Butterflies in the Sky [T/P]

[Zetsumei]

Name: Sousekichi [Blood Genesis]
Rank: C
Effects: Grows flowers on the body.
Special: A medic, fifteen seeds, a Kitateha with their butterflies and the person undergoing the ritual.
Description: Using a scalpel or similar object the medic will make small incisions across the persons arms. One seed is pressed into each incision and thus the butterflies take over. The butterflies will pollinate each seed before using silk to close over the wound, at this point the medic will began performing healing hands while the seeds rapidly begin to grow. The flowers will grow and shrink rapidly before blooming fully. If the flowers are damaged in an way they will grow back within minutes.
Drawback: This ritual causes extreme pain and dizziness when performed.
Placement Requirements:Must be a member of the Kitateha Clan
Cost: 16,000

I chuckled at her comment but when she spoke of bonding I became confused, the sadistic grin that accompanied it was not comforting either. "Bond? What do yo-" I was cut off before I could complete my thought by the woman, "Don't you worry about it, just lay down on the table and bite onto this." I did not have time to wonder what she was talking about when I was handed a leather strap and pushed backwards onto a newly appearing table. The woman was really quite proficient with genjutsu, I had to admit that, but it was really quite annoying. I decided to do as she requested of me and put the leather strap into my mouth, biting down on it in wait.

It was best not to fight, especially when the one I was up against did not seem to mean to kill me and could probably toss me around with ease. She produced a scalpel from somewhere within her clothing, I was was not exactly paying attention to where, and began her work. A series of evenly spaced incisions were made upon each of my arms, they hurt a little bit but it was not too bad. I honestly did not see why the leather strap was needed if this was it, but then I started to get a little more nervous as she produced some seeds from her kimono. I had no notion of what she was going to do with those seeds and did not much like to imagine it.

As I was wondering such a thing the woman with aqua colored hair took one of the seeds and pressed it into the incision closest to my left hand. A groan of pain left my lips as she did so and then continued up the arm, eight seeds planted into eight incisions in my arm. Each time it happened pain would shoot through my body, yet I become a bit more accustomed to the feeling and managed to keep myself from groaning each time. There was really not all that much for me to do right now and I simply lay there as she planted seeds in my arms. My right arm got it's own eight seeds and I was not exactly eagerly awaiting the moment the sprouted.

When the woman had completed sowing the seeds into my flesh I looked up at her, wondering what was going to happen next when I saw her cast a technique. I was not entirely certain what this ability might be, then I saw a great deal of butterflies fly through the open window. I tried to listen in as the woman whispered to them, yet I could not make out her words and simply watched as the creatures flew down to cover my arms. It was an interesting sensation as they did whatever it was they were doing before they flew from my limbs. Looking down to see the result of their presence I barely had time to notice the silk covering my wounds before it started.

Searing pain filled my body completely as the seeds opened and roots shot from them into my muscle. The pain from this was unlike that of being cut or having the seeds forced into my body, this was on a whole new level. I could feel all of it taking place inside my body as the flowers began to sprout up from those tiny seeds that had been within. Yet the overwhelming sensation of it was pain, even as my life's blood was being sucked up by the roots I could barely feel it. After roughly ten minutes I could feel the growth cease, the draining of my blood end, yet that pain persisted for far longer.

[|Ayame Unbound|]

+ Ritual.
- Money

[Zetsumei]

Name: Ishuu Chou Teishu [Butterfly Swarm Host]
Rank: "D" Rank
Skill: Ninjutsu, Passive.
Effect: Allows the user to control the butterflies that are attracted to the blood nectar.
Special: Must have flowers grown upon the body by the Blood Genesis Ritual
Drawback: --
Description: When the user has grown flowers on their body, they will begin to attract the butterflies from all around. These butterflies, upon tasting the nectar of the flowers grown from within the body, will become addicted to the taste of the nectar and will keep them around. As the butterflies begin to consume small amounts of the user's chakra, the user becomes capable of controlling them by simple gestures, and even begin to control them for more unique techniques. However, maintaining the wellbeing of the flowers which are being fed on by the butterflies is difficult, and as such the user will be unable to maintain as many flowers. A singular flower is capable of supporting five butterflies.
Limit: Requires Sousekichi Ritual. Must be a part of the Kitateha Clan.

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I could do naught but lay there for a moment as head spun from the process of having these flowers grow out of my arms. Upon closing my eyes to rest I quickly fell into a sleep, the ordeal had taken a bit out of me and when I awoke I could myself no longer on the flat surface of a table. It seemed that the woman left and took that illusionary house with her. Well, this left me with some time to wonder what she had meant about bonding, yet it was then that I took notice of a few things. Butterflies, a great many of them were swarming around me, and several had alighted upon the flowers that had sprouted from my arms.

Perhaps the woman had planned for something like this and I was to bond with the butterflies that were drinking from the flowers. Well, that didn't seem like it could be too hard.... Right? I lifted myself up from the ground and into a seated position, rubbing my back from the root that had been jabbing into it. I shifted my arms to make the flowers far more accessible to the fluttering creatures that swarmed me. Several alighted upon each one of the flowers in turn and began to drink of the nectar that was born of my blood.

There was something I could feel with it as well, it was not just the nectar that was being consumed, but small portions of my inner power as well. The strength they drained regenerated almost immediately though, so I foresaw no true problems resulting from their feeding. Upon their feeding the creatures seemed to become more docile and tended to stick closer to my person than the others. Through my observations I noticed that they also became attentive to my actions and that five would feed on a flower's nectar before none other could. I needed to bond with them, to control them in a way so I could effectively utilized the fluttering creatures.

I began to experiment with what the effects of the nectar had on the creature and what I could do with them by extent. I had noticed them moving when I made an offhand gesture with my hands, as if following a command that I had issued. Perhaps I could do more with that, I simply needed to see which different gestures would receive which reactions. I began with simple motions, things that would normally direct someone to move to one point or another, they worked well. Then I began to make a few more abstract gestures, small words of sign language to see what kind of movements they would create.

With the symbol for 'I Love You' I managed to get the butterflies to move, I was fairly uncertain of the pattern until I noticed where they stopped and hovered. The sign for I love you moved them to form out the word, a rather lovely gesture in my mind. Still, I would likely never have a use for it and instead I began to make some more complex gestures. A corkscrew with my finger followed by jabbing it into my palm yielded the most interesting result. Far to the contrary of my hand motions the butterflies instead landed upon my flowers and seemed to begin to rest.

Such an interesting reaction.

[Umehara]

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[Zetsumei]

Clothing Crafting
Rank: ["C",] "B", "A", "S"
Skill: Supplementary
Effect: A skill that allows a user to knit their own universal special clothing.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: A tailor is a person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing professionally, especially suits and men's clothing. Although the term dates to the thirteenth century, tailor took on its modern sense in the late eighteenth century, and now refers to makers of men's and women's suits, coats, trousers, and similar garments, usually of wool, linen, or silk. When first learned the user is able to create "C" Rank clothing. Each rank the user learns they are able to create Clothing of equal rank.
Limit: Must be a Tailor.

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Standing up once I was convinced that I had sufficient knowledge to control the butterflies easily, at least in the basics. Things were going to become more annoying now, though, especially with my clothing situation. I could not exactly wear the long sleeved shirts I normally did and it was difficult to find a good tailor these days. I headed back towards my home, there was a needle and thread there along with a few other things I could use to make some modifications to my clothing. Of course I would try a few other things before going straight to modifying my clothing.

Entering my home I gathered the supplies as well as a few pieces of torn cloth, fixing those would help me get at least a little bit of practice. Sitting down in the dining area, I was lucky the maids had come in and cleaned or else I would have no surface to work upon. That was one obstacle out of the way, now all I had to do was thread the needle, not too difficult seeming a task to me. Yet as I picked the needle up out of the sewing kit I had found did I realize how truly small that hole was. Slowly I began to attempt to push that thin thread through the hole on the back end of the needle, missing a few times before I succeeded.

At least I thought I had succeeded at first, the tip seemed like it was going through the hole, but the end of the thread frayed out instead. I remembered something I had watched mother do on the few times I had seen her sewing and stuck the frayed end into my mouth. Getting saliva onto it I use the wet, and not somewhat pointed, end through the hole so I could finally begin to sew. I gave myself quite a bit of slack to work with, not entirely convinced that I could get this working at all. Still, I pushed the needle and thread through the cloth near the tear and began to pull the thread through.

On the other side of the tear I pushed the needle and thread through again, though it did not seem like that would be enough to keep this in place once I got started. After thinking about it for a moment I looped around and sewed through roughly the same spot another four times. I began to look the thread through the fabric using the needle to guide it as I moved up the fabric, going from one side of the other as I moved along the rip. It was not taking exceptionally long to do, but I was laboring to keep my stitching even. As I was sewing it happened, the inevitable work of a beginner as I pricked my finger the the sharp needle.

Quickly pulling away my hand I stuck the bleeding finger into my mouth and sucked on it. That was really unpleasant to prick my finger like that, but it was all part of the process of learning to sew. I continued to work my way up the rather large rip in the fabric, carefully stitching it back together while trying not to stab my finger again. Finally I reached the end of the cloth's rip and wondered how to seal up the final stitch when I decided to knot up the end. I held up the cloth and examined my work, the ugly looking patch job, it was not bad for a first attempt but I still had much more I could do.

[Fui]

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[Zetsumei]

Ikimono Supīchi (Animal Speech) [Birds]
Rank: "C" Rank
Skill: Skill/NinJutsu
Effect: A Shinobi, or a warrior is capable, gaining the ability to speak as well as to understand the language between a type of family of creatures. This type of technique can be used to where they can accuratly speak, and concise in a normal like speech pattern to where the animal will understand the user, and the user will understand the animal.
Special: ---
Drawback: The user is only capable of going into this depending on what type of animal helper they have.
Description: ---
Limit: This technique must be known multiple times. The user however must have a Helper that is according to the correct speech. What this means is if the user has an animal Helper of the Canine breed, then they are capable of communicating within a speech form towards that type. If the user has a Helper of the Birds of Prey Breed, then they are capable of communicating within a speech form towards that type. Must have completed all basis of the Animal Helper performance. Must learn Animal Friendship, Control, Understanding, and Teamwork.

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I held up the cloth and looked at my work, the sewing was a little shoddy, but it could have been far worse. I would have to at least say that I understood the basics of the craft at least, and that would help me at some point in the future. For now I walked out of my home and whistled for Argantael to join me, I figured it was about time I made a decent attempt at learning her language. As I stood the Colossal bird descended in front of me, landing a few feet away for safety's sake. Reaching up I would pat her beak slightly, "Alright, Argantael, I think it's about time I made more of an effort to communicate with you in your tongue."

As I said so the bird gave a cawing of, well I wasn't sure if it was relief or resigned to tell the truth. That was one of the reasons why I needed to be able to understand her speech, it would help terribly when we communicated. "Alright," I said, "I will need you to be my teacher for this, it's not like I can just understand everything without aid." In response she cocked her head in consideration before motioning to follow her, and follow I did. She guided me to a more open area where she began to caw, illustrating her a translation of her words with a claw, or at least as close as she could get.

The first was the illustration of what seemed to be a boat and a clock, puzzling it out for a few moments I believed I got it. "About time, correct? Indeed, I have put this off for far too long, my friend." The Ziz nodded to my words, letting out a noise in agreement as we moved on. She drew basic things such as carts, buildings, water, etc., basic things and then giving the appropriate noise to translate it into the avian tongue. Then she moved onto something a little more complex, well it seemed fairly simple to me at first.

It was a basic human figure, it seemed fairly odd since we had already covered the word for person, yet then Argantael began to add details to it. After a moment of puzzlement I managed to figure out that she was indicating a specific person and as the details came together I came to realize that it was Kogaku. Or at least she was the only one I could remember meeting that wore an eye patch like that. "Is that Kogaku?" With a new crowing sound she nodded, so that was Kogaku's name in the language of the birds, interesting. Perhaps I would try to have a real conversation with her like this right now.

"So, let's give it a real attempt now, I think I have down the basics and should pick up more through conversation." As I spoke I waited in anticipation for her reply, "Yeah, you probably wont understand most of this, just like always." I was quite stunned by her response, I understood what she was saying, but what she said was quite startling. "I beg your pardon?" I said, "Was I really that bad with my translations before?" The bird spread her wings and raised her head, "Hallelujah, he actually understands me for a change. Yes, you were that bad before and you probably still need a lot of work."

[Umehara]

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