiar. It almost made him a little bit nostalgic for that period of his life when his parents still hired all those tutors. It had been at least a year since then though. The exact dates were a little fuzzy in his mind now. It had been his own fault for not taking any of that seriously back then, even more so than now. As much as he always had hated those lessons, with all those fancy and super professional tutors barging their way into his room and try to instruct him on all these little things that he never had wanted to know about or cared the slightest bit about, he almost wished those days would come back. Even if he hated it, it felt better than being given up on. Now it was just difficult to talk to his parents, or anyone else in his family because of it.

As must as he had been indirect about the exams, this wasn’t at all a topic that was new to him. As a member of the Hozuki Clan, that was practically what he had been groomed for ever since he was twelve. He never had ever seen any point in the entire event. There was nothing to gain. The sort of people who spoke about all the experience, or fame that they could receive from winning were of a different caliber than Chigetsu was. All he could get out of an experience like that was a quick and easy death, and one that wouldn’t embarrass his family any more than he already had.

Which, was definitely something that had its perks. He would be lying if he claimed he hadn’t considered the idea before.

Still, things felt as if they were changing now, for some reason. After so many years of being stagnant and refusing to change no matter who tried to pull at him, meeting people like Calis made him almost wish that he could have gone back in time and treated everything a bit more seriously. It was too late for that though. Eventually though, as all these people he was meeting now would filter into the exams and progress on with their lives, Chigetsu would be left right back where he started.

Finally turning around, Chigetsu would set off to return to the Hozuki district.


[EXIT]

With that done and Chigetsu gone, Calis would begin his own introspective thoughts as he left, considering the mission, his intentions for training, his goals. Chigetsu was a friend at this point, that was obvious. As shy, awkward, and inexperienced as the Hozuki was. Calin knew he’d do well if he pushed himself harder. That however could only be decided by Chigetsu, not Calis. So the dark haired man would butt out of that situation. The pink haired Hozuki would either get through it or not. Calis himself intended to go train like he never had before. He’d recently worked himself up to being able to handle three tons of particles at once, and he had a slew of techniques he wanted to try. Not to mention learning some more Earth Release techniques and focusing more on ninjutsu as a whole.

No, when it came time for the exams, the Kazehana would be ready to sweep the competition under the rug. He would show himself there, to the shinobi world. He only needed a couple of things. A few pounds of diamond particles, and to master a new jutsu. The tall man would growl under his breath as he left for home to get ready to go to the training grounds “Calis of The Diamond Dust will be known throughout the world, and in the process, I’ll show them all.” He would say, his determination peaking as he moved.

[exit]