The Shadows. [T/P]

[Yoshi [Lynx!]]

Training: 0/50 tp

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Kage Bunshin no Jutsu (Shadow Clone Technique)

Rank: "B"

Skill: NinJutsu

Effect: This technique creates clones of the user. However, these clones are actual copies, not illusions.

Special: "Clone Seal"

Drawback: The user's chakra is evenly distributed among every clone, giving each clone an equal fraction of the user's overall power.

Description: The clones are capable of performing techniques on their own and can even bleed, but will usually disperse after 1 or 2 solid blows. They can also disperse on their own. The clones will be created in roughly the same condition as the original. Shadow clones cannot be distinguished from the actual person even by the Byakugan because the clones have the exact same amount of chakra and aren't made from any other substance. A characteristic that is unique to the Shadow Clone Technique is that any experience the clones gain during their existence is transferred to the user once they are dispersed. This makes the technique ideal for spying, since the user can simply send a clone to spy on a target, then have the clone disperse itself without returning to pass the information back to the user. (Cannot gain extra training points through training with Shadow clone.) User is able to make up to 5 clones at a time. Takes the amount of time to perform a "B" Rank Jutsu. Shadow Clones may travel between different threads within the same board.

Limit: Universal NinJutsu Technique. Must be Chūnin or gain Village Scroll.

Chizai Tohono. Instructor.

There had been many questions in the air, ever since the girl had returned to Amegakure. Questions in regards to the girls loyalty, to the events that had transpired, to the execution, to her relationsship with the Amekage. The list was almost limitless, and not many answers could really be given. Now the investigation into the matters behind the corruption of Amegakure had started. In addition, she had been called upon to escort lord Amekage Ryosuke to other nations on a diplomatic journey. In the cases of both, she required more skills. Skills that required the village scroll to learn. A request that had been granted to her, on the condition that she trained together with an instructor.



Arriving at the more secluded dojo of Amegakure, the girl entered the world of Chizai Tohono. A revered teacher amongst the educated fighters of Amegakure. Standing at six feet five, he was almost as large as Ryosuke had been. His body was toned, and he appeared to the girl as if he was made out of solid rock. His stern gaze upon her, as she stepped out of her shoes, getting closer to bow before him and introduce herself. An action that resulted in him hitting her hard to the chest with a flat-palm strike. Literally flying backwards as if shot out of a cannon, she impacted onto a wall with enough force that it seemed the entire dojo was shaking for a moment. "Miss Yokubori, if you are to protect lord Amekage you cannot take your eyes off of potential enemies! I could've broken every bone in your body twice by now!"

The first greeting was rather rough, and the girl was having a bit of downtime to settle in, and get dressed in a regular black haori for studying swordsmen. It was to be her training outfit. Rolled out on the floor in front of her, was the village scroll, containing the information that she needed to learn the technique to turn shadows into precise clones. The process was rather simple, if she was to understand everything in there correctly. The problem was execution. The first thing that she was meant to do, was to equally divide the resource that was her chakra throughout her body. Any inconsistency would make the technique fail, one way or another. Either the clone would appear bloated, or it would be unable to function. Folding her legs underneath herself and placing her elbows on her knees in a meditative stance. Breathing calmly, she was finding her own centre. When she had found her centre, she slowly allowed her hands and fingers to find way into the required seal. Then, she attempted to split her own entity into two. The duplication was grasping onto the shadows, as a cloud of smoke emerged from out of nowhere. The very basics of the technique had seemed to go fine, as Yoshi opened her eyes to look to the side and inspect her clone. To say  it mildly, the technique had been an utter disaster, and she wasn't entirely sure what she was actually looking at.

[Yoshi [Lynx!]]

Training: ??/50 tp (Post two.)

Immediately the error of the technique became apparent, as the girl laid eyes upon her own creation. There had been an inconsistency in the dividing of her chakra, and it hadn't exactly surprised her. In fact, the girl had almost been certain that there was something which would interfere, and also what it was going to be. If everything had been normal circumstances, it would've likely functioned perfectly. Slow, but perfect. The matter of the fact was, that the clones chest had swollen up to a larger size, making it appear as if the girl would've had a breast size twice as large, if not more. It was due to the placement of the cursed seal. It was on her chest, where the centre of the bloating had come from, and the more she was attempting to reject the seal, the less control she had over her chakra in that part of her body, which had resulted in the bloating. Biting her lip and looking thoughtful, the instructor was far from pleased, as he slapped her over her head with a rolled up news-paper.

"You're not here to compensate for your small mammaries miss Yokubori! You're here to learn how to better protect the Amekage!"

It hit her like a rocket out of a blue sky. The girls face immediately turned blank, as she looked to the instructor. Small. Mammaries. Looking down to her own chest, then to the clone, for a short moment she was completely perplexed, before the instructor smacked her again, issuing for her to continue training.
Groaning in frustration, she returned to her meditative stance. This time, she focussed her concentration on letting go of the feelings that were holding her back. The fear and the uncertainty, connected to the curse that was placed on her body, couldn't be holding her back, if it came to protecting Ryosuke. Taking a deep breath, she mentally prepared to let go. Sitting there, she could feel the corrupted chakra coursing through her system. For a few short moments, she was gasping as she was reaching for a complete equilibrium. There was so much power hidden within the seal. Even though it wasn't activated, she could feel a difference within herself from just having accepted it. With her body reaching equilibrium, she attemtped again, folding the seal as she split her chakra into two portions of equal size and structure. The key to getting the technique right was mirroring herself into the shadows. It took a moment, and it felt exhausting, but it was functioning all the same. This time the splitting had gone next to perfectly for her. Perfectly, but taking up way too much time. Looking to her side, she found an identical clone looking right back at her. Like looking into a mirror, the two of them smiled simultaneously, before they gave each other a soft fistbump. From there, the both of them got to their feet, looking at their instructor for any clue as to what they were going to be doing next.

"Lets try that with a bit of pressure on you, shall we, miss?"

[Yoshi [Lynx!]]

Training: ??/50 tp (Post three.)

The instructor was something else. Within mere moments, the dojo floor had been transformed into a makeshift battlescape, with obstacles and obstructions. The whole idea here, was to pressure the girl into using the clones effectively and creatively. Wielding an enormous polearm, it was clear. If the girl wanted to protect the Amekage, she would have to be able to fare respectively against the instructor. If not, he wasn't going to let her leave unharmed. Folding the seal and escaping backwards as he came swinging, she quickly created a shadowclone. The two of them then immediately split up on either side of the battlefield. To use the technique properly, she had to get used to working with only half of her chakra, or even less. Both of the new creations then used the shadowclone again, effectively splitting the original girl into four fractions. Feeling rather weak compared to her normal self, getting used to this situation was going to take some time. Time that the girl didn't seem to have. Chizai was smashing through obstacles, immediately rending one of the shadowclones, leaving just a puff of smoke.

At that instant, all the other shadowclones popped aswell, as the girl dropped to the floor in pain, holding onto her head, squirming a little as she rolled from side to side. All the memories of the shadowclones had been transferred to her, alongside all the chakra that they had withheld. The feeling she had assumed was fatigue had completely vanished. The complete flush through her system had made her unable to keep concentration going for, well anything. Even so, a realisation in regards to how the shadowclone technique worked had dawned upon her. Getting to her feet and breathing softly, the technique was still imperfect. To fully master it, she needed to prepare her line of thoughts prior to summoning the clones. If the clones were all thinking of too many things, then even a short amount of time apart would mean an overload in information.

Getting to her feet again, she was blinking. Quickly folding the seals again, the chakra within her was aligning into equilibrium. It was still taking rather long, but through the process she got to know her limitations rather quickly. It would take more training to do under pressure, and that is exactly why she had to let go of the technique to evade when Chizai rushed forwards with his damned polearm. Working under pressure and stress was tough. Panting to herself, she tried to create some space between herself and Chizai. It had became apparent to her, that while the technique didn't require a large amount of handseals, reaching the perfect composition within her own chakra would take almost as long as performing some of the average complexity jutsu. This was going to be the case even in the field, and taking notice of that was going to save her a lot of trouble later on.

[Yoshi [Lynx!]]

Training: ??/50 tp (Post four.)

Chizai was intent on pressuring the girl even further, so that she was going to have to use the technique while on the move. So, while the girl was trying to dodge Chizai and his ludicrus spear, she was also trying to get herself into a position where she could unleash the technique. With every step that she took, she got to understand and feel the flow of chakra within herself better. With every movement and moment that passed, the closer she was to unleashing the shadowclone while under heavy pressure. Then, as Chizai swung at her feet and forced her into the air, she faced an impossible situation. Up here, she was vulnerable to his next strike. There was no other technique she could perform to save herself than the shadowclone. As the polearm was swung towards her, she simply copied herself to the best of her ability.

The Shadowclone had been perfect. It was possibly sheer luck through the fact that she was staring down death, but it had been perfect. Grabbing her around the wrist, the clone threw the girl backwards to eat the strike of the polearm. That is when the tide of battle started changing. Moving herself forwards, the girl almost instantly created another shadowclone. That Shadowclone moved to the side and created an additional Shadowclone. So it continued, until the girl had surrounded Chizai in a heartbeat, jumping at him with five clones from all sides. As soon as the switch had clicked, she had had no problems continuing the technique, except it was draining her strenght both physically and mentally, especially getting back so many ideas of possible strategies. Perhaps being stupid had functioned better when it came to learning how to use the shadowclone. A lack of thoughts would certainly make the stress more bearable...

As the girl jumped onto Chizai, the man bowed down shortly, before rising up at full speed, sending each and every version of Yoshi flying to their corners at high speeds. All the clones were destroyed, while the girl herself slid across the floor, ending up with her back against the rock and a polearm pointed at her centre. Chizai was looking at her sceptically for a moment, before a smile errupted onto his lips. "You've learned to adapt rather quickly, young miss. There is however still one final thing you need to do master before the technique is complete. You've created a stable and mirrored chakra net. Now you need to be able to utilise it on all of your clones."

The girl knew what he was speaking of. Despite having moved forward with the technique rather quickly, she still lacked an important element that made the shadowclone vastly superior to most other clones. To use techniques on each and every individual clone she posessed.

[Yoshi [Lynx!]]

Training: ??/50 tp (Post five.)

It didn't take long, before the girl had been instructed on how to proceed from just creating the clones, to using techniques on them. Having created five clones, they were all placed on the floor, in a circle, in their meditative stance. The trouble wasn't that she couldn't use techniques. The trouble was that, while split in this many instances of herself, she wouldn't have as much chakra available to her as she normally would. As such, she had to be extremely careful and aware of which techniques she used and how. The idea behind this session was rather simple. Since the girl had herself a shield of sand that passively protected her, as soon as he got used to the new amount of chakra that was the limit for her clones, the shield should kick in automatically.

They were molding chakra respectively, and despite what she might have thought at first, she could feel each and every clone drawing their chakra. As far as she could tell, each clone had their own physical energy, which was transferred to them the instant that they were created. Yet, whenever they were drawing energy, it was a combination of their spiritual energy and their physical one. The spiritual one was equal for all of them, despite what happened to their physical states. In short, the girl could tire out one of her clones physically while the rest would be fine, but if she exhausted her spiritual energy, that would be exhaustion for all of her clones simultaneously. The group of them were all breathing heavily, panting and focussing harder than they ever had. The fact that she could hear herself breathing and feel the pressence of each individual was rather freaky. Then, without much warning, they all rose up and directed their hands towards a target dummy. From there, each and every clone fired forth a beam of sand that impacted onto the dummy, knocking it over. It had been stressful, and awkward, but now the technique was mostly where it belonged. As it turned out, Chizai himself had also left a few moments ago, so perhaps he considered the lecturing for over.

Looking around to her clones, the chakra was slowly stabilising within all of them. As it did so, the sand that they had all flung at the dummy slowly returned to them, starting to swirl around each clone respectively, until she was certain that there were five individuals who each had the protection of the sand. At that point, they all bowed before each other, before the clones disappeared in a huff of smoke, leaving behind only one exhausted Chuunin. Spiritually, she was worn out. Physically and mentally, she was doing rather well. It would take some time to get used to these unique constraints that were put on her body, but for now, she ought to be ready to travel with Ryosuke and provide proper support, as Chizai wanted her to...


...But first she needed to find out if she really had that small of a rack..

 

[Gohan]

+50
soz was at a park

[Yoshi [Lynx!]]

After a short respite in the dojo, the girl got to her feet and folding the seal. Creating a shadowclone as she was earlier instructed, the two of them would be heading seperate ways. The clone was destined to go to the Amekage tower and wait there. The original was going to finish the packing and head out with Ryosuke. From here, their travelling adventures began!

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