Stone Circles (Training/Private)

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In a forest in Mizu no Kuni, the shinobi Mitsukai Akuma keeps his home. “Home” in this case, being a crude construction of a few wooden poles and a grey tarp, covering a wooden chest that contains his change of clothes and the few books he owns on ancient cultures. Since Mitsukai spent most of his life in a prison inside a hole in the ground, this is paradise. His home is set on the edge of a clearing in the woods, beside a strange stone circle covered in symbols Mitsukai has never seen before. There are five stones, made of black stone and covered in white markings. Each stone is twelve feet high, with a flat top. The stones don’t look as if they’ve been around long, but it is clear that they aren’t a recent addition to the forest.


A bit further into the forest and you will find a large river, rushing and powerful, perfect for Suiton training. There are plenty of animals that come to the river, making hunting easy. There are also bushes that produce fruits everywhere, easy picking for supplementary foods or if you don’t eat meat.


Civilisation is miles away, meaning that the only way you’re going to find this place is if you’re looking for it. Chances of stumbling upon it by accident are a million to one.

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It was a typical day in the Land of Water: the sun was hidden behind grey clouds, and a low mist clung to the ground. The forest was teeming with hidden life, and in a tree overlooking a circle of standing stones, reading a book of ancient Mizukunian cultures, was Mitsukai Akuma, a fairly recent graduate of the Kirigakure Ninja Academy. Hair bobbing slightly in the wind, Mitsukai was frowning at the book. He had been trying to translate the symbols on these stones for a while now, and was no closer to figuring it out than when he had started.

Deciding that he wasn’t going to get anywhere at the moment, Mitsukai decided to leave the translation for now and practice some of his ninja skills. Dropping down from the tree to his makeshift home, Mitsukai put the book away and pulled out a scroll of ninja techniques. Venturing deeper into the woods, Mitsukai stretched and opened the scroll.

Fuuton Kaze no Senbon (Needles of the Wind)
Rank: "D"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: User hurls a mixture of senbon needles in the form of wind to cut into the opponent.
Special: "Handseals"
Drawback: ---
Description: The ninja gathers air with his hands and mixes it with chakra, by doing this he transforms them into sharp and deadly needles. The needles are almost invisible so it is hard for the enemies to see them. This technique may be blocked by large objects, however something small such as a sword, or a staff will allow the needles to seperate still moving towards the object it was originally sent to. Not a powerful technique as the user is capable of hurling up to ten senbon wind needles that gives out minor cuts. However this could be used as a more of a set up technique to allow the user to perform a more dangerous technique.
Limit: Must have the Wind Release

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The scroll was one of Fuuton techniques, and Wind was one of Mitsukai’s favourite elements. Unbidden memories of Underground flashed into his mind, but Mitsukai shook them away and began to read the first technique that he saw.

“Kaze no Senbon,” Mitsukai read, head tilted slightly to the right, “The user of this technique can create ten needles of wind to strike their opponent unseen. Can be blocked by a wall or shield, but weapons will allow the needles to pass around them. Sounds easy enough.” Mitsukai memorised the hand seal sequence and rolled up the scroll and put it out of the way before spreading his legs and closing his eyes.

Mitsukai mentally tapped into his chakra reserves, keeping his breathing steady. Mitsukai increased his chakra flow from its normal speed and into the tornado of his Wind element and brought his hands together, hands forming seals slowly as Mitsukai moved through the sequence. When the sequence was finished, Mitsukai held his hands in the final sequence and channelled his chakra into the air, visualising needles in his mind to encourage his chakra to shake the air around him. The chakra flowed into the air around him, but nothing happened for several minutes of channelling, so Mitsukai let the chakra go and prepared for another attempt.

This time, as Mitsukai gathered his chakra, he would focus on only making one needle, so he could get a feel for what it should be like. Moving through the hand seal sequence, Mitsukai held the image in his head of a sharp senbon needle, and once he finished the sequence, held his hands in front of him and channelling his Wind chakra from his palms into the air, swirling the air between them. The chakra swirled and condensed as Mitsukai frowned from the effort, forming a single needle and bringing a huge smile to Mitsukai’s face. But Mitsukai’s joy at success broke his concentration, leaving him disappointed as the single needle faded back into the air.

“Okay, I need more focus,” Mitsukai said to himself, “And maybe a target to hit.” Mitsukai looked around and went to one of the trees surrounding him and pulled some of the bark off of it, making an easy to see target on the trunk of the tree. Walking back to his starting position, Mitsukai took a deep breath and began to mix his chakra again, mentally calling up the whirlwind of his Wind chakra before bringing his hands together for the third time. Sliding through the now familiar seals with speed, Mitsukai began shaping a new needle inside the area of his palms, condensing and spiralling the chakra until a sharp needle of wind was ready to fire. Mitsukai lined up the needle with his target, and with a parting of his hands in a violent and showy fashion, the young Mist shinobi let the almost invisible needle fly.
Mitsukai laughed at his success, before realising that he didn’t know how to tell if he met his mark or not. Laughter petering out as his shoulders slumped, until he realised that the needle would still leave a hole. Walking back over to the tree, Mitsukai spied the hole of his needle and allowed himself a brief yell of victory before, shutting himself up and getting back to work.

Mitsukai stretched again, letting his chakra refill a little bit before he brought his hands together and began increasing his chakra flow to jutsu-performing levels. Turning his chakra into Wind chakra, Mitsukai finished his hand seal string and released his chakra into the air around him, using his previous experience on the single needle to focus on ten of them. Mitsukai frowned as he directed ten separate chakra tendrils into spiralling the air into needles. The effort was a bit much, but Mitsukai kept his focus and directed the needles to hit the target with another hand motion, though this one was less enthusiastic as the chakra drain was starting to get to him.

The needles all hit the target, though only seven of the needles left measurable holes. Mitsukai took a deep breath and decided for one last attempt. Funnily enough, despite having six separate chakra natures by the time his was six, Mitsukai never had a lot of opportunities to perfect his chakra control. His old mentor, Takeru, described him as having raw power but low finesse.

Tapping back into his almost drained chakra reserves, Mitsukai created the last of his Wind chakra and began forming hand seals as fast as possible. Once he finished, Mitsukai released the chakra into the air and began spiralling the air where the chakra was released, condensing the air and sharpening it into ten needles of wind. Mentally directing them, Mitsukai aimed the needles at the spot he marked on the tree and let the needles fly. All ten left holes in the tree when they impacted against it. Satisfied with his current effort, Mitsukai decided to sit down for a second to get some breath and chakra back.

[Gohan]

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Futon: Eatama
Rank: D
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: Creates a ball of air about the size of a beach ball. It does no damage but is useful for sitting on and escaping from a dangerous situation quickly. This ball is also handy as while riding it you can ride up walls, ceilings, water, hot ground and cold ground without harm.
Special: Handseals
Drawback: Really None
Description: The user quickly performs the simple handseals, horse then serpent then extends there hand under them palm extended as almost instantaneously, air forms into a ball under them. They can then sit on the ball and scoot away quickly or ride it across hostile terrain or up steep cliffs.
Limit: Must have Wind Release. The ball continues to use chakra as long as it remains active but only a small amount, two points of chakra per turn.

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As Mitsukai let his chakra refill, he got out the scroll and opened it, searching for the next technique. Mitsukai wanted to improve his chakra control so he wanted something that would require constant chakra being fed into it. After a few seconds of scanning, Mitsukai found it: the Fuuton Eatama technique.

“Fuuton Eatama,” Mitsukai read “A transportation/escape technique that makes it incredibly hard to catch the user. The user makes a ball of air underneath them and sits on it, directing it with their mind. The hand seals for the technique are Horse and Serpent. Chakra drain is negligible at best, once perfected. Alright then,” Mitsukai put the scroll away and stood.
First, he wanted to perfect making the ball before he even tried to sit on it. So, putting his hands together, Mitsukai visualised a ball big enough for him to sit on in his mind and made the two hand seals as he gathered his chakra. Converting his normal chakra into Wind chakra, Mitsukai put his hand out in front of him and let his chakra leak into the air, focusing it in the area he wanted. Directing the chakra to fuse with the air, the young shinobi began swirling the chakra around. The air became slightly visible as the chakra mixed with it, forming a sphere of wind. But the effort to keep the ball there was too much, and Mitsukai cancelled the technique, breathing heavily from the strain. This stuff shouldn’t be so damned hard, Wind was one of the first chakra natures he learnt.

Shaking himself, Mitsukai brought his hands together and focused, tapping mentally into his chakra coil and drawing a minimal amount of chakra. Converting that into Wind chakra, Mitsukai made a channel from his chakra coil to his hands when he finished the two hand seals. Holding his hand out, Mitsukai channelled the chakra into the air, focusing on creating an invisible shell to contain the air as well as swirling the air around to provide the backbone of the jutsu. The Wind chakra fused with the air around the invisible sphere, spinning around the air into a contained tornado. Using his free hand, Mitsukai tested the durability of the sphere. His hand didn’t pass through the sphere, so he figured it could hold his weight. Jumping up and keeping his hand on the sphere, Mitsukai climbed onto the sphere, sitting cross-legged on it. Mitsukai grinned as he sat on it, before realising he wasn’t sure how to make it move.

“Maybe it just responds to thou-” Mitsukai started, before the ball decided to follow his thoughts and shoot forwards “OKAY WE’RE MOVING!” Mitsukai yelled, before ducking his head to avoid a low hanging branch. “Maybe trees weren’t the best place to do this-OHMYGOD!” Mitsukai made the ball to pull a sharp right turn to avoid a tree trunk. Laughing at his near miss made Mitsukai completely blind to the tree he slammed into, dispersing the jutsu and making Mitsukai bleed from his face.

“Owwwww,” Mitsukai groaned as he brought himself up to his feet, shaking his head, “that hurt.”

Just then, Mitsukai heard voices and breaking of the underbrush. Mitsukai had about ten seconds to get away, and the stream was nearby. If he ran, he’d be seen or heard. But, with the Eatama, he might be fast enough to be ignored. Quicker than he’d ever needed to perform a jutsu, Mitsukai brought up his chakras, formed the two hand seals quickly before releasing a huge burst of chakra beneath his feet, quickly coming up cross-legged as his Wind chakra formed the Eatama beneath him. Just as whoever was moving around in the underbrush came out, Mitsukai had finished the jutsu and was already over the stream, the Eatama making him fast and keeping him out of the water. Mitsukai just laughed at the thought of getting away, but now he wondered who the people were.

Shifting his body weight to make the turn easier, Mitsukai did a 180 and headed back in the direction he came, using the Eatama to climb and get above the tree line once he crossed over at a different part of the river. Shooting up into the branches, Mitsukai cancelled the jutsu and perched in the branches above the people. Time to do the ninja thing.

[Father 'Suke]

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Mitsukai listened and watched closely. The group was of about seven men, all carrying swords, all looking dangerous. But they weren’t shinobi: there were no identifying marks for any of the other villages. They probably weren’t chakra users either, which didn’t worry Mitsukai in the slightest.

“How much longer till we get to these damn stones?” one of the men asked. Mitsukai’s interest was piqued now: why would armed men be looking for his stone circle?
“Another half-hour, if you stop complaining and move!” another man, a big man of six foot six who smacked the offending man in the back of the head. “We haven’t got time for this: the boss wants the circle found.”

Mitsukai didn’t know who these guys were working for, but he didn’t think they were going to try patiently translating his stone circle’s strange language. Mitsukai had to keep them away, and he had the perfect jutsu to distract them.

Setsuna Hibana(Instant Spark)
Rank: E
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: Creates a spark instantaneously at said target location
Special: Ox
Drawback: --
Description: The user focuses chakra at a certain point on the target and creates a small amount of friction in the air, sparking the area. This can be done almost instantaneously, but causes almost zero damage due to the small nature of the spark. It cannot cause paralysis or blindness, nor any other sort of damage. Usually a prank children use on each other like a game of tag, but with sparks for a small kick.
Limit: Lightning Release

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Mitsukai had been shown the Setsuna Hibana technique a long time ago, as a way of distracting someone. If he could keep these guys off balance, he’d be able to take them on one by one. Mitsukai didn’t expect it to last long, and it had been a while since he’d used the technique. Calling up the memory of the technique, Mitsukai tapped into his chakra coil and drew on the most minimal amount of chakra, accelerating it inside his body until it turned into Lightning chakra. Bringing his hands together in the Ox hand sign, Mitsukai aimed the technique right in front of the face of one of the men. Grinning, Mitsukai unleashed his chakra, but wasn’t rewarded with a spark. Nothing happened, and the men continued to advance unimpeded. Mitsukai had to shift his position in the trees to stay ahead of them, and when he got back into position, the young shinobi took a deep breath and focused.

Drawing on his chakra again and changing it into his Lightning nature, Mitsukai brought his hands together into the Ox hand sign. Channelling his chakra into his hands, Mitsukai carefully aimed the technique at one of the men. Being careful to stay focused, Mitsukai let the jutsu fly, the chakra flying through the air and sparked brightly in the face of the man he targeted.

“AH!” the man said, stumbling back and drawing his sword, waving it about wildly.

“Calm down!” the leader said, smacking him in the head. “What happened?”

“Something just sparked in my face,” the other thug said. Mitsukai giggled silently to himself, before gathering up some more chakra, taking his time to convert it into Lightning chakra. Forming the Ox seal, Mitsukai aimed again and targeted a different thug. After a brief second, he released the jutsu, and another bright spark of energy lit up in the face of a sword wielding yahoo.

“What the hell is going on?” he asked, as Mitsukai kept giggling to himself. This was fun.

“There’s a shinobi out here,” the leader said, slowly drawing his sword. “Keep moving, we have work to do.”

Mitsukai decided to have one more try, see if he could throw them off their game a little more. Gathering his chakra, mixing it into Lightning energy and bringing his hands together in the Ox hand sign, he narrowed his eyes and aimed at the leader. Charging it for one bright spark, Mitsukai let the burst of chakra fly, and it exploded as a very bright spark in the leader’s face. The leader reacted, shaking his head and kept moving, not even exclaiming or moaning.

Well, that didn’t work at all, Mitsukai realised. Frowning, Mitsukai thought about what he could do to slow them down. The way he saw it, he could challenge them head on and hope to god he’s fast enough to keep away from those swords. OR he could keep out of the way, and just send them off their game for a while with something with a little more blast than a children’s jutsu.

[Gohan]

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