Big Bears Break Bones [Group]

The Objective:

It was around noon and Ryojin was wandering the business district in search for whatever caught his eye in order to buy. He was eyeing everything in the rather vacant market place peacefully. He had wandered from a weapon store, an armor store, a house decoration store, a meat store, what was he supposed to do? What was he supposed to buy? As he continued on from the raw meat shop, he hadn't even noticed the presence of a large suntan colored bear that he crashed down from god knows where in order to open a case and pull out a massive fish which it used to stuff it's own maw with. The bear had paid no attention to the boy walking about musing over the stress of having to make an actual decision about a souvenir to bring home to his father. He hadn't brought anything back for him the past couple of times, and admittedly, the disappointment his father had shown made him rather uneasy about going back empty handed this time. Though knowing his father he would be just fine with even a small vial of sand from the sun to analyze. A long sigh escaped Ryojin's lips. He walked forward past the weapons shop and a bear swinging about nunchaku like it had one hundred years of training. He kicked sand about frowning deeply still. What on earth was he supposed to bring home for the man.

He took a seat on a bench for a moment to get some rest from the scorching sun of the village. He took out a canteen and took a couple gulps of water. The business district definitely wasn't as busy as usual. He had really picked the perfect day to take his time and select a quality gift. Ryojin had managed to get up and stretch just as a solid vase was chucked out the window of the house decorations store and hit the ground and shattered. Ryojin looked down at the vase and frowned slightly. It was such gorgeous craftsmen ship. The intricate details were really pretty, the colors were well thought out, and the artistry had been quite impressive. Even broken into several pieces the vase looked flawless. He sighed softly and turned to notice the window that had been broken. He looked through the window and made direct eye contact with a massive white bear with blue eyes. "Wait...What...?" Ryojin blinked softly and the bear blinked softly. They both stared at each other for an extended moment before the massive beast let out a loud roar.

"Wow. You're even taller than Gen!" Ryojin had launched himself through the broken window and was prodding at the bear now with his metal bo staff. "Are you actually a bear?! There's no way! Are you why the market district is so empty?! Where have you come from?!" Ryojin was shifting about the bear prodding it at various locations, asking all sorts of questions that the bear definitely did not know how to answer. After a few more moments of this, the bear charged at Ryojin and tried to directly swing at him, but it was big and slow. Ryojin side stepped the incoming paw swipe and formed his thumb and pointer finger into the shape of a gun. Water formed on the tip of his finger. "How thick is your skin? How strong are you exactly? Could you lift a building?! I bet you could come close!" The bear had swung again, but Ryojin's finger was now pressed gently to it's chest. After a moment, the water on his finger was fired off through the bear's chest and it let out a loud roar before swinging at him again. He ran, dove back out the open window, and yelled. "Come on! You can do better than that!" A more aggravated aggressive roar escaped the white bear this time. It tore the shop door from the hinges and sent it flying toward Ryojin. He ducked down for it to barely miss. "Nice try~ But not this time!" In the commotion of fighting the first bear, Ryojin hadn't noticed the other two making their way toward him.

"Isn't he really cool?!" Ryojin vaulted himself up as the bear tried to shoulder charge him, and with a quick rotation of his hips and shoulders brought the bo staff of his right down on the bear's noggin. It grunted and rubbed it's hand. Ryojin landed with a rough thud and dropped his bo to rub at his palms. "Wow! You're definitely thick skinned. Let's see how you do with this!" Ryojin had formed hand signs, and suddenly, water began gushing from his mouth and raising into a wave. The other two bears had joined the white one in range and Ryojin grinned as he began to ride the wave forward. "Oh! There are more! I hope you all can swim!" Ryojin laughed as the wave pressed forward. The amount of water was enough that the bears couldn't stand it and were all swept away. As the wave settled, Ryojin formed more hand seals bringing forward a thick mist. "Let's make quick of these bears miss Hyuuga! They look quite dangerous!"

Ryojin now quickly closed the distance between him and the white bear. The other two had gone back to back, but as Ryojin closed the distance, he had grabbed one end of his bo and spun himself rabidly in a circle swinging hard into the bear's head. Ryojin had fallen to the water and the next blow from his bo staff hit right where he had fired through before with the water bullet. This brought the white bear facing down in the water. He had managed to successfully bring the bear down and quickly flipped back out of sigh from the other two bears. He launched forward two kunai one toward each bear, but they were smart enough to block them both off from sound alone. They had seemed to be large and slow, but they were definitely smart too.

Ryojin instead made his way back to Ami and chuckled softly. "How about it Ami? Want to attack in tandem?" Ryojin gave forward a big grin. "We'll attack the same bear at the same time, rotate between striking the brown and black one. I'll grab their attention first using my kunai and shuriken, then you go in with Taijutsu to seal the deal! Does that sound good to you? Or I could be the main assault if the bears scare you or you think they're too big and strong!" The latter part being more of a playful tease and jab.

Ryojin did just as he said he would. Suddenly two kunai of ice formed solidly in his hands and he whipped one toward each bear. They curved out then back from his throw, and headed right forward toward them through the mist. The brown one was sharp, raising it's hands to block a blow to the chest, but the other had instead been impaled and let out an irritated roar just as the white one had done twice before. Ryojin would observe the girl's jutsu as best he could through the mist being utilized on the bear. She would have no issues making contact with the bear's stomach is it blocked from heavy damage from the kunai. In the mean time, as her jutsu would connect Ryojin slammed his hand on the ground, and a clone rose forth that looked just like Ryojin. He ran toward the black bear who proceeded to swing on the clone, but the clone was agile much like Ryojin. The clone slipped the blow, but the bear had also done another swipe from it's opposite paw. The clone wasn't as sharp as it thought as it poofed into a cloud of frost. The black bear let out another roar as the arm that had collided with the clone was frozen in ice.

While the clone had played with the black bear, Ryojin vaulted himself with his bo staff up into the air and brought the metal stick down atop the bear's head with a loud clang. After the Hyuuga's assault and a blow to the head, the bear would no doubt be out of commission after their in tandem assault. That left one bear standing, and Ryojin wouldn't bother taking a break after landing on the ground next to the brown bear. He would vault himself straight toward the black bear now, but this bear had apparently decided not to take anything laying down as it clasped it's paws together on his bo staff and yanked both it and him forward. The bear tossed Ryojin a bit away, but he agiley landed on his feet with a bit of a chuckle. "Come on big bear." He held his staff behind him in one arm and waved the bear forward with the opposite hand. "Show me what you've got your friends sure weren't any trouble! Don't hesitate and don't be scared. After all, I'm only human right?"

The brown bear had swung forth toward Ami, but it was soon reminded that Ryojin was it's main opponent as he utilized the far end of his bo to thrust harshly into it's chest. The bear let out another roar and from this point charged Ryojin. He pushed himself up above the bear, and on his way to land behind it delivered a bo strike right into the base of it's neck. He landed with a thud, but utilized his still going momentum to put some distance between he and the beast. He swung back a kunai, and the bear managed to turn to block it, but what it hadn't expected was the exploding note attached to one end. The beast would grunt as the note was ignited and blew up in it's face creating the perfect momentary cover for Ami to strike. This time, everything had gone exactly to plan. Ryojin would stand up huffing a bit from having used so much of his chakra, but he was sure that this would be a wrap when Ami moved in to strike and wasn't too worried at all. He watched closely to make sure nothing went sideways at the last minute, but even despite his earlier jokes, he definitely trusted her as a shinobi. She had proved her competency even beyond his expectations.

In the mean while, the mist began to fade away clearing Ami's vision completely. The bear was still rearing back from the concussive impulse of the explosion, but in truth it was amazing that it was still standing after a direct strike like that. Who on earth would've thought that this bear could be so stubborn it would hold through an explosive note and barely even actually budge from it's spot. It really was a shame that these bears were in the business of causing trouble and not becoming shinobi. What if these bears were physically trained like the shinobi in the villages were? Was it possible they too could make good ninja? The place his train of thought went must've amused him somewhat because a bit of a cackle was released from him as he imagined bears in village headbands using katana, kunai, and shuriken. Even more amusing to him he thought about them utilizing jutsu. How curious would that be? Could they manipulate chakra in the same sense that people could? Ryojin rubbed his chin thoughtfully. These bears in particular definitely had potential, but he had a feeling they lacked the actual intelligence necessary.

Ami's blade still set within the creature. Ryojin grinned and within a moment he closed the distance between he and the bear that was present now. It took one mighty swing of his metal bo to collide into the blade already shoved into the bear. Ami had done well. The bear did manage to get a good swipe on Ryojin's left arm, but it caused him to chuckle a bit. "Well well. In the end you were the best fighter." Blood dripped down from his wound and he laughed a bit. It was over, the bears had lost and the two shinobi had won. He retracted both ends of his bo as shinobi showed up to clean up the mess they had made. He assisted in the clean up, though was stopped rather quickly and looked at by a medical shinobi who made it a point to fix his arm up nice and good with mystical palm technique. He moved it about freely and grinned. "Wow! You healed it up just as good as my dad could've I think!" With that, Ryojin stood back up and resumed cleaning.

After about an hour or so and some additional assistance from more shinobi it was as though the wreckage in the market place hadn't even happened and Ryojin bought one of the vases in the shop he had ran into the first bear in to take back to his father. This would do quite nicely along with the story that he had fought three bear with a fellow shinobi in order to acquire the vase. It was no simple task this time around to bring his father something home. He swung his bo about lazily and between people bustling about in the busy market place. Had he forgotten something? OH.. he meant to say goodbye to Ami, but by now there'd be quite the distance between them. Another job well done. Well. At least done. A small sigh escaped his lips. He was just so messy when it came to fighting. That was probably something that would never change.