The Brothers Grim - House

[Takehiko]

OCC: Layout of the house will expand as it is built. To see a crued layout please follow the G-Drive Link. IF you have any questions regarding the house/usage please PM me or Mamoru

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Setting: A Small Three Room shotgun building on a residential street near the center of Kusagakure. The front yard needs work with some dead grass and a worn path to the front door. At the front door you would find a combination lock that only two people know the code to, Takehiko and Mamoru. If you were to be allowed in or bypass the lock you would end a Nice Workshop with expensive tools for any crafting needs besides smiting works and alchemy.The loft higher level is accessed by a ladder, climbing this ladder would lead you to two sleeping bags for the brothers. There are two work stations set up with plaques with the brother's names on them, Takehiko's to the right, Mamoru's to the left. In between the two tables on the opposite side of the room to the front door there is another door in the far back left side. Opening this door would lead you to a Greenhouse that is in much better condition than the front yard, however not much is growing there these days. On the other side of the Greenhouse is another door centered against the back wall. Opening this door would lead you into a Small Library . The library would hold multiple books on the subjects of botany and cultivation collected from various places in Kusa no Kuni. At the back of the library, in between the stacks, are two sleeping bags where the brothers sleep.

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Workplace, Masterwork
Rank: "B"
Type: Main, Room, 1 Stronghold Space, Workplace Room
Effect: A Crafting Room dedicated for all kinds of Crafting other than Blacksmithing/Metalworking.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: This area resembles the basic workplace, but it has finer tools and equipment. When using the area for the appropriate purpose, it grants a +10 circumstance bonus on appropriate skills checks. There may be up to 2 people working in this area.
Limit: Must be created by a Construction Crafter.
Cost: 20,000 Ryo

Combination Lock, Medium (Impossible)
Rank: "B"
Type: Secondary, 2 per Slot, Gadget, Mechanical, Lock
Effect: A combination lock is a type of lock in which a sequence of numbers or symbols is used to open the lock.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: A combination lock is a type of padlock in which a sequence of numbers or symbols is used to open the lock. The sequence may be entered using a single rotating dial which interacts with several disks or cams, by using a set of several rotating disks with inscribed numerals which directly interact with the locking mechanism. Types range from inexpensive 3-digit luggage locks to high-security safes. Unlike a regular padlock, combination locks do not use keys. To Lock Pick the user must listen for falling tumblers to assist when trying to search for the combination. Since Combination Locks do not have keys they automatically impose a -40 on the user's Lock Picking skill. Combination locks have 1 lock; add the cost of the lock to the cost of the quality of the lock found in lock qualities.
Limit: These type of items may be bought inside any Gadget Shop.
Cost: 15,000 Each

Garden
Rank: "C"
Type: Main, Room, 1 Stronghold Space, Grounds
Effect: The smell of green, growing life fills the air here. Lush vines laden with savory tomatoes grow alongside mandrake root, ephedra, and even more esoteric herbs.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: The smell of green, growing life fills the air here. Lush vines laden with savory tomatoes grow alongside mandrake root, ephedra, and even more esoteric herbs. A single gardener using this area and having its resources all to himself receives a +20 circumstance bonus to their Agriculture. Alternatively, up to 4 gardeners can share this space at the same time, and they each receive a +10 circumstance bonus on their Agriculture skill. May also be built as a greenhouse, a grove, farm plot.
Limit: Must be created by a Construction Crafter.
Cost: 5,000 Ryo

Library, Basic (Botany, Cultivation)
Rank: "C"
Type: Main, Room, 1 Stronghold Space, Library
Effect: A collection of manuscripts, publications, and other materials for reading, viewing, listening, study, or reference.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Plain wooden shelves of books fill this room, arranged in any manner you desire. One or two small tables allow people to read the books, and a single lectern allows you to read a book while standing. This library can hold up to two different lots of books on specific subjects. For example, it could contain books on religion and arcana. The Books Component has prices and information for book lots. If you need a greater capacity, purchase this component multiple times.
Limit: Must be created by a Construction Crafter.
Cost: 5,000 Ryo

[Takehiko]

OCC:

Learning:
Stalking Jutsu [000/110 TP]
Rank: "S"
Skill: GenJutsu
Effect: As Invisibility, Greater, except that the creature is hidden from hearing and scent as well.
Special: "Handseals"
Drawback: ---
Description: Affects anyone who sees the target. The user is able to perform this technique on the target they touch. The duration of this technique lasts for 5 minutes per class level. This technique may be negated. This Jutsu functions like invisibility, except that it doesn't end if the subject attacks. The subject radiates silence to a radius of 2 meters and neither leaves a scent nor can be detected by the scent ability.
Limit: Must know the Glamour Perception. Must know Invisibility, Greater.

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Takehiko waited at home in the library for Mamoru to come home. Once his brother was home they could go out and take on missions, practicing together would help them sync up in battle. Until then Takehiko could only prepare himself, going his own strength. While his brother was his weapon, an extension of himself, Takehiko needed to be the core of their offense. With this he decided to improve his strength, disappearing.

Takehiko would walk to the back of the library stacks to find a tall object covered by a sheet. He pulled the sheet off the object and it appeared to be a mirror. With this he would start to practice in the mirror. The teen would start by gathering his chakra in his core. This part was easy in his training as he had been gathering chakra for quite some time now.

After his charka was gathered he would start to shape it. When working in genjutsu Takehiko wouldn't shape his chakra with an element but rather give it an image in his head. The image, one he knew very well was himself disappearing. The chakra would be pictured as a flaming ball in his stomach. Carefully Takehiko would cover the chakra with his thoughts and slowly it would vanish from his minds eye.

[Takehiko]

OCC: Post #2 [/110]

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This is where things use to get tricky for the young shinobi. As the chakra image would disappear from his mind's eye it was hard to keep it focused on his core. Focusing chakra while making it invisible in nature was hard enough. The keep was to feel the chakra swirling around while it went from view. Grunts could be heard from Takehiko as he continued to gather chakra and shape it with his image.

Once the chakra was barely visible, a former image of it's self, like someone was trying to erase it. With this Takehiko would move on to the next step. The next step was to let the chakra move, like an invisible needle through a thread. Takehiko would start slow, because it he didn't move the chakra correctly it would burst just running back into his body without using any jutsu. Takehiko would start to breathe rhythmically and heavy. As he gained a rhythm with his breathe he started to move the chakra.

The chakra moved with the rhythm, slowly pulsing from his center. Because Takehiko couldn't see the chakra he had to feel it. Even though the rhythm was slow he made the beat hard and with every deep breathe came a hard push of chakra from his center. The chakra would rush and slowly cover the walls, like flames trying to east a house into nothing. When the chakra would hit the walls of his body he would grab hold of it, letting it not flow into a rushing river.

[Takehiko]

OCC: Post #3 [/100]

The chakra was slowly making it's way through Takehiko's body. First it would travel to the close walls of his stomach and chest, filling it with a weird warmth that was numbing at the same time. He would then push it up from his chest and down from his stomach. The challenge here was doing this at the same time. It was like looking left and right at the same time. Something that wasn't impossible but incredibly hard to do.

The key was to focus back and forth constantly paddle forward, paddle backward as the chakra traveled up and through his arms it also traveled down through his les and into his feet. The chakra would still need to travel up to his head which was the hardest part about the chakra formation and control. You see, now that the chakra was at all points in the body besides the head Takehiko had to hold it there. His breathing became stiff as there was this invisible force running through him.

almost there, almost there he thought to himself as the chakra creeped his head. It was a slow and painful process but he was getting there. Once the chakra was in his head he felt almost like he was dead. The numbing heat flowed through him and he felt as Takehiko almost couldn't breath. With this he forced his hands up and together. The chakra trying to escape would make his hands tremble, this was a very advance technique indeed.

[Takehiko]

OCC: Post #4 [/110]

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Takehiko couldn't feel his hands that well but he knew he was moving them, hopefully in the right direction. At that moment he felt both of his hands touched by something, it was numb but there was something definitely there. He then knew it had to be his hands touching each other. He pictured the handsigns in his head, transmitting the thoughts to his hands. Without even totally working on it his hands would move and bring forth a dozen or so handsigns.

At the right moment right after the final handseal he put a button on his work. This caused the chakra filling his body to slowly pour out from every point of his body like steam. This "steam" as Takehiko would call it for lack of understanding how chakra really worked would cover his body. The release was an amazing to Takehiko, it gave him the ability to breathe again and regain the feeling to his body. He then noticed he could move his head and with this turned to the mirror.

However, the mirror held nothing for him as when he looked into it all he saw was the stacks of books behind him. He would take a step back, mistakenly stepping on some paper, pushing it to the side. In the mirror Takehiko would just see the papers flutter as if they had been hit by a breeze. The jutsu was working... even if it as just on a basic level. This meant he could finally move around and start to reaffirm the basics.

[Takehiko]

OCC: Post #5 [/110]

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Takehiko did feel better but there was still a focus he needed to maintain. As Takehiko moved around he took note as to what the movement did to his invisible body and to the chakra slowly steaming out of him. When he took a step he felt an extra release in his foot. When he went to grab something the same feeling in his hand. He took a book off the shelf and held it in his hand.

As the chakra flowed out a little faster with the book in hand Takehiko would try to improve on this. He would focus on his hand and try to analyse the pressure he felt from the book. He tried to balance the pressure with his own body's weight. By equalizing the pressure between his hand and the book he was able to figure it out. He didn't make the book disappear, that wasn't his goal, he was able to hold objects while being invisible and not release extra chakra.

Next he would try walking around, slowly at first while invisible. With ever step the ninja took more chakra would be released from his feet. Every step would require the same process as holding the book. Takehiko would need to adjust the amount of chakra flowing into each of his feet as he took steps. He would roam around the library increasing his speed ever so slightly at every lap. Through his repetition he would learned how to adjust chakra flow to his feet for different speeds, from the spy's gentle step to the assassin's quick foot.

[Takehiko]

OCC: Post #6 [/110]

Now that Takehiko controlled the basics of movement and physics with the invisibility he could move onto the more advance abilities of the jutsu. Takehiko had learned many variations of invisibility through genjutsu and each required the same type of learning structure. To open up his mind to a different type of invisibility he must treat it as learning the base skill for the first time, then adding in the variation.

The first step to mastering the stalker jutsu was increasing the radius of his chakra and this the jutsu itself. When he stepped his chakra would flow out of his body. As Takehiko walked he would let the chakra flow out in a controlled rhythm. The rhythm would allow Takehiko to keep the chakra under his control as it left his body. As the chakra traveled out of his body it created a barrier in which the jutsu would be effective. Invisibility didn't actually make the user disappear but make it seem like the user disappeared to other in the area.

Takehiko remembered the numbing feeling that came with first building up his chakra. He let that image flow free in his mind and through the chakra he was letting out. As the chakra flowed through his feet as he walked he pictured the warm numbing leaving his body. He had this image of the chakra s a heavy fog spreading across the floor. In this fog he would be invisible, he would be deadly. He continued with repetition being his tool, each time letting the chakra bellow out further and further until it hit two meters.

[Takehiko]

Post #7 [/110]

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Once his area of invisibility meet his requirements, roughly two feet, the teen would continue his training. Takehiko would next move onto removing the other senses from finding him. The Stalking Jutsu was the best invisibility jutsu out there because it allowed the ninja to not only disappear from sight but also from smell and sound. He would focus on sound next.

While staying invisible Takehiko would clap his hands together and start to focus more chakra. This technique was considered S-Rank for a reason, it required a lot of chakra to use all the layers of it. The chakra started to swarm into a ball in his body. He found little difficulty in holding the invisibility chakra and this new chakra, it was much easier than looking left and right at the same time.

This chakra was another genjutsu element Takehiko would need to create in his head. Like invisibility it was need to fade out of his mind's eye, unlike invisibility it wouldn't disappear totally. Instead it sat there barely visible. Once it was ready he would add another image to this chakra. The chakra, in his mind, was giving off an energy wave that he pictured as sound waves. He would slowly wrap his chakra's form to make those waves to tie them into the chakra, thus destroying the ability to hear the chakra.

[Mamoru]

ENTER

Learning: +2 TP for C-Rank

Raiton no Jutsu (Lightning Release Skill)
Rank: "C"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: ---
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: With this skill, or release, the user is now capable of using, and performing techniques that deal with the element of Lightning. This means that any NinJutsu or specialized TaiJutsu that deals the Lightning Release will need this in order to be performed correctly.
Limit: ---

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As Mamoru entered his home he was hoping to see his brother but no one was insight. He moved to the Greenhouse and just looked around, again, Takehiko was no where to be found. "Well if he is in the library Takehiko wouldn't want to be bothered. I guess I will work here until he is done." With this Mamoru thought about what he could do while waiting for his brother. With this he decided he needed to be more well rounded as a ninja. He was just always trained in Taijutsu and the Mabuki transformation arts he never thought of learning ninjutsu or genjutsu. The boy would sit down and meditate.

Even from his time at the academy Mamoru knew that he didn't have the greatest abilities in the forces or nature or illusions his mind just didn't work those ways. He wasn't creative enough to image illusions nor was he gifted enough to summon his chakra in a way that created elemental attacks so he always just focused on his fist. However, he has been out of the academy for a little while now maybe he could learn to control his chakra better. As Mamoru closed his eyes started to picture his chakra. It took him a while to picture it but he always saw Takehiko train in this manor so he thought it was worth a try.

The chakra started to gather slowly but it was hard for Mamoru to contain it. His chakra was violent, constantly moving and trying to burst through the container Mamoru created for it. Every time Mamoru got a foothold on more of his chakra it would burst out, breaking his concentration. The boy would sigh, shake his head and return to his meditation. Slowly but surely he gathered his chakra and started to hold it. It wasn't creating a release of perception yet but it was a start.

[Mamoru]

Learning: +2 TP for C-Rank

Raiton no Jutsu (Lightning Release Skill) [??/20]
Rank: "C"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: ---
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: With this skill, or release, the user is now capable of using, and performing techniques that deal with the element of Lightning. This means that any NinJutsu or specialized TaiJutsu that deals the Lightning Release will need this in order to be performed correctly.
Limit: ---

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One he had, what he thought to be, enough chakra at his core he started to let his mind wonder. Mamoru didn't know what elemental natures he had in his body or perceptions but he thought letting his mind wander would allow them to come out. As his mind wandered it drew him to images of places, lands he had never been to before. The image that called to him the most was a clear grey field with large mental towers in it. With each passing second lighting would strike a tower harnessing his energy.

The lightning was powerful, fast and left Mamoru in awe. With this the image of his chakra started to take shape, it went from a pure blue circle to a light green. Once the color had changed the shape started to change form. The circle started to have spikes shoot out of it. Mamoru worried, thinking his chakra was going to loose form all together. However he keep his focus as the spikes started to become more fequent and rapid to the point where Mamoru couldn't keep track of them. Finally a spark came forth from the center of the light green chakra and ignited the whole with brilliant lightning ways. Mamoru's first chakra nature showed itself to the young shinobi, lightning.

With this Mamoru opened his eyes to see his hands had raised from their meditation position to above his core. His body felt different. At the beginning of his meditation he was feeling relaxed not his body felt energized and his chest was beating with the rhythm of the lightning chakra. Mamoru could feel this new chakra nature flowing through him, he places his hands on his heart and guided the chakra with his hands through his arms. Once he felt the chakra in his hands he released it. With the release lightning surged through his hands back and forth between each other like lightning jumping between two conductors. Mamoru had done it, he released his chakra and learned that he had access to ninjutsu.

[Starnaess]

learned

[Mamoru]

Mamoru, now knowing not just how to control ninjustu but form it into an elemental structure smiled. Takehiko didn't seem to be in sight so Mamoru got up from his spot and decided to go back to the gym and train. "Maybe I'll go on a mission while I'm at out and about." With this being said, he closed the door behind him and he was on his way out.

[EXIT]