manipulating darkness [training | private]

[neko bo beko]

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Even just with her sentry by her side, Harue feels somehow better. She knows that the first time someone landed a solid, powerful blow upon him, he would vanish, but his alertness made up for that. It was nice, at least, to have someone large and bulking at her side. Even if they were made completely of shadows and did whatever she told it to. She looks to it, thinking still. She cocks her head, looking up at it though it does not acknowledge her staring. She knows it knows, though. It is an extension of her in some ways. "Thank you, that's enough." An extension of her or not, politeness never failed Harue. "Follow me, so I can show you a patrol route." She nods, and it mirrors her display. She smiles, turning on her heel and walking along the tree line. She does not have to look over her shoulder to know that her sentry is following; as if it was clad in armor, she can hear the sure clink of metal on metal as it trudges heavily behind her.

Harue leads the dark sentry along the tree line solely, and then once she reaches the end of the perimeter, she turns on heel and slips past him. The sentry, set in his ways, walks the way to the end of the perimeter, turning on its heel to follow behind the same. Like a snake's tail perfectly in like with the movement of the head. Though it is a hearty walk, she shows it to the other end of the perimeter. Once she is done, she turns to the thing and splays out her hands at her sides. "There!" She exasperates, breathing a bit heavy. As a GenJutsu user, she is not as perhaps physically fit as most kunoichi. Her chest heaves. "Patrol, if you would?" Hands back at her sides, she smiles. The sentry gives a heavy nod before beginning on his way. Harue stands back, taking a seat on a swinging bench to observe. She watches the sentry disappear around the side of the house, and then come back along the tree line to meet the ther perimeter. Harue spends a good while outside like this, watching the thing walk back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.

Once she is satisfied with that, she stands and wipes her hands down her sweatshirt thoughtfully, but also because her palms are sweaty. She scratches her head, waiting for it to come back to the point she stands at in patient wait. When it finally meets her, she stops it with a raised hand and a smile. "You did good, thank you." When it is done taking a obedient, straight-backed stance, Harue keeps her hand raised, palm to the thing. With her other hand, eyes on where the thing's eyes supposedly are, she unsheathes the katana at her hip. When it is drawn, she gestures to the sentry before finally lowering her palm. It nods knowingly, unsheathing its warrior's sword. Thicker than hers, but also shorter by mere inches. With a heavy inhale, eyes flickering away from her creation, she breathes out her last command. "Attack." Immediately, the sentry rushes forward with a parry to deflect Harue's swing. Her breath, shaky but steady, rushes from her nose as her lips remain in a tight line. After a moment of not-so-deadly sparring with the sentry, it allows for her katana to vanish inside the center of its chest. Quietly, its black form poofs into inky smoke trails, but those too disappear. Slightly saddened by the disappearance of her sentry, Harue scuffs the dirt as she sheathes her katana.

[Kinzoku]

Harue +20 [LEARNED]

[neko bo beko]

Harue twists up her lips contemplatively, sweeping her eyes over the layout of the land. She hums and haws for a moment before sucking in a deep breath. She decides to retire for the day.

[ e x i t ]

[neko bo beko]

[ enter Harue & Ōmo ]

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Ephemeral Ally
Rank: "C"
Skill: GenJutsu
Effect: Use the powers of Shadowy GenJutsu in order to cloak an ally.
Special: "Handseals"
Drawback: ---
Description: Affects anyone who sees the ally. The user is able to perform this technique at a distance of 30 meters plus 15 meters per class level. This technique may be disbelieved once interacted with. This ally moves at their ability, and can use any action, and enemies are unaware of their presence. This Jutsu ends when the target attacks, or when an enemy dies.
Limit: Must know the Shadow Perception.

+2 TP to C Rank

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The next time Harue comes out into the garden to train with the shadows, she is also accompanied by her newly found companion. Trusted as ever, she plans on involving him in her GenJutsu training in hopes of strengthening their fighting skills together. Sparring with both Krystal and her new teammates had revealed a lot to her about where she needs to improve. Might as well start what she finished.

Leading Ōmo to where she had once found herself manipulating shadows, Harue begins. She throws together a succession of handseals, turning on her heel to face Ōmo. She smiles wide behind her moving hands, and Ōmo merely blinks at her, curious. "I play with shadows," she tells him. His ears flicker and he tilts his head, a puff of air fogging in the cold air. Snow sprinkles from the clouds, but it's nothing compared to Harue's sweater and Ōmo's thick fur. To make an example, she twirls her finger and winds up Ōmo's shadow. It dances for a moment against the cold earth, bits of it missing thanks to the sparkle of the snow under the high sun. He looks slightly off put by it, standing up and backing away. The twisting shadow follows, but then shifts back to normal. Harue smiles, dipping her head to him. "It's alright. I'm going to use them to help you, too. We're a team."

He huffs, but sits back down. Harue can't stop smiling, even as she puts together another set of handseals. This time, she focuses on Ōmo alone, concerned with his own well being in the time of trials. If she could put him under a protective cover, she wouldn't always have to worry about him. This is why she chooses to cloak him in darkness. She directs him towards the large mansion, where the sun doesn't touch the ground. Following slowly behind, she focuses still on him. Under the cast of the house's shadow, even in broad day light, he seemingly disappears. She whistles to him and he snaps his head to look at her, but she only catches a glimpse of his bright eyes, daunting in their disembodied place a few feet off the ground. Harue swallows thickly, laughing a little. "Good boy," she offers, moving to approach him.

Upon meeting where he'd gone to stand, Harue extends her hands in hopes of petting her beast. Instead, she's met with nothing; her hands fall through the shadows, her own color muted by the sunless spot. It's considerably cooler here, too. She looks around, blinking. "Uh... Ōmo?" She breathes, listening for the crunch of snow under his heavy paws, looking for a puff of hot air from his nostrils. She squints, already she's lost her new companion.

[neko bo beko]

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Ephemeral Ally
Rank: "C"
Skill: GenJutsu
Effect: Use the powers of Shadowy GenJutsu in order to cloak an ally.
Special: "Handseals"
Drawback: ---
Description: Affects anyone who sees the ally. The user is able to perform this technique at a distance of 30 meters plus 15 meters per class level. This technique may be disbelieved once interacted with. This ally moves at their ability, and can use any action, and enemies are unaware of their presence. This Jutsu ends when the target attacks, or when an enemy dies.
Limit: Must know the Shadow Perception.

+2 TP to C Rank

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Still under the cast of Harue's own jutsu, the rose beast is seemingly lost to her. She calls for him, beckons to him, whistles and snaps her fingers. But for the life of her, she cannot stumble upon him; was he inches away, backing out of her reach playfully? Or had he escaped around the side of the house, attempting to start a game of hide and seek? Either way, Harue was a bit worried. If she could not find him, she most likely could not undo the effects of the jutsu. Inevitably, he would be lost to the shadow world forever; Harue gasps, covering a hand over her gaping mouth. What had she done?!

"Ōmo!" She calls out, cupping one of her hands around her mouth to better hollow out her voice, project it further. "C'mere, Ōmo! I can't see you! Where'd you go? Ōmo..." Harue trails off, walking along the house. She touches her fingers to the siding, trailing her hand behind her as she moves. Her voice gets softer and softer, her pink eyes looking more and more frantic across the yard. Finally, she lets out a heavy sigh and scuffs her foot in the dirt. Maybe Ōmo would come to her instead. Waiting, she looked around the area in hopes of finding a displacement in the area. Flattened grass, a reflection off the beads of snow in the ground. Anything to give away where he was.

After a long while, Harue got fed up. Almost, she regretted trying to involve Ōmo in her GenJutsu training. "Ōmo! What the heck?" She exasperates, turning around. She narrows her eyes, combing slowly through the shadow under the mansion. After a moment, she called out to him even though she could not actually see him. "I can see you, Ōmo. Come out here." As if he felt the end of their game coming to an end, or perhaps thinking she really had seen him and the jig was up, there's a sudden pressure at her side. Something nudges her arm, leading it to rest on something solid. She laughs, dispelling the Jutsu as she wraps her arms around Ōmo's massive head. He grunts, accepting the hug. "You punk," Harue laughs into his mane, standing back up. "That's supposed to hide you from enemies. Not me." He tilts his large head, blinking his chocolatey eyes at her slowly.

[Deleted]

learned

[neko bo beko]

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Spectral Weapon
Rank: "C"
Skill: GenJutsu
Effect: Using the power of Shadow GenJutsu, the user can fashion a quasi-real weapon of any type with which they are proficient.
Special: "Handseals"
Drawback: Striking techniques with special properties do not work with the attack that deals with background damage.
Description: A Mind-Affecting Technique. Affects anyone who sees the user. The user is able to perform this technique on themselves. The duration of this technique lasts for 5 rounds per class level. This technique may be disbelieved once interacted with. This spectral weapon appears in the user's hands and behaves as a normal weapon of its type, with 1 exception. Any foe the user hits is entitled to a save to recognize the weapon's shadowy nature. If the save is successful, that opponent takes only 1/5th normal damage from the weapon on that attack and all subsequent attacks. User can maintain only 1 spectral weapon at a time, and only the user can wield it (since it's an Illusion). The weapon dissipates when the user lets go of it or when the Jutsu's duration expires, whichever comes first.
Limit: Must know the Shadow Perception.

+2 TP to C Rank

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Focusing on herself this time, Harue goes through the tedious process of stringing along a set of handseals. Swirling first around her fist, the girl's chakra swells at her hand to produce a weapon that looks at least almost completely real. It resembles her own katana closely, though only because she is not good with any other weapon so far. She's not even that great with the blade, she reminds herself as she moves with her incorporeal sword. It of course looked and felt real, but there was a certain something about it that made the weight of it feel feather-light. It almost felt more perfect against her palm than her real weapon did, but perhaps that was simply because she felt in touch with the delusional art.

She looks to Ōmo brazenly, holding her fake sword to him as if challenging him to a duel. "What do you think?" Harue asks rhetorically, giving the shadowy blade a few easy swings. If she narrowed her eyes and looked just closely enough, she could almost see dark tracers following the motion. Instead of a whoosh of air pulling off of particularly hard swings, the blade itself is entirely silent. Composed of mere shadow and chakra, Harue understood why the thing felt so very right for her to wield.

It was because she was handling mere shadows; she always handled those. For some reason she could not address, shadows and illusions and the manipulation of the mind through psychological tricks, it all fascinated her. As such, it came naturally to her.

[neko bo beko]

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Spectral Weapon
Rank: "C"
Skill: GenJutsu
Effect: Using the power of Shadow GenJutsu, the user can fashion a quasi-real weapon of any type with which they are proficient.
Special: "Handseals"
Drawback: Striking techniques with special properties do not work with the attack that deals with background damage.
Description: A Mind-Affecting Technique. Affects anyone who sees the user. The user is able to perform this technique on themselves. The duration of this technique lasts for 5 rounds per class level. This technique may be disbelieved once interacted with. This spectral weapon appears in the user's hands and behaves as a normal weapon of its type, with 1 exception. Any foe the user hits is entitled to a save to recognize the weapon's shadowy nature. If the save is successful, that opponent takes only 1/5th normal damage from the weapon on that attack and all subsequent attacks. User can maintain only 1 spectral weapon at a time, and only the user can wield it (since it's an Illusion). The weapon dissipates when the user lets go of it or when the Jutsu's duration expires, whichever comes first.
Limit: Must know the Shadow Perception.

+2 TP to C Rank

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Still with her spectral sword in hand, Harue has taken to testing the strength of the thing alone. Instead of focusing on the fact that it is not indeed real, she instead concentrated on the part of it that was physical. Giving it a few hard thrusts, she stands off before a tree at the edge of her grandparent's property with her idling somewhere among the small field. She slashes downward at the tree, leaving a few scars here and there.

In honesty, Harue is surprised to find that the marks made by the spectral weapon remain even after she drops it. Before it hits the ground, it disappears; as if fading into nothingness. She doesn't bother to watch the process, however. Instead she examines the marks she made on the tree; that meant the damage it made was also real. At least, for the most part; she supposed that if someone could disbelieve the action it would cause no real ill. At least nothing dangerously permanent. Still not quite satisfied, the pink kunoichi throws together more handseals. This time a shield is drawn forth, materializing already strapped to her forearm. She holds it up, taking a moment to drink in the shield given to her by the shadows.

It looked eerily like her own heavy shield, and for a moment Harue wondered if the GenJutsu pulled the user's thoughts forth, or at least their trainings. It seemed to only bring forth things that the kunoichi was already familiar with, as opposed to giving her some sick new equipment upon each creation of the item. She tests the weight of her shadowy shield, noting that despite taking the appearance of her heavy shield, it was as light as he composed katana.

[Kinzoku]

+20 TP [LEARNED]

[neko bo beko]

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Umbral Aura
Rank: "C"
Skill: GenJutsu
Effect: Shadow energies wreathe the subject of this Jutsu in a protective aura that stretches 1 foot from the subject's body.
Special: "Handseals"
Drawback: ---
Description: Affects anyone who sees a willing creature. The user is able to perform this technique on the target they touch. The duration of this technique lasts for 5 hours per class level. Shadow energies wreathe the subject of this Jutsu in a protective aura that stretches 1 foot from the subject's body. This protective aura grants the subject the following benefits: While under the affects of the umbral aura, the subject of the Jutsu acts as if he is 1/4th cover (due to the quasi real nature of the aura) and is considered to be under 1/4th concealment (10% miss chance). In addition, the umbral aura provides the subject a +20 to Stealth checks. The umbral aura does not interfere with the subject's sight. If an opponent attacks with a melee weapon and misses their Will Save by 2 or more, the umbral aura is hit instead and takes damage from the Jutsu used in the attack. Area of effect Jutsus also damage the aura, but as long as the subject fails their Save by more than 1 the aura only takes half/damage. When created the umbral aural has an amount of Armour Points equal to the user’s Armour Points from other Techniques including Temporary Armour Points.
Limit: Must know the Shadow Perception.

+2 TP to C Rank

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Contemplatively, Harue begins training something else but still within this same perception. Eager to still include her beast in some way, she turns and gestures widely to a far away Ōmo. "C'mere," she says loosely as he begins to close the gap between them with half-step jogs. Before he's a meter into his trek, Harue strings together handseals and projects a misty aura. Ōmo stops, blinking confusion from his expression as he looks around at where Harue had just been. Although she has seemingly disappeared from sight, he can still hear her call to him. "It's okay," she coos from within her cocoon of dark aura.

Sheepishly, Ōmo approaches. Once he is within reach, Harue extends her hands to him. Having just strung the seals together once again, she touches Ōmo's face and grabs him up, plants a kiss on his brow. In the same instance that she does this, a new aura would also burst from Ōmo's. Because of where they stand so close, it simply doubles Harue's original aura to include her companion.

"There," she says to him, standing back up from her crouch where she had taken to patting his face. She dusts off her knees, straightens to look out around them. "Now you're included in it."

[neko bo beko]

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Umbral Aura
Rank: "C"
Skill: GenJutsu
Effect: Shadow energies wreathe the subject of this Jutsu in a protective aura that stretches 1 foot from the subject's body.
Special: "Handseals"
Drawback: ---
Description: Affects anyone who sees a willing creature. The user is able to perform this technique on the target they touch. The duration of this technique lasts for 5 hours per class level. Shadow energies wreathe the subject of this Jutsu in a protective aura that stretches 1 foot from the subject's body. This protective aura grants the subject the following benefits: While under the affects of the umbral aura, the subject of the Jutsu acts as if he is 1/4th cover (due to the quasi real nature of the aura) and is considered to be under 1/4th concealment (10% miss chance). In addition, the umbral aura provides the subject a +20 to Stealth checks. The umbral aura does not interfere with the subject's sight. If an opponent attacks with a melee weapon and misses their Will Save by 2 or more, the umbral aura is hit instead and takes damage from the Jutsu used in the attack. Area of effect Jutsus also damage the aura, but as long as the subject fails their Save by more than 1 the aura only takes half/damage. When created the umbral aural has an amount of Armour Points equal to the user’s Armour Points from other Techniques including Temporary Armour Points.
Limit: Must know the Shadow Perception.

+2 TP to C Rank

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Still shrouded in this aura, both Harue and her beast, they remain in practical stealth mode. Although they move and walk side by side each other and can see each other fine, the world around them would not have such a keen eye for the two of them. Especially as they wander into the thick backwoods. Harue tries her best to concentrate on what the aura feels like, but truthfully she cannot actually pick up on it so much. She can feel the basis of it, but as with all GenJutsu that was to be expected. She twists up her expression, picking her way through the woods mindlessly beside her beast.

After a while, she pretends they're on pursuit. Either being chased or doing the chasing, it wasn't really important right now. Was mattered was moving silently through the woods, under the cover of this strange aura with her companion. She was glad that the beast and she had some sort of unspoken connection, otherwise she wasn't sure if working with him like this would ever work. He wasn't like most other beasts; he could feel the swell of chakra, he could smell a person's intent, he knew exactly how to respond to being under Harue's GenJutsus..

Smiling to herself, Harue can't help but turn to her beast and give his mane a stroke. She rubs one of his ears, pats the top of his head, before returning to their stealthy movements through the woods outside her grandparents' home. She supposed if she felt hard enough, listened to her surroundings, she could perhaps pick up the slightest bit on the weight of the aura around her. Ever so slightly, though.

[KoKoKo]

+20 learned

[neko bo beko]

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Wall of Gloom
Rank: "C"
Skill: GenJutsu
Effect: User creates a barrier of ominous shadow that obscures vision and deters passage.
Special: "Handseals"
Drawback: ---
Description: A Fear, Mind-Affecting Technique. Affects anyone who sees the wall. The user is able to perform this technique at a distance of 30 meters plus 15 meters per class level. The duration of this technique lasts for 5 rounds per class level. This technique may be negated. Creatures adjacent to the wall have concealment against attacks from the other side, while creatures more than 2 meters away have total concealment. Although the wall is not substantial, a creature whom are 2 Class levels lower than the user must make a save or be halted at its edge. A creature can attempt to pass the wall any number of times, but each previous failure imposes a cumulative -1 penalty on its save.
Limit: Must know the Shadow Perception.

+2 TP to C Rank

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Still deep in the woods alongside her rosen Ōmo, Harue considers other way the two of them may stay concealed using the art of shadows. There were plenty of techniques to choose from, but the casting of them could prove to be strenuous or otherwise impractical on her part. The next one is both practical and not quite so, as you have to remain stationary to get its active defensive abilities. But it was helpful for things coming at her from a distance, or concealing the entrance to something or the path she'd recently taken. In any case, it could at least serve as a cool shadowy brick wall. She even considers casting it four times in a row, creating a closed in space to hide within. But she supposes claustrophobia might kick in, even if it had never shown its face to her before.

Taking a moment, the duo stops in the woods. The pinkette looks over her shoulder; she's quite a ways from her home now. Inhaling deeply, she throws together a set of handseals and watches as a large wall manifests from the darkness surrounding she and Ōmo. At first it rises, and then it stacks, until it whisps into the last parts of itself. As if bricks have climbed to the tree tops, Harue and Ōmo find themselves standing at the base of an impossibly large blockade.

Ōmo, to say the least, is a bit offput by the whole thing. Although he can sense the chakra behind it, the dark aura that his master was already particular to, it still startles him to have a wall block him off from progressing any further. Harue laughs a little, smiling brightly at Ōmo as looks to her with a bit of confusion clouding his brown eyes. "Not bad, right?" Harue asks, extending her hand and placing her palm carefully against the shadowy wall. It seems solid, if not a little incorporeal, against her skin.

[neko bo beko]

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Wall of Gloom
Rank: "C"
Skill: GenJutsu
Effect: User creates a barrier of ominous shadow that obscures vision and deters passage.
Special: "Handseals"
Drawback: ---
Description: A Fear, Mind-Affecting Technique. Affects anyone who sees the wall. The user is able to perform this technique at a distance of 30 meters plus 15 meters per class level. The duration of this technique lasts for 5 rounds per class level. This technique may be negated. Creatures adjacent to the wall have concealment against attacks from the other side, while creatures more than 2 meters away have total concealment. Although the wall is not substantial, a creature whom are 2 Class levels lower than the user must make a save or be halted at its edge. A creature can attempt to pass the wall any number of times, but each previous failure imposes a cumulative -1 penalty on its save.
Limit: Must know the Shadow Perception.

+2 TP to C Rank

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In truth, Harue wanted to test her own will of passage. She knew that Ōmo had no real necessary means of passing beside her, but she thought it would be a fun to tease him a little. Not too much, though; he was a bit of a sensitive king of the forest, after all. Harue beckons to him with a click of her tongue, to which he looks at her fully with wide eyes. She smiles. "Stay here," she tells him. She looks back at the wall made of her own illusions and takes in a deep breath, closing her eyes gently. Again she inhales through her nose deeply, focusing on the way the oxygen fills up her lungs.

Reminding herself that it's a GenJutsu, Harue takes a step forward. First, she bumps into her created wall and groans, frustrated. She attempts again, this time first feeling with her palms out. She waits until she's reached a certain level of tranquility, both resonating with the GenJutsu itself and the wall it created, until her hands push through. She budges through, feeling as though she's stepping through some sort of vertical layer of room temperature as opposed to the chill of the season. She inhales deeply, opening her eyes and turning around.

No longer standing beside Ōmo, Harue finds herself on the opposite side of the wall. On the other side, Ōmo sniffs worriedly at the base of the wall, trying desperately to follow his master's scent. It's not until she's brought down the Jutsu that he pretends it did not frighten him. He was an intellectual beast, of course, and no ordinary GenJutsu could fool him. Right? Harue laughs a little, petting his massive face.

[Kinzoku]

+20 TP [LEARNED]

[neko bo beko]

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Pashaw’s Shadow Puppet
Rank: "B"
Skill: GenJutsu
Effect: With this Jutsu, the user's shadow separates itself from the user, forming itself into a shadowy duplicate of the user, under the user's mental control.
Special: "Handseals"
Drawback: ---
Description: Affects anyone who sees the double. The user is able to perform this technique on themselves. The duration of this technique lasts for 5 minutes per class level. This technique may be disbelieved once interacted with. The shadow puppet moves and acts as the user's desires, requiring the user to maintain concentration upon the image. To all intents and purposes, the shadow puppet resembles the user almost completely, except for seeming a bit darker in complexion, as if it was standing in a shadow. The shadow puppet can move as far away from the user as 120 meters plus 60 meters per class level. The user can see what the shadow puppet sees, and can speak through the image, for as long as they maintain concentration. If the shadow puppet is attacked, a successful hit will destroy the image. If struck, the image disappears instantly and the user's shadow returns, as normal.
Limit: Must know the Shadow Perception.

+2 TP to C Rank

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Harue and Ōmo, still quite a ways from home, decide to continue their stroll onward while the pinkette continues to practice her shadowy arts. Because of the weather, the sun goes down sooner; despite the time of day, shadows still paint the area, especially under the cover of trees and foliage. Deciding to use the shadows themself again, particularly her own, she throws together another set of handseals. While still walking beside her trusty companion, the female attempts first to peel her shadow from the ground. While initially she had thought it would be an impossibly easy task, execution of it proved to be a bit more taxing than she'd originally counted on.

In their slow pace side by side, Harue is silent as she concentrates on the shadow that follows closely at her heels. She starts from there, where she and it become one, and works her way up the length of it. She glances over her shoulder at it countlessly, checking often for any sign of progress in her ability to pick the shadow up from the earth. She focuses on her dark aura itself, trying to feel and map out the shadow before trying again to animate it.

There's a slight success in her attempts, but not so significantly that she can wrap it up all together. Glancing over her shoulder and at the earth where her shadow follows her, she can see a slightly rise in its depth. Although it is still painted on the forest floor, it looks characterized and almost of its own accords, its black legs rising from the ground similarly which each step Harue takes. She grimaces; it's a bit weird, working at it like this. Perhaps she wasn't as in tune with shadows as she expected.

[neko bo beko]

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Pashaw’s Shadow Puppet
Rank: "B"
Skill: GenJutsu
Effect: With this Jutsu, the user's shadow separates itself from the user, forming itself into a shadowy duplicate of the user, under the user's mental control.
Special: "Handseals"
Drawback: ---
Description: Affects anyone who sees the double. The user is able to perform this technique on themselves. The duration of this technique lasts for 5 minutes per class level. This technique may be disbelieved once interacted with. The shadow puppet moves and acts as the user's desires, requiring the user to maintain concentration upon the image. To all intents and purposes, the shadow puppet resembles the user almost completely, except for seeming a bit darker in complexion, as if it was standing in a shadow. The shadow puppet can move as far away from the user as 120 meters plus 60 meters per class level. The user can see what the shadow puppet sees, and can speak through the image, for as long as they maintain concentration. If the shadow puppet is attacked, a successful hit will destroy the image. If struck, the image disappears instantly and the user's shadow returns, as normal.
Limit: Must know the Shadow Perception.

+2 TP to C Rank

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Still wandering aimlessly beside Ōmo, still working at controlling her shadow, the kunoichi loses herself in concentration. Her eyebrows are tugged barely down, her lips in a tight line. Despite her expression, she is not angry or stoic, simply focused. When straining herself proves uneventful, she lets out a blubber of a sigh and closes her eyes gently. She places a hand on Ōmo's thick neck to keep herself steady and going in the right direction, but tries not to rely solely on him. Using her feet to feel around first, she walks carefully on as she maintains a grasp on the shadow nipping her heels.

Intent on not having to restart from the beginning, she attempts to keep her mind on it as to not break the prepping. She's sure it won't take this long each time, and with practice will come expertise, but that doesn't qualm her narrow frustration now. "C'mon," she grumbles, squeezing her eyelids tighter as she concentrates harder. Ōmo makes a soft noise, regarding her with a sideways glance. His large paws slow down to an unacceptable pace, and Harue has to open her eyes. She feels the line from her to her shadow break, leaving it as nothing more than her casted darkness.

"What is it?" She snaps, looking down at him. He tips his maw forward, blinking up at her slowly. She eases out a hard breath, managing a smile. "Ah... sorry," she untangles her fisted fingers from Ōmo's silk mane, smoothing out his fur. "It's just a bit harder to get this thing off the ground than I thought." As if he was listening, as if he understood, Ōmo lets out of grumbly pule and Harue can't help but laugh a bit. "I know how to make shadows dance, but I guess it's harder to give it life."

[neko bo beko]

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Pashaw’s Shadow Puppet
Rank: "B"
Skill: GenJutsu
Effect: With this Jutsu, the user's shadow separates itself from the user, forming itself into a shadowy duplicate of the user, under the user's mental control.
Special: "Handseals"
Drawback: ---
Description: Affects anyone who sees the double. The user is able to perform this technique on themselves. The duration of this technique lasts for 5 minutes per class level. This technique may be disbelieved once interacted with. The shadow puppet moves and acts as the user's desires, requiring the user to maintain concentration upon the image. To all intents and purposes, the shadow puppet resembles the user almost completely, except for seeming a bit darker in complexion, as if it was standing in a shadow. The shadow puppet can move as far away from the user as 120 meters plus 60 meters per class level. The user can see what the shadow puppet sees, and can speak through the image, for as long as they maintain concentration. If the shadow puppet is attacked, a successful hit will destroy the image. If struck, the image disappears instantly and the user's shadow returns, as normal.
Limit: Must know the Shadow Perception.

+2 TP to C Rank

post 3: [ ?? || 70 ]

Just because he hadn't replied to her doesn't mean that he hadn't understood, and Harue is appreciative of this. His large paws come to a complete halt, as do Harue's own feet, and the two of them take a rest. Ōmo with his large being resting at the trunk of a tree, brown eyes following Harue as she stood a few meters away from him and again faced her shadow. Now, with the sun on her back, she can see her shadow laid out before her. It mirrors her every movement, even as she brings her hands back up into a string of familiar handseals. She had hoped to refrain from starting at the beginning again, but sometimes it was necessary.

She watches the shadow below her follow through with her own motions. Once her hands are at her sides again, it takes on a still look - because Harue is still, concentration fogging up her brown. Again she closes her eyes, her head hanging forward slightly as she toys with the shadow on the ground. It wasn't the bringing the shadow up from the earth that stumped her, but the pumping it with animation and physical attributes. Until now, the majority of her shadows had been practical illusions, incorporeal and fake. This one was going to have a little more substance to it.

Setting her sights back on the shadow, she again maps it out and starts bringing it to life. After some working with it mentally, it starts to grow more and more real and less and less dull and monochromatic. While all the while its muted color, black and shadowy, it seemed somehow more solid and vibrant. Like a creation drawing in its first breaths, the thing begins to tremble in its shape on the ground. Harue inhales sharply, watching as it grew to life under her control.

[neko bo beko]

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Pashaw’s Shadow Puppet
Rank: "B"
Skill: GenJutsu
Effect: With this Jutsu, the user's shadow separates itself from the user, forming itself into a shadowy duplicate of the user, under the user's mental control.
Special: "Handseals"
Drawback: ---
Description: Affects anyone who sees the double. The user is able to perform this technique on themselves. The duration of this technique lasts for 5 minutes per class level. This technique may be disbelieved once interacted with. The shadow puppet moves and acts as the user's desires, requiring the user to maintain concentration upon the image. To all intents and purposes, the shadow puppet resembles the user almost completely, except for seeming a bit darker in complexion, as if it was standing in a shadow. The shadow puppet can move as far away from the user as 120 meters plus 60 meters per class level. The user can see what the shadow puppet sees, and can speak through the image, for as long as they maintain concentration. If the shadow puppet is attacked, a successful hit will destroy the image. If struck, the image disappears instantly and the user's shadow returns, as normal.
Limit: Must know the Shadow Perception.

+2 TP to C Rank

post 4: [ ?? || 70 ]

Disturbingly, it doesn't rise from the earth all at once. Bits of it protrude, breaking from its prison in the earth as if it was searching for oxygen. A solid arm stretches from the pool of black, the shadow no longer conforming to fit Harue's shape for now. The edges of the ink blot against the earth wrinkle and waver as more arms crawl from the pool. Ōmo picks up his head, his eyes narrowed. Harue looks to him quickly, smiling a bit. "It's okay," she tells him from her space away from him. His eyes move from the shadow coming alive to Harue, cocking his head curiously. "It's just working, is all!"

Focusing again on the thing at her feet, still tethered by a hair of shadow, she continues shaping it into a solid animation. Apparently for now, the shadow doesn't exactly look like Harue once it's risen majorly from the ground, only a portion of it still stuck to the floor. It's more of a constantly shifting resemblance of a humanoid, tho it's without definite posture and arms and hands constantly shift in and out of view. As if hugging itself and then using fingers to crawl the arm away from its place, it swirls like a shadow finding a structure that feels right.

Harue takes a moment to examine it once it comes fully to her command, standing before her and staggering in place momentarily. As if her shadow simply had been touched by life, given a personification, it searches for itself. Looking to where they had once been connected, Harue notices that she is now free of it and it of her, and slowly it begins to mold itself to resemble Harue quickly.

[neko bo beko]

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Pashaw’s Shadow Puppet
Rank: "B"
Skill: GenJutsu
Effect: With this Jutsu, the user's shadow separates itself from the user, forming itself into a shadowy duplicate of the user, under the user's mental control.
Special: "Handseals"
Drawback: ---
Description: Affects anyone who sees the double. The user is able to perform this technique on themselves. The duration of this technique lasts for 5 minutes per class level. This technique may be disbelieved once interacted with. The shadow puppet moves and acts as the user's desires, requiring the user to maintain concentration upon the image. To all intents and purposes, the shadow puppet resembles the user almost completely, except for seeming a bit darker in complexion, as if it was standing in a shadow. The shadow puppet can move as far away from the user as 120 meters plus 60 meters per class level. The user can see what the shadow puppet sees, and can speak through the image, for as long as they maintain concentration. If the shadow puppet is attacked, a successful hit will destroy the image. If struck, the image disappears instantly and the user's shadow returns, as normal.
Limit: Must know the Shadow Perception.

+2 TP to C Rank

post 5: [ ?? || 70 ]

Taking a step back to test the reality of her new companion, Harue looks up to see it still standing before her. Unmoving aside from its constant shifting in shape, still looking for a stable visage to replicate its master, Harue lets out a soft voice. "Hello," she says to it. It bows its head momentarily in response. Ōmo rumbles from his chest, but Harue holds up a palm to him and flashes a smile, her eyes moving openly from the thing to her beast. "It's alright, Ōmo. It's just me."

Ōmo, unconvinced, huffs as he gets to his feet. Trudging over, he keeps his eyes plastered to the thing before his master. It does not regard him, only edging him to growl louder. "Ōmo," Harue repeats, smiling sideways. His ear flickers in her direction, blinking when he sees Harue's relaxed posture and wide grin. Harue looks to her creation, nodding to it. "Go on and pet Ōmo," she says to it. Obediently, the shadowy beast approaches the pink beast. It bows its form, scrunching its shoulders and dipping its head to convey its subservience to its master's companion.

It extends a shadowy limb, its palm is up and fingers pointed down, offering its smell to Ōmo first. When the beast presses his nose against the palm of the black hand, Harue notices that his fur displaces slightly against it around his mouth, leading her to believe the creation really is solid. Without scent for Ōmo to inhale from the thing, he shakes his head and takes a step back. Although the shadowy creation has now taken on the appearance of Harue, the beast can tell the difference even without the muted, drained flavor of the fake pinkette.