Maria
After Founders ended, and she was finally promoted to chunin, Akane couldn't wait for the initiation to take place. But now that it had and she was finally a member of the branch... She was more confused than anything. The conflict with her mother, the secrets of the branch... All of it became astoundingly overwhelming. With a cigarette in her mouth, she roamed the beautiful garden of Himari. Today was just gonna be a day for relaxing... Or so she had planned. Noticing one of her fellow veil-wearers in the distance, Akane quickly began to approach them, no grin could be found on her face however. Just a small smile which had a hint of finality to it. All of her smiles did nowadays, like one day it might just crack under the pressure. Regardless she kept walking towards her friend. She seemed to be training a technique. . .Perhaps doing the same would help her take her mind off things. "Hey, Jomei. What're ya up to?" She said, tilting her head.
Max
"Oh hey! After initiation I took some to study our targets and all the information allowed to us, so I'm learning a technique to counter them right now." *Jomei made sure not to say horror, or any type of horror. It was highly classified information, and she knew that some shinobi have been rumored to be able to hear things across the wall. So hopefully she was able to speak about it without giving up classified information.* 

"Care to help me? I made this technique in specific with trapping the thing in mind. Keeping it in place while another person in the pack kills it." *She made another rubber band for the technique. Thicker and taller this time, while also focusing especially hard on the lack of malleability. It took her some time to make it, but when she did try to break it by tearing it apart, she began to struggle. This was good work, it showed that she was making progress on making the construct sturdier and tougher.* 

*After some time struggling to break it open, she finally gave it all her might before she cracked it off. Splitting the rubber in half as it tore apart, not evenly but breaking on only one side. There was a lot of work to be done here, but she was optimistic.* 

"As you can see it's not strong enough yet, but that's what I'm working on for now."
Maria
"Huh... I should probably do something similar. I've been working with barriers lately, so perhaps I can do something with that..." She'd say, pondering the idea. "And sure I don't mind. As long as you help me with something afterwards; perhaps just a light spar... Then of course." Akane said, attempting to grin but all that was left was a a crinkly smile in it's place. She quickly stopped, and moved a fair distance away from the chunin, talking whilst she did so. "How about this; I'll run at you and you do whatever your technique does and stop me! I'll be moving in a wonky pattern so it's harder for you to hit me. Alright?!" She shouted across the garden. She took a deep breath and stretched for a moment before beginning to zoom across the field, making sure to implement a zig zag pattern in the way she moved. Once she got faster she'd be able to move even more unpredictably... Perhaps she could work with that.
Max
*Jomei noticed something was off about Akane. She was much calmer.. But why? Jomei couldn't help but go into a frenzy ever since their initiation, all that new classified information and even a very honorable mission. Although it was one that was a thankless job. She wanted to ask what was up, but figured it was just better to train first.* 

"I'll slam you with this technique alright." *Jomei got into a stance and stood her ground. The point of this was to churn the technique out as fast as possible, not remain untouched. So Jomei weaved her handseals and started molding her chakra. The technique was complex enough that she wasn't able to produce the handseals fast enough to really rapid fire this one. But that was ok, she could remedy that soon.* 

*She focused on the ring of chakra she needed to make. Focusing on all the parameters and components of the technique. Imagining it needing to be sturdy enough for demonic strength, she imagined applying her finesse over Lava Release to further empower it as well. Of course after she focused on all those things at once, she was finally ready to cast the technique. She swung her hand forward, expunging the technique at Akane, had she not been fast enough to evade it she would've been caught by the ring and it would've formed over her arms and torso.* [A+]

*This was easily the strongest technique Jomei has performed thus far in terms of speed and impact force. Of course she made sure to dial down on the force of it, just to make sure she didn't harm her partner.*
Maria
The Uzumaki attempted to dodge as she ran, but the technique was simply far too fast for her in her current state. Attempting to bob and weave towards the side, the attack quickly latched onto the right half of her torso. Bloody hell, that was quick. The force, though diminished, did cause the Uzumaki some level of pain however but it was just a sting. "Good... Job!" She'd say as she attempted to break free from her new bindings. "It's sturdy, that's for sure! Is it flammable?" The chunin would ask as she let out a Dragon Fire (C++) to attempt to burn away at them.
Max
"Thank you! Oh shit, don't!" *The moment the flames touched the rubber it would catch fire, but rubber is a slow burner. It was fine though, Jomei grabbed the rubber and immediately reshaped it into a thin fuma shuriken and pulling it off of Akane, promptly and immediately launching it high into the air from where they were. Doing so just fast enough to make sure that no one would catch fire.* 

"Rubber is a slow burner, and doesn't melt unless subjected to extremely high temperatures. Something like Scorch Release hot." *She sighed in relief and stretched her fingers, the rubber now coming down harshly as a loud thud could be heard on the ground. It was decently far away, so they didn't have to worry about it.*

"So.. You wanted to spar or something along those lines??"
Maria
"Oh, probably should've mentioned; I'm resistant to most forms of fire at this point so I would've been fine. Worst that would've happened would be my clothes caught fire. Even then I could always replace them." She explained to chunin nonchalantly. "But yeah, I was looking to spar. I... I lost a match against a genin. I know I just became a chunin and all that but... It was kinda embarassing. I need to be stronger; a lot stronger." From what she had given Jomei, it sounded like she was just being a sore loser. But this... This stemmed from something far deeper than that. "I plan on expanding my arsenal en masse, so I'm doing as much as I can as fast as I can."
Max
"I see. We were genin just a couple weeks ago so no one can really blame you. It takes time to differentiate yourself from a seasoned chunin and a recently promoted one." *She knew where Akane was coming from, it did look bad to lose to someone who is of lower rank than you. But at the same time, they were only made a lower rank than them by a week or two, not much is going to change in that time span. She stretched her limbs some before the sound of bones crackling were heard.* 

"Are we doing a taijutsu spar? Or a spar for everything?"