The Chunin Exams are here and to get ready, we must mingle and discuss! Plan and train even! Post among yourselves.

Nanami wakes up and stretches out fully. "Nanami, better get up. Or you might miss that valuable training time you always talk about." Her father yells from the kitchen. She rolls out of bed, her eyes dance over her freshly pressed outfit "I hope its to your specifications. You were very picky about it." Shikamaru says from the doorway. "Its perfect, it should allow for faster movement when using my bow."

A few minutes later she was dressed, and ready for another fun day of training. Nanami loved it, she enjoyed the degree of difficulty of the training she was put through. She picks up her bow, and waves at Shikamaru as she leaves. He smiles, and holds up a bag "The usual snacks, and vitamins for the day." Nanami stops and grabs the bag quickly. With that the door slams behind her. Shikamaru chuckles "Very much like your mother."

Nanami makes her way to the training ground. She finds the pond, walks out on it and sits down. Nanami takes out her bow. The bow is made of strong oak, and through tireless effort, and chakra. The bow is now black in color, it gleams like marble would. Yet it was wood. Everyday of the weeks of training, she would sit down with the bow, and bond with it. Nanami would infuse her wind, and fire chakra within the wood and string of the bow. Many times Sensei asked to see her bow, and he barely could lift it. On the other-hand it was light as a feather in Nanami's hands. She had been also slowly carving her families names on one side of the bow, and the names of her Sensei, and teammates on the other-side. After about an hour of this she walked over to the archery targets.

Nanami walked about two hundred yards out to start. She started letting arrows fly at a very rapid pace. Each one on target for the body part of the target dummies she was aiming for. She then backed up to three hundred yards. She was slightly less accurate, but still on target for the most part. With normal arrows this was her extreme limits. She usually stayed in the hundred to hundred and fifty yard markers, mostly for accuracy. This did however give her a great advantage against melee ninja. Something Akuma had worked quite hard with her on was using her genjutsu to camouflage herself, making her invisible. Through Akuma's help he helped show her what else could be done. At this point the False surroundings jutsu made her vastly more effective for a sniper style ninja. She had adapted it to where she could turn herself invisible even when standing right in front of people. Nanami was very proud of how far she had come.

Nanami knew her weakness would be melee combatants, and her tricks would not always work. So she came up with tactics to create distance. She adapted her wind jutsu to make one giant tornado instead of several small ones, as well as creating a massive gust of wind. Combine this with her fire jutsu, and you get an explosion based on how much chakra she used. The body flicker technique was also another way out, as well as the replacement technique. Nanami was looking at every angle she could. Preparing herself the best she could. Regardless if training was scheduled or not, Nanami would train relentlessly. She had settled on a goal. Her goal was to become the strongest ninja, and protect those she holds precious.

Nanami trains for the rest of day, or until interrupted.
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   Three weeks have passed and Sigmund wakes up, feeling fresh and ready for the day. His intense training over the last three weeks have allowed him to develop a new jutsu and he feels pretty great knowing it and learning it. He hopes to master it soon. He looked at his calendar, seeing it was only a few more days until the Chunin Exams. Their sensei had mentioned it and had explained that was the reason why he was so tough on them. Sigmund wanted to participate in the exams and had hoped none of his team would ruin that opportunity for him. His sensei only spent minor time training him. Sigmund taught himself his new jutsu and could not wait  try it against his opponents.

   He got up, getting dressed quickly and ran downstairs, seeing none of his family in the house as usual. He didn't mind as he walked to the kitchen table, a note left behind. He skimmed it quickly and just smiled. His family had left the village to head to the Chunin Exam destination, taking their trip and agreed to see him in a couple of days. He yawned as he made his way to the kitchen, grabbing a carton of milk and drinking out of it and grabbing a rice ball as he left his home.

   He rushed his way to their agreed spot for the day like Akuma-sensei told them. When he jumped from roof top to roof top, he finally came into view of the training grounds within the academy. He immediately noticed Nanami practicing with her newly constructed bow. It was part of her newly found jutsu. He only knew that because she never had it before and now she began carrying it around for the past week, so he figured she had some sort of ranged new jutsu in store for the rest of the competition.

   She was shooting arrows at the archery targets. He stopped from afar and allowed a small, sharp bone come out of the palm of his hand, almost like a kunai knife. He gripped it and waited until Nanami was about to shoot an arrow. Right when she pulled the string back, he threw it and she let go, launching an arrow towards one of the targets. His bone knife struck the arrow, breaking it in half and his bone knife hit the side of the building, making his presence aware to her now. He smirked.
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Nanami chuckled "Always the showoff." She winks, fading into the background. She just seemed to vanish. Then out of nowhere three arrows slammed into the wood or tile just beneath Sigmund's feet. He could feel the force of the impact from the arrows, was more then a normal bow should have had. Nanami appeared again on a rooftop not far from him "How did your training go?"

   He chuckled to himself when she commented and then seconds later she was gone in the blink of an eye. He scanned the area closely, but could not find her. He wasn't that experienced just yet. That's when he felt the force of the three arrows strike the tile right next to his feet. Something was off though. He noticed normal arrows or a normal bow for that matter, could not make that kind of impact. She had something going on and he wasn't too clear about it just yet, but he knew it was definitely from her new training. She had reappeared on the roof not far from him.

   His smirk had vanished and he sat down on the roof, letting his feet dangle on the edge. "It was actually pretty great. I enjoyed it, to say the least. Toughest training I have ever undergone, even though it was by myself," he answered and looked at her. "And you?" he asked in return.
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Nanami hops over and sits near him "I loved it. I've trained everyday since I was five. I wasn't able to do jutsu at that age. But mother was very strict. She had me eating healthy, taking chakra pills, and vitamin pills. Being the Kazekage's sister, and council. She was busy, I always looked up to her." She looks up and smiles "I miss mother, but I won't let her down. My goal is to become strong, and protect those I hold precious."

Her bow rests in her lap, she looks at the arrows "I made this bow, with the help of the weapon smith." She flips the bow and holds it up "Sigmund, Nori, and Akuma. Our teams names are on this side." Nanami flips the bow to the otherside "On this side, the names of my family. You all give me strength, and hope. Because of all of the names on here, I strive to do my best. In return, I hope the names on here do their best as well."

Nanami looks out across the village "I am often up here at dawn daily. I try to start the day by looking out across the village, as the sun rises. It is so peaceful, and beautiful."

   Sigmund listened intently to her training and he paid attention to her bow in particular. She showed him the names of her team and then her family on each side. We was surprised she put her teams/ names on their, but he was rather honored to be part of the reason why she tries so hard. Over the weeks, Sigmund and Nanami had grew a tad close. He was the bronze and she was the smarts. They made the perfect duo but Nori completed the team. She was the glue that help them together. They needed each other, more than he wanted to admit.

   She went to talk about how beautiful the village was in the early mornings, when she watches the sun rise at the crack of dawn. He admired her dedication a lot. "I use to be up this early with Nori when we were kids, because we too found the village beautiful when the sun rose. That was a long time ago though," he mentioned and watched the village too. He yet wondered where Nori or their sensei was at.
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Nanami looks at Sigmund, she reaches over and with two fingers. She taps the center of his forehead, kind of like Itachi did to Sasuke when they were young "We'll protect one another." She takes out a muffin and offers it to Sigmund "I also have vitamins pills if you want one." Nanami's eyes gaze back across the village. Her legs swing, and she leans forward on her palms.

   He smirked as she tapped his forehead with her two fingers. It had taken him by surprise, but he was calm about it. She promised to protect him as he silently promised to protect her and Nori from anything and everything. He placed his hand on top of her head and gave her hair a bit of a messy shake. "yeah, yeah. You know I got you too," he replied back, accepting the muffin. "Sure, I'll take a vitamin," he said as he took a bite of the muffin and gazed with her. He allowed his legs to swing a bit too on the roof.
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