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    [Sunagakure] The Lost Aqueducts



    A relic of times where the Sunagakure wasn't surrounded in only sand. The Aqueducts used to carry water down from fresh water oasis at various points around the village and give the center a thriving environment. Now this ancient engineering feat is nothing more than the skeletal remains of the lost Sunagakure. Of course, it has been unearthed in recent times, and is most actively used as a battle ground or random entrance to one of the many buried treasures to be found beneath the village.

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    Early morning, the young, male son of Sunagakure's Kazekage and Jounin Hanchou appeared within the forgotten aqueducts, bringing his mother with him. He appeared in mid-air, seeming to be in a sitting position, though he righted himself and landed smoothly on his bare feet upon arrival. He was prepared for combat, and the red-haired woman had agreed to play around for a bit. However, there was a bit of curiosity in the lad. "I don't know this place."

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    The red haired Kazekage who'd been previously sitting was soon teleported to the place of her choosing. Though she often shifted herself through her Hiraishin, to various other places in sitting positions and otherwise, she was still more than a bit stunned that it'd been done so smoothly with nothing but the boy's ability to teleport them. Beyond this, she wasn't really used to relinquishing control of her movements as such she seemed to rather comically flap her arms and legs around a bit. "Shit." with quick reflexes she turned her body around rotating her spine and landed on her feet with her hands on the ground. This posture made her look a bit like a wild cat not that it mattered. She soon recovered and stood, beginning to rotate her shoulders and hearing the question her son had to offer her. "Hmm, I guess you don't really leave the center of the village much, huh?" she said rhetorically before she explained. "This place is an abandoned Aqueduct, I run through here sometimes... but no one ever comes here so we don't have to worry about 'terrorizing the villagers' or anything." she said, with the start of terrorizing she used her hands to make quotation marks in the air, this was something she'd been chastised for from time to time by various elders in the village, who though what the redhead considered play was a bit extreme.

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    As strange as this venue was to Hakudoshi, it was apparently a place within the confines of the village. It was also a place with a name very unfamiliar to the lad. "Aqua Ducks? That's redundant," he said, looking around the area. "There aren't any ducks here." These apparent "ducks" aside, Hakudoshi was here for one reason: the fight. As such, he performed the warm-up stretches he had grown used to in training with Aiko, and gained a more serious expression when Benihime spoke of villager terrorism. "They shouldn't all be so weak," he retorted with puffy cheeks and a furrowed brow.

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    As Benihime finished her stretches her young son seemed to take issue with the naming of this place. A bit of a chuckle came from the woman as she ran a hand through her hair and explained to the young man about the ducks. "You're priceless, Little One. But it isn't named after an animal. It's named after its function. It's an old channel used to funnel water to places that don't have water." she explained. "A duct." She finished, and found the right amount of necessary stretching had been done. It seemed her son had already been getting in at least a bit of practice from his older sister like companion as he too stretched a bit, his reaction to potential village terrorism was about normal for a child but Benihime sighed just a tad. "Well, not everyone can be strong from the start, Hakudoshi. Some people are trying, and need more time. I am like that." she said done stretching she took a breath and calmed herself. "And some people's strengths lie in things other than fighting..." she meant what she said, but her strengths were generally combat based, as such she strung together three hand seals rather quickly and create a torrent of water from the palm of her hand. Part of the other reason she'd chosen this place was for her son's present affinity. She knew a few water jutsu and thought to maybe give him a couple more for his skills. 'Suiton: Hahonryū' she thought as the spiral of water in her hand soon launched towards the small boy's torso, in a few spirals which were well beyond enough to bruise the average person.

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    "Hmph. Stupid name," Hakudoshi said, once again in a huff due to the fact that this was now the second time in two days he'd had such a problem with words. By the time he finished stretching, Benihime had clarified to him that strength wasn't something most were simply born with, and that there were strengths other than fighting. Most importantly, she stressed that she was one such person whose strength didn't come naturally. Hakudoshi couldn't quite agree with this. "Iie. Kaa-san's always been strong," he said.

    When the Water Jutsu was thrown his way, Hakudoshi responded with the only Ninjutsu in his arsenal which could be used by him quickly. A spiral of chakra formed a solid orb - a Rasengan - in his right hand, only to be swiftly thrown toward Benihime's projectile. When the Rasengan and the Tearing Torrent collided, Hakudoshi's technique seemed to swallow the latter. This created massive amounts of water vapor, forming a water vortex with a violent rotation and a solid barrier between the two combatants.

    "Sugoi," the boy said to the visual before his eyes. It was then that he chose to take the offensive, using a form of the Rasengan he had created with his first test of it. With both hands, he spawned five total Rasengans in tandem this time, all packed within a single orb of chakra half the size of his body. A shift of his hands sent this orb hurdling toward the Kazekage, effectively wiping the water vortex Hakudoshi had been momentarily fascinated by from existence as it passed through.

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    Benihime couldn't help but chuckle at her son's reaction to the information about the place called an Aqueduct. She'd spoken to him twice now since she'd been back and both times, she'd gotten to see his childish side to go along with the more complex parts of the boy's personality. Even so, it seemed her young son didn't believe that his mother was not always as strong as she presently was. "I don't want you getting the wrong idea, Little One, I really wasn't always as strong as I am now... there was a time when I couldn't perform jutsu at all." She mentioned seeming to find his faith in her inspiring but also a bit misplaced. But before she could harp on that further the attack she launched was met by a Rasengan, which wouldn't have been shocking at all, if he hadn't thrown it. "What the fuck!" There was much surprise in the woman as this happened. The fact that their attacks collided and became one of greater power, was secondary, though something to be tucked away. "Did you really just throw that?" She asked aloud, so that he wouldn't have to prob her mind for her exclamation, nor the reason behind it.

    But before the tornado dispersed the young boy was throwing another of the large spiraling spheres full of Rasengan. The woman's eyes widened as it was launched through the previous combined attack. 'Well shit.' she thought, though this wasn't nearly the worst thing to happen, she'd have to resort to a fast dispersal of the technique, instead of waiting to see what it did. She summoned through seals on her wrists two of the Hiraishin Kunai, one she tossed into the air with a precision that sent it flying several meters up and outwards behind her back far enough to clear the canyon. The other she held in front of herself, to erect a barrier mere seconds before the ball would have struck her. This would warp the attack and if one looked it would next be seen up and above the canon to the point of the other weapon and at least, out of range of both herself and the Village, though it was bound to be a bit startling to anyone who happened to see it. Not that it would be there long, now that it wasn't impending doom for the crimson haired woman, she did a series of six hand seals and then exhaled a rather large ball of fire. Upon doing this, it would be sent up towards the huge sphere the boy created forcing two large attacks to collide which would end in a flaming ball in the sky exploding outwards as the two chakras mixed. "Hmm, I like that though..." the red head had a brightness in her eyes which could only be associated with a minor bit of pyromania. "No but seriously why can you throw it?"

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    The boy's brow furrowed when he was told his mother was once what she would classify as weak. He couldn't wrap his mind around such a thing, as he had only ever seen a great deal of chakra coming from the woman. His first proper attack against her was transported out of harm's reach, and subsequently assaulted with a fire technique. This was a shame, as Hakudoshi thought it to be a reasonably powerful attack, and was keen to see what the full version of it could do. However, the Kazekage's concern seemed to be the fact that he threw he defensive Rasengan in earlier moments.

    He wasn't quite sure how to respond to Benihime's question. He had used the Rasengan as a projectile, but such a thing made nothing but sense to him. "It's a ball," he said plainly, as if common sense were the only factor in this. "Balls get thrown. Don't you play with balls?"

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    Benihime couldn't help but watch in awe of her fire attack consuming something else. This was one of the odder things about her, but she wouldn't get to bask in this particular moment for very long. Her son, seemed to find a flaw in her very reasonable question, and beyond that his response and the follow up question made Benihime stare at the young boy blankly for a few seconds. She couldn't yet formulate the words which would detail why throwing a Rasengan shouldn't be possible, instead she found his, 'Don't you play with balls?' question to be the funniest thing she'd ever heard. It would start as a small giggle but eventually it would bubble over into a full on laugh which would have the red haired woman holding her stomach and barely breathing. It wasn't just what he said, it as that he said it so innocently, as if the red head were simply clueless in not understanding what to do. "BWAHAHAHAHAHA~~" is all that was heard before the noise stopped and the red haired woman seemed to be red in the face as she tried to get herself together. About a full minute there after, she took several deep breaths while fanning herself gently with her hands. "Oh! Hell, I haven't laughed like that in ages... There is a reason I asked that, and I suppose it's easier if I show you." the woman formed the Rasengan in the palm of her hand over a second or two, then tried to throw it. Upon doing so it would leave her hand and immediately disperse. "That." she said between giggles. "That is the problem."

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    Hakudoshi's head tilted when his simple response resulted in such hysteric laughter from the redhead. There was a high amount of curiosity from the boy surrounding this outburst, but again, he was making a very conscious effort to not read the woman's mind at present. "What's so funny?" he asked. When Benihime went on to speak, he assumed the laughter was due to this apparent reason for her question. Of course, Hakudoshi had little to no experience in simply making assumptions about people.

    Benihime's answer came with a demonstration of her own Rasengan, which she threw in the same manner he had done previously. Hers, however, dispersed moments after release, causing Hakudoshi's head to tilt in the opposite direction. Upon watching this, he came to a simple conclusion. "That's 'cause you did it wrong. You gotta use your green chakra," he said. As if to demonstrate, he created another sphere, only to begin kicking and headbutting it around like a hacky-sack.

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