Voice in a Dark Street <Open>

[Vara]

The last lights of sunset draped long, sharp shadows across the street.

All the business of the day was done, so the streets were relatively empty. Safe from crowds and rolling vehicles, vagrants wandered and sat along the cobble roads. Some of the village guards followed along with the younger residents as they strolled through—they could be either vandals or innocents, and in both cases needed guardians.

In the dark alleyways between buildings, there was a small chorus of groans and moaning. The homeless who were in a condition to move by much were hidden deeper in the dark. No light directly touched them, and fear kept other people out.

The winds had died down, so the stench of the world was given permission to fester. Garbage and urine were among the most recognizable smells.

People who wore bright colors appeared less and less. As the last of the sunlight dripped away, the elements of the dark reigned.

From the caverns that acted as the village entrance, the last of the approved visitors were ushered in. Those without higher class approvals were sent to this dark street instead of the other subcavern paths. One among the poor visitors had a wagon, and he was quick to order his horses through the dark streets.

[Talon]

Tsu was lucky he had made it in among rabble that was ushered in through the cavernous entrance of the village during the final moments of the evening. He along with many of the lower class individuals were funneled through a dimly lit street, but to the sightless boy these streets were all the same. He was guided by the colorless echo of the sound vibrations that carved him a path.

Tsu really had no idea which way to turn, he had just come from his families farm to enlist as a genin within this village. Without shoes the penniless boy rubbed his feet as he paused for a moment, it felt as though he had been walking for weeks. He was mesmerized by the swaths of people he sensed walking by him even in the somber hours of the night. This was truly new territory for the small farm boy.

Tsu was completely unfamiliar with the layout of cities and towns, and deciphered a path randomly as he poked his way through the darkness. Eventually he found himself scouring through the filth of a dingy alleyway. Tsu was lead there by the moans of the unfortunate. The average person may have avoided these cries for help in such a nefarious place, but then again the average person was socialized in the etiquette and dangers of city life - not like Tsu.

One man in particular seemed to be in a special predicament, Tsu sensed him strewn out on the cold city street before him. He was dressed not unlike Tsu, they both wore fabrics of the less fortunate. Hand-me-downs that were several generations old. He knew that the man was in trouble, he smoothed the wrinkles of the bandages that covered his roughly scarred eyes. Quickly he pulled his fathers headband out of his medical pack, and stretched it snugly over these bandages.

He calmly approached the man, kneeling beside him, and spoke "You appear injured, is there anything I can do to help?" Tsu had prepared a couple of medical techniques that may be of assistance, although they were somewhat drastic...

SPOILER: Click to show

Jigoku no Mimi (Hells ears) [20 meters total]
Rank: "D"
Skill: Supplementary
Effect: With this technique the Bard is capable of pinpointing the location of a noise within a small area.
Special: ---
Drawback: Cannot be used to hear techniques that silent the user's movement. Must be trained multiple times.
Description: Bards are around sounds constantly and all their training in the musical arts hones their hearing. They are capable of further training their ability to hear to allow them to listen and precisely pinpoint the location a sound is coming from as long as it is within ten meters of themselves. They can continue to train their ability to pinpoint the location of a sound to increase the distance it can be pinpointed from by ten meters each time, capping off at fifty meters.
Limit: Art of the Bard

[Vara]

Though Tsu had no sight to guide himself by, he carried himself in a way that seemed assured. He did not give off the appearance of a person who was lost in the world, so no unsavory characters identified him as a victim they could approach. The absence of shoes also helped give the impression of a person without possessions worth stealing. There were some faint whispers from people as he crossed by—gossipers were trying to nail down who he was.

“Isn’t that Yunna’s boy? The one she’s always going on about earning the pottery apprenticeship?”
“No, don’t be silly. Yunna and her man are blondies, aren’t they?”
“Always though Sei dyed his hair.”
“Might be here to move the new silvers we been seeing through the streets.”

Most of the whisperers were quick to move on to eyeing another passerby. Their interest didn’t ever last long, so hardly anyone saw Tsu slip into the darker paths in the alleys.

The man in need had barely the strength to open his eyes. He muttered, mostly to himself, as Tsu approached. When he saw the headband, though, his eyes snapped open. It was a surprise to be sure. Shinobi had to be hired to undergo missions, and very few individuals in these parts were able to afford hiring one.

From the sound of it, the boy was a healer, too. That was even rarer. Doctors and medics had plenty of business in their sterile white castles. Cheap clinics with mundane therapists were as good as it got around these parts.

Not believing this turn of events, the man stopped muttering and settled on being speechless. Still, in reply to the boy’s question, he lifted his ragged shirt to reveal what looked like a knife wound near his chest that had gone blackened with infections and time.

[Talon]

Tsu was not intimately familiar with diagnostics, but he certainly did not need to be a doctor to tell that this mans blackened wound smelled of the putrid aging process of blood. What was more difficult was assessing how much blood the gentlemen had lost, and he surely wasn't in the right mind-set to be answering any of Tsu's questions. Thankfully Tsu had dedicated extra time to reading up on how to roughly assess the extent of blood loss.

"please tell me if you experience anything unpleasant" The ninja spoke with a heartened smile. He grabbed the poor mans arm and felt the bitter clamminess of his skin. His pulse was rapid, and his lack of strength and ability to form extended sentences was evidence of his declining consciousness. Even without asking him any questions Tsu was able to ascertain that this individual was experiencing severe blood loss. He pulled the mans shirt entirely off and set it aside.

He began whistling, and as the echoes filled the dark alleyway, Tsu became aware that he was not entirely alone. He wasn't sure what kind of reaction he was stirring up from his audience, but it did not matter to him now. "If anybody would be kind enough to bring me some clean water, I would surely repay them." A bead of sweat dripped down the young ninjas face, as he mentally prepared himself for what he was about to do.

Quickly the boy began working up a plan to deal the severe wound, and the blood loss. He pursed his hands together and began channeling chakra. Placing his hand over the wound he began using a very rudimentary skill. I'll begin with my healing hands technique. At my proficiency I doubt i'll seal up this wound, but with any luck I may be able to disinfect the area and relieve some pain. his introspective planning did well to calm him down. He knew he would be able to operate best with a thought out plan, and a clear mind.

he smiled as the wound began showing signs of improvement, he was now intensely focused on the sound vibrations concentrated around the mans side. He was able to largely tune out his surroundings and focus on the contours of his patients anatomy. Tsu knew what he had to do next.

He held one hand out, extending his middle and index fingers while concentrating a minute amount of chakra to the end of his finger tips. Calmly he spoke to the man once more "You may experience some minor pain, please forgive me."

Ok Tsu, keep your hands steady... his actions mimicked his thoughts, each stroke of the hand was guided by his simple words. I'm going to carefully make an incision with my chakra scalpel into the median cephalic vein... As he made his cut, he then surprisingly moved to his own arm, opening up the same vein. Ok Tsu, very good, now with the blood transfusion technique I will transfer some of my own blood to the patients. Unbeknownst to the young ninja, there are actually many different blood types, some of which are incompatible with others. This ninja however happened to be lucky enough to be born with O negative blood, which would be very unlikely to react poorly with any other blood type.

He chuckled to himself just before he began prepping his chakra for the technique. just try not to think about the fact that the only time you successfully performed this was on two feral dogs who made their way onto the family farm.


He then quickly placed two of the fingers from his left hand where he had made the incision on the man, and then placed two of his fingers from his right hand over the incisions that he had made on his left arm. Creating a string of chakra he carefully connected the two chakra strings together. Now the tricky part is to know just how much blood to give... Tsu gritted his teeth, showing the first signs of doubt he had since he began.

Tsu was not completely in the dark here however, although he had only ever successfully performed this operation on two dogs, he had regularly practiced the concept with thick syrups from his families farm. By placing two buckets of the liquid next to each other, he was able to time approximately how long it would take to transfer a liter of syrup form one bucket to the next. Tsu quickly figured that if the man was suffering from severe blood loss than he was likely missing between 1 and 2 liters of blood, so he began instrumentally timing the length of his jutsu using his own heartbeat as an internal clock. Tsu's blood quickly began filling the mans veins.

SPOILER: Click to show

Jigoku no Mimi (Hells ears) [20 tp] (for 20 meters distance)
Rank: "D"
Skill: Supplementary
Effect: With this technique the Bard is capable of pinpointing the location of a noise within a small area.
Special: ---
Drawback: Cannot be used to hear techniques that silent the user's movement. Must be trained multiple times.
Description: Bards are around sounds constantly and all their training in the musical arts hones their hearing. They are capable of further training their ability to hear to allow them to listen and precisely pinpoint the location a sound is coming from as long as it is within ten meters of themselves. They can continue to train their ability to pinpoint the location of a sound to increase the distance it can be pinpointed from by ten meters each time, capping off at fifty meters.
Limit: Art of the Bard

First Aid: Healing [20 sp - Novice] (+20 physician)
Rank: "E"
Skill: Sophisticated Skill
Effect: User skilled at tending to the ailments of others.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Relevant Abilities: Perception Skill. Die Rolls: 1 Die Roll. Check Requirement: Described. This skill allows the character to properly tend to the sick and injured. While some basic medical knowledge is inherent in this skill (to the extent such can be said to exist), the character’s role is to provide an optimal environment to facilitate the patient’s own recuperative abilities, by monitoring the patient and tending to his needs as required. The most basic need for any patient is food and drink. The nursing character ensures that the injured party is drinking sufficient fluids and provided with food that he can keep down (and in fact does so). Additional responsibilities include changing bandages, keeping watch for infections and excessive bleeding and applying cold compresses to relieve fever. First Aid providers can also perform critical care (a.k.a. battlefield medicine). If they can tend to a wound within an hour of it being inflicted (and make a successful Average difficulty skill check), their palliation restores 1 Armour Point of damage from that wound. Note that each individual wound may only be treated once - if the remedy is botched no subsequent aid is possible. Injured characters under the care of a First Aid provider (of at least Novice mastery) heal their wounds significantly faster, reducing the number of rest days required by one per category (a full day cannot be reduced below 1). When a caregiver becomes a Master of First Aid, he reduces the number of rest days required by two per category and can fractionalize days at the end of the healing process. Some practical applications of First Aid: Healing follow:
Limit: Must learn from Skills.

Healing Hands (Minor) [10 tp]
Rank: "D"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: A Healer gains the ability to heal Minor Wounds within an amount of time.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: When laying the hand upon a living creature, the user channels positive energy that cures Minor wounds within the amount of time performing a "D" Rank technique in handseals. While curing Minor wounds this technique brings higher wound levels down by 1 step. Since undead are powered by negative energy, this Jutsu deals damage to them instead of curing their wounds.
Limit: Must be a Medical Doctor.

Chakra Scalpel [30 tp]
Rank: "C"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: The user creates chakra blade along the index and middle finger that is no longer than 1 inch long.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Picture The user creates chakra blade along the index and middle finger that is no longer than 1 inch long. This allows the user to create a highly precise cutting tool. This can be used for highly accurate incisions necessary for surgeries and anatomical dissections. Unlike regular scalpels, the Chakra Scalpel can make cuts inside the body without actually creating a wound, limiting the risks of infection. The chakra scalpel can also be used offensively, although it requires great precision to be effective. Because of this requirement, using the chakra scalpel offensively is highly unusual. In heated combat, even the greatest Medical Doctors will not be able to exert the precision needed to make fatal cuts, but it can still effectively cut muscle tissues and tendons, rendering the target immobile.
Limit: Must be a Medical Doctor.

Blood Transfusion Technique [30 tp]
Rank: "C"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: A technique devised to enable a blood transfusion between two people without the need of materials.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: The user first makes a small incision near a vein in the target, and another small incision to a volunteer using the Chakra Scalpel technique. The user then places both one hand on each target where they made an incision. The Chakra Scalpel does not cause bleeding so there will be no mess. Having 1 hand on each target the user forces the chakra into their hands emitting a light blue-green color. The user then brings their hands together creating a "string" of chakra connecting to each target. The user touches their index and middle fingers together "tethering" the 2 strings together, creating a thin tube made out of chakra. The user can then force blood out of one chakra and into another creating a Blood Transfusion. Please note that the two targets must have compatible blood types as there can be complications if blood types are not compatible.
Limit: Must be a Medical Doctor. Must know Chakra Scalpel.

[OOC: Vara]

[Vara]

OOC: Thanks for waiting! Bit busy at the moment, so just a short post to keep things moving. I'll try to be on at a similar time tomorrow night.

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The man seemed simply grateful for the kindness, so even though he did feel some discomfort, all he did was wince and smile through the pain. The assessment of the blood loss was true enough. The lack of strength due to blood loss was also a contributing factor of why the man wasn’t very outspoken.

The rest of the vagrants in the alley did not pay any heed to Tsu’s request. However, it seems that the request was heard. Strangely, and with so little sound that Tsu barely registered her arrival, a woman arrived at the boy’s side. She put down a glass bowl filled with hot water. The entire bowl was hot to the touch.

At some point during the transfusion, the man groaned and clenched his teeth. However, at a simple touch from the unknown woman, the injured man relaxed. He seemed a bit groggy from the effect, but was otherwise fine.

[Talon]

Tsu detected only the faintest of sounds indicating that something had been left by his feet. He presumed this to be someone leaving him water but decided against focusing on the source of the noise. He was already too far into the operation to devote unneeded energy outwards. With a simple nod, he voiced his appreciation to the specter that fetched him water.

Stranger, I have no money, but I will return this favor."

After several moments, Tsu deemed that he had transferred enough blood to the patient to at least prevent a fatal outcome. He smiled as his chakra strings began to fade. He held his forehead in his hands an clenched his teeth. The strange man had taken a good deal of Tsu's own blood and now he began to feel weary. On top of this Tsu had used a considerable amount of chakra during the operation, and it now took a good deal of effort to even keep his own arms up.

At once he recalled that a stranger had left something beside him. He blindly stuck out a hand, but quickly flinched as he put his hand in the hot water that sat next to him. His lips pursed, and his brow crinkled. A muddled confusion leaked out of his lips. He reached again this time for the bowl, only to realize that it was made of glass.

He lifted up his head, putting his ear to the wind. "What kind of peasant has access to hot water, and fine dishware such as this?" He didn't necessarily expect an answer and began rummaging through his backpack for a clean cloth.

[OOC: Vara I've been a tad held up myself, so no worries, also if you'd like to tag me in posts I would really appreciate it ]

[Vara]

The woman, Akai, was in the process of tying her long hair up into a ponytail. She saw how weary Tsu was from the process, and how he absentmindedly stuck his hand into the hot water. It was amusing to see. Was that eagerness at work, or was it something else?

“It is a strange time and place for there to be a vagrant medic,” she said, walking away toward a carriage parked on the side of the road near the alley.

The carriage was of chestnut wood, had four wide wheels, and a cloth roof. It was a bit farther away than Tsu could hear, but if he were to follow after, he would be able to pick up on the people inside: one older woman, and one younger man.

“The dishware isn’t mine. You’re in the hidden sound. There are always people listening.”

Akai leaned toward the carriage door and whispered to the two inside. “Anything else?”

“Yes,” the man replied. “Keep an eye on the boy. Warn him before he steps into any more dangerous shadows than this one. We’ll go on ahead.”

A male hand opened the door and handed Akai a wad of four thousand ryo. Akai took the money and bowed in response. The carriage rolled away right after.

<Sure ^_^ Talon>

[Talon]

Tsu pulled a spare strip of a - mostly - clean piece cloth from his pack. He dabbed the fabric into the bowl in front of him and began cleaning the wound of his patient, he cared little for following along with the woman, although he did listen attentively to her trailing footsteps.

As he finished cleaning the sore he rinsed the cloth out, while pulling bandages from his pack with his other hand. He placed the damp strip of cloth onto the stranger's wound and then secured it tightly with the bandages around his waist.

"You should begin feeling better soon." The boy smiled and then bowed while still in his kneeling position. He was unaware of the strange context he was performing this gesture in, although his intentions were pure. He stood up gathering his things, he pulled his headband off of his head revealing the bandages covering his eyes, and carefully placed the forehead protector back into his backpack.

Tsu turned his head to the direction the woman had left in, and then began whistling. The image of the bowl near his feet molded itself into his mind. He picked the bowl up carefully to avoid spilling the rest of the water and then began walking in the direction he believed the woman had gone.

At this point, the carriage had departed, but it appeared that the woman remained. Tsu grinned, he whistled a low monotone and the contours of the womans face slowly became etched out in front of him. Pardon me Ms., did you see who left me this bowl? Was it you?"

SPOILER: Click to show

Jigoku no Mimi (Hells ears) [20 tp] (for 20 meters distance)
Rank: "D"
Skill: Supplementary
Effect: With this technique the Bard is capable of pinpointing the location of a noise within a small area.
Special: ---
Drawback: Cannot be used to hear techniques that silent the user's movement. Must be trained multiple times.
Description: Bards are around sounds constantly and all their training in the musical arts hones their hearing. They are capable of further training their ability to hear to allow them to listen and precisely pinpoint the location a sound is coming from as long as it is within ten meters of themselves. They can continue to train their ability to pinpoint the location of a sound to increase the distance it can be pinpointed from by ten meters each time, capping off at fifty meters.
Limit: Art of the Bard

[Vara]

Talon

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The stranger smiled back with a weak but toothy smile. Healed, her leaned more comfortably into his blanket-lined sleeping arrangements and rested. Fatigue was quick to lull him to sleep. His breathing quieted. Like one used to living on the streets, silence was as much a friend as it was an enemy.

How long might he remember this odd gift of healing? Will it be a brief time, or a whole life?

Akai gave a quick nod. “Yes, it was my hands that delivered the bowl, but it was not my mind’s idea to help you. I acted in service of my employer.”

She didn’t make any attempt to take the bowl back.

“Keep it if you wish,” she said, “or leave it for the stray animals that wander these parts.”

Akai began to adjust a sleeve that had rolled too far past her wrist. Based on what Tsu could feel from the sound, the woman wore a long sleeved tunic. Her pants were rough leather, and thick boots protected her feet. There was something between the tunic and her skin, but it legitimately made no noise at all. It was a void as far as Tsu could sense.

Her long hair was still tied in a tight ponytail, so most of it didn’t cover her ears or face.

“What brings a trained healer to the slums? Your hands have to be packing more training than the nearest free clinic.”

[Talon]

One of Tsu eyebrows raised on his head Employer? he thought to himself mesmerized by the prospect of why they'd be so interested in helping him.

“Keep it if you wish,” “or leave it for the stray animals that wander these parts.”

Tsu didn't quite understand what he would even do with the bowl if he opted to keep it, he stared into it while the kind woman spoke. Scratching his head he elected to do the latter and set the bowl off to the side.

What brings a trained healer to the slums the words echoed in the back of his mind, while a grin quickly crept up on the young boys face. she thinks I'm the real deal!

"Well I'm flattered, but I'm really only just a novice" The boy scratched the back of his head while he explained, nearly laughing under his breath. "I'm actually looking to join the ranks of the shinobi in this village."

He would wait to let the young woman speak, and then in an awkward daze, he would shake his head realizing that he forgot his manners. Oh I nearly forgot, my name is Ritorutsume, of the clan A-S! He smiled in pride, In the hopes that the deeds of his late father may have echoed through the village.

He felt his bandages begin to loosen slightly as the smile on his face had begun to stretch them. These bandages had begun to deteriorate slightly from overuse, they were of far less quality than those he used on the stranger from earlier. with one quick gesture, he pulled the bandages tightly to keep the scarring around his out of view. Knowing still that this was mostly futile as the streak over his left eye was always prominently visible.

[[[OOC: Vara ]]]

[Vara]

Talon

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"Ah, shinobi. I suppose that would be expected. Are you sure you wouldn't want to open an informal medics booth instead?" Akai pointed at a market circle a street ahead. "You might make as much cash without as much danger."

When Tsu introduced himself, Akai extended her hand out to him to shake. "Hello Ritorutsume, I am Akai. I'm afraid I'm not familiar with that clan name. Pedigree is not among the subjects I study."

She noticed the scar, but didn't draw any attention to it. Covered things are meant to be kept secret, even when unwittingly exposed. She had plenty of secrets herself that she would rather not expose to the limelight.

"Order is kept around here pretty well. The shinobi only show up when big incidents come up: buildings on fire, flooded streets, rampant disease, and other little tragedies. If you the type with a boiling heart, know that there are very few reasons for shinobi to help the people in the poor districts here. Shinobi missions require payment—something people like the man you helped lack."

[Talon]

Tsu grinned as he reached in to grab the hand of the woman. Akai. he repeated back to her upon hearing her name. his eyes curled into his toothy smile though due to the presence of his bandages only the movements of his eyebrows were interpretable. He was caught off guard when the woman proposed he opened his own business. It was something he hadn't exactly considered. Up until this moment, the only real avenue he imagined himself pursuing was among the ranks of the shinobi.

You're right, I might make more doing that... The boy gritted his teeth and lost himself in his thoughts for a moment, only to be returned to the conversation when Akai began detailing her experience of the shinobi.

Shinobi missions require payment, huh? Tsu chewed on these words for a minute. Of course, this was something he already knew, but he had never been confronted with the reality of what this meant. The boy certainly had a desire to help people, but he also needed a continuous supply of money to send home. It wasn't an obvious choice, but it at once Tsu's mission became more clear to himself.

His head sunk and dangled between his shoulders I don't know how the ninja of this village do things... but the boy was quick to pick his head back up as he finished his sentence. ... But the shinobi I've read about, always make time to help anyone in need.

Tsu shot only a sliver of his smile in the woman's direction, before speaking up again I didn't come all this way to join the sound nin, just for an extra handful of ryo!

[[[OOC: Vara]]]

[Vara]

Talon
OOC: Merry Christmas!

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Akai watched as Tsu went from being a bit dejected to rather hopeful. He was at least confident about his own intentions. If he didn’t already perform a good it, this would have been another indicator of a good heart.

“You have a noble interpretation of shinobi,” Akai said. “Perhaps it might be true. If you joined them with those ideals in your heart, you can certainly make it more truthful.”

Akai paused and took a moment to think. She didn’t have it in her to be cynical to someone who wasn’t.

“You remind me a bit about the story of the Harper’s Nurse. It’s a local story, but it’s a favorite that’s told among the retired veterans. She was an unofficial medic who worked with a makeshift office on some of the old, distant warfronts. When she practiced, she relied on the business of her wealthier clients in order to make up for her treatments of the poor. Her efforts were greatly appreciated by many. The village considered her an honorary shinobi army medic for her efforts, so those who successfully achieve your ideal so get recognition. Who knows if that’s still the case.”

Story done, Akai brushed her hair back and began to walk down the street. She didn’t have much of a destination in mind, but she felt the desire to move.

[Talon]

[[[OOC: Merry Christmas! Vara , While you were away I realized I was using the Hells ears jutsu incorrectly. (Tsu shouldn't be able to see things like sonar with it, whoops).]]]

Tsu was pleased to hear that this stranger believed he could make a difference among the shinobi ranks. This pleasure was bittersweet however as it seemed to imply that the shinobi of this village didn't always pursue the most noble of causes.

Tsu was surprised when Akai began relating to him fable he had never heard before. As a lonely boy on the farm, he filled most his days with reading stories such as those. Tsu wasn't exactly looking for the prestige that Akai claimed to have accompanied the medic of legends deeds, but of course, that would be a nice bonus.

Tsu then noticed the familiar pitter-patter of light steps making there way away from him. He nearly stumbled over himself, getting up to speed by her side. He held his hand forward to grab her attention, fearing that she might be strolling off without him. Pardon me miss! I hate to trouble you but do you know who I should speak with to enlist here?

By honing in on the woman's footsteps he found his gait shifting to keep up with Akai. If you couldn't tell I'm sort of lost, and I can't exactly read the signs to navigate this village. His smile held a certain pitty to it. His eyebrows had no relaxed as he felt confident the stranger assist him.

SPOILER: Click to show

Jigoku no Mimi (Hells ears) [20 tp] (for 20 meters distance)
Rank: "D"
Skill: Supplementary
Effect: With this technique the Bard is capable of pinpointing the location of a noise within a small area.
Special: ---
Drawback: Cannot be used to hear techniques that silent the user's movement. Must be trained multiple times.
Description: Bards are around sounds constantly and all their training in the musical arts hones their hearing. They are capable of further training their ability to hear to allow them to listen and precisely pinpoint the location a sound is coming from as long as it is within ten meters of themselves. They can continue to train their ability to pinpoint the location of a sound to increase the distance it can be pinpointed from by ten meters each time, capping off at fifty meters.
Limit: Art of the Bard

[Vara]

Talon
OOC: Yeah, good thing there are plenty of other sonar techniques in Art of the Bard.

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The boy was following along, as was natural, so Akai kept going. He had inquired about enlisting. From the way the conversation was going, she sort of expected as much. The locations for such matters were well-known.

“Okay, I can guide you there. Just follow me.”

The tower, more of a castle, was visible from most parts of the village. She didn’t need to know any particular route other than to keep approaching it.

“I won’t be entering the building with you, but I’ll let you know when we arrive. Do you have any documentation with you to aid your request? If not, they might need to conduct some tests and research.”

Eventually, after a long walk, they reached the entrance to the Kage district.

“Here we are. Just go straight ahead and you’ll find yourself at the doorway into the reception. The people you need to talk to are inside. Listen, if you get in, keep an ear out for missions from Madam Quartorei. If you take them, I guarantee it will be to the benefit of reaching your goals.”

[Enter the Otokage Tower to continue]

[Talon]

Story continued here: narutoforumrp.proboards.com/thread/108015/otokage-tower?page=4