The Shark [T/O]

[Jäger Beschützer]

Wield Oversized Weapon
Rank: "C"
Skill: TaiJutsu/Supplementary
Effect: The user can use larger than normal weapons with ease.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: The user can treat any weapon as if it were 1 size category smaller than normal and one category "lighter" for the purpose of determining the amount of effort it takes to wield. For instance, a user with this technique could wield a Great Sword as a 1-handed weapon, or they could wield a large great sword as a 2-handed weapon. The weapon still deals its normal amount of damage.
Limit: Must take from Universal TaiJutsu.

[--/30]

The scene before him was one of great beauty.  Jäger had come from the village to a small area that he really enjoyed being around.  Usually the small oasis was an area of great peace for him, but today he had come with more physical needs in mind.  Having registered as a genin of the village, he was a little worried that any time he had was needed in a mission, he would be unable to do anything.  To fix this, he was forcing himself to train, at least a little bit, in order to be able to keep up with the other shinobi in the village.  Learning how to use his weapons before anything else seemed like a pretty important task for him.  With that he donned his Shield and his chain and had come to the small and private oasis to work on things.  There were many trees surrounding him, and the small waterfalls that ended into the oasis around here were vibrant with life, and he found the area very calming.  It was unfortunate that he had to practice here, but he felt a little self-conscious of his skills at the moment.  

Jäger fingered the the edge of his shield with a disinterested thoughtlessness.  His mind was elsewhere as the rains fell, cascading against his body, making him feel quite at home.  His orange robs were drenched from the time he had been outside in the rain; but what did a Shark have to worry about when being wet?  The chain on his right hand clinked angrily as he switched hands with the tail end.  It really was quite cumbersome for him to try and hold it properly with two hands.  Each time he wanted to do something with it, he needed to put his shield down and lift his chain with both hands.  It was a great length of chain after all, and even though he was a large man with great strength; he did not seem to be able to use it with one hand.  Perhaps he should practice that a little bit, as it was rather embarrassing for a man of his stature to have such a weak appearance.  The chain clinked again as it settled into a pile in his great hands; with its tail hitting the floor and piling up there too.  

The large shark man whipped the length of chain out a bit, releasing the length in his hand and letting it fall in a line on the earth before him.  Yanking it slightly, he created a wave through the chain which clinked and protested the awkward movements of the links.  As it all clattered on the ground again, Jäger gripped the end of the chain before the link at his wrist, and gripped them tightly.  A thin tree was to be his target, as it was a snapping whip strike using the end of the chain.  With two hands gripping the chain, he knew he was going to be able to strike the tree and break it with the end of the whip, but he was just getting the motions right so he could do so with his right hand alone.  Concentrating on the tree, he whipped up his right hand, using his left hand to maintain stability, as he was whipping a heavy piece of metal that was incredibly flexible.  As hard as he could, his hands snapped down and the whip flicked forward.

The chain waved as the movement travelled down the length of the metal until it reached the end, lifting the edge of the chain up into the air at an astronomical speed, which cracked against the bark of the tree with the sound and force of a herd of elephants.  The wood of the tree snapped with ease and the top part of the trunk fell softly to the small pool of water at its base.  The leaves and branches catching its light frame.  The fish around the newly fallen tree scattered as the branches splashed into the water, but the new source of food for the small creatures drew them back quickly, as they began to explore the new addition to the pond, and to taste the leaves and bark.  Jäger let go of his right wrist with his left and hung it by his side, he was going to have to do that with his right alone, since his left was going to wield the shield.  Spinning his right hand, he drew the chain back around his wrist and hand as he prepared to try it again.

[Father 'Suke]

+10

[Jäger Beschützer]

[10/30]

Being slightly out of breath was a change from being on his behind and reading in a dark library of books, and he was enjoying himself.  The same meditative relaxation washed over him as he practiced with the iron chain in the oasis.  If all of his training was going to be so easy, then he was going to enjoy himself.  The metal was wet and cold against his skin; a great feeling for him as the summer rains continued to fall.  The shark realized it was probably not the training he found relaxing, but the atmosphere in which he found himself doing the training.  The rain, the humid weather, and the beautiful sounds of everything around him.  He could not help but smile his large smile.  Coiling the metal chain around his arm, he clenched his fist around it and flexed, feeling the cool metal slip across his skin into a more comfortable position.  The chain ran across his knuckles, which would make for an even more painful strike if the need ever arose.  Jäger could not imagine someone aggravating him to the point where he would strike with a chain brass knuckle kind of weapon, but he did not think it would be an impossible scenario.  

Brining up a boxing guard, he shadow boxed a couple of strikes in the air, feeling his robust stomach follow the strikes, throwing him ever so slightly off balance when it did so.  Speed was not his vein of specialization; he chuckled to himself at the thought.  At least this was out of the water.  As a Hoshigaki; under the water, his speed would be unrivalled, the same could be said of his strength; but he suspected his strength was rather more impressive than most out of water too.  This was taking into consideration his choice of weaponry.  The massive shield and the great length of chain that was currently being crushed in his powerful grip.  Speaking of the chain, he was going to try and perform the same movement with one hand, planning on breaking the bottom half of the small tree he had just struck.  The chain had severed the top part of the trunk which had been slightly smaller than the bottom part, so he would need to use a little more strength.  More strength would not normally be a problem, but he was doing this one handed now, so he would need to put a little more effort into this in order to perform it with as much strength as normal.

Letting the chain slide down his arm and into a pile, he started to rotate it, making it into a spinning tornado of metal.  Raising it above his head, the long string of metal loops sung as the wind moved swiftly through the gaps in the chain, whistling a high pitched whistle.  Even for Jäger; it took a lot of energy to create one loop around his head, as his arm required great amounts of strength to keep the chain moving, but also to prevent the weight of the chain trying to escape his grasp from ripping his arm off.  The Shark began to understand why he needed to train this properly, as he had thought it would have been easy.  After a couple of seconds of spinning the chain overhead, he lessened the force and slowed it down, letting it hit the ground and ring out as the metal struck rock beneath the surface of the shallow pool of water at his feet.  Groaning a little and rubbing his right shoulder with his large left hand, he rotated the ball joint and tried to shake the ache from the muscle.  That had required a lot of effort, but he was just out of shape.

Jäger looked down at his belly and rolled his eyes at the thought, his bloodline as a member of the Akimichi clan was enough to keep him out of shape, he was more out of practice than out of shape.  The initial pain had left him and he pulled the chain in from off the ground and back into his hand.  Ready to spin it again.  Throwing it in the air; he snapped it down, expecting it to follow the route of his hand, but the chain was too loose, and fell on his head before being pulled by his arm.  The metal slunk onto the floor into a heap again and he rubbed the sore spot on his head where the chain had struck him.  His curly hair had not cushioned the blow at all.  The branches of the top of the tree that he had destroyed wiggled as the fish nibbled at the leaves, and he was reminded of his target.  He would try it a couple more times, and this time he would do it properly, as he had used the chain as a whip multiple times, and he was simply unused to it being performed with one hand. 

[Father 'Suke]

+10

[Jäger Beschützer]

[20/30]

With each sweeping rotation of his powerful arm; the chain grew in speed and weight until he was able to reign it in to a simple turning of his elbow as it was moving so fast.  The draft from the chain overhead pushed any vegetation away, and created a unique kind of rippling in the water around his ankles.  The small fish that had began to explore the fallen branch of the tree had swam away, fearful of the behemoth above them with his weapon.   The chain spun so fast that he could no longer track it with his eyes.  He could feel the speed of it though, and the weight; and it was just about ready to break the sound barrier with the edge of the whip.  Brining his hand over with great force, he swung until his wrist was directly in front of him and his wrist pointed up into the sky.  The weight of the whip tried to pull his arm back, but he was far stronger than need be to control the whip.  It resisted but its course was changed and it was following his arm now.  His wrist snapped downward with great force and the aiming was over as the whip moved like metal lightning. 

The whip crap struck like lightning and the sharp sound reverberated for quite a few seconds after the initial blast, echoing through the forests around.  Those fish that had been hiding at the edge of the pool now hid in their small holes out of sight; as the sound had driven every animal below the water and on the surface and in the forests away from the oasis save the giant shark.  The tree splintered on the impact; and there were no parts of the debris that were any larger than a finger.  The chain was in the air and Jäger pulled it down towards his arm and spun it a bit so it would wrap around his arm until it reached his shoulder.  The last of the metal slapped against his wet skin and stuck there as he pulled the sleeve of the robe back over the top of it to hold it there.  Now that he had done it, he rotated his shoulder again, feeling the ache of having pulled that heavy piece of steel through a rather aggressive spin.  Rubbing the arm he moved towards the tree to see the damage the whip had caused.

There was not much left of the tree thanks to the weight of the chain, although Jäger had pretty much assumed that would happen.  He did not seem to be doing too poorly using the chain with one hand, although he could use a little work on his fitness and strength, as he had obviously been skimping on it.  The chain wrinkled under his robe as he moved his arm again, letting some of the chain slide down.  There was a loop hanging out of the sleeve, about three feet below his hand. The two parts of the chain were wrapped in his large hand, so he had sort of a noose looking length of chain held out in front of him.  It was far smaller, in the shape of a cudgel, and when he twirled that in his hand, it spun far faster and with far less effort than spinning the full length of chain.  The range would not be nearly as far, but he could strike using the shorter length and it would hurt a hell of a lot.  Even Jäger with his thick cartilage, hide and skin would feel the sting of the chain if he was attacked like that.  

Letting the speed of the chain slow to a stop, he tucked everything back up his sleeve and nursed his wrist with his left hand.  The metal was controllable with one hand, but that certainly did not mean that it was effortless.  Even if he became more adept at spinning the weapon, and even using it as a whip with only one hand, it would take a while and quite a bit of effort before he was capable of doing it as easily as he could wield a smaller weapon.  Still, he had already destroyed a tree in its entirety, even if it was a small one, he had done it with a weapon as opposed to with his hands.  It occurred to the large Shark that the chain was probably not going to be used too often; but the knowledge of being able to use it was far from useless.  Shifting his arm again, he got the chain in a more comfortable position before slugging the large shield back onto his back with his left hand.  Now he was more adept in battle without having to waste time using his left hand to equip the chain.  

[Father 'Suke]

+10

[Jäger Beschützer]

Baika no Jutsu (Multi-Size Technique)
Skill: Ninjutsu
Rank: "D"
Effect: The user becomes much larger than normal.
Special: Ram - Bird
Drawback: The user is a larger target and can be hit easier.
Description: Baika no Jutsu is a Ninjutsu technique developed by the Akimichi clan as a means of enlarging their torso into a large, spherical shape. This can be used both offensively and defensively as the sudden increase in size can be used to lessen the damage of Taijutsu techniques of D-Rank and lower. This technique is also used as the basis for several other body manipulating techniques that the Akimichi possess. When using this technique, small amounts of chakra are expelled from the body that saturate the clothing the user is wearing in order to allow it to expand and change sizes along with the user instead of ripping apart.
Limit: Akimichi

[--/10]

The surface of the small pond rippled with each step the large Shark took as he sank deeper into the small body of water.  These small rivers and ponds felt almost like home for him; cooling his skin and providing him with an endless source of freedom if he so chose.  Unfortunately he was not here among the beautiful oasis ponds for enjoyment, he was here to train.  Brushing some small lilly pads aside, he reached what he believed to be the deepest point of the small pool.  At waist deep for him, he smiled at the thought of it being neck deep or chest deep for most humans.  His body had disrupted the water enough to make it quite rippled and distraught, and the sun caught each small undulation and the light fractured; creating a magnificent pattern that dispersed and came back together depending on the wavelets.  Nestled between the large white clouds that released the shower below, the sun managed to keep the autumn day quite an adequate temperature; even if the Shark shinobi did prefer it a little cooler.  

Standing in the midst of the pond, he recalled his days at the academy, where he had met others of his clan.  Not the shark clan, although there had been some, these were those of the chubby clan, the Akimichi clan.  They had been able to perform a technique that had increased their size greatly, and although he had been able to commit it to memory, he had never really tried it, as the thought to get any bigger than he already was, seemed quite absurd.  Thinking on it now though, the ability to grow in size and power seemed quite effective, as it would increase his strength and ability to absorb damage.  His large hands easily formed the seals of the technique and he focussed his chakra around his body, feeling the tingly feeling the chakra taking effect.  It was slight at first, but his shoulders cracked and he stood up to his full height as his chest puffed out and began to push against his robes.  Frowning, he pushed more chakra out, letting the chakra soak into his damp clothing; which would allow it to grow, to prevent him from being nude for the rest of the day.

His stomach expanded with his chest, and for a moment he thought that his legs and arms were receding into his body; but a quick assessment allowed him to realize that the extremities were merely not enlarging, as that required another technique.  Everything else; however; was increasing quite quickly, and his new found size was forcing the water to be displaced from the small pool he had been standing in.  Rivulets of water were making their ways down paths in the small oasis, picking up small debris as they ran away from the enlarged shark.  Jäger felt his weight greatly increase with the size increase, and he rolled backwards.  At least he tried to roll backwards.  Quickly he realized that in growing to his large size; and having been in the pool, he was now stuck.  The Akimichi shark wished he could have smacked a hand to his forehead, but unfortunately his arms were father away than usual and the ball of a man was sitting unable to do anything in this small pothole.  He was quite bothered by his lack of foresight.  Breathing in quite deeply, he focused his chakra once more, and began to shrink.

The stretching feeling that the technique had given him made him feel a little wierded out, but he imagined that modifying the body in any manner such as that would do that.  It had been a long time since he had undergone the shark ritual, other than fear, he could not recall too much about how that felt.  As he shrank back to his regular size, the water began to flood back into the small pond, and he realized that his clothes had not got them memo of the shrinking; and he was now standing in a very large pile of orange cloth and his sandles were about thirteen sizes too large.  Closing his eyes, he grasped the cloth and focussed his chakra into the clothing until it once more reached the correct size.  The Shark smiled at the simplicity of his foolishness; as that would have been a great battle tactic, revealing himself to the world would have been quite distracting.  Pulling the robe back on, he noticed that the pond was considerably less deep than it had been, as a lot of the water had escaped.  Luckily the rain would most certainly fill it back up in a short time, as the small waterfalls were growing stronger.  

[Captain M]

LEARNED

[Jäger Beschützer]

Chou Baika no Jutsu (Super Multi-Size Technique)
Rank: "B"
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: The user expands his/her entire body and grows up to five times their normal height and weight.
Special: Boar - Bird - Serpent - Ram
Drawback: The user is an easier target to hit and is slower to move.
Description: Chou Baika no Jutsu is a Ninjutsu technique developed by the Akimichi clan that takes the Baika no Jutsu further by not only increasing one's girth, but also their height on a large scale. Upon activation of this technique, the user can grow up to five times his/her normal height and weight. This grants the user a tremendous strength advantage due to sheer size and weight, but at the cost of slower movement.
Limit: Akimichi, Baika no Jutsu

[--/80]

Having gathered all of his weapons together and placed them neatly onto a pile somewhere he thought would keep them from harms way while he was practicing his next technique, as it was not as simple and unmoving as the previous expansion technique.  This was one that was far more complex than the last technique, and if he performed it correctly, would increase his size and weight exponentially.  This meant that if he grew five times his regular height, he would be around forty feet tall, and his girth would be about twenty feet.  This meant his weight would increase by about ten times, meaning he was going to weigh about eight thousand pounds.  Not a whole lot extra really he thought, as he chuckled to himself.  Such a weight increase would leave him practically unstoppable if he decided to go on a war path.  Amusingly enough, this was not even the largest that one of his clan could become, as he was merely scratching the surface of their techniques.  Granted, this technique required a fair amount of effort, but not so much that he could not handle it.

Jäger did not mind lengthy training anyway, as it gave him time to himself to ponder about his life and what he wanted to do with it.  Usually it came down to wanting to do something for the village that had saved his life; but he had always felt a little guilty about that thanks to his inaction.  With two techniques under his belt; he felt a little better about thinking such things about protecting his village.   This technique would make him feel as though he were truly a benefit to his village though, as being able to increase his size and strength massively could function in more than a battle situation.  He could not think of too many situations where it was applicable, but he was sure there was something non-violent it could be used for.  The technique was almost exactly the same as the body size increase technique he had just learned, but this would increase it many times more, and everything was involved, not just his waist.  

Sitting cross legged atop the surface of the pond, he relished in the cool spray of water from the sky as he focussed his chakra around his body.  Although Jäger was a capable Shinobi, his chakra control was still in need of improvement, so although he could perform techniques such as this one, it took a considerable amount of time for him to gather the amount of chakra he needed for a technique as powerful as this one.  At his stage in skill, he was capable of so few chakra based techniques, and even this would take him a couple of seconds to perform, which was basically useless for him in battle for now, at least if he happened to be alone.  His breathing was quiet and he allowed the chakra to seep into every part of his body, feeling the shiver he always felt when the chakra tingled and caused goosebumps on his body.  There was a hefty amount of chakra running around his body, and he was focussing quite a lot on maintaining it.  Breathing in one large breath of air, he held it and formed hand seals, feeling the large amount of chakra begin to expand.  

First he focussed on his feet, feeling them swell within the sandles which the began expanding shortly after.  His extremities had not gotten to be increased in size during his last technique, so he thought it best to start with his hands and feet first, before progressing to his arms and legs, and then his head.  His torso would be the last part that he was going to practice, as that was something he had already done.  Once he had managed to increase the size of each individual body part; it was probably time for him to try it out on his entire body, but he was a while away from that as of yet, he still needed to think of his feet.  His feet currently felt as though they had been submerged into a pool of freezing water, as the blood flow of his body perhaps did not get the message and had not been increased by the chakra as of yet, leaving his feel without a lot of blood and therefore heat.  That was the first thing wrong as his feet continued to swell, he tried to redirect the chakra, to increase the blood flow in the appendages to keep them from being damaged by his own lack of experience.  

[Jäger Beschützer]

[--/80]

Jäger had always thought of himself as someone who stood out amongst his peers, if not for his constantly positive attitude and size, then for his work ethic when it came to diving into new things and learning them.  This was one of those moments when hesitation came between him and continuing trying to learn the technique.  It was not that it was overly difficult, but it was whether or not it was practical for him to be learning a technique that was as advanced as this at this point in time.  The argument in his head came down to whether or not he would be able to use it properly when the time came to it, and he did not believe that he would be able to until he became a little stronger.  On the other hand, he would certainly grow stronger, not only in physique thanks to this technique, but when it came to his chakra control, which would allow him to progress more quickly through these techniques and allow him to use it in and out of battle.  Practising it now would merely make it easier for him to perform later; even if it required more practice now.  Realistically, what else was he doing anyway?  He would simply change it to another technique, maybe a little weaker, and have to practice more of less.  In the end it would require the same amount of work over a different amount of techniques

Jäger was okay with this one then.  

His feet still grew, swelling to a weight and size that it could match his leg if they had been separate entities.  Thankfully they were not separate, but the comparison worked for him.  The sandles and the feet in them had grown to about 5 feet in length and now looked as though he was standing with his feet in a large blue pile of something if someone was not looking closely.  Wriggling his toes, he felt the massive digits move slowly at his command, but they felt sluggish in comparison to the movement of the rest of his body.  It made sense given that the electrical impulses of his body now had far further to travel.  At least that was the explanation he gave himself and he was happy with.  Trying to lift the feet was a whole other story though, as they weighed a lot right now, and the rest of his body did not possess the same strength boost that they possessed.  Jäger had managed to create super strong feet with this technique so far, and he felt pretty proud that he had done this much so far.  

Closing his eyes and focussing on his core once more, he began to move the chakra that was inflating his feet from there and up through his body to his hands.  He would no longer be able to perform the seals once his hands were gargantuan, and given the fact that he had been unable to move his feet when they had been large, he doubted he would be able to lift his hands off of the ground.  As he began to lose the height given by his feet enlarging, he began to lean forward as his hands grew heavier.  It was nothing too much at first, as though he happened to be carrying full grocery bags, but that soon increased to him trying to lift boulders, until eventually he fell forward, one hand resting on its palm, and the other upside down, with the palm facing up.  Being caught in such an uncomfortable position, he tried to make this as swift as possible when it came to testing it out.  Hands required a lot more focus than feet, which was probably because they were far more dexterous and complicated, being used for so many more things.  Each digit required extensive thought to move, as he tried to form a fist.  

Without the aide of the tendons in his arms though, the fist was week, but the fingers were moveable even in such a state when the rest of his body did not share the massive physique.  The pain of the technique was getting to him though, and he allowed his chakra to disperse and felt the relief as his hands began to shrink back to their regular size, and he was able to stand upright and move his appendages again.  Rotating his wrists he flexed his fingers and just loosened them in general.  Movements when the body was enlarged were quite sluggish and frustrating, but that may have also been a side effect of only enlarging one part of the body at once.  It was a lesson learned for now though, and he would learn more as he kept on with the technique.  Enlarging his head was going to be weird.  Looking around, he found a spot that looked pretty soft and peaty, and would probably be pretty comfortable for his soon to be three hundred pound head.  If at any time this was going to go wrong the for the Shark, this was it.  

[Beltran]

+20

[Jäger Beschützer]

[--/80]

Jäger was quite the heavy set man, but as someone who focussed primarily on taijutsu techniques, he felt he was quite spry for such a robust fellow, as exemplified by the fact that he leapt backwards, flipping and landing quietly on one foot on top of a rock situated in the soil around the oasis.  Balancing his heavy frame on the rock, he settled himself down and sat down on top of the rock, before kneeling down on the soil and looking about the forest and finding the most comfortable spot to lay down on.  It did not matter where he lay really, his thick skin would not be bothered by such trivial things as rough earth, but Jäger was taking precautions just in case he screwed this one up.  Considering his head was the one at risk here, he did not want to risk damaging his pretty face.  He laughed to himself again, as if he of all people were worried about being pretty.  Between his large, fanged mouth, the blue skin, and the great bulbous nose that was situated straight in the middle of his face, he doubted anyone who was not of his ilk could ever consider him attractive.  Such sad thoughts though, how could he think such things when he had such training to involve himself in.

There should be no time for sad thoughts for the behemoth; they slowed the mind and made one dwell, and he did not like dwelling on sad things, he preferred to think about interesting things.  Interesting things such as the chakra now rushing towards his head in order to increase the size of it.  At first the excess chakra made him feel fuzzy, and his eyes went out of focus, but as the chakra settled, he felt the growing pains as his skull and eyes and brain all began to enlarge.  The optic nerves at the back of his eyes burned as they grew in size.  Everything looked as though it was vibrating incredibly fast, which was quite nauseating.  Closing his eyes to try and stave off the motion sickness their growing in size was causing, he pressed his hands against his temples and tried to ignore the throbbing pain that was coming from his brain growing a little faster than his skull, which made the nausea increase ten fold.  Gritting his sharp teeth and feeling his fangs dig into his cheeks he struggled against the pain.

Increasing the chakra flow to his head; he increased the size of his skull as quickly as possible, relieving himself from some of the pain, but not all.  His teeth were growing and becoming too large for his mouth; his fangs growing mighty close to his eyes.  He could already tell that  his head was enlarging; as he tried to move his body, but he was stuck at the neck, which hurt more than anything and forced him to take in a deep breath and try to relax.  Struggling against the enlargement of his head, he relaxed his body and tried to let the pain pass.  Calm, deep breaths filled his lungs and he opened his eyes, staring at the bright sky above.  Deeper breaths, slow inhale, slow exhale.  The sky was beautiful and he concentrated on the feeling of the mist falling from the clouds and onto his face.  Calm had reached him from the depths of his heart and he felt the pain subside as his head had reached the largest size that it was going to reach using this technique.  It was not a comfortable feeling at all.  When his feet had been huge, it had been weird, when his hands had been huge, it was uncomfortable.  Now that his head was far larger, it did not feel right at all.

His head deflated far more quickly than the rest of his body parts thanks to the urgency of his situation.  As it shrunk back to the regular size, he sat up and shook his head.  Feeling all about his skull to make sure that he had no; in fact; left something misguidedly out of proportion.  When everything checked out, he let out a barking laugh that resounded through the forest.  Never had he been so pleased to look how he was, which was a brand new feeling for the man.  Jäger stood up and lifted his belly up and laughed some more, having experienced some strange things during this training.  His head, feet, and hands had all grown quite large, and he was starting to lose track of what his proportions were really supposed to be.  He was still pretty tall and fat, so at least he had that going for him.  What was next?  He thought about increasing his torso, but he had done that; so he was going to skip it.  The Shark thought it best to practice on his lower body next.  If things had been weird so far, then he was going to experience something quite odd within the next hour or so.   

[Father 'Suke]

+10

[Jäger Beschützer]

[30/80]

Jäger rubbed his large belly as he contemplated the increased size technique.  The giant shark possessed a capable pool of chakra for someone of his preferences, but was feeling a little tired from the extended usage of all of it; after all, he was quite out of practice.  The shark had decided he was going to have a bit of a rest; maybe give himself a couple of minutes to restore the balance within his body in order to get started with his technique again.  His shoulder still ached from his practice with the chain; but his entire body felt very odd from the fluctuation of chakra that he was running all over his body in order to make the technique work.  It was not an ache; it was more of a numbness that he was feeling all through his limbs and muscles.  All in all it meant that he was doing pretty well with his training.  At least that was what he thought, since his body was experiencing many different feelings thanks to the chakra that was disrupting everything.  It also helped that he had witness his extremities growing to large sizes.  

While sitting on the outcropping boulder that the water of the pond lazily slapped itself against as he removed his feet from it in order to tuck them below his knees as he sat cross-legged; he pondered the power of the technique; as though he had definitely witnessed someone performing the technique, the power of it had never been displayed.  Naturally; if the user was going to grow to five times the height, then it could be said that the user acquired five times the strength; but that seemed massively out of context as he would be able to break buildings with his enormous strength at that point.  What great strength his clan had acquired.  This version was not even the most powerful version, there was one that would allow him to double the size that he could attain using this stage of the technique; which would be a terrifying sight to behold at all, he would grow up to nearly eighty feet in height, and weigh as much as a small moon probably.  The amusing thought of him having his own gravity crossed his mind, and his belly rumbled with his chuckles.  

The strength that this technique gave was proportional to the size of the person using the technique he had learned so far.  When he had enlarged individual pieces, he had been unable to use his regular strength to move the extremities.  Jäger would later learn how to increase parts individually as weapons later on; but he was far more concerned about increasing his size as a whole before separating things.  Standing up again, he rotated his shoulders and kicked out his legs a little, trying to get his body ready for another couple of go's using this technique.  Walking atop the surface of the water; he took in a deep breath and centred himself, meditating on the way that the technique was performed.  This time he was going to increase his legs and feet in size; then once that was done; he was going to increase the size of his upper body; which would have him at his fully forty feet in height.  All in all an interesting training day for the man; but he was going to switch from these multi-form techniques after this one.  It certainly was hard to keep true proportions in mind at times like this.

The water rippled as his chakra kept him from sinking into it.  Would he need to use a little more chakra when he was larger to prevent him from falling into the water?  He did not know; there were a lot of things he did not know about the technique; which was why he was training it he supposed, but that was obvious.  His meaty hands formed the seals of the technique and he focussed his chakra around him, forcing it to swim south in his body; seeping into his leg muscles and the cartilage that comprised his muscles.  The skin and his shoes soaked the excess chakra in and prepared themselves for the stretch.  Taking in a deep breath, he maintained a constant and even flow of chakra all throughout his lower extremities as his hands completed the seals that would allow the technique to work.  The deep breath was released and his stomach extended outwards as he began to allow the chakra within his legs to expand.  

[Father 'Suke]

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[Jäger Beschützer]

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Jäger felt the growth of his lower body start to occur and he forced himself to maintain a calm mind, preventing any spikes of chakra that would force a quicker growth in parts of his legs and not others.  When he had been performing the technique using only his head, he had allowed the chakra to flow all around without any real guidance, this had been the cause of his headache and his pained optic nerves.  This time he was maintaining control and would not allow anything like that to happen.  There were some cracks from his unwilling joints in his legs before the growth started correctly, but those aches and pains were expected.  Growing pains truly were a thing even at his age.  His feet were the most visible thing to him that were expanding, as he was having difficulty seeing his legs from underneath his rather large stomach.  His large, webbed feet expanded, growing and thickening until they had covered the entire surface of the pool he was standing on, blocking it from his view.  Even as they did so, he still grew taller as his body expanded.

His legs; already tense due to their cartilage composition were usually quite skinny, but as the chakra from the technique seeped into them; he could feel the thickening and lengthening, the muscles of which were folding upon themselves and buffing up.  From his already tall position, he did note that his head was beginning to move above the trees as his legs grew in size.  Brushing the foliage from his view, he covered his eyes with a hand as he began to expand and rise above the tree line.  If there had been any creatures left in this grove after his rather loud training, he was sure that any of the birds in this tree would have evacuated at full force; as he pushed past quite a few birds nest, but did his best not to damage any of them.  After about twenty feet of increase in his height, he came to a stop in the midst of a large collection of branches that scratched at his face and obscured his vision.  Finally letting out a deep breath he had forgotten he had been holding, he looked down.

If the ground had seemed far away from him on any normal day; today he was probably further away from the earth than he had ever been before.  Leaning to the right; he brought his left leg up to step forward, feeling off balance as his massive appendage moved slowly and without regard for any of the small trees that it practically brushed over as it stepped.  The weight of his extremities now were unbelievable, he was crushing nature without even feeling it beneath his sandled feet.  With some effort, he managed to walk around the small oasis, trying his best so as not to destroy too much of the area.  Stepping back on to the large boulder he had been standing on earlier, he raised one foot and pressed it against the inner thigh of his other leg, and balanced while he stood upon the one foot.  Though it may have been the fact that he was only large on the bottom half of his body; he felt as though his balance had improved, and that he would not find having a massive body too out of place.  

Now he had to work on increasing his upper body.  The seals of the technique had already been completed, and the enlarging chakra was still manoeuvring through his body; so it would be even less effort to increase the size of his torso, arms and head.  Closing his eyes and resting his chin on his chest, he drew in breath and held it as he began to allow his chakra to move around his upper body, letting it move into his arms and tingle his skin until the tips of his fingers.  His robe had already increased in size, as he had removed the top half and let it hang around his waist, making him currently shirtless, so he had not had to wear a massive robe while his upper body was still small.  The chakra made its way fully through his body and he was prepared to allow it to increase the rest of his body and he was about to experience a taste of true Akimichi power.  The first of many techniques, but certainly a milestone for the Shark, as he had left it for so long, it was about time he honoured his parents and clan.

[Father 'Suke]

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[Jäger Beschützer]

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His arms increased first; but he slowed their progress.  Jäger has already tried to make this his focal point in the growth of his body already; which was not allowing his entire body to increase in size at different times.  He needed it to all expand at once to avoid any painful accidents or to avoid performing the technique incorrectly.  His chest began to expand, his powerful muscles growing in size and strength.  The tattoo of the sun that was emblazoned on his chest grew too, its vivid red colour seeming to brighten as his chakra fuelled the growth of his body and ran through his skin like electricity.  His stomach, which was already quite bulbous, ballooned out and expanded into a tree, which was unable to stop the growth and cracked beneath the pressure of his mighty torso.  Water splashed beneath his feet as his weight was too much for the chakra that was keeping him atop the surface to hold him, and the soles of his feet were splashed and soaked as he fell in, with the water reaching up to his thick ankles.  As much water as had been displaced earlier, now seemed like a puddle compared to the empty pond now as the water all overflowed.  

Jäger felt the weight of his head was a little too much for his neck, but the moment he noticed, his neck had caught up and he brought his head back upright.  Opening his eyes, he witnessed the tops of the trees leave his sight, and the sky was the world before him.  Had anyone been around to witness this, they would have questioned their sanity as a massive shark man rose above the tree tops and gazed with a look of satisfaction.  With such immense weight now pressing down on his bones; it took a couple of moments for him to figure out the movements of his body like this.  It was no different than usual when it came to the actual actions of it, but his body had increased in size so much that his movements were far slower and he found he needed to exaggerate his movements just to complete the action.  Raising his arms above his head, he took in a deep breath and held it.  His voice had probably received quite a boost in volume, that would be worth a test.  

A roar escaped his lips and echoed louder than any noise he had ever experienced.  Birds for miles flocked to the skies and fled from the noise as though the forest was on fire.  Jäger laughed boisterously and brought his hands together in a large clap to rub them together.  All the sounds that his body made just being a body were exaggerated in this form, as were the creaks and cracks of his joints moving.  Bending at the knee, he looked at one of the larger trees around and wrapped his now massive hand around the trunk.  It was like picking a flower at this size, and the tree came from the earth with nary a struggle.  There was really nothing that someone of his clan and strength could not do when his size was increased as greatly as it had done using this multi-form technique.  The massive Hoshigaki bent the tree like a twig, feeling the snap of the wood between his webbed fingers.  Impressed by the power of the technique, he let the wood fall to the earth and watched it splash into a pool of water below.

Flexing his newly sized muscles; he examined himself, feeling quite confident in his body now.  Even with his limited skills and techniques, through sheer power alone, he could probably influence the flow of a fight.  Slamming a fist into an open palm, he gazed about.  He wanted something to truly test his new found strength on, but there was not too much for a while around him.  Instead, he would attempt to tear one of the large boulders from the earth and to create a new resting pool for the displaced creatures to whom he had caused disturbances.  Lightly moving between some of the trees, he scanned the earth for a target for him to train on.  There was nothing really around that caught his attention, but over some large trees, he spotted a large lake with a massive stone resting in the centre, practically calling him over for him to use his heightened strength to tear it from the earth.  It was not exactly what he had been looking for, but it was better than doing nothing.  

[Father 'Suke]

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[Jäger Beschützer]

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The rock was easily at least fifteen feet in diameter, much larger than his now enlarged arm span.  If it was not for the curious shape of the rock; it would have been quite difficult for him to get a grip.  As he waded through the shallow water of the small lake, he pondered how he was going to manage the rock; given it was a lot larger than he had first estimated.  Around the boulder, the water was about ten feet deep and came up to his knees, and his feet sank into the soft sandy base of the lake.  Jäger was quite confident that he would be able to lift the rock if he could find the right place to hold the damned thing, as he was able to get a steady footing, his strength was more than enough, and he was feeling quite confident in himself this day, after all his training so far had given him quite a feeling of satisfaction.  As he considered his position with the boulder, his large hand was pressed against his chin as he thought.  

Flexing his arms and puffing out his chest he prepared himself for the titan effort he was about to undergo.  Pressing his cheek against the rock; he reached as far as he could, his hands clawing the cold surface of the large rock As his fingers found their hand holds, he crushed his biceps against the rock, breaking small shards of the mineral from it that were cracking or weakly attached.  As he firmed his grip; Jäger inhaled a mighty breath and clenched his teeth.  With his back straight and his knees bent; he began to lift, not feeling any movement at first while his body tensed and shook as he pulled upwards.  The water around him splashed and waved as his body and the rock vibrated from the movement, and all the aquatic creatures fled from their homes around the giant stone.  Grunting with the effort, the Shark man pulled back, feeling the movement of the rock being freed from the sand base of the lake.

As it became free of the sand, it began to move upwards, ever so slowly though as Jäger pulled, his grunting turning into a massive scream of effort as he worked the rock from the earth.  As he pulled; he began to lean backwards, pulling the rock up and lifting most of the weight with his legs, pressing the boulder into his chest with his arms to support the rock.  Breathing in short and shallow gasps as the base of the rock came from beneath the surface of the water, the massive shark moved his body explosively, and managed to throw the rock up ever so slightly to catch it from underneath.  Gripping it in the new position was not so bad, all the weight was resting on it and he no longer needed to seize it by the sides in a dangerous manner.  The sandy water ran down his fingers and across his arms, dripping into the water as he posed there holding the boulder in a manner reminiscent of Atlas holding the earth.   

Jäger drew in enough breath to let out one more scream as he lifted the boulder overhead, hoisting it in the air and with his arms extended, holding the massive rock for all to see.  Shaking with the great effort involved, he knew he needed to drop it.  Letting his elbows relax, he stepped forward and allowed the boulder to fall back into the lake.  The splash from the stone sent waves all the way to every side of the lake, sending a lot of water into the air and onto the rocks that the beach was comprised of.  His arms felt like jelly and his entire body was aching from all the effort he had just imparted into performing that feat of great strength.  Not only that, but he was pretty sure he was unable to maintain the technique any longer after that fatigue inducing event, he was going to need to shrink down and recover for a little bit before performing that again.