KaraHa Training Thread(Private, NDE, Training)

One hour later, no time to rest, physically and emotionally exhausted, Karasu was training with the shurikens on the dummies. She went through 50 shuriken, completely missing with all of them, before finally breaking down. Tears streaming down her face, body shaking, her insides hurting, she hadn't felt this low since after the fight for survival that had claimed the lives of her friends. When she had claimed the lives of her friends.

Sister, you can do it. I went through this. I survived, you can survive. "Brother, why don't I remember you doing this?" I made sure you were fully asleep, I didn't want you to go through this with me. I've suppressed the memories so you wouldn't feel bad... I'm sorry... "What else have you been keeping from me... Silence? Fine." Karasu picked continued, a cry of pain leaving her with each throw of the shuriken.

For hours this went on, the pain increasing, her aim barely improving, until finally she put the all that remained of her power into one more throw. Exhausted, she fell on her knees. "I'm sorry grandfather, I can't go on, I can't continue today." Her grandfather walked over to her, slowly, but instead of the sharp pain from the bamboo stick she was expecting, Karasu only felt a hand on her shoulder. "Karasu, I am proud, not even your brother was able to hit the target on his first day." Her grandfather had the closest thing to a look of pride on his face that Karasu had ever seen. Looking up at the dummy she saw it, a shuriken, just barely making it into the outermost ring of the target. Karasu wept, tears of joy, pain and relief pouring down her face. This was the most training she had done since the switch happened, and she had done well.

The training went on for a number of days, until Karasu was finally able to support her weight, as well as an extra 200 pounds while doing push ups. She was also able to move her new arms in a large number of posses. And hitting the targets dead center was no longer a task, each of her arms able to function perfectly, and with great skill.

(ooc: 3 short? Really? D: fine lemme try again.)

For her final test, Karasu was to channel chakra through her new arms, and attempt to use even the most basic of jutsu. Creating the Dog, Bear, and Reverse Ram hand signs with her upper hands, she focused her chakra, breathing deeply, putting an image in her hear of Hato. "Henge no Jutsu!" A mirror had been propped up in front of her by her grandfather. Aiming to look at her brother, she ended up looking like some older, deformed version. "Release!"

Karasu assumed her meditative position, legs crossed, arms prone outward, palms up. She focused, feeling the chakra flow into her new arms, a weird tingling sensation occurring. She felt the ebb and flow occur. The chakra entering her arms from her center, and returning to the center with information. She was feeling her arms on a whole new level. Karasu attempted the transformation again, "Henge no Jutsu!" Closer this time, Karasu looked like a taller, lankier version of Hato, thinner, more stretched out. "Release!"

Karasu focused. She felt the chakra, formed the image in her mind and attempted again. Dog, Bear, Reverse Ram, "Henge no Jutsu!" Finally, a perfect copy of Hato. "Release!" Karasu began practice on the lower hands now, resuming the meditative pose, she felt the chakra flow inter her arms, and back to the center. Focusing on the image in her mind, she began. Dog, Bear, Reverse Ram; "Henge no Jutsu!" The lanky version of Hato stared back at her from the mirror. "Release!" Focusing, feeling the chakra, deep breathing. Karasu felt her lower arms on a deeper level. She felt the tingling, and went with it. "Henge no Jutsu!" In the mirror was Hato, a perfect copy. Karasu was pleased. "Release!" Karasu continued this training for some time, until she was nearly tapped out of chakra.

(OOC: For Karasu:
Kumo Feromon (Spider Pheromone)
Rank: D
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: The user secretes a pheromone that attracts spiders.
Special: --
Drawback: --
Description: The user learns to mix their idle chakra flow with their natural body odor, creating a scentless pheromone that attracts spiders to it. This pheromone becomes a natural, unconscious secretion of the user’s body, causing spiders to swarm all along their body.
Limit: Must be part of the Kumomusha Clan. TP needed: 20. AS a twin Hato is allowed to train separately. )

Karasu walked through the forest surrounding the Kumomusha and took in her surroundings. It was a beautiful day, the sun was out, the sky was blue, over all a perfect day. A perfect day to be covered in spiders.

Disrobing she sat naked on a tree stump, and concentrated, feeling that chakra flow in her, she listened to the leaves rustle, the stream close by, and the skittering sound of spiders as they crawled underfoot. She focused on her body, the feel of it, the shape of it, each hand in a meditative pose. The day was hot, and she could feel the sweat drip down her naked back. The wind rustle her hair, caressing her neck. From top to bottom, head to toe, she tried to regulate her chakra, meld it closer to her physical form.

Raising her hand to the sky, she allowed her chakra to flow into her glands, the chakra began seeping from her from her pores, making her sweat into a sticky mixture of energy and scent. A shiver ran up her spine, and the wind started to cool it. She focused harder, the chakra flowing faster, saturating her glands with power, releasing it, infusing it more efficiently, doing from a sticky substance to a much wetter, looser mixture.

(ooc: This post wasn't done, I have to edit it.)

Day's later, Karasu had been practicing the art of commanding the spiders where to go. She found that with certain other hormones, she could command the spiders to do different tasks. With estrogen they would return to her and protect he. With testosterone they would attack her enemies. Other chemicals, and their combinations allowed for endless combinations of commands. Karasu had an army at her disposal. The spiders could move at an individual level, or as one great swarm. And it took a while, but she trained her spiders not to attack Hato, and in fact, so long as Hato was fused with her, she had access to his glands, and allowed for stronger combinations, creating enough testosterone to drive the spiders mad, or enough estrogen to make them as protective as a mother.

But no, Karasu was their mother now. In the folds of her kimono, they nested and gave birth. Thousands are born every day, and while she sends most away, others she allows to be housed in her body, or more commonly on her body.

+7

You only need 10 TP for D-Ranks.

(OOC: For Karasu: Kumo Torakkingu (Spider Tracking)
Rank: D
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: The user plants a pheromone marked spider on the foe’s body.
Special: Snake
Drawback: --
Description: The user focuses their chakra, causing an extra burst of pheromones to be released on a specific spider. This spider then latches on to a target directed by the user. The other spiders on the user’s body will remain in tune with this spider and the user will be able to determine its location within 100 meters.
Limit: Must be part of the Kumomusha Clan, must know Kumo Feromon. TP needed: 10)

Karasu returned to the training spot she had visited when she first learned how to mix her pheromones with her chakra. The forest was beautiful, blue sky, bright sun, and spiders crawling everywhere. Including Karasus body. She had grown rather attached to them, naming them when she has time and is particularly bored. There are of course far too many of them to remember which ones she named, let alone their names.

Karasu disrobed and took her bandages off. Naked except for the spiders swarming on her, she sat and assumed a meditative position. Karasu then formed the serpent hand sign, to hands clasped together, like a child in prayer. She let the chakra ebb and flow, circulating through her hands, reaching from knuckle to finger tip, down to the wrist, back to the fingertip, a delecite dance of energy taking place in her hands. The chakra warmed her hands, she could feel the stored energy ready.

Using subtle body language, and her pheremones, Karasu asked a spider to climb onto the end of her hands, and sit where teh two middle fingrs meet. All other spiders on her hand cleared the area for Karasu and this small, brave arachnid. Focussing, Karasu released the chakra into the spider, in an attempt to mark it.

The spider exploded.Too much raw chakra was released into the spider. She attempted it again. Deep meditation, hand sign formed, spider in place. She allowed about half as much chakra into this spider, but no, this one too exploded. Was she getting the basics of the jutsu wrong? It was just chakra, right? Karasu rummaged through her cloths until she found the scroll explaining how the jutsu worked. Oh, no, no chakra, just pheromones, a large burst of them. Whoops. So that's what went wrong

Karasu realized it would be far easier to just keep a small amount of chakra stored into her glands at all time to allow for faster and easier usage of the Spider Pheromone techniques, but for practice, she would store a good amount. Allowing the chakra to do the now familiar flow into her hands, and back into her glands, she stored a good amount of chakra, using deep breathing to regulate the intense controlled flow of chakra, and intense meditation so focus on where the pheromones go. The flow of chakra and the storing made her tense, the intense meditation made her more aware of her surroundings, she could feel the wind, the wood of the stump, smell her sweat, the spiders, and the dirt around her. Releasing a bit of chakra, she aimed at the nape of her neck.

She elt as her scent left her body and covered a spider. Success! The swarms attention was focused on the spider on the nape of her neck. She released the normal pheromone used for the spiders onto the one on the nape of her neck, over riding the current scent. Now she was going to attempt multiple areas at once. Focusing, she released some pent up chakra/pheromone combination, and attempted to divide it her body, directing it to several points. In her minds eye, she saw the chakra pathways, and her modified scent was a bright pink, amongst the normal blue chakra. Forming the Snake with her top hands, she focused on allowing the chakra to spread out to her other four hands.

On her middle right, a single spider was effected, the swarm focusing on it. On the middle left, a group of 6 spiders were effected, the swarm expanding their tight focus to include them. Her bottom right hand was pointed towards a spider about half a meter away. The pheromone left her body and spread out into the air, held together by the chakra in it, until it struck the spider- all of this invisible to the naked eye of course- and the swarm expanded its focus once more. Finally, on her bottom left hand, she redirected the chakra back into her, and released it at her left shoulder blade, hitting two more spiders. 10 spiders in total were the focus of the swarm. She allowed them to wander, ordered them to hide. After a few moments Karasu ordered the swarm to find the spiders, breaking into equal parts. The swarm found them near instantaneously. The scent works. Now karasu needed to work on her speed.

For hours Karasu practiced getting the hand signs down, the melding of chakra had become instant, there was little need to store any. Her speed was now such that she was able to meld chakra and scent at the same time. It was just about the flow of her chakra, keeping it uninterrupted, using the chakra lines that went by her glands to create the scents, and use any number of her hands to effect the spiders around her. She could also use multiple hands to make the sign multiple times to effect an even larger number of spiders should her opponent avoid a large amount.

(Kumo Chibidoku (Spider Tiny Poison)
Rank: D
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: The user causes their spiders to secret a minor poison from their fangs.
Special: Ram
Drawback: The user will most likely be affected by their own poison if the spiders bite them.
Description: The user forms the hand seals, directing the pheromone to cause the spiders to excrete an excess of venom from their fangs. Any being bit by these spiders will be dazed and feverish for one round. The poison effect lasts on the fangs for a single round. These effects kick in immediately. Massive amounts of biting, such as several uses of this technique, stack the effects of the poison.
Limit: Must be part of the Kumomusha Clan, must know Kumo Feromon. TP Needed: 10)

Karasu walked along her favorite path in the Kumomusha forest, to her favorite training spot. There, she stripped off all her clothing, took off her bandages, and allowed the spiders inside of her some air. There were thousands of them, their little legs scurrying all across Karasu's supple flesh, the bite marks they left from their first encounter with her- generations ago for them, days ago for her- are all gone.

Karasu assumed her meditative position, legs crossed, arms prone, palms facing the sky. She focused on her chakra, the natural movement of it. The way it was set up in her body now, over the past few days her chakra lines have naturally began to line up with her glands, and she used this to her advantage. She was here to make one thing happen, and that was teh ability to command her spiders to bite while using their venom.

She had introduced poisonous spiders to the breeding circle a few days ago, and through a selective process, Karasu was able to breed spiders that could cause dizziness and nausea instantaneously within their victims. The only issue was getting the correct combination of chemicals right. Karasu formed the hand seal of the Ram, and prepared.