Unwavering Will [Training][P]

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Kurogane Bunshin no Jutsu
Rank: C Rank
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: Creates a clone of the user.
Special: ---
Drawback: Takes 1 post to form in mouth.
Description: After having chewn the Spider Sticky for long enough, the user can spit it out and create a clone looking exactly like the user. This is no ordinary clone though, as as soon as the Spider Sticky comes in contact with oxygen the clone will automatically become harder than steel and virtually unbreakable. The clone cannot perform Nin or Gen -Jutsu.
Limit: Must know Kumo Nenkin. Must be of the Kumomusha Clan.

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Grabbing a scroll of the counter, Yamato headed outside. Today he planned on training another clone technique. Although he had his clay clone, he wanted another one just in case he ran into a situation where he didn't have any of his clan clay. One of his major weaknesses was that without his clay, he wouldn't be able to do anything. By learning this technique, he hoped to rectify it a little bit. Pulling open the scroll, he read all of the information inside of it before putting it away and beginning his training.

The first thing he needed to do in order to use this technique was create some spider sticky. Directing chakra towards his mouth, Yamato began to form web above his tongue. As he create moved web, he began to infuse his chakra into it in order to make it more durable. Once he had enough web in his mouth, he began the process of chewing it. The reason he was chewing the thread was in order to make it more malleable. Without doing this, the technique would be near impossible to accomplish.

After chewing the web in his mouth for a little bit, Yamato spat it out onto the ground. Staring at his golden web, he waited for something to happen. As more seconds pass by, he soon realized he did something wrong. However what exactly he did wrong was a mystery to him. A mystery he would need to solve if he ever wanted to use this technique. With a pondering look on his face, he took the next few minutes to think.

When he spat out his web, it should have formed into his shape. Unfortunately it didn't do that. Instead his lump of golden web stared at him dejectedly. Letting out a sigh, Yamato massaged his temples. He needed to think if he wanted to train this technique in a timely manner. The only thing he could of was that his mistake had something to do with chakra. But even though he knew this, it still didn't help. In order to do this technique, he had to use chakra. Therefore it was quite hard to pinpoint just where he messed up using his chakra.

Seeing as how thinking about what he did wrong wouldn't help him anymore, Yamato decided to attempt the technique again. This time when he started, he made sure he focused on every little thing he did. Forming the web in his mouth, he began to infuse his chakra into it. He didn't know if he put too less of chakra into his technique last time, so he added some more in this time. Hopefully it would make a difference.

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Once he had enough web in his mouth, Yamato began chewing the chakra infused web. Similar to the changes he made with his chakra, he decided to chew the web longer than he did last time. If he didn't change anything, then he would get the same results. And since his technique failed last time, he did not want to get the same results. Hopefully by doing these two steps differently, his technique would be a success. If it wasn't, he would just have to try again.

After chewing the thread for a little bit, Yamato spat it against the ground. This time when his golden web hit the ground, it began to rapidly expand. It continued growing larger and larger until it was as tall as him. As it grew, his web clone began to take on his appearance. After a few seconds of waiting, his clone looked exactly like him. Nodding his head in satisfaction, he ordered his clone to throw a punch at him. But when nothing happened, he knew he did something wrong.

Staring at his clone in confusion, Yamato wondered what he did wrong. Unlike last time, his web actually transformed into a figure resembling himself. He had done several things different, and one of thing things had been the correct way of doing it. But which option he got correct was a mystery to him. Touching his clone, he watched as it uttered no reaction whatsoever. Hmm, he could already tell how this would be a problem in battle. Even if the clone looked like him, if it didn't move, then no one would think it was him.

Directing chakra towards his mouth, Yamato began forming web above his tongue once again. He was so close to performing this technique successfully that he could feel it. Once his web covered the entirety of his mouth, he began infusing large amounts of chakra into his web. Way more chakra than he used the previous two times. The reason he did this was because he felt that his last attempt had been successful thanks to putting more chakra into his technique. If this wasn't the case, he would soon find out.

Once he had put a considerable amount of chakra in his technique, Yamato began chewing his web. He chewed it for the same amount of time as he chewed for his last attempt. He felt like his technique had felt because of the lack of chakra he put into it, so chewing more would help. After he finished chewing, he spat out his golden web onto the ground. Less than a second later, it quickly expanded to his size and took on his appearance. Now he had to see if it would obey his orders.

Ordering his clone to punch him, Yamato watched in satisfaction as a fist flew towards him. Catching it with his hand, he nodded towards his clone and ordered it to stop. It seemed that his hypothesis had been correct. He was confident that if he ever wanted to perform this technique, he would be able to. Dismissing his clone, he headed inside.

[Father 'Suke]

One moment please

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[Insanity within the Falls]

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Before heading inside, Yamato decided to go over the technique he just learned one more time. After all, he did want to make sure it worked. If he was in the middle of battle and his it didn't work, nothing good would come of it. Directing his chakra into his mouth, he waited as web began to quickly fill his mouth. Once he had enough web, he began to infuse it with large amounts of chakra. After he was satisfied with the amount he put it, he began chewing the web in order to make it malleable. Without doing this, his web wouldn't expand and form into a clone when he spit it out.

Once he felt the web was chewed enough in his mouth, Yamato spit it onto the ground. The moment his golden web landed on the ground, it quickly expanded and took on his resemblance. Looking at his clone, he nodded his head approvingly. It had formed way faster than the last time he performed this technique. This was good since every second counted in the battlefield. Before he went inside, there was one more thing he wanted to try.

According to his technique, his clone should be harder than steel. As far as he knew, there was only one way to find out if his clone was this hard. Ordering his clone to attack him, Yamato began fighting with his clone. This went on for a few seconds until he managed to land a hit. Grimacing in pain, he ordered his clone to stop as he held his hand. It seemed that his clone was harder than steel. At least that was what his injured knuckles were telling him.

[Father 'Suke]

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[Insanity within the Falls]

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"Clay Harrier"
Rank: B-ranked
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: Creates a clay creature that is very mobile.
Special: Refer to “Katsu”.
Consumes 15 slot for one mouth
(Maximum size: Large sized creature)
(Maximum amount: 1 creature for 15 slots used)
Drawback: Time and preparation. Continually draw of chakra
Description: After molding and infusing a piece of clay, the user may form a certain bird type creature of large class. Once enlarge, this clay creation moves about, fulfilling the users desires. The true purpose of this bird though is not for explosions, but rather for the users mobility. After creation, the user can stand on top of the clay bird and enjoy a free ride. This bird of clay is much more mobile then any human as the bird helps the user gain distance and speed in battle. The user continually pours his/her own chakra into the bottom of there feet, allowing them to control the bird without use of there hands and ensure that they do not fall off the bird as well. The user of course cannot climb it extreme altitudes with this clay bird, nor travel more then twice there own speed as if they were on land. If the user decided to destroy their Clay Harrier as any other bomb, they must merely use "Katsu" after leaping from their Clay Harrier. The user should take into account that this may be a very dangerous maneuver as one could foolishly destroy a means of transport; leap from a very high altitude which will harm them; or miscalculate speeds and further harm themselves on impact with the floor. This explosion is rather weak as well as the harrier is intended solely for flight. The blast left from exploding the harrier is roughly the equivalent to 2 “Exploding tags”. Being caught in the explosion may serious burns, burn marks and lacerations. The radius of the explosion is roughly a concentrated 2 meters in size.
Limit: Must know "Katsu", Kuchisaki Seichuu (Mouth Control) at least once, B-ranked "Touji Hyu-zu" (Clay Infusion) and B-ranked "Touji Itonami "(Clay Life)

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After resting for a little bit, Yamato headed back outside. Rather than train a Kumomusha clan technique, he was going to train one of his Toujitakumi techniques instead. It had been a while since he trained one of these so he was eager to get started. Reaching into his jacket, he pulled out a scroll with information about the technique he was learning. Once he read the scroll, he stuffed it into his jacket before beginning his training.

Pulling out a couple pieces of clay, Yamato molded them together before sticking them inside his mouth. Once the clump of clay was in his mouth, he began to chew. After chewing the clay for a few seconds, Yamato began infusing his chakra into the clay. Gathering the chakra throughout his body, he began to direct it towards his mouth. By doing this, he would be able to infuse his clay with chakra faster than he normally would've been able to. He had learned this little trick when he was training some medical techniques.

As he quietly chewed, Yamato waited patiently for the chakra in his body to reach his mouth. Once it did, he began to direct it towards his clay. After his clay was filled to the brim with chakra, he began chewing the clay once more in order to evenly distribute the chakra throughout it. In his opinion, this was one of the hardest parts of his clan technique. If he didn't evenly distribute his chakra, then his technique wouldn't work. If he was on the battlefield and this happened, only death would await him.

Chewing the right side of the clay, Yamato pushed a certain amount of chakra towards the left side. After this was done, he rolled the piece of chakra infused clay around and proceeded to do the same thing with the left side. He was forced to do this process a couple of more times in order to get the chakra in both the left and right sides to match. Once this was done, he allowed his jaw to rest for a few seconds before continuing on.

Rotating the piece of clay in his mouth until the top side was by his teeth, Yamato began to chew on the clay. Basically he was doing the same thing he had just done except for the top and bottom of the clay. This process took about a minute before he finished moving around the chakra in his clay. Holding the piece of clay on his tongue, he examined it to make sure the chakra was evenly distributed.

As Yamato scanned the chakra in his clay, he soon realized that something was wrong. At first glance everything seemed okay, but that was not correct. Sure the top, bottom, left, and right pieces of clay all had chakra evenly distributed through them. However there was still a section that barely had any chakra in it. That section was the middle. Letting out a small sight, he prepared himself to distribute the chakra throughout his clay once again.

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Directing the chakra throughout his body and towards his mouth, Yamato began the process of infusing the clay with his chakra once more. As chakra surged into the clay, he began to chew on it so that the chakra would spread around. The chakra wouldn't be evenly distributed, but that would have to do for right now. He just wanted to make sure that the middle had enough chakra in it. Once it did, he moved on to the next step.

Chewing on the top and bottom pieces of the clay, Yamato began evenly distributing his chakra throughout it. As he did this, he tried to make it so that the middle had the same amount of chakra as the top and bottom. This proved to be quite a difficult and tedious task. Whenever he had the same amount of chakra in the bottom and the middle, the top wouldn't have enough chakra. If he had enough chakra in the top and middle, he wouldn't have enough in the bottom. If he wanted to successfully distribute his chakra, then he would need to find a way out of this predicament.

As Yamato quietly chewed on his clay, he tried to think of a solution to his problem. Just chewing on his clay wasn't going to solve his problem. He knew this was so seeing as how he had been chewing on his clay for quite a bit, and nothing changed about the uneven distribution of chakra. After about a minute of thinking, he came up with an idea. If his idea turned out to be good, then he wouldn't have to worry about uneven distributed chakra in his clay.

Chewing his clay so that the the middle and bottom part had the same amount of chakra, Yamato rolled the clay around in his mouth until the top was on his tongue. Reaching for a small amount of chakra from his body, he began to infuse the top piece of clay, which was now at the bottom, so that it would have enough chakra to become even with the new top and middle. He had to be careful though, because if he put too much in, he would have to begin the process of chewing clay yet again.

Focusing on his clay, Yamato began to slowly fill up the bottom with chakra. The task proved quite challenging seeing as how he had no idea just how much chakra he needed to put into it. Once he put some chakra into the bottom, he would then look at the top and middle to see if he needed more. If he needed less, then he would have to chew the clay. Seconds pass by until he felt that there was enough chakra in the bottom piece of the clay. Now he just had to see if he had enough, or if he put too much into it.

[The Bearer of Bad News]

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[Insanity within the Falls]

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Concentrating on the piece of clay that was inside his mouth, Yamato checked to see if the chakra inside it was evenly distributed. From the looks of it, the chakra inside wasn't completely evenly distributed, but it was pretty damn close. He decided to call the infusing chakra into his clay process complete since he doubted he could evenly distribute the chakra any more. Spitting out the piece of clay into his hand, he looked at it quietly for a few seconds. What was he going to shape it into?

Some people who weren't in the Toujitakumi clan might think infusing chakra into clay was the hardest part of their techniques, but that wasn't true. Deciding what to shape the chakra infused clay into was also quite challenging. If he didn't have a perfect image of what he wanted his clay creature to be inside of his head, it wouldn't come out right. And if he made the wings of a flying creature incorrectly because of this, then it would be hard for it to fly. It might not affect him that much short term, but if he kept on making the same mistake, he would further cement it into his head. Then eventually he would keep on making the same mistake without even knowing. Something like this could definitely lead to his death.

Rubbing his chin absentmindedly, Yamato tried to think of a creature to create. He couldn't make just any creature though. He needed this one to be a bird. Sure there were other creatures that could fly besides birds, but he was sure that going the bird route was the best bet. Birds were meant to fly, and they flew extremely well based on his past observations. He just needed to decide which bird to choose.

Normally you would think that the bigger the bird is, the better. Sure that might work in normal situations, but his clan was anything but normal. The bird he was going to create was going to be enlarged to a considerable size. This meant that even if a smaller bird was slower than a larger bird because of its size, that wouldn't matter. Both of those birds would be the same size in the end once he created them with clay and performed Katsu. The situation worked vice-versa also.

Since he didn't need size, maybe he should go for simplicity. This thought came to him a few seconds ago while he was thinking. There truly wasn't a specific bird he needed, so any normal one would do. The problem with that idea was that there were just so many to choose from. Still, if he didn't start deciding soon, he would never choose a bird. Holding his clay in his left hand, Yamato entered his house. He was pretty sure his brother had a book if birds somewhere, and if he could find it, it would help him decide what bird to use.

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After a few minutes of searching, Yamato returned to his spot outside with a book in his hand. Inside of this book were many species of birds that he could choose from. Their sizes ranged ranged from big to small and their faces ranged from fearsome to cuddly. Sadly he was forced to cross off the cute and cuddly birds from his list because he didn't want his enemies getting the wrong impression from him. He wanted his enemies to be afraid when they saw him flying on his mount rather than them trying to pet his bird because of its cuteness.

In the end, Yamato decided to go with a hawk. There were other fearsome birds, but this was the one he wanted to go with. He had seen some hawks before, so he already had an image of them inside his head. The image just wasn't that detailed. And since he already knew a little bit about hawks, it would be easier to mold than a bird he had never seen before. Flipping back to the page the hawk was on, he spent the next few minutes memorizing the details of the bird. He needed to copy the characteristics of the hawk exactly, or his clay bird wouldn't be able to be considered a hawk.

Repositioning the clay that was in his hand, Yamato began to mold the clay that was in his hand. The first process he started on was molding the general shape of the body. Their was no point in doing a part as detailed as the face first when there was a chance that the body could be disproportioned later. And if that happened, he would just have to mold the clay hawk all over again. And from experience, he knew that that was a tedious process he didn't want to have to do more than once.

Yamato rubbed the top part of the clay until it began to resemble a ball. He then rubbed the lower section until it was long and thick rather than than the short and thick it was before. After doing this, he peeled off one section from each side of the middle for the wings. He then peeled off another section from the back for the tail. Once this was done, he extended the bottom part of his clay into two pieces for the legs. After this was finished, he began to start on the details.

The first place he decided to detail were the wings. In his opinion they would be the easiest to do first seeing as how they were pretty big. At least compared to the rest of its body. Based on eyesight only, one might assume that all the feathers on a hawk are the same size. But that is not the case. Some of the feathers were long while other were short. They just looked the same from a distance. But once you gave the feathers a closer look from up close, you would begin to notice some things that you hadn't noticed before. And in order to create a realistic looking hawk, Yamato needed to create everything that was on the hawk's wing, to his clay hawk. It would be hard, but it was doable.

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Grabbing the right wing of his clay hawk gently, Yamato began molding the feathers. Since the wing was so small, he was forced to use his fingernails in order to create something so small. It wasn't that hard though, seeing as how this wasn't the first time he created a creature with feathers. It was just long and tedious. Normally in battle he would rush this part since he wouldn't have that much time to shape the feathers, but Yamato wanted his first clay creation with this technique to be perfect. And if he had to spent more time on it than normal, then so be it.

Once the feathers on the right wing were created, Yamato moved on to the left wing. Doing something like this required dedication and patience. This was something that most of the people in his clan had. If they didn't, how would they have been able to be know as artisans? If you rushed any part of your creation, it would come out wrong. He had this happen to him many times, so he always made sure to be as detailed as possible and fix any mistakes, even if it meant redoing the whole thing. This was only in his free time of course, seeing as how he wouldn't be able to do this in battle.

After about a minute of working, the feathers on the left wing were created. Yamato then moved on to the torso next. Surprisingly the torso of the hawk wasn't that challenging. Most of the feathers there were short. And because they were short, they were easier to create than the long feathers on the wings. In a short amount of time, he was soon finished with the middle section of his falcon. Before moving on, he gave his bird a couple glances from all angles to make sure he hadn't missed anything. Once he was satisfied, he moved on.

The next part of his bird he decided to work on was its tail. This was a part that he needed to be careful with. Although the wings of his hawk had different sizes, the changes were minimal at best. The tail feathers were a different situation. Just from a glance you could tell that they were different sizes. And there was probably a reason for this so Yamato couldn't just make them all the same size if he wanted to. No, he would need to figure out how many feathers he needed to make long, and how many feather he needed to make short.

Taking another glance at his book of bird, Yamato looked at the tail section of the hawk closely. Since the book didn't label the exact number of feathers the hawk had, he would have to eyeball it. Judging from the looks of things, there seemed to be more long feathers than there were short. It wasn't like a two to one situation, but it was pretty close. Turning his attention back to his bird, he began to think of a way to easily mold the feathers on his hawk's tail. He wanted to make sure he didn't mess up because doing all this again seemed like a daunting process.

[Father 'Suke]

Grading one moment

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+28 TP

[Insanity within the Falls]

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With the clay bird in his hands, Yamato began the process of molding the long and short feathers out of his clay. As he did this, he made sure to remember how many short feathers he was making, and how many long feathers he was making. He had to do it this way, because if he didn't, it would be hard to tell how many long and short feathers he had created. After a few moments of working, he finally finished the feathers on the tail. Glancing at his book and the tail on his clay bird, he nodded in satisfaction. It seemed good enough for him.

The next part of the bird Yamato began to work on was the talons. Rotating the bird so that its stomach was facing upwards, he began shaping the clay where he thought the talons should be. It only took him a few seconds before he had two big blobs on the lower part of his falcon's body. Right now, the two blob appendages looked nothing like talons. But after he worked with them for a little bit, their shape would slowly start to become more and more familiar. Other people might have different ways to create a bird's talons, but he felt like his way was the easiest.

Directing his attention to the left most blob, Yamato began shaping this blob into four separate pieces. The reason he did four pieces was because a hawk had four claws. Sure he could make it with three or five claws, but he wasn't really in the mood for experimenting at this point. He just wanted to make sure he got this technique down. Once the blob was in four pieces, he began to mold them into a cylinder shape. The claws weren't completely cylinder since he needed to make sure they could actually function as claws.

Once this was done, Yamato began molding the claws on the edge of the toes he had just finished making. Although this process wasn't really that hard, it still took him a bit of time to complete. He wanted to make sure all of the claws were of the same shape and size. If one of the claws was different from the rest, he would have to remake it. He might not have needed to do the claws this way, but he still wanted to do it. This clay falcon was going to be perfect by the time he was done with it.

After finished the left talon of his hawk, he moved on to the right talon. Similar to what he just did, Yamato separated the right blob into four pieces. He then molded these four pieces into cylinder objects. After doing this, he began to shape claws at the end of the toes he made. All of this was completed faster than previously since he was familiar with what to do. Once both the talons were completed, he began moving towards the top of his clay falcon. The bottom part of his creation was done for now.

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Holding the clay hawk carefully in his hand, Yamato began molding the head of his clay creation. The first thing he did was mold the beak of his hawk. Right now the head was just a circular ball shaped blob, so if he wanted if to look like a real hawk, he would need to start adding some hawk features onto it. Pinching the edge of his clay, he pulled out a section of the head for the beak. Once he had pulled out enough clay, he began to detail the beak.

Rubbing the beak of his clay hawk, Yamato made it angle downwards. He also made the end as sharp as he could. He couldn't make it that sharp, seeing as how he was using clay. But he could make it close enough. Once he finished detailing the beak, he moved on. Above the beak, he created the nostril of the hawk. It wasn't that hard to do this part seeing as how he just needed to make two holes above the beak. After this was finished, he moved on to the eyes.

Pushing his fingers into the clay, Yamato made two indents in the head. Once the indents were made, he began shaping the eye inside of the clay. Based on the picture he had seen, the eye of a hawk were circular, similar to humans. This was good since he was familiar with what circular eyes looked like, seeing as how most humans had them. Now normally he would say all humans had circular eyes, but he had seen a couple humans with oval like eyes. One could never be to sure.

After the eyes were done, Yamato moved on to the feathers. This process was also easy seeing as how he was used to making feathers. After finished the feathers, he examined his bird to make sure he had molded and crafted everything he needed to. Once he was satisfied with his work, he played his clay hawk on the nearby table. Performing the handseal for Katsu, he watched as his clay hawk disappeared in smoke. Less than a second later, a clay hawk flew out of the smoke and into the sky.

Yamato watched it fly around for a little bit before moving on to the next step. Although having the clay bird come to life was nice, that wasn't the end of his technique. Now normally he would enlarge his clay bird and explode it, and then he would be done. But this time that was not the case. Instead, this clay bird had a different reason that just being a big explosion. He would use this type of bird whenever he ran into a tough situation and needed to get out of there fast. After all, this technique was meant to create something that was extremely mobile. Now he just had to see how fast his clay bird really was.

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Performing the Katsu handseal once again, Yamato watched his clay bird disappear in a cloud of smoke and reappear several feet bigger. Directing it to fly towards him, he waited until it was close enough before jumping on his back. He managed to stay on the back of his clay bird for a total of three seconds before sliding off and falling to the ground. Luckily he wasn't that high up, so the only thing that got injured was his pride.

Rubbing his head, Yamato took another look at the technique scroll to see what step he had forgot. That was the only reason he could think of for his little tumble off of his clay hawk. Directing his hawk to land beside him, he examined the scroll. A few moments later, he placed the scroll on the table and hopped onto his bird's back. Standing up on the back, he directing his chakra from his feet towards the clay bird. By doing this, the problem of falling off his bird was solved.

Ordering it to take off, Yamato steadied himself as his bird jumped in the air. With several flaps of its wings, it managed to move several feet off the ground. A couple more flaps and it was flying through the air. Directing it to fly a little bit away from his home, he examined his surroundings. Based on how quick the scenery was passing him, he could tell that he was going pretty fast. He wasn't going that fast, but his bird was flying quicker than he could run. He could already tell that this was going to be useful if he ever came across a sticky situation. Sitting on the back of his bird, Yamato allowed himself a moment to enjoy the scenery. As of right now, he considered his technique a success.

[The Bearer of Bad News]

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