soku trains his new apprentice

the tiger saw the opening and went for it but could see that he had prepared for a counter atttack and moved around to his open side and kicked him in the ribs.

"jason saw the kick coming and used his smalll size to easily jump above the kick then he sliced struck down at the tiger but as he had jumped he had realized that he hadnot takken off the weights from the water training yet he felt no reall diference from before he started the training his legs had allready gotten stronger weights were definatly teh way to go for speed training but for now after he finished striking down he jumped back and sheathed his sword and detacht the weights he was going to use his specalty tecnique the batou technique the sword drawing attack it is the fastest attack the is in swordsman ship jason stood waiting for an opening even a small one

the old tiger kept his body perfectly colosed and was able to easiily swipe away the downward strike. he moved forward as the boy was taking off the weights and struck out with his wakazi and kept his tachi near the body.

there was the opening he lunged forward and drew his sword with blinding speed and force and cut teh wakazashi neatly in too and hit the tachi and the tiger but the tachi wekend the blow but it was a clean hit "got you " jason said but he wasnt done he spun and stuck the tiger on the other side with out the tachi to gaurd it was over he hit the tiger with the flat of teh blade "got you again no its over" he smiled at his sucess

"good you beat me at half power, next week we will work on the holes in your technique." the tiger said dissapearing in a puff of smoke.

"so, how did you like today's training Jason?" soku asked dryly.

" i think...... i could learn alot " jason said anxious for more " thats not it right cause that wasnt verry long" jason said trying to manipulate soku into countinuing the training

"nope now you get to learn the diplomatic side of being with a shinobi im about to meet with the kage of the hidden cloud." Soku said walking toward the tower. "you will not speak, you will only observe is that under stood?" Soku said siriously. he knew allowing the boy to speak in a meeting with Kenji would be a bad idea.

"Boy you look tired." Yuki said as she fixxed her hair.

" yes sir" jason thought it strange that he could speack he thought it would seem rude if he didnt introduce himself

Ryo finally spoke up after waching all of the fighting "Hey kid you seem alot better at sword fighting then when i was your age" Ryo said smiling at Jason "You are also looking at one of the few people who can use lightning blade without the sharingon"