Little King Theatre [P | T]

[The Creator]

"If you wish to test your mettle, genin, I know of a place as of yet untouched."

[Exit]

[The Creator]

[Enter; I'm going to train here until I receive a response at the tower.]

木の腕 (Arm of Wood)
Rank: D, C
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: Creates an arm of wood that can be used to wield heavy weapons or heavy things up to 150 pounds.
Special: "Handseals"
Drawback: Need a wood source and cannot be used with Wooden Limbs.
Description: Using a nearby tree or something that has been used in previous wood techniques, the user creates a strong, stable hand made out of a tree trunk of a tree or using previous wood from wood techniques. The user creates a hand similar in size and shape to the user's own hand all the way down to the elbow part, and it mimic's the user's own arm design. If the user's arm has scars, then it will have cracks in the wood where the scar is on the arm.

In order to use the D rank, you need to have a technique that is strong enough to pick it up and swing it around, like D rank Sand Controlling. For C rank, need a technique with the ability to swing it around, like C rank Sand Controlling to grip it.

For the D rank, it shows some weak points like splinters or scars from the user and only creates one arm which can withstand 1 C rank, 3 D ranks, and 7 E ranks. For the C rank it has no visible weak points but is can withstand up to 1 B rank, 3 C ranks, or 7 D rank taijutsu techniques or any technique that would damage it, E rank's would not harm it unless it's fire or lightning. C rank creates two arms.
Limit: Need wood release.

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In order to supplement one's own strength with the tensile and power of trees, he could create an arm of bark and wood that would give him the ability to hold extremely heavy objects. Shouta hacked away at a tree with a blunted axe to see how the wood behaved. In doing so he was sure he would be able to replicate the makeup of the wood and recreate its strength. As he did so he noticed how there were strands of wood that seemed to curl up and out, thin as hair, but still the light tan of wood. So the strength of wood comes from the tensile of wooden strands such as these? With this in mind he would be able to replicate this on his own arm.

Of course he was not skilled enough to generate the wood on his own. He would have to pull the energy and required building blocks from a nearby source. The tree from which he had just hacked wood from would suffice. Before he began the practice of the technique he quickly reminded himself the tenants and natural chakras of the Mokuton release. To be as fluid as water but as hard as rock. The advanced nature release was a difficult concept but Shouta had conquered such a challenge long ago.

He placed his right hand on the tree, closing his eyes, focusing his chakra, and performing the handseals with his opposite hand. He made sure no prying eyes were around to garner that skill. With the completion of the handseals, he let the chakra flow through his arm and into the tree. Reaching out with his chakra, they formed into small nets and began to gather the necessary materials. Shouta opened his eyes to see wood rolling onto his arms like tendrils of water coming down like thick sap. As the materials seemingly rolled onto his arm, he would have to begin the process of creating the wood.

This is where his recently earned knowledge would come into play. He mimicked what he had learned: making small tendrils of wood. This would be the inner half, or the mantle of the technique. He would have to create the bark later. The chakra formed a thick adhesive to make sure that the wood was tightly bound to his skin. The wood began to form about the elbow, the lightly tanned color covering his pale skin. It made it's way down, forming layer upon layer that congealed with itself, forming the wood. Finally it made it to his hands and he began to coat himself with the stuff.

Finally came the bark. The shell-like substance of the tree was easy to recreate. Much like the wood that had come before it, it trickled onto the wood that had formed to congeal and solidify. The bark was the color of the bark on the tree from which Shouta had taken the wood from. But as Shouta inspected it, moving his joints and fingers to test the wood, cracks began to form and deepen around the joints. The arm would suffice but it could be improved. Shouta worked on dispelling the technique, using the same chakra he used to create it to destroy it.

[Tieren]

+10

[The Creator]

[Thanks, Tie]
[Full Exit]

[The Creator]

[Enter; I'll be training until I receive a response at the Gates]

木の腕 (Arm of Wood)
Rank: D, C
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: Creates an arm of wood that can be used to wield heavy weapons or heavy things up to 150 pounds.
Special: "Handseals"
Drawback: Need a wood source and cannot be used with Wooden Limbs.
Description: Using a nearby tree or something that has been used in previous wood techniques, the user creates a strong, stable hand made out of a tree trunk of a tree or using previous wood from wood techniques. The user creates a hand similar in size and shape to the user's own hand all the way down to the elbow part, and it mimic's the user's own arm design. If the user's arm has scars, then it will have cracks in the wood where the scar is on the arm.

In order to use the D rank, you need to have a technique that is strong enough to pick it up and swing it around, like D rank Sand Controlling. For C rank, need a technique with the ability to swing it around, like C rank Sand Controlling to grip it.

For the D rank, it shows some weak points like splinters or scars from the user and only creates one arm which can withstand 1 C rank, 3 D ranks, and 7 E ranks. For the C rank it has no visible weak points but is can withstand up to 1 B rank, 3 C ranks, or 7 D rank taijutsu techniques or any technique that would damage it, E rank's would not harm it unless it's fire or lightning. C rank creates two arms.
Limit: Need wood release.

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In order to alleviate the problems I had with the first incarnation of this technique I would have to address the specific issues, find solutions, and only then would I be able to understand and perform the advanced version of this technique. Furthermore I would have to learn how to perform this jutsu on both of my arms simultaneously, as that is what the advanced version of the technique required. With the basic layout of a plan in mind, it was time to begin the execution. So first things first, what were the problems with the first jutsu?

The first problem was the crack in the bark, but what was that caused by? If there were crack formations in the bark then it would be a symptom of a handful of causes, one being the ill formation and connection of bark molecules on my hand. I could have done a poor job of either copying the bark or in creating the bark. In both of those things I would have to be more careful. But could the problem be alleviated by just being more careful? That seemed like a blanket statement with no real solution in mind. So I decided I would have to figure something more concrete out before I began the jutsu again.

What makes cracks in wood, more than anything else? I had to think about it for a while before I began to come up with a solution. It was water that made cracks in the ice more than anything. Not so much water than actual ice, really. It was not water itself but the heating and cooling of water, and henceforth its expansion, which really made me believe that water was at the root of this problem. But water wasn't seeping into the cracks, it was just the expansion itself. So how was I going to deal with that? Perhaps a little chakra stored in the joints so that when the wood there expanded or contracted I would be able to deal with the problem. With that in mind I decided to go ahead and perform the jutsu.

Now doing it with both hands, which was simple really because all I had to do was copy what I had done with one hand and re-perform it with two hands, I took special care to be more careful. With that being the first step in my solution to creating the advacned version of this technique, I went ahead with the second one. When creating the wood and bark on top of the joints I made a lubricating chakra that would deal with the expansion and contraction of the wood. Therefore it would not break if moved my joints. With the jutsu performed I tested it out, flexing my fingers and extending/contracting my elbow. The wood did not crack, thus proving my solution to be the exact remedy the basic jutsu required.

[Father 'Suke]

+10; learned

[The Creator]

Katon Kyuuka (Fire - Flame Sphere Technique)
Rank: "C" "B" "A" "S” Rank
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: A Defensive technique to where the user concentrates on the chakra within their body. The user pushes the chakra out as they use the body heat within their very body to create a sphere of flaming heat all around the user in a grand radius. Depending on how well the user knows this technique is dependent on the distance, this technique can be used.
Special: "Handseals"
Drawback: If the user is capable of performing this technique twice in a battle or twice within every ten rounds, the user will collapse with fatigue and high temperature.
Description: This technique is used as a defensive style technique. The user concentrates on the chakra within their body and exerts out in a large blast. The chakra is pushed out in a blazing flame and creates a large amount of heat to be used as a defensive technique. The technique pushes or removes anything around the user, to allow the user an amount of space needed. When first learned the technique is capable of being pushed in a five-meter radius. Each Rank learned the technique increases in distance by ten meters. This would be the basis for all NinJutsu Specialists. However if the user is a Non NinJutsu Specialist the distance only increases by five meters. If the user is a NinJutsu Master, the distance increases by fifteen meters.
Limit: Must have the Fire Release

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The basis of an expanding fire sphere technique is not the formation of the fire, which, nearly like a being alive in its own regard, is able to grow without the need of any real outside force, but in the creation of it. The fire iteslef is able to envelop a volume as long as there is oxygen for it to consume and so when one is wishing to create an expanding sphere of flame all he must really do is create the environment for it and release the spark..

Such is the nature of flames, and Shouta knew this because he had spent plenty of time around them. He was not well versed with higher level techniques of the Katon release but he had learned enough of the basic techniques to know the basis of katon techniques. And since Katon had not change for this technique it was obvious that the same rules, the same stipulations, and the same laws of fire still applied here. With that in mind, this technique would be easy to formulate.

If all an expanding sphere of flame needed to be created was the oxygen it required to burn then all Shouta needed to do was to provide the oxygen. In order to create such an environment he would siply have to create a vacuum-like suction in a small radius in order to create a high amount of oxygen in a small space. This would allow the flame to burn quickly and efficiently. In this regard the flame, well tended with oxygen, would burn a stable blue instead of a flickering orange.

With the plan in mind Shouta knew that all he needed to do was execute his plan. He began to suck in the air around him, creating the environment needed to create the jutsu. Since this was the basic formation of the technique there was no need to find oxygen rich air. All he needed to do was grab the basic mixture of air and stuff it into the sphere which he had created. Of course anybody and everybody knew that air did not stay in one place if there was low pressure around it. It would disperse so that it would find equilibrium.

The final step of this technique, then was the creation of a chakra sphere in which to keep the air packed tightly. With this, it could not escape. It was only partially difficult to make the sphere so strong so that air could not pass through it but unlike the net techniques Shouta had used before this was a simple, solid spherical shell technique that did not require much complexity in its formation. Therefore it did not take too much chakra. Shouta then produced a spark, after all this was formed, and the technique was successfully executed...

[Father 'Suke]

+10; learned

[The Creator]

Moku Bunshin (Wood Clone)
Rank: "B" Rank
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: The user creates a clone made out of wood that would be used for battle against opponents.
Special: "Ox, Dragon, Ram, Ox"
Drawback: If the wood is burned they will not be capable of working.
Description: When first learned the user is capable of creating three clones that are within the size of Medium size. The wood looks similar to that of a human but the wood is wrapped around the body torso and switched around making the clone look that of a giant tree with awkward shapes. A wood clone is able to use wood techniques.
Limit: Must have the Wood Release

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Post 1

There was a Mokuton technique of some substantial difficulty that allowed for the creation of full blown clones, made of wood. These were not as good as, say the Kage bunshin, but they were still fully functional clones capable of using wood release techniques and harnessing their own chakra system. In order to be able to make them, it would require quite a bit of planning. What all would such a clone take? I had a couple of ideas that I believed could be applied to the creation of such clones . So, in order to make these fully functional clones, I would have to apply some of these ideas.

So what was the first step? There were several ways to tackle a jutsu like this but the way that I would do it is to first create the shape of the clone. I had some experience in creating wood-based constructs but nothing quite of this caliber. The clones would have some shape resembling a tree-like construct but it would still require a couple of things that would make it humanoid. It would have to have some sort of legs for able mobility and ten fingers for hand seals if they were to create jutsus. The torso could resemble some sort of tree trunk and the head could do so as well, it didn't really matter for him at that point.

But furthermore it would require some mobility. If I did create the clone with the limbs of a humanoid creature, it would allow for a mobility on the scale of an actual human. The majority of the mobility would then have to come from the joints of the creature and when it came to designing the mobility of the creature it would be something akin to actual moving humans. Though while an actual human's movement came from the pumping of muscles, the clone's movement would have to come from chakra in that regard. The chakra could easily mimic the power produced by muscles so it was not going to be too difficult, I hoped, in that regard.

Finally would be the chakra system that would allow the production of techniques. Of course these techniques would be limited to the Wood Release, so therein lied a hint about the chakra system I had to create. The chakra would not have to be an all encompassing mixture. What I mean by saying that is that the clone would not have to choose a mixture of physical and spiritual energy to match each release. Katon and Suiton, for example, had different mixtures and it would be difficult to accompany for those differences but luckily the wood clone only was capable of one release. Although it made it for an easier jutsu to learn it made for a less versatile clone.

Once I created the chakra system I would have to then work on giving it its own sort of command-response.  By that I mean that it would have to be able to respond to the commands I gave it, either mentally or through some other system.  A chakra transceiver method would probably work quite nicely.

[The Creator]

Moku Bunshin (Wood Clone)
Rank: "B" Rank
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: The user creates a clone made out of wood that would be used for battle against opponents.
Special: "Ox, Dragon, Ram, Ox"
Drawback: If the wood is burned they will not be capable of working.
Description: When first learned the user is capable of creating three clones that are within the size of Medium size. The wood looks similar to that of a human but the wood is wrapped around the body torso and switched around making the clone look that of a giant tree with awkward shapes. A wood clone is able to use wood techniques.
Limit: Must have the Wood Release

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Post 2
In order to create a wood clone one would need a decent amount of wood in order to make it. There are skilled wood users who are able to do such things using the limbs of their own body but I wasn't that skilled. I would have to use another source of wood, like a tree. Luckily there was a tree in the back pavillion of the Little King Theatre that would suffice for the source of this material. With that being said, I would have to make the clone directly out of the tree.

I wouldn't be able to form the entire jutsu here but I performed the hand seals anyway to get the correct chakra mixture. With that I let the chakra flow out of my body and into the tree in the back pavillion. I would immediately begin to have to shape the clone within the tree and using the plan that I had already made up I wanted to start with the hands, arms, legs, and feet. But then the torso could be a rough shape in order to create the most efficient use of chakra.

I used my chakra much like a knife that was able to cut through the wood relatively easy. The way I was doing it, the clone would be carved directly out of the wood. Beginning with the fingers I made a careful replication of my own hand. I had to be careful to make sure that the fingers would smooth, so that not friction would create a spark and burn the whole thing down, and so I had to use my chakra as a sort of sander to make sure that no splinters would catch on each other.

I made the arms without as much care as I made the fingers, the first creation. They were not as necessary. The length that they were was the only important component. I did not want to make them too long but rather made them the average length of an arm. The legs were the second most important, in my opinion, because that was how they moved. The knees, especially, so that they could make advanced movements and not wobble around as if they had two peg-legs. Which is ironic because technically they will have two peg-legs.

So I made the legs with some care, taking time to make the knee. For the knee I just used, in place of the extremely complex human joint, a spherical ball of wood that would be connected to the other parts of the leg through chakra. I would do the same for the other joints: shoulders, ankles, wrists, and such. For the torso, since it is also bendable, I made the lower abdomen rounded at the top and another segment, the chest, to fit perfectly on top of it. This would give some ability to bend the figure back and forth. The lower abdomen could rotate on a waist which was flat.

[Father 'Suke]

+20; 20|50

[The Creator]

Moku Bunshin (Wood Clone)
Rank: "B" Rank
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: The user creates a clone made out of wood that would be used for battle against opponents.
Special: "Ox, Dragon, Ram, Ox"
Drawback: If the wood is burned they will not be capable of working.
Description: When first learned the user is capable of creating three clones that are within the size of Medium size. The wood looks similar to that of a human but the wood is wrapped around the body torso and switched around making the clone look that of a giant tree with awkward shapes. A wood clone is able to use wood techniques.
Limit: Must have the Wood Release

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Post 3
The shape of the clone completely carved out of the tree, it plopped out of its wooden mold and fell onto the ground in a heap. Like a jumbled marionette it look dead and lifeless in a pile on the ground. I became aware that at that point it was time to learn some of the basic movement styles for the clone. It goes without saying that the movement of a clone is one of the most important aspects and so these next steps would be crucial if I were to get the clone up and working by the end of the day.

At first I wanted to make sure that I could manipulate my chakra to move the clone at all. I exerted some energy to get the clone from off the ground, and he levitated only slightly above the ground in response, all of his limbs still sprawled out, coiled up on the ground below him. Next was to attempt compound movements by moving multiple limbs at once. To just ease myself into this I began by moving both of his arms at the same time. The body dropped to the ground as his hands flew up in a comedic way. With some fine tuning it was not difficult to get them to behave the way I wanted them to.

With the arms taken care of, next was the legs and feet. Using the limbs and joint shapes that I had set up, it made it particularly easy for me to get the legs moving. For beginners I wanted to see if I could get the clone to stand up on two legs by himself. I learned that it was a whole body movement after the first time I made the legs rigid and the torso toppled over. So, in order to keep him standing, I had to get the legs rigid, the center of mass above the legs, and the torso rigid. He had no neck so his head was not lolling around about his shoulders but his arms dangled next to his shoulders, lifeless.

For right now the arms didn't matter, I needed the clone to walk. So, I began by trying to get him to take a few steps forward. With the first movement he had moved too far forward, throwing off the his balance, and falling onto his face. I knew that this was going to be a long, difficult process. After several attempts I found that I was able to make him move pretty easily. I set up a couple of chakra sensors to make sure that the balance never went off and the legs used the power of chakra to keep on pumping.

With a little more ingenuity I was able to get the clone to use fully body movements. It would not stand up in a taijutsu master's fight but it could get around easily enough. I made sure to spend extra time working on the handseal motions to make sure that the arms, elbows, and fingers worked properly.

[The Creator]

Moku Bunshin (Wood Clone)
Rank: "B" Rank
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: The user creates a clone made out of wood that would be used for battle against opponents.
Special: "Ox, Dragon, Ram, Ox"
Drawback: If the wood is burned they will not be capable of working.
Description: When first learned the user is capable of creating three clones that are within the size of Medium size. The wood looks similar to that of a human but the wood is wrapped around the body torso and switched around making the clone look that of a giant tree with awkward shapes. A wood clone is able to use wood techniques.
Limit: Must have the Wood Release

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Post 4
I now had the ability to create wooden clones with a fully functioning motion system. But, as anyone knows, that's not all it takes to make a successful clone. Well, not a successful wood clone that could perform Mokuton jutsu, any ways. So, in addition to a moving system for these clones, I would have to instill some sort of chakra system so that they could mould their own Mokuton release jutsus. Once I am able to make those types of creations, I could finish up the finishing steps of the clones, getting them to function as a combat tool.

So, how would I do this? Drawing my knowledge of chakra from my memory, I knew that it was a combination of physical and spiritual energy. These clones, as a result, could not create any chakra of their own because their physical energy is what came from chakra and clones did not have a spirit so it was difficult to agree that they could create their own chakra. All of their own must come from my own reserves, then. With that in mind, I thought of how I would store it in their body. Thinking of how a human holds chakra, its much like any other system in a body, well spread out and connected by all sorts of tubes and vessels. But that was only because chakra was formed in every part of the body. What did a clone who did not form chakra need to store it?

I then considered having a cavity dedicated solely to chakra. Much like a hole in the wooden frame, yet not one. Chakra did not take up physical space and did not have a physical mass so instead of creating a cavity to store it in I could just hold it in a sort of bubble inside of their body. There were several places that I could hold it in but the first that came to mind, and I saw no reason to change it from this, was the chest. So these clones would be able to draw chakra from their chest, which also made it easy to flow into the hands during hand seals, and perform ninjutsu. Now that the theory behind it was all worked out, all I had to do was test it to see if my theory was going to work.

The clone that stood in front of me stood, rigid, in front of me. I let chakra flow into the clone and had it fill in the chest. I did not give it too much chakra, and if I had let it, I felt like it could have taken all of my chakra and stored it in the chest. As I thought about it I found it was not likely, but it was only what it felt like when I was giving the chakra to it. In any case, with the clone filled with chakra, I wanted to see if it was able to perform a wood ninjutsu. Perhaps a wood replacement, which might come in handy during a battle. I commanded the clone to perform the handseals and it did so. I watched with my doujutsu so that I could read the chakra within him. The chakra flowed, was manipulated, and as I threw a rock at him, he poofed, replacing his body with wood. Which was ironic because he was made of wood already.

[The Creator]

Moku Bunshin (Wood Clone)
Rank: "B" Rank
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: The user creates a clone made out of wood that would be used for battle against opponents.
Special: "Ox, Dragon, Ram, Ox"
Drawback: If the wood is burned they will not be capable of working.
Description: When first learned the user is capable of creating three clones that are within the size of Medium size. The wood looks similar to that of a human but the wood is wrapped around the body torso and switched around making the clone look that of a giant tree with awkward shapes. A wood clone is able to use wood techniques.
Limit: Must have the Wood Release

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Post 5

Clones that could not interact with the world on their own are nothing more than puppets.  And sure, they took some direction from the person that cast them into the world but think for a second if they were attacked simultaneously to the creator.  The creator would, perhaps, be too busy to redirect their clone as well as their own physical body, rendering the jutsu useless.  This might have once been a large weakness in the technique but since had been rectified.  Clones could go and spy with nothing more than a simple three worded order from the maker and report back with a complex analysis on what they had seen.  For these clones to be made there had to be a complex chakra system that gave them a fragment of "life".  This was the final step in making the technique.

Now creating life from scratch is not the easiest thing.  In fact, Shouta considered such a task impossible.  Even the greatest of conjurers, wizards, and ninjas used reanimations to raise armies or built puppets whose behavior was decided by machination's minds.  So how would Shouta be able to create a clone that was capable of thinking of himself?  Luckily there was a lecture in the academy that covered such an endeavor, and Shouta remembered it.

"Now since you are all so close to graduation it's time to discuss something of an advanced nature, and that specifically of which I speak is creating clones.  Ninjutsu users, as well as genjutsu users, typically make clones for several reasons.  You will find your own on the battlefield some day.  Nevertheless it is important to know the basis of creating clones.

"In order to make a successful clone you must give it a mind of its own.  And, ironically, that mind is your own.  You must imbue a  piece of yourself in your clone.  How do you do this, you might ask?  It is a complex chakra task that we'll have a quiz over next week, so pay attention.

"In order to imbue yourself you'll have to use an advanced chakra technique, which I will show you how to do, called a chakra photograph.  This is not a photograph that any camera could take but it copies the spiritual and physical makeup.  Each person has unique chakra and when they use this chakra photograph and instill it into their clone, then it gives the clone a copy of themselves.  This is how the clone makes up his own mind to make battletime decisions..."


Ah, yes, the chakra photograph. Shouta knew how to perform this task.

[Father 'Suke]

+27; 47|50

[The Creator]

Moku Bunshin (Wood Clone)
Rank: "B" Rank
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: The user creates a clone made out of wood that would be used for battle against opponents.
Special: "Ox, Dragon, Ram, Ox"
Drawback: If the wood is burned they will not be capable of working.
Description: When first learned the user is capable of creating three clones that are within the size of Medium size. The wood looks similar to that of a human but the wood is wrapped around the body torso and switched around making the clone look that of a giant tree with awkward shapes. A wood clone is able to use wood techniques.
Limit: Must have the Wood Release

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Post 6

With the chakra photograph technique now in the forefront of my mind I knew that finishing the clone technique was going to be pretty simple. Using the technique, I copied a "snapshot" of my own chakra and instilled it into the lifeless clone that was in front of me. It had a physical body, chakra, but just no way to react to the world around it. I used that "snapshot" to instill that final, missing part.

The clone suddenly blinked, alive and well, and turned towards me. I pointed to the roof, wishing to test it.

"Go up there and scout the perimeter of the theatre." I told him. The wood clone nodded, vaulting off the tree from which he had come from. He vanished from sight and returned some moments later.

"The street is busy because it's mid-evening. Several townspeople walking with food. Nobody approaching or near the theatre." it said. I nodded in appreciation. It appeared that the technique had worked. Not only did the clone get the ability to react to orders but it performed them autonomously and with a good amount of intelligence. This was exactly what I needed in my arsenal of techniques.

[KoKoKo]

+4

[The Creator]

Cancerous Weeds
Rank: C
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: Weeds grow over everything and steal their nutrients.
Special: Handseals
Drawback: ---
Description: The user gives any small plant in the area the properties of a weed. The plant affected will spawn 2 new plants every half second on whatever the user wishes, though the target must be within 1 meter of the plant for this to work. The plant spawns more plants by spitting spores, which grow to full height in a half second. Every plant created using this jutsu also has the ability to spawn 2 plants every half second, allowing it to grow rapidly if not stopped early enough. However, this jutsu will stop on its own after 30 seconds. If this weeds are spawned on an object it drains that objects durability by 1 D rank for every plant created on it. If plants are spawned on a person on a person it drains their energy equivalent to 1 D rank of chakra for every plant created on them, and can also be quite damaging to remove as the plants cause small wounds and bleeding when uprooted.
Limit: Wood Release

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Several techniques in the Onigami arsenal allowed for the user to suck the chakra right out of the enemy. So imagine my surprise and delight when I learned I could extend those techniques that I had learned and practiced of the Onigami bloodline to Mokuton release techniques. They did not suck chakra out of their targets, exclusively, but the nutrients, and thus the essential life out of their opponents. Such an exceptional technique would have a variety of uses. But how would one even begin to make this jutsu? Well, first off I could apply my Onigami learning to this jutsu. I knew pretty well how to create a plant but this particular plant was self spawning. Meaning that it unisexually replicated itself somehow. Since it was a weed technique it is most likely that it replicated via some sort of fungal spores. I also knew that it happened to replicate quickly.

So I would have to create a plant that, in addition to its nutrient sucking abilities, recreated itself very quickly via spores. I thought of how I might be able to create a plant that would spawn spores quickly and thought of the fact that it would have to use quite a bit of nutrients. Given the nature of the technique, I found the required ingredients to be pretty convenient. So if the purpose the technique was to drain nutrients in order to spawn more if its plants then it was a self serving technique. With the technique now understood, it was plain and right in front of my eyes.

I would extend my Onigami learning to cover the weeds' ability to suck the chakra out. But since it was a plant I suspect that it would thrive off more than just chakra; it would rather search for nutrients and suck them out instead of chakra. The key to this lay in the weeds' pores. It would latch itself onto something and then root itself into the aforementioned target and begin to suck the nutrients out using its pores. The roots would have to do most of the nutrient mining while the flowers, or leaves on top, would have to do most of the reproduction work. Since the plant reproduction process was extensively complicated I didn't want to get too much into that. Instead I would just mature the plant rapidly, force it to go through a reproductive cycle at an extremely quick pace, which could be possible thanks to the nutrients and chakra, allowing it to spawn spores all over the place.

Now the technique allowed me to choose where I wanted the spores to land, with some restriction. So this meant that I would be able to control the spores themselves, but first I'd have to figure out how exactly I was going to do that. It would probably be easy to use my Fuuton release to do such a task because the lightweight spores would allow for easy maneuverability in mid-air.

So, I wanted to try the technique to make sure that everything I had planned out was going to work correctively.  I performed the handseals and began to let the chakra flow into a nearby flower.  The chakra transformed the flower into a weed and I began the cycle.  The weed, now engineered to suck nutrients out, dried the earth from which it took its nutrients quickly.  But, at the same time, it replicated itself at an extremely quick pace.  As I watched it, the numbers grew at an exponential pace.  First one, then two, then four, and I blinked and suddenly there was more than I could count.  Sixty four if I followed the rule of two and considered the time that passed.  But even that doubled and then doubled again right before my eyes.  I cut off the technique, surrounded by hundreds of weeds, thinking of how little time had passed.  It was frightening to think how much they could suck from something if they replicated at that place.

[Father 'Suke]

+10; learned

[The Creator]

Name: Gōsuto Hikari (Ghost-light)
Rank: C
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: Creates a small ball of flame that can be used to guide someone along or get them lost.
Special: Handseals
Drawback: User must be within a certain distance of the flame depending on their rank or else it will go out and the user will have to cast the jutsu again.
Description: The user makes the handseals and creates a small ball of flame in the air in front of them. The flame doesn't give off much heat at all and is not as hot as other fire. Touching this ball of flame will not burn the person touching it in the slightest. Similarly, the light this flame gives off is incredibly dull in comparison to other flames. When someone other than the user gets within a foot of this flame, it will disappear only to reappear two meters away in any direction, chosen by the user. User must be within twenty meters of the flame to keep it sustained, plus ten meters for every rank the user is above "D".
Limit: Fire release

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There were not many techniques in the world that allowed one to create a flame that held no heat. It would be difficult, a new kind of flame altogether. But it could be useful, apparently with a bit of training this technique could eventually pierce the darkness of any source, whether real or genjutsu. And it had other purposes, such as misleading those who are a little superstitious, for which it would be a valuable technique. Luckily it was not too difficult of a technique to learn so it would not take too long.

So, first things first, a flame that could float in mid-air. I'd worry about the tedious difficulty of such a flame holding no heat, and I supposed the fact that it didn't cast a strong light was somehow related to that, later. But for now, floating light. Right. So, firstly I would have to make a flame that didn't burn up. It would have to be a sustaining flame. This didn't happen often in nature but it did happen through humans. Think of a lantern, a flame which burns for a long time, as a light. It has a sustained source, oil in most cases, and therefore there was a sustained light. So, in order to create a sustained light there had to be a sustained source. Given the nature of ninjutsu, it was easy to derive that the source for the sustained light would be chakra.

However, much like the light inside the lantern, the flame would have to be cut off from the rest of the world. It could not catch a tree on fire nor could it flutter when the wind blew. I would have to envelop it in some sort of case that could stop the outside elements from getting in. Thinking about it, I supposed that I could combine the source with the shell and have the flame feed off of the shell. Ah, don't you love it when ideas just come together like that? So, with that in mind, I had the following solution worked up for the problem: I would create a chakra shell in which the light would be held. The flammable chakra would only be on one side so when I created the spark, the sphere would fill with flame, sustain itself, give off no heat, and would not interact with its surroundings. The translucent shell would still allow for the passage of light.

Now the flame allowed for sustained movement, which was easy given the chakra shell as it could be controlled, but then it had the ability to disappear and reappear given that somebody walked too close to it. In order to do that I would have to have some kind of sonar ping, or something that resembled it, that let it know when someone was near. It would then have to go dark and reappear a somewhere else.

So, in order to do that I would have to create a chakra sensing device to sense any movement that did not have my chakra specific signature. Then, in response, it would go dark, and by that I mean it would have to stop supplying the flames, it would then have to move, and then restart itself again. To do that I could just have a chakra sensor instilled in the center of the shell and then I could have it simply redirect the chakra to the outside of the shell, thus cutting off the flow to the inside, and redirect it again once it was safely out of harms way, so to speak. It would all be pretty simple with a little chakra and ingenuity, so I decided I would test the technique to see if my theory would hold up.