The way back to the village [Training/Search]

[~Emi~]

Bulette (Common and Hammerhead)

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Location: Jungle, Desert, and Swamp Regions
Preparation: The gatherer may harvest and powder the fin of this creature to store for later use. The gatherer may also harvest the hide of this creature to be sold.
Special: In the Jungle, Desert, and Swamp Regions there is a four percent chance that a user is capable of finding such a creature.
Description: Picture A Bulette is more commonly and accurately known as a land shark. This beast plows through the earth the way a shark cleaves the water. Protruding from the earth as it travels is the scaly fin like crest. These creatures will attack anything it regards as food, which in essence is anything that breaths for these twelve foot long creatures. The crested fin of this creature can be used in an acid that will dissolve rocks within seconds. Unfortunately these only works on those weighing under 200 pounds, and each Bulette fin is only capable of making one acid.
Drawback: --
Cost: 31,250 Ryo Full Price in Region, 62,500 Ryo Full Price in Opposite Region, 11,750 Ryo Extract Cost for 8 uses in Region, 23,500 Ryo Extract Cost for 8 uses in Opposite Region

Mind’s Eye Extension
Rank: D, [C], B, A
Skill: Passive
Effect: A technique used to increase the range of Mind’s Eye of the Kagura.
Special: ---
Drawback: --
Description: This technique is passively used to increase the distance of Mind’s Eye of the Kagura. At D rank this extends the maximum range of the technique to twenty-five. At every rank after D the distance will double until reaching a maximum range of two hundred meters.
Limit: Must know Mind’s Eye of Kagura.


0/10 | 4% chance of finding the bulette (common) 1 st


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Emi was a little confused as he left the area in front of the mines, the amekage had been a lot weaker willed than he had expected. A great man doesn't need to have a great purpose? or maybe he did, just not the same vision as Emi had. The thoughts wandered his mind as he walked through the swamp. The walk back to the village was long, yet not tiring. Emi had always liked the swamps, they were so quiet and full of life, yet so underestimated by most men due to all the dangers in them. But he knew that the point in surviving in an area as dangerous as the swamp, was not to be the strongest, but to know where the dangers were.

It's a good thing I've learned to track life signs.

He walked up to a nearby stone, sat down on its cold surface and watched around it to make sure there was no snakes nor crocodiles around it, and then he closed his eyes and took a deep breath. The key point in sensing the area was not to focus on a single point, but to learn observe all the life signs around himself. It required a lot of concentration, but as he sat there, he was able to enter a meditative state of mind. And since his eyes was closed, nothing visual could break the image he got from seeing the chakras around him.

There's only tiny animals around

But even though he was a little disappointed in the small animals, he still found it intriguing how hard it was to actually see them. To actually see all the mice in a log, he had to focus on it for several seconds before he could actually count the amount of mice in it. So instead of searching for the big and dangerous, Emi decided to look for the smaller things. The chakra pulsed out from his body in the same slow pace as his heart and breathing, but as he wanted to see a little clearer, Emi opened up the chakra flow a little, allowing more chakra to exit his body. The area around him lit up a little more as the chakra started to detect more life, but something Emi didn't anticipate was that the range got wider.

That was actually something I could use.

The surprised had made him draw back some of his chakra, making the vision darker and shorter for a moment, but then when he realized what had happened and why, he send out some more chakra into the air. Even though he was able to see the smaller things a little clearer now, he still found it more fascinating to look further, something he knew was a step towards becoming somewhat of a god. His heart started to pound, and he felt how he was starting to become one with the nature, the earth spoke to him, and he listened.

Is this the first step to ascend into something higher?

Emi got a little too excited and started to pour out more of his chakra into the air, to see how far he could be able to see. The area in his mind expanded and got many times bigger until he started to feel as if he was leaving his own body behind, as if it no longer was an essential part of himself anymore. Even if the feeling scared him, he also got thrilled on how much closer he felt to the deity he longed so for. But when Emi noticed that even he had gotten further away, and able to look so far, everything was blurry and the chakra he was able to spot was only the biggest ones.

I've too little control so far.

Emi forced himself back towards his body until the area around him appeared to be under his complete vision with the inner eye. He then saw something in the far east of his vision, a big chakra signature that most likely was a bigger crocodile. So Emi calmed himself down again by taking a couple of deep breaths, and send away the focus of his inner eye towards the animal. The difficulty was to keep it withing range, as it appeared to be moving away from him. So Emi send a little more chakra for every 5 feet the beast moved, until the chakra signature was to weak even while draining him a little to much.

I guess I need to check it out with my own eyes.

As he memorized the direction the animal was headed, Emi opened his eyes and stood up from the ground and stretched a little before jogging towards the direction of the beast.

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No, sorry.

+10; Learned.

[~Emi~]

Shunshin no Jutsu - Oshi (Body Flicker Technique - Push)
Rank: "C"
Skill: NinJutsu/TaiJutsu
Effect: A Jutsu that allows a user to rush forward in almost instantaneous speed. Used to draw the user close to the opponent.
Special: ---
Drawback: May use 3 times a day. May perform 1 more each time learned. Passing amount renders the user's legs immobile due to severe pain. Unable to perform again unless gained medical treatment. Must move through an opening. Unable to maneuver around obstructing objects. Can't attack while performing any Shunshin or Variation.
Description: User is able to move forward in a straight line along the ground in almost instantaneous untraceable speed while temporarily masking the user's movements within 10 meters. A puff of smoke is occasionally used to disguise the user's movements. It is accomplished by focusing the user's chi along the ankles and foot. User mostly moves just with their ankles and feet. Jutsu takes up no movements. User may only use this Jutsu half of the movements may allow in a single round while rounding down. Example: User has 5 movements, user is able to perform Jutsu 2 times per round.
Limit: Universal NinJutsu or Universal TaiJutsu.


0/10 | Searching for the bulette 4% chance


The tracks in the mud were deep and by the look of it some kind of lizard or crocodile. But even though it was so big, it appeared to be moving at an incredible speed. Even when Emi was rushing after it at his max speed, the animal seemed to be getting away, something that really surprised Emi. To make sure he would be able to see where the creature was going, Emi jumped up on a lone tree and scouted in the direction of the animal. Several hundred meters in front of him, there was something plowing through the mud and jumping over floating logs.

It seems to be headed north east.

Without staying up there too long, Emi bodyflicked away in the direction, trying to catch up at least a little to the creature. When he landed, mud and water splashed all around him, and he could feel how he sank down into the mud more than he'd want to. But by forcing himself up, he then was able to run after the animal again. To avoid sinking in the crippling holes nor fall on the slippery mud or moss, Emi jumped between the safe areas he found. It wasn't that easy, but he had put some chakra on his feet not to sink and to get a better grip on the ground. This also increased his speed a little, as a slower version of the bodyflicker.

I'm still loosing to it, maybe its a ninja animal?

Emi leaned forward a little, to increase his speed in an attempt to get even closer to the normal bodyflick without pushing his muscles to the same degree. His calves and thighs immediately got tenser, but the speed were also getting increased. So he jumped from one clear spot to the next until he saw a crocodile laying in the mud next to where he was suppose to land. The surprise made him loose his balance and slip in the mud. Emi had however a couple of seconds to stand up again from the mud, as the crocodile had been sleeping. But then it swamp down into the water towards Emi.

I don't have time for this

He looked over his shoulder after the animal, drew his polearm and made a strong swing towards the crocodile while it still was in the water. The edge of the polearm cleaved the water surface and was able to reach the crocodile without much effort. The attack did not however kill it, but Emi was just after making it unconscious anyway, so when he saw the crocodile turn around and swim away, leaving a trace of blood behind, he just happily turned around. The fight had been brief, and yet he had lost almost 100 meters on the big animal. Eager to catch up to it, Emi ran up to the nearest clear spot and bodyflicked forward into the air. When he landed, he pushed his legs almost half as much as during a normal bodyflick, trying to retain much of the speed without pushing himself to much.

I need to save some energy for when I actually meet it, the fight might get quite intense if I judge it by its speed.

The speed was a lot slower than he anticipated, but it was still a little faster than the creature in front of him, so Emi finally started to catch up. The legs started to ache and his breathing started to get heavy, so to make himself a favor, he pushed himself and made yet another normal bodyflick. The pain was numbing his legs, but the extra distance he had gained made him able to run without using any chakra in his feet anymore, which made it a lot less straining.

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Nope.

+10; Learned.

[~Emi~]

Shunshin no Jutsu - Oshi (Body Flicker Technique - Push)
Rank: "C"
Skill: NinJutsu/TaiJutsu
Effect: A Jutsu that allows a user to rush forward in almost instantaneous speed. Used to draw the user close to the opponent.
Special: ---
Drawback: May use 3 times a day. May perform 1 more each time learned. Passing amount renders the user's legs immobile due to severe pain. Unable to perform again unless gained medical treatment. Must move through an opening. Unable to maneuver around obstructing objects. Can't attack while performing any Shunshin or Variation.
Description: User is able to move forward in a straight line along the ground in almost instantaneous untraceable speed while temporarily masking the user's movements within 10 meters. A puff of smoke is occasionally used to disguise the user's movements. It is accomplished by focusing the user's chi along the ankles and foot. User mostly moves just with their ankles and feet. Jutsu takes up no movements. User may only use this Jutsu half of the movements may allow in a single round while rounding down. Example: User has 5 movements, user is able to perform Jutsu 2 times per round.
Limit: Universal NinJutsu or Universal TaiJutsu.


0/10 | Searching for the bulette 4% chance


The water splashed under his feet, and the rhythm started to almost annoy Emi as it sounded just the same over and over. It had been a while since he last saw the tracks of the beast, which made Emi wonder if he really was on the right track, the animal could've changed direction after all. So he closed his eyes, took a couple of deep breaths and opened his minds eye. The darkness in his mind started to light up. At first Emi thought it was just a couple of swarms with mosquitoes flying around, but then he noticed the lights were way to big for that.

What are those? I havent seen anything for a while around me?

So as one of them came rushing towards him with an impressive speed, Emi opened his eyes to see what kind of source it was. Out from the murky water, an one foot long piranha jumped out, aiming for Emi's upper thigh. Since he really was caught off-guard, Emi bodyflicked away to make sure he wouldn't get hit. His pulse was racing and his eyes immediately looked on the spot the piranha disappeared in. But as he saw the water move a little around him, he remembered that the others lights probably came from the same kind of source.

I'm completely surrounded by piranhas ? I should've never had staid.

Emi looked down in the water beneath him and saw some fins move in the dark water. Scared of the incoming dangers, Emi pulled out his polearm and waited for the piranhas to attack. It didn't take long before they started to jump up on him, and he had to bash them away from himself to avoid getting damaged. But the more piranhas he fended off, the more came, so Emi charged his feet with charkra and jumped off.

Maybe I should head back to the village again? this is wearing me out a little to much.

He thought as he had to bite his lips not to fall down on his knees from the pain. But as he saw that the fishes immediately swam after him, he didn't stay there for long. So he jogged away, slower than before, but fast enough to get further away from the flesh eating fishes. Emi send in a minimum amount of chakra into the feet to stay on the surface, but also to keep up the speed a little more without damaging the legs further. His muscles had been pushed too far, so when he found a tree nearby, he ran towards it and then he jumped up into it.

My legs needs to rest. Maybe I should make a couple of mud creatures to get me out of here?

It would've been the easy way out, but Emi knew he would hate himself for only believe in his ability to use ninjutsus. So he sat on a tree branch massaging his thighs. But as he felt that the most of the pain was due to tension, Emi stopped warming up the muscles, and instead started to stretch. It had been such a long time since he actually had time to allow himself the luxury to stretch out and massage his muscles, that he found himself enjoying the moment a little to much. He closed his eyes as his fingers found an extra sore area, and forced his breathing to become calmer.

I'm about 3 miles from the nearest road.

He opened his eyes again and looked down below him, just to see several hundreds of piranhas circling the tree. The most important thing if he was to get away from the fishes with taijutsu only, would be to have regained his full strength before running. So Emi relaxed and picked out a small bar of food and started to bite off a big chunk. Even with limited food and water supplies, he still had a couple of days to travel those 3 miles, so he started to calm down and got a little more optimistic. This was a good way to train his movements.

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No, sorry.

+10; Learned.

[~Emi~]

Mind’s Eye Extension
Rank: D, C,[ B ], A
Skill: Passive
Effect: A technique used to increase the range of Mind’s Eye of the Kagura.
Special: ---
Drawback: --
Description: This technique is passively used to increase the distance of Mind’s Eye of the Kagura. At D rank this extends the maximum range of the technique to twenty-five. At every rank after D the distance will double until reaching a maximum range of two hundred meters.
Limit: Must know Mind’s Eye of Kagura.


0/60 | 4% chance of finding the bulette (common)


A calm breeze blew through the tree and made the dead branches bow down to it. The rain had even stopped, which made it quite comfortable for Emi to sit there in the tree, eating some of his food and look down on the fishes. The surrounding water contained so many fishes that he wasn't even able to see any of the mud beneath the surface anymore. But as he had time, he figured he could enjoy himself while his legs rest, so he broke on the branches and dropped small pieces of it into the water. It didn't take many seconds before the piece had been completely devoured by them.

Wonder how many fishes it really is down there.

It was way to hard for him to count sitting up there, since many of them wasn't even visible to him, so Emi closed his eyes and signed his concentration seal. The sensation to move out of his body to be able to concentrate on a certain area was what Emi loved with the mind eye, so as he approached the fishes with his mind, he took it really slow and tried to make a quick headcount before he was able to see the individuals out from the shiny masses.

How could all of these piranhas really survive without barely anything to eat?

When he was close enough to actually start count them, he noticed they were extremely active, but probably less than he had anticipated. Their sheer size had probably fooled him, but he started to count them just in case. He started with the easiest point, at the end of the swarm. The piranhas was rather spread that far away, making Emi see their life signs clearer. Emi found it hard to count them at first, but then he figured out a way of making small cells with fishes and count the ones in every cell instead of trying to add every single one he saw. He closed in on one of the smaller clusters to see their life-signs stronger.

I will never get the correct amount, they're swimming way too much, maybe I should just settle with an estimation?

But he found it a little to fascinating to see how many it was down there wanting to eat him. His counting became faster and he started to skip several of them, knowing it'd be several more than the amount he finally would get. When Emi started to get closer to the center of the swarm of piranhas, the life-signs got harder to read as they almost blending together with each other, creating a much bigger and lighter life-sign. So Emi zoomed in further, hoping he could get close enough to see them separate. But when he got closer to them, he saw that several of the piranhas had different auras compare to many others.

There's more than one kind of fish down there?

Emi memorized the location on one of the odd fishes, and opened his eyes to see if he could find anything unusual with his bare eyes. But as he looked at the exact position the fish had been in, he just saw a bunch of piranhas fighting over a small mouse.

It wasn't the mouse i sensed, right?

He doubted that, but to make sure, Emi closed his eyes again and opened his mind eye towards the area the mouse had been in. It took a brief moment before he had zoomed in close enough, but as he inspected it closely, he noticed that the abnormal aura was there, but also the mouses aura. The mouse was obviously dying, which made its aura weaken, so Emi expected it to be the reason why he couldn't see it before.

But what kind of piranha is that then?

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Found :D

+10; 10|60.

[~Emi~]

10/60


Instead of focusing on all of the piranhas, he looked around in the water and tried to figure out which ones were the odd ones. After a quick headcount, he could find four fishes with a different aura surrounding it. As he pinpointed their location, he noticed that they were actually pretty close to each other and many of the other piranhas kept their distance to the odd ones. Emi chose one of the bigger abnormal piranhas and zoomed in on it. The vision wasn't interrupted by any other fish swimming in front of it, so he was able to analyze it as much as he wanted.

So, why are you that different?

The closer he got, the stronger the feeling got, and when he was barely a feet way from it, he could feel a dark evil seeping out from the fish. But even thought the fish appeared to be evil, it also emitted calmness, like it was pure evil but was satisfied with itself for the time being. A little confused of his findings, Emi changed his target and analyzed the other three abnormals and found the exact feeling. But to make sure that it wasn't a common trait among the piranhas, Emi observed a couple of normal ones as well. The difference was enormous, it was like the four piranhas was evil masterminds among creatures with the only lifegoal was to find food.

Wait? why are they so calm? are they intelligent?

There was no way that he could get anything by just watching their auras, so Emi opened his eyes and located the big one with his eyes. From up there, it looked just like all the others, so Emi wanted to try it a little. So he broke a piece of a branch next to him and aimed it for the big piranha. The water splashed quite high as it pierced the surface. Then everything happened so fast, the other piranhas swarmed the stick and started to rip it apart, but the big abnormal one swam away completely relaxed. Emi took yet another piece of wood and threw it a lot harder towards the big one, with the intention of hurting it this time.

If it's a clever fish, it'll notice the branch coming and avoid it.

But even though the incoming attack was obvious, and came right after another attack, it hit its target and even stunned it. The fact that the fish was far from intelligent, maybe even dumber than the others confused Emi. What could it be then? His thoughts immediately went to the fact that it could just be something as trivial as the gender of the fishes, but then he neglected the thought as it couldn't possibly be that few females among the males, and why would the females be more evil? It didn't make sense to him. So he closed his eyes again and zoomed in on the now stunned piranha. At first it appeared completely unchanged, but as he noticed that the piranha started to wake up again, its aura shifted.

Wait? Piranhas can have two different kinds of auras?

The feeling Emi had as he looked on the piranha changed, and even though it didn't change into the same as the others had, it still went a lot closer. Confused on why that was possible, Emi started to look for the other abnormal piranhas as he heard a loud scream. It was some kind of big beast that appeared to be in a huge pain. Without thinking, Emi send away his mind in the direction, trying to locate the source with his mind before he looked on it with his eyes. But even though he used more chakra than he usually did, he just got a vague image of the animals aura. It was a little to far away for Emi to see it clearly. So he opened his eyes and turned to face the direction

[~Emi~]

10/60 second


Far away in the distance, Emi was able to see the shadow of a big animal struggling, like if it was stuck in something. He was unable to see much more than that, but he was really interested in what had happened to the beast. So he cursed a little to himself as he was trapped in the tree with all of the piranhas under it, but his gaze wandered the area through which he would have to travel to get to the beast. It wasn't that hard environment to get through, and if he would bodyflick two times, he wouldn't even be in any danger of getting attacked by the piranhas.

Should I really leave them when I'm so close of making a scientific breakthrough.

But then he started to laugh, he didn't care at all for any science researches, the only reason he even bothered doing things like that was for his own amusement, and that beast was way more interesting than some hungry fishes. The only problem was his legs, which was still numb with pain. So Emi closed his eyes and had his mind walk over the swamp, trying to reach the beast again. The distance was great, and he had to really focus on the direction to even see the animal's aura. The size of the beast and the force of his chakra system was the only reason the dim light could be noticed.

it doesnt seem to be fighting against anything, at least anything as big as himself.

Emi send in some additional chakra into his focus, having the pulses being able to reach further. But as he pushed his mind further towards the animal, trying to make it as clear as possible, he started to gain a headache and a small amount of blood ran down from his nostrils. Emi's right hand wandered to his forehead as a little support to keep it up as he started to become a little dizzy from the headache. So Emi decreased the chakra amount again and tried to take a couple of deep breaths. But the air just made him even more lightheaded and his stomach turned around. His body's reaction was something new to Emi, he had barely been sick in his entire life, and he didn't like the feeling of that low control of his own body. So Emi pulled back his focus and entered his body again.

So I can hurt my own body by using taijutsu techniques, but also damage my mind by pushing my sensing ability to far?

The knowledge that his mind was limited to such a low degree was nothing Emi would tolerate as he now knew what he had to train on to reach the next level of existence. To be able to see and know everything was a big step towards becoming a god, something he never had realized he would be able to reach. But as he now had been able to push his own ability far beond what he previous was capable of, he thought that he might not be as far away from reaching the next step in the human evolution.

What if I'm actually able to reach the level of a kage?

But the best way to become better at something was to think in a new way, so Emi started to consider making the chakra pulses into something new, like a constant stream of chakra or a web of chakra. He knew that the first alternative would require a vast amount of chakra to maintain, but the web would probably not be as accurate.

[~Emi~]

10/60 Third


Since Emi would have to try the principle to see how well it worked before he could see if it actually was a better way of doing it, he looked down on the piranhas again and decided to use them for the experiment. As he looked down into the water, he wiped of the blood running from his nose. But as he was about to wipe it off on his pants, he got the idea of allowing some of the blood enter the water, just to see how the fishes would react. As the first drop hit the surface and none of the piranhas reacted, Emi got a little disappointed and was about to close his eyes to try his new way of using his minds eye when two more drops hit the water, and the fishes started to go berserk.

They do have a keen sense of smell for blood?

He smiled a little as he felt a little closer to the meat eating fishes, they were after all similar to the fish he clan had merged with.But as he thought that the piranhas were about to calm down, he noticed that some of them started to take a couple of bites out of each other, creating a feeding frenzy among the swarm. It was a really bizarre view, and Emi wondered yet again how the fishes could live out there with so little food. because if they in fact ate each other, their numbers would be significantly lower. When he had a fairly good idea what was going on, he closed his eyes and send his mind focus towards the fishes, a lot more interested in the fishes now than he had previously been.

Maybe the fishes has a third kind of aura this time?

He first just wanted to observe the fishes behavior , so he used the normal way of watching with his mind. At first, there was absolutely no difference in their aura, but as the fishes ended some of their fellow piranhas lives, their aura started to change into the calm and evil version. They turned so fast that Emi was barely able to notice the shifting and before he knew it, there was almost only evil satisfied fishes. Because Emi had now realized that they turned calm and evil when they recently had eaten. Emi also noticed that several fishes swam away as they no longer required to eat, and therefor not to be a part of the swarm.

Wonder where they're going

But as he didn't want to waste to much time on the piranhas, he followed two of them with his mind. As he wanted to try to use the continues flow of chakra, and see if that made him able to see things clearer and further away, hopefully without taking as much chakra as the previous method had done. So Emi took a couple of deep breaths as he increased the rate of the pulses with chakra until it finally was a steady stream of pulses. Emi then stopped sending out chakra and waited a few seconds before he send out chakra without suppressing it even slightest. The area around him got a lot brighter, and all the fishes beneath him felt almost too close. But as his chakra poured out through his mind, he felt how his head started to pound and his body got weaker from the chakra loss.

[~Emi~]

10/60 Fourth


To avoid getting to weak from the chakra loss, Emi had to strangle the supply of chakra leaking out from his body. The surrounding immediately got darker, as all of the small lights vanished into the darkness. And since he was unable to see anything any longer, he opened his eyes again and leaned back on the tree branch. The chakra loss had made him weary and his breath was heavy, like if he just had finished a hard workout without anything to show for it. But as he now had to relax for a couple of minutes, he thought back and tried to determine if it was a valid way of doing it, or if the chakra loss was to grand.

It was actually going well and I was able to detect creatures really far away, but the chakra loss would be fatal if I would need to fight anything.

He knew that he could limit the chakra, so it wouldn't be as straining, but a lot less effective. Without actually activating the technique, Emi tried out a constant chakra flow that was small enough to be maintained for minutes without forcing him too much. Emi then realized that he was indeed sitting in a living tree, with the capability to drain chakra from it. He felt stupid for not thinking about it earlier, but had his feet and shoulder vines exit his body and penetrate the surface of the tree. A pleasurable sighed escaped him as pure energy entered his body through the vines, and he waited until he was feeling good again before he started to form the concentration seal.

It doesn't feel like the tree have that much power left.

As he thought that, one of the lower branches broke and fell into the water with a big splash, stunning a bunch of the piranhas that still was there. Emi couldn't help himself but to laugh as two of the piranhas floated to the surface and quickly got eaten by the others. But he then returned to his concentration seal, took a deep breath and then closed his eyes. The most important thing was to maintain the low chakra consumption, So he started off by just include the tree in his field of vision, until he felt that it still was far from his capacity. Emi then searched for the stunned piranhas, and then crossed the water looking for the lairs of the escaping fishes.

They can't have escaped that far.

But as his pulse was starting to speed up, and he pumped in more chakra into the technique than he got back from the tree, he stopped his advance and tried to get a bigger picture of the area. He covered an area approximately 75 meters with his vision, but what he noticed was that even though he had a long vision, he was way to focused on just a small area of the vision. The tunnel vision was frustrating and as he wanted to get the full effect of the technique, he backed off a little from his max range, and started to lets more of the surrounding auras cover his mind.

The point of being an all knowing and all seeing creature, is to actually use the knowledge, and to watch everything at all times.

Emi was a little disappointed as he noticed it now and not earlier, so he tried to learn how to watch the entire field as fast as possible. But as he stressed himself up, his pulse increased and when he didn't get the progress he wanted, and he still was a little too focused, he got upset and released the technique. The tree was out of energy, and he would have to start to figure out how to do it correctly fast, so he wouldn't end up all powerless in the middle of the swamp. But he was suddenly interrupted by a loud growl, which made his head turn immediately. The big beast was still there, fighting to get free from whatever had it stuck.

[~Emi~]

10/60 Fifth


The stressful environment and the fact that he wouldn't be able to test the technique that many more times before he'd be to tired to keep going, made it even harder for Emi to continue on to learn how to watch the entire vision at the same time. But he tried to calm himself down, and started to look around him for any other tree or life source he could drain with his vines. Not too far away, there was another old tree, which he immediately started to take energy from. He then closed his eyes again. After taking a couple of deep breaths until his pulse was calm again, Emi opened his mind's eye and made sure to pump out the correct amount of chakra in a stream, while not having any focus on any spots.

I need to focus on nothing and everything.

He expected it to be like listening, if a person doesn't focus on a specific sound, he'll just hear the loudest sound the best and the lower it is, the higher chance it has to disappear in the masses. So he tried to have his mind completely clear and not to stick on any particular aura that he could find. As his mind adjusted to the change, the piranhas lit up in his mind, swimming all over in the water and not just beneath him, but he also started to see the auras of a couple of small birds and a bunch of rats hiding in their nest a couple of yards away from the water. The newly discovered animals made Emi's mind observe them for a brief moment, but as he noticed that the other auras faded away, he just shook his head to clear it from distracting thought and had his mind go blank again.

I need to calm down, don't let any distractions make me loose my focus.

It didn't take long before Emi had managed to enter a semi meditative state, where the chakra went into his body through the vines, and out into the air to feel around and make him see all the life around him. He enjoyed every second of the sensation, as he started to feel how much closer he was to unlocking the true power of the gods. Emi started to get goosebumps all over his his body, and a chill went down through his spine as more creatures entered his field of vision. This time, he didn't send his mind over to them and analyzed them, he allowed them to move on the inside of the field without as much as a thought on them. But he got a few insights on that it probably was snakes or some kind of larger fishes. However, Emi didn't bother himself with them, as he went further into the deep state he was in.

I could be one with nature.

Without giving it much thought, Emi send away some more of his vines into another tree, making him gain even more chakra, which made him less in need to drain them as fast. So the chakra streams slowed down, and the flow coming out of Emi got relaxed and penetrated things easier. Even where it previously had been darkness was brighter, and some of the smaller creatures started to appear, walking around, catching food, bathing and getting killed. The human world appeared small and dull as he started to realize how much was happening in such a small area, by animals that didn't even fear the death that was lurking around them.

I could learn a lot from these animals.

But after a while, a big and strong aura entered his increasingly reaching field of vision, and Emi remembered the huge beast that was fighting for his life a couple of hundred feet away. So Emi returned to his own body, slowly extracted his vines from the trees and stretched his muscles a little. The damage the bodyflicks had caused on them appeared to have been healed by draining the trees, so Emi tried them out a little while still being on the branch before he jumped away, rushing to come to the poor creatures aid.

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+48; 58|60.

[~Emi~]

58/60


it didn't take long before Emi had traveled the distance between himself and the beast. The force of the animal was intense, and Emi noticed the source of its pain, it had gotten stuck into an iron bear trap. Blood was gushing out from the wound and it screamed with an ear numbing roar. But as the place it stood on was surrounded by water which now had been colored red, Emi looked around himself a little afraid to get any closer due to all the piranhas around, so he sat down on a patch of grass and closed his eyes with the hands formed for the concentration seal. Before he released the chakra from his body, he made sure that his breathing and pulse was calm, which wasn't easy due to the situation.

This creature really need to be taken care of before it could survive in this kind of place again.

Emi then released his mind and opened up the surroundings to enter it, but as he didn't require to observe any extreme area, he made sure that he didn't use much chakra at all. The aura from the big beast was intense, and it was hard to keep being unfocused on it. But after a short while, all the small creatures around him started to appear in his darkness, and he was able to detect a dousing of fishes surrounding the animal and a couple within a radius of 30 feet. Emi swore a little to himself as he tried to analyze where the fishes were and where he could go to avoid being noticed by them. The chaotic movements of the beast didn't help, as it sometimes scared off them by whipping the water with its tail.

Calm down beast

He got a little frustrated that it would be so hard to avoid the piranhas, so instead of going through it, Emi opened his eyes and bodyflicked through it. As he reached the other side, a couple of the piranhas jumped up into the air and tried to bite him. But with his ninja reflexes, he drew his polearm and started to spin it, reflecting all of them.

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+2; Learned.

[~Emi~]

Doubutsu Kougi 動物交宜 (Animal Friendship) | Zetsubô
Rank: "D", ["C"], "B", "A", "S", "S+B"
Skill: None
Effect: A technique that allows an animal to listen to the user through the course of friendship and kindness.
Special: ---
Drawback: Animal will not listen to the user what so ever. May only learn once per animal. If user gets a new animal user must relearn the technique for that specific animal.
Description: To train you must approach, play, feed, etc with the animal. You must love the animal as if it is your buddy. You must train long and hard to gain the trust and of your animal companion. If user has a Small Animal Companion, the user must learn the technique "D" Rank. If user has a Medium Animal Companion, the user must learn the technique "C" Rank. If the user has a Large Animal Companion, the user must learn the technique "B" Rank. If the user has a Huge Animal Companion, the user must learn the technique "A" Rank. If the user has a Gargantuan Animal Companion, the user must learn the technique "S" Rank. If the user has a Colossal Animal Companion, the user must learn the technique "S + B" Rank. This means that the user must first learn "S", and then learn an additional "B" because its such a huge creature.
Limit: Must have an Animal Companion. User cannot have if user knows Doubutsu Shirei 動物司令 (Animal Control)


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Emi had reached the closest range he could get to without risking to get attacked by the big beast. The power in its attacks would surely knock Emi down, or even break some of his bones. So Emi sneaked around, not sure if the animal had noticed him yet or not, trying to get a good look on the bear trap it was stuck in. The beast then turned and faced him while growling. The pain in its eyes was obvious, bit as Emi saw that it had two different colors on its eyes, he got distracted for a brief moment before he looked on the trapped leg. Blood was pouring down the leg and the trap had burrowed itself in at least one muscle.

Calm down, I want to help you.

Its only reaction to Emi try to calm it down was the opposite, and it tried to charge Emi with the intent of biting him in the shoulder. But when the chain was fully extended the beast was stopped in its movement and the trap scratched the leg further, making the wound a lot thicker. The pain was so intense that the animal started to shake as it lay on the ground, and when it finally was able to get back to the middle of the grass patch, it had to limp back. As he knew how dangerous the swamp could be, Emi started to become scared that the animal wouldn't manage on his own if the leg was to damaged.

You need to calm down, I can free you from that horrible trap.

Emi looked around himself as he was looking for something he could use to distract the beast while he released the trap. But the area around him was basically clear, and he didn't even know what could even make something as aggressive as that animal to calm down from such pain. But as he sat down and quickly started to look through all of his pockets in the robe, he saw the piranhas swimming around in the water around them. The chain of thoughts was quick and he grabbed one of the fishes with his bare hands and tossed it towards the sad beast.

Eat it

He said it almost like he was begging the creature, but as the fish landed on the ground in front of it, the animal would for the first time appear to ignore the pain. It limped a few steps closer and leaned towards it to smell on it. The action made Emi believe that it really had to be a young version of its race, as it seemed a little to inexperienced to not know what a piranha was. A couple of seconds after it had started to smell on it, a big tongue appeared from its huge mouth and licked the fish twice before its jaws clenched on the fish. The beast pulled the fish backwards to the center and started to eat the piranha while still watching Emi. Out from the holes in his hands, Emi send out his vines towards the bear trap, and when the beast was disrupted and looked away, Emi opened the trap and released the beast.

Oh wait, now its loose.

But Emi didn't regret his decision and he pulled away the trap before it would get activated again. The beast looked surprised at Emi and then its own leg with a great relief in his eyes. It didn't take long before it had jumped back unto its feet with its tail whipping. Panic struck Emi as he still was a little to worn out and damaged to fight such a big beast before he had been able to rest a little longer. So without letting his gaze leave the animal, Emi used his vines to pull up some more piranhas which he threw to the beast. But it didn't appear to take much notice of them as it walked pass them and up to Emi. As he prepared to bodyflick away from the area, he saw that the beast started to smell in the air and started to circulate Emi. His gaze followed it the whole lap around him until the beast suddenly lick one of Emi's vines.

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+10; Learned.

[~Emi~]

Doubutsu Satori 動物覚り (Animal Understanding) | Zetsubô
Rank: "D", ["C"], "B", "A", "S", "S+B"
Skill: None
Effect: A technique that allows the user and the animal to better communicate with one another by understanding what they would say without words.
Special: ---
Drawback: Animal will not understand the user what so ever and will not be able to perform tasks. May only learn once per animal. If user gets a new animal user must relearn the technique for that specific animal.
Description: A user and the animal are like two peas and a pod. It becomes an understanding of interpreted friendship. A user can give commands, telling the animal exactly what to do however the user must be specific. The user is able to understand what the animal means when it reacts, and the animal understands the user when he/she speaks. If user has a Small Animal Companion, the user must learn the technique "D" Rank. If user has a Medium Animal Companion, the user must learn the technique "C" Rank. If the user has a Large Animal Companion, the user must learn the technique "B" Rank. If the user has a Huge Animal Companion, the user must learn the technique "A" Rank. If the user has a Gargantuan Animal Companion, the user must learn the technique "S" Rank. If the user has a Colossal Animal Companion, the user must learn the technique "S + B" Rank. This means that the user must first learn "S", and then learn an additional "B" because its such a huge creature.
Limit: Must know Doubutsu Kougi 動物交宜 (Animal Friendship), or Doubutsu Shirei 動物司令 (Animal Control)


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Its tongue was quite dry and rough, which made the lick rather unpleasant. But Emi didn't want to show any fear to the beast as it probably would attack if he did. So he kept calm and carefully patted it on its upper head while he had constant eyecontact with it. When he noticed that the animal were getting more comfortable with him and had started to lick on the wound of his leg, Emi started to use a little more force as he patted, since he understood that the animal probably didn't feel much of his massaging hands. Emi didn't move to much even though the animal appeared calm, so he had his vines bring him a couple of fishes, which he then laid next to the beast.

Are you still hungry?

But as the animal just looked on the piranhas a little curious before returning to tend to his wounds, Emi wasn't really surprised, but he still wanted to give them as a peace offering. When the animal had been laying down for almost one minute, then Emi took two careful steps towards it and then kneel next to it to be able to reach it as he scratched its lower back and stomach. When he noticed that the beast appeared to be like it and started to growl, Emi started to massage around on the beast and ended up on the damaged side. Blood was still pouring down from the wound and it was still licking it. So Emi sat down next to the leg and slowly moved his hands towards the leg.

Let me take a look, I need to see if we need to go back to the hospital.

The beast stopped licking and looked up on Emi with a little confused look, so Emi move a little closer to the leg and carefully moved the beasts head out of the way so he could watch the damage. But when Emi started to feel around the wound and tried to see if it would be possible for him to close the edges, the beast pushed him a little to the side. Since Emi was so tense, he immediately reached for one of his kunais, but when he saw that the beast's eyes just was sad, he knew that it was just to intense pain that had made it push him away.

I need you to follow me back to the village for treatment, do you think you could do that?

As a bribe, Emi picked up on of the fishes and dangled it in front of the beast's jaws, which quickly grabbed it and devoured it without chewing. Even though the situation was rather serious, Emi couldn't help but laugh a little to the childish behavior the beast appeared to have. As long as he was able to keep it distracted with food, or something funny, he figured he'd be able to fool it along with him back to amegakure. So he tested his theory by taking one of the bigger piranhas and dangle it in front of the beast. When he noticed that it was interested in the food and almost grabbed it with its mouth, Emi stood up on the ground and quickly threw the fish 30 feet away.

Go get it

Emi exclaimed when the fish bounced on the ground. It took a few seconds of hesitation before the beast started to whip its tail back and forth, and then charge towards the big fish. The pain appeared to be gone, and the beast didn't seem to be bothered by the damage in the leg either, so Emi thought that the muscles probably was fine after all. So he picked some more of the piranhas from the ground, and used their blood to make a trail behind him so more would follow for unlimited supplies of food for the beast. He then threw one of the fishes next to him and looked around to see if the beast really did come, which he noticed it did happily and with its tail wagging.

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+10; Learned.