{Training - Kazeraikou Ryou, Open}

[zorin]

Name: Lightning Marbles
Rank: C
Type: Ninjutsu
Effect: Creates little orbs of lightning that explode on impact
Special: Rabbit, Tiger, Snake
Drawback: Must be at least 20 feet away from blast area or else you will be damaged as well.
Description: After the Necessary hand signs the user puts there hands near each other, palms facing one another. Little orbs of lightning begin to appear in the user’s hand, like marbles. The user then releases them at the enemy’s feet or at the enemy himself. On impact the Lightning Marbles will explode and release electrical charges in a 20 foot radius damaging anything and everything in its range of fire.
Limit: Must Know Lightning Release; Every Shinobi in cloud can use but Shinobi outside of Cloud must be Taught by a Shinobi from cloud to learn it.

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Ryou stepped out onto the balcony of his small apartment, on a small outcrop overlooking the whole of the Village Hidden in the Clouds. The wind was blowing fiercely today, whipping his jet black hair back, and messing up the neatly spiked hair. Wispy clouds had gathered in the sky, though the sun was shining through them. "Perfect day to go training," Ryou mumbled to himself and set out to go to learn a new jutsu. Ryou arrived at a grassy field, and began training. "First the handsigns..." Ryou began to go through the motions of the handsigns, first Rabbit, then Tiger, and finally Snake. "Rabbit, tiger, snake... Rabbit, tiger, snake... Rabbit, tiger, snake... Rabbit, tiger, snake... Rabbit, tiger, snake..." When, in his mind, he thought he had finally gotten the motions of the handsigns down, he performed them again, this time performing them properly, to release chakra from his large inner reserve and form highly specialized deadly techniques. Most of Ryou's techniques were Lightning Style, or Raiton, simply because his bloodlimit, the Ryuugan, enhanced those types of jutsu, giving them more power. For Ryou, that was everything. His purpose in life. Power. To become the most powerful shinobi ever to walk the lands of the Cloud Village, more powerful than any Raikage. And if that meant becoming evil, so be it. "Rabbit, tiger, snake...! Raiton! Exploding Lightning Marbles!" Ryou experimented with the jutsu, placing his palms so that the were facing each other around his waist, and calling forth electrically charged chakra, which formed into small, marble sized balls of energy, packed with an explosive punch. "Okay..." Ryou said when the marbles had grown to reasonable size, "Now!" he threw the marbles, but only about 17 feet away from him, not far enough, and when they came in contact with the ground they exploded, not harming inorganic matter in any way, but sending a blast of lightning energy hurtled towards him, and he caught the very end of it where it was the least painful, luckily. "Awww, shit." He quickly pulled himself up and began to start again.

[zorin]

(( Sigh, If I'm doing something wrong, I'd like it if someone'd at least tell me how. ))

Ryou scrambled back onto his feet, icy blue eyes scanning the clearing, making sure no one had seen his botched up jutsu. After making sure no one was around, he activated his Ryuugan again and set to work. "Rabbit, tiger, snake...! Raiton, Lightning Marbles Technique!" Ryou quickly performed the required handsigns, and the jutsu began doing its work.

Chakra flowed, from his inner reserve, channeled through his arms, and out of his palms, swirling around as blue, volatile energy. The chakra was charged with electricity, and Ryou prepared to perform the jutsu. This time, he put more strength into the throw, but still when the marbles hit the ground and exploded, sending whizzing pieces of chakra shrapnel flying past his head, he took the brunt of the force. What had happened this time? Ryou sighed and deactivated his Ryuugan.

Beginning to get frustrated, he removed the scroll from his pack, unrolling it quickly and scanning the contents.

Name: Lightning Marbles
Rank: C
Type: Ninjutsu
Effect: Creates little orbs of lightning that explode on impact
Special: Rabbit, Tiger, Snake
Drawback: Must be at least 20 feet away from blast area or else you will be damaged as well.
Description: After the Necessary hand signs the user puts there hands near each other, palms facing one another. Little orbs of lightning begin to appear in the user’s hand, like marbles. The user then releases them at the enemy’s feet or at the enemy himself. On impact the Lightning Marbles will explode and release electrical charges in a 20 foot radius damaging anything and everything in its range of fire.
Limit: Must Know Lightning Release; Every Shinobi in cloud can use but Shinobi outside of Cloud must be Taught by a Shinobi from cloud to learn it.

That must be it...! Ryou thought to himself. If I don't throw them far enough, I'll get hurt too... Ryou performed the jutsu. This time, when he threw the marbles, they rolled away, almost 25 feet, but didn't explode. Ryou groaned, and looked up at the sky. It was getting late, time to head home.

[zorinko]

(( I'd appreciate it if a mod would at least come look... ))

[adasuke]

+5
+3

8/30

Sorry, please PM me if you need this looked at in the future. I'll be happy to give points.

[zorin]

(( Thanks. ))

{8/30}

Ryou yawned, stretching from his bed. He quickly got dressed, ready to return to training to master the jutsu he had to learn. As he scrambled to put his clothes on, he stumbled, hitting his head on the bed post. "Owww..." He grabbed for the scroll of his desk, only to realize it wasn't there. "Damn! Where'd I put my scroll?" he muttered to himself. Something told him to check his back pocket, and when he felt for it, it was already there. "Oh. Hehe..."

Ryou arrived at the training field, energized and ready to finish this jutsu. He quickly unpacked the scroll, glancing at it quickly:

Name: Lightning Marbles
Rank: C
Type: Ninjutsu
Effect: Creates little orbs of lightning that explode on impact
Special: Rabbit, Tiger, Snake
Drawback: Must be at least 20 feet away from blast area or else you will be damaged as well.
Description: After the Necessary hand signs the user puts there hands near each other, palms facing one another. Little orbs of lightning begin to appear in the user’s hand, like marbles. The user then releases them at the enemy’s feet or at the enemy himself. On impact the Lightning Marbles will explode and release electrical charges in a 20 foot radius damaging anything and everything in its range of fire.
Limit: Must Know Lightning Release; Every Shinobi in cloud can use but Shinobi outside of Cloud must be Taught by a Shinobi from cloud to learn it.

"Okay, I might as well go over these hand signs one more time..."
Ryou said, and began to perform the handsigns, not using any chakra, because he wasn't yet ready to release the jutsu; this was just practice. "Rabbit...!" Ryou's hands formed two L shapes, and he interlocked them together to form the sign for Rabbit, or Hare. "Tiger...!" A simple sign, Ryou folded his hands together, as if he were praying, save for the two index fingers sticking straight up. "Snake...!" Unarguably the easiest of all hand seals, Snake, or Serpent, required the user to fold his hands together as if praying.

Ryou continued to practice the handsigns, and gradually, slowly but surely, he began to be able to do them faster, faster and faster. "Rabbit, Tiger, Snake...! Rabbit, tiger, snake! Rabbit, tiger, snake!" Soon Ryou's hands were nothing but a blur as he performed the handsigns flawlessly. He knew that they had to be perfect, or the jutsu could back fire and kill him.

Finally, he trusted himself with enough exercise in the handsigns to perform the jutsu. "Rabbit, tiger, snake...! Lightning Marbles Technique!" He turned his palms so that they faced each other, the hands near each other. Little spherical balls of electrically charged chakra began to appear in his hand. When they were large enough to cause sufficient damage, he released them, and this time, they went far enough so that they caused no damage to himself. "Yes!"

He was very close to mastering the jutsu.

[amane]

+7

15/30

[zorin]

{15/30}

Ryou arose, it was the third day of his training with the Exploding Lightning Marbles jutsu. Today, it was time for him to try it out, in the real world. He quickly dressed, and went to his foggy, grass-covered field, where he usually trained when not with his teammates. He removed he scroll from his back pocket and opened it, setting it on the grass besides him.

"Let's see," he mumbled to himself, opening it, quickly reviewing the scroll's contents. "This'll be a snap, I've almost got it down now. I'll be done in no time, and then I'll be way stronger than both of my teammates!" Ryou said, ambition welling up inside him. He only wanted to be like any other shinobi, the strongest his village had ever seen.

He quickly practiced the handsigns as he had always done, as a safety precaution. His father, when he was alive, had always told him how many a jutsu could go wrong and backfire if the handsigns were performed improperly. He always made sure to do a few trial runs before. He quickly went through the familiar motions of Rabbit, Tiger, Snake, and activated both his Ryuugan and the jutsu.

But this time, Ryou did something different, that he had been thinking about during his hours off of training. It was a bit of an experiment, a way to make the jutsu his own in a sense, making it more... what was the word, original. He poured chakra through his inner reserve into his palms, this time using it to mold the air around him into the small marble sized balls.

He then packed chakra into them, though not over the surface, as he would have usually done, but deeper down inside. If his theory was correct, this would cause the marbles to not explode on contact, but once the opponent touched them, activating a blast that would be even more powerful than usual, since it used both Lightning and Wind chakra, the Kazeraikou clan's specialties.

He released the balls from his hand, and his theory was correct. They did not explode as they would have usually done. It was not until he went up to them, and tentatively touched them, did they release their full power out, causing him to have to use a Subsitution Jutsu to quickly dodge out of the way.

That was enough training for today, it was time to head home.

[zorin]

*Ahem... Bump.*

[kininata]

((hmmmm... +6 tp
21/30))

[zorin]

Ryou opened his eyes again, this time reluctant to roll out of bed. He had always been a bit lazy, never liking to work hard for anything at all. "Training," he mumbled. "Is it really necessary? I've got the jutsu down pat..." Something in his head told him, If you ever want to be the rightfull leader of your squad, you've got to know the most and most powerful jutsu, and how to use them.

A bit more encouraged, but not really, he rolled out of bed. "Fine, I'm up," he said to no one. He quickly got up and dressed, though he was still sleepy, and bumped his head at least 4 times. "Owwww!" Finally he got to the training field in one piece.

Ryou went through the list of training goals he had formed in his head. He had the handsigns down, he could fly through them in a flash. Just in case, he quickly performed them a few times. Rabbit, tiger, snake... Nothing happened, because he hadn't allowed himself to release any chakra with them.

He knew the jutsu's name, of course, and all of it's capabilities. He had learned what it could do, and thought of many strategies that it could be used for in battle and sparring, and even in life or death situations. There wasn't much left to do for the jutsu, except the one part Ryou liked best: modifications.

"Here goes the fun part..." Ryou went through the list of things he could do to make the technique more powerful or useful to him in his head. He knew also the Wind and Water releases. Water wouldn't do much good with an electric attack, but wind might.

He performed the jutsu, flying through the handsigns, and letting the chakra flow through his body, and out his hands as small marbles. He increased the flow of chakra, until they were no longer the size of marbles, but more like mini-baseballs. They began swirling with chakra more than ever before, wind whipping up around them. "And... now!"

He threw them, and they hit their target, a large boulder. It was incinerated on contact, and the ashes were swept away by the dying wind. "Perfect," he muttered to himself.

[zorin]

Bump.

[ryu]

(( +4 tp 25/30 ))