Charged! Shida Tests his Prowess! [Open Training]

[anon56]

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Charged Projectile
Rank: D
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: Charges a metal throwing projectile with lightning adding lightning damage.
Special: ---
Drawback: Can only do enough to slightly numb and paralyze (Only for a quarter of a post), if the user tries to make it stronger, it will end up backfiring and paralyzing their hand. Can only charge up to 5 slots at once
Description: The user holds as many kunai/shuriken, or metal projectile for that matter, as they can, up to 5 slots in their hands, and charges them with electricity. Extra lightning damage is added which will slightly paralyze or numb. The projectiles will shock the opponent weakly even if they don't make contact, but at least come close to.
Limit: Lightning release.

Several days after learning of his chakra nature, Shida spent most of his times mastering his chakra control. Lightning by nature was powerful and difficult to control, arguably the most difficult to master of the five basic elements. It was a reasonable cost for such a powerful element. Shida, after finally becoming comfortable with the nature, took the task of learning several jutsu to test his capabilities. It was for this reason he ventured off to one of his favorite training spots.

Shida stood in a grassy opening, several trees spread out at spacious distances. In the center of the clearing was a rather large stump, the circumference of which was wide enough to accommodate four people. It could work as a makeshift arena for close combat taijutsu or weapon training. The trees nearest to Shida were marked up with various cuts, like scars. He had frequented this spot due to it's privacy, although it was by no means hidden.

Shida stood atop the stump and unsheathed a kunai. He tossed it upwards and caught it again, almost as if he were juggling it. A small smirk crossed his face as he toyed with the kunai. A sly sense of excitement took hold as he thought to himself. It could be said that even looked like a fox with a dubious plan. "Let's see what this stuff can really do!" he said chuckling to himself. As he continuously tossed the kunai up and down he let his chakra flow to his hand, finally catching the knife by the handle. "Flow, shape, charge..." he thought to himself. In the previous days of training his elemental affinity it had become his mantra. Originally it took a very concentrated effort to let his chakra flow freely, control it's shape and finally add the element but now it had seemed he could do so with ease. That is, assuming not too much chakra was being manipulated at once.

Shida held the kunai, the shroud of blue aura now overlapping the blade. Moments later the shroud became a whirling blue spiral. That spiral then became a crackling stream of blue electricity. Still grinning, Shida threw the kunai forward, aiming towards the nearest tree, which had been a few meters away. The kunai cut through the air and found it's place in the bark of the wood. The jolt of lightning was sent into the tree on contact, further damaging the wood. Chunks of burnt bark fluttering down. Shida's grin remained plastered on his face, proud of his work. It was a fairly easy and low ranking jutsu, but he was proud nonetheless. 

[Spectre of the Falls(Kuroki)]

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[anon56]

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Raiton - Raikyuu (Lightning Ball)
Rank: "D"Rank
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: Creates a ball of lightning used to where the technique is capable of being hurled towards the person.
Special: "Hand Seals"
Drawback: The user is unable to move while using this technique.
Description: The user does an amount of handseals as they quickly concentrate on the chakra along the palm of their hands. The technique is used to where they create a small ball of lightning to where the user is capable of hurling it towards the opponent. This technique is weak however and is only capable of paralyzing an opponent for approximately one round no matter how strong the opponent may be.
Limit: Lightning Release

Having been able to perform the lightning release jutsu gave Shida great pleasure. This was mostly because he was able to complete the feat all on his own. In most cases, he would look to his father for guidance on technique, but that was no longer an option. Shida walked over to the tree and retrieved the kunai knife, placing back into his pouch. Feeling as though using a conductor was too easy, he would then go on to attempt performing a lightning jutsu using the element in it's most raw form.

Shida leapt back to the stump, landing in the center. He spread his legs out shoulder width apart and performed the necessary hand seals, then held his right hand out, his palm facing upward. "Flow, Shape, Charge" he repeated. The young genin closed his eyes and focused. This jutsu would take a bit more concentration considering it was up to him to form and submit the element to his control rather than letting it conduct into something naturally.

As he continued his efforts a light blue ball of chakra would form in his palm. That ethereal blue wisp would begin to glow brighter and brighter until a jolt of energy sparked outward in all directions, about an inch in length. "Lightning style! Lightning ball jutsu!" he cried as he trust his palm in to the air. The ball of lightning was sent upwards, traveling several meters before fizzling out. Shida frowned a bit, the jutsu looked a lot more disappointing than he had thought it would be. "Alright, lets try something a bit stronger" he sighed as he took out the lightning scroll he had borrowed from the academy library. 

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[anon56]

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 Raiton: Sakurai, 雷光: 丹色 木 雷光, (Lightning Style: Cherry Blossom Lightning)
Rank: C
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: The user creates a mass of blue-white lightning petals.
Special: “Hand Seals”
Drawback: Not a complete technique, but a set-up for others.
Description: The user forms the hand seals, focusing chakra around them. They then mold the chakra into several hundred blue-white sakura petals of lightning in a three-meter radius around the user, like the Sand of a Saton user. These petals float gently around the user’s body. Each one gives out minor shocking, but together they can give strong shocks and burns akin to a C rank shock. The petals last until the user chooses to dispel them. The user can control these techniques in a fifteen meter radius around them.
Limit: Must have Raiton.

The breeze blew through the area, shaking the loose leaves from the trees. They all fluttered down with ease, a veil of cascading green making their way down and finally blanketing the grass around Shida. He took notice of this and smiled. It was such a simple thing but the natural of the beauty of the world was never lost on him. It was something he had always appreciated. The young genin took a few more moments take it all in, only turning his attention to the scroll once the last leaf fell.

Shida lifted the scroll and unraveled it completely, the parchment being deceptively long. From end to end the paper was marked with black text, describing various jutsu and the hand seals required to activate them. His shining blue eyes scanned the paper quickly. The first two jutsu he had mastered were only D ranked techniques. They were effective but certainly nothing that required strenuous amounts of concentration or effort.

His eyes grew wide for a moment, finally setting on something that caught his attention. "Sakurai?" it was more of a statement than a question. He continued to read on. "A jutsu that condenses energy into the form of flower petals..." the jutsu sounded as difficult as it did beautiful. As much as Shida was proud of his dead-bone abilities, he had little in his arsenalthat was as aesthetically pleasing as this. A gentle smile grew upon his face at the thought of creating something so lovely. Other than dancing, this was the only other way Shida really knew how to express himself. The boy was jubilated!

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Shida took a few more minutes to study the scroll, slowly and methodically going through the hand seals for the jutsu. "I need to be careful, surrounding myself with so much electricity could be dangerous." he warned himself allowed. Shida cycled through the hand seals several times, getting a bit faster each time. Being able to weave hand signs quickly and effectively was often a deciding factor between victory and defeat, plus repeated movement helped better strengthen his memory.

Once he had grown comfortable enough with the hand seals, Shida moved on to the next vital part of the jutsu, chakra molding. Shida rolled the scroll back up neatly and placed it in the fold of his robe. The last thing he needed was to accidentally set the thing on fire with miscellaneous bolts of electricity. Now that he thought about it, he was surrounded by numerous flammable things. The leaves that blanketed the grass around him would serve as more than enough kindling. Wary of this he made his way to the very center of the wide stump. It provided more than enough room for him to train without worry.

Shida took a seat, crossing his legs and closing his eyes. He had performed this sort of meditative trance numerous times before while learning to harness the nature itself, so eventually it became like second nature. Each breath he drew in was long and measured, his exhalations equally controlled. It wouldn't take much effort before a blue aura began to form around him. The aura then condensing into several spiraling rings. "Flow...Shape...Charge..." the words echoed endlessly in his mind.

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Shida kept his eyes closed, remaining focused on his chakra which swirling around him vigorously. Next he had to apply the element. Shida was now visibly sweating as he began to rotate the rings around him even faster. As the speed of the rotating streams increased they began to glow and crackle with excitement. The dancing waves of blue then ignited into brilliant streams of electricity. Shida huffed, finally molding the element. The young boy began forming the hand seals, slowly as to ensure he wouldn't make any mistakes.

Upon reaching the last hand seal he took another deep breath, holding the seal in place. Next came the hard part, condensing the energy into several , small petal shapes. Slowly but surely the arcs of lightning around him began to slow their revolutions. Light balls of energy began to float away from the streams and hang in the air around him. Cracking and forming a stream with a neighboring ball for only a second. This process continued until the stream all but dissipated, leaving nothing but the genin surrounded by countless orbs of lightning.

Breathing deeper now, Shida took the concentrated effort to shape the mass of orbs. To shape them all at once felt like too much of an effort, knowing if he attempted to do so he would most likely lose control and injure himself and even start a fire! On the other hand, molding them one by one would take much too long, eventually he would lose control from the strain, achieving the same disastrous results. Instead he began to work in clusters. Several groups of orbs began to flatten, taking the shape of glittering blue flower petals. 

Once this process was completed Shida began to swirl the mass of petals around him. The glowing blue petals danced and swirled around the boy gently. He couldn't help but smile and admire the beauty of it all. Shida began to make them dance more, even form them into various different shapes. The crude form of a snake was formed, Shida chuckling as he made it perform figure eights. "Wait...what am i doing?" he thought to himself. His childlike glee suddenly vanishing just as the snake had. Shida looked around embarrassed...had he been...playing? "I guess I better go home, I've pushed myself too much..." he said, giving himself the excuse to leave. Shida stood up and made his way out of the clearing. "I shouldn't indulge in such childish things.." he said...a small smile still plastered across his face.

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[Starnaess]

+30 tp learned