Skyrockets in flight [Travel/Training]

[gugabe]

[Enter]

Shiroi treks to the edge of that wonderful expanse of 'beautiful' scenery as is known as the old-fashioned land of Earth. It's not that he's got anything against the visage of dark brown earth, rugged terrain, and boring peasants. It's just that they're incredibly boring, non-picturesque and generally unpleasant.

However, he's buggering off to the Land of Bird, which should be a little bit better for the entire aesthetics value sort of issue. The genin's wandering to the border presenting him with a reason to chin-scratch before setting off on the grand venture.

[Mod shift to bird, please.]

[Jimarai Kotetsu]

[Enter]
Quickly catching up to the boy, soon to be Chuunin, Jimarai would walk by his side, gathering his breath and re-inserting his hands into his pockets.

" Yo! I'm coming too! Though not to participate, just to observe, might do some training on the way back ... Mind if I tag along? Four eyes are better than two."

And with that they would continue to the border.

[Ancestor Febrie]

Moved ~

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Suiton: Rikkido no Tori (Water Style: Liquid Bird)
Rank: C Rank
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: Creates a large bird, larger than the user, of water.
Special: "Handseals"
Drawback: The bird cannot do damage.
Description: Creates a bird of water. The water acts as normal water, save for it being in the shape of a bird. It has chakra around its wings, enabling it to fly. If it were to give or take a hit, the water would act as normal water, and go to the area of lesser pressure, around the hit. The user can send chakra to whichever body part touches the bird, and use it to ride and fly. Must mantain teh handseal for the technque.
Limit: Must know Suiton no Jutsu (Water Release). Must know Fuuton no Jutsu (Wind Release). Must have a water source.

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Shiroi smirks softly upon sighting the vast expanses of water that seem to typify this particular landscape, and shifts to shrug his backpack off of his back with a fluid motion. "Oi! Jima... Want to go on ahead to the accomodation? I've got some training I want to do whilst I'm out here." He murmurs, rifling through his densely-packed stuff until finally withdrawing a scroll that isn't his usual near-universal piece of knowledge-bearing parchment.

The genin flicks it open, concentrating for a moment in order to create a table out of the nearby earth before spreading the big thing out across the created-slab... His eyes drifting off towards the nearby river for a few moments before he starts to actually focus on poring over the wording of the techniques prescribed within the bumper scroll of water ninjutsu.

The majority of the techniques are a touch too offensive, chakra-intensive, or otherwise useless for a shinobi of his focus, though the sight of the flight ninjutsu is enough to have him grinning. "Nnh... Always wanted to be able to do that, even if it won't be the most useful thing in the world." He murmurs, flicking his attention through the scroll until he finds the handseal listing and takes the time to commit 'em to memory.

They're nothing massively complex, following in the same logic in the majority of Shiroi's 'life-giving' stone jutsu with a few modifications in order to deal with the fluid-nature of the base construct. It's nothing worth elaborating on, though, even if he could at length if given the task to academically describe the differences between the two nature-manipulations when it comes to clones and constructs.

He strides out onto the river, feeling the slight flow, the gentle bubble, and the reasonable pace of the moving water before starting to slowly flick through handseals. His eyes shut, allowing a greater deal of focus upon the chakra-manipulation due to his light abilities in the sensory field before he suddenly crouches, pressing the finale of the seals into the water.

It reverberates around his hands, flowing outwards in a great ripple that's soon to raise up from the water at the bidding of some invisible channelling. The substance forms into the rough shape of the bird, taking on the characteristics prescribed before a touch of air-infusion works to sufficiently stabilize the bird to the point of actual-flight.

[N A T S U M I]

+8

[Jimarai Kotetsu]

Jim would nod to Shiroi, and take off otwards the accomodation and see the sights of the Land of Bird, and hopefully not get into too much trouble. Perhaps he would get some training done while he was here too ...

[Exit]

[gugabe]

8/10

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The bird's current stage is more or less sufficient for most purposes, structure-wise, though Shiroi's quick attempt to vault onto the back of the figure leads to a rather unsurprising level of inconsistency throughout the figure of the water-born animal. In other words, he ends up falling through to land back on the water due to a reflexive flaring of his water-walking technique.

He grits his teeth, grunting a touch at the feel of the cool water beneath his knees before quickly bouncing back up onto his heels with a few quick handseals. The genin forming another bird with just a little bit more chakra-control, working on creating a 'skin' around the figure of the big water-bird in such a manner as to hopefully keep it sustainable enough as to take his weight.

Shiroi gives clambering onto it another try, working with much less idiotic enthusiasm and instead deciding to slowly shifting up onto the back of the beastie. His chakra-control works, though, keeping it consistent despite the issues.

[N A T S U M I]

+2; Learned.

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Mizu Bunshin no Jutsu (Water Clone)
Rank: "C" Rank
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: ---
Special: "Handseals"
Drawback: ---
Description: Mizu Bunshin no Jutsu is a Ninjutsu technique that utilizes water to create a Bunshin clone. Unlike a normal Bunshin, the Mizu Bunshin has the ability to interact more with the environment due to it having physical substance. This allows the clone to carry out limited attacks on its target. The range of the clone is limited; however, it can not travel very far from the original body. If the Mizu Bunshin is injured, the clone will usually revert back into its natural water state. When first learned the user is capable of having or capable of creating up to Five Clones. Each time learned the user learns this technique the number of Clones is capable of increasing by one. The maximum amount of clones is Ten for the Difficulty Class of D Rank. For each Difficulty Rank Increase the number increases by five of maximum but learning is still one per learned.
Limit: Water Release

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The access to a large water-source is something that's pretty much unprecedented for the genin, seeing as most of the water to be found within his homeland is so far from his mountain-top village that it simply isn't worth the bother to attempt to specialize in the techniques. It's sufficient to requisite a return to the shoreline, where his scroll, filled with such things as are useful in this situation, awaits on a rock that's been doton-crafted by the lazing Iwa-genin.

He really does have to head into town, though, and resolves to do so as soon as he's worked through enough water jutsu in order to actually capitalize upon one of his lesser-used affinities. The genin starts to browse idly, flicking open the scroll with a little manipulation from a single digit before shifting his attention through the densely-packed type.

It doesn't take too long till he's satisfied with something that's been extracted through his perusing. A technique revolving 'round the construction of clones in a manner that's rather more consistent than his pre-existing technique for water bunshin. After-all, it'll occasionally be useful to actually be able to perform jutsu via proxy rather than on his lonesome.

Hence, he extracts the handseals with a bit more reading, deciding that they're simple enough for the formation of the technique at hand whilst flicking through them as a practise-set a few times without chakra. They're even nicely structured, flowing without requiring any major contortions of the fingers, or moves of the joints that'd else be unnatural.

With that sequence in mind, he strides out onto the water-surface, channelling just about enough chakra to his feet in order to keep him on the surface without having it impact too heavily upon his control. The genin grits his teeth, starting to pool suiton jutsu into his finger-tips before mustering up a little bit more water-control in order to start raising the substance from the smooth-surface of the river-water.

He pushes his energy through the standard bunshin-formation procedure, lifting the moisture in order to condense it as necessary into something that can take the illusory properties of the technique. It's not exactly stable so far, more a formation than anything particularly sentient, though a forehead-creasing bout of focus is just about enough to give it the solidarity necessary to start actually moving without issue.

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+10; Nice wording.

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Suiton - Kokuun no Jutsu (Black Clouds)
Rank: "C" Rank
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: A technique in which a user creates a form of black clouds that may be used in conjunction with a Fire type of technique do to the flamible components.
Special: "Handseals"
Drawback: ---
Description: : This is a water based technique. After forming the necessary hand seals, a black mist will emit from the user’s body and rise into the sky. Black clouds will form, releasing a flammable rain of oil onto the targets. The oil is easily flammable and can cause Katon techniques to backfire, hurting the Katon user with the technique instead. Affects Katon attacks used after this technique is used and lasts for two turns or until a Katon technique is used that burns the oil.
Limit: Water Release

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The next interesting little tidbit of Jutsu-craft that comes to Shiroi's attention is just about enough to pique his curioisity. However, it doesn't particularly benefit from his current access to a water-source, and thus he's tempted to simply leave it for the moment whilst flicking through his scroll in search of something that actually uses the clear expanse of blue.

Such a technique isn't exactly forthcoming, though, which soon results in the genin donning an evil, scheming grin whilst working on reading through the write-up for the technique in greater detail. It's nothing massively complex, requiring a very limited mix of chakra-natures in order to come to complete fruition, which is something that he's managed to utilize in more complex situations in the past.

Nonetheless, the handseals are somewhat curious, if only because there's an actual unique one set in the midst of the technique, allowing for a touch of curiosity in the genin as he gives it another once-over. There's no good explanation for the oil seal, but he just rolls his shoulders into a quick little shug 'pon deciding that such things tend to be pretty natural with the odder side of jutsu-crafting.

He starts to flick through the slight motions, twitching his fingers in accordance with each of the framings that's necessary to produce the requisite control. It's easy enough to contort his chakra in the desired ways, though that unique seal does once again require a bit of improvisation as the genin works on battling through the curious chakra-manipulation.

The genin pauses, working through the technique's constraints again with a whole lot more chakra-flow before raising one hand to the skies as is required by the jutsu. He pushes his water-chakra out through the tenketsu of that flat palm, pushing it into the atmosphere before concentrating on adding the slight infusion of fire necessary to create the flammable quantities.

He grits his teeth, pulling it back after radiating out the chakra to a reasonable extent, creating a cloud in the process that's filled with the oilesque substance. The genin then twitching his finger-tips in order to break it open in a quick, great deluge of the oil substance that soaks a nearby tree through.

[N A T S U M I]

+7

[gugabe]

7/10

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The first attempt at causing an adequate deluge isn't exactly brilliant, resulting in a far too wide-spread coverage when one considers the target of the aerially-based assault. That, when combined with the relatively limited amount of substance created by the chakra-spike is just about enough in order to make the technique a waste.

Well, not completely, seeing as even spattering somebody with oil can help in the long-run, but it doesn't quite have the soaking effect necessary for something to be considered a wholly appropriate usage of the technique. Hence, the genin resolves to repeat the technique in an attempt to tighten the targetting of the downfall.

He flicks through the handseals again, raising his hand to the sky, though his chakra is put through a choke-point in the flow in an attempt reign some of the excess spreading in. The result is somewhat tighter, albeit with a lesser degree of water 'infected' with the flaming release. The genin tucks his fingers, bidding it down from the clouds with a sharp scowl as it strikes down around the tree, forming a far more adequate coverage of the target at this point.

[KARKAT]

learned.

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Kangoku Nobebou (Prison Bars)
Rank: "D"
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: Prison bars seal the top opening of the earth prison.
Special: "Handseals"
Drawback: Can only be used on an existing earth prison after it has been created.
Description: In order to seal an opponent into an earth prison, you must bar up the escape hole. These bars grow out of the existing walls right at the top opening of the prison and do not appear instantly. They are made out of the same strength material as the rest of the prison that has already been created.
Limit: Earth Release, must know Daichi Kangoku.

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Shiroi takes the time to practise one more technique before heading into the encampment set up for the purposes of the Chuunin exams. However, he has to wander from the river-side, which is just about enough to bring a scowl to his face as he shifts across to a reasonably large spot of untarnished grass. The genin forms a rock slab, flicking through handseals in order to send a large piece of native stone surging through the surface of the dirt, which is just about enough in order to allow him to peel out yet another scroll and flick it open with an elaborate motion.

He takes a moment to peer through it, grinning softly as soon as he decides upon a modification of something that he's already knowledgeable in, and peruses through until he can extract the slightly different handseal-sequence. The genin grits his teeth, drawing upon somewhat drained chakra-stores as he starts to channel doton energy into his finger-tips. His string of seals passes quickly, worked through in a speedy sequence of little movements before he drives his finger-tips into the soft earth.

The genin's chakra surges, taking enough of a root in the soil in order to send a big-assed octagon of weaker rock-formation surging from the earth. He grins at it for a moment, flicking through a few more handseals before finally deciding to end the chain with a surge of motion towards the rock-formation itself.

It takes a few moments to take effect, and doesn't quite have the desired one, resulting in the top of the prison sealing over with an obscenely loud grinding sound. The genin grunts, feeling the prison collapse after a moment or two, seeing as the malpractice of the modification was pretty much enough in order to remove most of the structural adequacy.

Shiroi gives it another try, working through the base handseals in order to reform the substance of the original prison, spreading his stance in order to skim finger-tips off the ground and let it surge into existence. He shifts forwards, then, working through the handseals far more quickly before sinking enough of the power in in order to send a few pillars of rock shooting forth from the substance of the original porous rock.

He doubles his efforts, sealing it a little better over the next few moments, though another attempt at the technique is necessary for the final adjustments.

[Solus]

+8

[gugabe]

OOC: Row, Row, Fight the time-line.

Nah... Just felt like finishing this jutsu-training in thread and assuming that it's a quasi-flashback or however you'd refer to something like this

8/10

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Shiroi's current mastery of the sealing bars is somewhat decent, if one were a rookie straight-out-of-the-academy genin, and thus he resolves to work on improving the technique to the point of actual competency after a moment or two of hardcore pondering.

It takes a bare moment or two for his fingers to flick through the basic handseals, working through the combinations necessary to create the basic prison structure, even if he does decide to make it more circular rather than Hexagonal due to an odd brain-wave. After-all, it's always going to be slightly harder to break through a curved edge than a straight one, even if the difference will be mostly neglible for shinobi-stuff.

His chakra flourishes again, after the grinding, rumbling earth-shifting necessary for the formation of the earth-structure is finished, flowing into the construct and condensing to the point of reasonable reinforcement. His hands curl into fists, keeping the energy strong for the moment, before another wave of thought has him remembering that he's not exactly done with the formation.

The genin's fingers flick through again, stumbling slightly in the formation of the last of the short seal-sequence, due to a lack of expertise, and then punching into the side of his weak construct in that curious doton-manipulating manner. Another wave of power 'shoots out', sinking into the earth and surrounding the circle before finally drawing out a few of those pillars.

His teeth grit, urging a bit more focus, and thus the out-croppings of blunt-earth emerge with greater number, and greater speed, shifting to the point of completion after only a few moments.

And then he's kidnapped by the grue of having elsewhere to be

[Exit]

[Ancestor Febrie]

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