At Peace (T//O)

[KaaneIlera]

The Cathedral of Enlightenment (a cave):


This cave is located high up in Takigakure near the top of the famous waterfall the village is known for. He treks all the way up here to enjoy the peace and quiet nature has to offer, as well as to gather the herbs he uses in his concoctions. The cave’s entrance was once well hidden, however, and Kaane had passed the entrance many times on his hikes before he finally noticed it, as it is barely large enough to crawl through and is hidden by high grass. It still is well hidden, but Kaane keeps a small sign near the entrance in order to mark its position that anyone can notice if they are attentive.


The inside of the cave is relatively large and well lit by torches that Kaane keeps maintained consistently. The temperature of the cave is invariably 60 degrees Fahrenheit, no matter what the weather is like outside. Due to the cave’s seclusion, no large animals make the cave their home, and only a few scattered insects scurry around the cave near the entrance. The cave is made up of three parts, beginning with the main chamber, around the size of a small church, with stalagmites and stalactites lining the back corners of the cave. The rest of the cave walls are naturally smooth. From the entrance, if one looked carefully, one could see two passageways snaking down into the underground at the back of the cave. At the end of the passage on the left, Kaane keeps some training and laboratory equipment for processing the herbs he collects in a cylindrical chamber (about the size of an 18 wheeler with a trailer). Kaane also keeps a neatly categorized tally record of all the techniques he has learned in black chalk on the smooth rock walls in this chamber as a way to keep him encouraged whilst training. The passage on the right leads to a small pool of water formed from the waterfall above leaking into the chamber about five feet deep in the middle and 15 feet wide, forming an arc around the small peninsula of land next to the passage’s end. The temperature of the water is freezing until warmed up. At the back end of this chamber, a dazzling display of purple amethyst lines the walls, creating a crystalline mural that almost glows in the torchlight.


Here, Kaane is at peace. He welcomes anyone who enters the “Cathedral of Enlightenment,” as he named it when he first found it. He even finds himself actually enjoying others’ company here, as though the cave itself could temporarily heal him of his social awkwardness. Indeed, the cave has a calming effect on any who enter it, especially in the amethyst pool chamber.

[KaaneIlera]

Mission:

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Name: Knowledge is Power
Rank: D Ranked
IIC Length: 1 Day (24 Hours)
Difficulty: Easy
Objective: Learn a D Ranked Technique
Description: To encourage strengthening the village and interaction, the missions has come up to learn a D ranked technique. Once you learn this technique you must show proof of the skill either inside or outside the tower depending on its destructive capabilities! This can only be repeated once per month.
Reward: 780 Ryo for a single Non-Ninja, 980 Ryo for a single Ninja. 1,960 Ryo if taken with at least one other person.

Technique:

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Raiton: Hirameki no Jutsu (Lightning Flash)
Rank: D
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: Causes a blinding flash that can disorientate enemies (up to 10m)
Special: Rat
Drawback: ---
Description:The user holds the rat handseal and closes their eyes, gathering chakra into them. The user then opens them suddenly, and emits an extremely bright flash from their eyes that can temporarily blind and/or disorientate enemies. The blinding effect usually lasts one turn.
Limit: Lightning Release

Kaane entered the cave, sighing away his exhaustion from accepting his mission earlier. “I’ve got to calm down some when it comes to talking to people…” he thought to himself as he reached in his cloak for a piece of paper he borrowed from the library. He was highly rational, but he understood his emotions enough to know not to stress himself out with people too much.

The paper contained a jutsu from his favorite elemental release, Raiton. It wouldn’t be too practical against strong opponents, but it could mean a tactical edge over people of his own skill level. He read the paper over once or twice, then read the handseal sequence. He read this part quite a few times, speaking their names aloud and performing the seals simultaneously at half-speed. As he did so, he slowly raised the speed of his seal-forming until it reached his normal flow. He then had to begin the fun part of the jutsu: the chakra.

Of course, he had never focused chakra into his eyes before since he had no dojutsu blood running in his veins. It would be a very interesting experience to be sure, but he was ready for the challenge. He began by touching his temples with his hands and slowly moving the chakra in his body to his eyes, closing them in concentration. Bit by bit, he could feel intense pressure building behind them, almost as if they would burst forth from their sockets. It wasn’t painful, but it was quite disconcerting; Kaane let up on the chakra flow and let it drain from his eyes, hoping to find a happy medium between overload and not enough power.

After around ten minutes of this uncomfortable chakra movement, he realized he wasn’t getting anywhere. He began to think about how his eyes worked: “Refraction and convergence of light...there’s this mirror in my eyes...basically...i just have to use...those….ah yes...retinas…push the light through the pupils...” He began to focus his chakra specifically into his retinas, planning on using them to hold his chakra as well as to create the light he needed by reversing the function of his eyes to project light instead of receiving it. Then, suddenly, he felt something... “release” in his eyes. “What…” he said to himself as he opened them curiously. He was quite surprised; everything seemed to have a faint tinge of light blue to it, and from what he could tell by looking at the floor, his eyes were emitting faint light. He laughed to himself, almost thinking he had unknown Byakugan powers for a moment or two, then withdrew his chakra from his eyes as his vision regained its natural colors.

Still, this conditioning was useless as a battle technique at the moment except as a useless scare tactic; the light was nowhere near bright enough to blind anyone. For that, he’d have to use lightning chakra. He closed his eyes again and clasped his hands together for a quick finger stretch, then flew into the handseal sequence he had learned earlier. Turning his chakra into electrical energy with ease, he shot it up through his neck into his eyes. However, he soon found that bringing the chakra into his eyes too quickly was a problem: he felt like they were burning within a half second of the sudden chakra influx.

He screamed in pain, opening his eyes as the chakra was forced out, creating an extremely powerful flash of light that illuminated the entire main chamber of the cave. Then, everything went dark. Kaane, petrified by the thought of losing his eyes, uselessly rubbed them with his fingers, still feeling them burning terribly. Eventually, he realized that this wouldn’t do any good, and waited stock still until his vision returned completely a few minutes later. Even then, his eyes were tingling, feeling quite sore from the immense strain he placed on them.

“Slow and steady seems to be the way to go…” he thought to himself as he awkwardly sat down. He rubbed his eyes once more, hoping they wouldn’t be completely deformed the next time he saw himself in a mirror. He laid down and closed his eyes, giving them some rest. “I did succeed in creating the flash of light on the first time...just need to focus on bringing the chakra into my eyes more slowly...the paper did say it might take time to build up the energy needed to do so…” he thought. “Yes...that could have gone much worse if i had actually believed the pain was part of the jutsu...ha...imagine that…” Before his train of thought could wander to what living completely blinded would be like and to all of the philosophical questions that were associated with the notion of blindness, he shook his head and slowly got up, his eyes already feeling much better.

“Ok…” he said to himself as he relaxed, closing his eyes again. His hands performed the combination of seals the jutsu needed as he began to gather his electrical chakra into his eyes, this time at a much slower rate. At first, he felt nothing, but soon he saw that the insides of his eyelids began to become illuminated. His eyes tingled slightly as he brought more chakra into them, becoming more and more intense as he slowly gathered his power. Finally, just before his eyes began to burn, he opened them and let his chakra free.

From what he could see, the resulting light flash was much weaker this time, but it would most likely successfully blind something near to him. Not quite ten meters as the paper said, perhaps, but maybe half that distance. He mentally congratulated himself on not nearly blowing his eyes out this time around, then prepared to perfect the jutsu on his third try.

For about a minute, he left his eyes closed to give them a rest. Then, he executed the flurry of seals that made up the jutsu once more. He gathered his chakra at a comfortably quick pace this time, now familiar with the amount of chakra his eyes could hold safely. He soon felt his eyes reach the pain threshold, at which point he opened them and added an extra blast of chakra to push out the flash of light even farther in front of him.

It was a success. Kaane could see quite clearly this time how the light flashed against the rest of the cave, most likely dangerous to anything with eyes 10 meters in front of him, while all his vision suffered was a slight blurring from the quick change in lighting and reversal of its natural function. He was quite pleased with his work. Indeed, he knew that this technique would be quite dangerous if used correctly...if you take away a soldier’s sight for a second in a battle, you doom him.

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+10; Learned.

[Aiji]

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Doton: Rikujou Douyou no Jutsu (Earth: Ground Shaking Technique)
Rank: "D" Rank
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: The user slams their hands against the ground as the user creates a miniature like earthquake in order to try and unbalance the enemy or opponents all around for a more of a deadly like attack.
Special: "Hand Seals"
Drawback: The user's hands must stay upon the ground at all time. When the user is capable of reaching "A" Class the knowledge of placing their hands onto the very ground becomes obsolete, and the user is capable of performing the technique without having their hands along the ground.
Description: As the user slams their hands against the ground, the user is capable of creating a miniature like earthquake along the ground. The ground rumbles lightly as the very earth moves in all directions in a ten-meter radius. Every time the user gains ranking in difficulty class the distance of the technique increases by ten meters.
Limit: Needs the Earth Release.

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Enter!Hijacking!

As Aiji searched for the girl he assisted in saving, the Takikage, he found himself climbing a hill toward the top of a waterfall inside of Takigakure. His three half-filled butt pouches bounced on his legs with each step that he took toward the top. One of the bags were almost completely filled with 48 exploding tags and a piece of metal that 43 were connected to that Aiji used in conjunction with them. The second pouch is littered with 4 smoke bombs, a couple of hikari, his world map and 5 ice crystals. The last pouch was just dead weight, but it was a prize from a battle that he had earlier on before encountering waterfall. While his climb continued, Aiji patted off the dirt that had risen and clung to his tactical vest. With each patting performed, the Airontoku could feel the 3 soldier pills and blood-clot pills in some of the pockets as well as the goggles, gas mask and the ear plugs. Before Aiji finished his climb, he noticed a small sign posted next to the wall, but with further inspection, the katon master realized the hole that led to a whole new area. With a little chakra directed to his eyes, a picture of the cave entrance and location was taken with the camera contacts that Aiji had on.

In order to get any further, though, the non-ninja had to crawl through a hole that was hardly bigger than he was. In order to fit comfortably, the boxer took off his rope loader [filled with 105 ft of wire], two blades and shield and fed it through the hole while he then crawled through; using the help of his gloves with metal spikes on it for support on crawling through. The weight of the five books did little to help his travel, but Aiji didn't quite have anywhere to place them either, so he needed to travel with it all until he found a place for them. The only headband the non-ninja had left, after turning in a plethora of them to another village for mission credits, was the one of a Kusagakure shinobi.

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Once Aiji made it through, he noticed the large amount of space to work with. Seeing as how there was no one here, and he still hadn't made any sort of contact with Rosalie, Aiji headed down one of the two passages which led him to a small pool of water that had been created from the waterfall dripping down into the cave. With no stalactites or stalagmites here to get in the way, Aiji reequipped his blades and shield to his sides and began to channel his chakra to finish practicing a jutsu he had been witness to at an earlier date. It was a low ranking technique so the chakra drain was low, and it took minimal preparation time. Once Aiji felt the chakra flowing nicely throughout his body and toward his hands, he crouched down and placed both palms face down onto the ground.

The chakra was easily channeled from his hands to the ground, and a rumbling began to echo through the cave. The Airontoku could see the loose rocks on the ground moving about even twenty-five meters away. While he hadn't been working on it long, he wasn't entirely happy with the result of the technique. The last time that he had seen it used by someone else, they were capable of having the same effect, in a larger scale, without even having to touch the ground. With his mind made, the boxer began sewing through multiple seals yet again in order to channel his chakra through his body. As the swelling of chakra built up again, Aiji commanded it down through his legs in an attempt to try and use the jutsu from another source for the chakra.

As the charka exited Aiji's body through his feet, he could feel the ground begin to shake, at a much higher level than before, but their wasn't the distance that he was looking for. With an extra push of chakra, since he only used little already, the doton-user in training could see the noticeable difference in range as the rocks down the passageway began to bounce around as well as the water in the pond. The range, this time, seemed to almost double the distance; forty meters in total this time around. In order to better see the results of his current training, Aiji continued to walk back the way he came, since the pond was the dead-end, and bent down to see the amount of movement the rocks had gone through after using his technique.

[zarak729]

Could you please provide a link of the thread where you learned the other half?
Learned!

[Misu]

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The world was full of wonders seeking to be experienced. A line often recited by Misu’s Grandfather; He had said it so many times that it had drilled into Misu’s head. All the young Takigakure shinobi wanted out of his life was adventure. He sought the wonders, but he the lazy genin as forced to stay put confined in the village limits. With not that much time invested into training, he was far too weak to leave. He had already experienced this once as child. Luckily for him, the village had many sights to offer.

One of Misu’s favorites was located high atop one of the more known waterfalls throughout the village. He had once used it as a hidden base back in his academy days, but in more recent times the hidden spot, not so hidden now, was serving other purposes. Misu didn’t mind; he always wanted a new friend. Today he planned on returning hoping to catch who had been using the cave, and hopefully they could get along.

A trail led up the mountain, but Misu saw that for armatures. Besides, it took a whole extra five minutes. Misu took his favorite route to the top, the side of the cliff. For some reason climbing that close to the falls seemed to calm him. He highly enjoyed the roar of the water, and feeling the intensity the falls had to offer up close. It reminded him of everything the village stood to represent. Zoku, unable to climb, was latched onto Misu’s back. It was rare to see him without his partner in crime. Holding up the boys drenched cargo pants was his usual utility belt packed with all type of Shinobi goodies, 4 Kunai, 32 Caltrops, and 30 shuriken to be exact.

It didn’t take him long to reach the top, and once he did he headed straight for the tiny entrance into his old base. “Alright you first boy.” Misu said as he flashed his Mongoose a smile before it slipped through the hole. Misu followed immediately after. “Finally I gotchu!” Misu shouted and pointed at the strange looking man in the cave over near a pool of water. The eager genin titled his head as if confused by the appearance by the man in front of him. “and you are…” The boy added as he tapped his chin. Misu didn’t see any headband clearly on the man in front of him.

Although the boy was unsure of the man in front of him he never gave off an uncomfortable feeling. Without any protest in his gut, Misu smiled at the man just as he had Zoku before entering. “I’m Misu Koizumi.” The energetic genin introduced himself with his high voice and a million ryo grin.

[Misu]

Not getting a response the eager genin put his head down and fled the scene.

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