Rare Animal Hunting (Mission/Training)

Ikki finally reached the bottom of the canyon; surprisingly it wasn’t like the desert above because there were many more trees here. It wasn’t a forest, not by far, but had a lot of trees and other foliage. Ikki walked forward and realized that he would never be able to find anything as small as a rabbit in this; he would have to do something that could help him out. He pulled the jutsu scroll from his pocket and started to read up on a jutsu he had just seen only hours before that might be able to help him.

It was called “Sonar,” and if it did what it sounded like it did, then he would be able to find these bunnies easily. Ikki read over the jutsu, it did exactly what he wanted and it was only D ranked, an easy technique for him to learn. Ikki read over the effect of the jutsu, it would allow him to paint a 2 dimensional picture of his surroundings in a 10-meter radius around.

This technique could be very useful for Ikki when he learned it, and its usefulness wouldn’t stop here it would continue to help him both in and out of battle. Ikki move down the jutsu description to see that it only required him to learn three handseals. Ikki was very excited about this; he would be able to see pretty much anything in a ten meter radius, which meant he could see the rabbits.

Ikki rolled up the scroll and began to learn the handseals for the jutsu. The first handseal he was to learn was the Bird, obviously a reference to the loud chirping that any bird had which had much to do with the Sound Release which this jutsu was part of. The next handseal to be learned and remembered as the second of three was the Boar. This handseal could be a reference for the sound Boars make when thrashing through any forest, Ikki wasn’t sure if this helped Boars hunt or if the animals just did that because they didn’t know any better.

Ikki shelved that question in the back of his mind to be answered later; he didn’t have time for it right now. The boy moved onto the next and final handseal in the sequence, which was the Ox handseal. Ikki again wasn’t totally sure of the significance this animal had for this jutsu, but he learned it anyway. Ikki moved through this small sequence of handseals a few times before finally declaring himself to be a master of them.

Ikki shelved them in his mind along with all of the other jutsu handseal strings he had learned over his long years as a ninja. Ikki then moved onto the next part of the jutsu, which was deciding on how much chakra to use and what to do with it when he decided. Ikki quickly came to the conclusion that this jutsu was a lot like the ventriloquism, he would have to focus the chakra in his mouth and then let out the three low pitched sounds which would move forward for ten meters, and then bounce back to show him a picture of the area around him.

It would be much like a three second clip of all of the things around him, if Ikki couldn’t find the rabbit in the first try he would just move on slowly until he did. After a minute or so of deliberation, Ikki decided he would use the same amount of chakra he needed for the Hell’s Ears jutsu, not very much but he thought it would be enough for this jutsu to be completed.

Ikki performed the handseals once again, this time as fast as he would do so if he were in a battle. He then gathered up the necessary chakra from his body, quickly putting it together in his chest and molding it. When that process was done, Ikki moved all of the chakra from his body up to his mouth. Ikki reared back and then threw his head forward, releasing three low-pitched sounds.

They radiated around him and moved quickly outward. Ikki closed his eyes and made himself ready to receive the sounds when they came back. He would have to picture in his mind exactly how the sounds painted the picture of the surrounding area. All of a sudden the sounds came back, and his mind was instantly given a picture of the surrounding area.

Ikki could see that there was something small that was moving very quickly about five meters to his left. He opened his eyes and was off.