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Who: Ino & you!
Broadcast: Video
Action: On the beach, if you like!
When: RIGHT NOW

[ The video turns on, and she's got her chin in her palm. She blows a little at her bangs, making them fly up for a moment before she speaks ]

I've seriously been slacking lately ... so, anyone wanna spar? I know it's kinda late at night, but I could super use the practice.

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[He nods in response, then, after only the briefest hesitation, lifts his gloved hand so his palm is facing her and pushes out a bit of Ripple without coating it in a bubble. It crackles from his fingertips like a handful of lightning.]

We just shape it differently?

[ She watches curiously ... ]

Lightning type? Or is it divided by elements at all ... ?

[ Since she's pretty sure she's never met someone who was a water AND a lightning type user ... ]

[He shakes his head and, after a moment's thought, leans down and picks up a handful of sand. It takes just a second to charge it, and then he lets it fall through his fingers, showing her the way each grain adheres together with the charge, until it settles on the beach in a small, cohesive tower.]

No division. Ripple is all the same, it's just a matter of how you channel it. I use bubbles, Joseph has . . . [He wiggles his fingers dismissively.] Little clacker things. [Still not his favorite technique.] Our teacher has such mastery over Ripple that she's able to channel it into anything instinctively - which is the goal, to attain that flexibility, that versatility.

[ Cool ...

She watches curiously, before she crouches down to imitate. Only, she makes a little flower bouquet instead ]

Huh ... interesting.

It's not difficult for us to use different things in that way -- hell, I've used my own hair as a weapon before. But the type of energy we can use is usually limited in some way ... it's called our "nature". Earth and water are the ones I can use well.

[Okay, he has to smile at the flowers.]

Well, ours comes from solar energy, like I mentioned before. But - what are the differences between the different natures? What is it that you can't do without - fire and air, I think it would be?

There's fire, wind, and lightning, besides mine. And it's not that I can't use the other ones if I really wanted to, it's more like ... my disposition makes earth and water come more naturally to me.

But basically, it's just the "type" of attack, I guess. I have a friend whose nature is Fire, and he can breathe fire out of his mouth like a dragon. --Oh!

[ She lights up, remembering she has a way to show him a "fire" technique, and she reaches back into her pouch. She replaces the knife in there, and pulls out what looks like a piece of paper with a scribble on it ]

This uses fire energy. When I put chakra into it, it sets on fire and explodes. But since I'm not really proficient with fire nature, I have to use this as a tool to make fire, rather than being able to produce it on my own.

[He brightens slightly at the sight of the slip of paper, taking a step closer to inspect the paper and what's written there, although he obviously can't read it.]

Too bad. I'd have liked to see you breathe fire like a dragon. It's sort of like a bomb, yes? More sophisticated, but . . .

What about your disposition makes you better suited for earth and water? Is that something you have to find out yourself, or does someone tell you when you're young?

[ She'll let him take the piece of paper, if he wants to ]

That's exactly it. We call it a "paper bomb", or an "exploding tag".

We have a special kind of paper you can use to find out -- you touch it, and depending on how it reacts, that tells you what you'd be the best at. Sometimes it doesn't really matter, though... a lot of the techniques we use tend to be passed down in the family, or are even genetic features. So with a lot of those, you're just naturally good at it anyways. But if you're having trouble learning something you want to learn it can help you figure out why, or what you'd be better off focusing on.

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