I like being nosy! [T]

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There was nothing particularly special about this day. It was another day that Naoki would be spending... but in a different way. It was no longer hindered by the complications of Prison. Having spent some time away with Kaito, his older mentor - he had been taught a few little things. Some of those were theoretical... some of those had a little bit more application. He was going to be learning some of those things today.

So, among the first things that Naoki wanted to do was learn some spying techniques, something that had helped Kaito immensely. What better place than to do this in a busy marketplace? Thriving in an area of noise, and for what wasn't hard to hear was only overshadowed by the harsh rain that never seemed to stop. Today it was harder than normal, though Amegakure varied in it's rain... it never really stopped. 

He began focusing, he was currently sitting on a wall on the street floor, higher than other people - but not really doing anything special. Today, he looked like a little runt hanging around like an anti-social teen. He was however, a little older than before. He didn't show anything distinguishing, but his cloak and clothing kept him warm enough. 

The systematic procedure behind the technique was simple; under the same pretenses of the Shintenshin no jutsu, instead of sending his mind out there and into somebody else (let alone a boring civilian) they would be his playthings, he would create a sort of tether between himself and his toy- a mental link. 

He was going to try it now. It was more so the coherent visualization of his mind creating a chakra link with a civilian that was working with him. He would need to perform a couple of handsigns, bringing the triangular handsign down upon his lap, aiming towards one of the closest people passing him. He imagined it all, his mind forcing out a link - much like the Shintenshin no jutsu, and there it was. But just as quickly as it had came, it disappeared. "Hm... I gotta keep sight of them?" this hadn't been explained to him!

He saw someone passing down the street, and he jumped off the wall and would try again, and would stand behind the man - it looked quite weird and people looked at him, but he didn't care. His fingers interlocked again once more as he performed the technique. He didn't have a damn clue. 

His hands were getting cold and pounded by the rain... but it was working! The mental link broke as the Naoki stopped, he had stopped channeling chakra. "This is super useful..." he spoke to himself, impressed with the new things he was learning. 

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Cupid Eye Jutsu
Rank: D
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect:This jutsu allows user to see through the eyes of someone else.
Special: Horse, snake, Triangle Hand seal
Drawback: The user must be able to at least see the target. If ever the target goes beyond the users visible site the jutsu cancels out. The user cannot move while the jutsu is in effect
Description: The jutsu causes a mental link to establish between the user and the target. Allowing the user to see everything the target is seeing. This is a spying technique so the target does not feel or notice anything when the jutsu is cast. The user sees everything as if he was experiencing this himself. When doing this jutsu the user cannot see things for himself so if he were to be attacked he could not see the assailant. Once the target is beyond site such as behind a wall or too far to be seen the jutsu cancels itself out. If the one subjected to the Yamanaka’s jutsu possesses a dojutsu, the user would still see with normal vision, the dojutsu(or eye ability) would not be transmitted to the Yamanaka’s sight.
Limit: Must be part of the Yamanaka clan, must not be the carrier of a Dojutsu(eye blood limit)

[Solus]

+8/10

Length would almost have been sufficient had it not been that the first two paragraphs were not actual training, but background information. Overall, very good first attempt.

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He was happy for himself that he was able to perform the initial couple of movements that would lead to his success at a later date. His only inconvenience was that he was unable to move whilst performing the technique, because as he tried a second time with someone else, he couldn't muster the concentration used to do both things. Maybe this was something that he could remedy with time. He was still new to all of this. He leaned himself up against a wall, it was a little act in trying to be inconspicuous - he performed the technique a second time. This time with an older woman. 

This was a considerably different experience, because not only was he at a different vantage point... the eyesight had visibly degraded - he literally saw out of the eyes... and if those eyes happened to be, say, bad? That's what he would see. Even though it seemed usable, this had very little combat potential.

If that wasn't the only thing, the other problem was that his sight had disappeared. This was his only perception as of yet. He severed the connection and turned to his side on the wall, disorientated that in one place, his eyes would be viewing something... yet all of his other senses were in a different place. It was confusing his body.

But, it seemed that he was learning. 

Learning: 8/10 

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Cupid Eye Jutsu
Rank: D
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect:This jutsu allows user to see through the eyes of someone else.
Special: Horse, snake, Triangle Hand seal
Drawback: The user must be able to at least see the target. If ever the target goes beyond the users visible site the jutsu cancels out. The user cannot move while the jutsu is in effect
Description: The jutsu causes a mental link to establish between the user and the target. Allowing the user to see everything the target is seeing. This is a spying technique so the target does not feel or notice anything when the jutsu is cast. The user sees everything as if he was experiencing this himself. When doing this jutsu the user cannot see things for himself so if he were to be attacked he could not see the assailant. Once the target is beyond site such as behind a wall or too far to be seen the jutsu cancels itself out. If the one subjected to the Yamanaka’s jutsu possesses a dojutsu, the user would still see with normal vision, the dojutsu(or eye ability) would not be transmitted to the Yamanaka’s sight.
Limit: Must be part of the Yamanaka clan, must not be the carrier of a Dojutsu(eye blood limit)

[Hon]

+2

[Fui]

wrong account but yeah +2

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The next one on Naoki's list was the other senses that he had yet to learn. The next? Hearing through what others could hear. He spent a little while training it on different people. He found that it was... a little annoying to have to stand still. Maybe he would grow skillful enough one day to perform more than just a singular sense.

He began walking towards a park - Even in the raining world that didn't seem to exist otherwise, this was more of a swamp, if anything. It was still an area in which people could walk around and do other things in their life that deviated from the norm.

He saw his next little victim - a teenager, only a few years younger than himself... though there seemed to be no indication of him being a Shinobi. He sat himself down on a bench, took a deep sniff into the air, splashes of rain dropping onto his face. He grinned. He looked back towards the teenager... there was something different, he was wearing headphones. Listening to music it seemed. So there it was, Naoki would perform some handseals towards the other kid and would hold it on his lap, directed towards the teenager as he somberly walked. The same tether that he had learned in his previous technique came into play again, except this time he had the added affect of being intent to listen to his ears - connecting to the two of them, this was.. different. It was the sort of visualization in Naoki's head.

He didn't have an acute anatomy of the ear, but he knew sound was vibrations. This was what he thought; think of the vibrations, tether to it. Hear what they heard. When he connected with the teenager, he visibly recoiled as his hands dropped, bringing his hands up to his ears as he stopped the connection.

"Fucking Screamo? Really?" Naoki grimaced as he popped a finger in his ear, rolling it around before pulling it out. He didn't have any ringing in his ears like if he had himself listened to the music... it was just a response. He would have to train that in order to not react so visibly, especially if he was on an important mission or was inducing this sort of new perception upon somebody else. This was not a technique that you would want to draw attraction to.

He theorized that just like before if he connected with somebody's senses just like he had with the older woman and gained her eyesight, there would be a similar affect of the nauseating feeling to his ears. So he would try again. He noticed a couple with a child in the park, the child running ahead of them. That was who he would focus his technique on.

Just like he had anticipated, the sensation was weird.

He could hear the rain patting down on the kid's body, his parents talking to one another (whether the kid was actually listening or not was another story), the flow of wind and rustling of his clothes. Intrigued, Naoki began whistling loudly, and yet- the kid's ears picked it up. As he whistled a humble little tune to himself... purely out of self interest, it was eternally weird, and he kept stopping and faltering, but the boy didn't pay any attention to it. Naoki couldn't hear anything himself, but wasn't grimacing as the technique continued.

It was like trying to talk into a radio whilst being able to hear yourself talk into it, bouncing back at him. This would be a muscle that he would have to train. Even then, he noticed the tug of chakra in his system, that training the technique was definitely using a source. This would grow bigger.

ooc: Thanks!

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Cupid Ear Jutsu
Rank: D
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: This jutsu allows user to hear trough the ears of someone else.
Special: Horse, rat, Triangle Hand seal
Drawback: The user must be able to at least see the target. If ever the target goes beyond the users visible site the jutsu cancels out. The user cannot move while the jutsu is in effect
Description: The jutsu causes a mental link to establish between the user and the target. Allowing the user to hear everything the target is hearing. This is a spying technique so the target does not feel or notice anything when the jutsu is cast. The user hears everything as if he was experiencing this himself. When doing this jutsu the user can not hear things for himself so if he were to be attacked he could not hear the assailant. Once the target is beyond site such as behind a wall or too far to be seen the jutsu cancels itself out. The Shitakuma cannot learn nor be influenced by this jutsu. Their hearing is too advanced for this jutsu to be used against them, and their ears do not function in a way that would make this jutsu possible if they would try to learn it.
Limit: Must be part of the Yamanaka clan, must not be of the Shitakuma.

[Celaena Kamyuja]

Plus Ten

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Most of the day had been spent playing with the various senses of hearing and sight, but now he wanted to go a step further. He had retreated to the marketplace, in which he was watching the various people - he wandered through the stalls, searching for something that might aid him. He was beginning to grasp the concept of how his chakra was his and his own to be molded, no longer bound by the rules of the academy... he was free to learn. It was up to him to learn.

The next technique and sense he was going to try was with the mouth. So in between one of the stalls he stood, looking out on the opposite side of the street, hushed underneath gazebo's where they could display their wares. Once more, just like Naoki had been doing for the entire day, focused on the mechanical aspect - tethering to the mind of a particular stall owner of 'fine' jewelry. The focus was on the mouth - with his own understanding of the common language, how it moved, the muscles and tongue moving... it would come together finely.

"fine jewelry, I'm the best around and don't you forget it! Rin's jewelry!" Naoki mumbled to himself as the technique connected, he was speaking the words coming out of the other man's mouth. It was a peculiar technique. Again, it was like Naoki's mouth was moving on his own accord. Unlike most things he said this was done out of a pure instinct, with no regard for the words and so whilst Naoki's mind was blank with concentration and chakra, words were coming from his mouth. 

He slipped, placing his hand out to his side before he fell over, and turned. 

"What do you think you're doing?" a voice hushed over him, leaned into Naoki and stared. Naoki, his concentration broke, stretching. "The hell do you mean? Is it not obvious? I'm capturing an image, only an artist would understand." Naoki stared at the man back, quite clearly a lie. Naoki had easily seen more determined folks in his own day. The older man, haggard with his own business as Naoki was in between his stall and somebody else's "Well... eh move along!" he started off weakly with Naoki's own stare, seeing he was a ninja - with no absolute authority himself and only a stall.. he wasn't about to cross paths with someone, despite his age, more dangerous than himself. 

Naoki moved along without any word of backing down. He couldn't bring attention to himself, not if he wanted to survive. He was a good guy! He was almost amused at his own thoughts. "Jeez." instead of leaving, he stopped...and grinned. Here was one way he could use the technique.

He turned, went back to the stall he had been shoo'd from, and performed some handseals - performing the mental link again. The same older man looked at him. "What the hell are you doing?"

Naoki copied the man perfectly. "What are' ya, a clown?" this time, however the man came out from behind the stall "You better leave before I - that's it!" the man swiped at Naoki, who ducked underneath him and laughed it off as he backed off.

That was one way to use it.

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Cupid Mouth Jutsu
Rank: D, C
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: This jutsu makes the caster able to speak what the target is speaking. At C-Rank the user can make another person speak what the user is saying.
Special: Handseals, Triangle Hand seal
Drawback: The user must be able to at least see the target. If ever the target goes beyond the users visible site the jutsu cancels out. The user cannot move while the jutsu is in effect
Description: The jutsu causes a mental link to establish between the user and the target. The user may then speak the same words the target is speaking, so the user can know what conversation the target is having. If learned at C-Rank, the Yamanaka can force his or her target to speak the words the Yamanaka is speaking, to communicate messages or for other means.
Limit: Must be part of the Yamanaka clan

[Yoshi [Lynx!]]

+10, good shit

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This was going to be the next on the list. From this point on he was going to be working harder than ever. He had worked on the first three techniques with relative ease- now this was going to be work with a dimensional space. Instead of tethering to another person to gain one of their senses he would be tethering his mind and body together. This was going to be one step to becoming a far stronger person. This was something he had to do.

So his first thoughts of how to perform the technique was to perform the derirative technique, though when he would do so he would keep in his mind's eye a rope that covered his mind as it propelled forward, that he could pull it back as he pleased - this was the driving force of the technique. He had long since abandoned the market and was now inside his own temporary home. A pretty empty space, the only few things he had was a bed a kettle, and food within his fridges. Enough for him to survive, but it was dull.

Yamanaka techniques are hard. he thought as he performed the handseals, and he sat there conjuring his chakra into something that would be malleable - that he would tie it around his mind. The chakra would be a rope and the catalyst that would lead him from his own body to his victims. When he felt he was ready he allowed himself to ease into it. His mind projected forward - out of his body. It was almost an ethereal state - he could see his mind exiting through the chakra, up and out - and stopping. Nowhere to go. Before he could yank it back, the chakra connection spiralled out and fizzled, ignorant to the rest of the world, Naoki's eyes widened up as he realized his mistake but before anything could continue his eyes seemed to lose focus and he fell unconscious.

Some time later, he awoke. "Are you serious..?" he spoke, as he pushed himself up off the floor, and leant up against a wall. "I didn't give it enough time." he said, angry at himself that he would allow such a silly thing to occur. Instead of driving himself right back into it, he sat himself into a meditative position. Instead of pushing it out instantly he would be more passive and allow things to ride it out, it would take time before he could use the technique. Vital seconds that in a battle would mean everything.

He felt strong enough to try again, and performed the handsigns. But instead of rushing into the technique he would wait. His mind and soul were intertwined - his chakra reserves had definitely been used today. He visualized that there was a rope, long enough for his mind to propel out; that everything he would do was going to perform was under control. everything was going to be under control, it was a mechanical process where as everything functioned, he would relentlessly control everything in his grasp. He was almost ready.

Learning: 0/30

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Kontanribon no Jutsu (Mind Ribbon Technique)
Rank: C-Rank
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: A link is created between the Yamanaka’s body and their mind.
Special: Dragon, sheep, Oval hand seal(Must be prepared in the post before the post in which the user will use Art of the Valentine)
Drawback: The Art of the Valentine is now only limited to a distance of ten meters.
Description: Instead of simply doing the oval hand seal(for Art of the Valentine), the Yamanaka performs two more seals before. This creates a link between the escaping mind and the Yamanaka’s body. This limits the range of the Art of the Valentine technique to ten meters. On its own, this technique has no use.
Limit: Must be of the Yamanaka Clan/Taught by a Yamanaka must have learned Art of the Valentine

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From a birds eye view, you would see Naoki sitting on the floor of his small empty apartment, he had been preparing for the technique for a while now. "Okay..." he began explaining to himself. "You're going to let your mind out, it's going to be controlled by a rope- it will fly outwards... and it's going to not travel as far... but you can pull it back. It has to come back." he spoke softly with his closed eyes. Even if there was no target there was no reason to not take this seriously.

As he held the Oval hand seal, he dropped his hands onto each knee as his mind escaped outwards, he felt as though the imitative rope between him and his mind was loose - the further it travelled, the less slack in the rope. He was going to quickly pull it back. The chakra travelled out of his body at a speed - just like the shintenshin no Jutsu. It had finally reached it's max length, the rope had fully uncurled from his mind and it was ready to be pulled back in. However, it didn't move.

So he was just sitting there with his chakra above him... "come... back.." Naoki spoke between gritted teeth, trying to will it back. Though the harder he tried the more it seemed to resist and he noticed that he was using more chakra and it was needlessly being wasted. He realized what this meant. "Oh let's just get this over with." Naoki grimly said, dropping the technique.

Again, his eyes lost focus as he fell unconscious, and his body lost it's sudden rigidity and slumped back against the wall he had been up against, for him to later wake up.

For a small amount of time, all was calm. Naoki wake up, and at this time it was much too late for him to do anything about it. "How damn long have I been out?" Naoki spoke to himself, standing himself up as he felt groggy. The technique did work... but he had no way of pulling himself back into his own body provided it was not successful. He supposed he would have to start on somebody - that way instead of falling unconscious he would take over someone else, and then he could cancel the technique and be back to normal. So that's what he would do, gathering his cloak and an apple from the fridge, the door clicked behind Naoki as he left the empty apartment.

How was he going to pull the rope back? The problems just kept growing larger and larger. He was still fairly new to the concept of the technique so maybe it was like a muscle that grew stronger? He would purely have to train this one technique for a while, unlike the first couple of techniques he had learned earlier in the day which he could practice easily. It would be like he would have to have a arm of chakra or something akin to that would act as a pulling mechanism, that his gut would churn and tense as he pulled his mind back into his body, forcefully or no, it would have to return to him somehow.

It seemed like he was going in the right direction.

Learning: ??/30

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Kontanribon no Jutsu (Mind Ribbon Technique)
Rank: C-Rank
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: A link is created between the Yamanaka’s body and their mind.
Special: Dragon, sheep, Oval hand seal(Must be prepared in the post before the post in which the user will use Art of the Valentine)
Drawback: The Art of the Valentine is now only limited to a distance of ten meters.
Description: Instead of simply doing the oval hand seal(for Art of the Valentine), the Yamanaka performs two more seals before. This creates a link between the escaping mind and the Yamanaka’s body. This limits the range of the Art of the Valentine technique to ten meters. On its own, this technique has no use.
Limit: Must be of the Yamanaka Clan/Taught by a Yamanaka must have learned Art of the Valentine

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The rain was strong, just as he had expected. After he learned this technique and how to return his mind from the depths of whomever he encountered, it would be off the library. He had to learn some sort of skill lest his mind grew numb and his days boring.

Naoki's destination was the clubs and pubs that Amegakure tended to offer to those with the coin. Not directly inside them - but outside. Where people were going to get drunk. Those were his targets - however unpleasant it would be to have the similar sensations of being out of his face, this was the only way to do it without being caught by anybody else. Who would suspect that a drunken fool would be taken over, for the fewest of moments?

Naoki found himself outside a pub, under the rain covers and with the benches which many sat upon. Here he could see the people smoking and drinking. His victim was another, slumped in his chair, smiling away giddily at the world as he nothing was wrong. What a fool. Naoki felt disgusted by his next actions - not that he felt abhorrent at himself, but for the degenerate he was about to make his way into the next couple of moments went by as he waited to be ready. After some time, he felt that it was in his best interest to act.

His mind went forward, propelled by the rope that he had been training with - outwards... where he would begin trying to pull at the rope in his mind - it was definitely there and he could feel the range as the tension began to go forth and stop him from moving further. It was useless, because he found himself in the body of another man; he was clever enough to have a fail-safe in case it didn't work. The man seemed to double over for a few seconds, unsure of what was happening. Naoki was in control now, his own body was slumped backwards. He looked a little bit like a drunkard or an addict but in his current surroundings that was perfect. He blended in.

"Ehehehe." Naoki garbled out of the man, before he cancelled the technique and the man shook his head in disbelief. What had happened? He didn't know, because as Naoki awokened he was back in his own world. Naoki on the other hand seemed annoyed - because this wasn't working. Naoki would try once more, waiting. Waiting.

He sent his mind out a final time, but as he did so the man stood up and began leaving. Naoki would've said something but in his concentration he didn't have the time to think about it. He had to get it RIGHT! As he reached his final length, he would've sighed.

He fell unconscious for the third time today, and as he came around groggily he noticed two people looking over at him. "Ya' alright mate?" they spoke, Naoki swatted someone's hand away. "Fine." he wasn't fine, but that could be remedied.

Learning: ??/30

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Kontanribon no Jutsu (Mind Ribbon Technique)
Rank: C-Rank
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: A link is created between the Yamanaka’s body and their mind.
Special: Dragon, sheep, Oval hand seal(Must be prepared in the post before the post in which the user will use Art of the Valentine)
Drawback: The Art of the Valentine is now only limited to a distance of ten meters.
Description: Instead of simply doing the oval hand seal(for Art of the Valentine), the Yamanaka performs two more seals before. This creates a link between the escaping mind and the Yamanaka’s body. This limits the range of the Art of the Valentine technique to ten meters. On its own, this technique has no use.
Limit: Must be of the Yamanaka Clan/Taught by a Yamanaka must have learned Art of the Valentine

[Fui]

+30

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The night was still young and Naoki hadn't fully understood how to bring the "rope" that he had conjured using his chakra and bringing his Shintenshin no jutsu back into his own body. This was the problem. From underneath this little rain shelter that the pub provided, Naoki stayed sitting. The two people that had bothered him had gone, as Naoki had quickly dealt with them. He sat there now, thinking about how to remedy the situation and allow himself to grow stronger.

If he thought of it like a funnel - the rope would retract around to his body, that he could pull it back and like a person with a whip would wrap the rope around somebody's neck - he would do that to himself. Not only that, he would be like a shining beacon - a magnet for his own chakra to return to him for the technique. That was one of his best bets. He had gone unconscious one too many times today for his liking. Performing the same handseals for what seemed like the billionth time, he began to wait until he was ready. He had noticed that, when performing this particular set of techniques - his body didn't like it when he rushed things. He would have to wait a little amount of time further before he could perform the technique.

And eventually, he felt it was right. Instead of having somebody there as a safeguard he felt he would take the dangerous side and again, would allow his mind to come out straight forward and into the world. One meter... two meters.... three meters. He felt his body tense as he was ready to start pulling his mind back. And so long before the range was going to be up, he began pulling. It really was like a muscle, he would pull at his mind - as if there were arms coming from his body as the chakra came out, and would pull back. His concentration was on chakra control, ensuring that his mind would return back to him. "You got this..." Naoki spoke to himself.

It slowly.... inch by inch, began to return back to Naoki. Long until...
He did it! He was successful! The technique had worked, and now he had a growing repoirtaire of techniques that was growing larger by the day. Naoki however, gave a sigh - his chakra had been well spent for most of the day his elbows came down to rest on his knees as he leant forward - today was almost spent. But there were other things that he could be doing.

Learning: 0/10

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Kontansouki no Jutsu (Mind Recall Technique)
Rank: D-Rank
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: If Art of the Valentine is unsuccessful and the Mind Ribbon technique was used, the Yamanaka is able to use the link to quickly come back to his or her body.
Special: ---
Drawback: –None-
Description: If the Art of the Valentine is not successful and Koutanribon has been performed, the Yamanaka is able to return to his or her body using the link that is created between the mind and the body. The reintegration of the body is done within the next post after the initial Art of the Valentine.
Limit: Must be of the Yamanaka Clan/Taught by a Yamanaka, must have learned Art of the Valentine and Mind Ribbon(Koutanribon)

[Fui]

+9

I'm going to ask if you not use the template while training now please

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Naoki was almost done with the entire thing. But he had to try it one more time. Instead of it all before - he was going to be doing the following techniques in Tandem, so that it could be done fluidly and efficiently. Something that he might be able to use in some of his own favourable situations. So he would begin performing handseals, and would wait. "You've done it once... you can do it again." Naoki mumbled under his breath. He could see someone looking at him from afar - smoking. He ignored it. This was not the time for games, or for playing. 

After some time had passed, he allowed his mind to reign free - he could visualize everything. Up and outwards - forwards straight. If only one day he could learn how to bend and change the direction of his mind. It would have more combat potential than it currently did - the potential of a wet noodle. 

As the rope in his mind began to become less slacked, he began pulling back. Unlike before, he had found the sweet spot which worked for him. It was like a turnstile in his mind - and again, a little faster than before... his mind returned back to him. He grinned as he came back in control of his body - nothing had been lost, and he wasn't going to be falling unconscious any more. 

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Kontansouki no Jutsu (Mind Recall Technique)

Rank: D-Rank

Skill: Ninjutsu

Effect: If Art of the Valentine is unsuccessful and the Mind Ribbon technique was used, the Yamanaka is able to use the link to quickly come back to his or her body.

Special: ---

Drawback: –None-

Description: If the Art of the Valentine is not successful and Koutanribon has been performed, the Yamanaka is able to return to his or her body using the link that is created between the mind and the body. The reintegration of the body is done within the next post after the initial Art of the Valentine.

Limit: Must be of the Yamanaka Clan/Taught by a Yamanaka, must have learned Art of the Valentine and Mind Ribbon(Koutanribon)

[Celaena Kamyuja]

Learned

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TRAINING OBSERVATION


Naoki took a deep breath, and smiled. His chakra over the entirety of the day was pretty much spent - his eyes felt heavy. He had even been awake for a while as well! But, there was nothing to return back to in his home except a bed. No books... nothing. There was only one thing he could do - keep going until he was tired.

How long had he been here, anyway? He took a sniff of the air - the cigarette he smelled a little while ago when he had first entered through the pub and went outside - it was wet. That sort of smell was... something to be trained. For the moment, he would make a little game of it. How long had it been exactly? The air was damp - the light pitter-pattering of Rain had subsided for the moment - an almost rare occurrence. Using his eyes he would peer over to another table, where he could see the dying embers of the Cigarette. So it had been a few minutes, how many? He could not say. What other things were known to his empirical senses?

He closed his eyes briefly, listening to his surroundings. How many people are there? He listened, not listening to any words in particular but the simple notice of different tones, pitches and the like. But then there was the added effort - breathing? 

He thought about it, the heavier breathers were easier. It was those with the lighter breathing he was having a harder time with. 'I'm gonna guess... six people?' he opened his eyes, and rolled his eyes. 'Four.' and instead of closing his eyes - he leant back till he couldn't see any of them from his position he had been in, and would listen to the singular person - whom he couldn't hear. Gathering information about those who made less noise than one another - and how to find them.

Learning: 0/5 TP

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Observation
Rank: "E"
Skill: Skill
Effect: This skill focuses certain powers of observation - sight, smell, hearing, and touch.
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Description: Can be learned by an Animal. A failed check indicates that the character is oblivious until the thing is pointed out to him. This skill is important for ferreting out advancing enemies or ambushes, generally real-time events and actions occurring, versus scrutiny, which covers static objects or areas. A Game Master may roll an Observation skill check for a Character any time there is an NPC, monster, event or happening that a character might notice, even if he did not specifically state that he is monitoring his surroundings. Characters are capable of noticing any event within their perception. Observation reveals only facts, not motivation. If user has 25 or more Ranks in Evidence Analysis user gains a Synergy Bonus +10 to Observation. Each time learned user gets 1 die roll to increase the skill.
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